Episode 18 - Getting to Know Healing Trauma with Devin Brooks

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, are happy to interview Devin Brooks, Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapist.

In this episode, they discuss:

• Devin's start in music therapy
• Working with complex trauma
• Protecting your energy when working with disregulated people
• Checking your agenda at the door
• The definition of trauma
• The difference between PTSD and Complex Trauma
• How trauma stops development of the self
• Thrill-seeking as a trauma response
• Feeling "bored" by healthy relationships
• Lack of childhood memories as a symptom of trauma
• "Easy Child" syndrome
• Safety feels uncomfortable when you're used to chaos
• Tips for sitting with discomfort
• Gaining vocabulary for your feelings
• Brett's McGuyver pop filter
• Natasha's birthday weekend
• Our two new senior foster cats
• How fear affects people and animals
• Getting through "The Messy Middle"
• True Self or Future Self
• "Human beings, not human doings"
• And more!

Plus...

• Pre-order Natasha's new book, Healing Your Inner Child, and get a free class.  Details in the show.
• You can schedule a healing or learn about about Natasha's work by visiting highestlighthealing.com
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• Send questions or show topic suggestions to gettingtoknowwoo@gmail.com

Getting to Know Woo is a weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.

 

Mentioned in the show:

• Devin's Instagram
• Somatic Experiencing Therapy
• Internal Family Systems
• Natasha's Energy Report on Mind Body Green
• Friend of the Pod and gifted human being, Jonathan Koe