Healing the Child Within: How Childhood Trauma Shapes Us with Therapist Stacy Schaffer
🎙️ Healing the Child Within with Stacy Schaffer
In this heartfelt episode of Bent Not Broken, Coach Deborah sits down with Stacy Schaffer, a licensed professional counselor, trauma survivor, and author of With Love from a Children’s Therapist. With over 20 years of experience helping children and teens heal from grief and trauma, Stacy brings a unique perspective — one that bridges lived experience and professional insight.
Together, they explore how childhood wounds can quietly shape who we become as adults and how awareness and compassion can begin the healing process. Stacy opens up about her own story of survival, loss, and resilience, sharing how she turned pain into purpose and why owning our stories is essential to freedom.
Listeners will also learn about Synergetic Play Therapy — a powerful tool that helps children express what words cannot — and how parents, educators, and caregivers can create emotional safety through understanding, connection, and presence.
💬 “Help me understand what it’s like to be you.” — one of Stacy’s guiding principles for connecting with others at any age.
✨ Key Message: Healing starts when we stop running from our stories and begin to listen to them with compassion.
Learn more about Stacy and her work at authorstacyschaffer.com.
or follow her on Instagram @hope.restored
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