Wednesdays With Watson: Faith & Trauma Amy Watson- PTSD Patient-Trauma Survivor

Send us Fan Mail Contact AMY : My favorite part about podcasting is interacting with YOU! Please reach out to me using any of the options here . In this season finale of PTSD, Jesus and You, we are joined by special guest Tiffany Countryman. Tiffany is the Founder and CEO of MinistryIsMe Ministries LLC ., a Crohn's Awareness Advocate, a Global Influencer, an accomplished Playwright, a Writing...

Send us Fan Mail My Favorite part of podcasting is YOU and interacting with you. Please feel free to reach out to me using any of the options here . I would love to connect! This is the follow up to an earlier episode where Amy shares her story and some of her favorite songs (special guest Phil Baker). You can find that episode here . This content was originally part of a cross over event with The...

Send us Fan Mail CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION BY FOLLOWING AMY'S INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT Find the entire transcript of this podcast here It is so important that we understand how we use the gospel when we are walking with the hurting, broken and bruised. This solo episode seeks to unpack the use of scriptures often given to trauma survivors. It is important to lead with compassion, to get in the trenc...

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Send us Fan Mail Thank you to our podcast sponsor this week!! Podcast Sponsor : Amy Meek of Meek Real Estate . We are INCREDIBLY grateful for her sponsorship of this podcast and our mission to help provide counseling to to those who may not be able to afford it. If that is you, contact Amy Watson on Instagram. To contact Amy Meek about real estate call 352-364-​4132 or visit their website . As we...

Send us Fan Mail Finished Listening? For the REST and BEST part head here, to the Faithful Podcast After 30 plus episodes, it is time. It is time to tell you the whole Amy Watson story. True to self, this podcast is Amy's story on her terms and in the most hopeful way possible given the body of trauma that is her story. Special guest Phil Baker recorded some of Amy's favorite songs and t...

Send us Fan Mail Returning guest Crissy Loughridge is back for a check in from her episode "Shattering Safety" (Season 2, Ep1). When using the most rudimentary definition of PTSD it can be said that at some point safety has been compromised. As the world continues to adjust to life with Covid-19, everyone's safety was compromised at one point. Crissy shares her struggle and need for...

Send us Fan Mail In the first of the "Where Are They Now" episodes, special guest Lindsay Tozer is back for an update. Lindsay told her story on episode 2 of season 2 of the podcast. We check in with her, ask how telling her story was for her and how she has been since guesting on Wednesdays With Watson. Lindsay, a PTSD patient, also battled cancer and a multiplicity of health issues. Li...

Send us Fan Mail Licensed clinical psychologist Dr. Patrice Berry joins the Wednesdays With Watson podcast to help us understand other mental health illnesses and their presence with PTSD. Dr. Berry walks listeners through Bi-polar disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, OCD, social anxiety, and Major Depression. She also helps listeners understand miss diagnosis and strongly suggest that indiv...

Send us Fan Mail Special guest and award winning author Rebekah Millet joins the Wednesdays With Watson podcast.  Rebekah is married with two boys and makes her home in the bayou state. Fiercely in love with Jesus, Rebekah shares her experience of her otherwise healthy 36 year old husband almost losing his life. "I thought it was so odd that the ambulance did not have on their sirens on the w...

Send us Fan Mail Special guest Marlena Kandell, pediatric ER nurse,  advocate, child abuse survivor and thriver brings first hand value  to the Wednesdays With Watson podcast. Think you can recognize child abuse? Maybe Marlena's story will help reframe flawed assumptions about this subject, and what we should observe--and more importantly ACT. What if a harmed child just wanted you to ask if...

Send us Fan Mail Check out Amy's Lost Childhood Instagram Challenge all month of April to raise awareness! Recognizing childhood trauma is as important for us as are the solutions. The solution could be you, and your ability to recognize childhood trauma. In this second installment on this subject, special guest Jeremy Fox, LPC and EMDRI Approved Consultant joins the podcast. We continue to h...

Send us Fan Mail Erica Cuni, LMFT joins the Wednesdays With Watson podcast to help us understand and recognize childhood trauma and its effects on a child's brain. She shares her expertise of Adverse Childhood Experiences and helps us understand the pathology of trauma and ACE scores as well as a CDC study addressing adverse childhood experiences. She cites a Centers For Disease study  here ....

