What is complex PTSD? What steps should you take to begin your healing journey? Welcome back to A Safe Place to Land! Today, we're answering these questions and diving deeper into trauma healing. Emily interviews Lesha Song, an intuitive trauma therapist and spiritual healing coach. In this episode, Lesha explains why involving the physical body in trauma healing is crucial and how acknowledging our pain is the first step on our healing journey. Many of us block our emotions and distract ourselves to get by, so stay tuned if you want to learn how to sit with your feelings and connect with yourself on a deeper level.

Lisha Song is a licensed mental health therapist, an author, and workshop facilitator. She has over 23 years of experience working with trauma and Complex PTSD. With her intuitive gifts, education, and experiences, Lisha has been guiding people toward transformative healing and evolution. She has been integrating the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of self to help folks experience a more robust healing journey that not only infuses self-empowerment, but also self-love and Divine guidance.

Learn more about Lisha:

www.SacredHealingPlaceTacoma.com
www.Facebook.com/sacredhealingplacetacoma

Love What Hurts book:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C1YYGZS4/?coliid=I2QRRSTTYAMS0V&colid=3SRSKPP58LLKX&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it

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Welcome back to A Safe Place to Land! Today, Emily sits down with Brian Sachetta, the owner and author behind Get Out of Your Head, a powerful brand and book series dedicated to helping individuals overcome anxiety and depression. We’ll explore the significance of the biopsychosocial model in treating depression and discuss how even small lifestyle adjustments can lead to significant improvements in both mental and physical health. Brian will also share his personal journey with anxiety and the valuable insights he gained at the start of his own healing process.

Resources

-website: https://getoutofyourhead.com/
-book 2 (depression / biopsychosocial model): https://www.amazon.com/Get-Out-Your-Head-Vol-ebook/dp/B09KQ4FLBW
-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getoutofyourhead/
-Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/getoutofyourheadbooks

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In today’s podcast Emily interviews Courtney Boyer, a relationship and sexual expert and author of Not Tonight Honey: Why Women Actually Don't Want to Have Sex and What We Can Do About It. Today, we're going to unpack how intimacy is so much more than what happens in the bedroom and how having a deeper connection with your partner will lead to more sexual satisfaction. We're also going to talk about the importance of women advocating for themselves and expressing their needs, and how it hasn't always been the norm in our society for women to vocalize those things. Courtney is fantastic, so please stay tuned to learn more.

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Do you ever feel so nervous and on edge that you can't settle down? Like your nervous system is just out of whack? In this episode, we’re going to talk about nervous system regulation and what fight, flight, and freeze truly look like. Today’s guest, Stacy B—an author, journalist, and nervous system evangelist—is going to share her story about living with what she calls functional freeze. We’ll discuss how complex trauma affects our nervous system and explore the tools we can use to find peace.

The stress from complex trauma and undiagnosed neurodivergence, along with serving as a caregiver for over a decade, pushed staci b’s nervous system into a continuous state of high alert. Determined not to let her fate be eternal survival mode, she embarked on a journey that led her to become a Nervous System Regulation Evangelist.


With hundreds of hours of research under her belt, Staci translates complex science into easily digestible information and points the way to valuable resources that empower others to create a nervous system regulation practice that works best for them. A journalist, author, and speaker, staci highlights the value of nervous system regulation by openly sharing her own stories, both in person and in The Nervous System: Before and After, an essay series on Substack. By providing real-life examples of her own behavior in situations and relationships before she began a nervous system regulation practice and after, she illustrates the depth of the benefits available from this work. A sought-after podcast guest and speaker, she credits nervous system regulation as the foundation that frees her to live her destiny and not her fate.


Web site: https://stacib.com
IG: @heyitsmestacib
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacibackauskas/
Substack: https://stacib.substack.com

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Yo!

Olivia Pelts is back to host this special episode talking all about attachment, relationship health and so much more...

Joining Olivia today is Elizabeth Schane, owner of Well Roots Counseling - an online group practice specializing in perinatal mental health.

Here is what they get into...

1. Understanding Anxious Attachment Style: What anxious attachment style is and how it manifests, including the importance of self-awareness and understanding past experiences.

2. Practical Strategies for Managing Anxiety: Chats on the importance of therapy, self-soothing techniques, and open communication to manage and improve anxious attachment tendencies.

3. Building a Strong Support System: Big talks on the necessity of having a supportive community and how to cultivate meaningful relationships that aid in personal growth and emotional stability.

