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Food Junkies PodcastEpisode 260: Healing Trauma, Shame, and Food Addiction through the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model with Jan WinhallJan Winhall is a psychotherapist, author, educator, and the developer of the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model (FSPM), a groundbreaking framework that integrates trauma therapy, polyvagal theory, and embodied focusing to understand and treat addiction and trauma. Over more than four decades of clinical work, Jan has specialized in supporting survivors of sexual violence, complex trauma, and addiction with a deeply de-pathologizing, feminist, and body-based lens. She is the founder of the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model Institute, teaches internationally, and collaborates closely with leaders in the polyvagal community to bring more compassionate, somatically grounded approaches into trauma and...
2025-12-1854 min
Embodied Dialogues for Healing Trauma and AddictionBrain Partnership: Research-Backed Trauma Healing and Resilience Building with Dr. Kate TruittIn this powerful episode of Embodied Dialogues, Jan Winhall sits down with clinical psychologist, applied neuroscientist, author, and creator of groundbreaking neuroplasticity-based healing practices, Dr. Kate Truitt.
Focuing on healing trauma through brain science & embodied practice, together they explore the meeting place of trauma, the nervous system, the amygdala (“Amy”), and the deep human longing for connection. Dr. Truitt shares her personal story of surviving a devastating loss, tragic accident, living as a “shaky being” and how vulnerability, embodiment, and science intertwine in real healing. She introduces a research-supported micro-practice that helps rewire the brain toward resilience, safety...
2025-12-171h 00
Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addictionA New Way To Treat Trauma and Addiction, with Jan WinhallEpisode 303
ABOUT THE EPISODE:
When Jan Winhall landed her first job running a group for incest survivors in a psychiatric ward, she discovered something revolutionary: the young women's self-harming behaviors weren't signs of pathology – they were brilliant survival strategiesorchestrated by dysregulated nervous systems. This revelation launched a 45-year journey that would transform how we understand trauma and addiction.
Today, Jan brings her Felt Sense Polyvagal Model to parents navigating the bewildering landscape of their child's substance use. Her approach flips traditional treatment on its head: rather than analyzing thoughts and willpower, she teaches us...
2025-12-1100 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthA New Way To Treat Trauma and Addiction, with Jan WinhallABOUT THE EPISODE:When Jan Winhall landed her first job running a group for incest survivors in a psychiatric ward, she discovered something revolutionary: the young women's self-harming behaviors weren't signs of pathology – they were brilliant survival strategies orchestrated by dysregulated nervous systems. This revelation launched a 45-year journey that would transform how we understand trauma and addiction.Today, Jan brings her Felt Sense Polyvagal Model to parents navigating the bewildering landscape of their child's substance use. Her approach flips traditional treatment on its head: rather than analyzing thoughts and willpower, she teaches us...
2025-12-1157 min
Embodied Dialogues for Healing Trauma and AddictionMindfulness Meets Felt Sense & Focusing with guest Jeff WarrenJeff Warren joins Jan Winhall for a candid conversation about meditation, trauma, and the wisdom of the body. Jeff shares how living with ADHD, bipolar disorder, and deep shame led him to seek support, and how working with Jan through focusing and felt sense practices helped him stabilize and heal. He explains how meditation builds concentration, clarity, and equanimity, while felt sensing allows a more direct relationship with the body and unresolved emotional material.
They discuss the risks of spiritual bypassing, the importance of relational support in trauma healing, and how “fresh frozen” trauma can surface during mind...
2025-12-041h 12
Trocitos de ConscienciaCuando la depresión toco mi puerta.Hola, soy Jackima, coach de crianza consciente certificada con la Dra. Shefali, certificada en Neurobiología Interpersonal con Daniel Siegel y en Trauma y Adicciones con el método de Felt Sense junto a Stephen Porges y Jan Winhall.En este episodio hablo de la depresión desde un lugar humano: cómo se siente realmente, cómo se manifiesta en la vida cotidiana y por qué el cuerpo a veces se apaga para protegernos. Exploramos la depresión funcional, la silenciosa, la estacional, la premenstrual y la que nace del agotamiento emocional. También comparto mi experien...
