Healing Complex Trauma Through Music with Nick Larson of Proxima Parada
Transforming Trauma
Brad Kammer
4.6 • 141 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
"Music definitely opened up my heart and I started to actually feel things. The next thing I know, I'm using music to make sense of my experience." - Nick Larson
Sarah talks with musician Nick Larson, California-based songwriter, musician, and member of the band Próxima Parada. He uses his experiences growing up in dysfunction and working through trauma to create uplifting music that promotes healing.
They discuss the stigmas that surround therapy, familial and intergenerational trauma, vulnerability, reconnecting to our hearts, and the role music can play in the process of healing trauma. Nick hopes listeners feel encouraged "to give themselves permission to use music, poetry, or whatever outlet that may be, to use their suffering and trauma as fuel for creating art, beauty, and something meaningful for them."
So much of what Nick shares aligns with NARM, and Sarah reflects that what Nick describes is a process of using self-shaming and self-rejection to shut oneself down in order to survive. These adaptive survival strategies, though life-saving as children, become obstacles as we move into adulthood. Nick reports that going to therapy, and learning a new way of relating to himself, was a game-changer. Through therapy and through his music, Nick has learned how to reconnect to himself.
Through the pandemic, while touring and playing shows has not been possible, Nick has focused on what is available to him, and has taken the time to write songs -- more than thirty of them. Proxima Parada self-recorded a new album, "Second Brother" which will be available in August 2021.
To listen to Nick's music, you can find Proxima Parada on Spotify and YouTube and at http://www.proximaparadamusic.com
About Nick:
Nick Larson is a songwriter, musician, and member of the band Próxima Parada who uses his experiences growing up in dysfunction and working with trauma to create uplifting music that promotes healing. Born and raised in California, Nick currently lives in San Luis Obispo.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Transforming Trauma podcast. Transforming Trauma is presented by the NARM Training Institute. I'm your host, Sarah Buino, and I'm delighted to have you join us today. The NARM Training Institute is offering a level two NARM therapist training online so that you can attend from anywhere. |
| 0:23.6 | The trauma field is evolving so quickly. |
| 0:26.6 | Trauma-informed therapists who want to learn how to address the long-term impacts of adverse childhood experiences |
| 0:32.6 | and complex post-traumatic stress disorder want to be trained in NARM. |
| 0:36.6 | This online NARM therapist training is starting in July 2021, so if you're interested, we'd encourage you to register now to reserve your spot. |
| 0:44.3 | For more information and to register, please visit www.narmtraining.com slash level 2 online. |
| 0:53.3 | We look forward to you joining our growing international |
| 0:56.2 | NARM community and are inspired to work with you to bring NARM to your clients and communities |
| 1:01.0 | in order to transform trauma. I'm pleased to introduce you to today's guest. |
| 1:15.6 | Nick Larson is a songwriter, musician, and member of the band Proxima Parada. He uses his experiences growing up in dysfunction and then working on his trauma to create uplifting music that promotes healing. |
| 1:23.6 | Born and raised in California, Nick currently lives in San Luis Obispo. So please enjoy my |
| 1:29.7 | conversation with the amazing Nick Larson. |
| 1:34.2 | Now I've been scratching my head wonder what's going on in my head. Hell, I want to be friends with my head. |
| 1:49.1 | Hello, Nick. |
| 1:50.1 | Welcome to Transforming Trauma. |
| 1:51.8 | Hi, Sarah. |
| 1:52.9 | Such a pleasure. |
| 1:54.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:55.2 | This is take two. |
| 1:55.9 | We just had some internet issues, but we are back and ready for action. |
| 2:01.3 | So the first question we'd like to ask, people who are on this podcast, as you know, from |
| 2:06.8 | being a listener yourself, is what do you want the listeners to get out of our conversation |
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