Women In-Depth: Conversations about the Inner Lives of Women

143: Daughters of Critical Mothers May 05, 2022

“The areas that we struggle with the most, where we feel maybe we’re the hardest on ourselves, or the most stuck… these are actually potentials for really building a strong foundation with your recovery.” [20:47]

In this episode of Women In-Depth, Lourdes speaks with Mari Grande about the Mother Wound and the impact of trauma on Daughters of Critical Mothers. By addressing this trauma clients can break the cycle and turn inward to heal and be soothed.

Mari speaks about the trauma that Daughters of Critical Mothers experience and the ways in which clients and therapists can recognize and begin to address the trauma of the Mother Wound. Listen as Lourdes and Mari discuss the various ways that this trauma can impact women; and how Mari and other therapists work to help their clients to heal.

In this episode you will learn:

Mari’s inspiration for working with Daughters of Critical Mothers and the Mother Wound [4:30]
What makes clients who are Daughters of Critical Mothers unique from other clients with trauma [8:40]
Indicators that a woman has had a disruptive relationship with her mother [14:10]
Considerations for therapists who work with Daughters of Critical Mothers [21:35]
Mari’s words of wisdom for Daughters of Critical Mothers [29:01]
The numerous resources Mari offers [30:00]

Mari Grande is a New York-based Creative Arts Therapist, Clinical Social Worker, Thought Leader, Educator, and Coach. With over 20 years of experience, Mari works with clients to creatively heal their trauma, with particular attention to the Mother Wound. She uses a multi-modal approach incorporating art therapy, guided meditation, and somatic therapy in her practice. Mari has developed many resources, such as courses and modules, to help both men and women to heal from trauma.

Resources:

Mari’s therapy website: https://marigrande.com/; Mari is licensed in New York, New Jersey, Florida, and California.

Mari’s website for courses, programs, modules, and many more resources: https://www.creativehealingintegration.com/

And coming soon, a support group for clinicians who work with Daughters of Critical Mothers. Click here to learn more!

Related Women In-Depth Episodes:

Episode 21: Healing the Mother Wound with Bethany Webster

Episode 128: Healing the Mother Wound: A Foundation for a Better World

142: HSPs & Complex Trauma Series: What is Dissociation? Jun 30, 2021

“[Dissociation] can happen with anything that is overwhelming or intense and I think it is important, especially to those who are highly sensitive, to be aware of because it’s not just perceived danger or a lot of anxiety or stress. It can be something very positive that you actually want.” [9:20]

In this episode of Women In-Depth, Lourdes Viado and Carmen Schmidt Benedetti continue their podcast series on Complex Trauma and Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs). Today’s episode explores the coping mechanism of dissociation, diving into what it is, what causes it, and potentially how to avoid and combat dissociation.

Dissociation is a common coping mechanism for many people, but can be harmful for people who are HSPs and have experienced complex trauma in their lives. Listen as Lourdes and Carmen shed light on the signs of dissociation and possible tools to help keep you present.

In this episode you will learn:

What is dissociation? [3:33]
Why do we experience dissociation? [4:30]
Biological responses that cause dissociation. [9:50]
The continuum of dissociation. [11:35]

How to distinguish between dissociation and anxiety, stress, or overwhelm. [17:15]
Ways to cope with and respond to dissociation. [28:22]

Dr. Lourdes Viado is a psychotherapist for anxious and overwhelmed highly sensitive women in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is a Myers-Briggs Typology Indicator (MBTI) Certified Practitioner and integrates Jungian psychology, mindfulness, neuroscience, and astrology into her work with clients. She is also the host of the Women In-Depth Podcast: Conversations about the Inner Lives of Women, which has been downloaded over 450,000x in 107 countries.

Carmen Schmidt Benedetti is a psychotherapist for highly sensitive womxn in Sonoma County, California. She helps them to heal layers of unrecognized childhood trauma and create calm, balance and stability in their life. As a Certified EMDR therapist, Carmen guides adults in reframing their past from an empowered perspective, coming to believe they are ‘good enough’ and their needs and feelings matter

Resources:

Lourdes’ website: https://lourdesviado.com/

Carmen’s website: https://carmenschmidtmft.com/

Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

141: Rediscovering Your Body with Tara Galeano, LPC Jun 14, 2021

“The body never lies and that is the truth.”

In this episode of Women In-Depth, Lourdes Viado speaks with Tara Galeano about the journey of women rediscovering and reconnecting with their bodies. By building a more solid relationship with themselves, women are able to improve the quality of their relationship with others.

Tara focuses not only on sex, but the universal reconnection of women to their bodies, who have so often experienced a disconnection in many ways. Listen as Lourdes and Tara discuss how true intimacy with oneself and, to a degree, selfishness allows women to have more agency over themselves and their bodies.

In this episode you will learn:

Tara’s inspiration for her book [4:42]

What is “true intimacy” [14]
The initial steps in the journey of discovering your body [24]
How trauma is addressed in rediscovering and reconnecting to the body [27:40]
Tara’s words of wisdom [33:05]

Tara Galeano is a sex therapist, sexual empowerment coach, and author of Rediscovering My Body. Tara has been working for over 20 years helping women get their sexy back. From her own experiences and years of professional knowledge, Tara aids women in reconnecting with their bodies and selves as well as reclaiming their own sexuality.

Resources:

Tara’s book Rediscovering My Body is available wherever books are sold.

Tara’s website: rediscoveringmybody.com

9 Week Masterclass, June 15th-August 17th, 2021: For women who want to reconnect to themselves sexually, intimately, and completely but want to space it out over a few weeks. https://rediscoveringmybody.mykajabi.com/rediscovering-my-body-a-9-week-virtual-masterclass

3 Day Virtual Retreat on June 18-20, 2021 A journey to reconnect with yourself and your partner intimately and completely. https://rediscoveringmybody.mykajabi.com/rediscovering-my-body-3%20Day-Virtual-Couples-Solstice-Retreat

140: Somatic Approaches: Self-Regulation for Mind-Body Well-Being May 26, 2021

“A large part of the work of The Mind-Body Stress Reset is coming to understand how important those sensations that run through your body are - coming to value them. I think we are a culture that overvalues our thinking-self and undervalues our feeling-self.” [51:10]

In this episode, Dr. Lourdes Viado speaks with Rebekkah LaDyne about mind-body somatic approaches. Rebekkah discusses how and why exercising and teaching your body ways to respond to anxiety, stress, and trauma are effective tools for your mind-body well-being.

Listen as Rebekkah emphasizes the importance of the feeling-self and the body as tools for self-regulation for individuals who are not benefiting from practices solely focusing on the thinking-self and the mind.

In this episode you will learn:

Rebekkah LaDyne’s personal and professional inspiration for her book. [3:04]
How the amygdala, mid frontal cortex, and prefrontal cortex function in times of extreme stress, anxiety, and trauma. [11:30]
What a somatic approach is. [22:47]
Different approaches to self-regulation using both mind and body approaches. [27:40]
How to recognize when certain approaches to stress and trauma are unhelpful. [39:20]
What the window of tolerance is and how it can inform which type of therapeutic approach is best suited for you. [46:42]

Rebekkah LaDyne, MS, SEP, is a practicing Somatic Therapist and Researcher and author of The Mind-Body Stress Reset: Somatic Practices to Reduce Overwhelm and Increase Well-Being. Focusing on trauma and dysregulation, Rebecca’s work has centered on wellness of the mind-body in the face of anxiety, stress, as well as overwhelm and development trauma. She earned her Master’s degree from Saybrook University in Mind-Body Medicine and practices mind-body well-being and wellness with the integration of somatic approaches.

Resources:

Rebekkah’s website: www.rebekkahladyne.com or http://www.thismindfullife.info/

The Mind-Body Stress Reset: Somatic Practices to Reduce Overwhelm and Increase Well-Being by Rebekkah LaDyne is available anywhere books are sold.

139: Harnessing the Unique Strengths of Women's Brains May 05, 2021

This episode of Women In-Depth features Dr. Tracy Packiam Alloway, an award-winning psychologist who has conducted extensive research on memory and the brain. In this conversation Dr. Alloway discusses her recent book “Think Like a Girl: 10 Unique Strengths of a Woman’s Brain and How to Make Them Work for You.”

