Your Life After
Health & Wellness Podcasts
The Your Life After podcast is a place where people can talk about the lives they lead after traumas. This podcast will feature survivors, victims, and professionals sharing their experiences, expertise, insights, and struggles. The goal here is not to showcase stories of triumph, though I'm sure some of those stories will be triumphant. The goal is to shine a light on our own shared humanity and to perhaps encourage someone to move forward through their own trauma. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yourlifeafter/support
Location:
United States
Genres:
Health & Wellness Podcasts
Description:
The Your Life After podcast is a place where people can talk about the lives they lead after traumas. This podcast will feature survivors, victims, and professionals sharing their experiences, expertise, insights, and struggles. The goal here is not to showcase stories of triumph, though I'm sure some of those stories will be triumphant. The goal is to shine a light on our own shared humanity and to perhaps encourage someone to move forward through their own trauma. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yourlifeafter/support
Language:
English
Contact:
850-329-0654
Website:
https://www.wsw.center/
Email:
robin@wsw.center
Episodes
Parenting through trauma
8/17/2021
Childhood emotional trauma deeply informed Catherine Register’s approach to parenting. As she started on her healing journey, doing so while raising children was immensely difficult. It was quite a challenge to overcome those hurdles and come out the other side. She has a passion and heart for parents struggling to care for their children while trying to do their own healing work.
Guest on this episode
Catherine Register holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of...
Duration:01:00:14
Healing and thriving after physical and emotional abuse
8/3/2021
Rachel Alexander wanted to spend our time together talking about navigating co-parenting with a narcissist, dating as a single parent, reactions she experienced after leaving her abusive ex, the relationship of the church with abusers, and the importance of therapy. She sees healing as a continual process and believes the more we talk about domestic violence, the more we heal and help others.
Guest on this episode
Rachel connects people with homes and the lifestyles they want. Slated to...
Duration:01:29:35
Get serious about self-care
7/20/2021
Aisha Moore doesn’t want other women to experience what she did. She joined me to talk about how we focus on jobs and accolades and how that can lead to our soul being undernourished.
Guest on this episode
Aisha Moore is a self-care advocate and stress management expert. Her father inspired her 20-year career in public health and service in various healthcare-related associations. She has a unique perspective because she “over-served” until she was stressed out to the point of being on...
Duration:00:44:26
Learning to live in my own skin
7/6/2021
Shea Atkin wants to destigmatize the word trauma and let listeners know that even though healing from trauma is messy, it’s still worth it. She says that we are only as sick as our secrets. We learn boundaries to know who is safe and has earned the right to hear our secrets and stories. Shea believes many of our current patterns (unaware or aware) are our attempts to reconcile a past that no longer exists.
Guest on this episode
I'm a survivor of major developmental childhood trauma and...
Duration:00:48:46
Living after loss
6/22/2021
Shayna Acree joins us to talk about the grief journey that people experience after a significant loss in their life. Because of her own experiences, she understands how difficult it is to heal. She shares her thoughts with us about the different grief stages, how many people can get stuck in their grief following loss and trauma, and how to be okay with not being okay at times.
Guest on the show
Shayna Acree is a native of Tallahassee, Florida where she resides with her husband and...
Duration:00:57:12
Not simply taking up oxygen
10/27/2020
Rebecca Kelly-Manders is a child of divorce. She survived growing up with a functioning alcoholic, joined the military where she wasn’t the greatest soldier (her words, not mine), and has had a mark left on her by the criminal justice system. She’s built a life of service through her own recovery from addiction and sharing her skills as a chef. We talk about that and more on season one’s final episode.
Guest on this episode
I always start these kinds of paragraphs with professional...
Duration:01:25:31
Shining light on dark spaces to foster family and community healing
10/13/2020
Community advocate Talethia Edwards joins us on Your Life after to talk with me about her childhood, community activism, building her parenting toolbox to battler her ghosts in the nursery, and how parenting her children is healing her and helping her in turn heal her community.
Guest on this episode
Talethia Edwards is a wife, mother, community, and family advocate. Her work finds her strategizing ways to empower and educate her community in order to change patterns of poverty and low...
Duration:00:40:53
Undoing the long-term emotional coping of trauma
9/29/2020
The poet Reuben Jackson joins us on Your Life After to talk with me about this juncture where he is focusing on and contextualizing the impact of trauma on his life. Specifically, acknowledging and discussing the work he’s doing to work to live unmasked, no longer hiding or distancing his "soft" (or softer) sides.
