Matters of the Heart: Parenting, Trauma, and More with Kate Turner, LPC

Some things are so painful that they get locked up in the heart
forever. People can spend their entire lives carrying these scars
around, sometimes without even knowing they do. In an effort to
buffer away from this hurt, individuals turn to all manner of
destructive habits. Today’s guest is Kate Turner, and she is a
practicing counselor who specializes in trauma recovery therapy
and parenting. Kate joins us on the show today to speak about the
roots and manifestations of trauma, healing methods she uses in
her practice, and actionable skills parents can use to heal from
their own pain thus inflicting less of it on their
kids. 

Kate breaks down her HeartSync philosophy which sees the heart as
a three-part being that both stores and guards itself against
trauma, locking it in as a protective mechanism that ends up
causing further damage. Kate takes her patients through
faith-based visualization processes to help them unblock these
stoppages and release old pain, to the effect of healing both
emotional and physical ailments. She also shares more about her
Love and Logic workshops which help children and parents learn
more peaceful ways of communicating, having the effect of
families ultimately leading more fulfilling and whole
lives. 





Key Points From This Episode:


What HeartSync is all about: a faith-based way of healing
from trauma.

The three parts of the heart: the emotional part, the logical
part, and the ‘guardian.’

Wounds that we suffer from as babies or children while we are
over-egocentric.

Using the heart model to understand how trauma gets buffered
by distractions/addictions.

How the guardian stops emotional trauma spilling into the
logical part of the heart.

Vices caused by the guardian keeping emotions in: drugs,
food, sex, technology, etc.

Somatic/physical manifestations of trauma that subside after
therapy.

The Christian elements of HeartSync that use Jesus as part of
the healing process.

Applications of HeartSync to people who have been wounded due
to their faith.

Dangers of giving kids free reign on the internet in their
rooms: they encounter wrongdoing.



Tweetables:


“It’s not about fixing my kids, it’s about taking a look at
myself.” — Kate Turner [0:24:17]


“I have seen people healed not only emotionally but also
physically in the most, you could say, miraculous of ways.” —
Kate Turner [0:47:11]


“It does take courage to pick up the phone and yet there can be
so much hope and help on the other side of the line.” — Kate
Turner [0:48:31]





Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:


Kate Turner — http://katedturner.com/


Kate Turner on LinkedIn —
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateturnercounseling/


Kate Turner Counseling on Instagram —
https://www.instagram.com/kate_turner_counseling/


Father Andrew Miller — http://www.heartsyncministries.org/about/


Joey Gentempo — https://hisfathersheart.org/author/joeygentempo/


Internal Family Systems — https://ifs-institute.com/


Richard C. Schwartz —
https://ifs-institute.com/about-us/richard-c-schwartz-phd


The Tech-Wise Family —
https://www.amazon.com/Tech-Wise-Family-Everyday-Putting-Technology/dp/0801018668