Dr. Alloway has authored 15 books and over 100 scientific articles and has been featured on BBC, Good Morning America, the Today Show, Forbes, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and many others. She’s also a consultant for documentaries, ABC/NBC and the CW affiliates, AMC TV, and the World Bank.

Topics discussed in this episode:

Some myths about women’s brains (4:26)
How women make decisions under stress (7:07)
How sticking your hand in a bucket of ice can help you make a less emotional decision (8:38)
The surprising research about the lies women tell (11:10)
How the women’s way of thinking is a creative superpower (15:18)

Resources:

Tracy’s website: https://www.tracyalloway.com/

Tracy’s book “Think Like a Girl”: https://www.zondervan.com/p/think-like-a-girl/#purchasenow

138: HSPs:  Healing from Toxic & Abusive Relationships with Arianna Smith, LPC Apr 21, 2021

This episode of Women In-Depth features Arianna Smith, EMDR Clinician and Licensed Professional Counselor. She helps Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs) and LGBTQ individuals process childhood trauma, recover from abusive relationships, and release the cycle of constant people pleasing.  Based out of Denver, Colorado, Arianna is a psychotherapist by day and copywriter by night and she supports fellow healers to craft the right words that showcase their passion, personality and expertise so they can have a practice filled with dream clients. 

Topics discussed in this episode: 

Differentiating between an abusive and toxic relationship (5:13)
Common experiences for those in abusive or toxic relationships (16:08)
How prior trauma can make someone more vulnerable to an abusive or toxic relationship (25:54)
“Trauma glasses” and their impact on those who have gotten out of a abusive or toxic relationship (27:38)
The importance of compassion and healing for those who grew up with abuse or trauma (29:35)
The intersection between HSPs and abusive or toxic relationships (32:47)
DOES:: Depth of processing, Overstimulation or Overwhelm, Emotional reactivity or Empathy, Sensing of Subtleties (34:04)
The hope and recovery on the other side of an abusive or toxic relationship (44:14) 
The importance of safety, support, and education for those in abusive or toxic relationships (46:30)

Resources:

Arianna’s website: https://quietmooncounseling.com/ 

National Hotline for Domestic Violence 

telephone: 1.800.799.7233

website:  https://www.thehotline.org/ 

The Relationship Bill of Rights: https://www.morethantwo.com/relationshipbillofrights.html

137: Dream Journey to the Divine Feminine Mar 31, 2021

This episode of Women In-Depth features Dr. Pearl Gregor. Pearl began studying dreams in 1988. By 2015, widowed, retired, and having finished her doctorate, she created her website: www.dreamsalongtheway.com. In December 2018, she published “I, the Woman, Planted the Tree: A Journey through Dreams to the Feminine,” followed by two more books and a memoir.

Topics discussed in this episode:

What is the search for the divine feminine? (3:15)
The Myth of Inanna (5:09)
How Pearl’s journey in and out of depression brought her to dreamwork (12:34)
How working with myth & archetype helps anchor you (14:38)
The work of relearning to hear our inner voice (17:34)
How the word “feminine” has been distorted (19:52)
Jung’s process for individuation (28:23)
Benefits of dreamwork for those in therapy (30:08)
Nightmares are an unexamined letter from the self (40:05)

Resources:

Pearl’s website: https://dreamsalongtheway.com/author/pearl/

Pearl’s books: https://dreamsalongtheway.com/books/

Carol Crist’s website: https://www.goddessariadne.org/

Daniel Kalsched’s website: https://www.donaldkalsched.com/

136: Depression & the Highly Sensitive Person Mar 11, 2021

This episode of Women In-Depth features Bronwyn Shiffer, LCSW, a psychotherapist from Madison, Wisconsin who works with highly sensitive women struggling with depression. Bronwyn supports women who want to feel more strong, connected and comfortable in their own skin. She has a Masters of Social Work from Smith College School for Social Work and believes that personal transformation is what heals the world.

Topics discussed in this episode:

What it means to be highly sensitive (2:03)
How Bronwyn was drawn to working with highly sensitive women (5:52)
How depression can mirror the experiences of a highly sensitive person (HSP) (6:52)
The importance and value in creating space for grief and depression (8:55)
What is depression and how it shows up for HSPs (9:23)
The characteristics specific to the HSP brain and their impact on HSPs (15:25)
How HSPs feel deeply the full range of emotions and the experience of being human (16:47)
The challenges of an HSP in discerning and disentangling from other’s emotions (17:52)
The differences in an HSP’s experience of recovering and healing from depression (18:55)
The importance of seeking out an HSP-informed therapist when you are a HSP (19:47)
Tips to help HSPs manage the trait (27:31)
The benefits of being an HSP (37:37)

Resources:

Bronwyn’s website: https://www.bronwynshiffertherapy.com/

Bronwyn’s blog post on how to find a therapist: https://www.bronwynshiffertherapy.com/blog/how-to-find-a-therapist

Bronwyn’s blog post on asking yourself what you need:

https://www.bronwynshiffertherapy.com/blog/self-care-needs

Dr. Elain Aron’s website: https://hsperson.com/

Donna Eden’s website: https://edenenergymedicine.com/

135: The Final 8th: Inner Selves & Getting Unstuck Feb 25, 2021

In this episode of Women In-Depth, Bridgit Dengel Gaspard, LCSW, shares why, despite preparation, resources, knowledge, and support, we sometimes fail to achieve our goals. While Bridgit specifically discusses being stuck in relation to larger life goals, her work also applies to other ways we are stuck in our lives.

She is the author of “The Final 8th: Enlist Your Inner Selves to Accomplish Your Goals,” and the founder of the New York Voice Dialogue Institute. Bridgit received her MSW from Columbia University and teaches in numerous professional settings, including the Omega Institute. She lives in New York City where she maintains a thriving private practice. You can connect with her through her website or find her on Youtube, Instagram, Facebook or Twitter.

Topics discussed in this episode:

Inner Selves and the idea of multiple ego states with competing agendas (2:54)
The Final 8th: failing inside a victory (3:29)
Developing a direct relationship with our inner selves (5:06)
How our early childhood influences our inner selves (5:35)
The gifts of our inner selves (6:08)
Using Voice Dialogue to listen and communicate with our inner selves (6:52)
How our inner selves to protect us from vulnerability (16:52)
The importance of processing grief (18:36)
Approaching our inner selves with compassion and curiosity (19:22)
Gifts of our hidden selves (23:56)
The power of the Blameography Exercise (25:03)
The challenge of the double bind or twisted loyalties (28:48)
Developing the ability to let go of a goal (30:26)
Practicing safe success (33:01)

Resources:

Bridgit’s website: http://www.bridgit-dengel-gaspard.com/

Bridgit’s book: The Final 8th: Enlist Your Inner Selves to Accomplish Your Goals

Bridgit’s free Voice Dialogue Zoom Shop on the 3rd Thursday of the month: https://www.final8th.com/

134: HSPs & Complex Trauma Series: Where Does Your Anxiety Come From? Feb 11, 2021

In this episode of Women In-Depth, Lourdes Viado & Carmen Schmidt Benedetti continue their podcast series on Complex Trauma and Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs). Today they discuss where our anxiety comes from and why it matters.

Dr. Lourdes Viado is a psychotherapist for anxious and overwhelmed highly sensitive women in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is a Myers-Briggs Typology Indicator (MBTI) Certified Practitioner and integrates Jungian psychology, mindfulness, neuroscience, and astrology into her work with clients. She is also the host of the Women In-Depth Podcast: Conversations about the Inner Lives of Women, which has been downloaded over 350,000x in 96 countries.

