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Thanks for the invite. Who's coming?When we receive an invite to an all gay event, what's the first thing we do?Sure, we look at the theme of the party, the location, the date, but those are usually secondary considerations to the big question, “who's going?”This is really a multiprong question: Will I feel comfortable with these guys? Is there anyone there I'd like to to date or fuck? Will anyone there want to date or fuck me? Will these guys bore me to death?Basically, am I physically and intellectually attracted to the guys who are going, and will they have a hankering for what I have to offer?The current political consensus of our people demands inclusiveness. As I understand the edict, nothing should prevent us from inviting every type of human expression (body shape/size, sex, gender identity, ability, color, or socioeconomic background) to our event.That's “inclusive,” and it's the right thing to do. Right?Is that what you're thinking as you scroll the invite list? I'm guessing it's not your highest priority.Are we already breaking the rules by just inviting gay men? Of course we are. And, of course, we'll keep doing it.Because that's how diversity works, we can't have cultural diversity if we don't have a diversity of cultures.Gay male culture is defined by our same sex attraction for one another. Yes, we share many other common interests, like show tunes, but no attribute is as universal as our same sex attraction. That aspect is intrinsic to our gay get-togethers. It's often the centerpiece, whether overtly recognized or not.This causes a conundrum for those who want to create an affinity group (exclusive space) and your friend group is a mixed crowd, many of whom will not qualify, when one of the aims of the gathering is to provide space for erotic connections.This creates an awkward challenge as I continue my experiment of finding heart-centered connection instead of churning through meaningless sexual encounters.Meaningless sex is a simple endeavor: We both decide if we want what the other guy has. We both give and take. Done. Goodbye forever.Heart-centered connections that include an erotic overlay are vastly more complicated, mainly because we genuinely want the best for guys we care about and don't want to add any negative baggage to the often heavy psychic load many of us are already carrying.“You're not invited,” or “Thank you, but I don't want to dance with you,” creates tension.Before I move on, let me be clear that there are all kinds of other “gay” events (that are usually not all gay men) where this is completely a non-issue. Events like banquette fundraisers, which are a whole culture themselves, where your donation is your most attractive feature; gay sports teams, where your athletic ability is the premium feature; and political clubs, where your connections, ability to mesmerize a room, and access to cash make you politically attractive.When a gay event also includes the possibility of erotic connection, the politically correct mantra of everyone, everywhere, all the time, or else you're a scumbag bigot, wears thin.A problem with the “everyone is equally beautiful” mantra is that it is simply not true. Physical beauty is determined by millions of years of evolution, and a fat dollop of conditioning received via social media. You may want Ryan Gosling to want you back (I know I do), but giving him all your attention deprives you of the opportunities available to you with other guys–the guys who are aesthetically similar to you.Another hard reality is to be realistic about whom you have access to on a physical level. “LA is a city of 10s looking for an 11,” was a line in an old gay movie called Latter Days that still rings true. All those 10s are wasting time.Anyway, for those of you planning or attending sexually social events, here are a couple of ideas you can try out to make the gatherings more fulfilling.* Admit that private affinity groups exist and honor people's decision to have them. This means finding it in your heart to cheer them on for taking the risk and making an effort to create such a group, even when you are not invited. There is a sex party in LA that only allows men under 40. I don't qualify, but I remember when I was under 40, I would have LOVED such a party. So good on them. * Learn how to say “no” and hear “no” with grace. These boundary-setting techniques are something most of us were never taught. I know I had to learn them the hard way after years of having sex with guys just to be nice. Now, as my beauty recedes like the tide, I'm getting more opportunities to see and hear “no,” which I gotta say is very often done with grace. And it's still not easy to receive. Processing rejection gracefully is work. But it's worth it, so we can keep being friends.More about “No.”Both receiving and communicating “no” have their own challenges.Receiving “No.”Receiving “no” gracefully starts as a passive action (just don't cause a scene), but then requires the active internal work of processing rejection. That's big.Metabolizing that moment is essential to not ruining the rest of your night.Unless you've reached a permanent state of Enlightenment (Samadi), you will most likely need to process a pretty heavy feeling.For me, that feeling usually manifests in the gut, just below my rib cage. Interestingly, that is the home of our third chakra, the home of personal power, confidence, self-esteem, and willpower. Having your desirability and viability challenged is particularly challenging for men. No matter how gay you think you are, as a man, you have been conditioned from birth to confront assaults on your power, confidence, and self-esteem. So it's likely to elicit an aggressive reaction from your ego.Love is the only way out of this. It allows you to respond from your higher self as opposed to reacting from your ego.First, love yourself: remember you are a Spark of the Divine. You deserve care and attention. If you're not receiving it from pretty boy X, no matter what your ego tells you, let it go. Get out your love radar instead. Where is the love, gurl? Follow the ping leading you to where the love is. That is most likely a friend who, trust me, will love commiserating with you about being shot down.Second, and this is much harder, try to recognize and love the Spark of the Divine in the person who rejected you. I know it's hard with pretty people, but try. He has his own path, and he's exercising his agency, which, I hope, is what you would like to do as well.Communicating “No.”Communicating “no” requires you to love yourself enough to honor and implement your boundaries, while, at the same time, using as much empathy as possible to let your fellow gay down easy.Keep your distance. When you want to fuck a guy, one way to show your interest is to stand unnecessarily close. It works. And, doing the opposite —keeping your distance —works just as well.If you are in a group with him, like a naked game night or a group at the club, focus your attention on someone else. Make space between you and him. No touching. Turn your back. Go to the bathroom, the bar, or simply walk away.Have things gotten a little handsy? Nonchalantly move his hand. Like you're moving something out of the way for him. Oh, here, let me put that where it belongs. Do it with your eyes on his and he'll get the message.Phrases I've heard which allowed us both to keep our dignity are, “I'm good.” (after touching a guy on the dance floor), “I don't like being touched.” (probably a lie, but made it his problem), and “I'm not here for that.”Is he pushy? Is he an ass? Moving his hand with a slight crushing squeeze conveys the message. And, looking him directly in the eyes and saying, “I'm not into this; please move on.”Exercise your agency, your ability to make a choice. Don't expect him to read your mind. He may already be picking out cake toppers for your wedding cake. He may be too drunk or high. Or, he may be misreading your good nature as an invitation. When you get the vibe it's time to move on, do it. Do not feel obligated to stay with anyone you're not feeling it with.And. Do NOT give him your phone number or social media account. Unless, of course, you'd like to string out the long good-bye for days, weeks, or months.Going Deep: A Gay Guide to Reality is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mikegerle.substack.com/subscribe

Salvador Herrera is an assistant professor of Latinx Literature and Cultural Production in the Department of English at the University of Oregon. He discusses his work exploring transborder aesthetics providing Tanya Aguiñiga's "Metabolizing the Border" project as an example. He also talks about the classes he teaches and the value of UO's pursuit of becoming a Hispanic-serving Institution. Research Notes: Devin Grammon and Sergio Loza talk about their recently published book "Aquí se habla: Centering the Local and Personal in Spanish Language Education" co-edited with Adam Schwartz and Dalia Magaña. Devin is an assistant professor of Spanish Sociolinguistics. Sergio is an assistant professor of Spanish Linguistics and the director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program. Both are in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. They will participate in a book release talk on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 4 p.m. in the Centro Cultural César Chávez at Oregon State University. Dalia Magaña's book: https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814214817.html Adam Schwartz's: book: https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?k=9781800416901 Article by Devin Grammon: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6sd7h1ts

How are we processing uncertainty differently? This week, Joey and Jess talk about Punxsutawney Phil, tariffs, the meme recession, Jason Bourne, Edmonton, and Sam Cooke. They don't talk about the bleak and endless hopelessness of it all. references Corrections Department: There's air in between you and I (even if we're not seventeen) Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson "A Change Is Gonna Come" Corrections Department: The eleven studio albums Sam Cooke recorded and released before his death in 1964 

I know I'm not alone in feeling like 2024 was a year. So many of us are still working through everything that happened as we wonder exactly what lies ahead.As part of that reflection on the year past and preparing for the year ahead, long-time listeners may know that I am a big believer in debriefing. I debrief weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annually, and each year, I share my annual debrief with you.This debrief includes personal reflections about events in my life, how my words of the year brought some interesting data to light and guided my actions, and themes about what's working and what's not working as we begin the new year. Content note: Discussion of death by suicideListen to the full episode to hear:How my words of the year–rhythm and reps–challenged some of my deeply engrained habits and unrealistic expectationsHow a series of events in my personal life led to shifts in my rhythms and reps and deeper healingWhat 35 tomato plants taught me about priorities and planningWisdom that stuck with me from live talks by Elizabeth Gilbert and Anne LamottExperiences that brought me joy last year and why joy is essential to doing the hard work aheadManaging anger and outrage in our political climate through curiosity and healing, unburdened leadershipLearn more about Rebecca:rebeccaching.comWork With RebeccaSign up for the weekly Unburdened Leader EmailResources:Writer's Symposium by the SeaEP 14: Consenting to Grief as a Leadership Practice with Dean Nelson, PhDElizabeth GilbertRedwoodAnne LamottConclaveRenttick, tick…BOOM!The Artist's Way, Julia CameronReal Fun, Wow!Brené BrownVirgin RiverThe OfficeParks and RecBrooklyn Nine-NineCommunityThe DiplomatLionessTimothy SnyderEP 70: Getting out of Shame and Into Power with Kelly DielsKelly DielsFinding Mercy in Impossible Times (Father Gregory Boyle) | Pulling the Thread with Elise LoehnenFather Gregory BoyleEP 117: Rethinking Resilience: Moving from Bouncing Back to Relational Resilience with Soraya ChemalyEP 96: Rage to Action: The Leading Power of Women's Anger with Soraya ChemalyRage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger, Soraya ChemalyThe Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma, Soraya ChemalyEP 113:  Curiosity as a Bridge: Uncovering Fears and Building Connections with Scott ShigeokaEP 90: Engaged and Consistent Leadership: with Moms Demand Action Founder, Shannon WattsMoms Demand ActionHow Leadership Styles Will Change in 2025

As we go into 2025, we must keep this in mind... Empathy isn't a personality trait.  According to Liesel Mertes, Founder of Handle with Care Consulting, it's an essential workplace skill we need to hone. And at the same time, people who go through disruptions and hard times have to eventually return to the office and add value to the organization. There's a balance between having empathetic conversations and being honest about the nature of the employer/employee relationship. In this episode replay, Liesel shares practical ways to strengthen your empathy muscle as a manager, HR leader, and friend. She explains what is and isn't effective at helping someone through hardship and offers tangible tools to care for people well.   Join us as we discuss: [09:00] How to handle the pivotal first moments after a disruptive event [15:30] Creating an “empathy menu” [20:00] Managing change fatigue [23:00] Rituals to care for yourself as an HR leader [28:00] Metabolizing the hard stories you hold [35:00] Balancing fortitude and empathy   Resources: For the entire interview, subscribe to HR Superstars on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube, Or tune in on our website. Original podcast track produced by Entheo. Want to connect with thousands of other strategic HR leaders like you? Join the HR Superstars Community! Listening on a desktop & can't see the links? Just search for HR Superstars in your favorite podcast player. Hear Adam's thoughts on elevating your HR career by following him on LinkedIn. For more on maximizing employee performance, engagement, and retention, click here. Liesel Mertes' LinkedIn - click here!  

Sex can be used as an escape, to make you UNconscious.  Or, it can be used to bring you MORE conscious and elevate you and every part of your life. We're all about orgasmic enlightenment in these parts.  Sex is alchemy. It's transformation. It's taking your base parts and fusing them into gold. You can use sex to help you to move through challenges and emotional and physical pain.In this episode: How I f**ked my way out of a brutal breakup Metabolizing stuck energy to lose weight Conscious vs. unconscious sex Science agrees: f**king your pain away is backed by “studies” How I created one of my most signature pieces of work; via my vagina Find my step-by-step, Meditate, Masturbate, Create sequence here. 

Anita Dickinson is a lifelong Meditation/Yoga/Primal Movement Practicer and Teacher as well as a Criminal Justice and Family Law Attorney. She's interested in nothing less than systemic, wondrous world-wide change, currently focusing on guiding safe and immersive Nature-Meditation retreats for “Westerner's.” And, when not practicing law/meditation, you'll find her endeavoring to be a conscientious farmer and land steward in rural Utah with her fabulous domestic-partner & hubby of 30yrs. Anita has been a close friend of mine for the last few years and I've learned SO MUCH from her about meditation and I'm beyond excited to share this conversation with you! Major themes: (approx min markers) 4 - Micro-hit practices: Taking meditation off the mat 10 - Metabolizing the Present moment: The power of awareness 19 - The limitation of the Guru model in Meditation 23 - Practical techniques for meditating in different situations 32 - Finding your own path in meditation 34 - Incorporating Movement and self-love in meditation 38 - Breaking free from Traditional meditation models 41 - Bringing Present moment awareness to daily life 45 - The importance of self-compassion and self-awareness in daily life 57 - Awakening your inner Buddha: Everyone has the capacity Connect with Anita here to learn about her retreats and meditation classes here: www.enterzenhere.com or IG - @enter_zen_here --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thelovingchallenger/support

This week, we laid to rest a pillar of our community, our beloved Channah Berkovits. As we were reflecting with her family about her incredible life, I kept thinking about what a powerful teacher she was for me and for our whole community. Channah radiated positive energy. I remember when I first met her—she was this petite woman dressed in a bright purple suit, who seemed to always be here for every class and every service. Whenever she saw me, she would call me over and would start speaking to me in Hebrew, usually to give me a heartfelt blessing. If I asked her how she was doing, she would always say something positive about how grateful she was to be here, about her wonderful family, about the beautiful day. And she always ended every conversation with her trademark phrase, חיבוק של אהבה. She was so positive that at some point I asked my colleagues if they knew her secret. I remember them saying to me, “I don't know what her secret is, but you should know she is a survivor.” At her funeral, I heard for the first time her story as a young adolescent. She was only thirteen when she was sent on a cattle car to Auschwitz with her mother, her two brothers, and her grandmother. Her mother had heard through the grapevine that Germans were murdering children upon arrival, so she forced Channah to put on all these additional layers of clothing so she would look older. Channah, as an emerging teenager, was not happy with this arrangement. She didn't like having to wear all those extra clothes. It was hot and uncomfortable. And so, when their cattle car arrived at Auschwitz, she ran ahead of her family. When she got to the front of the line, Mengele sent her in the direction of life. Behind her, he sent her family to the gas chambers. It's hard to fathom that kind of intense and immediate loss. What must it have been like for her, at such a young age, to witness such horrible atrocities, to endure such unimaginable suffering? And that was only the beginning.

