Soul Sessions with Jodie Gale: Recent Episodes
Jodie Gale
Welcome to the Soul Sessions with Jodie Gale podcast. Jodie is the founder of JodieGale.Com, TheSoulCentre.Online, a psychotherapist, complex trauma expert and mind body eating coach for women.
Deep dive as Jodie interviews women leaders, psychotherapists, coaches, artists, writers and other experts in healing, self-development and spiritual growth. The Soul Sessions explores the real issues and how to heal from complex trauma, addiction, disordered eating, food, weight and body image concerns, and the trance of unworthiness.
Tune in and connect with your whole self: body, feelings, mind and soul.
This episode is proudly sponsored by Jodie's group, Trauma Warriors™.
This is the final episode of the Soul Sessions with Jodie Gale Podcast for 2022 where I round up and share about my upcoming Inner Child online courses.
Inner Child Online Course for Women – Join my mailing list to be notified of opening dates.
Inner Child Online Certificate Course for Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Social Workers and Psychologists – Join The Psychosynthesis Centre’s mailing list to be notified of opening dates.
This episode is proudly sponsored by Jodie’s group, Trauma Warriors™.
Connect Online with Jodie
Trauma Warriors™ Facebook page
The Psychosynthesis Centre Facebook page
Opening the Door on Private Practice for Counsellors & Psychotherapists
For the show notes, go to: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-inner-child/
This episode is proudly sponsored by Jodie's group, Trauma Warriors™.
In The Mother-Daughter Relationship, Soul Sessions Podcast host, Jodie Gale talks about:
- Mother-daughter identity
- Adverse childhood experiences (ACES)
- Complex trauma
- Developmental trauma
- The negative effects of a strained mother-daughter relationship
- The inner-critic & mother
- The different types of mothers: narcissistic, helicopter, smothering, absent, abandoning
- Mothering as a verb
- Building an internal good enough mother
- The narcissistic mother, needs and feelings
- How to heal the mother-daughter relationship
- Tips for daughters
- Tips for mothers
- Jodie’s upcoming inner child workshops for women and inner child certificate training for therapists
Connect with Jodie
Join Jodie's mailing list to be notified of her Inner Child Online Workshops
Jodie on Instagram
For the show notes go to https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-mother-daughter-relationship/
This episode is proudly sponsored by Jodie's group, Trauma Warriors™.
In What is Complex Trauma, Soul Sessions Podcast host, Jodie Gale talks about:
- What is complex trauma?
- Understanding complex trauma
- Adverse childhood experiences (ACES)
- Neurobiological development
- Somatic and psychic pain associated with complex trauma
- How to find a trauma therapist
- Recommended reading for complex trauma, developmental trauma and the inner child
- Jodie's upcoming inner child workshops for women and inner child certificate training for therapists
For the show notes, go to: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul sessions what is complex trauma
This episode is proudly sponsored by Jodie's group, Trauma Warriors™.
In Not My Closet: How Betrayal Trauma Impacts Self & Body Image, Karen Bieman talks to us about betrayal trauma and the impact this has on the sense of self and body image of straight and non-trans partners in relationships with a closeted lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender person.
In Not My Closet: How Betrayal Trauma Impacts Self & Body Image, Karen also talks about:
- What brought Karen to this work
- Karen’s relationship song
- When Karen’s husband told her the truth about being gay
- Why Karen’s life felt like a lie
- Karen’s life work
- Disenfranchised grief
- Why the betrayed partner is often silenced
- Why you should never say ‘at least…’
- Brene Brown Empathy versus sympathy
- What are the types of betrayal trauma relationships?
- Lies, deception and betrayal
- Why the betrayed partner feels confused, used and angry
- Shame, silence and betrayal
- Homophobia and collateral damage
- Conversion therapy and other solutions
- What is intentional monogamy?
- What happens to most couples?
- Mutual respect is the ultimate goal
- Gaslighting and betrayal trauma
- Existential crisis and coming out
- The impact on the children
- The impact of the betrayal on the straight or non-trans partner
- The impact on the straight and non-trans partner’s body image
- Shame and body image
- Using food, disgust as a coping mechanism
- Yo-yo dieting and weight cycling is disordered eating
- Dieting is an attempt to fix something that has never been broken (Jodie’s article)
- Object relations and primary attachment injuries
- Post-traumatic growth – what is the symptom calling for us to awakening to?
- Value, meaning and purpose
- Anger and recovery
- Fierce self-compassion - Kristen Neff
- Self-sabotage versus self-love
- Dating again and trust
- Relational healing, therapy and support groups
- Individual and couples counselling
For the show notes, go to: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/not-my-closet/
This episode is proudly sponsored by Jodie's group, Trauma Warriors™.
In How Therapists Reinforce Unworthiness When They Support Intentional Weight Loss, Allison Puryear, talks specifically to therapists about supporting clients who come wanting to lose weight.
In How Therapists Reinforce Unworthiness When They Support Intentional Weight Loss, Allison also talks about:
- What brought her to this work
- Are eating disorder patients hard to work with?
