The Embodied Podcast

After a break since February 2023, I'm thrilled to return with fresh episodes of The Embodied Podcast! In this short first episode, I dive into personal updates, including my own initiations, growth, and reflections on life over the past year, as well as what has been inspiring me during this time away. I'm also excited to announce my upcoming retreat series, WILD, beginning this November. The WILD retreat series is an invitation to embrace your deepest, most instinctual self in a community of women. Through movement, storytelling, and somatic exploration, we'll reconnect with the wild nature inside us. Want to learn more? Visit www.drdaniellealexander.com/wild-woman for full details on how you can join us in this transformative experience. Thank you for tuning in, and I can't wait to journey with you again!

In today's episode, I discuss why precision and particularity are important when exploring and working with images. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com  

In today's episode, I discuss a particular pattern in the nervous system called global high activation. In this state, one can experience a sense of exhaustion or chronic overwhelm from being physiologically in a constant state of high activation whilst that activation is being suppressed by a dorsal vagal shutdown. This is like driving a car with the foot on the gas and the brake at the same time. I have discussed this pattern in different podcast episodes, such as: Ep 151: Addiction to falling in love Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com  

In today's unique podcast episode, I offer a sneak peek into the introduction call of my most recent workshop series called The Mother Archetype workshop series. This episode is a recorded replay of our live group call in which we opened a discussion on the particularities of the mother archetype. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I open up a conversation about what it means to be average. What are the true motivations behind being exceptional? Do we actually deeply fear being forgotten? Unaccepted? Unloved? The interview article with Marion Woodman can be found here. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I dive into how we can possibly learn to make contact with and support ourselves through recurring bouts of pain in a way that honor's the body's subjective experience. I use a client example to show how body armoring and muscle tension can correlate with each other and how we can respond in an alternative way to manual manipulation. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I discuss why this show isn't built upon foundations or intentions of fixing your problems. "Okay then, Danielle, then what is the show about?" I go into this a bit more deeply in the episode, and I use the James Hillman quote, "Evidently, a genuine solution must have the capacity to stabilize. It must sustain a condition, not merely dissolve it," to give flavor and context to my intentions behind the episodes! Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I discuss the immensity of grief that can accompany a transition out of dissociative life into a reality of complexity and relatedness. I believe grief reflects and 'makes real' our thresholds. When clients move from living their whole lives in a dissociative reality, disconnected from the here and now and the relational experience, returning to life can bring with it an immense amount of grief. "At the point the patient begins to abandon the instant and absolute 'truth' of dissociative reality in favor of internal conflict and human relatedness, the patient discovers that there is no path without pain." -Phil Bromberg Paul Russell also states, "We have to presume that the pain accompanying this grief is extreme, among the most painful of life's experiences." Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I offer a few contemplative meditations to reflect upon as we transition into the solar New Year season. The song used for this meditation is Naturaleza by Danit (Moses Edit). Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I discuss the process of embodying elements of divinity within the human vessel (aka the body). The paradoxical thing about incarnation is that I feel like the incarnation of spirit into the body is almost always traumatic. This is because we are dealing with immense mysterious forces. With this, I discuss the limitations and struggles we face when we are destined to attempt the incarnation of spirit in matter.  I quote at length the text The Religious Function of the Psyche by Lionel Corbett Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I discuss a random interaction I had with an individual which evoked a deep contemplation on different topics such as Jung's feeling function, narcissism, love and power drives, and much, much more. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

Hi all. Danielle here. Wow...It has been a BUSY month with A LOT of things going on (aka travel, sickness, conferences, etc)...all of which kept me from getting behind the mic and getting new episodes out to you. But today I am back with a unique episode for you. Today I am sharing with you an interview hosted by Jennifer McMaster and Shannon Gale with the goal of exploring who I am, the intricacies of my particular path and what led me towards Somatic Experiencing and Jungian approach towards my current practice. I hope you all enjoy the show and look forward to sharing more content with you all going into 2023. Enjoy!

In today's episode, I discuss why I find James Hillman's, the founder of archetypal psychology, work so influential and important to consider if you are interested in depth psychology. In this podcast, I discuss an important pillar of Hillman's called "Pathologizing," and I discuss its role in revisioning modern, and often one-sided, approaches to psychology. To find more information about my upcoming Book Club on James Hillman's The Soul's Code, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/souls-code-book-club Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I discuss why it is hard for some individuals to prioritize a stillness practice. I explore different states of the nervous system including high sympathetic drive and dorsal vagal shutdown. I also invite strategies to transition out of mobilization towards stillness. To find more information about the upcoming Book Club on The Soul's Code, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/souls-code-book-club To find more information on my upcoming Mother Archetype Workshop Series, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/mother-archetype-workshop-series Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode I answer a question asked on my IG feed: "How do mood/personality disorders (like bipolar) interact with or affect how psychological archetypes play out in our psyche?" I go into the nervous system patterns of bipolar disorder as well as Jung's map of the psyche where psyche and matter (body) are not considered separate. ***Given the sensitive exploration around mood disorders, please do not misuse the information supplied for substitution of licensed psychological medical advice. To find more information about the upcoming Book Club on The Soul's Code, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/souls-code-book-club To find more information on my upcoming Mother Archetype Workshop Series, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/mother-archetype-workshop-series Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com  

