Host's Note - If you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video.

This episode features our guest, Don St. John PHD, a psychotherapist, teacher, and author who talks about finding human potential and healing in four interrelated components: the Soma body, Psycho-emotional, relational, and spiritual. 

TOPICS COVERED:
- His journey of fetal trauma, intrauterine stress and neglect, birth trauma, childhood abuse, and constant verbal abuse
- Why he sees the "perfection" in it all
- We explore the phrase:  "BOTH AND"
- Thriving after healing work
- Profound insights that, even without childhood trauma, most people have serious struggles
- Feeling alone in his trauma
- Four legs of wholeness - the Soma, Psyche, Relational, and Spiritual
- Soma = your own connection to your body
- How disconnection to the soma happens and how to repair it
- When you start to the conform to the rules of "shoulds and should nots"
- Life negating v. Life affirming
- We connect to others the way we connect to ourself
- Why so many trauma survivors carry the belief that "I am not worthy of love"
- How to start cultivating positive feelings - not pollyannish - not toxic positivity - but cultivating gratitude and finding potential in all your grief and pain
- His current awareness and growing capacity, expanding to his true and best nature, and his new book
- "The deeper one goes into the body, the farther out into space one can go... Melting any sense of separation..."

GUESTS MOST HELPFUL RECOVERY RESOURCES IN THEIR JOURNEY:
1. Structural integration methods such as Rolfing
2. Movement meditation/Continuum Movement
3. Ayahuasca rituals through his church

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1. Website
2. Books
3. Contact info
 
Tags:  #traumarecovery #traumarecoverycoach #traumahealing #healingfromtrauma #traumasurvivor #survivorhood #ifsinformed  #ptsd #fetaltrauma #birthtrauma #verbalabuse #childhoodabuse #neglect #cptsd #bothand #thriving #aloneness #fourlegsofwholeness #wholeness #soma #body #psyche #relational #spiritual #disconnect #reconnect #lifenegating #lifeaffirming #youareworthy #positivity #cultivategratitude #gr

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To learn more about coachsulting and the Personalized Trauma Healing System™:
www.personalizedtraumahealingsystem.com

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© 2024 Trauma Survivorhood with Sara Miley and Full Circle Wellspring LLC

Host's Note: If you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video.

This episode features our guest, Valerie Huard, a personal decluttering expert, author, and podcast host.  She shares with us about the vicious trauma/clutter cycle and how to find freedom.

TOPICS COVERED:
- Her journey of her childhood trauma, dissociation, and putting her trauma in a box
- How years later her trauma came flooding back during a move
- Becoming a parent had her discovering the truth of her childhood
- Not crying for years, facing the huge challenge of decluttering, and starting her healing journey
- Becoming a professional stager and personal organizer
- In her work, she's found that too much clutter doesn't always mean someone has trauma; but a lot of trauma survivors have clutter
- The link of clutter and trauma: brain changes, stress, cortisol hormones, prefrontal cortex, and why planning/organizing can be difficult
- Trauma survivors often struggle with daily life executive functioning skills as the brain is overtaxed already
- The science of letting go and learning to be a minimalist
- The process of decluttering:  stress, mindset, timing, and then the stuff
- What happens if you let go of things before you are ready
- The secrets of decluttering - taking small steps, not touching the things you want to let go of due to the brains connection through physical touch
- How to tame your new space/ post-decluttering phase
- The addiction of having stuff/hoarding
- Rituals, routines for time and space, habits, goals
- Why transitional periods are hard for survivors
- Creating systems to help you accomplish things
- The cost (financially and on your physical health) of clutter
- Her advice to get started:  Start with a deep breath, and then know you are worthy of having a decluttered space. 

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1. Website
2. FB
3. Blog
4. YouTube
5. Podcast home
6.  Books
 
Tags:  #traumarecovery #traumarecoverycoach #traumahealing #healingfromtrauma #traumasurvivor #survivorhood #ifsinformed  #ptsd #declutter #childhoodtrauma #organized #clutter #stress #prefrontalcortex #cortisol #lettinggo #mindset #stuff #attachment #hoarding #smallsteps #

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To learn more about coachsulting and the Personalized Trauma Healing System™:
www.personalizedtraumahealingsystem.com

Like and Follow for latest news and promotions:
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© 2024 Trauma Survivorhood with Sara Miley and Full Circle Wellspring LLC

Host's Note - If you'd prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video.

