Eps 180: Dr. Sarah Bergman Lewis Discusses Navigating Trauma on the Parenting Journey

Today’s guest is Dr. Sarah Bergman Lewis. Before attending medical school ,Sarah helped to found a middle school called the Seattle Girls' School. As part of her 5 years with the Seattle girls' school she did admission and taught 6th grade Sarah attended University of Washington Medical School. She completed her pediatric residency at Seattle Children's, has worked in urgent care at Seattle Children's Hospital, then as a primary care physician.

She and her family later travelled to Guatemala for 3 months where she worked in a local hospital and her kids attended school. Her family will return again this year for a visit and to help launch a partnership between a group of Seattle pediatricians and the Guatemalan hospital.

Outside of works there is pursuing her yoga teaching training certificate and enjoys learning about sharing Integrative Medicine tools with her patients as part of a collaboration between Odessa Brown Children's Clinic and Arc of King County. She is helping devise the curriculum for a mindful self compassion course for Spanish speaking parents which she will co-facilitate in the spring.

Her husband Steve is a nonprofit executive director. She is a mom of two delightful children. Today we are talking about navigating our own self-healing. Join us!

What you’ll hear in this episode:

• Parenting from wholeness, not fear
• Adverse childhood events and how they affect parents and parenting
• Adverse childhood events study explained
• The dose response effect to adverse childhood events
• How ACE scores impact health (physical and mental) risks The shadow side of resilience
• Behavior as a solution to a problem we don’t know about
• Epigenetics, what is it and what does it have to do with behavior?
• Being aware of what drives our internal “shark music”
• Exercising self-compassion around when you’re going to work on your issues
• How the way we talk to ourselves impacts how we talk to people in our family
• What embodiment means
• Encouraging embodiment in our kids
• Guiding conversations about embodiment
• Discussing screen time with our kids

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