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A 23-year fire service veteran, current captain, and company officer, Kory’s service gives him a rare perspective on what drives firefighters to succeed and what erodes them over time. He’s also the founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of CRACKYL Magazine, a groundbreaking platform that connects science, culture, and lived experience in

Content note: This article contains references to homicide, graphic fire-scene imagery, aggression toward a child, and suicide.  A retired firefighter and the founder of Fire to Light, an organization dedicated to advancing preventative Mental Fitness training inside the fire service, Brandon drew on his own lived experience and independent global

A Compassionate Inquiry® Practitioner, Private Mentor, and multidisciplinary somatic therapist, Lizzie has taught yoga and worked as a Rolfer, Rolf Movement practitioner, and craniosacral therapist for over 20 years. During that time, she also underwent a liver transplant and a colectomy and received a cancer diagnosis, experiences that changed the

I have been sitting with a question lately: When did everything become so serious? Not because seriousness is inherently a problem. There are responsibilities that deserve our full attention. Some difficulties cannot be laughed away, some obligations must be met, and some moments call for being grounded and deliberate. But

Anouk brings a unique synthesis of clinical expertise and lived experience to the fields of growth and development. She joined Compassionate Inquiry® in 2020 and today serves as The Portal Facilitator, Circle Leader, and administrator. Integrating Compassionate Inquiry®’s trauma lens has both validated her belief that our personal histories and

I sat in a seminar on emotional intelligence, and the room turned, the way it eventually does, toward forgiveness. The facilitator traced the word “pardon” back to the Latin “perdonare.” To give completely. To remit. To release a debt. To no longer have to pay. Forgiveness, he said, is something

Anouk Bindels is a psychologist, systems therapist, coach, and trainer with a private practice in the Netherlands. Her work focuses on understanding the roots of trauma and the protective patterns people develop in response to difficult experiences. Drawing on 40 years of experience supporting people affected by trauma, her Heart

For over a decade, Charon has worked with individuals and couples in the territory where most healing becomes visible and felt: the body. A Licensed Master Social Worker, relationship therapist, somatic psychotherapist, and shamanic bodyworker, her approach is trauma-informed, somatic, and deeply relational, drawing on attachment theory, polyvagal theory, Compassionate

In this excerpt, the podcast’s two years and 100 episodes are celebrated through 25 moments, along with a tribute to two beloved voices lost along the way. Hear the full conversation on The Gifts of Trauma Podcast. Last week, we aired our 100th episode of The Gifts of Trauma podcast.

There is a particular kind of discomfort that comes with realizing we may have been wrong. Not wrong in a dramatic or unforgivable way. Not wrong in a way that makes us terrible people. Just wrong in the ordinary human sense. We misunderstood someone.We reacted too quickly.We assumed we knew