As a Trainer and Trainer of Trainers, I require a focus upon inner work and becoming not only aware but facile, using the protocols in their own lives as lifeskill tools, so I talk about this often.
There is no way around doing your own work, and for every good reason; here are just 3 -
1) We have to 'empty your own bucket' - or how can you actually have the full capacity to help another?, and
2) Our own 'baggage' continues to attract and be triggered by others'
3) We are not as likely to experience trauma 'contagion', not as likely to experience 'compassion fatigue' etc. when having resolved our own deepest wounds.
I agree, Guy MacPherson's podcast Trauma Therapist 2.0 series is a wonderful way to have these conversations with one another, share practices, insights, and develop a more collegial humanity around the work and the future of the work, by creating this kind of environment and expectation of new therapists and trauma workers. I have a podcast interview with Guy on this subject, if interested.