Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn is a Professor in the School of Nursing at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). She received her Doctor of Education from St. Mary’s College and Masters of Science in Nursing at CSUS, focusing on trauma-informed care with an emphasis on building resilience and post-traumatic growth (PTG).

She developed the word Metahabilitation, to describe a more optimistic and productive outcome in the aftermath of trauma, and her research provided a strengths-based clinical pathway guiding individuals toward PTG. Her post-doctoral research focused on how traumatic experiences also build resilience and bring forth Post-Traumatic Growth  in secondary and vicarious trauma survivors as well as communities.

Along with the course she created at CSUS, Traumatology. An Introduction to Post-traumatic Growth, she continues to research, lecture and directly apply Metahabilitation in a variety of rehabilitation and recovery settings.

Her second book on the subject, Anatomy of a Survivor. Building Resilience Grit and Growth After Trauma, was released in April 2021.

Topics discussed include:

• Dr. Mikal-Flynn’s own traumatic event and recovery from it
• What ‘Metahabilitation’ is and how it works
• The importance of support system in any recovery process
• Reframing challenges and struggles as starting points vs. end points
• The power and importance of permission and control in recovery

Get in Touch with Dr. Joyce:
Web - https://metahab.com
Instagram - https://instagram.com/dr.jmf

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