Understand Trauma to Make Life Easier

Please listen to this episode because it’s highly likely that you or someone around you has experienced a trauma. The causes and consequences of trauma vary widely, and being more aware of them can help us and those in our lives by reducing stress and smoothing our social, family and professional interactions—especially because we are often completely unaware of the challenges facing others. This conversation with trauma expert Mary Dino is not a heavy downer; it’s a clear and informative chat that will leave you feeling smarter, more comfortable and even eager to talk about this topic that affects so many.

Episode Highlights

  • A clear definition of trauma and how it impacts us and those we know
  • Simple things you can do to ease the effects of trauma for others—even when you have no clue about their experiences
  • Ways to help yourself during and after traumatic or challenging events
  • Resilience fatigue and how to deal with being tired of dealing  with one crisis or problem after another
  • A cool two-minute stress reducing sampler

About Guest Mary Dino

Mary Dino is a licensed clinical social worker and has worked in the fields of mental health and trauma informed care for three decades. Taking an ecological approach to person-centered care, Mary has focused on supporting mental health, case management, medical, education and other services that provide care for marginalized and underserved populations by helping providers to understand the effects of trauma, integrate trauma informed approaches, and prevent vicarious trauma for the workforce.  Areas of expertise include individual, family and community service engagement, cross systems practice, wellness promotion, organizational change, and trauma-sensitive, skills-based psychotherapies. Currently, Mary is the Director of Mental Health and Trauma at CAI Global, Inc. where she collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team on consultation, training and technical assistance in trauma informed and mental health care for a wide variety of service delivery systems across the U.S. Prior to joining CAI, Mary was a clinical assistant professor at NYU Langone Health’s Child Study Center, where she was a master trainer and consultant in trauma therapies and interventions, and provided psychotherapy as a member of the faculty group practice.

Contact Mary Dino: Mary.Dino.LCSW@icloud.com

The Chill Factory App

Chill between episodes with The Chill Factory app, your calming companion to The Chill Factory podcast. It’s like a ‘spa in your pocket’ with hundreds of relaxing audio tracks, sleep enhancers, mindfulness guides, wellness reminders and much more updated daily. Download The Chill Factory from the App Store or Google Play and enter this episode’s special password imagine when prompted to unlock access to all the app’s features (offer good for the first 100 takers for one year from the original post date of this episode).

Quick Calm Video Workshop

Sometimes, you need a few simple, fast-acting ways to get focused, boost your mood, feel less overwhelmed and fall asleep easier. The Chill Factory host Jordan Friedman’s Quick Calm self-paced video workshop does exactly this by teaching you 10 data-driven stress and anxiety reduction techniques that he’s been teaching his stressed audiences for years. Learn more at quickcalm.net.

About Host Jordan Friedman

Jordan is known as The Stress Coach, a career path that likely started when one of the world’s largest brain tumors was discovered in his head at age 10. The resulting, nonstop stress continued through college until he reluctantly enrolled in a stress management class that led to much less stress, a degree in public health, a job as Columbia University’s health education director and now a career as a global stress management speaker, trainer and author. For 25 years, Jordan’s been privileged to help and learn from 9/11 survivors, teachers, CEOs, police officers, incarcerated adults, students and lots of other stressed people who want to be more successful, get better grades, sleep easier and be healthier.

In 2004, Jordan founded The Stress Coach to provide innovative workshops, multimedia webinars, chill apps, online courses and more stress-relief opportunities. The Chill Factory podcast is Jordan’s latest effort to bring stress relief and better health to the world.

Please listen to this episode because it’s highly likely that you or someone around you has experienced a trauma. The causes and consequences of trauma vary widely, and being more aware of them can help us and those in our lives by reducing stress and smoothing our social, family and professional interactions—especially because we are often completely unaware of the challenges facing others. This conversation with trauma expert Mary Dino is not a heavy downer; it’s a clear and informative chat that will leave you feeling smarter, more comfortable and even eager to talk about this topic that affects so many.

Episode Highlights

  • A clear definition of trauma and how it impacts us and those we know
  • Simple things you can do to ease the effects of trauma for others—even when you have no clue about their experiences
  • Ways to help yourself during and after traumatic or challenging events
  • Resilience fatigue and how to deal with being tired of dealing  with one crisis or problem after another
  • A cool two-minute stress reducing sampler

About Guest Mary Dino

Mary Dino is a licensed clinical social worker and has worked in the fields of mental health and trauma informed care for three decades. Taking an ecological approach to person-centered care, Mary has focused on supporting mental health, case management, medical, education and other services that provide care for marginalized and underserved populations by helping providers to understand the effects of trauma, integrate trauma informed approaches, and prevent vicarious trauma for the workforce.  Areas of expertise include individual, family and community service engagement, cross systems practice, wellness promotion, organizational change, and trauma-sensitive, skills-based psychotherapies. Currently, Mary is the Director of Mental Health and Trauma at CAI Global, Inc. where she collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team on consultation, training and technical assistance in trauma informed and mental health care for a wide variety of service delivery systems across the U.S. Prior to joining CAI, Mary was a clinical assistant professor at NYU Langone Health’s Child Study Center, where she was a master trainer and consultant in trauma therapies and interventions, and provided psychotherapy as a member of the faculty group practice.

Contact Mary Dino: Mary.Dino.LCSW@icloud.com

The Chill Factory App

Chill between episodes with The Chill Factory app, your calming companion to The Chill Factory podcast. It’s like a ‘spa in your pocket’ with hundreds of relaxing audio tracks, sleep enhancers, mindfulness guides, wellness reminders and much more updated daily. Download The Chill Factory from the App Store or Google Play and enter this episode’s special password imagine when prompted to unlock access to all the app’s features (offer good for the first 100 takers for one year from the original post date of this episode).

Quick Calm Video Workshop

Sometimes, you need a few simple, fast-acting ways to get focused, boost your mood, feel less overwhelmed and fall asleep easier. The Chill Factory host Jordan Friedman’s Quick Calm self-paced video workshop does exactly this by teaching you 10 data-driven stress and anxiety reduction techniques that he’s been teaching his stressed audiences for years. Learn more at quickcalm.net.

About Host Jordan Friedman

Jordan is known as The Stress Coach, a career path that likely started when one of the world’s largest brain tumors was discovered in his head at age 10. The resulting, nonstop stress continued through college until he reluctantly enrolled in a stress management class that led to much less stress, a degree in public health, a job as Columbia University’s health education director and now a career as a global stress management speaker, trainer and author. For 25 years, Jordan’s been privileged to help and learn from 9/11 survivors, teachers, CEOs, police officers, incarcerated adults, students and lots of other stressed people who want to be more successful, get better grades, sleep easier and be healthier.

In 2004, Jordan founded The Stress Coach to provide innovative workshops, multimedia webinars, chill apps, online courses and more stress-relief opportunities. The Chill Factory podcast is Jordan’s latest effort to bring stress relief and better health to the world.