
Parenting…Who? Podcast
By Julie Clarke, RP
Two new series are currently taping ~ a Student Intern Series and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Series.
Parenting…Who? aims to demystify the psychotherapy world and the process of psychotherapy in all its glory - what is, what isn't and how a process can work for you.

Parenting…Who? PodcastDec 24, 2018

Student Internship Series: Kathleen Elliott
Join me in my conversation with Kathleen Elliott as she talks about her Student Intern experience! Kathleen shares how her love of connecting with people; their stories and community through travels in Nepal, a Cree Nation Reserve back to her roots in Fredericton (and now in Alberta)!
Kathleen can be reached at: kathleen.ocp@gmail.com

Somatic Experiencing™ Practitioner Series with Avdeep Bahra
SE® Therapist Avdeep Bahra
HearthMath Certified Coach, Certified Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner and Occupational Therapist
www.innerhealing.ca
Join myself and my and SE® colleague Avdeep Bahra of Inner Healing near Toronto, ON. You can check out Avdeep’s bio and work at inerhealing.ca [https://www.innerhealing.ca/about-avdeep/]
This podcast series is a direct practice offering and perspective from certified SE® Practitioners.
My guest today, Avdeep has a unique perspective that saw her finding the SE® work after suffering a concussion. Avdeep shares her deep resonance with the nervous system physiology having worked previously as an Occupational Therapist in a neuro rehab unit.
She shares how she appreciated the integration of older traditions and practices, how they became somewhat packaged and teachable with SE® and it help fill a gap that as missing for her on her healing journey post-concussion. She has training and experience in tai chi eg expansion /contraction, natural rhythms of nature and is completing a Tao of Trauma course too ( 5 Element Chinese Medicine and SE® touch).
She speaks of presence and connectedness as benefits to the teachings of Somatic Experiencing™. Avdeep connected with a hashtag she created prior to learning SE® ~ #fromlonlinesstoconnection. The messaging behind this hashtag now vibrates more for her than ever before; an impulse in her that there is something more finally arose!
Avdeep has created and runs virtual healing groups using Somatic Experiencing™ ! She is one of the only individuals I have talked to to date that does this. I think group work is incredibly powerful and I enjoyed hearing about this group in our podcast today.
My colleagues words enlighten me as a mental health clinician. They help me to further understand the limitations just one kind of training lens, in my case mental health, how this can indirectly and unintentionally limit the scope and depth of trauma healing work. This is why I created this series.
I believe trauma work is expansive, it is complicated. Embracing the togetherness that is knowledge, information and experience is enriching and healing. As a body of helping professionals we can not, and should not, do this work in isolation.
Join us for a conversation that enlightens others on the clinical work that is SE® whether you are curious about starting with a practitioner for your own personal journey or if you are a professional curious about what all this hype is about, this trauma modality known as Somatic Experiencing™ [https://traumahealing.org/se-101/]

Somatic Experiencing™ Practitioner Series with Jane Gotch
SE® Therapist Jane Gotch
Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis Master Teacher and Choreographer
www.resilientbodygyrotonic.com
Join myself and my and SE® colleague Jane Gotch of Resilient Body Gyrotonic in Toronto, ON. You can check out Jane’s bio and work at resilientbodygyrotonic.com.
This podcast series is a direct practice offering and perspective from certified SE® Practitioners.
My guest today, Jane Gotch has both personal and professional experience as a movement specialist and dancer. Jane offers an aspiring perspective to the depths of Somatic Experiencing™ work through movement and dance. This offering allows you, the listener, to understand what we think and experience as somatic work practice.
My colleagues words enlighten me as a mental health clinician. They help me to further understand the limitations just one kind of training lens, in my case mental health, how this can indirectly and unintentionally limit the scope and depth of trauma healing work. This is why I created this series.
I believe trauma work is expansive, it is complicated. Embracing the togetherness that is knowledge, information and experience is enriching and healing. As a body of helping professionals we can not, and should not, do this work in isolation.
This episode shares some fun and informative details with Jane who uses her body as a tool for deep exploration in movement. For her, this intuitive viewpoint creates an idea of how one can build awareness through movement, what it means to “train into your nervous system” as Jane says. It creates “harmonious participation”.
Join us for a conversation that enlightens others on the clinical work that is SE® whether you are curious about starting with a practitioner for your own personal journey or if you are a professional curious about what all this hype is about, this trauma modality known as Somatic Experiencing™ [https://traumahealing.org/se-101/]

