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The Trauma Therapist

How Do I Tell You This with Tonya Pieske

The Trauma Therapist

Guy Crawford Macpherson

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

4.5581 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Tonya Pieske is a musician, producer, and sound designer based in Portland, Oregon.

She is the creator of How to Tell Someone, a storytelling podcast exploring the moments of communication that shape how we perceive and move through the world. Tonya blends her lived experience with CPTSD together with her background in fostering psychological safety through her nonprofit work to create a trauma-informed space for emotionally nuanced, vulnerable storytelling. 

Tonya on Substack

Tonya’s podcast: How To Tell Someone

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Trauma Therapist podcast.

0:02.5

My name is Guy McPherson.

0:04.1

I interview incredible people who've dedicated their lives to helping those who've been impacted by trauma.

0:10.3

A big thank you to our sponsors and our guests who are supporting this show.

0:14.9

So five, four, three, two, and one.

0:18.0

All right, folks, welcome back to the podcast.

0:19.7

Very excited to have us my guest today, Tanya Pasky.

0:22.4

Tanya, welcome.

0:24.0

Thank you.

0:25.1

So glad to be here.

0:26.4

Thanks.

0:27.2

Tanya is a musician, producer and sound designer based in Portland, Oregon.

0:30.8

She's a creator of how to tell someone, a storytelling podcast, exploring the moments

0:35.7

of communication that shape how we perceive and move

0:39.4

through the world. Tanya blends her lived experience with CPTSD, together with a background in

0:46.5

fostering psychological safety through her nonprofit to create a trauma-informed space for

0:52.0

emotionally nuanced, vulnerable storytelling.

0:55.6

All right, Tanya, obviously, just a little bit about you.

0:58.1

Share with the listeners where you're from originally, and as I already said, but where

1:03.1

you are currently, and then we'll get going.

1:05.1

Sure.

1:05.7

I grew up in Oregon in the northeast corner, very rural area of the state.

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