Denise Casey works with people of all ages as a storyteller, performing artist, voice movement therapy practitioner, group facilitator, and mindfulness coach. She and Eric talk about the value in learning to tell our stories, liberating ourselves from stories that are not working, seeing the ways we lie to ourselves, and healing the pain that our bodies carry, among other things.

Outline

• 00:00 - 02:11 — Episode introduction
• 02:11 - 09:33 — The value in learning to tell our stories
• 09:33 - 17:50 — Liberating ourselves from stories that are not working
• 17:50 - 27:39 — Seeing the ways we lie to ourselves
• 27:39 - 34:45 — Healing the pain that our bodies carry
• 34:45 - 41:34 — Struggling with the energy of people pleasing
• 41:34 - 46:34 — Fear as a barrier to telling our story
• 46:34 - 48:09 — Episode wrap-up

Links and Resources

• GotThisVoice.com
• Quillwood Academy
• Telling Tales of Change
• Inside Out Writing: I Got a Story to Tell (Denise's workshop)
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel van der Kolk
• When the Body Says No: The Hidden Cost of Stress, by Gabor Maté
• Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger, by Lama Rod Owens
• Lama Rod Owens
• Lama John Mckransky
• Playing the Game
• QP #2: Dancing with the Cannibal Giant, with Sherri Mitchell