This episode features our guest, Dr. Lisa Turner, a trauma expert and the founder of CETFreedom.  Conscious Emotional Transformation (CET) method is a spiritual and consciousness awakening program leading survivors to a life free from emotional pain.

TOPICS COVERED:
- Her story of being imprisoned by a pedophile for five years, followed by many years suffering with PTSD and agoraphobia (which was its own prison)
- The four stages of grooming
- Being enslaved in your mind and emotions
- Hypervigilance
- Modalities of therapy - what worked and what didn't and figuring out the Why and How
- Neuroplasticity and the beginning of CET (conscious emotional transformation)
- In CET, there is one emotion = LOVE.  Everything else is a blockage in the pathway.
- Re-sourcing yourself; reconnecting to Source; everything is energy
- Let go of the emotional pain of your trauma without losing the memories and the wisdom of what you grew out
- Spirituality and neuroscience combined
- Answering the skeptics with data and the comparison to futuristic technology
- The program has a lot of pre-work, followed by the intervention process to recalibrate new neural pathways, then solidified by new behaviors

GUEST'S MOST USEFUL RESOURCES IN THEIR HEALING:
1.  Timeline therapy (Tad James)
2. NLP Techniques & hypnotherapy
3. (Shamanic) Huna techniques & soul retrieval

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1. Website
2. Blog
3.  Books
 
Tags:  #traumarecovery #traumarecoverycoach #traumahealing #healingfromtrauma #traumasurvivor #survivorhood #ifsinformed  #ptsd #imprisoned #pedophilia #grooming #agoraphobia #emotionaltrauma #psychologicalslavery #hypervigiliance #love #CET #cetfreedom #consciousemotionaltransformation #transformation #emotionalhealing #resourceyourself #connection #spirituality #neuroscience #neuropathways #recalibrate #reprogram #letgoofemotionalpain #openthepathway 

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Trauma Survivorhood is hosted by Sara Miley, CTRC-A, IFS - an IFS-informed certified trauma recovery coach with her own private practice called Full Circle Wellspring LLC. For one-to-one coaching, IFS guidance, classes, and more - visit: www.fullcirclewellspring.com

To learn more about coachsulting and the Personalized Trauma Healing System™:
www.personalizedtraumahealingsystem.com

Like and Follow for latest news and promotions:
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© 2024 Trauma Survivorhood with Sara Miley and Full Circle Wellspring LLC

Host's Note: If you'd prefer to watch this interview, check out the Youtube video.

This episode features our guest, Geralyn Ritter, survivor of the 2015 Amtrak 188 derailment and author of Bone by Bone, a memoir including her lessons learned during her arduous recovery process.

TOPICS COVERED:
- Unexpectedness of sudden trauma and the most difficult parts of her story
- Uncertainty and learning to give up the need to know and control
- Being inside the pain makes it so hard to see progress and the path ahead
- Resiliency - how her family kept her going
- Being as present as she could for her teen sons
- Finding positives in her journey
- The impact of her husband and kids being unexpected caregivers
- The importance of caregivers having outside support
- Recovery is hard and different for every single one
- Optimism v. realism (finding balance)
- Not being in charge of her healing time table
- Realizing how broken she was and why she sometimes felt like a failure
- PTSD and the depths of depression and darkness
- Physical pain and mental health link
- Why she wouldn't have had such a desire to live had it not been for her prescription drugs
- The patient perspective on the opioid crisis
- Stigma and shame of fighting for pain medications
- Opioids have to have room for nuance and the new CDC guidelines and initiatives
- The risk of suicidality without weaning off drugs
- Why laughter kept her going and why it's okay to find joy and silliness inside of heartache

GUEST'S MOST USEFUL RESOURCES IN THEIR HEALING:
1.  Laughter!   Laughter gives you a glimpse of normality inside of grief.
2. Learning about trauma to find ways to connect to others to be less lonely.

