About the Guest
Julie Brown Yau, PhD, has a 30-year background in psychological, somatic and spiritual traditions providing her with a unique depth of knowledge and direct experience. Julie’s unified approach for addressing developmental and complex trauma, includes the latest neuroscientific & psychosomatic findings, depth psychology, & Eastern wisdom. Julie is an author, speaker, and has a private practice in Laguna Beach CA. She has a passion for resolving trauma, reducing stress and suffering while cultivating compassion. Julie supports those on a spiritual path to embody realizations and assists those going through spiritual emergence to create a fully embodied and rich emotional life. Julie assists individuals and groups gain healing from ongoing repercussions of trauma and adversity, while enhancing psychospiritual growth and the expansion of consciousness.¬†More info at¬†http://juliebrownyau.com/
In this episode, we discuss:
- Whole body / whole brain approaches to addressing trauma through the body, mind, intellect, imagination and spiritual practice
- Trauma that happens to us when essential needs are not being met (what we don’t receive, what doesn’t happen to us)
- Inter-generational trauma from gene expression, between mother and father, birthing process and developmental stages
- The role of anger and rage in the process of healing
- Spiritual practices and addressing trauma
- Her book The Body Awareness Workbook for Trauma, coming August 2019.