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In this episode, Ashanti Bentil - Dhue talks to Anna Pinkerton about trauma, how it relates to the DEI space and practitioners. We need to be aware of what trauma is and how to identify it so that we can do the appropriate signposting, particularly if we are not trained ourselves.   Episode Highlights: What trauma is and how it relates to the DEI space and Practitioners. Examples of how trauma affects us.  The importance of practitioners being aware of their own trauma. How to Identify trauma The difference between being trauma informed and trauma aware. The work Anna's been doing with practitioners to help them to become trauma informed.   And so much more!   About Anna Pinkerton: Trauma specialist, Therapeutic Coach and Founder of the My Kinda Life® Methodology    Anna Pinkerton is a leading expert in stress awareness, chronic stress, and trauma. She's a clinician of 28 years' experience and works with individual leaders, athletes, people in the public eye & companies worldwide as a trainer, and leadership coach.     She's the author & founder of the My Kinda Life® leadership development methodology. Anna is a best-selling author and has two books MY KINDA LIFE – in Leadership:  Live & Lead with Kindness for Better Relationships, Be Respected, Create Impact and SMILE AGAIN: Your Recovery from Burnout, Breakdown & Overwhelming Stress.   Book an exploratory call to discuss whether the DEI Prof Academy is right for you. You can ask any questions you may have. These spaces are very limited so if you'd like to have a chat with me directly about DEI competence and practice, then book a call here.   You can find out about the services we offer here: https://sites.google.com/benhue.com/dei-pro-training-and-coaching/home   Join the mailing list link: https://forms.gle/9GZtBkvkYgUbziho9   Stay Connected with Ashanti: LinkedIn: Ashanti Bentil-Dhue  Get in Touch: ashanti@benhue.com

Introduction: Anna Pinkerton is a trauma specialist, therapeutic Coach and founder of My Kinda Life Methodology. She is a leading expert in stress awareness, chronic stress and trauma. She is a clinician, with 28 years' experience working with Leaders, athletes, organisations and people in the public eye. Anna is an author of two books; The first is called My Kinda Life in Leadership: Live & Lead with Kindness for better relationship, be respected, create impact. The second book is called Smile Again: Your recovery from Burnout, breakdown and overwhelming stress.    Podcast Episode Summary This episode explores the pervasiveness of Inner Brutality, a phenomenon or entity that we have lived as a property of us rather than a narrative we have built to survive. Anna shares how we can employ a Methodology to shift our relationship to self and expand our emotional palette for a fuller and more content life.    Points made over the episode The red thread that weaves throughout this podcast is the idea that we can take back the power of the Inner Bully and expand our emotional competence to live through life's experiences good and bad with greater kindness and companionability to self and others.  Anna experienced Trauma 11 years ago. Initially she succumbed to her inner bully and found it difficult to forgive herself for choosing an ill-suited partner.  She then saw the experience as a privilege to understand how as humans we can be so out of control of our own neurological system.  It took Anna 3/4 years to recover and in that time she fashioned an alternative methodology called “My Kinda Life”  She describes the ways the inner bully works and how it creates a personal cul-de-sac.  The methodology surfaced from Anna's personal analysis and questioning to wonder what an alternative could be to the ferocious and pernicious inner bullying.  The idea of Kindness to self and companionability to self-emerged. Kindness was the generic term for compassion and caring that Anna chose. She also wanted something more dynamic than compassion can be and chose the word companionability.  Inner Brutality can best be described as the words used by self to stay stuck in a self-imposed prison or cul-de-sac. A person who refuses to allow themselves to move through their emotions and move on.  The conversations in the minds eye include statements like; you are an idiot, useless person, stupid and much more profane language than can be repeated here.  We have assimilated this kind of inner talking as normal and not as a thing and Anna wanted to surface this practice as a thing, a thing we do not have to live with.  The power source of the Inner Bully is the pain of an emotional experience that has been aligned with lack of safety, so it is thwarted.  We are primed now to show inner strength, to be resilient and that brings with it its own pressure. We tend to demonise certain emotions such as anger, grief and jealousy. Simply put we have aligned pain with being bad.  To expand and accept all of these emotions for their purpose to help us feel as humans means that we get to move through life.  Two reasons in particular help Leaders she the veracity of Anna's work.  1. There is a sense that something is happening internally that is scuppering someone's success and 2. On paper someone might have achieved considerable success but they feel empty.  Inner Brutality is so pervasive that people can see themselves reflected in the two reasons above.  