The Heal Thrive Dream Podcast

"Take the brave steps towards safety and stability with the power of neuroscience and the Seraphim Project."

"It is possible for you to move forward into the life that you want if you focus on you, focus on your safety, your stability, what is important for you, and you take those next steps that you know that you need to take."
Serafina Christine is an artist, trauma survivor, and neuroscience expert who combines her lived experience of complex PTSD with neuroscience to explain the ways trauma impacts people's mind, body, and spirit. She provides organizations with training on complex trauma and the impacts of poverty.
Serafina Christine grew up in an abusive household and experienced domestic abuse and homelessness. She was desperate to find a way to cope with the trauma she had experienced, and after much study, she discovered Complex Trauma. She developed her own program to help survivors of trauma and those providing services to them. With her program, she encourages people to focus on their safety, stability, and what is important to them, so they can learn to trust the world again. Serafina Christine is now working on her bachelor’s degree to become a therapist and is developing a coloring book to help people understand their nervous system. She is determined to provide the support and understanding to survivors of trauma.
In this episode, you will learn the following:
1. How to use neuroscience to understand and support individuals who have experienced trauma.
2. Methods for retraining the nervous system to see the world as a safe place.
3. Strategies for taking care of oneself and cultivating safety in difficult times.

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Heal Thrive Dream Guest: Anna Runyan
Heal Thrive Dream Guest: Andrea Lukac

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Chapter Summaries:
[00:00:03]Serafina combines her lived experience of being unhoused and a survivor of complex PTSD with neuroscience to explain the ways trauma impacts people's mind, body, and spirit. She provides organizations training on complex trauma and the impacts of poverty. What else about you would you like to share with our audience?
[00:01:15]Is there a trauma story that you're comfortable with sharing with us today? Why did you start doing the work that you do?
[00:04:26]When you meet a person who has a lot of development of trauma, that part of the brain gets switched off and turns into, I perceive the world as a dangerous, scary place. There's an exercise called orient to safety that allows the nervous system to see the world and see that it's safe.

[00:10:29]Right now I'm working on developing a program for survivors of trauma and a secondary program for people who are providing services. I also sell a nervous system diagram. 

[00:13:51]I'm coming out with a coloring book on the nervous system soon. Some of my favorite books would be Nurturing Resilience. The other one that I really like is Stephanie Foo's book. Are there any other materials or books you recommend for our listeners who want to learn more? Books Recommended by Serafina: Nurturing Resilience: Helping Clients Move Forward From Developmental Trauma – An Integrative Somatic Approach by Kathy L. Kain & Stephen J. Terrell
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
[00:15:53]So let's say a listener is a victim of childhood abuse, struggling with poverty in their first few relationships. What words of hope or inspiration do you have for anyone in that kind of situation? It is so possible for you to move forward into the life that you want if you focus on you.

[00:18:17]Okay, well, I appreciate so much for taking the time out today to be here with our audience to give them some concrete action plans. You have some things on Etsy for us to check out, and your programs online. So we're very appreciative of your time today.