Episodes
April 17, 2023
Suicidal Thoughts & Deep Suffering:How to Help
Dr. Jamie Gamboa and Brian Stefan, MSW, of Spotlight on Suicide (SOS) return to discuss the Suicidal Ideation Toolbox (SIT), which contains accessible skills for helping professionals and everyone who experiences deep sufferi...
April 10, 2023
Grief - the Way that Grief can Bind us.
Ned Bachus’s novel is about Sarah Goins, a college professor with a thriving career and close-knit academic community who is eager to draw her boyfriend, Mike Flannagan, deeper into her world. But Mike, a groundskeeper at a l...
April 3, 2023
Building Resiliency In Rural Communities:Early Start Programs
Implementing trauma- and resilience-informed systems in rural communities offers its own set of challenges and awards. Many rural communities lack the resources of their urban cousins, yet connection to available resources ca...
March 27, 2023
ACES Response:Prevention and Healing Transformation in Illinois
My guests, Audrey Stillerman, MD, and Bridget Gavaghan will discuss the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative (the Collaborative) and the Center for Collaborative Study of Trauma, Health Equity, and Neurobiology (THEN). The or...
March 20, 2023
Trauma, Devastation, Recovery, Resiliency & Love: Look Both Ways
On March 20th and May 22nd, 2023, Elaine Miller-Karas interviewed Dr. Brooke Ellison. Brooke died on February 4, 2024. We are rebroadcasting this episode in tribute to her life, her wisdom, and her brilliance.
March 13, 2023
Neuroscience of Building Resilience to Trauma, Part 2
Elaine Miller-Karas and Michael Sapp will discuss Elaine's new book, Building Resilience to Trauma, the Trauma and Community Resiliency Models, 2nd Edition, published by Routledge on March 13, 2023. Dr. Sapp will talk about t...
March 6, 2023
BUILDING RESILIENCY TO TRAUMA, 2ND. EDITION
Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW, will discuss the second edition of her book, Building Resiliency to Trauma, with Dr. Michael Sapp, the CEO of the Trauma Resource Institute. During and after a traumatic experience, survivors experi...
Feb. 27, 2023
Addressing Child Wellbeing and Trauma in Massachusetts
The Center on Child Wellbeing and Trauma (CCWT) is a partnership between Massachusetts’ Office of the Child Advocate and ForHealth Consulting™ at UMass Chan Medical School. CCWT supports child-serving organizations and system...
Feb. 20, 2023
One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism
As a Deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of the world around her. While she cann...
Feb. 13, 2023
Well-Being of College Students: Hawaii's Experience
Brooke Conway is a mental health and wellness counselor at Kapi‘olani Community College in Honolulu, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. In this episode we will discuss Brooke’s experiences implementing the Community Resiliency Model (CRM) on he...
Feb. 6, 2023
Wellness Skills for those who Suffer: Suicidal Ideation Toolbox
Nearly everyone will experience thoughts of suicide at some point in their lives. The problem isn’t that we sometimes feel this way. The problem is that we suffer in silence when what we need most is to connect with non-judgm...
Jan. 30, 2023
Building Resilience through Functional Compassion
J’vanete (Jay-vuh-nay) Skiba will share her perspectives from her role as the Assistant Director for Equity, Education, and Engagement for the New Hanover County Resiliency Task Force in Wilmington, North Carolina. The vision...
Jan. 23, 2023
Weaving Resilient Activism with Personal Well-being
Sami Aaron, the founder of the nonprofit, The Resilient Activist, will discuss how people everywhere are experiencing severe emotional distress caused by climate change and environmental devastation. And what makes it even mo...
Jan. 16, 2023
Healing Unhoused Youth, Covenant House, Georgia
Todd Wilcher, MA, CTRS, will share his work with Covenant House, Georgia. Covenant House provides services to unhoused youth. Their Crisis Shelter, the P.J. Garcia Youth Shelter, serves as a home for up to 60 youths ages 18-2...
Jan. 9, 2023
Build Resilience & Transform Your Life Through Astrology
Carmen Turner-Schott will share her book, Sun Signs, Houses & Healing: Build Resilience & Transform Your Life Through Astrology. Carmen will share the themes in her book that can help you transform your life in 2023 through t...
Dec. 19, 2022
Mental Health is a Public Health Emergency
Dr. Michael Sapp will discuss the importance of looking at mental health as a public health emergency with our host, Elaine Miller-Karas, a world-reknown trauma therapist. The impact of traumatic experiences on individual and...
Dec. 5, 2022
Reflections of Courage and Resiliency in Ukraine
Natalia Valevska will share her insights from living within their beloved country, Ukraine, during the Russian invasion of February 2022. She will discuss her experiences and work with EdCamp Ukraine, an association of over 4...
Nov. 28, 2022
Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
Curious about something? Google it. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, what gets left out in the conventional understanding of curiosity are the relations between ideas a...
Nov. 21, 2022
Emergency Medicine:” The Emotional and Moral Contact Sport”
What do you say to the parents of a recent high school graduate who was just killed when the car she was riding in collided with a truck? Or to a son who asks you to do everything possible to save his cancer-ridden mother eve...
Nov. 14, 2022
Long Days, Short Years—Honest Talk About Parenting
Even before Covid, parenting was hard. According to physician, writer, and father of three young children, Andrew Bomback, “From day one, parenting can feel like a version of ‘we are flying the plane as we build it.’” Bomback...
Nov. 7, 2022
Soul Medicine: Nature’s Wisdom for Healing
With a practical approach that weaves together Eastern medicine, western psychology, and African ancestral principles of spirituality, author Lindsay Fauntleroy teaches you how to use the elements to improve physical, mental,...
Oct. 31, 2022
Transform Nightmares from Trauma through Healing Dreamwork
Many of us suffer from nightmares, and those generated by trauma are among the most insidious and frightening. Whether it is Big T trauma such as abuse, violence, or oppression, or a small trauma such as microaggression, a fe...
Oct. 24, 2022
Community Mental Wellness and Resiliency Act
Bob Doppelt, the coordinator of the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) will discuss why community-based initiatives that use a public health approach to build population-level mental wellness and trans...
Oct. 17, 2022
Conquering of Dieting, Weight, & Body Image Issues
A $702 billion global diet/nutrition and weight loss industry shows that people worldwide are devoted to achieving maximum health and their desired bodies. Yet mainstream approaches are failing these individuals, and sadly, s...