Somatic Experiencing™ Practitioner Series with Candy Smith
Candy Smith
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
Somatic Experiencing™ (SE®) Practitioner
Registered Play Therapist/Supervisor
https://www.candysmithcounseling.com/
Join myself and my mental health clinician and SE® colleague Candy Smith of a Candy Smith Compassionate Counseling https://www.candysmithcounseling.com]. Candy Smith Compassionate Counseling is located in Leawood, Kansas. You can check out Candy’s bio and clinic at candysmithcounseling.com.
Candy earned her Masters Degree in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling at California State University, Fullerton in 1993. She became a Somatic Experiencing™ Practitioner in 2001 and has continued to assist and provide SE® sessions and consults. Candy is a PACT trained Marriage Therapist using Somatic Principles to help couples communicate and regulate. She also is just finishing a year of study with Deb Dana on becoming a Polyvagal informed Psychotherapist.
Candy has almost 30 years of practice in psychotherapy and has a passion for integrating trauma work with mindfulness that helps her clients move through past traumas, understand how their ego states keep them stuck and move into the reality of their present lives.
“I believe if you choose to do this hard, courageous work your lives will transform and you will be able to live a balanced life with connection to your body, your emotions and your truth”.
Candy is physically located in the U.S. State of Kansas.
This podcast episode is a front line direct practice offering and perspective from the first-hand experience of certified SE® Practitioners.
This episode shares some fun and informative details with Candy around mental health and the integration of the trauma modality known as Somatic Experiencing™ [https://traumahealing.org/se-101/]
We discuss SE® training and how it changes one personally and professionally in a way to enlighten those who may be interested in seeking body-based healing therapy be it professionally or personally.
Join us for a conversation that enlightens others on the clinical work that is Somatic Experiencing™
Candy talks about how adults have lost the capacity for play and are often led by fear. She discusses in this episode, how play essentially is the way to experience joy and be in the here and now. This assists us to be more relational, reasonable and open. Candy shares how SE® makes going to work as a therapist joyful and provides hope by helping clients connect to their body and brain, taking away the shame of their mental health issues. SE® is a human experience really feeling the nervous system, slowly, while learning to sit with the uncomfortable by focussing and imagining play. There are misconceptions from individuals who have not experienced SE®, but it taps into something that creates a new experience which alleviates the client.

Student Internship Series: Alicia Shameer
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/therapists/alicia-shameer-ottawa-on/958222
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), RP (Q), MACP
Thanks for stopping by! I’m Alicia and would love to support you on your journey to growth and awareness. I am passionate about working with people to help them reach a mindset and a place inside themselves where they feel comfortable and empowered, emotionally and physically. I know that sometimes it may be hard to open up to someone and I want you to know that you are never required to talk about anything you don’t want to. My goal is to create a warm, non-judgmental space for you to feel comfortable to bring in any thought or concern that you would like to discuss throughout our sessions.
In individual therapy, I have an interest in working with adolescents and adults experiencing concerns with trauma and abuse related topics, relationship and intimacy concerns, anxiety, depression, eating concerns and addictions. In couples therapy and family therapy, I work with members to restore balance, intimacy and safety in their connections.
I use a holistic approach to counselling by integrating various treatment models into sessions. I look forward to meeting you and supporting you along your journey. Feel free to contact me if you would like to schedule an appointment. If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know and I would be happy to assist.

