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PTSD, Jesus and You: Recognizing Childhood Trauma, pt 2–Special Guest Jeremy Fox, LPC, EMDRI
Recognizing childhood trauma is as important for us are the solutions. The solution could be you, and your ability to recognize childhood trauma and so that we can help children’s forming brains, healing them as we recognize.
Special guest, Jeremy Fox, LPC, EMDRI joins the podcast to highlight the effects of trauma on a child’s brain particularly as it pertains to abandonment and neglect in all forms. Jeremy brings his knowledge of a well established trauma informed therapy, EMDR and is an approved EMDR trauma consultant.
He discusses the eight phases of the EMDR process:
1. History & Treatment Planning
2. Preparation
3. Assessment
4. Desensitization
5. Installation
6. Body Scan
7. Closure
8. Revaluation
Why is faith important to healing from trauma? “Purpose in Life Predicts Better Emotional
Recovery from Negative Stimuli.” APA style citation below:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0080329
Schaefer, S. M., Boylan, J. M., Van Reekum, C. M., Lapate, R. C., Norris, C. J., Ryff, C. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2013). Purpose in life predicts better emotional recovery from negative stimuli. PloS one, 8(11), e80329.
ADHD and PTSD article citation
Barkley, R. A. (1997). Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity disorder, self-regulation, and time. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 18(4), 271-279. doi:10.1097/00004703- 199708000-00009
The effects of abandonment on the young brain:
DeBellis, M. D. (2005). The psychobiology of neglect. Child Maltreatment, 10(2), 150-172. doi:10.1177/1077559505275116
Perry, B. D. (2002). Childhood experience and the expression of genetic potential: What childhood neglect tells us about nature and nurture. Brain and Mind, 3(1), 79-100. doi:10.1023/A:1016557824657
Wilkerson, D., Johnson, G. & Johnson, R. (2009). Children of neglect with attachment and time perception deficits: Strategies and interventions. Education, 129(2), 343.
PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Recognizing Childhood Trauma, Special Guest Erica Cuni, LMFT
Erica Cuni, LMFT joins the Wednesdays With Watson podcast to help us understand and recognize childhood trauma and its effects on a child’s brain. She shares her expertise of Adverse Childhood Experiences and helps us understand the pathology of trauma and ACE scores as well as a CDC study addressing adverse childhood experiences. She cites a Centers For Disease study here.
Erica also helps us understand attachment styles and how they are fundamentally formed by trauma, but also promotes hope and healing. Erica has a passion for helping people and she herself a trauma survivor both in her young life as well as an adult. Erica speaks of trauma, and the poly-vagal industry and integrating into therapy. Finally, Erica shares with us an exciting treatment modality called Internal Family Systems. This evidence based therapy is a different take on popular trauma treatments like EMDR and CBT etc. It is based on the newest research on trauma and how to treat trauma. Find out more information about Internal Family Systems here,
The United States reported almost 2,000 child abuse deaths in 2019. April is child abuse awareness month, and the Wednesdays With Watson Podcast is going to continue to bring awareness so that wounded children do not become wounding adults.
Resources: Prevent Child Abuse, USA
During this month, Amy has a #lostchildchallenge on her Instagram account. While highlighting child abuse awareness month, the host of the healing zone is seeking healing that our guest today insists exists after child abuse. Find those videos on this Instagram handle: instagram.com/authoramywatson.com
Special Guest: Erica Cuni, LFMFT
Executive Producer: Amy Highland
Podcast Cover: Brittney Knight
Logo Design: Anna Roberts
Promotion Video: Rebecca Reed
Song “Marked By You” used by permission, words and music by Phil Baker.
PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Desiring Wellness (Solo Episode)
Previously on Wednesdays With Watson:
“I have never prayed for God to heal my PTSD”
That was a live admission and this solo episode examines this statement and as Wednesdays With Watson listeners have come to expect, there is a a twist. This solo episode is a twist on that striking admission in the middle of a live interview.
