Conversations With a Wounded Healer

Charlotte Eléa is a worthiness coach, transformation guide and emotional healer. She helps sensitive and soulful women get to know who they really are, and unleash their light and true brilliance. She has a background in both traditional psychotherapy and spiritual / intuitive methods, and helps her clients transform deep wounds of invisibility and unworthiness into love, trust and wisdom. Sarah a...

Molly Coeling is a massage therapist and Reiki Master Teacher in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Chicago. She is excited to be launching "Beyond MeToo: Healing the Wounds of Sexual Trauma," a podcast that explores both individual and collective healing from sexual trauma. Molly and Sarah discuss utilizing Reiki and massage as the gateway to healing, the fire that's been lit under women as a res...

Ego, struggle and faith. What do these topics have to do with one another? In today's episode, Sarah thinks out loud about the way ego keeps us clinging to the problems that stand in between us and our best selves. It's an invitation to allowing rather than trying, to letting go rather than clinging and to getting comfortable with the uncomfortable experiences in life. Scott Tusa Dharma Weekend 10...

Jordan is a tarot lover, who offers mail-delivered readings to help spread tarot's reach in healing. He is also queer, trans, a parent, spouse, teacher, student of nature, on his own spiritual journey. Jordan celebrates connection, community, and the co-creation in supporting one another through our unique human experiences. Listen to Jordan and Sarah fall into friendship love right before your ea...

I'm Jon Brockelman. I'm an oncology certified registered nurse at a large academic medical center here in Chicago. I've spent most of my 20 year career working with oncology patients, and I've recently started a master's degree in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety at Northwestern University. I'm on Facebook and LinkedIn, I'm on Insta as well, but I'm not so insta-savvy. Brené Brown says that w...

Elmo Painter is a Body-centered Psychotherapist and Sensuality Educator who lives and practices in Chicago, IL. Her passions include getting people in touch with their authentic selves, finding ways to make moments more awesome, and helping people process and settle from post-traumatic stress. In this episode we talk about sex. Yes you read that right - sex. It's not a topic we always get to in th...

Rachel Inberg is a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and writer from New York. She regularly treats incest survivors, drug addicts, and victims of gang violence. She has spent ten years in school learning how to care for other people; her writing is the result of her learning to care for herself. Rachel's nonfiction and poetry have appeared in the Huffington Post, The Rumpus, Panoply Zine and the Nar...

Andrea Varol, LCSW, CADC has been working as a dedicated mental health professional for 16 years. She's also the mom of two amazing boys and has a guilty pleasure of listening to sugary teen pop music. Andrea and Sarah dig into the value of addressing one's own wounds, the values of self-disclosure in therapy, and debate whether shame is innate or or created.   Learn more about Andrea Varol and He...

In this episode, Sarah shares about an experience of posting on Facebook, being called out, being defensive, and then ultimately realizing this post was not within her values. Learn more about Sarah Buino and Head/Heart Therapy: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast   Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places...   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com...

Sera Beak is a world-traveled Harvard trained scholar of comparative world religions and author of Redvelations: A Soul's Journey to Becoming Human (2018), Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story (2013), and The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark (2006). She gives talks, private sessions and retreats focused on the radical reality of the Soul and its messy b...

Rachel Grant is the owner and founder of Rachel Grant Coaching and is a Sexual Abuse  Recovery Coach. She is also the author of Beyond Surviving: The Final Stage in Recovery  from Sexual Abuse. She works with survivors of childhood sexual abuse who are beyond  sick and tired of feeling broken, unfixable, and burdened by the past. She helps them let go  of the pain of abuse and finally feel normal....

Anjuli is a somatic therapist in Portland, Oregon. She offers both somatic therapy and bodywork and will begin to offer consultation and supervision to other therapists soon! On this episode, Anjuli and Sarah discuss TRUTH versus truth, the secrets of the occipital ridge, and Anjuli's experience as an early adopter of somatic work in psychotherapy. Learn more about Anjuli Shah-Johnson and Head/Hea...

