Episode 1 - Welcome to The YADA Method, How Experiences Create Beliefs that Drive Your Behaviors
Tanner Searles holds a Masters in Social Work from the University of Southern California, and a Masters in Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary. She has nearly 20 years of experience working with people of all ages and backgrounds in various ministry, non-profit and therapeutic capacites.
She is now the Creator and Director of The YADA Method, a natural, integrative approach to healing that works with the body's innate design to heal itself. The YADA Method addresses the neuro-physiological, emotional and spiritual root of traumatic and fear based experiences that give rise to present time dis-ease and negative life symptoms. Her method incorporates research from Human Development (including pre-natal, infant and child development), Attachment/Attunement Theory, Quantum Theory, Energy Based Healing, Epigenetics, Interpersonal-Neurobiology, Psychological Traumatology, Cellular Biology, Applied Kinesiology, Chinese meridians, and a Biblical understanding of the Creation and Cosmos and what it means to be human.
Tanner is passionately leading the way to provide effective, natural healing at an accelerated pace. Many people struggle for years without resolution to their issues, spending valuable resources of time, energy and finances. Clients often report “it worked for a time, and then it came back. I’ve done everything I know to do.”
Tanner understands this frustration, and her goal is to be a catalyst of hope that “there IS a place to turn,” and that successful resolution of even the most difficult life challenges can take place. She believes there IS an “original, whole you” designed by God to live from a place of power, love, and soundness of mind. Fear and traumatic experiences often block the natural process of healing and growth, causing us to abandon or become mis-aligned with our true selves.
Healing IS a journey, but it needs to be the right journey properly informed by research and understanding from many streams of knowledge about how the human person is designed and meant to function. Often the various forms of healing have been siloed into their respective disciplines, creating fragmentation in the healing process and missed opportunities for more effective and rapid healing. Tanner's goal is to bring the research together into a single place so people can learn, understand and begin to navigate their health decisions from a more informed and empowered perspective.
Prior to her work in creating The YADA Method, Tanner was a middle school Math and Science teacher, a youth leader in her church, and a gang-prevention counselor with youth at-risk in Southern California. She effectively reduced aggression and violence on high school campuses, together with cutting, suicidal ideation, teenage pregnancy and drug use, ensuring the long term life success of her students. She has developed Peer Mentoring programs to equip students with positive peer leadership skills and to improve access for students in need of services during major educational budget cut-backs that tore deep into provision of psychological services for students in schools. She also served as the first ever Leadership Fellow for Nuru International’s Kenyan team where she co-lead the design and development of their leadership training program to train local Kenyan leaders to manage, sustain, and scale poverty alleviation in their communities. Nearly 80,000+ people are now rising out of extreme poverty on their own and scaling to multiple nations in sensitive areas around the world as a result.
Tanner believes in the inalienable rights of all people to life, health, and happiness and operates from the paradigm of Isaiah 58:12: “rebuild the ancient ruins, raise up the foundations that have been devastated by many generations, repair the breach, restore the streets in which to dwell.” She has dedicated her life's work towards this pursuit, and to the love of her neighbor as herself.