Trauma | Resonance | Resilience

Send us Fan Mail Join Dr Lisa Cherry and Andi Brierley as they explore how stigma in criminal justice turns labels into lifelong identities and shapes whether people feel safe to speak about their past. We connect lived experience, criminology and policy to show how stigma can block rehabilitation and make reintegration harder than it needs to be. Defining stigma through Goffman and the idea of be...

Send us Fan Mail Join Dr Lisa Cherry and Niamh Cullen in conversation on stigma and addiction and why drug-related deaths are more often driven by exclusion, trauma and missed connection than by a lack of services. We trace how labels, “choice” narratives and system design quietly add harm, then map practical ways to build hope through relationships. We explore:  Niamh’s career timeline from child...

Send us Fan Mail Join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with Graham Chatterley, educator and parent on how stigma shows up in SEND, from school labels to healthcare dismissal and what it costs families when professionals assume the worst. We explore trauma, regulation and how to rebuild trust so parents and services can genuinely work as a team around the child. We explore:  Graeme’s journey from tra...

Send us Fan Mail As we continue the series on 'stigma', join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with Emmerline Irving as we talk candidly about obesity & stigma and why blame-based stories in the media and in healthcare block recovery, dignity and effective treatment.  We explore obesity as a chronic, relapsing disease shaped by biology, trauma, poverty and an obesogenic environment, nam...

Send us Fan Mail We explore how stigma sticks to children when they are moved out of mainstream schooling and into alternative provision and how that shift can turn a young person into a visible “case” for the system to manage. We connect Goffman’s stigma theory with liminality, class and digital life, asking what it means to be a student when the ideal pupil is the only one the system truly recog...

Send us Fan Mail A new series!  Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe the practice wisdom in this episode and create social change, one connection at a time. If you're feeling it, then leave a comment too! L earn more about Lisa here: www.lisacherry.co.uk Buy Books Here .  Connect on Linkedin, Instagram and Substack by searching for Dr Lisa Cherry

Send us Fan Mail Join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with Betsy de Thiery about why vague trauma language creates real harm, from shallow training to rising shame for people living with complex trauma. We argue for clearer definitions, better role boundaries in services and a return to community and connection as the foundation for recovery. RESOURCES: Trauma Recovery-UK, which is a highly special...

Send us Fan Mail Join Dr Lisa Cherry and Dr Cathy Malchiodi, expressive arts therapist,  challenge the idea that trauma-informed practice is a set of tools you can apply without relationship, culture and context. They explore how the arts can restore joy and capacity when the world feels stuck in long-haul distress, distraction and performative “quick fixes”. RESOURCES: Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPCC,...

Send us Fan Mail Join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with psychotherapist Graham Music about why trauma-informed practice cannot be reduced to training badges or compliance, and how real trauma work demands presence, humility and emotional stamina. We explore how helpers can stay close to pain without shutting down, over-identifying, or turning hope into a shallow performance. RESOURCES: http://ww...

Send us Fan Mail Join Dr Lisa Cherry and Dr Lucy Johnstone as they explore why trauma-informed practice becomes diluted when services keep diagnosis, coercion and the medical model intact. They explore meaning-making, formulation and the Power Threat Meaning Framework as practical ways to build understanding without turning distress into disorder. RESOURCES: 'A disorder 4 everyone' event...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Episode 1 of a 5-part series on Resisting the Dilution of Trauma Informed Practice . Join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with Dr Karen Treisman as they explore how 'Trauma-informed' came to be on websites, job adverts, strategies and posters everywhere, but what happens when the terminology travels faster than the creation of the opportunity for transformation...

Send us Fan Mail Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe the practice wisdom in this episode and create social change, one connection at a time. If you're feeling it, then leave a comment too! L earn more about Lisa here: www.lisacherry.co.uk Buy Books Here .  Connect on Linkedin, Instagram and Substack by searching for Dr Lisa Cherry

Send us Fan Mail Join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with Lucy Kate Barnes as we talk about what it means to be openly care-experienced in public life and how we choose to tell our stories. This conversation was inspired by both Lucy and Lisa being nominated for different awards at the National Diversity Awards 2026.  They reflect upon:  navigating how to speak about trauma without being defined b...

