Ep 115| Featuring: Judy Foreman

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

This episode features our guest, Judy Foreman - journalist, author, and lecturer - as we discuss chronic pain, her new memoir, and emotional availability.

TOPICS COVERED:
- Her journey through childhood sexual abuse, living in fear of her father, an emotionally unavailable mother, not being valued as a woman until college, and how she got into journalism and a wider purpose as a truth seeker
- There is life after trauma
- How to undo what happened and (more importantly) what didn't happen
- The "shushing" of her mother and how her internal lifelong battle to be be honest with her own emotions
- The trauma of chronic pain and what happens when people aren't believed in their pain
- The mental health crisis due to chronic pain
- The somatization of anxiety
- Advice for people living with daily pain - treatments and resources and where to find emotional support
- The memoir of her life that she didn't intend to write
- The trauma of alcoholism
- Therapy is powerful and helped her to heal so she gravitated toward healthy men and relationships
- The value of emotionally available people to connect with
- Trust and attachment
- Coping skills cannot replace what you lacked in your trauma
- Exercise is vital for whole health
- The science of exercise for anti-aging and mental wellbeing

GUEST RESOURCE RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. For chronic pain sufferers - pain patient support groups in your area, and The American Chronic Pain Assoc
2. Realizing how common trauma is so she wasn't alone
3. Exercise and therapy
4. Finding gratifying things to nurture your own life

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1.  Website
2.  X/Twitter
3. FB
4. Her memoir

Tags:  #traumarecovery #traumarecoverycoach #traumahealing #healingfromtrauma #traumasurvivor #survivorhood #ifsinformed  #ptsd 
#childabuse #childsexualabuse #livinginfear #emotionallyunavailable #relationships #attachment #journalism #memoir #whatdidnthappen #chronicpain #painpatient #facingemotions #mentalhealth #emotionalsupport #therapy #alcoholism #trust #copingskills #emotionalconnection #exercise #wholehealth #antiaging