319: My Story- Trauma & Professional Identity with Valerie Ashley
Shownotes:
00:08 Intro
01:14 About Valerie Ashley
03:16 Welcoming Valerie
04:53 What is Professional Identity?
06:57 Influences of Professional Identity
10:47 Support & Community
12:05 How A Person Develops Their Professional Identity
16:30 *TRIGGER WARNING for Sexual Assault
24:05 Trigger Warning Over
24:06 Vulnerable Ages & Launching Yourself
26:25 Valerie’s Accident
27:50 Post-Traumatic Growth
28:58 Healing From Trauma & What Happens When Exploring That
32:27 Magnitude of People Living In Trauma
34:59 Working With Those Living In Trauma
36:39 Mindfully Engaging With Your Identity
38:03 Trauma Showing Up At Work
39:24 Shifts in Professional Identity
43:20 Pivoting, Shifting, & Reinventing
47:37 Expanding Sense of Self
48:30 Self-Reflective Areas to Engage With
54:51 More About Valerie & Her Work
55:32 Alison’s Letter
57:58 Outro
Mentioned Resources:
Website- www.valerieashleycounseling.com
317: Meditation Happy Hour With Alana Weathersbee
Show Notes:
00:09 Introduction
00:48 Live Episode Intro
01:41 Alana’s Intro
02:01 Relaxing Meditation Led By Alison
15:48 Building Community
16:55 Alana On Being Okay With What We Are Feeling
19:02 A Frontline Workers Letter
22:10 Mental Health Clinicians Experience
25:28 Alana’s Examination of Thoughts/Patterns
31:00 Taking Pauses & Numbing
34:30 Applying To Your Life
35:50 Deep Relaxation Led By Alana
50:40 Invitation to Meet Yourself Where You Are
52:00 Outro
** Please Note:
We are committed to the mission of Integration Nation, building community through education about integrative mental health concepts and practices and seek to deliver the highest level of content possible. To that end, due to recording live we were unable to use specific audio equipment leading to a few audio issues. We’ve done our best to reduce the impact of the audio difficulties on the content and believe that the content of this conversation far outweighs the minor audio issues we experienced.
314: My Story- Parenting & Domestic Violence with Paige Flink
Shownotes:
00:08 Intro
03:15 Content Warning
05:18 Meet Paige
08:04 Domestic Violence Impacts on Parenting
11:15 Co-Parenting & Domestic Violence
18:49 Being Honest With Self & Children
23:20 Secrecy
24:05 Trauma Informed Care
31:10 Respect & Trusting Relationships
35:38 On The Other Side is Joy
37:29 The Family Place
46:00 Men & What They Think They Have To Be
53:45 Alison’s Letter/Blessing
Mentioned Resources:
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 | 1-800-787-3224 (TTY)
Local Domestic Violence Hotline: 540-373-9373 | Toll Free: 1-877-734-7238
Local Domestic Violence Shelter: http://www.empowerhouseva.org/
How to Find Paige:
IG: @paigeflink
Website: familyplace.org
FB: @thefamilyplace
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Episode 312: My Story- Our Breath with Alana Weathersbee
Show Notes:
00:08 Introduction
00:56 About Alana
02:27 Welcome Alana
04:00 Our Awareness Of Breath & Stress
07:00 Vagus Nerve
08:22 Habits of Breath
09:00 Aspects of Breath
11:26 Breath & Connecting
13:52 Self-Care, Self-Love, Self-Acceptance
17:44 Ego & Breath
18:41 Staying Connected Through Breath & Shared Space
22:33 Healing Yourself Through Breath
26:24 Finding The Moment of Pause
32:40 Alison’s Letter To Her Breath
Find Alana:
IG- @dragonflyyogafred
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Episode 311: My Story- Floundering with Haley Mills
Shownotes:
00:09 Intro
00:46 Alison Introduces Haley
04:08 Haley 411
04:58 Stages of Floundering
06:50 Stage of Anger & Doubt
08:37 Self-Doubt Stage
11:48 Diverse Experiences From Peers
13:07 Move From Disillusionment of Floundering to Self-Acceptance
16:30 Showing Up & Learning from Disappointment
19:02 Being In Relationship With Ourselves When Lost
21:30 How Are We Connecting With What We’re Doing?
