Episode 9 - Getting to Know Trusting Yourself, with Dr. Ingrid Clayton, PhD

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, are so excited to talk to Dr. Ingrid Clayton, author of Believing Me: Healing from Narcissistic Abuse and Complex Trauma, the compelling and honest memoir of her emotional journey as a trauma survivor.

In the interview, they talk about

• Reaching the universal through the specific
• "The Levinger Bump"
• The widespread damage caused by gaslighting
• Fighting the idea of your abuse being "not that bad"
• Beginning to identify as a trauma survivor
• Complex PTSD
• The freedom Ingrid felt when her abuser died
• The compulsion and drive to write her story
• Investigating her own personal history
• Accessing her fight response despite decades spent as a fawner

In the rest of the episode, Natasha & Brett discuss 

• How much the podcast is like QVC
• How to find time for things you want to do
• The relative thickness of cardboard
• Lack of media coverage for "black" news
• "Viscous" is grosser than "gooey"
• The energy of the week ahead
• And more!

And...

• Don't forget to rate/review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and tell your friends about us
• Natasha's book, Healing Your Inner Child, is available for pre-order now on Amazon.
• You can schedule a healing or learn about about Natasha's work by visiting highestlighthealing.com
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Getting to Know Woo is a weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.

 

Mentioned in the show:

• Ingrid's instagram and youtube channel
• Higher Learning podcast with Van Lathan & Rachel Lindsay
• The 1975