Scott Tusa is a Buddhist teacher based in Brooklyn, New York. Ordained by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, he spent nine years as a Buddhist monk, with much of that time engaged in solitary meditation retreat and study in the United States, India, and Nepal. He teaches meditation and Buddhist psychology nationally and supports Tsoknyi Rinpoche's Pundarika Sangha as a practice advisor. He tr...

Perfectionism is a bitch. In this episode, Sarah talks about the paralysis that perfectionism can cause for her and the ways she's trying to open her heart to the love that's around as well as practice the self-compassion and self-love she deserves.   Learn more about Sarah Buino and Head/Heart Therapy: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast   Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places......

Sarah is a licensed clinical social worker and certified alcohol and drug abuse counselor who owns Chicago Compass Counseling - a group practice dedicated to helping people break the cycle of self-destructive behavior. She lives in Ukrainian Village with her husband, Jac, and her dog, Sadie. We have a double dose of Sarah this week! Sarah 2 talks about how Marco Polo has enriched their lives, the...

"You don't have to have the profession of 'healer' in order to be one." - Andrea Klunder This week, Andrea and Sarah discuss the healing nature of creating space for others to find their voice, the fruits that grow from (perceived) failure, and our historical love for Amy Grant. Learn more about Andrea Klunder and Head/Heart Therapy: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast   Let's be friends! You can fin...

Candice Wu is an intuitive coach, holistic healing facilitator, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, and artist. She is literally traveling the world right now, spreading her magic around the globe. In this interview, Candice and I discuss her draw to family constellation work and the deep healing and insight that brings. We also share our views on the complexities of the human experience and...

Soulcraft Coaching & Energy Work is a holistic integrated healing practice that specializes in supporting and guiding those on a quest to clear energetic, spiritual and physical blocks so they can reconnect and reground to what's alive inside. Jen and Sarah discuss all the witchy things and how Maya Spiritual Healing can help you put down your backpack full of trauma. Jen also offers a complimenta...

Guy Macpherson, PhD, is a husband, a father of two, and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He has spent the last several years studying the impact and treatment of trauma, and early psychosis. In 2014, Guy founded The Trauma Therapist Project with the goals of raising the awareness of trauma and creating an educational and supportive community for new trauma workers. The Trauma Therapist Pr...

Dana Sackar, MPT is a physical therapist and owner of Flourish Physical Therapy, LLC.  She has been a PT for 20 years and specializes in Women's Health and fertility. She is a certified Mercier Therapist, helping women who suffer from fertility challenges, pelvic pain, bladder issues, and a multitude of other women's health issues. Her other specialties include craniosacral therapy, zero balancing...

Sarah gets metta and discusses the vulnerability that goes with recording this podcast and sharing it with the world. Learn more about Sarah... www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Susan Lipshutz, LCSW is a sacred feminine activist with more than 30 years of experience teaching and practicing integrative psychotherapy. Devoted to building intentional communities that reawaken and integrate the divine feminine into daily life, Susan combines the ancient wisdom of our grandmothers with her own powerful teachings attuned to the complexities of modern life. She's the founder of ...

Monique Wheeler is a Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac) in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. She enjoys working with folks who struggle with pain or respiratory problems as well as preventative health/wellness. Monique shares her own unique journey that brought her to the magical world of Chinese medicine. We also discuss the philosophies of Chinese medicine and her continued quest to find the root...

Kelley Kitley is a sister from another mister. Her psychotherapy practice is called Serendipitous Psychotherapy and is located on the Magnificent Mile in downtown Chicago. Kelley and I both share a passion for seeking our own truth as well as helping others find their own authentic voice. This interview goes deep into our childhood wounds and how we pick up the pieces and use them to help others....

Victoria Albina is a family nurse practitioner and life coach in the Flatiron neighborhood of New York City. She and I share a belief that people have the capacity to create change in themselves! We chat about the power of meditation (more reasons to stop procrastinating!), the head/heart/gut connection...and poop. If you can't poop, Victoria is your gal! Learn more about Victoria at www.headheart...