Episodes

  • Episode 826: Chasing Normal with Beck Thompson

    Episode 826: Chasing Normal with Beck Thompson
    May 13 2024
    Despite her early life being dominated by childhood trauma and parental neglect, you will not hear Beck use the terms ‘survivor’ or ‘thriver’. Trauma would not be the hero nor the legacy of her life. Beck has made it her mission to change the way her childhood trauma tainted her view of the world.

    Her approach to trauma recovery is determined and unabashedly honest, getting real with the girl within to repair and renew her sense of worth and value. Beck is the author of the memoir 'Chasing Normal,' and as a primary teacher, speaker and presenter, she brings a unique perspective inspiring others with her unwavering belief in change and the human capacity for healing.

    In This Episode
    • Beck Thompson's Website
    • Socials:
      • FB - beckthompsonchasingnormal
      • IG - @beck.thompson
      • X - @ibeckthompson
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    38 mins
  • Episode 825: Choosing Joy with Dr. Martha Beck

    Episode 825: Choosing Joy with Dr. Martha Beck
    May 9 2024
    Dr. Martha Beck has spent a lifetime offering powerful, practical, and entertaining advice that helps people improve every aspect of their lives. Her written work includes several New York Times and international bestsellers, as well as over 150 magazine articles. For the past 18 years, Dr. Beck has been a monthly columnist at O, The Oprah Magazine.

    She earned her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard, all in social sciences. For over two decades she has been, in the words of USA Today, “one of the best-known life coaches in America.” She has trained over 3,000 other coaches. She is a popular speaker to groups ranging from intimate seminars to audiences numbering in the thousands.

    In This Episode
    • Martha Beck's Website
    • Socials:
      • FB: https://www.facebook.com/themarthabeck/
      • IG: https://www.instagram.com/themarthabeck/
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    28 mins
  • Episode 824: Women Therapists on Healing with Susan Pease Banitt

    Episode 824: Women Therapists on Healing with Susan Pease Banitt
    May 6 2024
    Susan Pease Banitt, LCSW is celebrating her 49th anniversary in the field of mental health, where she has been a leader in integrating spiritual modalities with traditional practice. She is the award-winning author of The Trauma Tool Kit: Healing PTSD From the Inside Out (Quest, 2012) and Wisdom, Attachment and Love in Trauma Therapy: Beyond Evidence-Based Practice (Routledge, 2018).

    Her newest book Women Therapists on Healing will be released in the Fall of 2024 from North Atlantic Books.

    In This Episode
    • Susan's Website
    • Susan's Facebook
    • Susan's Twitter
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    25 mins
  • Episode 823: Drama Therapy and Trauma with Myriam D. Savage, Ph.D

    Episode 823: Drama Therapy and Trauma with Myriam D. Savage, Ph.D
    May 2 2024
    Myriam D. Savage (Mimi) Ph.D., RDT/BCT, is a registered drama therapist, board-certified trainer, and associate professor at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco in the Master of Counseling Psychology & Expressive Arts program. She is a core faculty member teaching courses such as Human Development and Family, Group Dynamics, Arts in Therapy and Professional Development.

    Dr. Savage is also founding faculty for the Arts and Healing Initiative (formerly UCLArts and Healing) in the Social Emotional Arts (SEA) program, where she collaborated with a team of creative art therapists, creating curricula and manualized professional development programs that use various modalities for therapists, artists, and educators. Conference topics and publications include narrative, arts-based research, and drama therapy interventions using digital art apps, exploring self-identity with young women adopted from foster care and facilitating unhoused women on skid row, LA.

    Dr. Savage has published in peer review journals and books. She recently penned a chapter -- called "Bricolage: On Being Enough, Healing Through Narrative Co-Construction" -- for a new book edited by social worker/author Susan Pease Banitt: a collection of essays called Behind the Curtain: Eleven Women Therapists Get Real about Healing Trauma.

    Dr. Savage's previous clinical work consists of mainly acute settings such as inpatient psychiatric units for adults and children, residential treatment facilities where she created expressive arts programs, neurodiverse populations and the unhoused. She has served as the North American Drama Therapy education chair and directs SoCal Drama Therapy Center (http://www.socaldramatherapycenter.com/) where she mentors an international student body of professionals and students who want to become registered drama therapists.

    In This Episode
    • Myriam's LinkedIn
    • Myriam's website
    • Myriam's email
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    31 mins
  • Episode 822: Trauma-Informed Assessments with Kids wth Doreen Hills

    Episode 822: Trauma-Informed Assessments with Kids wth Doreen Hills
    Apr 29 2024
    Doreen Hills, MS, NCC, LPC, is the Founder, Director at the Center for Healing Trauma & Attachment. Their mission is to provide cutting-edge treatment approaches in healing traumatic distress and they’re committed to finding ways to provide quality and affordable therapy and to be the pioneer in healing trauma in NE region.

