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The Trauma Therapist

Episode 712: The Struggle of Being Myself with Gregory Elsasser-Chavez

The Trauma Therapist

Guy Crawford Macpherson

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

4.5 • 580 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Gregory is gay Christian man who was divorced from his ex-wife in 2019 and subsequently lost his children. Before that he had gone through fifteen years of aversion and reparative “ex-gay” therapy, such as sniffing dog feces, “defeating issues of masculinity” by playing sports with other gay men, completing ex-gay courses, and being placed into two mental hospitals.

Gregory talks to people about coming out later in life and dealing with the trauma of religious reparative therapy and the entire ex-gay movement.


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Music com.

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Welcome back to the Trauma Therapist podcast. My name is Guy McPherson.

1:39.3

My mission is to help trauma therapist be their incredible selves, to be human, to be real, not just a clinician.

1:47.1

I'm a big believer in who we are is more important than what we know.

1:50.8

And this requires cultivating authenticity, genuineness, and vulnerability.

1:55.3

And that requires intention.

1:57.3

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Project.com.

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Let's get started.

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Five, four, three, two, and one.

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