Laura Lipsky

Welcome to the first episode of Mind Wide Open, a mental health centered podcast created and hosted by Lily Cornell Silver. The series originally launched on what would have been her dad's 56th birthday. Trauma expert Laura Vandernoot Lipsky is a natural first guest as an author, founder of The Trauma Stewardship Institute, and mentor to Lily. Lily and Laura articulately face difficult topics head on; they unpack their own struggles with grief, suicidal ideation, and mental health, setting a tone of radical vulnerability that permeates the rest of the series. Laura also speaks on the "age of overwhelm" that we all live in, racial violence and intergenerational trauma, and how to navigate hardships and crises.

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Originally aired JULY 20, 2020

Laura van Dernoot Lipsky is the founder and director of The Trauma Stewardship Institute and author of Trauma Stewardship and The Age of Overwhelm. Widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of trauma exposure, she has worked locally, nationally, and internationally for more than three decades. Much of her work is being invited to assist in the aftermath of community catastrophes – whether they are fatal storms or mass shootings. Simultaneously, she has long been active in community organizing and movements for social and environmental justice and has taught on issues surrounding systematic oppression, structural supremacy, and liberation theory. https://traumastewardship.com