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Creative Trauma Recovery / Burnout, EMDR Therapy for CPTSD, IFS, Christian Counseling, Art Therapy, First Responders, Codepen
Creative Trauma Recovery / Burnout, EMDR Therapy for CPTSD, IFS, Christian Counseling, Art Therapy, First Responders, Codepen
This podcast explores the intersection of trauma recovery, burnout, and helping professions. The host Shelley Mountain-Collette draws on EMDR therapy, IFS, Christian counseling, and art therapy to support therapists, first responders, and other caregivers. Through personal and professional insights, it addresses how childhood patterns lead adults to become fixers. The show offers tools and stories for moving from exhaustion to healing, including strategies for complex PTSD and codependency.
Episodes
4 / THE ONE I COULDN'T SAVE: Childhood Trauma, ACEs, Grief, and the Protector Role
Were you the child who worried about everyone else, kept the peace, or felt responsible for keeping people safe?
In this episode of Creative Trauma Recovery, I explore how childhood trauma, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), grief, family roles, people-pleasing, and the protector response can shape adults who become helpers, fixers, caregivers, therapists, first responders, nurses, armed forces
3 / WHEN HELPING BECOMES WHO YOU ARE / Who Am I If I Cannot Do This Work Anymore?
What happens when helping others is no longer just what you do—but who you are?
For first responders, therapists, nurses, teachers, pastors, caregivers, crisis workers, and other helping professionals, work can become deeply connected to identity, purpose, belonging, and self-worth. When burnout, compassion fatigue, trauma symptoms, PTSD, illness, retirement, or a career change makes it difficul
2 / WHEN THE HELPER IS HURTING: RECOGNIZING BURNOUT, COMPASSION FATIGUE, AND TRAUMA EXPOSURE
In this foundational episode of Creative Trauma Recovery, we begin unfolding the map of how trauma, burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, PTSD, and complex trauma can affect the nervous system, especially for people who spend their lives caring for others.
This episode is for the helpers.
For therapists, counsellors, social workers, nurses, doctors, teachers, educational assista
1 / Let Go, Let God: Releasing Control in Trauma and Burnout Recovery
This first episode of Creative Trauma Recovery is dedicated to the two paramedics and the patient who recently lost their lives here in New Brunswick.
Some tragedies leave us without words. We pause to remember them and to hold close their families, friends, colleagues, fellow first responders, and the communities carrying the weight of this heartbreaking loss.
Have you been trying to hold everyth
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Can you look back over your life and see where you became the strong one, the helper, the fixer, the one everyone depended on?
Do you love helping people, but realize the work you do is leaving you exhausted, overwhelmed, or disconnected from yourself, friends, or family?
Do you know all the things you should do, but find yourself stuck when it comes to doing them?
If those questions stirred somet