Why employ this methodology on Teams is a question that gets answered by way of the loss in understanding, communication and energy consumed by team members who have different emotional palettes and ways of narrating. Conflict often ensues.  Inner Brutality is conveyed and projected onto others.  If every member of a team can take responsibility for dialling down their inner bully and increasing their emotional palette things get easier on teams, conflict melts, communication is easier and the energy made available can be used for productive purposes.  Inner Brutality sits on a spectrum between being very loud and domineering to a whisperer.  Imposter Syndrome, Self-Saboteur, Perfectionism are all manifestations of the Inner Bully at work.  Start by seeing the Inner Bully as an entity and build a relationship with it, it arrived for a very purposeful reason and in all likelihood has out grown its usefulness.  Kindness does not have to be seen as paradoxical to Leadership. Kindness means empathy, means communicating in way that other can understand etc.. Selling Kindness is often made simpler by selling unkindness. The Methodology is exquisitely simple but intoxicatingly difficult because it is being levelled against a complex system that is a human.  Anna's methodology comprises 8 steps:  Step One: Visualising -The Companionable life.  Can you envisage a time when you will not brutalise you? Find out how it hurts you, how it hinders you and how the inner bully affects you. Can you imagine the fluidity of acknowledging if you have done something, feeling the pain of that and moving on to do differently next time.  Step Two: Your Inner Brutality-how it reveals itself and how it controls your reality. Your inner brutality is pushing you from behind saying come on hurry up be better be faster be something you are not. The Companionable way comes along side you and says “Hey, I do not feel fully ok with me now, but I am going to re-learn how to be”  Step Three: Recognise the power source of the Inner Brutality-The decisions made about yourself based upon your experiences. It is rarely someone's experience alone that causes long term suffering but a value judgement against self. Ask what are the value judgements made against self that are true and false?   Step Four: Being fully human with a full emotional palette.  10 Main emotions: Fear, Love, Happiness, Sadness, Envy, Pride, Disgust, Surprise, Grief & Anger.  Step Five: Determine your own objections to lifelong companionability- look inside of you, look without judgement. What does your head struggle to accept about living in a kind and companionable manner with self? Look for reasons not blame.  Step Six: The Vow-vowing to yourself from this day forward- you will struggle to make lasting change unless you make a decision to do so.  Step Seven: Your companionable alternative to Inner Brutality of Thought. Your brain has it favourite put down. It is habituated and like any habit it takes commitment until companionability is wired in and brutality is wired out.  Step Eight: Installing your Vow and living companionably forever.  30% more energy is available to a person by working through the methodology.  We are born with 10 globally accepted emotions. Our familial system and societal norms washes many out. We are left with a reduced palette.  We are born to feel and move through our experiences in life. Our inner brutality thwarts this natural phenomena. We create objections that the Inner Brutality convinces us are necessary. It convinces us that by suffering and hurting we are taking responsibility but this only keeps us stuck, in a cul-de-sac The Vow is underpinned by the foundational work of Anna's methodology.  A companionable alternative looks like someone who appreciates that they have a full emotional palette, gives space and time to process emotions, uses companionable words like “what a shame you did that and you do not feel proud of what you have done” allowing the pain of that realisation and moving on.  Anna is a testament that the methodology works. We have to be able to overcome the stigma of looking after self. Remember Kindness and Companionability is contagious just as Inner Brutality is -you chose for a better leadership    Resources shared    www.annapinkerton.com  My Kinda Life In Leadership- Anna Pinkerton  Smile Again : Your recovery from burnout, breakdown & overwhelming stress-Anna Pinkerton   

At Inclusive Group, we know that Leaders, Managers and HR practitioners are often both wired and required to put the needs of others ahead of their own.  This episode of Inclusion Unlocked looks at the critical issues of workplace trauma and burnout and the toll the pandemic has taken on the mental health and wellbeing of those who spend their working lives putting others first.Inclusive Group founder and CEO Sasha Scott is joined by psychotherapist and trauma and burnout specialist Anna Pinkerton to explore the steps we must take - after two incredibly turbulent years - to guard against burnout and to preserve our physical and mental wellbeing.  To find out more about the Burnout & Trauma workshop Anna delivers for Inclusive Group, and how to introduce the session in your workplace, please visit the solutions page on our website: Solutions | Inclusive GroupTo learn more about Inclusive Group and our comprehensive solutions for fostering diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace, visit inclusivegroup.co.uk/solutions.

