This final section of the mini-series is short in length but deep in importance.  Damir explains how societal changes globally  illustrates to the brain-wise observer how our systems of perception are products of our implicit systems of prediction.  These come from our memory systems and a lifetime of experiences.  In other words, believing is perceiving.  Extraneous events unfolding in the world continue to display how there are those that can tolerate and integrate new information that may...

In part 2 of this mini-series Damir explains the multi-dimensional functionality of the brain and the essential understanding that it's HOW we attend that completely changes what comes into manifestation.  We take a moment to understand the gravity of this idea as arbiters of the reality within which we reside.  From this position Damir describes how early and abusive experiences can drastically shape how a person's brain is sculpted and how this can impact on their relationship with all...

Dr Melanie Young is a licensed psychologist with a private practice in Boulder, Colorado.   Melanie is a senior Brainspotting (BSP) trainer, consultant and certified Brainspotting therapist.  She assists individuals and couples with relationships, losses, and grief. Melanie helps navigate the challenges around brain injuries, ADD, pain, illness, and phobias. Specialties also include working with seniors, their families, and caregivers. She uses BSP as a tool to help heal trauma, increase...

In part 1 of this 3 part mini-series, (double doctor in the brain) Dr Damir Delmonte illustrates to us how to position our understanding of the brain in this phenomenally beautiful exploration of how and who we think we are.  Damir sets the frame for this 3 part series though attending to the levels of consciousness, subjective qualia, the pathways of the polyvagal process, and all in an evolutionary context of 700 million years.  This episode is a beautifully humble and incredibly insightful...

This is part 2 of a 2 part series.  In this episode, Dr David Grand, founder and developer of Brainspotting Therapy gives a deep and insightful take on the implicit restrictions that organise our inner worlds.  Drawing on his own developments as a therapist and from neuroscience, we are invited to appreciate the healing power through the lens of the Neuroexperiential Model.   An alternative yet refreshingly humble and inclusive approach to therapy that is available to us through embracing an...

This is part 1 of a 2 part series and an episode that is a little different from previous ones.  We could not resist sharing with you some fascinating insights from David Grand, the founder and developer of the remarkable Brainspotting Therapy.  In this episode you'll experience 3 tantalising clips from a recent Brainspotting Phase 4 training that David presented in conversation with Mark Grixti and a remarkable group from the Brainspotting community.  This episode takes a profound and...

 Kerry is the Founder and CEO, Lightwork:  A charity with a mission to give everyone the knowledge, tools and skills to sail through life’s storms, flourish and thrive. She has more than 20 years frontline experience supporting people through emotional crises, life transitions and trauma recovery. Kerry has worked in residential and community support with Women's Aid, Simon Community and Community Family Support Teams. Accredited by CPCAB and QQI as a life coach, she is a Brainspotting...

Due to popular demand we have Caroline Strawson back for another illuminating conversation.  Caroline is a therapist, coach, author, podcaster and trainer specialising in working with survivors of narcissistic abuse and domestic violence.  She speaks passionately and plainly about the importance of a non-pejorative understanding of narcissism, approaching the issue from a attachment aware, inter-personal, parts and body-based perspective.  In this episode you'll hear an open and authentic...

This delightful conversation with Marta Rubio explores deep into the labyrinth of the human psyche.  Marta is an actor, director, yoga teacher and Gestalt therapist.  Her role in all of these domains is to move beyond the ego and the multitude of masks that we adopt in order to move closer to the true spiritual self to ameliorate connection and expression.  She shares how her fascinating career in performance has facilitated a journey into all parts of the human condition, including those...

This is a fascinating episode for all those that are truly interested in approaches to healing.  Sometimes I hear the question, "what is the mechanism for true healing?" I wonder if this question takes us further from the truth that we are seeking to discover. Sometimes we have to go backwards before we an go forwards.  In this episode Pablo's expertise in Eastern approaches to healing provide the scaffold for all things sacred in contemporary approaches to therapy.  Pablo is a...

My guest this episode is Brooke Randolph, author, speaker, and trainer.  She specialities are Adoption, Brainspotting, relationships, and developmental trauma. She's a a certified Imago Relationship Therapist, a Certified Brainspotting Trainer & Consultant, and coordinator for the groups Brainspotting Indy and Brainspotting with Adoption. In this episode it is fascinating to hear how Brooke gives first hand insights into the complexity of adoption and childhood attachment trauma. ...

Wow this episode is going to be music to your ears! I had the honour of hosting another episode with David Grand, Founder and Developer of Brainspotting Therapy.  In recent years there has been an explosion in ‘parts work’ in psychotherapy, coaching and associated healing approaches.  In this episode David explores the relationships between explicit and implicit parts.  Within the realms of the all-important uncertainty, he proposes an explicit, rational and identifiable, left hemispheric...

