Relationship As Medicine

Stephen Terrell joins me for a third time in this inspiring episode about bringing a caring heart to our work in supporting clients on their trauma healing journey.

We:

• Talk about a pet peeve of how clinicians talk about trauma.
• Explore the difference between pain and suffering
• Share about nervous system regulation work vs. pathology
• Look at how a somatic trauma treatment without words can actually work
• Emphasize how having an agenda in trauma healing can be counter-productive and make us and our clients work far too hard.

And... SO much more.

Have a listen and let us know how it lands for you. We truly want to know.

More about Stephen: 

Stephen J. Terrell, PsyD, SEP, is a leading expert in the field of Developmental Trauma and Adoption and is recognized around the world for his work in Developmental Trauma and Healing. He understands Developmental Trauma from the inside out and the outside in. Terrell has performed more than 25,000 individual Transforming Touch® sessions and taught thousands of students from around the world in the art of Transforming Touch® as it relates to healing Developmental Trauma. 

Gail Susan Gordon joins me as we look at nervous system regulation within the therapeutic relationship, whether working with individual adults or supporting parents, caregivers and children. As we support and foster attunement and regulation within the healing relationship, we create the conditions that allow people to grow and flourish.

Gail describes her compassionate view on how to best support the healing process for adults who’ve had challenging childhoods. You're sure to leave this episode feeling warmth in your heart and more grounded and at ease.

About Gail, in her own words:

My own journey has taught me that healing is not only possible, it’s a reality one can count on. When I bring together my training and my personal experience, I’m able to support people to move forward in a meaningful way.
I’ve worked as a psychotherapist with children and adults for almost 15 years. My training includes advanced studies in early development, trauma and somatics (body-oriented therapies). My work incorporates the impact of culture and social/political oppression in our daily lives.
A special interest has been integrating the body into therapy through many programs, including Somatic Experiencing, Somatic Resilience and Regulation, and Transforming the Experienced Based Brain/Transforming Touch. Learning the abundance of ways the body and mind are designed to heal from stress and trauma is an ongoing revelation. I share with you what I learn, incorporating it into my approach to working together. I’m looking forward to our journey.

Jivana Heyman shares how accessibility flows naturally from ethics. We explore how accessibility and trauma informed care weave together as we support those in our care. This conversation applies not only to. yoga teachers and facilitators but to anyone in a supporting and healing role.

We delve into the theme of sharing power and why we do this with those in our care. Collaboration is key in how we show up and empower students, clients and participants. This conversation is sure to leave you feeling inspired and with some fresh perspectives in your approach to healing whether you're facilitator or participant.

About Jivana:

Jivana Heyman, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, is the founder and director of Accessible Yoga, an organization dedicated to increasing access to the yoga teachings and supporting yoga teachers.

He’s the author of the books: Accessible Yoga: Poses and Practices for Every Body; Yoga Revolution: Building a Practice of Courage & Compassion; and a new book, The Teacher's Guide to Accessible Yoga: Best Practices for Sharing Yoga with Every Body.

Over the past thirty years of teaching yoga, Jivana has focused on welcoming all people to yoga and celebrating our individuality and our differences. His work has focused on dismantling ableism in the yoga world, as well as looking at the intersection of yoga and social justice.

His books, classes, and trainings offer support to yoga teachers and yoga therapists in finding ways to bring creativity and collaboration into their teaching while still respecting the ancient yoga tradition.

Justin Salamon and I explore the intersections between the therapeutic power of working in the outdoor industry and supporting clients in our healing modalities. We explore river running, nature, regulation, intuition, sharing power and why we don’t give our clients “psychic downloads”. Listen in a find out more about how we can become a safer space for those we support.

About Justin

Justin Salamon, MA - Certified Rolfer:

"My first experience with Rolfing® SI was in 2000 when I was seeking help for chronic shoulder dislocations. I was an avid climber, backpacker and paddler working in the outdoor industry but injuries threatened my ability to continue my livelihood. My first ten series was transformative – walking was joyful in a way I had never experienced, breathing was effortless, my coordination improved and old pains disappeared. I realized that I needed to study Rolfing SI to understand the changes that had occurred in my body and to share the work with others.

Since 2002 I have been privileged to practice Rolfing Structural Integration, and in the process help clients of all ages and backgrounds. I approach each session as an opportunity to understand the physical and psycho-biological patterns that make each client unique, and enjoy the challenge of helping each person become pain-free, embodied, and more comfortable in his/her everyday life. Rolfing fuels my passion for deepening my knowledge of the human body and the human experience through formal education and independent study.

In this episode, Sarah Buino and I dive into the current business landscape of therapists and care providers. We shine a light on the prevalent issue of burnout gripping many within these professions, particularly in our current times.

Sarah shares her personal journey, from the early days in community mental health to running group therapy practices. Through her experiences, we uncover valuable lessons and insights that have shaped her path. As we navigate the conversation, it becomes evident that a pandemic of burnout is silently affecting therapists and care providers on a wide scale.

This episode serves as an illuminating exploration of the challenges within these professions, offering a candid look at the struggles many practitioners face. Together, Sarah and I discuss strategies to navigate and alleviate burnout, emphasizing the importance of finding ease and steadiness in the midst of demanding roles.

