About this episode

Dr. Cherie Lindberg discusses her journey with childhood trauma and the effectiveness of Brainspotting in her healing process.

We continue our conversations about Brainspotting in this week's episode with my guest, Dr. Cherie Lindberg. Cherie is the author of Sacred Healing, a former psychotherapist of 25 years, a speaker, a Brainspotting consultant and trainer, and a coach working with high performing individuals and the practitioners who serve them. In our conversation, Cherie shares that despite being abused as a child, she didn't recognize until she was in graduate school that she was experiencing Complex PTSD. Initially finding little help from talk therapies, Cherie notes that many of the attachment wounds affecting her were from early years and stored non-verbally. She explains that she experienced her first shifts through EMDR therapy, which reduced some of the symptoms, but she was still living her life in a way that felt inauthentic, still operating from that wounded place. We talked about the "fawn" response to threat which shows up in performative behaviors like people-pleasing and accommodating others while suppressing our own thoughts and feelings, wants and needs. Through deep Brainspotting work, Cherie found herself using the "fawning" strategy less and less and showing up more often as…

People in this episode

Host: Laura Reagan

Guest: Dr. Cherie Lindberg

Topics covered

• Brainspotting
• Childhood Trauma
• Complex PTSD
• EMDR Therapy
• Authenticity
• Coaching

Keywords

• Brainspotting
• Childhood Trauma
• Complex PTSD
• EMDR
• Authenticity
• Coaching
• Therapy

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Sacred Healing

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