2025-11-2925 minTrocitos de ConscienciaCuando la vida te invita a un chapuzón interno...Soy Jackima Tatum, Coach de Crianza Consciente certificada por la Dra. Shefali, con formación en Neurobiología Interpersonal por el Dr. Daniel Siegel y Trauma y Adicciones con Jan Winhall (Método Felt Sense y Teoría Polivagal de Stephen Porges).En este primer episodio te invito a explorar el viaje más necesario que podemos hacer como seres humanos: el viaje hacia adentro.Un viaje para quienes sienten que la vida a veces se vuelve rígida, pesada o con escasez —de tiempo, de compañía, de amor, de fe o de ligereza....
2025-11-2211 minTrocitos de ConscienciaPilotoEn este primer episodio comparto cómo inició mi camino hacia la crianza consciente y el trabajo interior. Hablo de los maestros que marcaron mi proceso —Shefali, Jan Winhall, Steve Porges y Daniel Siegel— y de cómo sus enseñanzas sobre trauma, sistema nervioso y neurobiología interpersonal ver y comprender la humanidad que nos habita.
2025-11-1407 min
Embodied Dialogues for Healing Trauma and AddictionHow to Build a Somatic Resource Kit for Your Nervous System — Tools to Heal Trauma & AttachmentHolly Lowery-Davis joins host Jan Winhall and the FSPM Institute on Embodied Dialogues for a grounded, practical conversation about building the sturdy foundation needed to heal trauma and attachment wounds. Deep, body-level healing begins with feeling safe enough to stay with our embodied experience - and that sense of felt safety is something we can actively learn to create.
Holly, a certified body-oriented coach, somatic practitioner, group facilitator, and mental-health educator, shares why a well-stocked resource kit matters and how to build one by meeting and matching your nervous system while tending to the different needs of...
2025-11-0757 min
Embodied Dialogues for Healing Trauma and AddictionBalancing Children’s Gut Microbiome: Supporting the Nervous System and Healing TraumaResearch now shows seemingly unrelated factors like food, sensory input, digestive health, lack of exercise, and diminished parental availability can influence children’s brain development both in function AND form.
BG Mancini, is a Neurodevelopmental Specialist, Advanced Certified in Functional Medicine, licensed since 2013 as an Acupuncture Physician and Primary Care Provider. She is the founder of The Brain & Gut Institute and creator of The Family Nervous System® that helps families understand that healing is never just one person in the living organism we call a family and requires connection to self and each other.
She talks...
2025-10-2753 min
Embodied Dialogues for Healing Trauma and AddictionTrauma to Poetry: How Embodied Healing Unlocks Creative WritingKaty Dickson, Author of "The Tree & Me, A Polyvagal Poem" (a finalist in the 2025 National Indie Excellence Awards, Children's inspirational/motivational) joins Jan Winhall on July 24, 2025 on the live, interactive Embodied Dialogues Podcast.
After a short grounding practice from Jan, Katy shares both professional and lived experience insights and reflections as an Occupational Therapist, deeply rooted embodied, trauma-informed practice.
Conversation flows into her personal healing journey and how it reconnected her with a long-held love of language, wordsmithery and poetry, which gave life to "The Tree and Me: A Polyvagal Poem".
Katy shares...
2025-10-2356 minEmbodied Dialogues for Healing Trauma and AddictionDr. Stephen Porges on Polyvagal Theory in Nonverbal Communications, Pets & Co-Regulation, Neurodivergence, and MoreWelcome to a 1-hour exclusive Embodied Dialogue in 2025 with Dr. Stephen Porges, the esteemed creator of the Polyvagal Theory.
