Some things are so painful that they get locked up in the heart forever. People can spend their entire lives carrying these scars around, sometimes without even knowing they do. In an effort to buffer away from this hurt, individuals turn to all manner of destructive habits. Today’s guest is Kate Turner, and she is a practicing counselor who specializes in trauma recovery therapy and parenting. Kate joins us on the show today to speak about the roots and manifestations of trauma, healing methods she uses in her practice, and actionable skills parents can use to heal from their own pain thus inflicting less of it on their kids. 

Kate breaks down her HeartSync philosophy which sees the heart as a three-part being that both stores and guards itself against trauma, locking it in as a protective mechanism that ends up causing further damage. Kate takes her patients through faith-based visualization processes to help them unblock these stoppages and release old pain, to the effect of healing both emotional and physical ailments. She also shares more about her Love and Logic workshops which help children and parents learn more peaceful ways of communicating, having the effect of families ultimately leading more fulfilling and whole lives. 

Key Points From This Episode:

• What HeartSync is all about: a faith-based way of healing from trauma.
• The three parts of the heart: the emotional part, the logical part, and the ‘guardian.’
• Wounds that we suffer from as babies or children while we are over-egocentric.
• Using the heart model to understand how trauma gets buffered by distractions/addictions.
• How the guardian stops emotional trauma spilling into the logical part of the heart.
• Vices caused by the guardian keeping emotions in: drugs, food, sex, technology, etc.
• Somatic/physical manifestations of trauma that subside after therapy.
• The Christian elements of HeartSync that use Jesus as part of the healing process.
• Applications of HeartSync to people who have been wounded due to their faith.
• Dangers of giving kids free reign on the internet in their rooms: they encounter wrongdoing.

Tweetables:

“It’s not about fixing my kids, it’s about taking a look at myself.” — Kate Turner [0:24:17]

“I have seen people healed not only emotionally but also physically in the most, you could say, miraculous of ways.” — Kate Turner [0:47:11]

“It does take courage to pick up the phone and yet there can be so much hope and help on the other side of the line.” — Kate Turner [0:48:31]

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Kate Turner — http://katedturner.com/

Kate Turner on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateturnercounseling/

Kate Turner Counseling on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/kate_turner_counseling/

Father Andrew Miller — http://www.heartsyncministries.org/about/

Joey Gentempo — https://hisfathersheart.org/author/joeygentempo/

Internal Family Systems — https://ifs-institute.com/

Richard C. Schwartz — https://ifs-institute.com/about-us/richard-c-schwartz-phd

The Tech-Wise Family — https://www.amazon.com/Tech-Wise-Family-Everyday-Putting-Technology/dp/0801018668