Conversations With a Wounded Healer

Lisa has worked in the field of addiction and trauma since 1994. She is driven by the passion to support persons as they journey toward resolution from the inside out. Her clinical expertise is in the treatment of sexual addiction, trauma, other addictions. She's worked as a pastor, leadership development consultant, and public speaker in a variety of venues. She loves learning and teaching what s...

Lauren has spent the last 15 years standing for justice and equity as a teacher and middle school Principal on the Westside of Chicago. Her passion and commitment undermine systematic oppression, ironically, became an awakening to the unconscious oppression inside herself. Lauren considers herself an Oracle, Truth Teller, Healer and Coach who uses her own path to support the conscious evolution of...

Beck has a passion for working with the LGBTQ+ community and has written articles and papers directly addressing the need for training staff on LGBTQ+ communities. Beck has spoken nationally at various conferences regarding LGBTQ+ communities. He has over 12 years of personal recovery and continues to address concerns of equality and acceptance of LGBTQ+ in sober communities. Beck shares his road...

Randal Lyons helps people struggling with addiction who want long-term, holistic care. He draws upon his 24 years of successful sobriety, as well as his previous 17 years in active addiction, to offer his clients effective and compassionate treatment. Randal and Sarah discuss their shared "no bullshit" approach to addiction treatment. They also discuss the role of ego in recovery and the simultane...

In this episode, Sarah discusses the complexities that arise from shows such as Leaving Neverland, Surviving R. Kelly, and Lorena. What are the intersections of privilege, power, race, and trauma? And how do we hold all of these complexities and make sense of them from our own lens? There are no easy answers - often only more questions. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places......

Mishara is an adventure therapist, social health advocate & the owner of To Indy, With Love : Adventures in Social & Emotional Health. Through speaking, therapy and local / global public experiences, she supports the audacity of play, vulnerability & joy in the midst of chronic trauma, especially for people of color, LGBTQIA+ folk and people of diverse spiritual practice in Indianapolis, Indiana....

In 2016, she left a thriving career in IT Corporate Canada to form 'aishaheals' with a mission to help people live life to their fullest by helping them get rid of their emotional baggage. She chose to be a stay at home mom without sacrificing her passions and dreams. It gives her deep inner peace that she is able to reach out to so many people on daily basis and give them hope and show them the l...

Avicii: True Stories is a moving documentary about the rise of EDM musician Tim Bergling, better know as Avicii. Sarah discusses her reaction to the film: how it feels to be THE ONE whom everyone is counting on and how society tends to feed that monster that can potentially destroy us. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook:...

Michelle Shea Walker is a modern day magic maker. She specializes in helping others heal through many metaphysical means such as Reiki, yoga, Akashic records, and tarot. As an enabler of happiness, her optimistic intuition style is rooted in the belief that there are no negative readings, only opportunities for further growth and healing. Michelle and Sarah discuss her journey from skeptic to meta...

Roxan McDonald has dedicated herself to helping people find their voice both on the page and in their lives. She currently leads writing groups in Santa Cruz, Carmel, and Monterey. Roxan co-teaches with Ellen Bass at Esalen Institute. For fourteen years she was on the management team of two alternative high schools focused on serving at risk youth. Roxan taught creative writing, poetry and memoir...

Chris Grosso is a youth mental health group facilitator with Newport Academy , public speaker, writer, and author of Indie Spiritualist (Beyond Words/Simon & Schuster, 2014), Everything Mind (Sounds True, 2105) and Dead Set On Living (Simon & Schuster/Gallery Books, 2018). Chris is passionate about his work with people who are in the process of healing or struggling with addictions of all kinds. H...

Erin is a Clinical Psychotherapist, neuro-bio regulation Touch Skills Therapist and Somatic Experience Practitioner. She is passionate about treating trauma and helping her clients heal  past complex trauma, eating disorders, childhood development/attachment ruptures and artists with creativity/performance anxiety. Erin is also a psychic medium and energy healer. She grew up in New Orleans where s...

