Suicide Zen Forgiveness Stories re Suicide Loss | Ideation | Mental Health | Offering Hope |Empathy for All
Suicide Zen Forgiveness Stories re Suicide Loss | Ideation | Mental Health | Offering Hope |Empathy for All
Podcast Description
Adding empathy and offering hope to end the silence, stigma, and shame. ~Elaine Lindsay©2021
Come along on the transformative journey of ’Suicide Zen Forgiveness,’ where host Elaine Lindsay, a suicide loss survivor and advocate, invites listeners to break the silence about mental health struggles. Elaine wants to remove the shame felt by all who are touched by suicide loss, ideation and mental health. With over 50 years of personal experience, Elaine offers candid conversations, heartfelt stories, and practical insights aimed at ending the stigma and offering hope. Each episode explores themes of resilience, gratitude, and growth, encouraging listeners to navigate life’s challenges with bravery and compassion. Tune in for a blend of wisdom, authenticity, and unwavering support on a group journey of healing, hope, and understanding.
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Content Themes
Themes center on personal transformation through grief and loss, such as resilience, empathy, and mental health awareness. Episodes explore topics like men's mental health, spirituality in healing, coping with grief through storytelling, and actionable strategies for overcoming adversity, with highlights from conversations with guests sharing their unique experiences and methods of healing.
Adding empathy and offering hope to end the silence, stigma, and shame. ~Elaine Lindsay©2021
Come along on the transformative journey of ’Suicide Zen Forgiveness,’ where host Elaine Lindsay, a suicide loss survivor and advocate, invites listeners to break the silence about mental health struggles. Elaine wants to remove the shame felt by all who are touched by suicide loss, ideation and mental health. With over 50 years of personal experience, Elaine offers candid conversations, heartfelt stories, and practical insights aimed at ending the stigma and offering hope. Each episode explores themes of resilience, gratitude, and growth, encouraging listeners to navigate life’s challenges with bravery and compassion. Tune in for a blend of wisdom, authenticity, and unwavering support on a group journey of healing, hope, and understanding.
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From Burden to Bliss: Conquering Emotional Trauma
Show Notes
🧠 Episode Summary
Barb Varcl Smith returns for a deep, raw, and radically hopeful conversation with Elaine @TheDarkPollyanna. They dig into how trauma gets stored in the body—and what it actually takes to release it. Barb breaks down myths about trauma recovery, the lies we believe about suffering, and how chronic pain may be your body screaming for help. From childhood wounds to adult survival patterns, this episode offers a sharp and compassionate reminder: you’re not broken. You’re carrying something heavy. And you can finally set it down.
Trauma doesn’t just live in your memories. It lives in your body. In this fiercely honest conversation, Elaine welcomes back trauma recovery specialist Barb Varcl Smith to unpack:
💥 What We Talk About:
- The myth of “managing” trauma vs. releasing it
- What trauma really is (hint: not just the event, but your response)
- How trauma shows up in the body—pain, illness, patterns
- Why you might be attached to your trauma
- The grief of losing a survival identity
- What to expect from a trauma-release process
- Why some trauma resolves quickly and some doesn’t
- Generational patterns, people-pleasing, and control
- Listening as an act of healing (especially in families)
- How to create space in relationships (kitchens, garages, beds!)
📞 If You’re in Crisis:
If you’re in North America, text 988 for free, 24/7 support.
Elsewhere? Please reach out to your local suicide prevention or mental health hotline. #YouMatter.
💬 Subscribe, rate, and share if this episode moved you. It could be the lifeline someone else didn’t know they needed. #ConverSAVEtions
Bio
Barb Varcl Smith is a therapist, educator, and trauma specialist with over 30 years of experience in human behaviour and emotional wellness. She is dedicated to helping individuals heal from CPTSD, overcome emotional trauma, and break free from generational cycles of pain.
Barb’s work is rooted in a trauma-informed, neuroscience-backed approach that empowers individuals to recognize patterns, process past experiences, and build emotional resilience.
She specializes in working with men, women, and young adults, providing compassionate support and practical strategies for lasting recovery.
Her programs Trauma Response Reprogramming, Your Steps of Ascendance and Complex PTSD Blueprint helping individuals, groups and other mental health professionals change understand of trauma and bring powerful change to life without trauma.
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