141 Healing From Trauma: The Power of "Being With" Part 1
Curt Thompson returns to the podcast to talk about how we heal from trauma. In short, trauma and emotional pain begin to heal when our stories are witnessed by an empathetic other. Curt shares a story...
4 Syys 202333min
140 Trauma, Resilience, and Race with Jimmy McGee and Rebecca Wheeler Walston
Jimmy McGee and Rebecca Wheeler Walston join me to talk about how they came to understand the importance of trauma and story engagement. If you want to engage your story in more depth, the Impact Move...
21 Heinä 202334min
139 Role Reversal: When A Child Becomes A Parent
I am joined today by my friend Rebekah, who shares a story from when she was six years old. Topics covered include: feeling like there is something wrong with you but not knowing what it is, self-doub...
15 Touko 202339min
138 How To Heal From Sorrow and Grief Part 5 with Mary Ellen Owen
Fellow therapist Mary Ellen Owen joins me today to share her journey with sorrow. Like many people with trauma, it took Mary Ellen years to find her tears, years to befriend her sorrow. Although she c...
1 Touko 202345min
137 How to Heal From Sorrow and Grief Part 4 with Heather Stringer
I am joined today by Heather Stringer, who has lots of experience creating rituals that heal. Heather begins by describing two rituals: one focused on recovering from sexual assault and the second foc...
17 Huhti 202350min
136 Engaging Another Person's Story: Why It's Important and How To Do It
I am joined by Cathy Loerzel to talk about how to engage another person's story. Effective story engagement is not a magical skill that some people have and some people don't. It can be learned. Today...
3 Huhti 202346min
135 How Your Story Affects Your Sexuality
Jay Stringer joins me to talk about the relationship between our current sexual difficulties and our story in our family of origin. Sexual struggles are rooted in our stories—and, very often, our stor...
23 Maalis 202343min
134 How to Heal from Sorrow and Grief Part 3
In order to heal from sorrow, we need to move our bodies as we participate in rituals of honoring and releasing our sorrow. A ritual is a sequence of bodily movements and symbolic actions performed wi...
13 Maalis 202325min
