Claim OwnershipThe Therapeutic Poet
Subscribed: 3Played: 19
Subscribe
© All poetry performed is subject to copyright and may not be broadcast or shared without consent.
Description
I’m Jacky Power, addiction psychologist and poet and host of The Therapeutic Poet. Each week I use a poem I have written to introduce a therapeutic theme as I talk with my guests about the trickiness of being human.
37 Episodes
Reverse
We talked about her 3 discoveries with the research that she has done, how betrayal is a different kind of trauma because of how it feels so intentional and personal and therefore relates to trust, how it affects one physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally - and she shared some really sobering statistics around that and how it is possible to move through from betrayal to breakthrough with her five stage process.
Show notes:The poem I reference is 'how to be alone' by Pádraig Ó'Tuama.Books I reference:'Together' by Vivek H MurthyJournal of a Solitude by May SartonArticles:Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad, professor of psychology and neuroscience 2010: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316Loneliness: The experience of emotional and social isolation by RS WeissInformation on G. Rizzolatti and mirror neurons: https://www.dialoghisulluomo.it/en/rizzolatti-sinigaglia/are-we-social-beings-a-dialogue-between-neuroscience-and-philosophy
EFT practitioners Aga Kehinde, who is originally from that town and and Jessica Mór, who until February 2022 had been living in Ukraine due to her spouse’s work, join me today to talk about their experience of co-creating ‘Support for Slupsk’ The project has now delivered training to more than 800 people working for the services of the town of Slupsk, Poland who are coming into direct contact with the Ukrainian refugee population. The training has involved participants learning tapping and somatic trauma relief tools, the neurobiology of how they work, and the confidence and skills to use and share this knowledge and tools as they move through this challenging time.
In this episode we chat about what sustainable fashion is; how to get off
the trend treadmill; Sophia's experiment in which she is not buying any new
or preloved clothes (except for vital undies and socks!) and how 'sober
dressing' can be creative, empowering and fun.
Sophia's mission is to help you restyle and rework your wardrobe using what
you already have. She makes up "new to you" outfits from clothes that you
may have forgotten about, discarded, or loved... but never been sure what
to put it with. She creates outfits that are true to your sense of style
and the woman you want to show up as in the world.
There is much more to his story, so let’s welcome him to share some of that and also to create hope and inspiration with sharing how he moved through such severe intergenerational trauma and adverse childhood experiences to be the inspirational coach he is today; from trauma to triumph. As he says, ‘The trauma may be our foundation, but it is not our future.’
I met Dan when we were at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2022 and
I went to his show 'Patience Zero'. The description of his show was:
'Dan's always wanted to be a father. But now he and his wife are going
through constant loss and IVF, he starts to ask the question: is he good
enough? But in a year with a serious accident, an NHS-induced bad K-trip, a
letter warning of impending death and, oh, aliens, he begins to wonder - is
the universe telling him no? It's a comedy. Somewhere between stand-up and
theatre, this show explores how far you will go for family.' I was
interested in having Dan speak on the podcast because it is rare to find
places where men share about this experience. In this episode I speak to
Dan about writing his story as a comedy show; how he and his wife dealt
with miscarriage and loss and what impact his show had on other people.
Redefining what it means to be emotionally resilient, Josh in an ambassador
for NACOA, the National Association for Children of Alcoholics. He works
with individuals and corporation to help people improve their emotional
resilience. His down to earth, highly informed videos on social media have
attracted hundred of thousands of followers. He joins me on The Therapeutic
Poet podcast to talk about being a child of an alcoholic, addiction
recovery, what it means to really listen and the importance of community.
We cover:
Trauma Bonding
Being on the receiving end of the silent treatment
Emotional abuse
Narcissistic abuse
Covert sexual abuse
Addiction
Complex trauma
Trauma responses
Toxic shame
Going from not having a voice, to reclaiming it
Parenting
The healing power of writing.
A podcast episode detailing Jacky’s experience of performing her show,
‘Stop the world I want to get off’ at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2022.
In this episode we begin with my poem 'Tell me your story' I wrote it about
trauma; how trauma needs to be acknowledged in all its grittiness, not
diminished or dressed up as ‘not that bad’ in order to be healed.
