Creating Collective Healing and Resilience with Jerrod Brown

What does it take to overcome and heal through trauma? In today's episode of Yes! We Rise, Christine is joined by professor Jerrod Brown. Jerrod offers his wisdom and expertise on trauma and cultivating resilience and healing. He explains the importance of leaning into emotions, self-care, and gratitude. Learn about trauma at the individual level and as a community, and discover simple, yet powerful ways to support yourself and your family in building resilience and a strong, stable foundation! There are endless nuggets of gold in this episode you don't want to miss out on. Enjoy! Jerrod Brown is a professor, trainer, consultant and researcher who works in the area of resilience and trauma informed care. His main areas of expertise are in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, autism, and traumatic brain injuries confabulation. Over the past few years, Jerrod has been digging into trauma, resilience, and trauma-informed care, and shares much of what he's learned in this episode. LINKS/RESOURCES MENTIONED If you have questions or would like to know more, feel free to reach out to Jerrod at: [email protected]. Discover more about self-compassion from Kristen Neff's work and vulnerability through Brené Brown. Learn more about delayed gratification through the Marshmallow Test. The Yes! We Rise podcast is produced by Dialogue + Design Associates, Podcasting For Creatives, with music by Drishti Beats. Follow the We Rise podcast on Facebook and Instagram. Please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast so we can continue spreading our message far and wide. Find our email list at the website: www.yeswerise.org. Thanks for listening. The Yes! We Rise podcast features solutions-seekers, change-makers, and those creating a resilient future. We share stories and strategies to inspire action to build collective resilience and community transformation. To create change, people need to feel like they belong and that they are part of a growing movement. They need to know their voice matters and that they have the inspiration, agency and ability to transform their lives and their communities. They are the key to a resilient future.     From the Navajo Nation to the mountains of Appalachia, incredible work is being done by community members and leaders. Change is often sparked by inspiration: seeing what others have done, especially in similar situations and places. People see that when someone looks like them or lives in a place like theirs, and has created real, true and lasting change, change that will allow their granddaughters and grandsons to thrive — they begin to imagine what might be possible for them.  No longer waiting for someone else to come and save them, they realize they are the ones they have been waiting for.  But what creates that spark? What creates that inspiration?  Learning through stories and examples, feeling a sense of agency and belonging, and getting fired up to kick ass creates that spark.  We Rise helps community leaders and members learn to forge a new path toward creating resilience and true transformation. One person at a time, one community at a time, one region at a time, the quilt of transformation can grow piece by piece until resilience becomes the norm instead of the exception. Together, we rise.