{"id":61261,"date":"2026-05-22T16:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=61261"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:35:22","slug":"life-unfiltered-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=61261","title":{"rendered":"LIFE Unfiltered &#8211; Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Life Unfiltered - Trauma\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fnearfm%2Flife-unfiltered-trauma%2F&amp;hide_cover=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media; fullscreen; autoplay; idle-detection; speaker-selection; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We use the word traumatised all the time now but do we actually know what trauma is or what it does to a person?<\/p>\n<p>This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria McHale sat down with psychoanalytic psychotherapist and DCU&#8217;s assistant professor of psychotherapy Dr. Ray O&#8217;Neill to discuss the real meaning of trauma and the difference between a single traumatic event and chronic, complex trauma. Dr Ray O&#8217;Neill describes trauma as &#8216;a normal reaction to an abnormal event&#8217; and says it is an &#8216;untold\/unrecognised story which needs to be told and retold and listened to&#8217;. You can listen back here and find our more about Ray at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.machna.ie\">www.machna.ie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use the word traumatised all the time now but do we actually know what trauma is or what it does to a person? This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria McHale sat down with psychoanalytic psychotherapist and DCU&#8217;s assistant professor of psychotherapy Dr. Ray O&#8217;Neill to discuss the real meaning of trauma and the difference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":57124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[27899,26438,16351],"class_list":["post-61261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listenagain","tag-dr-ray-oneill","tag-maria-mchale","tag-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61262,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61261\/revisions\/61262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}