Episodes

  • Feeling Into Our Aliveness with Jacquie Compton

    Feeling Into Our Aliveness with Jacquie Compton
    Sep 30 2024
    Jacquie has worked in the field of trauma and the Violence Against Women’s Sector in Toronto for over 11 years, beginning her career in the Caribbean with women and children who experienced violence. She spent over five years as an art therapist at the YWCA Toronto’s Breakthrough program and has worked at the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic for the past five years.

    At the clinic, she has held roles such as Therapist/Advocate, Manager, and Director of counseling services, where she led staff and developed innovative trauma programs. Jacquie teaches at the Toronto Art Therapy Institute and is a trainer with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. She has a private practice focused on trauma recovery and is deeply passionate about social justice work. Jacquie believes a trauma-informed approach is essential for collaborative and meaningful relationships with teams and clients.

    Jacquie is a Registered Psychotherapist In private practice. She is a Registered Art Therapist, a Certified Advanced Practitioner in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and a trainer in development with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. Jacquie is an instructor and clinical supervisor at the Toronto Art Therapy Institute and facilitates a course on cultural humility and trauma-informed art therapy.

    In addition, Jacquie is a published poet, mother, and speaker. Over the past 15 years, she has developed a trauma-focused practice incorporating art-based, body-based, and talk-based therapy and currently resides in Toronto.

    In This Episode
    • Jacquie’s website
    • Jacquie’s email: jacquie@thegroundedheart.com
    • Jacquie’s book
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    33 mins
  • From the archives: Linda Gantt, PhD

    From the archives: Linda Gantt, PhD
    Sep 26 2024
    Linda Gantt has a Master of Arts in Art Therapy and a doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies.
    She is the owner and executive director of Intensive Trauma Therapy in Morgantown, West Virginia, an outpatient clinic for trauma-related disorders where art therapy is the primary means of treatment.

    Linda is also the co-developer, along with Carmello Tabone, of the Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale, an instrument designed for measuring diagnostic information in drawings.

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    40 mins
  • How I Learned To Stop Running with Jennifer Kenney-Smith

    How I Learned To Stop Running with Jennifer Kenney-Smith
    Sep 23 2024
    Jennifer Kenney-Smith is a transformative leader and holistic healer with over 26 years of executive sales leadership in the Information Technology sector. As a Certified Yoga Teacher (500 RYT), Ayurvedic Practitioner, and Transformational Life Coach, she founded JKS Yoga & Coaching to guide others on their journey of self-discovery and healing.

    Jennifer’s unique approach integrates ancient wisdom and modern strategies, earning her accolades such as the Women in Leadership Impact Award (2022) and Best of Ashburn, VA Award (2023). Her mission is to help individuals and leaders align their lives with their core values and achieve profound personal transformation.

    In This Episode
    • https://www.jksyoga.com/
    • Socials:
      • IG: @jksyoga_coaching
      • FB: JKS-Yoga
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    34 mins
  • I Have No Problem with God with Dr. Jamie Marich

    I Have No Problem with God with Dr. Jamie Marich
    Sep 19 2024
    Jamie Marich, PhD (she/they) speaks internationally on EMDR therapy, trauma, addiction, dissociation, expressive arts, yoga, and mindfulness, and runs a private practice and online training network in her home base of Akron, OH.

    Jamie has written numerous books, notably Trauma and the 12 Steps: An Inclusive Guide to Recovery, and Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Life. Jamie’s new book is titled You Lied to Me About God, and is set to come out October 15. She is also included in Sue Pease Bannit's book of women therapists.

    In This Episode
    • Dr. Jamie’s website
    • Redefinertherapy.com
    • Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Daily Life
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    31 mins
  • Looking For The Cracks with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe

    Looking For The Cracks with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe
    Sep 16 2024
    Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is a widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak.

    Dr. Akomolafe is the Founder of The Emergence Network, a planet-wide initiative that seeks to convene communities in new ways in response to the critical, civilizational challenges we face as a species. He is host of the postactivist course/festival/event, ‘We Will Dance with Mountains’ and currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California. He sits on the Board of many organizations including Science and Non-Duality (US) and Ancient Futures (Australia).

    In July 2022, Dr. Akomolafe was appointed the inaugural Global Senior Fellow of University of California’s (Berkeley) Othering and Belonging Institute. He is also the inaugural Special Fellow of the Schumacher Centre for New Economics, the Inaugural Scholar in Residence for the Aspen Institute, the inaugural Special Fellow for the Council of an Uncertain Human Future, as well as Visiting Scholar to Clark University, Massachusetts, USA (2024). He has been Fellow for The New Institute in Hamburg, Germany, and Visiting Critic-in-Residence for the Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (2023).

    Finally Bayo is the father to Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden Abayomi, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother.

    In This Episode
    • Dr. Bayo Akomolafe’s Website
    • Bayo’s writings
    • Socials:
      • FB: bayoakomolafeampersand
      • IG: @the_emergence_network


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    27 mins
  • The Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Global Summit with Fleet Maull, PhD

    The Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Global Summit with Fleet Maull, PhD
    Sep 12 2024
    Fleet Maull, PhD, an author, meditation teacher, and social entrepreneur, developed Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness (NSM), a deeply embodied, neuroscience and trauma-informed approach to meditation offering an accelerated path to healing & awakening. He is both a Zen roshi and a senior teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He founded Heart Mind Institute, #578 on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list, a transformational education platform for self-actualization and life mastery training courses and summits.

    He also founded Prison Mindfulness Institute and National Prison Hospice Association, catalyzing two national movements, while serving a 14-year sentence, 1985 to 1999. Dr. Maull is the author of Radical Responsibility: How to Move Beyond Blame, Fearlessly Live Your Highest Purpose and Become an Unstoppable Force for Good.

    Fleet is the author of Radical Responsibility: How to Move Beyond Blame, Fearlessly Live Your Highest Purpose and Become an Unstoppable Force for Good and Dharma In Hell, the Prison Writings of Fleet Maull. Fleet leads prison programs, meditation retreats, chaplaincy and hospice trainings, leadership trainings, bearing witness retreats and transformational seminars throughout the world.

    In This Episode
    • HeartMind.co
    • Heart Mind’s summits
    • The Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Summit
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    37 mins
  • It’s Okay To Need People with Alisa Zipursky

    It’s Okay To Need People with Alisa Zipursky
    Sep 9 2024
    Alisa is a storyteller, writer, facilitator and childhood sexual abuse survivor. Her work focuses on offering emotional support to other young survivors healing from sexual trauma.

    Alisa is a MothStorySLAM Competition champ and has been in publications such as Allure, Teen Vogue, BUST, TIME, The Guardian, Bustle, Thought Catalog, Oprah Winfrey Network, Hello Giggles, Brit+Co, and the Voices for Change 2.0 podcast. While based in DC, she travels around the country giving talks and facilitating workshops to support other young survivors in their communities.

    In This Episode
    • Alisa's Website
    • Work With Alisa
    • Alisa’s book: Healing Honestly, The Messy and Magnificent Path to Overcoming Self-Blame and Self-Shame
    • Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse, Aishah Shahidah Simmons
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    35 mins
  • Healing is no joke

    Healing is no joke
    Sep 7 2024
    In this episode Guy shares how conducting 850+ interviews has enlightened him, challenged him, and made him realize that healing isn’t the straight line he was hoping it would be.

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    16 mins