#60: Alex & Laurien Zurhake: The Many Ways Trauma Informed BJJ can Widen your Window of Tolerance

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alex and Laurien are two BJJ purple belts, active competitors and own a trauma informed martial arts and yoga school in Munich, Germany as well as Off The Zone, an online interactive platform where they help fellow martial artists to become trauma informed.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Georgia, Laurien and Alex discuss:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Both their journeys from suffering sexual harrasment under a coach to founding a trauma informed school&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What trauma is</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What the difference is in their trauma informed school vs a regular bjj school&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The potential value of competitions&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dealing with sexual harrassment at your school&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The pillars of the Off The Zone coaching program&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why martial arts can be therapeutic</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">And (of course) why people often say "Bjj saved them"&nbsp;</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To connect with Alex and Laurien check out their </span><a href="https://www.off-the-zone.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and their </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/off_the_zone/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">instagram.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (@off_the_zone)&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can listen to the book Alex mentioned about play for free on Audible:&nbsp;</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Title: Play it Away