The Trauma Thrivers Podcast

I'm delighted to introduce Erika Neil - a psychotherapist and trainer experienced in working with clients who are experiencing anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, or significant stress, and who find that these issues are diminishing their ability to enjoy life.

Erika has additional specialized training in Havening, EMDR, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Emotional Freedom Technique, Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Flash, Brainspotting, and Reiki. Her style is collaborative, warm, and solution-focused. She often uses mind-body techniques to accelerate awareness and change. With compassion and understanding, she works with individuals to help them build on their strengths and attain personal growth and well-being. 

What you'll learn from this podcast: 

✔️ How Erika's law career kickstarted her interest in psychotherapy

✔️The many benefits of Havening

✔️ How delta brainwaves calm us down 

✔️ What bilateral stimulation is and how it helps us heal

Check out Erika’s website below 👇

https://www.erikaneil.com/

I am so happy to welcome Diana Varco to the show. Diana is an UCB/Groundlings trained expert improvisor, story-teller and actress using humour to heal.

She's written an amazing one-woman show called Shattered - a dark comedy, where she applies comedy and character-work to explore mental health, the impact of sexual and domestic violence, power of Shame, post-traumatic growth, and much more! 

We discuss:

✔️ The parallels between drama and therapy

✔️How acting can help you be your true self

✔️ The cathartic power of writing 

✔️How to listen to your head, heart, and gut

Check out Diana’s YouTube channel below 👇

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJIlFdIx3V0bOGosz_M0qVQ

Instagram: @dianavarco

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/diana.varco

Anjula is a highly respected relationship psychologist, mental health expert, presenter, author, social scientist, and media consultant with an international profile. She speaks to Lou about her childhood and growing up with trauma all around her, not only from her own parents but also culturally and trans-generationally.

With honesty, openness, empathy and a good degree of humour, Anjula touchingly talks about how she overcame the adversity in her own childhood. Not only that but how she became a mum and wife and how proud she is of this achievement and how she turned her adversity into becoming one of the most successful and well known psychologists in the UK today.

Go Anjula!! She is one awesome and inspiring lady.

What does it feel like trying to relate to others when you have a dysregulated nervous system?

The answer is that we feel pretty terrible. Watch Benjamin Fry as he discusses with me the nervous system, his own journey and how, after many years of working with clients, he was able to put solutions into a book, #theinvisiblelion, which help a dysregulated nervous system heal, and work to relate better with other people in relationships and life in general.

I am Lou Lebentz a psychotherapist and I have recently set up a closed group on Facebook called the Trauma Thrivers. This is a safe space helping you thrive and become the full, outspoken and authentic version of your real self. In the group I will be regularly interviewing experts about trauma. I will be posting some of the interviews on this You Tube page as well.

Dr Tian Dayton PHD is the worlds foremost expert in psychodrama and a specialist in adult children of dysfunctional families and an addiction expert. Her Lou speaks to her about her background and how she got into the recovery field firstly. Also Tian explains how psychodrama helps heal our histories and overcome our family patterns or dynamics and how to move out of our trauma.

Mark Brayne is a well known and highly regarded UK therapist and EMDR consultant and one of the foremost experts on Attachment Focused EMDR and Intergenerational Trauma. In this video Mark succinctly lays out what EMDR actually is and how it works and the "magic" of it as a therapeutic intervention.

For anyone in EMDR therapy or thinking of embarking on an EMDR journey, this is a must watch highly valuable 45 mins of information. It's also helpful for anyone with trauma to understand why getting to the kernel of the trauma, which lies in the body is crucial in releasing the symptoms of trauma. We need to get to the root, which EMDR does so beautifully whether the root is in your generation or in your parents or grandparents.

Dr Paul Hokemeyer is an author and an internationally renowned clinical and consulting psychotherapist, who works with individuals and families all over the world. He’s been featured as a guest on countless TV shows from Dr Oz to Good Morning America to the Today Show to name just a few. Dr Paul is also well known for having treated some of the world’s most successful people, which “Dr. Paul” has written about in his acclaimed book “Fragile Power, why having it all is never enough”.

In this interview Lou asks Dr Paul more about his work, how he came to study the "rich and famous" and also why in many cases is it that people who seem to have everything can end up feeling like their achievements are never enough? Dr Paul answers these important questions amidst many others, in an eloquent, compassionate and erudite way. A great precursor to reading his terrific book, which couldn't come out at a better time in the World when there is so much evidence of the fragile power all around us for sure!

Juliet is a well-respected trainer, facilitator, executive mentor and coach in Pesso Boyden System Psychotherapy. This is a mind-body approach to emotional well-being and peak performance.

PBSP aims to help clients become aware of their own internal maps or blueprints for living. Often, these are formed in our early lives before we have any say in the matter. Strategies that may have helped us in the past can hinder us in the present day and affect our quality of life.

Pesso Boyden therapists like Juliet target these old emotional processes and patterns, and help people to mend their historical damage with an emotional solution.

In this podcast we talk about:

·     The origins of PBSP

·     How PBSP helps address attachment issues

·     The importance of controlling your own trauma treatment

·     How to insert corrective experiences into our own timelines

Contact Juliet here:

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Juliette is a thought provoking, innovative and inspirational speaker.

As a certified coach, master's level counsellor, and sound therapist, Juliette is gifted in translating spiritual principles into everyday language that reaches people from all walks of life.

Juliet discovered Trauma Release Exercise (TRE) in 2016, which allowed her to release her own deep inner tension that triggered her anxiety and physical symptoms.

 Juliet’s life mission is to “help others access their own innate healing powers”.

We talk about:

·     How TRE works

·     The link between stress and illness

·     How to build trust

·     The benefits of spiritual growth

Find Juliet online:

Website

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I am absolutely thrilled to welcome Nicci Roscoe to the Trauma Thrivers podcast. Nicci is an amazing woman – she’s a professional inspirational speaker, lifestyle coach, Master NLP practitioner, and cancer survivor.

Nicci is a huge advocate in the power of positive thinking to help people get over the biggest hurdles in their life. Her program, Fabulous Impact, helps people to get their message across with greater confidence and impact.

This is huge for me, and I imagine some of my followers as well, as a key component of thriving is getting your voice heard! I know that as trauma survivors, we often feel ‘less than’ and feel almost ashamed to shout out, be heard, and get our needs met.

We talk about:

·     Nicci’s inspirational cancer recovery journey

·     How Nicci uses hypnotherapy to help people to trust themselves again

·     The power of crystals to heal

·     How Reiki channels the energy of the universe

·     How Nicci’s own “Word Meditation” helps people to find inner strength

Follow Nicci on social media:

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Follow Lou on social media and join her Facebook Group for more amazing Trauma Thriving content:

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Trauma Thrivers Facebook Group

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