#155 Trauma, Resilience and Natural Disaster with Dr. Jimi Wollumbin

How do we simultaneously exist and heal ourselves in a world that is in crisis? How do we integrate traumas when they occur at a community level? How can we turn a crisis situation into an opportunity for healing? Today on the podcast, we are journeying into all of this and more as we explore all types of trauma; with the guidance, knowledge, and wisdom of Dr. Jimi Wollumbin.

Dr. Jimi Wollumbin is a renowned expert in his field of traditional Chinese Medicine and has been practicing for over 20 years. He is the CEO and founder of One Health Organisation, a wellness-based charity that has distributed over ten metric tonnes of herbs and supplements to 100 locations across 13 countries for the past 15 years. Jimi is an incredible human whose life soul work is devoted to the holistic healing and reconnecting of all humanity. 

Over the past month, SuperFeast, and the entire Northern Rivers community of NSW, Australia, have experienced the worst flooding ever recorded in the history of this region. Thousands of people have been left homeless, heartbroken, and traumatised. Our hearts go out to all those who've been affected by these floods and suffered a tragic loss.

It is true; that even a crisis like this allows us the opportunity to build resilience, strength, and experience growth. But what happens to the trauma left within us unhealed and unprocessed? Trauma cracks, leaks, and is passed on from person to person, through generations. Dr. Jimi explains: "It can not be walled off. You can't ignore it. The only way to heal trauma is to integrate it. When trauma heals, it becomes a rhizomatic resilience web built on love and connectivity".

In this curative conversation, Dr. Jimi Wollumbin examines humanity's history of collective trauma and how these traumas are still affecting us today as a community in modern culture. Through metaphor and anecdote, Jimi illustrates the fragmented nature of trauma and compassionately explains how we can integrate our trauma wounds to become active conscious caretakers of any crisis, rather than adding to and further becoming a part of the problem.

 

 "We've all experienced trauma. All living systems have a component of resilience or anti-fragility. Communities, rainforests, humans; We all become more resilient from stressors. But only if we have time to repair, integrate, and reflect upon it. If someone continues to get trauma after trauma, after trauma, after trauma, after trauma, after trauma without integration, what happens? They break. But if you have challenge integration, assimilation, repair, repeat, that's like a gym workout".

 

- Dr. Jimi Wollumbin 

 

Mason and Jimi discuss:

 

-Survivors guilt.

-Vicarious trauma.

-Collective trauma.

-Community trauma.

-How trauma leaks.

-Epigenetic switching.

-The perpetrator model.

-How to integrate trauma.

-Victims, perpetrators and trauma. 

-How to deal with the effects of trauma.

-Shamanic medicine, trauma and soul retrieval.

-How do we live and heal in a world that is in crisis?

 

Resources:

Dr. Jimi Wollumbin Website

Dr. Jimi Wollumbin Patreon

Jimi Wollumbin Instagram

Dr. Jimi Wollumbin Facebook

 

Resources mentioned In the Podcast:

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine

Microbes and Viruses with Jimi Wollumbin (EP#58) SuperFeast Podcast

 

Check Out The Transcript Here:

https://www.superfeast.com.au/blogs/articles/jimi-wollumbin-ep-155