Tracy Cartwright with Karin Dremel
28 Aug 2026
In this conversation, Tracy Cartwright is joined by Karin Dremel, M.T.S., a systemic traumatologist and heart-centred systems constellator, for a rich exploration of trauma, Family Constellations, embodiment and the many systems that shape us.
Karin brings decades of embodied, somatic and systemic work to the conversation, drawing from her experience with developmental and inherited ancestral trauma, Somatic Experiencing®, Hakomi, Rolfing®, Family Constellations and interdisciplinary studies. Her approach is grounded in what she describes as systemic imagination, trauma-sensitive presence and radical hospitality.
Together, Tracy and Karin explore “withnessing” what happens when we truly stay present with another person's experience, as well as nested trauma and the way our experiences can be shaped not only by our family, but by our early development, culture, institutions, history and larger systems.
Karin also shares her beautiful metaphor for trauma work: darning.
They talk about early developmental trauma, the parts of us that need protection and nourishment, finding the strong places we can anchor into, and how the resources of the present can help us meet what happened in the past.
A thoughtful and deeply human conversation about trauma, Family Constellations, connection, and the possibility of creating a new fabric from what has been torn.
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