One of the many qualities I admire about Dr. Porges is his unwavering commitment to accessibility. As I become busier with a public lifestyle, I find myself challenged by the desire to reach out and the need to contain. Steve’s ability to stay connected, respond to emails, listen deeply, and maintain a safe presence amidst his growing popularity is truly inspiring.
Steve starts with opening up about his personal musings on cats and the unique wa...
2025-10-1956 minEmbodied Dialogues for Healing Trauma and AddictionNightmares: Treating with Polyvagal Theory & Felt Sense of the Body with Dr. Leslie EllisNightmares are robustly linked with trauma and many other forms of psychological injury, including a 4x greater risk of suicide. Yet they are vastly under-treated — which is a shame because nightmare treatment is simple, effective and evidence based. Guest Dr. Leslie Ellis shares:
how polyvagal theory helps us to understand why we or our clients have nightmares
how the body holds nightmares in the nervous system
how to use nightmares to diagnose and track clinical progress
how to help those who suffer from disturbed dreaming
Dr. Ellis is a leading expert in the use of experiential and so...
2025-10-1954 minEmbodied Dialogues for Healing Trauma and AddictionPolyvagal Meets 12 StepsJan Winhall with Patrick McA, Elizabeth Moitoza, Robert Ragucci, Ann Dowsett Johnston Join us in this special 2-hour edition of the Embodied Dialogue Series for an enlightening exploration of how Polyvagal Theory and Twelve-step Programs can intersect to enhance addiction treatment.
Since the 1930s, Twelve-step Programs have been a cornerstone in helping millions overcome addictive behaviors through accessible, global support groups rooted in the concept of a ‘higher power.’ Founded by Bill Wilson and Bob Smith, these programs view addiction as a brain disease and emphasize community and spiritual connection.
Polyvagal Theory, introduced by neuroscientist Step...
2025-10-182h 01
Resiliently Rising PodcastEp18. Felt Sense Polyvagal Approach to Betrayal Trauma and Addiction with Jan WinhallCarrie talks with trauma and addiction psychotherapist Jan Winhall, author of Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model. They explore how trauma lives in the body, why self-destructive behaviors are survival responses, and how safety—not shame—is the key to healing.
Together, they discuss betrayal as a root wound, rebuilding safety in relationships, and how reconnecting with the body helps restore self-trust and connection.
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2025-10-1446 minEmbodied Dialogues for Healing Trauma and AddictionDr. Stephen Porges Ask Me AnythingPolyvagal Theorist Dr. Stephen Porges joins Jan Winhall in February 2022 with a live audience to address questions about how the nervous system interprets safety and threat and how it's felt in the body.
2025-10-021h 00Embodied Dialogues for Healing Trauma and AddictionSpiritual Alchemy for Trauma: Embodied Healing & Pathways to WholenessGuest Julianne Del Cano Kennard and host Jan Winhall explore the spiritual alchemy of trauma, the process by which pain, when consciously met, becomes a catalyst for transformation. Julianne will share about her upcoming book and the Wholality® framework to explain how the patterns and blocks within our human experience are not problems to fix, but signals pointing toward what wants to be healed and harmonized.
2025-10-0253 minEmbodied Dialogues for Healing Trauma and AddictionAutism in Polyvagal Terms: Neural Exercises to Cultivate Safety for the NeurodiverseJan Winhall hosts guest Sean Inderbitzen, author of Autism in Polyvagal Terms, for a rich dialogue on the intersection of polyvagal theory and neurodiversity, especially autism. They share a neural-exercise framework with practical tips to deepen connection, ease “stuckness,” and enhance quality of life by activating the ventral vagal system for greater safety, flexibility, and meaningful relationships.
2025-10-0250 min
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2025-08-2700 min
Binge Eating BreakthroughThe Nervous System and AddictionToday's episode is a powerful conversation with Jan Winhall, an expert who's revolutionizing how we understand addiction, trauma, and healing. If you've ever felt trapped in cycles of behavior you can't seem to break, if you've struggled with food, substances, or any pattern that seems to control you, this episode is going to change everything. Jan walks you through her groundbreaking Felt Sense Polyvagal Model - a compassionate, body-centered approach that doesn't just label you as 'disordered', but understands your experiences as intelligent adaptations. We'll explore how your nervous system works, why you do what you do, a...
