Trauma in business is REAL.
Is your head up your Ass, are you avoiding what needs to be adress?
17 May 2022
Yesterday, I once again was reminded that business owners, staff, the business itself and entrepreneurs across the globe are grappling with Trauma due to the pandemic.The massive losses, that was experienced during the past 28 months can produce feelings like post-traumatic stress.
That’s what closing a business, restructuring, retrenching, not fulfilling contracts, not being paid by a client, not able to pay a supplier, your staff, after all is: It is a personal loss, one that requires dealing with grief and other difficult feelings.So if we expect businesses to regain their footing or others to forge ahead anew, it’s necessary to recognize they’ll need more than an added boost to their bank accounts. They’ll need a healthy way to re-envision their livelihoods and their lives.Now keep in mind we are also dealing with the collective, the total business, the industry etc.
You are not alone in your trauma.Being a Trained Systemic Business Coach I would like to share with you 7 steps to shift from Chaos/Trauma to Prosperity so drop me a mailBefore we start with how to shift maybe we should first look at Four Symptoms that identify PTSD, keep in mind that the pandemic was a trauma:- Intrusive memories: recurrent, unwanted thoughts.- Avoidance: trying not to think about the trauma, any activity or action that could directly link to trauma- Negative changes in thinking and mood: destructive thoughts about yourself and other people, your business and staff.- Change in physical and emotional reactions: being easily frightened, sense of panic, shifts to anger, overwhelming guilt, slow in decision making or substance abuse.Please keep in mind that PTSD/Trauma is not just related to life threatening but also to life changing events.Private message me if you would like to receive the 7 steps and to identify the symptoms or book for my workshop: Heal your business ….Shifting out of Chaos to Prosperity.Book for HEAL your BUSINESS.Here was my 7 steps to shift from Chaos (Trauma) to Prosperity:- Assess where my business was, is. – I had to acknowledge the past, the now.- Appoint someone to talk to – Signed up a coach even though at that stage I could not afford one. He now takes a % of my revenue.
Make the **Decision** to grow- Break the actions up into small bite sizes – Next step, be in action- Visualise the success – Reset myself when emotions, memories intrude- Appreciate what I have daily – Daily gratitude exercise twice a day some days more- Reprogramme my mind every 15 Sec – I call this my 15-minute shift.Here is Four Symptoms that identify PTSD:- Intrusive memories: recurrent, unwanted thoughts- Avoidance: trying not to think about the trauma- Negative changes in thinking and mood: destructive thoughts about yourself and other people, your business and staff.- Change in physical and emotional reactions: being easily frightened, sense of panic, shifts to anger, overwhelming guilt, or substance abuse.We will react in 3 ways to a trauma: It could also be a combination of them:- Fight or Flight- Disassociation- Freeze