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1. Website
2. Book site
3. Organon & Co - a company launched in dedication to women's health where Geralyn is an exec VP
4. FB
5. IG
 
Tags:  #traumarecovery #traumarecoverycoach #traumahealing #healingfromtrauma #traumasurvivor #survivorhood #ifsinformed #amtrakderailment #amtrak188 #acutetrauma #bonebybone #broken #suddentrauma #uncertainty #resiliency #findingpositives #caregivers #optimism #realism #ptsd #physicalpain #opioids #findingbalance #patientperspective 

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Trauma Survivorhood is hosted by Sara Miley, CTRC-A, IFS - an IFS-informed certified trauma recovery coach with her own private practice called Full Circle Wellspring LLC. For one-to-one coaching, IFS guidance, classes, and more - visit: www.fullcirclewellspring.com

To learn more about coachsulting and the Personalized Trauma Healing System™:
www.personalizedtraumahealingsystem.com

Like and Follow for latest news and promotions:
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For all past episodes, check out the Trauma Survivorhood’s podcast home: www.traumasurvivorhoodpodcast.com

For all the episode videos, check out:
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© 2024 Trauma Survivorhood with Sara Miley and Full Circle Wellspring LLC

Host's Note:  If you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video here.

This episode features our guest, Suzanne Anderson, MA, the founder of the Mysterial Woman.  Her pioneering work is guiding women to awaken to their full potentiality.  She is the author of the new book, You Make Your Way By Walking: A Transformational Field Guide Through Trauma and Loss.

TOPICS COVERED:
- Her story of the sudden loss of her husband by suicide and the most difficult part of her journey
- Disconnect from where she thought she was going to adjusting to the halt of everything she thought she knew
- Losing her identity and learning present moment acceptance
- Transformation
- Learning how to move through your trauma
- Archetypal pathway of Persephone myth and her bonding to the underworld
- Resisting v Allowing when life grabs you into its darkness
- Moving with grief instead of moving against it
- Accepting your path and walking in the way of the Mysterial Woman
- Emotions are moving waves
- Importance of having a communal resonance as people sit with you in your loss
- Meta capacities – midwifing your way to the next level of potential
- Being broken open
- Vulnerability and the invitation to be vulnerable
- “I am here for this” – not for who I will be when I get through this, but who I am now with this
- Authenticity is forged by the fire of being so present with what is
- Sacred altars and rituals
- Resonant community being the tuning forks to harmonize with our vibrations

GUEST'S MOST USEFUL RESOURCES IN THEIR HEALING:
1. Building a personal container for her day every morning; starting with gratitude
2. Creating sacred altars – an outer, visible representation of what your inner state is moving toward
3. Resonant field – a community to support you, people that help you feel safe to rest as you heal

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1. Website
2.  Presale for new book
3. More about her programs and retreats
 
Tags:  #traumarecovery #traumarecoverycoach #traumahealing #healingfromtrauma #traumasurvivor #survivorhood #ifsinformed #suddenloss #grief #suicide #lossofidentity #mysterialwoman #presence #acceptance #persephone #allowing #movingwithgrief #metacapacities #midwifing #vulnerability #altars #resonance #community #authenticity #waves #potentiality #forgedbyfire #ia

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Trauma Survivorhood is hosted by Sara Miley, CTRC-A, IFS - an IFS-informed certified trauma recovery coach with her own private practice called Full Circle Wellspring LLC. For one-to-one coaching, IFS guidance, classes, and more - visit: www.fullcirclewellspring.com

To learn more about coachsulting and the Personalized Trauma Healing System™:
www.personalizedtraumahealingsystem.com

Like and Follow for latest news and promotions:
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For all past episodes, check out the Trauma Survivorhood’s podcast home: www.traumasurvivorhoodpodcast.com

For all the episode videos, check out:
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© 2024 Trauma Survivorhood with Sara Miley and Full Circle Wellspring LLC

Host's Note:  If you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video here.

This episode features our guest, Marina Yanay-Triner, a body-based somatics coach supporting people as they address their stuckness, triggers, and nervous system dysregulation.