2025-07-1644 min
Can I be with that?Healing the fight-flight-freeze-fixate feedback loop with Jan WinhallI’m elated to share with you our very first podcast guest interview– a conversation with none other than Jan Winhall. Jan is someone I’ve had the pleasure of learning from over the last couple of years through her many online teachings and books. She brings both warmth and clarity to the conversation around trauma and addiction, and her work has been hugely influential in shaping my own practice working with clients in these areas.You can listen to the full episode via your favorite podcast listening app, or jump right to my conversation with Jan via th...
2025-05-011h 06
Tune In To Your Ears To A Sensational Full Audiobook.20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction by Jan Winhall, Stephen Porges PhD - forewordPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/24636to listen full audiobooks.
Title: 20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction
Author: Jan Winhall, Stephen Porges PhD - foreword
Narrator: Jan Winhall
Format: mp3
Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
Release date: 03-18-25
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating
Genres: Psychology & Mental Health
Publisher's Summary:
What if addiction, dissociation, and other manifestations of trauma were not framed as diseases or disorders, but rather as adaptive methods of regulating the autonomic nervous system (ANS)? This book takes that approach, and guides listeners through twenty embodied practices that promote the rewiring of the ANS. By integrating the...
2025-03-187h 14Step Inside The Best Masterset In Audiobooks Today.20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction -- Jan Winhall, Stephen Porges PhD - forewordPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/24636 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: 20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction
Author: Jan Winhall, Stephen Porges PhD - foreword
Narrator: Jan Winhall
Format: mp3
Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
Release date: 03-18-25
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating
Genres: Psychology & Mental Health
Publisher's Summary:
What if addiction, dissociation, and other manifestations of trauma were not framed as diseases or disorders, but rather as adaptive methods of regulating the autonomic nervous system (ANS)? This book takes that approach, and guides listeners through twenty embodied practices...
2025-03-187h 14
Deep Dive into Psychology (en Español)Ep. 24 | (ES) Winhall 2021 Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal ModelEl libro de Jan Winhall "Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Bottom-Up Approach" introduce un nuevo enfoque para el tratamiento de la adicción al integrar la teoría polivagal con el concepto de sentido sentido de Gendlin. El Felt Sense Polyvagal Model (FSPM) ve la adicción como una respuesta adaptativa para regular los estados emocionales y hacer frente a un trauma, en lugar de una enfermedad. Enfatiza la importancia de las ‘prácticas encarnadas’ para regular el sistema nervioso autónomo y reconoce la adicción como un mecanismo de afrontamiento del dolor, a m...
2024-12-0821 min
Deep Dive into PsychologyEp. 24 | Winhall 2021 Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model[Summary] Jan Winhall's book “Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Bottom-Up Approach” introduces a new approach to addiction treatment by integrating the Polyvagal Theory with Gendlin's felt sense concept. The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model (FSPM) views addiction as an adaptive response to regulate emotional states and cope with trauma, rather than a disease. It emphasizes the importance of 'embodied practices' to regulate the autonomic nervous system and recognizes addiction as a coping mechanism for pain, often stemming from childhood trauma. Winhall stresses the need for safety, co-regulation, and a harm reduction model in recovery, whil...
2024-10-0510 min
Focusing PathwaysNaty CalviñoNaty Calvino lives in Argentina and is a Certifying Coordinator with TIFI (The International Focusing Institute), a Focusing Oriented Therapist, Supervisor and a Yogatherapist. She is also an FSPM Facilitator (Jan Winhall’s Felt Sense Polyvagal Model). Naty teaches the entire Focusing Certification Program and Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT), and especially enjoys training and supervising therapists, as well as her work with clients both individually and with groups. What Focusing means to Naty: "For me it is a way of BEING, and my goal every day is to be connected with my Higher Self, my essence, my spirit...
