Relationship As Medicine

In this Solo episode, I get up on my soapbox around quitting the hustle, the comparing and the push as care providers and entrepreneurs growing businesses. So many of my clients are often stunned by the power of slowing down and simplifying and what happens in their businesses and relationship to their businesses when they can work with themselves to allow more space and rest. When we feel safe en...

Kim Coffin vulnerably shares her story of betrayal, loss and abandonment. We explore topics of money, power and control as they have related to both of our experiences in our families of origin. We explore how we have both moved through complex relational trauma in different and similar ways and how we both hold it now. They're vulnerable stories of trauma and incredible healing and empowerment.&n...

This episode will leave you feeling loved, inspired, on fire with purpose and ready to challenge some norms. SharRon Jamison, life strategist, author, minister, entrepreneur, and corporate leader, joins me for a powerful conversation around the 4 things needed in healing trauma to get to full liberation.  She motivates and supports high performing womxn around the world to tap into their own...

How do we create togetherness and safety when things are really hard? Kendra Cover shares 3 embodied tools to deepen and connect in intimate relationships. We explore how there's such an opportunity to open to our fullest expression when we deepen relationships to whatever we're committed to, whether it's ourselves, our businesses and our relationships. When we can have a respite, so much is possi...

Episode 29: Safer Space In Action Worldwide I don't know if my heart could get any more full! This conversation just left me feeling grounded, clear, purposeful, inspired and EXCITED for the revolution that trauma informed care brings. This episode is packed full of tips, information and embodied experiences and perspectives on trauma-informed care from 6 incredible humans from around the world. E...

Do you feel like you need to be “high vibe” all the time? In this episode Ellie and I discuss how as coaches and care providers we don't need to be "high vibe" all the time, and we talk about how that might actually be re-perpeutating traumatic patriarchial experiences for people socialized as women. We talk vulnerably about how we show up as whole humans both running our businesses and supporting...

How do we “be with” ourselves and others to foster a sense of connection and safety?  In this powerful new episode of the podcast, Enrique Collazo joins me in a conversation about how we welcome vulnerability, suffering, pain and injustice with regulated nervous systems and open hearts. We look at how to be in action in the face of injustice while also staying with ourselves. A bit about Enri...

In this episode we explore a pathway to our fullest expression through anger and aliveness. Juna Mustad and I dive into ways to feel safe enough to be in a healthy relationship to anger. Through this, tapping into an expanded capacity for life force, more energy and health.  We share our own tools and personal stories in creating new relationships to anger and its important messages. Over the...

I’m excited to share with you this behind the scenes peek into my relationship with Ellen May who's been my virtual assistant for three and a half years.  It's a vulnerable story of friendship and navigating work relationships even with dysregulated nervous systems and trauma histories. It's a celebration of all the awesome-ness that can unfold when there's some structure for the magic to flo...

How much do you share with your clients? In this episode I share about how so many of us coaches, therapists and facilitators are told that we should tell our stories to build trust with clients and potential clients. On the other hand, some of us are told not to share anything about ourselves so we can be blank slates and so that we don’t influence our clients with our experiences. I share my per...

I don't know if my heart could get any more full! This conversation just left me feeling grounded, clear, purposeful, inspired and EXCITED for the revolution that trauma informed care brings. This episode is packed full of tips, information and embodied experiences and perspectives on trauma-informed care from 6 incredible humans from around the world. Each of my guests in this episode have been t...

I am so excited to share with you this special episode! Tamsin Crimmens is back for a powerful discussion on trauma informed business expansion. We explore HOW to surrender to the momentum while expanding in business in a gentle and authentic way. Tamsin shares honestly about her path from feeling like a hot mess to feeling empowered as an entrepreneur and as someone who fiercely and lovingly supp...

This solo episode is a conversation I think is so important for all practitioners. Many of us, as care providers, find ourselves in places where we’re on a big or little emotional rollercoaster. Dysregulated, struggling with health issues, stuck in stress responses and facing chaos and instability in our lives in various ways. In this week’s episode I share my thoughts and experiences as someone w...

