Nerve-wrecking 😁 a podcast in English, but I did it! The fact that GINA GARDINER RADICAL CHANGE CATALYST AND LEADERSHIP ADVISOR has over 3 million followers/listeners didn't put my mind at ease much as you might understand 😅 , but thanks to Gina Gardener, who is a kind and friendly host, we had...
Course year 2023-2024 is over! It was again beautiful and enriching to greet so many interested colleagues during the trainings, supervisions and other occasions! A few more things to finalize (and I need to stay busy for a while with - the podcasts and interviews for - The Healing Power of Pain) but then it's...
Good morning! Friday, May 31, the book Planet Pain by Lara Schmelzeisen, Ybe Casteleyn and Jill Marchant will be presented in Brussels. In October, Lara will give her first MasterClass on the theme/book: (Recovering from) Planet Pain. About loss, recovery, trauma-sensitive grieving, rituals, connection and difference between grief, trauma and ecological crises. For therapists and certainly for anyone who...
On June 20, I may host a webinar for the ECoD: a European institution. You can sign up via the link at the bottom of this post. The webinar is in English. Following is the text from the organization: "This year we are not organizing a Family Poverty Trefdag, but are hosting a session for the European City Network with this super interesting webinar:...
The time has (almost) come: on May 31 the new book, which Lara Schmelzeisen (my daughter) and I wrote together, will be officially presented at Standard Bookshop in Brussels. A unique collaboration, inspired by Lara - and the situation she herself struggled with a few years ago. This time I am acting as co-author and...
Yup, it's (almost) here: March 28 is the (re)release of The Healing Power of Pain(THPOP), but I already have the first copies (+ various promotional materials) in the house 😁 I'll be honest: I was skeptical too, after all, when we started this project last January: finding an English-language publisher to publish the English...
The time has come: my publisher, Austin Macauley Publishers, announced today that the re-release of The Healing Power of Pain ("Getting Stronger Where It Hurts") will take place on March 29, 2024. Then "THPOP," as we affectionately call it :-), will be available as a paperback and as an E-book. Much work done on both...
The year 2023, as far as my direct work is concerned, is over! So time for a beautiful End of Year Press Period! I wish all my students, who worked so hard in the trainings, the Supervision and in the individual contacts, and all my colleagues in the broad field of care and assistance, all the best for 2024 😊 January will...
Traumanet.nlTraumanet.nl6,570 followers6,570 followers1d - 1d - One in five women experience childbirth as very unpleasant, or even traumatic. Psychotraumatologist Ybe Casteleyn knows all about it herself. "During the birth of my oldest son, I bit my then husband's buttocks incredibly hard and then cursed out the gynecologist. Because I was the...
Had some very nice news: the publisher of my book "Becoming Stronger Where It Hurts" - Samsara Books in Amsterdam - has asked me to agree to create an audiobook version of it! I am happy about that and also a bit honored. The English language (re)edition (The Healing Power of Pain), which features...
