Maira and Shelby talk about these current traumatic times and how we can care for each other. They also spend time acknowledging and honoring how folks may be coping.

Maira and Shelby explore what attachment is and why it makes our work so much easier when we look through this lens.  They also describe how it relates to the development of a nervous system and how ANY type of facilitator/care provider/coach/therapist can create more connection and safety knowing even just a little about attachment dynamics and our impacts on the relationship.

Listen in as Shelby and Maira get angry about how clients get pathologized in the field of psychotherapy and what they do instead.

Find us on the internet in these places:

Email the podcast: [email protected]

Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com

Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com

Maira and Shelby bust the myth that healers need to have their shit together all the time. They also talk about how to be the most regulated person in the room when we've got personal things happening.

Find us on the internet in these places:

Email the podcast: [email protected]

Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com

Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com

Shelby gets vulnerable and super "human" sharing her story of early trauma and what happened along the way to help her move through the hard stuff. Shelby highlights some "big moments" in her healing process.

Find us on the internet in these places:

Email the podcast: [email protected] Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode.

Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com

Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com

Maira and Shelby talk about how they met and connected. Maira shares her story of how her early trauma showed up as anger and rage and getting to the other side of trauma.

Find us on the internet in these places:

Email the podcast: [email protected] Tell us what’s landing for you, and if there’s anything you’d love for us to cover in a future episode.

Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com

Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com

Shelby and Maira give a holistic definition of trauma from the personal to the systemic view. We talk about somatic approaches to healing with a focus on nervous system health. We also talk about what motivated us to create this podcast.

Find us on the internet in these places:

Email the podcast: [email protected]

Maira: www.somatictherapypartners.com

Shelby: www.shelby-leigh.com

In a very special bonus episode, Shelby has a gorgeous conversation with Dr Betty Martin, exploring what Revolutionary Love & Resilience means to her in her life and work. Betty also shares some of the deep wisdom from her NEW BOOK! ~ The Art of Receiving & Giving, which is out now.

Here’s some more detail:

Why would most people endure unwanted or unsatisfying touch, rather than speak up for their own boundaries and desires? This is the question that Betty Martin has explored in her 40+ years as a hands-on practitioner - first as a chiropractor and later as a Somatic Sex Educator, Certified Surrogate Partner and Sacred Intimate. In her framework, “The Wheel of Consent®”, Betty traces the fundamental roots of consent to our own bodies, how we learned to ignore our own desires and needs, and the harm caused when we do not honor our own limits or the limits of others. In a world where the #MeToo movement sheds light on boundary violations, the Wheel of Consent offers a deeply nuanced and precise way to practice consent as an agreement that brings integrity, responsibility, and joy into every interaction.

David Emerson, founder of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) offers his insights around how we can share power with our students and clients as facilitators and care providers.  He shares his own history and work with folks impacted by PTSD and all that he had to learn in order to be able to share yoga and help it be truly healing. 

Dave is the founder of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) and the co-founder of the center for Trauma and Embodiment at the Justice Resource Institute in Massachusetts. Dave has trained internationally in the TCTSY model since 2006 and has developed, conducted, and supervised TCTSY groups for rape crisis centers, domestic violence programs, residential programs for youth, active duty military personnel, survivors of terrorism, and Veterans Administration centers and clinics and more.

He is the author or co-author of numerous papers on yoga and trauma, is the co-author of Overcoming Trauma through Yoga, released in 2011 by North Atlantic Books and the author of, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy (Norton, 2015).

I apologize that the sound is not great… we did the best we could! I hope you can make your way through it without too much discomfort.

Louiza Doran, better known as Weeze takes us on a journey from struggle to incredible empowerment.  She shares the kind of inner love that emerged as she decided peace was more important than trying to keep her life looking the way she was conditioned to believe it was supposed to look.  She takes us on a vulnerable, heart aching journey and towards claiming herself… her resilience and revolutionary love.

Weeze lives in Oakland and is a decolonization and empowerment coach and educator.  She is passionate about social equity and personal empowerment - believing that by decolonizing and empowering individuals to walk in their purpose and thus can create an equitable, diverse and inclusive society. Her “human first” approach is to help people heal through decolonizing their beliefs in order to create relationships, businesses, careers and lives that reflect their values and honor who they are and how they want to live! Decolonize all people (our burdens are different but they exist) so that we can all begin to commit to creating equitable societies and use our voices, power and privilege to create a world where all people are liberated. A world where our humanity is honored and where “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” becomes a reality for us all.