Following on from a previous podcast with Anna Anderson, where we looked at wellbeing, I'm delighted that Anna Pinkerton accepted the invitation to join me for a conversation around burnout in the workplace and what organisations can do to address it.  We know that burnout was already a problem before the pandemic and studies have shown that it has substantially increased in the last 2 years, which is not a surprise. Now we're seeing that increasing numbers of employees are considering leaving their jobs and in the DDI 2021 study of leadership, burnout is cited as a major reason driving people to consider changing their jobs and even their careers.Anna talked to us about her approach to burnout and in particular to what she has termed, "burnout trauma".   Tune in to find out what she means by that and her advice to leaders who wish to minimise the risk to themselves and their organisations. To pre-order her book: MyKindaLife.org About Anna:Anna has 28 years of experience in psychotherapy, consultancy and training and is a leading expert in post-trauma stress work.  She specialises in working with senior executives, leaders of organizations, and entrepreneurs who have experienced a traumatic event, or are suffering from the debil²itating effects of accumulated long-term stress.  She has written a number of books and resources and she has a new one coming out in April of this year called: My Kinda Life.  She has devised a leadership development method where she helps leaders discover and improve their inner relationship with themselves, to ensure this kindness and solidarity is projected into their working practices.Connect with Anna on LinkedInUPCOMING EVENT at Ann Collins Coaching:Join me as my guest for our one hour webinar on the 24th January: Plan your year in leadership!  What's next for you?  Click on the link to reserve your place: it's free, live and places are limited! If you'd like to find out more about coaching for yourself or for your organisation, contact us: bluebottlecoaching@gmail.com to arrange a call.We love reviews and hearing your feed back, so please go to Apple Podcasts to rate, review, subscribe and share this podcast!To find out more from our website: https://www.anncollinscoaching.com/Follow Ann:LinkedIn: annridleycollinsInstagram: @anncollinscoachYouTube: Ann Collins Coaching

As part of the Insight HR Back In Business series, we're speaking with Anna Pinkerton, the UK's leading expert in burnout prevention and trauma recovery. About Anna: Anna Pinkerton is a professionally qualified psychotherapist and author with over 25 years experience, she specialises in helping people recover from chronic stress, PTSD, burnout and breakdown. Anna works with individuals across the world and specialises in working with entrepreneurs, business leaders and senior executives who have experienced a traumatic event in their life or are suffering from long-term stress, which can result in traumatic breakdown. Anna is the founder of Kindness Incorporated™ a unique philosophy centered on companionability to self, affecting others and business for the better.  Influenced by her personal experience with trauma and recovery Anna has fused the science of kindness with the art of business and has vast experience in the prevention of burnout, burnout trauma© and traumatic breakdown. Anna is also the author of bestselling book Smile Again, a guide for professionals, who have experienced burnout, breakdown and overwhelming stress in life, with practical methods to begin their road to recovery. www.AnnaPinkerton.com About The HR Room Podcast The HR Room Podcast is a series from Insight HR where we talk to business leaders from around Ireland and share advice on how to create the HR systems and workplace culture that's right for your business. For show notes, go to www.InsightHR.ie/Podcast.  If you need any HR support in Ireland, get in touch with us at Insight HR. Whether it's conducting a complex workplace investigation, filling a gap by providing you with a virtual or an onsite HR resource, or providing advice via our HR support line, as an expert HR consultancy in Ireland, we'll help you resolve whatever Human Resources challenge your business is facing. Visit us at www.InsightHR.ie.

