Overcoming Child Sexual Abuse ~ With Kathy Andersen

Today, we’re wrapping up Season Five with the world-renowned Dr. Bradley Nelson. We’re also wrapping up the Overcoming Child Sexual Abuse podcast series with this podcast episode. I hope these five seasons have brought you insights and practices from leading practitioners that have been helpful on your journey and will continue to be a resource to you and your loved ones. Moving forward, I feel it’s time for a transition to focus on bringing happiness and good things into our lives today, which is key to overcoming anything from our past, our present, and our futures. So stay tuned, and look out for that new podcast series. But back to today - Dr. Bradley Nelson is the developer of some of the most advanced forms of energy medicine on the planet.  As a holistic Chiropractic Physician and Medical Intuitive, Dr. Nelson is one of the foremost experts in the fields of Bioenergetic Medicine and Energy Psychology. He is the founder and CEO of Discover Healing, the author of two best-selling energy healing books, The Emotion Code [https://discoverhealing.com/the-emotion-code/book/] and The Body Code [https://discoverhealing.com/the-body-code/book/], and the creator of three advanced energy healing Certification Courses [http://discoverhealing.com/certification] — certifying practitioners in the Emotion Code [https://discoverhealing.com/the-emotion-code/], the Body Code [https://discoverhealing.com/the-body-code/], and the Belief Code [https://discoverhealing.com/the-belief-code/]. These energy healing methods developed by Dr. Nelson are now used by more than 12,000 practitioners in more than 80 countries across the globe. Tony Robbins, a great fan of Dr. Brad’s shares, “…I’m excited by the understandings the Emotion Code brings so that the pathway to personal growth, expanded identity, and an extraordinary quality of life is truly possible for anyone that desires to be free of the past and become more.” Dr. Brad is also an acclaimed and popular speaker on the international seminar circuit and now travels to many countries around the globe, teaching seminars on the Emotion Code, Body Code, and Belief Code. He has been a guest on over 1,000 radio and television shows, documentaries, and live appearances, and has presented his very timely message to millions around the world. Dr. Brad’s mission in life is to empower people worldwide with these energy healing modalities so we can free ourselves from past hurts, improve our ability to love unconditionally, take control of our health, and live a fulfilling life on our own terms. For more resources, visit www.OvercomingChildSexualAbuse.com and www.End1in4.org

Today, we’re joined once more by Dr. Lindsay Gibson, clinical psychologist and author of numerous books, who you’ll remember from Season Two when we spoke about overcoming the impacts of damaging parents – or as Lindsay names them, “Emotionally Immature Parents.” Since that last podcast, Lindsay has released another book just last year, to offer even more help with how to deal with Emotionally Immature People (EIPs) in general. I love the title of Lindsay’s new book, Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People: Avoid Emotional Traps, Stand Up for Your Self, and Transform Your Relationships as an Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents! The word disentangling, in particular, seems apt because I think we all often feel entangled, bound up and wound up as a result of relationships that have harmed us, and continue to harm us. If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, your emotional needs as a child were likely not met or were dismissed—and you likely have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, and abandonment in adulthood.  And now, in adulthood, we continue to be confronted by people with similar “emotionally immature” characteristics—and they can be damaging to us. They tend to be me-first people, with little regard for others. They may not respect you as an individual—which can be isolating, hurtful, and lonely. Emotionally Immature People are often unpredictable, volatile, and difficult to handle. As adult children of emotionally immature parents, we may be especially vulnerable to EIPs. But we are not powerless! Lindsay’s latest book helps us to avoid common traps, build confidence, and stand strong in our selves, without guilt, shame, or fear so we don’t become entangled with Emotionally Immature People in our adulthoods. In this podcast, we’re going to deep dive into disentangling from Emotionally Immature People so we can transform even our most challenging relationships into happy and healthy ones. For more resources, visit www.OvercomingChildSexualAbuse.com and www.End1in4.org