Somatic Experiencing™ Practitioners Series with Tiffany Burtch
Tiffany Burtch, MSc., RP, SEP
Registered Psychotherapist
Visit Tiffany's Website [https://www.agoldenthreadpsychotherapy.com/tiffany-burtch.html]
Join myself and my mental health clinician and SE® colleague Tiffany Burtch of a Golden Thread Psychotherapy [https://www.agoldenthreadpsychotherapy.com/]. A Golden Thread Psychotherapy is located in Guelph, ON, you can check out Tiffany’s bio and clinic at agoldenthreadpsychotherapy.com.
Tiffany is a Registered Psychotherapist in the province of Ontario and has a Masters degree in Couple and Family Therapy from the University of Guelph as well as an Undergraduate Degree in Sexuality, Marriage and Family Studies. She has worked in the mental health sector with children and adults of all ages dealing with several issues including attachment, trauma, couple and family relationship difficulties and a number of mental health concerns including anxiety, depression, and borderline personality disorder. Tiffany is happy to work with people of all sexual orientations, genders, sexual preferences, and relationship configurations.
This podcast episode is a front line direct practice offering and perspective from the first-hand experience of certified SE® Practitioners.
This episode shares some fun and informative details with Tiffany around mental health and the integration of the trauma modality known as Somatic Experiencing™ [https://traumahealing.org/se-101/]
We discuss SE® training and how it changes one personally and professionally in a way to enlighten those who may be interested in seeking body-based healing therapy be it professionally or personally.
Join us for a conversation that enlightens others on the clinical work that is SE®.
Tiffany talks about her personal experience of SE™ being a sustainable model of practice that allows her to be a “container for people”. This container essentially involves less thinking which ultimately comes with it an ease where less thinking is beneficial and effective for individuals.
Helping create some context around the difficulty of working in the profession of mental health and trauma. Tiffany beautifully describes what it means, the idea of letting it, the healing work, be hard and hard for “sacred reasons”.
She is eloquent in her words and honest in her approach that will enrich you and get you thinking in new ways.

Student Internship Series: Natalie Feldman
Natalie is a Counselling Psychology graduate student, completing her Masters through Yorkville University. While completing her studies, she has also served as a Crisis Counsellor with Kids Help Phone, and the Client Relations Manager for a local charity offering pet food support to low-income members of the Ottawa community.
You may connect via these channels:
http://www.julieclarketherapy.com/associates/#intern-nataliefeldman
Email: nfeldmantherapy@gmail.com

Julie Clarke and Kendall Hagenson of Vancouver Wellness Studio
Vancouver Wellness Studio Bio
Vancouver Wellness Studio is a unique place for whole-person healthcare in Vancouver, Washington.
We are a dynamic team of holistic health professionals who work together to provide quality, cohesive care for the mind, body, and spirit.
The VWS team is passionate about working in community and for community through individual services and community offerings.
VWS is proud to have created a healing environment where, whether you are receiving care from one or all of our practitioners, you will have the support of the whole team.
We are a studio because at VWS we believe that creativity, art, movement, and gathering as a group are all integral pieces to the wellness puzzle. So, we made space for that. We hope you will come be inspired to heal, create, and thrive.
Kendall Hagensen Bio
Kendall is a Somatic or Body-Oriented Mental Health Therapist and trained in EMDR, which means that she utilizes our innate mind-body connection as a tool in counseling. She specializes in, and is passionate about, working with adults of all ages living with Chronic Pain and Medical Illnesses. These almost always have a psychological component, whether it be a new diagnosis or chronic condition. Using EMDR, body awareness, breath-work, movement, as well as talk therapy, Kendall works with clients to manage pain and develop a healthy relationship with their illness. Kendall’s practice expertise also includes anxiety and stress management; depression; and career issues. As someone who lives with a chronic illness herself, Kendall feels that health happens best within community, which is why she takes a holistic, integrative, and collaborative wellness approach to her personal and professional life. Kendall is also the Clinical Director at VWS.