Read the Longform Article on the Blog: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/4777-2/   Navigating Uncertainty, and Finding Meaning in a Fractured World Our era is characterized by the dominance of hyper-rationality and the relentless pursuit of objective truth, production, accomplishment and consumption.  The human psyche finds itself adrift in a sea of fragmented images and disconnected meanings as the previous myths that used to give us purpose are exposed as hollow or erroneous. I see patients everyday that describe this phenomenon but not in these words. It is as if they are saying that they do not know who they are anymore. Not because they have changed but because all of the nodes and references points that used to contextualize their identity are stripped away or have been made foreign and incomprehensible. However the world still looks the same to them, despite its alienating effect. It is not the aesthetics of the world that are different, but the effect that it has on us. Because the world looks the same we feel crazy. Really it is our feelings telling us that the world is crazy even though it looks the same. Effective therapy in the modern world needs to get over its insecurities of feeling or looking crazy. If we don't let ourselves as therapists admit to patients that we also feel in pain, that we also feel crazy from these same forces, then how can therapy do anything but gaslight our patients more. When I see the news I feel like I am on drugs, even though I am stone cold sober. I know that the people on tv do not believe the things they say and are not acting for the reasons that they tell me as a spectator that they are. I am not a politician or a god, I am a therapist. I am as paralyzed against these forces as my patients are and yet I must help them recon with them. I must help them reckon with them even though I do not know how to reckon with them myself. I didn't understand it at first but have come around to the line of W.H. Auden that the Jungian analyst James Hillman liked to quote at the end of his life. “We are lived by forces that we pretend to understand.” -W. H. Auden Auden's line highlights how the frameworks and philosophies we resort to for certainty and order are often little more than self-delusion. The grand meaning-making systems of religion, science, politics, etc. that have risen to such cultural dominance are but feeble attempts to exert control over the ineffable complexities of being. Yet we cling tenaciously to these conceptual constructs, these hyper-real simulations, because the alternative – admitting the primacy of ambiguity, contradiction, and the unfathomable depths propelling our thoughts and actions – is simply too destabilizing. The simulacrum proliferates these hyper-rational facades and simulated realities precisely because they defend against having to confront the “forces we pretend to understand.” The philosopher Jean Baudrillard's concept of the simulacra, or a copy without an original – a realm where simulations and representations have become more “real” than reality itself – aptly captures the sense of alienation and dislocation that pervades contemporary culture. In this world of surfaces and appearances, the depth of human experience is often lost, and the quest for authentic meaning becomes increasingly elusive. Appearance of the Unreal The simulacrum is a conceptual framework proposed by the philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard in his book “The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact” (2005). It refers to the realm of images and representations that have become detached from reality and taken on a life of their own in contemporary culture. According to Baudrillard, in the postmodern era, images and simulations have become more real than reality itself. Images circulate and multiply, creating a hyper reality that replaces the real world. In this realm, images no longer represent or refer to an external reality but instead become self-referential and self-generating. Some key characteristics of the simulacra as described by Baudrillard: It is a realm of simulacra, where copies and simulations have replaced the original and the authentic. It is a world of appearances and surfaces, where depth and meaning have been lost. It is a realm of fascination and seduction, where images captivate and manipulate the viewer. It is a world of illusion and virtuality, where the boundaries between the real and the imaginary have collapsed. The simulacra describes a semiotic vertigo, a self-referential hall of mirrors in which signifiers endlessly circulate and proliferate, unmoored from any ultimate signified or referent in material reality. It is a world that has become untethered from the symbolic order, that transcendent horizon of meaning and metaphysical grounding which allows a culture to orient human experience within a coherent frame. For Baudrillard, the implications of this unraveling of the symbolic order are profoundly disorienting and alienating. The perpetual bombardment of images and spectacle produces a crisis of meaning and a loss of critical distance. Signs and representations become unhinged from the tangible contexts and embodied human narratives that could imbue them with authenticity and significance. Gilbert Durand's Imaginary Gilbert Durand's concept of the imaginary, as described in his book “The Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary” (1960), can provide valuable insights into the crisis of meaning in the postmodern world. Durand argues that the human imagination is structured by fundamental archetypal patterns that shape our understanding of the world. For Durand, the realm of images, symbols, and myths constitutes the collective imaginary of a culture, providing a symbolic framework through which individuals can navigate the complexities of existence. However, in the postmodern era, the traditional symbols and myths that once anchored the imaginary have been eroded by the forces of secularization, rationalization, and technological change. The result is a fragmentation of the imaginary, a loss of symbolic coherence that leaves individuals adrift in a sea of disconnected images and meanings. Durand suggests that the crisis of meaning in contemporary culture is not merely a matter of intellectual or philosophical confusion, but a profound disruption of the archetypal structures that underpin human experience. The challenge, then, is to reconnect with new symbols and myths that can restore a sense of coherence and purpose. Michel Serres and the Proliferation of Images Michel Serres, in his work, explores the growing influence of images and visual media in contemporary society. He argues that the proliferation of images has created a new kind of environment that shapes our perception, knowledge, and behavior. Serres's perspective highlights the way in which images and simulations have come to dominate contemporary culture. The endless circulation of images creates a sense of information overload and semiotic confusion, making it difficult for individuals to discern what is real and what is illusory. In this context, the task of therapy becomes one of helping patients navigate the world of images, to find ways of grounding their experience in authentic human relationships and chosen, not preprogrammed, narratives. This may involve a critical interrogation of the images and representations that shape our understanding of the world, as well as a renewed emphasis on the importance of symbolic meaning and archetypal structures. The simulacrum is not merely a philosophical or semiotic problem, but a profound existential challenge. It undermines the very foundations of human subjectivity, calling into question the assumptions and beliefs that have traditionally provided a sense of order and purpose to human experience. In this context, the role of therapy becomes one of helping patients to confront the radical uncertainty and ambiguity of the postmodern condition. This may involve a willingness to embrace the inherent contradictions and paradoxes of existence, to find meaning in the midst of chaos and confusion. A Heap of Broken Images in the Waste Land of the Modern The crisis of meaning that haunts the modern age is poignantly evoked in T.S. Eliot's  “The Waste Land.” The poem's fragmented structure and kaleidoscopic imagery reflect the shattered psyche of a post-war generation, struggling to find coherence and purpose in a world that has lost its moral and spiritual bearings. The “heap of broken images” that Eliot describes is a powerful metaphor for the breakdown of the shared cultural narratives and value systems that once provided a sense of unity and direction to human life. This theme is echoed in the work of the Jungian analyst Edward Edinger, who argues that the loss of these collective “containers” of meaning has left individuals increasingly vulnerable to the direct impact of archetypal forces. Cut off from the mediating influence of cultural traditions and communal myths, the modern psyche is exposed to the raw power of the unconscious, leading to a range of psychological disturbances, from neurosis and obsession to psychosis and despair. At the core of the human experience lie archetypal energies, biological drives, unconscious impulses that defy rationalization. The Jungian analyst Edward Edinger highlighted how the breakdown of cultural narratives and societal containers in modernity has left the individual psyche exposed to these primordial currents without adequate symbolic mediation. We are “lived” more by these depths than by the ideological scripts we rehearse on the surface. The totalizing ideological systems and regimes of image-commodification so pervasive in late capitalism can be viewed as anxious attempts to reinstall order and stuff the denied “forces” back into an old and broken symbolic container. But as Auden intuited, and as the desolation of “The Waste Land” gives voice to, such efforts are doomed to fail in reinstating an authentic sense of meaning and rootedness. What is required is a re-enchantment of the world, a resacrilization of existence that can hold the tensions of the rational and irrational, the structured and the chaotic, in productive paradox. Rather than defensive pretense, the goal becomes to live into the mysteries with humility and openness. Only by greeting “the forces we pretend to understand” with vulnerability and courage can we hope to restore the symbolic depths modernity has paved over with hyper-rational simulations and spectacles. The Jungian idea of the tension of the opposites can help us make sense of the dichotomy between the real we we are seeing and the unreal that we are feeling. By trying to pick between these forces we have to pick between either feeling crazy and acting sane or feeling sane and acting crazy. If we are able to feel the truth of both the real an unreal, subjective and objective tension that the cognitive dissonance of the modern era is causing it will become a powerful intuition. This powerful intuition was something harnessed by the theorists and writers mentioned in this essay. It is why their work feels so true even where it might seem on the surface like madness. Such an approach does not abandon logic, analysis and differentiated understanding. Rather, it balances these with an embrace of ambiguity, a readiness to engage the symbolic potencies of the unconscious, myth and the mysteries that exceed rational categorization. The Buddhist notion of the “still point” that so haunts “The Waste Land” evokes this posture of dwelling in the creative spaciousness between conceptual fixities. For Jung, it is only through metabolizing psychic opposition that true depth and wholeness can arise. The reconciliation of conflicts within honors psyche's inexhaustible fertility, rather than defensively walling meaning off within cardboard ideological constructs. Real and Unreal Time Henri Bergson wrote that lived time (durée) is fundamentally different from the spatialized, quantified conception of time in science. He saw duration as a heterogeneous, interpenetrating flow irreducible to discrete instants. Intuition, rather than intellect, is the faculty by which we can grasp this dynamic continuity of consciousness. In Creative Evolution, Bergson proposed that evolution is driven by an élan vital – an immanent, indivisible current of life that flows through all living beings, giving rise to novelty and creative emergence rather than just gradual, continuous adaptation. Totalizing ideologies and the “regimes of image-commodification” in late capitalism are anxious attempts to reinstate a sense of order, but are doomed to fail at providing authentic meaning. What is needed is a re-enchantment and resacralization of the world that can hold the paradoxical tensions between rational and irrational, structured and chaotic. The Jungian notion of the tension of opposites illuminates the dichotomy between the “real” we see and the “unreal” we feel in the modern world. By feeling the truth of both and inhabiting that cognitive dissonance, it can become a powerful intuition – something you argue animates the work of the thinkers and writers you mention. The goal is to dwell in the “creative spaciousness” between conceptual fixities, balancing differentiated understanding with an openness to ambiguity, unconscious symbolism, and mystery. Metabolizing psychic opposition in this way allows for true wholeness to emerge, honoring the psyche's deep generativity. Bergson sits with the same Phenomenon as Eddinger. The modern mind, unmoored from traditional cultural and spiritual structures that once provided symbolic mediation and containment of archetypal energies, is more vulnerable to being overwhelmed by unconscious forces in the wake of traumatic rupture. Rebuilding an authentic relationship to meaning after trauma thus requires recovering a sense of anchoring in the living weave of the world's mystery and hidden coherence beneath the fragmenting onslaught of a hyper-rationalized, dispirited culture. Magic as Real and Unreal Intuition Bergson distinguishes between two forms of religious belief and practice: the “static religion” of closed societies, characterized by conformity to established norms and rituals, and the “dynamic religion” of open societies, driven by the creative impetus of mystical intuition. Within this framework, Bergson sees magic as a primitive form of static religion. He argues that magic arises from an extension of the “logic of solids” – our practical intelligence attuned to manipulating the material world – into the realm of human affairs. Just as we can cause changes in physical objects through our actions, magical thinking assumes that we can influence others and control events through symbolic gestures and incantations. Fabulation, on the other hand, is the human faculty of myth-making and storytelling. For Bergson, fabulation serves a vital social function by creating shared narratives and beliefs that bind communities together. It is a defensive reaction of nature against the dissolving power of intelligence, which, left unchecked, could undermine social cohesion by questioning established norms and practices. While Bergson sees both magic and fabulation as grounded in a kind of “fiction,” he does not dismiss them as mere illusions. Rather, he acknowledges their pragmatic value in structuring human life and experience. However, he also recognizes their limitations and potential dangers, especially when they harden into closed, dogmatic systems that stifle individual creativity and moral progress. In contrast to static religion, Bergson celebrates the dynamic, mystical élan of open religion, which he sees as the highest expression of the creative impulse of life. Mystics, through their intuitive coincidence with the generative source of reality, are able to break through the closed shells of tradition and breathe new vitality into ossified institutions and beliefs.Bergson's perspective on the creative, evolutionary impulse of life (élan vital) and the role of intuition in connecting with this generative force can provide a compelling lens for understanding the impact of trauma on the human psyche. In Bergson's view, intuition is the key to tapping into the dynamic, flowing nature of reality and aligning ourselves with the creative unfolding of life. It allows us to break through the rigid, spatialized categories of the intellect and coincide with the inner durational flux of consciousness and the world. Trauma, however, can be seen as a profound disruption of this intuitive attunement. The overwhelming, often unspeakable nature of traumatic experience can shatter our sense of coherence and continuity, leaving us feeling disconnected from ourselves, others, and the vital currents of life. In this state of fragmentation and dissociation, we may turn to various coping mechanisms and defenses that, while serving a protective function, can also further distract us from the healing power of intuition. For example, we may become rigidly fixated on controlling our environment, engaging in compulsive behaviors, or retreating into numbing addictions – all attempts to manage the chaos and terror of unintegrated traumatic memories. These trauma responses can be seen as a kind of “static religion” writ small – closed, repetitive patterns that provide a sense of familiarity and safety, but at the cost of flexibility, growth, and open engagement with the dynamism of life. They fulfill some of the same functions as the collective myths and rituals Bergson associated with fabulation, but in a constricted, individual way that ultimately keeps us stuck rather than propelling us forward. Moreover, the energy consumed by these trauma adaptations can leave us depleted and less able to access the vitalizing power of intuition. Instead of flowing with the creative impulse of the élan vital, we become caught in stagnant eddies of reactivity and defense. However, just as Bergson saw the potential for dynamic, open religion to renew and transform static, closed systems, healing from trauma involves a return to intuitive attunement and a reintegration with the generative flux of life. This may involve working through and releasing the residual charge of traumatic activation, re-establishing a sense of safety and embodied presence, and cultivating practices that reconnect us with the creative wellsprings of our being. In Jungian psychology, intuition is seen as a function that mediates between the conscious and unconscious realms of the psyche. Conscious intuition involves a deliberate, reflective engagement with the insights and promptings that emerge from our deeper layers of being. It requires an attitude of openness, curiosity, and discernment, as we seek to integrate the wisdom of the unconscious into our conscious understanding and decision-making. Unconscious intuition, on the other hand, operates below the threshold of awareness, influencing our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in ways that we may not fully comprehend. When we are cut off from a conscious relationship with our intuitive function – as is often the case in the wake of trauma – our unconscious intuitions can become distorted, projected, and misused. This might manifest as projections, where we unconsciously attribute our own disowned qualities or experiences onto others, leading to interpersonal conflicts and misunderstandings. It could also take the form of acting out, where unintegrated traumatic experiences drive us to engage in compulsive, self-destructive behaviors. Or it might express itself through somatization, where the body carries the unresolved trauma that the conscious mind cannot bear. As we develop this more conscious relationship with our unconscious intuition, we can begin to discern the difference between reactive, trauma-based projections and genuine intuitive insights. We can learn to trust and follow the deeper wisdom of our psyche, while also maintaining the boundaries and discernment necessary for healthy functioning. Nietzsche saw logic as a form of insecurity In his writing Friedrich Nietzsche saw clearly that the philosophical  and scientific works  of ultra logical men were not dispassionate, rational examinations of truth, but rather deeply personal confessions that reveal the innermost fears, anxieties, and desires of their authors. He saw the most logical minds greatest works as opportunities to psychoanalyze men who could not see the “forces” that lived through them or the ones they had repressed. Science and philosophy for Nietzsche were merely unconsciously projected psychological struggles onto the world, creating elaborate metaphysical systems and grand narratives that serve to assuage their deepest existential terrors. There is much truth in this. When I have a radically existential patient that tells that “hell is other people” I know that that person is really telling me that they, themselves, feel like they are in hell.Nietzsche viewed science and philosophy as unconscious projections of psychological struggles onto the world. Nietzsche argues that the more a philosophical work presents itself as a purely logical, objective analysis, the more it betrays the underlying psychological desperation and spiritual repression of its creator. The grandiose claims to absolute truth and certainty that characterize much of Western philosophy are, for Nietzsche, simply a manifestation of the philosopher's inability to confront the fundamental chaos, uncertainty, and meaninglessness of existence. By constructing abstract, rationalistic systems that promise to explain and control reality, philosophers seek to impose order and stability on a world that is ultimately beyond their comprehension. In this sense, Nietzsche sees the history of philosophy as a series of  opportunities to eavesdrop while thinkers inadvertently disclose their most intimate fears and longings while claiming to have discovered universal truths. The more a philosopher insists on the logical necessity and objective validity of their system, the more they reveal the intensity of their own psychological needs and the depths of their existential anguish. The quest for absolute knowable truth and certainty is fundamentally misguided. The fragmentation and uncertainty that characterize the modern world are not problems to be solved through the application of reason, but rather the inevitable consequence of the collapse of the illusions and defenses that have sustained human beings throughout history. Nietzsche the Therapist Rather than seeking to impose a pre-existing framework of meaning onto the patient's experience, the therapist must work to help the individual confront and embrace the fundamental groundlessness of knowable and quantifiable existence. By learning to let go of the need for certainty and control, and by cultivating a sense of openness and creativity in the face of the unknown, the patient can begin to discover a more authentic and empowering way of being in the world. Just as philosophers have often unconsciously projected their own fears and desires onto the world, so too may therapists be tempted to impose their own beliefs and values onto their patients. When a patient comes in and says, “hell is other people,” they are really telling the therapist that they, themselves, feel like they are in hell. Ultimately, the task of healing the modern soul requires a willingness to embrace the full complexity and ambiguity of the human condition, to grapple with the shadows and uncertainties that haunt the edges of our awareness. It requires a stance of openness, curiosity, and compassion towards the multiplicity of human experience, and a recognition that our deepest truths often lie beyond the reach of any single theory or perspective. “The aim of therapy is to help the patient come to a point where he can live with uncertainty, without props, without the feeling that he must conform in order to belong. He must learn to live by his own resources, to stand on his own two feet.” -Fritz Perls Walter Benjamin is Shocking Walter Benjamin wrote in his essay “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire,” “The shock experience which the passer-by has in the crowd corresponds to what the worker ‘experiences' at his machine.”  In a world where the constant barrage of stimuli, the ceaseless flow of images and information, and the relentless pace of change have become the norm, the human sensorium is subjected to a perpetual onslaught of “shocks” that threaten to overwhelm our capacity for conscious reflection and meaningful engagement with the world. This ubiquitous experience of shock, for Benjamin, is intimately connected to the phenomenon of trauma. In a world where the protective barriers of tradition, ritual, and collective meaning have been eroded, the psyche is left increasingly vulnerable to the impact of events that exceed its capacity for understanding and assimilation. The result is a profound sense of alienation, disorientation, and fragmentation – a kind of pervasive traumatization of the modern soul. Benjamin's insights into the relationship between shock, trauma, and the technologization of experience have  potential implications for the practice of psychotherapy. They suggest that the task of healing in the modern world must involve more than simply addressing the symptoms of individual psychopathology, but must also grapple with the broader cultural and societal forces that shape the context of psychological suffering. In a world where the protective barriers of tradition, ritual, and collective meaning have been eroded, the psyche is left increasingly vulnerable to the impact of events that exceed its capacity for understanding and assimilation. This results in a profound sense of alienation, disorientation, and fragmentation – a kind of pervasive traumatization of the modern soul. It is all too easy for the psychotherapeutic encounter to reproduce the very conditions that contribute to the traumatization of the self. By creating a space of safety, containment, and reflection, the therapist can help the patient to develop the capacity for what Benjamin calls “contemplative immersion” – a mode of engagement with the world that resists the fragmenting and alienating effects of shock that highly logical psychoeducational or cognitive therapy might cause. For Benjamin, this loss of aura is symptomatic of a broader crisis of experience in modernity. In a world where everything is mediated through the filter of technology and mass media, our capacity for direct, unmediated experience is increasingly eroded. We become passive consumers of a never-ending stream of images and sensations, unable to anchor ourselves in the concrete realities of embodied existence. From this perspective everyone becomes a potential producer and distributor of images. We can become mindful of the images and sensations of our inner world and understand what we have internalized. This allows us to reject the empty images and symbols we still have allegiance to and to choose what we absorb from culture and what images we can create internally for ourselves. For Benjamin, the suffering and trauma of individuals cannot be understood in isolation from the broader social, economic, and political forces that we internalize as inner images that effect our experience of an outer world. Therapists who are informed by Benjamin's ideas may seek to help individuals not only heal from their own traumatic experiences but also to develop a critical consciousness and a sense of agency in the face of collective struggles. This agency in the patient can start with simply acknowledging these realities in therapy as forces that still do effect us. All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace In an era where the dominant paradigm asserts that everything can and should be understood through the lens of rigid science and radical logic, we find ourselves grappling with a profound sense of meaninglessness. The emergence of conspiracy theories like Q Anon can be seen as a manifestation of our unconscious collective yearning for a coherent narrative that explains the invisible forces that shape our lives. In a world where the true levers of power often remain hidden from view, these folk mythologies provide a sense of order and purpose, even if they are ultimately illusory. One way to avoid not only destructive conspiracy theories, but also being manipulated by cults and advertisements, is to bring these hidden needs and pains to the surface of the psyche in therapy. If we make them know to ourselves they will not be able to hijack our emotional systems and manipulate our behavior. Viewing ourselves as purely rational and intellectual beings is what leaves these drives for comprehension, stability, inclusion, importance and purpose ripe for exploitation. Overly cognitive or intellectual therapy can leave these forces dormant as well or worse repress them further beneath the surface of the psyche. As Adam Curtis critiqued in the documentary  “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace,” the notion that humans are merely computers that can be programmed and optimized is a seductive but ultimately flawed worldview. If we think that we are computers then will be driven mad by the dreams within us that cannot find expression through a binary choice. In the face of this existential uncertainty, psychotherapy must evolve to help patients cultivate a different kind of knowledge—one that is rooted in intuition and inner wisdom rather than intellectual mastery. This is not to say that we should abandon empiricism altogether, but rather that we must recognize its limitations and embrace a more humble, open-ended approach to understanding ourselves and the world around us. The poem “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” by Richard Brautigan, which inspired Curtis's documentary, envisions a future where humans and nature are harmoniously integrated with technology. While the poem's utopian vision may seem naive in retrospect, it speaks to a deep longing for a world in which we are not alienated from ourselves, each other, and the natural world. In the context of psychotherapy, this means helping patients to cultivate a sense of connection and meaning that transcends the narrow confines of intellectual understanding. All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky. I like to think (right now, please!) of a cybernetic forest filled with pines and electronics where deer stroll peacefully past computers as if they were flowers with spinning blossoms. I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace. -Richard Brautigan Re-visioning Psychology James Hillman, a prominent post-Jungian thinker, presented a radical re-envisioning of psychology in his seminal work, “Re-Visioning Psychology” (1975). His main arguments challenged the prevailing assumptions of modern psychology and proposed a new approach rooted in the imagination, mythology, and the archetypal dimensions of the psyche. The “Soul” as Central: Hillman argues for a psychology centered on the “soul,” which he understands not as a religious or metaphysical entity, but as a perspective that deepens and “pathologizes” our engagement with life. He critiques modern psychology for reducing the psyche to the ego and neglecting the imaginative, poetic, and mythic dimensions of experience. Archetypal Psychology: Drawing on Jung's concept of archetypes, Hillman proposes an “archetypal psychology” that sees the psyche as inherently plural and polytheistic. He argues that psychological experiences and symptoms are best understood as expressions of archetypal patterns and images, rather than as personal pathologies to be cured. The Primacy of Image: For Hillman, the image is the primary mode of psychic reality. He emphasizes the need to attend to the autonomous, living images of the psyche – as expressed in dreams, fantasies, and symptoms – rather than reducing them to concepts or interpreting them in literal, personalistic terms. Pathologizing: Hillman challenges the medical model of psychology, which sees psychological distress as a disorder to be eliminated. Instead, he advocates for a “pathologizing” approach that honors the soul's need for depth, complexity, and engagement with the full range of human experience, including suffering and shadow aspects. Psyche as Story: Hillman sees the psyche as inherently narrative and mythic. He argues that we need to engage with the archetypal stories and patterns that shape our lives, rather than trying to “cure” or “solve” them. This involves cultivating a poetic, imaginative sensibility that can embrace paradox, ambiguity, and the unknown. Ecological Sensibility: Hillman's psychology is deeply ecological, recognizing the interdependence of psyche and world. He argues that psychological healing must involve a reconnection with the anima mundi, the soul of the world, and a re-ensouling of our relationship with nature, culture, and the cosmos. Critique of Individualism: Hillman challenges the modern ideal of the autonomous, self-contained individual. He sees the psyche as inherently relational and context-dependent, shaped by the archetypes, myths, and collective patterns of the culture and the wider world. Throughout “Re-Visioning Psychology,” Hillman argues for a psychology that is poetic, imaginative, and soulful, one that can embrace the full complexity and mystery of the human experience. His work has been influential in the fields of depth psychology, ecopsychology, and the humanities, offering a rich and provocative alternative to the dominant paradigms of modern psychology. The days of psychoanalysis, which sought to dissect every aspect of the psyche in an attempt to achieve total comprehension, are indeed over. Instead, mental health professionals must focus on helping patients to be at peace with uncertainty and to develop the resilience and adaptability needed to navigate an ever-changing world. This requires a shift away from the pursuit of mastery and control and towards a more fluid, dynamic understanding of the self and the world. The Post Secular Sacred: In his book “The Spirituality Revolution: The Emergence of Contemporary Spirituality” (2004), David Tacey, an Australian scholar in the fields of spirituality, religion, and depth psychology, presents a compelling argument about the emergence of a “post-secular sacred” in contemporary culture. Tacey observes that while traditional religious institutions and beliefs have declined in the modern West, there has been a simultaneous resurgence of interest in spirituality, particularly among younger generations. He argues that this “spirituality revolution” represents a shift towards a new, post-secular understanding of the sacred that transcends the dichotomy between religious and secular worldviews. Critique of Secular Materialism: Tacey argues that the dominant paradigm of secular materialism, which reduces reality to the objectively measurable and dismisses the spiritual dimension of life, is inadequate for meeting the deep human need for meaning, purpose, and connection. He sees the rise of contemporary spirituality as a response to the existential emptiness and ecological crisis engendered by a purely materialistic worldview. Re-enchantment of the World: Drawing on the work of thinkers such as Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Thomas Berry, Tacey argues for a re-enchantment of our understanding of the world, one that recognizes the presence of the sacred in nature, the cosmos, and the depths of the psyche. He sees this as a necessary corrective to the modern disenchantment of the world, which has led to a sense of alienation, meaninglessness, and ecological destruction. The Sacredness of the Ordinary: Tacey emphasizes the importance of discovering the sacred in the midst of everyday life, rather than solely in the context of religious institutions or transcendent experiences. He argues for a democratization of the sacred, where individuals can cultivate a sense of the numinous in their relationships, work, creativity, and engagement with the natural world. Spirituality as a Developmental Process: Drawing on the work of psychologists such as Jean Piaget and James Fowler, Tacey presents spirituality as a developmental process, one that unfolds in stages from childhood to adulthood. He argues that the emergence of post-secular spirituality represents a new stage in this process, characterized by a more integrative, pluralistic, and ecologically conscious understanding of the sacred. Engaging with the Shadow: Tacey emphasizes the importance of engaging with the shadow aspects of spirituality, such as the potential for spiritual narcissism, escapism, or the abuse of power. He argues for a grounded, embodied spirituality that integrates the light and dark aspects of the psyche and is committed to ethical action in the world. Ongoing Dialogue between Spirituality and Religion: While affirming the value of post-secular spirituality, Tacey also recognizes the ongoing importance of traditional religious traditions as sources of wisdom, community, and ethical guidance. He advocates for a dialogue between contemporary spirituality and religion, one that can lead to a mutual enrichment and transformation. Post-Jungian thinkers who  have advocated for a “post-secular sacred” have argued for a kind of scientific empiricism that is infused with a sense of humility, wonder, and openness to the unknown. This perspective recognizes that there are limits to what we can know and understand, but it also affirms the value of subjective experience and the power of intuition and imagination. In practice, this could lead to new forms of psychoeducation and therapy that emphasize the cultivation of inner wisdom, self-compassion, and a sense of connection to something larger than oneself. Rather than striving to achieve perfect understanding or control, patients would be encouraged to embrace the inherent uncertainty of life and to find meaning and purpose in the present moment. This is no easy task for therapists. To be truly helpful guides on this path, we must have the honesty to admit that we too are adrift in a sea of uncertainty and fragmented narratives. The solid ground of empirical certitudes and secular meaning systems has receded, leaving us to navigate by situational awareness and intuition. Instead, we must develop a new kind of post-secular faith – not in final truths, but in the intuitive process of sense-making itself. We, as therapists,  must be honest with patients, but in doing so we run the risk of seeming stupid, unqualified or crazy. We don't know how to do this as therapists either. We don't have to know how but we have to develop the, perhaps post secular, faith that we can and the intuition to know in which directions to go. We must do all of this in a culture that gives us nothing but uncertainty and heaps of broken images. New Goals for Therapy The goals of psychoanalysis are now waiting and new goals must be determined for psychotherapy. The cognitive revolution has done so much damage putting all emphasis on changing external behavior and putting no emphasis on internal inside or capacity for reflection and the ability to “hold the energy” of being human. One thing that I try and prepare patients for as a psychotherapist is that when they get what they want out of therapy, when their behavior changes are they accomplished some goal, they won't be happy. People don't believe me they tell me how if they could just do this or just do that everything would be better. I have patients that want to get a job, want to move out from living with their parents, want to learn how to be in a relationship, want to attain friendships, a higher salary, any number of things. When they actually do accomplish these goals they realize that the emotions and the hurt and frustration that made these things seem so unattainable are still there even after those things have been attained. My point is that psychotherapy is a process of growth and that when you get what you want you don't feel better because you've grown and you now have a new goal.  We need to deal with the way that we feel and the restlessness that not having the goal creates. These are the tensions that make us human and the real reason that wee are in therapy. Viewing psychotherapy as a means to accomplish something is not going to get us anywhere good. We do  accomplishing things in therapy, quite a few things, but we have forgotten that was not the point. For the postmodern self is indeed “lived by forces we pretend to understand.” The archaic currents of archetypal life perpetually destabilize our rational narratives and identities. Yet these are not obstacles to be mastered, but the very raw material and creative thermals we must learn to surf upon. Therapy becomes an art of presencing the interplay of potencies – metabolizing their inexorable unfoldings with radical lucidity and compassion. Ultimately, the goal of psychotherapy in a post-secular, post-empirical world is not to eliminate suffering or to achieve some kind of final, absolute truth. Rather, it is to help patients develop the capacity to face the unknown with courage, curiosity, and compassion. By embracing a more humble, intuitive approach to mental health, we can help individuals to find meaning and purpose in a world that is always in flux, and to cultivate the resilience and adaptability needed to thrive in an uncertain future. If you are scratching your head that is fine. I don't know how either but I still know that we can. I have a faith that I feel is more real than what my intellect allows. The future has always been a copy without an original. The past is built on copies of the inner images that others have externalized consciously or not. All we can learn is to recognize the images inside and outside ourselves to discard the unreal and find the more than real. Our lives are an interplay of forces and we cannot prevent or defeat that. We can only learn to build behavior and cultural machinery to handle the dynamics of their flow. We are lived by forces that we pretend to understand. At times these forces seem unbearable or impossible to live with, but we must remember also that these forces exist through us and bring that tension into awareness. When I spent time as a patient in psychotherapy I encountered a lot of drowning and swimming metaphors from my therapists. Perhaps the seas are too rough now to teach patients to swim. Perhaps we need to teach patients to sail a boat. Together we can build a culture than can sail ships again. Freud thought he was a mechanic fixing the boat engine in the patients head but it is time to forget all that reductive scientific positivism. We need to remember to breath and remember how to use the wind. The watchers' eyes now give out light. The light's receiver- flower coiled up behind their nosebones changes place. It crawls out through their pupils. The bundled nervy flowers make a circuit be- tween each other. Bolts the color of limes boil forking through the busy air. Their brains are still inside them. But the sundown's made to simmer with a brain that none of them quite have alone. Each one has something like it. Facets of the brain's shelled diamond. The cage-strumming man strings out his carousel of shapes while catgut thrums out slippery chords. And the people watching him are in the circuit of an ancient battery that sleeps behind their eyes. None of them will know how to tell what's happened. But every one will know that it can happen again. They'll variously say: I was a tree. I was a vine that sucked the brasswork. I was an ivy knot that lived on milk of stones. – Michael S Judge, Lyrics of the Crossing References and Further Reading: Baudrillard, J. (2005). The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact. Berg Publishers. Benjamin, W. (1969). The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. In H. Arendt (Ed.), Illuminations. Schocken Books. Brautigan, R. (1967). All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. In All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. The Communication Company. Curtis, A. (2011). All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace [Documentary series]. BBC. Edinger, E. F. (1984). The Creation of Consciousness: Jung's Myth for Modern Man. Inner City Books. Eliot, T. S. (1922). The Waste Land. Horace Liveright. #eikonosphere #eikon Frankl, V. E. (1959). Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press. Jung, C. G. (1968). The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (2nd ed.). Princeton University Press. 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Feeling overwhelmed by anxiety? You're not alone. In this podcast, we'll be diving deep into what makes anxiety tick, but ditch the stuffy lectures. We'll chat about how stuff from our childhood can show up in our grown-up worries, and how our bodies can get stuck in a bit of an alarm state. But hey, there's good news! We'll explore ways to connect with that inner part of us that feels scared (think inner child) and learn to deal with those uncomfortable feelings head-on. No more just trying to white-knuckle our way through – we'll be talking about healing that deep-seated anxiety, not just covering it up. So, if you're ready to ditch the anxiety and find some peace, come hang out with me! Thank you for listening and you can find me on IG: @theanxietymd if you have any questions. PS. If you would like to join the MBRX family of 3300+ anxiety WARRIORS who are shifting from coping with their anxiety to actually HEALING it, click the link below: https://www.theanxietymd.com/MBRX ------------------------- Recognizing Anxiety in Childhood (00:00:01) Neurological Reward System of Worry (00:01:11) Shame and Alarm in Childhood (00:03:27) Connecting with the Wounded Child (00:06:03) Anxiety as a Separation (00:09:11) Background Alarm and Coping Strategies (00:11:17) Acclimatizing to Alarm (00:17:32) Healing through Integration (00:20:37) Processing the Alarm (00:21:51) Metabolizing the Alarm (00:23:13)