Whether you're a therapist or a care provider of any kind, this episode provides valuable insights into the unique challenges faced and the crucial role of self-care and support. Tune in for a conversation that sheds light on the realities of the field and offers guidance on cultivating resilience and well-being in the face of burnout.

About Sarah

Sarah Buino is a speaker, educator, therapist and the founder of the therapy practice Head/Heart Therapy, Inc and consulting organization Head/Heart Business Therapy. She’s a member of the adjunct faculty at Loyola University Chicago and a podcast host. Her podcast called Conversations With a Wounded Healer examines the role of one’s own healing while being a care-giving professional. Sarah’s new podcast series The Burnt Out Practice Owner discusses the current state of group therapy practice ownership—the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Te and I dream together about the upcoming retreat in Panama, exploring how somatic-focused movement offers deep nourishment and support for the nervous system work we'll be diving into on the retreat. We delve into Te’s inclusive approach that honors all bodies that carry diverse stories and experiences about movement.  

Take a peek into this conversation to get a feel for Te’s morning practice, which will set the tone for each day of our retreat.

This week, I am so grateful to welcome Kristen Ales, LPC & Kristin Mathes, LCSW of the Wilder Wellness Podcast. Our conversation delves into the power of connection through group experiential work - a topic that we’ve been reflecting a lot on lately. We also explore how we as practitioners learn to let go of old habits, particularly the tendency to push ourselves too hard in not only our own healing journeys but also in our professional lives. 

The three of us also share our experiences facilitating retreats in nature and the power of connecting in groups. Kristin gives us a preview of her deep prep for launching EMERGE, a surf therapy retreat which involves a lot of somatic-based practices with Mother Ocean - happening in February 2025. And in a very vulnerable and honest share, I open up about my process around planning my upcoming retreat and what it’s been like in getting the word out about it.

This episode invites you into a circle of kind, regulated, well-intentioned, compassionate and wonderfully inspired humans. For healing practitioners (especially for those who focus on trauma healing and nervous system regulation), I hope this episode serves you as a deep exhale.

Wilder Wellness is a podcast all about exploring our relationship with our bodies, minds, and communities through an adventurous lens. Tune in each week as Kristen Ales & Kristin Mathes navigate new topics around emotional health, physical health, and living life outside of the box. Kristen and Kristin are two licensed therapists, & friends, for empowering and inspiring interviews with wellness professionals, outdoor enthusiasts, and big thinkers, dreamers & doers who are changing the prescription for true well-being.

I am so moved and honored to welcome Kelly McDaniel LPC, NCC to the podcast to discuss her book Mother Hunger, a personal life-changer that I frequently recommend to my clients. During this powerful conversation, we explore the term “Mother Hunger” and its various impacts on daughters with mothers who weren’t able to tend to them in nurturing and supportive ways.

We also discuss:

• The importance of using non-pathologizing language on experiences that are often so shamed  

• Yearning for nurturance, protection, and guidance and how someone might start the healing process

• Mother Hunger as an Epigenetic inheritance from our maternal lineage and how it affects a mother-child bond

• Implicit Memory and how our bodies carry experiences that elude verbal expression for many

• Disorganized attachment and confronting the labels society attaches, such as “bipolar disorder” and “borderline personality disorder”  and how these may reflect deeper, unmet needs.

Whether you’re a mental health professional or someone healing their own Mother Hunger, this conversation will offer insights and connection in a kind and compassionate way.

I left this conversation feeling deeply touched by the depth and topics we navigated through and truly in awe of Kelly’s ability to put words to such a heartbreaking experience that I have not only experienced but I know many of you have as well.

About Kelly McDaniel, LPC, NCC

Kelly McDaniel is a licensed professional counselor,author, mother, and women’s advocate. In her first book Ready to Heal, (2008) she named an attachment injury as “Mother Hunger” and started a movement.

Women resonated with the concept and wanted treatment. Since then, Kelly devotes herself to nurturing insecure attachment and maternal deprivation in adult women. In her second book, Mother Hunger, Kelly speaks to the millions of women who suffer with a life-long emotional burden that adversely affects self-worth, eating patterns, and relational wellness.

I am so excited to be joined by Megan deBoer again as we reflect on expanding, receiving money/abundance, what we see in the clients we work with and what inspires us to do this work. 

We touch on: 

• Expanding our capacities to cope with ebbs and flows within our businesses

• The “Nourishment Barrier” and how we can lean into support and learn tools that help us know that money is safe to receive and hold

• The intersection of love, money & security and how the lack of safety in one of these domains can ultimately lead to dysregulation and shape our responses to receiving abundance

• Importance of embodiment work and nervous system support in healing our relationship with money and abundance

• How to trust ourselves to receive and give ourselves permission to receive 

This work not only applies to money, but about whatever it is we need to flourish in our businesses and lives.

About Megan:

Megan deBoer is the founder of Tended Wealth, a business that helps individuals heal their emotional and practical relationship to money. As a certified Financial Recovery Counselor, her approach considers the context of our current financial circumstance: our lived experience, our family of origin, and the broad culture that together shape our beliefs about money. She is passionate about transforming this fundamental part of our lives from shame and overwhelm to a sense of agency, clarity, and potential. She specializes in helping women who are self-employed to radically increase their earning. Her course participants and 1:1 clients regularly attest to the life-changing power of this work.

In this episode of the podcast, I chat with Lacey Nagar Ammerman on how practitioners and care providers can best support individuals with different abilities or chronic health conditions through a trauma-informed approach to ensure they feel seen, acknowledged, and understood in their healing journey.