2024-09-1049 min
The Weekend UniversityHealing Addiction with IFS & Polyvagal Theory — Cece Sykes & Jan WinhallIn this insightful episode, I’m joined by world leading addiction treatment experts — Jan Winhall and Cece Sykes. Jan has been working closely with Stephen Porges to develop a Polyvagal informed model for treating addiction, while Cece is one of the world’s foremost experts on leveraging Internal Family Systems for healing addictive processes, having recently co-authored a book with Richard Schwartz and Martha Sweezy on this subject.
Both Jan and Cece will be teaching a module on our upcoming Holistic Recovery Course, which provides mental health professionals with an evidence-based and multidimensional framework for re-humanizing and healing addiction at its co...
2024-07-1159 min
Evolve: A New Era of Leadership074: Beyond Traditional Leadership: The Power of Polyvagal Theory and Felt Sense with Jan WinhallIn this episode of Evolve, we dive deep into the unconventional yet profoundly impactful realm of polyvagal theory and felt sense with renowned psychotherapist Jan Winhall. Leaders might wonder what insights a seasoned trauma and addiction therapist could offer to the leadership arena, but Jan bridges the gap between mental health and effective leadership. By exploring how our physiological states influence decision-making and interpersonal relationships, Jan provides leaders with innovative tools to foster a more resilient, empathetic, and productive work environment. Tune in to discover how understanding and applying the principles of polyvagal theory and felt sense can revolutionize...
2024-07-0254 min
Therapist Uncensored PodcastAddiction, Attachment & the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model with Jan Winhall - Replay (240)
Let’s revisit the “Felt Sense” Polyvagal model
Enjoy this replay episode with Jan Winhall, as we explore how our bodies can guide us towards healing and growth through the concept of “felt sense.” This approach integrates neuroscience and focuses on our innate ability to perceive and respond to our experiences. Winhall’s work challenges conventional views on navigating challenges influenced by culture and trauma.
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2024-07-0248 min
Therapist Uncensored PodcastAddiction, Attachment & the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model with Jan Winhall - Replay (240)
Let’s revisit the “Felt Sense” Polyvagal model
Enjoy this replay episode with Jan Winhall, as we explore how our bodies can guide us towards healing and growth through the concept of “felt sense.” This approach integrates neuroscience and focuses on our innate ability to perceive and respond to our experiences. Winhall’s work challenges conventional views on navigating challenges influenced by culture and trauma.
Click here to view Jan Winhall’s original shownotes
Get your copy of Secure Relating here!!
Interest in David Elliot’s Integrative Attachment Trainin...
2024-07-0248 min
The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton#295 The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model - with Jan Winhall> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/
This week's guest is Jan Winhall, a seasoned trauma and addiction psychotherapist and author of the book 'Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model'.
Jan had a remarkable start to her career. In her early twenties, she found herself leading group sessions for incest survivors. Over time, she learned the power of the Felt Sense and then how to integrate this with the Polyvagal Model.
We discuss:
Beyond Fight-Flight: The Polyvagal Theory
The importance of the Felt Sens...
2024-04-121h 13
Social Work SpotlightEpisode 102: MicheleIn this episode I speak with Michele, an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, Accredited EMDR Consultant, Clinical Resource Therapy Trainer as well as partner in private practice and Director of EMDR Relational and Training at Seva House in the Hunter region. Michele has worked extensively with children, young people and adults who have experienced complex trauma as well as supporting young people who have caused harm to others. Michele provides EMDR Consultation and Clinical Supervision to professionals and develops and facilitates training in EMDR and Resource Therapy. Links to resources mentioned in this week’s e...
