• Healing Beyond Words: Trauma, Sobriety, and Brain-spotting with Darran Zenger

  • Apr 17 2025
  • Length: 27 mins
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Healing Beyond Words: Trauma, Sobriety, and Brain-spotting with Darran Zenger

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  • In this powerful and heartfelt episode of The Blind Chick, hosts Penn and Moses Street sit down with Darran Zenger, a licensed clinical social worker at Cirque Lodge in Utah. Darran shares his personal journey with Usher Syndrome, his experience with cochlear implants, and how his own life challenges led him to become a trauma-informed addiction counselor. He introduces us to brainspotting, a groundbreaking therapeutic approach rooted in EMDR, and explains how it helps clients unlock stored trauma in the nervous system. This episode is a deep dive into resilience, recovery, and redefining life after trauma.

    ⏱️ Chapter Markers:
    00:00 – Welcome to The Blind Chick
    00:28 – Meet the hosts + Moses’s “muse” confession
    01:30 – Intro to guest Darran Zenger
    02:36 – Darran’s background and where he’s from
    05:01 – Living with Usher Syndrome and hearing loss
    07:20 – Public school with accessibility support
    09:19 – Becoming a stay-at-home dad & finding his calling
    10:37 – Fear, faith & the journey to cochlear implant
    12:44 – Music, retraining the brain & the power of sound
    15:10 – Adjusting to dual cochlear implants
    17:38 – Discovering social work & substance use counseling
    20:00 – Working at the Moran Eye Center
    22:02 – Brainspotting: What it is and how it works
    24:27 – Real stories of healing through brainspotting
    27:00 – The miracle moments of trauma therapy
    29:00 – Closing thoughts & feedback invitation

    📞 Contact Info:
    Email us: feedback@aftersight.org
    Call us: (720) 712-8856
    Website: aftersight.org
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