Conversations With a Wounded Healer

Sophia Brody, MA, brings her mastery of psychology and her intuitive practice with the elements/creative expression to provide a compassionate and sacred space for exploration. She offers life coaching and inner journey work through Transpersonal Muse life coaching and education. Sophia and Sarah discuss bringing divine practices into everyday life, using the wound as a sacred object, and discerning between the voice of ego and the voice of intuition. Conversations with a Wounded Healer is a proud member of @mhnrnetwork #healer #healing #woundedhealer #therapy #therapist #mentalhealth #mentalwellness #recovery #selfcare #spiritualawakening #compassion #sacred #sacredpractice #intuition Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website (and full show notes): www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Molly Beane is the founder/CEO of clean beauty startup From Molly With Love. Molly started the company as a kitchen-table startup in 2016. Less than three years later, her products are sold in hundreds of retailers with international distribution. Molly and FMWL have been featured in Good Morning America, Well + Good, Pop Sugar, Huffington Post, Thought Catalog, BuzzFeed, Forbes, and other publications. Two Fairfield, OH natives sit down for a chat with a swig of Diet Mountain Dew. In this episode, Molly talks about her experiences growing up in Southern Ohio, recovery from addiction and trauma, and how spiritual awakening is necessary, but definitely not cute. Conversations with a Wounded Healer is a proud member of @mhnrnetwork #healer #healing #woundedhealer #therapy #therapist #fairfield #ohio #mentalhealth #mentalwellness #addiction #recovery #addictionrecovery #trauma #traumarecovery #wellness #beauty #cleanbeauty #selfcare #spiritualawakening Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website (and full show notes): www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Rich Buino, LSW is a career-changing professional having received his Masters in Social Work in May 2019. He currently uses his clinical skills in clinical case management for older adult populations. His 17 years of past work experience in global PR and corporate communications provides many transferrable skills, including relationship building, interviewing, cultural humility in working with diverse populations, as well as writing and editing. In her most intimate interview to date, Sarah interviews her husband, Rich. They discuss their marriage: the ups and downs and the way they've transformed each others' lives. Rich shares his journey from corporate America to social work and how he's learning to be his most authentic self through social work and relationships. Conversations with a Wounded Healer is proud to be part of the @mhnrnetwork #healer #healing #woundedhealer #therapy #therapist #psychology #msw #socialwork #socialworker #marriage #relationships #communication #careerchanger #intimacy #unconditionallove Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website (and full show notes): www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Sarah discusses the pain that can come from being an over-achiever and the depths from which that idea springs. She shares musings on her understanding of spiritual evolution and how life's pain is part of that process. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

David is a cofounder of Artisan Clinical Associates, a small outpatient therapy practice in Naperville, IL. A native of Cincinnati, David studied psychology and religion at Indiana University before earning his master's in clinical psychology from Wheaton College. He has counseled in private practice since 2002. He's also a husband, father, guitarist, an amateur photographer and an avid reader. David and Sarah discuss what it was like to grow up in a suburban town in Southern Ohio and how it shaped them into the therapists they are today. They also share their belief about what it takes to be a good therapist: knowing that you have no business being in this business of healing others. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Dr. Dawn Nickel is the visionary behind the SHE RECOVERS movement and a thought leader in the women's recovery community. Her personal recovery journey began in 1987 when she entered treatment for a substance use disorder, trauma from spousal abuse, and anxiety. Today, Dawn also identifies as being in recovery from cancer, codependency, grief, and workaholism. Dawn and Sarah share their mutual affinity for women supporting women, a non-binary analysis of the 12-steps, and the joy of recovery. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Dr. Heller is the founder of the NeuroAffective Relational Model™ or (NARM), a unified systemic approach for working with developmental trauma and complex post traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD). He is the author of Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship. Dr. Heller and Sarah discuss the underlying philosophies of NARM: de-pathologizing thoughts, feelings and behaviors; the roots of shame; and our innate hunger to connect to self and others. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Fresh off a podcasting high, Sarah discusses joy, happiness, and the ways she tries to cultivate both. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Rebecca Ching, LMFT is a Leadership Developer, Speaker, Psychotherapist, Writer, and Workshop Facilitator. She is the CEO and founder of Potentia Family Therapy, Inc. in San Diego, California and is a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator + Consultant and Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist. Rebecca has also started Rebecca Ching Leadership Coaching and Consulting where she develops leaders through coaching and workshop experiences. She lives in San Diego, CA with her husband and their two children where they enjoy cooking, going to farmers markets, all things ocean and outdoor sports. Rebecca and Sarah discuss how as therapists they are no longer able to speak "human," the two different types of therapists (those who are hot messes and know it and those who are hot messes and don't…), and geek out about their knowledge of shame-resilience work. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Paula Williams is a graduate from The Art Institute of Chicago, she believes secrecy and judgment are what make shame thrive. She created the Shamebooth to bring people's shame stories out into the open, meet them with empathy, and banish shame for good. Paula's desire to help others evolved as the result of years of self medicating with booze and pills, and a history of mental health issues, which has led Paula to recovery. This experience has radically shifted her perspective towards others who are suffering and are full of shame, terrified to ask for help. Today, she is grateful to be in a position to give back. Paula and Sarah talk about shame, shame and MORE shame! They get into the world of addiction/recovery, trauma and connection...all with their shared sense of humor and love for being a wild child. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Hillary is a therapist, researcher, speaker and writer. She loves to help people grow, heal, change, and come into more fullness in themselves and their relationships. She is passionate about the well-being of all people, and wants to make psychology and academic research accessible to a wide variety of people. She is also the host of two podcasts: Other People's Problems and The Liturgist Podcast and the author of two books: Mothers, Daughters, & Body Image and Embodiment and Eating Disorders. Hillary and Sarah discuss therapy, interconnectedness, and the importance of taking care of self as well as feminism and racism. Hillary asks the important question of whether or not we are an agent in our own transformation. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Sarah runs through a long list of books that have been instrumental in her emotional and spiritual development over the past year. From anti-racism to workaholism to spirituality, there's a little something to interest everyone. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Jean M. Campbell, LCSW, TEP, CETIII, CPC, CIPP, earned a Masters in Social Work at Fordham University in New York City and went on to focus her clinical work in the areas of substance abuse, trauma resolution and somatic psychotherapy. She started the Action Institute of California in 2005 and is committed to providing safe spaces for leadership, training and personal growth, so that everyone has the opportunity to step into his/her best self. Jean brings her own 30 year healing journey to every workshop or training she offers, is committed to using action to effect change. She believes that what we can't do alone, we can do together. Jean and Sarah discuss the incredible healing that can occur with psychodrama, Jean's own healing journey, and the invitation to discover what's in between you and your higher self. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Jennifer Dopierala has been a healer since 2008 and is the creator of Tidal Heart Healing. Through her work, she helps people let go of limiting beliefs and energetic blocks. This helps them move -- physically, emotionally and spiritually -- with freedom and ease in their lives, while learning to love themselves just as they are. Also a meditation instructor and former teacher with a Master's in Education, she has a depth of experience in creating an open space of compassion and listening. Jen and Sarah discuss Jen's past life as a cocky healer and how, over time, she's allowed herself to lean into the fact that she was chosen for this path. Jen and Sarah also talk about their shared experiences of perfectionism and the difference between self-criticism and self-awareness. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Bob Carty is a retired counselor, supervisor, author, trainor, mentor, and board member who has worked in addiction treatment, mental health, criminal justice, and child welfare. Having over 40 years of experience working his many roles, he sees himself as a counselor interacting with the world around him but other people saw his role better than he did. Bob and Sarah discuss leadership, the evolution of self-knowledge, and their hopes as we wade through these dark times. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Wendy Adamson is an author, activist, speaker and mother. Wendy believes that only by telling our personal stories can we heal the shame and eliminate the stigma associated with mental illness and addiction. With over twenty years of experience in the field of addiction and mental health, Wendy is a seasoned professional, who not only possesses a comprehensive understanding of the recovery process, but psychiatric issues as well. Wendy shares her dramatic story of shooting her husband's mistress in a drug-induced psychotic break, to becoming a writer and alcohol/drug counselor who's 25 years sober. Sarah and Wendy discuss forgiveness, soul work, and the trappings of the ego. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Sarah reflects on the importance of being willing to have hard conversations. She discusses an experience of being blocked on Facebook after attempting to engage in a pro-life/pro-choice discussion with an old friend. And how this leads to the question of how we cultivate the willingness to share uncomfortable spaces with people who believe differently than we do. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Born in Florida, Lissa Rankin, MD, is a New York Times bestselling author of The Daily Flame, Mind Over Medicine, The Fear Cure, and The Anatomy of a Calling. She is a physician, speaker, and founder of Whole Health Medicine Institute. Lissa and Sarah chat about the shift from her strict medical training to alignment with her divine essence of self or what she calls: the inner pilot light. Lissa also shares the knowledge she's learned along her path; how to avoid the hooks of life in the spotlight and keep her savior complex in check. (Pro tip: she goes to therapy!) Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Corey Martin is a Yale-trained family physician driven to change the delivery of healthcare and improve the mental and physical health of our communities. He is a founder of the Bounce Back Project, practicing private group physician, Bush Fellow, and lead physician in Allina Health's response to clinician burnout. In his free time, he enjoys working on his farm that he has recently turned into an event center. He lives in Buffalo, MN with his wife and three daughters. He is a recovering perfectionist and an aspiring "good enoughist." Corey and Sarah discuss the crisis amongst healthcare professionals, the power of community leaders sharing their own vulnerability, and the incredible impact his Bounce Back Project has had in his corner of the world. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Gregory Scott is an expert Tarot Reader, Numerologist, and Astrologer from Brighton, United Kingdom. He provides people with guidance and decisions that may shape their future. Gregory can perform his readings via Skype, pre-recorded video, pre-recorded mp3, and telephone. He is also Sarah's favorite Astrologer because of the funny and down to Earth way he presents his readings. Gregory and Sarah discuss Gregory's road to recovery from addiction, finding permission to do things that scare you, and the joy of being a total weirdo in today's society. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Lauren is a writer and creative human who offers yoga, ritual, and intuitive coaching meant to help others find spaciousness in the everyday. Her zine, how to uncover SELF in chaotic times, outlines a softer paradigm for success and four everyday containers in which we all might nurture the truth of self. In yoga, Lauren specializes in backcare and scoliosis, and she loves helping others find pain relief and step into a more loving relationship with themselves. Lauren shares her career path from music to communications and then to yoga. Sarah and Lauren discuss the healing power of music, the importance of listening to the messages of your body, and the importance of self-work: only teach that which you have known. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

As therapists in training, we learn about boundaries, professionalism, and evidenced-based practices. We hear all about empathy and how important is to cultivate a safe space for clients, but there's rarely talk of love. In this episode, Sarah shares how the love we have for our clients runs deep and ripples throughout our lives outside of the therapy room. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Jade T. Perry is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, speaker, Tarot Card Slinger, Churchy Mystic, Chronically Ill & Disabled Babe, Embodied (Sensuality) Ritual Curator, and co-founder of the Mystic Soul Project. (The 2019 conference has just passed, but make sure to follow Jade to gear up for the 2020 conference!) The mission of her work is twofold: To creatively challenge secular and sacred systems toward greater levels of inclusion. And to contribute resources, art, narratives, and experiential learning opportunities that aid in the holistic healing processes of people of color (POC), queer people of color (QPOC), and disabled / chronically ill POC. Jade shares with Sarah the nature of her churchy mystic work: helping others reclaim their body/sexuality/sensuality that may have been lost to shame at the hands of the church. And how she moves clients into healing shame through art, symbolism and mysticism. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Brad is a Somatic (Body-Mind) Psychotherapist, College Professor, Community Educator, Consultant & International Trainer. He is a practitioner and trainer in both Somatic Experiencing (SE) & NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM). These body-mind approaches use mindfulness & body awareness to address trauma, stress and relational challenges by eliciting our inner healing resources in support of a deeper sense of safety & self-empowerment. Brad and Sarah discuss the importance of body-mind modalities that get beneath people's symptoms. They share their experiences with the teacher/healer/mentor pedestal that affects the way we relate to authority and the absolute necessity of continuing to learn and do your healing work. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Lola Wright is a fierce and loving community leader supporting individual transformation in service of collective awakening. She's the CEO & Spiritual Director of Bodhi Center, a global center for consciousness engaging change agents and explorers in Chicago and around the world and founder of "Normal white people," a platform designed to deconstruct racism among white identified people. Wild and passionate mom of four. Lola and Sarah discuss white supremacy, racism, The Bible, and consciousness...so, this is a super light episode, you guys. Enjoy! Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Sarah thinks about power and how we use it or lose it in our lives. Where do we freely give away our power, when is it necessary for those in power to turn it over and how do we become more conscious of how it affects our interactions and our lives? Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Janet Boyer is the author of Back in Time Tarot, Tarot in Reverse, and Naked Tarot: Sassy, Stripped-Down Advice, as well as the co-creator (with her husband, artist Ron Boyer) of the Snowland Deck and the Coffee Tarot. Janet shares her incredible journey from pentacostal pastor to pagan tarot writer. Janet and Sarah discuss religion, astrology, tarot and the enneagram and Janet's own transformation through the archetypes of Wounded Healer, Shaman and Alchemist. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Rev. Sarah Ciavarri, M.Div., PCC, has been an ELCA Lutheran pastor since 2001 and also serves as a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator-Consultant and Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator and Professional Certified Coach. Sarah has a huge passion for seeing congregations and church systems strengthened and transformed by developing resiliency and space for authentic conversations. These two Sarah's discuss the gap between who we think we are and who we're called to be, the intricacies of religious wounding and how to allow space for others' beliefs. Sarah C also shares how her knowledge of shame taught her to read The Bible very differently. "When faith isolates us from the brokenness of others; we're not connected." Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Dr. Miles Neale is among the leading voices of the current generation of Buddhist teachers and a forerunner in the emerging field of contemplative psychotherapy. He is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice, international speaker, and faculty member of Tibet House US and Weill Cornell Medical College. Miles is author of Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human. Miles and Sarah discuss "snake oil spirituality" that takes advantage of the insanity of today's culture, the damages caused by a narcissistic parent, and the healing powers of unconditional love. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Have you heard this new podcast yet? 10 Things That Scare Me. Well, that is the inspiration for this solo episode. Some items are silly and some are serious, but all are real fears. May we all find the courage to feel the fear and do it anyway. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Lisa has worked in the field of addiction and trauma since 1994. She is driven by the passion to support persons as they journey toward resolution from the inside out. Her clinical expertise is in the treatment of sexual addiction, trauma, other addictions. She's worked as a pastor, leadership development consultant, and public speaker in a variety of venues. She loves learning and teaching what she learns. Her passion for what she does, makes her a dynamic and compassionate therapist and an engaging speaker who connects as easily with an individual as she does with a large audience. Lisa and Sarah discuss their mutual, deep desires to do "the work;" how to slow down in order to experience who we really are; and the calling of being a therapist. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Lauren has spent the last 15 years standing for justice and equity as a teacher and middle school Principal on the Westside of Chicago. Her passion and commitment undermine systematic oppression, ironically, became an awakening to the unconscious oppression inside herself. Lauren considers herself an Oracle, Truth Teller, Healer and Coach who uses her own path to support the conscious evolution of humanity. Lauren is not a healer, but a waker! She and Sarah discuss the ideas of awakening and transformation; the systems of oppression that perpetuate bias, prejudice and racism; and ultimately focus on what is beautiful, not what is broken. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Beck has a passion for working with the LGBTQ+ community and has written articles and papers directly addressing the need for training staff on LGBTQ+ communities. Beck has spoken nationally at various conferences regarding LGBTQ+ communities. He has over 12 years of personal recovery and continues to address concerns of equality and acceptance of LGBTQ+ in sober communities. Beck shares his road to sobriety and the multiple ways in which he has come out over the years (sober, gay, and trans). Beck and Sarah discuss trauma, mental health, addiction and sobriety, but with their own unique ways of seeing the world...a little bit of sarcasm and a whole lot of laugher. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Randal Lyons helps people struggling with addiction who want long-term, holistic care. He draws upon his 24 years of successful sobriety, as well as his previous 17 years in active addiction, to offer his clients effective and compassionate treatment. Randal and Sarah discuss their shared "no bullshit" approach to addiction treatment. They also discuss the role of ego in recovery and the simultaneous predictability and uniqueness of addiction. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

