Conversations With A Wounded Healer

Nathaniel Hodder-Shipp, B.Msc, CADC-II, is President and Founder of Breathwork for Recovery and has worked as a professional healer for almost a decade. Using an arsenal of techniques with a special focus on breathwork, Nathaniel has helped thousands of people process trauma, disarm negative thought patterns, and maintain healthy and happy relationships with themselves and loved ones. Sarah and Nathaniel are two tattooed, cussing, mohawked healers who share a passion for helping people heal from trauma. Nathaniel shares how trauma robs one of their ability to choose and how breathwork and can help heal the nervous system in order to regain one’s ability to make choices. “You’re not so bad...you’re just darkness.” Learn more about today's guest at www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast   ***  Let’s be friends! ~Sarah You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headheartther

This episode discusses the harsh reality of depression and suicide. Please listen with care. VersAnnette Blackman-Bosia, a.k.a "Verse" is an abstract painter, author, licensed massage therapist, facilitator & speaker on a mission to infuse the world with healing energy and light. Verse believes that creativity is a catalyst for healing, and can be the core of mental/emotional wellness. Her business, Soul Revival Healing Arts, is where you can ​purchase​ her original art, take workshops, see ​upcoming exhibits and hear about ​creative projects. Sarah and Verse discuss everything from art to mental health struggles. They also dig into how they broke away from their family of origin’s religious beliefs to find their own spirituality. And the God of their understanding is totally ok with using the f-bomb. Learn more about today's guest at www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast   ***  Let’s be friends! ~Sarah You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.f

Charlotte Eléa is a worthiness coach, transformation guide and emotional healer. She helps sensitive and soulful women get to know who they really are, and unleash their light and true brilliance. She has a background in both traditional psychotherapy and spiritual / intuitive methods, and helps her clients transform deep wounds of invisibility and unworthiness into love, trust and wisdom. Sarah and Charlotte dive deep into topics such as our soul’s purpose, the gift of the Great Depression in the collective evolving consciousness, and cultivating the courage to reclaim self. Get ready to be energized to wake up to yourself so you can show up more fully in the world. Learn more about Charlotte at Sarah's website:  www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast   Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places...   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Molly Coeling is a massage therapist and Reiki Master Teacher in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Chicago. She is excited to be launching "Beyond MeToo: Healing the Wounds of Sexual Trauma," a podcast that explores both individual and collective healing from sexual trauma. Molly and Sarah discuss utilizing Reiki and massage as the gateway to healing, the fire that’s been lit under women as a result of the #metoo movement, and the importance of healing our individual trauma to contribute to healing the collective.   Let’s be friends! You can find me, Sarah Buino, in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Ego, struggle and faith. What do these topics have to do with one another? In today’s episode, Sarah thinks out loud about the way ego keeps us clinging to the problems that stand in between us and our best selves. It’s an invitation to allowing rather than trying, to letting go rather than clinging and to getting comfortable with the uncomfortable experiences in life. Scott Tusa Dharma Weekend 10/26-27, 2018 The Heart of Compassion~ Looking Towards, Finding Ease  Awakening Together: The Practice of Relational Awareness Details & RSVP: https://mindfulpathbehavioralhealth.ticketspice.com/scott-tusa-dharma-weekend Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Jordan is a tarot lover, who offers mail-delivered readings to help spread tarot’s reach in healing. He is also queer, trans, a parent, spouse, teacher, student of nature, on his own spiritual journey. Jordan celebrates connection, community, and the co-creation in supporting one another through our unique human experiences. Listen to Jordan and Sarah fall into friendship love right before your ears!

I'm Jon Brockelman. I'm an oncology certified registered nurse at a large academic medical center here in Chicago. I've spent most of my 20 year career working with oncology patients, and I've recently started a master's degree in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety at Northwestern University. I'm on Facebook and LinkedIn, I'm on Insta as well, but I'm not so insta-savvy. Brené Brown says that when we share our stories, we heal the world. I think of that each time I share mine. Jon and Sarah discuss the change that one person can make in the world, the balance of nursing as an art/science, and how perfectionism feels harder to heal from than addiction, being gay and being HIV+.   Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Elmo Painter is a Body-centered Psychotherapist and Sensuality Educator who lives and practices in Chicago, IL. Her passions include getting people in touch with their authentic selves, finding ways to make moments more awesome, and helping people process and settle from post-traumatic stress. In this episode we talk about sex. Yes you read that right - sex. It’s not a topic we always get to in therapy rooms, but it’s so important. Elmo and Sarah discuss kink, BDSM and how those practices can inform one’s healing journey.   Learn more about Elmo Painter and Head/Heart Therapy: http://www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast   Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Rachel Inberg is a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and writer from New York. She regularly treats incest survivors, drug addicts, and victims of gang violence. She has spent ten years in school learning how to care for other people; her writing is the result of her learning to care for herself. Rachel's nonfiction and poetry have appeared in the Huffington Post, The Rumpus, Panoply Zine and the Narratively and Tin House collection "Memoir Mondays." David Simon, creator of "The Wire" and HBO's "The Deuce" has called Rachel's work "...painful, powerful, and honest." Rachel and Sarah talk about impostor syndrome, connection as the most important aspect of healing, and how becoming a mental health professional led to a greater understanding of how to help oneself. Learn more about Rachel Inberg and Head/Heart Therapy: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast   Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places...   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/   Instagr

