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Awe in TraumaBrainspotting From Source (featuring Dr Mark Grixti)This short episode is an important message in our time. It is taken from a recent production that is core to his trainings, writing and healing retreats. Mark speaks from the heart about the essence of healing and in this brief snapshot, covers key concepts that have been subjugated and marginalised in so much therapy and healing work. Through this narration, we can remind ourselves of the relationship between the person and the psyche, the importance of ritual and ceremony, the power of the collective or the tribe, and the power of meeting our pain within and well beyond psy...2025-04-0306 minAwe in TraumaQuestion Mark - Q&A with experts in the field (featuring Dr David Grand)Welcome to a captivating special edition of the Awe in Trauma podcast!In this episode, fittingly titled "Question Mark," we unlock powerful insights through a thought-provoking Q&A session with leading experts. As breakthroughs in neurobiology, neuropsychology, spirituality, and healing reshape our understanding of trauma and human suffering, the need for a fresh, holistic framework has never been greater.Contributors in this episode include top professionals (links below) from the fields of psychotherapy, psychology, and bodywork. We’re excited to feature a special guest appearance by regular Awe in Trauma co...2025-01-0443 minAwe in TraumaAddiction as Dissociation (with Dr Adam O'Brien)Dr. Adam O'Brien is an Approved Brainspotting Consultant and special topics trainer. He is a specialist in trauma, dissociation, addiction, recovery, and trauma or memory resolution. His passion is educating on healing through Addiction as Dissociation Model and research, helping others walk the Path of the Wounded Healer, Recovery research, advocating for psychedelic medicine and psychedelic research, and freeing the hearts and minds of audiences by activating states of healing together with his Addiction Re-Educational Program at the Wounded Healers Institute. This powerful episode takes the listener through a journey into the power of history and insight...2024-12-0949 minAwe in TraumaThe Tribe Is The Medicine (with Hamaima)A fascinating episode with Hamaima who is a Shamanic Practitioner, Musician, Sound Healer and New Earth Guide with many years of experience in holding space for ceremonies and retreats world wide. In her work she combines ancient practices from different spiritual traditions to guide and empower. In this episode Hamiama approaches healing from ma both a more traditional approach through her earlier years in Social Work to her more recent developments in working with indigenous tribes, plant medicine, and her project named “Mission on Earth”. The listener will get some insight into what it means to engage in a d...2024-07-2554 minAwe in TraumaWounded Healers - Be Well (with Dr Melanie Young)Dr Melanie Young is a licensed psychologist with a private practice in Boulder, Colorado. Melanie is a senior Brainspotting (BSP) trainer, consultant and certified Brainspotting therapist. She assists individuals and couples with relationships, losses, and grief. Melanie helps navigate the challenges around brain injuries, ADD, pain, illness, and phobias. Specialties also include working with seniors, their families, and caregivers. She uses BSP as a tool to help heal trauma, increase effective coping strategies, strengthen internal resources, and enhance performance.This wonderful episode takes the listener behind the scenes of what it's like to be a therapist/healer. Melanie cal...2024-04-1148 minAwe in TraumaYour Brain is Being Colonised- Believing is Perceiving (Part 3 with Dr Dr Damir del Monte)This final section of the mini-series is short in length but deep in importance. Damir explains how societal changes globally illustrates to the brain-wise observer how our systems of perception are products of our implicit systems of prediction. These come from our memory systems and a lifetime of experiences. In other words, believing is perceiving. Extraneous events unfolding in the world continue to display how there are those that can tolerate and integrate new information that may clash with the internal models of experience and perception. Otherwise, there are those that assume a more dogmatic position when new ex...2024-03-0119 minAwe in TraumaSensory Experience- The Architect of the Brain (Part 2 with Dr Dr Damir del Monte)In part 2 of this mini-series Damir explains the multi-dimensional functionality of the brain and the essential understanding that it's HOW we attend that completely changes what comes into manifestation. We take a moment to understand the gravity of this idea as arbiters of the reality within which we reside. From this position Damir describes how early and abusive experiences can drastically shape how a person's brain is sculpted and how this can impact on their relationship with all things. Various types of sensory gating are explored and a recognition of the importance