Beyond Your Past Radio
**While this podcast is no longer actively recording new episodes or taking feedback requests, we hope the library of content over the years continues to help encourage and inspire you on your healing journey.**
You can see a brief statement at https://survivingmypast.net about the original Surviving My Past podcast and Beyond Your Past Radio.
Beyond Your Past Radio, with your hosts, Matthew Pappas, CLC, MPNLP, and Joanne Cipressi, CHt, CNLP. Join us each week as we talk with guests who have overcome their past and are using their powers for the greater good! Clinicians, Life Coaches, Advocates, Bloggers, and others will be here to help inspire and encourage you that no matter what you have been through, there is Hope and You can make a difference. In addition, as Coaches, we give you practical strategies and insight you can use every single day to help you move forward from what's been keeping you stuck.
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Episodes
184 episodes
Is it Time to Get Help for Your Mental Health?
Have you thought about reaching out to a therapist? Have you considered working with a Counselor? What about working with Life Coach? In this episode of the podcast, we talk about the importance of making your mental health a priority a...
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Essential Employees - Tips and Strategies for Dealing with Overwhelm, Stress, and Uncertainty
We're talking to an essential employee, and offering support, encouragement, and validation to everyone who is on the front lines in hospitals, doctor's offices, animal hospitals, grocery and food store workers, and so many others who are deali...
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Tips for Dealing with Anxiety and Worry during Isolation and Uncertain Times
After a 5 month hiatus from recording new episodes, we're back with a special edition of Beyond Your Past Radio, and we couldn't be happier to be rejoining the podcast airwaves and spend some time in your podcast playlist this week. :)A...
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What We Learned in Therapy and How We Continue to Heal.
The long-awaited and wildly anticipated (more or less) return of the Mental Health Megacast is here! Season 3, Ep. 2 I believe is where we are, although truth be told it's hard to say for sure what episode it is. If you're a regular listener of...
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Using Creative Expression to Navigate PTSD and Heal, with Amy Oestreicher
Healing from physical pain, disease, or trauma is not an exact science; there is no "one size fits all" approach to healing. Each of us is different and experiences the feelings and emotions that come from healing in different ways, and of cour...
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Gratitude and Forgiveness, Essential Aspects of Healing and Empowerment, with Lisa Cybaniak
Since gratitude and forgiveness are key to healing, feeling empowered, enforcing healthy boundaries in relationships, and so many other aspects in life, we wanted to bring back a guest for a podcast episode who specializes in fostering a mindse...
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Re-Victimized, the Risk of Sharing Your Trauma Story with Family, with Miranda Pacchiana
Childhood trauma is going to affect you into adulthood, and even with doing the hard work of healing, there will still be times of struggle. The difference is, the understanding, awareness, and skills you learn with the help of a trauma-informe...
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The Rule of 7, How Narcissists Use Repetition to Manipulate You, with Kim Saeed
Our guest on this episode of the podcast is well known in the narcissistic abuse recovery circles and has dedicated her life to exposing the tactics of narcissistic individuals and helping people break free from the grasp of a narcissist. I lik...
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There is No Shame in Recovery from Addiction, with Lisa Boucher
Recovery and addiction sadly often go hand in hand. What is modeled for us as a child, or not modeled for us, along the trauma of any type of abuse can lead to struggles with addictions of drugs and alcohol.Our guest today, Lisa Boucher,...
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Taking Charge of Your Trauma Narrative, with Dorothy Pierre-Joseph.
How do you figure out what a trauma narrative is, how do you even know if what you went through was indeed trauma? What steps can you take to make sense of all the struggles you've endured throughout life, and how can they be traced back to tha...
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Navigating Daily Life and Continued Healing, after Sharing Your Survivor Story, with Larry Ruhl.
Friend of the podcast, author, artist, and survivor, Larry Ruhl, joins us to talk about what life has been like since he released his book, "Breaking the Ruhls", and the new challenges that daily life brings after his openly wrote about his exp...
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Self-Esteem and Reframing Negative Core Beliefs in Healing from Complex PTSD.
Today's guest on the podcast, Austin Robin, is a survivor of childhood trauma and lives with Complex PTSD. She has also hosted her own podcast, "The Complexities Podcast", where she shares in-depth about her story and the challenges of living a...
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Childhood Trauma, Addiction, and the Hope of Recovery, with Tricia Moceo
Tricia Moceo advocates long term sobriety by providing resources to recovering addicts and shedding light on the disease of addiction. Tricia is a mother of two, actively involved in her local recovery community, and is passionate about hel...
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41:37
Living with BPD, One Hourly Battle at a Time, with Jody Betty
The official definition of Borderline Personality Disorder, as outlined by the National Institute of Mental Health: Borderline personality disorder...
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A Diagnosis She Would Not Accept, and a Holistic Approach that Changed Her Life.
Our guest on this episode of the podcast, Kimberle Taitano, has seen her share of challenges in life, physically, mentally, and emotionally. She joins us to talk about her experiences and how all of the challenges she's faced, brought her to a ...
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"Feel to Heal", Integrative Wellness for Healing and Life, with Delisa Richardson
Our guest today on the podcast, Delisa Richardson, has dedicated her life to finding the balance of living with chronic illness, recovery from being a survivor, being a mom and wife, and working with clients in her coaching business. As she out...
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Chronic Suicidality, It's Always on the Table...with Frank King
Even in today's world, where mental health is becoming more mainstream to talk about, there's still a stigma surrounding those dreaded two words. Even more than that, what about the judgemental mindset that comes with admitting you've attempted...
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31:21
Healing from Abusive Therapy, It's Not Your Fault.
This topic of an unhealthy or abusive relationship in therapy is not something you probably hear about every day, and unless you've experienced it personally or know someone who has, you may not even know it's actually a thing. My guest on the ...
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48:35
Understanding the Needs of a Community after a Mass Shooting, with Melissa Glaser
Our guest today is an expert in the field of helping communities heal after mass shootings and other trauma's, and she shares some of her insight and experiences with us on this episode of the podcast. Melissa Glaser, MS, LPC is a community...
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Living Your Best Life through Healing Your Past, with Karen Cesario Rizzo
When you come to a point in healing from your past, from all of the abuse, the trauma, the years of suffering, you may come to a point where you just break down, fall to your knees, and cry out for help. That's exactly what our guest on this
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Healing from an Emotionally Abusive Relationship, with Liz Goddard
So what can we do? How can we identify a relationship that is filled with emotional abuse? Is there a way to see it and get out before more damage is done and heal more compassionately and efficiently once it's over? What can we do to help ours...
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43:46
The Hope in Healing from CPTSD, with Monique Koven
So what does that hope actually look like, what does it feel like? Well, I'm glad you asked because our guest on this episode of the podcast is Monique Koven, Trauma-Informed R...
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40:51
Learning How to Tell Your Survivor Story, with Rachel Grant
Your survivor story, the way you live it every day, and the way you tell it to others, evolves throughout the various stages of healing. Each version is your truth, as you experienced it in the past and how you live in the present. Each stage o...
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