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47 Tara Storch on Organ Donation After Losing Their Teenage Daughter

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Tara Storch

Today I’m speaking with Tara, Taylor’s mum. Taylor died following a skiing accident when she was just a teenager. In the hospital when Taylor’s parents were met with the fact that she would not be able to survive, they were offered the option of organ donation, which surprisingly was one of the easier decisions the parents to make. Tara talks about how she and her husband both grieved the loss of their daughter in very different ways and how talking to another couple who experienced a similar loss helped them. After their loss, they made it their mission to focus on the good. Part of that was that Taylor had saved multiple lives through organ donation, so the parents started Taylor’s Gift Foundation to change the conversation around the topic and to support donor families. 

About this week’s guest 

Tara Storch is president and co-founder of Taylor’s Gift Foundation and is a marketing professional, award-winning author, and community leader. Tara and her husband Todd co-authored the award-winning book, Taylor’s Gift, which was recognized as the ‘Most Inspirational Book’ at the Books for A Better Life Awards in New York City. She and her husband were also recognized as “Heroes Among Us” by People Magazine. 

Opening up about her journey of finding hope and purpose after the loss of their daughter Taylor, she speaks publicly across the nation about her powerful “Outlive Yourself” message. Sharing her journey on Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Ellen Show, People Magazine, and other national and international media, she brings a message of inspiration that touches lives worldwide. Tara is the proud mother to three children – Taylor, Ryan, and Peyton. She and her husband, Todd currently live in the Dallas, Texas area.

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46 Coco Buchmann on Motherloss After 23 Years of Anticipatory Grief

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Coco Buchmann

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I’ve known Coco personally as we studied Somatic Experience, Peter Levine’s extensive professional trauma training, together. I accompanied her as she dealt with the intensive relationship with her mother and the grief over her mother’s subsequent death. From a young age – for half of her own life – Coco cared for her mother and had to be the one to make decisions regarding her mother’s care in her 23-year-long battle with cancer and mental health issues.  

About this week’s guest 

Coco Buchmann is a body psychotherapist and trauma therapist. She is also the mother of two boys, 11 and 8 years old. 
 She originally studied improvisation and contemporary dance and later added clinical psychology, integrative body psychotherapy, and Somatic Experiencing to her repertoire. Most recently she finished her yoga teacher’s training which she practices in her daily life, besides dance, and Tao Yoga (Chi Gong). 
As a therapist, Coco has been working with individuals, dealing with mental illness, such as depression and anxiety, and she also worked with couples. 
 Eighteen months ago, she started a sabbatical to delve into her own grieving process and to follow her destiny and passion to write a book about the expression of the true self and aliveness, a process which she has coined Yogawave.
 Coco experienced many kinds of losses and traumas in her life, on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level. 
 Over the last 20 years, she has been obsessed with finding the connection between trauma, loss, and the nervous system and has been investigating the deeper layers of the soul and the energies in the body.

Coco’s website: www.chill-dini-basis.com

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45 Laney Rosenzweig: How Trauma Can Be Resolved in Just One Session With ART

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Laney Rosenzweig

How Trauma Can Be Resolved in Just One Session? With ART…

The episode with Laney Rosenzweig, founder of Accelerated Resolution Therapy ART has been one of those conversations that caught me by surprise. After hearing about Accelerated Resolution Therapy from one of my previous podcast guests, I was interested but after speaking with Laney I was completely intrigued by her experimental spirit which led to the potential of ART to help people heal from many challenges. 

ART has been proven useful to treat:

  • Post-traumatic stress (PTSD) 
  • Grief
  • Depression
  • Phobias
  • Anxiety 
  • Addictions, substance abuse
  • Eating disorder
  • OCD
  • ADHD

About this week’s guest 

Laney Rosenzweig is the Developer of Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART). Developed in 2008, ART is an evidence-based, eye movement therapy that can resolve the symptoms of PTSD and other mental health issues. The research showed that one to five sessions with an average of three resolved the issues studied. Most past trauma can be resolved in only one session. Ongoing problems may take longer due to secondary gains. Her training company, Rosenzweig Center for Rapid Recovery (RCRR), has trained over 8,000 clinicians both in private practice and in numerous clinics. Her book, “Too Good to Be True” is an autobiographical account of her life, how she developed ART, and examples of ART’s healing power.

Laney’s Website: https://erasetraumanow.com
Laney’s TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP7dx03arxI

ART links: ART Website: http://www.acceleratedresolutiontherapy.com/ | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/acceleratedresolutiontherapy

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Janet McGeever on Sexuality and Relationships in the Context of Grief, Loss and Trauma | Episode 42

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Janet McGeever

I’m so excited about this conversation I had with my dear friend Janet who I’ve known for almost 20 years. She works with individuals and couples in the area of sexuality and relationship. Janet leads the Making Love Retreat workshops where couples focus on their mindful connection through sexuality. Janet also describes the potential of suppressed emotions and trauma being brought up, released, and healed through the conscious way of lovemaking rather than having sex in a conventional way.