In today's episode I discuss navigating the somatic experience of resentment. I present the idea that perhaps resentment is the digestible form of thwarted fight responses that had be be split off during experiences of trauma or abuse. I present imagining resentment as a symptom that pushes against our defensives that have unconsciously been put in place to protect from the overwhelming intensity of deep anger or rage that once had to be dissociated. To find more information about the upcoming Book Club on The Soul's Code, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/souls-code-book-club To find more information on my upcoming Mother Archetype Workshop Series, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/mother-archetype-workshop-series Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I discuss why "faking it until we make it" doesn't feel great sometimes. I discuss acting "as if" and the capacity and flexibility that gives us when expanding into new and unknown aspects of the psyche. To find more information about the upcoming Book Club on The Soul's Code, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/souls-code-book-club To find more information on my upcoming Mother Archetype Workshop Series, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/mother-archetype-workshop-series Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I answer a question posed about episode 154: Dismemberment and Remembering of the Masculine. In that episode, I read the Grimm's fairy tale The Handless Maiden, also known as The Woman Without Hands. Someone asked the question, "what exactly do we do in the 7 years of being in the forest while growing back our hands?" In this episode I use the text The Feminine in Fairytales by Marie- Louise von Franz to aid in my answering of that question.  I discuss the implications of psychological introversion, confrontation with genuine loneliness, and stepping away from the projected roles that have been placed upon us by culture. In the forest, one is reclaiming a sense of spontaneity and trust in the self-regulating process of the psyche and 're-membering' themselves in the process; especially concerning the new potentials of the creative masculine energy within. Again, here is a text version of the fairy tale: https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm031.html Here is a lecture on the fairytale by Jungian scholar Dr. Raina Manuel-Paris: https://youtu.be/7VKEiNXRuGw To find more information about the upcoming Book Club on The Soul's Code, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/souls-code-book-club To find more information on my upcoming Mother Archetype Workshop Series, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/mother-archetype-workshop-series Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, my fiancé Rick Alexander and I discuss the influence that porn has on us individually and collectively. We discuss the relationship, or lack thereof, to the feminine, the shadow, and to darkness. We talk about shame and its influence within this pattern. We talk about demons, darkness, and the perceivable loss of control one can feel when caught in this archetypal pattern. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I read the Grimm's fairy tale The Handless Maiden, also known as The Woman Without Hands. I discuss the implications of psychological dismemberment and the process of remembering, especially concerning the new potentials of the creative masculine energy within. This is a story about dismemberment as a result of the old masculine principle making deals with the devil. Yet that comes at a great cost; a father must chop the hands off of his daughter. This dismemberment catalyzes her painful, but beautiful journey of transformation.  In this episode, I discuss how my fiancé was able to provide me with "silver hands" during a period of deep dismemberment in my life. I also discuss the process of pulling back those projections and learning to regrow a genuine connection to the inner masculine so that our own hands may grow back. Here is a text version of the fairy tale: https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm031.html As promised, here is a lecture on the fairytale by Jungian scholar Dr. Raina Manuel-Paris: https://youtu.be/7VKEiNXRuGw Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I discuss why trauma renegotiation is so confusing. In particular, I discuss the relationship of space and expansion and how that gets confused in the system with danger and threat. To check out The Soul's Code book club you can head to: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/souls-code-book-club To check out the preview of the documentary on post-traumatic growth you can head to: https://www.posttraumaticgrowth.film/ Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I discuss what happens when an experience of trauma dysregulates the internal wiring and high voltage energy floods the system physiologically. I discuss the importance of slowing the renegotiation process down to get into the high activation energy stuck in the micro-moments of the experience. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's podcast I discuss the relational dilemma of modernity: everyone seems to be wanting a hit of the "highs" that one can feel when falling in love. This is an archetypal experience, meaning it is in the realm of the gods. We can become disappointed when our partners do not live up to those divine projections. But of course they couldn't, because they are mere mortals, with flaws and mess included. In this episode I discuss the nervous system pattern of addiction to this state of relationship and map that onto the archetypal realm of love and suffering implied in the human condition. To join this month's roundtable discussion on Leo season in the astrological zodiac on 8/30 at 7pm EST, click here. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode I discuss boundaries, and not the type of boundaries we usually talk or hear about. Boundaries describe the relationship between self and Other. Well, what if trauma has interrupted the development of your sense of self? Can you actually set boundaries with another person if you don't have a clear sense of self? I talk about boundaries around your sense of self including our physiological self protective responses. I discuss what can happen when these are thwarted (defensive self protection and/or enmeshment with the outer Other and identification with the inner Other). I discuss the importance in developing these in order to develop an adequate mirror of reflection for your process. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com  