Carmen Schmidt Benedetti is a psychotherapist for highly sensitive womxn in Sonoma County, California. She helps them to heal layers of unrecognized childhood trauma and create calm, balance and stability in their life. As a Certified EMDR therapist, Carmen guides adults in reframing their past from an empowered perspective, coming to believe they are ‘good enough’ and their needs and feelings matter

Topics discussed in this episode:

The relationship between anxiety and trauma and the HSP trait (1:45)
The importance of understanding the different types of anxiety and the brain in order to reduce anxiety (4:38)
Cortex-based anxiety (5:49)
Some times for reducing cortex-cased anxiety (9:23)
Amygdala-based anxiety (10:49)
Differences between amygdala-based and cortex-based anxiety (20:56)
Some tips for reducing amygdala-based anxiety (25:52)
Treating the root of anxiety versus treating the symptoms of anxiety (30:04)
How the HSP trait impacts understanding and healing from anxiety and trauma (33:14)

Resources:

Carmen’s website: https://carmenschmidtmft.com/

“Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry” is available on Amazon or your favorite independent bookseller

Related Episodes:

https://lourdesviado.com/124-complex-trauma-and-the-highly-sensitive-person/

https://lourdesviado.com/127-complex-trauma-in-the-highly-sensitive-person/

https://lourdesviado.com/132-tools-for-the-highly-sensitive-person/

133: Raising Empowered Children: Insights for the Codependent Perfectionist Parent Jan 28, 2021

In this episode of Women In-Depth, Alana Carvalho, LMHC, shares her insights on helping parents recover from patterns of codependency and perfectionism so they can raise empowered children.

Alana Carvalho is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping parents, couples and individuals build balanced relationships by releasing old patterns and becoming more authentic. She is especially passionate about helping individuals see how healing codependency and perfectionism can lead to a more joy filled life. Alana has lectured on child development at The College of Staten Island. Her first book Raising Empowered Children: The Codependent Perfectionist’s Guide to Parenting is now available on amazon.com. Alana maintains her private practice in Midtown Manhattan and is currently seeing clients virtually. You can connect with her through her website, Instagram, podcast or you can email her at alana@alanacarvalho.com

Topics discussed in this episode:

The importance of helping parents understand codependency and perfectionism (2:39)
What is codependency? (8:57)
How codependency can show up in parenting (9:34)
How someone can begin to heal from codependency (18:31)
What is perfectionism? (19:52)
How perfectionism can show up in parenting (20:30)
The double whammy of codependency and perfectionism in parenting (24:25)
The impact of little, everyday kinds of trauma (29:08)
The importance of emotional safety (35:20)
Bringing faith and spirituality into parenting (42:59)

Resources:

Alana’s website: https://www.alanacarvalho.com/

Alana’s book: Raising Empowered Children: The Codependent Perfectionist’s Guide to Parenting

Women In-Depth episodes on childhood emotional neglect (CEN)with Dr. Jonice Webb:

Childhood Emotional Neglect: The Invisible Experience

After Childhood Emotional Neglect: Healing Your Relationships with Your Partner, Children, & Parents

132: Tools for the Highly Sensitive Person with Allison Lefkowitz, LMFT Jan 06, 2021

Join me in a laughter-filled conversation with Allison Lefkowitz, author of “The Highly Sensitive Person’s Toolkit: Everyday Strategies for Thriving in an Overstimulating World,” and one of the best resources for highly sensitive individuals. Allison is a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice in New York City who specializes in working with highly sensitive people (HSPs).

Topics discussed in this episode:

What it means to be Highly Sensitive (8:18)
Areas where Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs) struggle (9:30)
How to differentiate an empath versus an HSP (10:16)
Self-Advocacy and Self Parenting: the first of the nine Core Skills for HSPs (13:26)
The Self-Advocacy and Self Parenting Skill Set (14:51)
The *5 Different Sensitive Styles (23:19)
What has surprised Allison the most in her work with HSPs (30:02)

Resources:

Allison’s website: http://almft.com/

Allison’s email: AllisonLefkowitz@icloud.com

The Highly Sensitive Person’s Toolkit: http://almft.com/highly-sensitive-persons-toolkit-book/

*Resource for the 5 different sensitive styles: Living With Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and the Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults,

edited by Susan Daniels and Michael Piechowski

131: Food As Mother: Healing Your Relationship with Food Dec 16, 2020

In this episode, Karly Randolph Pitman and I explore the parts of ourselves that tend to overeat in response to stress through the metaphor of “Food as Mother” and how this perspective can help us understand why we overeat and move towards changing this behavior.

Karly is the founder and facilitator at www.growinghumankindness. She helps highly sensitive people who struggle with shame, sugar, and perfectionism and who want to heal painful habits of self blame, self criticism, and over consuming.

Growing human(kind)ness arose from two things: Karly’s own experience with 20 years of multiple eating disorders, chronic depression, shame, and anxiety; and from bearing witness to others’ stories of challenge, growth and rebirth.

Karly lives in Austin, Texas with her husband Patrick and her family of two dogs, a very frisky cat, lots of dust bunnies, and beautiful oak trees.

Topics discussed in this episode:

How food has become a refuge during the Covid-19 pandemic (3:58)
Food and the Mother archetype (4:56)
- Food is safe, nourishing & comforting (5:16)
Food as Mother as a metaphor for our relationship with food
The significance of core needs
Overeating as soul preservation (9:17)
- Listening & connecting to the side of ourselves that is seeking solace in food (9:44)
- Moving away from thinking of overeating as the enemy (9:56)
- Tending and befriending rather than fighting (10:06)
- How this approach helped Karly move away from shame regarding her eating disorder (10:22)
- The shift in our approach to a challenging aspect of ourselves shifts our relationship to that aspect of ourself and plays a huge part in changing the behavior (11:45)
Our coping mechanisms for stress, overwhelm & trauma can be messy (12:29)
- Stand in contrast to the Western culture of controlling your own destiny (13:08)
- Can cause you to dislike your response to stress (13:31)
- - Examples:
  - - Eating when you are stressed (13:31)
    - Binge watching Netflix (13:36)
Understanding the base human need for connection (14:15)
Dr. Anita Johnston’s book “Eating by the Light of the Moon” (15:07)
- How the kinds of food we are eating reflect the kind of nourishment we are seeking
Recognizing the wisdom of the body’s desires for a particular food (16:42)
- How sugar or comfort foods can make you feel heard, understood & acknowledged (17:03)
The risk that of not being heard or understood when you ask someone for support (17:47)
- How the act of eating is used to fill the need for empathy (18:20)
- How the food reflects back what we are feeling and needing (18:45)
- How food does not carry the same risk as someone dismissing or minimizing your feelings (19:09)
- Yet food does not meet the need for connection (20:03)
- Food becomes a safe substitute for meeting your needs (20:36)
How to transition from using food for connection to finding safe connections within ourselves and others (21:27)
- Very different from breaking a habit (21:46)
- Focus moves away from changing a behavior to nurturing safety within your being and others (22:12)
- Deepening connections within yourself and the wider world (22:36)
- Food becomes one of many ways for connection rather than the primary way (22:50)
Becoming consciously aware of the part of yourself that is overeating and your internal critic (24:11)
- How Karly’s focus on self-compassion brings you into a loving and nourishing relationship with that part of yourself (24:47)
How connecting to the Mother archetype helped Karly (25:04)
- Ideas for connecting with the Mother archetype
- - Gardening, caring for pets, relationships with loved ones (25:43)
Seeing your needs as sacred (26:16)
- Befriending your neediness and healing your relationship with food are intimately connected (26:38)
- Acknowledging our needs can be shaming (26:56)
- When we have shame regarding our needs, there is no way to acknowledge them directly (27:21)
- We can use food to fill the deficit, but we continue to feel unnourished, deprived and unprotected (27:21)
- Having a different relationship with our needs often changes our relationship to receiving (27:55)
- Being a place of receiving can be very vulnerable if we’ve been shamed for our needs in the past (28:11)
- The risks in asking for help (29:43)
Karly & Lourdes’ work with Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs) (30:41)
- HSPs are more attuned to their needs and feelings (30:51)
- Can create shame in a culture that isn’t attuned to feeling or emotion (31:06)
- For HSPs, food can become a way of receiving mothering (31:30)
- Asking for your needs to be met can be risky, but it’s the way forward to receive the help and support that feeds and nourishes us (32:00)
- Suggestion for personal practice: Asking yourself and your loved ones, “What do you need?” (32:57)
- - Can make the person responding to the question feel very vulnerable (34:03)
  - Allow the person responding time to process before answering (34:29)
Some beginning steps to help someone working with overeating (36:44)
- Consider overeating as a prayer in disguise (37:07)
- - It’s a part of yourself asking for help (37:19)
  - Pause and ask yourself: What are you feeling? What are you needing? (37:48)
- Karly offers a free tool: The Binge Rescue worksheet (38:16)
- - Helps build the internal sense of holding rather than seeking it through food (38:50)
  - Connect with Karly at https://growinghumankindness.com/

Resources:

Karly Randolph Pitman’s website: https://growinghumankindness.com/

Karly’s courses: https://growinghumankindness.com/courses/

The Binge Rescue worksheet: https://growinghumankindness.com/binge-rescue/

Dr. Anita Johnston’s website: https://dranitajohnston.com/eating-in-the-light-of-the-moon/

Dr. Johnson’s previous episodes:

Episode 59: Cracking the Hunger Code Through Storytelling and Metaphor with Anita Johnston, Ph.D.

