System Speak: Complex Trauma and Dissociation

We read and respond to listener emails. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE . Once y...

Our guest is Joyanna Silberg, Past President of ISSTD, and expert on dissociation in children and adolescents.  She shares with us about her work with children and trauma.  She talks about the capacity of dissociation as a gift to yourself!  She speaks to the impact of screen time on families, and she also shares about her work with trafficking victims.  Trigger warning for short and simple exampl...

We speak with MultiMes. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE . Once you are set up, t...

We speak with MultiMes. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE . Once you are set up, t...

Our guest is Teri Pokrajac, a clinician in California. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join group...

Our guest, Annie Goldsmith, is a registered dietician who works with trauma, and she explains how dissociation and digestion are connected.  She explains why building safety and going very slowly is so important in bringing healing to both.  She explains disordered eating and intentional eating.  We discuss eating in the context of food scarcity and the pandemic.   Trigger warning for discussion o...

We look for perspective after our therapy rupture, struggling in relationships, and enduring quarantine. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a no...

Dr. John O’Neil, author of “the brick”, shares with us his story of how he began learning about dissociative disorders.  He explains the significance of the phenomenological model of dissociation, and how this is different from structural dissociation.  He explains about faculty dissociation, depersonalization and derealization, and how these are different from multiplicity. Our website is HERE:  ...

David Archer is our guest, and he shares about prejudices, privilege, racism, racial trauma, white supremacy, and how healing comes when we love ourselves.  Trigger warning for references to racial violence, foster care and adoption, and politics. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You...

We speak with guest Michael Salter (from Australia) about trafficking, CSAEM, and organized abuse. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Appl...

We recap the 2020 virtual conference from ISSTD about the Impact of Societal Trauma on Marginalized Groups. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a...

We recap the 2020 Virtual Conference from ISSTD. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE...

We interview Dr. Laura Brown about her journey treating complex trauma.  She shares about the history of believing women’s stories when others did not.  She also explains why she does not use “disorder” with dissociative identities.  She also shares her experience with keeping a therapy dog in her office.  Trigger warning for mention of trauma cases and a variety of abuses, but no in depth discuss...

We talk with our lived experience friend and author, Vivian Conan, who wrote the book Losing the Atmosphere . Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use...

We read and respond to listener emails. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE . Once y...

Our clinical guest is Martha Strauss, PhD. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE . Onc...

We give a list of things we have learned since the pandemic started and with changes in therapy. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple...

We talk about the difference between trauma alone and trauma with support, and the impact of being adults with adult resources in Now Time - even when Memory Time was hard. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network,...

We read and respond to listener emails. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE .  Once you have registered with the network, you will receive an invitation to orientation, and then can use a non-Apple device or non-safari browser to join groups HERE . Once y...

Our guest today is clinical psychologist Ken Benau.  He explains “relational trauma”, and why most people are not even aware of this trauma.  He talks about shame and “pro-being pride”, and how they are conscious or not, and what makes each maladaptive or adaptive. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the...

We respond to our conversation with The English Teacher, a friend who reported the unethical behavior of our previous (shared) therapist, and who lived through my final years of shiny happy high school and my shiny happy college experience with me. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . Yo...

We have a conversation with The English Teacher, a friend who reported the unethical behavior of our previous (shared) therapist, and who lived through my final years of shiny happy high school and my shiny happy college experience with me. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JO...

We have a conversation with The English Teacher, a friend who reported the unethical behavior of our previous (shared) therapist, and who lived through my final years of shiny happy high school and my shiny happy college experience with me. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JO...

We have a conversation with The English Teacher, a friend who reported the unethical behavior of our previous (shared) therapist, and who lived through my final years of shiny happy high school and my shiny happy college experience with me. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can JO...

We talk with Nathan about having a conversation with The English Teacher, a friend who reported the unethical behavior of our previous (shared) therapist, and who lived through my final years of high school and my college experience with me. Our website is HERE:   System Speak Podcast and sponsoring nonprofit website is HERE: S3C Foundation . You can submit an email to the podcast HERE . You can J...