#79 My Favorite Episode With Courtney Romanowski and Stephanie Simpson, A Giveaway, And the Start of The 12 Days Of Christmas
Finding Your Way Through Therapy
Steve Bisson
5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This was my favorite episode this season. It was a tough choice but it was the praise we received about the breathing examples that made me choose this one.
We also created a free handout that are available on Courtney's Website and Stephanie's Website about breathing that I'm sure you are going to love! Click on their link above for the freebie!
This also starts the 12 days of Christmas for me, where I chose 12 of my favorite episodes this year, plus an extra 2 shows as a gift to you. Be on the lookout for the next 12 days!
In this episode, we speak to returning guest Stephanie Simpson and a new guest but a great friend of mine, Courtney Romanowski. We discuss a variety of topics including storytelling, as well as the mind-body-spirit connection and how we can use the tools we have at our disposal, including our breath, our body, and our ability to be. There is also an amazing discussion on our narrative and how this effect us in so many ways.
Stephanie Simpson is an Artist, Coach, Facilitator, Speaker, and the author of the “21 Day Stress Management Workbook: A Holistic, Interactive Guide to Re-Defining Your Relationship to Stress.” Drawing on her background in movement, meditation, trauma, and psychology, she partners with people and businesses/organizations to achieve their greatest potential by nurturing the connection between the mind, body, and spirit. Skilled at holding space so that people and businesses can get clear on their purpose and align their purpose with their goals, Stephanie empowers her clients to live courageously and to the fullest by creating communities and workplace cultures that are human centric and trauma informed, fostering and valuing employee wellness and sustainability.
Stephanie can be reached via her website here.
Her Instagram account can be found here
Her Facebook account can be accessed here.
Courtney is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Registered Dance Movement Therapist through the American Dance Therapy Association. Over the past 10 years, Courtney has provided individual counseling and group therapy to a diverse population of adults at various levels of care. Her hope is to support her clients by integrating honest, open minded conversations with mind-body awareness and connection. She graduated with her Master's Degree from Lesley University in 2014, served as the President of the New England Chapter of the American Dance Therapy Association 2019-2021, and is certified in Restorative Yoga.
You can find Courtney's website here.
You can find Courtney on Instagram here.
The website can be found here.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to Finding Your Way Through Therapy. I'm your host, Steve Bessel. The goal |
| 0:08.2 | of this podcast is to demystify therapy, what can happen in therapy, and the wide array |
| 0:14.3 | of conversations you can have in therapy. I also talk to guests about therapy, their |
| 0:20.4 | experience with therapy, and how psychology is present in many places in their lives. |
| 0:25.8 | I also share personal stories, so please join me on this journey about therapy. |
| 0:33.9 | Hi and welcome to episode 79 of Finding Your Way Through Therapy. I am Steve Bessel. If you |
| 0:39.2 | haven't listened episode 78, it was the most downloaded of this season, and it was the Veterans Day |
| 0:44.2 | episode with Karl Purcell, Katelyn D. He and Jay Ball. So I hope you go back and listen to that. |
| 0:49.5 | Episode 79 will be my favorite episode of season six, which was with a good friend of mine, |
| 0:55.0 | Courtney Romanowski and Stephanie Simpson. Stephanie has been on my show before on episode 57, |
| 1:02.0 | and Courtney has never been on my show, but is someone I've known for over eight years, |
| 1:06.6 | consider her a great friend of mine. And after listening to that episode, we decided to offer you |
| 1:13.8 | a freebie. This was a great idea from my editor, and Courtney and Stephanie were excited to get |
| 1:20.9 | together with me, and we created a document that's going to be available on Courtney and Stephanie's |
| 1:27.0 | website. But please listen to the episode to know exactly what it is. |
| 1:32.4 | Episode 68 will be with a returning guest, Stephanie Simpson. Just a reminder, Stephanie Simpson |
| 1:38.7 | is an artist, coach, facilitator, speaker, and author of the 21-day stress management work, |
| 1:45.5 | a holistic, interactive guide to redefine your relationship with stress. Stephanie has been on |
| 1:51.4 | before. She was on episode 57, so I hope that you go back to listen to that too. But you don't |
| 1:56.9 | need to listen to it. I think we have a great conversation on your hand, because the other guest is |
| 2:02.8 | a good friend of mine. Her name is Courtney Romanowski. Courtney is a licensed mental health counselor, |
| 2:07.8 | and registered dance movement therapist through the American Dance Therapy Association. |
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