REVIVE YOUR LIFE! Podcast

Most people who experience trauma during childhood at the hands of their mother, father (or both) will struggle with what we call ‘problems with authority’. Taylor Berryman, the host of podcast Poptimist, and I discuss how he tried to regain control of his life through various relationships that allowed him to play out his trauma as a way to master it. Listen and learn all the lessons he has been able to understand along his path to healing and personal wellbeing.  You can find his podcast on Spotify and also check me out on TikTok @ The Bianca Grace or the Emotional Warrior Community at www.biancagrace.com

Join Resa Bates and myself on a deep dive discussion into what it takes to overcome serious mental and emotional health struggles that range from childhood trauma to codependence and chronic depression. This is my first 'interview' on Emotional Warrior Radio and am inspired by the experience, as our conversation was full of rich information for the listener, it was also a demonstration on how to listen and learn as you speak to someone with sincerity.  You can find Resa's book Digging Deep on IG at https://www.instagram.com/resabates/ ...DM her for details. You can find me at biancagrace.com and biancagracetherapy.com! TikTok - thebiancagrace

This week we explore the deeply emotional aspects of what Lorna has come to understand about herself her family and Danny’s family over time. In this session we focus on the many ways her defense mechanisms have served to not just to protect her in the world but have also acted as a shield in her own mind from being able to clearly see the depth of her own emotional distress and integrate those experiences more fully.

In this episode, we work with Lorna, Danny's wife, on the struggles she endured trying to uphold her boundaries in the face of a narcissistic attention-seeking woman and familial codependent collusion stemming from Danny's side of the family. And though, her experience is highly provocative, in the end, she moves closer to seeing something about herself that is much more personal, which I call the silver-lining of enduring these types of terribly emotional storms. Listen, learn, apply and heal...Become an Emotional Warrior! www.biancagrace.com

A couple came to me recently about a series of dramatic and emotionally difficult events that involved the paternal family and themselves. We talked through these events over two sessions so we could better understand what each of them wanted to work on personally and how best to move forward with their relationships with his family. In this session I will be talking through a clear strategy for discussing your feelings with emotionally sensitive mothers and understanding better ways for handling codependently enmeshed family systems.

Welcome to the last open session with our guest working on setting boundaries with her mother. I call the courage she exhibits and her supreme fortitude a definite moment of growth and clear passage into mature womanhood. She is someone that can walk forward with her head up, ask for help and accept it when offered, as well as continue to show up for those she loves and that love her during difficult times. This session is well organized and full of great insight on the practical steps she took and how she moved through the conversation with her mother without being drawn into old emotional patterns. Become part of my Online Learning Community - Emotional Warriors Click Here! 

In this session (3 of 4) we continue to explore, her resistance to setting boundaries with her mother we start to see that the defenses she built against knowing 'why' were there to protect her from many difficult feelings for her mother, and the past, which she must now face to be true to herself. Practical steps are laid out for her to have a discussion with her mother, but the most important part of the session is her ability to feel, process and describe what she is experiencing inside.

This episode is about understanding the dynamic impact our past, family and relationships have upon our unconscious mind, behaviors and self-concept. The way we work in this episode contains one of my favorite aspects of practicing therapy in an analytic way. That is diving deep into areas of her life that she is unsuspecting of being so meaningful!

This is the first episode of several we will have with a young women who wants to set boundaries with her mother. We will be take the 'working through' process she must endeavor do to be able to communicate these boundaries, step by step, over the next few episodes. I believe many of us will be able to relate to her struggles and can learn a lot about how deep our connection to 'Mother' goes within ourselves and society. We will also learn how to deconstruct the negative aspects of this bond(age) which may be linked to feelings of low self-worth or a lack of agency. Take this journey with us!