Send us Fan Mail Join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with Fiona Holiday, Play Therapist and illustrator of the children's book on loss "Squirrel's Search for Love", a book conceived from Lisa becoming a Grandma and also having a life-limiting illness. There is an honest discussion about the early, foggy stage of creating when Lisa was unwell and how a strong collaboration can h...

Send us Fan Mail Join Dr Lisa Cherry in Conversation with psychic medium Nikki Leader for the final episode in this 6 part series on liminality!  We explore liminality in the world between worlds, tracing how trauma can open intuition and how small rituals help us cross from fear to becoming. We reflect on trauma as a portal to intuition and change, and rituals as bridges for separation, transitio...

Send us Fan Mail Join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with Dr Jo Taylor as they explore liminality as a human constant and argue why compassion is not optional when lives sit between identities, roles and outcomes. From school supervision rooms to street-level tensions, we share tools to widen safety, practise care and make change sustainable. In this episode we talked about fears, blocks and resis...

Send us Fan Mail Join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with Geraldine Costello, Director of Governance and Safe Sport at British Gymnastics, where we look at the liminal space between work cultures; the police and gymnastics. What happens when a career built on command and certainty collides with a mission that depends on trust, listening and repair? We explore how safeguarding shifts from policy to...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing the exploration of liminality, join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with Tracey Smith, who taught for many years in primary schools in Oxfordshire.  She was Headteacher for Bladon, Tower Hill and New Marston Primary Schools in Oxfordshire, before becoming Head of Primary Teacher Training at the University of Buckingham. Tracey returned to Headship as Executive Headteache...

Send us Fan Mail Join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with Annalisa Toccara-Jones on liminality and adoption. Annalisa is a Doctoral researcher in Journalism at the University of Sheffield, an award-winning cultural producer, communications strategist, and graduate teaching associate. As an adoptee, her research explores how UK adult adoptees use social media to challenge dominant adoption narrativ...

Send us Fan Mail Join Dr Lisa Cherry for Episode One in this 6-Part series on liminality. Lisa is in conversation with Professor Bjørn Thomassen, Professor in Global Political Sociology at Roskilde University, to unpack liminality. They explore the in‑between phase after an old identity collapses and before a new one takes hold and why that space is powerful, precarious and everywhere in modern li...

Send us Fan Mail In this 6-part series, we will be exploring liminality in multiple ways, merging this understanding of in-betweenness with belonging and considering its relevance in making sense of people's experiences in education, in health and in children's services.  Share far and wide, inviting people to subscribe to the podcast so that they don't miss out on the weekly episod...

Send us Fan Mail In this somewhat different episode for the podcast, Dr Lisa Cherry reads the Introduction of her upcoming book for you, which is out on 31st December 2025 and can be pre-ordered here . This book takes the reader on a journey around the country and across various different sectors to explore the aspect of Trauma Informed Practice that can be the most ignored and the most difficult...

Send us Fan Mail Join Dr Lisa Cherry in conversation with Beth Vecchione on Care to Dance, a venture set up by Beth to bring the power of dancing to children experienced in, or experiencing care.  Care to Dance can be found HERE ! And you can connect with Beth HERE !  Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe the practice wisdom in this episode and create social change,...

Send us Fan Mail Join Dr Lisa Cherry and Amelia Brunt in conversation on trauma, whether supervision is s*xy and meeting yourself more deeply! *Since this podcast was recorded we have added a new date for the training that was mentioned which you can find here .  Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe the practice wisdom in this episode and create social change, one c...

Send us Fan Mail Join Dr Lisa Cherry and Whitney Iles speak on growing up with trauma, to working with communities living with violence, neurodivergence and moving into her body to begin to heal.  Support the show Thank you for listening! Please share and subscribe the practice wisdom in this episode and create social change, one connection at a time. If you're feeling it, then leave a commen...