The Importance of Relationship – Third of my three part series with Lisa Price Maidens
In this episode Lisa shares the importance of practicing being IN relationship with others and how this can be challenging at times, including in a systemic way when it contradicts your personal and professional intuition and how she eventually finds her way back to the job she loves the most.
Lisa is a registered early childhood educator in Ontario, Canada and has been working in the field for over 20 years. She is the mother of 5 and a grandmother of 2.
Lisa shares her journey from becoming a young mother who ventured into the world of home daycare as a way to help someone who was struggling to find care for their child. Lisa’s kids enjoyed having another in the home and this grew into a full-fledged home daycare business. While parenting and caregiving Lisa was keen to know and understanding children better. This led to some workshops that taught a style of parenting that not just wasn’t effective but was also not aligned with Lisa’s intuition as a parent and caregiver. This led to the discovery of attachment and relationship, a style of parenting and caregiving that felt more in line with who she was as a person and a professional. Lisa speaks to the flourishing of this teaching in her personal and professional life but also to the tensions or struggles that accompany this.
Lisa has worked in various sectors including home daycare, non profit and for profit centre based care and over three years in the education system. She has actively volunteered in different aspects with children and in attachment focused study groups.
Her experience working with children is primarily with the age groups 0 to 5 but she has also worked with children up to the age of 12 and has worked with parents in groups/workshops. Lisa has created and been involved with various book clubs, support groups (ADHD) and home schooling and attachment based groups at Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and through the Neufeld Institute.
She returned to school for a second time after having her family to work towards her Bachelor of Child and Youth Care degree and is currently in her last year.
Show notes:
Registered Early Childhood Educators (ECEs)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/adhd.html
Dr. Gordon Neufeld (Attachment)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oeqnws-2M0
Neufeld Institute
Darlene Denis-Friske
https://darlenedenisfriske.weebly.com/
Lisa’s Home Daycare Facebook Page
@Children's Rainbow Village Family Child Care

The Importance of Relationship – Second of my three part series with Lisa Price Maidens
In this episode Lisa further contextualizes Relationship and the importance of this dynamic with parenting, caregiving and other areas of your life.
Lisa is a registered early childhood educator in Ontario, Canada and has been working in the field for over 20 years. She is the mother of 5 and a grandmother of 2.
Lisa shares her journey from becoming a young mother who ventured into the world of home daycare as a way to help someone who was struggling to find care for their child. Lisa’s kids enjoyed having another in the home and this grew into a full-fledged home daycare business. While parenting and caregiving Lisa was keen to know and understanding children better. This led to some workshops that taught a style of parenting that not just wasn’t effective but was also not aligned with Lisa’s intuition as a parent and caregiver. This led to the discovery of attachment and relationship, a style of parenting and caregiving that felt more in line with who she was as a person and a professional. Lisa speaks to the flourishing of this teaching in her personal and professional life but also to the tensions or struggles that accompany this.
Lisa has worked in various sectors including home daycare, non profit and for profit centre based care and over three years in the education system. She has actively volunteered in different aspects with children and in attachment focused study groups.
Her experience working with children is primarily with the age groups 0 to 5 but she has also worked with children up to the age of 12 and has worked with parents in groups/workshops. Lisa has created and been involved with various book clubs, support groups (ADHD) and home schooling and attachment based groups at Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and through the Neufeld Institute.
She returned to school for a second time after having her family to work towards her Bachelor of Child and Youth Care degree and is currently in her last year.
Show notes:
Registered Early Childhood Educators (ECEs)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/adhd.html
Dr. Gordon Neufeld (Attachment)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oeqnws-2M0
Neufeld Institute
Darlene Denis-Friske
https://darlenedenisfriske.weebly.com/
Lisa’s Home Daycare Facebook Page
@Children's Rainbow Village Family Child Care