of safe touch in healing past wounds to...2024-02-0534 minAwe in TraumaContemplating Consciousness (Part 1 with Dr Dr Damir del Monte)In part 1 of this 3 part mini-series, (double doctor in the brain) Dr Damir Delmonte illustrates to us how to position our understanding of the brain in this phenomenally beautiful exploration of how and who we think we are. Damir sets the frame for this 3 part series though attending to the levels of consciousness, subjective qualia, the pathways of the polyvagal process, and all in an evolutionary context of 700 million years. This episode is a beautifully humble and incredibly insightful understanding of the immensity of our being and our interrelationship with all things. For more information on Damir's wor...2024-01-1133 minAwe in TraumaDismantle the Manacles of Certainty (Part 2 with Dr David Grand)This is part 2 of a 2 part series. In this episode, Dr David Grand, founder and developer of Brainspotting Therapy gives a deep and insightful take on the implicit restrictions that organise our inner worlds. Drawing on his own developments as a therapist and from neuroscience, we are invited to appreciate the healing power through the lens of the Neuroexperiential Model. An alternative yet refreshingly humble and inclusive approach to therapy that is available to us through embracing an open, explorative, and non-expert approach. This episode will invite the listener to reflect on patterns and procedures that they have automated thro...2023-12-0257 min
The Embodiment Coaching PodcastBrainspotting Trauma - With Mark GrixtiBrainspotting trainer and clinical psychologist Mark joins me to talk trauma, David Grand, EMDR, relational attunement, BS language patterns, “safety”, how to find a trauma therapist, scaling trauma work, the lack of “village”, the MSM fight-back, and psychedelics. A good dialogue about trauma and therapy today. More information about Mark Grixti's work - https://bspuk.co.uk/ To join our courses and our community go to www.embodimentunlimited.com Find Mark Walsh on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/warkmalsh/2023-12-0157 minAwe in TraumaAssociate to Dissociation with Brainspotting (Part 1 with Dr David Grand)This is part 1 of a 2 part series and an episode that is a little different from previous ones. We could not resist sharing with you some fascinating insights from David Grand, the founder and developer of the remarkable Brainspotting Therapy. In this episode you'll experience 3 tantalising clips from a recent Brainspotting Phase 4 training that David presented in conversation with Mark Grixti and a remarkable group from the Brainspotting community. This episode takes a profound and insightful de-construction of the experience known as 'dissociation', which is a part of the natural and incredible human experience of survival and adaptation. Far from...2023-11-1949 minAwe in TraumaTry This! Teenagers Can Thrive (with Kerry McWilliams) Kerry is the Founder and CEO, Lightwork: A charity with a mission to give everyone the knowledge, tools and skills to sail through life’s storms, flourish and thrive. She has more than 20 years frontline experience supporting people through emotional crises, life transitions and trauma recovery. Kerry has worked in residential and community support with Women's Aid, Simon Community and Community Family Support Teams. Accredited by CPCAB and QQI as a life coach, she is a Brainspotting Consultant In Training, Complex Trauma Practitioner with additional training in EFT and breathwork. Kerry has a busy private practice in Brainspotting alongside her work...2023-10-2353 minAwe in TraumaNarcissism Re-envisioned (with Caroline Strawson)Due to popular demand we have Caroline Strawson back for another illuminating conversation. Caroline is a therapist, coach, author, podcaster and trainer specialising in working with survivors of narcissistic abuse and domestic violence. She speaks passionately and plainly about the importance of a non-pejorative understanding of narcissism, approaching the issue from a attachment aware, inter-personal, parts and body-based perspective. In this episode you'll hear an open and authentic account of how some of Caroline's own experiences have caused her profound pain in the past and how these have become a vehicle for deep healing. She speaks of a process that...2023-09-0850 minAwe in TraumaThe Parts We Play: Acting Reveals Reality (with Marta Rubio)This delightful conversation with Marta Rubio explores deep into the labyrinth of the human psyche. Marta is an actor, director, yoga teacher and Gestalt therapist. Her role in all of these domains is to move beyond the ego and the multitude of masks that we adopt in order to move closer to the true spiritual self to ameliorate connection and expression. She shares how her fascinating career in performance has facilitated a journey into all parts of the human condition, including those that are joyful, painful and grotesque. I was intrigued by the importance of the inter, as well as i...2023-04-2845 minAwe in TraumaHealing Moves From Attachment to Awareness (with Pablo Wilson)This is a fascinating episode for all those that are truly interested in approaches to healing. Sometimes I hear the question, "what is the mechanism for true healing?" I wonder if this question takes us further from the truth that we are seeking to discover. Sometimes we have to go backwards before we an go forwards. In this episode Pablo's expertise in Eastern approaches to healing provide the scaffold for all things sacred in contemporary approaches to therapy. Pablo is a yoga/meditation teacher and trainer in wisdom philosophies. I am astounded by the resonance between the sutras of Pent...2023-03-0943 minAwe in TraumaAdoption: All is welcome here (with Brooke Randolph)My guest this episode is Brooke Randolph, author, speaker, and trainer. She specialities are Adoption, Brainspotting, relationships, and developmental trauma. She's a a certified Imago Relationship Therapist, a Certified Brainspotting Trainer & Consultant, and coordinator for the groups Brainspotting Indy and Brainspotting with Adoption.In this episode it is fascinating to hear how Brooke gives first hand insights into the complexity of adoption and childhood attachment trauma. Through her experience and expertise in therapy she has developed an approach that seeks to facilitate natural healing in appreciation of the innate wisdom of the internal system and the limitless im...2023-02-1149 minAwe in TraumaParts Work with David Grand: Explicit-Implicit Interface (with Dr David Grand)Wow this episode is going to be music to your ears! I had the honour of hosting another episode with David Grand, Founder and Developer of Brainspotting Therapy. In recent years there has been an explosion in ‘parts work’ in psychotherapy, coaching and associated healing approaches. In this episode David explores the relationships between explicit and implicit parts. Within the realms of the all-important uncertainty, he proposes an explicit, rational and identifiable, left hemispheric conceptualisation of a part can be important, yet constricted. He refers to implicit parts as a deeper and richer approach to the abundance of internal informat...2022-12-231h 00Awe in TraumaEquine Therapy Connection (with Mary-Joy Johnson)This episode is a wonderful exploration into the immense natural inter-relational power of healing with horses. Mary Joy is an equine facilitated psycho traumatologist working with horses psychotherapeutically with a range of people including, children, adults and families. She facilitates such therapy with war veterans too and others with PTSD. In this episode we get a first hand sense of how Mary-Joy initially became captivated with equine therapy as she explored deeper healing in her own life. From here she completed the trainings to provide equine therapy for so many others, with her colleagues, from her centre in East Suss...2022-11-2859 min
No Visible BruisesBrainspotting, Narcissistic Abuse & Trauma HealingI’m SO excited to welcome Dr. Mark Grixti onto the show this week to discuss what Brainspotting is and how it has helped people heal from narcissistic abuse and trauma. Mark is a psychologist, author, fellow podcast host, and the head of Brainspotting UK. Mark and I work collaboratively on my trauma-informed & narcissistic trauma-informed certifications where Mark does an internal Brainspotting training with us. I can’t wait for you to listen to this episode as I truly believe that Brainspotting and the work it does can help hundreds of thousands of people dealing with trauma. A gli...2022-11-081h 06Awe in TraumaCreativity to Liberty: A Little Chaos to Rediscover the Self (with Noula Diamantopoulos)In this episode I am joined by Noula, an amazing artist, psychotherapist, author and Brainspotting Trainer. Noula embodies her playful and creative approaches to healing as she explains how the arts and creativity can be accessed to reorient from positions of control, rigidity and stuckness to an open flow state that is paramount to deep brain and body, emotional recovery. We discuss the way one can 'allow' the brain to engage and operate differently through art to explore the patterns of judgement that are happening internally much of the time through negative appraisal and egoic restrictions. Through playfulness, and wit...2022-10-3152 min
