Britt Frank on Overcoming Childhood Trauma, Unhealthy Adult Patterns and Circus!

Dancing in the Discomfort Zone with Anne Bonney

In this fascinating episode, Britt Frank (www.scienceofstuck.com) speaker, trauma therapist, circus performer and trauma survivor shares her personal experiences of overcoming childhood and adult abuse, drug addiction, unhealthy adult patterns, and how she pushed past comfort zones through admitting where she was and....circus performing! She highlights the value of embracing discomfort and using language and humor and play to navigate uncomfortable situations.
We talk about

• The importance of vulnerability and embracing shame to move towardsa a more healthy future
• Realizing her child sexual abuse in her 20s, and all the challenging patterns that created, and she eventually overcame
• The value of dancing in the discomfort zone in actually rewiring your brain
• Embracing her discomfort in a large metal hoop 20 feet in the air in a purple sparkly circus outfit! ( https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rmhu38yitr10xqz5x41tk/IMG_1356.mov?rlkey=37tkxkfrvbpd7ez0tp0si4ws9&e=1&dl=0 )

Want more from Britt?
Website : www.scienceofstuck.com
Insta @brittfrank
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittfrankmsw/
And of course, the video of her HOOP PERFORMANCE! https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rmhu38yitr10xqz5x41tk/IMG_1356.mov?rlkey=37tkxkfrvbpd7ez0tp0si4ws9&e=1&dl=0
Britt Frank, LSCSW, SEP is a recovering mess of a human-turned-psychotherapist. She’s the author of The Science of Stuck and The Getting Unstuck (Penguin Random House), named by SHRM, Esquire, New York Magazine, and The Next Big Idea Club as a must-read. Britt received her undergraduate degree from Duke University and her master’s degree from the University of Kansas, where she later became an award-winning adjunct instructor. Britt is a contributing writer to Psychology Today and her work has been featured in Forbes, NPR, The New York Times, Fast Company, Psych Central, SELF, and Thrive Global. She also likes to do circus acrobat things because life’s too short not to play.