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Oct. 10, 2023

Episode 019 with Bri Liu available now! https://youtu.be/0W3mxFRskQM #trauma #mentalhealth #podcast

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Oct. 10, 2023

019 Bri Liu - Racial Identity, Immigrant Trauma and Working with Unhoused Communities

In this episode, David sits down with Bri Liu, a Licensed Professional Counsellor offering mental health services through the YWCA and her own private practice, with a focus on immigrant trauma, and somatic healing. They discuss Bri's early struggles with her racial identity as a Chinese immigrant in small town…

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July 21, 2023

018 Kari Kinkead - Intimacy, Embodiment and Playing At Your Edge

In this episode, David sits down with Kari Kinkead, a sex and intimacy coach, based in Austin, TX .A student of embodiment (breath sound and movement), sexual yoga, kink, and ontological coaching, she also brings her devotion to and scientific knowledge of the physical body and levels of consciousness, from…

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Dec. 5, 2022

017 Kelly Thomas - Transformational Coaching, Addiction Recovery and Healing Through Community

In this episode, David sits downs with Kelly Thomas, a transformational coach specializing in addiction recovery, psycho-spiritual integration and entheogen treatment preparation. Kelly talks about how the patterns of her early childhood shaped her to be fiercely codependent, the struggles she faced in her abusive first marriage, discovering how her…

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Nov. 17, 2022

016 John & Melissa King - Repressed Memories, Complex PTSD, Risky Behavior and Finding Grace

In this episode, David sits down with author, poet and activist Dr John A King and his wife Melissa at their home in Grapevine, Texas. John talks about the stunning realization at age 45 that he had repressed more than a decade of sexual abuse and sex trafficking during his…

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Nov. 4, 2022

015 Sabbaticals - How, Why and When

In this solo episode, David talks about his experiences with being on sabbatical for most of 2022, what are some of the important questions and considerations before taking a sabbatical, and goal setting for how you will spend your career break.

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Oct. 27, 2022

014 Olivia Miller-Guerra - Anxiety Disorders, Intrusive Thoughts & Being Forced to Miscarry at Home

In this episode, David sits down with Olivia Miller-Guerra, the youngest sister of two previous guests, Becca DeRoeck and Hannah Albrecht, to discuss how early childhood experiences affected Olivia in a substantially different way to her sisters. For as long as she can remember, Olivia has struggled with severe anxiety,…

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Oct. 20, 2022

013 Tracy Carver - Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, Ayahuasca Experiences, and Shamanic Traditions

In this episode, David sits down with psychologist Tracy Carver, to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, Tracy's personal experiences with ayahuasca, and what we can learn from the rituals and traditions of the ayahuasca shamans in Peru. Tracy is a licensed psychotherapist, with a private practice in…

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Oct. 13, 2022

012 Maurice F Martin - Divine Intervention, Addiction Counseling, and Working On Your Big But

In this episode, David sits down with musician, author, and podcaster Maurice F Martin. Maurice talks about growing up in an abusive home, his struggles with depression and anxiety through his teens an early adulthood, losing 2 brothers in a short space of time, and how a moment of divine…

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Oct. 6, 2022

011 Experience with MDMA Therapy - T is for Trauma

In this solo episode, David does a retrospective on the factors that led to his decision to start MDMA therapy, what his experiences have been like so far over 7 sessions, addresses the topic of repressed memories and the sexual abuse he suffered as a child, why he chooses to…

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Sept. 29, 2022

010 Scott Van Camp - Working in Group Homes, Men's Issues, Cultivating Humility, and Warrior-Poets

In this week's episode, David sits down with Scott Van Camp, of Search & Create Counseling (http://www.searchandcreatecounseling.com). Scott is a licensed family and marriage therapist practicing here in Austin, and he has been a mental health professional for the last 33 years, and during that time, he also actively pursued…

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Sept. 22, 2022

009 Hannah Albracht - T is for Trauma

In this episode, David sits down with Hannah Albracht, the eldest sister of Becca DeRoeck, who appeared in episode 003. Hannah tells her story of growing up in a strictly conservative, religious household, how the messaging she received during the height of Purity Culture undermined her relationship with both her…

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Sept. 15, 2022

008 Laura Shook Guzman - T is for Trauma

In this episode, David sits down with Laura Shook Guzman, a trauma therapist practicing here in Austin, and somebody who David has worked closely with while processing his own trauma in the last 3 years. Laura talks about the trauma she experienced at age 16 that catalyzed her decision to…

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Sept. 1, 2022

007 Danny Mulvihill - T is for Trauma

In this episode, David sits down with his good friend Danny Mulvihill, host of The Mindstate Podcast. Danny talks about what it was like to grow up in a single parent home, why he chose to stop drinking without a traditional 12 step program, how he has struggled with overspending…

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Aug. 25, 2022

006 Jose Porras - T is for Trauma

In this episode, David sits down with his good friend, Jose Porras. Jose talks about how a chance misunderstanding during high school in his native Mexico led to him enduring an extensive campaign of bullying, why he chose to attend military school in the US to escape the daily harassment,…

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Aug. 18, 2022

005 Joshua Johnson - T is for Trauma

In this episode, David sits down with Joshua Johnson, who talks about what it was like to grow up in households with both overt domestic violence, and covert racism and religiosity, how the pressure to perform academically and contribute financially as a teenager led to depression and increasingly self destructive…

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Aug. 11, 2022

004 Thanh Hoang - T is for Trauma

In this episode, David sits down with Thanh Hoang, who talks about what it was like growing up Vietnamese in Oklahoma, experiencing domestic violence from a young age, visiting the source of intergenerational trauma in Vietnam, finding compassion and grace for his parents through therapy and meditation, and how to…

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Aug. 4, 2022

003 Becca DeRoeck - T is for Trauma

In this episode, David sits down with Becca DeRoeck, to talk about what draws her to volunteer work, emigrating to the US from Sweden at age 10, developing an anxiety disorder that would undermine her relationship with the man she wanted to marry, and ending up in the hospital with…

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July 28, 2022

002 Melanie Robinson - T is for Trauma

In this episode, David sits down with his good friend Melanie Robinson, to talk about working with at-promise children, having to become self sufficient at a young age when both of her parents suffered severe health problems, and losing her father.

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July 28, 2022

001 Introduction - T is for Trauma

In this introductory episode, T is for Trauma host David O'Connor shares some of his story, why he chose to start the podcast, and what you can expect from future episodes.

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