Does your body have reactions to things that you can't explain or understand?

In this week's podcast, we explore the difference between cognitive and somatic memories, and the importance of trusting our bodies.

Jean Campbell, LCSW, SEP, TTP, TEP has been bringing together groups of people to heal for over 30 years. She blends her extensive experience in psychodrama, sociometry, group psychotherapy, somatic healing and trauma resolution to offer training for helping professionals, personalized intensives, clinical consultation, and trial preparation consultation. You can find her at theactioninstitute.com, on Instagram at @actioninstitute, and on Facebook at @actioninstituteofcalifornia, and on Substack.

Thanks to Jessica Martindale for our theme music. You can find Jessica on iTunes.

Has a history of stress or trauma taken its toll on your body?

In this week's podcast, we explore what allostatic load is, and how to support survivors of abuse.

Video of the man in the Atlanta airport

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DUf2HrUiQwU/

Jean Campbell, LCSW, SEP, TTP, TEP has been bringing together groups of people to heal for over 30 years. She blends her extensive experience in psychodrama, sociometry, group psychotherapy, somatic healing and trauma resolution to offer training for helping professionals, personalized intensives, clinical consultation, and trial preparation consultation. You can find her at theactioninstitute.com, on Instagram at @actioninstitute, and on Facebook at @actioninstituteofcalifornia, and on Substack.

Thanks to Jessica Martindale for our theme music. You can find Jessica on iTunes.

People so often want to call therapists "Healers." Please don't call me that!

In this week's podcast, we explore JL Moreno's Autonomous Healing Center, and why the one who's doing the healing is actually you.

Jean Campbell, LCSW, SEP, TTP, TEP has been bringing together groups of people to heal for over 30 years. She blends her extensive experience in psychodrama, sociometry, group psychotherapy, somatic healing and trauma resolution to offer training for helping professionals, personalized intensives, clinical consultation, and trial preparation consultation. You can find her at theactioninstitute.com, on Instagram at @actioninstitute, and on Facebook at @actioninstituteofcalifornia, and on Substack.

Thanks to Jessica Martindale for our theme music. You can find Jessica on iTunes.

Have you ever felt like someone really "got you? I mean, REALLY "got" you?

In this week's podcast, we explore compassion, sympathy and empathy, and how doubling can alleviate suffering.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE NAME OF BRENE BROWN'S PODCAST IS DARE TO LEAD, NOT DARING GREATLY (which is the name of one of her books).

Here is the link to the short on Brene Brown's website on sympathy vs. empathy

https://brenebrown.com/videos/rsa-short-blame/

Here is a link to Codependents Anonymous (CoDA), where you can get more information about how the program works, and where to find meetings online and/or in your area. https://coda.org/

Jean Campbell, LCSW, SEP, TTP, TEP has been bringing together groups of people to heal for over 30 years. She blends her extensive experience in psychodrama, sociometry, group psychotherapy, somatic healing and trauma resolution to offer training for helping professionals, personalized intensives, clinical consultation, and trial preparation consultation. You can find her at theactioninstitute.com, on Instagram at @actioninstitute, and on Facebook at @actioninstituteofcalifornia, and on Substack.

Thanks to Jessica Martindale for our theme music. You can find Jessica on iTunes.

So many of us get caught up in doomscrolling, which leads to anger, despair and a sense of powerlessness, but there are small actions you can take to feel better.

In this week's podcast, we explore ways to increase your own sense of hope, in the midst of a very challenging time in our world, and carry hope to others.

Here are links to the poems I mentioned in this week's episode:

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry

https://onbeing.org/poetry/the-peace-of-wild-things/

Still I Rise by Maya Angelou https://www.instagram.com/reels/DGLgNojOfPE/

For One Who Is Exhausted, A Blessing by John O'Donahue

https://onbeing.org/blog/john-odonohue-for-one-who-is-exhausted-a-blessing/

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

https://onbeing.org/poetry/wild-geese/

Hope Is The Thing With Feathers by Emily Dickinson

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-314

There's also a beautiful musical version of Dickinson's poem called Hope, by Pete Josef

https://music.apple.com/us/album/hope/1040956949?i=1040957318

Jean Campbell, LCSW, SEP, TTP, TEP has been bringing together groups of people to heal for over 30 years. She blends her extensive experience in psychodrama, sociometry, group psychotherapy, somatic healing and trauma resolution to offer training for helping professionals, personalized intensives, clinical consultation, and trial preparation consultation. You can find her at theactioninstitute.com, on Instagram at @actioninstitute, and on Facebook at @actioninstituteofcalifornia, and on Substack.