- Trauma and eating disorders
- Why this episode is specifically for therapists
- What's wrong with supporting clients with intentional weight loss?
- We are a field based on science, until it comes to weight loss
- Weight stigma and fatness
- Feeling like a personal failure
- 90% of diets fail
- Socio economic inequalities and intentional weight loss
- What gets missed when we focus on client's weight?
- Shame and weight loss
- Eating disorders work!
- Thin privilege and being a therapist
- What is fat phobia?
- Cheryl Fuller on fat phobia
- Fat, fat, fat, fat, fat - Allison says fat about a million times ;)
- Neutralising fat phobia
- Discrimination against fat people
- Why we use quotation marks when we talk about "obesity"
- Do you want to contribute to the development of an eating disorder?
- Deprivation and restriction
- There is a whole other world out there when we stop dieting
- What is the work that therapists need to do?
- Intuitive eating
- Demonizing foods
- Recommended books: Intuitive eating, Anti-Diet, Health At Every Size, Body Respect
- Health at Every Size
- Mourning the loss of being thin
- Eating disorder training
- Refer out if necessary
- Find a therapist who will not support intentional weight loss
- Invisalign and disordered eating
For the show notes, go to: 46-how-therapists-reinforce-unworthiness-when-they-support-intentional-weight-loss-with-allison-puryearhttps://www.thesoulcentre.online/
This episode is proudly sponsored by Jodie's group, Trauma Warriors™.
In NOOM: The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, Cherie Miller, MS, LPC, talks to us about the diet NOOM.
Cherie is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Texas. She is founder and owner of Food Freedom Therapy™, a group practice of therapists and coaches who help people make peace with food and their bodies. Cherie has 15 years years of experience as an eating disorder therapist, mentor, speaker, educator, and advocate. She is also a member of the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Foundation (IAEDP) and the Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH).
- What brought Cherie to this work
- What is NOOM?
- Where is NOOM?
- Cherie's experience free trialing NOOM
- How many people use NOOM?
- What are the two main claims of NOOM
- Is NOOM a diet? They say NO, we say Yes!
- What's wrong with NOOM?
- NOOM and being deceptive
- NOOM , colour coding and counting calories
- Intentional weight loss
- Splitting: Good and bad foods
- 95% diets don't work but NOOM claims life long results
- Is NOOM's evidence correct?
- What's wrong with weighing oneself daily?
- Obsessive behaviour, disordered eating and eating disorders
- Should therapists support their clients to participate in NOOM or other intentional weight loss?
- The use of the term 'obesity' and the obesity epidemic
- Weight oppression, bias and stigma of clients in bigger bodies
- The Health at Every Size at movement
- Grieving the loss of the fact that weight loss doesn't work
- Developing a healthy and trusting relationship with your body
- Cherie’s top tips for women at home
- Be intentional about your social media feed
For the show notes, go to: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/045-noom-the-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing/
This episode is proudly sponsored by Jodie's group, Trauma Warriors™.
In Healing Trauma with Music Therapy, Maya Benattar talks with us about all things music therapy.
Maya Benattar, MA, MT-BC, LCAT is a music therapist and psychotherapist in private practice in Midtown Manhattan and online throughout NY state. Her specialties include anxiety, developmental/intergenerational trauma and highly sensitive people (HSP). In addition to her clinical work, Maya offers supervision/consultation for other therapists, provides professional development and wellness workshops, and offers restorative workshops for helpers and healers. Maya received her master’s degree from New York University, and has completed extensive postgraduate training in vocal psychotherapy, creative arts therapies in healing trauma treatment, and music and imagery.
In Healing Trauma with Music Therapy, Maya also talks about:
- What it was that brought her to this work
- What is music therapy?
- What types of music would someone use in music therapy?
- Do people have to be musical to go to music therapy?
- Why would someone come to music therapy?/What symptoms are they struggling with?
- Disordered eating, trauma (CPTSD), attachment trauma and music therapy
- Coming back to the body
- How can music therapy improve our mental health and help us heal and grow?
- What does a music therapy session look like?
- What is vocal psychotherapy?
- Inside Out, Psychosynthesis, parts and subpersonalities (training)
- What happens in a music therapy workshop?
- Maya's favourite piece of music
For the show notes, go to https://www.thesoulcentre.online/044-healing-trauma-with-music-therapy/
In Assertiveness for Women, Dr Julie Hanks talks about her book, The Assertiveness Guide for Women: How to Communicate Your Needs, Set Healthy Boundaries, and Transform Your Relationships. This episode will be transformative for anyone who has suffered with early childhood trauma (attachment trauma, complex trauma, development trauma) and childhood emotional neglect as well as disordered eating or an eating disorder.
Dr. Julie Hanks, PhD, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist, coach, content creator, author, speaker, owner of Wasatch Family Therapy, and host of the Ask Dr. Julie Hanks podcast. With nearly 30 years experience, Dr. Hanks provides a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower women to prioritize their dreams, revolutionize their families, and personalize their faith.
