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-What is “yoga therapy?”
-How can yoga therapy and other somatic therapies help those who are codependent and/or highly sensitive?
-What can you do to start building awareness of your needs through awareness of your body?
Welcome to Episode 117! This week, I sat down with Rahcel Wilson, LCSW, to discuss yoga therapy: an approach to therapy that incorporates yoga and psychotherapy in order to bring awareness to the mind, body, and spirit. Rachel describes her use of yoga therapy and somatic therapies to help her patients dealing with codependency and/or high sensitivity which helps them develop a better sense of their needs, quality of their relationships, and b o u n d a r i e s. She educates us on the benefits of yoga therapy and provides simple suggestions for how we all can start attuning to ourselves. It’s a must-listen!
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More on this week’s guest:
Rachel Wilson is a psychotherapist, yoga therapist, and social justice activist committed to supporting people impacted by personal, systemic, and vicarious trauma to re-embody and reconnect. She focuses her work in private practice on helping people who put their energy into supporting others and the community to care for themselves holistically.
http://www.interconnectedhealing.com
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We begin with hearing Rachel’s definition of codependency. She describes seeing codependency more in terms of boundaries and lack of boundaries. Codependents tend to focus on others and have difficulty with vulnerability and accountability with others. Rachel highlights the similarities and differences between codependents and highly-sensitive people, a speciality from her practice.
Rachel opens up about codependency in her own life and how that has affected her relationship with her parents in the past and present.
We hear Rachel’s description and differentiation between codependents, empaths, and highly-sensitive people (what stands out to you? can you relate to the traits she describes?)
Next, we shift gears to discuss the importance of yoga therapy and other types of somatic therapies to help treat codependency. Rachel shares with us how yoga therapy helps patients develop awareness of their mind, body, and spirit through a individualized practice of yoga poses. As a consequence to practicing yoga therapy, Rachel shares how her patients are able to become aware of their discomfort and then, when helpful, are able to sit with their discomfort.
Rachel emphasizes how her approach helps her patients become aware of their need for boundaries and appropriate distance/closeness in relationships. She suggests how we can incorporate deep breathing, stretching, shaking, tapping, journaling, and other tools to cultivate self-attunement.
Thank you for coming Rachel! And thank you for being here dear listener!
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See you next week! -What is holistic therapy and how can it help treat codependency?
-How can you build holistic boundaries?
-How can you better prepare if your boundaries piss people off, hurt others, or are met with pushback?
Welcome to Episode 121! We have the honor of getting to know Chris McDonald, LPC, and her approach to treating codependency through holistic therapy. In this episode, Chris shares with us on what holistic therapy is and how it can help us set boundaries. You’ll hear how Chris helps her clients become more aware of their psychological, physical, mental, emotional, social, and physical selves in order to identify how to better meet their needs. We conclude with hearing unique tips from Chris to set boundaries and realistically prepare for pushback. It’s a must-listen!
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More on this week’s guest:
Chris McDonald is a Holistic Licensed Therapist and owns a group online practice, “Path to Hope Counseling.” She specializes in treating yourg adults with anxiety, depression, trauma and grief. Chris is host of “The Holistic Counseling Podcast.”
https://www.holisticcounselingpodcast.com
More deets on this week’s episode:
We begin with hearing how Chris conceptualizes codependency: as a learned behavior that is a consequence of unavailable and/or narcissistic parents. Chris describes how codependents often have a core belief that “I don’t matter” and prioritize the needs of others, engage in people-pleasing, have a fear of conflict, worry about hurting others, have perfectionistic tendencies, and complain of feeling depleted.
Chris shares about codependent experiences from her own life, including an email exchange from earlier in the day! She recalls a codependent relationship from her young adulthood. Can you relate?
We shift gears and focus on Chris’ speciality as a holistic therapist. She defines holistic therapy for us and how the client is assessed in multiple areas of their life: emotional, mental, spiritual, physical, social, physical, and psychological. In addition to perceiving her clients through this holistic lens, she integrates somatic work and trauma therapy to have an all-encompassing perspective on the client and their needs.
And what about setting boundaries in a holistic manner? Chris describes how codependents often do things for others out of obligation. When they get in touch with their needs in a holistic manner, they are then able to better identify their needs and set them with others.
Chris details how she has her clients start small, focus on their values, and role-play in order to prepare for the pushback from others. Others might be pissed–they might be hurt. Chris helps her clients by role-playing and preparing for the aftermath of setting boundaries. She also helps empower them by standing firm. As a consequence to setting boundaries, she’s observed how her clients then have more time, more ownership of their time, and are able to schedule self-care. We hope you’re able to create a holistic boundary this week as a consequence to hearing this episode!
Thanks for coming on Chris! And thank you for listening, my dear listener!
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