Do we desire wellness? Is something required of us to get it? Is something required of us to keep it? How does community, church and counseling factor in to our desiring wellness? Why wouldn’t a patient want to get well?
This solo episode examines all of that, and more. In this deeply personal episode, trauma survivor Amy Watson gets behind the mic and tells you what she had forgotten. This episode is meant to highlight the Star of the story first and foremost, but also the journey of healing, and how Jehovah-Rapha is just that, the God Who heals.
This episode is raw and real and is journey of one person’s memory of something she had forgotten, but God had not forgotten, He never does.
Scripture I Peter 4:15, Mark 5, Phil 1:6, Joel 2:25, Romans 8:18
Host: Amy Watson
Executive Producer: Amy Highland
Podcast Artwork: Brittany Knight
Promotion Video: Rebecca Reed
PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Healing PTSD, Shea’s Story
PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Healing PTSD, Shea’s Story
Shea Watson first fought battles of abuse and then he chose to fight for his country. Diagnosed with PTSD in 1997 by the US Army, Shea spent two years in the hospital when the trauma finally demanded his attention. In a Wednesdays With Watson first, this episode is part of a podcast crossover event, but in this episode, Shea tells us what Jesus did.
This is a special podcast crossover event, as Amy joins forces with The Pantry Podcast, of which Shea Watson is one of the curators. He is joined by his wife as well as the curator of The Spiritual Life and Leadership podcast. As Shea shares his story and answers hard questions, Michelle and Pastor Markus Watson do the same.
I Peter 2:9 “You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, that you may be able to declare the praises of the One that called you out of darkness into marvelous light.”
This episode is hopeful, it is fun, but there is no doubt that it addresses identity and it addresses trauma as well as PTSD.
2 Cor 5:13
PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Living With PTSD (A Warrior’s Story)
In November of 1989, the Rivera’s life was changed forever as a the events in their home rendered them all four orphans. Angel is the second of the four, his sister’s episode is the one before this one “Holding On To The Unseen Hand”
In this episode, Angel talks to us how witnessing the horror of his parent’s death has affected him over the last thirty years. He talks about his fight to keep his family; he talks about the people that he loves and he talks about Jesus, Who never left him, and will also never leave you. He talks the demons of drugs and how that almost destroyed his life.
Angel talks about coming out of darkness, into light and we are reminded of I Peter 2:9–and being called out of darkness into that glorious light. We know that we do not love a high priest who is not familiar with our sufferings, and Angel shares that with us too.
Triumph (ing) over tragedy is the thing that happens here in the healing zone. Hope for all the things, because life with PTSD doesn’t have to be lost. Angel proves that to us.
Scripture: 1 Peter 2:9, Hebrews 4:15, Psalm 27:10 “When my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will lift me up” Exodus 14:14
Guest: Angel Rivera
Executive Producer, Editor & Engineer: Amy Highland
Podcast Cover: Brittany Knight
Logo Design: Anna Roberts
Song: “Marked By You” by Phil Baker, used by permission with license.
Host: Amy Watson
wednesdayswithwatson.com
PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Holding On to the Unseen Hand (Anna Marie’s Story)
Special guest Anna Marie Rivera Alberts joins the Wednesdays With Watson podcast with her story of the crooked roads of trauma and pain that has led to a beautiful, albeit still difficult life.
Her family’s story made the news headlines. A visit to the scene of the tragedy yielded stories from neighbors who remember the story, 30+ years later. We attempt to tell her story with the delicacy it deserves, yet listeners are still able find Hope in a story that most people would describe as unable to be redeemed. She has broken the generational trauma “curse”.
Hebrews 11:1
For Him “Why”–lyrics. quoted:
“I know down here, I may not understand, so I won’t let go of the unseen hand, because it holds the reasons why”
“What Love Really Means”–JJ Heller
“Who will love me for me, not for what I have done or what I will become, who will love me for me, will somebody show me what love really means?”
