Finding Our Minds

 In our next episode Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses tactics narcissistic abusers use in depth, and looks at ways one can heal from the experience. This meditation is meant to accompany Season 2, Episode 9, as a way to help ease mental suffering that results from gaslighting and other abusive tactics. We hope you find peace and solace in today's meditation. 

Looking for a therapist and have no idea where to start? Uninsured? Worried about what type of therapy is right for you? Not sure what questions to ask a potential new therapist? Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses with Leah how to go about the task of finding the right fit. 

Narcissistic abusers have many tactics to control and manipulate people in their lives. The good news is there are ways to heal after experiencing this kind of trauma. In this episode, Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses a few of the tactics a narcissistic abuser may use to manipulate a person, and the steps one can take to heal from such an experience. 

 In our next episode Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses tactics narcissistic abusers use in depth, and looks at ways one can heal from the experience. This meditation is meant to accompany Season 2, Episode 9, as a way to help ease mental suffering that results from gaslighting and other abusive tactics. We hope you find peace and solace in today's meditation. 

What if your abuser is your workplace, or your school? In this episode Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses how narcissistic abuse can extend to the structure of an institution, and posits how we can hold institutions accountable for abusive practices. 

In previous episodes we discuss how narcissistic abuse can involve thought-insertion, the non-somatic communication of degrading thoughts directed at a victim. In this episode, Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses how in therapy we can support clients experiencing this, and the dangers of incorrectly labeling a victim of narcissistic abuse as psychotic.

Dr. Arnd-Caddigan leads us in a meditation to center our chakras. 

In this week's episode Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses the history of telepathy and telepathic studies in the discipline of psychoanalysis. 

We've been discussing all season the implications of mind-to-mind communication in the context of abuse. When someone experiences a narcissist's abusive tactics (such as gaslighting) it can often seem as though the abuser has an otherworldly control over our minds. In this episode we discuss the concept of psi, the mind-to-mind link between two people, and how that is twisted by the abuser to harm others. If you've ever experienced an encounter you would consider telepathic -either by an abuser or in another context- this episode is for you. 

A guided meditation in the practice of progressive relaxation, lead by Dr. Margaret Arnd-Caddigan.

Today Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses abusers, specifically, types of narcissistic abusers. From oblivious (or, covert) narcissists to malignant narcissists, this episode unpacks the ways in which abuse can manifest from different type of narcissistic abusers; and why you don't have to have a personality disorder to commit narcissistic acts of abuse. 

Last week we looked at what constitutes a healthy personality, and how a healthy personality is developed in early childhood. This week Dr. Arnd-Caddigan breaks down what a personality disorder is and how that relates to narcissistic abuse. 

When talking about Personality Disorders it first helps to define personality. What is a flexible personality, a rigid personality, and how can one's personality become disordered? Dr. Arnd-Caddigan and her producer Leah discuss what a healthy personality is, can be, and how a healthy personality can respond to external narcissism. 

What is narcissistic abuse? What is gaslightling? What is an energy vampire? Most, if not all, of us have had to bear the brunt of abusive behavior at least once in our lives. What drives a person to behave this way, and how can we protect ourselves from falling victim to abuse? Dr. Margaret Anrd-Caddigan and her producer Leah Faye discuss narcissistic abuse and outline how Season 2 of Finding Our Minds will tackle this difficult subject matter. 

Trailer for Season 2 of Finding Our Minds, a podcast about Having Mind, Knowing Mind, and Changing Mind. Hosted by Margaret Arnd-Caddigan, PhD, Associate Professor of Social Work at East Carolina University. Produced by Leah Faye.

In this special season-finale, Dr. Arnd-Caddigan and her daughter Leah Faye discuss their experience with Wicca, magic, spirituality, and what that all has to do with therapy. Thank you so much to our listeners for giving us such positive feedback, our idea for this episode was inspired by you. If you liked this season please rate us, review us, subscribe to us, share us with your friends, we have a lot of exciting plans for future episodes and seasons. Please email us! Findingourminds@gmail.com or join our facebook group, Finding Our Minds Podcast where we post relevant discussion topics to each episode. Your host is Dr. Margaret Arne-Caddigan, clinical social worker, associate professor at East Carolina University, and published author. Her next book titled Intuition in therapy practice: a mind-centered depth approach to healing is being published by Rutledge and will be available this summer wherever books are sold.Producer: Leah Faye @BossWitchLeFayeAssociate Producer: Lindsey PriceTechnical Director: David CaddiganArtwork by Ray Gonzalez @rays_printsAnd with1 music by Anton Ashmere.  

In our last lecture of the season, Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses the relationship to the mind and body, and how one cannot exist without the other. This is our second to last episode of the season, and next episode will be an informal discussion on spirituality within mental health practices. Stay tuned! 

This week's episode is less dense, Dr. Arnd-Caddigan talks research. We explore what the research shows about mind-centered therapy, and what it is that makes a therapy experience work for a client. The secret? You'll have to listen...

Why do we need to unburden ourselves of our experiences? Why do we feel better after talking to someone? What's going on in our minds when a therapist is guiding mental healing? Margaret and Leah discuss the ways we relate to experience, how sharing qualia is a necessary part of cementing our understanding of ourselves.

This week we take a semi-deep dive into the Jungian and Post-Jungian understanding of the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. What did Jung mean by the collective unconscious, and what are our interpretations of it today? Is the collective unconscious metaphysical, material, or is there perhaps better language to describe it? Margaret and Leah also discuss the notion of the afterlife. 

This week Margaret goes into how to develop your intuition and how to tell the difference between intuition and projection. Have you ever felt belittled for relying on your intuition? Have you ever been vindicated for listening to your own intuition? Write to us! Findingourminds@gmail.com

What is intuition and how can we learn to apply it in our work, relationships, and practices? How do we know when we're having an intuitive moment, or when we're projecting our desires onto a situation. This week Margaret and Leah discuss how we use our intuition and why it shouldn't be stigmatized in the therapeutic alliance. 

This week Margaret and Leah discuss intuition, and answer: what is intuition? And, when do we gain it in early childhood development? They also discuss their spiritual beliefs and what it's like being a witch in North Carolina. 

In this episode we talk about the concept of mental suffering. How it arises, and how understanding our own minds can help us understand the minds of others. 

Host Dr. Margaret Arnd-Caddigan and producer Leah Faye answer the question "What is mind?" We explore the idea of the single, Universal mind, and discuss the stigma of being called "woo-woo." 

In the first episode we meet our host, Dr. Margaret Arnd-Caddigan and begin to explore the definition of mind. The current dominant worldview posits that your mind, or every experience you've ever had, comes from your brain.  This view has been challenged by a growing number of philosophers of mind. The positions of panpsychism and cosmopsychism are explored.