Healing CPTSD

Dec 08 2024 29 ep. 22 mins

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Healing CPTSD is a podcast dedicated to healing from childhood trauma and complex PTSD. Join your host, Bianca Winter-Mallari, a trauma informed counsellor, somatic therapist, founder of Embodied Self Therapy and fellow childhood trauma survivor. Here we’ll explore the nuanced world of trauma, unpacking topics such as toxic family systems, intergenerational trauma, attachment, dissociation and shame. We’ll also explore pathways to recovery through somatics and embodiment, nervous system regulation, parts work, community and trauma informed care.

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28. Honouring The Inner Child + Grief During The Holidays

Dec 08 2024 15 mins

SILLY SEASON SURVIVAL GUIDE | FREE DOWNLOAD WORK WITH ME IN 2025 | BOOK YOUR SESSIONS As we transition into the Christmas season, it’s important to acknowledge the unique complexities that come with living with childhood trauma and how we relate to the holidays. This time of year is generally seen as a time to celebrate, associated with feelings of joy, excitement and connection

27. Values: Tools For The Future

Dec 01 2024 21 mins

WORK WITH ME IN 2025 | BOOK IN YOUR SESSIONS Whether we are conscious of them or not, our values influence how we live our lives. This episode explores values and how we can use them as tools to make decisions, navigate uncertainty, plan for the future, build out our self-concept and ultimately curate an aligned life. This episode also includes a step-by-step practice to help yo

26. Dissociation: What It Feels Like

Nov 24 2024 23 mins

⁠⁠BOOK IN YOUR 2025 THERAPY SESSIONS WITH ME⁠⁠ ⁠⁠SIGN UP | EMBODY THE WORKSHOP⁠⁠ Dissociation is something that lot of people experience, but may not fully understand. Here we discuss some of the signs and feelings associated with dissociation so that you can maybe identify if this is something that's happening to you, why it happens and what to do when it does hap

25. How To Feel Your Feelings

Nov 17 2024 15 mins

⁠⁠BOOK IN YOUR 2025 THERAPY SESSIONS WITH ME⁠⁠ ⁠⁠SIGN UP | EMBODY THE WORKSHOP⁠⁠ This episode focuses on how to actually feel your feelings – something that is so much easier said than done, right? Truly feeling our feelings is a challenge especially if you are someone who has experienced trauma, and the common go-to coping mechanisms are avoidance, intellectuali

24. How Dysregulated Are You?

Nov 10 2024 40 mins

This episode explores the question “how dysregulated are you?”. Hopefully by the end of this discussion, you'll have the awareness to accurately answer that question for yourself. This is for you if you resonate with the experience of being completely cut off from feeling, or you feel you’re on an emotional rollercoaster. Topics explored: What do we actually mean by dysre

23. Comforting Affirmations For When You Need Care

Nov 03 2024 5 mins

In this episode, I offer up affirmations that hopefully can comfort you, support you, for you to listen to in those times when you're feeling a tender and sensitive. Please go gently as you listen along, being mindful of your emotional experience. Need to work with a trauma informed therapist? ⁠⁠BOOK IN YOUR 1:1 SESSIONS WITH ME⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠BOOK A FREE 15 MIN CHEMISTRY CA

22. What To Do When You're Spiralling

Oct 27 2024 17 mins

This episode guides you through what to do when you're "spiralling". The downwards spiral is a very common experience for those living with complex PTSD – one second you're triggered, then your thoughts start racing, you start catastrophising, everything all of a sudden feels overwhelming and before you know it, you're lost in the vortex. We chat about what "spiralling" feels l

21. How To Support Someone Living With CPTSD

Oct 20 2024 56 mins

This much-requested episode of Healing CPTSD, focuses on support for loved ones of those living with complex PTSD – this episode is for partners, family members or close friends. It includes insights and practical tools, gathered from my own practice and offered by community members, to navigate the complexities of these relationships, to ultimately come into better connection wi

20. What you can expect from Embodied Self Therapy in 2024 & 2025

Oct 13 2024 16 mins

I'm back with another episode of Healing CPTSD after taking a few weeks off content creation. Here I share a little bit about what I've been up to, as well as some important updates for Embodied Self Therapy for the rest of 2024 and beyond, including changes to pricing, sessions, resources and availability. Need to work with a trauma informed therapist? BOOK IN YOUR 1:1 SESSIONS

19. Embodied Somatic Practice for Uncomfortable Emotions

Sep 15 2024 9 mins

In this episode, I will guide you through an interactive embodied practice that will gently invite you into connection with your body and attend to anything that may be coming up for you today – whether that be anxiety, grief, shame, or any other uncomfortable sensations or emotional experience. This practice includes elements of introspection, optional self touch and parts work.