ReConceive
As a global community, we witness rates of depression, anxiety, and self-harm skyrocketing in the wake of more than two years of unprecedented stress and need.
Episodes
September 22, 2023 • 60 mins
Deborah and Tracy interview Richard Forrist, Pilates instructor, dancer, musician, and actor, about mental health and Pilates training. Trauma, including toxic elements of mainstream culture, affect movement and posture as well as how we view our bodies. Richard helps us discuss how the everyday trauma of living in modern society changes how we hold our bodies and how that translates into pain, loss of balance, and weakness. Pilate...
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August 18, 2023 • 60 mins
Deborah and Tracy discuss their preparation processes for doing therapy. We like to say, Your session begins before you arrive, because we are getting ourselves ready, both individually, and as a team, to be our most effective selves in session. We focus on meditation and movement practices that help them, individually, get ready for a day of working with clients. We also discuss joint practices for getting ready as co-therapists t...
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July 14, 2023 • 60 mins
Deborah and Tracy discuss teachers, mentors, and friends who've provided support and frameworks for understanding the work . . . and life.
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June 26, 2023 • 60 mins
As we continue looking at how therapists can take better care of themselves, we take a look at in-session emotional dynamics. Experts have long said we must feel the emotion of trauma in order to heal it. Deborah and Tracy discuss the body mind system and why it's important to be able to perceive emotion as a physical sensation in order to process information in trauma recovery.
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March 17, 2023 • 60 mins
In this episode, Deborah and Tracy talk with Elizabeth Austin about her Affective Movement Therapy practice in St. Louis. Beth helps people learn to feel calmer and more alive by encouraging organic movement in her therapy sessions. While “dance” looks different for everyone, both therapist and client access more emotion, resilience, and personal authority through even the smallest intentional movements. Practitioners can model (a...
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February 27, 2023 • 60 mins
Therapist Loneliness
Loneliness is associated with a variety of health problems and shortened life span (Hawkley, 2022; Hawkley & Cacioppo, 2010). Deborah and Tracy visit again with Doug Shirley, professor at The Seattle School, about the loneliness of the psychotherapist: both the individual factors - and the systemic issues of our profession - that make helpers more likely to be lonely. We talk about how helpers of all stripe...
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January 26, 2023 • 60 mins
Be the Change
As a helper, do you believe you make a difference in the wider world? Or do you see yourself operating on an individual scale, helping people improve their lives but not creating large-scale differences. In 1969, activist Carol Hanish wrote, “The personal is political.” This statement became a center point for feminist psychotherapy in the 70s and beyond. Deborah and Tracy talk about the politics of doing therapy....
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November 8, 2022 • 60 mins
In this episode, Tracy and Deborah talk about their new therapy model: ReConceive Therapy, which combines psychotherapy (including EMDR, art, and relational methods) with neuromuscular therapy, dance, and movement lessons. After years of collaboration, conversation, and study, we’re putting our methods together to create more powerful therapy that is also easier to conduct. By teaming up in session, we believe our clients will get ...
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November 1, 2022 • 60 mins
CRISIS INTO CREATIVITY
Every professional helper experiences an existential crisis at some point in their career. Some kind of loss, trauma, or major illness triggers a sense of meaninglessness, one’s worldview upended. But internal chaos can lead to creative change. Deborah and Tracy talk with Dr. Jeremy Vincent, forensic psychologist and author of 26.2 Miles: How running alone showed me I was never really alone at all. Jeremy ...
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October 25, 2022 • 60 mins
Going Rogue: Doing therapy counter-culture
Mainstream healthcare and human services takes a shape we’ve all come to expect. One helper and one helpee, in a room for 45 minutes (or less, if it’s medicine), sitting, talking about the problem. The helper repeats this as many times as possible in a given work day, and the formula focuses almost entirely on the client or patient as the person in need of evaluation and rehabilitation...
