
Conversations With a Wounded Healer
Who’s a wounded healer? It’s any one of us who works in a caring profession and is bravely doing their own work, while helping others. My goal is to share the parallel journey we as healers walk along with our clients and how we attend to our own humanity while caring for others.
My podcast is about conversations and community building, what we can learn from each other, and how we can help heal each other. We’re cultivating a space where we celebrate vulnerability, authenticity and “showing up.”
It’s a place to meet people I think will inspire you, help you heal and grow – and who you can relate to at the same time.
I’m inspired by C.G. Jung’s “wounded healer” concept, where the healer’s own hurt that gives the measure of his own power to heal.
Another one of my heroes, Brene Brown, puts it best: “Mindfully practicing authenticity during our most soul-searching struggles is how we invite grace, joy and gratitude into our lives.”
Together, I hope this marriage of vulnerability and professionalism will inspire and entertain you...enjoy!
Latest episodes

Jul 3, 2019 • 47min
069 - Gregory Scott - Faith is the Cure for Fear
Gregory Scott is an expert Tarot Reader, Numerologist, and Astrologer from Brighton, United Kingdom. He provides people with guidance and decisions that may shape their future. Gregory can perform his readings via Skype, pre-recorded video, pre-recorded mp3, and telephone. He is also Sarah’s favorite Astrologer because of the funny and down to Earth way he presents his readings. Gregory and Sarah discuss Gregory’s road to recovery from addiction, finding permission to do things that scare you, and the joy of being a total weirdo in today’s society. 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

Jun 26, 2019 • 37min
068 - Lauren Maxwell - Invitation to Expansion
Lauren is a writer and creative human who offers yoga, ritual, and intuitive coaching meant to help others find spaciousness in the everyday. Her zine, how to uncover SELF in chaotic times, outlines a softer paradigm for success and four everyday containers in which we all might nurture the truth of self. In yoga, Lauren specializes in backcare and scoliosis, and she loves helping others find pain relief and step into a more loving relationship with themselves. Lauren shares her career path from music to communications and then to yoga. Sarah and Lauren discuss the healing power of music, the importance of listening to the messages of your body, and the importance of self-work: only teach that which you have known. 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

Jun 19, 2019 • 8min
067 - Love in the Therapy Room
As therapists in training, we learn about boundaries, professionalism, and evidenced-based practices. We hear all about empathy and how important is to cultivate a safe space for clients, but there’s rarely talk of love. In this episode, Sarah shares how the love we have for our clients runs deep and ripples throughout our lives outside of the therapy room. 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

Jun 12, 2019 • 45min
066 - Jade T. Perry - Churchy Mystic
Jade T. Perry is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, speaker, Tarot Card Slinger, Churchy Mystic, Chronically Ill & Disabled Babe, Embodied (Sensuality) Ritual Curator, and co-founder of the Mystic Soul Project. (The 2019 conference has just passed, but make sure to follow Jade to gear up for the 2020 conference!) The mission of her work is twofold: To creatively challenge secular and sacred systems toward greater levels of inclusion. And to contribute resources, art, narratives, and experiential learning opportunities that aid in the holistic healing processes of people of color (POC), queer people of color (QPOC), and disabled / chronically ill POC. Jade shares with Sarah the nature of her churchy mystic work: helping others reclaim their body/sexuality/sensuality that may have been lost to shame at the hands of the church. And how she moves clients into healing shame through art, symbolism and mysticism. 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

Jun 5, 2019 • 44min
065 - Brad Kammer - Trauma in Civilization
Brad is a Somatic (Body-Mind) Psychotherapist, College Professor, Community Educator, Consultant & International Trainer. He is a practitioner and trainer in both Somatic Experiencing (SE) & NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM). These body-mind approaches use mindfulness & body awareness to address trauma, stress and relational challenges by eliciting our inner healing resources in support of a deeper sense of safety & self-empowerment. Brad and Sarah discuss the importance of body-mind modalities that get beneath people’s symptoms. They share their experiences with the teacher/healer/mentor pedestal that affects the way we relate to authority and the absolute necessity of continuing to learn and do your healing work. 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

May 29, 2019 • 44min
064 - Lola Wright - Master Practitioner of Awareness
Lola Wright is a fierce and loving community leader supporting individual transformation in service of collective awakening. She’s the CEO & Spiritual Director of Bodhi Center, a global center for consciousness engaging change agents and explorers in Chicago and around the world and founder of “Normal white people,” a platform designed to deconstruct racism among white identified people. Wild and passionate mom of four. Lola and Sarah discuss white supremacy, racism, The Bible, and consciousness...so, this is a super light episode, you guys. Enjoy! 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

May 22, 2019 • 7min
063 - Power Differentials
Sarah thinks about power and how we use it or lose it in our lives. Where do we freely give away our power, when is it necessary for those in power to turn it over and how do we become more conscious of how it affects our interactions and our lives? 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

May 15, 2019 • 51min
062 - Janet Boyer - Evolve or Fry
Janet Boyer is the author of Back in Time Tarot, Tarot in Reverse, and Naked Tarot: Sassy, Stripped-Down Advice, as well as the co-creator (with her husband, artist Ron Boyer) of the Snowland Deck and the Coffee Tarot. Janet shares her incredible journey from pentacostal pastor to pagan tarot writer. Janet and Sarah discuss religion, astrology, tarot and the enneagram and Janet’s own transformation through the archetypes of Wounded Healer, Shaman and Alchemist. 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

May 8, 2019 • 45min
061 - Rev. Sarah Ciavarri - God Was at the Alamo
Rev. Sarah Ciavarri, M.Div., PCC, has been an ELCA Lutheran pastor since 2001 and also serves as a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator-Consultant and Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator and Professional Certified Coach. Sarah has a huge passion for seeing congregations and church systems strengthened and transformed by developing resiliency and space for authentic conversations. These two Sarah’s discuss the gap between who we think we are and who we’re called to be, the intricacies of religious wounding and how to allow space for others’ beliefs. Sarah C also shares how her knowledge of shame taught her to read The Bible very differently. “When faith isolates us from the brokenness of others; we’re not connected.” 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

May 1, 2019 • 51min
060 - Dr. Miles Neale - Beware the Funhouse Mirror
Dr. Miles Neale is among the leading voices of the current generation of Buddhist teachers and a forerunner in the emerging field of contemplative psychotherapy. He is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice, international speaker, and faculty member of Tibet House US and Weill Cornell Medical College. Miles is author of Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human. Miles and Sarah discuss “snake oil spirituality” that takes advantage of the insanity of today’s culture, the damages caused by a narcissistic parent, and the healing powers of unconditional love. 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