Episode Details

Episode Highlights With Gabby Bernstein

• How she learned how to ride a unicycle!
• What inspired her current work and her most recent book
• Why there is a tendency to minimize trauma or compare it to others
• How to use things like somatic therapies and IFS to process and release trauma
• Trauma is the inability to be present
• What somatic experiencing therapy is and how it can help
• Practices to help regulate your nervous system if you’ve experienced trauma
• Her mental health first aid kit and how to use these tools
• Maternal mental health tools and why as moms, it is so important to take care of our own mental health
• Why she's trying to break the stigma of medication for mental health when needed
• Her journey with postpartum depression and how she moved past it
• What it means to reparent yourself and how this can benefit your children

Resources We Mention

• Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace by Gabrielle Bernstein
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
• It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn
• Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation by Shakti Gawain