In Assertiveness for Women, Dr Julie Hanks also talks about
- What brought her to this work
- Julie's history as a people pleasing perfectionist
- What is assertiveness?
- What causes women to not be assertive?
- What has attachment got to do with assertiveness?
- Eating disorders, disordered eating and assertiveness
- Why is assertiveness so important?
- Assertiveness, food and feelings
- Feelings and needs
- The 5 skills women need to develop to be assertive
- Trauma, boundaries and assertiveness
In Psychotherapy 101, my guest Integrative Art Psychotherapist, Emma Cameron, answer all your questions about how psychotherapy works. This episode is a wonderful resource for anyone looking for, or in therapy for complex trauma (CPTSD), developmental trauma and childhood emotional neglect.
Emma is a UKCP registered Integrative Arts Psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, AEDP therapist, and artist who lives and works in the U.K. Emma specialises in working online with sensitive, thoughtful women of all ages and all sizes. She helps her clients find new, creative ways to make sense of their anxiety and their other emotions, and to work on healing from painful past experiences. Emma is a strong believer in the power of creativity and the imagination as a part of positive therapeutic change, in online therapy as well as face-to-face.
In Psychotherapy 101, Emma talks about:
- what brought her to this work
- what we would see if we were a fly on the wall in therapy
- the types of techniques used in counselling and psychotherapy
- the kind of people who go to therapy
- how therapy works
- attachment 101 and the therapeutic relationship
- how often people go to therapy and for how long
- whether it normal to feel attached or even dependent on the therapist
- how to cope when our therapist is on holidays
- if it is OK to give our therapist feedback
- whether therapists really care or perhaps even love their clients
- do therapists have their own therapy? If so why?
- how to know when we are ready to end therapy
For the show notes, go to: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-042-psychotherapy-101-with-emma-cameron/
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If you are struggling with early childhood trauma (complex PTSD, CPTSD), childhood emotional neglect, disordered eating or the trance of unworthiness, you may be thinking about seeking support but how do you know if you need a therapist or a coach?
In Do I Need a Therapist or a Coach?, Soul Sessions podcast host Jodie Gale shares about everything you need to know about the difference between therapy and coaching and whether you need a therapist or a coach.
Jodie is a soul-centred, eco-psychosynthesis psychotherapist and mind body eating coach who specialises in early childhood trauma, childhood emotional neglect, disordered eating and the trance of unworthiness.
In Do I Need a Therapist or a Coach? Jodie talks about:
- What do Tony Robbins, Brooke Castillo and Marie Forleo have to do with therapy versus coaching?
- What is psychotherapy?
- What is coaching?
- How does therapy work?
- How does coaching work?
- The therapeutic frame
- The coaching frame
- What are the benefits of counselling and psychotherapy?
- What are the benefits of coaching?
- What training do counsellors and psychotherapists have?
- What are psychotherapy training requirements?
- What are coaching training requirements?
- What are therapist supervision requirements?
- What are coach supervision requirements?
- What are counsellor and psychotherapists' personal therapy requirements?
- What are coaches' personal coaching requirements?
- What are the different types of therapy?
- What are the different types of coaching?
- What are the reasons you might seek a psychotherapist?
- What are the reasons you might seek a coach?
- What are the limitations of therapy?
- What are the limitations of coaching?
- How do I find a counsellor or psychotherapist?
- How do I find a coach?
This blog post was originally part of my therapist blog challenge from my therapist Facebook group: Therapy Versus Coaching: Should You See a Therapist or a Coach.
Connect with Jodie on Social:
Trauma Warriors™ Facebook Group for Women
The Soul Centre on Facebook
Nature Therapy for the Soul on Facebook
For the show notes: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-do-i-need-a-therapist-or-a-coach/
This episode is sponsored by Trauma Warriors.
In Healing from Co-dependency, Licensed Psychotherapist Sharon Martin talks about understanding and healing from codependency.
Sharon Martin, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist in San Jose, California, specializing in co-dependency recovery. Sharon writes the blog Conquering Co-dependency for Psychology Today and is the author of "Navigating the Co-dependency Maze", "The CBT Workbook for Perfectionism" and her new book "The Better Boundaries Workbook".
In Healing from Codependency, Sharon also talks about:
- What brought her to this work
- Co-dependency and the helping professions
- Girls and self-sacrificing
- What is co-dependency?
- What does co-dependency look like?
- What does co-dependency feel like?
- Shame and co-dependency
- What is developmental trauma?
- Codependency as a coping mechanism
- The people pleaser and the perfectionist
- Healing from co-dependency
For the show notes, go to: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-healing-from-co-dependency/
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In Are You There Buddha? Author and CBCA winner, Pip Harry talks about coming of age, the mother-daughter relationship, periods and starting high school.
