Trauma-Responsive Crisis Care with Chrissy Mignona
- Aug 24
- 2 min read
Trauma-Responsive Crisis Care with Chrissy Mignona
Description:
Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive.
In this Big Ideas episode, Lauren Walker interviews Chrissy Mignona, an EMYoga advanced teacher and crisis mental health practitioner who wrote I Am Safe: Trauma Responsive Practices in Crisis Mental Health while completing EMYoga’s 300-hour training. Chrissy explains why she prefers “trauma responsive” over “trauma informed,” responding in real time to nervous system reactions and creating safety whether or not a person’s history is known. She also shares why she approaches this work side-by-side rather than positioning herself as the expert.
Drawing from her experience teaching in locked inpatient units, juvenile detention centers, and geriatric care settings, she shares how yoga can become accessible, choice-based, and conversational. She and Lauren discuss building agency, the “yes, and” teaching mindset, practitioner boundaries, self-advocacy, and working with dysregulation.
You’ll also learn three simple techniques you can use anywhere to help regulate your nervous system when stress or overwhelm takes over.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:54 Trauma Responsive Defined
06:32 Inside Crisis Mental Health
08:59 How She Got Started
11:31 Why Yoga Wasn't Working
15:28 Yes And Side By Side
19:47 Reflect Teach Why Method
25:02 Advanced Training In Action
30:36 Group Healing Focus
31:38 Fearless In Facilities
35:12 Seeing People Again
37:58 Calvin Changes Access
41:25 Agency And Validation
44:54 Handling Disruption Kindly
51:11 Self Care Boundaries
56:07 Three Regulation Tools
01:01:03 Conclusion
Episode Resources:
“I Am Safe” by Chrissy Mignona Book (use coupon code SAFE15 to receive15% off): https://move-mindfully.com/product/i-am-safe-trauma-responsive-practices-in-crisis-mental-health-by-chrissy-mignogna-book/
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