In today's episode I discuss what happens when we go into an inner process and solely expect to "feel better" in that process. We start to lose perspective and start denying the value in moments of contraction and creating a capacity for conscious suffering. We may be prioritizing an approach that promotes pleasure seeking (or an escape out of survival physiology) rather than a move towards completeness which is inclusive of the negative aspects of the process. You can have a process that moves towards completeness AND moves out of survival physiology, but that takes time and patience for the process. Contemplation: what are your expectations on your process of inner work? Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com  

In today's podcast I share one of the first religious/mystical experiences I had during a rock bottom moment in my life. I discuss how this experience shattered my ego defenses and allowed a connection to something greater than myself and the inflated ego structure I had at that time. I circle around Jung's theory of the Self and what that is in comparison to the Ego. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode I share part of my experience in navigating body image and read an Instagram post to a past version of myself. I also discuss the importance in turning unconscious violence into conscious suffering. To check out the Instagram post, head here. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode I discuss what happened for me when I sat down to record a podcast and came upon the absence of image and ideas. This is a circling around the experience of the creative well as the image of void, nothing, no-thing. In that void, we may stumble upon the inherent fullness of material in the void. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, Rick and I dive into another deep end episode in exploration of the topic of embodiment. We dive into: What is embodiment? How does Rick view embodiment through Eastern yogic traditions and how does Danielle view embodiment through her lens as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner? How do both world views collide in the depth psychological arena? Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode I discuss the metaphorical weeds that spring up between the cracks in our defensive and adaptive ways of navigating the world. To join the upcoming free community roundtable discussion on July 26th at 7pm EST in my Transformation Collective community, head to  https://transformcollective.com/landing/plans/164589 then click on "events" for more details and the Zoom link. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com  

In today's episode I discuss the importance of reconnecting to the felt sense experience of body sensations to anchor the stories and images that may be vulnerable to cultural oppression and manipulation. Here is the nervous system polyvagal chart I mentioned in today's episode. If you are interested in joining the upcoming free community roundtable discussion on July 26th at 7pm EST in my Transformation Collective community, head to  https://transformcollective.com/landing/plans/164589 to join, then click on "events" for more details and the Zoom link. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com  

In today's episode I share a lecture I presented in my Transformation Collective community on the zodiac sign of Cancer.  If you are interested in taking this conversation on Cancer season further, join the free Transformation Collective community: https://transformcollective.com/landing/plans/164589 and join our free community roundtable discussion on July 26th at 7pm EST. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com  

In today's episode, after two years of engagement, I share my personal experience of getting engaged to my fiancé. Rather than being overwhelmed with joy and happiness, I found myself experiencing immense fear of who I would become in the relationship as well as a loss of who I had been. Sometimes our initiations into deeper commitment to life and living it truly can require us to experience a death like experience of our old ways of being. I share a section out of Robert Johnson's book She in reference to the myth of Psyche and Eros. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com  

