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Conscious Combat Club
by Georgia
Trauma informed martial arts by women, for women. We're curious about why so many people say "martial arts saved them". What is the link between martial arts and mental health? And how can we create safer, trauma informed gyms and dojos?
Episodes
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#16: Emma Thomas: Safeguarding in Combat Sports
Emma (she/her) is a safeguarding specialist in Muay Thai, a survivor-advocate, and founder of Under the Ropes, through which she's been writing about gendered issues in Muay Thai, and advocating for gender equality and the elimination of gender-based violence in the sport since 2013. She recently...
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Fight Science #8: Molly Higgins: Trauma-Informed Guidelines For Interpersonal Violence Survivors in Combat Sports (Part 2/2)
Fight Science is a special segment of the Conscious Combat Club podcast where we invite researchers to take a deep dive into a paper they've written and explain it to us as though we're 14 years old. In this episode I interview Molly Higgins (she/her), a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology...
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Fight Science #7: Molly Higgins: "It literally makes me feel harder to kill" (Part 1/2)
Fight Science is a special segment of the Conscious Combat Club podcast where we invite researchers to take a deep dive into a paper they've written and explain it to us as though we're 14 years old. In this episode I interview Molly Higgins (she/her), a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology...
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#15: Erik Jumelet-Boom: TRAP kickboxing
Erik (he/him) is a lifelong martial artist spanning the spectrum of practices from tai chi to kickboxing and Muay Thai. Erik has 10 years experience as a psychomotor therapist, working primarily with patients with early childhood and/or complex trauma. Martial arts a very important role in his...
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#14: Assunta Morrone: Feminism on and off the mats
To access a scholarship, visit our website and join the waiting list: https://www.consciouscombat.club/naarm Assunta (she/her) is a 1st generation migrant women form Italy who arrived in Australia in 1968, when she was 3 years old. She has olive skin and curly black hair. Assunta has spent her...
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Fight Science #6: Dr Zoe John: "Normally a cock": Embodiment, gender and violence in Mixed Martial Arts
Fight Science is a special segment of the Conscious Combat Club podcast where we invite researchers to take a deep dive into a paper they've written and explain it to us as though we're 13 years old. In this episode I interview Dr Zoe John (she/her), a lecturer in criminology with a key interest…
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#13: Hilary Irwin: Why we're delivering 50 trauma-informed scholarships in 2025
To access a scholarship, visit our website and join the waiting list: https://www.consciouscombat.club/naarm Hilary Irwin (she/her) is the daughter of Constance (Con) Irwin, in whose name she established the Con Irwin Fub Fund through the Victorian Women's Benevolent trust. Learn more about the...
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Fight Science #5: Dr Wolf Mehling: A 12-week integrative exercise program improves self-reported mindfulness and interoceptive awareness in war veterans with posttraumatic stress symptoms.
Fight Science is a special segment of the Conscious Combat Club podcast where we invite researchers to take a deep dive into a paper they've written and explain it to us as though we're 14 years old. In this episode I interview Dr Wolf Mehling (he/him), a researcher from the US who explores the...
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#12: Emily Dobrich: Embodied learning and self-determination for women in muay thai
Emily Dobrich (she/her) is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Adult Education and Community Development program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include embodied learning, transformative education, social justice, relationality,...
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#11: Richie Hardcore: How to speak to boys and men about gender-based violence
Richie Hardcore (he/him) is an educator, speaker, and activist, working in family and sexual violence prevention, masculinities, mental health, and fitness. Richie is a retired multiple New Zealand Muay Thai champion and now works as a coach and personal trainer, having helped some of New…
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Fight Science #4: Reinventing martial arts in the 21st century
Dr. George Jennings (he/him) is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Sociology at Cardiff Metropolitan University in the UK. George's research explores martial arts and combat sports, health and society. To contact George: Email: [email protected] Georgia and George discuss: The definition that…
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#10: Donna Abela: A forgotten piece of historical slut-shaming
Donna (she/her) has written award-winning stage and radio plays for audiences of all ages, and has extensive experience in script development, story development, and mentoring and teaching emerging writers from culturally diverse backgrounds. She is also a founding member and co-chair of PYT...
