Dr. Cade and Coach Cason share their top 3 tips on healing trauma brought on by Hurricane Ian.

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Dr. Cade

Hey, you guys. I am Dr. Cade, and I'm sitting here with Coach Cason, and today we're going to hand the reins over to you. We're going to shift the gears a little bit. We're going to talk about stress. And in filming this, we're kind of thinking about, you know, the tragedy, the trauma that people are experiencing right now in southwest Florida.

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Dr. Cade

But that doesn't just seem to be, you know, a single incident here with the hurricane. Right? People are dealing with verbal and physical abuse. People are dealing with the loss of a loved one. People are dealing with bankruptcy. Right? I mean, there's a million traumas that, you know, so many of our friends, our loved ones, maybe even you personally are going through that right now.

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Dr. Cade

I know for us, we're going through a pretty big trauma with my daughter. Right? And so, you know, in preparation for this, what we try to do is put together the top three things to do. If you are currently experiencing a trauma or a tragedy. Right? And so the three things that we came up with was God, right?

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Dr. Cade

We talked about communication and then we also talked about an outlet. So those are the three things that we're teaming up with Cason and so swing away, brother swing away, start with God.

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Coach Cason

Well, yeah. How can you start with anything else? That is, in my opinion, the Creator and what is making this whole show run so if we have a trauma or a stressful situation, or if I do, I should say that's where I go first, because I know that I can't burden that whole weight. And so when something happens in my life that's traumatic, that's stressful, and I try and burden it, of course I'm going to try.

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Coach Cason

That's like a natural instinct that I think we all have. I have to surrender and I have to say, okay, God, take this because I can't. So that's number one. God.

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Dr. Cade

It's interesting how, you know, we all have the tendency or the majority of us have the tendency to do the opposite, lean away, try to figure it out ourselves right and feeling more isolated and feeling more. Yeah, just the weight of it all. Again, I know that I felt that personally. So yeah. Any, tangible things that people can do to try to connect or what is your personal routine?

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Coach Cason

Yeah, well, personally, I - it's a personal relationship with God that I have. So this is, this is personal. I like to get up early in the morning and I like to close my eyes and I like to tap in. And to me, that is feeling a presence of, you know, oh, not aloneness, I guess is the best way to say it, to be held.

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Coach Cason

it's feeling held and feeling safe and yeah, there's no loneliness there whatsoever. So. But there's a million ways to do that, you know, prayer and meditation and we were talking about Jesus calling, you know, the daily...

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Dr. Cade

Devotional.

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Coach Cason

The daily devotional, the Bible, you know, breathwork. I mean, you can go you can go any route that is connective for you that it's personal for you. So I think it's a personal thing. And I think it's got to be yours, you know, like your identity. Yeah.

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Dr. Cade

Consistency needs to be a big part of that, whatever it is. You know, for me, every time on my way home, I listen to praise and worship music or I'm trying to, you know, bookmark a sermon and try to listen to a sermon so that I can get my head right before I walk in the door. So whatever it is for you, hopefully you're able to carve out some time and connect and be consistent with it.

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Dr. Cade

And then maybe the last thing that I'll say before we go back to you on the next one of communication is, you know, patient gave us a book years ago that was titled God is Not Religion. And I think what you said, how you open this up, right? Having a personal relationship is way different than going through the steps and emotions of what religion can be for some, right?

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Dr. Cade

And I know religion has you know, for for me, it put a bad taste in my mouth for a little bit just from some of the experiences that we had within the church. But it's full of loving and wonderful people. So if that's where you are finding God, then by all means let you define that how you see fit.

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Dr. Cade

But yeah, I'm excited to see what people come up with there. So next one, Cason, was communication. So what do we mean what or what do you mean by communication there?

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Coach Cason

Well, hey, I mean, my mind goes right to communicating with God, because that is the way to not be alone again, you know, to feel safe to offload this burden that we feel when the trauma happens into the Creator, that that can handle all things. So getting that off of us and giving it to God is the you know, that that's number one with communication.

