From the archives: Open-Hearted Awareness with Loch Kelly

The Trauma Therapist

Guy Crawford Macpherson

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

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🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Loch Kelly, M.Div., LCSW is an author, a licensed psychotherapist and recognized leader in the field of meditation. He is the founder of the non-profit, Effortless Mindfulness Institute, and has worked in community mental health, established homeless shelters and counseled family members of 9/11 victims.

Loch has studied in Sri Lanka, India and at Columbia University. Loch collaborates with neuroscientists at Yale, UPenn and NYU in the study of how awareness training can enhance compassion and wellbeing. Loch is the author of, The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life, a book which Dr. Richard Schwartz, Founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS), says “brilliantly weaves together meditation, neuroscience and psychotherapy to truly support a compassionate awakening."

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1:24.9	Today we have another episode from the archives
1:27.1	with one of my incredible guests, enjoy.
1:34.3	Welcome to the Trauma Thevers podcast, a show about the incredible people dedicated to helping those have experienced trauma.
1:40.3	My name is Guy McPherson and my mission is to raise awareness of trauma and to
1:45.2	inspire each of us to help those around us. All right, guys, welcome back to the trauma therapist
1:52.0	podcast. I'm very excited to have today. Locke Kelly, Locke, welcome. Thank you so much, guys. Great to be here.
1:59.1	All right. So Locke has a master's in Divinity. He's a licensed clinical social worker as well as an author. He's recognized leader in the field in meditation.
2:08.9	Locke is the founder of the nonprofit, open-hearted awareness institute. He's worked in community mental health, established homeless shelters and counciled family members of 9-11.
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