2024-02-0255 min
The Kick Sugar Coach PodcastJan Winhall: Unraveling the Complexities of Trauma and AddictionWhen the wisdom of the body meets the complexity of trauma and addiction, profound healing can begin. This is the message that Jan Winhall, an experienced trauma and addiction psychotherapist, brings to our latest conversation. With her Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, Jan offers a paradigm shift, viewing addictive behaviors as adaptive strategies for managing dysregulated states. Throughout our discussion, she dismantles the traditional brain disease narrative, instead celebrating the body's innate intelligence and advocating for a treatment approach that respects its capacity for self-regulation.Triggers, those emotional tripwires, are typically seen as obstacles, but what if we...
2024-01-221h 04
Get Your Life Together, Girl#6 of Top Episodes for 2023: Resetting the Nervous System with Jan Winhall, Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™Trauma, dysregulated emotions, high levels of stress and anxiety, all have a way of rewiring and changing your nervous system. The changes are so significant they can cause disease as you witness and carry your dis-ease; they cause coping mechanisms and self-harm, and a host of other significant life impacts. Yet, there is a way to retrain the autonomic nervous system and your relationship to your experiences. I sat down with trauma and addiction therapist, Polyvagal Institute Course Developer, teacher, and author Jan Winhall to talk about how to shift out of flight/fight/fold and freeze...
2023-12-2554 min
The Weekend UniversityPolyvagal Theory, Addiction & Trauma - Jan WinhallJan is an author, teacher, and psychotherapist with more than 40 years of experience working with addiction and trauma. She is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Toronto and the director of Focusing on Borden, a psychotherapy and training centre. Jan presents internationally on trauma and addiction, and her most recent book: “Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model” has attracted praise from the likes of Gabor Maté, Stephen Porges, and Marc Lewis.
In this conversation, we discuss:
— Why it’s vital that we bring the body more and more into psychotherapy, particularly when working with trauma and addic...
2023-11-161h 02
The Science of PsychotherapyJan Winhall and the Polyvagal Paradigm for AddictionFind out more about the Holistic Recovery Summit here https://bit.ly/SOP-Summit2023 We talk to Jan Winhall, MSW, FOT who is an author, teacher, and psychotherapist in Toronto, Canada. She is author of "Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model", and will be a speaker at the upcoming Holistic Recovery Summit with Stephen Porges. Thanks for listening! Support us by becoming a subscriber to The Science of Psychotherapy Academy! Or you can simply buy us a cup of coffee! Please leave a...
2023-09-1818 min
The Human Connection (Polyvagal Informed Conversations)Ep#7: Conversation with Jan Winhall on Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™Jan Winhall, MSW, FOT is an author, teacher, and psychotherapist. She is an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Social Work, the University of Toronto. She is the director of Focusing on Borden, a psychotherapy and training center. Jan presents internationally on trauma and addiction.
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2023-09-0256 minGet Your Life Together, GirlGYLTG 214: Resetting the Nervous System with Jan Winhall, Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™Trauma, dysregulated emotions, high levels of stress and anxiety, all have a way of rewiring and changing your nervous system. The changes are so significant they can cause disease as you witness and carry your dis-ease; they cause coping mechanisms and self-harm, and a host of other significant life impacts. Yet, there is a way to retrain the autonomic nervous system and your relationship to your experiences. I sat down with trauma and addiction therapist, Polyvagal Institute Course Developer, teacher, and author Jan Winhall to talk about how to shift out of flight/fight/fold and freeze...
2023-08-2953 min
The Trauma TherapistEpisode 738: We Are All Just Shaky Beings with Jan Winhall, MSWJan began her career as a social worker and psychotherapist 40 years ago. She began listening with non-pathologizing ears and heard shocking stories of sexual torture, and responses that confused her.As she continued to listen she learned that somehow these self-harming behaviors were “helping” individuals to escape intolerable emotional states. They were shifting their mood from flooding anxiety to numbing deadness, or vice versa. Because these behaviors were so helpful they were compulsively repeated and often became addictions.Jan’s book Treating Trauma and Addiction with The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Bottom Up Approach is the re...
