Dr. Patty Johnson, USA
Dr. Patty Johnson is a writer and psychologist who believes in healing through stories.
She is currently working on a memoir and has 2 published books—Essays of Night and Daylight and Breathe & Release: A 12 Month Journal for Healing from Anxiety.
In this episode, Dr. Johnson discusses:
– what sparked her interest in becoming a psychologist…
– being guided by behavioral medicine, a model of integrating both the physiological and the psychological…
– how important listening to people’s stories has been in her life…
– being born in America to immigrant parents, and cultural differences that she and her family navigated…
– behavioral medicine, a model of integrating the physiological and the psychological…
– exploring how the mind and body work together…
– generational trauma…
– immigrant trauma…
– the beauty and complexity of growing up in two cultures…
– the importance of helping people align their physical symptoms with what is happening in their life or with what they have been thinking about…
– her love of writing and how, as an adolescent, writing helped her process feelings she was unable to discuss…
– the healing power of stories…
– our experience of seeing ourselves differently from how others see us…
– meditating on the power, strength, and ability we have to do things that we were told we could not do…
– the importance of realizing that it doesn’t matter what other people say about us if we know who we are…
– and these inspiring words, “There’s so much strength in fighting to be who we are.”
