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Finding Genius Podcast

Healing From Trauma | How To Take Charge Of Your Mental Health

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we connect with Deborah Vinall, a Doctor of Psychology, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a certified EMDR and Brainspotting practitioner. She joins us today to discuss her work as an author, trauma expert, and psychotherapist at Tamar Counseling Services. 

Dr. Vinall focuses her practice on helping individuals heal from traumatic life experiences and painful relationship dynamics. Additionally, she is the author of Gaslighting: A Step-by-Step Recovery Guide and Trauma Recovery Workbook for Teens. Over the years, Dr. Vinall has helped countless individuals expand from victim to victorious survivor – and she is just getting started…

Jump in now to learn about:

  • What gaslighting actually means, and how to recognize it in your own life. 
  • Why victims tend to identify with the perpetrator.
  • How Dr. Vinall's books have helped readers across the globe.
  • The biggest social and community-centered challenges that teens are facing post-COVID. 


To find out more about Dr. Deborah Vinall and her work visit https://www.drdeborahvinall.com and https://www.tamarcounselingservices.com now!

Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9C

Transcript

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a step-by-step recovery guide to heal from emotional abuse and build healthy relationships.

0:05.2

And so it starts by explaining what gaslighting is and what it isn't.

0:08.8

And then how to recognize that and heal from it and then eventually moving into that last part

0:15.6

about building something healthier in your life. That's the gist of it, absolutely. Yeah,

0:19.6

it's a particularly and serious form of emotional abuse by trying to make you feel crazy that way

0:24.5

so that they can gain control, gain the upper hand by making you doubt yourself.

0:30.0

It frequently asks questions. How about advice from a real genius? 95% of people in any profession

0:38.3

are good enough to be qualified in license. 5%? They become very good at what they do,

0:43.8

but only 0.1% are real geniuses. Richard Jacobs has made his life's mission to find them

0:50.8

for you. He hunts down and interviews geniuses in every field. Sleep science, cancer, stem cells,

0:56.0

ketogenic diets, and more. Here come the geniuses. This is the Finding Genius Podcast.

1:01.9

Let it Richard Jacobs.

1:07.1

Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast,

1:10.7

that part of the Finding Genius Foundation. My guest today is Dr. Gepra Van Al. She's with

1:15.7

tomorrow, Counseling Services. We're going to talk about what's called the trauma recovery

1:20.0

workbook for teens as to do with gaslighting and various things that are involved with the

1:24.8

THB Aiger, Dr. Van Al is a doctor of psychology, which is a license marriage and family therapist.

1:30.0

She's also certified EMDR and brainspotting practitioner, so we're going to talk about her work today

1:36.0

and teens. Thanks for coming. Appreciate it.

1:39.2

Yeah, thanks for having me. Just a point of clarification, there's actually two books. The first

1:43.6

book is about gaslighting and recovery from gaslighting building health relationships, and the second

1:48.0

book is the trauma recovery workbook for teens, and so it doesn't specifically highlight gaslighting,

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