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Conversations with Carolyn Spring

Carolyn Spring

Carolyn Spring is a writer and speaker in the field of trauma recovery and mental health. Her podcast is an encouraging, inspirational and yet candid look at some of the key issues, for both survivors and helping professionals, in reversing adversity. Check out her website at www.carolynspring.com

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  • Jul 31, 2024 · 34 min

    Podcast #21 – Learning to tolerate positive emotions

    Were often used to the idea that its hard to tolerate distressing emotions. But for many of us as trauma survivors, we can be easily triggered by positive emotions too. Good feelings can be strange, novel and frightening. When weve experienced grooming,

  • Apr 17, 2024 · 28 min

    Podcast #20 – How therapy transformed me

    Therapy can be, and often is, transformational. But why? I benefitted greatly from the empathy and attunement offered by my therapist, but over time I also had to adjust my expectations about how change would occur in me. I had to learn to consider whats

  • Mar 20, 2024 · 30 min

    Podcast #19 – How do we learn to trust people after trauma?

    Trust is so key for smooth human relationships, but its also invariably damaged after we have suffered trauma, especially abuse. So how do we learn to build it again? In this episode I talk about how there arent three top tips, but how its a meticulous p

  • Feb 14, 2024 · 26 min

    Podcast #18 – How to keep going through challenging times (part 2)

    In this second and final part, I look at the cognitive mindsets and practical approaches Ive employed to keep going even when everything in me wants to give up: because keeping on keeping on matters to me, not least because by doing so, things do invaria

  • Jan 11, 2024 · 26 min

    Podcast #17 – How to keep going through challenging times (part 1)

    Theres often nothing we can do to prevent challenging times happening – theyre part of life. But when they hit, how do we keep going? In this episode (part 1 of 2), I look at the painfulness of overwhelm of trauma, the heart-cry of which is often Theres

  • Sep 29, 2021 · 37 min

    Podcast: #16 – Trauma needs a solution

    Trauma teaches us that we are helpless to act in the face of danger. But recovery from trauma involves learning to act, learning to take steps, learning to start to find and create the solutions. In this podcast, I talk about the symptoms of trauma and h

  • Sep 15, 2021 · 28 min

    Podcast: #15 – Trauma is not just a distressing event

    Trauma isn’t something we’re supposed to get over easily. It’s supposed to impact us. It’s supposed to change us. That’s part of why it’s so hard to shift. The problem isn’t with us. In this podcast, I talk about the impacts of trauma and how it isn’t so

  • Feb 20, 2020 · 34 min

    Podcast: #13 – Kindness is revolutionary

    Unkindness is rife in our society. Extreme unkindness is, in simplistic terms, called abuse. To heal from abuse, we need an abundance of kindness. But our survival-based back brain preferentially focuses on unkindness, on danger and threat. In this podca

  • Feb 4, 2020 · 32 min

    Podcast: #12 – What does recovery from trauma look like?

    Recovery from trauma is a journey, an orientation, a direction, not a specific location. Just head north - where youre at is less important than which direction youre headed in. In this podcast, I discuss why we can feel that recovery is impossible, how

  • Jan 22, 2020 · 42 min

    Podcast: #11 – Recovering from developmental trauma

    Recovering from trauma takes time. In this podcast, I look at how we often missed out on developmental stages during childhood, and how we have to learn what we were not in a position to learn as children - not least our ability to regulate our emotions,

  • Jan 14, 2020 · 36 min

    Podcast: #10 – This is my new life

    When we have suffered trauma and pain, our brains find it hard to experience joy. But we need to put ourselves in the right place to find joy, and we need to cultivate it. In this podcast I talk about a life-transforming trip from 2012 and how the big br

  • Jan 8, 2020 · 29 min

    Podcast: #9 – Sunshine in December

    Reindeer and suncream?! Life doesn’t always appear as we expect it to. In this podcast, I talk about how trauma anticipates danger and badness, and how to develop the imagination for life to be different.

  • Jun 12, 2019 · 31 min

    Podcast: #8 – Shame, Unshame and who you really are

    In this podcast, I talk about the crippling isolation of shame, and how to move beyond it. I talk about how shame is a survival strategy which tries to keep us from being hurt. And how, in moving towards ‘unshame’, we need to find out who we really are a

  • Apr 15, 2019 · 33 min

    Podcast: #7 – Can we heal?

    Is recovery from trauma and abuse - resulting in dissociation and even a dissociative disorder - possible? Thats the subject of this podcast where I talk about the vulnerability of hoping for good things, the difference between correlation and causation,

  • Feb 18, 2019 · 29 min

    Podcast: #5 – Learning to enjoy life

    Join me as I talk about how important I found it to discover who I am as an individual, rather than as someone trying to simply fit in.

  • Dec 17, 2018 · 33 min

    Podcast: #3 – Building skills

    Recovery from trauma isnt about getting over something upsetting. It often requires building skills for managing emotions. In this podcast, I explain the process.

  • Nov 19, 2018 · 14 min

    Podcast: #2 – Recovery is possible

    Is recovery possible? Id say it is … based not just on my own personal experience, but on the fact that it’s how our bodies and brains are designed by default. Often when people don’t recover, it’s a problem with the therapy or the ‘treatment’, rather th

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