Send us Fan Mail Previously on Wednesdays With Watson: "I have never prayed for God to heal my PTSD" That was a live admission and this solo episode examines this statement and as Wednesdays With Watson listeners have come to expect, there is a a twist. This solo episode is a twist on that striking admission in the middle of a live interview. Do we desire wellness? Is something required...

Send us Fan Mail Shea Watson first fought battles of childhood abuse and then he chose to fight for his country. Diagnosed with PTSD in 1997 by the United States Army, Shea spent two years in the hospital because trauma finally demanded his attention.  Life hasn't been easy for him, but then Shea tells us what Jesus did for him. This is a special podcast crossover event, as Amy joins forces w...

Send us Fan Mail In November of 1989, the Rivera's life was changed forever as a the events in their home rendered them all four orphans. Angel is the second of the four, his sister's episode is the one before this one "Holding On To The Unseen Hand" In this episode, Angel talks to us how witnessing the horror of his parent's death has affected him over the last thirty yea...

Send us Fan Mail Special guest Anna Marie Rivera Alberts joins the Wednesdays With Watson podcast with her story of the crooked roads of trauma and pain that has led to a beautiful, albeit still difficult life.  Her family's story made the news headlines. A visit to the scene of the tragedy yielded stories from neighbors who remember the story, 30+ years later.  We attempt to tell her story w...

Send us Fan Mail Special guest Lindsay Tozer bravely tells us about a moment that changed everything. She describes her life as a "line" in her life as "before and after" that day. Twenty years have elapsed and she wanted to tell her story as part of her own healing process as well as an intense desire to help others. Lindsay's story does not get tied up in a nice bow, her...

Send us Fan Mail Because we believe that HEALING PEOPLE HELP PEOPLE Season 2 debuts with the first guest of the season sharing her story of a night that changed everything. The second season of Wednesdays With Watson highlights the crooked roads of trauma that lead to hope and healing. That road is not always an easy and nobody's road is the same, so we are here to tell you stories that help...

Send us Fan Mail This is the trailer episode for Season 2 of Wednesdays With Watson, PTSD, Jesus and YOU! This episode contains clips and a recap of some of season one's most impactful episodes. Additionally, we jump forward to the mission of season two: featuring stories of other people's journey with PTSD, and their own roads to Hope and healing. They can be and often are crooked roads...

Send us Fan Mail This final bonus hiatus episode brings Dr. Charles Reed to the podcast. This interview was recorded in September of 2020. Dr. Reed brings insight to pastoral struggles during a global pandemic and what it means to pivot as a church, pastor,  father, and friend. As the world continues to navigate a "new normal", people of faith leaned on church leadership for their needs...

Send us Fan Mail In this reboot of the pilot episode, listeners get the first peek at the story--the one where an author with a full time job decided to start a podcast. For such a time as this. After 18 episodes, revisiting the very first one, the one that started it all is surreal, and worth listening to again. We healed, we learned, we evolved, and most of all, we highlighted the Star of all of...

Send us Fan Mail The inaugural season finale of Wednesdays With Watson, features two special guests. Cheryl Rice and Christy Waulk join us to conclude the season and help highlight the message of the entire season. We know that there is Hope, and want to tell you about it. Cheryl Rice brings 37 years of ministerial experience as she has served alongside her husband Dr. William Rice, senior pastor,...

Send us Fan Mail Unscheduled. Unscripted. Unedited.  Undone. Jesus, the microphone, and me. This unscheduled, unscripted, and unedited solo episode was recorded on November 9, 2020.   This real time fear processing may help some on the other side of the recording, as listeners ascertain for themselves what it looks like to gain victory over paralyzing fear.  PTSD patients start this process way be...

Send us Fan Mail Special guest Crissy Loughridge is back to help us navigate PTSD, Anxiety, Depression and fear. She also helps us understand her own journey with fear and navigating the waters of 2020.  This is simply a conversation between two friends and it is our desire to help those, who like us, may be struggling with fear.   Fear doesn't look the same for everyone and Crissy helps us u...