Live Your Dream School of Medical Arts Podcast Episode 1.
Unscripted, uncensored, unedited. Enjoy the raw, real thoughts of doctors.
Learn 6 strategies to survive the most traumatic events in your life.
Dr. Amir Friedman is an anesthesiologist from a family of Holocaust survivors. At age 10 he found his mother deceased from suicide. Then his physician father and two brothers died by suicide. While practicing as a successful physician helping underserved patients suffering from chronic pain, he was entrapped in an insurance fraud scheme that landed him in federal prison. Dr. Pamela Wible is a family physician who runs a suicide helpline for physicians. She recalls having passive suicidal thoughts at age 9 due to her chaotic and scary childhood that involved domestic violence between her parents, both workaholic physicians wounded by their own childhood traumas.
Topics Covered:
* Benefits of strategic dissociation
* Timing of safely removing the “fake-smile” false-self mask
* Integrating painful moments as wisdom
* Healthy ways to release emotions
* Gender differences in survival strategies
* Self-healing through healing others
* Why peer support is so helpful
* Solidifying one’s sacred identity through pain
* Why vocalizing or writing traumatic experiences is so healthy
* Use of therapy pets or inanimate objects to heal
* Compartmentalization vs. oversharing trauma
* Self-therapy techniques that work (even with children)
* Empowering oneself by studying survival stories
Amir’s Survival Strategies: 1) Strategic dissociation 2) Helping others 3) Designing a code to live by
Pamela’s Survival Strategies: 1) Talking to anyone 2) Emoting through crying 3) Comedy
A favorite quote: “Please enjoy the unavoidable pain.”
“Any feeling fully felt changes.”
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What are your top 3 strategies?
Please share in comments. 🙏
