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Just Like NanaErica BonhamIn this episode of Just Like Nana, host Amie (Elizabeth) Penny Sayler is joined by Erica Bonham, a licensed counselor and embodied leadership coach, where they explore a “badass nervous system”, emotional alchemy, and tips for listening to your body.About EricaErica Bonham is a licensed professional counselor, speaker, best selling author and embodied leadership coach. Her work bridges individual transformation and collective healing. She leads trainings on EMDR, ancestral trauma, and embodied, heart-led leadership.In This Episode, You’ll Learn:The difference between fake resili...
2026-05-2245 min
Leadership in Quarters: 15-Minute Culture InsightsEpisode 75: Kindness vs Niceness: Nervous System Regulation & the Science of Heart-Led Leadership | Erica BonhamIs your "niceness" actually a survival tactic? Erica Bonham joins Josh to reveal why niceness is often a performance used to mask anxiety, while true kindness is a "muscle" built through honesty and direct feedback. They discuss the "soup of society" we all swim in and how old traumas can turn leaders into rigid, "power-over" bosses. Erica explains the biology of leadership—how your vagus nerve communicates with your team's "bullshit detectors"—and why performing calm isn't enough. You have to actually be regulated. In this episode, you'll learn: ✅ Niceness vs. Kindness: Why niceness is self-preservation, but kindness is a gift...
2026-03-3031 min
What Your Therapist ThinksTalking in Therapy isn’t Enough? Reprocessing Trauma with EMDRErica Bonham, LPC, MA joins Kristie and Felicia to demystify EMDR therapy and how it actually works to heal the brain. They explore how bilateral stimulation mimics REM sleep to "unstick" traumatic memories trapped in the nervous system. Erica advocates for a bottom-up approach to recovery to address the somatic and emotional roots of distress.Some takeaways:• How bilateral stimulation helps the brain reprocess• Why a somatic approach is often more effective than cognitive insight• How to develop compassion for the internal mechanisms that try to keep us safeFor sp...
2026-03-2558 min
The Empowered Grief JourneyAdoption, Identity & Healing the Primal Wound with Erica BonhamIn this powerful episode, therapist and author Erica Bonham opens her heart and shares a lifelong grief journey shaped by adoption, early loss, identity struggles, and the complex dynamics of loving—and losing—two mothers.
Erica and Chris explore the primal wound experienced by many adoptees, the layered grief of identity, and the “brutiful” intersection of love and loss. Erica also discusses her transformative experience with ketamine-assisted therapy, how it helped heal the deepest parts of her nervous system, and why healing is a nonlinear, lifelong path rather than a destination.
If you’ve ever struggled with belon...
2025-12-2355 min
MY SELF CARE SH*T with Kathy LoveAlchemizing the Not-So-Pretty Parts with Erica BonhamSend us a textIn this raw and soul-stirring episode of the Self-Care Sht* podcast, host Kathy Love sits down with Erica Bonham, a therapist, author, and somatic trauma specialist whose work blends science, spirituality, and deep humanity. Together they unpack what it really means to heal the “not-so-pretty parts” of ourselves—those stories, sensations, and inherited wounds that live beneath the surface.Erica shares how her own journey through adoption, sobriety, and family trauma shaped her mission to help others integrate body, mind, and heart. She explains ancestral and epigenetic trauma...
2025-12-0746 min
The Freely YOU PodcastEp. 150, Understanding + "healing" your trauma w/Erica BonnemIn today's episode, I sit down with licensed professional counselor, Erica Bonham for a grounded and eye-opening conversation about what trauma actually is, how it shows up in our lives, and what healing really looks like. We talk about the difference between "Big T" and "Little T" trauma, how we inherit patterns through our families and communities, and why so many of us minimize our own experiences.We also dive into collective trauma, sacred rage, nervous system regulation, and the survival patterns—like perfectionism or urgency—that keep us from feeling connected and whole. Erica brings such a com...
2025-12-031h 06
Joey Pinz Discipline Conversations#776 Erica Bonham: 🌿 Healing Isn’t in Your Head: Rewiring Through the BodySend us Fan MailIn this deeply moving episode, Joey Pinz sits down with Erica Bonham, a trauma recovery therapist, EMDR clinician, and author of Always Enough, Never Done. Together, they explore how healing doesn’t happen through willpower or “positive thinking”—it begins in the body.Erica reveals the difference between “big T” and “little t” trauma, how experiences get stored in the nervous system, and why self-compassion is a biological necessity, not a luxury. She opens up about her own story of adoption, identity, and transformation—showing that what breaks us can also...
