Growing Up Mormon and How It Formed Parts of Self: an Interview With Jessica Downs, LCSW

Growing Up Mormon and How It Formed Parts of Self: an Interview With Jessica Downs, LCSW

The Therapy Sisters welcome back Jessica Downs, certified EMDR therapist, trainer, and ego states extraordinaire. Jessica talks candidly about growing up in the Mormon church, what parts of herself those experiences shaped and how parts are impacted in cases of spiritual wounds and trauma. Jessica is a warm and brilliant voice and The Therapy Sisters are so excited to have her back on the show!

It’s All Your Fault

In today’s episode The Therapy Sisters explore the idea that often is internalized among those who grew up in religious communities that, whenever something goes wrong, it must be your fault. Struggle with depression? Pray more! Life hands you something challenging? Must be because you’re not doing enough. Or the right thing. It’s exhausting and it isn’t true. Listen as they share their experiences around this, how they see this play out in the lives of their clients, and what you can do to help address this narrative in your own life.

Narrative Four: There Is Something Inherently Wrong…With You.

In this episode The Therapy Sisters discuss the message that something is wrong with you just by merit of your birth and the way in which people, women in particular, grow up to internalize this message.

Whose Body Is It Anyway: An Interview with body and trauma specialist, Cassie Krajewski, LCSW

Welcome! We're so glad you're here. Grab a cup of coffee (or your drink of choice) and join the Therapy Sisters as they sit down with Cassie Krajewski, LCSW. Cassie is an LCSW based in Denver, CO where she runs her private practice, Inner Atlas Therapy. She uses EMDR Therapy and Internal Family Systems Therapy to treat complex trauma, disordered eating and body image, and sex and relationships. Cassie is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and a senior faculty member at Kase and CO, an EMDR training business where she offers an EMDR and Disordered Eating course for therapists. In this episode, Cassie shares her own story of growing up in purity culture, how that shaped her, particularly in relationship to her own body, and what she sees in clinical practice around purity culture, sex, and body image. This is an amazing conversation and Cassie brings so much wisdom, experience, and insight to this discussion. Books referenced today: On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski, PhD To get more information about Cassie's work you can find her here. And stay tuned for her podcast, Taking Up Space, which releases in May, where she will explore these topics in further depth. To find a therapist in you area, please visit: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists To find an EMDR therapist, please visit: https://www.emdria.org/find-an-emdr-therapist/ We’d love to connect! You can find us on facebook at facebook.com/therapysisterspodcast or on instagram at @the_therapy_sisters. You can also feel free to reach out by email at thetherapysisters@gmail.com

Purity Culture and Women's Relationships With Their Bodies

Hello, and welcome back to The Therapy Sisters Podcast! In today's episode, The Therapy Sisters discuss purity culture and some of the inherent messages young women internalized about their bodies as a result, including: -Where shame about the body starts -How the messaging within purity culture impacts the mind/body/emotion connection -The "light switch effect" when women get married. -How consent factors in -How women's sexuality is largely left out of the conversation -How young girls who grew up within purity culture are made responsible for the thoughts/actions/desires of men and how that plays out into their future sexual lives and relationships with their own bodies. ....and more! Want to connect? Us too! You can do so in the following places: ⁠Instagram⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/the_therapy_sisters/] ⁠Facebook⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/therapysisterspodcast] or shoot us an email at thetherapysisters@gmail.com