Guest Host: Sarah Peyton interviews Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. The Trauma-Healing Power of Poetry

The Trauma Therapist

Guy Crawford Macpherson

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

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Peyton is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication. She teaches people how language changes relationship and the brain. She works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and writes about and teaches people how words change and heal us.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a poet. She has 13 collections of poetry, and her work has appeared in O Magazine, A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, American Life in Poetry, on fences, in back alleys, on Carnegie Hall Stage and on hundreds of river rocks she leaves around her town of Placerville, Colorado. Her most recent collection, Hush, won the Halcyon prize. Devoted to helping others explore creative practice, Rosemerry is also co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process; co-founder of Secret Agents of Change (a surreptitious kindness cabal); and co-leader of Soul Writers Circle.

In This Episode:

Sarah’s Website
- Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing, by Sarah Peyton
Rosemerry's website
- The Unfolding: Poems, by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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1:36.4	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.
1:45.5	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.
1:47.1	So sit back and enjoy.
1:51.4	Hello, everyone.
1:57.1	My name is Sarah Payton, and I am the author of Your Resonit Self and other books,
2:00.5	and I am today's guest host on the trauma therapist and I have invited Rosemary Watola
2:04.3	Trauma to be my guest today and I'm very excited because Rosemary is a poet and we're going to be
2:11.5	talking about trauma and poetry and how poetry really changes us and helps us live through difficult things.
2:21.9	I'm going to read Rosemary's bio now. Rosemary is a poet, teacher, speaker, writing facilitator,
2:29.1	and poet laureate of Evermore. Her poems have appeared on a Prairie home companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine,
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