Elizabeth Ferreira
Elizabeth Ferreira
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The Truth About Self-Love: My Journey with PMDD and Complex PTSD
Today I'm sharing part of my personal journey with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), and what I've noticed about the trauma healing process working with people as a therapist. An earlier version of myself might cringe a bit, but this episode focuses on self-compassion, self-love, and other forms of tenderness as a key part of the healing journey.
About Me: I'm a somatic psychotherapist in training. In these videos I'm sharing my personal practice, where I bring together tools from somatic psychology and witchcraft to help people address issues like PMDD, anxiety, and depression.
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Видео

A Powerful Way of Thinking About Attachment Styles | MTAW
Просмотров 3,7 тыс.Год назад
Hi dear ones, in this video I share a different way of thinking about attachment styles that I've found very helpful. I talk about what each of the four styles really means, societal narratives around attachment, the difference between blame and responsibility, and my own journey with my fearful attachment style. About Me: I'm a somatic psychotherapist in training. In these videos I'm sharing m...
How to Access Your UNCONSCIOUS Mind
Просмотров 3,8 тыс.Год назад
Welcome back to the show! I'm so excited to start a new season with an episode dedicated to my specialty: somatic psychology. One of the coolest parts of somatic therapy is how we can use it as a tool to access the unconscious mind. On this episode I talk about how we can enter the body, resistance and cognitive bypassing, and inviting in experiences we've pushed away. About Me: I'm an associat...
How to Use Archetypes for Mental Health
Просмотров 4 тыс.2 года назад
Today's episode of My Therapist's a Witch focuses on how we can identify and use archetypes to resources ourselves and support our personal practice, and share my own experience working with the goddess Hekate. I explore the power of the myths we tell, Jungian psychology, the collective unconscious, and finding the parts within us that trauma can never touch. I also share how I've integrated ar...
Coming to Terms with ADHD - My Therapist's a Witch
Просмотров 2,9 тыс.2 года назад
Hey everyone, welcome back to the podcast. Today I'm focusing on my experience with ADHD, and some of the practices and process that have supported me in coming to terms with my nature. This includes exploring my personal story with ADHD, differences between the ADHD brain and a "typical" brain, the process of receiving a diagnosis, masking, how a diagnosis can be healing in and of itself, disc...
Tools and Tips for Managing PMDD
Просмотров 8 тыс.2 года назад
I'm sharing some of the tools I use - psychological, holistic, and spiritual - to manage my PMDD. This includes accepting the ups and downs of the healing journey, supporting the body, using daily practices and intentions, and finding what works for you. Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:50 The Hero's Journey 6:30 Fundamentals to managing PMDD 9:50 Daily practice, and setting intentions 18:20 Not...
Becoming a Therapist, and Learning from Therapy
Просмотров 4,5 тыс.2 года назад
I've received a number of questions related to becoming a therapist, what it's like to sit with people, what I've learned from my graduate program, and whether I'd recommend it to other people. Today I'm exploring those questions through the lens of my own experience training to become a somatic psychotherapist. Topics: 0:00 Welcoming 1:20 The tree of therapy, and making your contribution. 3:00...
Being With Fear, and Finding Your Spiritual Path
Просмотров 4,8 тыс.2 года назад
In today's episode of My Therapist's a Witch we're talking about being with our fear. We explore how spiritual wounding and Western religions can disturb our spiritual needs, and how we can bring curiosity to both our feelings and our spiritual beliefs. I share my story of being raised in a Seventh Day Adventist community, how I learned to sit with the fears that had been programmed into me in ...
Building a Fulfilling Relationship Alongside a Diagnosis (PMDD ADHD CPTSD BPD etc.)
Просмотров 11 тыс.2 года назад
Relationships can be challenging under the best of circumstances, and many people have unique needs or sensitivities that can make it extra difficult to find and stay in a fulfilling relationship. On this episode of My Therapist's a Witch, we're talking about navigating relationships as, or with, someone who has some extra psychological needs. For context, I have premenstrual dysphoric disorder...
Navigating the World as a Highly Sensitive Person | My Therapist's a Witch
Просмотров 12 тыс.2 года назад
Moving through the world is challenging enough under the best of circumstances, and can be even more difficult if you happen to be particularly sensitive. On today's episode, I talk about how empaths and highly sensitive people can navigate the world, and embrace the positive aspects of their unique nature. We explore: • How high sensitivity can correlate with traumatic experiences. • We can re...
Using Polyvagal Theory, and Finding What Works for You | My Therapist's a Witch
Просмотров 5 тыс.2 года назад
Learning how to resource and regulate yourself, particularly if you have any form of neurodivergence, can be really challenging. On today's episode I share lessons from Polyvagal Theory that have been very helpful for me and those I've worked with. We then transition into an exploration focused on finding and claiming what works for YOU, allowing those practices to be natural sources of joy and...
Working with Your Inner Critic | My Therapist's a Witch, Episode #1
Просмотров 4,8 тыс.2 года назад
Thanks for joining me for the first episode of my new podcast! On this episode I share practices that have helped me work with and calm a harsh inner critic. This is particularly important for people who struggle with depressive disorders like #pmdd. I also explored how cultivating a spiritual practice can provide you a space of calm and relief, feeding the inner nurturer and allowing you to pu...
Practices for PMDD: Tracking Your Cycle, Holistic Approaches, and Removing the Taboo
Просмотров 20 тыс.2 года назад
Hey everyone, welcome back. In this video I'm sharing some of the key practices I've use to manage my PMDD. One of the ones that's been the most useful for me is consistently tracking my movement through different phases of my cycle, and I give a detailed explanation of how I do that. I also talk a bit about my personal story, and how we can change our relationship with our challenges - when th...
Practical Magick: How Spellwork Helped Me Overcome My PMDD
Просмотров 4,6 тыс.3 года назад
Hi friends, over the last few weeks I've received a lot of questions about my magical practice, including how I bring it together with somatic psychology and my own personal healing journey. In this video I'm sharing the story of a spell that was particularly important to me, and explaining how somatics and spells fit together better than you might imagine. About Me: Hi, I'm Elizabeth. I'm a th...
What a PMDD Episode Looks Like
Просмотров 52 тыс.3 года назад
While recording this video I was suffering from a full-on PMDD episode. I wanted to be open and authentic with my experience as it was happening, and share some of the tools I use to cope with my PMDD. Forrest's Channel: ruclips.net/user/forresthanson Follow Me on Instagram: elizabeth_ferreira_somatics
Let's Feel Together
Просмотров 4,3 тыс.3 года назад
Let's Feel Together