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On this episode of Point of Relation, Thomas Hübl is joined by author, Jungian psychotherapist, and renowned Jewish scholar, Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone. They discuss the centuries of trauma that have yet to be metabolized in our collective unconscious, and what we can do, both individually and collectively, to integrate and heal from this painful shared history. She and Thomas explore how trauma lives in our nervous systems, and is transmitted across generations via epigenetics. They agree that we can start to meaningfully recover from these wounds by borrowing, with permission, the nutrition provided by wisdom traditions around the world. Rabbi Firestone also shares an energy-raising exercise for sparking beautiful renewal. ✨ Registration is open for Thomas' all-new, live online course: The Spiritual Healing Journey Learn more and sign up here:

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In this episode, Lyndsay Soprano speaks with Dr. Laila Contractor about how we can metabolize trauma(s) with intention and the use of ayahuasca as a key component to helping to heal from all that you might be holding onto that is making you chronically ill and living in pain.Dr. Contractor is an Integrative Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist in Irvine California. She works collaboratively with her patients using traditional as well as evidenced-based alternative approaches to the treatment of Psychiatric challenges. LISTEN to our episode here —> https://link.chtbl.com/paingamepodcastDr. Contractor's specialties include treating children and adults with learning difficulties, trauma, and “resistent” mood disorder treatment. Given her specialties, she has a keen interest in using psychedelics to treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, Anxiety, and Pain. Dr. Contractor's own personal journey dealing with chronic pain, autoimmune issues, and complex diagnosis brought her to the world of Integrative Medicine.We talk about the use of psychedelics for the accelerated treatment of trauma and the deepening of spirituality. We also touch on brain regions involved in pain pathways, such as the prefrontal cortex, hippocampus (memory area), and amygdala, which are similar to those involved in mood disorders.This is why it is so imperative to treat psychiatric disorders in the context of chronic pain. The importance of validating our patient's experiences as part of the healing process as well.You can find Laila online:http://lailacontractormd.com

In episode 77 of the Igniting Change, Finding Your Fire podcast, titled "Trauma and Love," host Meena Puri explores the profound connection between trauma and love. Meena emphasizes that trauma and love are two sides of the same coin. When we have unresolved experiences that we haven't fully processed or metabolized, our longing for love often becomes a chase. We tend to seek love externally, disconnected from the love that resides within ourselves. The unprocessed experiences occupy our subconscious mind and drain our energy, similar to undigested food. However, Meena suggests that by metabolizing our experiences, we can transform them into their highest expression, which is love. Metabolizing involves fully processing and integrating our past experiences, allowing us to release their hold on us and tap into the highest energy of love. Join Meena Puri on this enlightening episode as she explores the intricate relationship between trauma and love, providing valuable insights and guidance on how to reconnect with love within ourselves. ABOUT MEENA PURI:Meena Puri is a renowned expert in yoga, Ayurveda, and spirituality. She encourages listeners to join the Inner Compass Club membership program, where they can embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery and growth. Visit ⁠https://www.innercompassclub.com to join the Inner Compass Club or schedule an initial consultation with Meena at ⁠https://www.ayurvedichealingcenter.com/.

We are thrilled to bring you this fascinating conversation with Dr. John Lieurance about different powerful biohacks which include high-dose melatonin and methylene blue supplementation. We dive into the different uses of melatonin (other than sleep regulation!) and how it can be a game-changer for those struggling with chronic health conditions. He also shares his personal experience with methylene blue, the importance of the "blue spot" in the brain, the role of neuroinflammation and neuroprotection, as well as how to dose it. Make sure you have a notepad nearby for this episode because you'll definitely want to take notes!John A. Lieurance, ND, DC, DABCN (board eligible) is an Author, Physician, Lecturer, Scientific Advisor for MitoZen.com, and educator to those seeking vitality, longevity, and enhanced consciousness. His interest is in connecting what he calls, "The 3 legs of a stool": Vitality of the body, Mind Mastery & a Direct experience of God. Using science and ancient wisdom, he aims to connect these dots in his own journey to becoming the best version of himself in this life.Diving deeply into many healing methods, to discover the deepest and most profound means to activate cellular energy, such as with Melatonin, Methylene Blue, and NAD+ as well as Fasting with various nutrients to activate responses. Dr. John explores many new paths in the healthcare world, with his unique & fresh ideas using various delivery systems, such as suppositories and nasal sprays, and various protocols he has created.He attended Parker College of Chiropractic & received his Naturopathic degree in 2001 from St. Luke's School of Medicine. He has practiced Functional Neurology, Naturopathic medicine, and Regenerative Medicine, using stem cell therapy in Sarasota for 25 years.Founder of the Advanced Rejuvenation Center in Sarasota, Florida, and founder of Functional Cranial Release - which is an Endo-Nasal Cranial Treatment with the ability to unlock the spinal fluid to allow profound healing of the nervous system.See his next book "It's All in Your Head: Endo-Nasal Cranial Therapy". Dr. Lieurance has been involved in multiple clinical trials including an investigation into the use of stem cells for Parkinson's Disease, COPD, and OA of the knee and hip from 2012-2014. He has a clinical focus on mold illness, Lyme disease, and chronic viral infections. Using natural eastern and Western approaches to healing the true source of disease, which lies in the metabolic pathways that are challenged by chronic inflammation resulting in infections and toxicity.Books Authored:Melatonin: Miracle Molecule - Melatonin Miracle Molecule: Transform your life with Melatonin. Why higher doses are safe and benefit beyond sleep as the bodies master stress resilience molecule for healing & longevity.Ebook: Methylene Blue: Silver Bullet - (See MethyleneBlueBook.com)It's All in Your Head: EndoNasal Cranial Therapy – It's All In Your Head: Endo Nasal Cranial TherapySHOW NOTES:0:51 Welcome to the show!1:27 Pop Quiz of the Day3:18 Today's episode5:53 Dr. John Lieurance's bio6:52 Welcome him to the show!8:49 Intro to Melatonin10:35 Energy for inflammation12:14 When do we need melatonin?14:35 Super-Physiological doses15:18 Renee's experience with EBV & Melatonin16:04 Metabolizing melatonin & genetics17:29 Taking melatonin during the day18:20 Best practices for dosing19:56 First studies on melatonin21:53 Cell Danger Response23:05 Activating our circadian rhythm24:32 The Blue Spot 26:18 Perseveration & Rumination29:10 Brain inflammation, LPS & Trigeminal Nerve31:40 Blue Spot & Methylene Blue34:33 *Sleep Breakthrough*36:50 The body's stress response & Microglial cells41:57 Neuroprotection & “Fast Track Fast”45:10 Methylene Blue before HBOT47:26 Our experiences with Methylene Blue49:00 Dosing & Titrating Methylene Blue55:49 Combining color therapy with MB58:05 Nutrients for micro & macro dosing1:00:25 Serotonin Storm1:04:24 His final piece of advice1:06:39 Where to find himRESOURCES:Advanced Rejuvenation: Stem Cell Treatment,PRP Treatment,Prolotherapy , Ozone - Sarasota, FL MitoZen.Club  MitoZen ScientificIG: Your Out of Box DocFacebook: John LieuranceSleepbreakthrough.com/biohackerbabes - code: biohackerbabes10Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/biohacker-babes-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

In today's episode, I welcome back Christina Brinkley. She, like Richard Martini and David Hanzel, will be a recurring guest. Today, I get to spotlight the gifts and messages from her spirit guides. Her previous episode aired on June 27, 2023. Christina is truly miraculous. She is an intuitive guide who has studied various types of healing over the past 20 years. She has developed a healing process that best translates to a Soul Journey. During a Soul Journey, Christina works with individuals to help them to release limiting beliefs, programs, and resistance which may be holding them back from living their best life. Through deeply transformative work, Christina guides clients to recall their authentic self so they can move more easily through the world from a place of integrity and wholeness. With great success she has been able to help people through all different stages of life transitions; everything from health, career, loss, relationships, and more.

In today's episode, I welcome back Christina Brinkley. She, like Richard Martini and David Hanzel, will be a recurring guest. Today, I get to spotlight the gifts and messages from her spirit guides. Her previous episode aired on June 27, 2023.Christina is truly miraculous. She is an intuitive guide who has studied various types of healing over the past 20 years. She has developed a healing process that best translates to a Soul Journey. During a Soul Journey, Christina works with individuals to help them to release limiting beliefs, programs, and resistance which may be holding them back from living their best life. Through deeply transformative work, Christina guides clients to recall their authentic self so they can move more easily through the world from a place of integrity and wholeness. With great success she has been able to help people through all different stages of life transitions; everything from health, career, loss, relationships, and more. Sponsored Resources:- The Fully Mindful Podcast with Melissa Chureau*****************************Subscribe on Apple Podcasts to How I Made It Through: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-made-it-through/id1605802615As well as to our YouTube channel where you can see all the behind the scenes content:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyhphxIkHerc0BkfkoR19dg*****************************If you're interested in working with Kristin as an Executive coach, visit her website, https://www.kristintaylorconsulting.com/*****************************Be sure to check out EIQ Media Group's latest podcast series, What I Wish I Knew. Host Irene Ortiz-Glass discusses her real-life experience with perimenopause and ultimately surgical menopause and shares what she wish she knew. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-i-wish-i-knew-beyond-menopause/id1691992931 and on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChwdVVEKUZW8WZV0Kn3gn_g

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.07.28.551042v1?rss=1 Authors: Fridman, L. B., Knerler, S., Price, A.-S., Colon Ortiz, R., Mercado, A., Wilkins, H., Flores, B. R., Orsburn, B., Williams, D. Abstract: Background: Appropriate interactions between antiretroviral therapies (ART) and drug transporters and metabolizing enzymes at the blood brain barrier (BBB) are critical to ensure adequate dosing of the brain to achieve HIV suppression. These proteins are modulated by demographic and lifestyle factors, including substance use. While understudied, illicit substances share drug transport and metabolism pathways with ART, increasing the potential for adverse drug-drug interactions. This is particularly important when considering the brain as it is relatively undertreated compared to peripheral organs and is vulnerable to substance use-mediated damage. Methods: We used an in vitro model of the human BBB to determine the extravasation of three first-line ART drugs, emtricitabine (FTC), tenofovir (TFV), and dolutegravir (DTG), in the presence and absence of cocaine, which served as our illicit substance model. The impact of cocaine on BBB integrity and permeability, drug transporters, metabolizing enzymes, and their master transcriptional regulators were evaluated to determine the mechanisms by which substance use impacted ART central nervous system (CNS) availability. Results: We determined that cocaine had a selective impact on ART extravasation, where it increased FTCs ability to cross the BBB while decreasing TFV. DTG concentrations that passed the BBB were below quantifiable limits. Interestingly, the potent neuroinflammatory modulator, lipopolysaccharide, had no effect on ART transport, suggesting a specificity for cocaine. Unexpectedly, cocaine did not breach the BBB, as permeability to albumin and tight junction proteins and adhesion molecules remained unchanged. Rather, cocaine selectively decreased the pregnane-x receptor (PXR), but not constitutive androstane receptor (CAR). Consequently, drug transporter expression and activity decreased in endothelial cells of the BBB, including p-glycoprotein (P-gp), breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP), and multidrug resistance-associated protein 4 (MRP4). Further, cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4) enzymatic activity increased following cocaine treatment that coincided with decreased expression. Finally, cocaine modulated adenylate kinases are required to facilitate biotransformation of ART prodrugs to their phosphorylated, pharmacologically active counterparts. Conclusion: Our findings indicate that additional considerations are needed in CNS HIV treatment strategies for people who use cocaine, as it may limit ART efficacy through regulation of drug transport and metabolizing pathways at the BBB. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Hey friends! Get under the piñata with us as we celebrate The Body Revelation is officially here this week! If you've loved learning about the six stages of metabolizing pain in the Body Revelation Season, get your copy of Alisa's new book and get ready to dig deeper into what living in freedom looks like. Today, Alisa's wrapping up stage six on taking ownership, and she's showing us what it looks like to use the keys of authority we've been given! Get ready to be changed with this life-giving episode that will leave you filled with hope and empowered for the journey ahead. If you order by June 26 you can join the Summer Body Book Club! This is your chance to have Alisa train you with six one-hour sessions beginning June 26 at 8 pm EST. Click here to pre-order and learn more!   Have you downloaded the RW App yet? Before you hit play, go to the app store and download the free RW App. You can also check out our exclusive REVING the Word episodes for RW+ subscribers! Try RW+ out free for seven days and press play on our brand new workout, RevXing the Word.  We love our Rev community and think you will too! Be sure to get connected with us at: The Official Revelation Wellness Facebook / Instagram / RevWell TV / Youtube   Your reviews matter to us and help spread the good news, so please leave us one where you listen to your podcast! If we read your review on our show, we'll send you a gift from the Revelation Wellness Store!   We'd also love to hear from you! So leave us a VOICE MESSAGE here!  Tell us what you thought about this episode and how God met you in this episode.

Hey friends! Get under the piñata with us as we celebrate The Body Revelation is officially here this week! If you've loved learning about the six stages of metabolizing pain in the Body Revelation Season, get your copy of Alisa's new book and get ready to dig deeper into what living in freedom looks like. Today, Alisa's wrapping up stage six on taking ownership, and she's showing us what it looks like to use the keys of authority we've been given! Get ready to be changed with this life-giving episode that will leave you filled with hope and empowered for the journey ahead. If you order by June 26 you can join the Summer Body Book Club! This is your chance to have Alisa train you with six one-hour sessions beginning June 26 at 8 pm EST. Click here to pre-order and learn more!   Have you downloaded the RW App yet? Before you hit play, go to the app store and download the free RW App. You can also check out our exclusive REVING the Word episodes for RW+ subscribers! Try RW+ out free for seven days and press play on our brand new workout, RevXing the Word.  We love our Rev community and think you will too! Be sure to get connected with us at: The Official Revelation Wellness Facebook / Instagram / RevWell TV / Youtube   Your reviews matter to us and help spread the good news, so please leave us one where you listen to your podcast! If we read your review on our show, we'll send you a gift from the Revelation Wellness Store!   We'd also love to hear from you! So leave us a VOICE MESSAGE here!  Tell us what you thought about this episode and how God met you in this episode.

Hey Revelation Wellness friends! We are so excited to be in The Body Revelation Season. Each Thursday, Alisa walks you through one of the six stages of metabolizing pain that will help you stop obsessing and neglecting in order to stay free. Today, she's here with stage five on staying the course. As you'll hear Alisa share, this is her favorite episode and the whole reason she wrote The Body Revelation. This one is all about faith as reality and how when we are called to keep our minds set on things above, a shift happens. Alisa's new book, The Body Revelation, will take you deeper into metabolizing pain with practices for each stage. The Body Revelation is available for pre-order now, and each pre-order gives you exclusive content and offers, such as the audiobook narrated by Alisa, discounts on The Body Revelation clothing line, and so much more! Click here to pre-order and learn more!  Pre-order by June 26 and join the Summer Body Book Club! This is your chance to have Alisa train you with six one-hour sessions beginning June 26 at 8 pm EST. Click here to pre-order and learn more!   Have you downloaded the RW App yet? Before you hit play, go to the app store and download the free RW App. You can also check out our exclusive REVING the Word episodes for RW+ subscribers! Try RW+ out free for seven days and press play on our brand new workout, RevXing the Word.  We love our Rev community and think you will too! Be sure to get connected with us at: The Official Revelation Wellness Facebook / Instagram / RevWell TV / Youtube   Your reviews matter to us and help spread the good news, so please leave us one where you listen to your podcast! If we read your review on our show, we'll send you a gift from the Revelation Wellness Store!   We'd also love to hear from you! So leave us a VOICE MESSAGE here!  Tell us what you thought about this episode and how God met you in this episode.