Pip Harry is an Australian children’s author and journalist. Her novel, The Little Wave, won the CBCA 2020 Book of the Year Award for younger readers and the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year. It was shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Her young adult novels include I’ll Tell You Mine, Head of the River, and Because of You, shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year Award, Victorian Premier's Literary Award and Queensland Literary Award. Her latest novel is Are You There, Buddha? and she is currently working on a new middle grade novel due for release in 2022.
In Are You There Buddha? Pip also talks about:
- How Pip became an author
- Are you there God, it is me Margaret
- The 80s: Cleo & Dolly magazines
- Periods in the 80s
- Why & when Pip wrote Are You There Buddha?
- From Playboy to periods: I reread Judy Blume with my tween. She found it perplexing by Pip Harry
- The mother-daughter relationship
- The narcissistic mother
- Motherless daughters, eating disorders
- Abandonment and lack of attunement
- Absent mothers
- How a child feels when the mother abandons the family
- The May Gibbs Fellowship
- The step-mother and step-daughter relationship
- Mindfulness, meditation and Buddha
- Bee and Buddha
- The Great Mother and the feminine
- The noisy world that teenagers are growing up in and finding one's inner self
- Facebook aware of Instagram’s harmful effect on teenage girls, leak reveals
- Yumi Stynes, Welcome to Your Period
- The other relationships in Are You There Buddha?
- Leon, the perfect role model for boys
- Talking about climate change
- Criticism, rejection and the superego
- Create a period pack of books
- Dr Lara Owen: Her Blood is Gold
- Pip's first book in Big W
- Book face - Are You There Buddha is the perfect cover to create a book face
For the show notes, go to: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-039-are-you-buddha-with-pip-harry/
In 10 Advantages to Liking Your Body As It Is, Gestalt Psychotherapist Cindy Blank-Edelman shares with us about:
- Feminism
- Being radical
- Body freedom
- What is Gestalt therapy?
- The paradoxical theory of change
- Acceptance & change
- What is body image?
- Diet culture, oppression, racism, sexism and misogyny
- Negative bias and Velcro
- Negative body image is bad for our health
- Top 10 advantages to liking your body as it is
- Freedom tastes better than thin
- How therapists miss people
- Dieting and control
This episode is for anyone who has suffered with trauma (developmental trauma, complex trauma, childhood trauma, fat trauma), disordered eating, eating disorders and other food, weight and body image concerns.
For the show notes, go to https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-38-10-advantages-to-liking-your-body-as-it-is/
In Our Body Is The Home For Our Soul, Podcast Host, Trauma & Disordered eating Specialist, Jodie Gale shares about:
- Feeling at home in our body
- Our true identity
- Manifesting soul
- Diet culture
- The trance of unworthiness
- The call of the soul
- Coming home to our true self
For the show notes: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-body-and-soul/
In Treating Trauma with Somatic & Talk Therapy, Psychotherapist Andrea Szasz from Brave Therapy talks about healing the split between somatic and talk therapy. She also talks about:
- What brought Andrea to this work?
- What is attachment?
- What are the attachment styles?
- The secure base
- Fight, flight and freeze
- Why and how do we bring the body into the room?
- Emotions, feelings and the body
- Somatic Therapies: Somatic experiencing, Sensorimotor, Hakomi, Embodied Imagination
- Trauma informed yoga
- Emotional regulation
- Somatic therapy versus talk therapy
- Healing the split between somatic and talk therapy
- Healing the split by Nelson
- Master talk therapists, relationship and attunement
- Pat Ogden, Bessel van der Kolk, Norman Doidge
- Bad talk therapy doesn't work
- Disconnection and connection
- Psychotherapy wars / Kung Fu wars
- EMDR and brainspotting
- Long-term trauma therapy
- University of Sydney Trauma Informed Psychotherapy
- The Daring Way
- Adult Attachment Interview
For the show notes, go to: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-36-treating-trauma/
In Should I Get the COVID Vaccine?, Immunologist Dr. Tania Gourley answers all of your questions about whether you should get vaccinated or not.
Dr. Tania Gourley received her Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of Michigan in Microbiology and Immunology. Her post-doctoral training was with Dr. Rafi Ahmed at Emory University, a world leader in immunological responses to viral infection and vaccination. Dr. Gourley's post-doctoral research focussed on the antibody and T cell responses to both viral infection and vaccination including influenza vaccination in immune compromised individuals. Currently, she is working as a Senior Project Coordinator in the Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology/Emory Vaccine Center at the Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Gourley manages research studies on viral immunity including a Covid-19 study which is evaluating the longevity of the immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in infected individuals over a two year period. Dr. Gourley grew up in New Zealand and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband, two children, and three dogs.
In Should I Get the COVID Vaccine? Dr Gourley and I talk about:
- Why she became an immunologist
- Our family history of lock-downs and vaccination
- Influenza, Tuberculosis and Polio
- Trauma and the immune system
- What is a vaccine?
- How are vaccines developed and tested?
- Are the vaccines new?
- Some of the vaccine trials were paused, why?
- How do the COVID vaccines work?
- Who should get the COVID vaccine?
