I just love this film clip from the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health that involves Dr. Bruce Perry talking about mental health and trauma. Here are the three major things that Bruce points out:
- Trauma sharing is a way for storytellers, not experts, to lead the conversation. Storytellers change the narrative.
- Sharing about trauma seems trendy, but it speaks to a deeper truth.
- Those with a platform should use it.
‘Human beings are human beings. We don’t change our minds because a bunch of scientists publish a set of recommendations and issue them. Honestly, this is no offence to the Heart Foundation or any other Foundation but you’ve all been publishing white papers about topics for years. Those don’t change public opinion. What changes people are the storytellers in our society.
