Friends, I have something so exciting to tell you!
If you subscribe to my client newsletter or peek at my Substack profile, you may have seen hints—but now it’s official: >>The Re-Creation Podcast is now out in the world!
The Re-Creation Podcast is a weekly show where my co-host Eleni Opperwall (a registered therapist) and I (a trauma-informed coach) explore, through the lens of Ancient Christian faith, what it means to become more fully human in a world of trauma and brokenness.
This podcast is for you if…
- You’ve been through things that don’t exactly line up neatly with the spiritual ideals you were taught in church, but you don’t want to throw faith out with the bathwater.
- You’re looking for a space to think about life wounds without the spiritual bypassing.
- You prefer to hear about trauma from some thoughtful practitioners than from Reddit threads or Instagram reels.
- You love deep conversations that weave together trauma healing, mental health, and the richness of Ancient Christian spirituality.
- You believe goodness, beauty, poetry, and even humour belong in the healing journey.
- And finally… you don’t mind the occasional, possibly inappropriate reference to the interior design choices in Silence of the Lambs.
How It All Started…
Eleni (Eleni Opperwall) and I met in 2021 when our personalities collided in an unreported but DEFINITELY REAL nuclear fusion event known as Friendship in Midlife.™ Since then, we’ve run marathons together, witnessed a total solar eclipse, and watched too many episodes of The Cadillac Bill Show with our husbands—which it turns out is one (1) episode. ONE EPISODE OF THE CADILLAC BILL SHOW IS TOO MANY.
We’ve also had a lot of conversations on some difficult topics—as fellow human beings, Orthodox Christians, and helping professionals who regularly bear witness to the imprint of trauma on individuals and communities.
How do we hold together the promises of Ancient Christian faith and the realities of suffering? How can we speak words of faith to trauma without minimizing it? What does it mean to be fully human when so much of life bears the mark of wounds?
These are some of the many questions we wrestle with on a regular basis when we get together.
Now we’re taking that conversation public and inviting all of you to join us!
rec·​re·​a·​tion noun
: the act of creating again
: forming something anew in the imagination
: renewal of life or freshness
: refreshment of strength and spirits after work
The Re-Creation Podcast
So welcome to the Re-Creation Podcast, a space for honest and hopeful conversations about trauma, faith, and what it means to be fully human in a wounded world.
The first episode of The Re-Creation Podcast is live now—you can listen wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe today wherever you listen to podcasts, but here are some handy links
Listening Links
- Spotify
- Apple Podcasts
- RSS (If you use another podcast app and are having trouble finding us, paste this link into the “search” function of that app…)
Help us spread the word!
We’d be soo grateful if you could help us spread the word about this podcast by sharing it with anyone and everyone you think would be interested! It’s always hard to get a project like this off the ground, but we know there’s a need for it. We want to do more than host a podcast—we want to build a community.
Thanks for being here! We can’t wait to begin this new chapter with you!