In the closing episode of season 1 of the Whole Again Pod, hosts Leslie Briner and Teddy McGlynn-Wright revisit each of the five statements of the Integrative Trauma and Healing Framework. They clarify what it means to begin whole (safety, agency, dignity, and belonging as birthrights), explain how trauma and healing are embodied across five layers (individual, collective, systemic, intergenerational, historical), and name trauma as both interruption and overwhelm of our “body-brain.” The conversation underscores that healing is cumulative and collaborative and include practices that restores safety, agency, dignity, or belonging moves us toward integration and wholeness.
The hosts also explore slow disintegration (e.g., microaggressions, hostile environments), the role of media in eroding solidarity, and the power of counter-narratives to restore dignity and belonging. They emphasize relationships as sites of repair (“the relationship is the intervention”) and describe using the framework as a tool to identify how and where our fundamentals are being depleted or being rebuilt. The episode closes with a Season 2 preview focused on practical application and conversations with healers and practitioners working with the framework.
Referenced in this episode Whole Again Pod, Episodes 1–5
Burnout: The Secret of Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagaski
How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
The Second Founding by Eric Foner
The Dark Fantastic by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot. Direct quote, "The only thing that can displace a story is a story".
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