    Doreen has been a mental health provider for over 20 years and has worked in various mental health settings in New York, Philippines, and Colorado. Doreen's background includes intense and immersed experiences working with poverty stricken fishermen in the Philippines, orphans that were severely neglected and abandoned, as well as Muslims in Manila. These experiences gave her immense insight to trauma, resiliency and healing.

    Doreen has conducted and facilitated trainings, workshops, and presentations in Morgan County and neighboring Northeast Counties in Colorado on topics of Attachment, Trauma, Neuroscience, Vicarious Trauma and Self Care, Trauma Informed Interventions and Care, Human Trafficking, Building Better Communication and Resiliency in Agency Settings. Before becoming a mental health provider, Doreen worked at the Salvation Army Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Program as Residential Manager, Case Manager, and Rape Crisis Advocate. She worked as a Residential Manager at the Federal Funded Job Corps and was a Crisis Hotline Worker for New York State Crisis Hotline.

    In This Episode
    • www.chtainc.org
    • Doreen's email
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    29 mins
  • Episode 821: The Complex Trauma Training Center with Brad Kammer, LMFT

    Episode 821: The Complex Trauma Training Center with Brad Kammer, LMFT
    Apr 25 2024
    Brad Kammer, LMFT, LPCC, is a California Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and Professional Clinical Counselor. He’s trained as a Somatic Psychotherapist and has worked in the field of trauma for over 20 years, specializing in working with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD).

    Brad began his career as a Humanitarian Aid Worker in Asia which introduced him to personal and collective trauma. He is now the director of the Complex Trauma Training Center (CTTC) that provides training, consultation and community for mental health professionals working with complex trauma. Brad is also a Senior Trainer in the NeuroAffective Relational Model® (NARM®) and provides NARM® Trainings through CTTC.

    Brad is the co-author of The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma and also the executive producer of the podcast: Transforming Trauma™.

    In This Episode
    • Brad's website
    • Complex Trauma Training Center (CTTC)
    • FB: complextraumatrainingcenter
    • IG: cttc_training
    • Transforming Trauma Podcast
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    29 mins
  • Episode 820: Creating a Movement with Dr. Qwynn Galloway-Salazar

    Episode 820: Creating a Movement with Dr. Qwynn Galloway-Salazar
    Apr 22 2024
    Dr. Qwynn Galloway-Salazar, is an Army Veteran and End-of-Life Doula, Educator, and Founder of In Their Honor, LLC.

    Throughout more than two decades of dedication to enhancing the quality of life and well-being of Military and Veteran communities, Qwynn has acquired a deep understanding of how military experiences can have long-term impacts on one's life and the lives of loved ones. Qwynn's passion for serving those who have served their country is reflected in her work. She deeply understands the unique needs and challenges that Veterans face as they approach the end of their lives, and she is committed to raising awareness and implementing initiatives to address these issues.

    Qwynn works closely with communities, End-of-Life professionals, and organizations to ensure Veterans receive the care and compassion they deserve. Her warmth, dedication, and compassionate approach inspire and touch the hearts of all those she serves. Qwynn was recognized by the Georgia Department of Veterans Services as the inaugural Woman Veteran of the Year for her unwavering dedication to service for 2022-2023.

    In This Episode
    • Qwynn’s website

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    34 mins
  • Episode 819: Anxiety Can Be Cured, Really with Daniel Packard

    Episode 819: Anxiety Can Be Cured, Really with Daniel Packard
    Apr 18 2024
    Daniel Packard is a U.C. Berkeley Mechanical Engineer, and CEO of Permanent Anxiety Solutions, who turned his painful battle with severe anxiety into a mission to develop an actual permanent solution for anxiety. After 8 years - working with 3000 people on 5 continents - and over a million dollars of research and testing - Daniel and his team succeeded in reverse engineering an innovative process - that solves any type of anxiety permanently - with an astounding 90% success rate.

    Daniel is here to expose the little secret that the mental health industry doesn’t want you to know, and that explains the real reason your fear and anxiety won’t go away. And then you’ll learn the two breakthrough discoveries his team made that will help you understand why being free of anxiety is not only possible.... but that it can even be simple. Please welcome the CEO of Permanent Anxiety Solutions...Daniel Packard.

    In This Episode
    • Daniel Packard's Website
    • FB: @danielpackardpublic
    • IG: @danielpackard
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    47 mins