Hey Revelation Wellness friends! We are so excited to be in The Body Revelation Season. Each Thursday, Alisa walks you through one of the six stages of metabolizing pain that will help you stop obsessing and neglecting in order to stay free. Today, she's here with stage five on staying the course. As you'll hear Alisa share, this is her favorite episode and the whole reason she wrote The Body Revelation. This one is all about faith as reality and how when we are called to keep our minds set on things above, a shift happens. Alisa's new book, The Body Revelation, will take you deeper into metabolizing pain with practices for each stage. The Body Revelation is available for pre-order now, and each pre-order gives you exclusive content and offers, such as the audiobook narrated by Alisa, discounts on The Body Revelation clothing line, and so much more! Click here to pre-order and learn more!  Pre-order by June 26 and join the Summer Body Book Club! This is your chance to have Alisa train you with six one-hour sessions beginning June 26 at 8 pm EST. Click here to pre-order and learn more!   Have you downloaded the RW App yet? Before you hit play, go to the app store and download the free RW App. You can also check out our exclusive REVING the Word episodes for RW+ subscribers! Try RW+ out free for seven days and press play on our brand new workout, RevXing the Word.  We love our Rev community and think you will too! Be sure to get connected with us at: The Official Revelation Wellness Facebook / Instagram / RevWell TV / Youtube   Your reviews matter to us and help spread the good news, so please leave us one where you listen to your podcast! If we read your review on our show, we'll send you a gift from the Revelation Wellness Store!   We'd also love to hear from you! So leave us a VOICE MESSAGE here!  Tell us what you thought about this episode and how God met you in this episode.

Hey Revelation Wellness friends! We are so excited to be in The Body Revelation Season. Each Thursday, Alisa walks you through the six stages of metabolizing pain that will help you stop obsessing and neglecting in order to stay free. Today, she's here with stage four, which is all about how humbling ourselves in Christ leads to real freedom. Grab a notebook and get ready to learn! Alisa's new book, The Body Revelation, will take you deeper into metabolizing pain with practices for each stage. The Body Revelation is available for pre-order now, and each pre-order gives you exclusive content and offers, such as the audiobook narrated by Alisa, discounts on The Body Revelation clothing line, and so much more! Click here to pre-order and learn more!  Have you downloaded the RW App yet? Before you hit play, go to the app store and download the free RW App. You can also check out our exclusive REVING the Word episodes for RW+ subscribers! Try RW+ out free for seven days and press play on our brand new workout, RevXing the Word.  We love our Rev community and think you will too! Be sure to get connected with us at: The Official Revelation Wellness Facebook / Instagram / RevWell TV / Youtube   Your reviews matter to us and help spread the good news, so please leave us one where you listen to your podcast! If we read your review on our show, we'll send you a gift from the Revelation Wellness Store!   We'd also love to hear from you! So leave us a VOICE MESSAGE here!  Tell us what you thought about this episode and how God met you in this episode.

Hey Revelation Wellness friends! We are so excited to be in The Body Revelation Season. Each Thursday, Alisa walks you through the six stages of metabolizing pain that will help you stop obsessing and neglecting in order to stay free. Today, she's here with stage four, which is all about how humbling ourselves in Christ leads to real freedom. Grab a notebook and get ready to learn! Alisa's new book, The Body Revelation, will take you deeper into metabolizing pain with practices for each stage. The Body Revelation is available for pre-order now, and each pre-order gives you exclusive content and offers, such as the audiobook narrated by Alisa, discounts on The Body Revelation clothing line, and so much more! Click here to pre-order and learn more!  Have you downloaded the RW App yet? Before you hit play, go to the app store and download the free RW App. You can also check out our exclusive REVING the Word episodes for RW+ subscribers! Try RW+ out free for seven days and press play on our brand new workout, RevXing the Word.  We love our Rev community and think you will too! Be sure to get connected with us at: The Official Revelation Wellness Facebook / Instagram / RevWell TV / Youtube   Your reviews matter to us and help spread the good news, so please leave us one where you listen to your podcast! If we read your review on our show, we'll send you a gift from the Revelation Wellness Store!   We'd also love to hear from you! So leave us a VOICE MESSAGE here!  Tell us what you thought about this episode and how God met you in this episode.

Hey Revelation Wellness friends! We are so excited to be in The Body Revelation Season. Each Thursday, Alisa walks you through the six stages of metabolizing pain that will help you stop obsessing and neglecting in order to stay free. Today, she's here with stage three, which is all about expressing our emotions, where Alisa's helping us learn what to do with what we're feeling in our bodies. Grab a notebook and get ready to learn! Resources mentioned in this episode: When the Body Says No by Gabor Máte Universal Emotions by Dr. Paul Ekman Alisa's new book, The Body Revelation, will take you deeper into metabolizing pain with practices for each stage. The Body Revelation is available for pre-order now, and each pre-order gives you exclusive content and offers, such as the audiobook narrated by Alisa, discounts on The Body Revelation clothing line, and so much more! Click here to pre-order and learn more!  Have you downloaded the RW App yet? Before you hit play, go to the app store and download the free RW App. You can also check out our exclusive REVING the Word episodes for RW+ subscribers! Try RW+ out free for seven days and press play on our brand new workout, RevXing the Word.  We love our Rev community and think you will too! Be sure to get connected with us at: The Official Revelation Wellness Facebook / Instagram / RevWell TV / Youtube   Your reviews matter to us and help spread the good news, so please leave us one where you listen to your podcast! If we read your review on our show, we'll send you a gift from the Revelation Wellness Store!   We'd also love to hear from you! So leave us a VOICE MESSAGE here!  Tell us what you thought about this episode and how God met you in this episode.

Hey Revelation Wellness friends! We are so excited to be in The Body Revelation Season. Each Thursday, Alisa walks you through the six stages of metabolizing pain that will help you stop obsessing and neglecting in order to stay free. Today, she's here with stage three, which is all about expressing our emotions, where Alisa's helping us learn what to do with what we're feeling in our bodies. Grab a notebook and get ready to learn! Resources mentioned in this episode: When the Body Says No by Gabor Máte Universal Emotions by Dr. Paul Ekman Alisa's new book, The Body Revelation, will take you deeper into metabolizing pain with practices for each stage. The Body Revelation is available for pre-order now, and each pre-order gives you exclusive content and offers, such as the audiobook narrated by Alisa, discounts on The Body Revelation clothing line, and so much more! Click here to pre-order and learn more!  Have you downloaded the RW App yet? Before you hit play, go to the app store and download the free RW App. You can also check out our exclusive REVING the Word episodes for RW+ subscribers! Try RW+ out free for seven days and press play on our brand new workout, RevXing the Word.  We love our Rev community and think you will too! Be sure to get connected with us at: The Official Revelation Wellness Facebook / Instagram / RevWell TV / Youtube   Your reviews matter to us and help spread the good news, so please leave us one where you listen to your podcast! If we read your review on our show, we'll send you a gift from the Revelation Wellness Store!   We'd also love to hear from you! So leave us a VOICE MESSAGE here!  Tell us what you thought about this episode and how God met you in this episode.

Hey Revelation Wellness friends! We are so excited to be in The Body Revelation Season. Each Thursday, she's walking you through the six stages that will help you stop obsessing and neglecting to stay free. Today, Alisa is here with the second of six weekly teachings that will give you basic principles of metabolizing pain. Stage Two is all about how we need to recognize that we have a hard time changing—that we know what's right to do, and yet we don't often do it. Thankfully, we have hope in Christ who brings us real freedom and change. Alisa's new book, The Body Revelation, will take you deeper into metabolizing pain with practices for each stage. The Body Revelation is available for pre-order now, and each pre-order gives you exclusive content and offers, such as the audiobook narrated by Alisa, discounts on The Body Revelation clothing line, and so much more! Click here to pre-order and learn more!  Have you downloaded the RW App yet? Before you hit play, go to the app store and download the free RW App. You can also check out our exclusive REVING the Word episodes for RW+ subscribers! Try RW+ out free for seven days and press play on our brand new workout, RevXing the Word.  We love our Rev community and think you will too! Be sure to get connected with us at: The Official Revelation Wellness Facebook / Instagram / RevWell TV / Youtube   Your reviews matter to us and help spread the good news, so please leave us one where you listen to your podcast! If we read your review on our show, we'll send you a gift from the Revelation Wellness Store!   We'd also love to hear from you! So leave us a VOICE MESSAGE here!  Tell us what you thought about this episode and how God met you in this episode.

Hey Revelation Wellness friends! We are so excited to be in The Body Revelation Season. Each Thursday, Alisa's walking you through the six stages of metabolizing pain that will help you stop obsessing and neglecting in order to stay free. Today, she's here with stage two, which is all about how we need to recognize that we have a hard time changing. As Paul tells us, we know what to do, yet we don't often do it. Thankfully, we have hope in Christ, who brings us real freedom and change. Alisa's new book, The Body Revelation, will take you deeper into metabolizing pain with practices for each stage. The Body Revelation is available for pre-order now, and each pre-order gives you exclusive content and offers, such as the audiobook narrated by Alisa, discounts on The Body Revelation clothing line, and so much more! Click here to pre-order and learn more!  Have you downloaded the RW App yet? Before you hit play, go to the app store and download the free RW App. You can also check out our exclusive REVING the Word episodes for RW+ subscribers! Try RW+ out free for seven days and press play on our brand new workout, RevXing the Word.  We love our Rev community and think you will too! Be sure to get connected with us at: The Official Revelation Wellness Facebook / Instagram / RevWell TV / Youtube   Your reviews matter to us and help spread the good news, so please leave us one where you listen to your podcast! If we read your review on our show, we'll send you a gift from the Revelation Wellness Store!   We'd also love to hear from you! So leave us a VOICE MESSAGE here!  Tell us what you thought about this episode and how God met you in this episode.

Hey Revelation Wellness friends! We are so excited to be in The Body Revelation Season and today Alisa is here with the first of six weekly teachings that will give you basic principles of metabolizing pain. Each Thursday, she's walking you through the six stages that will help you stop obsessing and neglecting to stay free.  Alisa's new book, The Body Revelation, will take you deeper into metabolizing pain with practices for each stage. The Body Revelation is available for pre-order now, and each pre-order gives you exclusive content and offers, such as the audiobook narrated by Alisa, discounts on The Body Revelation clothing line, and so much more! Click here to pre-order and learn more!  Have you downloaded the RW App yet? Before you hit play, go to the app store and download the free RW App. You can also check out our exclusive REVING the Word episodes for RW+ subscribers! Try RW+ out free for seven days and press play on our brand new workout, RevXing the Word.  We love our Rev community and think you will too! Be sure to get connected with us at: The Official Revelation Wellness Facebook / Instagram / RevWell TV / Youtube   Your reviews matter to us and help spread the good news, so please leave us one where you listen to your podcast! If we read your review on our show, we'll send you a gift from the Revelation Wellness Store!   We'd also love to hear from you! So leave us a VOICE MESSAGE here!  Tell us what you thought about this episode and how God met you in this episode.

Hey Revelation Wellness friends! We are so excited to be in The Body Revelation Season and today Alisa is here with the first of six weekly teachings that will give you basic principles of metabolizing pain. Each Thursday, she's walking you through the six stages that will help you stop obsessing and neglecting to stay free.  Alisa's new book, The Body Revelation, will take you deeper into metabolizing pain with practices for each stage. The Body Revelation is available for pre-order now, and each pre-order gives you exclusive content and offers, such as the audiobook narrated by Alisa, discounts on The Body Revelation clothing line, and so much more! Click here to pre-order and learn more!  Have you downloaded the RW App yet? Before you hit play, go to the app store and download the free RW App. You can also check out our exclusive REVING the Word episodes for RW+ subscribers! Try RW+ out free for seven days and press play on our brand new workout, RevXing the Word.  We love our Rev community and think you will too! Be sure to get connected with us at: The Official Revelation Wellness Facebook / Instagram / RevWell TV / Youtube   Your reviews matter to us and help spread the good news, so please leave us one where you listen to your podcast! If we read your review on our show, we'll send you a gift from the Revelation Wellness Store!   We'd also love to hear from you! So leave us a VOICE MESSAGE here!  Tell us what you thought about this episode and how God met you in this episode.

“Trauma is not the event. It's the response of how it gets stored," says Scott Lyons, Ph.D. Scott, a clinical psychologist and body-based trauma expert, joins us to discuss how we all can recover from drama addiction, metabolize trauma, and break free of the stress cycle, plus: - Scott's personal story & professional work (~00:16) - How to know if you're addicted to drama (~07:16) - How to tap into your reflective narrative (~12:40) - When should you grow out of temper tantrums? (~17:50) - How trauma gets passed down across generations (~24:00) - How stored trauma can negatively impact your health (~28:13) - How to minimize pressure & shame in the wellness space (~33:09) - How to know if you're hiding behind a wellness front (~38:46) - How to live with less drama & stress (~44:44) - How to stop social media from stressing you out (~49:09) - How to identify weaponized empathy (~57:09) - The most common dramatic archetypes (~59:59) - How to raise drama-free kids (~01:12:58) Order a copy of my new book The Joy Of Well-Being at thejoyofwellbeing.com!  Referenced in the episode: - Scott's book, Addicted To Drama. - Take Scott's drama quiz. - mbg Podcast episode #459, with Gabor Maté, M.D. - A study on genetic markers for PTSD risk after 9/11. - You Can Heal Your Life, by Louise Hay. - An article on anger & virality. - Sign up for The Long Game.  - Learn more about the Vitamix FoodCycler Eco 5. We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com.

