The Centre for Healing Podcast

Awakening, Embodiment & Trauma with Daniel Wald and Matt Kay

Join Matt Kay and Daniel Wald for an intimate, kitchen-table conversation exploring the nature of awakening, embodiment, trauma, anger, and the lifelong process of integrating realization into everyday life.

Daniel is a senior teacher of VortexHealing® Divine Energy Healing, an energy healing and awakening modality facilitated by divine intelligence. Matt is the Co-Creator of Embodied Processing at The Centre for Healing.

Throughout this open and honest conversation, Matt and Daniel share personal stories, insights, and the challenges they've encountered along the spiritual path. Together, they explore the common pitfalls that can arise before and after awakening, how unresolved trauma and emotional patterns continue to surface, and the profound role consciousness plays in healing and transformation.

Daniel also reflects on his own journey, sharing how childhood experiences shaped his adult life and how those wounds were gradually processed and integrated following a fundamental awakening. Together, they inquire into deeper existential questions surrounding life, death, identity, and what lies beyond our personal belief systems—pointing toward the direct experience of Truth and the ongoing invitation to embody that realization with authenticity, presence, and compassion.

Whether you're exploring spirituality, trauma healing, or personal transformation, this conversation offers thoughtful insights into living from a place of greater awareness and wholeness.

Learn More About Daniel Wald & VortexHealing®

🌐 VortexHealing® Divine Energy Healing
https://www.vortexhealing.org/

🌐 Daniel Wald
https://danielwald.com/about/

Explore Matt Kay's Work

Embodied Processing Practitioner Training
https://www.thecentreforhealing.com/embodied-processing

Awakening Support Groups
https://www.mattkay.com.au/awakening-support

Devotional Inquiry Skool Community
https://www.skool.com/devotional-inquiry-5039/about?ref=f3f4f99c5d77470dadab5bb3f80b4bf9

Awakening & Embodiment with Ric Weinman and Matt Kay

Join Matt Kay and Ric Weinman for a thought-provoking conversation exploring the nature of awakening, embodiment, and spiritual transformation.

Ric is the founder of VortexHealing® Divine Energy Healing, an energy healing and awakening modality guided by divine intelligence. Matt is the Co-Creator of Embodied Processing at The Centre for Healing. Together, they dive into topics including awakening, embodiment, self-inquiry, devotion, and the unfolding journey beyond identification with the personal ego.

Throughout the conversation, Matt and Ric share personal stories, insights, and lived experiences, reflecting on what led to their own profound awakenings and how those experiences continue to shape their lives and work today.

Whether you're exploring spirituality, personal growth, or deeper states of consciousness, this episode offers valuable perspectives on living with greater presence, authenticity, and awareness.

Learn more about Ric Weinman and VortexHealing®:

🌐 https://www.vortexhealing.org/

Explore Matt Kay's offerings:

Embodied Processing Training
https://www.thecentreforhealing.com/embodied-processing

Awakening Support Groups
https://www.mattkay.com.au/awakening-support

Devotional Inquiry Skool Community
https://www.skool.com/devotional-inquiry-5039/about?ref=f3f4f99c5d77470dadab5bb3f80b4bf9

Show Notes Summary

Podcast Title: What Children Really Need: Attachment, Daycare & Divorce with Erica Komisar

In this powerful episode of The Centre for Healing Podcast, Melissa Hiemann is joined by Erica Komisar, psychoanalyst, author, and thought leader in the fields of parenting, attachment theory, child development, and divorce.

Together, Melissa and Erica explore what children truly need from their parents in today’s increasingly dysregulated world. This conversation looks beyond surface-level parenting strategies and opens up a deeper discussion around attachment, emotional presence, nervous system regulation, daycare, divorce, and the impact of a parent’s unresolved trauma on their children.

Melissa also shares reflections from the trauma-aware parenting work she and Tara have created through The Centre for Healing, highlighting the importance of helping parents understand not only their child’s behaviour, but also their own nervous system, attachment wounds, and emotional patterns.

This episode is especially relevant for parents, therapists, practitioners, educators, and anyone wanting to understand how early relationships shape emotional wellbeing across a lifetime.

