“Women have been oppressed for thousands of years. Oppression is traumatic. Trauma is genetically transmitted. We are born with the trauma or the oppression encoded in our DNA, and trauma adaptations that signal to us to keep on dimming our light.” – Dr. Valerie Rein

I am so excited to be back this week with another Become an Unstoppable Woman replay episode. But this is not just any replay. This is a replay of one of the most important episodes I’ve ever recorded and it’s all about inherited trauma, or more specifically, Patriarchy Stress Disorder.

Hopefully you tuned in just the other week when we replayed the episode on Intergenerational Trauma. This one is a great add on to that as I’m joined by psychologist, women’s mental health expert, author, and business consultant, Dr. Valerie Rein, to discuss the concept she’s coined called, Patriarchy Stress Disorder (PSD). 

PSD expands on the idea of intergenerational trauma and looks at women as a whole to study how we’ve been taught to fear through oppression. This trauma has contributed to the common women’s beliefs that keep us small and hold us back.

Dr. Valerie Rein specializes in uncovering these hidden traumas that hold hostage people’s best work, relationships, and well-being. She effectively heals them with powerful mind-body mythology. She holds an EDM in psychological counseling from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.

Dr. Valerie’s concept of Patriarchy Stress Disorder has revolutionized the way that I and many other women think about ourselves and the world. If you’re someone who feels stunted in your growth and feels like despite having a good life, it’s still uncomfortable to be “seen” in your greatness and experience pleasure, you’ll understand why after listening to this episode.

THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU IF YOU WANT TO LEARN:

• The invisible barrier to your happiness and fulfillment (that you share with all women) and how to break through it
• How Dr. Valerie helps women go from constantly thinking “what’s wrong with me?” filled with anxiety and depression, to stepping into their power and thinking “how good can it get?”
• What Patriarchy Stress Disorder (or PSD) is and how to heal from it
• The role of prison guards/inner mean girls have in our lives and how to make them our bodyguards instead
• What is taking up 90% of your time and energy, and what to do to reclaim that time

…and so much more.

There is not a woman out there who shouldn’t listen to this episode right now. If you missed it the first time around, now is your chance! Tune in at the top of the page.

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