Have you ever wondered what makes it ‘easy’ for some people to get fast results when selling their services to corporate organisations? Working in a silo/ in isolation as an entrepreneur or business owner can be tough - and it’s not always easy to get that objective perspective for yourself (or to generate new business development and lead generation ideas.) It can often be more challenging to have to build your entire strategy for business development, implement it and troubleshoot it alone… that’s why I’ve recorded this episode to show how four people inside The C Suite ® have navigated their way through an exceptional year - and the ways that they’ve managed to keep moving forward with their lead generation, business development and been able to get results. In this episode, I’ll be sharing: The common misnomer about selling to corporates; why there’s no ‘one size fits all’ model - and why you need to be running a process that fits your personality and sales style. (03:50) Why a consultative sales style benefits you as the seller and the company as the purchaser (and how Emma Waltham has used consultative selling to dominate her niche this year. (08:29) Why setting clear revenue targets and being kept accountable will help you generate revenue and exceed your targets (12:06) How tweaking your messaging can help you land more business development calls without having to work harder or for longer (14:40) Focusing on the business development foundations and how that can expedite your ability to produce premium sales (23:34) How Tom Manning used the power of feedback to improve his conversions and get into bigger companies (27:34) Why you need to be focusing on improving your proposals so that you’re able to convert more prospects into clients (30:51) Why shifting one part of the B2B sales process, means looking at your sales cycle differently and how to manage your own expectations for success (33:29) The mindset shift from selling B2C to B2B and how Anna Pinkerton used proactive outreach to get fully booked in just three months (35:24) How to ask stakeholders to explain concepts that you don’t understand without taking away from your expert status (38:20) How to use business development calls to get stakeholders to self identify the issue and drive desire for a solution (41:56) Improving your confidence around pricing (and how Bahee Van de Bor successfully raised her rates in a recessive period!) (50:51) Why it’s important to follow the correct process and tailor it to YOU (1:07) Podcast Reviews: Huge thanks also goes to Jill Leake from https://www.jlcommunicationsconsulting.co.uk/about for their fab five star podcast review! It’s hugely appreciated and makes it easier to spread the word about Selling to Corporate and what it really takes to get the corporate sales lifecycle started. Key Resources Mentioned in this Episode: Join The C Suite ® now! If you’re looking to get the best support in selling your services to corporate organisations, not to mention hundreds of email templates, swipe files and proposal outlines so that you really can convert at much higher rates and sell your services more successfully before our prices go up then click here to join now: https://www.products.selltocorporates.com/jointhecsuite Book an exploratory chat with me! I’m offering the final exploratory sessions with me so that you can ask any questions you have about The C Suite ® and how it can benefit your business. These opportunities are incredibly limited - so if you’d like my eyes on your business and a totally transparent conversation about how The C Suite ® could support your goals, book it here now: https://jessicalorimer.as.me/?appointmentType=12012999 Top 5 Business Development Questions: If you’re looking to convert more business development calls into sales? You need to be asking the right questions and getting the best information to support future work. Download my Top 5 BDQs here and start getting quality information from your prospects: https://www.products.selltocorporates.com/businessdevelopmentquestions More Jess! Like & Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SellingToCorporate/ Follow Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jess_lorimer/ Follow Me on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jesslorimer Content Disclaimer The information contained above is provided for information purposes only. The contents of this article, video or audio are not intended to amount to advice and you should not rely on any of the contents of this article, video or audio. Professional advice should be obtained before taking or refraining from taking any action as a result of the contents of this article, video or audio. Jessica Lorimer disclaims all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on any of the contents of this article, video or audio. Disclaimer: Some of these links are for products and services offered by the podcast creator.

