Episodes

May 2, 2022

Are you the victim of sexual harassment? SpotTheLine can help

Lauren Roselle and Joelle Casteix from SpotTheLine are here to talk about a brand-new, free app that can identify, prevent, and de-escalate sexual harassment. A sexual harassment issue can be intimidating to address, jarring ...
April 25, 2022

Everyone is talking about trauma! What is it and can it be fixed?

Clive Corry of Action Trauma Limited, will tell us what trauma is and why it affects so many people in the world in so many different ways; often causing them to hurt themselves and others. Clive says that trauma is a disturb...
April 18, 2022

Resilient Retreat- Providing Hope & Healing

Resilient Retreat was formed in 2018 and has been providing interdisciplinary workshops and training to victims of trauma since 2019. Over four hundred and fifty trauma victims, including survivors of abuse, sexual assault an...
April 11, 2022

Ukrainian Humanitarian Project

The Russian invasion of Ukraine caused a shock wave throughout our world. As the images of destruction besieged our social media, many of us wondered how we could help. The Trauma Resource Institute was called into action by ...
April 4, 2022

Collective Healing and Systems Change

What do we learn when we integrate the perspectives of trauma and systems change? Why is a trauma-informed lens absent from the mainstream discourse about social and environmental problem solving and what changes when we brin...
March 28, 2022

Rebuilding your life after Incarceration

In Correctional, Shankar frames his unexpected encounters with the law and the unraveling of his life through the lenses of race, class, privilege, and his bicultural upbringing as the first and only son of South Indian immig...
March 21, 2022

International Social Work: Loma Linda University’s Trauma Team

The Loma Linda University (LLU) International Behavior Health Trauma Team (IBHTT) operated by the LLU School of Behavioral Health (SBH) has been providing international trauma preparatory training and psychological first aid ...
March 14, 2022

The Heart of Caring: A Life in Pediatrics

Pediatrician Mark Vonnegut has spent forty years treating children for coughs, fevers, ear infections, and sometimes more serious complaints. In that time, he has seen the American medical system change in ways he couldn’t ha...
March 7, 2022

Compassion for Ukraine: Promoting Peace & Healing

Many in the global community want to help Ukrainians and may not know how. Vira Salzburn will discuss with host Elaine Miller-Karas how a group of international Community Resiliency Model teachers gathered with their Ukrainia...
Feb. 28, 2022

Compassion & Loving-kindness in Response to Genuine Despair

We are inundated with information about all that is wrong in the world. Sometimes it feels so overwhelming we throw our hands up, believing we can’t possibly make a difference. But we can. There is a quote that goes, “everyon...
Feb. 21, 2022

Becoming a Thriver of Intimate Partner Violence: Using the Truth

Bernita R. Walker, the CEO and Co-Founder of Project Peacemakers, Inc. will share the wealth and wisdom of her experience as a Violence Prevention Practitioner, an Intimate Partner Violence Survivor, and a retired Deputy Sher...
Feb. 14, 2022

Steps in Courage: Racial Equity, Healing, and Civic Engagement

A team of multi-generational civil rights leaders, historians, educators, community leaders and clinicians gathered together to participate in a landmark initiative, the Kellogg Foundation’s Racial Equity 2030 grant opportuni...
Feb. 7, 2022

Keeping Faith: Trauma and Resiliency among Black Youth in America

Reggie will discuss how Black youth in America are confronted by trauma disproportionately affecting their communities. As we remember the past, engage the present and envision the future, the protective factors within youth,...
Jan. 31, 2022

Hope: Mental Health in poor and traumatized communities

Chris Underhill MBE works as a mentor and is a social entrepreneur in the field of quality of life, and mental health in the community. The host of Resiliency Within first met Chris in Oxford, England at the Skoll World Forum...
Jan. 24, 2022

Helping children navigate uncertainty: Lessons from South LA

The pandemic has highlighted many issues with our current education system. These last years have brought many challenges for students, teachers and parents/guardians. In a future filled with uncertainty, how can we best prep...
Jan. 17, 2022

Resiliency through Unprecedented Times 2022 with Bryan Robinson

Dr. Bryan Robinson returns a year after helping to launch Resiliency Within. Dr. Robinson and host, Elaine Miller-Karas, will reflect upon 2021 and continue to discuss how to cultivate well-being during the challenges of the ...
Jan. 10, 2022

Artificial Insemination: Unknown Origins & the Secretive History

What if, halfway through life, you found out that your father wasn’t your biological father? It happened to Peter J. Boni at the age of forty-nine, when his mother suffered a stroke that led her to divulge a family secret: Li...
Jan. 3, 2022

Cultivating Joy: The Eight Pillars

The great spiritual leader, Desmond Tutu died last week, and Resiliency Within was already planning to enter the new year with his message of joy. We will celebrate his life in this episode highlighting his dialogue with His ...
Dec. 27, 2021

Healing-World-Wide View:Reflections-the Trauma Resource Institute

The Trauma Resource Institute (TRI) sponsors Resiliency Within on VoiceAmerica. Elaine Miller-Karas, the co-founder and Dr. Michael Sapp, the CEO of the Trauma Resource Institute will discuss their innovative ideas of how to ...
Dec. 20, 2021

Surviving Challenges in Unprecedented Times with Grace

Jennifer Burton, LMFT, a leading psychotherapist in Los Angeles and San Francisco, shares her wisdom about how we can cultivate our grace and compassion during challenges we all are facing during unprecedented times. Grace is...
Dec. 13, 2021

Helping Kentucky Survivors with the Community Resiliency Model

The events this past week in Mayfield, Kentucky and the surrounding areas have shown us the tragedy of climate events and how every person in the community is affected. We must not forget the mental health challenges resultin...
Dec. 6, 2021

Love & Transformation-Riding the Edge, A Love Song for Deborah

Michael Tobin will share the journey of his book, Riding the Edge, a Love Song for Deborah.The book chronicles the around the world journey of two soulmates, who the security of their well-ordered lives in search of larger tr...
Nov. 29, 2021

Healing the Wounds of War

Veterans Dr. William Cross and Dr. Mark Dust, represent different generations and different wars. They will share their sacred journey from their service in Vietnam and Iraq to their return and what they learned about life an...
Nov. 22, 2021

Rising Above Childhood Abuse & Trauma:Coming of Age in 1950’s NY

Marc Straus will discuss his newly published memoir, One-Legged Mongoose, Secrets, Legacies and Coming of Age in 1950’s New York The book documents two pivotal years of his childhood on Long Island, beginning with him being f...