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The Art of Integrating CI in Relational Trauma Therapy with Rita Bozi

Release Date: 05/08/2025

Resolving Math-Anxiety Through Trauma-Informed Teaching, with Dr Bea Bleile

The Gifts of Trauma

Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard This conversation explores how academic learning is impacted by a student's emotional state, prior experiences, and the safety of the learning environment. Bea, who has been teaching in various roles since 1993, saw that traditional teaching methods fail to account for the "whole" students who enter the classrooms. This failure often results in elevated student anxiety and hindered learning: As a teacher committed to evolving current educational institutions and systems, she addresses: - The impact of negative emotions on learning...

Elevating Consciousness & Healing Through Art & Music with Ester Martinez

The Gifts of Trauma

Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. This rich conversation explores many topics, from Ester’s personal and professional journeys, to spiritual mysticism, to the parallels between experiencing ‘excellence’ in art, music and transformational trauma healing. Ester began sharing her NDEs and naming,”‘the Divine embrace” as her childhood comfort, the foundation of her healing approach and an enduring influence in her therapeutic practices. She also reflects on: - Why healing is always possible - Art and music as mediums for elevating consciousness...

Shining Authenticity's Light into Corporate Leadership, with Lubna Forzley

The Gifts of Trauma

Hosted by Kevin Young. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. This passionate conversation begins with Lubna’s upbringing in war-torn Beirut. She recalls seeing bombs falling and people dying and wondering, “What is the point of this? How do we find purpose?” Her mom told her, "It's okay, everything’s replaceable except you, the people you love and the story (or purpose) you live by.” After 15 years of corporate work Lubna launched her own business, Stories. Its name acknowledges the intertwining of our purpose and personal brands, and the alignment of our internal and external...

Intimacy, Healing and "Sand in the System" with Kosha Joubert.

The Gifts of Trauma

Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. This heart-felt conversation arcs from the pain of apartness to the healing power of connectedness. Kosha shares her personal journey, which led her from the cognitive and somatic dissonance of enforced separation (apartheid) to the synchronicity of inter-connection. She also explains how: - Human love and connection can change systems from the bottom-up - Witnessing eco-communities’ good intentions and dedication to restoring relationships with nature, social systems, cultures, and economies led her to, “fall in love...

6 Ingredients of Lasting Love with Dr Sara Nasserzadeh

The Gifts of Trauma

Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. This conversation delivers rich insights on the importance of clear communication and intentional maintenance in healthy love relationships. Dr Sara also explores the ways personal and inherited trauma can impact intimate relationships, from causing ongoing emotional issues to expanding individuals' resilience and abilities to maintain healthy relationships. In addition to sharing stories from her personal and professional life, Dr Sara explains: - How the six relational ingredients of her Emergent Love Model interact and evolve...

The Sound of Healing with Reggie Hubbard

The Gifts of Trauma

Hosted by Kevin Young. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. Listen to hear a powerful and playful discourse that flows from racial anger to curiosity, skepticism, critical thinking, surrender and stroke recovery. Reggie speaks about how his unwavering self-care practices unleashed the transformative alchemy of inner peace. He also describes teaching peace and mindfulness practices to political activists and US Congress members, supporting their need for grounding in chaotic times. He also invites us to: - Express our grief and connect with our emotions rather than avoiding difficult feelings -...

Healing Ruptured Connections to Self, Land and Culture with Sanjog Kaur

The Gifts of Trauma

Hosted by Kevin Young. Produced by J’aime Rothbard Sanjog’s spiritual name means ‘connection.’ In this flowing, deeply connected conversation, Sanjog describes how ‘longing’ helped her heal her eating disorder. She also explains how heartfelt intentions (as opposed to external goals) helped her navigate obstacles in her addiction recovery. In addition to attuning to our innate ‘longings’ and ‘intentions’, Sanjog highlights the importance of trusting our own intuition, and accepting that we inherently know what we need. Join us to hear Sanjog describe how: - A trip to the...

Khonmadi: Feeling the Heartbeat of Mother Earth, with Dr Ruby Gibson

The Gifts of Trauma

Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes, Produced by J’aime Rothbard. In this magical conversation, Dr. Ruby shares the launch of The Khonmadi Project, which was inspired by a dream. She has since discovered that Khonmadi is known to different indigenous cultures worldwide, as a term that relates to healing Mother Earth. Dr. Ruby also shares her personal and professional journey, which began at age 13. Learning about the emotional roots of physical pain, led her from massage therapy to somatic healing, and the creation of Somatic Archaeologyⓒ which considers the body a "walking library" of...

