As traumatized therapists, Nikki and Dr. Alissa explore the duality of the held spaces of therapy.

Dr. Alissa and Nikki discuss suicide loss on a personal and professional level.

The podcast host see the return of two friends and discuss one’s recent social coming out.

Dr. Alissa and Nikki begin a discussion about what trauma is. This episode also contains an update from the previous version of this podcast.

Welcome back to the not so new, maybe improved version of Thanks, It’s the Trauma!

Nikki catches us up on her life since last season. We learn the deep and immense ways Nikki has grown through this podcast and continues to grow.

Dr. Alissa updates us on her journey since the last season. On how she’s grown, what she’s learned, and where she hopes to go next.

Heidi catches us up on her life since last season. She talks about living on the same property as her ex, following her ex’s transition as a transgender woman. She talks about dating and anxiety and the losses inherent in a relationship shifting. She also brings up Jessica Simpson not a small amount.

One of the podcast’s listeners, Jill, shares with the three (with a disguised voice) about being a transgender woman.

The three discuss dating, Valentine’s Day, the crazy nanny debacle, growth and loss. Season finale of Thanks, It’s the Trauma.

The three talk with relationship and love coach, Shaun Galanos of the love drive and cover an array of issues in dating and sex.

This episode is spent with Owen Morgan of the podcast The Awareness Space. Owen is a well-being advocate who explores what self-awareness is and how we can use it to heal. Owen shares his pain, traumas, struggles, and ultimately the way he transformed his life with health & healing.

In this first part of a two part mini-series, wounded healers, we dive into Cindy McMillan’s life, where she shares about her traumas, heartaches, and ways she has recovered and found hope. Cindy McMillan is one of the founders of Sistas Caring 4 Sistas, a doula program run for and by women of color. TW: death of a child, death of a spouse

The three catch up on the details of their lives and discuss a TikTok video gone very wrong.

Dani Williamson, nurse practitioner, discusses hormones from a functional medicine perspective and how trauma can affect the hormones.

This is not your high school's sex ed. Erica Smith tells the three women about the truths of women sexuality. Erica is a sex educator, holds a master's degree in education, has a purity culture dropout group, and is a queer cisgender woman. This episode is full of revolutionary ideas about sex and masturbation and is also full of laughs.  Check out Erica Smith on IG @ericasmith.educates or on her website at www.ericasmithac.com and learn about her Purity Culture Dropout program or purchase My...

The three discuss dating post divorce, dating apps, and their brush with an online psychic who drew their soulmates.

This episode is about EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), a trauma therapy. Dr. Alissa discusses it from the therapeutic side, then all three discuss their experiences with EMDR as clients. Visit www.EMDRIA.org to learn more about EMDR.

Liz Orr from the Instagram account Rude Ass Enneagram joins the three to discuss trauma and the enneagram.

The three women answer listener questions in the second season opener. From questions about their transgender husbands becoming women to the ways their lives are today and everything in between.

In the season one finale, Dr. Alissa, Nikki, and Heidi catch the listeners up to date. The journey from finding out their husbands were transgender women to today.

On this episode Dr. Alissa, Nikki, and Heidi discuss parenting with LGBTQ therapist Christina Lafferty-Neal. The three ask Christina questions about coparenting through and after a divorce as well as ways to help kids through a transgender parent’s transition. The three then discuss their own parenting experiences through this journey.

In Episode 5, Jeff Goins (link all his stuff) interviews Heidi, Nikki and Dr. Alissa on the black hole. Clinically disassociation. The women talk about the black hole that can occur after a significant trauma, how they dealt with the next day after finding out their spouses were trans women and what it felt like. Jeff helps them dive deeper into what it was like to tell people, watching the transition unfold and the first things they did remember and were witness to. As Jeff questions them,...

We learn more about Heidi’s history. From wild childhood experiences and trauma up until finding out her spouse is a transgender woman and everything in between.