“My role is not to eradicate pain but to walk alongside people who are in it,” says Heidi Pidcoke, a licensed clinician who specializes in somatic, or body centered, therapies. It is these experiences that we talk about in this episode of From Sparks to Light. Of a calling to serve others that led her to South Africa and then to Kenya. About her work to heal the traumatic effects of generational violence through the mind body connection of somatic therapies.
Heidi’s grew up for the first 11 years of her life in Brazil. She is a 3rd culture person, a child who grows up in a culture different from the one in which his or her parents grew up. Since then she has lived in California Philadelphia, and Texas in the United States, London and Pretoria South Africa, Nairobi, Kenya and Geneva Switzerland. Originally born in Brazil,
In this time when the world seems smaller than ever, we talk about what it means to be at home in the world.
As you listen to this episode, consider:
What are the people, places or experiences in my life that are unfamiliar or uncomfortable for me?
When I am in pain, how can I become more open to the help and love that is available to me?
How do these experiences open me to learning and foster understanding of things I had not previously understood?
You can listen to Heidi’s episode here.