Courageous GoalsWhat's involved in a Brainspotting session?In a Brainspotting session we are somatically activated in our body to go with a feeling to explore our trauma further, so that we can heal and feel lighter and more free. Healing isn't easy, it's painful, it's emotionally draining but it's all for the greater good of being able to deal and move on to be the person we want and should be for ourselves. Get curious about where you are right now, what could be affecting you and holding you back. Is there something that needs addressing and dealing wi...2022-10-3121 minCourageous GoalsCoaching myself & sharing some deep work!You owe it to yourself to do the work. Are you aligned with where you are in your life right now? Today I want to talk with you, my listeners and feel free. My coaching journey so far has been beautiful, so in-depth and really hard work. My professional coach diploma training was with OCA (Optimus Coach Academy) who are accredited by the ICF (International Coach Federation), completing 125 hours of training and 50 hours of coaching. I have now gone on to train as a Tr...2022-10-1021 minAwe in TraumaUnchaining Performance Blocks (with Ruth Chiles)This episode is with Ruth Chiles, expert in working with performance issues and focal dystonia. She openly describes her own journey of pain and grief in developing serious creative blocks with her musical instrument before finding that the problem was the remedy all along. Ruth sets out how she developed a powerful and compassionate approach to meeting these disempowering performance issues through deep somatic and interrelational work to achieve fascinating outcomes with her people. It’s incredible to hear how the immense wisdom of the brain is always at work to bring relief and facilitate free expression if only we re...2022-09-2251 minAwe in TraumaThe Power of Sound (with Darren Abrahams)Darren is an inspiration to those that aspire towards facilitating trauma healing on an individual, communal and global level. From being an opera singer he’s found himself on a journey to deep inner healing through the use of embodied approaches and sound which he has brought to many traumatised and displaced communities across the world. This podcast explores:How can safety, belonging and expansion be achieved with displaced people?How can those not trained as therapists be an essential therapeutic presence with those in trauma?How can the power of sound assist in e...2022-08-3157 minAwe in TraumaAddiction: 'It's hard to get enough of something that almost works' (with Dr Roby Ables)This episode is with the soulful Dr Roby Ables, Psychotherapist, and Senior Brainspotting Trainer based in Australia. Have you every wondered:How addiction attracts so much shame?What’s trauma got to do with addiction?When addiction 'works'?Is there a connection between addiction to drugs, alcohol, porn, shopping and eating issuesHow can love and conscious awareness really help in healing trauma and pain?To answer these questions, Roby is incredibly generous in sharing her personal experiences of intergenerational trauma, early life attachment wounds and her subsequent journey through addiction and i...2022-07-211h 02Awe in TraumaPsychedelic Healing (with Shamir)This episode with Shamir offers a compelling journey through his path of ancestral healing, spirituality, connectivity and joy. He takes us through his ancestral history from India, Singapore, Austria and other lands before settling in Glastonbury, the Isle of Avalon. Shamir describes how we are all so richly integrated with our ancestral history and our planet Earth, from where we all belong. He teaches on the almost ineffable power of plant medicine and how divine tribal circles use psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, and other psychedelics with ceremony, preparation and prayer to reach higher levels of consciousness beyond the ego and towa...2022-06-301h 03Awe in TraumaMovement in the Stillness (with Jeff Ryan & Bob Kohl)Jeff Ryan and Bob Kohl bring a fascinating integration of stillness, calm and space with dynamic somatic expression to meet their people’s deep healing. They speak with touching humility on how alongside their many studies, their most influential teacher has been the growing ability to listen in, and learn from, the deep innate wisdom of the body. This has been enhanced further with the power of Brainspotting and meditation. Jeff is a licenced Psychotherapist and Bob a Physician, amongst other things, and perhaps that’s one of the main learnings that come through in this episode; the immense potenti...2022-05-2852 minAwe in TraumaAuthentic Oneness (with Cynthia Schwartzberg)Cynthia shares her incredibly rich and diverse experience in psychotherapy and allied approaches to healing. In this episode she goes into depth on how our journey into true authenticity is a powerful path to insight, self-discovery and awakening. Cynthia explains how truth, the route to our most profound healing is accessed through the innate wisdom residing deep inside the physical body and the brain. She also gives the listener clear guidance on how to access these most powerful of places on their path to liberation and authenticity. Together, we move from life to death, considering the meaning of this...2022-05-0247 minAwe in TraumaPornography, Sex, and Subterfuge (with Dr Elly Hanson)Dr Elly Hanson is an exceptional Clinical Psychologist and influential thinker in the collective effort to reduce harm and injustice. She has long been an expert in the field of abuse and trauma with a particular focus on sexual abuse and approaches to healthy and progressive relationships. In this powerfully insightful episode we discuss online pornography, a subject that receives much attention