PODCAST
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AWARDS
ISSTD MEDIA AWARD
We read and respond to listener emails.
We share updates, life changes, and big ideas!
We talk with the husband and our new friend and colleague Kathryn Gelinas, MA, LPC, NCC, about our experiences watching Moon Knight.
The husband shares about watching Moon Knight, a Marvel comic series airing on Disney+ that centers around a character with DID.
We chat with guest Peter Maves, a pioneer in the field and a colleague we work with planning conferences and building the professional training program with ISSTD.
We talk to our friend from college about our first diagnosis of DID and about religious trauma.
While not going into detail, this episode discusses religious trauma explicitly and directly. We share with the husband about receiving a message from a college friend who found the podcast. We use what she shared and what we have done in therapy thus far to piece together part of a timeline… and grieve its implications.
We share therapy is going, and we process letting go of our previous Kelly and trusting the new one - and ourselves.
We watched the movie “Encanto” together in group, then discussed it through a DID framework.
We share our experience in Seattle, specifically how it felt like closure, like a bookend to San Francisco.
We talk with the husband about grieving those experiences we just can’t do anything about, how to learn from them, and what it’s like to let go and move on.
We share listener emails and a discussion about what makes a good therapist.
Lost Episode
We take a moment on Thanksgiving try to process the transition out of quarantine and back into the world around us.
Lost Episode
We talk with our colleague and friend in Ukraine, psychologist Nadiia Aleksina. She shares her experience of the war and the attack on Kyiv. We talk about psychological first aid, trauma, and dissociation. She does reference bombs and explosions because of the context of our discussion, but does not discuss explicit or graphic details.
Lost Episode
We share about our move, and process what we learned here during the pandemic.
We tell the story of a hawk attacking one of our baby chicks, and then we share how our therapist tended that story like she does our dreams.