If you have your own story of being in a cult or a high control group, or if you've had an experience with manipulation or abuse of power, you'd like to share, shoot us an email at TrustMePod at gmail.com.

If you think that one person has all the answers, don't!

Welcome to TrustMe, the podcast about cults, extreme belief, and the abuse of power from two self-regulators who've actually experienced it, I am Lola Blonk.

And I am Megan Elizabeth.

And today, our guest is Dr. Robert Roten, CEO of the Arizona Trauma Institute and President at the Trauma Institute International.

He is going to talk to us about how the particular modality of therapy isn't as important as we tend to think it is, as long as our therapist is trauma informed,

emotional regulation and dysregulation and why it's akin to a certain Marvel character, and why it's important for our therapist to be regulated themselves.

We'll also discuss how our culture encourages dysregulation and how dysregulation can even become our identity.

Practical ways to get regulated and how we can actually begin to heal our trauma over time, yay.

Fascinating combo, he's amazing.

Before we start talking to him, yes, Megan.

What's the coziest thing that's happening this week, or your worst dysregulation moment this week?

Oh, I love the Wem Hof. Most people, I'm sure know it, but it's W-Y-M-H-O-F-F, breathing exercises that's free on YouTube, you just type in Wem Hof, 10 minutes.

When I do that, I am so regulated, it's insane.

That sounds like such a funny brag.

I'm so regulated.

It's fucking crazy, so shut up.

But it really balances out my system, and everybody else I've recommended it to.

So you just do breathing in and out without stopping for a minute, and then you hold your breath for a minute, and then you let it out and blah, blah, blah.

But anyway, I love it.

What about you?

And if you guys don't know what regulation is, we're going to define it in this episode.

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