130: Music Therapy: Reclaim Your Rhythm Dec 09, 2020

In this episode, therapist and pychotherapist Maya Benattar and I talk about her intriguing work in music therapy. Maya is in private practice in New York City and online in the State of New York. (01:24) She specializes in helping women who are ready to work through trauma, “stuckness,” and long-held anxiety. In addition to her clinical work, she offers online and in-person “Reclaim Your Rhythm” workshops for helpers and healers and is a frequent presenter and speaker at conferences and trainings.

Maya received her Bachelors in Music Therapy from SUNY New Paltz and her Masters in Music Therapy from New York University. (01:54) She completed post-graduate training in vocal psychotherapy with Dr. Diane Austin, in creative arts and trauma treatment at the Kint Institute, and Music & Imagery with Dr. Lisa Summer at Institute for Music & Consciousness. (2:12) Maya believes that women deserve to be loud, messy, sensitive, angry, shy, and so much more. (2:23)

Topics discussed in this episode:

How Maya found music therapy as her calling (3:05)
What is music therapy? (4:24)
- A working definition of music therapy (5:09)
Maya’s approach to music therapy (6:48)
- An overview of the theoretical approaches to music therapy (7:15)
- Maya’s psychodynamic model of generational influence on how people show up in the moment (7:43)
- The impact of trauma and influence of untold stories (7:43)
Hypothetical approach to working with a woman with anxiety (8:14)
- Approach is individualized
- Maya’s tagline “Reclaim Your Rhythm” (8:39)
- Often women with anxiety or trauma have become disconnected from their core rhythms (8:49)
- Gentle mindfulness and body based sematic work (9:11)
- Creating music in the moment to reflect or deepen a certain feeling or idea (9:24)
- Using musical instruments and art supplies to facilitate sessions (10:14)
- Adjusting to online sessions during the Covid-19 pandemic (11:13)
- Exploring the relationship between lack of control and anxiety through music (11:29)
- The differences between talk and music therapy (12:42)
- The struggle with the unknown for women (14:24)
  - The gifts & challenges of rediscovering play as an adult (15:29)
- Musical improvisation as the work of therapy (16:34)
- Music as an access point to different aspects of ourselves (17:39)
  - Benefits of using tactile objects during in-person sessions (19:00)
  - Ways to make the abstract real (19:56)
- Reclaiming Your Rhythm as a big process as well as gentle tending (21:00)
- How musical therapy surprises and inspires (22:16)
  - Discovering and returning to the big wins for clients (24:23)
  - Unexpected benefits of telehealth (24:42)
- Music Listening in Music Therapy (25:05)
  - Most accessible way to explore musical therapy on your own (25:25)
  - What works for one person does not work for another (25:25)
  - Challenges of working with preconceived notions & assumptions (27:19)
  - Anxiety and the need to feel grounded and a release (28:25)
  - What works for a client on a particular day and in a particular moment may change (29:20)
  - Develop playlists rather than leaning on a particular song (29:36)
  - Practice listening to the music and paying attention to what it evokes (30:10)
  - Creating space to explore and recognizing what you need or want (30:10)

Resources:

Maya’s website: https://www.mayabenattar.com/

Dr. Diane Austin’s website: http://dianeaustin.com/music/?page_id=7

The Kint Institute’s website: https://kintinstitute.org/

129: HSPs & Complex Trauma Series: Holiday Tips for HSPs Nov 24, 2020

Welcome to episode 2 of a brand new Women In-Depth series hosted by Lourdes Viado and Carmen Schmidt Benedetti. This series focuses on highly sensitive persons (HSPs) who have experienced complex trauma.

Lourdes and Carmen hope this discussion will help listeners get more clarity and understanding of the HSP’s experience of and recovery from complex trauma. As HSPs themselves, Lourdes & Carmen are passionate about working with individuals with this trait and welcome your ideas and questions as we move forward.

Dr. Lourdes Viado is a psychotherapist for anxious and overwhelmed highly sensitive women in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is a Myers-Briggs Typology Indicator (MBTI) Certified Practitioner and integrates Jungian psychology, mindfulness, neuroscience, and astrology into her work with clients. She is also the host of the Women In-Depth Podcast: Conversations about the Inner Lives of Women, which has been downloaded over 350,000x in 96 countries.

Carmen Schmidt Benedetti is a psychotherapist for highly sensitive womxn in Sonoma County, California. She helps them to heal layers of unrecognized childhood trauma and create calm, balance and stability in their life. As a Certified EMDR therapist, Carmen guides adults in reframing their past from an empowered perspective, coming to believe they are ‘good enough’ and their needs and feelings matter

Topics discussed in this episode:

