SEASON 4 FINALE, EPISODE 104 | Healing Trauma: The Answer to Human Sustainability
Watch Yemi Penn's interview on Human Amplified with Brandi Fleck.
Listen to Yemi Penn’s Ongoing Journey with Healing Trauma
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About Yemi Penn’s Human Amplified Episode
Today we’re talking to Yemi Penn. She’s an engineer, author, documentary producer, speaker, and is currently pursuing her PhD around the topic of trauma and how it can be transformative.
She's a survivor herself who’s self awareness and growth is ongoing. She’s in the midst of transformation and change. So, it was the perfect time to dig really deep into topics like why life doesn’t have to be a struggle, what trauma is, how the aftermath of traumatic events can lead to struggle, and the huge question of what is the point of trauma?
Yemi then boldly and openly tells us about her own traumatic experience with specific examples of how it’s rippled out into her life. A loss of power and consent led to a minimization of her voice.
We explore how this became intertwined with personality, how she uses her voice now, the power of acknowledgement and awareness, some of the healing modalities Yemi has used in her own healing journey, and we even breach the topic of restorative justice and how punishment just isn’t working to stop perpetrators.
This episode may be hard to listen to for some of you, but I hope it inspires you to face any discomfort you may feel when you’re ready in order to embrace the sometimes messy inner work required to heal your own trauma.
We end the episode by considering the question, what would life look like without trauma. Yemi says she searched the depths of her soul to answer this question and the others throughout this vulnerable and informative interview.
I invite you now to imagine for yourself a life and a world without trauma. If we can do that, we can get there.
TRIGGER WARNING: We discuss child sexual abuse. Listener discretion is advised.
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Yemi Penn’s Interview Highlights
Getting to know Yemi Penn while she’s in transition
Cause and effect of our actions and inactions
What it was like for Yemi to be unhoused
Why life doesn’t have to be a struggle
Can we still be traumatized if we’re not in the event that initiated the trauma?
Traumatic experiences leading to struggle
What is the point of trauma?
Don’t get into the habit of comparing your trauma
Yemi explains her traumatic experience with her sexual power being taken as a child (this part of the conversation may be difficult to listen to)
The stats around who experiences sexual abuse
How Yemi’s traumatic experience manifested in her personality
Cleaning your trauma
The numbing of Yemi’s voice
An indicator that someone might not be okay
Punishment isn’t working on perpetrators
The difference between transformation and transmutation
Using voice for acknowledgement and awareness
Healing circles
Thoughts on forgiveness and restorative justice
The role of spirituality in Yemi’s healing journey
Science and spirituality aren’t separate
Ayahuasca plant medicine experience and integrating the lessons
Facing the discomfort of doing the inner work that goes into trauma healing
What dissociation feels like (this part of the conversation may be difficult to listen to)
The importance of awareness and acknowledgement
The impact of dissociation on parenting
Trauma mapping
What would life look like without trauma?
About Yemi Penn
Yemi Penn is an author, documentary producer, speaker, engineer, and all-around fearless thought leader on transformation and growth. Yemi is working tirelessly to raise the vibration of acknowledging and healing our individual, and therefore, our collective trauma. Yemi instigates us all to use our trauma for growth.
She is a thought leader on creating your own memo, (also the title of her latest book) meaning ‘she’ gets to write the script of her life and encourages others to do the same.
She is a serial entrepreneur with a common thread of transformation across her businesses, whether it be transforming Sydney’s rail network as an engineer, transforming physical health in her F45 gym, or shifting the perspective of our minds as she supports people in creating a life that they not only want, but deserve.
More recently Yemi has added documentary producer to her repertoire as she shifts her core life’s purpose to raising the vibration of acknowledging and healing our individual and therefore collective trauma.
Born in the UK, childhood in Nigeria, stint in Okinawa Japan and now living in Sydney, Australia, Yemi is a citizen of the world.
Yemi’s Links
Did You Get the Memo? Because I F*cking Didn’t - Book by Yemi Penn
Did I Choose My Trauma Documentary (Trigger Warning: Viewer discretion is advised)
@YemiPenn on Facebook
@yemi.penn on Instagram
Yemi Penn on LinkedIn
The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
Watch Yemi’s Documentary: Did I Choose My Trauma?
TRIGGER WARNING: Viewer discretion is advised.
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CREDITS: INTRO AND OUTRO MUSIC AND EPISODE EDITING BY RYAN SAULS. EPISODE PRODUCTION AND GRAPHICS BY BRANDI FLECK. SOUND EFFECTS FROM ZAPSPLAT.COM. MID-EPISODE MUSIC Is “Save Us Now” BY SHANE IVERS AT SILVERMAN SOUND STUDIOS. BIO AND PHOTOS PROVIDED BY YEMI PENN AND DIVERIO CREATIVE.
About The Host
Brandi Fleck is a storyteller. She’s a writer, artist, recognized communications and interviewing expert, and a trauma-informed certified coach. She’s also an avid student of human nature who’s overcome past trauma and is founder of Human Amplified where she helps you embrace being your true self so you can more fully expand into your own humanity without the fear of being seen and heard. Brandi hosts the top-rated Human Amplified podcast (formerly the On Being Human Podcast). READ MORE
