269: Our Cultural Drama Addiction and The Power of Completing The Stress Response with Dr. Scott Lyons
Conversations with Cam
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🗓️ 6 November 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Scott Lyons, a holistic psychologist, author, and body-based trauma expert, to discuss why we are so drawn to drama as a culture and how fully honoring our stress responses can help us better adapt to stress. Dr. Lyons explains what he defines as “drama,” how trauma often takes us away from ourselves and others, and how overstimulation has become the cultural norm. He also talks about how media is designed to keep our attention away from ourselves, why we are so drawn to reality TV, and why stress is a social glue that bonds us. Finally, he shares how most of us aren’t completing our stress cycles, how he checks in with his nervous system during a stressful event, and how he gets out of his cortisol stimulus and brings himself back to center.
Key Takeaway / Points:
- How Dr. Lyons defines “drama”
- How trauma takes us away from ourselves and others
- On the cultural norm of overstimulation
- On the connection between seeking stillness and feeling safe
- How media is designed to keep our attention away from ourselves
- Why are we so drawn to reality TV?
- How gossip bonds people and why stress is a social glue
- On the numbing effects of cortisol
- On the addictive rollercoaster of toxic relationships
- Why most of us aren’t completing our stress responses
- The power of physically “shaking it out” after stress
- How Dr. Lyons fills his cup and calms his nervous system
Find Dr. Scott Lyons’ book, “Addicted to Drama,” here
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:04.1 | Welcome back to Conversations with Cam. |
| 0:06.3 | Thank you so much for being here and for listening to this episode. |
| 0:10.2 | Today we are joined by Dr. Scott Lyons, who is a holistic psychologist, educator, and author. |
| 0:17.1 | He is a renowned body-based trauma expert and doctor of osteopathy and a mind-body medicine specialist. |
| 0:23.3 | He helps people take a break free from cycles of pain, limited beliefs, and trauma. |
| 0:28.8 | And he is also the author of Addicted to Drama. |
| 0:32.2 | Today's episode talks a lot about drama in the sense of sure what we know it to be of what comes to mind when you |
| 0:40.3 | think of drama of like kind of the middle school shit, the bullying, the gossiping, the like, |
| 0:45.8 | oh my God, did you hear this? But also the drama that we create for ourselves inside our brains, |
| 0:51.0 | which is what I relate more to in this phase of my life, of why am I constantly |
| 0:57.3 | seeking simulation? Why can't I just relax? Why can't I be in silence or just sit still? |
| 1:04.3 | And I'm fascinated by this topic and conversation, and I found it so insightful in why we do certain things and also how |
| 1:14.7 | trauma plays into all of that, whether it's big T trauma or little T trauma. So I think honestly, |
| 1:20.9 | this episode will resonate with many and help many. And I'm just fascinated by the the topic quite honestly. So please enjoy Dr. |
| 1:30.7 | Scott Lyons. |
| 1:33.3 | Come on in, take a seat, pour a drink, past one to me, conversations with care, talk to life, |
| 1:42.3 | come join the fair to throw away your by just like off the bat. |
| 2:01.1 | Yeah. |
| 2:01.5 | What do you define drama as? |
| 2:03.3 | Sure. |
| 2:04.1 | Because like, yeah, we're going. |
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