Personal Love is based on equality, reciprocity and mutuality. The challenges of this new kind of intimate love in the 21st Century are great and the obstacles are many - but at the same time we are being given an incredible opportunity to evolve spiritually and psychologically as human beings. Polly Young Eisendrath talks with Susan about the obstacles and challenges in the quest for Personal Love.

A dynamic and thoughtful exchange on the continual quest for the happy work/life balance - from unpacking the word “should,” to what brings a daily sense of joy, to the challenges of self-care - it’s all here, tips included!  

Listen in as Susan and her dear friend Mary Bromley, also a therapist, talk about working with trauma survivors: The use of creativity and good instincts, the vital role of being a witness, of deep listening, of creating a safe space, and the importance of taking care of themselves with a daily spiritual practice of swimming, walking, meditation or yoga.

Anneke Lucas created Liberation Prison Yoga at the end of a thirty year journey of healing. A child sold into a sex trafficking network in her native Belgium she experienced years of violent abuse from the world’s most powerful in society. She tells the story of those years in the dark underbelly, the long journey to reclaim her innocent self, and the joy that arises out of the heart to heart connection with the many post traumatic survivors she teaches through Liberation Prison Yoga.