Transcript of Turning Points Is Back for Season 4

The Turning Point Navigating Mental Health podcast is back. I'm your host, Frances Lies, a licensed Clinical Therapist and Life Coach from Boston. Get ready for an exciting new season brought to you by Point32 Health, a New England-based not-for-profit health and well-being company, and the parent company of Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare and Tufts Health Plan. This season, diving deep into stories of resilience, hope, and the transformative moments that redefine our mental health journeys.

When you have a village, generations change and lives are transformed. The best we can, we try to facilitate those opportunities for them to create those experiences at various levels while talking about your emotions, but also talking about that inner child.

My favorite part of group therapy, which I think you're talking about, Frances, is that connection. Connection is so important. Those who are struggling with eating disorders or other struggles and challenges as well often face isolation and feeling very alone. And so that group therapy atmosphere can actually bring those folks together and have a sense of belonging.

This season, I'm joined by an inspiring lineup of mental health professionals, experts, and survivors. Together, we'll explore the benefits of peer therapy, the emotional terrain of a cancer diagnosis, the comforting presence of end-of-life doulas, the resilience of those who have navigated PTSD, and so much more.

One of the questions I often get is, why don't survivors disclose or why don't survivors seek services? I also learned, if you don't like the question, change the question. The question is more about, what is it about us that doesn't allow survivors to seek services that doesn't allow survivors to disclose.

From a biological perspective, as you're seeing, the fight, flight, or freeze response is a very powerful response. On paper, it makes sense to want to avoid that. But what happens in PTSD is people avoid it so much that they get trapped there. You find that people's worlds get smaller and smaller because the avoidance gets more and more generalized. That's where those beliefs come in. I think about trauma as this lightning bolt that comes down and impacts the way you view the world.

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