In this episode, Lisa Wheeler, LPC, shares her experiences recovering trauma memory. She shares the supernatural experiences that shook up her life and started the process, as well as the other experiences that led to her system eventually being able to remember her childhood trauma. She shares about the forms of therapy that were helpful to her on her journey, and the interventions from others that were not helpful. Lisa shares what it is like for her to recover a traumatic memory and the ways she takes care of herself during the process, especially as a therapist. Lisa also shares about the ways her life has changed for the better since she was able to begin this healing process, and the retreats she is hosting to help others find healing too.
You can find more about Lisa’s retreats here, and on Instagram and Facebook:
Rest and Renewal Retreat: The Home Within, February 22-28, 2027, Montezuma, Costa Rica
https://www.instagram.com/restandrenewal/
https://www.facebook.com/p/Rest-Renewal-61591645838853/
You can get in touch with Lisa on her website,
www.lisawheelertherapy.com
Or by following her writing and healing journey on Substack: https://substack.com/@lisawheeler?utm_source=global-search
Resources in this episode:
The book Trusting Your Highly Sensitive Self: An Internal Family Systems Path to Healing and Wholeness by Elizabeth Venart
About our guest:
Lisa Wheeler is a trauma therapist, writer, retreat guide, and an “experiencer”. She was born in Austin, Texas where she lived and worked until the fall of 2022 when she moved to Montezuma, Costa Rica following the tragic death of her 17 year old son, Spencer.
Lisa became a therapist after going through her own challenge of spontaneous traumatic memory recovery which began when she was 35 years old in 2008. These memories were accompanied by paranormal experiences which both helped and harmed her at the time. She continues to experience new memories to this day, and has learned how to live cooperatively with the phenomenon. She enrolled in a Master’s in Counseling program in 2011and has worked as a trauma therapist in private practice since 2015. She found her niche in supporting people like herself who have “non-ordinary” experiences like voices, visions, telepathy, and lucid dreaming, among others. Her specialization morphed to include abuse survivors and those folks growing up in narcissistic family dynamics. She also has a passion for supporting teenagers and their parents. She believes the teen years are often the most complicated time for both teens and parents and enjoys educating and supporting families through this unique developmental time. Grief work and bereavement has also been a natural and consistent feature in her work as a trauma therapist.
In 2024 she expanded her professional life into writing, a lifelong dream. Lisa writes articles on Substack about her own healing experiences to help give voice and clarity to the experience of living with traumatic memory and loss of a child. She is also currently working on the second draft of her memoir documenting the time period where her memories first returned.
In 2027, Lisa will be hosting two retreats in Montezuma, Costa Rica with plans for additional retreats in Costa Rica and Texas.
Episode edited by Parts of Us Coaching
About the hosts:
Charity O’Reilly, LPC has been a trauma healer since 2006. She provides EMDR intensives to clients from all over the world. Charity is the co-author of You Will Get Through This: A Mental Health Tool Kit, and How to Understand and Deal with ADHD with her husband Tom O'Reilly. She trains nationally and internationally on topics related to healing trauma and our parts. She has also been featured talking about trauma healing on multiple podcasts and on Letters from Love with Elizabeth Gilbert. Charity lives with her husband, chickens, cats, and many foster kittens on a homestead on Lenape Land in what is now called Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Visit her website to learn more about working with her.
Stacey Aldridge, LCSW has worked in the mental health field for over 15 years. She works with women and LGBTQ+ clients addressing late diagnosed ADHD and autism, relationship issues, and anxiety in perimenopause. She is also a Reiki Master and body-neutral Certified Holistic Health & Wellness Coach working with people anywhere in the world. She is trained in Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique and has an interest in helping those who are processing past life trauma. A late diagnosed ADHD-er herself, Stacey also has 3 small business on Etsy where she sells handmade ice dyed tie dye clothing; curated retro and vintage home goods; and handmade spell candles and other witchy supplies. Stacey lives with her husband Jon and their 3 elderly dogs on unceded Chahta Yakni (Choctaw) land in Central Mississippi.
Thomas O'Reilly is our episode editor. He is a parts coach who specializes in ADHD, and is the co-author with Charity of How to Understand and Deal with ADHD. You can find him at https://thomasoreilly.com/.
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