Susan M Chu is a Crystal Expert, Energetic Healer, and a Feng Shui Coach. She helps her clients move through and out of physical discomfort, emotional turmoil, and mental imbalances. Her decade long experience with crystals have earned her the reputation of knowing exactly what crystal a person needs. Susan draws not only from her teacher's teaching of feng shui, but also from her ancestor roots g...

Erin M. is a Licensed Professional Counselor, National Certified Counselor and the founder of Truly Being Therapy. Erin is passionate about treating addiction and loves working with special issues including shame, perfectionism, self-compassion, spirituality, and radical acceptance. Erin is a lover of nature, an adventure-seeker, an inspired traveler, and a believer in dreams. The pain of living i...

If you're happy the dumpster fire of 2018 is over, this episode is for you. Sarah shares some of the lessons she's learned from hosting this podcast as well as intentions she's setting to make 2019 the best year ever. Let's be friends! ~Sarah You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.co...

Tanya Markul's path is one of the poetess, intuitive and wounded storyteller. An unwanted child, she was raised on barren soil, of shame, guilt and overwhelming self-hatred. From the womb, her inner navigation was tainted from an ancestry of addiction, instability, abuse and fear. Her journey to self-heal, and to become ready to guide others, has taken many arduous paths, risks and harrowing rebir...

Jenna Fox is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, educator, writer, and tarot reader living on unceded Duwamish land called Seattle.  As a queer, adult adoptee, she is working to reclaim ancestral wisdom to pass on to her children. She is described by her community college students as "sympathetic, but with a blunt sense of humor." Jenna and Sarah discuss the spiral we go through in life; moving th...

Dr. Kelli Ritter earned her Ph. D. in Counseling from Georgia State University where she developed a passion for Adlerian Psychology, play therapy and traumatology. She has spent the last twenty years working with children, teens and families in various roles through counseling, parent education and consulting services. As an Associate Professor in counseling, Dr. Kelli is most proud of developing...

For those of us who struggle when spending time with family over the holidays, this episode is for you. Sarah discusses ways to set boundaries and take care of yourself if family feels like the "f word" in your book. Let's be friends! ~Sarah You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com...

Sarah McLaughlin is a seeker of all things hidden. She loves turning over stones to see what is underneath, peering through the dark, and getting her hands in the dirt. Just kidding? How about, Sarah is a western trained licensed massage therapist, but is also a certified shiatsu and Thai massage practitioner. Her passion is abdominal massage, and helping people reconnect to the innate wisdom of t...

Jamila Kekulah Kinney, MA is the creator of Moving Soul Wellness, a holistic movement practices that bridges the gap between soma, psyche and soul. As a teacher of The GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM® and Pilates, she has been sharing her passion for mindful movement for over 12 years. She is also an authorized Pre-trainer (teacher trainer) for both GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS®. Jamila's practice utiliz...

Michael Lassoff is a practicing psychotherapist in Houston, Texas. He manages the young adult IOP for the Pathos Program at the Lovett Center. He is also training to become a Diamond Approach teacher, a spiritual group that incorporates meditative practices as well as psychoanalytic theory. Michael shares his journey from Sikhism to 12-Steps to Buddhism to being a social worker who has little desi...

Sarah spent six intensive days doing group therapy at an amazing place called Onsite and came away with fifty-five incredible, new friends. This episode is a love letter to the community that was created and a wish for continued transformation for us all. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Wounde...

Nathaniel Hodder-Shipp, B.Msc, CADC-II, is President and Founder of Breathwork for Recovery and has worked as a professional healer for almost a decade. Using an arsenal of techniques with a special focus on breathwork, Nathaniel has helped thousands of people process trauma, disarm negative thought patterns, and maintain healthy and happy relationships with themselves and loved ones. Sarah and Na...

This episode discusses the harsh reality of depression and suicide. Please listen with care. VersAnnette Blackman-Bosia, a.k.a "Verse" is an abstract painter, author , licensed massage therapist, facilitator & speaker on a mission to infuse the world with healing energy and light. Verse believes that creativity is a catalyst for healing, and can be the core of mental/emotional wellness. Her busine...