What happens when grief becomes the doorway to growth?

In this episode of Medicine With The Medals, licensed marriage and family therapist Jacqueline Robertson explores how unprocessed trauma, inherited conditioning, and intergenerational pain shape who we become, and how true healing starts in the body, not the mind.

Through her work with somatic therapy, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, and grief integration, Jacqueline reveals a path toward emotional maturity, self-trust, and collective healing that transforms pain into purpose.

What You’ll Learn:

• How unresolved childhood trauma shapes adult relationships and identity.

• The deeper role of grief as the root beneath anger, anxiety, and disconnection.

• Why somatic therapy helps reprogram the nervous system beyond talk therapy.

• The emerging role of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in trauma resolution.

• What it means to “mother yourself” through inner reparenting and compassion.

Episode Highlights:

• 02:03 – The story of how her father’s brain injury led her to become a therapist.

• 05:40 – Understanding intergenerational trauma and the myth of self-trust.

• 08:30 – Why women’s healing also depends on rehabilitating the masculine.

• 12:00 – How somatic therapy helps the body release trauma stored in the nervous system.

• 15:45 – A look inside EMDR and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for trauma recovery.

• 18:20 – Why grief is the hidden foundation beneath most emotional pain.

• 21:40 – Jacqueline’s reflections on resilience, forgiveness, and embodied compassion.

Meet the Guest:

Jacqueline Robertson is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California and Canada. She specializes in trauma, grief integration, and women’s midlife transitions, combining somatic therapy, attachment theory, and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to help clients heal at the cellular level.

Tools, Frameworks, or Strategies Mentioned:

• Somatic therapy and EMDR

• Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy

• Attachment theory and intergenerational trauma frameworks

• Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey model for transformation
  

Closing Insight:

“Grief isn’t the end of love, it’s the proof that we were deeply alive.”

Healing begins when we stop running from our pain and start listening to what it’s trying to teach us.

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