Whole Again Pod
Hosted by Teddy and Leslie, Whole Again Pod is a conversation about trauma, healing, and the journey toward wholeness. Through candid discussions, expert insights, and real-life stories, we explore the ways people rebuild after hardship—whether it’s personal loss, systemic injustice, or the everyday struggles of being human. With backgrounds in advocacy, social work, and education, Teddy and Leslie bring deep experience and compassion to the conversation. Each episode offers practical takeaways, thoughtful reflection, and a reminder that healing is possible. Join us as we navigate the complexities of trauma, resilience, and what it means to become whole again.
Episodes
In the first three episodes we covered what trauma is and how trauma interrupts our wholeness; now Leslie and Teddy explore the fourth statement of the Integrative Trauma and Healing Framework: “Trauma overwhelms our body-brain’s ability to integrate and cope.”
They discuss the body-brain and break down what “overwhelm” feels like our personal and collective nervous systems —from daily micro-aggressions to national crises. And how...
In episode 3 of the Whole Again Pod, hosts Leslie and Teddy dive deep into what it means when we say “trauma interrupts.” Moving beyond clinical definitions and diagnoses, we unpack the ways trauma disintegrates our sense of safety, agency, dignity, and belonging—not just as individuals, but across families, communities, systems, and cultures. We explore the many forms trauma can take, from sudden explosions to slow erosions, and h...
The second episode of Whole Again Pod is about statement two of the Framework: we embody trauma and healing across 5 layers: individual, collective, systemic, intergenerational, and historical.
This episode is all about bodies and how people, groups, systems and cultures embody trauma and healing.
Show Notes- Sonya Renee Taylor (2018)- The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
In this episode Teddy and Leslie introduce the integrative trauma and healing framework and dive into statement 1: We begin whole. Our birthright includes safe, agency, dignity, and belonging. We explore the concepts of wholeness and safety, agency, dignity, and belonging as well as existing definitions of trauma.
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