Andrea Varol, LCSW, CADC has been working as a dedicated mental health professional for 16 years. She’s also the mom of two amazing boys and has a guilty pleasure of listening to sugary teen pop music. Andrea and Sarah dig into the value of addressing one’s own wounds, the values of self-disclosure in therapy, and debate whether shame is innate or or created.   Learn more about Andrea Varol and Head/Heart Therapy: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast   Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places...   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/   Instagram: @headhearttherapy   Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi  

In this episode, Sarah shares about an experience of posting on Facebook, being called out, being defensive, and then ultimately realizing this post was not within her values. Learn more about Sarah Buino and Head/Heart Therapy: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast   Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places...   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/   Instagram: @headhearttherapy   Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi  

Sera Beak is a world-traveled Harvard trained scholar of comparative world religions and author of Redvelations: A Soul’s Journey to Becoming Human (2018), Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic’s Love Story (2013), and The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark (2006). She gives talks, private sessions and retreats focused on the radical reality of the Soul and its messy beautiful love affair with being human. She has a strong affinity for animals, bloopers, subtle realms and swear words. In this episode, Sera and Sarah are spiritual beings having a human experience. They discuss the importance of recognizing and reclaiming our human souls, the prevalence of soul loss in this crazy world, and how touching into our deepest wounds can activate our divinity as humans. Learn more about Sera Beak and Head/Heart Therapy: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast   Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places...   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/

Rachel Grant is the owner and founder of Rachel Grant Coaching and is a Sexual Abuse Recovery Coach. She is also the author of Beyond Surviving: The Final Stage in Recovery from Sexual Abuse. She works with survivors of childhood sexual abuse who are beyond sick and tired of feeling broken, unfixable, and burdened by the past. She helps them let go of the pain of abuse and finally feel normal. Rachel and Sarah discuss Rachel’s history of healing from sexual abuse and how that led to her authentic life purpose. They also explore how language affects the way we perceive ourselves and the path from victim to survivor to beyond survival. Learn more about Rachel Grant and Head/Heart Therapy: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast   Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places...   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/   Instagram: @headhearttherapy   Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi  

Anjuli is a somatic therapist in Portland, Oregon. She offers both somatic therapy and bodywork and will begin to offer consultation and supervision to other therapists soon! On this episode, Anjuli and Sarah discuss TRUTH versus truth, the secrets of the occipital ridge, and Anjuli’s experience as an early adopter of somatic work in psychotherapy. Learn more about Anjuli Shah-Johnson and Head/Heart Therapy: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast   Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places...   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/   Instagram: @headhearttherapy   Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi  

Scott Tusa is a Buddhist teacher based in Brooklyn, New York. Ordained by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, he spent nine years as a Buddhist monk, with much of that time engaged in solitary meditation retreat and study in the United States, India, and Nepal. He teaches meditation and Buddhist psychology nationally and supports Tsoknyi Rinpoche's Pundarika Sangha as a practice advisor. He trained in Buddhist philosophy and meditation with some of the greatest living masters since his early twenties, including Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and Tulku Sangag Rinpoche. Scott and Sarah discuss his path to Buddhism through loss and how finding Buddhism felt like a homecoming. Scott shares his journey from monastic to householder and how he hopes to shatter the glass wall between monastics and practitioners. Learn more about Scott Tusa and Head/Heart Therapy: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast   Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places...   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr

Perfectionism is a bitch. In this episode, Sarah talks about the paralysis that perfectionism can cause for her and the ways she’s trying to open her heart to the love that’s around as well as practice the self-compassion and self-love she deserves.   Learn more about Sarah Buino and Head/Heart Therapy: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast   Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Sarah is a licensed clinical social worker and certified alcohol and drug abuse counselor who owns Chicago Compass Counseling - a group practice dedicated to helping people break the cycle of self-destructive behavior. She lives in Ukrainian Village with her husband, Jac, and her dog, Sadie. We have a double dose of Sarah this week! Sarah2 talks about how Marco Polo has enriched their lives, the gifts of our childhood wounds and being addiction counselors who are not in recovery from substance use disorders. And if you wanna check out Marco Polo (again, I get no kickbacks from this) find them here. Learn more about Sarah Suzuki and Head/Heart Therapy: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast   Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

“You don't have to have the profession of ‘healer’ in order to be one.” - Andrea Klunder This week, Andrea and Sarah discuss the healing nature of creating space for others to find their voice, the fruits that grow from (perceived) failure, and our historical love for Amy Grant. Learn more about Andrea Klunder and Head/Heart Therapy: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast   Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Candice Wu is an intuitive coach, holistic healing facilitator, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, and artist. She is literally traveling the world right now, spreading her magic around the globe. In this interview, Candice and I discuss her draw to family constellation work and the deep healing and insight that brings. We also share our views on the complexities of the human experience and how self-compassion and pendulation with fear can help us move through suffering just a touch more gracefully. Learn more about Candice and Head/Heart Therapy: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast   Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Soulcraft Coaching & Energy Work is a holistic integrated healing practice that specializes in supporting and guiding those on a quest to clear energetic, spiritual and physical blocks so they can reconnect and reground to what's alive inside. Jen and Sarah discuss all the witchy things and how Maya Spiritual Healing can help you put down your backpack full of trauma. Jen also offers a complimentary, no obligation 30-minute coaching session to anyone interested in learning more about her services, so check her out!   Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi