Cath Counihan 

@cathcounihan
Somatic Trauma Therapist, Mama of twin girls, recovering perfectionist, learning, listening, lover of people, patterns and colour. Supporting you as you heal childhood trauma, reparent yourself and parent your kids. Listen to ‘Grow Yourself Up’.
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Ep 121: Thoughts on Embracing and Enjoying Time with our Kids
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Ep 120: The Fatherwound, Patriarchy and Growing up in Fatherhood with Clint Davis (Re-release)
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What led me to think I might be neurodivergent?
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Ep 119: Rage, Vitality, Agency and Growing up in Motherhood with Lisa Marchiano
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Ep 118: Stress Responses, Feelings, Mood and Emotional Flow
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So many of us grew up with parents who used wine to regulate, I fully believe this was their best attempt to manage the intensity of their lived experience AND growing up in a family with addiction/alcoholism has long term impacts for us.

The impacts of growing up with a parent who drinks

We have the wrong conception of eating disorders AND there is so much more we still need to understand as a society about them.

I am fascinated by the function they perform for us and how they alter our sensory experience.

Read this great piece from

Why the explosion of eating disorders?
The shame, control and perfectionism dance
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Ep 117: Your Body Really Does Remember and Shifting Patterns with Dr Kathrin Stauffer
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Ep 116: Healing, Autoimmunity, Quantum Biology and Growing Up in Motherhood with Dr Catherine Clinton
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Diagnoses: to pursue or not to pursue?

Go and read Austin Channing Brown in her latest post from her newsletter ‘Wild, Holy and Free’. She helps all of us with holding onto our humanity.