Name: The Wisdom of Trauma, Official Trailer
Uploaded: 2026-02-28T12:52:33.000Z
Duration: 3 min 22 s
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the richest society in history, fully half of the citizens have a chronic disorder such as high blood pressure or diabetes.

Anxiety amongst young people is growing rapidly.

Asthma and autoimmune diseases are on the rise, as are addictions.

That's what really destroyed me, just takes the pain away.

It's easy to want to escape reality completely instead of coping with it.

And so the question is, can we be human beings in the midst of civilization?

Because what we call civilization demands the denial of human needs.

And the trauma is that disconnection from it.

And the healing is the reconnection with it.

Because it's too painful to be ourselves.

So you sort of a bit like in the Matrix when Neo sees everything's made out of numbers.

You look at people and you see all their trauma and damage.

So trauma is not the bad things that happen to you, but

what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you.

My father, he would spank us and take a belt to us.

In other words, by the time you're five years old, you're completely alone.

People are much more lonely and isolated than they used to be.

It causes inflammation in the body and suppresses the immune system.

You've been diagnosed with prostate cancer, correct?

In my view, people that develop cancer have a hard time expressing healthy anger.

They were two traumatized people fighting to govern a traumatized world.

And these are the people that our society rewards with power.

Our schools are full of kids with learning difficulties, mental health issues that are trauma based.

But the average teacher never gets a single lecture on trauma.

We need trauma informed medical care, trauma informed education.

If we had a trauma informed society, we'd have a society that looks much more compassionate.

I don't feel like I'm a bad person anymore.

Solutions arise out of people when they confront themselves with the truth, when they're not afraid of the truth.

I think the biggest thing that this whole healing journey has taught me is how to be human.