Tag: hope

Julie Brand – A WISE Retreat

Julie Brand – A WISE Retreat

Welcome to The Healing Place Podcast! I’m your host, Teri Wellbrock. You can listen in on iTunes, Blubrry or directly on my website at www.teriwellbrock.com/podcasts/
I was thrilled to engage in a beautiful conversation with Julie Brand – founder and executive director of A WISE Retreat program for women. Julie is an addiction specialist, domestic violence counselor, youth educator, and trauma-warrior with a personal ACEs score of 9+. Please join us as we discuss Julie’s heart-felt mission to provide a space for holistic healing for her clients.

As shared from A Wise Retreat website:

“A Wise Retreat specializes in the holistic restoration of women. Our services are tailored to the unique needs of each individual at a comfortable, private, and culturally sensitive location where women can get the care and treatment needed. Our services include but are not limited to;

  • Dual Diagnosis Treatment
  • Addictions counseling
  • Domestic Violence Counseling
  • Trauma Informed Care
  • Family Treatment
  • Bio Chemical Re-balancing
  • Intensive Out Patient
  • After Care

A Wise Retreat is a private drug & alcohol residential treatment facility exclusively for women. Located 30 miles North of beautiful San Francisco, A Wise Retreat sits on a hillside surrounded by luscious tall trees that provide shade, privacy, peace and serenity in a home-like setting.”

Women Inspired, Supported & Empowered!

Please be sure to follow, visit, and reach out at http://www.awiseretreat.com/ or call 855-500-WISE (9473).

Also, check out Julie’s book series In the Eyes of Innocence on Smashwords!

Peace to you all!
Teri
Cortney Edmondson – Motivational Speaker

Cortney Edmondson – Motivational Speaker

Welcome to The Healing Place Podcast! I’m your host, Teri Wellbrock. You can listen in on iTunes, Blubrry or directly on my website at www.teriwellbrock.com/podcasts/
I thoroughly enjoyed this enlightening interview with Cortney Edmondson – advocate, speaker, survivor, activist. Please join us as we discuss Cortney’s healing journey from trauma to triumph, her mission to provide others with a space to share their stories, her speaking joys, and much more!
Cortney shared the following information (and totally made my day with the compliment!):
Thank you so much for the opportunity to share tonight.  You are an incredible host! Below are the links to my instagram profiles and my website.
 
Instagram: @cortney_edmondson    &    @embracing_ACEs

Please be sure to follow, visit, and reach out.

Peace to you all!
Teri

 

 

 

Kristina Bechtel – Trauma-Informed Care Social Work

Kristina Bechtel – Trauma-Informed Care Social Work

Welcome to The Healing Place Podcast! I’m your host, Teri Wellbrock. You can listen in on iTunes, Blubrry or directly on my website at www.teriwellbrock.com/podcasts/
I was so very pleased to share an insightful conversation with Kristina Bechtel regarding her journey through a personal history of early childhood trauma, a discussion on her symptoms surfacing, and her eventual healing journey. Kristina started her career working with the homeless population and has now turned her attention to mental health social work and sharing the trauma-informed care message with helping professions through presentations. Please listen in to Kristina’s powerful story and her passion to spread the trauma-informed care message of hope and healing.
You can contact Kristina for more information on her presentations at:
Phone: 715-523-2282
Email: kbechtel@lacrossecounty.org
Upcoming Speaking Engagement:2018 Wisconsin Peer Recovery Conference: Building Diverse Relationships
Holiday Inn and Convention Center, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
November 1st – 2nd, 2018
The Prevelance of Secondary Trauma in Helping Professionals: How We Keep Ourselves Safe

Peace to you all!
Teri
Emily Read Daniels – Here This Now

Emily Read Daniels – Here This Now

Welcome to The Healing Place Podcast! I’m your host, Teri Wellbrock. You can listen in on iTunes, Blubrry or directly on my website at www.teriwellbrock.com/podcasts/
I loved this interview with Emily Read Daniels, founder of HereThisNow! Please join us as we discuss trauma-informed trainings, workshops, speaking, blogging, and so much more.
Emily shared the following information:
Thank you, again, for the interview this morning! It was an honor and a pleasure and I do hope we have reason to connect again.
Please find the links you mentioned:
Upcoming October 21-24th Retreat:  The Trauma Informed School 2.0 with Lara Kain
Peace to you all!
Teri
Teri Barila – Community Resilience Initiative

Teri Barila – Community Resilience Initiative

Welcome to The Healing Place Podcast!

I was excited to connect with Teri Barila, Executive Director of the Community Resilience Initiative and Resilience Trumps Aces organization. On this episode of the podcast, Teri shares her insights with us in regards to the importance of building resilience in children as well as those who have ACEs (adverse childhood experiences) history. We touch on brain development, community impact, and so much more.