Thanks to Jessica Martindale for our theme music. You can find Jessica on iTunes.

The word horrific doesn't even begin to describe the events of the last few weeks, and we're all feeling it.

In this week's podcast, we explore how trauma is affecting our day-to-day lives, and how having the courage to step into what author, therapist, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner® Resmaa Menakem calls "clean pain" rather than "dirty pain" can help ourselves, and those around us.

Jean Campbell, LCSW, SEP, TTP, TEP has been bringing together groups of people to heal for over 30 years. She blends her extensive experience in psychodrama, sociometry, group psychotherapy, somatic healing and trauma resolution to offer training for helping professionals, personalized intensives, clinical consultation, and trial preparation consultation. You can find her at theactioninstitute.com, on Instagram at @actioninstitute, and on Facebook at @actioninstituteofcalifornia, and on Substack.

Thanks to Jessica Martindale for our theme music. You can find Jessica on iTunes.

As much as we'd like to avoid them, feelings are a part of what makes us human.

In this week's podcast, we explore the importance of feeling ALL our feelings, even when we're using other ones to block what's at our core.

Jean Campbell, LCSW, SEP, TTP, TEP has been bringing together groups of people to heal for over 30 years. She blends her extensive experience in psychodrama, sociometry, group psychotherapy, somatic healing and trauma resolution to offer training for helping professionals, personalized intensives, clinical consultation, and trial preparation consultation. You can find her at theactioninstitute.com, on Instagram at @actioninstitute, and on Facebook at @actioninstituteofcalifornia, and on Substack.

Thanks to Jessica Martindale for our theme music. You can find Jessica on iTunes.

It's a wonderful time of year to look back, AND look forward.

In this week's podcast, take a psychodramatic journey into the future, to experience a felt sense of possibilities.

Jean Campbell, LCSW, SEP, TTP, TEP has been bringing together groups of people to heal for over 30 years. She blends her extensive experience in psychodrama, sociometry, group psychotherapy, somatic healing and trauma resolution to offer training for helping professionals, personalized intensives, clinical consultation, and trial preparation consultation. You can find her at theactioninstitute.com, on Instagram at @actioninstitute, and on Facebook at @actioninstituteofcalifornia, and on Substack.

Thanks to Jessica Martindale for our theme music. You can find Jessica on iTunes.

This time of year, some people are not only sad, but they're also suffering from S.A.D.

In this week's podcast, we explore Seasonal Affective Disorder: it's cause, symptoms, and what you can do to combat it.

Jean Campbell, LCSW, SEP, TTP, TEP has been bringing together groups of people to heal for over 30 years. She blends her extensive experience in psychodrama, sociometry, group psychotherapy, somatic healing and trauma resolution to offer training for helping professionals, personalized intensives, clinical consultation, and trial preparation consultation. You can find her at theactioninstitute.com, on Instagram at @actioninstitute, and on Facebook at @actioninstituteofcalifornia, and on Substack.

Thanks to Jessica Martindale for our theme music. You can find Jessica on iTunes.

In week's podcast, my response the NY Times op ed entitled, Life Is Too Short To Fight With Your Family, will help you sort through when to stay connected in relationships, and when the healthiest thing you can do is step away.

Jean Campbell, LCSW, SEP, TTP, TEP has been bringing together groups of people to heal for over 30 years. She blends her extensive experience in psychodrama, sociometry, group psychotherapy, somatic healing and trauma resolution to offer training for helping professionals, personalized intensives, clinical consultation, and trial preparation consultation. You can find her at theactioninstitute.com, on Instagram at @actioninstitute, and on Facebook at @actioninstituteofcalifornia, and on Substack.

Thanks to Jessica Martindale for our theme music. You can find Jessica on iTunes.