How Mindfulness Helps Trauma Survivors Feel Safe Again A Conversation with Linda Thai

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What is trauma, really? And what does healing actually look like in everyday life? In this conversation for AAPI Heritage Month, Dora sits down with somatic therapist Linda Thai — a former child refugee from Vietnam — to explore the many ways trauma lives in the body, the nervous system, and our relationships. Together, they talk about how trauma is triggered not only by overwhelming events, but also by chronic stress, displacement, silence, neglect, and the things we needed but never received. Linda shares a compassionate framework for understanding survival responses such as people-pleasing, hypervigilance, perfectionism, and emotional shutdown — not as personal failures, but as adaptations that once helped us survive. The conversation also explores how mindfulness, yoga, and somatic practices can gently help us reconnect with ourselves, build a new relationship with discomfort, and create space for healing over time. If you’re navigating your own healing journey, supporting someone you love, or simply curious about the relationship between trauma and the body, this conversation offers wisdom, insight, and plenty of deep compassion.