Episodes
May 22, 2023
Trauma, Hope and Recovery: The Power of Looking Both Ways
Dr. Brooke Ellison was on Resiliency Within on March 20th. Her interview was so inspiring to so many we wanted her back. She agreed to continue to share perspectives about disability and advocacy that she eloquently describes...
May 15, 2023
Pillars of Brain Health: Trauma Healing and Stress Resilience
Dr. Ilene Naomi Rusk has a trauma-informed science-based approach to brain health and optimal longevity. She’s developed a user-friendly way of using a functional medicine approach to help prevent Alzheimer’s and improve cogn...
May 8, 2023
Power of Respect in Juvenile Justice: Building Anchors & Bridges
Ask a youth involved in Juvenile Justice how they feel and the response you will most likely hear is “I feel disrespected.” The default response from the system is often along the lines of “You don’t know what respect is.” An...
May 1, 2023
The Flight: Reshaping Suffering and Pain-New Meaning is Born
Cammie Wolf Rice, the Founder & CEO of the Christopher Wolf Crusade, recently released her book, The Flight, on September 18, 2022, Christopher's birthday. Cammie will share her journey after her son's death and the innovativ...
April 24, 2023
Bliss Brain:The Neuroscience of Remodeling Your Brain
Award-winning author and thought leader Dawson Church, Ph.D., blends cutting-edge neuroscience with intense firsthand experience to show you how to rewire your brain for happiness. Dr. Dawson will talk about his book, Bliss B...
April 17, 2023
Suicidal Thoughts & Deep Suffering:How to Help
Dr. Jamie Gamboa and Brian Stefan, MSW, of Spotlight on Suicide (SOS) return to discuss the Suicidal Ideation Toolbox (SIT), which contains accessible skills for helping professionals and everyone who experiences deep sufferi...
April 10, 2023
Grief - the Way that Grief can Bind us.
Ned Bachus’s novel is about Sarah Goins, a college professor with a thriving career and close-knit academic community who is eager to draw her boyfriend, Mike Flannagan, deeper into her world. But Mike, a groundskeeper at a l...
April 3, 2023
Building Resiliency In Rural Communities:Early Start Programs
Implementing trauma- and resilience-informed systems in rural communities offers its own set of challenges and awards. Many rural communities lack the resources of their urban cousins, yet connection to available resources ca...
March 27, 2023
ACES Response:Prevention and Healing Transformation in Illinois
My guests, Audrey Stillerman, MD, and Bridget Gavaghan will discuss the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative (the Collaborative) and the Center for Collaborative Study of Trauma, Health Equity, and Neurobiology (THEN). The or...
March 20, 2023
Trauma, Devastation, Recovery, Resiliency & Love: Look Both Ways
On March 20th and May 22nd, 2023, Elaine Miller-Karas interviewed Dr. Brooke Ellison. Brooke died on February 4, 2024. We are rebroadcasting this episode in tribute to her life, her wisdom, and her brilliance.
March 13, 2023
Neuroscience of Building Resilience to Trauma, Part 2
Elaine Miller-Karas and Michael Sapp will discuss Elaine's new book, Building Resilience to Trauma, the Trauma and Community Resiliency Models, 2nd Edition, published by Routledge on March 13, 2023. Dr. Sapp will talk about t...
March 6, 2023
BUILDING RESILIENCY TO TRAUMA, 2ND. EDITION
Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW, will discuss the second edition of her book, Building Resiliency to Trauma, with Dr. Michael Sapp, the CEO of the Trauma Resource Institute. During and after a traumatic experience, survivors experi...
Feb. 27, 2023
Addressing Child Wellbeing and Trauma in Massachusetts
The Center on Child Wellbeing and Trauma (CCWT) is a partnership between Massachusetts’ Office of the Child Advocate and ForHealth Consulting™ at UMass Chan Medical School. CCWT supports child-serving organizations and system...
Feb. 20, 2023
One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism
As a Deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of the world around her. While she cann...
Feb. 13, 2023
Well-Being of College Students: Hawaii's Experience
Brooke Conway is a mental health and wellness counselor at Kapi‘olani Community College in Honolulu, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. In this episode we will discuss Brooke’s experiences implementing the Community Resiliency Model (CRM) on he...
Feb. 6, 2023
Wellness Skills for those who Suffer: Suicidal Ideation Toolbox
Nearly everyone will experience thoughts of suicide at some point in their lives. The problem isn’t that we sometimes feel this way. The problem is that we suffer in silence when what we need most is to connect with non-judgm...
Jan. 30, 2023
Building Resilience through Functional Compassion
J’vanete (Jay-vuh-nay) Skiba will share her perspectives from her role as the Assistant Director for Equity, Education, and Engagement for the New Hanover County Resiliency Task Force in Wilmington, North Carolina. The vision...
Jan. 23, 2023
Weaving Resilient Activism with Personal Well-being
Sami Aaron, the founder of the nonprofit, The Resilient Activist, will discuss how people everywhere are experiencing severe emotional distress caused by climate change and environmental devastation. And what makes it even mo...
Jan. 16, 2023
Healing Unhoused Youth, Covenant House, Georgia
Todd Wilcher, MA, CTRS, will share his work with Covenant House, Georgia. Covenant House provides services to unhoused youth. Their Crisis Shelter, the P.J. Garcia Youth Shelter, serves as a home for up to 60 youths ages 18-2...
Jan. 9, 2023
Build Resilience & Transform Your Life Through Astrology
Carmen Turner-Schott will share her book, Sun Signs, Houses & Healing: Build Resilience & Transform Your Life Through Astrology. Carmen will share the themes in her book that can help you transform your life in 2023 through t...
Dec. 19, 2022
Mental Health is a Public Health Emergency
Dr. Michael Sapp will discuss the importance of looking at mental health as a public health emergency with our host, Elaine Miller-Karas, a world-reknown trauma therapist. The impact of traumatic experiences on individual and...
Dec. 5, 2022
Reflections of Courage and Resiliency in Ukraine
Natalia Valevska will share her insights from living within their beloved country, Ukraine, during the Russian invasion of February 2022. She will discuss her experiences and work with EdCamp Ukraine, an association of over 4...
Nov. 28, 2022
Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
Curious about something? Google it. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, what gets left out in the conventional understanding of curiosity are the relations between ideas a...
Nov. 21, 2022
Emergency Medicine:” The Emotional and Moral Contact Sport”
What do you say to the parents of a recent high school graduate who was just killed when the car she was riding in collided with a truck? Or to a son who asks you to do everything possible to save his cancer-ridden mother eve...