Conversations With a Wounded Healer

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! <3 They discuss their attempts to do their part to save the world, the gifts of being an "outsider," and are left with the ultimate question: "How can I be born wounded and also be born whole?" 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

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