Words in the Wilderness

What Our Kids Are Actually Telling Us with Nicole Runyon

Wait! Before you read another article about screen time, before you spiral about whether you're doing enough, before you outsource your child to a therapist and hope they come back fixed Jacky and Nicole Runyon want you

The Way Out Of Self Shame And Upping Your Game

The standards expected in motherhood are impossible. And most of us don't even notice we've signed up to it until we feel burned out and miserable. . This episode starts with a poem Jacky wrote called 'Yummy Mummy' - all

The Becoming of a Mother with Lucy Wylde

'Matrescence' is a word that has been around since 1973. It only made it into the dictionary in 2022. That gap tells you almost everything you need to know about how well we've been holding the experience of becoming a m

From Hulp To Hope

Do you ever feel the urge to cry out, but swallow it back down instead? That specific, lonely feeling when you want to howl but it feels pointless, so you gulp it down instead — and there's no one to reason out your sadn

Why Words Help with Dr. Stephanie Aspin

You were probably taught that poetry has a meaning, and your job is to find it. That's exactly why so many of us decided it wasn't for us. In this episode, Jacky is joined by Dr. Stephanie Aspin - poet, therapist, academ

The Heap Of Hulps

You know that moment when something rises in your throat - a howl, a truth, a need - and you just... swallow it back down? Jacky has a word for that. Hulp. A howl and a gulp combined. And this episode begins there; right

Trailer: Welcome to Words in the Wilderness

For the scared souls, the never-dared souls, the lost and double-crossed souls — the ones sitting in the wilderness of change, wondering if anyone else feels this way. Words in the Wilderness is a podcast for people in t

The Therapeutic Poet in conversation with Thomas Delaney

Understanding Addiction, Recovery, and Transformation In this powerful episode, we sit down with Thomas Delaney, who shares his deeply personal journey from ketamine addiction to recovery and advocacy. During his recover

In conversation with Deb Casserly

A mother's journey through addiction and loss.

In conversation with Aga Kehinde and Jess Mór

EFT practitioners Aga Kehinde, who is originally from that town and and Jessica Mór, who until February 2022 had been living in Ukraine due to her spouse’s work, join me today to talk about their experience of co-creatin

The Therapeutic Poet in conversation with Aga Kehinde and Sharon Osterfield

The Therapeutic Poet in conversation with Sophia Lorimer about creative styling sustainably.

In this episode we chat about what sustainable fashion is; how to get off the trend treadmill; Sophia's experiment in which she is not buying any new or preloved clothes (except for vital undies and socks!) and how 'sobe

In conversation with Michael Unbroken

There is much more to his story, so let’s welcome him to share some of that and also to create hope and inspiration with sharing how he moved through such severe intergenerational trauma and adverse childhood experiences

In conversation with Dr. Debi Silber about betrayal

We talked about her 3 discoveries with the research that she has done, how betrayal is a different kind of trauma because of how it feels so intentional and personal and therefore relates to trust, how it affects one phy

In conversation with Dan Cardwell about miscarriage

I met Dan when we were at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2022 and I went to his show 'Patience Zero'. The description of his show was: 'Dan's always wanted to be a father. But now he and his wife are going throu

In conversation with Josh Connolly

Redefining what it means to be emotionally resilient, Josh in an ambassador for NACOA, the National Association for Children of Alcoholics. He works with individuals and corporation to help people improve their emotional

In conversation with Dr. Ingrid Clayton about complex trauma.

We cover: Trauma Bonding Being on the receiving end of the silent treatment Emotional abuse Narcissistic abuse Covert sexual abuse Addiction Complex trauma Trauma responses Toxic shame Going from not having a voice, to r

An overdue update.

A podcast episode detailing Jacky’s experience of performing her show, ‘Stop the world I want to get off’ at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2022.

In conversation with Lucinda Gordon Lennox

In this episode we begin with my poem 'Tell me your story' I wrote it about trauma; how trauma needs to be acknowledged in all its grittiness, not diminished or dressed up as ‘not that bad’ in order to be healed. As toda

In conversation with Julia Warren about bereavement through overdose

Today I am talking to Julia Warren. Julia is a mother to her two boys, a trauma informed yoga teacher and a writer. She is also in recovery from drug addiction and recently stepped into the role of widow as in September