Hello everyone, it's Adam. Before launching into this episode, I'd like to invite you to an

upcoming Zoom conference that I am doing with Kathy Lorzel on Saturday, May 13th. The purpose of

the conference is to equip you to engage another person's story. In other words, Kathy and I are

going to teach the art and the science behind how to engage another person's story well.

You can sign up for the conference at my website, adamioncounseling.com. The cost is 129 and if you

can't make it on May 13th, you will still get access to the video recording of the conference for

three months. I hope to see you there and now let's dive into today's episode.

You are listening to the place we find ourselves podcast. I'm Adam Young and I'm joined today by

Jenny McGraph, a therapist in Seattle who focuses on how trauma is stored in the body and how the

body must be engaged in the healing of trauma. Jenny talks about how and why she began to take the

body more seriously when it comes to healing. Some of the topics we'll cover today include why

our body has a fight flight freeze response and how to work with our nervous system to facilitate

healing. Remember if you want to get episodes as soon as they are released you need to head over to

my website and click get the app. It only costs $3 a month and you will be helping to make the

podcast possible. Thanks for listening. Here's my interview with Jenny McGraph.

Okay, I'm here with Jenny McGraph from Seattle. Jenny, it's good to see you.

Good to see you too. Why don't we begin by can you just tell a little bit about who you are,

what you spend your time doing? Yeah, so I am a licensed mental health counselor in Seattle

Washington focused mostly on somatic psychotherapy. So I use a lot of incorporation of body with

story work with clients in my private practice but I also facilitate movement and therapeutic

groups and I'm one of the core facilitators and supervisors with the Allender Center. So I do those

on weekends where there's story workshops or certificate programs and get to teach there

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