Today, we’re joined by acclaimed author, facilitator and teacher, Heather Plett, who first joined us in Season Three when we spoke about Heather’s book, The Art of Holding Space. In this podcast, we talk about Heather’s recently released book, Where Tenderness Lives: On Healing, Liberation, and Holding Space for Oneself, which is described as “A journey of self-exploration, forgiveness, and individual and collective healing.” Where Tenderness Lives is an exploration of what it means to unravel what we’ve learned from our families, societies, religions, and cultures so we can heal and create purposeful and joyful lives. Heather reveals: ·       How trauma can shape our lives and our personalities;  ·       How treating ourselves with tenderness can lead to our healing, and can invite others into healing; and  ·       How learning to hold space for ourselves is one of the most important and valuable pursuits on our journeys beyond trauma. By reflecting on her own life with vulnerability and self-compassion, including moving through her experience of rape, the death of her son, and divorce, among other trauma and life challenges, Heather provides us with a path to self-exploration and individual and collective healing.   Heather says, “This work has changed me – in hard and oh-so-beautiful ways. In learning to let go, I found freedom. In learning to hold space, I found connection. I will spend the rest of my life in this practice. I will continue to grow and deepen my understanding, and I will continue to share that learning…”   I know this will be a revealing, personal, and profoundly powerful podcast episode and I’m so grateful to Heather for joining us. For more resources, visit www.OvercomingChildSexualAbuse.com and www.End1in4.org

Today, we’re joined by Michelle Brock. Michelle is a master intuitive and spiritual development life coach whose latest book, Who Do You Think You Are?, provides a powerful guide to manifesting the happiness and satisfaction we desire. Michelle helps us to dive into our experiences from the past—and past lives—in order to better understand and experience our present—and especially understand pasts that may be rooted in childhood trauma and abuse. Michelle is also an intuitive counselor, a psychic medium, a master hypnotist, and has studied spirituality, shamanism, meditation, divination, astrology, and energy medicine techniques from many different world traditions.  Throughout the book, Michelle guides and prompts the reader through an interactive journey with self-reflection, compassion, and enlightenment. As a result, we can cast aside limiting notions of what defines us, heal from the ordeals of previous lives, and embrace a joyful, emotionally fulfilling existence in the here and now. Michelle has helped thousands of people discover the stories of their previous lives—their traumas and triumphs, losses and loves—and help them step forward into their best lives. When we learn our stories from the past, we can reach unprecedented heights of self-awareness in the present. Michelle’s work has been featured on Comedy Central's hit TV show Inside Amy Schumer and her long list of influential clients includes celebrities, CEOs, writers, artists, and academics. A personal protégé of Dr Brian L. Weiss, author of the enduring classic and New York Times bestseller Many Lives, Many Masters, Michelle brings intelligence, humor, and rare insight to her spiritual guidance. Michelle’s new book, Who Do You Think You Are?, was launched just this April, and continues to be translated into languages around the world! For more resources, visit www.OvercomingChildSexualAbuse.com and www.End1in4.org

Today, we're joined by the pioneering Dr. Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. Dr. Levine is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma, which he has developed over the past 50 years.  In his just-released book, An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey, Dr. Levine, who has changed the way psychologists, doctors, and healers around the world understand and treat the wounds of trauma and abuse—shares his own very personal journey to heal the severe trauma he experienced as a child. Dr. Levine offers profound insights into the evolution of his innovative healing method of Somatic Experiencing. By taking us through his own journey of healing and untangling traumatic wounds of violent abuse, he illuminates incredibly powerful learning and practices that can help each of us on our paths to healing, growing and thriving. Dr. Levine is the author of several best-selling books [https://www.somaticexperiencing.com/se-books] on trauma, including the groundbreaking, Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma (published in over 29 languages); In An Unspoken Voice, How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness; and Trauma and Memory, Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory. Most recently, Dr. Levine was recognized with a very special lifetime achievement award from Psychotherapy Networker, one of several that Dr. Levine has been awarded for his pioneering and relentless work.  Dr. Levine holds a doctorate in Biophysics from UC Berkeley and a doctorate in Psychology from International University. He is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute for Somatic Education, dedicated to Community Outreach and Post-Advanced Somatic Experiencing® Training, and the Founder and Advisor for Somatic Experiencing International. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley; Mills College; Antioch University; the California Institute of Integral Studies; and the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. Dr. Levine leads trauma healing courses for the public worldwide and teaches specialized Master Class courses. His Somatic Experiencing trainings have been taught to over 30,000 therapists in more than 42 countries, spanning 6 continents—and continue to grow. Dr. Levine teaches us that anyone suffering from trauma has a valuable story to tell, and that by telling our stories, we can catalyze the return of hope, dignity, and wholeness.  For more resources, visit www.OvercomingChildSexualAbuse.com and www.End1in4.org