The Trauma Perspective

Want a job where you are the sole food source for a living human being? Required to clock in every 2-3 hours around the clock, with little sleep, routinely responding to crying demands for food, while healing from your recent c-section or vaginal birth and maintaining the other responsibilities of life including the care of your other children. And you will continue this routine for 6 months to 1 year with various changes in your feeding schedule and milk supply while returning to work. And whether you are a person who works out of your home or in your home the demands of life will increase. And if you live in America, you get no societal support, no guaranteed maternity leave, healthcare, childcare, or lactation support all while constantly being pressured to breastfeed. These are some of the realities of breastfeeding. Isabel Reynolds Birth Fit Coach and mom to 3 kids join us for a real talk about breastfeeding, the good, the bad, and the milky.

When you get pregnant the focus is on getting through 3 trimesters. You are guided through each stage of this change and your health and the health of the fetus are monitored with the utmost importance. Then birth happens and you enter into a new stage. But this time, no one is there to guide you, the expectations on your body and mind how increased, and outside of maybe 2 follow-up appointments you are on your own to figure out how to heal and survive the newness of parenthood. Why is there no talk of the 4 trimester ? The trimester the births parenthood.

Porting life into this world is a task that can not be understood unless you have experienced it. It requires tremendous levels of strength, compassion, tenacity, love, and hope for life. Anyone who has chosen(and this should be a person's choice) this experience immediately signs up to lose a part of themselves in order to gain an extension of their life. This comes with the certainty that this process will be challenging and the possibility that it could be traumatic. Because just like with anything in life, trauma happens.

The black church has been a pillar of strength for supporting the needs of the black community. But focused attention to the mental health needs of the black community has always taken on a different context depending on stigma, religious perspective, or just a lack of education available to meet the needs of the congregation. In this episode, we discuss the good, the bad, and the future of mental health as it integrates into a new understanding of faith and the black community.Contact: https://www.facebook.com/mentalhealthisministry, zenia_robinsonmsw@yahoo.com

The effects of addiction and substance use are plaguing our society in devasting ways. But this also many times creates new levels of trauma while in recovery. Individuals have the challenge of entering back into the world under a new sober identity, but continue to face the stigma of this not being enough. In this discussion, we look at the ways in which the impact of drug use, recovery, and sobriety create obstacles of stigma in people's lives that are societal realities of clean living. Drew David Breznitsky, MA is the Founder and Director of Clinical Operations of Beachside Recovery Interventions + Consulting and is professionally referred to as a Master's Level Therapist currently working toward licensure in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy.www.bricthestigma.com

With the lingering issues of COVID-19, ongoing issues in racial violence and injustice, the recent election, and people dealing with the changing economy the need for mental health services is at an all-time high. Unfortunately, even before the pandemic, there was a need for access to mental health services and affordability. The past year has only accelerated this need into dangerous territories. This episode breaks down current issues with access to care, affordability and starts to talk about solutions one therapist has found to assist with a growing problem. Susan Dean is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and Qualified Supervisor for Mental Health and Marriage and Family Interns. Email: inquiries@susanbdeane.com, www.agapementalhealth.org

Without a doubt, we know that individuals experience trauma through sexual abuse, sexual violence, rape, sexual assault, emotional rape, and many other types of sexual rated trauma experiences. Sex is such a vital and natural part of human existence and disruptions in the development of individuals' sexual identity can change the course of their ability to relate to sex as a natural state of human existence. Disruptions in an individual being allowed to define their sexuality for themselves can lead to many physical, emotional, and psychological pain. This episode attempts to explore and differentiate sexual trauma and sexual addiction. While looking at the connections that feed these two issues. Brynne Dearie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, and a Licensed Drug and Alcohol Counselor. Email: brynnedearie@gmail.com

Finding mental health services, trauma treatment, and particularly treatment for eating disorders can be a challenge. This is a diagnosis that is usually treated from a symptom-focused approach and sometimes doesn't include a focus on an individual's trauma healing needs. Claudia Y Pache, MA, LMHC, CEDS, RYT 200 joins me in continuing our discussion on the effects of trauma on eating disorders and the importance of finding the right treatment. Claudia is a licensed Mental Health Counselor who is certified as a Clinical Trauma Professional. Her specialties include eating disorders. She has her Certified Eating Disorder Specialist certification from the International Association of Eating Disorder Specialists and is a Certified Eating Disorder Intuitive Therapy Level 3 Specialist who follows the Health At Every Size model.She is also trained in EMDR and Accelerated Resolution therapy. Claudia is a Certified Health Coach and a Yoga instructor specializing in Trauma Sensitive Yoga.

The experiences of trauma consume an individual's body and mind. Developing an eating disorder or having disordered eating is just one coping strategy an individual using for survival. The toxicity of trauma has a way of disconnecting an individual from their body and cause them to live their life in parts. Claudia Y Pache, MA, LMHC, CEDS, RYT 200 joins me in discussing the effects of trauma on eating disorders. Claudia is a licensed Mental Health Counselor who is certified as a Clinical Trauma Professional. Her specialties include eating disorders. She has her Certified Eating Disorder Specialist certification from the International Association of Eating Disorder Specialists and is a Certified Eating Disorder Intuitive Therapy Level 3 Specialist who follows the Health At Every Size model.She is also trained in EMDR and Accelerated Resolution therapy. Claudia is a Certified Health Coach and a Yoga instructor specializing in Trauma Sensitive Yoga.

The Insurrection was an event that changed history and impacted the American democratic process. This is one therapist's perspective on that event and doing crisis counseling in DC after the event. Issues of Secondary Trauma and Crisis work will be discussed. And other insights into fear-based behaviors that lead to harmful outcomes will also be unpacked.

There is no better place to start a conversation about trauma than to discuss, “What is trauma?” In this episode, Dr. Tasha creates an opening to discuss the meaning of trauma and define it for your life.