You can also check out this episode on Spotify!In honor of Mental Health Awareness month, we welcome Dr. Samatha Boardman. Dr. Boardman is a New York based positive psychiatrist who is committed to fixing what's wrong and building what's strong. She writes the popular newsletter called and is the author of Everyday Vitality, a book about leaning into our strengths to bring about positive change. Historically, psychiatry has focused on the diagnosis of disease and the treatment of individuals with mental illness. Positive Psychiatry takes a more expansive approach, focusing on the promotion of wellbeing and the creation of health.Dr. Boardman is passionate about cultivating vitality, boosting resilience, and transforming full days into more fulfilling days. Today Dr. Boardman sits down with Dr. McBride to discuss finding wellness within illness, strength within stress, and how to live with anxiety rather than being defined by it. Dr. Boardman is here to help!Join Dr. McBride every Monday for a new episode of Beyond the Prescription.You can subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on her Substack at https://lucymcbride.substack.com/podcast. You can sign up for her free weekly newsletter at lucymcbride.substack.com/welcome.Please be sure to like, rate, review — and enjoy — the show!The full transcript of the show is here![00:00:00] Dr. McBride: Hello, and welcome to my office. I'm Dr. Lucy McBride, and this is Beyond the Prescription, the show where I talk with my guests like I do my patients, pulling the curtain back on what it means to be healthy, redefining health as more than the absence of disease. As a primary care doctor for over 20 years, I've realized that patients are much more than their cholesterol and their weight, that we are the integrated sum of complex parts.[00:00:33] Our stories live in our bodies. I'm here to help people tell their story to find out whether they are okay, and for you to imagine and potentially get healthier from the inside out. You can subscribe to my weekly newsletter through my website at lucymcbride.com and to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. So let's get into it and go beyond the prescription.[00:01:01] Today's podcast guest is Dr. Samantha Boardman. Samantha is a positive psychiatrist, a clinical assistant professor at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, and the author of a book called Everyday Vitality. It's a book that combines her research as a clinical psychiatrist in New York to help readers find strength within their stress.[00:01:24] I met Dr. Boardman through a mutual friend. I started reading her book and listening to her talk on Instagram, and it was clear that we had a common interest in helping people marry mental and physical health. Today on the podcast, we will talk about when is therapy not appropriate? We'll talk about medication, we'll talk about Zoom versus in-person therapy, and we'll talk about leaning into our strengths as opposed to focusing on the negatives. Welcome to the podcast, Samantha. I'm so happy to have you.[00:01:53] Dr. Boardman: Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. I'm a huge fan.[00:01:57] Dr. McBride: So today, Samantha, I'd love to talk to you about many things. One is your definition of health. What does it mean to be healthy? So let's just start there.[00:02:07] Dr. Boardman: Great place to start. And so I think my definition of health has really changed over the past 20 years. Like you, I went to medical school and then I did a psychiatry residency. The definition of health for me then was the absence of illness. And what I thought of myself as doing my role was to make people less miserable as a psychiatrist.[00:02:30] And I've gotta tell you, I got pretty good at misery along the way. But one day I was actually fired by a patient who said, when I come to see you, we just focus on what's wrong with me. We don't really focus on what's going on, what's wrong with what's going on in my life? [00:02:47] And she was right. I was so fixated on symptoms and dialing down the issues, dealing with conflicts in her life and that type of thing, and less focused on what makes life meaningful for her, what she enjoys doing and where she finds purpose. It sort of woke me up and I ended up going back to study applied positive psychology, which was sort of the opposite of everything I had learned in medical school, in psychiatry residency.[00:03:14] I studied optimism. I studied resilience. I studied post-traumatic growth. All these data-driven experiences that were really absent in my education and so much that had been focused on pathogenesis, which is the study and understanding of illness in switching over more to salutogenesis, which is the creation of health.[00:03:36] So this is a really long-winded way of saying, I think of health as so much more than the absence of illness, and I'm deeply interested in how we can help people create wellness within their illness and strength within their stress, and add vitality even into their very busy lives. And as you know, when we ask patients, what's most meaningful to you?[00:03:57] What do you care most about with your mental health? Or your health in general? People say, I want to have a good day. I want to feel energetic. I want to feel strong. I want to be able to give back. I want to spend time with friends and family and those types of things, that's what salutogenesis is—creating experiences of health and joy and meaning and vitality and energy for them in their everyday lives.[00:04:24] Dr. McBride: It's so important because just like you discovered along the path of your training and clinical work, I too realized that my job isn't just about helping people not die. It's about helping people live. And it's not enough to tell people at their annual physical, “Hey, your labs look fine. Get a little more exercise, eat a little healthier, and I'll see you next year.” Not dying is good. But what about living? What about having agency over our everyday lives the 364 days a year that you're not in the doctor's office? And what has always struck me since I was a pup of a medical student is that self-awareness is like ground zero for our health.[00:05:14] When we are able to pull the curtain back on who we are as people to understand not just our genetics, but really our stories and how our stories inform how we feel—literally our body parts—and then how we organize our everyday behaviors and thoughts around the narrative that we tell ourselves, and that's really why I became in interested in mental health and why I find your work so compelling is because I think we're having a moment in our culture where mental health is more acceptable to talk about; where people are more empathetic about mental illness.[00:05:55] I still think we don't have a great understanding of what mental health is. And to begin with that we all have it. And I wonder what you think about this concept of everyone having mental health and it's just on a continuum versus mental health versus mental illness. And then secondly, to what extent do you think just mere self-awareness is an important ingredient in having mental health?[00:06:25] Dr. Boardman: Both [of those are] awesome questions and I think that kind of you have it or you don't is this binary, and really limits us about either you're mentally healthy or you're not. And I think that's sort of the way I was trained. Not to be critical of my training, but that was either: you need to be hospitalized or you don't, you're ready for discharge… and not kind of looking at all of those other factors that you look so closely at.[00:06:51] They kind of give you and provide for you even this scaffolding around you to help you make better choices, to have more better actual days in your week. And this idea that how do you find wellness within illness? And it's something Dr. Ellen Sachs was the one who first I heard speak about this and she was a graduate student.[00:07:13] I think she was at Yale where she had her first psychotic break and she was diagnosed while she was a student there as having schizophrenia and having a psychotic illness, and her parents were told at the time that they should remove all the stress from her life, that she should withdraw from school, that it was too much for her to bear and that, you know, that maybe she could get some very simple job somewhere.[00:07:38] Maybe she could pump gas. She could do something that was not going to strain her or stress her in any way, and that most likely she should be hospitalized over again and again, and she might end up rocking back and forth in some institution watching television on lots of medication and drooling.[00:07:54] And she said her parents understood this diagnosis, but they refused to accept this prognosis. And she had support, she had resources. She went back to school. She had psychiatrists, she had therapists. She, I mean, she was, she was supported by so many buoys around her and scaffolding.[00:08:15] She returns to school, she finishes at Yale. She then goes on to Oxford where she gets a degree as a champion of mental health law. She goes on to win a MacArthur Genius Grant. She's an extraordinary woman and defies how people like me are trained into sort of expect that runway of what schizophrenia can do to a human being.[00:08:36] And you know, and she says that actually having this meaningful work in her life has really been, is what saved her. When her voices get loud, she uses her legal training to say, what evidence do you have for that? And how having a really strong sort of sense of purpose in her life has really saved her.[00:08:55] So when psychiatrists like me say, take all the stress out of your life. Remove anything difficult. How do we find that balance for people of helping them lead that kind of meaningful life in finding wellness within their illness, and even for those who don't have a diagnosable condition… [finding] some strength within their stress so they can live with it.[00:09:18] It's not being able to… I think we've all learned about Winston Churchill, who had that black dog of depression, but learning to live with it rather than trying to sweep it under the rug or be in denial about it. Or completely defined by this. And we know even with the language we use when you call somebody a schizophrenic versus somebody who has schizophrenia, not only does it change the way that the person thinks about themselves, but it also changes the way that the people who work with them think about them.[00:09:47] If that is part of their identity, that's who they are versus that something they live with. And it comes and it goes. And there's interesting, Jess Day has done some really interesting research on schizophrenia looking at how a significant number find happiness, find meaning, and it's those who have some of these more lifestyle factors available to them that do make them more resilient.[00:10:09] Dr. McBride: It's a really good point. You wouldn't be surprised to hear, I had a patient who exhibited all the symptoms of depression. Fatigue, sort of that psychomotor fatigue, that sort of hopelessness joylessness, and then was gaining weight. And we didn't have another diagnosis because we had done all the tests, we'd done the scans and everything was normal.[00:10:28] And I said, “do you think it's possible that you're depressed?” And she looked at me and said, “what do I have to be depressed about?” And I thought, gosh, this is such an interesting thing. This is someone who unfortunately is a victim of this concept that you're either mentally healthy or you're mentally not.[00:10:46] When we all have moods, it's a continuum, and my question to patients isn't, do you have an ICD 10 code of F 32.9? My question is, where are you on the continuum of mood and what tools do you have to manage them? What symptoms are you having and what tools do you have? Because it's not about are you mentally healthy? Are you mentally well? And it's not about, are you happy all the time and joyful and gleeful and skipping through the streets, or lying in bed or standing on the edge of a cliff about to jump. It's where are you located on the continuum of these universal conditions of having moods, having fears, having anxieties.[00:11:26] And so I said to her, it's really not about a thing, it's about what's happening to your body and mind right now. And I don't need to name it. I don't even need a code or a label for it. I just want to understand if this is an organic depressive phenomenon, what agency we can carve out to help you feel better in your everyday life.[00:11:47] Dr. Boardman: That interesting point that you're making too, that she's feeling guilty about, what do I have that… that question your patient asks, what do I have to be depressed about? And that's something I hear a lot in people who think, “I'm so lucky. How on earth, how dare I be in this state of mind? It's shameful.” And I think this sort of goes hand in hand with some of this toxic positivity we hear all the time as well. You have to be happy all the time. You have to not have stress, you have to sort of have that sort of fan wind blown hair and that everything has to be perfect or there's something really wrong with you.[00:12:24] And what you're pointing out too is this notion of over the course of a day, over the course of a week, over the course of a minute, how our emotions can shift and it's calling into question, this idea of your personality type, you're just a grump and all those different things.[00:12:42] Maybe I'm a grump right now because I just got a parking ticket. But if I actually filled out some of those forms testing my personality an hour or two later, I would probably be in a better mood. All of these, we have so much emodiversity in our days and how things come and go and actually there's evidence to show that people who honor and are able to acknowledge their emodiversity…we have this like binary idea that either people are good or you're bad. You had a good day, or you had a bad day, you're happy or you're sad. Anything that really kind of limits the way we think about our own mental health. It's even the way we think about our loved one's mental health, trying to tease apart the nuance and appreciate the emodiversity that we're handing, like enjoying the laughter through tears.[00:13:28] How we can hold emotions side by side. It's not that either or situation. And the other side of this is this kind of wellbeing industrial complex that is: feeding off of toxic positivity too, this idea that we need to really make these radical changes and transform every single thing we do. Like: we should move neighborhoods. We need to go on vacation for six months. We need to buy this candle or this bubble bath, or this new exercise bike, or all of these wildly expensive and time consuming endeavors that we are kind of constantly told are the only way that the clouds will part and that we will be able to be happier.[00:14:15] And I think that it really frustrates me and it's sort of like a pet peeve as you can tell. I'm getting sort of animated and annoyed by it. But this, this idea that you have to buy it and consume it and carve out all this time for it and that we're kind of missing a lot of these everyday actions that we can take that boost our everyday wellbeing.[00:14:34] Dr. McBride: So let's talk about that. I'm assuming that in your practice you see patients who are experiencing relationship stress, who are experiencing anxiety symptoms, who are having insomnia, who are dealing with substance abuse issues, who are depressed. Obviously you can't speak to every person you see, but what are some common themes that you see in patients where they have more agency than they think they do?[00:15:04] They may think if they just had a different job, everything would be okay, or if they could just take a six month vacation, they'd be okay. Or if they didn't have the mother that they had, they would be okay. And I think what I'm hearing you say is that sometimes radical changes are necessary. Certainly if you're in an abusive relationship or if you're addicted to alcohol, change is appropriate, external change. But sometimes it's a mindset and it's an internal change. And so what are the sort of simple tools that you commonly dispense to your patients? [00:15:37] Dr. Boardman: Well like you're describing, I think these people sort of living in this as soon as space in their head, like as soon as I get this project done, I'm going to start working out. Or like as soon as I deal with this thing with my kid, then I'm going to… And that as soon as can kind of create this, we end up inhabiting this kind of liminal space where this penumbra of just kind of flailing and not really embodying and I, you and I, I think, share this belief in embodied health, kind of actually doing as you say, and acting as you do… wanting to kind of have your intentions align with your actions and I've been really interested in that research of how do you kind of close that intention-action gap. Like we, how do you get from where you are to where you would like to be? And that's such a, I think a common experience for all of us. I just consumed a huge bag of Cadbury mini eggs, like I didn't want to, but there they were.[00:16:38] And there's a limited edition. So that's just the way that it is. But those intentions that we have don't always translate. And so identifying what is the barrier between you and actually the action that you wanna take. And Gabriele Oettingen, who's at NYU, she's been doing a lot of research on mental contrasting, this idea of figuring out what your reality is versus what your hopes are. And as much as maybe it's an American thing, that whole idea of like dream big, think positive, you know, you can manifest your dreams. You wanna manifest that you have lost 20 pounds, or that you're going to the gym all the time.[00:17:21] All of this actually really doesn't help us. And it might feel good at the moment when we're sort of thinking positive, but it really doesn't translate into action usually, and typically, it makes us feel worse when our reality, when we bump up against our reality in some way. And so how do you close that?[00:17:42] And so her research shows with mental contrasting—she calls it using this acronym of WOOP, W-O-O-P. And this is an exercise I think all of your listeners can do, and it, it, it really works. And they've seen it with weight loss, with saving money, with exercise, in relationships, all these different domains where WOOP translates into actionable change because as we know, it's quite hard to sustain change.[00:18:07] We can get somebody to stop smoking for a day, but. A week later, they'll probably go back to it. So here's what whoop is. The W stands for like what is your wish? It has to be something that's intrinsic to you. It's not that something your partner wants you to do, something you care about deeply that aligns with your values. Make it as specific as you can. Like my wish is I would use my phone less when I'm with my kids or whatever that thing is. And then the O stands for, okay, what would be the outcome of that? Like really think about what that outcome would be. I'd feel more connected. I'd feel less pulled in a thousand directions. I'd feel more present. What would that outcome be? And kind of feel it. Literally feel it. And then the next O is, okay, what is the obstacle? You've got to identify the obstacle. Okay. Well, it's always in my hand. Whenever I pick them up from school or whenever I'm sitting at home, it's always next to me. If I'm cooking or at the table, it's always there. [00:19:04] Okay, so you've got your wish, you've got your outcome, you've got your obstacle. The fourth part is what is your plan? How are you gonna deal with this? Okay, I'm going to turn it off when I'm at home, when we're all together, I'm not going to have my phone at the dinner table. Knowing that wish, but also understanding what is getting in the way of that thing, that obstacle and then having a plan around it is much more likely to produce actionable change. And she's shown this in over 35 papers and, and just really shown the positive outcome of doing that. So just thinking positive, it's not gonna get you anywhere. But actually kind of having, contrasting that, thinking positive with that plan and that identification of the obstacle will. [00:19:47] Dr. McBride: I think that's so important. I think what people don't like doing, myself included, is turning the mirror on themselves and looking at hard truths about themselves that they maybe go on their phone because it sort of quiets the noisy brain, or it's sort of a distraction from all the messiness in our internal world, and we haven't thought through what the consequences are, and we think we'll do better in the next day. [00:20:15] And so we do much better liking an Instagram meme that says, think positive than we do at actually looking at our interior and making changes. So like you, I'm particularly interested in that gap between our best intentions and the execution of them, because that's really the most interesting part of my job and the hardest part of my job is helping people start an exercise program, put down the cigarettes, lose the weight they need to lose for their diabetes. And a question I have for you is, because to me a lot of the gap is about self-awareness and sometimes mental health, but not mental illness necessarily. Mental health being defined as really an awareness of our moods, our anxieties, and how are they calibrated to the actual facts in our reality.[00:21:11] And my question is then, how often do you find people not being aware of their own sort of internal barriers? How common is denial and an absence of self-awareness and an absence of wanting to look at people's stories the problem as you try to affect change?[00:21:34] Dr. Boardman: I mean, I think we're all in denial.[00:21:36] Dr. McBride: Yeah, I think we are. I think it's convenient.[00:21:38] Dr. Boardman: Yeah and it serves us really well in the short term. And we're not even meaning, I mean, denial is sort of an unfair way to put it. I think we're trying to live in a different reality than what we're in, or we tell ourselves stories as you know, like, well tomorrow I'll do it, or, today it's somebody's birthday or whatever. There's so many justifications in the moment, but it is at the same time, I think that gap between our intentions and our actions is an annoying feeling. It's what kind of keeps us up at night. Why didn't I? It's a lot of regret and beating oneself up. [00:22:12] Even though maybe we're going through the day putting out lots of fires, I do think there's that lingering sense of, especially in the evening, or especially if you can't sleep at night, of why didn't I, why did I do this? And that sense of when we're not aligning our values with our actions, and it's something that I actually ask patients to do when I first meet them, as in, it's part of that kind of self-awareness tool I think you're describing is to write down or just to think about what are three to five things that you value most. [00:22:47] What matters? What do you care about deeply, what is most meaningful to you? And oftentimes, we're all such busy people, [so we] don't take the time to figure out what those things actually are. And it might be being a good grandparent. It might be taking care of my dog. It might be my health, it might be learning something, whatever that is. [00:23:09] And then I ask them to think about when you last, on Saturday or when you had some free time, how did you spend it? And really trying to kind of break down how they spend their time and how that aligns with what they value most. And ideally trying to create as much overlap as possible between the two.[00:23:32] Because I think when there is this disconnect, even when things don't go the way we hope, that at least I think when you feel like you're embodying those values and they're manifesting in your life, even when things aren't going your way, it kind of creates a bit of an armor around you because you actually feel that you're embodying what you care about most, even if it didn't work out for you.[00:23:53] The other thing is just to remind people, I think we often feel like a failure. [In terms of] I made this commitment, I was going to go to the gym every day this week, and Wednesday just got so busy or whatever. I'm a failure. I'm not gonna start till next week. This idea that every day is an opportunity for a fresh start, even this idea that, oh, I have to wait until this landmark in time… I'm gonna wait till New Year's to stop smoking…[00:24:18] Tomorrow's a new day, and I think you can kind of just try to harness that fresh start effect at any point. We know typically that people who went, who do, and this is Katy Milkman's research, if you do it on a Monday or you do it on your birthday, or you do it the first day of the month, you might have more momentum behind you, which is great, but you know, I also think that every day is a new opportunity, rather than thinking, oh, I just gotta throw this all out. You know what? I'm just gonna have a crazy binge eating weekend and just let it all go, versus, you know what? Tomorrow's a new day. And we're really good at beating ourselves up over the stuff that we didn't do well.[00:24:52] Dr. McBride: Yeah, I mean, I think so many patients that I see who are having a hard time losing weight, exercising more, eating healthy, whatever it is, they lead with a heavy sense of shame and fear in their lives and I'm interested always in pulling back the curtain to figure out what is driving those feelings. Sometimes it's just not doing what they know they should be doing. Sometimes it's pretty simple. It's like, well, I wanna lose weight, but I ate a plate of cookies, so I feel bad about myself. But I think you might agree that there's something deeper going on, and maybe there isn't. I'm not trying to say that everyone's experienced childhood trauma and that pops up at the minute they look at the cookies and they feel bad about that experience and then they binge eat.[00:25:33] I just think that there's, there's something about our stories and our childhoods and our past that holds us back from being honest about ourselves and overlapping, as you said, the intention with the execution and living that sort of authentic life that we wanna lead.[00:25:56] And I wish we had an injection for pulling the walls down of shame. If we could take shame and fear away, we would be… we don't want to take away too much fear, otherwise we'd be walking into traffic and we'd jump off of high dives without water in the pool. We need a little bit of fear and we probably need a little shame too, otherwise we'd be sociopaths. But so many people that I see who are trying to make changes in their lives and live authentically, adhere to the rubric of whatever the meme on Instagram said. They can't execute on their best intentions because they are so ashamed of who they are and the stories they tell themselves.[00:26:36] And that's when I send them to you. That's when I send them to a psychiatrist. Not because they're crazy, but because they're human. And I say, look, I literally say those words and I don't think you're mentally ill. I just want to help mine that space. I could just tell you to do better tomorrow, and I could tell you that you're okay. But I, I think there's something there that I think… I just wish we all had more of a permission to explore those parts of ourselves.[00:27:01] Dr. Boardman: As a psychiatrist, maybe this is weird to say, but sometimes I think we don't need to always be looking under the hood. Maybe just to push back a little bit on this, that there isn't always an explanation… like my mother did this, or whatever that thing is, or this is my comfort food and that's why I do this now, and it is wonderful. I think when you have those light bulb moments, you know that you have this idea of, oh, this is why I do that. But here's the thing. I mean, research shows that it doesn't necessarily translate into behavior change. You might be like, oh, this is why I do that but you're not, you're still not going to make any meaningful, or take any meaningful steps to stop that thing.[00:27:47] It's kind of a cool thing, but it's not necessarily transformative. And so one thing that I'm deeply interested in is this mode of therapy called behavior activation that is really asking people rather than to focus on their emotions or always kind of trying to excavate the past in some way is to just focus on the change, the actual behavior, and then see how that changes the way they feel.[00:28:18] Because I think so much of psychiatry is the whole idea of if you can change how you think and you can change your emotions and your relationship to them, then that's going to change your behavior. And behavior activation kind of flips that on its head and says, oh, if you change what you do, you're going to change the way you feel. And we know that to be the case. If you ask people to, for 30 minutes a day, four days a week walk on a treadmill slowly, it immediately changes their mood. We know that going outdoors, you get this transformation. Even if you're sitting and you're kind of hunched over and then you stand up and you put your shoulders back, you actually feel differently [00:29:00] That idea again of embodied health, what you do changes how you feel, as much as how you feel changes what you do. And I think in psychiatry and therapy, we've been so focused on one side of it and not looking at that kind of more embodied health of the behaviors that are going to impact what you do because we often get wrong a lot of stuff. We think the thing that's gonna make us feel better is not. Like, oh, I had a long day. I'm going to binge watch tv. I'm going to open up my favorite bucket of ice cream and that kind of short term emotional junk food or actual junk food that we indulge in.[00:29:37] But we all know that we had to, the first bite's good, the next one, not so much, you end up feeling worse about these types of things. And they are de-vitalizing, I think of them as like a vampire, as a vitality. And the stuff that makes us feel better is actually when we're learning something, we're actually not just engaging in efforts, sparing activities, we're actually doing something that stretches our minds or stretches our bodies in some way. That's, that's kind of engaging us in some meaningful way. And so, I guess I'm a big fan of doing, not dreaming in some way and engaging and acting and seeing how that makes you feel. And this is research out of Stanford that looks at behaviors and what creates behaviors, it's either motivation. That is something we focus on probably way too much. And it's either a trigger, like you see somebody light up a cigarette and you're like, oh, I want one too. Or it's accessibility, how easy is that behavior? And I think an underrated part of this kind of equation is accessibility and making it easier for people to do the behavior that they want.[00:30:48] Because when we're so focused on motivation, self-control and self-control as we know it comes and it goes. You have it in the morning, you have the best intentions by the afternoon. Somebody puts a plate of cookies in the conference room. You can't help yourself. But if you make it a little bit harder to do that behavior that you don't want to do, like you get rid of those M & M's or you you make it a little easier because you put your sneakers out in front of your bed the night before and you make, so the behavior you want to do easier and the behaviors you don't want to do harder.[00:31:21] And this comes from even a community system standpoint, you create accessible parks, you have lighting, so it's easier for people to walk outdoors. You create attractive staircases for people to be able to use in buildings, all those types of things to make it a little bit more fun and easier and more playful to engage in better behaviors. So I think about, how do I make the behavior that I want to do easier, [and] how do I make the behavior that I don't want to do harder?[00:31:49] Dr. McBride: I love it and I love the pushback. I mean, I love anybody who has an opinion. And I also love anybody who is challenging the popular narrative out there because I think the popular narrative is, and I do subscribe to it in many ways, that excavating our interior is a way to begin that laddering up of health and wellbeing, that understanding our stories can help us make the behavioral change we want to make. But I think you're right, and I see this in patients. Therapy is not a good idea for everybody. It's not necessary and it's not sometimes helpful. It sometimes does harm. And what I mean by that is that, first of all, there are some pretty terrible therapists out there. There's some pretty terrible doctors out there too, and I'm sure I'm terrible on some days of the week.[00:32:40] But also I think that the talking, the thinking, the intellectualizing can, as you're maybe suggesting, distract us from executing on some of the changes that can then feedback and change our thoughts. And I think there's also the potential risk of attributing some of our behaviors to things that aren't actually true in therapy.[00:33:01] So what my observation is is that we have two major schools of therapy as far as I can tell. We have the psychodynamic type of therapy, the sort of psychoanalysis where people are lying on a couch and talking sort of in an open-ended way. And that can be every day and can be week after week after week.[00:33:22] And then you cognitive behavioral therapy where people are trying to change the thoughts and the behavioral patterns that stem from thoughts. And so my question to you is, is this like a third way of thinking about mental health, like not in therapy and just doing the behaviors and sort of societal changes to make behavioral change more easy? Or is it outside of therapy altogether?[00:33:48] Dr. Boardman: I mean my dream is that one day we will all be put out of business. People won't need us and won't need therapists. And I wish this was part of curriculums and students were taught how to activate change and that this started in, in kindergarten and… [00:34:06] There's a third type of therapy. You talked about kind of more the psychodynamic talk therapy and then CBT, which is kind of identifying specific negative thinking patterns such as catastrophizing or engaging in black and white thinking. And then what I'm very interested in, and I think of myself as a positive psychiatrist, is kind of a third really complimentary, not an either or, but it's a both, both and kind of situation is focusing on people's strengths.[00:34:34] What are your strengths, as actually research comparing CBT with strengths-based therapies is what are your top five strengths and there are tests you can do at viacharacter.org, you can take this free test that turns out your top five character strengths. And we know that people who then use their top five strengths in new ways even in a week feel less depressed and less stressed.[00:34:57] We're so good at shining the light on our weaknesses and what we've done badly, but looking at our strengths and how we can harness our strengths. Even to look at, there was a study looking at people who had diabetes. How could they use their strengths to be more, to adhere more to their medication regimens? What were ways to kind of align, not their deficits, but what they're good at? We know even that, I think again, kind of part of psychiatry and therapy has become so interiorized, so fixated on the individual and the inner workings of what's going on in your head. And I think maybe at the expense of looking at the community that they exist within, the fabric of their relationships and a little bit too much of this whole idea that happiness only comes from within.[00:35:43] I'd always argue that it also comes from with. And when we are in a group, a community that is reminding us to take our medication that is there with us, that's helping us use our strengths, it is helping us kind of even where we feel like we are adding value in helping others. I think having a sense of mattering and meaning, it's not just feeling valued, it's also adding value in some way beyond the self. So I do think kind of having a more strengths-based approach to physical illness and mental illness is also really worth our time and our time in the medical profession.[00:36:20] Dr. McBride: Yeah, it resonates with me what you're saying. For example, I was trying to get a patient last week to think about exercising. It's sort of cliche, the doctors tell people to exercise. We all know it's good for everything from diabetes to dementia prevention. And she was beating herself up because she hadn't been exercising and she had put off the appointment to come see me for two weeks because she didn't want to get weighed.[00:36:43] And I reminded her, this is not an appointment you can win or lose. This is just a data point and there's just no shame in the number on the scale on my end. But the way I think we're gonna execute on her in getting some exercise is that we looked back at her childhood. What did she like to do before she had a busy job and three kids and a mortgage and it was dance. And so we looked online and found this dance class in her community that's at the Y and it looks it's not a class that requires designer leggings and an expensive membership. And I was like, just go to one class, just go in the back, wear shorts and just see how it feels.[00:37:24] And she's like, yeah, I remember being just sort of, entranced by the music and just the movement and the sort of the organic, it didn't feel like exercise. It felt like fun. And I'm like, that's it. That's it. Let's lean into the things that are already in your arsenal of tools. And you know, we gravitate to things as children that we like. That's what we do. We don't have this complicated sorting system in our mind. So I said, just try it. And so I think I hear exactly what you're saying, which is that we have so many strengths, but we tend to focus on the negative. [00:37:55] We've also lost a sense of community and kind of collective goodwill, I would say, in the last three years during the pandemic and certainly before that, with all sorts of political unrest and social unrest. And I think there's an intrinsic sort of sense of dis-ease among people. At least I see it in my office. And I think what I hear you saying is that you're just building back a sense of community and a sense of purpose outside of our own selves is important.[00:38:27] Dr. Boardman: Yeah I'm thinking of that study with that looked at asking people to make a New Year's resolution. We know it's very hard to stick to. But those who made kind of individually based ones that were like, I'm going to stop smoking, I'm going to lose weight, versus those that had much more socially oriented resolutions. It was like pro-social, I'm going to walk with my friend once a week. I'm going to meet up with a friend and go to the movies or do a book club. Not only were they going, they were much more likely to stick to it. They were more satisfied over the course of the year. And it was just fun. And I think we have this terrible idea about health is that it has to be punishing and we've got to somehow always be miserable and depriving ourselves. It's full of deprivation and removing that element of joy and others and whatever made you laugh as a child, that you can find things that are fun and that lift you outside of yourself rather than, I think that kind of self immersion that sometimes I think the wellbeing, industrial complex kind of green lights, that's not necessarily healthy. And if anything it can kind of remove us from a lot of those experiences that boost our mental health. [00:39:42] Dr. McBride: I think it's so true. Okay. I have two more questions. One, what do you think the biggest differences are between in-person therapy versus virtual therapy?[00:39:52] Dr. Boardman: Call me old… I definitely, just as a practicing psychiatrist, prefer seeing people in person. I think one has a much better sense of who they are in their presence, in their physicality, and I really enjoy it. I mean, I'm grateful for Zoom. I became, you know, it took me a while to kind of get fluent in Zoom in March 2020, but it happened. And certainly I think with online therapy, accessibility is a good thing. The more people who can access therapy really matters, and people are always trying to look at what's the best type of therapy. The best type of therapy is a therapy where you have a good relationship with the therapist, where you trust them, where you feel safe, where you feel connected.[00:40:34] That's the winning type of therapy. You want to have one argument, I would say, it's just always for quality therapy, not necessarily quantity therapy. I think the idea of being able to constantly text your therapist and actually not speaking to them in real time, I'm not sure about the outcome. I think maybe for younger people, that has been perfectly helpful. There is something though, just to keep in mind. Metabolizing, like when you are having a hard time or something's happened, kind of sitting with those feelings of distress, anger, sadness, frustration, disappointment, and you metabolizing it and knowing that on Tuesday at six o'clock, you're going to maybe address it because it's going to feel really different in the moment versus how it's going to feel, maybe 48 hours or three days later, and sometimes that digested way… and trust yourself, we are human beings. Human beings are supposed to bump into stress, sadness, all these negative emotions. They're information. This is stuff for us to take in and learn from and we don't necessarily need to constantly pick up the phone or text somebody and say, wait, help me. Because I think that really removes agency ultimately and basically suggests that we are ill-equipped to handle these very human experiences.[00:41:52] Dr. McBride: Yeah. As if you can discharge that emotion by texting and putting it on someone else's plate.[00:41:58] Dr. Boardman: Yes. Yes, exactly.[00:42:00] Dr. McBride: So my next question is about medication. There's no kind of short answer to it, but I think we overmedicate people. I think we under-medicate people. It depends on the person. I am a big, big fan of the SSRI medications when appropriate in the right context. What is your general sense of the psycho-pharmacology state of the US right now. I mean, do you see people commonly coming to you who have been on medications that may have been inappropriately prescribed? Do you see people who are just looking for a pill to fix their kind of broken marriage? Do you see it being an asset, a crutch? What's your take?[00:42:39] Dr. Boardman: I mean, I would say all the above. I think our culture is, Hey, I've got a problem. What's the pill for that? I can't sleep. I'm overweight. Whatever that thing is, I need a pill for that. I'm feeling down. And people feel… even like my kid has an earache, I want an antibiotic prescription. I mean whatever those, there's a culture of satisfaction when you walk out of a doctor's office. You feel like it was a job well done when you have that prescription in your hand. And so people are always blaming the doctors for this. I also think it's kind of cultural,  this is the way we've told patients, people to be, they see advertisements all the time for this medication. They go into their doctor requesting that this is going to make me happy. I think of those Paxil ads from the early 2000s of that sad looking blob and then it starts taking Paxil and really happy and like socializing at a party.[00:43:35] And so I worry about the overmedicating even in ADD. But then you also see in certain populations, it's the exact opposite as you're pointing out people who aren't getting the medications that they need for these issues. So it's not a blanket statement at all. So I'm a big believer in always re-looking at that. Especially when somebody has a tackle box of pills that they take for sleep or anxiety or depression. Wait, how long have you been on these pills? Are they doing what we want them to be doing? And what's the dose? Is this just something that you just kind of keep accumulating over time and you just feel sort of safe doing this?[00:44:15] And we also know that it's really hard to get off of antidepressants. It takes time and there's so much research about dosages when you're dialing them up, but not how you dial it down. And people who really feel bad and sometimes they can misinterpret some of their symptoms can feel like depression or anxiety returning when it's actually withdrawal from the medication itself.[00:44:35] there was a big controversial paper that came out a few months ago, maybe you discussed it on the show, looking at these medications and maybe they're not as helpful as we thought they were. We also do know that there are lifestyle changes that when people. You know, exercise a couple of times a week that they can get the, the benefits of being of like an antidepressant essentially in that movement. It also protects young people against depression, which is so important as well. So I think it's one of those things we have to look at individually, and it's kind of a default answer, but it's kind of a case by case basis. And I know people who've been tremendously helped by these medications as well. So I take it very seriously and I really think of the individual involved.[00:45:17] Dr. McBride: Same with me. And I think the downside of the article that came out, I think the one you're talking about is the one that said kind of definitively what we've known for a long time, which is that depression and anxiety are not “chemical imbalances.”[00:45:30] Dr. Boardman: The serotonin hypothesis is debunked.[00:45:33] Dr. McBride: Exactly. It's not the, it's not a serotonin deficit, which is not to say that increasing serotonin with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors cannot help. So I think some people took that study and said, oh, then why the hell am I on this Prozac? And stopped taking it. And then other people sort of used it as ammunition to say, you know, modern psycho-pharmacology broken. As with everything, there's nuance, it's somewhere in the middle and it depends on the individual and it requires listening and curiosity about the human in front of us. So Samantha, I am gonna let you go. You've been so full of information and tools and amazing thoughts, and I'm really excited to kick off Mental Health Month with you on social media and to kind of blitz our shared audiences with practical information to be healthier from the inside out.[00:46:25] Dr. Boardman: Oh, I cannot wait. We're gonna have a great month.[00:46:27] Dr. McBride: It's gonna be fun. Thank you so much for listening, everybody, and sign up for Samantha's newsletter on Substack, it's called The Dose and I love it. I love the graphics, I really love your logo and I love what you're saying in it, and I read it religiously. I'll see you next time![00:46:46] Thank you all for listening to Beyond the Prescription. Please don't forget to subscribe, like, download and share the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you catch your podcasts. I'd be thrilled if you like this episode to rate and review it. And if you have a comment or question, please drop us at info@lucymcbride.com. [00:47:08] The views expressed on this show are entirely my own and do not constitute medical advice for individuals that should be obtained from your personal physician. Get full access to Are You Okay? at lucymcbride.substack.com/subscribe

