The Mending Trauma Podcast

This episode delves into how mental health and trauma can either disrupt or reinforce our faith in a higher power or God. Dr. Coleman shares her experience of being diagnosed as bipolar and the generational trauma in her family that led her to write about mental health and faith. We also look at the way that dance can be healing after trauma and the importance of destigmatizing mental illness.

Show Notes

This episode delves into how mental health and trauma can either disrupt or reinforce our faith in a higher power or God. Dr. Coleman shares her experience of being diagnosed as bipolar and the generational trauma in her family that led her to write about mental health and faith. We also look at the way that dance can be healing after trauma and the importance of destigmatizing mental illness.

Timestamps:
2:39 - How does mental health effect your relationship with God?
8:30 - Issues in the academy
9:57 - Dr. Monica's upbringing
15:30 - Healing and Epigenetics
21:32 - Healing through dance
25:20 - The stigma around mental health
30:48 - How do you know if medication is right for you?

Transcript

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What is The Mending Trauma Podcast?

Join certified trauma professional Dr. Amy Hoyt and licensed therapist Leina Hoyt, MFT at https://www.mendingtrauma.com as they teach you how to recover from trauma and cPTSD. Trauma shows up in our everyday reactions and sensations and recovering requires a multi-prong approach that considers the mind, body and spirit. Dr. Amy and Leina will teach you the most emerging research and skills to empower you to overcome your past traumas. They address nervous system health, somatic therapy, trauma, cPTSD, EMDR, Neurofeedback, IFS (Internal Family Systems therapy), and many other modes of recovering from trauma. As mental health experts, sisters and trauma survivors, they teach you the tools that actually helped them recover, are backed by research and have helped thousands of their clients. Each episode is packed with clinically effective methods as well as scientific findings to guide you through your own trauma healing journey. Whether discussing cPTSD, PTSD, medical trauma, somatic therapy, nervous system regulation, EMDR or neurofeedback, Amy and Leina will help you recover from trauma so that you can reconnect to yourself and others.