Conversations With a Wounded Healer

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/   Instagram: @headhearttherapy   Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi  

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/HeadHeartTherapy/   Instagram: @headhearttherapy   Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi  

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/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/   Instagram: @headhearttherapy   Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

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