21. Breaking Cycles of Trauma Through Inner Child Healing with Mindi Kessler PhD
This week on The Worthy Mother Podcast, I am joined by Mindi Kessler, PhD, a therapist, coach, and author behind the book Cycle Breaker: A Guide To Transcending Childhood Trauma. We all carry trauma with us in one way or another, and through this conversation, Mindi discusses how we can use our triggers to learn and heal from that trauma for ourselves and our families.
In this episode, Mindi and I chat about:
- What it means to break generational cycles
- The definition of “trauma”
- Using triggers as invitations
- Healing while parenting
- The consequences of not healing our own traumas
- The 16 Pillars of Trauma Recovery
A little about our guest:
For her entire adult life, Mindi Kessler, PhD, has been a seeker in the quest to understand and resolve human suffering. Trained as a marriage and family therapist, with advanced degrees from Colorado State University and Kansas State University, she specializes in working with people with extensive histories of developmental trauma through her private psychotherapy practice and individual and group coaching and online courses.After her own complex challenges of emotional suffering and chronic pain and illness, she had to put her career on hold to come to terms with the origins of her own anguish. Her personal journey into the depths of previously unaddressed wounding from childhood gave her the freedom from suffering that was necessary to transform her life. She truly knows what it means and what it takes to become a cycle breaker.
To connect with Mindi, follow her on Instagram @mindikessler, or visit her website www.mindikessler.com.