Conversations With a Wounded Healer

Dr. Dawn Nickel is the visionary behind the SHE RECOVERS movement and a thought leader in the women's recovery community.  Her personal recovery journey began in 1987 when she entered treatment for a substance use disorder, trauma from spousal abuse, and anxiety. Today, Dawn also identifies as being in recovery from cancer, codependency, grief, and workaholism. Dawn and Sarah share their mutual af...

Dr. Heller is the founder of the NeuroAffective Relational Model ™ or (NARM), a unified systemic approach for working with developmental trauma and complex post traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD). He is the author of Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship . Dr. Heller and Sarah discuss the underlying philosophies of NARM...

Fresh off a podcasting high, Sarah discusses joy, happiness, and the ways she tries to cultivate both. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram:   @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Rebecca Ching, LMFT is a Leadership Developer, Speaker, Psychotherapist, Writer, and Workshop Facilitator. She is the CEO and founder of Potentia Family Therapy, Inc. in San Diego, California and is a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator + Consultant and Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist.  Rebecca has also started Rebecca Ching Leadership Coaching and Consulting where she develops leaders t...

Paula Williams is a graduate from The Art Institute of Chicago, she believes secrecy and judgment are what make shame thrive. She created the Shamebooth to bring people's shame stories out into the open, meet them with empathy, and banish shame for good. Paula's desire to help others evolved as the result of years of self medicating with booze and pills, and a history of mental health issues, whic...

Hillary is a therapist, researcher, speaker and writer. She loves to help people grow, heal, change, and come into more fullness in themselves and their relationships. She is passionate about the well-being of all people, and wants to make psychology and academic research accessible to a wide variety of people. She is also the host of two podcasts: Other People's Problems and The Liturgist Podcast...

Sarah runs through a long list of books that have been instrumental in her emotional and spiritual development over the past year. From anti-racism to workaholism to spirituality, there's a little something to interest everyone. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.faceboo...

Jean M. Campbell, LCSW, TEP, CETIII, CPC, CIPP, earned a Masters in Social Work at Fordham University in New York City and went on to focus her clinical work in the areas of substance abuse, trauma resolution and somatic psychotherapy. She started the Action Institute of California in 2005 and is committed to providing safe spaces for leadership, training and personal growth, so that everyone has...

Jennifer Dopierala has been a healer since 2008 and is the creator of Tidal Heart Healing. Through her work, she helps people let go of limiting beliefs and energetic blocks. This helps them move -- physically, emotionally and spiritually -- with freedom and ease in their lives, while learning to love themselves just as they are. Also a meditation instructor and former teacher with a Master's in E...

Bob Carty is a retired counselor, supervisor, author, trainor, mentor, and board member who has worked in addiction treatment, mental health, criminal justice, and child welfare. Having over 40 years of experience working his many roles, he sees himself as a counselor interacting with the world around him but other people saw his role better than he did.  Bob and Sarah discuss leadership, the evol...

Wendy Adamson is an author, activist, speaker and mother. Wendy believes that only by telling our personal stories can we heal the shame and eliminate the stigma associated with mental illness and addiction. With over twenty years of experience in the field of addiction and mental health, Wendy is a seasoned professional, who not only possesses a comprehensive understanding of the recovery process...

Sarah reflects on the importance of being willing to have hard conversations. She discusses an experience of being blocked on Facebook after attempting to engage in a pro-life/pro-choice discussion with an old friend. And how this leads to the question of how we cultivate the willingness to share uncomfortable spaces with people who believe differently than we do. Let's be friends! You can find me...

Born in Florida, Lissa Rankin, MD, is a New York Times bestselling author of The Daily Flame , Mind Over Medicine , The Fear Cure , and The Anatomy of a Calling . She is a physician, speaker, and founder of Whole Health Medicine Institute. Lissa and Sarah chat about the shift from her strict medical training to alignment with her divine essence of self or what she calls: the inner pilot light. Lis...

Corey Martin is a Yale-trained family physician driven to change the delivery of healthcare and improve the mental and physical health of our communities.  He is a founder of the Bounce Back Project, practicing private group physician, Bush Fellow, and lead physician in Allina Health's response to clinician burnout. In his free time, he enjoys working on his farm that he has recently turned into a...

Gregory Scott is an expert Tarot Reader, Numerologist, and Astrologer from Brighton, United Kingdom. He provides people with guidance and decisions that may shape their future. Gregory can perform his readings via Skype, pre-recorded video, pre-recorded mp3, and telephone. He is also Sarah's favorite Astrologer because of the funny and down to Earth way he presents his readings. Gregory and Sarah...

Lauren is a writer and creative human who offers yoga, ritual, and intuitive coaching meant to help others find spaciousness in the everyday. Her zine, how to uncover SELF in chaotic times , outlines a softer paradigm for success and four everyday containers in which we all might nurture the truth of self. In yoga, Lauren specializes in backcare and scoliosis, and she loves helping others find pai...

As therapists in training, we learn about boundaries, professionalism, and evidenced-based practices. We hear all about empathy and how important is to cultivate a safe space for clients, but there's rarely talk of love. In this episode, Sarah shares how the love we have for our clients runs deep and ripples throughout our lives outside of the therapy room. Let's be friends! You can find me in the...

Jade T. Perry is a multidisciplinary artist , writer, speaker, Tarot Card Slinger , Churchy Mystic , Chronically Ill & Disabled Babe, Embodied (Sensuality) Ritual Curator, and co-founder of the Mystic Soul Project . (The 2019 conference has just passed, but make sure to follow Jade to gear up for the 2020 conference!) The mission of her work is twofold: To creatively challenge secular and sacred s...

Brad is a Somatic (Body-Mind) Psychotherapist, College Professor, Community Educator, Consultant & International Trainer. He is a practitioner and trainer in both Somatic Experiencing (SE) & NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM). These body-mind approaches use mindfulness & body awareness to address trauma, stress and relational challenges by eliciting our inner healing resources in support of a...

Lola Wright is a fierce and loving community leader supporting individual transformation in service of collective awakening. She's the CEO & Spiritual Director of Bodhi Center, a global center for consciousness engaging change agents and explorers in Chicago and around the world and founder of "Normal white people," a platform designed to deconstruct racism among white identified people. Wild and...

Sarah thinks about power and how we use it or lose it in our lives. Where do we freely give away our power, when is it necessary for those in power to turn it over and how do we become more conscious of how it affects our interactions and our lives? Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr...

Janet Boyer is the author of Back in Time Tarot , Tarot in Reverse, and Naked Tarot: Sassy, Stripped-Down Advice , as well as the co-creator (with her husband, artist Ron Boyer) of the Snowland Deck and the Coffee Tarot . Janet shares her incredible journey from pentacostal pastor to pagan tarot writer. Janet and Sarah discuss religion, astrology, tarot and the enneagram and Janet's own transforma...

Rev. Sarah Ciavarri, M.Div., PCC, has been an ELCA Lutheran pastor since 2001 and also serves as a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator-Consultant and Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator and Professional Certified Coach.  Sarah has a huge passion for seeing congregations and church systems strengthened and transformed by developing resiliency and space for authentic conversations. These two Sarah's d...

Dr. Miles Neale is among the leading voices of the current generation of Buddhist teachers and a forerunner in the emerging field of contemplative psychotherapy. He is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice, international speaker, and faculty member of Tibet House US and Weill Cornell Medical College. Miles is author of Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human....

Have you heard this new podcast yet? 10 Things That Scare Me. Well, that is the inspiration for this solo episode. Some items are silly and some are serious, but all are real fears. May we all find the courage to feel the fear and do it anyway. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ htt...