TOPICS COVERED:
- Her journey as the descendent of a Holocaust survivor (her grandmother was in labor camps in infancy) and the generational trauma of that as well as her personal journey as a refugee
- What it means to be a lightworker
- Not feeling her emotions
- An emotional and sexual abuse relationship as a teen
- Empowerment to change her relationship dynamics
- Personal development language brought her more shame, and that is where she found connection with body-based somatic tools
- How she unstuck by sitting with her body/Somatic Experiencing
- Helping her body understand she is safe now
- Being present in safety, nervous system regulation, and being aware
- Giving yourself full permission to celebrate and allowing yourself to practice staying in pleasure
- Empaths - how to know what is empathic and what is a trauma response or coping skill of people pleasing
- Healing v. regulation
- Somatic IFS and healing generational parts of her grandmother and her mother with rituals to move the energy to flow out of her and her parts
- How it is to be a filter of energy and a "therapist" for your mother
- Family Constellations
- Epigenetics and the case study of Holocaust survivors
- Body survival strategies - there are "no bad parts" 

GUEST'S MOST USEFUL RESOURCES IN THEIR HEALING:
1. Finding good practitioners (not healing alone)
2. Somatic Experiencing & Peter Levine's work
3. Attachment Theory
4. Being with your body in compassion and surrendering to your emotions

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1. Website
2.  IG
3. Free Training Video available here

Tags:  #traumarecovery #traumarecoverycoach #traumahealing #healingfromtrauma #traumasurvivor #survivorhood #ifsinformed #childhoodtrauma #holocaustsurvivor #holocaustgeneration #generationalhealing #generationaltrauma #somaticexperiencing #bodybasedhealing #nervoussystem #triggers #stuckness #lightworker #PeterLevine #MarkWolynn #DickSchwartz #emotionalneglect #empowerment #celebration #permission #practice #empath #regulation #energy #familyconstellations #epigentics #survival 

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Trauma Survivorhood is hosted by Sara Miley, CTRC-A, IFS - an IFS-informed certified trauma recovery coach with her own private practice called Full Circle Wellspring LLC. For one-to-one coaching, IFS guidance, classes, and more - visit: www.fullcirclewellspring.com

To learn more about coachsulting and the Personalized Trauma Healing System™:
www.personalizedtraumahealingsystem.com

Like and Follow for latest news and promotions:
https://www.instagram.com/coachsaramiley
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For all past episodes, check out the Trauma Survivorhood’s podcast home: www.traumasurvivorhoodpodcast.com

For all the episode videos, check out:
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© 2024 Trauma Survivorhood with Sara Miley and Full Circle Wellspring LLC

Host's note: If you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video.

This episode features our guest, Amy Pagett - a trauma-informed Self-Sabotage, Somatic Embodiment, and Breathwork coach helping her clients find healing through safety and reconnecting to their body.

TOPICS COVERED:
- Her journey with childhood trauma, the death of her brother, and sexual abuse that developed into a chronic debilitating autoimmune disorder which, as it came to the surface, thrust into her a healing journey.
- Embodying chaos and fear and people pleasing at a very young age
- What happens when you can't pretend anymore
- It sucks but it's true: Recovery has no road map or checklist!
- Somatic embodiment - befriending your nervous system
- Co-regulation v. Self-regulation
- Fawning trauma response
- Guilt and shame, taking care of others, and literally not knowing what you even need or want
- Self-sabotage: getting in your own way and how it keeps you stuck
- Cycles are familiar, and familiar seems comfortable
- Self-worth - what am I doing to feed my worthiness?
- Trauma wasn't our fault, but healing is our responsibility
- Deep dive into finding out what isn't serving your highest and best good, and how to go after what is
- Self-talk is so important
- Change is slow but repetitious, and trauma recovery is an ongoing thing

GUEST'S MOST USEFUL RESOURCES IN THEIR HEALING:
1. Linda Thai's Somatic Embodiment Course
2. Breathwork

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1. Website - https://www.aimtruecoaching.com/
2.  Twitter -  https://twitter.com/AimTrue7

Tags:  #traumarecovery #traumarecoverycoach #traumahealing #healingfromtrauma #traumasurvivor #survivorhood #ifsinformed #childhoodtrauma #selfabandonment #selfsabotage #selfworth #chonicillness #autoimmunedisease #coregulate #selfregulation #somaticembodiment #healingfromtrauma #fawning #4f #traumaresponse #selftalk #cycles 

