Teri Hales is a certified Religious Transition and Trauma Recovery Coach and host of the Emancipate Your Mind podcast. Since graduating with her Bachelors degree in Marriage, Family, and Human Development in 2002, she has been passionately focused on deepening her understanding of mental and emotional health. Teri combines her deep love of psychology with New Age ideas and practices in a way that honors and supports the individual authority and inner wisdom of her clients. She gently guides them through acknowledging and releasing old beliefs and stories about themselves and the world to create a life that is tailor made for their happiness. Because of her ability to help others feel safe and supported as they journey through painful experiences, she has often been called an “emotional doula” by her clients and those who have heard her speak.
Sharing our stories in a safe environment is an important step in healing from trauma. Often we engage in this important step with others who… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 112: The Benefits and Pitfalls of Bonding Over Shared Trauma
As we’ve talked about healthy attachments, two words kept cropping up in conversations: Trauma Bonding. Many people used these words to describe the almost instant… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 111: What Is Trauma Bonding?
Developing healthy interdependence with our partners, family, and friends is healthy and normal. Relationships where we feel free to both give and receive support and… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 110: Codependency or Co-regulation? How to Tell the Difference
Developing a safe, intimate connection with others can feel scary for those who are trying to reclaim a sense of personal identity after religious trauma… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 109: Learning to Co-regulate Your Nervous System
If you’ve been in a relationship with insecure attachment patterns, how do you begin practicing secure attachment? Licensed Professional Counselor and my husband, Kevin Hales,… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 108: Practicing Secure Attachments in Adult Relationships
In today’s episode, we explore the last of the 4 attachment styles and how high demand religion may have influenced our primary caregivers or us… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 107: Disorganized Attachment Style and High Demand Religion
If you have an avoidant attachment style, you may feel highly uncomfortable getting emotionally vulnerable with other people, which makes it difficult to create the… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 106: Avoidant Attachment and High-Demand Christianity
If you have an anxious attachment style, you likely spend your time trying to people please, take care of the people around you, and in… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 105: Anxious Attachment and High-Demand Religious Parenting
Do you crave close relationships with others but find it hard to connect on a deep level? Do you often feel lonely or misunderstood? Do… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 104: What Is Healthy Attachment and Why Does It Matter?
Have you ever thought about how high demand religion taught you to relate to and attach with God? Have you considered how your learned attachment… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 103: Exploring and Healing Attachment Wounds with God with Catherine Quiring
Often, some of the most difficult conflicts of values we’ll face is with the people we love the most. Many of us were taught through… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 102: Resolving Values Conflicts with Others
Have you ever experienced that feeling of being pulled between two competing values? It can feel like you’re in the middle of a huge game… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 101: Calming Internal Values Conflicts
Everyday, you’re making choices about what to do with your limited time, money, attention, and energy. Every time you say “yes” to one thing, you’re… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 100: Discovering And Prioritizing Your Core Values
Every day you are creating a life based on your set of personal values. Do you know which values are running the show? If I… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 099: Which Childhood Values Are Still Running Your Life Today?
The authenticity movement has brought us a lot of great opportunity to learn more about ourselves and free ourselves from situations that don’t feel healthy… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 098: The Dangers of Binary Thinking in the Authenticity Movement with Chris Peck