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If you have heard many of this podcasts previous episodes on coaching, CBT, 6 on EMDR, IFS, Hypnosis and more, you know that the key to healing, or one of the first steps of a healing journey, it gaining an awareness of what happened to us, or the origin of our fears, anxieties, or symptoms.  On this episode, I was super excited to introduce you to a new therapy modality for me and for this podcast, Inherited Trauma and Family Constellations,  that provides us with clues or a deep dive into where else might fears or anxieties that we are experiencing, come from, when we can not remember its root within something we personally experienced in the past that we can actively heal, or if you are ready to explore coaching or therapy for the first time.    I had this extremely interesting conversation with Johanna Lynn who is the Founder of The Family Imprint Institute Training and who has over 15 years of experience in this modalities since becoming certified in them with The Family Constellations Institute and The inherited Trauma Institute.  Before focusing on Inherited Trauma she was a Clinical Hypnotherapist certified by the National Guild of Hypnotherapist and she has a Masters in Neurolinguistics Programing.   On this episode we spoke about the history of Inherited Trauma and Family Constellations, and why and how it works. We also spoke in detail about one of her expertise, how to use family constellations when healing money issues and why we can’t save money or we can’t stop spending.  Is this fear or anxiety mine? Or where does it come from? We talked about how despite us trying to avoid family sometimes, there is no avoiding .. epigenetically, biogenetically we carry our family with us..and hence, the importance of staying curious versus furious and how to successfully navigate this important territory.   You can learn more about Johanna Lynn and find her courses at johannalynn.ca or on social media @thefamilyimprint_institute   I truly loved this episode and if you loved it too, please do me a favor and share it with a friend or colleague or anyone who you think will find it helpful to simply help us in our quest to help others to feel better, do better and be better and HealIN to achieve in every area of their lives. 

In the last few episodes of the HealIN Podcast, we start to understand the relationship with how our life experiences and traumas can affect our physical health, and in this episode, we expand the conversation to how nutrition and mindfulness can affect it too.  I had a great conversation with Dr. Basma Faris who was my OBGYN here in NYC and we talked about her journey to include a nutritional lense into her OBGYN practice, and why there is sadly so little emphasis on the importance of nutrition in medical training. We discussed the importance of certain foods to support different stages in our lives, and particular foods that we can decrease in our lives to prevent the formation of fibroids or the hardening of our arteries.  We talked about the importance of understanding the barriers to change in the adoption of better eating habits before knowing how to support someone and she shared her personal journey into mindfulness and how this has transformed her to the person and excellent physician that she is today. More importantly, she shared how she is now merging her two passions as the Founder of  PollyPrepMD, supporting women with PCOS! You can learn more about Dr. Basma Faris on her website at www.pollyprepmd.com and on social media at @drbasmafaris or @pollyprep or Dr. Basma Faris on LinkedIN.

In this episode, we talked about her journey into incorporating the effects of trauma and mental health into her pediatrics practice and her passion for treating the whole person holistically. She explained how so many headaches, and tummy aches are caused by emotional and mental health issues, and we had a comprehensive discussion on how she treats them.  We discussed the biggest factor affecting children and teens these days and what to do about it, and why it was important for her as a pediatrician to also prioritize her wellness in many ways, including  working with a professional coach and prioritizing living as her most authentic self through her own healing and growth. 

This is a fascinating discussion with clinical Cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Fisher, in which he shares the struggles that arise from the rigorous medical school education and practice and shares with us how getting support and working with positive psychology, mindfulness, compassion, and many other practices, especially mindset work - using the  awareness of our thoughts and how they affect our feelings and actions - helped him to to become more present, productive, and fulfilled physician and person. This initially self-directed work led him to become a recognized well-being leader, to write his upcoming book "One Heart, A Cardiologist Guide to Healing, Health and Happiness,” and established him as the head of a wellness program in his institution. His transformational programs have helped hundreds of leaders.  Order his book at www.justoneheartbook.com and learn more about Dr. Fisher by following him at @happyheartmd on Instagram and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/happyheartmd.