- Who shouldn't get the COVID vaccine?
- What are the side effects of a COVID vaccine?
- Are the vaccines safe?
- Am I playing Russian Roulette if I get the vaccine?
- What's Andrew Jeremy Wakefield got to do with the COVID anti-vax movement? (Andrew Wakefield was struck off the medical register due to his involvement in the Lancet MMR autism fraud, a 1998 study that falsely claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism).
- What are the benefits of a COVID vaccine?
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Myth busting about the COVID vaccine
- COVID is just like the flu, we should open up and just live with it
- The COVID vaccines are new and are still in a trial phase – we are all guinea pigs
- The COVID vaccines could cause infertility
- The government are really injecting microchips into our arms
- My immune system is top notch, I eat clean and I have a spiritual practice, my immune system will fight off COVID, I therefore have no need for a mask or the vaccine
- You can still catch COVID even though you have the vaccine so there is no point in taking it
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At the end of the World Health Organisation vaccine video series, they say, 'stay safe, stay healthy and stick with science' Why is it important that we stick with the science here and not just opinions?
- There are a lot of people saying, ‘I’ll just wait and see’ – what is your advice for people who are still hesitant?
- Personal choice and the anti-vax movement
Head to the Show Notes: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-should-i-get-the-covid-vaccine/ for the links mentioned in this episode:
The Anti-Vax Conspiracy
Vaccines Weren't Rushed
Lockdowns, Masks & Conspiracy Theories
Cracking COVID
The COVID Fertility Issue
Pandemics result From the Destruction of Nature
How disgraced anti-vaxxer Andrew Wakefield was embraced by Trump's America
The Hill of Hope Sanitorium, Christchurch, NZ
Signs of Spiritual Narcissism
In this episode, Disordered Eating, Food, Weight & Body Image Concerns Psychotherapy and Mind Body Image Coach, Jodie Gale shares the HAES Manifesto by Lindo Bacon to help you understand Health at Every Size and how intentional weight loss and dieting can cause harm.
In What is Eating Disorder Coaching? Eating Disorder Recovery Coach Sarah Lee shares with us about becoming an eating psychology and eating disorder recovery coach. This super authentic episode will be of much value to women suffering with dieting, disordered eating and eating disorders. It will also be of value to counsellors and therapists who would like to know more about how an eating disorder coach could be of service to their clients.
Sarah also talks about:
- Her recovery story from bulimia
- Giving birth and baby weight
- Being the 'perfect' weight watcher
- Why Carolyn Costin sets the bar high for coach training
- Mothers, daughters and disordered eating - what's the biggest problem?
- Diet culture
- FAO therapists - not all coaching is flimsy
- What type of clients is coaching suitable for?
- The 10 Phases of Eating Disorder Recovery
- What do coaches actually do?
- Eating, food and clothes shopping with clients
- Meal challenges
- Finding an eating disorder recovery team
- Can someone fully recover from an eating disorder?
- What does it mean to be recovered?
- Care of the Soul
For the show notes, go to: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-eating-disorder-coaching/
In Veganism & Mental Health: The Cost of Caring, counsellor Amanda Atchison shares with us about the mental health trauma caused by being vegan in a non-vegan world. She also gives tips to counsellors and psychotherapists who work with vegan clients and how to support them.
Amanda also talks about:
- How veganism has become more widespread due to climate change, more access to vegan products, and documentaries such as Forks Over Knives, Game Changers, Cowspiracy & Blackfish
- What people gain by becoming vegan
- What is vistopia? Clare Mann, vegan psychologist
- The different types of vegans
- The types of people who become vegan
- The Bunnings Vegan BBQ uproar
- Veganism and sensitivity
- Eating disorders and veganism
- What eating disorder therapists need to know about
- The mental health issues re harming animals
- The importance of social connection
- The principle of Do No Harm
- Veganism Australia
For the show notes and links to vegan and plant-based recipes, go to: https://bit.ly/2SxmAFD
In M-Bodied Mothering Medicine for Disordered Eating Recovery, Caroline shares her model to help love your body and rediscover food and exercise from pleasurable, sustainable practices through mothering metaphors. Caroline talks about: What is M-Bodied? The good enough mother. Mothering medicine. What’s oxytocin got to do with it? There are many mothers. Mothering as a verb. What is Polyvagal Theory? What makes us feel unsafe? Big Ts and little ts. Trauma and attachment theory. Multigenerational trauma. Why building the relationship in therapy is so important for recovery. Why anger is crucial. The real meaning of depression. Attunement and needs. Family Based Therapy (FBT). Eating disorders are family disorders. What can people do at home to heal. Nature and Mother Earth as healer.
For the show notes, go to: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-31-m-bodied/
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In this episode, host Jodie Gale, talks about how to find meaning and purpose throughout difficult times.