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Trauma Survivorhood is hosted by Sara Miley, CTRC-A, IFS - an IFS-informed certified trauma recovery coach with her own private practice called Full Circle Wellspring LLC. For one-to-one coaching, IFS guidance, classes, and more - visit: www.fullcirclewellspring.com

To learn more about coachsulting and the Personalized Trauma Healing System™:
www.personalizedtraumahealingsystem.com

Like and Follow for latest news and promotions:
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For all past episodes, check out the Trauma Survivorhood’s podcast home: www.traumasurvivorhoodpodcast.com

For all the episode videos, check out:
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© 2024 Trauma Survivorhood with Sara Miley and Full Circle Wellspring LLC

Host's Note:  If you prefer to watch the interview, check out the YouTube video.

This episode features our guest, author and consultant, Carter McNamara,  who shares a journey in which he finally faces his traumatic past and then atones for the destruction and trauma his unhealed rage caused his family.

TOPICS COVERED:
- His story of the redemptive love of his wife after a traumatic childhood left him with unhealed cPTSD, detachment, and blackout rages of destruction that traumatized his wife and two children
- Anger was his coping skill to deal with triggers from his childhood
- Even when his mind couldn't even remember, his body was connected to his unhealed trauma
- Why he hated the word victim but what happened when he really realized it wasn't his fault
- His wife worked on herself and found healing and started setting boundaries, which then forced him into getting the help he needed
- Embracing the truth of his cPTSD, misunderstandings about therapy, and fearing telling his story because of shame in being mentally ill and broken
- How he was able to include his wife in his healing journey
- How to have a more authentic relationship
- Unconditional love was a safety net for him to heal
- How to atone for the damage caused when you've harmed others
- Group therapy - the similarities of trauma survivors
-  Learning how to say sorry and learning that being forgiven isn't always a guarantee
- Having compassion without condoning abusive behavior (reasons, not excuses)
- Why it's vital to have a trusting, safe environment to share where people can be authentic and real and honest

GUEST'S MOST USEFUL RESOURCES IN THEIR HEALING:
1. Book - "The Body Keeps the Score" (Bessel van der Kolk)
2. Book - "The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog" (Bruce Perry)
3. Book - "What My Bones Know" (Stephanie Foo)

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1. Website
2. FB
3. His Memoir "Wolf: A Memoir of Love and Atonement" 

Tags:  #traumarecovery #traumarecoverycoach #traumahealing #healingfromtrauma #traumasurvivor #survivorhood #ifsinformed #unhealedtrauma #rage #destruction #PTSD #cPTSD #detachment #triggers #victim #therapy #boundaries #shame #traumatize #unconditionallove #atonement #love #guilt #authenticity #howtosaysorry  #grouptherapy #compassion #understanding #marriage #healthyrelationships #safety #childhoodtrauma #blackoutrage #repression #memoir

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Trauma Survivorhood is hosted by Sara Miley, CTRC-A, IFS - an IFS-informed certified trauma recovery coach with her own private practice called Full Circle Wellspring LLC. For one-to-one coaching, IFS guidance, classes, and more - visit: www.fullcirclewellspring.com

To learn more about coachsulting and the Personalized Trauma Healing System™:
www.personalizedtraumahealingsystem.com

Like and Follow for latest news and promotions:
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For all past episodes, check out the Trauma Survivorhood’s podcast home: www.traumasurvivorhoodpodcast.com

For all the episode videos, check out:
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© 2024 Trauma Survivorhood with Sara Miley and Full Circle Wellspring LLC

Host's Note: If you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube Video.

This episode features our guest, Zaria Johnson, a graduate of Spelman College and currently a Columbia University grad student, as we discuss discrimination, disparities, and systemic racism in the maternal and medical care of BIPOC birthgivers.

