This episode is a fantastic conversation with Shelby Leigh that sits in the intersection of our work; Trauma resolution and education and transitions or rites of passage through motherhood and midlife. Shelby is a former licensed psychotherapist, now coach and consultant - She teaches trauma awareness to coaches, therapists, healthcare professionals, and organisations worldwide.
Shelby’s great passion is understanding and supporting folks with developmental and complex trauma in a holistic, body-based, integrative way. Between her own journey with complex PTSD and supporting thousands of students and clients, she is ignited by supporting folks across the globe to be able to support themselves and the people they work with to move from simply surviving to truly thriving.
In the podcast we talk about:
What Trauma is and why it sometimes shows up in our transitions through our rites of passages of motherhood and midlife,
We discuss how many women experience a lot of contact with Medical Practitioners during these rites a passage and how you can advocate for yourself if you have trauma in your body when it comes to trauma informed healthcare,
How slowing down can lead to much more healing,
What trauma informed healthcare might look like,
How we can learn to treat ourselves with greater tenderness and care and how the tenderness can come from the simplest places in our lives,
How healing our trauma can lead us to right here into the present moment of our life, and be able to show up authentically as ourselves in our life every day.
Shelby has two fantastic online courses she runs around Trauma. Creating Safer Spaces is a course for Coaches, Therapists and Facilitators who are looking to learn and understand how they may become more trauma informed in their work. Creating Safer Healthcare is for Medical Practitioners and their teams who wish to provide more Trauma informed Healthcare. It is designed for both allopathic health practitioners and complementary health practitioners and their teams. Both courses offer expert coaching advice from specialists in their fields, theory and knowledge about trauma, and practice skills you can use to implement every day in your work. If you are interested in either course, click on the highlighted link.
You can find Shelby at her website www.shelby-leigh.com or on her instagram account @fierceheart.shelbyleigh.