Shadow Work & Post-Traumatic Growth

This is a LIVE replay of A Trauma Survivor Thriver's Podcast which aired Wednesday, June 7th, 2023 at 11:30am ET on Fireside Chat.

Today’s guest is Jessica Depatie, Executive Producer of Dark Night of Our Soul.

For more information about Jessica Depatie's work, visit https://www.shadowmedia.group/links.

Lorilee Binstock 00:00:35
Welcome. I'm Lorilee Binstock and this
is A Trauma Survivor Thriver's Podcast.
Thank you so much for joining me live on Fireside chat where you can be a
part of the conversation as my virtual audience. I am your host.
Flor then stock. Everyone has an opportunity to ask me or our guest
questions by requesting to hop on stage, but I do ask that everybody be respect
Today's guest is Jessica Defeats executive producer of dark
of our soul. She's also the host of shadow work library podcast.
And she's is actually a shadow work educator, Jessica, thank you so much.
For joining me today.
Oh, I think I actually pop you off stage. Are you there?
Jessica Depatie 00:01:39
Hi. Can you hear me?
Lorilee Binstock 00:01:40
Hi. Yeah
I could hear you. How are you? Thank you so much for joining me today.
Jessica Depatie 00:01:46
Thank you so much for having me and what's cool off where I'm all about this.
Lorilee Binstock 00:01:50
I know it it's actually really, really cool. You
people can pop in and pop out and and listen to replay and
join in on the conversation, which I really love because I
I feel like a lot of people
are interested in and taught and talking to a lot of my guests about
you know, things that are this
that they're doing how people are healing.
And you you are a shadow work educator, which I think is really
cool. And so I wanna learn more about that, but I also wanna know a little bit about your
story and what got you into this work.
Jessica Depatie 00:02:19
Okay. Great.
So wow where do we start?
You know, it's interesting that we're having this conversation on your show, the trauma survivor podcast
because my story isn't that remarkable, but I think it's a common
I I think that's why it's worth sharing. The lack of
Lorilee Binstock 00:02:38
Absolutely.
Jessica Depatie 00:02:40
extravagant around it,
and more the
the universal story that
Lorilee Binstock 00:02:47
Yep.
Jessica Depatie 00:02:47
everybody has trauma, you know, and the documentary that we're working on right now,
one of the experts, Anderson Todd, who is the assistant director of wisdom and
consciousness studies out of you know, received Toronto. He
says nobody gets out of the parking lot without putting dungeon in the car. Right?
Lorilee Binstock 00:03:02
I saw.
Jessica Depatie 00:03:04
And so... That is that is my story.
Lorilee Binstock 00:03:05
That was I was like that's so accurate.
Jessica Depatie 00:03:07
Yeah. And so my
story.
Is basically growing up
I felt like there was a purpose to the trials
that I would
put myself in, You know?
A lot of the traumatic experiences that when my experience happen
to us. And
it's kind of a fabric
the fabric of our human experience. You know, challenges happen.
And some are very remarkable in some, like mine are just like,
you know, my mom was she's Korean, and she felt
strange in a new country, And I adopted that feeling strange
but in my own country, you know? And so
the traumatic experience that I had was having a really strong platform that I'm
Lorilee Binstock 00:04:00
Mhmm
Jessica Depatie 00:03:58
not accepted that I am rejected
and I would put myself in a lot of situations where I would reject
people before it they rejected me, and that was a coping mechanism that ...