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48 Gina Moffa on Mother Loss, Divorce, and Acknowledging Loss Upon Loss

August 28, 2023 By Nathalie Himmelrich Leave a Comment

Gina Moffa

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About this week’s episode

When I spoke with Gina, I was surprised at how moved I was by the depth of our conversation even though we just met for the first time. Gina has not only experienced multiple losses herself, but she is also working as a therapist with clients dealing with loss. Just last week she published her first book, a practical guide giving tools and resources helping people while they are grieving.       

About this week’s guest 

Gina Moffa is a licensed psychotherapist, mental health educator, and media consultant in New York City. In practice for nearly two decades, she has helped thousands of people seeking treatment for trauma, and grief, as well as challenging life experiences and transitions. She received her master’s degree in social work with a specialty in trauma from New York University. August 22nd, 2023, her book, Moving On Doesn’t Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss, will be on bookshelves around the world.

Gina’s links:

  • Website: www.ginamoffa.com 
  • Instagram: @ginamoffalcsw

Resources mentioned in this episode

Moving On Doesn’t Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss

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Filed Under: podcast, counselling, emotions/feelings, grief support, grief/loss, loss of parent, parent loss, separation/divorce, trauma Tagged With: grief, grief and loss, mother loss, shame, trauma

46 Coco Buchmann on Motherloss After 23 Years of Anticipatory Grief

August 14, 2023 By Nathalie Himmelrich Leave a Comment

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

Other episodes mentioned in this episode:

  • The Ambiguous Loss of Her Mother and the Early Loss of Her Sister

Thank you for listening!

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

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Filed Under: podcast, emotions/feelings, grief support, grief/loss, health, parent loss, self development/motivation, sexual trauma, trauma Tagged With: anticipatory grief, grieving, loss, mother loss, trauma

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

August 7, 2023 By Nathalie Himmelrich Leave a Comment

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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

Thank you for listening!

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

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Filed Under: podcast, counselling, depression, emotions/feelings, grief support, grief/loss, stress, trauma Tagged With: accelerated resolution therapy, adhd, art, depression, grief, Laney Rosenzweig, ocd, PTSD, substance abuse, trauma

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

May 29, 2023 By Nathalie Himmelrich Leave a Comment

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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 

Thank you for listening!

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

Filed Under: podcast, child loss, grief support, grief/loss, loss of parent, loss of sibling, nervous system, parent loss, partner loss, trauma, widow/widower Tagged With: non-traumatic loss, polyvagal theory, post traumatic stress disorder, somatic experience, stephen porges, trauma, traumatic loss

38 Different Types of Trauma

April 10, 2023 By Nathalie Himmelrich 2 Comments

Trauma

The other day I received a request from a potential guest for the How to Deal With Grief and Trauma podcast. The first 3 lines from his email sufficed to create a shock response as the content traumatized me just by reading it. It started with ‘Imagine…’ followed by a short description of the horrific, ritualistic, and sadistic childhood trauma the person had experienced.

Yes, simple words in a couple of lines are enough to traumatize the reader. Why is that?

Trauma happens on different levels

Trauma does not just happen to the person experiencing it. It also happens to the person seeing it happen (witnessing by sight), or the person hearing it happen (witnessing by sound).

It does not even require the words ‘imagine this…’ – the brain automatically makes an internal image of what has been shared.

Take for example the events taking place on 9/11 – a historical event etched in the memory of every human being on the planet who was old enough to hear it and connected in some form or other to the world news. Even just referring to an event with a number (9/11) will bring up memories of where you were that day, who you were with, and what you did.

Who was affected by this traumatic event?

  • People directly at the different scenes of events (Twin Towers, Pentagon, etc)
  • Friends and family members of those people
  • Rescue teams, news reporters, medical care teams, etc
  • People watching the news
  • People hearing from those who were at the scene
  • People hearing from those who watched the news

Not all people who COULD be affected by a traumatic event
are necessarily affected,
and not likely in the same way.

What happens to people affected by trauma?

Depending on the level of involvement and closeness to the trauma, people either go into a full trauma response or a milder version. Immediate reactions after a traumatic event include shock and denial, while more long-term reactions may include mood swings, relationship challenges, flashbacks, and physical symptoms. These responses may be concerning to the person experiencing them and those around them, but they are normal responses to traumatic events.

People have different reactions to traumatic events. For example, those who live through the same natural disaster can respond very differently despite experiencing the same event.

Type of trauma (traumatic events)

Traumatic events include (but are not limited to):

  • Child abuse
  • Child neglect
  • Bullying
  • Being attacked
  • Being kidnapped
  • Harassment
  • Physical abuse
  • Domestic violence
  • Violence in the community
  • Natural disasters
  • Medical trauma
  • Sexual abuse
  • Sex trafficking
  • Substance use
  • Intimate partner violence
  • Verbal abuse
  • Accidents
  • War
  • Refugee trauma
  • Terrorism
  • Traumatic grief
  • Intergenerational trauma
  • Childbirth

Even a seemingly positive event such as childbirth can be traumatic, depending on the circumstances!