Resources

Are you in Colorado, Vermont or North Carolina? Well Roots Counseling is licensed in these states and would love to connect! Schedule a free 30min intro session with Well Roots Counseling.

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In today's episode, Emily will be interviewing Lianna Purjes, LCSW & Empowerment Coach. Lianna specializes in helping individuals, couples, and families overcome trauma, addiction, and relationship issues. She has over 15 years of experience in the field and today she's going to be talking about how addiction impacts the entire family unit and how crucial it is to seek outside support. She shares her personal experience growing up with a mother who was an alcoholic and how therapy changed her life. We also discuss the stigma of addiction and what it looks like from a clinical perspective.

Lianna Purjes, LCSW is a therapist and coach helping individuals and couples overcome trauma, addiction, and/or issues related to neurodivergence. Lianna has Masters degrees in Clinical Social Work and Education and over 15 years of experience helping clients improve their lives and relationships. When not working, Lianna enjoys reading, hanging out with her husband and dog, enjoying good meals with friends, and singing at the barbershop.

website: www.fuzzysockstherapy.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555634097090
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachingwithlianna/Live Stream

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Welcome back to a Safe Place to Land!

Today, Emily interviews Dr. Barry Krakow, a specialist in Sleep Medicine with expertise in mental health and sleep quality. Dr. Krakow discusses his research emphasizing that sleep quality outweighs sleep quantity, directly impacting both mental and physical well-being. Specifically, he explores how nasal breathing influences sleep depth and methods to enhance sleep quality. Dr. Krakow's findings reveal a link between poor sleep and various medical conditions like anxiety, depression, and more, as detailed in his book "Life-Saving Sleep: New Horizons in Mental Health Treatment." He stresses the importance of mental health professionals being trained in Sleep Medicine to ensure clients are screened for optimal sleep quality, given the significant correlation between sleep and mental health issues.



Barry Krakow, MD is a board certified sleep medicine specialist practicing in Savannah, Georgia following a 30 year career conducting research and treating mental health patients with sleep disorders. He developed and pioneered several advanced methods for the treatment of insomnia, nightmares, and sleep apnea, published these findings in top scientific journals, and proved conclusively the necessity to diligently address (without medication) sleep complaints in those suffering anxiety, depression, PTSD and more. His new book, Life Saving Sleep New Horizons in Mental Health treatment offers a mind-body approach to the art and science of sleep medicine with special emphasis on the relationships between sleep physiology and sleep-related emotion-focused therapy.

His new practice involves an innovative sleep health coaching program, accessed at www.barrykrakowmd.com, and you can follow his free Substack newsletter on sleep research updates at www.fastasleep.substack.com. Currently, as Director of Sleep Medicine Services at Gateway Behavioral Health, a full-scale application of sleep medicine interventions will be integrated didactically and clinically into the existing psychiatry residency program to become a core component of training and utilization.

www.lifesavingsleep.com
www.sleeptreatment.com
www.nightmaretreatment.com

LIFE SAVING SLEEP, NOW AVAILABLE AT https://www.amazon.com/dp/0971586926

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In today’s episode, Rita Bliven, author of Canyons & Fireworks, will be sharing her personal experience healing from a debilitating avoidant attachment style due to an international parental kidnapping. Rita explains what it's truly like growing up as an avoidantly attached child and how it impacted her development, friendships, dating experiences more. She also explains how therapy was an integral part of her healing journey helping her build self-awareness and self-confidence. This additional support helped her make huge leaps and bounds in her healing journey and she is passionate about encouraging others to seek support so they too can live a more fulfilling and peaceful life.

Rita Bliven has written Canyons & Fireworks which details her lifelong journey of healing from a debilitating avoidant attachment style due to an international parental kidnapping. From this place of healing and love she has been able to enjoy an abundant life. In Canyons & Fireworks, Bliven is honest about the cause, confusion, victories, setbacks, and the full process of healing. Bliven's hope is that by sharing her story, others will identify and tear down the walls that block love so that true intimacy, identity, and purpose can flourish.

Resources:
http://canyonsandfireworks.com/

https://canyonsnfireworks.blogspot.com/?m=1

https://www.instagram.com/blivenrita?igsh=MzlmODZka29nb2Jo

https://www.facebook.com/share/XUwfGhxSR1QAbV48/?mibextid=qi2Omg

https://x.com/RitaBliven?t=Nx3RxnmAndiSDA_SnKNC2w&s=09

https://podcast.app/playlists/a255ff44-af3c-4e8f-8740-49e302d161c4?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=share

https://youtube.com/@RitaBliven?si=PcKFTuFAB7k7KOVS

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