“Brutality is contagious and so is companionability. So, somebody who effects people for the worst will have a higher level of inner brutality and they won't necessarily be able to see that there effecting their team in that manor”. Anna Pinkerton 2020 In Episode 33 of The Fat & Furious Podcast Steve is joined by author and psychotherapist Anna Pinkerton. Anna Pinkerton is a professionally qualified psychotherapist and author with over 25 years' experience, she specialises in helping people recover from chronic stress, PTSD, burnout and breakdown. As a leading expert in the UK for post trauma work, and burnout trauma Anna is uniquely trained in EMDRII, TIR and CATTI protocols (trauma re-processing models). She has successfully incorporated these models into a generic model of person-centred, recovery focused psychotherapy and has pioneered the use of simple drawings and imagery, in line with neuroscience. Her methodology helps people recover thoroughly from chronic stress react

Burnout is described as a ‘state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress,' but how do you know when you or someone you know is at risk?We've been speaking to Anna Pinkerton, the burnout & trauma prevention and recovery specialist who founded Burnout Awareness Day, to find out about the warning signs and how we can reduce the risk of burnout.Find out more at annapinkerton.com and burnoutawarenessday.comIMPROVE Personal Development Radio - improveradio.uk - a Communication Generation production. The producers rely on the information provided by participants and independent advice should always be sought.

How to avoid working from home burnout As we keep hearing, we're in unprecedented times. Covid-19 is affecting everyone in all aspects of life so it's not unreasonable to suggest we're all experiencing mass chronic trauma at this moment in time. Faced with the very real threat of this current pandemic and all that it entails, it's very tempting to over-compensate by working all hours. But how do you keep an eye on your business concerns while looking after your family, your health and your finances at the same time? How do you keep all those plates spinning without feeling totally overwhelmed? The answer, so says burnout awareness expert, Anna Pinkerton, is by being kind to yourself. It's by taking a sustainable approach to work that will support you now and keep you going over the next few months. That way, when we're out of lockdown, you'll have the energy and drive to go back to business as normal… Listen to Anna's advice about how best to work from home to avoid burnout and the warning signs that show you might need to slow down…   What we discuss The importance of being kind to yourself How working sustainably will create more energy Why it's not helpful to work a 50-hour week right now   What you will learn Warning signs that you are nearing burnout How to structure your day to benefit both yourself and your work Recognising when you have exceeded your own bandwidth How to balance your working life to sustain you for the next few months and beyond   Anna is a therapeutic coach, trauma therapist, speaker and author who has dedicated her career to understanding stress, trauma and PTSD.  She is an expert in burnout and burnout trauma©.  She helps companies and individual leaders prevent burnout, recover from burnout and create cultures of care & kindness through knowledge of neuroscience. If you are concerned about burnout and want to get in touch with Anna, email anna@annapinkerton.com or contact her through her Linked In page.   To find out more about how to recognise the effect of burnout and how to overcome it, visit Anna's website at annapinkerton.com. If you enjoyed listening it would be great if you could leave a review to help other people find us - Thank you   Also ... Join me in the Simply Marketing and Social Media Facebook Group  by clicking HERE    FREE Resources 5 Steps to making more money as a solopreneur To make more money as a solopreneur you have to be extremely purposeful about your marketing - Join me for this free training and learn how to make a start getting the basics right. https://www.alisonteare.com/5-steps-to-making-more-money   FREE - 5 Day Marketing Challenge If you want to BOOST your marketing and your confidence - Join me for the 5 Day Marketing Challenge - HERE https://www.alisonteare.com/challenge      Work with me    Book a Free Marketing Clarity Call - HERE Everyone feels overwhelmed by their marketing at one time. I offer clarity calls to help you to step back and see the bigger picture.   Find me at - www.alisonteare.com  

