Traci Pirri is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 plus years of experience working with trauma survivors. She uses and teaches a comprehensive trauma approach at her group practice called "Hope for the Journey" in Round Rock, Texas.Here's a preview of the episode in the form of a couple quotes I pulled."If you're always going to something to numb, then your body is going to have to get louder and louder and louder to get your attention.""You're not crazy. Absolutely not. And once you understand the PTSD kind of way that your brain works you can very easily teach yourself how to get out of that process."Thanks for listening. Subscribe and write a review so more people can have the chance to come across these amazing guests.

Suzy Soulshine is a trained Drum & Rhythm Facilitator. She uses an evidence based program called HealthRhythms to help people relax, connect, re-energize and heal. Suzy also facilitates monthly drum circles to connect people to community and the healing power of rhythm.Here's a preview of the episode in the form of a couple quotes I pulled."If you engage in an activity, whether it be drumming or dance or, or something where you're utilizing rythym and movement, if you feel amazing afterwards, that's not an accident.""The universal birthright is the heartbeat. It's one thing all of humanity has in common that we spent that time in the womb hearing a mother's heartbeat and it was the first sound. So, to me, it seems pretty natural that rhythm would be in our blood. Literally in our blood."Thanks for listening. Subscribe and write a review so more people can have the chance to come across these amazing guests.

Katy Manganella is a licensed professional counselor and a registered yoga teacher. We talk about Katy's personal story of embodied healing, experiential knowing, and how to use breath to soothe our nervous systems.Katy is the founder of Austin City Counseling and runs a therapeutic yoga group at the Center for Grief and Loss in Austin, TX.Here's a preview of the episode in the form of a couple quotes I pulled."I knew these things academically, but I hadn't experienced them. It was through the physical body work of yoga that I got back in touch with myself.""If you could find the steps to making this feel better, you would have already found it on the internet. So the part that's missing is not that you don't have the information, but maybe that you haven't felt it through."Thanks for listening. Subscribe and write a review so more people can have the chance to come across these amazing guests.

Marshall Lyles is a supervisor to LMFT's, LPC's, and RPT's and an EMDR international association approved consultant. We talk about how he got in to the field, the power of expressive arts therapy, and what he has learned about being human through his career as a therapist. Marshall was my first student internship supervisor. I have so much respect for him and I hope the felt safety one experiences with him translates in this podcast format. Here's a preview of the episode in the form of a couple quotes I pulled, "I think if we could raise a generation of people who trust in their own creativity, global problems would be solved. I think that fences would come down and connections would be built." "The act of sustained creativity is inherently integrating on the nervous system level. So the more integrated we are, the more regulated we are, the more relationally capable we are. Then we find as a result of that endeavor more of our inherent resilience."Thanks for listening. Subscribe and write a review so more people can have the chance to come across these amazing guests.

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