Tips & suggestions for navigating the holidays and staying calm, centered & grounded (1:49)
- Specific to Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs) (2:01)
- Everyone can benefit from ways to calm their nervous system (2:10)
- Also useful for navigating everyday life (2:21)
Clarification and definition of “trigger” or “triggers” (2:25)
- Use of the word can be upsetting (2:54)
Alternate words will be used to interchangeably describing the feeling of being emotionally charged by something that has happened (3:07)
- Alternatives: reactive, distressed, activated, emotionally charged (3:12)
- There is a need to prepare or respond in order to cope with whatever is happening to you effectively (3:52)
Boundaries as a framework for discussion (4:23)
Time: having boundaries around your time
- When planning your time, be very clear from the start (5:14)
- Clearly communicate and set expectations (5:29)
- Setup cue words with partner to signal it’s time to leave (5:53)
- Asking for time to make a decision (6:24)
- Building time to transition and decompress into your schedule (7:02)
- Lighten your schedule during the holiday season (7:35)
Boundary setting is a great skill for HSPs to learn (8:09)
- Will help you feel safe & in control (8:24)
- Will prevent you from feeling overwhelmed (8:24)
- Connection between feeling calm and centered and how well you are setting your boundaries (8:43)
Your body & your physical space (8:54)
- How much you allow yourself to take on in terms of your energy level (9:08)
- Self care is another essential skill for HSPs (9:53)
- Balancing nurturing and supporting others while honoring your needs (10:57)
- Being mindful of those around you and their energy and emotions (11:43)
- HSPs will mirror the energy and emotions of those around them, both positive and negative (11:47)
- Pay attention to clues that you are beginning to get overwhelmed (12:34)
Develop strategies to calm your nervous system when you are overwhelmed (13:18)
- Unplugging, turning off your screens, going for a walk outside (13:41)
- Diaphragmatic or belly breathing activates your relaxation system (14:02)
- Explore techniques which give your senses a break (15:17)
- Limiting alcohol,caffeine and sugar due to the intense effect they can have on HSPs (15:32)
Tips for events and traveling (16:02)
- Create smaller gatherings (16:03)
- Choose accommodations, ways of traveling, and locations that limit overstimulation (17:08)
- Develop a strategy for hugs and handshakes and communicate your preference to friends and family (17:43)
  - Avoid hurt feelings and awkwardness in the moment (17:47)
- Create your own sacred space or retreat (18:24)
  - A place for you to rejuvenate and restore (18:29)
  - Set boundaries around this space with your loved ones (18:57)
- Whatever works for you around taking care and protecting you and your family is ok (20:14)
- Intellectual or communication boundaries (21:16)
  - Being clear and direct about your needs (21:29)
  - Avoid using qualifiers which diminish the clarity of your boundary (22:54)
  - Saying no is acceptable and no explanation is necessary (22:56)
  - Communicating in writing can be easier (23:33)
- Emotional Boundaries (26:51)
  - Disagreements, differences of opinions & hurt feelings from others can be particularly challenging for HSPs (27:03)
  - HSPs default is to notice and nurture the emotions of others (27:42)
  - Important to focus on your well being and sense of calm (28:14)
  - Balance acknowledging the emotions of others while honoring how you feel (29:10)
- Boundary setting is uncomfortable (30:37)
  - If you are setting boundaries where they are needed, you will experience pushback (30:53)
  - People and situations who have difficulty with boundaries are the ones who need it the most (31:08)
  - Recognize that stress and discomfort is normal with boundary setting (31:15)
  - Reminder: you are not responsible for others’ feelings or reactions (31:47)
- Choose and create experiences that help you bring you joy and help you feel calm and grounded (33:32)
- Being assertive is related to boundary setting (34:02)
  - Being clear about what you want, expressing it, and expressing how you feel (34:08)
- Do the things that help your body decompress (35:02)
  - Exercise or getting enough sleep (35:08)
  - Hobbies that help you relax: journaling or creating art (35:18)
- Being present for your moments of joy to give you strength during moments with difficult emotions (35:57)
- Holidays are particularly challenging for survivors of trauma (36:10)
  - Important to create places and people who can support you (36:23)
    - For example: therapist, a podcast, a good friend or family member (36:44)
    - Schedule an extra session with your therapist or phone call with a friend to help process your emotions (37:07)
  - Energetic Boundaries (37:21)
    - Importance of managing energy and emotions to stay grounded (37:32)
    - HSPs tend to take on a lot of energy from others (37:50)
    - Slowing down during times of increased hustle and bustle like the holiday season (38:31)
    - Recognizing that the holiday season can be associated with negative experiences and the need to manage those emotions (39:03)
    - Staying focused on the present moment and what you can do right now (39:37)
    - Simplifying where you can (40:30)
      - Keep your meals basic and simple to make them easier to manage (40:35)
    - Being gentle and compassionate with yourself and your energetic capacity (41:38)
  - Financial and Material Aspects of Life (43:18)
    - Being intentional about gifting (43:44)
      - How many gifts are you buying? (43:44)
      - Who is on your list? (43:45)
      - What is your budget? (43:47)
    - Establishing expectations around decorations (43:58)
    - Exploring gifts that will create memories (44:41)
    - Recognizing that financial circumstance are very different for many people right now (45:30)
    - Exploring alternatives to spending money (46:10)
  - Carmen and Lourdes are available for online therapy for those seeking extra support in California and Nevada (47:06)
    - For those outside of California & Nevada, Dr. Elaine Aron’s website: The Highly Sensitive Person (hsperson.com) has a list of therapists with experience working with HSPs (47:40)
    - Carmen and Lourdes can also assist with referrals (48:10)

128: Healing the Mother Wound: A Foundation for a Better World Nov 19, 2020

We’re excited to welcome back Bethany Webster to the podcast since her last visit in November 2016 where we discussed the “Mother Wound”. Her 2014 article “Why it’s Crucial for Women to Heal the Mother Wound” went viral and brought worldwide attention to her body of work in feminism and women’s leadership and personal development. Bethany’s work addresses a crucial gap in women’s psychology and empowerment by comprehensively defining the Mother Wound and how it manifests in women’s lives (1:42).

Bethany has a Master’s degree in psychology and completed training in Life Coaching from Joanna Lindenbaum and Holistic MBA. Prior to coaching, as a graduate student she focused on social psychology research on the intersection of race, class and gender. Post-grad school, she worked in academia in the area of research ethics and also as a writer/editor at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City.

Topics discussed in this episode:

Healing the Mother Wound (3:07)
- Discovering the Inner Mother
- How the Work is Evolving and Resonating throughout the world
Importance of this work during the Covid-19 pandemic (3:20)
- Impact on those healing from trauma or working on spiritual growth (4:59)
Quick recap of the November 2016 episode with Bethany:
- What is the Mother Wound? (5:39)
- The connection between the Mother Wound and the patriarchy (5:45)
- The three levels of the Mother Wound (5:47)
- The connection between unhealthy motherhood behaviours patterns in adult life and the Mother Wound (5:50)
- Taboos and stereotypes about the Mother Wound (5:59)
- Benefits of openly discussing the Mother Wound (6:05)
What is the Mother Wound (6:17)
- How 23 years as a client in depth psychotherapy started Bethany’s journey (6:43)
- Definition of the Mother Wound (7:13)
- The Four Levels of the Mother Wound (7:15)
  - The Personal Level - how painful dynamics with our mothers shaped or limited how we see ourselves (7:21)
  - The Cultural Level - how the Mother Wound is a product of living as a woman in a patriarchal society (8:17)
  - The Spiritual Level - how pain between ourselves and our mothers, ranging from mild to traumatic, leads to an existential sense of feeling separate (9:18)
  - The Planetary Level - how the Mother Wound impacts how we treat the planet (10:34)
- Goals of the work (11:53)
  - Increase awareness of the urgency and primacy of healing the Mother Wound
  - Human attachment is the base of conflicts and problems (12:09)
  - Importance of transforming our culture into a place where all people can thrive (12:52)
- The depth and breadth of the Mother Wound (13:14)
  - How the Mother Wound shows up in therapy (13:24)
    - Self-criticism, perfectionism, comparison & competition between women
    - Difficulty in showing self-compassion & receiving
    - Acts of self sabotage
  - Books exploring the Mother Wound
    - The work of Clarissa Pinkola Estes which explores when the mother-child dynamic is not working (14:07)
    - Bethany’s upcoming book, “The Inner Mother” (14:33) which is about nurturing and developing that part of yourself
  - Resources discussing the Mother-Child Dynamic (15:32)
    - Previous podcast discussing development trauma in infants with Selma Bacevac (15:03) https://lourdesviado.com/118-why-infant-mental-health-matters/
    - Gabor Mate’s work regarding the impact of maternal trauma on infants in utero (15:43)

https://drgabormate.com/

Healing the Mother Wound as a foundation for creating a new world (16:15)
- Our defenses around our pain (16:23)
  - Projecting onto others, fearing connecting, pushing people away & sabotaging ourselves
- When our defenses become barriers to our thriving and potential (17:59)
- Understanding our Safety Algorithm as a coping mechanism (18:24)
- Understanding and filling the Mother Gaps (19:14)
  - Definition of the Mother Gaps (19:22)
  - Unconscious coping skills we’ve developed to fill those gaps (19:31)
  - Filling the gap by building internal resilience (19:53)
- Gifts of Healing the Inner Mother (20:26)
  - Leadership qualities, speaking truth, standing their ground, pursuing their dreams, expanded capacity for pleasure and good things
  - Restructuring the brain (20:46)
    - Comparing the inner child to the amygdala and the inner mother as the prefrontal cortex
    - Building new connections and accessing new choices & possibilities
    - The Mother Wound as a pattern of behavior we developed as children that is no longer serving us as adults and the response to a particular situation is an emotional memory (22:13)
    - Learning to be with challenging emotions as part of Inner Mothering work (22:45)
  - Simple steps to begin healing the Mother Wound (22:55)
    - Connecting with your inner child (23:10)
      - Concerns and fears of connecting with your inner child are normal (25:12)
      - If you are feeling stuck or stumped, give yourself lots of empathy (25:57)
      - Connecting with your inner child as a tool for getting through tough moments (26:19)
    - Journaling exercises (26:30)
      - What did you need as a child that you didn’t get enough of? (26:40)
      - What’s one of my current challenges right now that’s repeating? (26:47)
      - How is my inner child keeping me safe and holding me back? (27:20)
      - Where is your Safety Algorithm? (28:30)
      - What does your Inner Child need to feel safe? What are her biggest fears right now? (28:32)
    - Advanced work for healing the Mother Wound (28:40)
      - Morning ritual with your Inner Child (28:42)
        
        Morning greeting to your Inner Child (28:53)
        
        Morning affirmations to make your Inner Child feel supported and safe (29:37)
        
        Validate and differentiate (29:46)
        
        Validate the feelings of the Inner Child
        
        Differentiate between the past and the present moments (30:02)
        
        Evening ritual with your child, for parents and for those working with their inner children (31:28)
        
        What was good about your day?
        