Guest on this episode
I was born in Augusta, Georgia, grew up in Washington, DC. Currently working as an Archivist with the University of The District Of Columbia's Felix E....
Duration:01:12:32
How I’m learning there is no "after"
9/15/2020
darlene anita scott was young, active (she was a marathon runner), and seemingly healthy when she was diagnosed with heart failure. By learning to manage her chronic condition, she is learning that the residuals of both the diagnosis and the interventions create a ripple-like effect in her life. We talk about the risks of exceptionalism in intervention or treatments, somatic elegies, art, and expanding the definition of wellness (because the limited view of wellness can often be a trauma...
Duration:01:34:42
The alchemy of intentional living
8/31/2020
Strategy, directed autonomy, a well-stocked pantry, and a rollicking conversation about an experience in a dungeon are all on tap in my conversation with Christina Springer. Her very intentional life has allowed her to move more seamlessly than most through the COVID-19 crisis while some of us began to examine the very essence of how we live, eat, and educate our children.
Guest on this episode
Christina Springer is an Alt.Black artist who uses text, performance, video, and other visual...
Duration:01:19:21
Black women and revolutionary pleasure
8/18/2020
Liz Gilliam thinks this is a time for many to really sit with themselves to understand what it is about them that makes them happy. We talk about pleasure and self-intimacy in a way that expands beyond the erotic. And while things might not be perfect, her conversation urges us to unlock the things that bring us joy.
Guest on this episode
(Should I do this in the third person? I'm doing it in the third person. I'm The Rock.)
Liz Gilliam, MSW, is a Black woman (that's a title I'm PROUD...
Duration:01:03:10
Rest: the original healing modality
8/3/2020
The work she did in prison abolition led our guest, Onika Reigns to study more closely the essential idea of rest, both in the prison population and in her movement through the Black community. Her work has led her to develop her Black Rest Theory and colors the work she does in her therapeutic practice as well as in the Black Dream Escape.
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Mentioned in the show/resources
Black Dream Escape - www.blackdreamescape.com
Black Dream Escape Linktr.ee -...
Duration:00:36:55
Fairness, rehabilitation, and redemption: reimagining the US criminal system
7/20/2020
We examine the criminal justice system through the lens of criminal defense attorney Jessica Yeary, who is also running for Public Defender. She maps out the ripple effect that one arrest can have in one relationship, family, and community and how the impact of children watching arrests, or being arrested themselves, can affect their ability to cope. She also explains her three-part campaign platform, which is as trauma-informed as it is solution-focused.
Guest on this episode
I am a...
Duration:00:50:07
Crisis education in the time of COVID-19
7/6/2020
Children around the world are being asked to tap into their education in the midst of a global pandemic and community trauma. Jason Flom joins me to talk about what wellness looks like within the context of a school ecosystem and what we might need to be prepared for when school starts again in the fall of 2020.
Guest on this episode
Jason Flom is the Director of Cornerstone Learning Community and is one of the founding faculty of the school. He earned a bachelor’s and masters in...
Duration:01:29:11
Surviving the financial impacts of COVID-19
7/6/2020
It's not a conversation focused on spreadsheets and procedures that accounting, HR, and risk management professional Christina Brown brings to the table In this episode. It's all about knowing who you are and what you want, so you can develop a stronger relationship with your money - even during a global pandemic.
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Duration:00:58:46
Addressing childhood trauma from COVID's quiet spaces
7/6/2020
Slamming on the proverbial breaks during the COVID-19 quarantine has taken our guest Lateef Bryant from a hyper-busy schedule that kept him on the run from 7 AM - 10 PM most days, to a quite/still space where he had to face some of his own inner demons including the sexual abuse he suffered as a child.
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Duration:00:58:00
Blooming from the neck down
6/29/2020
Episode Summary
The tables are turned on Your Life After show host, Robin Dunn Bryant. Join our guest host, Lauren Kelly-Manders as she talks to Robin about her own healing paths, surviving a breast cancer diagnosis in the midst of a cross-country move, and the way she approaches personal, intergenerational, and generational trauma in the work she does with clients.
Guest on this episode
Robin Dunn Bryant is the host of Your Life After. She is a trauma and recovery specialist with...
Duration:00:38:47