How Trauma Impacts Marriage

with: Yehuda (Hudi) Kowalsky, LMHC
Devora Krasnianski of Adai Ad talks with Yehuda (Hudi) Kowalsky, LMHC and Ruchama Clapman of MASK about how past trauma can impact your future relationship and what you can do to set yourself up for success.
Show Notes
Devora Krasnianski of Adai Ad talks with Yehuda (Hudi) Kowalsky, LMHC and Ruchama Clapman of MASK about how past trauma can impact your future relationship and what you can do to set yourself up for success.

more from this series at www.adaiad.org/marriage-ready
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www.maskparents.org

0:00 Introduction
2:50 What is ‘trauma’? How does someone know if they still have the trauma ‘in them’?
6:58 In what ways does trauma impact relationships?
11:45 What if you function well, do you still need to specifically address the trauma?
16:18 How does someone know if they worked through the trauma enough for marriage?
19:28 If someone had a trauma, should they check in with a professional?
21:45 What type of therapy modalities be called for trauma?
30:00 How intergenerational trauma can impact someone.
34:48 Talking about the trauma of sexual abuse.
40:15 How to share about a trauma on a date.
46:05 Q: Does 12 Steps help with working through trauma?
48:28 Q: Dealing with the trauma of their own divorce.
50:39 People grow and thrive because of a trauma.
54:00 Q: Trauma around religion.
56:21 Final thoughts.

Hudi Kowalsky, LMHC is a trauma & relationship therapist in private practice in Brooklyn. He combines DBT, somatic-based interventions and spirituality in treatment. In treatment, through self-exploration and introspection, clients learn to resolve age-old questions that are prevalent to day-to-day struggles that yield to greater insight and quality of life. Hudi also teaches guitar & is a registered yoga teacher.
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