In this week’s episode, Craig sits down with psychiatrist Dr Chris Walsh fora wide-ranging conversation about trauma, healing, and what it means toreconnect with ourselves and our communities after life has pushed us to ourlimits.
Across their conversation, Chris shares how trauma shapes development,identity, and behaviour, particularly when it happens early in life or inhigh-stakes environments like military service. He talks about the way’s traumacan ripple through families and communities across generations, not justthrough stories or behaviours but through biology, culture, and unspokenemotional patterns. Craig and Chris explore how these cycles form, how they’remaintained, and what it takes to break them.
Chris also opens up about his own journey into mindfulness, beginning with adefining experience in India as a young doctor that led him to Tibetan Buddhist psychology and meditation. He talks about how mindfulness can be adapted fortrauma recovery, why it’s not about stopping thoughts, and how small moments ofawareness can create unexpected opportunities for change.
Whether listeners are interested in trauma, mindfulness, mental health, orsimply the human capacity to heal, this episode offers a grounded,compassionate look at how people can find their way forward - individually,culturally, and across generations.
Find out more about Chris and his work below:
