On this episode of Transforming Trauma, Emily Ruth, Transforming Trauma Host, and Brad Kammer, NARM Training Director and Transforming Trauma Executive Producer, reflect on podcast highlights over this past year, a season filled with vital voices that inspired and supported us during 2023.
Emily Ruth and Brad were thrilled to share the mic with influential NARM Therapists like Monti Pal, Amanda Huffman, Salman Alawadi, and Brian Peter Monson. Conversations traversed a wide range of topics: the use of psychedelics as a supportive therapy, the microbiome/trauma connection, research in the field of complex trauma, and understanding complex trauma through veterans of the armed services.
The Transforming Trauma team was honored to host luminaries such as Drs. Judith Lewis-Herman, Stephen Gilligan, Jonathan Shedler, and Daniel Shiff. Their astute insights into sexual trauma, connection, psychodynamic psychology, and somatic and humanistic psychology, continue to resonate many months later. We also welcomed Dr. Gabor Maté back to debunk the myth of normal––a genuinely heartfelt and perennially relevant discussion.
Dr. Laurence Heller’s evocative conversation about trauma and spirituality with long-time friend and colleague Dr. Diane Poole-Heller was also memorable.
Emily Ruth especially appreciated her time with equine therapy practitioner Isabelle Shook, ex-NFL player turned motivational speaker Gaelin Elmore, and Adam Angel, a NARM Therapist supporting paternal mental health.
Brad fondly reflected on his conversation with author and DEI educator Chloé Valdary, as well as the catch-up he had with old friend Anthony “Twig” Wheeler, a trauma specialist and applied human ecologist. He also appreciated Emily Ruth’s conversation with Dr. Nancy McWilliams, a leader in the psychoanalytic/psychodynamic field who Brad has learned from and looked up to in his career.
Rounding out the year’s guest highlights were Michael Niconchuk, a neuroscience researcher and practitioner working in conflict zones; Philip Tedeschi, a clinical professor studying the intricate relationship between people and animals; Albert Wong, a leading clinician and educator in the field of somatics; Jac O’Keeffe, who’s dedicated this stage of her career to restoring integrity within spiritual communities; Tina Sacks, a researcher whose work emerged from her experiences as a person of mixed-race heritage; and Sara Rapaport, a naturopathic doctor and NARM Practitioner advocating for greater mind-body awareness.
None of these conversations would be possible without you, our Transforming Trauma audience. We’re humbled by your continued support of this podcast and grateful to you for embracing NARM. Thank you, and Happy New Year!
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