We are delighted to have our third conversation with Dr Maté for the Radical Recovery Summit. He has been tireless in his work educating people worldwide about trauma. In 2021, several million people viewed the movie The Wisdom of Trauma, featuring his work Compassionate Inquiry.
Resmaa Menakem is a healer. He presents a clear picture of trauma and how it works in our bodies. In his excellent book, My Grandmother’s Hands, Resmaa refers to people like Malcolm X and James Baldwin as having settled bodies and focused minds. The book is about racialized trauma: white body supremacy, white bodies, black bodies, and police bodies. It is a fascinating study and insight into historical trauma and how that lives in and through our bodies.
Resmaa Menakem is a healer. He presents a clear picture of trauma and how it works in our bodies. In his excellent book, My Grandmother’s Hands, Resmaa refers to people like Malcolm X and James Baldwin as having settled bodies and focused minds. The book is about racialized trauma: white body supremacy, white bodies, black bodies, and police bodies. It is a fascinating study and insight into historical trauma and how that lives in and through our bodies.
Adena Bank Lees is an experienced therapist who brings new light to Covert Emotional Incest, the hidden sexual abuse. Learn about safety in therapy and with others, and how innovative tools like psychodrama can help you access and heal your deepest fears. In her book, Covert Emotional Incest: The Hidden Sexual Abuse, Adena details the complex nature of CEI, its damaging consequences, and the path to restoration of health and well-being.
Adena Bank Lees is an experienced therapist who brings new light to Covert Emotional Incest, the hidden sexual abuse. Learn about safety in therapy and with others, and how innovative tools like psychodrama can help you access and heal your deepest fears. In her book, Covert Emotional Incest: The Hidden Sexual Abuse, Adena details the complex nature of CEI, its damaging consequences, and the path to restoration of health and well-being.
Adi Jaffe, Ph.D. is a nationally recognized expert on mental health, addiction, relationships and shame who authored The Abstinence Myth: A New Approach for Overcoming Addiction Without Shame, Judgment, Or Rules. He started IGNTD, a customized, personalized, virtual recovery program. “People need guidance and understanding, not judgment and stigma, and the sooner we realize this, the more lives we’ll be able to save.” ~ Dr. Adi Jaffe
Adi Jaffe, Ph.D. is a nationally recognized expert on mental health, addiction, relationships and shame who authored The Abstinence Myth: A New Approach for Overcoming Addiction Without Shame, Judgment, Or Rules. He started IGNTD, a customized, personalized, virtual recovery program. “People need guidance and understanding, not judgment and stigma, and the sooner we realize this, the more lives we’ll be able to save.” ~ Dr. Adi Jaffe
Annie Grace, is author of This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life a path to freedom from alcohol and The Alcohol Experiment: A 30-day, Alcohol-Free Challenge to Interrupt Your Habits and Help You Take Control. A person’s unconscious mind has been subjected to a lifetime of conditioning about the benefits of alcohol. The focus is not on staying sober, it is instead on just living and being happy.
Annie Grace, is author of This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life a path to freedom from alcohol and The Alcohol Experiment: A 30-day, Alcohol-Free Challenge to Interrupt Your Habits and Help You Take Control. A person’s unconscious mind has been subjected to a lifetime of conditioning about the benefits of alcohol. The focus is not on staying sober, it is instead on just living and being happy.
Irene Lyon synthesizes her training in Feldenkrais, Somatic Experiencing and Somatic Practice with decades of personal experience into programs like her powerful SmartBody SmartMind. Irene has a knack for making complex info easy for ALL of us to understand and apply to our lives. She is a nervous system expert who teaches people around the world how to work with the nervous system to transform trauma, heal body and mind, and live full, creative lives.
Irene Lyon synthesizes her training in Feldenkrais, Somatic Experiencing and Somatic Practice with decades of personal experience into programs like her powerful SmartBody SmartMind. Irene has a knack for making complex info easy for ALL of us to understand and apply to our lives. She is a nervous system expert who teaches people around the world how to work with the nervous system to transform trauma, heal body and mind, and live full, creative lives.
Joan Tollifson speaks about her earlier life through addiction, social activism and meditation. She has a radical lens and cuts right through to the heart of life, relationships, illness and death. Joan is interested in waking up to the aliveness of this moment, exactly as it is. Her bare-bones approach is open, direct, immediate and down-to-earth. She invites meditative exploration and encourages people to remain in the openness of not knowing.
Joan Tollifson speaks about her earlier life through addiction, social activism and meditation. She has a radical lens and cuts right through to the heart of life, relationships, illness and death. Joan is interested in waking up to the aliveness of this moment, exactly as it is. Her bare-bones approach is open, direct, immediate and down-to-earth. She invites meditative exploration and encourages people to remain in the openness of not knowing.
Nkem Ndefo, MSN, CNM, RN, is the founder of Lumos Transforms and creator of The Resilience Toolkit. She brings, a grounded approach to healing, strength and resilience, and a unique ability to connect with people of all types by holding powerful healing spaces, weaving complex concepts into accessible narratives, and creating synergistic and collaborative learning communities that nourish people’s innate capacity for healing, wellness, and connection.
Nkem Ndefo, MSN, CNM, RN, is the founder of Lumos Transforms and creator of The Resilience Toolkit. She brings, a grounded approach to healing, strength and resilience, and a unique ability to connect with people of all types by holding powerful healing spaces, weaving complex concepts into accessible narratives, and creating synergistic and collaborative learning communities that nourish people’s innate capacity for healing, wellness, and connection.