As today’s guest Lucinda Gordon Lennox says, we all have some trauma and
trauma can be healed. Part of what can hinder that healing is the denial of
that trauma. Other people, or even ourselves can try to minimise, justify
or rationalise what has happened to us and the impact that it has had.
What if we let our stories out? What if we look its wild wickedness in the
eye and start from there? If you are interested in the idea of that then
I’m sure you’ll get a lot out of the conversation today.
Encouraging a deeper conversation about our trauma is trauma therapist,
writer and lecturer Lucinda Gordon Lennox. She is author of ‘Nobody is
broken’ a book which helps to explain what trauma is, how it happens and
why it remains hidden for so long.
This episode is the second part of a conversation that I had with Julia
Warren. Julia is a mother, yoga teacher, writer and recovering addict. In
September 2021, she lost her husband Doug when he relapsed and died of a
drug overdose. In this episode, Julia shares her own writing, documenting
her thoughts and feelings as she grieves her husband.
We talk about what's helpful and unhelpful when someone is grieving. What
the shittiest things are about grief, and how through fully surrendering to
our grief, it's possible to find joy, and hope.
Today I am talking to Julia Warren. Julia is a mother to her two boys, a
trauma informed yoga teacher and a writer. She is also in recovery from
drug addiction and recently stepped into the role of widow as in September
2021 her husband Doug overdosed when he relapsed from his own addiction
recovery.
In this episode we talk about Julia’s recovery from drug addiction. She
talks about how she went from the loneliness and isolation of addiction to
recovery with the help of fellowship from other women in recovery. We talk
about Doug’s relapse and what that was like for her not only as a wife but
also as a recovering addict herself.
In January 2017, Lara came out of a long-term relationship, and felt
broken, lost, stuck, lacking in direction and purpose. In November She read
a book about vision boards, created her own and 4 months later she was
running her own, with 10 participants. She has since trained in NLP and
expanded her knowledge with studying about neuroscience. Last year she
published her first book The Mighty Book of Motivation Magic and she is
here to chat with me about vision boards and motivation.
When faced with an empty nest, Kari Gillespie decided to spread her own
wings. She gave up a job that she loved and set off to walk across Spain
and then she wrote a book about it called Pilgrim. I loved the book and am
excited to share this conversation with you. In this episode I started with
my poem I start from where I am today.
Leslie Davies, author of ‘You can’t eat love: learning to love yourself can
change your relationship with food’ is here to talk about her relationship
with food and how she realised that the emptiness that she was feeling
inside and trying to fill with food was to do with her relationship with
herself. She shares how she used her relationship with food as a signpost
for changes that she needed to make in relationship to herself, healing the
wounds that she had encountered through emotional neglect in her childhood.
John was the son of a heroin dealer, and he himself ended up falling into
drugs and alcohol and became homeless. In 2012 he sold his own drug
treatment facility for $45 million dollars and he has helped 1000s of
people in their own addiction recovery.
In this episode, we discuss addiction and the story behind the label of
being an addict. John shares how he turned his life around from growing up
amongst a family that seemed like it had come straight out of an episode of
The Sopranos to now being an international speaker on science based
holistic treatments in addiction, recovery, and mental health.
In this episode about belonging with Vanessa Belleau I started with my poem
The Secret to Belonging. We discuss the evolution of diversity and
inclusion as buzzwords to the necessary action that's needed in order to
help people feel like they belong. Vanessa shares her own personal
experiences of the importance of representation from a random man on the
street to her own mum, and how that can be life changing. I certainly
learned so much from Vanessa about how we need to strive for unity, but
also the importance of celebration of each other. So listen in, I think she
is a bubble of joy to listen to, and I hope you do too.
In this episode on creativity, we began with my poem, Nothing rhymes with
purple. Caro Gomez shared her creative path which involves tenacity, grit,
criticism, self doubt, and concrete blocks, metaphorically, not literally.
I think that the take out of this episode is the importance of consistency
and perseverance and that we cannot not be creative. When creating there
are no endings, just detours. But as Caro has shown, each detour can
enhance our creative output.
Comments
Download from Google Play
Download from App Store
United States