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Coach Cason

But that could be a friend, you know, a spouse, a dog, a journal. It does not matter. But we need to we need to get that off of our chest, because if we're trying to do this alone, isolated it, we can't sustain. It's unsustainable.

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Dr. Cade

Yeah. So, you know, doing whatever you can to find that person or that time or that space to communicate it and get those things off your chest, is pretty critical. I think we've all felt the weight of something that just sits on our shoulders, on our chest, on our mind, and it just goes over and over and over again. And the hard part is rarely do we get to a happy spot with that.

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Dr. Cade

You know, usually that way just gets heavier and that starts to permeate through the rest of our life, right? So again, if you're going through a trauma or a tragedy, you know, fight every ounce in you to swallow that up yourself. Right? Communicate with your friends or find somebody who is safe that you can share that stuff with.

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Dr. Cade

Yeah, I think that's that's huge. So God, communication. And then the last one was, an outlet.

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Coach Cason

An outlet, yeah.

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Dr. Cade

All right. And share with them your favorite things there.

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Coach Cason

Yeah. So. Well, this gets back to communication because communication can be an outlet. You know, again, we're trying to get this burden off. So, yeah, a journal, a practice of prayer, a practice of meditation. Breathwork is a great way to calm our nervous system down and get into the parasympathetic nervous system or the rest and digest nervous system so that we're not feeling so stressed.

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Coach Cason

Exercise, you know, movement, getting into our body and moving. Yoga, you know, sweating, just a sauna, any kind of healthy, healthy outlet that's not turning to something to numb the pain, you know, with alcohol and drugs and pornography and all this stuff that's out there that, you know, is tempting for us to go to so that we don't have to feel, yeah.

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Dr. Cade

Things that will, you know, short term help the symptoms, right? But long term really make that problem worse, right? Or potentially create lots of other problems. So how about for you? Do you have something really fun that you like to do that gets your head off the weight of the world and lets you feel free?

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Coach Cason

And I like I like movement. Yeah, I like sweating. So I like to run and when I get out there and run, sometimes, you know, the juices start flowing and you know, then I want to scream, you know, or then I want to try and lift something really heavy, you know. And so movement movements, my go to and I would say meditation and journaling too, like when I, when I am feeling still, I can always go to writing and that seems to help me to offload.

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Coach Cason

Yeah, I love it.

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Dr. Cade

For me, it's play. I got to get in, get out and play. Whether it's pickleball or whether it's basketball or throwing a football or trying to skip some rocks or whatever it is, right? Playing, playing, playing with my kids, you know, just making something dumb. But it does a great job at just getting rid of that weight and clearing my mind.

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Dr. Cade

And sometimes I can problem solve a little bit different that way. But yeah.

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Coach Cason

So things come to you...

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Dr. Cade

Right? It's amazing what can happen when you when you play and that you know, we kind of talked about that changing some of the vagus nerve tone that helps your body adapt to the stress, doesn't do anything about changing the stress, but it helps your body adapt to the stress of what's ahead of you a little bit differently, right?

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Coach Cason

Yeah. Yeah. You look at children and they're playing all the time. Yeah. And their vagal tone is pretty spot on. You know, they're happy all the time, you know, not a lot of sad kids, you know. So they play, you know, and we need that in our lives.

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Dr. Cade

Or when they when you find them playing, a lot of times they're singing or humming or something like that, right? Where they're multitasking. Their brain is even further off the stresses that, you know, that they're dealing with. But yeah, they're they're toning their vagus nerve and helping their body adapt better. So which is which is cool. So we can always take notes from the kids.

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Dr. Cade

But there are the top three things to do if you are experiencing trauma or tragedy. And, you know, if you're struggling with number one, number two or number three, know that our door here at LIFEstrength Health Center is always open. We always offer a free 15 minute consult where if it's too much to drive here and you deal with the stress, we can always hop on the phone and do our best to individually point you in the right direction.

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Dr. Cade

So anything else you want to say Cason?

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Coach Cason

God, communication, in a healthy outlet.

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Dr. Cade

Love it. Thanks for joining us. We'll see you soon.

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