From Personal Trauma To Collective Healing and Healing a Nation's Wounds.

About this episode

The episode explores the connection between personal trauma and collective healing through a conversation with psychotherapist Phyllis Leavitt.

Send us fan mail. We love to hear from you! What if the tools that mend a fractured family could also help heal a divided nation? That question drives our powerful conversation with psychotherapist and author Phyllis Leavitt, whose new book America in Therapy reframes politics through a mental health lens. We trace her journey from buried childhood trauma to profound spiritual moments and the steady, practical work of psychotherapy, then connect those lessons to the crises we’re all living th...

People in this episode

Host: Nichol Ellis-McGregor

Guest: Phyllis Leavitt

Topics covered

• personal trauma
• collective healing
• mental health
• psychotherapy
• politics
• spirituality

Keywords

• trauma
• healing
• psychotherapy
• mental health
• politics
• spiritual moments

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: America in Therapy

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