System Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociation

We read and respond to listener emails. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE . Once y...

Our guest today is clinical psychologist Ken Benau.  He explains “relational trauma”, and why most people are not even aware of this trauma.  He talks about shame and “pro-being pride”, and how they are conscious or not, and what makes each maladaptive or adaptive. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the...

We respond to our conversation with The English Teacher, a friend who reported the unethical behavior of our previous (shared) therapist, and who lived through my final years of shiny happy high school and my shiny happy college experience with me. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . Yo...

We have a conversation with The English Teacher, a friend who reported the unethical behavior of our previous (shared) therapist, and who lived through my final years of shiny happy high school and my shiny happy college experience with me. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JO...

We have a conversation with The English Teacher, a friend who reported the unethical behavior of our previous (shared) therapist, and who lived through my final years of shiny happy high school and my shiny happy college experience with me. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JO...

We have a conversation with The English Teacher, a friend who reported the unethical behavior of our previous (shared) therapist, and who lived through my final years of shiny happy high school and my shiny happy college experience with me. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JO...

We talk with Nathan about having a conversation with The English Teacher, a friend who reported the unethical behavior of our previous (shared) therapist, and who lived through my final years of high school and my college experience with me. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can J...

We read and respond to listener emails. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE . Once y...

We interview Lynn Crook. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE . Once you are set up,...

We conclude our discussion about relational trauma by exploring what that looks like and how it applies to healing, parenting, relationships, and friendships.  We explain how this expands the understanding of memory time, and the process by which it invades now time. This is different than incident specific trauma, and explains why grounding or content work isn’t enough for healing and orienting....

We continue our discussion about our experiences at the ISSTD virtual conference.  Our medical doctor friend shares what she learned about addiction, emotions, and the drama triangle - and how all of that works to help internal teamwork (even persecutors).  We also share the big research we learned about relational trauma being more damaging than even physical or sexual abuse.  No details or examp...

We interview a friend who is a medical doctor who previously had not studied trauma, but attended the ISSTD virtual conference with us.  She shares what this experience was like for her, what she learned, and how it has changed her practice with patients. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HE...

Mark Linington is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist working with children and adults (UKCP reg.). He trained as a psychotherapist at The Bowlby Centre where he also remains in a senior role. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you...

We read and respond to listener emails. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE . Once y...

We welcome back Christine Forner, to share after the virtual ISSTD conference.  She talks about the “Cascade of Defense”.  She explains Active and Inactive Defenses.  She gives feminist context to survivor experiences and treatment. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE C...

We give a recap of watching the virtual congress by ISSTD. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join g...

We give a recap of watching the Dissociation 101 session of the first virtual conference by ISSTD, the 2020 annual conference that had been rescheduled from the pandemic starting right as we gathered in San Francisco earlier this year. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN TH...

We give a recap of watching the Dissociation 101 session of the first virtual conference by ISSTD, the 2020 annual conference that had been rescheduled from the pandemic starting right as we gathered in San Francisco earlier this year. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN TH...

We read and respond to listener emails. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE . Once y...

Our guest this week is Richard Schwartz, PhD, who developed the treatment model of Internal Family Systems.  He explains that everyone is born “Multiple” and that “all parts are good”.  He gives the history of developing the model and examples of how it works.  Trigger warning for doorbell alert in background noise we were unable to edit out.  There is also reference to working with a suicidal par...

Dr. E shares about a book she discovered through a class with the ISSTD.  She explores what she has learned about Charcot, Janet, and Freud.  She gives the historical context of their rivalry, and how that later connected to research with veterans who had endured combat.  She tells how the book explains the women’s movement as the catalyst in connecting the two, so that trauma could finally be ope...

Dr. E shares about a book she discovered through a class with the ISSTD.  She explores what she has learned about Charcot, Janet, and Freud.  She gives the historical context of their rivalry, and how that later connected to research with veterans who had endured combat.  She tells how the book explains the women’s movement as the catalyst in connecting the two, so that trauma could finally be ope...

We talk with Peter Barach, PhD, about our clinical experiences of the transition to telehealth because of COVID.  He shares about the importance of eye contact in stopping flashbacks.  We share about trying to cope with quarantine as a new trauma without creating a new alter.  We discuss trauma triggers experienced in quarantine, including physiological responses on the PolyVagal ladder.  Examples...

We have to change therapists again because we live across the state lines, and we continue adjusting to the pandemic. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then...

We share our article about the polyvagal theory and examples of the different responses to the pandemic, as well as sharing a final video (with permission) from our first therapist as we all waited together to see what was happening as the pandemic was declared. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the pod...