2025-11-261h 15
Beyond the BestsellerHow to Heal Deep Trauma and Break Perfectionism with Erica BonhamWhat if the things holding you back perfectionism, over-responsibility, and the pressure to achieve aren't character flaws, but rather trauma responses that have become culture?
As business owners and thought leaders, we often focus on the "ascending path" of growth: creating new patterns and positive self-affirmations. But what happens when that work feels hollow? My guest today, Erica Bonham, author of "Always Enough, Never Done", explains why we need to embrace the descending path of deep work the messy, necessary process of healing trauma and decolonizing the way we think about success and self-improvement.
Erica...
2025-11-1736 min
WellishStop trying to think your way into becoming who you want to be with Erica BonhamIn this Wellish conversation, I'm sitting down with Erica Bonham — licensed professional counselor, somatic and attachment-focused EMDR trainer, and author of Always Enough, Never Done — to explore why healing can’t be thought into existence.Together, we're dive into the messy, liberating truth that self-criticism and overthinking don’t create transformation. Instead, real healing asks us to trust the body’s wisdom, practice radical self-compassion, and make peace with imperfection.This episode unpacks:Why your brain alone can’t heal trauma — and what the body knows that the mind can’tThe neuroscience of emotional regulation and w...
2025-10-021h 38
The Connected Community: Exploring PossibilityPolyvagal Theory: Calm the Vagus Nerve & Reset the Nervous SystemIn this episode, Nicky Yazbeck sits down with Erica Bonham to explore polyvagal theory and the vital role of the vagus nerve in emotional regulation and mental health. Together, they break down the different states of the nervous system, how co-regulation supports healing, and practical tools that can calm and reset the body. The conversation touches on the impact of collective trauma, the power of mindfulness, and the importance of finding personal practices that truly resonate. Erica also shares accessible exercises for toning the vagus nerve and emphasizes that healing requires both addressing trauma and cultivating joy.
2025-09-1851 min
The Sunday Session with Francesca RudkinFull Show Podcast: 20 July 2025On the Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin Full Show Podcast for Sunday 20 July 2025, ahead of the release of her new film 'Four Letters of Love', British actress Helena Bonham Carter shares her experience of the vast change in the film industry. Cowboy Junkies lead singer Margo Timmins talks about why the band is one of the few to stay together over 40 years and why they never conformed. Education Minister Erica Standford into the damning report into NCEA and what she's going to do about it and Francesca shares her personal experience of being a parent...
2025-07-201h 56
The Whinypaluza PodcastEpisode 459: Always Enough, Never DoneHow can we truly believe we're "always enough" while acknowledging we're "never done" growing - especially as mothers who constantly feel inadequate?In this transformative episode of Whinypaluza, host Rebecca Greene sits down with licensed professional counselor and bestselling author Erica Bonham to explore the powerful concept behind her book title "Always Enough, Never Done." Erica, a certified EMDR clinician, trainer, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapist, specializes in serving the LGBTQ community, abuse recovery, and trauma related to social and racial injustice.
The conversation delves into nervous system regulation, the challenges of perfectionism in parenting, and how...
2025-07-0449 min
The Whinypaluza PodcastAlways Enough, Never DoneHow can we truly believe we're "always enough" while acknowledging we're "never done" growing - especially as mothers who constantly feel inadequate?In this transformative episode of Whinypaluza, host Rebecca Greene sits down with licensed professional counselor and bestselling author Erica Bonham to explore the powerful concept behind her book title "Always Enough, Never Done." Erica, a certified EMDR clinician, trainer, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapist, specializes in serving the LGBTQ community, abuse recovery, and trauma related to social and racial injustice.
The conversation delves into nervous system regulation, the challenges of perfectionism in parenting, and how...
2025-07-0449 min
Be Heard: Empower YourselfGaslightingErica and Mimi discuss forms of manipulation. Turn Spiritual Wounds Into WisdomErica Bonham is passionate about walking with clients through the messy, but beautiful process of healing and remembering their true nature, which is that they are always and already enough, loveable, worthy and connected to every living thing on this planet just as they are. How does spiritual trauma impact mental health and healing? What are some signs of religious abuse, and how can individuals begin to heal from it? How can people reclaim their spirituality after expe...
2025-06-0742 min
The Trauma TherapistAlways Enough, Never Done with Erica BonhamErica Bonham is passionate about walking with clients through the messy but beautiful process of healing and remembering their true nature, which is that they are always and already enough, loveable, worthy and connected to every living thing on this planet.She is a certified EMDR clinician, consultant and trainer and a licensed professional counselor in the state of Colorado specializing in serving the LGBTQ community, abuse recovery, and trauma related to social and racial injustice and spiritual abuse. She incorporates her training as a yoga instructor and polyvagal expert to deepen clients’ healing of their bod...