You must listen to this week’s episode to find out more.

About this week’s guest

Janet McGeever has been a psychotherapist for almost 25 years, specializing in the field of love, sex, and intimacy, particularly in relation to midlife. She co-wrote the book, Tantric Sex and Menopause – Practices for Spiritual and Sexual Renewal with Conscious Sexuality Teacher Diana Richardson. Janet was a TEDx speaker in Noosa, Australia in 2013. She has been teaching The Making Love Retreat, a retreat founded by Diana and Michael Richardson, in Australia since 2012.

Her extensive clinical experience with couples and women in relation to sexual intimacy, combined with her years of teaching retreats, has led her to provide a sensitive, heart-centered, somatically focused approach to Grief and Trauma, inherent in the subject of sexuality. Her by-line is Make Love a Priority, and love is at the foundation of all her work. She believes that developing an open-hearted connection and creating an environment of safety within a relationship, can lead naturally to sexual intimacy and that safe, loving sexual intimacy is a possible and very viable pathway to healing trauma if one is open to it.

Janet lives in beautiful Noosa, Queensland, Australia.

Janet’s links: Website | Instagram

Topics discussed in this episode

  • The impact of trauma and loss on the relationship, sexuality, intimacy
  • Grieving disconnection in a relationship and how to come back to connection
  • Trauma resulting from sexual relations
  • Developmental trauma, relational trauma
  • What slow, conscious lovemaking might bring up regarding stored suppressed emotions and trauma
  • The importance of feeling safe
  • Couple dealing with grief and the effect on the relationship and sexuality
  • From sensation to sensitivity
  • Co-regulation

Resources mentioned in this episode

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Meghan Jarvis on How a Therapist Deal With Grief and Trauma | Episode 41

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Meghan Jarvis

Another exciting conversation awaits you here today because Meghan and I have something central in common: our passion for grief and trauma. Speaking the same kind of language, our conversation flowed easily through her personal story of dealing with many losses and trauma, leading to her professional work with clients dealing with grief and trauma, especially in the workplace.    

About this week’s guest 

Meghan Riordan Jarvis, MA, LCSW, is an author, podcast host, TEDx Speaker, and psychotherapist specializing in trauma, grief, and loss. After experiencing PTSD following the deaths of both of her parents within two years of each other, Meghan began speaking on a larger scale about the importance of understanding grief and supporting grievers. Founder of Tacking Point Partners, Meghan, and her team consult regularly with companies addressing grief in the workplace. Meghan’s “Grief is My Side Hustle” platform includes her popular podcast of the same name, her blog, and her free grief writing workshop “Grief Mates.” Meghan’s memoir. “The End of The Hour,” will be published in December 2023.

Meghan’s links: Website | Instagram

Topics discussed in this episode

  • Meghan’s personal and professional relationship with grief and trauma
  • Childhood trauma: Death of a close family friend through drowning
  • Break-up, therapy… ultimately leading to Meghan becoming a therapist herself
  • The death of her Dad (2017) and Mum (2019) and the different reactions Meghan experienced
  • When and how do you know you need help? 
  • Grief in the workplace
  • Why people don’t talk about grief

Resources mentioned in this episode

  • Anderson Cooper Podcast
  • Trauma therapies: EMDR, Sensory Motor Psychotherapy, Internal Family System, Touch Therapy
  • Help Text

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Nathalie Himmelrich on Trauma and Its Impact on the Nervous System | Episode 40

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Nathalie Himmelrich Trauma and Its Impact on the Nervous System

Todays Episode 

All trauma involves grief but not all grief needs to necessarily be or feel traumatic.

When is a loss also traumatic and when is it not? 

What are the differences between a traumatic loss and a non-traumatic loss?

Why and how does it matter? 

How can we support ourselves and others after a traumatic loss?    

All these questions and more are the topics for today’s episode.

Nathalie’s links: Website | Instagram

Topics discussed in this episode

  • Examples of losses that can be traumatic 
  • The difference between traumatic and non-traumatic losses
  • Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Trauma response in the body 
  • Polyvagal theory and its application to trauma
  • Nervous system regulation
  • The importance of trauma-informed, grief-literate professional care

Resources mentioned in this episode

  • Dr. Stephens Porges’s Polyvagal Theory 

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HOW TO DEAL WITH GRIEF AND TRAUMA is produced and edited by me, Nathalie Himmelrich. 

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    Nathalie Himmelrich

    I accompany people therapeutically as a holistic counsellor and coach.

    I walk alongside people dealing with the challenges presented by life and death.

    I’m also a writer and published author of multiple grief resource books and the founder of the Grieving Parents Support Network.

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