Conversations With a Wounded Healer

"My role in this program is to create fertile ground. That's it. And then what I'm going to do is rely on the fertile ground to do the work of growing the plants. And so rather than being the guy that's growing the plants, I'm just creating the framework for that to happen." ~Jeremy French Jeremy French is a maker. He's made lots of cool things - a sober life worth living, a marriage, some really...

"That's our humanity: our capacity to feel things that much." ~James McDonald What happens to someone with an opioid addiction? Popular debate currently limits their recovery to two outcomes: a lifetime of fruitless struggle or death.  Why don't we hear more and talk more about addicts getting better? Of addicts living meaningful lives?  Those are the questions at the heart of James McDonald's wor...

Sarah discusses the heartbreak, the gratitude, and the deep learning that comes from trauma work and difficult life circumstances. 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

"When you create change in your body, you create change in your mind. Your perspective changes." ~Erica Hornthal, Chicago Dance Therapy Erica Hornthal is a licensed clinical professional counselor and board-certified dance/movement therapist based in Chicago. Erica is the CEO of Chicago Dance Therapy and in addition to private practice, she is dedicated to advocating and educating on the use of mo...

Sarah discusses the term "beauty in the breakdown." In her younger years, it was a romanticism of depression and pain, but has shifted to an appreciation of the necessity of "breakdown" in order to evolve. 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/...

Chantelle Thomas, PhD, is a clinical psychologist specializing in addiction treatment, trauma and health psychology. As the executive clinical director at The Manor, in Slinger, Wisconsin, Dr. Thomas provides daily guidance to the clinical team in addition to the individual time she spends with guests and their families. Chantelle shares her view of ways we can shift our medical system to be more...

Sophia Brody, MA, brings her mastery of psychology and her intuitive practice with the elements/creative expression to provide a compassionate and sacred space for exploration. She offers life coaching and inner journey work through Transpersonal Muse life coaching and education.    Sophia and Sarah discuss bringing divine practices into everyday life, using the wound as a sacred object, and disce...

Molly Beane is the founder/CEO of clean beauty startup From Molly With Love. Molly started the  company as a kitchen-table startup in 2016. Less than three years later, her products are sold in  hundreds of retailers with international distribution. Molly and FMWL have been featured in  Good Morning America , Well + Good , Pop Sugar , Huffington Post , Thought Catalog , BuzzFeed ,  Forbes , and ot...

Rich Buino, LSW is a career-changing professional having received his Masters in Social Work in May 2019. He currently uses his clinical skills in clinical case management for older adult populations. His 17 years of past work experience in global PR and corporate communications provides many transferrable skills, including relationship building, interviewing, cultural humility in working with div...

Sarah discusses the pain that can come from being an over-achiever and the depths from which that idea springs. She shares musings on her understanding of spiritual evolution and how life's pain is part of that process. 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/Hea...

David is a cofounder of Artisan Clinical Associates, a small outpatient therapy practice in Naperville, IL. A native of Cincinnati, David studied psychology and religion at Indiana University before earning his master's in clinical psychology from Wheaton College. He has counseled in private practice since 2002. He's also a husband, father, guitarist, an amateur photographer and an avid reader.  D...

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...