The Importance of Relationship – First of my three part series with Lisa Price Maidens
In this episode Lisa shares with us how she evolved into the world of home day care.
Lisa is a registered early childhood educator in Ontario, Canada and has been working in the field for over 20 years. She is the mother of 5 and a grandmother of 2.
Lisa shares her journey from becoming a young mother who ventured into the world of home daycare as a way to help someone who was struggling to find care for their child. Lisa’s kids enjoyed having another in the home and this grew into a full-fledged home daycare business. While parenting and caregiving Lisa was keen to know and understanding children better. This led to some workshops that taught a style of parenting that not just wasn’t effective but was also not aligned with Lisa’s intuition as a parent and caregiver. This led to the discovery of attachment and relationship, a style of parenting and caregiving that felt more in line with who she was as a person and a professional. Lisa speaks to the flourishing of this teaching in her personal and professional life but also to the tensions or struggles that accompany this.
Lisa has worked in various sectors including home daycare, non profit and for profit centre based care and over three years in the education system. She has actively volunteered in different aspects with children and in attachment focused study groups.
Her experience working with children is primarily with the age groups 0 to 5 but she has also worked with children up to the age of 12 and has worked with parents in groups/workshops. Lisa has created and been involved with various book clubs, support groups (ADHD) and home schooling and attachment based groups at Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and through the Neufeld Institute.
She returned to school for a second time after having her family to work towards her Bachelor of Child and Youth Care degree and is currently in her last year.
Show notes:
Registered Early Childhood Educators (ECEs)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/adhd.html
Dr. Gordon Neufeld (Attachment)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oeqnws-2M0
Neufeld Institute
Darlene Denis-Friske
https://darlenedenisfriske.weebly.com/
Lisa’s Home Daycare Facebook Page
@Children's Rainbow Village Family Child Care

Suicide – What Say You?
If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide or harming self, please proceed to your nearest hospital for medical attention.
PLEASE NOTE: This episode is a heavy topic and may be triggering to some listeners. Please proceed with caution.
Sheilagh provides some context regarding the interaction between the listener and the individual who is having suicidal thoughts; she describes it as both Breath Taking and Breathtaking and how the listener will have an intense visceral response when being told by someone they don’t want to live anymore. How do we go on to support these individuals?
- Breath Taking – details of the impact, and how to cope, reclaiming the breath
- Breathtaking – the soul connection, existential moment, being the “chosen soul”
What is the role now of the listener?
- What to say in the moment
- Be the life raft, one of those lovely soft sided, blow up life rafts
- Create the visual and felt sense of that role
Death will take us, every one of us. There is an absolute commitment by Death to engage us. The question is… are we willing to make an absolute commitment to engage with Death. Will we accept its presence and its power over us? Will we allow it to say when and how it embraces us? Are we willing to relinquish control?
What is that suicidal person thinking? The suicidal person will often speak of embracing death before it can embrace them – in this moment the person is engaging in the ultimate autonomous act, not losing control to death, rather taking control of death.
The key regardless is to listen to understand not to answer. To hold space and stop time even if only for the moment. In this process the other may find new insights and with that a new quest or they may affirm that the quest is over, feel less distress, more relief and can cross knowing they were accepted, loved and released with dignity.
Links:
O'Sullivan Psychotherapy
http://osullivanpsychotherapy.com

Dailygreatness Journal Review
Julie reviews the Daily Greatness Parents Journal – A Practical Guide for Raising Conscious Kids and Creating a Happy Home for the listeners of #Parenting…Who? Podcast. This journal is a great way to re-set your parenting style or learn to parent in a conscious and loving way if you don’t have children but are planning to. With the prompts in the journal you learn more about yourself through prompts in the journal and questions that encourage deeper self-reflection. For listeners of the podcast enter JULIE15 for a 15% discount from now until February 28, 2019 when you go to purchase a journal at dailygreatness.ca!
Show notes