“What are the pieces to your health puzzle? It's going to be different for everybody," says Will Cole, D.C. Will, a leading functional medicine expert and New York Times bestselling author, joins us to discuss how important your thoughts and feelings are for your overall health, plus: - Will's motivation behind his newest book (~00:16) - How your emotional health impacts your physical health (~02:02) - How unresolved trauma manifests as health issues (~04:57) - How to acknowledge & heal your trauma (~07:32) - How to know if you have shameflammation (~08:31) - How to navigate anxiety around your health (~11:52) - How people worry themselves sick (~17:33) - How to recognize generational trauma (~20:20) - The power of breathwork for your health (~21:59) - How to do a social network cleanse & why you should (~24:58) - Why you shouldn't internalize everything you see on social media (~26:15) - The best low-cost wellness hacks (~34:52) - How to balance mind, body & environmental health (~38:59) - How to metabolize past trauma (~44:41) - Will's top gut-friendly foods (~49:41) - The future of mental health care (~53:50) Order a copy of my new book The Joy Of Well-Being at thejoyofwellbeing.com!  Referenced in the episode: - Will's new book, Gut Feelings. - Check out Will's podcast. - mbg Podcast episodes #284, #148, and #68, with Will. - A study on the nocebo effect. - A study on how shame impacts your health. - A study on nature photos' calming effects. - An article on anger & virality. - Sign up for The Long Game.  We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com.

Ever feel lost in big emotions? Not sure how to process them, or completely numb toward them? What's a person to do with their emotions anyway?  In this episode we're unpacking all of these questions (and so many more) with author and licensed counselor Aundi Kolber. Her approach to developing a healthy relationship with your body and strength will have you feeling ready to handle your emotions and past trauma with care. Aundi shares about how she overcame an ambivalent relationship to her own strength, and how our experiences are a journey and a story that is imprinted in our body. She explains that situational strength has value and, as we learn to listen to our bodies, our strength becomes rooted in love rather than fear. She discusses how our minds are connected to our bodies, and emotions are primarily sensations in our body. Once we name them and cognitively bring them into our awareness, those emotions become feelings. The goal is then to metabolize our emotions, move them through the body, and avoid them getting stuck or suppressed. Aundi emphasizes the importance of acknowledging and normalizing the significance of trauma rather than putting a tiny bandaid on a cannonball-sized wound. It's mind-blowing. She encourages us to honor the complicatedness of our story and pace ourselves in the healing process, so we don't re-traumatize ourselves. To heal our relationship with our body, we can start with neutrality, bringing in awareness in a non-judgmental posture, and then move towards tenderness and compassion. Aundi discusses how we can leverage goodness and love to support us in our healing and explains the three types of strength - situational, transitional, and integrative - and how we can move through each of them. Finally, Aundi speaks to how we can parent our children well while we're also healing from our own trauma. She encourages us to turn towards pain with compassion and to work on repairing fractures as we notice them, focusing on the tiny moments that matter. Tune in to Your Good Body Podcast to learn more about developing a healthy relationship with your body and tap into the type of strength that will help you navigate through the wide range of experiences that life brings.  Subscribe to my Newsletter. Order MY BOOK and start making peace with your body.  Enroll in my course Body Image Boot Camp to start living freely in your body.  Snag my Intuitive Eating Mini Course to learn all about it in a few hours time! Find me on Instagram @YourGoodBodyPodcast or @JenniferTaylorWagner Order Strong Like Water By Aundi Kolber Find Aundi on Instagram  

“Art can serve as our metabolizer.”  It's a sentiment that struck me as soon as I heard it, and it's no surprise that the individual behind this poignant quote is none other than writer, wedding photographer, and storyteller Genevieve Georget.  On today's walk, Gen joins me to discuss how she became a writer, finding balance as we experience the full range of human emotions, the ways in which stories and narratives can both free and hinder us, how to manage the tendency toward perfectionism, and ultimately to share where she is in what she refers to as possibly her most important piece of work yet.  In This Episode (3:18) Introduction to our guest, Genevieve Georget (7:57) How writing and photography influence Gen's relationship with time (12:22) Gen recalls a moment that brought perspective (18:33) How authenticity and intimacy allow us to unburden ourselves (20:23) What You Don't See (27:52) Carrying others' stories while making space for your own (32:13) A note about generational trauma and childhood experiences (39:07) “How do you feel about somebody controlling the narrative of your life?” (49:20) Intimate and honest confrontation (56:13) Gen's current, deeply healing project (1:01:56) My mindfulness journey and equal empathy (1:04:30) How storytelling allows for connection Notable Quotes “When we do have the strength, it allows us to be that anchor for other people. And to say, ‘I've got ya. I can hold this space. I can be here and listen to your story as you let it unfold in front of you and as you take down the veil, as you take down the wall.' And just open up about ‘This is what I've been walking with. This is what's been on my shoulders.' It's an unburdening process, and I think it's interesting because we talk about art as a metabolizer or others have heard me talk about circling and things like that on this show as well, and to me, I think that's the beauty of a practice like circling where we can verbalize what it is that we are working to process. And when we can do that in a communal way, it opens something up because it allows more and more people to know ‘I'm not alone.'” – Luke (19:18) “One of the ways that I am learning to dismantle some of those narratives, and that is an aggressive word, but I think it's necessary sometimes to take a sledgehammer to some of the stuff that we've been carrying around for so long. It's also a method that we're starting to use with our children a lot. And it's by asking the question, ‘What story are you telling yourself about that situation?' So if one of our kids comes home from school and they've had something happen with some friends, the first thing we ask them is, ‘What meaning are you putting to that situation? What's the story you're now telling yourself?' to try to help them, ourselves, recognize that we are only one part of that story. – Gen (44:47) Our Guest Genevieve Georget is a writer and photographer from Ottawa, Canada that believes in cultivating space for vulnerability, truth, authenticity, and storytelling. In her last two books, Solace: A Journal of Human Experience (2019) and Her Own Wild Winds (2016), Gen explored grief, pain, love, and inspiration. Solace was also named Ottawa FACES Magazine's 2020 Book of the Year. Currently working on a healing-centered project, she is finding joy in her life with her husband, kids, and golden retriever.  Resources & Links On This Walk https://www.facebook.com/dlukeiorio https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukeiorio/ https://instagram.com/dlukeiorio https://instagram.com/onthiswalkshow Genevieve Georget https://gengeorget.com/ https://www.instagram.com/gen_georget/?hl=en https://ca.linkedin.com/in/genevieve-georget https://gengeorget.com/books Mentioned: Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament by Michael A. Singer

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Briana Herman-Brand is a teacher, facilitator, and parent. This week, she joins adrienne to talk about trusting from within, the possibilities of co-housing, and unlearning processes from white supremacist culture. Transcript found here.

Dr. Gabor Maté — The Myth of Normal, Metabolizing Anger, Processing Trauma, and Finding the Still Voice Within | Brought to you by Tommy John premium underwear, Athletic Greens all-in-one nutritional supplement, and ButcherBox premium meats delivered to your door.Dr. Gabor Maté (@DrGaborMate) is a renowned speaker and bestselling author, highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics that includes addiction, stress, and childhood development. Dr. Maté has written several bestselling books, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection, and Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It. He has also coauthored Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers. His works have been published internationally in nearly thirty languages.His new book is The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture.Please enjoy! *This episode is brought to you by Tommy John premium underwear! For men, Tommy John offers six different styles so you can find the one that suits you best. Their line of men's briefs and boxers is one of my top choices for all-day comfort. I tested their Second Skin Mid-Length Boxer Brief and the Cool Cotton Trunk.Shop Tommy John's Labor Day Sale now at TommyJohn.com/Tim and save 25% sitewide. There's little risk because of Tommy John's “Best Pair You'll Ever Wear or It's Free” guarantee. Offer ends September 11th.*This episode is also brought to you by Athletic Greens. I get asked all the time, “If you could use only one supplement, what would it be?” My answer is usually AG1 by Athletic Greens, my all-in-one nutritional insurance. I recommended it in The 4-Hour Body in 2010 and did not get paid to do so. I do my best with nutrient-dense meals, of course, but AG further covers my bases with vitamins, minerals, and whole-food-sourced micronutrients that support gut health and the immune system. Right now, Athletic Greens is offering you their Vitamin D Liquid Formula free with your first subscription purchase—a vital nutrient for a strong immune system and strong bones. Visit AthleticGreens.com/Tim to claim this special offer today and receive the free Vitamin D Liquid Formula (and five free travel packs) with your first subscription purchase! That's up to a one-year supply of Vitamin D as added value when you try their delicious and comprehensive all-in-one daily greens product.*This episode is also brought to you by ButcherBox! ButcherBox makes it easy for you to get high-quality, humanely raised meat that you can trust. They deliver delicious, 100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef; free-range organic chicken; heritage-breed pork; and wild-caught seafood directly to your door.And now, ButcherBox is offering you, my dear listeners, a fantastic deal—free chicken for a year! Get 2 lbs. of free-range, organic chicken breasts for free in every order when you sign up at butcherbox.com/TIM. Plus, get an extra $10 off your first box with promo code TIM10 at checkout. Claim this deal at butcherbox.com/TIM.*For show notes and past guests on The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast.For deals from sponsors of The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast-sponsorsSign up for Tim's email newsletter (5-Bullet Friday) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Discover Tim's books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissYouTube: youtube.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/timferrissPast guests on The Tim Ferriss Show include Jerry Seinfeld, Hugh Jackman, Dr. Jane Goodall, LeBron James, Kevin Hart, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jamie Foxx, Matthew McConaughey, Esther Perel, Elizabeth Gilbert, Terry Crews, Sia, Yuval Noah Harari, Malcolm Gladwell, Madeleine Albright, Cheryl Strayed, Jim Collins, Mary Karr, Maria Popova, Sam Harris, Michael Phelps, Bob Iger, Edward Norton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Neil Strauss, Ken Burns, Maria Sharapova, Marc Andreessen, Neil Gaiman, Neil de Grasse Tyson, Jocko Willink, Daniel Ek, Kelly Slater, Dr. Peter Attia, Seth Godin, Howard Marks, Dr. Brené Brown, Eric Schmidt, Michael Lewis, Joe Gebbia, Michael Pollan, Dr. Jordan Peterson, Vince Vaughn, Brian Koppelman, Ramit Sethi, Dax Shepard, Tony Robbins, Jim Dethmer, Dan Harris, Ray Dalio, Naval Ravikant, Vitalik Buterin, Elizabeth Lesser, Amanda Palmer, Katie Haun, Sir Richard Branson, Chuck Palahniuk, Arianna Huffington, Reid Hoffman, Bill Burr, Whitney Cummings, Rick Rubin, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Darren Aronofsky, Margaret Atwood, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Dr. Gabor Maté, Anne Lamott, Sarah Silverman, Dr. Andrew Huberman, and many more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Unpack and heal your trauma with Greg.  He helps people feel the pain to be able to metabolize it.  Can we create our own trauma?  Why do we hide our trauma?  Greg speaks to relationships with others being so important.  Greg works with people to connect to their inate wisdom.  These notes will never be able to clearly define Greg's own wisdom and the wonderful responses to the questions I ask him.  Listen from start to finish to hear those in-depth answers to questions I asked that were not so simple to find an answer to.Being able to feel some really hard things needs to be done slowly, and that is a part of healing.You can reach Greg at https://www.gregwieting.com or at https://www.prismamethod.comMore about PRISMA:The PRISMA Course is the owner's manual and roadmap for mental, emotional, and spiritual health. An online community offers travel companions, guided meditations are the built-in GPS and a self-care energy medicine foundation training is the vehicle needed for a lifetime of healing.This is an arc of transformation to heal the anxiety and depression rooted in trauma. More about Greg:Greg is most compelled by the intersection of all things leadership, healing, purpose, and performance.He loves to discuss the bridge between entrepreneurship and spirituality and how leadership can be used as a healing force for good. Greg is also interested in exploring the state of mental health in America and why we have a sick-care, not a healthcare system that's in crisis. And he brings a unique take on how to effectively heal the trauma that underlies anxiety, depression, and chronic pain without chasing or suppressing symptoms.Greg can geek out on neuroscience, energy medicine, and mindfulness making it practical, relevant, accessible, and fun. :)Support the show

This community is all about your personal development, mindset development and more importantly the energy and awareness space. In today's episode, Guy will share with you why this is critically important. If you've been around the mindset development space for a long time and feel a bit stuck, you will gain insights about some of the limitations of this type of work. And why it is that if you add energy and awareness work to any sort of mindset practice - you are going to see an astronomical, exponential growth curve in your own development and healing. The real healing comes from being able to turn within and learn how to work with your intelligent body systemGuy FerdmanWe are actually extraordinarily interested in and what we teach dynamically here is how do you get to the stuff that is happening underneath the surface of the mindset. Getting into the energetics, the subtle stuff that is happening inside your body system that is then lending itself to your mind having a certain type of response. We will talk a lot about that today and what it means to your transformation. So if you are here, hopefully, you are here to better yourself, whether that is in your relationships to yourself or others, in your business or entrepreneurial journey, if you are a coach or consultant or if you're just a curious growth seeker... In all those cases you are in the perfect place. Tune in! Episode Timestamps: 8.00 The new transformation of humanity  13.00 Growing up vs waking up work  17.00 Responsibility vs victim mentality 25.00 Information is not transformation 37.00 Parents and showing up 41.00 Metabolizing energy 45.00 Regulating your nervous system 50.00 How to create more safety in your system 55.00 Conditioned awareness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Krista Taylor, Immersive Learning Lead at Accenture, joins the show to discuss the Metaverse and its current and potential impact on learning. Krista and Bob break it down for us, including why it's here to stay, implications on learning, case examples, why content and design matter, and what it's not good for. Dana also shares the best Dad joke of all time…CONNECT WITH USIf you have any feedback or want to join in on the conversation, connect with us via LinkedIN, Twitter (@bobbyhollywood), or email our show at learninggeekspod@gmail.com. DISCLAIMERAll thoughts and views are of our own.AUDIO CREDIT"Seagulls Stop it Now" by Bad Lip Reading. Check them out at https://www.youtube.com/user/BadLipReadingLEARNING GEEKS “EXPERIENCE DESIGN WORKSHOP AT DISNEYLAND”We are seeking interested participants to join us at Disneyland on June 24th for a unique Experience Design Workshop. We would all visit Disneyland, including lands like Galaxy's Edge, and truly immerse ourselves into the worlds and environments and reflect on how we can apply this in our learning experiences. This would be a trip covered at your expense, so if you're interested, start booking! Please reach out to Dana, Jake, and/or Bob directly or on LinkedIN for any questions.

