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Okay. Do you ever wonder if you've been traumatized by something that happened to you? Or have you ever gone through something that you think is traumatic, but you aren't quite sure if you've been affected by it?

Or maybe you know you have

post-traumatic stress disorder, or at the very least, you likely know someone who does.

Those are some of the things we're talking about today, how trauma impacts you and what to do

about it. My guest is Katie Martin. She's a licensed marriage and family therapist who has a private

practice in Santa Monica, California. She's been sharing mental health tips on social media for

several years, and she's gained over one million followers on YouTube. She's written a new book

called Traumatized, Identify, Understand, and cope with PTSD and emotional stress.

And some of the things she talks about on today's episode are the different reactions people

can have to traumatic circumstances, how childhood trauma can impact us, and the steps we can take

to manage our symptoms if we've been traumatized.

Make sure to stick around until the end of the episode for the therapist take.

This is the part of the show where I'll break down Katie's mental strength building strategies and talk about how you can apply them to your own life.

So here's Katie Morton on how healing from past trauma can help you grow mentally stronger.

Katie Morton, welcome to the Very Well Mind podcast. Yeah, thanks for having me. It's great to be here. I am thrilled to talk to a

fellow therapist and one who wrote this amazing book called Traumatized. As we both know,

most of the people that walk into our therapy offices have gone through some type of trauma,

but it's not just people in therapy who've been traumatized. I think the statistic is something like

70% of people. Does that sound right? It is, I think it's, yeah, it's around 70%. I would argue,

I think I might even say this in the book that we've all been traumatized in some way.

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