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Episode 248: Structural Family Therapy

In this episode, Jackie talks about structural family therapy concepts and the types of families identified by Salvador Mnuchin:  healthy/adaptive, disengaged, enmeshed.  This episode is an overview of the types of families and structural family therapy concepts. 

 

Episode 247: Attachment Styles and Issues

In this podcast episode, Jackie talks about attachment styles, what they are, how they form and how they can impact us in our adult relationships.  This episode is another lens to view ourselves and our relationship patterns in a way that can help us understand and change what needs to change for us to heal our attachment wounds and form secure and healthy relationships. 

Episode 246: Childhood Emotional Neglect

In this episode, Jackie talks about the often hidden and unknown condition of childhood emotional neglect.  Our parents may understand the importance of providing for our physical needs as children, but when our emotional needs are neglected and not attuned to, we grow up feeling off.  We may question our feelings and our needs, we might struggle with self-esteem, and are unable to take appropriate risks.  And we may feel disconnected and empty and not understood.

 

Episode 245: The How Tos on Developing a Solid Sense of Self

In this final episode in the series on developing a solid sense of self, Jackie talks about how we develop a solid sense of self.  Jackie looks at what researchers in neuroscience are saying about how a self is developed and what trauma research tells us about healing in order to develop a solid sense of self.  

Episode 244: Self Care

In this episode Jackie talks about self-care and how to approach caring for the self in a way that supports building a "self" and reinforcing the value and worth of who we are.  Self-care can be misunderstood or substituted as a hobby or a bubble bath or golfing.  Those may be things we enjoy and like to do, but is that self-care?

 

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Episode 243: May I be I is the only prayer

In this episode, Jackie continues talking about developing the self.  The need to find the lapse in our story caused by adversity or trauma and finishing what is left unfinished in us.  Jackie borrows from great thinkers, writers, and psychoanalysts, and what they have discovered and written about this process. 

 

Episode 242: The physical, physiological, neurological, and psychology of self

In this episode, Jackie takes a lot of writings from Dr. Gabor Mate to help us understand ourselves from the perspectives we don't typically look at ourselves or our stories from.  

Episode 241: Overcoming Obstacles to Develop A Solid Sense of Self

In this episode Jackie continues her series on developing a solid sense of self.  In this episode, Jackie explores some of the reasons we may not have developed a solid sense of self and how we can start to work on understanding our story and becoming more of ourselves. 

Episode 240: Developing a Functional Sense of Self

This is episode 2 in a series on "self".  In this episode, Jackie talks about what goes awry in developing a sense of self, what it can look like when we don't have a functional sense of self and why having a functional sense of self is so critical in having a healthy and meaningful life.  

 

Episode 239: When Childhood Trauma Shows Up in our Adult Lives

In this episode, Jackie kicks off a series on developing the self, barriers to developing a self, what self-care even means and how to recognize when our childhood trauma story surfaces in our adult life.