In M-Bodied Mothering Medicine for Disordered Eating Recovery, Caroline shares her model to help love your body and rediscover food and exercise from pleasurable, sustainable practices through mothering metaphors. Caroline talks about: What is M-Bodied? The good enough mother. Mothering medicine. What’s oxytocin got to do with it? There are many mothers. Mothering as a verb. What is Polyvagal Theory? What makes us feel unsafe? Big Ts and little ts. Trauma and attachment theory. Multigenerational trauma. Why building the relationship in therapy is so important for recovery. Why anger is crucial. The real meaning of depression. Attunement and needs. Family Based Therapy (FBT). Eating disorders are family disorders. What can people do at home to heal. Nature and Mother Earth as healer. 

For the show notes, go to: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-31-m-bodied/ 

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In this episode, host Jodie Gale, talks about how to find meaning and purpose throughout difficult times. 

She also shares about: famous people throughout time who have experienced great suffering and who have overcome difficult times; suffering through COVID; Viktor Frankl and Man's Search for Meaning; Positive Thinking & Toxic Positivity; IVF failures; On Grief & Grieving by David Kessler & Elisabeth Kubler Ross; The 5 Stages of Grief; Transformation & Post-Traumatic Growth; Journal Prompts for Overcoming; A book list for overcoming adversity; Repression of the sublime. 

For the show notes, go to:  https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-finding-meaning-and-purpose/

In this episode, Abby Seixas talks about her bestselling book, Finding the Deep River Within.

Abby Seixas is a psychotherapist, author and speaker specializing in issues of self-care for women. She offers workshops, retreats and individualized coaching as well as her popular “Deep River”™ groups.  Her television appearances include NBC’s The Today Show and her work has been featured in O–The Oprah Magazine, Self, Woman’s Day, Fitness, Body & Soul, and The Boston Globe.

Abby talks with us about Meditation and the human potential movement, The pandemic and mental health, What is the deep river within? What are blocking beliefs? Time-In, Boundaries, Befriending Feelings, Taming expectations and presence. 

Show notes: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-finding-the-deep-river-within/ 

In Stop the Fat Talk, BodyMatters founder Sarah McMahon talks about dieting, disordered eating (anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, orthorexia), body image, fat talking and diet culture.

Sarah also talks about:

• Why Sarah has dedicated her career to working with people suffering from eating disorders

For the show notes, go to: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-stop-the-fat-talk/ 

In this episode, I interview Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Mari Lee, about women who have experienced sexual deception and betrayal trauma due to their partner’s sex addiction and/or porn addiction.

Mari A. Lee is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Certified in Sex Addiction and Partners, Betrayal Trauma, and Mindfulness.

Mari also discusses what it was that brought her to this work, sex and porn addiction, sexual compulsivity, is porn harmful? What is betrayal trauma? Gaslighting and betrayal trauma, boundaries, the grief cycle, the impact of betrayal on the body, mind & soul, complex trauma, and how to heal from trauma.  

For the show notes, go to: 027: Sexual Deception & Betrayal Trauma with Mari Lee - The Soul Centre 

Returning guest, Dr. Lara Owen talks about the perils of extreme positive thinking, toxic positivity, and how to be your true self in a world dominated by social media and consumerism.

Lara also talks about behavioural and material sustainability, the earth as a precious resource, living through the pandemic, slowing down, ego, soul and authenticity, existential and spiritual crisis. 

You can find the show notes at

https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-26-with-dr-lara-owen

In Psycho-Spiritual Healing from Trauma, my guest Amy Babish talks about healing from trauma (complex trauma, attachment trauma, interpersonal trauma, CPTSD) from a psycho-spiritual and movement therapy lens.

Amy also shares about her own recovery from disordered eating, soul-work, the wise woman within, the lone wolf within, family constellations, somatic psychotherapy, resourcing, and movement therapy. 

In Recovering from Sexual Abuse, I talk with Therapy Chat Podcast Host & Trauma Therapist, Laura Reagan. In this episode we talk about childhood sexual abuse, grooming, it is always the abuser's fault, how parents respond to disclosure, trauma (CPTSD) responses, how women can begin to heal and trauma informed yoga. 

In Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN), I talk with Dr Jonice Webb about the pain and effects of CEN, emotional eating, and the steps to healing outlined in her book Running on Empty. Jonice also talks about childhood trauma (attachment trauma. complex trauma (CPTSD)), the types of parents who emotionally neglect their children, narcissistic parents, shame, anger, the inner child and how to reparent oneself. 

In What is Psychotherapy? I dive deep into all things psychotherapy with Certified Transactional Analyst Jo Frasca. This episode will help clients who have suffered with attachment trauma, interpersonal trauma and complex trauma (CPTSD) learn more about how to find a properly trained psychotherapist, what happens in psychotherapy and how it works. This episode is also a wonderful resource for mental health professionals to learn more about psychotherapy and how it differs from counselling, social work, psychology and coaching, as well as how psychotherapy differs from techniques such as CBT and EMDR.