Lacey also shares her deeply personal journey through navigating muscular dystrophy in her personal life and in her business and how it has fueled her passion for supporting her clients with disabilities and body challenges. 

We also discuss: 

• Health diagnoses as traumatic events and how to support people through them (especially when their diagnoses are ongoing and progressive)

• How to be more inclusive of people with different abilities (whether visible or not) in meditations, practices, resourcing, etc

• How to resource in the body when we don’t trust or feel good in our bodies because of illness

• What “confidence” or “body image” means for Lacey and her clients 

• Tips and tools for practitioners who may be working with confidence and body image in themselves or their clients

About Lacey: 

Lacey Nagar Ammerman is a Confidence & Certified Body Image Coach, author, and mentor. Her mission is to make a difference in the lives of women through confidence in their bodies, businesses, and relationships so they can show up fully, make more money, and create yummy partnerships.

Janel Phillips, founder and co-owner of Sansara Resort in Cambutal, Panamá joins me for an inspiring conversation about the experience and land where we’ll be hosting our Soulful Retreat. 

She shares the synchronistic story of how she and her husband found themselves in picturesque Cambutal and how it's unfolded into the special and sacred place it is today. 

Together we look at the experience of retreat participants, including the delicious cuisine, the adventures along the Southern Panamanian coast, and the interactions with staff.  

Learn why this retreat destination serves as the perfect place for allowing our nervous systems to find balance and regulation and how you can truly take up nourishment and goodness from each moment during this experience.

In this episode, I am joined by Nuria Reed to explore embodiment-focused decolonization work from her perspective as a white-bodied practitioner with European lineage. 

We delve into the power of this work in fostering a sense of deep belonging - whether it’s with the natural world, with each other, or inside themselves.

She explains the concept of Embodied Ancestral Awakening, shedding light on its important role in trauma healing. By becoming more rooted and secure in our own identities, we can forge more compassionate and connected relationships with each other, our work as practitioners, and the world.

Nuria is a certified sex coach, anthropology enthusiast, animist practitioner, and professional in transformation and liberation. Her approach is trauma-informed somatic-based coaching specifically for sexuality, spiritual awakening, and ancestral healing and her philosophy is planted in the reclaimed animist traditions of her ancestors and the Tantra of her yogic lineage. With 10,000 hours of teaching and training experience and two decades of transformative personal work, Nuria lives, breathes, and embodies liberation through pleasure.

Michelle Saltz and I get together to chat about how our healing and embodiment work can be supported by nature. In this episode, she takes us through what inspires her to support people in this work and the ways in which she supports them through art therapy and coaching. 

We also talk about:

• Breathwork and other impactful tools to support us in being present

• The importance of being consistent with practices that actually support us in a way that is authentic and unique to us

• Listening to the body and to nature as a way of regulating and being at ease in life in a connected way. Being with the natural changes that occur. 

• How we can allow ourselves to just be and sit with the ever-changing landscape of life

About Michelle

As an Art Therapist, Intimacy and Relationship Coach and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Michelle has been guiding clients for over 20 years using tools such as breath, meditation, imagery and movement to regulate and shift their experiences to make powerful choices. She is a passionate believer that the body speaks its own language, carries infinite wisdom and can serve as compass and guide. She embraces transitions, relationships and nature as teachers and her experience informs her practice. Her life has been an evolving journey of self-discovery and an ongoing resource in her work.

I am beyond grateful to have gotten to share this time with my teacher and mentor, Stephen Terrell. I’ve been eager to get this episode out since we recorded it last month.  Can’t wait to hear your thoughts.

I’m often asked “how is THIS nervous system regulation work different from other regulation work?” and “HOW does it actually work?” and so many other questions.  If you want to hear more about how this deep trauma healing modality was created from the man who created it, now’s the time! 

Join me as I sit down with Stephen J. Terrell, PsyD, SEP, a renowned expert in the field of nervous system regulation work. In this conversation, we delve into the intricacies of this practice and explore its profound impact on healing and wellness. Together, we attempt to demystify the concept of nervous system regulation work as we ask, what exactly does it entail? In an attempt to answer this question, we explore: 

• The distinction between working with a trained practitioner versus engaging in guided nervous system regulation practices on our own

• The relationship between faith and science in nervous system regulation work

• Practical insights and techniques to help these professionals navigate the demands of their work while maintaining their own well-being

• Why self-regulation is vital for creating safe and grounded spaces for clients and how practitioners can cultivate this skill both in and out of sessions

• How to find a skilled practitioner in the field of nervous system regulation work

We hope that this episode gives you great insight into this kind of work, let us know what you think!

More about Stephen: 

Stephen J. Terrell, PsyD, SEP, is a leading expert in the field of Developmental Trauma and Adoption and is recognized around the world for his work in Developmental Trauma and Healing. He understands Developmental Trauma from the inside out and the outside in. Terrell has performed more than 25,000 individual Transforming Touch® sessions and taught thousands of students from around the world in the art of Transforming Touch® as it relates to healing Developmental Trauma. 

Welcome to Part 3 of a special 3-session series with Tamsin Crimmens, who generously offered to go live with me for some focused business coaching and nervous system support. During these discussions, we delve into deeply personal topics that bridge the personal and professional aspects of her life. 

