Trauma Survivorhood

Host's Note - If you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video . This episode features our guest, Don St. John PHD, a psychotherapist, teacher, and author who talks about finding human potential and healing in four interrelated components: the Soma body, Psycho-emotional, relational, and spiritual.  TOPICS COVERED: - His journey of fetal trauma, intrauterine stress and negle...

Host's Note: If you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video . This episode features our guest, Valerie Huard, a personal decluttering expert, author, and podcast host.  She shares with us about the vicious trauma/clutter cycle and how to find freedom. TOPICS COVERED: - Her journey of her childhood trauma, dissociation, and putting her trauma in a box - How years later her...

Host's Note - If you'd prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video. This episode features our guest, Dr. Lisa Turner, a trauma expert and the founder of CETFreedom.  Conscious Emotional Transformation (CET) method is a spiritual and consciousness awakening program leading survivors to a life free from emotional pain. TOPICS COVERED: - Her story of being imprisoned by a pe...

Host's Note: If you'd prefer to watch this interview, check out the Youtube video . This episode features our guest, Geralyn Ritter, survivor of the 2015 Amtrak 188 derailment and author of Bone by Bone, a memoir including her lessons learned during her arduous recovery process. TOPICS COVERED: - Unexpectedness of sudden trauma and the most difficult parts of her story - Uncertainty and...

Host's Note:  If you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video here . This episode features our guest, Suzanne Anderson, MA, the founder of the Mysterial Woman.  Her pioneering work is guiding women to awaken to their full potentiality.  She is the author of the new book, You Make Your Way By Walking: A Transformational Field Guide Through Trauma and Loss. TOPICS COVERED: -...

Host's Note:  If you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video here . This episode features our guest, Marina Yanay-Triner, a body-based somatics coach supporting people as they address their stuckness, triggers, and nervous system dysregulation. TOPICS COVERED: - Her journey as the descendent of a Holocaust survivor (her grandmother was in labor camps in infancy) and the ge...

Host's note: If you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video . This episode features our guest, Amy Pagett - a trauma-informed Self-Sabotage, Somatic Embodiment, and Breathwork coach helping her clients find healing through safety and reconnecting to their body. TOPICS COVERED: - Her journey with childhood trauma, the death of her brother, and sexual abuse that developed in...

Host's Note:  If you prefer to watch the interview, check out the YouTube video . This episode features our guest, author and consultant, Carter McNamara,  who shares a journey in which he finally faces his traumatic past and then atones for the destruction and trauma his unhealed rage caused his family. TOPICS COVERED: - His story of the redemptive love of his wife after a traumatic childhoo...

Host's Note: If you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube Video . This episode features our guest, Zaria Johnson, a graduate of Spelman College and currently a Columbia University grad student, as we discuss discrimination, disparities, and systemic racism in the maternal and medical care of BIPOC birthgivers. TOPICS COVERED: - Origins of medical and maternal racism, the use o...

Host's Note - If you prefer to watch this, check out the YouTube Video . This episode features our guest, Jason Shiers, psychotherapist and certified transformational coach with Wide World Coaching as well as The Infinite Recovery Project, a life changing course for those struggling with addiction. TOPICS COVERED: - His arduous journey - a story of childhood trauma, sudden loss of a parent at...

Host's Note: If you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video . This episode features our guest, Cari Kenzie, a survivor of the 2013 Boston Marathon terror attack, who is now a Quantum Healer and Life Mastery Coach, helping clients navigate beyond trauma. TOPICS COVERED: - Her story of how everything in her and around got shaken - From a marathoner to bedridden illness month...

Host's Note: If you'd prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video . This episode features our guest, Eri Blue, of Dr. Blue Coaching   - best selling author and IFS-informed, trauma-trained coach helping survivors shift their perspectives about themselves. TOPICS COVERED: - Her story and the path that led her here - Identifying and combating burnout with awareness in the b...

Host's Note:  To watch this interview instead, check out the YouTube video . This episode features our guest, Amy Guerrero, of Regulate With Amy and The School of Regulation - helping trauma survivors find healing by regulating their nervous systems. TOPICS COVERED: - Her story - dysregulation in her body, early childhood abandonment, opening with plant medicine, drug/alcohol misuse, suicidal...

