Ep 119| Featuring: Jill Miller

01/12/24 • 36 min

*Host's note - if you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video.
This episode features our guest, Jill Miller - a pioneer in forging links between fitness, yoga, athletics, massage, and pain management for over 30 years.
TOPICS COVERED:
- Her journey - moving into body as a regulation tool as an overweight child, exercising with her mom and becoming addicted, using movement to control her body and shape, developing eating disorders, and finally admitting her somatic disconnection to a yoga teacher is when everything shifted
- Starting to let go by using "tend & mend" healing
- Through her body to feel her way out
- Pain in her gut and reconnecting to her emotions
- The topic of touch as a trauma survivor
- Gentle touch to enter parasympathetic nervous system
- Chronic stress is catabolic
- Learning how to tolerate the parasympathetic for survivors who have a hard time slowing down and/or resting
- The 5 P's of her program = perspective (shifting mindset), place, pace of breath, position, and palpation
- Trauma eats away at the wellbeing and why you must recalibrate
- "All of me is welcome here"
- Practical steps for survivors who find body and breath work triggering -- starting with hands & feet (global response but grounding and safety)
- Self-massage
- A little movement begats a little more movement
- It's a process
GUEST RESOURCE RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. Learning the basics (or more) of polyvagal theory to give you a frame for understanding your nervous system
2. Go through things to move forward
3. Explore your self-injurious behavior so you can get to the root
FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1. Website (bio, exercises, and index to find a local teacher)
2. IG for TuneUpFitness
3. IG for Jill Miller
4. Her new book
Tags: #traumarecovery #traumarecoverycoach #traumahealing #healingfromtrauma #traumasurvivor #survivorhood #ifsinformed #ptsd #tuneupfitness #eatingdisorder #overweight #workout #gutissues #tendandmend #parasympatheticnervoussystem #restanddigest #rest #perspective #pace #place #position #palpation #recalibrate #throughthebody #somaticconnection #emotions #mindset #movement #wellbeing #support #exercise #safety #massage #yoga #process

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Ep 118| Featuring: Myra Kinds

*Host's Note - if you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video.
This episode features our guest, Myra Kinds - a GERI trainer and BIPOC lead, licensed minister to youth, co-author, and a recognized leader in underserved and addiction/trauma communities.
TOPICS COVERED:
- Her path of living through what has now become her passion to help others, bringing all of herself everywhere she goes, walking away from Corporate America to follow her purpose to serve others
- Her work within the urban communities as a church minister
- BIPOC & trauma communities
- How we define and use words matter
- Family trauma and stigmas
- This generation's accessibility
- How we can create safe spaces and world states to those seeking help
- Mentors who have experience - which qualifies them to serve in a unique way
- Be a bridge
- Remembering what is was to be a youth - raw and unmasked
- Working with youth as they are going through their stuff in the present to help them move through the process
- "I don't know how to fix it but I do know what's possible"
- Ministry of Presence and why listening more is vital
- Working with addiction and helping them work their own plan
- A space to just share
- The expectation to fall to the voice of addiction so that resources are already prepared
GUEST RESOURCE RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. Legacy Lives On - dedicated to supporting loved ones of homicide victims
2. Can We Talk - community conversations on trauma & healing, grief & loss support
3. Take away victimhood on both sides of the conversation
4. Faith based and community based programs
5. GERI - re-writing the future of gender relations in the human family
6. GERI New Book (co-authored by Myra)
FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1. Website bio
2. Email - [email protected]
Tags: #traumarecovery #traumarecoverycoach #traumahealing #healingfromtrauma #traumasurvivor #survivorhood #ifsinformed #ptsd #GERI #urbancommunities #BIPOC #generationaltrauma #minister #youth #purpose #passion #accessibility #beabridge #possibilities #presence #listening #addiction #safespace #canwetalk #legacyliveson #victimhood #faithbased #communitybased

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Ep 120| Featuring: Sian Crossley

*Host's note - if you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video.
This episode features our guest, Sian Crossley - a psychotherapist who specializes in the Mother Wound and is founder of Break the Cycle Coaching.
TOPICS COVERED:
- Her journey - doing her own work while becoming a therapist, discovering her own trauma, finding core aspects of healing, recognizing her own wounds and coping skills, and how motherhood helped her break the cycles
- All routes are valid
- Adapting when authenticity is not safe
- Don't stop questioning why you do what you do; stay curious
- Abstract stuff gets clear and more conscious
- What the Mother Wound is = the gap from what you needed from your mother to what she was able to offer
- Your mother's wounds created her deficits
- The manifestation of problems with self-worth
- Enmeshment and feeling unworthy
- Perfectionism, anxiety, and staying small
- The psychology of how the trauma occurs
- Challenges of healing this type of wound
- How to deal with the "not good enough" feelings
- Why you must allow yourself to grieve and move through the pain
- "It's yours to work through now"
- Steps to move forward: get clear on how you experienced your mother, grief/acceptance, space to begin being your own mother now, and then living intentionally on your own terms
GUEST RESOURCE RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. Bethany Webster's "Discovering the Inner Mother"
2. Kathryn Black's "Mothering Without a Map"
3. Trauma-informed therapy and using any other resource she already had but sifting it all through the Mother Wound lense
FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1. Website (more info and GIFTS)
2. Instagram
Tags: #traumarecovery #traumarecoverycoach #traumahealing #healingfromtrauma #traumasurvivor #survivorhood #ifsinformed #ptsd
#doingyourownwork #breakthecycle #motherwound #mothering #remothering #copingskills #valid #authenticity #curiousity #deficits #selfworth #unworthy #worthy #enmeshment #traumafrommom #perfectionism #notgoodenough #grief #acceptance #workthroughit #reparenting #livingintentionally #lifeonyourownterms