2023-06-2933 min
The Men's CollectivePolyvagal Theory: Redefining Our Understanding of the Autonomic Nervous System, Men & Emotions (feat. Jan Winhall)In EPISODE 64 of The Therapy4Dads Podcast, we dive deep into the topic of unhealthy masculinity and its impact on men and boys. Our guest Jan Winhall, author of "Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model," shares her insights and practical tools for healing trauma and regulating the nervous system. We discuss how men have been traumatized by unhealthy societal expectations and how therapists can be the first safe person in a man's life. We also explore the importance of integrating the mind and body, using body cards to manage emotions and the groundbreaking polyvagal theory...
2023-05-1056 min
Sobertown PodcastEP 292: Drink - Author Ann Dowsett JohnstonHost: Viv aka Sober_iThrive
Guest: Ann Dowsett Johnston
I am an award-winning journalist and bestselling author, turned psychotherapist. For more than 25 years, I worked at Maclean’s magazine, Canada’s newsweekly, where I was perhaps best known as the chief architect of the Maclean’s university rankings—and for a series of columns on modern life, including “The Boy Can’t Sleep,” anthologized in Carol Shields’ Dropped Threads II.
Drink book by Ann Dowsett Johnston
Winner of seven National Magazine Awards, I am also the recipient of a Southam Journalism Fellowship and the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy...
2023-03-2228 min
Therapist Uncensored PodcastAddiction, Attachment & the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model with Jan Winhall (193)In today's episode, find new perspectives on how culture and trauma affect our navigation within the world. Using bottom-up approaches, she explains how addictions are regulation strategies and provides tools to deeper connect to our nervous systems and ourselves. Join social workers Sue Marriott and Jan Winhall as they explore Winhall's "felt sense" model, where she blends neuroception and enteroception through a polyvagal lens.Jan Winhall is a highly experienced therapist and author who has dedicated her life to understanding and challenging dominant structures. From her years of group therapy and studying with figures like Dr. Stephen...
2022-12-1547 minTherapist Uncensored PodcastAddiction, Attachment & the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model with Jan WinhallMany answers to our challenges are already inside of us.
In today’s episode, find new perspectives on how culture and trauma affect our navigation within the world. Using bottom-up approaches, she explains how addictions are regulation strategies and provides tools to deeper connect to our nervous systems and ourselves. Join social workers Sue Marriott and Jan Winhall as they explore Winhall’s “felt sense” model, where she blends neuroception and interoception through a polyvagal lens.
Jan Winhall is a highly experienced therapist and author who has dedicated her life to understanding and challenging dominant structur...
2022-12-1343 min
The Michael Ostrolenk ShowJan Winhall on Treating Trauma and Addiction, #EmergentHumanOstrolenk speaks with Jan Winhall, author of “Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Bottom-Up Approach" (https://www.amazon.com/Treating-Trauma-Addiction-Sense-Polyvagal/dp/0367408120). Winhall details her history with treating trauma and addiction and how she came to understand addiction not as a disease but as a means of coping with trauma. Addition occurs, Winhall explains, naturally when individuals do not feel safe and are unable to socially engage. We also live in cultures that do not support engagement and grounding, which is further detailed within the five stages of oppression in Winhall’s book. Lastly, Ostrolenk and Winh...
2022-02-1642 min
The Trauma TherapistEpisode 564: We've forgotten that we live in our bodies with Jan Winhall, MSWMy guest today, Jan Winhall of Focusing on Borden, began her career as social worker and psychotherapist 40 years ago.[CW for text below: mention of self-harming behaviors]She began listening with non-pathologizing ears and heard shocking stories of sexual torture, and responses that confused her. Women were cutting themselves, bingeing and purging huge quantities of food, and abusing drugs and alcohol. As she continued to listen she learned that somehow these self-harming behaviors were “helping” individuals to escape intolerable emotional states. They were shifting their mood from flooding anxiety to numbing deadness, or vice vers...
