Valerie and Jeffrey walk through moments that Jeffrey feels are the most significant experiences in his therapy journey. He shares how the work in therapy with Valerie translated into his own capacity to relate to himself and others differently.

Valerie and Jeffrey walk through several powerful moments in their therapy experience together including Jeffrey’s embodied experience of healing through meditation and his experience ‘rewiring his brain’ through going back to painful childhood experiences with Valerie.

From the silence of childhood to the anger of adolescence, Jeffrey shares how he tries many strategies to work through his feelings of self-hatred and internal isolation. Valerie offers Jeffrey a map into why each of these strategies failed while helping him recognize his tenacity in trying to care for himself.

In this episode Jeffrey continues to share with Valerie his story of becoming overwhelmed with a very stressful current life situation and they begin to unpack early stories that made him vulnerable to emotional overwhelm and shutdown.

Todd and Valerie open this series with a brief discussion on new guest, Jeffrey, who shares his story about working with Valerie around his lifelong struggles with depression.

Valerie and co-host Dr. Todd Frye explore more deeply highlights and key concepts in Valerie’s interview with Isaac and Julie. Exploration of addiction as an attempt to get healthy needs met in non-relational ways, issues of shame resilience, the power of couples work in addiction recovery, and typical struggles experienced when the partner of the […]

Valerie and co-host Dr. Todd Frye explore more deeply highlights and key concepts in Valerie’s interview with Isaac and Julie. Exploration of addiction as an attempt to get healthy needs met in non-relational ways, issues of shame resilience, the power of couples work in addiction recovery, and typical struggles experienced when the partner of the recovering addict does not wish to participate.

Isaac and Julie offer final reflections on the change that took place in their individual lives and in their marriage. He no longer fears that he is ‘behind’ or that he cannot reach his potential. They reflect on the power of empathy and their hopes for further growth.

Isaac and Julie offer final reflections on the change that took place in their individual lives and in their marriage. He no longer fears that he is ‘behind’ or that he cannot reach his potential. They reflect on the power of empathy and their hopes for further growth.

Isaac and Julie explore with Valerie how they incorporated their work in therapy into their larger lives. Isaac shares how group work was very instrumental in helping him overcome struggles with shame.