Working With Woes: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to the Working With Woes podcast! All people struggle, no matter if disadvantaged or privileged. I hope to create awareness and helpful tips for people anywhere on the spectrum of cptsd to pure polyanna. I'll talk about cptsd from many different angles - personal experiences, neuroscience, psychology, spirituality, lessons learned and relationships. I sincerely hope that this podcast series will help someone out there to care. This podcast begins with my own journey through multiple traumas and forgiveness. It takes you to the very beginning.
A friendly (but somewhat scattered) conclusion to the entire Working With Woes podcast series :) I talk about healthy vs unhealthy emotional regulation and learning to identify and build trust with yourself and with others. Books referred to are Trust by Dr. Henry Cloud (who also authors the 5 Love Languages and the Apology Language), and Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
Neuroscientist and professor Gerlinde Metz shares some details about her works and answers my persistent questions about how people can help themselves overcome long term stress. The answer is delightfully simple and readily accessible! This discussion is particularly encouraging to me. I hope it is to you too!
Dr. Robert Williams discusses meditation, hypnosis and cognitive behavioral therapy methods - many ways to improve mental health without medications, substances, or paying big bucks!
This episode lightly discusses the immune system and mental and physical self care. See Dr. Katherine Gundling's video: https://youtu.be/_oI0jVN4TTI
A great interview with expert neuroscientist Dr. Robbin Gibb about Executive Function (decision making) and how early childhood trauma, long term or short, can be overcome at any stage in life! #1 way to sustain good mental health is to form healthy relationships!
I conclude the Shocks of Normalcy series with updates on some severe turning points and recent moments of closure and discuss Maslow's hierarchy of needs along with the significance of self care during crisis.
This was actually my first podcast recording, an interview with Dr. Bryan Kolb. It is evident that I am a bit nervous (awkward) but he was great about it! He shares his own journey into neuroscience and the programs he is helping to develop that center around early intervention and CBT.
This episode lightly discusses ideas of how my brain developed differently from the traumatic and deprived development periods that I had. I discuss the Shocks of normalcy and academic experiences that led to getting to know Dr. Bryan Kolb.
Interview with Carl and Cecile, who took me in when I was 16, just before I dropped out of school to go back to the streets. This is their perspectives on foster kids and the impact their decision made on them as parents too!
This episode lightly discusses both struggles and life quality improvements as I was rather thrown into normalcy at the age of 16.
This episode lightly discusses the science (biology) of pain and the effects of sustained stress on the body, while also sharing about the significance of self care.
This episode discusses the emotional aspects of my traumatic childhood, including certain struggles that are still persisting. This episode provides experiential background for future episodes about the human critical development periods. Stay tuned for more episodes!
This episode discusses difficulties in foster hell (not foster care - there was very little fostering and care in that system), and how I bounced around from place to place and spent time on the streets as a young teen to avoid the terrible dynamics within the foster places. This episode provides experiential background for future episodes about human lifespan development. Stay tuned for more episodes!
This episode discusses the next 7 years living with severely abusive and neglectful parents, providing experiential background for future episodes about critical development periods across the human lifespan. Stay tuned for more episodes!
This episode describes my first 7 years of life, living with traumatic parents, providing experiential background for later episodes about the impact of trauma on lifespan development. Stay tuned for more episodes!
This episode shares the situation into which I was born, right from the very beginning. It provides background information for future episodes that will discuss the effects of long term, severe trauma on human lifespan and developmental critical periods. Stay tuned!
Why make this podcast series? What will it be about? Who am I, anyway? These questions are answered in this introduction. Stay tuned for the upcoming Basement Child series!