Complex PTSD and Learning to Live With the Past with Stephanie Foo

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Author Stephanie Foo joins Forrest to share her journey with Complex PTSD. They talk about what it was like to receive a diagnosis, the various techniques and modalities she used (and what really helped), the importance of social support, self-acceptance and self-compassion, difficulties with access and cultural competence in the mental healthcare system, intergenerational trauma, and motherhood. About Our Guest: Stephanie is a writer and radio producer whose work has been featured on This American Life, 99% Invisible, and Radiolab among other shows, and she’s the author of the truly wonderful book What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing From Complex Trauma. Watch the Episode: Prefer watching video? You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction and disclaimer 2:10: Stephanie’s experience in sharing her story 6:00: Features of CPTSD 7:50: What led Stephanie to seek help, and work as a coping mechanism 10:15: “The Dread” and healing through relationship 17:40: The effects of receiving diagnosis, and aspects of CPTSD that are helpful 25:45: Practices that helped Stephanie and incorporating them practically 33:45: Balancing showing up for other people and receiving care 35:15: Self-love, gratitude, psychedelics, and relationships 38:20: Two way repair and comfort receiving feedback 42:55: The need for reform to our mental healthcare system and who it serves 49:55: Societal trauma among first generation immigrants 53:30: More natural and communal frameworks for healing 54:30: Parenthood 57:00: Resources available on Stephanie’s website 58:15: Recap Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors: This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp, and you can join over a million people using the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Being Well, I'm Forrest Hanson.
0:10.4	If you're new to the podcast, thanks for listening today, and if you've listened before, welcome
0:14.7	back.
0:15.7	I have been looking forward to this conversation for a long time, and today, I am joined
0:20.4	by Stephanie Phil.
0:22.3	Stephanie is a writer and radio producer whose work has been featured on this American
0:26.2	Life 99% Invisible and Radio Lab Among Other Shows, and she's the author of the Truly
0:32.6	Wonderful Buck, What My Bones Know, A Memoir Of Healing From Complex Trauma.
0:38.5	Today's conversation with Stephanie focuses on her personal journey with Complex PTSD,
0:44.0	and I absolutely loved this conversation.
0:46.4	We got into a ton of material related to how people can work with Complex PTSD.
0:51.6	We talked about the mental health care system in general and the challenges that people can
0:55.3	have navigating it.
0:57.1	We talked about Stephanie's personal history and how the things that happened to prior
1:02.6	generations of her family cascaded down into her own experience.
1:07.4	It was a really rich conversation, and one of the things that I really appreciated about
1:12.0	it is that there were times where we were even lighthearted along the way.
1:16.4	There was laughter.
1:17.4	We were having a good time.
1:19.2	But even so, this is a conversation that focuses on trauma, and I really tried to avoid
1:24.9	going into a lot of granularity around Stephanie's experiences that was a deliberate choice
1:31.2	to make this conversation as accessible as possible, to as many people as possible.
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