In this episode of The Whole Again Pod, hosts Leslie Briner and Teddy McGlynn-Wright explore the fifth and final statement of the Integrative Trauma and Healing Framework: “We can be whole again. Pathways to healing occur anytime we do anything that rebuilds safety, agency, dignity, or belonging.” Drawing on both story and practice, we look at how healing can happen in our bodies individually, in relationships, and across systems.
This episode begins with a discussion of the pathways (or doorways) that over time become practices, all together striving to re-build our safety, agency, dignity, and belonging. Teddy and Leslie offer tangible examples of restoring safety, agency, dignity, and belonging through individual practices like bearing witness, offering choice, and co-regulation as well as collective and systemic strategies including campaign finance reform, taxation, and truth and reconciliation committees.
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My Grandfather’s Blessings by Rachel Naomi Remen, MD
“Neurons that fire together wire together.” In 1949, psychologist Donald Hebb introduced the assembly theory of how the brain’s neurons respond to the same stimulus connecting preferentially to form neuronal ensembles.
How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Movement for Campaign Finance Reform
Structural Racism and State Tax Policy: A Walk Through History
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Collective Effervescence
- Émile Durkheim – The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912). The original source of the term collective effervescence. Durkheim used it to describe the shared energy and sense of unity people experience during communal rituals and gatherings.
- Barbara Ehrenreich – Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (2006). A cultural history exploring how humans have long sought experiences of collective joy and effervescence through dance, festivals, and public celebrations.
- Brené Brown – Atlas of the Heart (2021)
Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Black Liturgies by Cole Arthur Riley
Burnout: The Secret of Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagaski
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