Unlocking Emotional Healing: The Power Of Felt Sense | Why Getting Over Trauma Isn't Enough
Somacology
Trauma shapes how we live—organizing our lives as if the past is still happening. The body holds onto these experiences, leaving us disconnected from our most powerful resource: our felt sense. In this episode, we will go through the profound connection between your body and mind. We’ll explore how mindlessness—ignoring your felt sense—keeps you stuck in cycles of stress, disconnection, and unresolved trauma. Drawing from the work of trauma experts like Peter Levine and Gabor Maté, we’ll uncover how tuning into your felt sense is the gateway to healing and self-awareness. You’ll...
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Exploring Somatic Healing and Psychedelic Therapy: A Path to Trauma Resolution | This Is Somacology
Somacology
We're going through a psychedelic therapy revival. Join psychotherapist Todd Brossart as he introduces the Somacology channel and discusses some of his personal journey following a near-death injury and the innovative practices that helped him reconnect with his body and mind. Gain insights into: The felt sense as a critical pathway to accessing the body’s innate ability to process and resolve trauma. The role of Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Therapy (PSIP) in addressing deeply rooted trauma that conventional therapeutic approaches often fail to resolve. The potential consequences...
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Owning My Naivete
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If you could have a conversation with yourself back when you started your career in healthcare, what would you say? What does that person need to know in order to sustain their mental health over the arch of their career? Would you talk to them about naivete? Or how to approach one's naivete as it comes up in their career? Consider where you're at today in your career. Would you be willing to talk to yourself about owning your naivete? After 12 years of working in a large hospital setting, in outpatient mental health and substance use disorders clinics, I can admit that I naively behaved and...
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In Memoriam | Honoring Rachel
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If you’ve listened to this podcast for a while, you’ll know that I hold a belief that there’s still someone out there who I haven’t met yet, that will change my life in profound ways. This episode is an attempt to honor someone who left a lasting impact on my life. In April 2019 during my lengthy stay in the hospital, I was privileged to have a very special person care for me. Her name was Rachel Petersen. Rachel was a nurse at the Anschutz Medical Center, in Aurora, Colorado. Sadly, Rachel passed away recently. The news was devastating to read about, and my wife and I are still trying...
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Getting to Live | A Mindful Reframe
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We all have to do things. Some things we are excited about. Other things, not as much. Rarely do we consider what we get to do in our lives, taking it for granted. In this episode I offer a quick mindfulness reframe to help you shift your perspective to living with more presence and gratitude. Because when we get to do something versus have to do something, we show up more completely and openly. . Looking to further your mindfulness practice? Check out the Mental Events mindfulness journal. It’s dedicated to examining the workability of the mind’s proposed solutions to problems, and offers...
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Subtracting Self-Care | Moving Toward What Matters
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Should self-care always mean you get to feel calm? Should self-care be limited to feeling good? Let’s reimagine self-care for a moment. Instead of adding things to your life in the name of self-care, consider what you could subtract in order to practice better self-care. Continually adding activities of self-care could become exhausting, and may make you feel worse. What could you let go of today to make room for your health and well-being? . Looking to further your mindfulness practice? Check out the Mental Events mindfulness journal. It’s dedicated to examining the workability of the...
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Post-traumatic Growth: Celebrating Year Two with Gratitude and Joy
Somacology
What doesn't kill us, can make us stronger! On the two-year anniversary of a near death experience, I invite a friend of the podcast, John Evans to sit down for an extended conversation about post-traumatic growth. Post-traumatic growth refers to the positive psychological changes that a person can experience as a result of adversity. John and I cover a lot of ground in this episode, referencing Stephen Joseph's book, What Doesn't Kill Us, Judith Herman's book, Trauma and Recovery, and Stephen Pressfield's book, The War of Art. . If you're wondering how to move through feeling stuck, and...
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After Violence: Reflections on Boulder
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So often we feel hopeless and powerless after tragedy and trauma. I know I've felt that way recently with the tragedies in Atlanta and Boulder. Both events serve as reminders of how violence can devastate community, trust, and desecrate the ideals, values, and freedoms we hold as sacred. In this week's episode, I discuss what moral injurious events are, and offer a mindful approach to touch feelings of hopelessness and powerlessness. . Looking to further your mindfulness practice? . It’s dedicated to examining the workability of the mind’s proposed solutions to problems, and offers an...
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Healthy and Unhealthy Discomfort
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Life serves up discomfort to us in many ways. At times we've all avoided challenges in order to escape the stress that goes with feeling uncomfortable. This week's episode examines how our struggle against discomfort can cause additional suffering in our lives. . Think of unhealthy discomfort as something you do to avoid coming into contact with what doesn't feel good. Healthy discomfort on the other hand tends to be a more open, willing, and engaging way of managing what is already present. . Looking to further your mindfulness practice? Check out the Mental Events mindfulness journal....
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Box Breathing
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“Just breathe.” Depending on how stressed you might be, hearing those words may not be well received. Enter box breathing! It's a proactive breathing exercise aimed to help you regulate your nervous system. . Box breathing is a common breathing technique used by Navy Seals, mindfulness practitioners, and recovery programs. During my time as the lead facilitator of the mindfulness group at the Veterans Administration, I would lead the group through box breathing. . If you can envision drawing a box in your mind, and follow your breath to the count of four, then you can do box...
info_outlineHappy belated Father's Day to all the dad's out there. It's extra special for me with the recent birth of our son. This week I share a note to my son and reflect on the current state of the podcast.
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