This episode is a wonderful exploration into the immense natural inter-relational power of healing with horses.  Mary Joy is an equine facilitated psycho traumatologist working with horses psychotherapeutically with a range of people including, children, adults and families.  She facilitates such therapy with war veterans too and others with PTSD.  In this episode we get a first hand sense of how Mary-Joy initially became captivated with equine therapy as she explored deeper healing in her...

In this episode I am joined by Noula, an amazing artist, psychotherapist, author and Brainspotting Trainer.  Noula embodies her playful and creative approaches to healing as she explains how the arts and creativity can be accessed to reorient from positions of control, rigidity and stuckness to an open flow state that is paramount to deep brain and body, emotional recovery.  We discuss the way one can 'allow' the brain to engage and operate differently through art to explore the patterns of...

This episode is with Ruth Chiles, expert in working with performance issues and focal dystonia.  She openly describes her own journey of pain and grief in developing serious creative blocks with her musical instrument before finding that the problem was the remedy all along.  Ruth sets out how she developed a powerful and compassionate approach to meeting these disempowering performance issues through deep somatic and interrelational work to achieve fascinating outcomes with her people.  It’s...

Darren is an inspiration to those that aspire towards facilitating trauma healing on an individual, communal and global level.   From being an opera singer he’s found himself on a journey to deep inner healing through the use of embodied approaches and sound which he has brought to many traumatised and displaced communities across the world.  This podcast explores: How can safety, belonging and expansion be achieved with displaced people? How can those not trained as therapists be an...

This episode is with the soulful Dr Roby Ables, Psychotherapist, and Senior Brainspotting Trainer based in Australia.  Have you every wondered: How addiction attracts so much shame? What’s trauma got to do with addiction? When addiction  'works'? Is there a connection between addiction to drugs, alcohol, porn, shopping and eating issues How can love and conscious awareness really help in healing  trauma and pain? To answer these questions, Roby is incredibly generous in sharing her personal...

This episode with Shamir offers a compelling  journey through his path of ancestral healing, spirituality, connectivity and joy.  He takes us through his ancestral history from India, Singapore, Austria and other lands before settling in Glastonbury, the Isle of Avalon.   Shamir describes how we are all so richly integrated with our ancestral history and our planet Earth, from where we all belong.  He teaches on the almost ineffable power of plant medicine and how divine tribal circles use...

Jeff Ryan and Bob Kohl bring a fascinating integration of stillness, calm and space with dynamic somatic expression to meet their people’s deep healing.  They speak with touching humility on how alongside their many studies, their most influential teacher has been the growing ability to listen in, and learn from, the deep innate wisdom of the body.  This has been enhanced further with the power of Brainspotting and meditation.  Jeff is a licenced Psychotherapist and Bob a Physician, amongst...

Cynthia shares her incredibly rich and diverse experience in psychotherapy and allied approaches to healing.  In this episode she goes into depth on how our journey into true authenticity is a powerful path to insight, self-discovery and awakening.  Cynthia explains how truth, the route to our most profound healing is accessed through the innate wisdom residing deep inside the physical body and the brain.  She also gives the listener clear guidance on how to access these most powerful of...

Dr Elly Hanson is an exceptional Clinical Psychologist and influential thinker in the collective effort to reduce harm and injustice.  She has long been an expert in the field of abuse and trauma with a particular focus on sexual abuse and approaches to healthy and progressive relationships.  In this powerfully insightful episode we discuss online pornography, a subject that receives much attention yet so few intelligent, nuanced and meaningful discussions in the professional field....

In this episode it is apparent just how much love and heart Ruby brings to all of her relationships in her healing work.  It's striking how her approach to others opens a different form of awareness that allows an opportunity to consider and become more familiar with another level of conscious awareness.  These qualities go beyond words. Psychology and psychotherapy are revealing some fascinating advances in the power of recognising and working with ancestors to shift trauma and achieve...

This episode is a wonderful integration of some of the most exciting and powerful approaches to healing trauma.  Mario is an exceptional psychotherapist, author, teacher and Brainspotting trainer who brings an essential wider understanding to who we truly are and how we can heal.  In this episode Mario explains how we can liberate the self through a deeper understanding of the ego, ancestral approaches to healing, the power of embodiment and resources that go beyond resources.  We discuss the...

Caroline is a Coach, Psychotherapist and trauma informed expert in working with those that have been in relationships with people with Narcissistic Trauma.  In this episode we dive deep into the relationship between attachment and authenticity in the development of narcissistic tendencies and the impact this can have on those around them.  Caroline explores the relationship between covert and overt narcissism and the way these can play out between people and the massive and often maddening...