2025-06-0532 min
Master Of Your CraftsS7. Ep. 135. Main guide postErica Bonham, LPC, certified EMDR consultant and trainerErica Bonham is a certified EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) clinician, consultant and trainer and is a licensed professional counselor in the state of Colorado. She aspires to be a catalyst for change, justice, growth, evolution and all around badassery. She specializes in serving the LGBTQ community, abuse recovery, and trauma related to social injustice and spiritual abuse. She incorporates her training as a yoga instructor and mindfulness practitioner to deepen clients healing of their bodies and specializes in somatic and attachment EMDR and ego state work. She is a published author...
2025-05-1647 min
Home From Here with John BurtonEpisode 238 - Erica Bonham Home EditionErica Bonham is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Colorado and a certified EMDR clinician. She is the author of "Always Enough, Never Done" Volume 1. She is also a kindred spirit, and she and John explore how all emotional healing begins with the nervous system.
2025-04-151h 48
Grab Your Day With A Eye-Opening Full Audiobook.Always Enough, Never Done by Erica BonhamPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/45886to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Always Enough, Never Done
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2025-04-087h 57
Are We Happy Yet?Ep. 27 WTF is nervous system regulation?! w/Erica BonhamErica Bonham joins Are We Happy Yet? for another badass conversation that you do not want to miss. We discuss the launch of Erica's new book: Always Enough, Never Done. A guide to understanding trauma, healing, and personal growth, Erica unpacks the delicate balance between personal responsibility and the power of collective action. We dive deep into how healing isn't a destination, but an emergent process, and why joy, emotional regulation, and community are integral parts of the journey.Erica shares her wisdom on the importance of nervous system regulation, and why it’s more than just abo...
2025-03-1854 min
Be Heard: Empower YourselfPolyvagal System RegulationErica Bonham , a quote from her book. " That healing is necessary for dissolving negative beliefs, processing trauma and grief, and breaking unhealthy patterns." You’ll discover the various ways your unhealed patterns manifested, whether they be addictions, chronic pain, or anxiety. We will discuss the intersection of EMDR, spirituality, and social justice in.It is packed with Erica Bonham’s most powerful therapeutic resources to help you heal your nervous system. That healing is necessary for dissolving negative beliefs, processing trauma and grief, and breaking unhealthy patterns. You’ll discover the various ways your unheale...
2025-02-2847 min
Health Coach ConversationsEP298: Why You Cannot Self-Affirmation Your Way Through Trauma with Erica BonhamIn this episode of Health Coach Conversations, Cathy Sykora speaks with Erica Bonham, a certified EMDR clinician, consultant, and trainer. Erica discusses the misconceptions around self-affirmations in trauma healing and the importance of nervous system regulation, somatic therapy, and EMDR for deep, lasting recovery. In this episode, you'll discover: How Trauma Gets Stored in the Body: Why trauma doesn't respond to logic and reasoning and how it manifests in different ways. The Role of Nervous System Regulation in Healing: Why regulating the vagus nerve is essential for trauma recovery. Why Self-Affirmations Alone Don't Work: The science...
2025-02-1732 min
The Rising Beyond PodcastEp 133: You Can’t Think Your Way to Healing: Full Bodied Healing for Survivors of Narcissistic Abuse with Erica Bonham, LPCWhy is it that we can understand the abuse we suffered, understand why we are hypervigilant, and yet not see the progress we are hoping for on the healing front?The trauma of an abusive, narcissistic and coercively controlling relationship affects survivors in such a way that we cannot just think our way out of it. Your brains and nervous systems have been re-wired to protect you and your survival at all costs. And your nervous system will not give up those strategies of survival just because you now understand the abuse.This abuse is he...
2025-01-0853 min
NewscastThe 1500th EpisodeToday, on Newscast’s 1500th episode, Chris and Alex join to mark the occasion, and talk about the politics of the day after the PM insisted he is “completely in control”. He made the comment after the BBC revealed a row within government over staff pay.Plus, the BBC has heard testimony from more than 20 female ex-employees who say former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed sexually assaulted or raped them as part of a new podcast series and Panorama film called Al-Fayed: Predator at Harrods.Its makers, Erica Gornall and Cassie Cornish-Trestrail, tell Adam a...
2024-09-1933 min
Are We Happy Yet?Ep. 3: Erica Bonham helps us explore a big question: what is TRAUMA and what actually heals it?Trust us, you want to listen to this episode - it is so, so good! Erica Bonham is a badass therapist, healer, business owner, author, mama, and queer-identified person. Erica Bonham, LPC, LAC, joins Hannah and Jane to discuss all things trauma.
