Ep. 100| Featuring: Don St. John, PHD

Host's Note - If you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video.

This episode features our guest, Don St. John PHD, a psychotherapist, teacher, and author who talks about finding human potential and healing in four interrelated components: the Soma body, Psycho-emotional, relational, and spiritual. 

TOPICS COVERED:
- His journey of fetal trauma, intrauterine stress and neglect, birth trauma, childhood abuse, and constant verbal abuse
- Why he sees the "perfection" in it all
- We explore the phrase:  "BOTH AND"
- Thriving after healing work
- Profound insights that, even without childhood trauma, most people have serious struggles
- Feeling alone in his trauma
- Four legs of wholeness - the Soma, Psyche, Relational, and Spiritual
- Soma = your own connection to your body
- How disconnection to the soma happens and how to repair it
- When you start to the conform to the rules of "shoulds and should nots"
- Life negating v. Life affirming
- We connect to others the way we connect to ourself
- Why so many trauma survivors carry the belief that "I am not worthy of love"
- How to start cultivating positive feelings - not pollyannish - not toxic positivity - but cultivating gratitude and finding potential in all your grief and pain
- His current awareness and growing capacity, expanding to his true and best nature, and his new book
- "The deeper one goes into the body, the farther out into space one can go... Melting any sense of separation..."

GUESTS MOST HELPFUL RECOVERY RESOURCES IN THEIR JOURNEY:
1. Structural integration methods such as Rolfing
2. Movement meditation/Continuum Movement
3. Ayahuasca rituals through his church

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1. Website
2. Books
3. Contact info
 
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