Episode 424: How We Heal Ourselves: Complex PTSD and Familial Roles with Elizabeth Kupferman

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.8 • 516 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This show marks the kick-off of themed episodes, where we’re looking at the question, “How do we heal ourselves?” In the episodes coming up over the next couple of months I'm going to be talking to therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and others who have a different perspective or expertise around the topic of healing. To begin, I’ll be talking to experts who are sharing their wisdom about family roles, trauma responses, epigenetics, attachment styles, and even healing ancestral wounds. You know how much I love talking about the deeper stuff and the things that we talk about in counseling, therapy or even in the company of trusted friends. I'm kicking off this theme with Elizabeth Kupferman. She is a woman that I met on TikTok. (Yes, the app is not just for kids!) Elizabeth is a Licensed Professional Counselor and is the author of The Irreverent Grief Guide and the Irreverent Trust Guide: How to Trust Again After Trauma F*cked You Up. In this episode, Elizabeth and I discuss Complex PTSD, the impact of familial roles on our lives, and explore the trauma responses and the importance of replacing the responses with personal development tools to help heal. In this episode you’ll hear: How trauma work helped Elizabeth heal her eating disorder and how it led her to the work she is doing today. (9:14) The different “roles” children are put into in a family system, The Hero, Golden Child, Scapegoat, The Lost Child and Mascot; and how these roles impact us later in life. (11:49) The four trauma responses: flight, fight, freeze, and fawn and the importance of learning to replace the trauma responses with tools. (22:43) What Elizabeth means when she says, “Complex PTSD is the autoimmune disease of the psyche.” (40:37) http://andreaowen.com/424 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.7	that's part of my process of healing is trying to find out where i am who i truly am am, versus what were my trauma responses. And I want to
0:40.8	heal those. You're listening to Make Some Noise podcast episode number 424 with guest Elizabeth
0:48.9	Kupferman. Welcome. Welcome to Make Some Noise podcast, your guide for strategies, tools, and insight to empower yourself.
1:05.2	I'm your host, Andrea Owen, global speaker, entrepreneur, life coach since 2007, an author of three books that have been
1:12.6	translated into 18 languages and are available in 22 countries. Each week, I'll bring you a guest
1:19.0	or a lesson that will help you maximize unshakable confidence, master resilience,
1:24.3	and make some noise in your life. You ready? Let's go. Welcome to the podcast,
1:32.7	everybody. I am so glad that you are here. I am double excited because today this episode
1:39.5	marks the kickoff of the new way that I am presenting you with the show. What I have decided to do
1:47.6	is to divide the months up into themes. So with each theme, we are going to kind of centralize
1:56.8	and have our conversation around a particular question. This theme that we're kicking off 2022 with is the question of,
2:05.8	how do we heal ourselves?
2:07.6	In all of the episodes coming up over the next couple of months,
2:11.7	you'll hear me ask that question at the very end.
2:14.1	How do we heal ourselves?
2:15.6	I'm going to be talking to therapists,
2:17.4	I'm talking to be talking to therapists,
2:19.6	psychologists, different people who have a little bit of different perspectives, definitely
2:26.2	different expertise. And I'm always going to ask that question at the very end. So you're going
2:31.1	to hear various answers to the question, how do we heal ourselves?
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