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#9: Georgina Capone: Trauma informed boxing in the UK
Georgina (George) Capone (she/her) is the founder of the Warrior Women Project, a trauma informed boxing program for women to embrace and unleash their anger, feel empowered and strong. George lives in sunny North Devon where she trained to be a boxing coach and works as a psychologist in adult...
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#8:Jess Gordon: Experiential social-emotional learning through self defense in schools
Jess Gordon (she/her) is a school teacher, educational researcher, and BJJ practitioner based in Vancouver, Canada. Combining these areas of interest, she is developing a new, experiential, and transformative approach to student wellbeing. Jess is passionate about putting research into practice…
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#7:Georgia Verry: Can you help us help women?
Can you help us open a dedicated trauma informed martial arts gym? Please watch Georgia present our pitch deck and comment, email us or use the contact form on our site to share your feedback. We seriously appreciate it. If there's anyone or any businesses you know that might like to support our...
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#6: Deb and Nicole: Body Image and Eating Disorders Awareness Week
Content warning: Dieting, eating disorders, poor body image This week (September 4th – 10th, 2023) is Body Image and Eating Disorder Awareness Week (BIEDAW). The theme this year is The Time is Now to Act on Eating Disorders and Body Image so we invited 2 of the wonderful clinicians we work...
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#5: Georgia Verry: My lived experience with an eating disorder
Content warning: Eating disorders and body image Leading up to Body Image and Eating Disorders Awareness Week (BIEDAW), Georgia shares her personal experience with disordered eating. Georgia discusses how her martial arts participation both contributed to her eating disorder and helped her heal...
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Fight Science #3: Promoting Executive Functioning in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Through Mixed Martial Arts Training.
Fight Science is a new episode format in which you'll get to hear the authors of peer reviewed papers related to martial arts and combat sports explain their papers in a way that you will be able to understand. Each episode will include practical advice you can implement based on the research.…
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#4: Kenisha Coy: Breaking boards and binaries
Kenisha Coy (she/her) is a creative encourager who believes in the value of second chances. She is a taekwondo practitioner and researcher at Lesley University curious about the interplay between art, board breaking, trauma informed martial arts and theatre. She is passionate about applying the...
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#3: Danielle Salber: Boxing therapy
Danielle Salber (she/her) is a passionate trauma specialist who merges boxing and psychotherapy to empower individuals, foster hope after trauma, and promote personal growth through empirical therapies. She is dedicated to establishing Boxing Therapy as a recognized and effective approach in…
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Fight Science #2: Boxing, myths and reality building in sport for development programmes.
Fight Science is a new episode format in which you'll get to hear the authors of peer reviewed papers related to martial arts and combat sports explain their papers in a way that you will be able to understand. Each episode will include practical advice you can implement based on the research.…
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Fight Science #1: Communicating consent in sport: A typological model of athletes' consent practices within combat sports.
Fight Science is a new episode format in which you'll get to hear the authors of peer reviewed papers related to martial arts and combat sports explain their papers in a way that you will be able to understand. Each episode will include practical advice you can implement based on the research.…
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#2: Nicole Sawin: The intersection of social work and martial arts
Nicole Sawin (she/they) is a nonbinary and autistic 29-year-old living in Prince George, BC, where they work in child and youth mental health. They grew up in rural, northern Canada, completed their undergrad in Honors Sociology at McGill University, and finished their Master of Social Work at…
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#1 - Conscious Combat Club
Welcome to the first episode of the Conscious Combat Club podcast. Why have we changed our name and updated our branding? What is the Conscious Combat Club? What are our plans for the future? How can you be part of our journey? To get involved with the Conscious Combat Club: - Visit our site...
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#71 Georgia Verry, Penny McKay and Meesha Hall: A warm hug in conversation form to end the 16 days of activism
***Content warning: Gender Based Violence Today, December 10th, is Human Rights Day and marks day 16/16 of the 16 days of activism. Georgia (she/her), Meesh (she/her) and Penny (she/they) have a fireside chat about how you can be more resourced as we end the 16 days and enter the Christas period....
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#70: Become an ally to trans and gender diverse martial artists
Leading up to International Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, people and organizations around the world participate in Transgender Awareness Week to help raise awareness of trans and gender diverse people, address key issues for our communities and explore ways to promote active...
