The Curious Counselor

Jun 28 2024 25 ep. 31 mins 1
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A thoughtful journey exploring our pain and looking for ways to heal. It's not just the trauma experiences that hurt us but the negative messages they leave, that we are not good enough, we don't do enough and/or we don't feels safe. Healing occurs when we start to realize, "we are good enough", "we do enough", and "it's ok to feel safe when we are safe". In this series of podcasts, I'll use kindness, compassion and curiosity to explore our pain and suggest various ways to bring healing to yourself and those around you.

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Episode 26: Camilla, DID and Healing her inner Children

Jun 28 2024 35 mins  
In the last episode, we talked about the three (3) phases of healing your inner child: self-regulation, working with internal defenders and finally, how to connect with the inner child. In this epsisode, I interview Camilla (psuedonym), a client of mine who has participated in several earlier episodes (thank you Camilla). She has DID (disassociative identity disorder) and has to da

Episode 25: Healing Your Inner Child

Jun 21 2024 30 mins  
This is a summary of a workshop I recently did at PlayThink 2024 (thanks Paige Zen, it was an awesome festival). The three steps to healing are: Spend time learning how to ground yourself through B - Breathing, T- tapping, S - stretching, S - Shaking. BTSS used 2 minutes 3 or 4 times a day will help you establish a calm safe center which will serve as a foundation for a safe space

Episode 23: Kind Compassionate Curious Movies

Apr 13 2024 30 mins  
In past episodes, I've talked about kindness, compassion and curiosity. I've had on guests to talk about different aspects of healing through kindness, compassion and curiosity. In this episode, I want to share some of my favorite movies that illustrate healing through, yes, kindness, compassion and curiosity. 1 - Forrest Gump How can an "idiot" (Forrest Gump as played by Tom Hanks

Episode 22: Camilla DID and Breaking Barriers

Apr 01 2024 37 mins  
This week I am talking to Camilla about how to break out of her current living situation and move to be closer to her children. Camilla has disassociative identity disorder (multiple personalities) so making any change is hard but making a change in living situation to a totally different city is overwhelming. In this episode we explore the logistical and emotional barriers to movi

Episode 21: Camilla, DID and Safe Connections

Mar 05 2024 44 mins  
How can we build safe connections with others when we often don't even have a safe connection with ourselves? In this episode, I interview a client, Camilla (pseudonym) who has disassociative identity disorder (meaning she has multiple sub-parts to her personality). How has she learned to have a safe connection with herself, her subparts, let alone people around her? Sometimes its

Episode 20: Kindness Matters

Feb 17 2024 24 mins  
We need kindness to thrive but unfortunately many of us did not have kindness modeled for us so we do now what we did when we were children in order to feel safe. We hide. We blame others. We yell and hit. We pretend to be happy when we're not and we try to make everyone around us happy. No wonder we don't feel feel happy. The key to joy is learning to be kind to ourselves and othe

Episode 19: Disassociation: An Interview with Erin and Camilla

Dec 28 2023 44 mins  
Imagine having more than one "personality" or part of your personality that is so well developed that he (or she) literally their own thoughts, perceptions, likes/dislikes. In this episode I interview Erin and Camilla, both with multiple "sub-parts" or personalities. Erin has her main persona and 3 sub-parts: Val (short for Valkyrie) that is her protector, Mitigate that is her heal

Episode 18: Session 5 with Camilla - Disassociation

Dec 02 2023 40 mins  
Disassociation can range anywhere from a feeling of being out of our bodies, to being emotional shut down or literally being taken over by a part of our personality (disassociative identity disorder). In this episode, I talk with Camilla (and some of her parts) about her experiences with disassociation, how to heal and how to channel more compassion to her child parts, her defensiv

Episode 17: Session 4 with Camilla - How Healing Occurs

Nov 08 2023 44 mins  
In this 4th interview with "Camilla" we explore her healing journey. What things in and outside have contributed to her healing process? While creating a safe space to be heard is the foundation to healing, we dive deeper into Camilla's experience with healing, the people in her world that are safe (which are unfortunately few) and the many people that have not been safe. By listen

Episode 16: Session 1 with Lynn - Healing the Inner Child/Bullying

Nov 07 2023 35 mins  
"Lynn" is a friend of mine that has had a hard time finding a good therapist. In this interview, we talk about what therapy is, how it can help, why she might have had bad therapy experiences and we do some exploration of her trauam which began with bullying at the age of 5. As I provided a safe emotional space for her to tell her story by listening, repeating back what I heard, v