In this episode of More To The Story: Overcome, Jamie talked with Tammy Kennington, a writer, speaker, life coach and a voice for adult survivors of childhood abuse. Familiar with the impact of trauma, chronic illness, and parenting in the hard places, Tammy leads women from hardship to hope.

OVERCOME: Tammy Kennington

In this episode of More To The Story: Overcome, Jamie talked with Tammy Kennington, a writer, speaker, life coach and a voice for adult survivors of childhood abuse. Familiar with the impact of trauma, chronic illness, and parenting in the hard places, Tammy leads women from hardship to hope.

You can sign up for Tammy’s free e-book, Moving from Pain to Peace-A Journey Toward Hope When the Past Holds You Captive, and meet with her each week at tammykennington.com.

Overcome episodes are stories of triumph, healing, and learning how to live life after trauma.

*PLEASE NOTE: This episode was recorded pre-Covid.

Credits:

Recorded by Jamie Sivrais

Voices: Jamie Sivrais, Tammy Kennington

Music provided by cloudkickermusic.com

Artwork provided by Aaron May at aaronbmay.com

When discussing repressed memories, it's not unusual to find different schools of thought from seemingly equally qualified professionals. But what are repressed memories, and why does it seem like no one can agree about them? We sat down with counselors Melissa Betsch and Shaun Salzman to get some clarity.

Repressed Memories

If you have ever read into the idea of repressed memories, you will know that there’s a lot of controversy around the subject. It’s not unusual to find different schools of thought from seemingly equally qualified professionals. But what are repressed memories, and why does it seem like no one can agree about them? We sat down with Melissa Betsch, MA, LPC of Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health and Shaun Salzman, LPC of Sunrise Counseling and Psychological Services to help us get a better understanding of the idea of repressed memories and why there’s so much opposing information.

Mentioned in this episode:

Training video around trauma and law enforcement

VICE’s Targeted Individuals documentary

More information about cognitive distortions

Psychology Today

More To The Story episode with Mary Vicario of the Tristate Trauma Network

Credits:

Recorded by Jamie Sivrais

Voices: Jamie Sivrais, Melissa Betsch, MA, LPC, Shaun Salzman, LPC

Music provided by cloudkickermusic.com

Artwork provided by Aaron May at aaronbmay.com

This month We talked to two AVFTI volunteers, Stephanie and Ashley, who both have experience volunteering with Crisis Text Line as well to help give us some practical tips for having hard conversations with people we love who may be struggling, especially during social distancing.

After presenting the release of Max & The Monster, Jamie sits down with writer/director Jenna Kanell to dig deeper into the themes and messages in the film.

Jamie talked with Clark Echols, LPCC about how counseling can help someone, even if it's been a long time since they experienced trauma.

In this episode of More To The Story: Overcome, Jamie sat down and talked with college student and jazz vocalist Natalie Brady.

This month Jamie talked all things counseling with La Shanda Sugg, LPC. La Shanda is a therapist, a trainer, and the founder of Labors of Love Counseling and Consulting. She talks about why counseling and therapy might be a good idea, reminds us that patients and clients have power, and helps give some thoughts around general anxieties - especially with the uncharted waters of COVID-19.

Jamie talks with author and activist Alma Cheng about overcoming abuse in an immigrant family.