Duration of trauma: Acute versus chronic emotional trauma

Traumatic events can be isolated or repeated, ongoing events. A person can also experience trauma after witnessing something (by sight or sound) traumatic happening to someone else.

Trauma can either be physical or emotional. Physical trauma is a serious bodily injury. Emotional trauma is the emotional response to a disturbing event or situation.

 More specifically, emotional trauma can be either acute or chronic, as follows:

  • Acute emotional trauma is the emotional response that happens during and shortly after a single distressing event.
  • Chronic emotional trauma is a long-term emotional response a person experiences from prolonged or repeated distressing events that span months or years. Additionally, complex emotional trauma is the emotional response associated with multiple different distressing events that may or may not be intertwined.

Small ‘t’ versus Large ‘T’

Small ‘t’ traumas are events that exceed our capacity to cope and cause a disruption in emotional functioning. These distressing events are not inherently life or bodily-integrity-threatening, but perhaps better described as ego-threatening due to the individual left feeling notable helplessness. Some examples include:

  • Interpersonal conflict
  • Infidelity
  • Divorce
  • Abrupt or extended relocation
  • Legal trouble
  • Financial worries or difficulty
  • etc.

A large-T trauma is distinguished as an extraordinary and significant event that leaves the individual feeling powerless and possessing little control over their environment. Such events could take the form of, for example:

  • Natural disaster
  • Terrorist attack
  • Sexual assault
  • Combat
  • Car accident
  • Plane accident
  • Childhood ritualist abuse
  • etc.

Helplessness is also a key factor of large ‘T’ traumas, and the extent of experienced helplessness is far beyond that of a small ‘t’ trauma. Large ‘T’ traumas are more readily identified by the experiencer, as well as those who have any familiarity with their plight.

These might be 38 types of trauma but the list is not complete.

More articles to come on:

  • trauma symptoms
  • trauma-informed care
  • trauma in childhood
  • healing from trauma
  • complex trauma

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Filed Under: trauma, grief support, sexual trauma Tagged With: acute emotional trauma, childhood trauma, chronic emotional trauma, chronic PTSD, large t, large trauma, PTSD, small t, small trauma, trauma, trauma response, war

Turiya Hanover on Grief in the First Year and Coming out of Trauma | Episode 26

February 6, 2023 By Nathalie Himmelrich Leave a Comment

Turiya Hanover
Turiya Hanover

Today on the podcast I have the honor to be speaking with Turiya Hanover for the second time, revisiting her first year of grief over the loss of her partner Maia and the associated trauma. 

Turiya and I share a passion: befriending death. Not everyone’s cup of tea in terms of passions but you will enjoy listening to this episode if you are interested in looking behind the veils of life, birth, death, and everything in between. 

*Just a note on the sound quality of this episode: Given I recorded this during my sabbatical in South Africa with a different microphone than usual, the sound quality is slightly different.  

About this week’s guest 

Turiya is the co-founder of Path Retreats and the transformational process – Path of Love with Rafia Morgan. Together they also lead a one-year Holistic Counsellor training for therapists called Working with People – School of Counselling. 

She has been trained in many different modalities such as Gestalt, Bioenergetics, Psychodrama, Family Therapy (V. Satir), NLP, Hypnosis, Somatic Experiencing™ (Peter Levine), Ego Psychology, Family Constellation, Enneagram and Astrology, and Essence Work.

Turiya’s personal journey into human development started when she did her first 2-year Jungian Psychotherapy course aged 22, followed by an encounter workshop in 1970 in Germany. The revelation and exploration of this Humanistic Psychology approach took Turiya by surprise. The internal shift that she experienced was so profound, that she and her husband, set on a new course of human discovery, which led them to India. Through learning meditation, living, and working in a community under the guidance of a master, she developed a unique approach in working with people that is a synthesis of eastern insights, living awareness and western approach to humanistic psychology.

The sudden, unexpected death of her husband marked a turning point in Turiya’s life. This profound experience deeply influenced her own personal search and how she works with people today.

Today Turiya has the joy of being a grandmother and spends her free time painting and is writing a book about the rising of the feminine and about Death as a friend and the realisation of Impermanence.

Topics discussed in this episode

  • Reviewing the first year of grief and trauma
  • The ongoing connection felt with Maia
  • The fear of abandonment
  • Loneliness, aloneness, being alone and feeling alone
  • Preparing for death in the later stages of life
  • Death-defying culture versus befriending death

Resources mentioned in this episode

  • Stephen Jenkinson

Links

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

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Remember to keep breathing, I promise, it will get easier.

Filed Under: podcast, grief support, grief/loss, love/relationship/marriage, partner loss, spirituality, trauma Tagged With: befriending death, dealing with trauma, death, grieving a partner, partner loss, path of love, shock, trauma, traumatic loss, turiya hanover, working with people

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