The Wellness Mama Podcast Gabby Bernstein on Happy Days: From Trauma to Freedom and Inner Peace
Aug 22, 2022
43:27
Episode Highlights With Gabby Bernstein
- How she learned how to ride a unicycle!
- What inspired her current work and her most recent book
- Why there is a tendency to minimize trauma or compare it to others
- How to use things like somatic therapies and IFS to process and release trauma
- Trauma is the inability to be present
- What somatic experiencing therapy is and how it can help
- Practices to help regulate your nervous system if you’ve experienced trauma
- Her mental health first aid kit and how to use these tools
- Maternal mental health tools and why as moms, it is so important to take care of our own mental health
- Why she's trying to break the stigma of medication for mental health when needed
- Her journey with postpartum depression and how she moved past it
- What it means to reparent yourself and how this can benefit your children
Resources We Mention
- Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace by Gabrielle Bernstein
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
- It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn
- Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation by Shakti Gawain