Комментарии

  • @hadleyallenhadleyallenfitn6384
    @hadleyallenhadleyallenfitn6384 5 дней назад

    I’ve reached out to you (instagram) I don’t know if you got it, what you just said today in this episode in particular with your real time grounding, pausing, thank you for sharing about your rituals. And the real time in our critic, that was amazing. I really want to develop the same.

  • @hadleyallenhadleyallenfitn6384
    @hadleyallenhadleyallenfitn6384 5 дней назад

    Love you honest Witch

  • @19marisab
    @19marisab 6 дней назад

    Its really sad when you bring up these symptoms to your obygn and she just pushes it off like your fine 😢

  • @kara_haight
    @kara_haight 8 дней назад

    You explained this so well. I also have PMDD and find it difficult to put into words how it feels.

  • @stephaniewallace8673
    @stephaniewallace8673 12 дней назад

    Beautiful, Elizabeth. Thank you 🙏🤍

  • @dancethrulife94
    @dancethrulife94 17 дней назад

    more videos please!! ❤❤

  • @dancethrulife94
    @dancethrulife94 17 дней назад

    Women’s circles are SO important..

  • @eebonyhope
    @eebonyhope 21 день назад

    It’s wonderful to see you in an episode because this… this is like watching myself from the outside… anyone notice their facial expressions and appearance changes almost like a traumatised expression in this time

  • @GirlWow007
    @GirlWow007 21 день назад

    Oh man, the movement as displacement - another thing you’ve made sense of. Seriously, you have given me personally so much to think about and work with. All the power with me, I can rescue myself.

  • @GirlWow007
    @GirlWow007 21 день назад

    And 5 minutes in, I now understand why CBT was not helpful. This approach makes so much more sense with PMDD. Once again, thank you @ElizabethFerreira, you’re a smart cookie ❤

  • @3vant-gard3
    @3vant-gard3 23 дня назад

    🩷

  • @helenarichard
    @helenarichard 27 дней назад

    Knowing when it is gonna hit doesn't help me. I need to quit certain foods for a week, do mild exercise and work hard on not seeking trouble.

  • @michaela6824
    @michaela6824 Месяц назад

    Wow this was amazing. I’m in grad school rn studying to be a therapist ❤ thank you

  • @RonaldVanlandingham
    @RonaldVanlandingham Месяц назад

    I love you for who you are, Elizabeth. I am inspired by your vulnerability. I am open to all possibilities of the future. I also have CPTSD developed from childhood. I was also grown in a religion I did not feel at home with. Thank you for sharing such valuable information with us. When you said something along the lines of, "What if God is the part of us that gives us peace," I felt like that resonated with me. Thank you for putting things into words that I struggle to express. Sending positive and loving energy your way. ❤️

  • @extraspicytigerroll
    @extraspicytigerroll Месяц назад

    I identify with all of these. I am 3 days from my period. And I feel awful. Thank you for sharing your story. It’s nice to not feel so alone.

  • @Relahxe
    @Relahxe Месяц назад

    I hope you come back to RUclips if that feels right for you. ❤

  • @MoniqueDurtschi
    @MoniqueDurtschi Месяц назад

    obviously im here because I searched PMDD and have been sifting through videos for over an hour. Thank you for sharing your experience.. I know im not alone and helps give language to my experience that I can inform my partner with that otherwise I may find it challenging to describe to him. What brought me to comment is how stunning your makeup is! Is there a tutorial for the eyeliner you like to do for this shape?

  • @transformationalhypnotherapy
    @transformationalhypnotherapy Месяц назад

    I am suffering from pmdd 😢

  • @Energyangelz
    @Energyangelz Месяц назад

    You're a lovely soul and you have truly changed my whole perspective. ❤

  • @dichev
    @dichev Месяц назад

    "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto." - I am a human being. Nothing human can be alien to me.

  • @dichev
    @dichev Месяц назад

    🙏🧡⭐

  • @arvillamaedesigns
    @arvillamaedesigns Месяц назад

    Omg. ❤I feel 110% this is me. I am in school for my masters, my emotions and symptoms are to the letter of what you definitely decriminalize. Also I know I’ve always said I was witchy. Not I’m gonna say I’m a witch. Thanks for giving me the strength to find the truth.

  • @amz_bro
    @amz_bro Месяц назад

    please come back 😭😭😭😭

  • @spigney4623
    @spigney4623 2 месяца назад

    Im having a bad episode after a long time of being nearly symptom free, And its my birthday 😔 Feeling really lonely and ashamed but this video is helping

  • @kellyd9610
    @kellyd9610 2 месяца назад

    Wow..I just recently discovered I have all of the symptoms and the relief and anguish is all so much

  • @mimimillenial
    @mimimillenial 2 месяца назад

    You are building a perfect analogy to what I have learned to understand when I opened the door to the psychedelic experience and the witchcraft you‘re doing…I’ve gone through the same journey with trauma and adhd. And Oh my God, I also have a past of (day-)dreaming of an anti-heroine-like woman or dreamed of being her and later, I incorporated her essence into my inner self to become who I am now! Getting diagnosed with adhd in my 20s made me love the younger me and come up with much more compassion for myself. Also, I had a very profound moment on a trip, standing on (actually above) an intersection of roads, the synchronicity (Jung again) here… ! this is incredible.

  • @Alice_Walker
    @Alice_Walker 2 месяца назад

    No disrespect to those who want to do it differently but getting a Mirena IUD which stopped my periods all together and hence my PMDD literally changed my life. I wish I'd done it 15 years sooner. I am very grateful for that little miracle of modern science.

    • @busyburr8780
      @busyburr8780 2 месяца назад

      Did it help immediately?

    • @Alice_Walker
      @Alice_Walker 2 месяца назад

      @@busyburr8780 pretty much. I had a small amount of spotting on and off the the first few of months but it started relieving my PMDD symptoms from the very first month and by the 5th month my periods and PMDD were gone. It's been almost 8 years now (I'm onto my second one) and now on average I get one day of extremely light bleeding about once every 130 days. Sometimes I get a little bit moody the day before but it's nothing compared to how I used to feel for a week or more.

  • @alv134mommy
    @alv134mommy 2 месяца назад

    Just realized that I’ve entered perimenopause at 45 and I want to tell you that it has taken my PMDD and multiplied it. I don’t know where your research takes you, but perimenopause happens to us faster than we realize, and it completely upends your life. What happens to people with PMDD? My experience so far has been devastating.

