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In this episode, Jackie is joined by Rachel Allen as they discuss Reconstruction following a Deconstruction process.  

In this episode, Jackie introduces listeners to one of her colleagues and soon to be regular guest on the podcast Ethan.  In this episode, Jackie and Ethan talk about what it means to be a trauma-informed therapist.  What it means for clients and what it means for the therapist.

In this episode Jackie shares the thoughts and emotions that are currently coming up after attending two funerals. Patreon link:  https://www.patreon.com/rss/Jackie690?auth=FiL88Xqp9yNB1t6gIh6AE-l7de_enwLQ  

In this episode, Jackie and Rachel have a discussion about what works and doesn't work for those who are trying to stop watching porn.    

In this episode, Jackie looks at what constitutes porn, what porn addiction is and what sex addiction is, and how it is treated by CSAT professionals.  

In this episode, Jackie and Rachel expand on the unhealthy family systems to look at how toxic family systems can misuse or abuse with religious doctrines and practices.  

In this episode, Jackie and Rachel continue discussing the arousal template.    

In this episode Jackie and Rachel talk about local and national new stories about Utah therapists who are in trouble for unethical behaviors with clients.  They cover red flags clients need to be aware of when working with a therapist. 

In this episode Jackie talks about the power of reparenting as part of our healing journey.

In this episode Jackie and Rachel talk about Arousal Templates:  how they develop, what contributes to them and how they play out in both functional and dysfunctional ways. 

In this episode Jackie talks about signs of unhealthy religious systems and how they make family dysfunction more complex.

In this episode, Jackie and Rachel talk about the docu-series Shiny Happy People.  

Most of us are familiar with the concept of our inner child.  In this episode, Jackie talks about the importance of developing a balance between our inner child and our inner adult in order to function properly as our authentic selves.    

In this episode Jackie and Rachel continue talking about spiritual deconstruction and widen the discussion to include deconstruction around many messages we receive. 

In this episode Jackie talks about traits and characteristics of healthy family systems.

In this episode, Jackie is joined by friend and colleague Rachel Allen to talk about the process of spiritual deconstruction.  We are seeing higher numbers of clients bring their process of deconstruction into the therapy sessions, and there is little to no training for therapists to learn how to support clients during this process.    

In this episode, Jackie talks about disengaged family systems.  Disengaged family systems have a way of powerful shame around emotional needs our need for love and connection.  This family system has a powerful impact on the children raised in them and continues into adulthood until the wounds have been faced and the beliefs that stem from this family system are challenged.    

In this episode, Jackie talks about enmeshed family systems. Jackie talks in more detail about what enmeshed families are, what they look like, and what they feel like.  The short-term and long-term problems associated with enmeshed families and how to begin the healing journey.      

In this episode, Jackie talks about structural family therapy concepts and the types of families identified by Salvador Mnuchin:  healthy/adaptive, disengaged, enmeshed.  This episode is an overview of the types of families and structural family therapy concepts.   

In this podcast episode, Jackie talks about attachment styles, what they are, how they form and how they can impact us in our adult relationships.  This episode is another lens to view ourselves and our relationship patterns in a way that can help us understand and change what needs to change for us to heal our attachment wounds and form secure and healthy relationships. 

In this episode, Jackie talks about the often hidden and unknown condition of childhood emotional neglect.  Our parents may understand the importance of providing for our physical needs as children, but when our emotional needs are neglected and not attuned to, we grow up feeling off.  We may question our feelings and our needs, we might struggle with self-esteem, and are unable to take appropriat...

In this final episode in the series on developing a solid sense of self, Jackie talks about how we develop a solid sense of self.  Jackie looks at what researchers in neuroscience are saying about how a self is developed and what trauma research tells us about healing in order to develop a solid sense of self.  

In this episode Jackie talks about self-care and how to approach caring for the self in a way that supports building a "self" and reinforcing the value and worth of who we are.  Self-care can be misunderstood or substituted as a hobby or a bubble bath or golfing.  Those may be things we enjoy and like to do, but is that self-care?   --

In this episode, Jackie continues talking about developing the self.  The need to find the lapse in our story caused by adversity or trauma and finishing what is left unfinished in us.  Jackie borrows from great thinkers, writers, and psychoanalysts, and what they have discovered and written about this process.   

In this episode, Jackie takes a lot of writings from Dr. Gabor Mate to help us understand ourselves from the perspectives we don't typically look at ourselves or our stories from.