The Gifts of Trauma
Presented by Compassionate Inquiry®, the Gifts of Trauma is a weekly podcast that features personal stories of trauma healing and the gifts revealed on the path to authenticity. Compassionate Inquiry® is a psychotherapeutic approach created by Dr.
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Toxic Shame, Addiction & the Long Way Home to Self, with Dagmara Ziniewicz (opens the original)
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Hosted by Kevin Young. Produced by J'aime Rothbard Dagmara grew up in communist Poland, where feelings weren't discussed, and disappointment was carried quietly. She moved to the US at twenty, where she worked at odd jobs, drank, partied hard and led a very colourful life. She continued moving from country to country, searching for the one place where her life would start working. It took her mother's illness, and a conversation at a spiritual retreat, to uncover that she'd actually been running
From Controlling to Cancer to Choosing Herself, with Urszula Radzińska (opens the original)
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Hosted by Kevin Young. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Five years ago, during the COVID lockdown, Urszula received an email that informed her that she had cancer. No doctor called first to walk her through it, so she assumed it was a mistake, but her doctor's call the next morning confirmed the diagnosis. Up until that point, Urszula had been the person who managed everything and everyone, a role she first took on as a child. She carried that same instinct into music school, journalism, and her own
A 9/11 Firefighter's Daughter Turns Grief Into Service, with Caitlin Leavey (opens the original)
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Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. FDNY Lieutenant Joseph Leavey's voice on the radio tapes from that morning was calm, steady and in command as he led his men into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. His daughter, Caitlin was just ten, and it took her some time to understand why he never came home, and what had happened to the outgoing larger-than-life father she adored. Twenty-five years later, on the anniversary of 9/11, Cait joins us to talk about her clinic
Prehab + Rehab: Preparing First Responders From the Inside Out, with Brandon Evans (opens the original)
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Hosted by Kevin Young and J'aime Rothbard. Produced by J'aime Rothbard Most people experience one or two truly traumatic events in their lifetimes. Most first responders live through a hundred. In this final episode of our First Responders Series, Brandon returns to integrate everything this series has explored and uncovered. In this reflective conversation he challenges and embraces the word we use most often to describe people like him, and almost never ask them about. Brandon also shares: - W
Unpacking the Invisible Burdens Paramedics & Firefighters Carry, with Rachael Staebell & Brandon Evans (opens the original)
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Hosted by J'aime Rothbard & Rosemary Davies Janes. Produced by J'aime Rothbard Rachael Staebell spent two decades being the first person on the scene on the worst day of people's lives, but no one ever trained her for the part of the job that came after the sirens stopped. In this episode, Rachael, retired fire service paramedic and president of Women in Fire, joins returning guest Brandon Evans to talk about what it actually means to carry the not-knowing, the grief, and the weight of the ones
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