The CRI vision and mission are listed on their website as:

Vision:

All young people thrive and parents raise their children with consistency and nurturance to develop lasting resilience in the community as a whole.

Mission:

Mobilizing the community through dialogue to radically reduce the number of adverse childhood experiences while building resilience and a more effective service delivery system.


Find out more information about this inspirational organization and all they are doing to help shine the light of hope at:

https://resiliencetrumpsaces.org/

https://www.facebook.com/resiliencetrumpsaces/


 

Teri Barila, Executive Director, Community Resilience Initiative

Thanks for listening in! I would be oh-so-thankful if you could share the podcast, provide your feedback, and/or sign up for my monthly newsletter – all of this can be done through my website at www.teriwellbrock.com.

Peace,

Teri

Chaplain Chris Haughee – Intermountain Ministries

Chaplain Chris Haughee – Intermountain Ministries

Welcome to The Healing Place Podcast! Thank you for joining me as I engage in a deep and powerful conversation with Chris Haughee about trauma-informed ministry practices and his experience as a chaplain to the children of Intermountain, a residential facility for severely emotionally disturbed children in Helena, Montana.

http://www.intermountain.org/staff/chris-haughee-m-div/

More information on the interview can be found on my blog at www.unicornshadows.com.

Thank you for listening on iTunes, Blubrry and my website: www.teriwellbrock.com/podcasts/

Peace,

Teri Wellbrock

Trauma-Warrior, Author, Speaker, Podcaster, Blogger, Therapy Dog Handler

513-404-7717

 

Krissie Myers – Milestones & Foster Care

Krissie Myers – Milestones & Foster Care

Welcome to the Healing Place Podcast! It made my heart happy to sit down with my friend Krissie Myers to discuss her program directors roles with Milestones, Inc. – an equestrian achievement program – and Kentucky Intensive Family Services foster care agency. You can find out more about Milestone’s wonderful programs and volunteer opportunities on their Facebook page or on their website. Information on Kentucky Intensive Family Services can be found on their website: “As a small, non-profit agency, KIFS takes pride in the ability to provide intense, therapeutic, in-home services to foster families and the children placed in their homes. We are very proud of our high success rate of helping children reach permanency, reducing the lingering effects of trauma due to abuse, neglect, and family crisis situations, and enhancing the over-all health, well-being, and life experience of our most vulnerable population.”

 

Thanks for joining us! If you are enjoying these podcast, please be sure to leave a comment on iTunes or provide feedback on Blubrry or my website.

And, as always, a reminder to be gentle with yourself.

Peace,

Teri

 

Philip – Dissociative Identity Disorder & Poetic Healing

Philip – Dissociative Identity Disorder & Poetic Healing

Welcome to The Healing Place Podcast!

Teri recently conversed via a phone interview with published poet, Phil (last name omitted per his request), regarding his healing journey through childhood abuse, his youth spent in a sanitorium, a D.I.D. diagnosis, and the healing power of writing poetry. Please join us for this fascinating and hauntingly beautiful tale of triumph over trauma.

Phil shares two of his powerful poems on air.

Peace to you along your healing journey,

Teri . . . and Phil

Teri Wellbrock – Podcast Update

Teri Wellbrock – Podcast Update

Welcome to The Healing Place Podcast! Thank you for being here.

Today Teri provides an update on the podcast schedule change. We will be returning to a bi-weekly schedule beginning immediately. The next podcast will air on Friday, April 13th at 7:00 pm. We are excited about our upcoming guests scheduled for April, May, and June. Stay tuned for more info!

Take care,

Teri

Michael Weinberg & Mark Dorsey – Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati

Michael Weinberg & Mark Dorsey – Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati

Welcome everyone!

Teri was thrilled to sit down with Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati volunteer, Mark Dorsey, and Director of Volunteers, Mike Weinberg, to discuss the RMH mission, volunteer opportunities, and so much more.

More information on volunteer opportunities, fundraising events, and the services offered by RMH can be found at: https://www.rmhcincinnati.org/

After touring this amazing facility, with its comforting sense of community and warmth, we chatted and laughed our way through a wonderful 45 minutes of inspiration. The hope provided to families as they move along their journey into and through a critical care diagnosis for their child(ren) is heart-touching.

What a blessing to the families, the children, the Cincinnati community . . . the world!

Thank you for your volunteer efforts, your ambassador work, your gift to all who walk through the doors of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati. Thank you for bringing hope, support and joy to the lives of the families and children you serve.

Peace,

Teri . . . and Mark & Mike

P.S. Dinner was delicious! Thank you, Chef!