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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
HOW PLANNING TIME IN PRAYER CHANGED MY LIFE: Trauma, Trust, and Connection with God
Why does sitting still make your chest tighten, and your mind race through everything undone? In this episode of Creative Trauma Recovery, trauma therapist and former kindergarten teacher Shelley Mountain-Collette explores why planned time in prayer can change your life, not just spiritually, but in ways backed by research on stress, cortisol, and the nervous system.
Shelley walks through what the
WHY CAN'T I JUST ASK FOR HELP? A Trauma Worker's Guide to Suicidal Parts and Creating a Safety Plan
This is a good podcast to listen to on World Suicide Prevention Day.
Why can't trauma workers, first responders, crisis workers, and therapists just ask for help? In this episode, I get honest about suicidal thoughts, how I understand my own suicidal part through an Internal Family Systems (IFS) lens, and how to build a simple safety plan you can start today.
This episode almost didn't happen. It
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
LOSING MYSELF IN THIS WORK: Identity, Burnout, and Trauma for Helping Professionals
Why am I losing myself in this work? When helping others becomes your identity, burnout, trauma symptoms, or a forced career change can feel like losing who you are. In this episode of Creative Trauma Recovery, Christian trauma therapist Shelley Mountain-Collette explores why first responders, nurses, therapists, teachers, pastors, caregivers, crisis workers, and other helping professionals strug
WHY DO I FEEL THIS WAY? Understanding Burnout, Compassion Fatigue & Trauma Exposure for Helpers
If you're a therapist, nurse, social worker, teacher, first responder, pastor, or caregiver feeling exhausted, numb, anxious, or disconnected from yourself or God, this episode explains burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, PTSD, and complex trauma in a way that makes sense of what you're experiencing.
In this foundational episode of Creative Trauma Recovery, we begin unfolding
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
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