Guest Host: Alisa Zipursky interviews Emi Nietfeld. What The Most Famous Book About Trauma Gets Wrong.

The Trauma Therapist

Guy Crawford Macpherson

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

4.5 • 580 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Alisa Zipursky is a keynote speaker, CSA survivor advocate and the author of Healing Honestly a survivor-to-survivor book to support people healing from childhood sexual abuse. She is the founder of HealingHonestly.com an online community of over 500,000 survivors from around the world. Alisa works with universities, nonprofits, and medical organizations to provide support to survivors and the people who love them.

Emi Nietfeld is the author of Acceptance (Penguin Press ‘22), a memoir of her journey through foster care and homelessness, interrogating the true meanings of resilience, ambition, and success. After graduating from Harvard in 2015, she worked as a software engineer, an experience she wrote about in her viral New York Times essay, “After Working At Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again.”

Emi is passionate about mental health, helping young people navigate their careers, and the connection between engineering and creativity. A dynamic, sought-after speaker, she can be found on podcasts, leading conference keynotes, and speaking at universities and companies alike. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, and other publications, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, noted in The Best American Essays, and taught in classrooms from high schools to MFA programs.

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1:36.2	Welcome to the special guest host series of the Traumatherers podcast, where I'm going to be handing over the mic to some incredible guest hosts.
1:46.3	In each episode, you'll hear fresh perspectives and unique insights to inform and inspire you and all the while keeping the heart of this podcast alive. So sit back and enjoy. Welcome to the trauma therapist podcast. I am Elisa Zeperski and I am so thrilled to be
1:57.1	guest hosting this week's episode. I am here with Emmy Neatfeld.
2:02.8	Emmy is an independent journalist, a speaker, and an author of acceptance,
2:07.6	a critically acclaimed memoir that chronicles her journey through mental health systems,
2:15.5	the foster hair system, and homelessness. In addition, she writes about
2:20.6	inequality, health, and families for places like The Cut, the Atlantic, the New York Times,
2:26.7	and so much more. Emmy lives in Manhattan with her family, and recently her latest piece
2:33.2	was just published this week in Mother Jones, and it's
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