Feel This: Exploring Trauma, Healing, and Awakening
In this episode of 'Feel This', hosts Jessica and Frank delve into the depths of the human mind exploring trauma, healing, and awakening with an opening grounding meditation. Their conversation navigates towards various subjects such as acceptance, beauty culture, judgment, relationship with oneself, interpretation of indirect communications and the roles these take in forming individuals' experiences and responses.
Both Jessica and Frank recount personal anecdotes forming the crux of their experiential conversations. The episode emphasises the practice of understanding oneself, maintaining the presence of consciousness during moments of crisis, and the importance of constantly checking and adjusting judgment and assumptions as a way forward in personal mental growth.
00:08 Introduction and Welcome
01:04 Grounding Meditation and Presence
05:36 Exploring Inner Awareness
08:29 Personal Check-ins and Reflections
18:49 Discussion on Beauty Culture and Acceptance
24:23 Continuing the Conversation on Beauty Culture
36:59 Reflections on Personal Experiences
37:40 Exploring the Concept of Judgment
39:14 The Role of Feminism and Cultural Movements
39:55 The Challenge of Acceptance and Inclusion
40:52 The Practice of Writing and Self-Expression
41:38 Exploring Personal Connections and Boundaries
42:38 The Impact of Beauty Culture and Social Norms
44:00 Understanding Personal Judgments and Assumptions
45:14 The Role of Self-Awareness in Relationships
47:13 Exploring the Concept of 'Upside Down' in Communication
54:31 The Power of Naming and Acknowledging Personal Experiences
01:01:36 The Practice of Self-Judgment and Self-Criticism
01:07:42 Closing Thoughts and Reflections
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The primer episodes below establish the space our conversations take place in. They will enhance your listening experience of our podcast and give you tools to use in your life and relationships.
Primer #1 - Modes of Communication
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Primer #2 - Looking into Internal Family Systems
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Feel This is a series of experiential conversations between Jessica Olberz Singleton and Frank D’Amato exploring trauma, healing and awakening through the lens of relationship.
Through the use of Authentic Connection, which focuses on our present moment experience, Frank and Jess share their emotions, inner dialogue and physical experience as a way of connecting more deeply to themselves, each other and the listener. Each episode is created to be an emotional and spiritual journey for all involved.
Frank D’Amato is an Internal Family Systems practitioner and the creator of the Authentic Connection model.
Jessica Olberz Singleton is an artist, teacher, synthesizer of information, creator of safe spaces & delightful nerd.
