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Dealing with Healing: Healing Trauma Impacts Your Professional Performance
What if your unspoken past is already in the room with you-at the meeting table, in your relationships, in the way you lead?
In Dealing with Healing, Olivia Smith weaves research and leadership insight with powerful true stories from professionals, entrepreneurs, and executives who lived through childhood trauma, abuse, addiction, and loss. Their voices bring to light what statistics alone how trauma follows us into adulthood, shaping how we trust, work, and lead.
You'll meet survivors
Hid behind overachievement while battling self-doubt.Carried silence for decades, believing their stories were "too much" or in some cases "too little" to share.Faced burnout while trying to prove their worth through constant productivity.Found ways to turn pain into new clarity, leadership, and courage. Combined with insights from the ACE study, the DISC assessment, neuroscience, and decades of real-world leadership experience, these stories show how trauma undermines performance-and how healing creates steadiness, authenticity, and lasting growth.
Each chapter closes with reflection prompts to help you connect these lessons to your own life and leadership.
Dealing with Healing isn't about dwelling on the past. It's about learning from it, reclaiming your story, and leading your future with honesty and purpose.
In Dealing with Healing, Olivia Smith weaves research and leadership insight with powerful true stories from professionals, entrepreneurs, and executives who lived through childhood trauma, abuse, addiction, and loss. Their voices bring to light what statistics alone how trauma follows us into adulthood, shaping how we trust, work, and lead.
You'll meet survivors
Hid behind overachievement while battling self-doubt.Carried silence for decades, believing their stories were "too much" or in some cases "too little" to share.Faced burnout while trying to prove their worth through constant productivity.Found ways to turn pain into new clarity, leadership, and courage. Combined with insights from the ACE study, the DISC assessment, neuroscience, and decades of real-world leadership experience, these stories show how trauma undermines performance-and how healing creates steadiness, authenticity, and lasting growth.
Each chapter closes with reflection prompts to help you connect these lessons to your own life and leadership.
Dealing with Healing isn't about dwelling on the past. It's about learning from it, reclaiming your story, and leading your future with honesty and purpose.
196 pages, Hardcover
Published February 17, 2026
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June 15, 2026
This book is well written and if you have ever faced any kind of trauma in your life, you will feel well supported. I love how Olivia supports the women of Healing Housing. I also heard Reggie speak at the Healing Housing fundraising love lunch. He is a phenomenal speaker and there wasn’t a dry eye in the audience. He truly is an overcomer! Well done!
May 5, 2026
This book is so well written and is a great reminder that trauma (no matter how big or small) impacts every aspect of our life. You matter…your story matters…you are not alone. This book is a great resource for those who have experienced trauma or are caring for someone who has.
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