Ep 104| Featuring: Rev. Nathan Kohlerman

06/09/23 • 39 min

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This episode features our guest, Rev. Nathan Kohlerman, the founder of NeuIntention, a transformational alchemist, leadership consultant, writer, and devoted father. He shares about integrative somatic work, plant medicine healing and rituals, and transpersonal psychology.
TOPICS COVERED:
- His journey from darkness that started in the womb, childhood trauma, teenage gang culture and drug sales and usage, leading to heroin addiction, witnessing violence and being shot at, to joining the US military but then being medically discharged and feeling lost, to a traumatic injury and suicidal ideation, and then finally real transformation
- On Marriage, divorce, becoming a dad
- Previously using external measures of success
- Suffering medical gaslighting in pursuing holistic health and wellness
- Why being a bodybuilder, fully armored and layered, concealed his internal pain
- The Landmark invite that changed the trajectory of his life
- Metaphysical healing and transpersonal psychology
- How you can love people where they are at without tolerating mediocrity
- Highly sensitive people and being somatically connected
- How not to identify with the stories and sensations of the trauma
- Remove layers, not stacking more modalities on top, and why that gives permission to be who you authentically are
- Plant medicine: set and setting are most important
- Build a relationship with the plant (that is alive)/slow is smooth/have a spiritual container for the medicine to do its work
- What is the difference between push v. pull energy
- Preparation and integration are vital with plant medicine
- Ask "what are you seeking" and explore anything that feels forced
- The spirit of reverence and communing with plant medicine
GUESTS MOST HELPFUL RECOVERY RESOURCES IN THEIR JOURNEY:
1. Breathwork - gaining flexibility and capacity
2. Catharsis work - building emotional range and resiliency
FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1. Website
2. Socials - @nathankohlerman
3. Programs
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Ep. 103| Featuring: Martine Kalaw

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This episode features our guest, Martine Kalaw - a community advocate, speaker, author, and stateless survivor of the US immigration and legal system - talks to us about her legal battle, her path to freedom, her books, and her Enterprise that bridges the gaps of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
TOPICS COVERED:
- Her recovery journey through being a 4yr old child immigrant on a visitor visa, an abusive childhood from her mother's unhealed trauma, to her stepfather being the best dad, to when both her parents passed and she became undocumented and stateless, through a 7 yr legal battle of malpractice, legal trauma, and a judge's abuse of power and bias
- How there was no time to grieve after losing her step father (her protector) and watching her mother die, and the feelings of abandonment after their passing
- How she got free from her neglectful family when an angel/stranger helped connect her to a boarding school to escape and why it saved her life
- Speaking in front of Congress: Being a voice to the voiceless, leaning on community, trying to hang on one more day
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (D.E.I.) - bridge building
- Starting in the workplace, hoping it translates outward
- Why it's important to ask permission to ask questions, ask the questions, and then listen and acknowledge other people's experience
- Basic fundamentals of management
- The anti-racism movement in America: "we've still got work to do"
- Active allyship - speak up, check in with BIPOC people, share your platform/privilege
- How non-BIPOC people can change their perspective to try to understand the BIPOC experience
GUESTS MOST HELPFUL RECOVERY RESOURCES IN THEIR JOURNEY:
*Her 'team' that helped resuscitate her dignity through her battles*
1. Mental health support - finding a therapist that understood
2. Her attorney - who partnered with her in her case as an advocate
3. An active ally - a friend who stood by her and helped her walk the journey
FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1. Website for socials and contact info and her books
Tags: #traumarecovery #traumarecoverycoach #traumahealing #healingfromtrauma #traumasurvivor #survivorhood #ifsinformed #ptsd
#childabose #childimmigrant #undocumented #stateless #legalbattle #legaltrauma #anxietyattacks #notimetogrieve #grief #abandoned #survival #angelsamongus #unstuck #neglect #boardingschool #courage #resiliency #nothingtolose #victimof

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Ep 105| Featuring: Eric Christiansen

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This episode features our guest, Eric Christiansen, a documentarian and filmmaker, who is a trauma survivor having lost his home in the Painted Cave fire disaster in Santa Barbara. He shares with us about the resilience of the human spirit and helps others share their stories through film.
TOPICS COVERED:
- His journey starting with a calling and dream to be a filmmaker from age 8, to becoming a professional in the business as a teen, to when everything changed when he lost his home in a wildfire that ended one era and started a whole new one for him, through his battle with drugs and alcohol, to finally finding the answer to his early calling by becoming a documentarian to help himself and others share their stories of trauma
- How he finds healing on both sides of the camera
- When he noticed that everyone's stories had the same arc - from war veterans to sexual abuse to childhood trauma
- How healing trauma is a process and how you can get stuck in some areas of it
- Unmasking Hope (his new film) - tells the story of many different types of trauma through a diverse lens
- Why wearing masks helps survivors function through day to day living, but what happens when the mask overcomes who we are
- The common thru-line of each survivor is when they find other people with similar stories and they realized they aren't alone
- Why healing skyrockets when you start helping others through trauma
- You cannot quantify your trauma and why it's important to validate everyone's experience so we can honor it
- How he is able to not be burdened by others' vulnerability
- Violence: are we numbing ourselves to it? Violence doesn't create a disconnect; it is the connect - the more we desensitize to it in entertainment
- "Hope doesn't come out of good times"
- Isolation is a killer - find your people/tribe
GUESTS MOST HELPFUL RECOVERY RESOURCES IN THEIR JOURNEY:
1. The Bible
2. Finding his "tribe" of others that were recovering alongside him
FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1. Website
2. Unmasking Hope movie
3. PBS free app for smart TV
Tags: #traumarecovery #traumarecoverycoach #traumahealing #healingfromtrauma #traumasurvivor #survivorhood #ifsinformed #ptsd #paintedcavefire #firedisaster #tragedy #losthome #alcohol #drugs #recovery #sobriety #dream #calling #filmmaker