Trauma is a big topic right now, and unfortunately, a lot of the pop psychology around PTSD, nervous system healing, and intergenerational trauma is missing the mark. Join trauma expert Erica Bonham to learn about the impact of trauma on our thinking patterns, our nervous system, and our greater collective.
Erica explains what it *r...
2024-09-171h 19
The Provider's TableUpdated Soul Coffee Map, The Providers' Pillars and A Different Take on Chiropractic #96In this episode Dr. J highlights the updated episode numbers, the pillars of his curriculum and a reflection of chiropractic care in what he's observed after studying Youtube the last two weeks!
02:00 | Pillar 1: Communication, Needs, values, boundaries
#95 Healing chronic migraines and mental stressors through chiropractic care
#94 5 lessons on healing learned from co creating a mission trip
#93 The impact of empowering patients through care w/Dr. Em Borchers
#89 3 unexpected healing results chiropractic care; reduced anxiety, better sleep
#72 How to create time, space and energy as a provider w/Dr. J...
2024-06-0318 minThe Provider's TableA Map in How to Navigate Chiropractic Care & Soul Coffee w/Dr. J | Ep #83In this episode, Dr. Jamal begins to lay out the map of soul coffee and the pillars he teaches on in both Providing for the Providers based upon the mission of Soul coffee to pour into the exhausted provider.
02:00 | Pillar 1
Reference episodes: Softening Self Judgment and The Self Critic #71
The Impact of Not Getting Your Needs Met w/Dr. J #76
04:15 | Pillar 2
Tone is the reflection of the overall energetic state of an organism
Healing Through Burnout Using Polyvagal theory w/Jordan Bonham #74
06:00 | Pill...
2024-01-0919 min
Spidey-dude ExperienceSpideydude Experience Mini-Episode: Erica Schultz Audio Interview!In a crossover episode with Chris Denmead of the Sal Buscema Era Podcast‘s Radio of Horror Radio-Show, Zach and Chris had the pleasure of interviewing the writer of HALLOW’S EVE, the 5-issue mini-series starring Elizabeth Tyne aka Janine Godbe the girl who was romantically involved with Ben Reilly during Ben’s 5 lost years. Introduced in 1995’s Spider-Man: The Lost Years mini-series co-created by J. M. DeMatteis and John Romita Jr. we learned of the past that they both were tortured souls, and were running away from their respective pasts. After appearing in the follow up mini-series Spider-Man: Redemption, though s...
2023-07-0330 min
Far From Perfect with Kylie LarsonHow to Regulate Your Nervous System & Cultivate Your Inner Badass with Erica BonhamToday on Far From Perfect we are chatting with Erica Bonham who is a therapist and coach. She's been doing this for 14 years and she focuses on EMDR therapy and trauma recovery. Today we are talking about regulating your nervous system and how if we can master this, then we are 'good'! She talks to us about the Big T and the little t, in retrospect of trauma. Lack of atunement is key in terms of regulating the nervous system and understanding and holding the space for it is how we learn to regulate the nervous system. We also...
2023-03-291h 10
The Whole TherapistSilence in Session with ClientsWhat percentage do you think you are talking in sessions with clients? Abby and Kellee explore how important and needed silence is for our clients. Abby and Kellee touch on the difference between being silent and present versus being silent and disconnected. They also give tips to help therapists practice using silence in sessions as well as phrases to use with clients so clients don’t feel dropped. Topics Touched on:Rumi- https://www.britannica.com/biography/RumiErica Bonham- https://avoscounseling.com/about-menu/about/EMDR Tool Box...
2021-05-2522 min
Far From Perfect with Kylie LarsonManaging Mental Health During a Global Pandemic with Therapist Erica BonhamThis episode is the therapy session you did not know you needed...or maybe you did! Erica gives us some things to keep in mind as we try to navigate these inprecidentented times. I believe her approach and tips will give you peace of mind, something we can all use more of.
You can reach Erica at: https://cultivateyourinnerbadass.wordpress.com
2020-04-0745 min
210 Local Media Podcast - San Antonio, TexasEpisode 33: San Antonio Women of Rock Volume 2Episode 33: San Antonio Women of Rock Volume 2For those who’ve been listening, thanks a ton and welcome back. For those who are joining us for the first time, welcome to the podcast where you can enjoy what San Antonio has to offer. We’ve largely been focused on music, but we also enjoy bringing you art, film, and various forms of entertainment in and around the greater San Antonio area. Take a listen to our back catalogue for tons of interviews and amazing indie music, as well as our San Antonio Women of Rock episode, #31. This is the second part...
2014-02-2029 min