Julie Clarke and Laura Khoudari of Laura Khoudari Trauma Informed Personal Training
Show Notes:
The Body Keeps Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
besselvanderkolk.net/the-body-keeps-the-score.html
Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute
traumahealing.org/
Jane Clapp
www.janeclapp.com/
Nervous System and Window of Tolerance
www.nicabm.com/trauma-how-to-help-a-client-come-back-into-their-window-of-tolerance/
The Breathe Network is a resource for survivors of sexual violence
www.thebreathenetwork.org/
Instagram: @laurakhoudari
Medium: medium.com/@laura.khoudari
Facebook: www.facebook.com/laurakcpt
Website: laurakhoudari.com

Julie Clarke and Michael Spencer of Let's Purify!
Michael is also the host of The Let's Purify! Podcast where she shares inspiration, tips, and stories designed to help people get crystal clear about what they choose to carry with them into their next phase of life.
Show Notes:
Website: letspurify.energy/
Podcast: letspurify.energy/podcast/
Podcast on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lets-purify-podcast/id1428645349?mt=2
Instragram: www.instagram.com/letspurify/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/letspurify/

Julie Clarke and Esther Goldstein of Integrative Psychotherapy
Show notes:
integrativepsych.co/
Sensimotor Psychotherapy
www.sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/home/index.html
Somatic Experiencing
traumahealing.org/
Basic Article on “Attachment”
www.verywellmind.com/what-is-attachment-theory-2795337

#BONUS with Julie Clarke and Nathalie Graveline from Even Keel Health
Show notes
evenkeelhealth.ca/
What is a Nurse Practitioner? npao.org/about-npao/what-is-a-np/?

Therapists Really Do Have Big Hearts

What Is This Self Care Stuff Anyways?!
In this solo episode and the first for Season 2 Julie speaks candidly about her experience enforcing her own self-care ritual through a trying time in her life. It is important to remain human in this podcast experience hoping to continue to de-mystify the therapy experience for listeners. We are all human and listen up as Julie shares the human side of herself.
Show Notes:
A Healthy Nervous System - http://www.appliedbiofeedbacksolutions.com/ans-2.html
Emotions Are Physical Emotions Are Physical - Emotions Are Physical - https://psychcentral.com/blog/emotions-are-physical/

It Takes a Whole Village: How to Engage With Professionals and Others
Read more and see Show Notes

The Adoption Triad – How to Embrace a More Open, Connected Adoption Experience with Traci Pirri

Tapping Into a Connection with Yourself You Didn’t Even Know Was There

Unpacking Eating Disorders – Parents, What Can You Do?
Show Notes

Unpacking Eating Disorders - Symptoms and How to Recognize Them
Understanding more about the mentality of getting rid of nutrition so it doesn’t go in their body, the if I don’t eat it all that’s better (in the case of restriction). And the dangerous effects of pro-Ana websites on social media – what they are and what their intention is.
NOTE: This episode could be triggering**

Candid Therapist Chat! Discussing foster and adoptive parent support, after care, DBT and ODD with Alicia Bradley
Show Notes

Parenting With Growth In Mind: How to Talk to Kids and Support Resilience
Some youth are challenged with transitional points in their development i.e. graduating high school where they may have been able to achieve many things but lack a sense of ability about how they could do what they did. Unfortunately this lagging can become a crisis situation for the individual as well as the family as it can happen very quickly.
Show Notes

Online Therapy and Infertility with Linda Meier Abdelsayed

Bonus Episode: Knowing Your Body, Knowing Yourself
Today my conversation with Tracy Montgomery, a Certified Sexological Bodyworker and somatic sex educator helps to normalize why pleasure is important in your life. How uncomfortable is not unsafe and what this means including the notion that we can trust ourselves to know when something is right. Tracy talks about getting turned onto life and how we can change the world when we feel good about ourselves.
We also talk about being mindful, present and in the moment and how something like shame disconnects us from being present in our own body. Shame is pleasure interrupted in our bodies – when we avoid the bad stuff we can’t feel the good.
Show Notes