My intention in recording these sessions is to offer examples of embodied support and to demonstrate how we tend to trauma in a somatic and slow way. My hope is that these sessions bring us all more regulation and clarity as we're navigating significant moments in our lives and businesses.

Tamsin is a writer and mentor for (quietly) revolutionary coaches, healers and world-changers.

To explore more of her work, check out these links:

Welcome to Part 2 of a special 3-session series with Tamsin Crimmens, who generously offered to go live with me for some focused business coaching and nervous system support. During these discussions, we delve into deeply personal topics that bridge the personal and professional aspects of her life. 

My intention in recording these sessions is to offer examples of embodied support and to demonstrate how we tend to trauma in a somatic and slow way. My hope is that these sessions bring us all more regulation and clarity as we're navigating significant moments in our lives and businesses.

Tamsin is a writer and mentor for (quietly) revolutionary coaches, healers and world-changers.

To explore more of her work, check out these links:

Welcome to Part 1 of a special 3-session series with Tamsin Crimmens, who generously offered to go live with me for some focused business coaching and nervous system support. During these discussions, we delve into deeply personal topics that bridge the personal and professional aspects of her life. 

My intention in recording these sessions is to offer examples of embodied support and to demonstrate how we tend to trauma in a somatic and slow way. My hope is that these sessions bring us all more regulation and clarity as we're navigating significant moments in our lives and businesses.

Tamsin is a writer and mentor for (quietly) revolutionary coaches, healers and world-changers.

To explore more of her work, check out these links:

How 3 weeks on and 1 (or more) weeks off each month changed everything. In this solo episode, I share about the incredible work structure I've set up for myself that supports my nervous system and my heart and soul's highest purpose. I talk about the anxieties and fears and stories that show up each time I do this and the subsequent freedom that comes afterwards.

I share about the very real benefits of pausing intentionally to go inwards - these feel like the biggest and most significant investments in my business, my health and my entire life. I also share a very simple way that I add spacious structure to keep myself grounded and nurtured during these times. This is truly an act of revolution against cultural messages to hustle and I love getting to welcome you into it.

Connect with Shelby:

Dené Logan and I delve into the realms of self-discovery, authenticity, and spirituality. In this episode, we explore the power of presence and trust in one's unique path. We dive deep into the experience of struggle and suffering and the meaning it plays in our lives. Our conversation takes us on a journey towards a connection with something greater, whether it be spirit, source, or the divine. Join us as we give you permission to drop the "shoulds" and create space for your own authentic expression of this present moment.

About Dené: 

Dené is a therapist, facilitator, and co-host of the podcast, Cheaper than Therapy.  She is known for her nurturing presence and authenticity. Dené specializes in supporting couples in finding more fulfillment in their relationships, and utilizing her background in depth psychology to explore how each of us can reclaim the aspects of our authentic selves we’ve been societally conditioned to turn away from. Her first book, Liberated Love: A Guide to Healing Relationships by Reclaiming the Masculine and Feminine Within, will be released in May of 2024.

Katie returns for a second episode as we explore the importance of being trauma-informed in any industry that involves caring for humans. Katie and I discuss how this form of care is a practice of humanity and connection, and how it can lead to boundless possibilities for healing and growth for all parties involved. We emphasize that trauma-informed care is a long game and stress the importance of showing up in this way, even if we think we may not need to. Tune in to learn more about the significance of trauma informed care!

About Katie: 

Katie Kurtz, MSW LISW-S (she/her) is a subject matter expert on trauma-informed care and its application across multi-disciplinary industries. Using the Trauma Competency Framework™, Katie trains and mentors leaders of all kinds of ways to make trauma-informed care inclusive and adoptable for all professions.  Katie is the author of the Contain Card Deck©, a reflective tool to hold space for yourself and others.

Website: Katie-Kurtz.com

In this week’s episode, I was so happy to talk with Katie Kurtz about trauma-informed care. During this talk, we emphasize that being trauma-informed requires not just knowledge, but also active practice and integration of skills. We go into:

• Katie's working definitions of trauma and trauma informed care
• The difference between trauma awareness, trauma-informed care, and being trauma-responsive
• Why we DON’T use the term “safe space”
• And we look at the myth that trauma-informed care is a clinical approach reserved only for clinicians to use.

…and so much more!

Listeners can expect to gain a deeper understanding of trauma and the knowing that having your own lived experience is enough to be trauma-informed.

About Katie:

Katie Kurtz, MSW LISW-S (she/her) is a subject matter expert on trauma-informed care and its application across multi-disciplinary industries. Using the Trauma Competency Framework™, Katie trains and mentors leaders of all kinds of ways to make trauma-informed care inclusive and adoptable for all professions.  Katie is the author of the Contain Card Deck©, a reflective tool to hold space for yourself and others.

In this deeply personal episode, I’m interviewed by Danielle Cohen for her private online group, Visibility Medicine, which she generously offered to let me publish on my podcast. This discussion bridges my personal life and business, where:

• Danielle asks me about my visibility wounds and we explore my experience of neurodiversity and the impacts of complex trauma
• I share about an unfortunate experience I had that kept me silent in the coaching world for years
• I describe the ruptures that shook me to the core as I lost my voice and am still finding words to speak again, and how that has inspired my intention to be a refuge for myself and others through my work and in my life

Many of the stories I share are about breaking unspoken contracts in many venues of life and how I found the empowerment to make that happen.