She also shares about: famous people throughout time who have experienced great suffering and who have overcome difficult times; suffering through COVID; Viktor Frankl and Man's Search for Meaning; Positive Thinking & Toxic Positivity; IVF failures; On Grief & Grieving by David Kessler & Elisabeth Kubler Ross; The 5 Stages of Grief; Transformation & Post-Traumatic Growth; Journal Prompts for Overcoming; A book list for overcoming adversity; Repression of the sublime.
For the show notes, go to: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-finding-meaning-and-purpose/
In this episode, Abby Seixas talks about her bestselling book, Finding the Deep River Within.
Abby Seixas is a psychotherapist, author and speaker specializing in issues of self-care for women. She offers workshops, retreats and individualized coaching as well as her popular “Deep River”™ groups. Her television appearances include NBC’s The Today Show and her work has been featured in O–The Oprah Magazine, Self, Woman’s Day, Fitness, Body & Soul, and The Boston Globe.
Abby talks with us about Meditation and the human potential movement, The pandemic and mental health, What is the deep river within? What are blocking beliefs? Time-In, Boundaries, Befriending Feelings, Taming expectations and presence.
Show notes: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-finding-the-deep-river-within/
In Stop the Fat Talk, BodyMatters founder Sarah McMahon talks about dieting, disordered eating (anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, orthorexia), body image, fat talking and diet culture.
Sarah also talks about:
- Why Sarah has dedicated her career to working with people suffering from eating disorders
- Health at every size
- Fat talking statistics
- Why are we consumed by fat talk?
- What is fat talk?
- The diet, medical, fashion, beauty industry
- Everyone is a health expert
- The consequences of fat talking
- How to stop the fat talk
- Boundaries with friends who fat talk
- Tips for parents who fat talk
- How to heal from fat talk
- BodyMatters services
For the show notes, go to: https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-stop-the-fat-talk/
In this episode, I interview Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Mari Lee, about women who have experienced sexual deception and betrayal trauma due to their partner’s sex addiction and/or porn addiction.
Mari A. Lee is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Certified in Sex Addiction and Partners, Betrayal Trauma, and Mindfulness.
Mari also discusses what it was that brought her to this work, sex and porn addiction, sexual compulsivity, is porn harmful? What is betrayal trauma? Gaslighting and betrayal trauma, boundaries, the grief cycle, the impact of betrayal on the body, mind & soul, complex trauma, and how to heal from trauma.
For the show notes, go to: 027: Sexual Deception & Betrayal Trauma with Mari Lee - The Soul Centre
Returning guest, Dr. Lara Owen talks about the perils of extreme positive thinking, toxic positivity, and how to be your true self in a world dominated by social media and consumerism.
Lara also talks about behavioural and material sustainability, the earth as a precious resource, living through the pandemic, slowing down, ego, soul and authenticity, existential and spiritual crisis.
You can find the show notes at
https://www.thesoulcentre.online/soul-sessions-26-with-dr-lara-owen
In Psycho-Spiritual Healing from Trauma, my guest Amy Babish talks about healing from trauma (complex trauma, attachment trauma, interpersonal trauma, CPTSD) from a psycho-spiritual and movement therapy lens.
Amy also shares about her own recovery from disordered eating, soul-work, the wise woman within, the lone wolf within, family constellations, somatic psychotherapy, resourcing, and movement therapy.
In Recovering from Sexual Abuse, I talk with Therapy Chat Podcast Host & Trauma Therapist, Laura Reagan. In this episode we talk about childhood sexual abuse, grooming, it is always the abuser's fault, how parents respond to disclosure, trauma (CPTSD) responses, how women can begin to heal and trauma informed yoga.
In Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN), I talk with Dr Jonice Webb about the pain and effects of CEN, emotional eating, and the steps to healing outlined in her book Running on Empty. Jonice also talks about childhood trauma (attachment trauma. complex trauma (CPTSD)), the types of parents who emotionally neglect their children, narcissistic parents, shame, anger, the inner child and how to reparent oneself.
In What is Psychotherapy? I dive deep into all things psychotherapy with Certified Transactional Analyst Jo Frasca. This episode will help clients who have suffered with attachment trauma, interpersonal trauma and complex trauma (CPTSD) learn more about how to find a properly trained psychotherapist, what happens in psychotherapy and how it works. This episode is also a wonderful resource for mental health professionals to learn more about psychotherapy and how it differs from counselling, social work, psychology and coaching, as well as how psychotherapy differs from techniques such as CBT and EMDR.
In The Insidious Nature of Shame, Dr. Sona Delurgio talks about trauma, shame and disordered eating. Sona also talks about contemporary psychoanalysis, attunement between caregiver and child is crucial to well-being, attachment, the different attachment styles, cptsd, complex trauma, developing a sense of security, how shame shows up in women's lives, shame and disordered eating, intuitive eating, the therapeutic frame, why once a week is the gold standard for therapy to work, why starting psychotherapy is the most courageous thing you can do, how psychotherapy helps you to move through your suffering, there is nothing like the the relationship you will have with your therapist.
