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EPISODE · Aug 23, 2025 · 13 MIN

Your Trauma Isn’t Broken, It’s Brilliant

from NOW with Lisa Bonnice · host Lisa Bonnice: Post-Woo Oracle

In Part 3 of this powerful conversation, Trauma Facilitator and Wisdom Guide Thomas Huebl reframes the way we see trauma and sensitivity: not as flaws, but as intelligent functions that once kept us alive. He shares powerful metaphors and practices to help us bring light back to the “turned-off” parts of ourselves.We explore:* The silence after the Holocaust: how collective trauma conditions generations through muteness and confusion.* Hypersensitivity and numbness: why both are creative responses to overwhelming environments.* The intelligence of defense mechanisms: how withdrawal, tightness, and even shutting down were once life-saving strategies.* Re-owning your inner genius: transforming old patterns into present-day resources.* The Kathmandu metaphor: trauma as a city with darkened quarters, waiting for us to turn the lights back on.* Post-traumatic learning: how integrating trauma unlocks frozen energy and builds new societal capacities.This is a conversation that shifts trauma from stigma to strength and shows us how healing personal wounds also helps heal our world.Visit his website at thomashuebl.comLisa Bonnice is an award-winning author, podcaster, and former stand-up comic whose work blends humor, heart, and spiritual depth. Her latest novel, Castle Gate, is a historical fiction saga rooted in ancestral healing and the 1924 Castle Gate Mine Disaster. Learn more at lisabonnice.com and castlegatebook.com.This interview is part of the Ancestral Healing Summit 2021, a free online event. This recording is a copyright of The Shift Network, used with permission. All rights reserved.Thanks for visiting Lisa Bonnice: Post-Woo Oracle! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Get full access to Lisa Bonnice: Post-Woo Oracle at lisabonnice.substack.com/subscribe

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