In this episode, Sarah discusses the complexities that arise from shows such as Leaving Neverland, Surviving R. Kelly, and Lorena. What are the intersections of privilege, power, race, and trauma? And how do we hold all of these complexities and make sense of them from our own lens? There are no easy answers - often only more questions. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Mishara is an adventure therapist, social health advocate & the owner of To Indy, With Love : Adventures in Social & Emotional Health. Through speaking, therapy and local / global public experiences, she supports the audacity of play, vulnerability & joy in the midst of chronic trauma, especially for people of color, LGBTQIA+ folk and people of diverse spiritual practice in Indianapolis, Indiana. Mishara has redefined what it means to be an adventure therapist in the Midwest. She shares with Sarah her experience as a Black woman navigating the standards for professionalism (whiteness) in the field of social work and how she uses the power of choice to care for herself. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

In 2016, she left a thriving career in IT Corporate Canada to form 'aishaheals' with a mission to help people live life to their fullest by helping them get rid of their emotional baggage. She chose to be a stay at home mom without sacrificing her passions and dreams. It gives her deep inner peace that she is able to reach out to so many people on daily basis and give them hope and show them the light. When you are living your passion everyday, you find a way! She truly believes that she is healing herself as she helps people heal. WE are one, we are connected and we are in this together! Aisha is another incredible Instagram friend! Aisha and Sarah discuss her modality of energy healing: The Emotion Code and The Body Code. Aisha shares her own journey with chronic pain and how her search for her own healing has allowed her to help others. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Avicii: True Stories is a moving documentary about the rise of EDM musician Tim Bergling, better know as Avicii. Sarah discusses her reaction to the film: how it feels to be THE ONE whom everyone is counting on and how society tends to feed that monster that can potentially destroy us. Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Michelle Shea Walker is a modern day magic maker. She specializes in helping others heal through many metaphysical means such as Reiki, yoga, Akashic records, and tarot. As an enabler of happiness, her optimistic intuition style is rooted in the belief that there are no negative readings, only opportunities for further growth and healing. Michelle and Sarah discuss her journey from skeptic to metaphysical healer, how to create your own energy hygiene routine, and the difference between all the clairs (clairsentient, claircognizant, clairvoyant...you get the idea.) Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Roxan McDonald has dedicated herself to helping people find their voice both on the page and in their lives. She currently leads writing groups in Santa Cruz, Carmel, and Monterey. Roxan co-teaches with Ellen Bass at Esalen Institute. For fourteen years she was on the management team of two alternative high schools focused on serving at risk youth. Roxan taught creative writing, poetry and memoir writing in alternative schools and produced eleven anthologies of student writing. She's also the force behind @spiritual_AF on Instagram. Roxan and Sarah discuss the healing power of silly videos and spirituality of poop jokes, starting with your "why" and making it a practice to check your ego every day. Let's be friends! ~Sarah You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Chris Grosso is a youth mental health group facilitator with Newport Academy, public speaker, writer, and author of Indie Spiritualist (Beyond Words/Simon & Schuster, 2014), Everything Mind (Sounds True, 2105) and Dead Set On Living (Simon & Schuster/Gallery Books, 2018). Chris is passionate about his work with people who are in the process of healing or struggling with addictions of all kinds. He speaks and leads groups in detoxes, yoga studios, rehabs, youth centers, hospitals, conferences, and festivals worldwide. He is a member of the advisory board for Drugs over Dinner, hosts The Indie Spiritualist Podcast on Ram Dass's esteemed Be Here Now Network and is a member of The Evolutionary Leaders. Chris Grosso is a big deal, y'all. He's not going to tell you that, but just trust...he's the sh!t. Chris and Sarah discuss what they believe is at the core of healing, the concept of living from our wounds versus learning from them, and the gifts of knowing your own particular brand of weird. Let's be friends! ~Sarah You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Erin is a Clinical Psychotherapist, neuro-bio regulation Touch Skills Therapist and Somatic Experience Practitioner. She is passionate about treating trauma and helping her clients heal past complex trauma, eating disorders, childhood development/attachment ruptures and artists with creativity/performance anxiety. Erin is also a psychic medium and energy healer. She grew up in New Orleans where she first became aware of her intuitive gifts. She works in two worlds: science and spirit. She draws on all her skill sets to know how best to be of service. Her mission is to relieve mental, spiritual and physical suffering in the world. She is passionate about helping her clients manifest their dreams and bring about love, joy, beauty and truth. Erin paints, writes and swims in Chicago. Erin and Sarah discuss the integration of psychic phenomena and science, trauma, and the journeys that lead to healing. To watch Erin's incredible psychic gifts in action, check out her reading