Welcome to the
2026 Annual Summit!

In this conversation, Colleen Ramser guides listeners through understanding and processing anger—especially for those who’ve been taught to suppress it. She debunks common myths (for example, that anger is always sinful or merely sadness), defines anger as data signaling boundary violations or injustice, and outlines how it shows up in the body. She differentiates expressions and styles of anger—numbing, avoiding, exploding, and integrated anger—and, for faith-based listeners, explores scripture on anger, clarifying the difference between vengeance and justice and between unrighteous and righteous anger.

Listeners will learn practical, somatic tools to safely experience and move anger through the body using the window of tolerance, anchors, and the principles of titration and pendulation. Colleen demonstrates three inward practices and offers a simple formula for outward expression. Gain a clear, step-by-step framework to recognize anger cues, stay regulated, metabolize stuck feelings, and communicate needs effectively in alignment with personal values (and, for some, with scripture).

Get the slide deck, transcript, and watch Colleen guide me through the modified wall push exercise in a bonus session with an All Access Pass.

Bio

Colleen Ramser, M.A., is an EMDR-certified licensed professional counselor (LPC), speaker, and author who meets Christ-followers at the intersection of trauma and faith. She is a sought-after trauma specialist - particularly on issues of spiritual abuse and domestic abuse - who has spent years journeying with souls in the Church and within the scope of her clinical practice. Colleen also frequently speaks to pastors, ministry leaders, organizations, and other mental health professionals who desire to help survivors individually and by addressing systemic harm.

She has appeared on podcasts such as Christianity Today’s The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill and The Slow Work. As a survivor of trauma, Colleen is a compassionate witness on the journey, bringing not only her clinical expertise but a deep knowing of dark nights and the breath of new mercies.

Her first book – for survivors recovering from spiritual trauma – will be published by Tyndale Refresh in 2025.

Colleen lives in Louisville, KY, with her husband and two kids and enjoys being swallowed up by God’s beautiful landscapes and catching a good pun.

Links & Resources

Website | Instagram

• When the Body Says No by Gabor Mate | Amazon | Bookshop
• Somatic Practices to Process Anger

Therapist and author Monica DiCristina guides listeners through a framework for naming relational pain and separating it from identity. She explains why naming is soothing to the nervous system, outlines common stress responses (fight, flight, freeze, fawn), and shows how self-doubt and self-gaslighting can follow painful interactions. Monica walks through the spectrum from minimizing to gaslighting, highlighting how each response erodes a person’s sense of reality and belonging, and how spiritual bypassing uniquely weaponizes beautiful concepts like faith or forgiveness. She also differentiates “clean pain” from “dirty pain” and emphasizes our inherent worth independent of our wounds or coping behaviors.

Listeners will learn practical tools to ground and validate themselves, including a brief somatic “reality anchoring” exercise, the 5-4-3 sensory practice, and self-affirmations that reinforce “my body knows what happened.” They’ll gain language to identify dismissive patterns in relationships, understand why the loss of connection can feel as threatening as physical danger, recognize common coping mechanisms, and leave with a compassionate roadmap for self-validation, clearer boundaries, and the reminder that they are not their pain.

Get the slide deck, transcript, and exclusive worksheets and videos from Monica's book with an All Access Pass.

Bio

Monica DiCristina is a therapist with over fifteen years of experience in mental health. She runs a private practice serving individuals and couples in therapy. She became a therapist after one changed her life in her early twenties. Monica partners with clients as they seek healing in their relationship with themselves and others. The intersection of her training, years of therapy experience, personal journey, and creative style inform her perspective.

In addition to her work in the therapy office, Monica shares therapeutic content through her Still Becoming podcast, writing, speaking, and her new book out now, Your Pain Has a Name: A Therapist’s Invitation to Understanding Your Story and Sorting Out Who You Are From What Hurts.

Resources

Website | Instagram | Substack

• Your Pain Has A Name by Monica DiCristina | Amazon | Bookshop