What’s in this week’s podcast? It was great to have Anna Pinkerton on episode 27 of the Confident Live Marketing Show. We talked about self-sabotage, imposter syndrome and burnout. Have you had any experience with what we've talked about in today's episode? Let us know in the comments. Find this week's podcast's show notes here: iag.me/27 (https://iag.me/27) Who is Anna Pinkerton? Anna is a therapeutic coach, trauma therapist, speaker and author who has dedicated her career to understanding stress, trauma and PTSD. She is an expert in burnout and burnout trauma©. She helps companies and individual leaders prevent burnout, recover from burnout and create cultures of care & kindness through knowledge of neuroscience. You can find out more about Anna on her website:  https://annapinkerton.com/ (https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fannapinkerton.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR23y8aDnewrDt-vMgpRysXMMMhVdkaMR2_qa1F0NXF5CH2mbMASG32ymcs&h=AT17ftt0bURoW1D9zuvKCgSke0u2gJCIxsHkSZAbdQkY6fa7TAn-wiGk_lz9jeV2pmQH8jI-u99zHU-KznrHlA30VAsZMS4yRwK4TLpezQM0zbAW_QwOF3r9Qc9UOPB0E8ElCcrEUYY) Please Subscribe! Don’t miss an episode! You can subscribe on Apple podcasts here (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/confident-live-marketing-show/id1464698882/?ls=1) . About the show The Confident Live Marketing Show is a weekly live video show and podcast. It’s aimed at established entrepreneurs who want to level up their impact, authority and profits through the power of live video, webinars and podcasts. We’ll focus on knocking down the 3 main barriers these entrepreneurs face when creating live content - camera confidence/mindset, tech/gear and content marketing. It’s hosted by Ian Anderson Gray. He is the founder of the Confident Live Marketing Academy and is the host of the Confident Live Marketing Podcast. He helps entrepreneurs to level up their impact, authority and profits by using live video confidently. He’s founder of Seriously Social - a blog focused on live video and social media tools. He’s an international speaker, trainer, teacher and consultant. He has a passion for making the techno-babble of live video and social media marketing easy to understand. As well as being a geek, husband, and dad to two kids, Ian is also a professional singer and lives near Manchester in the UK. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

What is burnout and how to avoid it?  With Anna Pinkerton  Burnout specialist Anna Pinkerton explains why we need to slow down or fall down! In no uncertain terms, she tells us why working at 100mph day in, day out is not achievable, why it's bad for our physical health and our mental health.  This is what working as a psychotherapist for over 26 years with some of the biggest names in industry has taught her. And, she says, no-one is immune.  In this podcast, Anna looks at how an accumulation of fear can lead to a feeling of failure which can ultimately lead to burnout. She also gives us her strategies for recognising the signs of burnout and how to survive it, essential for anyone who's working on their own, either as a business owner or self-employed.  What we discuss:  What burnout in the workplace looks like  What causes burnout – fear, comparison, internal drivers, an inability to slow down Why it's important to recognise the signs of burnout so you can prevent it in the future  The importance of scheduling some free time into your diary  Here's what you will learn:  That burnout will get you eventually if you don't give yourself a break  That you must stop beating yourself up – learn how to ignore your ‘Inner brutality of thought'  That you need to be kind to yourself – follow the concept of ‘Companionability of self'  That it's ok to slow down and coast along, to take your foot off the pedal every now and again  That fear is real, so do acknowledge it, but don't feed it, simply change your response to it   More about Anna Anna is a therapeutic coach, trauma therapist, speaker and author who has dedicated her career to understanding stress, trauma and PTSD.  She is an expert in burnout and burnout trauma©.  She helps companies and individual leaders prevent burnout, recover from burnout and create cultures of care & kindness through knowledge of neuroscience. Website:  www.annapinkerton.com Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/KindnessIncorporated/ My Book SMILE AGAIN: Your recovery from burnout, breakdown, & overwhelming stress - view the link here   If you enjoyed listening it would be great if you could leave a review to help other people find us - Thank you   Also ... Join me in the Simply Marketing and Social Media Facebook Group  by clicking HERE    FREE Resources  5 Steps to making more money as a solopreneur To make more money as a solopreneur you have to be extremely purposeful about your marketing - Join me for this free training and learn how to make a start getting the basics right. https://www.alisonteare.com/5-steps-to-making-more-money   FREE - 7 Day Marketing Challenge If you want to BOOST your marketing and your confidence - Join me for the 7 Day Marketing Challenge - HERE https://www.alisonteare.com/challenge      Work with me    Book a Free Marketing Clarity Call - HERE Everyone feels overwhelmed by their marketing at one time. I offer clarity calls to help you to step back and see the bigger picture.   Find me at - www.alisonteare.com

Accepting ourselves and being more kind to ourselves are the themes in this episode. Anna Pinkerton from Kindness Incorporated talks about her personal and professional journeys and how she has combined them to help her daughter build the life she wants. Anna shares not only the journey she has been on with her daughter but also how that has crossed over into her professional life. She shares her thoughts around why we aren't kind enough to ourselves and the long term impact that can have on our lives. Anna also suggests ways we can help our children learn to be more kind to themselves as well as how and why we need to all start with genuinely liking ourselves. Listening to Anna might just help you analyze how you feel about yourself and whether you need to change the message you tell yourself. For a full transcript of this interview visit www.journeyskills.com

