94: Attachment, Meditation, Yoga & Compassion In Trauma Therapy

Therapy Chat

Laura Reagan, LCSW-C

Social Sciences, Science, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 728 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to episode 94 of the Therapy Chat Podcast with host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C. My guest this week is Deirdre Fay, MSW, LICSW, who integrates trauma and attachment theory with yoga and meditation in embodiment. She is also the founder of the Becoming Safely Embodied Skills and maintains a private practice in Arlington, MA.

The work she does arises out of her life. What she knows is grounded in her own healing as well as rigorous training as a psychotherapist looking for answers and ways to help others navigate the often-difficult terrain of healing trauma and attachment wounds.

Deirdre knows what it’s like to make that journey. She did it dealing with her own history of trauma and as she searched for answers to relational and attachment issues. During the course of her life, she was lucky to have lived for six years in a spiritual community [Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health] which surrounded her with a nurturing environment. That experience grounded Deirdre in her commitment to finding ways to help other people.

The Becoming Safely Embodied Skills were born during those years and came to fruition as she worked with trauma survivors in Boston both in her private practice and in hospital settings. She wanted to develop easy to apply take home skills that people could use when they weren’t in therapy.

Resources

https://dfay.com

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0:00.0	Therapy Chat Podcast, episode 94.
0:04.5	This is the Therapy Chat Podcast with Laura Reagan, LCSWC.
0:11.3	The information shared in this podcast is not a substitute for seeking help from a licensed mental health professional.
0:18.6	And now, here's your host, Laura Reagan, LCSWC.
0:24.2	Hi, welcome back to therapy chat. I'm your host, Laura Reagan, LCSWC. So you've heard me talking on
0:42.5	therapy chat recently about experiential therapies, experiential trainings I've attended, my interest
0:51.9	in yoga therapy, and there have been several episodes about this.
0:56.3	In episode 72, I interviewed Amy Weintraub yoga therapy for depression and anxiety.
1:03.8	And I recently went to a training. It was a three-day training at the end of April in 2017 that was focused on using Amy
1:14.3	Weintraub's life force yoga together with the internal family systems model, IFS, to help trauma
1:23.8	survivors and really anyone struggling with emotional pain. It was fabulous. Oh my gosh.
1:31.8	I'm just so in love with the idea of using yoga therapy. And I still plan to get training in
1:39.4	life force yoga as soon as I can get that arranged. I'm now thinking to do it in September. I was going to do it
1:47.0	at Cripaloo in July, which would be starting today, actually. I'm jealous for everyone who gets to be
1:52.7	there, but I couldn't make it work with my schedule. Anyway, so that was episode 72 with Amy
1:58.7	Weintraub and then in episode 75 I interviewed David Emerson
2:05.8	about trauma center trauma sensitive yoga he leads the trauma sensitive yoga program at the
2:15.1	trauma center at JRI where he works with Bessel van der Kolk. And in episode
2:22.7	76, I shared my interview with David Shanahov-Kalsa, who has done a ton of research and is a
2:31.1	practitioner of Kundalini Yoga for Mental health. So yes, I'm obsessed
2:37.5	with this topic and rightly so because I think body based modalities are really important
2:45.7	in trauma work. So you can imagine my excitement when I received an email from Norton publishers about a book that was coming out and I got this email last fall.
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