This is GOLD…listen in is as Shelly Bhowmik, MD MPH, describes a pivotal moment in her career as a physician. She went from questioning her life on a subway platform to creating space and support for herself to really begin to thrive. In this episode we talk about how this type of revelation is more common than we’d like to think in the medical field. We acknowledge the layers of stress and trauma...

This podcast is for entrepreneurs of many kinds. It's for people with periods and those who support them. Masie and I explore all sorts of themes around creating safer healthcare - whether we’re patients or practitioners. Together we leave no stones unturned…can healthcare professionals be allies for women and those with menstrual cycles? How can patients feel safer as their own advocates? How can...

We have more access to creativity, intelligence and expression when we feel safe. In this episode I interview Danielle Cohen, a visibility coach and brand photographer. She describes how no single image COULD EVER tell the full story of who you are…and in this episode she shares with us that we can build a body of work and a body of expression to share our work with the world. We also talk about a...

This episode is for people who are entrepreneurs running their own coaching, therapy and wellness-based businesses. Do you ever secretly (or not so secretly) get stuck comparing your offerings to others in your industry?  Do you get stuck in freeze or get bogged down overwhelmed by what everyone else is doing? In this episode, I share how I recently navigated this inside myself and investigat...

Do you ever wonder what specific things you can do and say to better support your clients who've experienced trauma?  In this episode, I go over 9 key takeaways that you can start integrating into your practice NOW (whether you're a coach, therapist, facilitator, healer or healthcare professional) to bring more trauma sensitivity into your workplace and provide trauma-informed care to your cl...

Anakha Coman joins me for a connecting, deep and insightful conversation around healing in relationships. We talk about personally about our personal friendship and relationship as colleagues. She shares 4 clear and simple concepts and practices to deepen our relationships, especially when there’s overwhelm, which can be supportive in both personal and professional settings. Both Anakha and Shelby...

How can we thrive as coaches & entrepreneurs amidst life's chaos? Crystal and I explore regulation, titration & pleasure (even If we aren't in the mood for pleasure) from a business perspective. We investigate how we can embrace our familiar survival responses around stress and urgency through care, pleasure, regulation and connection as we operate our businesses. Crystal shares how her ne...

Casey and I find so many personal and professional similarities as we explore concepts like Slowing the F down in our work and in our trauma healing. We share:  Our histories as highly competitive athletes, ignoring our bodies and living in a state of pushing through to perform. The highs and lows of being athletes from such young ages.  Casey brings her steadiness, joyfulness and spacio...

Ellinor Grace and I explore what it's like to welcome the "inner bitch" part of themselves and share their past experiences of what it's like to not have access to anger, healthy boundaries and personal needs and wants. Through connected conversation, we honor the inner people pleaser and those parts that were trying so much to help us feel safe, loved and with a sense of belonging. A bit more abo...

Will Rezin and I get specific about trauma healing techniques that have gone awry in the past.  We discuss if there could be a world where "the end of trauma" exists and how we might imagine that to happen. Will and I bring in pieces of their Vajrayana and Theravada Buddhist paths in relation to how we view suffering and how we view freedom in the fullest expression of humanity. More about Wi...

I am joined by Best-Selling Author Stephen Terrell in a deep and heartfelt discussion around developmental trauma.  We touch on the power of embodied presence, hanging out, leaning back and welcoming all parts of each client.  In this captivating episode, Stephen shares vulnerability about his past and his experience of neurodiversity.  Coaches, clients, healthcare practitioners ali...

Megan deBoer of Tended Wealth models for us what it's like to slow down as we build safer relationships with ourselves as we cultivate a meaningful relationship with money.  She shares about many somatic elements of holding and growing money in ways that our nervous systems can tolerate and expand with.  She brings her embodied wisdom of years of supporting female identified business owners as...