Are You Dress Rehearsing Tragedy?
In this Friday Facts episode, I am sharing some thoughts that I heard on Brene Brown’s Netflix documentary, “The Call To Courage”. There were so many points that hit home and when I am in a space of needing to shift my mindset, this is one of my go-to audios to plug into my ear. I become super intentional about what I listen to and what I plug into. I wanted to share some of my takeaways here.
In today’s episode we discuss:
1) Dress rehearsing tragedy, is immediately letting your mind go to the worst-case scenario. It is based on old subconscious patterns and programming to look for all the things that could potentially go wrong to be “ready for it.” This is also a trauma response for the body.
2) This ties in with a quote I heard recently from Robin Sharma, “if your trauma is deep then your reaction can be a tendency to overreact, and if your reaction is hysterical then the trauma is historical.” This means it goes WAY back and is something you need to commit to doing the work to re-program. This also means you are likely to dress rehearse tragedy on a regular basis.
3) To change this programming requires that you interrupt the pattern, anchor in something you are grateful for, and look for the joy. Joy is actually really scary if you are a person who has lived through a lot of trauma because it means that “it might not last”, so your brain starts to prep for the dress rehearsal of tragedy.
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