You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

This week, Dan is joined by his friend and colleague, Dr. Heather Marose, to launch a three-part

conversation about how trauma and abuse affect our physical health and embodied reality.

Heather, a psychologist and contributor to killing the wounded heart,

shares vulnerably from her own story of finally uncovering the connections

between her ongoing physical suffering and her experiences of trauma.

Well, it's my delight to have both a colleague and dear friend with me, Heather Murroughs.

Heather, thank you so much for being with me on this conversation about our body, our health,

and the issues of trauma and abuse.

And it would be wonderful if you could just sort of introduce yourself to the audience,

who you are, what you do, and how we have come to this conversation.

Well, thank you, Dan, for having me.

It's a pleasure.

And who I am. Well, primarily I am a stay-at-home mom with two young boys,

but I happen to have a graduate degree in cognitive psychology and through divine intervention,

have teamed up with you and began digging into

health physiology and stress and trauma and what it does to our brain and body and had the pleasure

of working with you on chapter three of healing the wounded heart.

And here I am.

Well, and not only are you here, but folks can actually see you, that live isn't the right word,

but can see the video of our conversation on our website, on the Allender Center.org website under

our videos, our video gallery.

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