The Trauma Therapist

Shigeko Ito is a Japanese-born educator and mental health advocate with a PhD in Education from Stanford University. She is the author of The Pond Beyond the Forest, a memoir exploring childhood emotional neglect, intergenerational trauma, and the long path toward healing. Drawing on lived experience and cross-cultural insight, she offers a deeply honest and moving story of resilience, punctuated by moments of levity and hope.

In This Episode
Shigeko’s website
Shigeko Ito on Instagram
The Pond Beyond the Forest

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Romain Daumont is an entrepreneur and founder of Luminara, a digital platform designed to make energy healing and biofield therapies more accessible worldwide. He created Luminara to bridge ancient healing practices with modern technology, curating vetted practitioners and delivering one-to-one sessions through a remote, immersive experience. His work is driven by a personal journey of loss, which led him to focus on creating spaces for healing, connection, and transformation at scale.

LinksLuminara website: https://www.luminara.care/
About Luminara: https://www.luminara.care/about-us/
Luminara (company profile): https://www.linkedin.com/company/luminara-care/

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Dr. Kore Glied and Anna White interview conflict mediation expert Elizabeth Clemants about child sexual abuse. Kore and Anna are co-founders of The Type C Personality Project, which helps people who have difficulty saying no, take responsibility for the emotions of others, carry the weight of the world on their shoulders, and avoid conflict at all costs. They are authors of the upcoming book, The Empowered Type C, publishing May 2027.

Elizabeth is the founder of Hidden Water, a non-profit that uses a restorative justice model to work through child sexual abuse and the conflict that results in families. She is author of Healing Together: A Family Guide to Recovering from Sexual Harm.

For more information about these two initiatives, please visit:
www.thetypecpersonality.com, Instagram @thetypecpersonality, and podcast The Type C Personality
www.hiddenwatercircle.org and www.elizabethclemants.com 

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Zalak Raval is a Senior Associate practicing Corporate Securities law in New York., an author, and a TEDx speaker. After experiencing a period of personal and professional upheaval, she began rebuilding her life through self-awareness, gratitude, and meditation. In 2024, she published her first book, 50 Shades of Shit: How to Unlearn and Rewire Our Unconscious, which combines philosophy, practical tools, and memoir. Her work explores how unconscious beliefs and patterns shaped by past experiences can influence relationships, decisions, and our sense of self. (Superdoodle)

In This EpisodeZalak Raval's Story
Zalak Raval's TEDx Animation
Zalak Raval's Work with Superdoodle
zalakraval@gmail.com

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Amma Thanasanti first encountered the Dharma in 1979 and was a Buddhist nun for 26 years in the Ajahn Chah Forest Tradition. She has been teaching intensive meditation retreats internationally since 1995, combining the precision and rigor of the Forest Tradition with compassion, pure awareness practices, and a passion for wholeness. 

Her teaching emphasizes deep listening, authenticity, inquiry, and presence while supporting people from diverse communities in cultivating belonging and connection. Through Awakening Truth, Amma integrates meditation with trauma-informed approaches, encouraging people to pause, inquire into the present moment, and foster personal growth and healing. 

In This EpisodeAmma Thanasanti's Website
Introduction to Integrated Meditation
Awakening Truth
Awakening Truth on YouTube

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