Connect With Danielle:

In this episode, Juna Mustad, SEP joins me again for a meaningful conversation about Anger.

What is anger? Where does it come from? And how can you learn to welcome and embrace anger to live a more expressed and authentic life with energy and clarity?

In this episode, we'll be exploring these questions and shine a light on:

• How learning to welcome and embrace anger allows us to live a more expressed and authentic life with energy and clarity.
• Why it's important to set boundaries around your feelings
• How safety plays a crucial role in not letting us get in touch with anger and express it.
• How anger shows up in our bodies
• Benefits and tools for creating a greater relationship with anger
• Top 6 things that anger stuffers can do with their anger.

About Juna:

Juna Mustad, SEP is a Coach, & Intuitive. Over the last 13 years, Juna has been supporting people to develop emotional intelligence, grow their intuition, create healthy relationships and embrace their full potential. She works with individuals and groups around the world to support them in healing, embodiment and enhancing overall wellbeing. Juna is trained as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, a coach, and is also an intuitive. Through her work, she aims to bridge the worlds of spirituality with greater body awareness and emotional intelligence.

Will Rēzin and I got together today to discuss the importance of leaning into support as a coach, therapist, healer and/or helper. We not only talk about many aspects of my own Body of Work and my program Body of Work... we talk about how high integrity and ethical care providers can up-level their skill so they can be regulated, centered and skilled when sitting with clients and running their businesses with ease.

This is Part 2 of a 2-part series.

Following up on the last episode,  Ryan McGladrey, DOMTP and I bring you more conversations as well as somatic practices around embodying presence and the "how-to's" of meeting each moment.  Some topics we delve into in this episode are:

• Listening as a skill: The how-to’s of that + exploring the concept of active receptivity
• Going deeper by going lighter
• Coming home to ourselves in each moment
• How to meet each other with genuine presence
• How to welcome what's been exiled and care about anything that shows up with ourselves or  the people we work with

This is Part 1 of a 2-part series.

In this episode series, Ryan McGladrey, DOMTP and I nerd out about the nuances of embodied presence and how that can serve and support those we work with. The foundation of our conversation is exploring the simplicity of being present with another human and the power of seeing people just as they are. Throughout both episodes, we examine the following:

• Our top tips on how do we go deeper by going lighter and how can we come home to ourselves in each moment?
• We get vulnerable on how do we meet each other with genuine presence and what medicine, healing and growth comes from it for each of us.
• How do we welcome what's been exiled and care about anything that shows up with our clients and patients in sessions?

Ryan and I have known each other for nearly 20 years and this episode is a glimpse of our many conversations discussing how we can be most supportive in our therapeutic connections.

How do we use marketing as a force for good?  Natalia Sanyal joins me in an engaging conversation around how we can connect with our audiences and clients in a way that doesn't cause harm. Drawing from our own lived experience and our work with clients, we discuss:

• The potential to feel more aligned with the way we share our work to the world in a marketing space that has historically been oppressive, manipulative and demanding
• How we can give ourselves more space for marketing in a trauma-informed way, while giving ourselves so much permission to be imperfect and to truly have space to be ourselves

By working together as a culture, we can find ways to create choice, empowerment and inspiration towards marketing that is high integrity.

About Natalia

Natalia is an anti-oppressive copywriter and brand messaging strategist.

In the last decade, she has worked with billion-dollar businesses, New York Times bestselling authors, and award-winning marketing agencies. Now she teaches high-integrity personal brands to use marketing as a force for good—so that they can create demand without causing harm to humanity and to themselves.

Website: www.nataliasanyal.com

In this episode, Danielle Cohen and I discuss what's happening in the field right now in ourselves and our clients around business growth. We approach questions like:

• How do we approach business growth authentically?
• How do we stay healthy, inspired and in a state of self-trust when we can't control external circumstances around income, marketing and industry "standards"?

If you are a helper, a wellness entrepreneur, a creative, a coach or a therapist, this might resonate with you and offer you new ways of grounding down into your business - doing your thing, your way.

We can be in our work in a connected, embodied and supported way.

Whatever your bank account doesn't or doesn't do - you get to feel more steady and secure.

About Danielle:

Danielle Cohen (she/her) is a visibility coach and brand photographer with a unique approach to helping pro-social creative entrepreneurs, coaches, visionaries, and healers (aka beacons) step into and offer their greatest work by becoming more visible on their terms, owning their story and their magic, having the impact they’re here to have and thriving while doing it.

Connect With Danielle:

This is a behind-the-scenes follow-up conversation to the Nourish Experience that Tamsin Crimmens and I offered last month. We were so fired up about the themes and concepts that we wanted to keep going. We cover topics such as: 

• How we define and experience success somatically 
• Moving from capitalist/patriarchal productivity, performance and comparison to sustainable, healthy and connected business 
• Institutionalizing Empathy and Feeling 
• Creating structures that support and nourish your body and all the other bodies you know 
• Anchoring inner resources and stitching them together 
• More definitions of what regulation really is and how we support it 
• Supporting unique brains and approaches to work in ways that are supportive 

In sitting down with Stephanie Somatics, we dive into how our body is more than just a vehicle that transports us from place to place - it's an interpreter for life. Coming home to the body is a practice that we can practice for the rest of our lives. In this episode we look at how we move from looking for what's wrong and how to fix it to a more empowered and connected approach to healing, we see what's possible in terms of deep trauma healing for ourselves and those we work with.  We talk about pacing, creating the therapeutic container together with our clients, permission to practice embodied and curious relationships and put aside assumptions, so that sitting in a regulated nervous system becomes a way of living instead of a concept in our minds. We also laugh and rant about our views on building trust... you might be surprised at what you hear!  

