What are the signature techniques Brian D Smith uses to connect trauma with collective consciousness?

I lean on a few core approaches that you’ll hear throughout my conversations, including the episode with Blaise Kennedy:

• Relational healing – I frame trauma not just as “my problem,” but as something that’s held and healed between people. Being witnessed, felt, and understood is medicine.
• Intergenerational lens – I talk about how pain lives in families and lineages, not just in one nervous system, so healing work can ripple backward and forward.
• Collective consciousness framing – I point to us as souls in a shared field of awareness. Your grief, when expressed, taps into something bigger than you and invites others into their own healing.
• Somatic + spiritual integration – I emphasize feeling emotions in the body while holding a bigger spiritual context: we’re connected, we’re not alone, and love moves through all of it.

Is there a specific kind of trauma or experience you’re wondering how to connect to the collective piece?