If you look at the stats, if you look at the papers and the research on various forms of talk therapy like cognitive behavioral therapy,

about 50% of people receive clinical benefit from those therapies.

Now, 50% is a great number, and these half of people are being helped by these therapies.

But that also means that 50% aren't.

And where the mainstream psychological community fails, in my opinion, is in providing the people who do not benefit from talk therapy other opportunities for healing.

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Hi, and welcome back. I'm so excited for you to meet our guest this week. Jesse Byer is an award-nominated international speaker and the number one best-selling author of How to Heal,

a practical guide to nine integrative therapies that can help release trauma, named a 2020 young entrepreneur watch by ID Amends.

She has been featured in over 200 media outlets, including Thrive Global, Refinery29, and Elite Daily, and spoken to thousands of people around the world.

Penn State University, Leader Cass Nell, the Institute on Violence and Abuse, trauma is international summit.

Jesse holds a master's degree in critical psychology and human services from Prescott College and outside of her professional life.

She is a K9 search and rescue handler with her dog Phoebe, and literally the first guest I've ever had that said she wasn't promoting anything.

Jesse, so nice to have you here today.

Oh my gosh, thank you so much, Heather. I'm so excited to be here.

Okay, so first of all, let's get into it. I'm always super interested to hear people's story in regards to how they got into the line of work that they're in.

And you getting into trauma work is big, so give us that backstory. How did you get here?

Yeah, absolutely. Well, I think like a lot of people who work in mental health, we all have our own personal story of mental health struggles.

So for me, it was really high school. I mean, high school is hard enough anyway, and then you throw a mental illness on top of it, and it just kind of goes downhill fast.

So I was struggling with things like anxiety and depression, self harm, body dysmorphia, and just ordered eating and suicidal ideation.

And I was also in a relationship with someone who is really struggling with his mental health.

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