About Stephanie

Stephanie Somatics is a body-focused mental-health practitioner, and supports folks through her offering of Somatic Healing. She has a MA in Clinical and Mental Health: Somatic Psychology and blends this with her own intuition and flavor to help guide clients towards themselves and healing. She works with people who are ready to overcome the ways their past traumas impact their present life from a body integrated perspective. Teaching how to find safety in the body, anxiety management, and emotional validation, Stephanie facilitates with the belief that we follow your body’s lead.Through her own journey of healing, she found great power in listening and learning from the body about how to better connect and deepen our relationship to self. Her goal is to walk alongside her clients, helping them discover their own bodies' natural wisdom and come home to themselves.

Connect with Stephanie

Natalie Smalls, MFT shares with us about the power of community, relationship to the ocean, and how holding safer and braver spaces in surfing can support womxn to reclaim their healing, power and belonging.  She talks about her own path of healing and how the ocean guided her into living a life now that is beyond anything she had ever imagined and how she now gets to see this unfold in those she works with all around the world in her program Groundswell Community Project.

Natalie is a licensed California Marriage and Family Therapist with my back ground in utilizing art, somatic, and eco therapy for trauma recovery. She founded Groundswell Community Project as a surf therapy non-profit in 2016 with the mission and vision of holding safer and brave spaces for intersectional communities of womxn to reclaim their healing, power, and belonging in mother oceans waves together.

Since 2016 they have developed the first trauma informed somatic surf therapy curriculum and trainings that are accredited by CAMFT for CEUs and have trained and support surf therapy programs around the world.

Connect with Natalie:

Joe Clements and I sit down to reflect on the power of trauma informed mindfulness and the emotional awareness.  He shares about his story growing up in Santa Cruz and how he never could have anticipated being where he is today and what got him here.  We share our own snapshots of how we move from overwhelm to being in relationship to emotions in new ways.  Joe also shares about how he brings his love of punk music into mindfulness and how it helps him come into contact with the present moment in ways that works for him and his nervous system.

Connect with Joe:

In this Solo episode, I talk about the main thing I see that gets missed MOST as care providers - coaches, therapists, doctors, facilitators.  It takes a lot to be able to catch these precious, important moments with clients.  Especially clients who have insecure attachment and past trauma.  When we can get comfortable and regulated enough in ourselves to stay with our clients through these cycles of everything from challenges to lightness, we create a safety and intimacy and empowerment that goes beyond that which most practitioners are offering.

Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.💙

Selena La’Chelle Collazo, M.A., M.Ed., A.M./Ph.D. takes us on an incredible journey of her life's path and how embodiment practices like yoga and mindfulness saved her life.  She shares deeply around how bringing these practices in various ways around the world have impacted the lives of so many. This episode sparks so much inspiration around how to wake up and drop into our bodies amidst everything from suffering to joy.  We also explore the concept of relational mindfulness and how it's an incredible tool for social justice and connected leadership.

About Selena:

Selena La’Chelle Collazo, M.A., M.Ed., A.M./Ph.D. (she/her) is certified yoga teacher, mindfulness educator, and psychotherapist offering mindfulness-based and Solutions Focused interventions rooted in Brief Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Liberation Psychology. Selena is also a Partner at WholeSchool Mindfulness, a non-profit organization working at the intersection of education, justice, and mindfulness where she stewards Mindfulness Director outreach, recruitment, and selection.

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In this Solo episode, I get up on my soapbox around quitting the hustle, the comparing and the push as care providers and entrepreneurs growing businesses. So many of my clients are often stunned by the power of slowing down and simplifying and what happens in their businesses and relationship to their businesses when they can work with themselves to allow more space and rest. When we feel safe enough to let the urgency go (or go into the background), there's an immense amount of space to listen, to be inspired, to generate income, to welcome dream clients, to hold money... and more. While often not easy at first because it goes against so much conditioning and survival responses - it is deep medicine for the soul of any growing business.

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Kim Coffin vulnerably shares her story of betrayal, loss and abandonment. We explore topics of money, power and control as they have related to both of our experiences in our families of origin. We explore how we have both moved through complex relational trauma in different and similar ways and how we both hold it now. They're vulnerable stories of trauma and incredible healing and empowerment. 

A bit about Kim 

Kim Coffin is a Trauma Informed Somatic Sex, Love & Relationship Coach, as well as an Empowerment & Sexuality Coach, Female Sexuality Coach, Tantric Sex Coach and founder of Get Your Sexy Back! She specializes in empowerment, confidence, creating trust and safety in our bodies and in our minds, self-love, pleasure, sensuality, intimacy with self and in relationships, as well as relationship transformation for couples, jade egg, tantra and sacred sexuality. 

Kim teaches singles and couples how to RECONNECT to their body, ACTIVATE their turn-on, HEAL heartbreak & shame at a body-based level, RECLAIM the places they’ve been disempowered, so they can come back into their body and step into their UNAPOLOGETIC POWER through sacred sexuality. In their relationships, in their businesses, in their body and in their lives.