Inner Child Work and Hypnosis
Dr. Bonet intuitively sought out support in this area and was able to process things to the point this subconscious urge become much less afterwards. This is the goal of hypnotherapy ~ retrieving a different answer and aligning subconscious with conscious. She speaks about the processes of doing hypnotherapy and core healing work and why this is important to your role as a parent in your child's life. Learn how the work of core healing hypnosis can help you heal your own (old) wounds.
Show Notes:
julieclarketherapy.com/parenting-who-podcast/episode-17-inner-child-work-and-hypnosis/

Discovering Personal Values and Re-aligning Your Behaviours

Candid Therapist Chat! Discussing our passion and EMDR therapy
Amanda shares about her draw to become a therapist, the influence in her life as well as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy as a solution to some traumatic experiences.
Show Notes:
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
The Power of Vulnerability
EMDR defined

Parenting Without Shame: Restorative and Respectful Discipline
Read Show Notes here:
julieclarketherapy.com

Relationships, Power and Expectations

Unpacking Eating Disorders - Understanding the Eating Disorder
This is episode three of our series, together with my colleague Sarah Terwilligar, we continue to discuss elements of our new virtual eating disorder caregiver coaching group program.
In this episode we are going to discuss Understanding the Eating Disorder, helping caregivers with understanding, from a practical lens, what it is like to not just have an eating disorder but also understanding the eating disorder voice, symptoms and the reason empathy is so important.
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Self-Love
Are 'core wounds' running the show for you? Evanye speaks about how having friction in your life is necessary to grow and through this process she asks people 'What stories are you telling yourself?" and how not to get lost in their stories which ultimately can become a big part of their identity and how to get out of this space; feel more peace and accept where you are. Loving yourself is part of your story and Evanye helps you to learn where to look to find this!
Show Notes:
www.theselflovecenter.com
(free class starting May 6 2018!)

Grief
Her areas of focus are loss, grief and bereavement as well as compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma and burnout and adoption. In today's podcast Sheilagh will define grief and mourning, dual process and provide a resource based on an image that can be helpful to contextualize grief.
Show Notes:
O’Sullivan Psychotherapy osullivanpsychotherapy.com
Dennis the Menace dennisthemenace.com
Patrick Bazinet patrickbazinet.com

Unpacking Eating Disorders – Diagnosed & Non-Diagnosed
In this episode Sarah is sharing the spectrum/continuum of disordered eating where it starts and how it progresses. There is no one size fits all presentation with an eating disorder, it looks differently for everyone. Eating disorder sub-types are introduced and explained and how thinking ‘this is just a phase’ is unhealthy and why. We spoke about how one does not need to have a formal diagnosis and how a negative body image could exist without disordered eating. Asking, are these issues disrupting your life? Are you pre-occupied with your size and shape?
This is two of a series of episodes on the topic of eating disorders and disordered eating, stay tuned for more!

Unpacking Eating Disorders – Stigma & Norms
Please note, any and all information provided by this podcast should not be used as a substitute to seeking professional guidance that may be relevant to your own personal situation. This podcast is not intended to be a substitute for mental health therapy.
Show Notes

Trauma-informed care, a more in-depth explanation

Trauma-informed care, a basic explanation and having empathy
Not of course for the trauma part but the fact this very important topic was being presented not to an audience of trauma therapists but everyday people like you.Trauma and understanding trauma is something that is relevant to every single person. It is not simply reserved for the catastrophic losses or tragic circumstances.
Other links:
Victim Services
Dr. Gordon Neufeld
Empathy
Blog post on similar topic

First Episode Jitters
I love listening to informative podcasts and I hope that this podcast can be a great resource for you or someone you know. For this initial, raw and completely unedited podcast you get an opportunity to get to know me for me, how I found myself becoming a therapist; my journey as a mature student and parent venturing into the world of University studies. It was a very big decision with a huge pay off in the end and I am happy to be here.
Show Notes: www.sarahterwilligar.com/