Elyse on life

Welcome to Trailercast! I am so happy to share this special episode with you. Today you get to meet my incredibly cool and inspiring friend Jessy, and hear an amazing story of resilience. Jessy is a motocross mama who endured a traumatic brain injury a few years ago, and is now learning to live in total freedom within her new reality. Her life has completely changed since her accident, but as you’...

Have you ever been curious about what it is like to attend Weekends? This episode of Trailercast is extra special, because I got to sit down and have a round table discussion with some of the ladies who attend the most recent Weekends retreat in Malibu! Listen in as we have too much fun talking about our experiences and take-aways from our time together. These women are amazing. I’m so glad you ge...

Welcome to today’s episode! I am so honored to share my conversation with my friend Leith McHugh with you. Leith and I met during an intensive retreat for mental health professionals, and she is here to share her story and an incredible amount of wisdom with us. Wisdom that was hard won, and comes from real, raw life experience. I knew that I had to have Leith on to share her story with you. Espec...

In this Trailercast conversation, listen in as I talk with Krystal about the fear of being visible. What happens when you say “yes” to letting yourself be seen? What is the difference between visibility and exposure? Witness real work happening in real time, and hopefully learn some good tools that you can take for yourself as we do a visualization exercise aimed at helping getting us unstuck and...

I hope you are ready, because this Trailercast conversation is fire! We jump right in, and I’m so glad you get to listen in on this important work. I’m still reeling from how incredible it was to watch this amazing woman step into her power and strength.  In this conversation, we talk about our stories of origin and the way that we often choose the familiar story, though it often no longer serves...

One of my very favorite things about these Trailercast conversations is the opportunity to really get to know listeners. The opportunity to hear from you; to hand you the mic and see where the conversation leads. It is always a thrill to unpack your stories, and always leaves me with an immense feeling of gratitude and awe. In this episode you get to meet Jessie, and I just loved talking to her. W...

If you follow me on Instagram, you may have see that my family and I have moved. We have moved out of the house that my husband has literally lived his whole life in, and that I have lived in longer than any other space. In this process of moving, we’ve found ourselves in the process of demo and reconstruction. And because as you know, I love a metaphor, it’s given me a lot to think about and proc...

In this episode of Trailercast I get to sit down and talk to my good friend Brit Barron. Brit is an author, speaker, pastor, anti-racist educator and her first book Worth It is out now! Brit grew up in an Evangelical megachurch in the '90s, trying to fit neatly inside the boundaries her church and its narrow view of God had placed around her. She was boxed in by her fears, unable to realize her fu...

In this episode of Trailercast, I sit down with Kayla Huszar, and we talk all things motherhood. Raw, unscripted motherhood. Or, as Kayla so perfectly calls it, the motherload. The load is heavy. And Beautiful. And hard. And fun. And all the things in-between. Kayla, a mom of two young kiddos herself,  offers postpartum support and expressive art therapy for moms. We talk about her work, the...

This episode of Trailercast is a special one, because not only do I sit down and talk with the first male guest we’ve had in this new series of conversations, but also a dear friend of mine. In this episode you get to meet my friend, Stu. Stu and I have built a foundation of trust and honesty over the years, and that helps organically lead this conversation into more raw and vulnerable spaces as w...

Yep, you read that right! This episode of Trailercast is about vaginas. Listen in as I sit down with a friend and we have a candid, brave and important conversation about her experience with what it is like to wait for marriage to have sex, and then physically not be able to because of vaginismus. This is such a needed conversation that often is only had behind closed doors, if at all. But we are...

This episode is for anyone out there who might be feeling “stuck.” Ashley is a wife of ten years, a mom of two young boys and an accomplished teacher,  who wrote into the show   saying, “I have been feeling like there is so much more for my life and am struggling to get unstuck and be able to see what is next for me… I’d love to have a convo with you about how to finally get unstuck...

During this Trailercast conversation, you’ll get to meet Nicole. We jump right in feet first with Nicole describing an “a-ha” moment she had that came to her in the most ordinary of places on the most ordinary of days, but changed everything . This conversation is jam-packed full of important truths and the kind of wisdom and self-awareness that comes when we dig in and do our work. Nicole has a s...

In this Trailercast conversation, you get to listen in on an intimate and important conversation as I sit down with my friend Maggie, and we pick right back up where we left off in a bar about a year ago in Denver. At the time that we had this Trailercast conversation, we were in the thick of quarantine and Maggie was pregnant with her third. We begin our conversation by comparing the gestational...

This week’s Trailercast conversation is with Jen. I actually had the pleasure of getting to know Jen awhile back when she attended Weekends ! Jen is a total boss and so much fun to talk to, and this conversation is so relatable. We talk about people-pleasing, the difference between invisibility and being unseen, and what it is like to be a woman in a professional space. We talk about remembering w...

I had the honor and pleasure of sitting down with a kindred spirit, BJ Hickman . BJ is an Emotional Wellness Master Coach and we had about a million things on the list of possible things we could talk about here, but decided to just jump right in and see where the conversation took us. And I’m so glad we did. There is magic to be found in the unplanned, messy middle and that is exactly what happen...

In this episode of Trailercast, I reflect on three different ideas, separate but related. First off, Entity vs Action. What happens when we pair action words to our identity? What happens when we build a lifestyle around our roles, and call that who we are? We often forget that we don’t have to earn our roles; that we already are. What would happen if we were able to find the distinction between “...

This episode you meet Terces. I cannot wait for you to listen to this conversation! It’s packed full of insight and wisdom. Terces and I have the honor of doing work together, and I think that you’ll find her to be an incredibly fascinating woman. She and her husband are the founders of Cafe Gratitude and Gracias Madre, plant-based restaurants, and they own, operate and live on Be Love Farm , a re...

In 2014 Bessel van der Kolk published The Body Keeps the Score about the affects of trauma on the body. It was and is a great bridge between the psychological community and the medical community, and is honestly a great book. But in this episode of Trailercast, we go a step further. Today I explore the ways that the body not only holds trauma, but also triumph. The body holds it ALL. Our job, is t...

Welcome to the first episode in a new style of conversations we’ll be having here on Trailercast. My hope is that as you listen, you’ll find things in D’Ann’s story that relate to your own. That as you connect to her unboxing, things also become unboxed for you. When I put it out there on Instagram that I was looking for listeners who were willing to come on the show and have important, pivotal co...

#109  Hi! - We’re back!  I’m so excited!! For those of you tuning in for the first time - I am Elyse Snipes, your host of this podcast. This episode is my comeback episode, the first episode in the new edition/version of Trailercast. Let me back up for a moment … Trailercast started as a place for creative release, it was dipping my toe in the pool to see what it felt like. It was nice a...

Updated reflections living in quarantine and some news about the podcast.

 If you are in the field of psychotherapy or psychodrama or sociometry or somatic experience or reiki or pretty much any other healing art than you know who Jean Cambell is or you need to know who Jean Campbell is.  Jean is a Board Certified Trainer, Educator and Practitioner of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy, a Fellow of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and P...

An Easter conversation for everyone. I sit down with my friend Katie Quesada, Story Coach and in a previous life a Pastor. We talk about the difference between macro and micro stories and how we can all find ourselves in the macro story of Easter. We also feel our way through old stories and old systems and consider new ways to honor Hope, Transformation and the belief in the Impossible. Happy Eas...

Today's episode is extremely personal and extremely vital. I interview my friend who is dying. Given what we are facing as a global community we had considered for a fraction of a moment waiting on this episode ... but we both share a bit of the f*ck it's and decided if not now, when? Isn't this actually the best time? As people are actually awake and facing this reality with eyes open. The truth...