Listen now (59 min) | "When we talk about the ghost of the unsaid, we're talking about the inherited feelings of our parents, unprocessed trauma, where the Phantoms that..."

Listen now (43 mins) | “I think what one of the things that's interesting to me is like when we think about what causes distress and a life that goes awry, there's so much attention to different..."

Listen now (43 mins) | "I think it's the only thing that can actually dispel fear and part of the thing too is, is it effective? Are we successful? Well then we're not called..."

Listen now (50 mins) | “I think it's good to relive the past and then revise your life...go through it, but don't get stuck in it.”

Listen now (50 mins) | “I think what's interesting about healing, psychological healing, is there's always a narrative that helps. So sometimes when you go to therapy, and you tell a story..."

Listen now (61 mins) | “Now the tragedy, in one sense is a tragedy, that often people only become open when they've suffered horribly when that is both the tragedy of trauma, but also the promise."

Listen now (51 mins) | “I think we need each other. I say this all the time, there are some things that are too big to feel in one body. You need a collective body to move them through. And I..."

Listen now (62 mins) | “You said the important word there and that is the word grown up. To be grown up is what? To recognize, yes, I am accountable for what spills into the world through me..."

Listen now (49 min) | “I often ask, ‘so how beautiful are you when you need something?’ I call this the beauty of needs. And it's amazing how many of us don't feel beautiful at all when we need..."

Listen now (53 mins) | “Many of us needed to suppress anger. And what you feel in your throat is an intelligent mechanism to suppress the intensity because it threatened the belonging, most..."

Listen now (58 mins) | "So be continuously pushing the effects in front of us into the future, and we are running into that future every day. I think that's very important to understand..."

Listen now (53 mins) | "That bridge breaks so then inside and outside us to a certain degree or very strongly separate, and then we wonder why we can't listen to each other..."

Listen now (65 mins) | “And I am not thankful for how hard it was. I don't believe we have to suffer to be great people. I do believe great empathy and depth and love come from all these hard parts...

Listen now (46 mins) | “There are therapies where the person is made to relive their traumas over and over and over again. It's called flooding. And that's the one type..."

Listen now (66 min) | “Where in your life where you're not saying yes, but there's a, yes. That wants to be said where there's some desire for self-expression..."

Listen now (47 mins) | “Here's what I would say: peace will happen when people invest in cultivating peace as opposed to war. Peace will happen. And one thing I know, for me, I know peace, I know..."

Listen now (59 mins) | You cannot differentiate when you never fight. Fighting is also a tool for differentiation, for having two people be able to breed and grow inside a relationship..."

Listen now (54 mins) | “Part of middle life is that hopefully there's a little bit of wisdom there. And I think that is part of what we gain as we go through this journey of life is that there..."

Listen now (54 mins) | "“And we are made of stars, you know. It's not some fun little thing I'm trying to make everyone feel happy with. It's the carbon in your muscles, the calcium in your..."

Listen now (58 mins) | “I’m trying to map the territory in the center world, just the way I did with families and the distinction that immediately leaped out was between parts..."

Listen now (59 mins) | "Nobody wants to be somebody with a serious substance use problem. Nobody wants to be addicted to a substance. I mean, it doesn't feel good. Dependency doesn't feel good."

Listen now (64 mins) | "Well, the first thing that's going on is we're creating new neural pathways in our brain of a new experience and really a new way our brain is performing."

Listen now (54 mins) | “If you have a reaction to a stranger or someone in the media or someone in politics or someone who's just providing this kind of blank slate because you don't really..."

Listen now (54 mins) | “There's no generation before us that’s had this opportunity to find this treasure..."

You’ll find here some of the greatest thinkers on trauma in all its various forms (lower-case trauma, PTSD, collective trauma) and a wide-range of texts, including those that are a bit more academic (Peter Levine) to handbooks for implementing exercises (