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The Therapy Sisters Therapy Sisters
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Welcome! We are Rachel and Charis, sisters and licensed clinical therapists with over thirty years of combined experience. In our personal and professional experiences we have learned how much we all have in common as women inhabiting this earth, and how often we struggle in silence and isolation. We invite you to come along with us as we come home to ourselves--engaging in the deconstruction of who we were told we were–be it because of traumas or familial or cultural messaging–and growing into the reconstruction of who we are truly meant to be. Look for new episodes every Tuesday.
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It’s All Your Fault
In today’s episode The Therapy Sisters explore the idea that often is internalized among those who grew up in religious communities that, whenever something goes wrong, it must be your fault. Struggle with depression? Pray more! Life hands you something challenging? Must be because you’re not doing enough. Or the right thing. It’s exhausting and it isn’t true. Listen as they share their experiences around this, how they see this play out in the lives of their clients, and what you can do to help address this narrative in your own life.
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Narrative Four: There Is Something Inherently Wrong…With You.
In this episode The Therapy Sisters discuss the message that something is wrong with you just by merit of your birth and the way in which people, women in particular, grow up to internalize this message.
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Whose Body Is It Anyway: An Interview with body and trauma specialist, Cassie Krajewski, LCSW
Welcome! We're so glad you're here. Grab a cup of coffee (or your drink of choice) and join the Therapy Sisters as they sit down with Cassie Krajewski, LCSW.
Cassie is an LCSW based in Denver, CO where she runs her private practice, Inner Atlas Therapy. She uses EMDR Therapy and Internal Family Systems Therapy to treat complex trauma, disordered eating and body image, and sex and relationships. Cassie is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and a senior faculty member at Kase and CO, an EMDR training business where she offers an EMDR and Disordered Eating course for therapists.
In this episode, Cassie shares her own story of growing up in purity culture, how that shaped her, particularly in relationship to her own body, and what she sees in clinical practice around purity culture, sex, and body image.
This is an amazing conversation and Cassie brings so much wisdom, experience, and insight to this discussion.
Books referenced today:
On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen
Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski, PhD
To get more information about Cassie's work you can find her here. And stay tuned for her podcast, Taking Up Space, which releases in May, where she will explore these topics in further depth.
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Purity Culture and Women's Relationships With Their Bodies
Hello, and welcome back to The Therapy Sisters Podcast!
In today's episode, The Therapy Sisters discuss purity culture and some of the inherent messages young women internalized about their bodies as a result, including:
-Where shame about the body starts
-How the messaging within purity culture impacts the mind/body/emotion connection
-The "light switch effect" when women get married.
-How consent factors in
-How women's sexuality is largely left out of the conversation
-How young girls who grew up within purity culture are made responsible for the thoughts/actions/desires of men and how that plays out into their future sexual lives and relationships with their own bodies.
....and more!
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Purity Culture and Its Impact on Women's Sexual Selves with Sex Therapist Dr. Adrienne Rowland
Welcome to the Beyond Sacred Scars podcast with The Therapy Sisters. We are so glad you're here.
Today The Therapy Sisters have the honor of sitting down with Dr. Adrienne Rowland.
Dr. Rowland is a certified sex therapist through the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and has her Doctorate Degree in Clinical Sexology from Modern Sex Therapy Institutes. Dr. Rowland is a fully licensed clinical therapist who has been practicing therapy since 2004 with 9 of those years serving as Clinical Director for a nonprofit, outpatient-counseling program. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Michigan State University in 2001 and her Master's degree in Social Work from the University of Michigan in 2004. She completed the Sexual Health Certificate Program through the University of Michigan, School of Social Work in 2018. She is a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers and has provided services through the Secular Therapy Project.
Books Recommended by Dr. Rowland:
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein
You Are Your Own: A Reckoning With the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life On Your Own Terms by Dr. Mathias RobertsSex and God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality by Dr. Darrel Ray
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Brief Intro To Narrative Three
Today is a brief mini-sode, introducing the next Narrative the Therapy Sisters will attempt to unravel in their Beyond Sacred Scars Podcast.
Listen to discover what this narrative is (it's a biggie!) and when to tune back in for the next full episode.
To find a therapist in you area, please visit: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists
We’d love to connect! You can find us on Facebook at facebook.com/therapysisterspodcast or on Instagram @the_therapy_sisters.
You can also feel free to reach out by email at thetherapysisters@gmail.com