Healing the Trauma of the Heart with Tiph Fedor

The Gifts of Trauma

Hosted by Kevin Young. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. The spiritual journey and process of trauma healing are presented as aligned experiences that unfold together as we progress through healing into wholeness. This conversation begins with Tiph’s healing journey. A highly sensitive, empathetic child, growing up in a family where emotions were suppressed was a painful experience that led her to heroin addiction— described as a "magic bullet," it numbed Tiph’s emotions but made her life a ‘grim’ period of survival. She goes on to share how she overcame her addiction, and the...

Finding Chronic Pain Relief in Parts Work with Terry Baranski

The Gifts of Trauma

Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Compassionate Inquiry® (CI) both aim to reconnect individuals with their core Self. Learn how understanding parts' reality' roles, and feeling into the somatic flow of Self facilitates healing. In this conversation, Terry illuminates the IFS approach, including the nature of Self, how our how parts manifest chronic pain and why addressing these internal conflicts is essential for healing. Having been trained in both CI and IFS, Terry adeptly distinguishes the two approaches’ areas of...

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Hosted by Kevin Young. Produced by J’aime Rothbard

This nuanced conversation begins with a deep dive into healing relational trauma. Rita explains developmental trauma, relational trauma and how both are rooted in ancestral and intergenerational trauma. After deftly highlighting how trauma experienced during critical developmental periods can lead to gaps in our self-awareness, emotional and relational functioning, she goes on to explore:

- Forgiveness as a natural outcome of personal healing rather than a prerequisite for it.
- Embodiment’s role in fully experiencing and processing trauma.
- Manifestations of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD)
- How humour, absurdity and laughter can coexist with tears during healing.
- The Importance of meaningful connections with others in healing.
- Relational approaches to therapy that emphasize embodied interactions.
Rita shares several stories during this interview . One focuses on her love of dance, her experience in ballet school, how it served her as a necessary escape, and its many challenges, including an out of control eating disorder. She shares how one day a caring friend’s well chosen truthful observation positively shifted her trajectory: an approach she now uses in her work with clients. Rita concludes by sharing the deeply personal story of her 2-person play, The Damage Is Done, in which she played several of her family members, opposite Gabor Mate, who appeared as himself.

About Rita Bozi
Somatic Relational Psychedelic Therapist, Somatic Transformation Educator, Author

Raised by Hungarian refugees, Rita is a multidisciplinary Somatic Relational trauma- informed Facilitator, a Psychedelic Therapist, a Somatic Transformation Educator, author, podcast co-host, a multidisciplinary creator, playwright, retired professional actor and dancer.

With 30 years’ experience in the healing arts, Rita is the director of Brilliant Healing Inc. She works with individuals and groups, leads unique, experiential, creative healing retreats, trains, mentors and supervises international students in her 3 Module program: Somatic Relational Trauma-informed Practices for Medicine-Assisted Facilitation. Rita is teaching Cohorts in Canada, Europe, the US and Australia and is guest faculty at The Synthesis Institute. She has been invited to lecture at the Psychedelic Association of Canada, the Psychedelic-assisted Therapy Graduate Certificate Program at Vancouver Island University and ATMA Journey Centres in the Psychedelic- Assisted Therapy Program.

Mentored by the late visionary Carol-Anne Bickerstaff, Rita spent four years in a practicum with Sharon Stanley PhD, studying her Somatic Transformation Model. She is a Consultant Facilitator of the One Brain System, has a Diploma in Shiatsu Therapy and is a former instructor at Mount Royal College in Calgary and Langara College in Vancouver.

Her podcast PUNK THERAPY: Psychedelic Underground Neural Kindness, which she co-hosts with Dr. T., has over 20,000 downloads. In 2013, Rita wrote, produced and co-starred with Gabor Maté in the multi-disciplinary stage show, The Damage in Done which performed to sold out houses.

Her first novel, When I Was Better [2022] is a Firebird Book Award winner and a finalist for the 2022 Goethe International literary award for Late-Historical Fiction.

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