The Agreeable Child: A Yogic Journey from Tragedy to Triumph with Bradley Gabbert

At two years old, Bradley Gabbert was struck by a car, spent two weeks in a coma, and came home having lost the ability to walk and speak. He physically recovered, but it would take more than sixty years to understand that survival and healing are not the same thing. He's the author of the memoir The Agreeable Child: A Yogic Journey from Tragedy to Triumph.In this episode, Bradley shares when he first recognized that being "the agreeable one" wasn't just his personality, it was a survival strategy, how a simple 4-7-8 breathing exercise unexpectedly unlocked emotions he'd carried for decades, and what he's come to understand about how "the body remembers" experiences we can't consciously recall. He also opens up about what he'd tell someone in midlife who believes it's too late to change.What We Talked About:Recognizing "agreeableness" as a survival pattern, not a personality traitThe 4-7-8 breathing exercise that unlocked decades of buried emotionHow the body holds onto experiences we can't consciously rememberWriting his memoir as a tool for reclaiming his own voiceWhy meaningful change doesn't have an expiration dateConnect with Bradley Gabbert:Book: theagreeablechild.comAuthor website: bradleylgabbert.com