of Sarah on her YouTube show Word Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrn7eMnAg2o Let's be friends! ~Sarah You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Susan M Chu is a Crystal Expert, Energetic Healer, and a Feng Shui Coach. She helps her clients move through and out of physical discomfort, emotional turmoil, and mental imbalances. Her decade long experience with crystals have earned her the reputation of knowing exactly what crystal a person needs. Susan draws not only from her teacher's teaching of feng shui, but also from her ancestor roots going back generations. Susan and Sarah get all nerdy about crystals as Susan shares her journey from the world of finance to metaphysics. They also discuss the power of belief and the absolute necessity of learning to listen to one's intuition. Let's be friends! ~Sarah You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Erin M. is a Licensed Professional Counselor, National Certified Counselor and the founder of Truly Being Therapy. Erin is passionate about treating addiction and loves working with special issues including shame, perfectionism, self-compassion, spirituality, and radical acceptance. Erin is a lover of nature, an adventure-seeker, an inspired traveler, and a believer in dreams. The pain of living inauthentically is one she will never forget, and it inspires her to seek alignment, even when it is a vulnerable choice. I mean, literally this episode starts with vulnerability. Erin and Sarah discuss the creative ways they often find to judge themselves, the idea of slowing down and tuning in, and boundaries….oh the boundaries. http://www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

If you're happy the dumpster fire of 2018 is over, this episode is for you. Sarah shares some of the lessons she's learned from hosting this podcast as well as intentions she's setting to make 2019 the best year ever. Let's be friends! ~Sarah You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Tanya Markul's path is one of the poetess, intuitive and wounded storyteller. An unwanted child, she was raised on barren soil, of shame, guilt and overwhelming self-hatred. From the womb, her inner navigation was tainted from an ancestry of addiction, instability, abuse and fear. Her journey to self-heal, and to become ready to guide others, has taken many arduous paths, risks and harrowing rebirths. In this special season finale, Sarah speaks with the Thug Unicorn herself: Tanya Markul. Tanya and Sarah discuss the ecstasy within the ache, what lies beneath our traumatic stories, and how we share our stories in an effort to inspire others to find their way out of trauma and pain. Learn more about Tanya in the full show notes for this episode at: headhearttherapy.com/podcast Let's be friends! ~Sarah You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Jenna Fox is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, educator, writer, and tarot reader living on unceded Duwamish land called Seattle. As a queer, adult adoptee, she is working to reclaim ancestral wisdom to pass on to her children. She is described by her community college students as "sympathetic, but with a blunt sense of humor." Jenna and Sarah discuss the spiral we go through in life; moving through similar waves of learning, gathering new information each time we meet a familiar obstacle. They also geek out about education, tarot and all things witchy. Learn more about Jenna in the full show notes for this episode at: headhearttherapy.com/podcast Let's be friends! ~Sarah You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Dr. Kelli Ritter earned her Ph.D. in Counseling from Georgia State University where she developed a passion for Adlerian Psychology, play therapy and traumatology. She has spent the last twenty years working with children, teens and families in various roles through counseling, parent education and consulting services. As an Associate Professor in counseling, Dr. Kelli is most proud of developing the very popular Wellness and Resilience in Counseling elective course at Argosy, Atlanta and she currently provides workshops, retreats and trainings in the areas of wellness, trauma-competent supervision and wholehearted living. Kelli and Sarah discuss the less glamorous aspects of self-care that can make a big difference, the absolute messiness of spiritual awakening and how looking at our own wounds can help us be better at empathy. Learn more about Kelli in the full show notes for this episode at: headhearttherapy.com/podcast Let's be friends! ~Sarah You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

For those of us who struggle when spending time with family over the holidays, this episode is for you. Sarah discusses ways to set boundaries and take care of yourself if family feels like the "f word" in your book. Let's be friends! ~Sarah You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Sarah McLaughlin is a seeker of all things hidden. She loves turning over stones to see what is underneath, peering through the dark, and getting her hands in the dirt. Just kidding? How about, Sarah is a western trained licensed massage therapist, but is also a certified shiatsu and Thai massage practitioner. Her passion is abdominal massage, and helping people reconnect to the innate wisdom of their own body. Sarah M and Sarah B discuss their appreciation for accountants, the danger of the word healer when used unwisely, and the lessons that will not be ignored. Learn more about today's guest at www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast *** Let's be friends! ~Sarah You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi