Map Your Healing Journey

“We might have had too much fun,” Sherry Yuan Hunter said when she emailed me the link to this podcast episode: Healing through Comedy with Kelly.

Well, of course! LOL. Comedy, humor, laughter – all of it is part of my personal trauma recovery toolkit.

I was honored to be a guest on Sherry’s podcast, Sandwich Parenting. Sherry is one of my colleagues in trauma recovery coaching, and we got to know each other when we took trauma recovery courses together over the last couple of years.

She found out that I write, perform, and teach standup comedy as a therapeutic intervention and was hooked! Her first message to me said something like, “How does that even work? I need to know more?”

The Details Using Comedy to Heal with Kelly

(Okay, side note: I gotta use this title, Healing through Comedy with Kelly. It slides right off the tongue and actually sticks in my menopause memory bank!)

Here are the podcast episode notes:

Kelly Wilson is a certified trauma recovery coach and a survivor of childhood sexual abuse who has channeled her experiences in trauma recovery via the comedy modality. Not the usual way, but an effective and accessible way. A former elementary school teacher, Kelly was beloved for her deadpan sarcasm, which led her to pursue standup comedy, quit her job, and navigate a three year long identity crisis. Kelly started the PTSD Parent podcast for parents dealing with trauma, and currently offers trauma remediation to lessen triggers, grief recovery, and healing through humor as part of her work in trauma recovery coaching on MapYourHealing.com

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE:

*How Kelly used comedy to cope
*Teaching and being a comedian
*Kelly and the PTSD Parent Podcast
*Advice from Kelly

TUNE IN TO HEAR: ● 0:25: Guest introduction ● 1:08: Origin Story ● 3:38: Identity Crisis at 40 ● 6:00: Combining mental health speaking and comedy ● 8:22: Humor as a survival mechanism ● 11:28: PTSD Parent Podcast ● 14:03: One piece of advice for parents dealing with trauma ● 19:54: Kelly’s work and getting in touch ● 22:07: Grief recovery ● 26:31: Thank you

About Sherry and Sandwich Parenting

I hope y’all enjoy listening to this podcast episode as much as we loved creating it!

Thank you, Sherry, for having me as a guest! Here’s more info about her and how to connect:

Sandwich Parents are ‘sandwiched’ between two generations, the one that raised us and the one we are raising. In order to be the parents we want to be, we have to work on the ‘me’ in parenting. We speak with many people who have chosen to raise their children very differently from the way they were raised. They share their stories and their journeys.

The Sandwich Parenting podcast is hosted by trauma-trained parenting coach Sherry Yuan Hunter. Learn more about Sherry at www.sherryyuanhunter.com.