In the Balance

Listen in as Susan and her dear friend Mary Bromley, also a therapist, talk about working with trauma survivors: The use of creativity and good instincts, the vital role of being a witness, of deep listening, of creating a safe space, and the importance of taking care of themselves with a daily spiritual practice of swimming, walking, meditation or yoga.

Anneke Lucas created Liberation Prison Yoga at the end of a thirty year journey of healing. A child sold into a sex trafficking network in her native Belgium she experienced years of violent abuse from the world’s most powerful in society. She tells the story of those years in the dark underbelly, the long journey to reclaim her innocent self, and the joy that arises out of the heart to heart connection with the many post traumatic survivors she teaches through Liberation Prison Yoga.

Rebecca Street is the author of You Can Help - an accessible, helpful, intelligent and authentic guidebook that empowers sexual abuse and assault survivors and educates their friends and families. In this far reaching conversation Rebecca talks about her own abuse, how she came to write the book, and lovingly gives us practical ways to bring this taboo epidemic out of the shadows of shame and isolation and into the light of healing, understanding and compassion.

Survivor Cafe is Elizabeth Rosner’s profound exploration of intergenerational atrocity, trauma and memory. In this conversation she leads us through the far reaching effects of atrocity and the wake of trauma that follows as it winds its way through generations; she explores how trauma can modify the way DNA is expressed; how sense memory carries it forward and how atrocity defies memory while simultaneously demanding to be remembered. This is a very big conversation which is intimate and personal, necessary and profound.

Marc Zegans gets to the heart of what it means to live a creative life and how to work through the challenges of that over the long run. His years of working with creativity as a subject and creative people in process have given him a vast and unique vantage point to discuss all things creative - how to find it, how to use it, and why it’s the key to expressing our full selves. Creativity is for everyone! Everyone is creative! Listen to Marc and get your creative on!

Sophia is on a spiritual journey, forging her own path to discover: “Who I Am.” Through her daily yoga practice, her teaching, and her acting, she is weaving a life of mindful generosity and connectivity. “My faith is in goodness, in truth, in kindness. Everything is connected,” she says, “Our actions matter so much.”

Will is a magnetic composer and Katia is a virtuoso singer/ensemble director and together they are creating a new opera. They speak openly and eloquently about their collaboration; their personal struggles with the process, the difficulty of letting go and learning to trust, the joy when they are in sync and in the flow. They help us to understand how to be an individual and be on the team - the crux at the heart of all collaborations.

Leslie Howard (yoga teacher) and Dr. Jenn Jurewicz (physical therapist) are pelvic floor specialists. If you don’t know what or where your pelvic floor is do your body a favor, be an advocate for your own holistic health and listen in.

Alexis Rhone Fancher is a poet who mines the veins of her life and brings up jewel after jewel of faceted perfection. She is a photographer who captures with the camera what her poems capture on the page. Her eye sees what her hand writes ~ the moment when magic happens.

In her conversation with Susan, Betty talks about her years on the front lines of teaching women to orgasm. She us advises to break the rules every so often: go over the edge, drink too much, get too high, just to enjoy the pure sensation of being more than we sometimes allow ourselves to be.