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October 18, 2022 • 60 mins
The (Re)Connected Therapist: How We Thrive
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We all need human connection in order to thrive (actually to survive). But therapists and other caregivers often report feeling isolated and lonely, doing our work behind a closed office door, tending to others but having little time, energy, or resources to tend our own needs for close relationships.This episode focuses on relational connection and the neur...
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October 11, 2022 • 60 mins
Everyone dissociates: We have many episodes of zoning out, tuning out, or numbing out during every day. Much of that dissociation is normal and some even helps us be more productive. But do you know what dissociation looks like on you? Our culture conditions us to separate ourselves from sensory and emotional experience, to eat foods that numb our awareness, to multitask, and to skate along the surface of life, doing things, but no...
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October 4, 2022 • 60 mins
Numerous studies point to regular writing as a way to improve our health and well-being. Given burnout in healthcare professionals, writing offers an affordable way to move stress and emotion onto the page, clearing our minds for more creative and enjoyable work. In this episode, Deborah and Tracy interview author, professor, and writing coach, Dr. Etta Madden, about the practice of regular writing for healing and apply the writing...
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September 27, 2022 • 60 mins
Why Therapists Drink, with Stephanie Zucchini
Healthcare professionals have a particular risk for substance abuse and other addictive behaviors (overeating, overwork, overshopping), because of the stress of our schedules, the pressure to perform perfectly, and the emotionally intense nature of the work itself. The COVID-19 pandemic has made helpers and healers even more vulnerable to over-reliance on alcohol or other drugs to co...
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September 20, 2022 • 60 mins
We suck: Listen to our sad, sucky, stupid podcast
We all have days where we feel completely incompetent, an utter failure, worthless, and we want to hide under a rock. Something starts us off on a foul note. We feel tired or under-the-weather - or we have an experience with a client, patient, or student that feels way “off.” Tracy and Deborah talk about these kinds of days, why they happen, and what to do about them.
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September 13, 2022 • 60 mins
5. The Village of the Therapist: How to Make One and Why You Need It
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Deborah and Tracy interview Dr. Doug Shirley, therapist and associate professor of counseling psychology at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. https://theseattleschool.edu/faculty-staff/directory/shirley-doug/
We talk about how difficult it is for helping professionals, especially counseling types, to form friendships an...
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September 6, 2022 • 60 mins
Vitality and the Ventral Vagus: Using Polyvagal Theory to Help Therapists Feel Better, with guest, Paul Wickersham, LPC
How can we feel better while working with our clients/patients or students? Deborah and Tracy discuss polyvagal theory with Paul Wickersham, a neurofeedback practitioner and psychotherapist in private practice in Springfield, Missouri.
Helpers need to be calm and grounded while working with others. But the ...
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August 30, 2022 • 60 mins
Your Brain on Movement: Neuroplasticity for the Healer
Deborah and Tracy interview Erin Cooper Owens, a practitioner of neuromovement. Erin trained in the Anat Baniel Method (ABM), or Neuromovement, a holistic approach to human functioning that holds the premise that movement is the language of the brain.
Erin lives and teaches in Springfield, MIssouri, where she helps her clients with all types of pain, focus, sleep, and mo...
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August 23, 2022 • 60 mins
Tracy and Deborah discuss relationship, connection, and limbic resonance as aspects of self-care for helpers. Because our relationships shape our brains and our biobehavioral states, we need awareness of how we're affected by each person in our family, friendship circle, and workplace. Using literature on love, attachment, and relational connection, we tell stories of belonging, isolation, and our health.
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August 16, 2022 • 60 mins
As a global community, we witness rates of depression, anxiety, and self-harm skyrocketing in the wake of more than two years of unprecedented stress and need. Helpers (caregivers, therapists, healthcare workers, teachers, and even parents) face more demands than ever, often working hours of concentrated, solo emotional labor each day. We see helpers suffering their own health crises and burnout. So, who and what helps th...
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