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🗓️ 9 February 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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"What Happened To You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing" by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey, published by FLATIRON BOOKS | MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS, is available wherever books are sold.
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In this episode of The Oprah Podcast, world-renowned child and adolescent psychiatrist and neuroscientist, Dr. Bruce Perry, offers his advice on how to heal from childhood wounds.
Oprah and Dr. Perry co-authored the #1 New York Times bestselling book, What Happened to You? Which has sold over 1 million copies. Dr. Perry discusses why asking this simple question is so important to understanding one’s story and behavior. He also gives scientific and practical guidance on why certain traumas can have lasting impacts on our lives and how little moments of hope make all the difference. Oprah shares stories from her own life offering ways to overcome our challenges.
People from around the country join via Zoom to share their experiences and receive advice from Dr. Perry and Oprah on how to heal and move forward from their personal traumas.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, and thanks to you for joining me here on the podcast and for watching on YouTube. |
| 0:05.8 | Today I'm welcoming Dr. Bruce Perry. |
| 0:08.0 | I've known Dr. Bruce Perry, a world-renowned child and adolescent psychiatrist and neuroscientists. |
| 0:13.2 | I've known him now for 30 years and more. |
| 0:15.6 | I invited him on the Oprah show more times than I can count. |
| 0:19.5 | And over that time, we've had many, many, many opportunities to talk about the impact of |
| 0:25.4 | sexual abuse or domestic violence or poverty or racism on development and how that impacts |
| 0:35.2 | people. |
| 0:35.8 | I also asked Dr. Perry to implement his work called the neuro-sequential model of |
| 0:41.3 | therapeutics to help my girls' school in South Africa become a trauma-informed school. |
| 0:46.7 | When you're regulated for me, my mind is open to learn. |
| 0:51.0 | Dr. Perry has written half a dozen books, including one he co-authored with me called What Happened |
| 0:57.0 | to You, Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing. I'm proud to say it's a number one New York Times bestseller. |
| 1:05.7 | Hi, Oprah. Hi, Dr. Perry. |
| 1:07.3 | Dr. Perry and I are talking with viewers and listeners about our book. |
| 1:11.3 | How do I forgive my parents for not showing up the way I needed them to show up for me? |
| 1:18.9 | I would say reading it opened up a new way of healing from their trauma. |
| 1:22.9 | Your work, this book has had such a profound impact on my life personally and professionally. So thank you. |
| 1:29.6 | It's a simple question that resonates profoundly for so many of us. What happened to you? |
| 1:36.0 | I have to say, that question changed everything. I think it was 2018. I was interviewing Bruce Perry for an episode of 60 Minutes on CBS. |
| 1:47.1 | Yeah, you were there even, Keith, right? |
| 1:49.0 | Keith, my favorite D.P. I've had for years. |
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