SASIC Series, The Rest of the Story, Episode 4: Trauma Informed Care with Laurie Reyman

Send us Fan MailWhen Laurie Reyman was nine years old in South Africa, a shopkeeper waved her to the front of the line, ahead of the Black customers who had been waiting. Because she was white.She never forgot it. Decades later, that memory sits underneath the question at the center of this episode: not what's wrong with you, but what's happened to you. Laurie Reyman, senior program manager, was there when SASIC was first designed. She was one of the people who sat down and asked how this work should look before it existed. But where the earlier episodes turn outward toward the patient, this one turns the lens around, onto the provider's own eyes. The assumptions we carry into the room, the humility the work demands, and the steady work of examining yourself before you examine anyone else.Laurie walks through what trauma-informed care actually asks of the person providing it. How to help without re-traumatizing the patient, why slowing down and staying curious matters more than any protocol, and how to see someone as a whole human being rather than the sum of their trauma. She closes on something the news footage never showed us: the beauty of Afghanistan beyond the war image — the country, and the people, that were always more than their trauma.This episode references war, trauma, and racism.SASIC was funded by the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement and delivered by the International Rescue Committee in partnership with HealthPoint, Harborview Medical Center, and local community organizations serving Afghan immigrants.Thank you to Safa Aynoor, medical student at the University of Washington School of Medicine, for editing assistance.Produced and hosted by Dr. Duncan Reid.Visit EthnoMed.org for additional resources. Follow us on YouTube and Instagram @EthnoMedUW