        What was a struggle about your day?
        
        Reviewing your day (31:52)
        
        Affirming you are safe (31:54)
        
        Connecting with Bethany (32:50)
        
        Free ebook “What is the Mother Wound” https://ebook.bethanywebster.com/ (32:57)
        
        Bethany’s website: https://www.bethanywebster.com/ (33:03)
        
        Free Facebook Group: (33:18)
        
        “Discovering the Inner Mother: A Guide to Healing the Mother Wound and Claiming your Power,” coming out January 5th, 2021 and a pre-order bonus (33:23)
        
        Free & paid courses: https://www.bethanywebster.com/inner-mother-course/ (33:40)
        
        Upcoming Toolkit (34:14)
        
        How to Handle Family Gatherings and Stay True to Ourselves

Resources:

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, “Warming the Stone Child” (14:07)

https://www.audible.com/pd/Warming-the-Stone-Child-Audiobook/B002V8KO8C

https://www.amazon.com/Warming-Stone-Child-audiobook/dp/B000EPRHJS

Related Podcasts:

“Why Infant Mental Health Matters” with Selma Bacevac https://lourdesviado.com/118-why-infant-mental-health-matters/

Bethany Webster

https://www.bethanywebster.com/

https://ebook.bethanywebster.com/ (32:57)

127: Complex Trauma in the Highly Sensitive Person Nov 11, 2020

Welcome to a brand new Women In-Depth series hosted by Lourdes Viado and Carmen Schmidt Benedetti. This series focuses on highly sensitive persons (HSPs) who have experienced complex trauma.

In this episode, Lourdes and Carmen hope listeners will gain more clarity and understanding regarding how HSPs experience complex trauma.

Dr. Lourdes Viado is a psychotherapist for anxious and overwhelmed highly sensitive women in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is a Myers-Briggs Typology Indicator (MBTI) Certified Practitioner and integrates Jungian psychology, mindfulness, neuroscience, and astrology into her work with clients. She is also the host of the Women In-Depth Podcast:  Conversations about the Inner Lives of Women, which has been downloaded over 350,000x in 96 countries.

Carmen Schmidt Benedetti is a psychotherapist for highly sensitive womxn in Sonoma County, California. She helps them to heal layers of unrecognized childhood trauma and create calm, balance and stability in their life. As a Certified EMDR therapist, Carmen guides adults in reframing their past from an empowered perspective, coming to believe they are ‘good enough’ and their needs and feelings matter.  

Topics discussed in this episode:

Complex Trauma and Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) (1:34)
Challenges in recognizing Complex Trauma (3:36)
Understanding high sensitivity (4:06)
Challenges and gifts of recognizing complex trauma (4:55)

A sense of validation & relief (5:53)

What is Complex Trauma? (6:59)

On-going experience without a clear end point (7:14)

Physical or emotional abuse or neglect in childhood (7:22)
Experiences within early relationships with caregivers (7:31)

A parent unable to engage or respond emotionally for a variety of reasons (8:39)
A child who is “parentified” and feels responsible for taking care of their parent (10:04)

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Study (10:56)

Study conducted between 1995 and 1997 regarding experiences in childhood that result in health issues for the individual (11:15)
Some examples

Physical, verbal & sexual abuse and physical & emotional neglect (11:22)
A parent dealing with substance abuse or an addiction (11:41)
A mother who is a victim of domestic violence (11:45)
A family member in jail (11:53)
A family member with a mental illness (11:53)

The disappearance or absence of a parent through death, divorce, or abandonment (11:58)

Potential consequences of parent not being present

Child taking care of their siblings (12:41)
Dealing with bullying by themselves (12:42)
Child possibly being less safe due to lack of parental supervision (12:55)

Resources

ACES Study: https://acestoohigh.com/ (13:27)
Dr. Jonice Webb’s work on Childhood Emotional Neglect: : https://drjonicewebb.com/ (13:45)

What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (14:32)

PTSD is in the DSM V - the manual therapists use to diagnose (14:54)

Insurance companies require diagnosis based on the DSM V (15:14)
Complex Trauma can be missed or misdiagnosed because it is not in the DSM V (15:43)
PTSD is generally more familiar and recognizable (16:14)
Some overlap between PTSD and Complex Trauma (16:38)
Common Symptoms of PTSD that can show up differently in Complex Trauma (17:03)

Usually caused by one-time events
Feeling raw or on-edge
Emotion response to a particular situation is out of proportion
Avoiding places, people or things that remind them of the trauma
Disconnecting to things or numbing out through substance use or mentally checking out (17:44)

Acute Stress Disorder (ASD): what happens within the first 30 days after a traumatic event (18:20)
PTSD continues this response beyond the first 30 days (18:20)
PTSD layered on undiagnosed acute Complex Trauma is often the catalyst for seeking treatment (19:42)

Vantage sensitivity for HSPs (21:31)

HSPs’ emotional intensity and depth of processing amplifies the trauma experience (22:07)

Presents challenges for the HSP and the parent of an HSP trying to manage these intense emotions (22:24)

HSPs can struggle to regulate their emotions (23:23)
HSPs can experience shame due to their emotional intensity (24:02)

Common misdiagnosis of HSPs (24:30)

Bipolar due to lack of familiarity with HSPs and/or Complex Trauma (24:39)

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (24:55)
Treatment of the physical symptoms of HSPs (25:25)

Finding a mental health care provider familiar with HSPs and Complex Trauma can best help the HSP work through the overlapping issues (27:15.)
Approximately 40-50% clients in therapy tend to be HSPs (29:30)

Deeply understanding HSPs will help therapists working to support their clients’ healing (30:50)

Resources:

Carmen’s website: https://carmenschmidtmft.com/

Lourdes’ website: https://lourdesviado.com

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Study website: https://acestoohigh.com/

Dr. Jonice Webb’s website on Childhood Emotional Neglect: https://drjonicewebb.com/

September 8, 2016 The Women in Depth Podcast “Childhood Emotional Neglect: The Invisible Experience”

October 20, 2017 The Women in Depth Podcast “After Childhood Emotional Neglect: Healing Your Relationships with Your Partner, Children & Parents”

126: When You are Estranged from Your Adult Child: How Did This Happen and How Do We Heal? Jul 20, 2020

“As long as the factors that led your child to create distance remain in place, he or she will not be able to settle into an easy, relaxed, loving, and close relationship with you.”

“What you do in response to estrangement very much matters and can make the difference between a prolonged estrangement and a healed one.”

When children grow into adults, the nature of the parent-child relationship changes as well.

On this episode, I talk with Tina Gilbertson, psychotherapist and author of Reconnecting with your Estranged Child. Her book is a quality, comprehensive resource and guide for parents who are ready and wanting to heal this rift that’s come between themselves and their adult child. Throughout our conversation, Tina offers profound compassion for parents and children with this type of strained relationship, along with tips on how to heal. She explains why it’s essential to allow your child space to grow, why they may have felt the estrangement was necessary, and how parents can reflect on the reasons why this estrangement occurred.

About Tina Gilbertson:

Located in Denver, CO, Tina works as a psychotherapist, speaker, and author of the book Reconnecting with your Estranged Child. She specializes in estrangement counseling, particularly for parents rejected by adult children. In 2019, Tina co-founded the Reconnection Club, where she offers education, community, and support to help estranged parents repair their estranged relationships with their adult children.

Some Questions I Ask:

How were you drawn to this work? (2:43)
What does it mean to be estranged from your adult child? (6:38)
How does estrangement happen? (13:40)
Could you talk about the significance of unmet shared needs between an estranged parent and child? (22:21)
What are the do’s and don’ts for a parent with a child who has asserted a no-contact relationship? (34:58)
How can an estranged parent approach a child that’s been alienated from them at a young age? (40:50)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

What motivated Tina to write her book (2:10)
How parents still have power and influence within their relationships with their children. (5:58)
The various types of estrangement. (6:41)
What factors contribute to the estranged relationships between parents and children. (13:47)
How estrangement functions as an act of self-preservation. (20:31)
How finding self-compassion enables acceptance of others. (26:03)
Why contact is not the solution to estrangement. (27:36)
How parents can sit with and move through feelings of abandonment, panic, and desperation after a child goes no-contact. (35:14)

Connect with Tina Gilbertson:

Website

Reconnecting with your Estranged Adult Child by Tina Gilbertson

Reconnection Club Website

The Reconnection Club Podcast

125: Mindful Bedtime: Meditations for Kids Jul 06, 2020

"I value color as a way to communicate and as a way to share ideas and be able to feel movement of emotion and energy in your body."

One of the biggest hurdles of being a parent is helping our kids fall asleep at night.

As parents, it’s necessary to find the right tools to help kids learn to relax, process, and be with their big feelings – and many parents are still learning these skills as well.

On this episode, I talk with Susanne Benton, who has this seemingly magical ability to help kids relax and fall asleep. She creates bedtime meditations for kids on Insight Timer, and seamlessly weaves in magic, beauty, and wonder into the stories she tells. Susanne shares her behind-the-scenes process for writing these meditations for kids, how she comes up with the right stories, and why she emphasizes the importance of imagination and color.

About Susanne Benton:

Susanne is a mother, step-mother, and grandmother with a degree in Child and Family Studies from the University of Wisconsin Madison. She opened her own daycare called Magical Child Family Daycare, where her goal became to create an environment in which children felt welcomed, challenged, and supported in their unique growth. Susanne also developed a thriving practice as a massage therapist over the last 12 years.

Four years ago, Susanne combined her bodywork, mindfulness, and relaxation skills with her experiences with children and families, and with that began writing bedtime stories and recording bedtime meditations. She loves sharing resources for both parents and kids that make falling asleep easier each night.

Some Questions I Ask:

What drew you to begin creating the bedtime meditations for children? (8:47)
Can you share about why you emphasize colors in your meditations? (19:44)
How do you come up with the meditations? (25:51)
How do the elements within the meditations become tools for kids? (27:49)
What do you love most about creating meditations? (33:13)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

Why developing skills to balance intense, accelerated learning with relaxation is so beneficial for children. (5:56)
How Susanne incorporates imagination and colors into her meditations. (10:38)
How parents can supply their children with soothing and skills to manage trauma and fear. (16:06)
What kids like about their custom meditations. (25:03)
How to make bedtime a smoother process. (35:09)

Connect with Susanne Benton:

124: Complex Trauma and the Highly Sensitive Person Jun 22, 2020

How do you see and interact with the world around you?

While some people go through life without paying attention to every little detail, highly sensitive persons pick up on just about everything – and every bit of information is deeply processed within.

On this episode, I talk with trauma-informed psychotherapist Carmen Schmidt Benedetti about highly sensitive persons (HSPs) who have had the experience of complex trauma, particularly complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. We break down the myths and misconceptions around the intersection of high sensitivity and PTSD; how it manifests in people’s lives; and how people can learn to treat their high sensitivity as a gift.

About Carmen Schmidt Benedetti

Located in Sonoma County, California, Carmen Schmidt Benedetti is a trauma-informed psychotherapist for highly sensitive adults. She helps them heal layers of unrecognized childhood trauma and create a sense of calm, balance, and stability in their life. She is also a certified EMDR therapist and guides adults in reframing their past from an empowered perspective, helping them realize they are good enough and that their needs and feelings matter.

Some Questions I Ask:

How did you end up working in the intersection of highly sensitive individuals and complex trauma? (3:07)
What are some of the myths about high sensitivity? (10:58)
What’s complex trauma? (14:14)

Why is complex PTSD so significant for highly sensitive individuals? (23:15)
How can highly sensitive individuals who have experienced trauma move forward towards healing? (32:03)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

What it means to be highly sensitive. (7:12)

How complex trauma is different from other types of trauma. (14:47)
How complex trauma shows up in individuals. (19:32)
How complex trauma affects emotional regulation. (26:17)
Why it’s important for highly sensitive persons to seek a therapist who is informed on this trait. (34:00)

Resources:

Carmen Schmidt Benedetti’s Website

The Trauma Treatment Toolbox by Jennifer Sweetens

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel an der Kolk

HS Person Website

123: Coping With a Narcissistic Parent Jun 08, 2020

“It’s part of our culture that we’re supposed to respect our parents, and I understand that that’s important. But sometimes that relationship does not work.”

As a child, did you absorb the belief that you’re not good enough. or that you don’t have the right to be your own person?

This is a telltale sign of having a narcissistic parent and the root issue behind other thought negative processes; issues around self-perception; and even one’s own parenting styles.

In this episode, I talk with clinical psychologist Dr. Stephanie Kriesberg, PsyD, who has personal experience in growing up with a narcissistic parent as well as a passion for helping others move forward from similar experiences. In this conversation, Dr. Kriesberg discusses what it’s like to have a narcissistic mother, and some of the dynamics inherent in this experience. She also dives into how to cope; and some of the misperceptions around having a narcissistic mother.

About Dr. Stephanie Kriesberg:

Located in New England, Dr. Stephanie Kriesberg is a clinical psychologist who helps parents, children, teens, and adults with narcissistic parents lead healthier, happier lives. She treats children, teens, and adults with anxiety disorders – including social anxiety, panic disorder and phobias. She has over 20 years of experience with extensive training in the treatment of anxiety disorders and in the use of clinical hypnosis.

Some Questions I Ask:

How did you get drawn to your work? (3:15)
What does it mean for someone to be described as narcissistic? (5:11)
How can you determine if your parent is narcissistic? (12:17)
How does one cope with a narcissistic parent? (27:04)
Does a narcissistic parent care if they ever see their children? (34:31)
What do I need to look for in myself to break the cycle of narcissistic parenting? (39:40)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

What it means to have a healthy personality. (5:43)
What gaslighting from a narcissistic parent looks like. (17:39)
The pattern of inconsistent behaviors in public and behind closed doors. (21:14)
Tools to help you find your voice. (30:05)
How someone can protect themselves before, during, and after spending time with a narcissistic parent. (36:02)
How narcissistic parents experience no-contact from children. (41:42)

Connect with Dr. Stephanie Kriesberg:

Website

Twitter

Resources:

Will I Ever Be Good Enough? By Dr. Karyl McBride

Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur

Books by Dani Shapiro

122: Sovereignty Archetypes Within Each Woman May 25, 2020

“You are the author of your own life, and you are in charge of crafting the story.”

When was the last time you gave yourself permission to explore your power?

Power isn’t just money, status, or a title – it’s within you. In a world that so highly values climbing the corporate ladder to have power over others, it’s easy to forget the innate power within.

In this episode, I talk with author Marisa Goudy, who recently published her first book The Sovereignty Knot: A Woman’s Way to Freedom, Power, Love, and Magic. Marisa shares her journey to Ireland 20 years ago, where she discovered the myth and magic of the Sovereignty Goddess, which lays the foundation for her book. Throughout our conversation, we analyze the relationship between the Princess, Queen, and Wise Woman, and why each archetype is significant throughout life. We also discuss the taboo topic of death, reproductive expectations for women, and so much more.

Take a listen to learn more about how you can become an authority in your own life.

About Marisa Goudy:

Marisa Goudy is the author of The Sovereignty Knot: A Woman’s Way to Freedom, Power, Love and Magic. She is also an author, writing coach, and energy healer who teaches women how to uncover, embody and tell their own sovereign stories. Marisa combines her passion for Celtic mythology, Goddess spirituality, and Irish folklore with her feminist vision of creating an equitable world that is more beautiful, bearable, and bold. Marisa inspires sovereignty seekers and creative entrepreneurs to embrace their personal, creative, and spiritual sovereignty.

