Beauty-First Healing from Trauma -- EXPERT-TEAS

Trauma-Informed Church Kid

Today we sit down for "tea" with Dr Timothy Patitsas, who quite literally wrote the book on a beauty-first approach to healing from trauma. In our discussion today, we embark on a bit of a mystical journey: attempting to grasp with words the ineffable power of beauty to heal the soul. What is beauty? How does it impact the soul? How can it undo the intra/interpersonal excommunication, schism, and heresy caused by trauma? Why is beauty the foremost of the three transcendentals (beauty, goodness, and truth)? How does the modern psychoanalytic approach to counseling fail trauma sufferers? And how can we recapture a beauty-first approach to healing?

This is an interview I have been looking forward to having for a long time, and I am delighted to share it with you now! Please forgive the audio quality issues; I hope it will not detract too much from the important information we explore here. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and share this content to get the word out!

The Ethics of Beauty — St Nicholas Press

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Some emerging research on how beauty, wonder, awe, and other ventral vagal states are being recognized as essential factors in the healing process

• Research Reveals the Healing Power of Beauty and Awe | Psychology Today
• Awe as a Pathway to Mental and Physical Health - Maria Monroy, Dacher Keltner, 2023
• Awe: A Systematic Review within a Cognitive Behavioural Framework and Proposed Cognitive Behavioural Model of Awe | International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology
• GGSC-JTF_White_Paper-Awe_FINAL.pdf