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Dr. MaryCatherine (MC) McDonald – Tiny Little Joys: Joy as a Needed Healing Modality

By thehealingplacepodcast | September 12, 2025

I am happy to share this week’s enlightening and engaging guest, Dr. MaryCatherine (MC) McDonald. Please join us as we discuss:

the philosophy of psychology and trauma
her insights on critical stances and lived experience
her philosophies on the history of trauma – hysteria, shell shock, PTSD
what she means by gratitude bliss – joy as a needed healing modality
practice – tiny little joys
and so much more!

Welcome to The Healing Place Podcast! I am your host, Teri Wellbrock. You can listen in on Pandora, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Deezer, Amazon Music, and more, or directly on my website at www.teriwellbrock.com/podcasts/. You can also catch our insightful interview on YouTube.

Bio:

**MaryCatherine (MC) McDonald**

MaryCatherine (MC) McDonald, PhD, is a research professor and life coach who specializes in the psychology and philosophy of trauma. Since beginning her doctorate in 2009, she has been researching, lecturing, and publishing on the neuroscience, psychology, and lived experience of trauma. Her work focuses on thinking critically about how we understand, define, and heal from traumatic experiences. She is passionate about destigmatizing trauma and mental health issues in general, as well as reframing our understanding of trauma in order to better understand and treat it.

After receiving her master’s degree at The New School, where she researched traumatic loss and mourning from both philosophical and psychological perspectives, she went on to complete her PhD at Boston University. She has published several research articles and book chapters, as well as two books on trauma, Merleau-Ponty and a Phenomenology of PTSD: The Hidden Ghosts of Traumatic Memory and American and NATO Veteran Reintegration: The Trauma of Social Isolation & Cultural Chasms.

In addition to her academic work, McDonald has a thriving life-coaching business. She has coached individual clients and corporate employees since 2010 and created trauma-based curriculum for nonprofit organizations in New York, Virginia, and California that serve previously incarcerated individuals and veterans.

*Websites: https://alchemycoaching.life/*

*https://www.thejoyreset.com/*

*https://www.instagram.com/mc.phd/*

*https://www.tiktok.com/@mc.phd?lang=en*

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Lynn Fraser – Radical Recovery Summit, Free Meditation Practice, & Trauma-Healing Strategies

By thehealingplacepodcast | March 6, 2020

I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to sit with Lynn Fraser of Stillpoint and moderator of the Radical Recovery Summit. Please join us as we discuss:

trauma-healing strategies
her LIVE daily meditation practice – join in for free every morning
Stillpoint courses and classes – such as Women’s Healing Trauma
her own story of triumph over PTSD
the Radical Recovery Summit
and more!

Welcome to The Healing Place Podcast! I am your host, Teri Wellbrock. You can listen in on Pandora, iTunes, Blubrry, Spotify, Deezer, Google Podcasts, Podbean, and more, or directly on my website at www.teriwellbrock.com/podcasts/. You can also watch our insightful interview on YouTube.

Bio:

“Lynn Fraser brings the depth of twenty two years experience teaching meditation. She specializes in holding a safe, trusted space for healing trauma in her private online sessions. Lynn lives near family, ocean and forest in Nova Scotia Canada.

She is a senior teacher in the Himalayan Yoga Meditation tradition; and an experienced Facilitator of Scott Kiloby’s Living Inquiries.

‘Fast forward 25 years from when I first learned meditation in the early nineties. I see and love myself. I am authentic and connect deeply. My body is relaxed and a known space. Trauma is largely healed and resolved. I am mostly free of reactivity and I have skills to work with thoughts and sensation. I know from experience I can be with whatever is arising in this space and time. I feel, at 66, that I am now an emotionally mature adult.’

‘Lynn has experienced a profound recognition of present moment awareness and embodies it naturally. That’s the kind of teacher anyone would want, for if one’s teacher does not have the direct experience of what is being taught, true transformation just cannot happen.’ Scott Kiloby“

Learn more about Lynn and her mission at:

lynnfraserstillpoint.com

Lynn invites everyone to the free online daily relaxation practice at 8AM Eastern. Click this Zoom link http://zoom.us/j/645904638

Peace to you all!

Teri

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Joyelle Brandt – Parenting with PTSD

By thehealingplacepodcast | May 3, 2019

Welcome to The Healing Place Podcast! I am your host, Teri Wellbrock. You can listen in on iTunes, Blubrry or directly on my website at www.teriwellbrock.com/podcasts/. You can also watch our insightful interview on YouTube.

I am grateful to have had the chance to sit down with Joyelle Brandt to discuss her mission of helping those who are parenting with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). Thank you, Joyelle, for sharing your personal story and the beautiful work you are doing helping others along their parenting and healing journey. What a gift for those families and the children who will benefit from the steps their parents are taking to heal.

Bio:

“Joyelle Brandt is a self care coach for moms. She specializes in working with mothers who are survivors of abuse, to help them develop a personalized self soothing toolkit for stress management. As aspeaker, mothering coach, and multi-media creator, Joyelle works to dismantle the stigma that keeps childhood abuse survivors stuck in shame and self-hatred. She is the author/illustrator of Princess Monsters from A to Z and co-editor of Parenting with PTSD, the groundbreaking anthology that breaks the silence about the long-term impact of childhood trauma so that parents can break the cycle of abuse.

When she is not busy raising two rambunctious boys, she is most often found playing her guitar or covered in paint at her art desk. You can keep up with Joyelle at www.joyellebrandt.com“

Parenting Coach to survivor mamas, Healing trauma through creativity.

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From Joyelle’s website:

“As a speaker, mothering coach, and multi-media creator, I work to break the silence that keeps childhood abuse survivors stuck in shame and self-hatred. I believe that our stories possess the power to transform our greatest pain into beautiful works of art.“

Find out more about Joyelle’s mission and works of art at www.joyellebrandt.com.