What do you hope for and why?
Neil Bindemann PhD
I don’t know if my childhood experiences have anything to do with my strong desire to be hopeful. I know the feeling arises from a deep space and place from within me and continues to be driving me forward; especially when sharing thoughts about emotional health and the impact that words can have on emotions and our mental and physical health balance.
It is that feeling, I believe, that also guided me, especially after my own experience, to listen to many trauma informed voices, and be creative in generating ideas and methods to offer and provide support in bringing together and strengthening voices that all to often can get ‘shouted down’.
That is in part what drew me to invite people to share their “emotional voices” in a research project during the COVID pandemic. What I keep hearing from those 600+ voices helps me to understand & become aware of why so many worlds can be destroyed, if left feeling hopeless. In other words, left with no hope. So that’s why I am re-sharing this presentation and the powerful data, 3 years on.
What I really do hope for is that you hear and see how this research data can support and grow the credibility of trauma-informed experiences. I believe it is through collecting evidence base data, including outcomes data that we show the value and impact of supporting people’s emotional health and why.
It is because of those 1000s of voices, which I continue to hear, when using my “Neuro-immunologist” brain, that I now spend time to observe & interpret (re-interpreting in some cases) existing & new scientific research data, especially from the world of neuro & psychosocial immunology.
This is not only to do my best in supporting the voices arising out of people’s experiences, it is also to explain the logic behind why I believe emotional health support can empower people to heal from & help prevent so many lifestyle diseases.
If you feel this data I share during the 15 min talk can in any way support your work, please use it. The talk is on our website here at
Becoming trauma informed – the significance of lived experiences
More of the data is available from https://innervate.co.uk/emotions-survey/
