88 When Trust Is Violated
The Place We Find Ourselves
Adam Young
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Friend and fellow therapist Cyndi Mesmer comes back on the podcast to share one of her stories. It’s a story of the exploitation of innocence and the violation of trust. We talk about Cyndi’s trauma response, how she has experienced healing, and how her posture toward the girl in the story has changed as she has continued to engage her story. To find out more about Cyndi’s counseling practice, visit artoflivingcounseling.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the place we find ourselves podcast. I have Cindy Messmer with me today. Cindy, it's good to see you |
| 0:08.1 | It's good to see you, and thank you for inviting me |
| 0:11.6 | You have been on the podcast before for episodes |
| 0:15.4 | 75 and 76 and you are the person who talked about intentionality |
| 0:20.4 | You don't need to do a full introduction, but just by way of reminder like say a little bit about who you are where you are |
| 0:26.2 | What you do? |
| 0:27.2 | Sure, I am married to my husband Steve who is also a therapist and I have five amazing children from the ages of 13 to 23 and |
| 0:40.0 | My husband and I own a group practice here in crystal lake, Illinois, and then I also work for the Eleanor Center as a |
| 0:49.0 | supervisor trainer teacher and |
| 0:51.5 | And just love doing that work. So that's a little bit about me |
| 0:58.2 | You have graciously agreed to read one of your stories |
| 1:01.8 | This time which we'll get to in a moment, but to begin with let's just talk a bit about like how you got interested in story in general and your story in particular |
| 1:12.3 | So how did you first get interested in this whole notion of story? |
| 1:16.1 | What's interesting is I actually when I first went away to college I |
| 1:22.6 | actually went in with the intention of having a |
| 1:27.5 | degree in journalism |
| 1:29.2 | What my heart's desire was to actually listen to other people's stories and write about them |
| 1:34.8 | ironically enough I started taking more and more psych classes |
| 1:40.4 | That were new to me and learning about like all this amazing stuff about like why we do the things we do and |
| 1:50.1 | Eventually my professor called me in his office and said hey, I just want to let you know |
| 1:55.3 | You have way more psych classes than you actually have journalism classes |
| 2:00.0 | Are you sure you don't want to switch your major and I said? |
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