Podcast Engineer & Producer: Amy Highland
Podcast Cover Art: Brittany Knight & Anna Roberts
Episode Graphics: Rebekah Millet
Episode Trailer: Rebecca Reed
Host: Amy Watson
**If you or someone you love is in crisis, reach out for help**
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness. NAMI.org
Text 741741 for free crisis counseling
800-950-6264
Call 211
Suicide Help Line: 800-233-8255
Domestic Violence Help Line: 800-799-7233
NAMI-800-950-6264
Additional support focusing on childhood trauma:
http://remakingmarley.com/
PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Moving Beyond the Wreckage (The Body Keeps the Score)
Because we believe that HEALING PEOPLE HELP PEOPLE
Special guest Lindsay Tozer bravely tells us about a moment that changed everything. She describes her life as a “line” in her life as “before and after” that day. Twenty years have elapsed and she wanted to tell her story as part of her own healing process as well as an intense desire to help others.
Lindsay’s story does not get tied up in a nice bow, her body has recorded the events of that day and yet she still has Hope. She still gets up in the morning, and has dedicated her life and her career in child welfare management, county emergency management and is an accomplished musician.
Diagnosed with PTSD twenty years ago, she still lives with triggers, flashbacks, and floodings. She identifies her community as an important component of her healing and some of her loved ones weigh in on how that day affects her on a daily basis. They help her live with the repercussions of that day and have walked beside her through many more losses, cancer and a host of other health issues. The body truly keeps the score.
She still has questions of God, she is not afraid to tell them to the world. She is living with PTSD and yet another person on our podcast that gives Hope in the face of unimaginable grief, loss and health issues. She bravely tells us of her battle to forgive herself as well.
Her favorite song is “Into The Sea” by Latasha Layton and her favorite verse as Isaiah 54:10
“Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed says the Lord Who has compassion over you”
She has found the three C’s–Community, Church and Counseling as the path to her healing. She calls Jesus her rock and her everything. He is the Star of her story.
Other Scripture Genesis 58.
“Marked By You” by Phil Baker, used by permission.
PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Shattered Safety
Because we believe that HEALING PEOPLE HELP PEOPLE
Season 2 debuts with the first guest of the season sharing her story of a night that changed everything. The second season of Wednesdays With Watson highlights the crooked roads of trauma that lead to hope and healing. That road is not always an easy and nobody’s road is the same, so we are here to tell you stories that help you know a story of Hope can be yours too.
So, we are here to continue to give Hope to PTSD patients and those that love them. Press play for Hope because it is here, this is the HEALING ZONE. Let the healing continue.
“Marked By You”, words and music by Phil Baker and used by permission. Find this song on his album Babylon. We are incredibly grateful to him and we love the message of the song. License provided upon request.
Hebrews 4:15, Joel 2:25, Psalm 91
PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Hope for crooked roads of PTSD
This is the trailer episode for Season 2 of Wednesdays With Watson, PTSD, Jesus and YOU! This episode contains clips and a recap of some of season one’s most impactful episodes. Additionally, we jump forward to the mission of season two: featuring stories of other people’s journey with PTSD, and their own roads to Hope and healing. They can be and often are crooked roads of healing, but chances are they are roads you recognize. You do not have to live in defeat, you can victoriously live WITH PTSD, here is how.
This episode contains an announcement at the very end you aren’t going to want to miss!
Credits: Host: Amy Watson
Producer & Engineer: Amy Highland
Podcast Art: Brittany Knight
Cover Photo Credit: Crissy Loughridge
Graphic Designs: Rebekah Millet
Contact: amywatsonauthor.com/contact
Socials:
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Twitter: Twitter.com/amywatsonauthor
Instagram: instagram.com/authoramywatson
Disclaimer: this podcast is personal experience and is not to be considered professional help.