Just a quick blip today to serve as an announcement of the NEW FORMAT coming in January when Season Two will officially launch!   Additionally, a personal & business update is given as well as an offering for a holiday discount for potential new clients of Trauma Recovery Coaching!  For interview opportunities or any questions/comments/concerns, reach out to:   sara@fullcirclewellspring.com To...

[Host Note: If you prefer to watch this interview, click the Youtube link here .] HopeWorx Inc is an incredible community-based, peer support mental health services advocacy program in Pennsylvania.  I enjoyed learning more about this organization with Clare Higgins and Alissa Catherman-Garrison.  TOPICS COVERED: - Their personal parental trauma and foster care stories and the road that led them t...

[Host's Note:  If you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video .] I had the privilege to chat with addiction researcher, author, and advocate, Dr. Constance Scharff as we discuss the intersection of trauma and substance misuse/addiction.  TOPICS COVERED: - Her trauma story and how she found herself in Transformative Studies - PTSD and suicidal ideation - 24 years of sobriet...

[Host's note: if you would like to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video .] Enjoy this refreshing and inspiring conversation with Rose Jones - creator and founder of "Let Rose Speak" and her Sisterhood community called "Healing for My Sista". TOPICS COVERED: - Her trauma story and how she overcame - How her fears made her an overprotective parent and why that s...

[Host's note: If you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video .] A privilege and honor to interview a fellow certified trauma recovery coach, Pepper Joy Greggs, who has recently founded and created RReST - the Restorative Response System Theory.    **Interview of Coach Pepper Joy for the first half.  Explanation of the RReST system starts at 23:00** TOPICS COVERED: - Her jo...

[Host's Note:  To watch the interview, check out the YouTube video here .] What an inspiration to interview Shannon "Poshe" Anderson - creator of P.O.P. publishing, author, consultant, influencer, radio host, and coach to authors looking to share their story with the world! TOPICS COVERED: - Childhood abuse journey or PTSD, therapy, and institutionalizations - Why she went into the...

[Host's Note: If you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video here .] I sat down with transformational speaker, Mandy L Harvey, for an invigorating conversation as she tells us more of how she got into the work of teaching highly sensitive leaders how to clear past trauma from their body and helping them grow a trauma-informed, balanced workplace.  TOPICS COVERED: - Lifesty...

[Host's Note: If you prefer to watch the interview, check out the YouTube video here .] I had the pleasure of sitting down for a chat with the founder and creator of  Walk in the Woods - an online resource for sexual abuse and incest survivors.    TOPICS COVERED:  - Childhood sexual abuse - How secrets make abuse work - How to find safety and choice as an adult - The role of shame in trauma -...

[Host's Note: If you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video .] I had the 'yummy' pleasure of sitting down to chat with Danét Palmer, host of The Yummy Way podcast and author of the books: Coffee With The Divine and Baptized By Love (How I Found Present Joy And Never Let It Go).  TOPICS COVERED: - Facing fear with courage - Learning to live in joy - Some of her c...

Today is  S1:E78!  Season Finale of a beautiful Season One!  Today I share a bit of my zig-zag healing journey, encourage you on yours, and give a special offer inside to get started on your trauma recovery coaching road this month while I'm on break!!  I look forward to bringing more episodes soon in Season Two along with some wonderful surprises!  Never give up on your own trauma recovery! ...

Our last W.W. of Season One, I give a little insight into my own personal recovery road and my greatest internal resource!  Special Mentioned Episodes: Inner Child Healing IFS Zig Zag (available July 1st) ****  Host’s Note – if you prefer to watch a video with this audio, check out the YouTube video.  If you prefer to read along with or instead of this episode, click on the website below and selec...

We end Season One with a mindfulness practice of Zen - which means meditation, calm, peace, relaxed, without effort, simplicity.    ****  Host’s Note – if you prefer to watch a video with this audio, check out the YouTube video.  If you prefer to read along with or instead of this episode, click on the website below and select any of the blog tabs for the corresponding Mindful Monday, Wellspring W...