Soul Sessions with Jodie Gale

In Assertiveness for Women, Dr Julie Hanks talks about her book, The Assertiveness Guide for Women: How to Communicate Your Needs, Set Healthy Boundaries, and Transform Your Relationships. This episode will be transformative for anyone who has suffered with early childhood trauma (attachment trauma, complex trauma, development trauma) and childhood emotional neglect as well as disordered eating or an eating disorder.

Dr. Julie Hanks, PhD, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist, coach, content creator, author, speaker, owner of Wasatch Family Therapy, and host of the Ask Dr. Julie Hanks podcast. With nearly 30 years experience, Dr. Hanks provides a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower women to prioritize their dreams, revolutionize their families, and personalize their faith.

In Assertiveness for Women, Dr Julie Hanks also talks about

• What brought her to this work
• Julie's history as a people pleasing perfectionist
• What is assertiveness?
• What causes women to not be assertive?
• What has attachment got to do with assertiveness?
• Eating disorders, disordered eating and assertiveness
• Why is assertiveness so important?
• Assertiveness, food and feelings
• Feelings and needs
• The 5 skills women need to develop to be assertive
• Trauma, boundaries and assertiveness

In Psychotherapy 101, my guest Integrative Art Psychotherapist, Emma Cameron, answer all your questions about how psychotherapy works. This episode is a wonderful resource for anyone looking for, or in therapy for complex trauma (CPTSD), developmental trauma and childhood emotional neglect.

Emma is a UKCP registered Integrative Arts Psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, AEDP therapist, and artist who lives and works in the U.K. Emma specialises in working online with sensitive, thoughtful women of all ages and all sizes. She helps her clients find new, creative ways to make sense of their anxiety and their other emotions, and to work on healing from painful past experiences. Emma is a strong believer in the power of creativity and the imagination as a part of positive therapeutic change, in online therapy as well as face-to-face.

In Psychotherapy 101, Emma talks about:

• what brought her to this work
• what we would see if we were a fly on the wall in therapy
• the types of techniques used in counselling and psychotherapy
• the kind of people who go to therapy
• how therapy works
• attachment 101 and the therapeutic relationship
• how often people go to therapy and for how long
• whether it normal to feel attached or even dependent on the therapist
• how to cope when our therapist is on holidays
• if it is OK to give our therapist feedback
• whether therapists really care or perhaps even love their clients
• do therapists have their own therapy? If so why?
• how to know when we are ready to end therapy

For the show notes, go to: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-042-psychotherapy-101-with-emma-cameron/

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If you are struggling with early childhood trauma (complex PTSD, CPTSD), childhood emotional neglect, disordered eating or the trance of unworthiness, you may be thinking about seeking support but how do you know if you need a therapist or a coach?

In Do I Need a Therapist or a Coach?, Soul Sessions podcast host Jodie Gale shares about everything you need to know about the difference between therapy and coaching and whether you need a therapist or a coach.

Jodie is a soul-centred, eco-psychosynthesis psychotherapist and mind body eating coach who specialises in early childhood trauma, childhood emotional neglect, disordered eating and the trance of unworthiness.

In Do I Need a Therapist or a Coach? Jodie talks about:

• What do Tony Robbins, Brooke Castillo and Marie Forleo have to do with therapy versus coaching?
• What is psychotherapy?
• What is coaching?
• How does therapy work?
• How does coaching work?
• The therapeutic frame
• The coaching frame
• What are the benefits of counselling and psychotherapy?
• What are the benefits of coaching?
• What training do counsellors and psychotherapists have?
• What are psychotherapy training requirements?
• What are coaching training requirements?
• What are therapist supervision requirements?
• What are coach supervision requirements?
• What are counsellor and psychotherapists' personal therapy requirements?
• What are coaches' personal coaching requirements?
• What are the different types of therapy?
• What are the different types of coaching?
• What are the reasons you might seek a psychotherapist?
• What are the reasons you might seek a coach?
• What are the limitations of therapy?
• What are the limitations of coaching?
• How do I find a counsellor or psychotherapist?
• How do I find a coach?

This blog post was originally part of my therapist blog challenge from my therapist Facebook group: Therapy Versus Coaching: Should You See a Therapist or a Coach.

Connect with Jodie on Social:

Trauma WarriorsTM Facebook Group for Women

The Soul Centre on Facebook

Nature Therapy for the Soul on Facebook

For the show notes: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-do-i-need-a-therapist-or-a-coach/

In Are You There Buddha? Author and CBCA winner, Pip Harry talks about coming of age, the mother-daughter relationship, periods and starting high school.

Pip Harry is an Australian children’s author and journalist. Her novel, The Little Wave, won the CBCA 2020 Book of the Year Award for younger readers and the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year. It was shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Her young adult novels include I’ll Tell You Mine, Head of the River, and Because of You, shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year Award, Victorian Premier's Literary Award and Queensland Literary Award. Her latest novel is Are You There, Buddha? and she is currently working on a new middle grade novel due for release in 2022.

In Are You There Buddha? Pip also talks about:

• How Pip became an author
• Are you there God, it is me Margaret
• The 80s: Cleo & Dolly magazines
• Periods in the 80s
• Why & when Pip wrote Are You There Buddha?
• From Playboy to periods: I reread Judy Blume with my tween. She found it perplexing by Pip Harry
• The mother-daughter relationship
• The narcissistic mother
• Motherless daughters, eating disorders
• Abandonment and lack of attunement
• Absent mothers
• How a child feels when the mother abandons the family
• The May Gibbs Fellowship
• The step-mother and step-daughter relationship
• Mindfulness, meditation and Buddha
• Bee and Buddha
• The Great Mother and the feminine
• The noisy world that teenagers are growing up in and finding one's inner self
• Facebook aware of Instagram’s harmful effect on teenage girls, leak reveals
• Yumi Stynes, Welcome to Your Period
• The other relationships in Are You There Buddha?
• Leon, the perfect role model for boys
• Talking about climate change
• Criticism, rejection and the superego
• Create a period pack of books
• Dr Lara Owen: Her Blood is Gold
• Pip's first book in Big W
• Book face - Are You There Buddha is the perfect cover to create a book face

For the show notes, go to: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-039-are-you-buddha-with-pip-harry/

In Should I Get the COVID Vaccine?, Immunologist Dr. Tania Gourley answers all of your questions about whether you should get vaccinated or not.

Dr. Tania Gourley received her Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of Michigan in Microbiology and Immunology. Her post-doctoral training was with Dr. Rafi Ahmed at Emory University, a world leader in immunological responses to viral infection and vaccination. Dr. Gourley's post-doctoral research focussed on the antibody and T cell responses to both viral infection and vaccination including influenza vaccination in immune compromised individuals. Currently, she is working as a Senior Project Coordinator in the Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology/Emory Vaccine Center at the Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Gourley manages research studies on viral immunity including a Covid-19 study which is evaluating the longevity of the immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in infected individuals over a two year period. Dr. Gourley grew up in New Zealand and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband, two children, and three dogs.

In Should I Get the COVID Vaccine? Dr Gourley and I talk about:

• Why she became an immunologist
• Our family history of lock-downs and vaccination
• Influenza, Tuberculosis and Polio
• Trauma and the immune system
• What is a vaccine?
• How are vaccines developed and tested?
• Are the vaccines new?
• Some of the vaccine trials were paused, why?
• How do the COVID vaccines work?
• Who should get the COVID vaccine?
• Who shouldn't get the COVID vaccine?
• What are the side effects of a COVID vaccine?
• Are the vaccines safe?
• Am I playing Russian Roulette if I get the vaccine?
• What's Andrew Jeremy Wakefield got to do with the COVID anti-vax movement? (Andrew Wakefield was struck off the medical register due to his involvement in the Lancet MMR autism fraud, a 1998 study that falsely claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism).
• What are the benefits of a COVID vaccine?
• Myth busting about the COVID vaccine
  • COVID is just like the flu, we should open up and just live with it
  • The COVID vaccines are new and are still in a trial phase – we are all guinea pigs
  • The COVID vaccines could cause infertility
  • The government are really injecting microchips into our arms
  • My immune system is top notch, I eat clean and I have a spiritual practice, my immune system will fight off COVID, I therefore have no need for a mask or the vaccine
  • You can still catch COVID even though you have the vaccine so there is no point in taking it
• At the end of the World Health Organisation vaccine video series, they say, 'stay safe, stay healthy and stick with science' Why is it important that we stick with the science here and not just opinions?
• There are a lot of people saying, ‘I’ll just wait and see’ – what is your advice for people who are still hesitant?
• Personal choice and the anti-vax movement

Head to the Show Notes: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-should-i-get-the-covid-vaccine/ for the links mentioned in this episode:

The Anti-Vax Conspiracy

Vaccines Weren't Rushed

Lockdowns, Masks & Conspiracy Theories

Cracking COVID

The COVID Fertility Issue

Pandemics result From the Destruction of Nature

How disgraced anti-vaxxer Andrew Wakefield was embraced by Trump's America

The Hill of Hope Sanitorium, Christchurch, NZ

Signs of Spiritual Narcissism