QUOTE of the Day: Right here. Right now. Every moment is sacred. – Laurie Clemans In this episode of “My Love of Life Energy,” I am speaking with Laurie Clemans. I am speaking with Laurie Clemans about honoring the human journey, and the human being in the process of becoming more spacious, present, and open. She is a beautiful soul whose work emanates kindness and compassion coupled with a genuine desire to serve others. Laurie Clemans is a mid-life mastery coach and meditation instructor. She supports people with empowering, transformational practices, tools, and insight – to navigate their next chapter, reimagine their lives, and contribute to the world. Laurie has been on the hunt for her own life's purpose since college. Ignited, first, by "Autobiography of a Yogi", and then, deep dives into the healing arts, indigenous rituals, shamanic ceremonies, meditation, Vajrayana Buddhism, and grandmothering. Metabolizing her life experience, she is manifesting her soul's calling and sacred outlook as both coach and spiritual guide. In a past life, Laurie headed a branding firm, serving Fortune 100+ enterprises, start-ups, and entrepreneurs. She has also designed internationally acclaimed art furniture and installations. Lastly, as a professional clinical herbalist, she founded one of the first companies to promote the culinary and healing properties of organic and wild-harvested botanicals to high-end foodservice and retail, formulating more than 40 artisanal blends. Most important: her intention to become an emissary of love and compassion. For more information on Laurie Clemans please visit:  www.EssentCoaching.com -- I am Wisdom Business Coach for entrepreneurial spirited people who want to make their dreams become a reality. If you are looking to access your innate wisdom and apply it to all aspects of your business and life and create rich results with ease, reach out to me and let's see what we can do together.  https://calendly.com/annalscott --- #MyLofeOfLifeEnergy #LoveLife #Relief #EpisodeDropped #AnnaScott #Freedom #Ease #YourGenius #Genius #Inspiration #Happiness #Wisdom #SeeWhoYouAre #Understanding #Happiness #Wisdom  #TheThreePrinciples #Mind #Thought #Consciousness #MentalHealth #PodCreator #PodHelp #PodernFamily

The Angelic Conflict - Part 49 - Point 14. - The Angelic Conflict In Human History Answers Basic Questions About Life - Why the creation of man? Mankind was created to resolve the prehistoric angelic conflict. “to pay much closer attention” = pres-act-inf - prosechein = to apply the mind to something, to concentrate on the doctrine being taught. Grace always precedes judgment! “lest we drift away” = aor-act-subj - pararrhuomen = to let the doctrine drift past you or flow by you. a. Refusing to hear the teaching of the Word of God on a consistent basis. b. Hearing the teaching of Bible doctrine but refusing to metabolize it; the failure to convert gnosis into epignosis. c. Metabolizing doctrine so it exists in the soul but not applying what you've learned = doctrine becomes unusable or forgotten. Angels were used by God to bring doctrine to men, Act 7:38,53. Man is now being used by God to bring doctrine to men and angels! Eph 3:10 in order that the multi-faceted wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places. “every transgression” = parabasis = every form of stepping over the line, violating God's perfect laws. “disobedience” = parakoe = disobedience that results from neglecting to hear doctrine and letting these fantastic things drift by, Heb 2:1. Isa 28:12 He who said to them, “Here is rest, give rest to the weary,” And, “Here is repose,” but they would not listen. Isa 30:9 For this is a rebellious people, false sons, Sons who refuse to listen To the instruction of the Lord; “The nature of the sin of Adam was a careless indifferent attitude towards the commands of God.” - Kenneth Wuest Rom 5:19 “For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one the many will be made righteous.” Parakoe = literally “to hear alongside,” failing to concentrate when hearing or hearing amiss! Amo 8:11 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord God, “when I will send a famine on the land, not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, but rather for hearing the words of the Lord.” Amo 8:12 “And people will stagger from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will go to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, but they will not find it.” The just recompense is for the angels, Mat 25:41. neglect = aor-act-part - amelesantes = to be careless toward something or to make light of, to disregard. Robert R. McLaughlin Bible Ministries All Rights Reserved Robert R. McLaughlin 2001

Whether it's COVID, fires or floods, when you really look at who's affected the most in the US, there's a glaring difference there between white people and BIPOC and it isn't just access to medical care that's to blame. In today's episode, we're diving deeper into our last episode with Vani Tangella, a race equity specialist with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, where we discussed how trauma affects race conversations and experiences. Join us as we unpack the myth of access in the US, the often overlooked ways it makes a big difference, and why we need to put more focus on increasing equity in the face of climate-related disasters.   We're diving into: Social capital and how it affects access to Americans What it means to be an “other” in the face of a natural disaster How we can create climate related disaster recovery that's more equitable What more equitable treatment of communities, whether marginalized or not, BEFORE a disaster would mean for the outcomes and recovery Metabolizing trauma: why it's so important and how the lack of access to it comes into play for many Black and Brown bodies And more!   If you'd like to support us in continuing this work, we'd be honored if you'd consider donating here: https://www.patreon.com/thehumanizepodcast    Let's talk about it! Connect with us and continue the conversation:   Instagram: https://instagram.com/thehumanizepodcast Facebook: https://facebook.com/thehumanizepodcast  Email: info@thehumanizepodcast.com

Beneath The Surface Metabolizing Black Rage (Season 2, Episode 10) In this episode of Beneath The Surface I will be reflecting on and thinking through if Black Folks have had proper ways to metabolize our rage. I am thinking about this in light of the events that have happened this past week with a white man who murdered two people and injured another at a BLM Protest was found not guilty of his crimes. I reflect on what it may mean and the impact for Black Folks to continuously experience injustice and some ways that we may be able to find the will and desire to continue to imagine and fight for better versions of the future and the world for the liberation of Black People. Beneath The Surface (BTS) is a podcast analyzing politics and society through an intersectional feminist lens hosted by host Karlyn Bradley, A Fat, Black, Queer, Femme who uses he/him and they/them pronouns. Beneath The Surface is available to stream on: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Amazon Music and wherever else you get your podcast. If you want to support me and the channel you can do so by becoming a patron on Patreon. Patrons get access to exclusive content that can't be found anywhere else. You can become a Patron by following the link. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BeneathTheSurfacePodcast If you would like to make a one time donation to Beneath The Surface you can so so through PayPal by following this link here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BTSurfacePod Beneath The Surface Socials Twitter: @BTSurfacePod Instagram: BTSurfacePod Facebook: Beneath The Surface Email:PodcastBenathTheSurface@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/beneathtspodcast/support

Pamm Hanson As a woman aging in this American culture, I find myself committed to painting images I see in the mirror as I scrutinize and watch my body change.  My work ranges from the very small (1in x 2in) to the very large (6ft x 15ft) – much like the range of my perception as I look at my body and my visage.  This has led me to my current investigation of the multiplicity of self, including the myths and archetypes that are deep in women's bodies and souls.   In 2008 I received my MFA (with honors) from the Vermont Studio Center/Johnson State College.   I also teach at Path with Art (pathwithart.org):  An arts organization that provides art education to adults in recovery from living unsheltered and other trauma.  This teaching humbles my own privilege and teaches me courage. I also have had a full and rich career as a licensed psychotherapist in private practice, with a MA in Psychology  (1980). pammohanson.com pammoh@gmail.com 206.604.3612   ***Head on over to Creatrix Compass and explore our many offerings from free inspiration to get your creative juices flowing to creativity classes to creativity coaching and life coaching for creatives.  It can all be found at: https://www.creatrixcompass.com Your donation helps us continue to spread creativity throughout the land.  Thank you! https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=2PM3V82XDS7GA  Music: Good Friends Inc by Jonathan Boyle 

We chat with Lisa Unger all about her new novel Last Girl Ghosted, the differences between social media and real life, how technology changes the way we relate to each other, online dating, her Rilke and Jung obsession, waiting to hear her characters' voices, and how she uses writing to metabolize darkness. We also recommend: … Continue reading Ep. 141 Metabolizing Darkness With Lisa Unger

In this episode, we talk about The Final Empire, the first book in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Trilogy. Rosie compares how allomancers burn metals to how food is metabolized. Then, Chris wonders what the existence of atium tells us about whether the Mistborn universe is deterministic or probabilistic. This podcast contains spoilers! Please proceed with caution. For extra reading on metabolism, alloys, hormones, and homeostasis, check out the episode extra at sciencefantasyscience.com. Music - Freeze my soul by DreamHeaven

For other podcast summaries, search 'podcast summaries' in any podcast apps.Or if you're on Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/5-min-summariesOriginal episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/christine-runyan-whats-happening-in-our-nervous-systems/id150892556?i=10005135842521 quote:“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. And in that space lies our power to choose. And in our choice lies our growth and our freedom.”Key ideas: When conscious and subconscious reactions work better, how statistics can be a source of trauma & how imagination is a double edged sword.Who is Christine Runyan? Clinical psychologist and professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.   A certified mindfulness teacher, that co-founded and co-leads Tend Health, a clinical consulting practice focused on the mental well-being of health care practitioners.Idea 1 @ 3mins:  Having conscious as well as subconscious thoughts can be useful at different times.  One example of this is our “fight-flight” system. Whenever we sense a threat or any danger, our nervous system automatically instills a fight or flight response, which doesn't happen at the level of our conscious awareness.  This can be useful for situations where there's no time to think, such as an emergency. But, things such as our panic response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which also activated our fight or flight system, would be better off if we brought the awareness to our conscious mind, so that we can actively think through our responses, as opposed to only relying on our instincts in flight or fight mode.Idea 2 @ 21mins:  Horrible statistics about certain things can become another source of trauma for people.  During COVID, so many people talked about the increased percentage and statistics of suicide, depression and more.   But we also need to realize that, statistics that say something like '30% of people have xyz', also says that 70 percent, or the majority of people don't have it.   Which can push people to think; what's wrong with me? and ask questions such as “am i not resilient enough or strong enough?"  We have to be compassionate to ourselves, and realise that everyone reacts to the same things differently.Idea 3 @ 32mins:  Our bodies and mind, can often react in similar ways to what is imagined, as it does to what is real.  Runyan sometimes say to her clients, “I want you to imagine cutting open a lemon, a juicy lemon, and bringing that half of the lemon onto your tongue. And just let it rest there. And what do you notice?”  Most people can imagine tasting it, and their body reacts by releasing additional saliva.  We can create a physiological response through our imagination, which is a double edged sword. It's a gift and a curse, because we can use it to comfort ourselves, but it's also the source of worries.1 question: Can you think of a way for you to use your imagination to create more comfort?Other topics: How the year of the pandemic and social isolation impacts us. Other strategies that we can all do from home, to help calm ourselves. Metabolizing the reality that we have much less control or even no control in a lot of areas.Written summary: https://www.owltail.com/summaries/BapZY-Christine-Runyan-Whats-Happening-in-Our-Nervous

Some of what Kendra shares includes: Decoupling self-truth from what we choose to do  Choice as freedom Interdependence and Sacred Sovereignty Right relationship with reality. “Live as to never be ashamed” Owning our need for validation Play as an indicator of processing and a tool Conflict as a means for curiosity Resonance and differences in intimacy Metabolizing pure expression Expression through the body Bringing what you want to your relationship Small points of beauty * Kendra's site: https://www.kendracunov.com/ Olivia's site: http://oliviaclementine.com/

For rewards and more with Justin, become a patron! Best known for his work with The Glitch Mob and Superposition, Justin Boreta is an electronic music producer and wonder-seeker. Are we alien juice? Why is information speeding up? How can myth hypercharge your life? What happens when creativity becomes a sacred space? Justin Boreta returns to the mind meld to discuss all of the above and more! Support us-- Visit THIRDEYEDROPS.com   Crowd-sponsor the show and get more podcast content on Patreon Leave us a 5 star review on iTunes!

As we push the boundaries of human longevity and our expectations for lifespan, mid-life is going to be different. Our healthy, vibrant decades are being extended. The goal of enjoying more fulfilling years, free of diseases and physical decline is becoming a reality. The trajectory of our lives is changing. Chip Conley is a veteran executive in the hospitality industry, formerly Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy with Airbnb and a prolific writer. He's also the founder of the Modern Elder Academy, a self-styled school for midlife wisdom and the author of Wisdom@Work: The Making of a Modern Elder. In this conversation with Peter Bowes, Chip shares his vision of older people as wise, curious and indispensable members of society. He recalls the impact of a near-death experience, the way his life went through a transformation in his 50s and the art of lifelong learning. Recorded: December 29, 2020 | Read a transcript and show notes at the LLAMA podcast website.Photo credit: Lisa KeatingThis episode is brought to you by AgeUp, a new financial product that provides guaranteed supplemental income for people who worry about the financial impact of longevity. To find out more, visit Age-Up.comTopics covered in this interview include:Chip's life-defining brush with death and experience of going to the "other side" during a medical emergency. Doing business as a "hospitality disrupter," as one of the first boutique hoteliers and later with Airbnb.Creating the Modern Elder Academy (MEA), mid-life wisdom school.What is long-life learning? The unexpected pleasures of aging.Focussing on "great longevity" and a spiritual diet. Upgrading the human operating system - moving from reverence to relevance as a "modern elder." Launching the MEA - a regenerative community - a 21st century version of a retirement community. Taking the less traveling path in life. Having regrets or no regrets in life? Metabolizing and cultivating wisdom from life's experiences.Acknowledging and challenging "new year resistances" fears and old habits. Role models for a living a very long life. Embracing curiosity as tool to live a long life. The Live Long and Master Aging (LLAMA) podcast is a HealthSpan Media LLC production. LLAMA shares ideas but does not offer medical advice. If you have health concerns of any kind, or you are considering adopting a new diet or exercise regime, you should consult your doctor.

The Gospel: John 1:6-8; 19-28

On this episode of "Death in The Garden," Jake and Maren go into detail about why they were so inspired to do this multimedia project. Jake talks about his multi-year experiment with his diet to achieve optimum “human health, planetary health, animal welfare, and a sense of spirituality”, which lead him to a raw vegan diet, where he discovered that veganism was an easy, false answer to the incredibly complex problem of climate change. Maren describes her journey with these things as well, differentiating between the apathy of misery and empathy of grief: and how important it is to truly experience grief to heal ourselves so we can heal the planet. Please rate, review, and subscribe! Visit our website and Instagram for more information about the project.   Music: Daniel Osterstock Editing: Jake Marquez 

EXHALE…2020 is a global gut-punch … add the 2020 Presidential debates and election to it, and as news anchor, Jake Trapper so eloquently put it, “That was a hot mess, inside dumpster fire, inside a train wreck.” However you voted last week, this week is about the EXHALE. Some of us are celebrating, some of us are somber. Wherever you land this week this episode is FOR YOU. Exhale with us.Yoga trauma specialist (and one of my closest friends) Dana Brechtel takes us on a journey. In this episode we don’t just talk about spiritual groundedness, we get to experience it together. Dana’s voice of peace walks us through a guided meditation (which you can also do in motion while walking, jogging, or driving), offering us the chance to metabolize the stress and emotions of the last few months. Come experience the desert with us in this profound and pivotal episode.“The Body Keeps the Score” - emotions live inside your body, and if you do not metabolize them they will metastasize creating toxicity. Let’s exhale. Let’s focus on connection. Let’s get grounded...TOGETHER.A full list of RESOURCES used in this episode can be found on our website. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/preview/7914a4f7860a4376adacf88925a49433)

Kelly Hall Cunningham is an author of “When God Says No” a book about her journey through childhood trauma and many of her life challenges. From a young age she had a sense of guidance that held her every step of the way. In this episode she shares, her love and trust in her mother and siblings that supported her. Listen to what she did to repair her broken inner childhood wounds, so she could be the mother she is today by helping others empower themselves. Kelly Hall Cunningham email whoamibecomingtoday@gmail.com

As a breastfeeding mother, have you ever wondered about medications?Have you ever been told that you cannot take a specific medication?Did you ever suffer with pain or illness because someone who is NOT a lactation consultant told you not to take a medication?If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you should be listening to this episode.If you are a new listener, we would love to hear from you. Please consider leaving us a review on itunes or sending us an email with your suggestions and comments to badassbreastfeedingpodcast@gmail.comThings we talked about:Medications and breastfeedingBenefits of meds vs the risks of not taking it [8:20]Where do we get the info? Or better yet, where shouldn’t we get info? [10:00]What drugs are a concern? [10:23]Drugs you can take when pregnant [11:38]Variables (because you know there are some) [14:41] ~Metabolizing ~Breastfeeding frequency ~Dosage ~Half life ~AgeTip of the Week! From Ashley Joy Dosier on Facebook [21:45]Dianne’s medication soapbox [23:11] ~Not referring ~Stopping breastfeedingAbby’s ridiculous ear infection story [26:54]Is your doctor your boss? [30:15]Self advocacy [31:54]This episode is sponsored by Fairhaven Health and MilkiesSome other episodes you should check out or we mentioned in this episodehttps://badassbreastfeedingpodcast.com/episode/052-postpartum-mood-disorders/https://badassbreastfeedingpodcast.com/episode/103-post-weaning-depression/https://badassbreastfeedingpodcast.com/episode/026-misinformation-from-medical-professionals/Resources for medications:LactmedInfantrisk.comMedications and Mothers Milk - Thomas HaleFollow our Podcast~https://badassbreastfeedingpodcast.comHere is how you can connect with Dianne and Abby~Abby Theuring https://www.thebadassbreastfeeder.comDianne Cassidy http://www.diannecassidyconsulting.comMusic we use~Music: "Levels of Greatness" from "We Used to Paint Stars in the Sky (2012)" courtesy of Scott Holmes at freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott Holmes

Caroline hosts Stephen Kinzer, author of crucial “All the Shah's Men – an American Coup & the Roots of M.E Terror (with a “new” preface, written in 2008! “The Folly of Attacking Iran.”) – and his latest book “Poisoner in Chief, Sydney Gottlieb & the CIA Search for Mind Control.” CIA inspired by poisoner Empress Agrippa (2000 years ago-used mushrooms) to the attempt to use “Magic Mushrooms” as weapon, assassination of Ukrainian diplomat, “Manchurain Candidate”, Svengali, Mesmerism, “Cabinet of Dr Caligari”, “Gaslight” – CIA's secret dedication to mass mind control…Study up – everyone! http://stephenkinzer.com/   Stephen Kinzer Visionary Activist archive: March 15, 2018 Show Liberating Lucidity March 13, 2008 Show Where there is Mars – Let there be Venus!   Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – Metabolizing Poison into Nutrient for Democracy appeared first on KPFA.

"Consistency honestly, is everything. It's absolutely everything." -Tommy Rivers Puzey The goal was to be a professional triathlete. After accidentally qualifying for the World Championships in Kailua-Kona, he assumed a path to Ironman greatness and believed that he would return to the island year after year. The plan felt pretty perfect and would allow more time to be with his wife and young children then his previous track to attend medical school. Yet, there was a quintessential piece that he was not honest with, and as his body continued to ask him to listen, he continued to ignore its callings. Over time this caught up to him, and his body eventually hit its limit. Tommy sustained a broken leg, and with no Plan B, this may have seemed like the worst thing possible at the time. In reality, it led to his most significant discoveries. Forced to be gentle with his body and patient in his healing, he reignited his academic career and literally walked into the next phase of his journey. After his long day of training in the Grand Canyon, we caught up with Tommy for a meaningful conversation in his hometown of Flagstaff, AZ. If you know Tommy, then you won't be surprised that this conversation runs deep. He shares with us how he metabolizes emotion and the hard lessons he learned from going hard as well as his aspirations to be on the starting line in Atlanta this coming February for the Olympic Marathon Trials. We cover a variety of potent topics for those who desire to be their fittest and fastest yet, including an explanation of the stress, rest, adapt cycle as we have never heard it before on this show. There is no sexy recipe to success and perhaps hearing it from one of the most versatile runners in the field may fall resonate on new ears. Thank you so much for your support of the show and be sure to head over to patreon.com/yogitriathlete and check out the 100+ exclusives for YT patrons. We are grateful to you all, we are grateful to Tommy, and we are grateful for this medium to further our collective mission to create a better world. Namaste - Jess

Follow us down the Digestive pathway as we cover the basic principles of Digestion, Metabolizing and Absorption of Foods. What are Enzymes? Probiotics? Basic tips to improve digestion today!!! From the Oral Cavity to the porcelain throne...join Adam and Sam on Episode 001, the show that started it all... Introduction: 0:01 Highlights of episode 1: 1:20 Greeting: 2:44 Fun facts: 11:07 Segment 1: 15:15 Segment 2: 21:00 Segment 3: 26:30 Closing statement: 37:38 Ep#2 sneak peak: 40:30

A spiritual atheist? An award-winning author, thought leader, and professional speaker got me a little bit curious if such a person could be real, so I invited him on to the show to tell me more. DOWNLOAD RAISE YOUR FREQUENCY MEDITATION NOW! Nick Jankel is an elite scientist and medic turned keynote speaker and writer. He's spoken for audiences at Lego, Google, Kellogg's, Smucker's, and Fujitsu, to name a few. He now teaches others how to transform themselves, by creating lasting, sustainable, and positive change. He's also the author of Spiritual Atheist: A Quest to Unite Science and Wisdom into a Radical Life Philosophy. In his book, Nick shares the story of his spiritual transformation on the quest for happiness. In this episode of The Soul Frequency podcast, I pick Nick's brain a little bit about what he calls the ‘balance between humility and hubris' and finding release through ecstatic experiences. Ready to listen? Hit that play button! In This Podcast Episode... Finding peace in a modern world of rapid change Balancing science and spirituality Nick's latest book Spiritual Atheist Coming from a religious upbringing to becoming a non-religious spiritual thought leader Metabolizing life experiences . Resources for you: Visit Nick's website SwitchOnNow.com – click “inspiration” for free things to help you on your spiritual journey. Buy Nick's book Spiritual Atheist Join us at The Soul Frequency Experience in September Order The Soul Frequency by Shanna Lee at TheSoulFrequency.com/Book, and get your book bonus gifts at TheSoulFrequencyBook.com. Join The Soul Frequency VIP Tribe on Facebook. LISTEN TO MORE SOUL FREQUENCY SHOWS! Send me your questions and show topic requests to info@thesoulfrequency.com.  Follow me on Facebook and on Instagram. WANT TO SHARE THE SHOW? –  share this show through iTunes and many other podcast directories. WANT TO LEAVE US A REVIEW? – leave us a review in iTunes!  I would love to hear from you!! As always, my hope for you is that you love big and live abundantly! xo

This week we sat down and chatted with Dr. Kay Durairaj, a top plastic surgeon from Los Angeles. Dr. Kay is a board certified Facial Plastic Surgeon and Reconstructive Surgery and American Board of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. She is a member of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and voted one of the top 100 injectors in the world by her peers. On this episode we chat about finding the right injector for you, the difference between botox, dysport and xeomin, everything about lip fillers, how to get Kim K's perky dimple free butt, permanently destroying fat with Kybella and so much more. • Connect with Dr. Kay: https://www.beautybydrkay.com/ • Listen to Beauty Bytes by Dr. Kay: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beauty-bytes-with-dr-kay-secrets-of-a-plastic-surgeon/id1454587266?mt=2 • Connect with Dr. Kay on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beautybydrkay/ • Follow along with @tglpodcast on Instagram: www.instagram.com/tglpodcast/ • Get social using #tgltuesdays • Don't forget to stalk your hosts: @kgrace01 and @positivelyposie

  Hello, my fierce Lionesses! I am excited to share the divine chat I share with Tara-Nicholle Nelson, CEO of SoulTour. Our conversation on how to metabolize 2018 and set yourself up for a magnificent 2019 was one of my favorites of the year.  This “Mini Master Class” includes... The post Metabolizing 2018 + Transitioning into 2019 with Tara-Nicholle Nelson appeared first on Debra Trappen.