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This episode will leave you feeling loved, inspired, on fire with purpose and ready to challenge some norms.

SharRon Jamison, life strategist, author, minister, entrepreneur, and corporate leader, joins me for a powerful conversation around the 4 things needed in healing trauma to get to full liberation.  She motivates and supports high performing womxn around the world to tap into their own unique purpose, pleasure and unstoppable courage. We explore human-centered, dignity-affirming trauma informed care for people who carry various identities and how trauma informed care is not one-size-fits-all.

Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.💙

ALSO…we've to a new podcast schedule of twice monthly (1st and 3rd Wednesday) starting in June. It has been a wild journey recording 32 weekly podcasts since fall of last year and while it’s been super fun, twice a month feels easier and we’re ALL ABOUT ease here at Team Revolutionary Love. 💙 I’m excited to keep bringing you high-quality conversations with so many incredible trauma-informed people from many modalities this year. Thank you so much for all the people you’ve sent my way to the podcast as well.  It’s been incredible to watch the audience grow!

A bit about SharRon

SharRon Jamison is a life strategist, author, minister, entrepreneur, and corporate leader who is committed to helping you BE who you were born to be and not settle for what society has taught and told you to be.

Through her coaching programs, innovative workshops, wisdom-filled books, empowering sister circles, and speaking events, she passionately challenges people to shed societal “shoulds” and outdated beliefs so they can live  purpose-centered lives

SharRon earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia. She earned a Master of Business Administration from Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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For Free Resources, please click here: https://solo.to/sharronjamison

Free on-demand event, Belonging To Me: https://sharronjamison.com/events/

www.SharRonJamison.com

Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.

How do we create togetherness and safety when things are really hard?

Kendra Cover shares 3 embodied tools to deepen and connect in intimate relationships. We explore how there's such an opportunity to open to our fullest expression when we deepen relationships to whatever we're committed to, whether it's ourselves, our businesses and our relationships. When we can have a respite, so much is possible.

A bit about Kendra

Kendra helps women and couples experience more intimacy, love, and pleasure in their relationships and lives. After volatile beginnings in parenthood and marriage; she co-created a relationship with herself, mothering, and her partner that exceeded her wildest dreams on a daily basis. She specializes in moving from rupture to rapture in a relationship through our fullest expression and going from dull and overwhelmed to alive and well in our bodies as women.

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Episode 29: Safer Space In Action Worldwide

I don't know if my heart could get any more full! This conversation just left me feeling grounded, clear, purposeful, inspired and EXCITED for the revolution that trauma informed care brings.

This episode is packed full of tips, information and embodied experiences and perspectives on trauma-informed care from 6 incredible humans from around the world.

Do you feel like you need to be “high vibe” all the time?

In this episode Ellie and I discuss how as coaches and care providers we don't need to be "high vibe" all the time, and we talk about how that might actually be re-perpeutating traumatic patriarchial experiences for people socialized as women. We talk vulnerably about how we show up as whole humans both running our businesses and supporting others with businesses. This podcast supports coaches and care providers and helps them to look for signs of burnout, to support and welcome the ways your nervous system to thrive, and to embrace our full spectrum human expression.

Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.💙

ALSO…we will be transitioning to a new podcast schedule of twice monthly (1st and 3rd Wednesday) starting in June. It has been a wild journey recording 32 weekly podcasts since fall of last year and while it’s been super fun, twice a month feels easier and we’re ALL ABOUT ease here at Team Revolutionary Love. 💙 I’m excited to keep bringing you high-quality conversations with so many incredible trauma-informed people from many modalities this year. Thank you so much for all the people you’ve sent my way to the podcast as well.  It’s been incredible to watch the audience grow!

A bit about Ellie

Ellie is the business coach for the radically fabulous. With 12-years of experience as CEO-for-hire and consultant for aggressive high-growth social start-ups in emerging markets, she realized that success meant nothing if she was too burnt out to enjoy it. She decided that there had to be a way for the over-the-top, more-is-more, lovers of life to define, have, and hold success that makes sense to them and serves their people. With a healing-centred coaching approach that focuses on the biggest levers in business and life, she's now served 100+ clients via her signature programs: Magnetic Business Uplevel; Energetic Styling, and Enough is Enough.

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How do we “be with” ourselves and others to foster a sense of connection and safety? 

In this powerful new episode of the podcast, Enrique Collazo joins me in a conversation about how we welcome vulnerability, suffering, pain and injustice with regulated nervous systems and open hearts. We look at how to be in action in the face of injustice while also staying with ourselves.

A bit about Enrique:

Enrique is a new generation Mindfulness meditation teacher.  He was born and raised in Los Angeles and has been teaching and living in the Bay Area for the last 10 years. His passion is teaching the practice of mindfulness to teens. He is well loved and respected for his inspirational work at Challenge Day during the school year where he facilitates social and emotional learning workshops for thousands of young people all over the country.  Enrique’s skill with teens has led to teaching internationally for Inward Bound Mindfulness Education.

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In this episode we explore a pathway to our fullest expression through anger and aliveness. Juna Mustad and I dive into ways to feel safe enough to be in a healthy relationship to anger. Through this, tapping into an expanded capacity for life force, more energy and health.  We share our own tools and personal stories in creating new relationships to anger and its important messages.