In How to Stick to New Year's Resolutions, Soul Sessions podcast host and founder of thesoulcentre.online, Jodie Gale shares about the different types of will: strong will, skillful will, goodwill, Transpersonal Will. She also talks about the different types of love: for oneself, for others and for the planet. We need a balance of love (feminine energy) and will (masculine energy) and New Year's Resolutions based on value, meaning and purpose in order to reach our goals.
In 7 Tips to Help You Ditch Your New Year Diet Resolutions, Soul Sessions host Jodie Gale talks about feeling broken, attempted failed attempts at weight loss, whatever your soul calls for - do that! health at every size, focusing on weight is a red herring, diet culture seduction, thoughts and feelings, the inner critic, self-compassion, advocate for fat talk free and how to live a big life now regardless of your size.
In 30 COVID Friendly Alternatives to a Dysfunctional Family Christmas, I talk about my history of complex trauma (CPTSD, attachment trauma) and dysfunctional family Christmas', How I used food to cope, How to set boundaries throughout the holidays, Reasons you may be dreading Christmas, Martha Becks ideas for surviving your next family Christmas, Family estrangement throughout COVID and the holidays, Being COVID safe throughout the holidays, and my list of 30 COVID friendly alternatives to a dysfunctional family Christmas.
This episode covers recovery tools for addiction, anxiety, depression, dieting, eating disorders, health at every size, life crisis, relationships and spiritual awakening.
In Trauma, Gratitude & When We Met Oprah, I talk with Anna Dwyer about trauma (CPTSD, attachment trauma, complex trauma), Black Lives Matter, Aboriginal, Indigenous and First Nations of Australia, what white people need to know being a police sergeant on COVID hotel quarantine, what is gratitude? and when we met Oprah.
In Embodied Recovery, I talk with Paula Scatoloni and Rachel Lewis Marlow about complex trauma and disordered eating from a sensorimotor and somatic psychotherapy perspective.
Rachel and Paula also talk about their own history with trauma, disordered eating and working in this field, what is sensorimotor and somatic psychotherapy?, what is embodied recovery?, the body as a resource, what is the window of tolerance?, emotional regulation and dysregulation, attachment trauma, relational trauma, interpersonal trauma, CPTSD and how one begins to heal from disordered eating and eating disorders.
In this episode Dr Lara Owen, author of Her Blood is Gold talks about menstruation, spirituality and how women can heal from the dominant medicalized approach to women's bodies. Lara also talks about The Sabbath of Women, ceremony, celebrating menstruation, how period advertising gaslights women, the painful relationship with being female, PMS, ritual, spiritual power and wisdom.
In Trauma and Self-Destructive Behaviours, Lisa Ferentz talks about healing from trauma, disordered eating and other self-destructive behaviours such as self-harm and addictions. She also talks about: What is trauma?, What causes trauma?, What are self-destructive behaviours?, What Lisa learnt about working with these concerns, Lisa's non-pathologizing approach, What are self-destructive behaviours trying to communicate?, Why is it so hard to change?, Why is the disordered eating field reluctant to go near trauma?, Advice for parents of children suffering with self-destructive behaviours, How does one heal?, The CARESS Technique for recovery, Finding Your Ruby Slippers and Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors by Lisa Ferentz.
In this episode, the founder of Body Liberation Photos, Lindley Ashline, talks about living in a fat body, fat acceptance, diet culture, dieting, Health at Every Size®(HAES®), body diversity, diverse stock photos and how to find a body positive photographer.
In Find Hope When You Feel Like Dying, the founder of Find Hope, Fiona Livingstone, talks about her journey through depression, bulimia, trauma, feeling suicidal and the suicide of her father. Fiona now runs workshops at Find Hope to prevent, heal and post-care for those impacted by suicide.
Fiona also talks about two psychological states: perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness, the link between eating disorders and suicide, why people attempt to die by suicide, why don’t people who attempt to die by suicide reach out for help, myths about suicide, what signs do we need to look out for?, how do we talk about suicide?, do you need to be a health professional to talk about suicide?, how depth psychotherapy works, how long does therapy take?
In this episode, I talk with Tina Rawlings talks about complex trauma, early childhood emotional neglect, disordered eating, psychotherapy, the importance of connection, horses, equine therapy, bees and how nature helps us heal. Tina also talks about her own history of childhood trauma and disordered eating and what led her to becoming a psychotherapist.
In this episode Jodie Gale interviews Author and Winner of the CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers, Pip Harry. We discuss young adult fiction, mental health, diet culture, competitive sport and identity. Pip talks about her personal story, her struggles with weight, dieting and competitive sport, and how she overcame them, her career history including being a former editor of New Idea, the long road to success which included many knockbacks, what is young adult fiction?, what age is young adult fiction aimed at?, what kind of concerns do young adult fiction cover?, why is it important for this age demographic to read about mental health concerns such as anxiety, depression, disordered eating, mother-daughter issues?, how competitive sport puts pressure on young people in terms of their relationship with food and their body, do authors write about the struggles in their own lives?, Pip's advice for anyone else struggling with these concerns, how writing can help in recovery, why are so many adults reading YA books? Themes in this episode are trauma, CPTSD, eating disorder recovery, anger, boarding school, mother-daughter relationships.
In this episode of the Soul Sessions with Jodie Gale, I discuss The Perils of Fitness Trackers with Kyla Holley from the Australian Centre for Eating Disorders (ACFED). Kyla shares about her personal history with binge eating, dieting and weight concerns, why fitness tracking numbers, weight, calories, carbs and steps are problematic, self-worth and seeking external validation, childhood obesity and should children wear fitness trackers, and how to seek therapeutic help.
In this episode, I talk with Psychotherapist & Women's Empowerment Coach Nicole Burgess about 3 troublesome running mates: The People Pleaser, Inner Critic & Perfectionist. Nicole shares about her own history with these parts (also known as subpersonalities, ego states, subselves, internal family systems) and how she came to be a therapist, transpersonal psychology for complex trauma (cptsd, developmental trauma, attachment trauma), The Critic, Perfectionist, People Pleaser - what they sound like, where overidentification stems from, the real issues underlying these behaviours, how women can find freedom, objections women might have about letting go of these parts, coming home to soul self, and self-compassion.
In this episode, Cheryl Fuller PhD, Jungian psychotherapist talks about her passion for depth psychology, psychotherapy, feminism and fat studies. Her book, The Fat Lady Sings weaves these threads into a tapestry of personal experience, critique of psychoanalytic theory and treatment of fatness, all in the context of the war on obesity. Cheryl and I discuss Irvin Yalom's, The Fat Lady (his client Betty) and wonder together what she really needed as a fat woman seeking therapy. We talk about how living in a fat body is a trauma, racism and BMI, representation of all body sizes in the media, and how losing weight is not the solution. This episode is also a must for therapists; Cheryl says we must work on our own fat bias and body acceptance so that we do no harm to our clients.
In Is Diet Culture Gaslighting Us?, I interview Fiona Sutherland, also known as, The Mindful Dietitian. She shares about her own history with body image concerns, diet culture throughout time, the overwhelm women feel at the confusion about what they ‘should’ be eating, how diet culture gaslights us, the stories we tell ourselves about food, food rules and where food rules come from, black and white thinking about whether food is ‘good, clean, healthy’ or ‘bad, dirty, unhealthy’, carbophobia; it’s history, whether carbs are bad and why we end up bingeing on carbs, and how we can heal our relationship with food through intuitive eating, health at every size, self-compassion and trauma informed yoga.
Jodie Gale, founder of the TheSoulCentre.Online https://www.thesoulcentre.online/, psychotherapist, complex trauma expert and mind body eating coach for women talks about why women suffering with chronic dieting, weight concerns and disordered eating need depth psychotherapy now more than ever before. Eating disorders and body image problems are complex and like a puzzle. The links between complex trauma (C-PTSD), adverse childhood experiences, childhood emotional neglect, eating disorders and other food, weight and body image concerns are discussed.
In this episode of the Soul Sessions with Jodie Gale podcast, Ann Saffi Biasetti, author of Befriending Your Body, shares how to befriend your body using somatic techniques, embodiment and self-compassion. Ann also provides you with a short embodiment exercise. If you are struggling with body image problems, chronic dieting, binge eating, emotional eating, disordered eating or an eating disorder - you will find many nuggets of wisdom in this episode. Ann also talks about transpersonal psychology, spirituality and healing from trauma, CPTSD, complex trauma and attachment trauma.
In this episode, world renown eating disorder therapist Carolyn Costin shares her eating disorder recovery journey and discusses, Finding Meaning and Purpose, from her book 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder. Carolyn talks about her understanding of spirituality, the difference between ego and soul, and how to connect with soul-self for life-long recovery from anorexia, bulimia, binge eating as well as other food, weight and body image concerns.
Carolyn now runs The Carolyn Costin Institute where she rigorously trains eating disorder coaches.
In this episode, Jodie Gale, Founder of thesoulcentre.online and Host of the Soul Sessions with Jodie Gale podcast guides you through a self-identification, mindfulness visualization to help you disidentify from your body, feelings and mind, and identify with your true self, authentic self, observing self and soul self. This exercise helps to recover from early childhood trauma (complex trauma /complexPTSD / CPTSD), diet culture, binge eating, emotional eating, disordered eating, eating disorders and other food, weight and body image concerns. It is also useful for women who struggle with low-self worth and who want to heal the inner child.
In this introductory episode, Founder of thesoulcentre.online and Host of the Soul Sessions with Jodie Gale talks about how swimming with Fungi the wild dolphin in Ireland helped her to recover from early childhood trauma (complex trauma/complexPTSD), childhood emotional neglect, amphetamine addiction, yo-yo dieting, emotional eating, binge eating and bulimia. She also discusses how she turned her life around through weekly, depth psychotherapy with a psychospiritual, transpersonal and psychosynthesis psychotherapist who was herself a wounded healer.