Healing Beyond Medicine: Dr. Lissa Rankin on Trauma, Spirituality, and Healing

Content Warning: This episode includes references to suicidality and suicide attempts. Please use your discretion when deciding whether or not to listen. —————— Whether someone proudly claims their perfectionism or quietly wrestles with its tyranny, the drive to get it right and to appear effortless while doing so usually carries a much deeper and more painful story. Beneath the striving, high standards, and relentless pursuit of achievement is something much more harmful: a deepl...

Content Warning: This episode includes discussions of our guest’s personal experience of the 2026 war in Israel and Iran. It also references war, abuse, domestic violence, concentration camps, and trauma responses related to 9/11. Please use your discretion when deciding whether or not to listen. —————— Preorder Thomas Hübl‘s newest book Attuned Preorder Laurence Heller’s newest book Healing Shame and Guilt —————— Trauma is more broadly and culturally seen, discussed, and understood today tha...

Preorder Healing Shame and Guilt, coming from North Atlantic Books on May 12. What if what we take to be our shame actually has nothing to do with us? In this episode of The Aliveness Project: Conversations on Connection, host Iris McAlpin Garrett sits down with NARM® founder Dr. Laurence Heller and NARM Teacher Stephan Niederwieser to discuss their upcoming book, Healing Shame and Guilt, releasing on May 12. Larry and Stephan explore how this book came into being, why they felt compelled to ...

What happens when we’re securely connected? In this episode of The Aliveness Project: Conversations on Connection, host Iris McAlpin Garrett sits down with two longtime friends and NARM practitioners—Ralf Marzen and Maya Vaughan—to explore why connection is central to healing, and what gets in the way. Drawing from both clinical practice and lived experience, Ralf and Maya reflect on the deep human longing for connection, the survival strategies that pull us away from ourselves and others, an...

In this inaugural episode of The Aliveness Project: Conversations on Connection, we’re joined by Dr. Nadine Macaluso—therapist, author, and trauma bond expert—and Dr. Laurence Heller, the creator of the NeuroAffective Relational Model® (NARM®). Together, they sit down with NARM Master Therapist and podcast host Iris McAlpin Garrett for a candid and layered conversation about narcissism, trauma bonds, and the role of early relational trauma in shaping both sides of these painful dynamics. Draw...