Over the last 13 years, Juna has been supporting people to develop emotional intelligence, grow their intuition, create healthy relationships and embrace their full potential. She works with individuals and groups around the world to support them in healing, embodiment and enhancing overall wellbeing. Juna is trained as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, a coach, and is also an intuitive. Through her work, she aims to bridge the worlds of spirituality with greater body awareness and emotional intelligence.

Where you can find Juna

I’m excited to share with you this behind the scenes peek into my relationship with Ellen May who's been my virtual assistant for three and a half years.  It's a vulnerable story of friendship and navigating work relationships even with dysregulated nervous systems and trauma histories. It's a celebration of all the awesome-ness that can unfold when there's some structure for the magic to flow. This episode is for business owners, entrepreneurs and CEOs wanting more warmth and celebration in their work relationships.

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How much do you share with your clients?

In this episode I share about how so many of us coaches, therapists and facilitators are told that we should tell our stories to build trust with clients and potential clients. On the other hand, some of us are told not to share anything about ourselves so we can be blank slates and so that we don’t influence our clients with our experiences.

I share my perspective on both sides of this conversation and tips on how to strike a balance between the two. This applies to our marketing and your direct interactions with clients and students.

✷ How can we check within our own bodies to understand how, when and why sharing our stories can sometimes be beneficial.

Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.💙

I don't know if my heart could get any more full! This conversation just left me feeling grounded, clear, purposeful, inspired and EXCITED for the revolution that trauma informed care brings.

This episode is packed full of tips, information and embodied experiences and perspectives on trauma-informed care from 6 incredible humans from around the world.

Each of my guests in this episode have been through my course Creating Safer Space.

I am moved and inspired by what comes through in this conversation. Anyone interested in becoming trauma informed can find value and takeaways from this episode!

These 6 incredible humans share about how trauma-informed care (and my course Creating Safer Space!) has impacted their lives and the lives of those they work with.

They share tools, new perspectives and SO MUCH valuable information. Even If you just drop In for a few minutes, you'll gather something that could support you for decades.

In this episode I am joined by:

Anakha Coman, Leadership Consultant and DEI Trainer

I am so excited to share with you this special episode! Tamsin Crimmens is back for a powerful discussion on trauma informed business expansion. We explore HOW to surrender to the momentum while expanding in business in a gentle and authentic way. Tamsin shares honestly about her path from feeling like a hot mess to feeling empowered as an entrepreneur and as someone who fiercely and lovingly supports others to grow their businesses and messages.

Here is a little bit more about Tamsin:

Tamsin is a writer and mentor for (quietly) revolutionary coaches, healers and world-changers. She’s obsessed with helping best-kept-secrets who’d love to be more “industry famous” to discover the medicine in their message, feel safe enough to share it, and get paid for their ideas.

A rare mix of space holder, storyteller and entrepreneur, she helps women who are tired of playing small to activate their Inner Creatrix (that all-powerful creative energy that makes magical messaging) so they can freak their audience out and have them saying “How are you inside my head!!?”

As a former journalist with bylines in ELLE, Stylist, Grazia, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Sunday Times Style mag, she’s written about it all and interviewed everyone from Caitlin Moran to Stella McCartney.

Along a journey that’s taken in everything from political communications and women’s magazines to the world of yoga, womb and somatic healing, Tamsin follows the philosophy of 'Body First, Mind Second’, to support her clients to access their deepest truth and express it in a way that builds sustainable success.

To explore more of her work, check out these links:

This solo episode is a conversation I think is so important for all practitioners. Many of us, as care providers, find ourselves in places where we’re on a big or little emotional rollercoaster. Dysregulated, struggling with health issues, stuck in stress responses and facing chaos and instability in our lives in various ways.

In this week’s episode I share my thoughts and experiences as someone who spent years overwhelmed by what felt like daily crises and how showing up as a coach and therapist helped me. And also how I stabilized myself enough to be able to show up in the first place.I will give tips on how to gauge if we need to step away from supporting others, how to regulate ourselves and care for ourselves if we can’t step away and also how to allow ourselves to be human - tender, vulnerable and with expertise in our fields as life happens.

If you saw the FB live last week - this is it!  Because it felt important enough to put it in all the places that people might want to hear it.

Have a listen and let me know how it lands for you! I’m really excited about this new podcast and want to keep shaping it around what’s supportive and engaging for YOU.

This is GOLD…listen in is as Shelly Bhowmik, MD MPH, describes a pivotal moment in her career as a physician. She went from questioning her life on a subway platform to creating space and support for herself to really begin to thrive. In this episode we talk about how this type of revelation is more common than we’d like to think in the medical field.

We acknowledge the layers of stress and trauma that so many people in healthcare face and a way towards more ease and purpose.

A bit about Shelly

Shelly Bhowmik, MD MPH is the founder of Platform Wellness, a practice dedicated to helping people heal from burnout. Her practice is based on the belief that mindset is medicine, a belief she came to realize through her own journey that began at the edge of a subway platform.

Dr. Bhowmik is a double board-certified physician specializing in Preventive Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine. She earned her medical degree from the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and completed her residency at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her previous roles include being a design thinking strategist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and serving as medical director of digital health for an executive health firm in New York City. As the founder Platform Wellness her mission is to help people, especially women and people of color, excel personally and professionally without having to sacrifice their health and wellbeing.

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