  • @martamilosavljevic7053
    @martamilosavljevic7053 2 месяца назад

    Hello. I am coming from another 10day pmdd episode.. This is my 3th month in a row. Last month it lastes 14days.. I am exausted.. Emotionaly, physicaly and mentaly.. I ate healthy foods but big amount..i had for sure 2500kcal every day... Just dealing with water retention after is story for it self. Now i need to take back my confidence..

  • @yogaandpms
    @yogaandpms 2 месяца назад

    Please. Do shorter videos! Max 5 min.. we are used to tiktok now. This is too long for me at least. Especially in pmdd. No patience😢😮

  • @Elsie90581
    @Elsie90581 2 месяца назад

    "Seeke ye out of the booke of the Lord, and reade: no one of these shall faile, none shall want her mate: for my mouth, it hath commaunded, and his spirit, it hath gathered them." "Moreouer brethren, I declare vnto you the Gospel which I preached vnto you, which also you haue receiued, and wherein yee stand. By which also yee are saued, if yee keepe in memorie what I preached vnto you, vnlesse yee haue beleeued in vaine. For I deliuered vnto you first of all, that which I also receiued, how that Christ died for our sinnes according to the Scriptures: And that he was buried, and that he rose againe the third day according to the Scriptures. " "But the word of the Lord endureth for euer: & this is the word which by the Gospel is preached vnto you." true1611bible.com/about/ www.kingjamesbible1611.org/ "In the beginning was the Word, & the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men." "But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Doe thy selfe no harme, for we are all heere. Then hee called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell downe before Paul and Silas, And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I doe to be saued? And they saide, Beleeue on the Lord Iesus Christ, and thou shalt be saued, and thy house. And they spake vnto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house." "Being borne againe, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God which liueth and abideth for euer." --- Psalm 119 "Thy word is a lampe vnto my feete: and a light vnto my path. ... " Revelation 8 "And the third Angel sounded, and there fell a great starre from heauen, burning **as it were a lampe**, and it fell vpon the third part of the riuers, and vpon the fountaines of waters: ... " Job 41 "Out of his mouth goe burning lampes, and sparkes of fire leape out. ..." Isaiah 14:12-14 "12 How art thou fallen from heauen, O Lucifer, sonne of the morning? how art thou cut downe to the ground, which didst weaken the nations?13 For thou hast said in thine heart; I wil ascend into heauen, I wil exalt my throne aboue the starres of God: I wil sit also vpon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the North. 14 I wil ascend aboue the heights of the cloudes, I wil bee like the most High."

  • @Megmaf111
    @Megmaf111 2 месяца назад

    I am a teaching assistant and my pmdd started after I had my second child. I’m really feeling all this now , I feel like a absolute zombie and Im struggling to talk to the staff who I really enjoy the company off usually and I just feel exhausted and drained all the time. I’m crazy anxious and I’m getting annoyed and angry super easy and I’m hiding from family when I get home and feel like I just want to cry all the time . 🥺 I feel like an awful person and can’t open up to anyone about what I am going through right now and feel like everyone at work must hate me because I’m not as talkative as I usually am . I Desperately want this week to end

  • @suvendroseal1724
    @suvendroseal1724 2 месяца назад

    Incredible, this channel needs to comeback!

  • @marionakiskeri2057
    @marionakiskeri2057 2 месяца назад

    I feel so seen I could cry, Thanks so so much for sharing. Much love

  • @g0ldenkeys
    @g0ldenkeys 2 месяца назад

    Sitting here going through an episode and I’m so sorry there are other women experiencing this hell. I can’t explain how alone it makes you feel.

  • @Idreamofpannekoeken
    @Idreamofpannekoeken 2 месяца назад

    Love this thorough and vulnerable breakdown of somatic practices! I am realizing there is a lot for me in somatics that I want to embark on to reach a more regulated state. It really helps me to understand the use of up and down -regulating and the descriptions you offer of your in the moment experience while you are at the mic is so revealing and beautiful to watch.

  • @amberroberts411
    @amberroberts411 2 месяца назад

    I have never heard someone accurately describe what my life has been. The emotional flashbacks without the memories make so much sense. And yes, my PMDD has been so much worse since I’ve started EMDR. Some days are so hard, and all it’s so hard for me not to reinforce shame as I feel like I’m backsliding. Thankfully I’ve also been doing somatic yoga, meditation, and breath work to keep me grounded. Thank you for talking about this, I feel like I haven’t been able to articulate for others what my experience had been.