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#68: Bobbie Lewallen: A Life of Muay Thai
*TRIGGER WARNING: SEXUAL ABUSE* Bobbie Lewallen (she/her) has been practicing Muay Thai for 10 years. She is a survivor of sexual abuse from childhood to early adulthood Georgia and Bobbie discuss: · Starting Muay Thai at age 12 after being abused as a child · Growing up getting to training in a...
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#67: Martina Hildegard Gray Bear: Her Commitment to Women, Children, the Oppressed, All Beings and Our Planet
Martina is a queer intercultural / international martial artist living in the US. Martina is a queer teacher, storyteller, & communication consultant. Martina is a commitment to women, children, the oppressed, all beings and our planet. Georgia and Martina discuss: Martina's experiences...
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#66: Sammy-Jo Lawler : Returning to BJJ after Sexual Assault
**Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault** Sammy was a victim of rape and sexual assault, and she made the journey back into Jiu Jitsu Georgia and Sammy-Jo discuss: Close contact training problems and how to deal with it Benefits of talking to trusted people about what has happened Healing and how it…
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#65: Nicholas Hoekstra: Inclusive Martial Arts for Folks with Disabilities
Nick Hoekstra is a doctoral student at the University of Kansas studying special education. He lost his sight at the age of eight and started wrestling in high school and practicing martial arts in college. Nick's career has focused on international development, especially around the promotion of...
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#64: Mint Licata: Muay Thai, The Outlet That Saved Mint from a Life of Street Violence
Muay Thai was the outlet that saved Mint from a life of street violence and rage. In this episode you'll hear how her stepfather introduced her to Muay Thai to help her deal with racist bullying. Mint and Georgia also discuss: Why Mint got breast implants and why she is having them removed Being…
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#63 : Anna Drews: The Polyvagal Theory and Martial Arts
Dr Annette Drews is a Professor for Social Medicine who currently does research on the contribution of Martial Arts in trauma therapy. Due to an accident at 2 years of age, she continued to be accident prone throughout her life. She overcame the physical and psychological consequences of her...
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#62: Alex Ueda: Grounded Grit in Jiu-Jitsu
Software developer by day, a vessel of life lessons and first-degree black belt jiu-jitsu instructor by night, Alex Ueda made his first foray into jiu-jitsu after attending UCLA, where he majored in physics. A self-declared "fragile perfect" in his schooling and career, through his training, he...
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#61: Les Bubka: Karate for Mental Health
Les is the founder of Karate for Mental Health, a disability karate coach and author of Anxious Black Belt and The Dark Side of Karate. Les and Georgia discuss: How karate helped Les Inclusivity in karate Karate as a mindfulness practice Why karate can be great for mental health How to coach...
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#60: Alex & Laurien Zurhake: The Many Ways Trauma Informed BJJ can Widen your Window of Tolerance
Alex and Laurien are two BJJ purple belts, active competitors and own a trauma informed martial arts and yoga school in Munich, Germany as well as Off The Zone, an online interactive platform where they help fellow martial artists to become trauma informed. Georgia, Laurien and Alex discuss: Both...
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#59: Erik Hein: How to Be a Great Martial Arts Teacher
Erik Hein has made a career out of teaching. He has taught martial arts, martial arts coaches, elite police teams, emergency services workers and more. Erik is incredibly knowledgeable in the world of motor learning and has written multiple books on the topic (though all in Dutch) and is…
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#58: Rew Mitchell: Awakening Female Fighters
Rew Mitchell is the owner of Awakening Fighters. He supports and promotes female fighters around the world with the online database of athletes he created and maintains. Rew and Georgia discuss: The sexualization of women in combat sports How Rew, a male-identified person, came to create a...
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#57: Kristina Nikolaj: From Anxiety to Breathwork to BJJ
Kristina Nikolaj is a retired debilitating anxiety sufferer turned breathwork facilitator focused on using the breath to take control of your life. Then she discovered more of her power through jiu jitsu. Georgia and Kristina discuss: Kristina's experience with anxiety/self-esteem issues…
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#56: Amber Tucker : Women of Colour in Martial Arts
Dr Amber Tucker is an assistant professor of sociology, researcher, mixed martial artist, athlete, and coach. Her research explores the trauma that results from the intersection of gender, race and class. Amber was one of the researchers involved with the 'Justice in Movement' project. A program...
