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Trust and Thrive
Welcome to Trust and Thrive! I'm Tara Montazeri, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and host of the podcast. Through honest conversations, solo episodes, and interviews with guests, we explore topics related to mental health, relationships, OCD/anxiety, self-compassion, and the messy, nuanced parts of being human. I hope these conversations can help you feel curious, connected, understood, and less alone. Thank you for being here!
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Trust and Thrive
334: Self-Reparenting and Childhood Complex Trauma - with Barlas Günay, Registered Psychologist and Mindfulness Teacher
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Barlas Günay is a registered psychologist and certified meditation and mindfulness teacher based in the Netherlands, who over the past 13 years has guided thousands of people across the globe through profound journeys of healing and self-discovery. Trained in both the USA and Canada, he is the founder of Accept and Act, a healing platform offering online psychotherapy and a membership-based self-reparenting community with a combined following of over 100,000 across social media.
He specializes in (childhood) trauma recovery, relationships, and holistic psychology, with a particular focus on the transformative practice of self-reparenting. His mission is to help as many people as possible heal from their traumas, reconnect with themselves, and step into life as conscious, free, and authentic adults and parents, because he believes that when individuals heal, the world becomes a safer, happier place for all.
In this episode, we share a conversation around complex trauma and the nuance that can show up from these childhood experiences. We explore the potential impacts of childhood complex trauma, how the nervous system might response, and examples of survival responses. We hold space for the real and valid grief that may arise related to working through these wounds.
We also discuss how trauma can influence our sense of safety in relationships, and why healing is less about "fixing" and more on holding compassion for parts of ourselves that did what they needed to do to survive.
As always, this episode is not a replacement for therapy or individualized care. We simply hope to bring validation and education around these heavy topics.
We hope you can take care of yourself in whatever ways support you, whether that's taking a step away from listening or simply checking in with what's coming up for you.
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