TOPICS COVERED:
- Origins of medical and maternal racism, the use of black slaves used in medical experiments, and the history of why black slave women were considered 'breeders', 'unable to feel pain', 'superhuman', and other discriminatory stereotypes
- How this contributed to today's reality for BIPOC birthgivers, medical trauma,  disproportionate care, distrust of medical professionals, and lasting effects on access inquity, unequal medical care, and lack of prioritization
-  Systemic racism and microaggressions
- BIPOC maternal rights, understanding your autonomy
- Medical/Patient advocates help inform, translate medical jargon, and support
- Doulas - trained birth assistants to advocate during birthing
- Interview your medical team; Trauma-informed care is your medical right
- Pain med management and a preferred plan is protected by policy
- Data collection is helping bring more informed care, greatest access equity, and overall wellbeing programs
- Reproductive justice, Petitions available, Birth trauma counseling/therapy

FURTHER EDUCATION RECOMMENDATIONS::
1. Article  - "How we fail black patients in pain"
2. Book - "Medical Bondage" by Deidre Cooper Owens
3. Book - "It Didn't Start With You" by Mark Wolynn
4. Book - "Killing the Black Body" by Dorothy Roberts
5. Book - "Medical Apartheid" by Harriet A. Washington
6. Book - "What My Bones Know" by Stephanie Foo
7. Kira Johnson Act
8. Momnibus Act
FOR MORE INFO ON ORGANIZATIONS ADVOCATING IN THIS WORK::
1. Mamatoto Village
2. National Birth Equity Collaborative
3. Black Mamas Matter Alliance
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR WHERE TO DONATE TO THIS CAUSE:
1. 4Kira4Moms
2. BMMA
3.

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Trauma Survivorhood is hosted by Sara Miley, CTRC-A, IFS - an IFS-informed certified trauma recovery coach with her own private practice called Full Circle Wellspring LLC. For one-to-one coaching, IFS guidance, classes, and more - visit: www.fullcirclewellspring.com

To learn more about coachsulting and the Personalized Trauma Healing System™:
www.personalizedtraumahealingsystem.com

Like and Follow for latest news and promotions:
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For all the episode videos, check out:
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© 2024 Trauma Survivorhood with Sara Miley and Full Circle Wellspring LLC

Host's Note - If you prefer to watch this, check out the YouTube Video.

This episode features our guest, Jason Shiers, psychotherapist and certified transformational coach with Wide World Coaching as well as The Infinite Recovery Project, a life changing course for those struggling with addiction.

TOPICS COVERED:
- His arduous journey - a story of childhood trauma, sudden loss of a parent at a young age, being diagnosed and medicated at age 9, food became his best friend, unprocessed grief, being withdrawn and isolated, feeling like he didn't fit in, drugs became the answer which led to crimes and jail and rehab
- Facing yourself is a challenge
- Being a seeker means "knowing of home" and looking for it
- Everyone wants happiness and content
- Drug were the solution, not the problem
- Mind-based beliefs led to peace and freedom
- The "inside out" approach without labeling or diagnosing
- Why he believes everyone has perfect mental health
- People don't need behavioral changes once they see who they really are
- Transformation means everything is different even though nothing changed
- Co-current treatment of trauma and addiction
- Mind-based awakening will free you
- People may come to realize they are exacerbating their own suffering
- Learning to look inward and change or drop the story
- Everything is a mirror to his experience
- Non-duality/oneness
- Psycho-spiritual teachings
- Remembering that it's never going to not be now

GUEST'S MOST USEFUL RESOURCES IN THEIR HEALING:
1.  "The Path of Effortless Change" - Michael Neill
(watch video or read article)
2. The enlightened teachings of Syd Banks
3. Non-Duality Teachings of Rupert Spira
4. Jeff Foster - present moment teachings

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1. Website
2. The Infinite Recovery Project
3.  LinkedIn
4.  FB

Tags:  #traumarecovery #traumarecoverycoach #traumahealing #healingfromtrauma #traumasurvivor #sur

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Trauma Survivorhood is hosted by Sara Miley, CTRC-A, IFS - an IFS-informed certified trauma recovery coach with her own private practice called Full Circle Wellspring LLC. For one-to-one coaching, IFS guidance, classes, and more - visit: www.fullcirclewellspring.com

To learn more about coachsulting and the Personalized Trauma Healing System™:
www.personalizedtraumahealingsystem.com

Like and Follow for latest news and promotions:
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For all past episodes, check out the Trauma Survivorhood’s podcast home: www.traumasurvivorhoodpodcast.com

For all the episode videos, check out:
www.youtube.com/@fullcirclewellspring

© 2024 Trauma Survivorhood with Sara Miley and Full Circle Wellspring LLC