I had an educational and fascinating discussion with Dr. Arielle Schwartz about her journey into the amazing work that she is doing today, which included the trauma experienced as a result of being the child of a healthy divorce, and how living in two households impacted her psychologically and psychologically.  She explained how we store trauma in the connective tissues, the fascia, how this affects our bodies, and how this leads to headaches, migraines and chronic pain. She shared the why and how therapeutic yoga works and how the poses and breathing truly helps with healing our bodies from whatever we have experienced in the past. We talked about why EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) which it was the first time that I learned this, and why vagus nerve exercises should be part of our daily self care routine! Dr. Schwartz, is a psychologist, an internationally sought-out teacher, a yoga instructor, and leading voice in the healing of PTSD and complex trauma. She is the author of six books, including EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology, The Post Traumatic Growth Guidebook, and Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery that I just finished reading and loved. You can find and learn more about Dr. Schwartz on her webside at www.drarielleschwartz.com on Facebook or on YouTube where she has many recordings of her yoga practice and more. Please look into her upcoming Vagus Nerve Course in August of 2023!   I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did, and if you did, please share it, and rate it to help me and my guest inspire as many people as possible to do this work.

Episode 100th is celebrated by having a very special guest for me, one of my most active and favorite clients, my beloved husband of 10 years, Dr. Paul Haser.  We talked about his path into self growth, why it is hard for medical professionals to get support,  all the areas where coaching has been very valuable to him, and all the key take-aways!  We also shared some insights and wisdom on why I and anyone who knows him, considers him an amazing husband, father, friend and doctor. 

I had an amazing conversation with Dr. Aimie Apigian, who is a physician turned trauma expert and who explained, at a deeper physiological level, what happens to our bodies when we experience trauma and share with us what I consider is a complete and comprehensive (mind and body) approach to healing trauma. We talked about her journey from medicine to trauma healing, we discussed what trauma is, the differences between a stress response and a trauma response, how experiencing trauma affects our entire metabolism, digestive systems, our lungs, and cardiovascular system, and her approach of the 3 essential pillars to addressing and treating trauma.  You can learn more about Dr. Aimie her work, her 21 Day journey program, her certification courses and her upcoming Biology of Trauma Summit being held this coming August 2023 on her website at www.traumahealingaccelerated.com ,  On all podcast platforms at The Biology of Trauma Podcast, and on Instagram at @draimie.

I had a fascinating conversation with Performance Coach and expert in Polyvagal Theory about what happens to our bodies and our nervous system on "game day" and how Polyvagal Theory can significantly help for us to help our bodies find our homeostasis "game zone" so that we can be at ease, be in stillness and in the present moment and "show up" to our kids and at work the way we want to show up!  We had a conversation about his program called the PlayZone, how it works and how it can be applied to any profession and at home as parents. You can find Michael Allison and his program for coaches, therapists, leades, educations and performers at www.theplayzone.com or at the Polyvagal Institute where he is also an instructor.       

I had a heartfelt conversation with Kaity, a Somatic Yoga Therapist and the Founder of Her Temple Healing, were we shared our personal experiences with yoga in general and with Somatic Yoga Therapy, after I experienced it first hand with her.  We discussed what yoga and what somatics is, how it works and the 4 fundamentals of it and how they worked for me.  It is a transformative healing practice that I hope you get curious about. To learn more about Kaity, please find her at www.hertemplehealing.com or on Instagram at @her.temple.healing. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, rate it and please share it with as many people as you can.    

This is the first episode on a new series on how to heal trauma from our bodies. I had a very informative conversation with Dr. Kim Di'Re, an experience and reputable  Somatic Experiencing Practitioner,  who explained to us in detail, why and how we retain trauma in our bodies, our anatomic nervous system activation and the cycle of a trauma response, e.g. what happens in our nervous system when we get triggered, and most importantly, the many techniques available, that we can practice, to slowly but surely heal our nervous system.  You can find Dr. Kim DiRe's work at www.kimdire.com and the drawing of the anatomic nervous system activation cycle on my Instagram account at healinwithkaren.    

This is a continuation of episode #94 explaining why you are not broken, but that it is extremely rare for anyone to escape childhood without forming any kind or limiting or negative thoughts or beliefs that are affecting our minds and our nervous system today and driving all we do or don't do. This is an explanation of what trauma is, what all the different types of trauma are and a case of why increasing awareness and working around it will change your life.     

I am super excited about this episode as it was requested by many to be shared with anyone that you know who is convinced that they don't need any help or any support at all. They may be right! I share the times when you can work on yourself on your own, and when is the time that I personally and professionally believe that you can significantly profit from investing time and resources into getting support and why!  You are not alone, I have been there too, before. I hope you find this episode helpful! Please let me know what you think and if I missed anything by DMing me in Linked In at Karen Millon or at @healinwithkaren on Instagram. If you liked this episode or found it helpful, please share it with anyone you know and please give me a review so that you can support me in trying to inspire as many people as possible.