2021-11-2934 min
The Addicted Mind Podcast152: Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model with Jan WinhallOn today's episode, Duane speaks with Jan Winhall, the author of Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Bottom-Up Approach. Jan's book is a combination of over 40 years of working with trauma and addiction and reflecting on how to bring an embodied approach to addiction treatment. We currently understand trauma and addiction from more of a top-down cognitive approach. For example, the DSM, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, sees it through a pathologizing lens. When Jan started her work, she was fresh out of graduate school where she got assigned to run a gr...
2021-10-2539 min
Proactive MindfulnessJan Winhall: Treating trauma & addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal modelJan Winhall describes how therapists can respectfully understand addiction and treat trauma responses with deep embodied listening.
2021-10-0135 minProactive MindfulnessJan Winhall: Treating trauma & addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal modelJan Winhall describes how therapists can respectfully understand addiction and treat trauma responses with deep embodied listening.
2021-10-0135 min
Beyond Belief SobrietyEpisode 238: Jan Winhall | Treating Trauma and Addiction With The Felt Sense Polyvagal ModelJan Winhall is a Clinical Social Worker and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Toronto in the Department of Social Work. She is also the author of Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Bottom-Up Approach. In this episode, Jan explains how and why addiction becomes a way of coping with […]
2021-09-1336 min
The Mindful Psychology Podcast99. Trauma, Addiction, and Polyvagal Theory with Jan WinhallToday we are joined by Jan Winhall, MSW FOT, who will be talking to use about the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model and how we can us different modalities to understand and heal trauma and addiction. In her book, Jan draws significant links between trauma and addiction, and creates a framework for clinicians to apply to their practice.
"I started my career as a social worker/psychotherapist 40 years ago. I listened with non-pathologizing ears and heard shocking stories of sexual torture, and responses that confused me.
Women were cutting themselves, burning their bodies, sucking on bars o...
2021-08-3137 min
The Michael Ostrolenk ShowThe 8-Circuit Brain with Antero Alli, #EmergentHumanWelcome to the Emergent Human with Michael Ostrolenk, where we explore optimizing health, embodied spirituality, and post-conventional living.
Today I speak with Antero Alli, author of two books advancing Timothy Leary’s 8-Circuit Brain model: “Angel Tech” published in 1985 and “The Eight-Circuit Brain: Navigational Strategies for the Energetic Body”, published in 2009.
Alli discusses his work with the 8-Circuit Brain model, which has been endorsed by Timothy Leary and by Robert Anton Wilson. The 8-Circuit Brain model posits eight interactive functions of Intelligence: physio-biological intelligence of survival, emotional-territorial intelligence and the will to power, symbolic-conceptual intelligence of intellectual acuity, social-moral intelligence and empath...
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The Michael Ostrolenk ShowFocusing-Oriented Psychotherapy with Jan Winhall, #ORadioOstrolenk speaks with Jan Winhall, MSW, a psychotherapist in private practice and Director of Focusing on Borden (http://www.focusingonborden.com/), a center for teaching focusing and focus-oriented therapy. Jan discusses what brought her to the work that she does, her experience with knowing how to listen, and her use of the Felt Sense, the internal bodily awareness that functions as a connection between the mind and body. She also discusses a Polyvagal informed model for treating addiction (https://somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/addiction-from-the-bottom-up-a-felt-sense-polyvagal-model-of-addiction/) she created and the six keys of her clinician model (https://www.focusingonborden.com/model): addicted, chaos, rigidity...
2020-05-2039 min
The Trauma TherapistEpisode 196: The Power of Presence with Jan Winhall M.S.W.Jan Winhall M.S.W. R.S.W. F.O.T. is a Registered Clinical Social Worker and Coordinator with the Focusing Institute in New York City (http://www.focusing.org/). She is a member of the International Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy Association (http://www.focusing.org/) and Director of Focusing On Borden, a training centre where she teaches Focusing and supervises therapists. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer with the University of Toronto Master of Social Work program. Jan has worked in the area of trauma and addiction for over 30 years. Early on she was drawn to Gene Gendlin (http...
2016-09-2631 min