  • @claire-ui6pu
    @claire-ui6pu 2 месяца назад

    Cannot sleep tonight I’m starting studying your videos bc my periods for last 3 months have been really really bad

  • @claire-ui6pu
    @claire-ui6pu 2 месяца назад

    Here and it’s nice to see I’m not alone in feeling such intense self loathing

  • @ChapmanRod-d2l
    @ChapmanRod-d2l 2 месяца назад

    Brown Patricia Clark Robert Robinson Edward

  • @sarahlittledrum7508
    @sarahlittledrum7508 2 месяца назад

    Cannot thank you enough - I just had a bad episode and the worst timing - you have helped me to stay focused on what I can do - you’re message and your work is sooooo important I am literally also a witch who found magick out of the need for control and joy and self relationship- I have CPTSD and PMDD and one of my goals this year is to tell my story and to create more awareness and understanding of PMDD / it’s so freaking tragic and dissapointing and disturbing how many people still don’t know / even most of my doctors and therapists - I noticed that o usually spend most of my time and energy focusing on how to feel better - but next month the focus will be how to deal better ! That’s the answer - thank you sending you the biggest love and gratitude and I am just obsessed with your work

  • @Channibear-ku
    @Channibear-ku 2 месяца назад

    Do you feel like you have fallen out of love? I am feeling this suddenly and i am on day 2 of my period. I was feeling numb and my mind went that i dont love ny boyfriend

  • @Cnsalmoni
    @Cnsalmoni 2 месяца назад

    I cannot thank you enough. AUDHD here. Diagnosed 2 years ago at 55 years. I had to self diagnose both, and it took the 4 hour tests, the research into how ADHD and ASD are different in women, especially the super smart ones- to convince the Phds and Psyds. The irony is I’m working through the gas lighting so many therapists imposed on me, that it’s just trauma and my unwillingness to conform and put in the effort to change, push myself through the workday. Despite years of chronic burnout and a ruined career, I’m dedicated to finding the path to heal, to get back to my old self (my childhood was a relatively happier one), and do everything in my power to not let this happen to my child.

  • @Meagantyler
    @Meagantyler 2 месяца назад

    Oh Elizabeth. I can’t thank you enough for helping me understand myself though your beautiful words. I’m fresh out of a rough couple PDMM days where I was searching to find answers to what was going on in my body. Thank you for putting this out into the world. I needed this. Thank you. So much.

  • @Libneniye95
    @Libneniye95 2 месяца назад

    really love your approach! watching your videos, this question popped into my mind several times: have you considered that you might have adhd? i recently got diagnosed and very probably also have pmdd and according to the scarce sources, adhd in women manifests very differently than in men and changes throughout the menstrual cycle. according to a video by healthygamer (dr alok kanojia) on adhd and the mentrual cycle, women with adhd experience symptoms that seem very similar to those of pmdd to me (major disregulation, worsening of concentration issues, intense inner bully..)

  • @Jewel77777
    @Jewel77777 2 месяца назад

    How are you able to implement these practices when you work a very hands on, interactive job? Also, the short term memory loss and brain fog…How are you able to just laugh it off when something like that happens at work and you’re being heavily supervised? For reference, I’m a dental assistant. The trembling, the constant racing thoughts, the obvious sour mood, I’m literally of NO help when I’m in PMDD while at work.

  • @ljh4120
    @ljh4120 2 месяца назад

    Similar religious experience growing up, still in process of claiming my womanly self. Thank you for your wisdom!

  • @Kelli5555
    @Kelli5555 3 месяца назад

    Very helpful to not attach meaning to the feelings. Im having a very challenging time with relationships because I just want to isolate. I get impulsive and out of control with my partner. I absolutely hate pushing him away and putting him through the cycle. Thanks again for the video!

  • @ellemeno0
    @ellemeno0 3 месяца назад

    I experience intense pmdd but I also have scant menses (which sometimes makes it feel like I am waiting forever for a bleed) and am now getting into the complication of perimenopause, It has always been hard to understand my cycle. I get the suicidality, I get the instant relief either at the bleed or a day before. I also found out if I try to take even the smallest amount of progesterone for the peri I get all the worst pmdd symptoms.

  • @apple1hun
    @apple1hun 3 месяца назад

    This was amazing. Thank you for this video. I was struggling today but you helped me notice and just observe my emotions