Episodes
Aug. 12, 2024
New Ground: Muslims and Jews creating Lasting Partnership
Elaine Miller-Karas, the host of Resiliency Within, will interview Aziza Hasan, Executive Director, and Andrea Hodos, Associate Director of New Ground, a nonprofit dedicated to bridging divides and convening constructive conv...
July 29, 2024
Friendship for Life-Giving, The Resource of Friendship
Dr. Peggy Rowe Ward and host Elaine Miller-Karas will explore the meaning of friendships, the joys and sorrows that come from loving relationships, and reflect on their nearly two decades of friendship. Recent research indica...
June 24, 2024
The Prophetic Lens and the Racial Solidarity Project
Dr. Phil Allen, Jr. returns to Resiliency Within to discuss his journey since the release of his documentary and his first book, Open Wounds: A Story of Racial Tragedy, Trauma and Redemption. In this episode, he will explore ...
June 17, 2024
WorldBeing:The Power of Wellbeing Programs for Marginalized Youth
Join Resiliency Within as Kate Sachs Leventhal, Chief Program Officer, and Steve Leventhal, CEO, share their experiences with WorldBeing and how WorldBeing's vision and inspired programs are changing the lives of youth -- and...
June 3, 2024
Systemic Trauma and Collective Healing
Resiliency Within welcomes back John Kania and Laura Calderon de la Barca. Join this conversation with the Collective Change Lab team who are at the leading edge of shifting how organizations, movements, and collective system...
May 20, 2024
Changing Your Life for the Better-Honest Engagement
A key component of personal growth and change is understanding the distinction between “White-Knuckle Change” and “Real Change.” White-Knuckle Change is trying to change behavior without addressing the underlying causes of th...
May 13, 2024
Women in Leadership:The Double-Bind Dilemma
Elaine and Analiza will discuss the double-bind dilemma - damned if you do and doomed if you don't and how women and women of color can manage it. They also discuss how allies and organizations can support women of color.Beca...
May 6, 2024
Building Resilient Communities in the State of Oregon
Shannon Biteng of the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) is the Trauma Informed Organization Manager. She will share the development and implementation of the ODHS Trauma Aware Program. The program supports over 12,00...
April 29, 2024
Resilience, Empathy and the Body
Brendan Ozawa-de Silva will share the multifaceted concept of empathy, highlighting its various definitions in scientific literature. He expresses that most definitions of empathy overlook a crucial component: embodied joint ...
April 22, 2024
Grief & Resilience:Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness
Media Executive Michelle Hord was no stranger to trauma. Having started her professional career as an award-winning producer on America’s Most Wanted, she expertly guided families through every facet of unthinkable crises. La...
April 15, 2024
Expanding Student Well-Being at Virginia Tech with CRM
Integrating the Community Resiliency Model (CRM) into the multifaceted landscape of higher education carries its own complexity. Under the guidance of Erica Coates, Virginia Tech’s CRM teachers are actively engaged in not onl...
April 8, 2024
Healing through Relationships: Transforming Complex Trauma
Across the globe, there exists a pressing demand for effective treatment of complex trauma. While a growing number of trauma-informed mental health professionals dedicate themselves to supporting individuals, relationships, c...
April 1, 2024
Embrace the Possibilities. Overcome and Influence Your World.
Dr. Luissa Kiprono will share the wisdom she gained from her remarkable journey. She had the desire to help people inspired from a young age. Becoming a women’s physician—first OBGYN, then maternal-fetal medicine—allowed her ...
March 25, 2024
Find True Well-Being:You Don’t Have to Change to Change Everythin
One of the most significant sources of suffering comes from our human tendency to avoid difficult emotions. We are not taught how to face these unpleasant, often daily inner experiences, so we tend to push them away, ignore t...
March 18, 2024
The Science of Stuck: How to Get Yourself from Stuck to GO!
Britt Frank, LSCSW, will share the key concepts and methods expressed in her book, The Science of Stuck, Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward. Ms. Frank states that we all experience stuckness in our lives—in ou...
March 11, 2024
Transformation and Empowerment; The Rebecca Effect
Elaine Miller-Karas, the host of Resiliency Within, will turn the table and be interviewed during Women’s History Month by her colleague and friend, Dr. Michael Sapp. She will discuss with Dr. Sapp a concept that she calls th...
March 4, 2024
Faith & Sex:Understanding Recovery, Being, Relationship & God
We all have many beliefs about why we may act out sexually or with drugs and alcohol in ways of which we are not proud. For those of us within certain religious communities, some of those beliefs may include personal weakness...
Feb. 26, 2024
Wellness Within, Atlanta Birth Center, Part 2
The is Part 2. The nurse midwives, Molly Jobe and Hanna Walters, and childbirth education teacher Tracey Goddard Johnson return to Resiliency Within to continue the discussion on how they are improving the mind and body healt...
Feb. 12, 2024
“The Role of Resiliency in the Addiction Recovery Process”
Resiliency is found at every stage of the recovery process; from the very beginning of wanting to continue living without a substance, a person’s brain may have convinced him/her it needs to survive. This is a remarkably cour...
Feb. 5, 2024
Atlanta Birth Center’s Wellness Within Project:Promoting Healing
The Atlanta Birth Center’s Nurse-Midwives, Molly Jobe and Hannah Walters, and Childbirth Educator, Tracey Goddard-Johnson, will present its innovative Wellness Within Project. The Atlanta Birth Center is a Georgia-based non-p...
Jan. 29, 2024
Writing to Resiliency – Empower Youth with Author, Clarence Nero
Clarence Nero will share his wisdom from his lived experience and his contributions to youth with innovative writing projects. He is an Associate Professor at Baton Rouge Community College, author, and screenwriter whose acco...
Jan. 22, 2024
Healing Childhood Family Trauma:How our Past affects us Today.
Survivors of childhood family trauma typically go through many stages in their path to healing. Kaytee highlights 6 of them: pre-awareness, uncovering, digging in, healing, understanding, and nurturing. Using elements from he...
Jan. 15, 2024
Racism, Resilience, Communities of Color
Resiliency Within celebrates the legacy of Martin Luther King. This year, on Martin Luther King's Day, Dr. Brenda Ingram, who has made significant contributions to our collective understanding of Resilience, Recovery and Resi...
Jan. 8, 2024
Amplifying Compassion & Relatedness - Containing Cruelty & Abuse
Dr. Ravii Chandra will share his wisdom and personal reflections about how we can amplify compassion to contain cruelty and abuse. Dr. Chandra's inspired words reflect what is important for all of us to remember at this time ...