Recovering from Trauma with Therapist and Trauma-sensitive Yoga Facilitator Ruthie Duran Deffley, LCSW

EPISODE #55 - Buckle up. This month’s theme in the Yes Collective is emotional trauma and we’re kicking everything off with our interview with Ruthie Duran Deffley. She’s the founder of Healthy Mind/Mente Sana and a licensed clinical social worker and therapist in Savannah, Georgia who specializes in trauma recovery. She grew up in Mexico City, earned degrees from Georgetown University and the University of Minnesota, and is also a certified facilitator of trauma-sensitive yoga.We talked about Ruthie’s winding path into the field of mental health, her own recovery, how she uses trauma-sensitive yoga and other modalities to help people recover from trauma, and how parents can take a trauma-informed approach to parenting and their own wellbeing.