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#55: Dr. Jamie Marich and Anna Pirkl: Transforming Trauma with Jiu-Jitsu
Jamie Marich, Ph.D. and Anna Pirkl, MFT both speak internationally on topics related to addiction, trauma, mindfulness, or recovery. They each hold belts from Gracie University of Jiu-Jitsu and have personal experiences transforming their trauma through jiu-jitsu. Their latest book is…
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#54: Alvaro Fernandez : Visualization and Meditation as Tools to Overcome Fear
Alvaro Fernandez is a Mexican black belt under Renzo Gracie and longtime student and teacher of 4 way psychology. Georgia met Al a few months ago when a student of his emailed Georgia saying he had helped her through trauma informed bjj. Georgia realised the gift the Al had in helping students...
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#53: A New Grip BJJ Co-founders Christina Lea Houck and Samantha Glenn: Using BJJ to Help Empower Survivors of Human Trafficking
Samantha is a full time police officer for St. Louis County Police Department and the new title she is about to add (due March 28th, 2022) is a Mom! She has been training Jiu-Jitsu for roughly 9 years. She majored in Criminology and Criminal Justice in college, and focused heavily on Human...
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#52: Steve Kwon: What Types of Mental Models Can We Apply to BJJ?
Steve is a technology leader, process strategist, and advisor with 20 years of experience leading teams, building products, and growing companies. He is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and the founder of BJJ Mental Models: one of the world's top Jiu-Jitsu podcasts and educational resources....
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#51: Briana Bowley - Transformation and Healing Doesn't Take Time, It Takes Courage
Briana Bowley is a Trauma Coach and a Martial Artist. Knowledgeable in mindset and embodiment practices for peak performance, having worked with and alongside some of the world's most notable in their chosen field. As a Martial Artist Briana dabbles in Muay Thai, Jiu Jitsu, and Wrestling. While...
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#50: Danae Hudson - Trauma Informed Krav Maga
Danae Hudson (Co-owner of Valley Self-Defense, Civilian, and Kids Instructor) has been training in Krav Maga for 4 years. Danae was looking for a self-defense class after some traumatic experiences in her life and work in the Middle East. Though she only planned on attending for a few weeks, the...
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#49: Sarah Gohier - Love At First Punch
Sarah is a Muay Thai fighter, trauma survivor, and the founder of the Women of Muay Thai Instagram page. She found muay thai as a form of therapy from childhood sexual abuse and it helped empower her to leave her abusive ex-husband. Unfortunately, she found that not all gyms provide the best...
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#48: Penny Mckay - Nevertheless, she persisted - Cults, Survivorship and Kickboxing
Today (November 25th 2021) is The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. To increase awareness of the domestic violence prevalent in all communities, Penny McKay, graduate of The Fight Back Project, asked me if we could share her story today. I want to make it very clear...
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#47: Kylie Hunts-in-Winter - How Martial Arts Made Me a Brave Woman
Kylie is a Kenpo black belt and life long martial artist. She started training martial arts in her childhood and has trained in Brazillian JiuJutsu, Judo, Muay Thai, Wrestling, and MMA. She created the Brave Woman Page in 2015, to share the stories of girls who do martial arts from all around the...
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#46: Jo Colette - Hooked From the First Hit: A Story of Addiction with a Muay Happy Ending
**Trigger Warning** - In this episode, we discuss addiction, abuse, rape and self harm. Like the title says, this story has a happy ending, but please honor your need for safety at all times while tuning in. Jo has now been in recovery from addiction for almost 10 years, been living a life free...
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#45: Erin Herle - Submit The Stigma
Erin Herle is a BJJ black belt who started the #submitthestigma campaign after she lost her father Robin Herle to suicide. Erin started training jiu-jitsu in the summer of 2009 after being diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, ADHD, and suffering bouts of depression. Today, Erin tours the...
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Trauma informed martial arts by women, for women. We're curious about why so many people say "martial arts saved them". What is the link between martial arts and mental health? And how can we create safer, trauma informed gyms and dojos?
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