#106 Overcoming Vicarious Trauma: A Therapist's Guide to Self-Care and Meaningful Living
Finding Your Way Through Therapy
Steve Bisson
5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever wonder how therapists manage their own mental health while helping others? Join us for a captivating conversation with Gordon Brewer, a licensed marriage and family therapist and creator of the PsychCraft Network. In this enlightening episode, we explore the importance of therapists engaging in therapy themselves, the concept of vicarious trauma, and the significance of integrating our mind, body, and spirit.
Discover the power of finding meaning in our lives as we discuss methods to override the amygdala and work on our brains and emotions to achieve greater happiness. Through spirituality, religious practices, work, and volunteering, we can seek fulfillment and life-changing experiences. Hear from Gordon as he shares his encounters and insights from his extensive work in therapy.
Finally, learn about the resources available in the mental health space and how therapy can help people create meaningful change in their lives. Gordon shares his mission to destigmatize mental health and the importance of reaching out to a professional counselor if you're struggling. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from an experienced and compassionate therapist!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to Finding Your Way Through Therapy. |
| 0:06.4 | The goal of this podcast is to demystify therapy, what can happen in therapy, and the wide |
| 0:11.5 | array of conversations you can have in and about therapy. |
| 0:16.2 | Through personal experiences, guests will talk about therapy, their experiences with it, |
| 0:21.6 | and how psychology and therapy are present in many places in their lives. |
| 0:26.8 | With lots of authenticity and a touch of humor, here is your host, Steve Bisson. |
| 0:33.8 | Thank you and welcome to episode 106. |
| 0:35.3 | If you haven't listened episode 105 yet, it's a review of the whole season, which actually |
| 0:40.1 | was longer because of the week of the 100 episode with 5 different episodes that week. |
| 0:45.3 | So I hope you go and listen to that and figure out which one you missed, which ones you |
| 0:49.1 | want to go back to. |
| 0:50.9 | But for 106, it will be the most downloaded episode, and it's going to sound like I'm sucking |
| 0:55.2 | up to someone. |
| 0:57.0 | But the most downloaded episode was a person who recruited me to the SiteCraft Network, |
| 1:03.1 | the creator of SiteCraft Network, which is Gordon Brewer. |
| 1:06.8 | Gordon is someone who has his podcast, the practice of therapy. |
| 1:11.6 | He also has a group practice. |
| 1:13.6 | He also does a ton of different things, and his interview was just amazing. |
| 1:18.8 | So Gordon, I promise this was not planned, this is you were the most downloaded episode. |
| 1:23.7 | So I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:25.7 | Well, hi everyone, and welcome to episode 98 of Finding Your Way Through Therapy. |
| 1:32.8 | I'm so excited to have someone that I was connected with a former guest of mine and |
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