In this great interview, Penelope Camarata shares how she went from being an EMS Dispatcher to now supporting EMS and First Responders in processing their trauma. Penelope has an upcoming book and is now working on continuing education programs for EMS and First Responders.

Sensitive Content warning: this episode discusses suicide and other subjects that may be difficult for sensitive viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.

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You can find Penelope at:

Find her at https://heal.me/ by searching Philadelphia PA, First Responder or by her name, Penelope Camarata.  Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/internalconsciousness by email: emsfitness323@gmail.com For speaking engagements: https://speakerhub.com/speaker/penelope-camarata Website: https://internal-consciousness.ueniweb.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/emsfitness323

0:00 Introduction & how Penelope got into this type of coaching.

4:00 Getting back to the root cause of trauma and Penelope's coaching methods. 

11:00 Social co-regulation and the importance of being around safe people.

12:30 Dysregulating and unsafe therapy experiences.

14:30 Continuing Education for First Responders in PA.

17:00 Incorporating energy healing and creating safety for the coaching client. Training for leadership.

25:00 Stigmas around getting mental health care. Healing is possible but we should not be doing it alone. Codependency and hypervigilance/hyperindependence and the trap of our false beliefs without outside input. 

38:00 The risk of suicide for EMS and First Responders, suffering in silence, and how suicide affects those who are left behind. 

48:00 Penelope's upcoming projects and her new book for first responders. 

52:00 This is all normal and it can get better!

55:00 Final thoughts, Penelope's contact info, and coaching programs.

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In this episode, I have a conversation with powerhouse Jena Michelle, who experienced a kundalini awakening as a fundamentalist Christian. 

Jena Michelle was already trauma-informed when she was hospitalized against her will, by a healthcare system that is NOT trauma-informed. She's now navigating a new reality, and she's here to share her challenges, her hopes and dreams, and her post-traumatic growth.

0:00 Pointing out a problem means you become the problem, and how to simply walk among the problems, instead of trying to change and fix them. Jena Michelle's post-traumatic growth after being held in hospital against her will. Trauma, polyvagal theory, exploring consciousness.

4:30 non-duality, how the Course In Miracles changes your mindset, negative self-talk, failures in biohacking trauma. Original sin. 

8:30 processing anger and rage during grief.

10:30 The truth of the nervous system: the nervous system does not lie. 

13:30 Toxic positivity in the spiritual community, physical pain and depression, John Sarno's book the Divided Mind

23:30 blaming the neurodivergent instead of helping them. 

36:30 religion can prevent us from experiencing god. 

32:30 the psychosis of jesus, pysical violence, spankings, parental rage, 

36:30 The shadow is as good as the gift. perimenopause and trauma, how women differ from men, neurologically, starting at puberty, normalizing the energy fluctuations, living outside off time. 

43:30 People being "concerned" 

46:30 Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*uck 

47:30 Healing through telling your truth. Self-abandonment and choosing yourself. The strength of sensitivity. 

51:30 Highly sensitive, autistic, ADHD or just trauma? 

57:30 Using Human design in the healing process

59:30 Normalizing trauma and nervous system dysregulation and living with trauma within the context of our old belief systems.

01:15:30 Blaming demons, navigating losing relationships as you heal and grow. Deconstructing your own false beliefs, deconstructing religion. Our need for community and social co-regulation. 

01:28:30 The mass exodus from religion, the real awakening. #metoo #ustoo 

01:40:30 Barbie movie, feminism, our need for feminist men, and for safe men

01:45:30 God created everything, even the things you don't like. The strange fuckery that is in the bible, a few moments of blasphemy. 

01:48:30 The broken system, not trauma-informed. 

01:59:00 Jena Michelle's contact info - @iamjenamichelle @reallifewholelife on Tiktok 

In this episode of Healing Matters I will share how I went from thinking therapy was total BS, to absolutely loving it, and loving my therapist, Dr. Camea Peca. See her here, Calming the Dragon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL-cjBacU9E :18 I'm never going to therapy!

:35 I was barely functioning from a compound grief when I tried to begin therapy.

2:00 My first experience with therapy during a trauma response.

3:00 Why CBT did not work well for me.

4:35 Somatic experience.

6:40 Moving emotions through writing.

8:00 Trying again, taking the Trauma-Informed approach.