In this episode, I speak with Anna Pinkerton, renowned psychotherapist, author and speaker with over 25 years’ experience helping people recover from chronic stress, trauma, PTSD, burnout and breakdown. Anna works worldwide with business leaders, senior executives, professionals and people in the public eye. Anna differs from other therapists, where she works closely with clients to provide tailored therapy solutions built around individual need. This means clients get the supportive care they need to help them recover more quickly. To learn more about Anna’s incredible work, do visit her website here. Learn more about Anna’s recent book 'Smile Again' here. KEY TAKEAWAYS Background I ‘m in my 26th year of practice and very early on became interested in the long-life effects of trauma. I started to specialise in trauma and recognised that lots of people are ‘walking wounded’ as they don’t even realise they are suffering. I began to look at how I could make a difference. My work has evolved to studying what’s getting in the way of recovery and what speeds it up. PTSD I often see someone who has been poorly for a couple of decades.  There are multiple symptoms and if they have persisted over a long period of time then it is likely they have been suffering from PTSD for all of that time. There are 2 ways of becoming traumatised The stacking of multiple traumatic events A single significant trauma Getting in the way of Recovery People form an opinion of themselves, they internalise it and make a decision that the fault is theirs. With a core belief such as ‘I am bad,’ the psych turns itself against itself creating inner brutality of thought, inner brutality of action or both. Once you educate people about what they have been through and what they are not, then they can ask themselves if I’m not those things who am I? this begins the process of transforming that inner brutality into something useful. Companionability is the medicine for the psych if you want a lifelong recovery you have to have the companionability in place for the self. Companionability, Consideration, Care Companionability – if you have a companionable relationship with yourself it means you can’t fall out with yourself or let yourself down. Consideration of experience, and yourself – once you have a companionable relationship you can then consider who you are Care – how do you care about what you find in the consideration stage. How do you care about who you are and who you want to be? Range of Emotions There are 10 emotions we should be experiencing but mostly we emerge from childhood with just two or three. The range of emotions can be limited as a result of PTSD with people not experiencing highs and lows just a moderate range Someone can be overwhelmed with shame and guilt, but these are the defences to the emotion of grief. Dive into it then you’ve got the chance to dissipate it and move through it. Smile Again This book is the culmination of 25 years of practice. I share with people the elements of recovery that I use every day with my clients.   BEST MOMENTS ‘Feedback for the brain when you move is that things are ok’ ‘You can never cry the same tear twice’ ‘If you have them, feel them you can move through them’ ‘You come out with only half a toolkit’ ‘People can lose everything in an instant, the power is to prevent the break’ ‘We are all at the mercy of our neurology’ ‘It’s helping them get to know themselves in a companionable way’ VALUABLE RESOURCES https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Smile-Again-Anna-Pinkerton/dp/1326166638 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/enduring-health/id1442268572?mt=2 ABOUT THE HOST Dr Shan Hussain is an author, general practitioner, health coach, wellness advisor and ambassador to the World Health Innovation Summit. As Founder of The Health Studio and a medical doctor of 18 years, he has a special interest in health promotion and disease prevention. He works with individuals and organisations to help naturally improve health in a sustainable, holistic manner. Dr Hussain has developed several coaching and mentorship programmes designed to help reverse the symptoms of many stress-related health problems. His best-selling book, 'The Big Prescription' serves as a guide for readers to learn about evidence-based holistic health practices that create the foundation of his work. CONTACT METHOD Connect with Dr Shan Hussain through his website at https://thehealthstudio.net/ If you would like to support our Podcast, please visit our Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/enduringhealth GUEST CONTACT METHOD https://annapinkerton.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-pinkerton-kindness-incorporated%E2%84%A2-39414647/?originalSubdomain=uk https://twitter.com/AnnaPinkertonKI/status/1044513885880025089 Support the show.