In today's show I expand upon a notion I discussed in episode 122 on the transcendent function. In today's show I expand past the tension of opposites into the value of multiplicity and the theory that if we can hold differing experiences then we increase our capacity to deal with the complexities of everyday. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's Deep End episode, my fiancé Rick and I discuss the question: what happens if only one partner in a couple is doing "inner work." We discuss: -What even is inner work? -How projections can play out in these situations. -We share personal experiences from our relationship around this topic. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode I discuss a contemplation that I've been working with: is one's ability to trust the dream images from the unconscious correlated with one's ability to trust the divine? Does one's image of God affect the relationship with the dream? Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode I discuss the horizontal and vertical aspect of the way the sensation of anger moves. Often anger gets stuck in the horizontal; leaving us stuck in cycles of projection and blame and/or internalization, self sabotage, or self hatred. The invitation within the podcast is to understand what containing the heat held within anger can do for the psyche. As well as what wisdom can be distilled from that energetic containment. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's podcast I talk about the process of moving from dissociation/disconnection to discrimination. Typically, before consciousness can meet those parts during trauma renegotiation, they remain disconnected from the totality of who we are. When the dissociated parts begin to re-associate, we now have more energy available to work towards discriminating the different sensations, images, etc in the psyche that contribute to a greater sense of self. Moving from dissociation to discrimination takes a creative approach to trauma healing, yet can offer forward a beautiful window into the possibilities within the renegotiation of the unconscious. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode I discuss an essay I wrote on Jung's theory of synchronicity, the experience of meaningful coincidence where the inner subjective experience of a person collides with an outer objective experience.  I discuss how synchronicities can unlock stuck places in the trauma renegotiation process and make us feel as if we are held in the arms of something greater than ourselves. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode I read an essay I wrote amplifying an astrological opposition between a Taurus Moon and a Scorpionic Pluto. I discuss the feminine symbols of the Moon, the different sides of the Mother, descents into the underworld, and death and rebirth initiations.  Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode I discuss the contrast between discipline and willpower. Willpower involves human will to me, remains quite personal. Discipline on the other hand, coming from the roots of disciple, connect us with devotion; devotion to something greater than yourself. That something is what I imagine to be soul, but I will leave you to decide what that is for you! Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode I amplify the importance of engaging with our higher activation states in the body in order to allow the body to remember its self regulating capacity that is often fragmented during traumatic experience. Although down regulating the nervous can be incredibly helpful in moment of intense stress, when chronically used, it may mean we are working against the physiology of what the traumatized state is communicating.  I discuss the importance of taking the time and space to get to the root of the nervous system high activation state so we aren't always reliant on parasympathetic strategies to get through our day. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode I discuss my journey through the discovery that clinical physical therapy practice was not the path that was connected to the deeper calling welling up within me. I discuss the ambivalence that came up along the way and the steps I took to work the dissonance, ambivalence, and fear.  Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's Deep End episode, my fiancé Rick and I discuss the values that underlie the way we unconsciously monetize a holiday like Memorial Day. We dive into values, sacrifice, hierarchical world views, quantitative vs. qualitative experience, emotions such as guilt, shame, pride, as well as many more topics. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode I discuss the difference between an "event" of something as opposed to an "experience" of something. For example, what is an "event" of depression vs. an "experience of depression. I amplify the qualitative nature of experience and how we can deepen into the feeling tone of how this event is moving in and through us.   To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening!

In today's episode I archetypally amplify a scene from The Lord of the Rings to offer a mythical mirror into the inner conflicts we all face between different parts of the personality. To watch the visual of the scene, go to: https://youtu.be/NB2CNr692RE To check out Episode 123: Amplifying the Inner Persecutor, head here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-123-amplifying-the-inner-persecutor/id1524846848?i=1000557582999 This scene symbolizes an archetypal dynamic in an experience of trauma in which a figure associated with darkness tries to create an ego identification and a negative feedback loop of shame and dissociation. To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening!

In today's Deep End episode, Rick and I discuss the Jungian theory of complexes, projection, and how those topics weave together in a practical application of healing trauma and relational wounds.  We referred to the book Complex, Archetype, Symbol by Jolande Jacobi in this episode. To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening!

In today's episode I reimagine the traditional & literal ways of viewing mothering. I amplify different psychological implications of the archetypal Great Mother and invite those listening to imagine ways they are influenced by the Mother in their everyday creative acts.  Check out Liz Gilbert's book, Big Magic here. To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening!

In today's episode I further discuss taking a critical look into our past. Critical inquiry into anything does not imply judgement of that process or those involved in that process. I circle around this topic and more involving reimagining inner child work. To check out the work at the Special Forces Experience, head here: https://thespecialforcesexperience.com/ To learn more or donate to the production of the documentary on post traumatic growth, head here: https://www.posttraumaticgrowth.film/ To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening!

In today's episode, my fiancé Rick Alexander and I circle around the symbols and images associated with the death and resurrection of Jesus in honor of Easter Sunday. To learn more about the upcoming book club on Trauma and the Soul, head to https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/trauma-soul-book-club To listen to Rick's podcast, A Thousand Names for God, head here: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/a-thousand-names-for-god/id1490122328 To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening!

In today's episode I read a section out of Kalsched's book Trauma and the Soul and amplify it with a scene from Harry Potter in the Order of the Phoenix in which Harry becomes possessed by Voldemort.  To watch the visual of the scene, go to: https://youtu.be/oQISw4NDHVA This scene symbolizes an archetypal dynamic in an experience of trauma in which a figure associated with darkness tries to create an ego identification and a negative feedback loop of shame and dissociation. To learn more about the upcoming book club on Trauma and the Soul, head to https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/trauma-soul-book-club To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel like would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening!