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Podcast: The Trauma Therapist
Episode: Episode 564: We've forgotten that we live in our bodies with Jan Winhall, MSW
Description: My guest today, Jan Winhall of Focusing on Borden, began her career as social worker and psychotherapist 40 years ago.[CW for text below: mention of self-harming behaviors]She began listening with non-pathologizing ears and heard shocking stories of sexual torture, and responses that confused her. Women were cutting themselves, bingeing and purging huge quantities of food, and abusing drugs and alcohol. As she continued to listen she learned that somehow these self-harming behaviors were “helping” individuals to escape intolerable emotional states. They were shifting their mood from flooding anxiety to numbing deadness, or vice vers...