23:09 What Would Haley Tell Her Former Self
26:37: Hearing From Brian
30:41 Alison’s Letter
Haley Mills
IG- @theliftingtater
Handout:
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Episode 309: My Story- Nutrition with Dr. Leslie Korn
Show Notes:
00:08 Introduction
00:54 About Dr. Leslie Korn
07:02 Meet Dr. Korn
08:03 Fast Food & Convenience 80’s Trend
09:22 Nutritional Trauma
11:58 Nutrition & Infectious Diseases
14:33 Contributing To or Endangering Your Health
18:58 Routines & Patterns
20:30 Understanding Bioindividuality
24:02 Car Metaphor
27:20 Do We Need To Eat Like Our Ancestors?
32:41 Sugar: A Food Of Trauma
43:22 Principle of Substitution
45:33 Integrating Nutrition & Mental Health
46:50 Digestion & Fat
50:51 Probiotics & Identity
52:02 Fat- An Essential
58:59 Alison’s Letter To Her Body
How to Find Dr. Leslie Korn:
Website- http://drlesliekorn.com/
Instagram- @dr.lesliekorn
Twitter- @Drlesliekorn
Amazon Author Page- https://www.amazon.com/Leslie-E.-Korn/e/B009EA3Y32
On Psychology Today- https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rhythms-recovery
On LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-leslie-korn-5455135/
On Academia- http://cwis.academia.edu/LeslieKorn
On Research Gate- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leslie_Korn
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Episode 306: My Story- Privilege & Isms with Caressa Cameron-Jackson
Show Notes
00:10 Introduction
00:47 About Caressa
04:59 Defining the Topic
08:45 Caressa’s explanation of Privilege
10:48 How Alison & Caressa Met
12:50 Implicit Bias
14:48 Powerful Place to Start with Diversity
15:50 Caressa’s Reverse Perspective in Parenting
20:48 Defining Implicit Bias and Racism
22:05 Holiday Table Talk and Upstanding
26:10 Cost of Comfort
35:00 Onion Analogy of Change
40:40 Concerns Related to Privilege
45:30 Nude Shoes and Visibility
51:25 When a Thing is still a Thing
55:40 Caressa’s Challenge
58:20 Alison’s Summary
1:00:45 Alison’s Letter
Caressa:
IG: @caressacameronjackson
@caressedbydesign
Website: https://www.caressedbydesign.com/
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Episode 305: My Story- Domestic Violence with Julie Owens
Show Notes:
00:10 Introduction
03:01 About Julie
06:25 Conversation With Julie
08:05 Alison’s Confusing Dynamic
09:28 Julie’s Story
17:44 Desire for Control
23:10 When You’re Connected to Empathy
24:10 Survival Behaviors
25:06 Trauma Bonding
31:30 Trauma Related Guilt
32:30 Safety
38:00 How to Know An Abuser is Changing
41:45 Not All Abusers Are The Same
43:50 Safety Planning
47:30 Accountability
50:27 The Bridge Analogy
52:30 Post Traumatic Growth
53:58 Summary of Conversation
57:30 Content Warning
58:02 Alison’s Letter
Mentioned Resources:
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 | 1-800-787-3224 (TTY)
Why Does He Do That? by Lundy Bancroft
Trauma & Recovery by Judith Herman
Behavior Checklist
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302: My Story- Childhood Trauma & Resiliency
SHOW NOTES:
00:09 Intro
00:55 Internal Intersectional Identity
03:47 Content Warning
04:04 ACE’s (Adverse Childhood Experiences)
05:18: Definition of ACE’s
07:19 Categories of ACE’s
09:20 Alison’s Experiences
12:30 What are Counter ACE’s?
15:50 Where to start/look?
17:18 One More Content Warning
18:19 Alison’s Letter to Her Little Girl Self
21:17 Thank You!
Mentioned Resources:
206: Both/And; The Lure of Certainty
204: Who Cares About Self-Care, Isn’t it Boujee BS?
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention- ACE’s
218: Dr. V- Integrative Primary Care, Why Does it Matter?
Show Notes:
00:01 Intro
02:00 Season 3 SPOILER
02:30 Dragonfly
04:04 Meet our SPECIAL GUEST
05:10 Dr. V Background
06:05 Returning to health
07:24 Dr. V’s definition of integrative health
10:30 Mindset of Healing
11:58 Don’t Spill the Beans
13:50 Blood Work template
19:00 Thyroid & Mental Health
23:00 Our Gut & Brain
26:01 Probiotics
28:20 Prebiotics
31:39 Basic Vitamins
34:50 Most excited for...
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