In this episode, we explore:

Erica’s number one piece of advice for parents today

Why attachment is foundational to healthy emotional development

How daycare can impact a child’s developing nervous system and attachment needs

How single mothers can navigate secure attachment while also needing childcare and support

What parents can do if childcare is necessary

The relationship between physiology, brain chemistry, emotional regulation, and attachment

How parents with developmental trauma can begin to regulate and connect with their children

The emotional impact of divorce on children

Why parent education before having children may be essential

The modern cultural pressures affecting parents and children

How trauma-aware parenting can help break intergenerational cycles

About Erica Komisar

Erica Komisar is a psychoanalyst, author, and parent guidance expert known for her work in attachment, child development, parenting, and divorce. Her work supports parents in understanding the emotional needs of children and the vital role of secure attachment in lifelong mental health.

Resources Mentioned

Erica Komisar: @ericakomisar https://www.instagram.com/ericakomisar/
Erica’s nonprofit: Attachment Circles - https://www.attachmentcircles.org/
Erica’s new book: The Parents Guide to Divorce https://www.ericakomisar.com/the-parents-guide-to-divorce

The Centre for Healing’s trauma-aware parenting course explores attachment, nervous system regulation, emotional safety, and how parents can begin healing intergenerational trauma while creating deeper connection with their children. Explore the course here - https://www.thecentreforhealing.com/trauma-aware-parenting

Shadow work isn’t about fixing yourself—it’s about meeting every part of yourself with curiosity and compassion.

In this conversation, we explore shadow work through the integrated lenses of Buddhist philosophy, Jungian psychology, Toltec teachings, and somatic therapy. The shadow is understood as the repressed, denied, or disowned aspects of the self—emotions, traits, fears, and survival patterns that often operate unconsciously.

Somatic therapy brings these insights into the body, emphasizing nervous system responses, felt sense awareness, and gradual capacity building for holding difficult experiences. Through allowing, curiosity, and embodied presence, shadow material can be integrated rather than suppressed.



Learn more about the Embodied Processing Practitioner Training here:
https://www.thecentreforhealing.com/embodied-processing

SHOWNOTES

In this deeply insightful episode, Ryan Hasson sits down with Rebecca Barnes from the UK to explore the profound transformation of motherhood through the lens of matrescence, trauma-informed care, and embodied healing.

Rebecca shares her personal and professional journey — from working in residential childcare supporting traumatised children to becoming a certified Trauma-Informed, Seasons of Matrescence™ Educator & Guide, and Embodied Processing Practitioner. Together, Ryan and Rebecca unpack the emotional, physical, psychological, and spiritual shifts that occur in motherhood, and why so many mothers feel unsupported during this life-changing transition.

This conversation offers a compassionate and honest look at grief, identity loss, nervous system regulation, societal pressures, and the importance of creating spaces where mothers can truly be seen, supported, and understood.

About Rebecca Barnes

Rebecca is the founder of Becoming the Mother. She is a certified Trauma-Informed, Seasons of Matrescence™ Educator & Guide, and Embodied Processing Practitioner.

Above all, Rebecca considers her most sacred and important role to be being the mother to her four beautiful children.

Rebecca spent many years working in residential childcare supporting children with histories of trauma. Alongside her extensive study of matrescence, trauma, and nervous system regulation, she also brings lived experience through multiple matrescence transformations of her own.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

What matrescence is and why understanding it changes the way we view motherhood

Rebecca’s journey from hairdresser to embodied processing practitioner

The “Seasons of Matrescence” framework and how mothers move through emotional seasons

Why grief, rage, sadness, and fear are normal parts of motherhood

How unresolved trauma impacts parenting, relationships, and identity

The systemic gaps in support for mothers and families

Why compassion is more healing than judgment when working with parents and children

How embodied processing supports nervous system regulation and emotional healing

The importance of practitioners doing their own healing work

Key Takeaways

Motherhood is not just a role — it is a full developmental transformation.

Many emotions experienced in motherhood are normal responses, not signs that something is “wrong.”

Healing happens when emotions are safely processed instead of suppressed.

Nervous system regulation and embodied practices can support deeper emotional healing.

Supporting mothers early and compassionately has ripple effects for future generations.

Practitioners who do their own healing work are better equipped to support others.

Resources & Links

Website: https://becomingthemother.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/becomingthemother/

Book a call with Rebecca: https://calendly.com/rebecca-becomingthemother/30min