Did you know that your tongue gives clues about issues going on with your organ health? Vitamin B12 is Vital for many functions throughout your body. B12 is required for Metabolizing Folate Digestion and Metabolizing fat and carbs Formation of Red Blood Cells Iron Absorption Proper Blood Circulation Reproductive Health Nervous System Function Regulation and coordination of cell growth Lab Panel mentioned in this episode: https://www.ultalabtests.com/greenwisdomhealth/Shop/Items/Item/GWH-8-Cardiac-Profile-Plus-w-Consult?q=Mg%3D%3D   Product mentioned in this episode: https://www.greenwisdomhealth.com/product/methyl-cpg-60-ct-replaces-methyl-core/  

In this episode, Michaela Boehm and Steve James offer a live Q&A excerpt from a recent Man Unbound™ Weekend Intensive in Ojai California. Topics include: • Specific and counter-intuitive strategies to reignite the spark in a relationship • A case study of corresponding trauma patterns in a relationship • The process of learning a high-level sexual skill • Unraveling limiting patterns in the body • The difference between effortless mastery and the amateur's glass ceiling • Developmental cul-de-sacs • Poor skill instruction in tantra and the banjo • Metabolizing information through the body • Integrating ground-level change in the nervous system • Cultivating interest over efficiency • Balancing enjoyment with results • High-performance sex vs a good sex life • How do I grow in sexual practice if my partner is uninterested? • Are there practices helping me be with my partner's anger and abuse? • Why do men accept abuse in a relationship • How to deal with a partner who persistently gets triggered and aggressive • The limitations of meditation in dealing with trauma • Recommendations for dealing with accumulated trauma ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

Valentine’s Day is what it is for you this year!  Whether you are single or in a relationship, we want you to celebrate your current state of affairs!!!  There is purpose and growth living there, so trust that.   We’re celebrating with a double dose of John Wineland, a relationship coach, speaker, and teacher who leads men + women in the practices of embodied masculine leadership, spiritual intimacy, and sexual polarity.  There is a palpable integrity in John’s work--his vulnerability in exploring these questions and challenges himself make his coaching and teaching style so unique and captivating,  He is here to debunk the myth that connection and intimacy just happens.  While he outlines the specific work that needs to be done, he assures us that the process will unlock an incredible realm of possibility in your intimate relationships.   We listened to this episode a few times.  One solo, one with friends, and some of us with our partners.  Notepads out fam!  We all have something to learn here!  John discusses:   The masculine + feminine in all of us Managing every type of relationship (not just romantic ones) Why certain patterns keep coming up in our relationships Why we choose who we choose Metabolizing the energy that your partner puts out What we are taught about intimacy and why we are unable to maintain it Consciousness in a relationship Infidelity/Coping with infidelity   If you’re listening to this on February 13th, 2018 + you’re near Santa Monica, come say hello at our event! What: This One’s For The Girls - Galentine’s Day When: 2/13/18 Where: Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows - 101 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401 How: Get tickets at http://consciouscityguide.com/thisonesforthegirls   Find more to love at almost30podcast.com!   Resources: Learn more at JohnWineland.com Connect with John: Facebook | Instagram Mend - Try for FREE at letsmend.com/almost30 Branch Basics - Use code ALMOST30 for 15% off at branchbasics.com Four Sigmatic - Get 15% OFF your order at foursigmatic.com/almost30 HUM Nutrition - Use code ALMOST30 for 20% off at humnutrition.com

Let's get back to the basics of metabolism to help you figure out why you aren't losing weight and what you can do about it! I recently shared with you guys that episode 240 was one of my favorites - we were talking about how your body allows or disallows fat burning and what you can do to control this cellular & hormonal signaling. Understanding these concepts is really the key to figuring out why you aren't losing weight or why you're always hungry or why you can't get your cravings under control. After that episode, some of you shared that it went a little over your head. Since this is your show, that's not okay with me! I want every episode to be FOR YOU so we're breaking it down today to ensure that everyone understands these important basics of why you gain weight, why you aren't losing weight and what you can do about it. http://primalpotential.com/243-metabolism-101-why-you-arent-losing-weight/ Metabolism 101 - Why You Aren't Losing Weight If you want the detailed science & technical explanations, I've linked to a bunch of those episodes below in the Resources section. Or, you can check out my comprehensive course on Carbohydrate Strategies for Sustainable Fat Loss. But for today's episode, I want to simplify, perhaps even over-simplify, the process that takes place when we eat and how it addresses why you aren't losing weight. Just because you don't get immediate feedback when you eat, that doesn't mean the food you eat has no impact. Just because your jeans aren't tighter immediately after eating cookies or looser immediately after eating a salad doesn't mean the choice had no impact on your rate of fat storage or fat burning. In fact, I would argue that both choices impact fat burning & fat storage, you just don't immediately see or feel the impact. Every time you eat, a conversation begins inside your body. The fuel you consume each time you eat triggers hormones & enzymes to spring into action and consider what should be done with the fuel, if it should be burned, if it should be stored and where it should be stored. The answers depend on what you ate, how much you ate, if you needed to eat and what you've eaten in the recent past. In order to respond to & process the fuel you've consumed, your body begins by breaking it down into it's simplest parts. Without first breaking it down, it would be too large to travel through the body. Only in it's smallest parts can it get into and out of cells to be stored or used as fuel. In the case of carbohydrates (whether they are from bread, pasta, oats, cookies, crackers, potatoes or fruit), the simplest parts are small, singular sugars. The conversation in the body changes when the simple sugars hit the blood stream. Your body must respond immediately because sugar hanging out in the blood stream for too long can be toxic. Your body sends out signals "blood sugar has risen beyond a stable level! All available personnel come help clear it out" Metabolizing sugar takes priority because it is toxic. The primary responder to this blood sugar situation is the hormone insulin. You see, sugar isn't allowed to roam freely through the body. It requires a chaperone. The chaperone charged with ushering sugar out of the blood to be burned or stored is insulin. Insulin is a storage hormone. Insulin begins a conversation with the body which goes like this: "Please stop all fuel breakdown activities, including fat burning. We have a fuel excess situation and while I'm dealing with the excess, do not break down any more fuel. We are now in storage mode." This signaling from insulin stops fat burning and initiates storage mode. But that's not the only signal from insulin. As I explained in more technical terms in episode 240, when insulin is chronically elevated and running the show due to overeating or consuming too many sugars & starches, it siphons off too much fuel and shuttles it to the fat tissue. Insulin is preferential to fat storage versus muscle storage Insulin diverts fuel to the fat tissue and decreases delivery to the muscle tissue Insulin slows fat burning Insulin triggers the creation of new fat cells so there are ample storage sites available In today's episode I talk about simple changes we can make to help control insulin and spend more time in fat burning mode and less time in fat storing mode. Make sure to listen to the full episode! Resources Carb Strategies for Sustainable Fat Loss - Course Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes Carb Timing for Fat Loss Carb Spillover (And How To Stop It) Carb Tolerance Understanding Insulin Golden Rules of Carbs & Fat Loss Wanna Help? If you find the Primal Potential podcast help, it would mean the world to me if you'd take a minute to leave a rating & review! That helps show platforms display my podcast to new listeners! Thank you so much for your support! I can't tell you how valuable it is!

Mythic News-Medicine Radio Caroline hosts long-time ally, Micah Nelson, master Medicine plant alchemist (for real), as we explore toxic realities: lead in water= collapsing Empire, methane leaks, that everything is telling us its story and guiding us to healing, planetary tonics and entheogenic sacraments of kinship. www.al-qemi.com The post The Visionary Activist Show – Metabolizing Toxin into Tonic: appeared first on KPFA.

This Soulful Money conversation is certainly stirring things up. Some of us have sprung into action and are ready to explore the depths of our money story.Others have gone into contraction because they don’t see a way to make it happen right now and are feeling helpless, hopeless or angry that it’s another “not now” for them.This is all part of it, my love. There is no right or wrong to any of it.These reactions, stuck places, and energetic gremlins are in need of your attention. Not SO THAT you can pay for this course, or get money, or do something to be a better person…But because they are super painful to live with and … they aren’t even real.They are just subconscious energy signatures that have taken up residence in front of your Essence. They are blocking the door to your fullest expression of your Self.It is nearly impossible to navigate them on your own.That’s why on this week's show I opened the lines to receive your inquiries and stuck places.We looked at the places where we are not in flow with our exchange with life and healed the tender parts that were ready to become Whole.Here are a few highlights: 8:50 Exchanging with life through Your Soul Medicine Path 20:45 Stepping into the Driver's Seat - possibility and movement 24:00 A Fierce Message from Source Medicine from our Listeners: 28:28 Katy - I haven't gotten paid...what do I do? Our subconscious participation in lack Taking up space 43:03 Anastasia - Don't show up TOO much in your own power Fear of my own power Metabolizing the exchange with lifeI am on fire for deepening this conversation and serving your liberation into abundantly Being all of You.Join me as we open some doors to freedom.

This Soulful Money conversation is certainly stirring things up. Some of us have sprung into action and are ready to explore the depths of our money story.Others have gone into contraction because they don’t see a way to make it happen right now and are feeling helpless, hopeless or angry that it’s another “not now” for them.This is all part of it, my love. There is no right or wrong to any of it.These reactions, stuck places, and energetic gremlins are in need of your attention. Not SO THAT you can pay for this course, or get money, or do something to be a better person…But because they are super painful to live with and … they aren’t even real.They are just subconscious energy signatures that have taken up residence in front of your Essence. They are blocking the door to your fullest expression of your Self.It is nearly impossible to navigate them on your own.That’s why on this week's show I opened the lines to receive your inquiries and stuck places.We looked at the places where we are not in flow with our exchange with life and healed the tender parts that were ready to become Whole.Here are a few highlights: 8:50 Exchanging with life through Your Soul Medicine Path 20:45 Stepping into the Driver's Seat - possibility and movement 24:00 A Fierce Message from Source Medicine from our Listeners: 28:28 Katy - I haven't gotten paid...what do I do? Our subconscious participation in lack Taking up space 43:03 Anastasia - Don't show up TOO much in your own power Fear of my own power Metabolizing the exchange with lifeI am on fire for deepening this conversation and serving your liberation into abundantly Being all of You.Join me as we open some doors to freedom.

This Soulful Money conversation is certainly stirring things up. Some of us have sprung into action and are ready to explore the depths of our money story. Others have gone into contraction because they don’t see a way to make it happen right now and are feeling helpless, hopeless or angry that it’s another “not now” for them. This is all part of it, my love. There is no right or wrong to any of it. These reactions, stuck places, and energetic gremlins are in need of your attention. Not SO THAT you can pay for this course, or get money, or do something to be a better person… But because they are super painful to live with and … they aren’t even real. They are just subconscious energy signatures that have taken up residence in front of your Essence. They are blocking the door to your fullest expression of your Self. It is nearly impossible to navigate them on your own. That’s why on this week's show I opened the lines to receive your inquiries and stuck places. We looked at the places where we are not in flow with our exchange with life and healed the tender parts that were ready to become Whole. Here are a few highlights: 8:50 Exchanging with life through Your Soul Medicine Path 20:45 Stepping into the Driver's Seat - possibility and movement 24:00 A Fierce Message from Source Medicine from our Listeners: 28:28 Katy - I haven't gotten paid...what do I do? Our subconscious participation in lack Taking up space 43:03 Anastasia - Don't show up TOO much in your own power Fear of my own power Metabolizing the exchange with life I am on fire for deepening this conversation and serving your liberation into abundantly Being all of You. Join me as we open some doors to freedom.

This Soulful Money conversation is certainly stirring things up. Some of us have sprung into action and are ready to explore the depths of our money story.Others have gone into contraction because they don’t see a way to make it happen right now and are feeling helpless, hopeless or angry that it’s another “not now” for them.This is all part of it, my love. There is no right or wrong to any of it.These reactions, stuck places, and energetic gremlins are in need of your attention. Not SO THAT you can pay for this course, or get money, or do something to be a better person…But because they are super painful to live with and … they aren’t even real.They are just subconscious energy signatures that have taken up residence in front of your Essence. They are blocking the door to your fullest expression of your Self.It is nearly impossible to navigate them on your own.That’s why on this week's show I opened the lines to receive your inquiries and stuck places.We looked at the places where we are not in flow with our exchange with life and healed the tender parts that were ready to become Whole.Here are a few highlights: 8:50 Exchanging with life through Your Soul Medicine Path 20:45 Stepping into the Driver's Seat - possibility and movement 24:00 A Fierce Message from Source Medicine from our Listeners: 28:28 Katy - I haven't gotten paid...what do I do? Our subconscious participation in lack Taking up space 43:03 Anastasia - Don't show up TOO much in your own power Fear of my own power Metabolizing the exchange with lifeI am on fire for deepening this conversation and serving your liberation into abundantly Being all of You.Join me as we open some doors to freedom.

I meet you today from a space of potent creation and aliveness. I am in the midst of birthing a revolutionary, new paradigm experience for some of the biggest leaders of our time; I am preparing my home for a powerful weekend intensive with several of my private clients in a few weeks; I am visioning into the unveiling of my flagstone course, Magik School - in a couple of months; remodeling my guest house to create a healing and creation space for myself, my friends and clients; and preparing for a multitude of mama tasks like supporting my daughter as she shows her horse at the county fair next week, preparing for the start of school, and embracing my role as a soccer mom of two highly active kids.It's a full life.Part of my Soul Medicine Path is to call in a lot of activity. My lessons are around METABOLIZING that activity.It's not always a graceful dance, but I am learning so much.A while back during a kitchen table talk with my shaman, I was inquiring about the nature of Essence and Will within our creative capabilities. I was deeply studying my relationship with surrender and felt torn between constantly letting go into Essence, and wondering how anything would actually get done in that space.I've always had a very powerful Will and I was under the mistaken assumption that I somehow needed to tame my will in order to create more effortlessly. Yet, I knew the strength of my will was somehow a gift - I just couldn't figure out how it all fit together.As the wisdom flowed between my shaman and me, this diagram emerged on a dinner napkin and the lightbulb turned on for me.Yes - there is a dance between Essence and Will and ... there is a third ingredient that actually breathes life into the creation and allows it to fully materialize. It is the ingredient that nearly ALL of us overlook - especially when we are busy, blocked, or otherwise unconscious to what we are calling in. I don't hear many people talk about it.On the show this week, I shared that key ingredient and how to energetically open to it within your own system so that you can accelerate your ability to manifest and start actually materializing those things on your vision board.This one was a game changer. Here are a few highlights: 11:11 The 3 Pillars of Manifesting: Will, Esssence, (listen in!) 24:35 Energy Exercise: The secret way to supercharge your feminine manifesting abilities 36:29 LOVING what we want into existence 43:44 Caller Medicine - "I don't have enough energy to focus on everything." 56:04 Reverting back to old habits 63:08 Energy Exercise: Waking up our wombsThere is some potent magic here you'll want to add to your library to listen to and practice again and again.Here's to your effortless and joyful manifestations.

I meet you today from a space of potent creation and aliveness. I am in the midst of birthing a revolutionary, new paradigm experience for some of the biggest leaders of our time; I am preparing my home for a powerful weekend intensive with several of my private clients in a few weeks; I am visioning into the unveiling of my flagstone course, Magik School - in a couple of months; remodeling my guest house to create a healing and creation space for myself, my friends and clients; and preparing for a multitude of mama tasks like supporting my daughter as she shows her horse at the county fair next week, preparing for the start of school, and embracing my role as a soccer mom of two highly active kids. It's a full life. Part of my Soul Medicine Path is to call in a lot of activity. My lessons are around METABOLIZING that activity. It's not always a graceful dance, but I am learning so much. A while back during a kitchen table talk with my shaman, I was inquiring about the nature of Essence and Will within our creative capabilities. I was deeply studying my relationship with surrender and felt torn between constantly letting go into Essence, and wondering how anything would actually get done in that space. I've always had a very powerful Will and I was under the mistaken assumption that I somehow needed to tame my will in order to create more effortlessly. Yet, I knew the strength of my will was somehow a gift - I just couldn't figure out how it all fit together. As the wisdom flowed between my shaman and me, this diagram emerged on a dinner napkin and the lightbulb turned on for me. Yes - there is a dance between Essence and Will and ... there is a third ingredient that actually breathes life into the creation and allows it to fully materialize. It is the ingredient that nearly ALL of us overlook - especially when we are busy, blocked, or otherwise unconscious to what we are calling in. I don't hear many people talk about it. On the show this week, I shared that key ingredient and how to energetically open to it within your own system so that you can accelerate your ability to manifest and start actually materializing those things on your vision board. This one was a game changer. Here are a few highlights: 11:11 The 3 Pillars of Manifesting: Will, Esssence, (listen in!) 24:35 Energy Exercise: The secret way to supercharge your feminine manifesting abilities 36:29 LOVING what we want into existence 43:44 Caller Medicine - "I don't have enough energy to focus on everything." 56:04 Reverting back to old habits 63:08 Energy Exercise: Waking up our wombs There is some potent magic here you'll want to add to your library to listen to and practice again and again. Here's to your effortless and joyful manifestations.

I meet you today from a space of potent creation and aliveness. I am in the midst of birthing a revolutionary, new paradigm experience for some of the biggest leaders of our time; I am preparing my home for a powerful weekend intensive with several of my private clients in a few weeks; I am visioning into the unveiling of my flagstone course, Magik School - in a couple of months; remodeling my guest house to create a healing and creation space for myself, my friends and clients; and preparing for a multitude of mama tasks like supporting my daughter as she shows her horse at the county fair next week, preparing for the start of school, and embracing my role as a soccer mom of two highly active kids.It's a full life.Part of my Soul Medicine Path is to call in a lot of activity. My lessons are around METABOLIZING that activity.It's not always a graceful dance, but I am learning so much.A while back during a kitchen table talk with my shaman, I was inquiring about the nature of Essence and Will within our creative capabilities. I was deeply studying my relationship with surrender and felt torn between constantly letting go into Essence, and wondering how anything would actually get done in that space.I've always had a very powerful Will and I was under the mistaken assumption that I somehow needed to tame my will in order to create more effortlessly. Yet, I knew the strength of my will was somehow a gift - I just couldn't figure out how it all fit together.As the wisdom flowed between my shaman and me, this diagram emerged on a dinner napkin and the lightbulb turned on for me.Yes - there is a dance between Essence and Will and ... there is a third ingredient that actually breathes life into the creation and allows it to fully materialize. It is the ingredient that nearly ALL of us overlook - especially when we are busy, blocked, or otherwise unconscious to what we are calling in. I don't hear many people talk about it.On the show this week, I shared that key ingredient and how to energetically open to it within your own system so that you can accelerate your ability to manifest and start actually materializing those things on your vision board.This one was a game changer. Here are a few highlights: 11:11 The 3 Pillars of Manifesting: Will, Esssence, (listen in!) 24:35 Energy Exercise: The secret way to supercharge your feminine manifesting abilities 36:29 LOVING what we want into existence 43:44 Caller Medicine - "I don't have enough energy to focus on everything." 56:04 Reverting back to old habits 63:08 Energy Exercise: Waking up our wombsThere is some potent magic here you'll want to add to your library to listen to and practice again and again.Here's to your effortless and joyful manifestations.

I meet you today from a space of potent creation and aliveness. I am in the midst of birthing a revolutionary, new paradigm experience for some of the biggest leaders of our time; I am preparing my home for a powerful weekend intensive with several of my private clients in a few weeks; I am visioning into the unveiling of my flagstone course, Magik School - in a couple of months; remodeling my guest house to create a healing and creation space for myself, my friends and clients; and preparing for a multitude of mama tasks like supporting my daughter as she shows her horse at the county fair next week, preparing for the start of school, and embracing my role as a soccer mom of two highly active kids.It's a full life.Part of my Soul Medicine Path is to call in a lot of activity. My lessons are around METABOLIZING that activity.It's not always a graceful dance, but I am learning so much.A while back during a kitchen table talk with my shaman, I was inquiring about the nature of Essence and Will within our creative capabilities. I was deeply studying my relationship with surrender and felt torn between constantly letting go into Essence, and wondering how anything would actually get done in that space.I've always had a very powerful Will and I was under the mistaken assumption that I somehow needed to tame my will in order to create more effortlessly. Yet, I knew the strength of my will was somehow a gift - I just couldn't figure out how it all fit together.As the wisdom flowed between my shaman and me, this diagram emerged on a dinner napkin and the lightbulb turned on for me.Yes - there is a dance between Essence and Will and ... there is a third ingredient that actually breathes life into the creation and allows it to fully materialize. It is the ingredient that nearly ALL of us overlook - especially when we are busy, blocked, or otherwise unconscious to what we are calling in. I don't hear many people talk about it.On the show this week, I shared that key ingredient and how to energetically open to it within your own system so that you can accelerate your ability to manifest and start actually materializing those things on your vision board.This one was a game changer. Here are a few highlights: 11:11 The 3 Pillars of Manifesting: Will, Esssence, (listen in!) 24:35 Energy Exercise: The secret way to supercharge your feminine manifesting abilities 36:29 LOVING what we want into existence 43:44 Caller Medicine - "I don't have enough energy to focus on everything." 56:04 Reverting back to old habits 63:08 Energy Exercise: Waking up our wombsThere is some potent magic here you'll want to add to your library to listen to and practice again and again.Here's to your effortless and joyful manifestations.

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