yet so few intelligent, nuanced and meaningful discussions in the professional field. Together we explore the rich and complex area of online pornography in relation to actors, viewers and the impact on the development of the...2022-03-311h 03Awe in TraumaAncestral Healing (with Dr Ruby Gibson)In this episode it is apparent just how much love and heart Ruby brings to all of her relationships in her healing work. It's striking how her approach to others opens a different form of awareness that allows an opportunity to consider and become more familiar with another level of conscious awareness. These qualities go beyond words.Psychology and psychotherapy are revealing some fascinating advances in the power of recognising and working with ancestors to shift trauma and achieve greater emotional wellbeing. Dr Ruby Gibson discusses with Mark how her work in trauma healing with Native American pop...2022-02-2457 minAwe in TraumaBeyond The Self (with Mario Salvador)This episode is a wonderful integration of some of the most exciting and powerful approaches to healing trauma. Mario is an exceptional psychotherapist, author, teacher and Brainspotting trainer who brings an essential wider understanding to who we truly are and how we can heal. In this episode Mario explains how we can liberate the self through a deeper understanding of the ego, ancestral approaches to healing, the power of embodiment and resources that go beyond resources. We discuss the idea of spiritual bypassing and the power of the therapeutic relationship in meeting trauma to move into health and true aut...2022-01-3154 minAwe in TraumaNarcissistic Trauma (with Caroline Strawson)Caroline is a Coach, Psychotherapist and trauma informed expert in working with those that have been in relationships with people with Narcissistic Trauma. In this episode we dive deep into the relationship between attachment and authenticity in the development of narcissistic tendencies and the impact this can have on those around them. Caroline explores the relationship between covert and overt narcissism and the way these can play out between people and the massive and often maddening impact it can have on those around them. We also get to understand why Wonder Woman and other 'parts' can become beautiful allies in...2021-12-2752 minAwe in TraumaBeyond Brainspotting (with David Grand)David Grand is the founder, developer and author of Brainspotting Therapy: The revolutionary new therapy for rapid and effective change. David is a visionary in the filed of emotional healing and psychotherapy and his fascinating new developments have brought a freshness, liberation and authenticity to the field of healing, touching the lives of countless people across the world. In this episode I have the honour of discussing Brainspotting with David and going beyond with considerations of neurobiology, love, spirituality and the great unknown.For more information on David Grand’s work go to: https://brainspotting.com/ ...2021-11-2548 minAwe in TraumaThe Truth About The Soul (with Mark Grixti)This episode is the live audio recording from Mark's extraordinary, numinous presentation at the Brainspotting International Conference in Denver, Colorado July 2021. The Truth About The SoulCan neuroscience help us with this question? We appreciate just how effective science can be in grasping the ungraspable, in order to get to hidden truths. But it depends what question we are asking in order to determine an answer. I am interested not in ‘what is the soul’ but ‘the truth about the soul’. This is a fundamental precursor to our exploration as neuroscience has indicated to us that the...2021-10-2942 minAwe in TraumaThe Brain in Brainspotting Therapy (with Deborah Antinori)In this episode Deborah Antinori shares the amazing developments in psychotherapy based on the latest discoveries in how the brain processes trauma, activation and resource. She is a Drama Therapist, Actor and Brainspotting Trainer based in New York and, alongside Dr David Grand, was one of the original contributors to the development of Brainspotting Therapy. Deborah specialises in the brain and the incredible power of the use of the eyes in reaching deep subcortical healing.For more information on Deborah's work and trainings go to:www.petlossaudio.com dantinori@gmail.com F...2021-09-2557 minAwe in TraumaThe Divine Essence of Healing (with Bonnie Badenoch)I am excited to share this conversation with you as I interview Bonnie Badenoch on healing and the heart of trauma. Bonnie has been a huge influence in the field of psychotherapy and the power of brain/body based approaches within the all important relational attunement. We discuss the fundamentals of compassionate healing and how approaches including the revolutionary Brainspotting Therapy (Dr David Grand) shift the therapeutic paradigm in an attempt to fully realise the massive potential of human healing through the power of appreciating uncertainty and trusting the immensity of the deeper inter-relational dynamic. For more inf...2021-08-0849 min