Burnout prevention and recovery specialist Anna Pinkerton joins me for this edition of the Surgical Spirit Podcast.An author, speaker, therapeutic coach, and expert on stress and PTSD, Anna brings with her a wealth of advice for professionals and entrepreneurs who are struggling to keep their feet on the ground. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join us as Dave Scheer of Healstress.com discusses the Neurology of Stress and the definition of 'The Good Place' (or the opposite of stress) with Trauma and PTSD Expert Anna Pinkerton.  Listen as Anna talks about her own journey through the trauma of assault and discusses her own personal shift from reacting to stress to working to prevent it.

*Anna Pinkerton is a psychotherapist based in the UK who specializes in helping individuals and corporate groups overcome trauma, burnout and breakdown. This show starts out talking about the stresses of the traditional corporate workplace and how bad energy and dysfunctional communication can spread through an organization much like the pandemic virus. As we discuss how business leaders and executives can heal from trauma and improve corporate culture, Anna explains that these techniques and strategies are applicable to every other source of stress and trauma we face in life, especially healing from our own flawed subconscious programming.* This is where the show gets deep and meaningful for all of us, even if you aren’t dealing with workplace dysfunction. Anna drops the brilliant insight that before we can achieve any form of life transformation, we must first increase self-awareness and “train oneself to be curious without judgement.” It occurs to me that this is incredibly relevant to the pursuit of diet and fitness goals. We are so used to getting bombarded with information, advice, and rigid programming but we fail to recognize our blind spots that lead us to repeat the same flawed patterns that leave us frustrated, confused and falling short of our goals. You will love many fresh insights and cool new vocabulary terms from Anna, such as the dreaded “inner brutality” - the negative self-talk and self-judgement that is so common that it’s become a normal and customary part of culture. You know, those seemingly trivial comments like, “I’m so stupid I lost my car keys,” all the way over to the deep-seated subconscious beliefs that you’re not good enough, you don’t deserve to be happy or successful, and so forth. Anna reports that 93% of her patients over the course of her 25 year practice have engaged in inner brutality. Learn more at annapinkerton.com and take the 60-second quiz about burnout at AnnaPinkerton.com *TIMESTAMPS:* Brad’s guest talks about negative self-destructive thoughts. [01:37] Look for reasons, rather than blame. [02:51] There is a crisis of people feeling fried from working at home. [05:25] Is this crisis a case of time management? [08:03] These stressful dynamics might very well predate the pandemic. [10:46] The counselor can evaluate the level of stress by noticing trauma beneath the skin or see how the muscles are held. [12:06] The careful and tactful conversations with corporate leaders are when you can help them separate themselves as people away from the problem. [15:35] The best way to deal with the stress in the workplace is to own your part of it. [19:49] Has the hyperconnectivity and the boundaries of the workplace been broken down by technology? [24:10] Sometime it is difficult to realize that certain triggers affect the dynamics of your life. [27:43] The personal health and self-care piece is big, when you are dealing with stress in the workplace. [30:45] You can’t deal with self-care concerns if you aren’t self-aware. [33:12] It is almost normal in our society that people are cruel to themselves. [35:04] Sometimes a person is not really an asshole, they are acting like one because they need something from you. [36:49] It is said that 90 percent of our thoughts about ourselves in a day are negative. [38:47] We need to learn not to waste time with Inner Brutality. Why waste time in interaction that doesn’t serve me well? [41:08] How does one begin this process of rewiring? [43:18] We tend to give ourselves over to something outside of us in an attempt to feel valuable. [47:24] We don’t realize the impact on our life when we demean ourselves and talk in a derogatory manner towards ourselves. [50:01] What can the listeners do to train their brains to change from Inner Brutality to compatibility compassion? 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