Marisa is also the founder of The Sovereignty Writer’s Circle and creator of the Seven Magic Words Project. She also offers writing, coaching, and Tarot as Intuitive Healing sessions to individuals. She teaches therapists, coaches, creative entrepreneurs, and other transformation professionals how to use storytelling to build their world-renewing businesses.

Some Questions I Ask:

Why did you choose your title? (6:45)
What is the relationship between the Princess, Queen, and Wise Woman? (14:10)
What is a sovereignty map and why is it important? (32:58)
Do you have any favorite parts of your book? (37:26)
What is the best way for listeners to learn more about your work? (42:00)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

How Marisa Goudy redefines sovereignty. (6:16)
What it means to be an authority in your own life. (12:34)
How the concept of the Sovereignty Goddess creates space to be a real, messy woman. (23:53)
How Marisa tackles the concept of death in her book. (29:26)
Why Marisa chose to share her personal story about having an abortion in her book, and why that was the right thing for her to do. (37:28)

Resources:

Marisa Goudy’s Website

Marisa’s Facebook

Marisa’s LinkedIn

Marisa’s Instagram

The Sovereignty Knot Readers’ Community

121: When Antidepressants Aren’t Enough Dec 23, 2019

“There’s some distance between the spark and the flame, and in that distance, it gives you the freedom to respond more skillfully to the situation.”

Depression is part of a common human experience but finding relief from it is incredibly complicated.

Depression is a relapsing illness, and taking an antidepressant is not always a viable or effective solution for those suffering.

In this episode, I talk with Dr. Stuart Eisendrath about how to treat depression when the antidepressants just aren’t enough. He walks through the definition of depression and anxiety, how they distort time and how we experience the present moment, and then finally how to align ourselves back to the present moment. Specifically, Dr. Stuart Eisendrath talks about mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, which teaches people a different way to respond to their depressive state, and how to take action in the moment.

Take a listen to learn more about mindfulness practices and cognitive therapy, and how these techniques can shift one’s relationship with depression to finally experience healing.

About Stuart Eisendrath:

Dr. Stuart Eisendrath is the founding Director of the University of California San Francisco Depression Center. He has treated a full range of depressive disorders, from mild to the most severe over the last 40 years using multiple modalities. His lectures on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for the University of California TV has been viewed over 1.5 million times, and he’s rapidly developing MBCT as a modality for individuals currently in episodes of depression.

Some Questions I Ask:

What drew you to writing this book? (2:14)
What is mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy? (5:57)
How does anger play into depression? (19:52)
How can someone stop the process of rumination? (25:16)
How does mindfulness-based cognitive therapy affect the brain itself? (37:38)
What some first steps people can take to bring mindfulness into their life? (39:26)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

What alternatives Dr. Stuart Eisendrath uses to treat depression and anxiety. (3:45)
How to change your relationship to cumbersome depressive thoughts. (9:38)
The key to shifting out of a depressive state. (14:31)
How to use the RAIN technique to decenter from the anger that coincides with depression. (21:16)
How Dr. Stuart Eisendrath’s personal experience with depression has informed in his work. (30:43)
How to prevent relapses of depression without continued use of medication. (34:34)

Resources:

UCSF Depression Center

Website

When Antidepressants Aren’t Enough by Dr. Stuart Eisendrath

Facebook

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120: The Intersection of Food Allergies & Mental Health Dec 19, 2019

People feel like food allergies aren’t serious. I think that’s the biggest myth because they are.

Food allergies don’t always show up in ways that we expect them to.

A food allergy is a medical condition in which exposure to certain foods triggers a harmful immune response—and it’s serious.

Allergic reactions pose unique challenges to parents—especially parents of young children who cannot communicate everything they experience as an allergic reaction comes on. This is undoubtedly a scary concept to a child, but sometimes it can be even more anxiety-inducing for the adults responsible for their care.

In this episode, I talk with Joann Carter, LCSW. She has both personal and professional experience around managing her children’s various food allergies along with the inevitable anxiety that comes with it.

Throughout our conversation, Joann shares about her early experiences of learning to navigate the world after her two sons were diagnosed with severe food allergies. She also shares her insights into what to look for to identify allergic reactions, as well as debunking certain myths around allergies in general.

Take a listen to learn more about managing your child’s food allergies and how to stay cool, calm, and collected all the while.

About Joann Carter:

Joann Carter is a licensed clinical social worker, serving in the Las Vegas and Henderson communities for over 15 years. Her background in social work has allowed her to view individuals in the whole system of their lives and assist individuals in dealing with mental health struggles, as well as attaining emotional wellness.

Joann is currently the only therapist in Nevada on the Food Allergy Counselor Directory. She is also a member of the Food Allergy Behavioral Health Association.

Some Questions I Ask:

What was managing a food allergy for your son like for you? (5:16)
How prevalent are food allergies in children? (7:19)
What indicates a food allergy in children? (8:51)
What are some myths or misperceptions around allergies? (11:51)
How can a person discern when anxiety around food allergies becomes problematic? (15:54)
What words of support or wisdom would you like to share with anxious parents around managing a child’s food allergy? (21:36)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

Why food allergies cause so much anxiety. (3:11)
How to help manage anxiety around food allergies. (5:57)
How food allergies affect various areas of children’s lives. (10:55)
The difference between a milk intolerance and allergy. (13:40)
How Joann personally manages her son’s food allergies. (19:03)

Resources:

Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE)

No Nuts Moms

Food Allergy Treatment Talk

Joann Carter’s Website

119: Healing the Wounds Left by the Negligent Father Dec 04, 2019

There are really lifelong implications for children who grow up with an emotionally isolating or absent dad.

Some wounds take longer to heal than others.

The wounds of paternal abandonment are ones that take a particularly long time to heal. It requires time, a mental and emotional journey, and a definitive decision to let go of the idea that the father will change his ways.

In this episode, Rachael Chatham talks with us about the experience of the negligent father and general paternal abandonment, and how this particularly impacts daughters. This experience of the negligent father is very common; Rachael sees it in her practice, but it’s part of her personal narrative as well.

Rachael shares with us her journey that led to a transformative experience that allowed her to start taking care of herself—she let go of the fantasy she had written in her head about her father coming back around.

Take a listen to learn more about how to heal the wound left from a negligent father, and how you can help a loved one who’s healing as well.

About Rachael Chatham:

Rachael Chatham is a Licensed Professional Counselor, psychotherapist, and published author. Her private practice is located in Asheville, North Carolina, where she specializes in navigating relationship challenges and healing complex trauma. Her education is rooted in somatic and transpersonal psychologies, and she approaches her work from a perspective that all beings are whole.

Rachael will be launching her first online course in January 2020: Reclaiming the Self: Returning to the Truth and Beauty of Who You Really Are.

Some Questions I Ask:

What drew you to focus in on this area? (2:42)
How does the impact of parental abandonment reveal itself in children? (8:31)
Why is the absence of a father so impactful? (10:29)
What advice do you have for someone who wants to explore this healing process? (26:40)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

How motherhood affected Rachael’s relationship with her negligent father. (6:14)
How parental abandonment still happens, even with fathers living in the home. (10:12)
How the effects of parental abandonment influence the child’s sense of identity. (15:16)
What the grief process looks like when a child lets go of the fantasy that their father could be different. (23:13)
About Rachael’s transformative experience that allowed her to start taking care of herself. (27:06)

Resources:

Whole Self Therapy

The Skillful Self

Healing the Father Wound

The Fatherless Daughter Project by Denna Babul

Will I Ever Be Good Enough by Dr. Karyl McBride

118: Why Infant Mental Health Matters Nov 15, 2019

Kids respond to their environment and learn how to survive.

Being a baby is more complex than people think.

Once born, a baby enters an entirely new world full of sights and sounds and feelings that they’ve never experienced before. Babies absorb it all—and it affects their mental health. Babies don’t “just forget” when something happens. Even without visual memories, their bodies hold onto those memories, they develop survival mechanisms as a result, and they bring those traumas or sense of security into adulthood, too.

In this episode, I talk with Selma Bacevac about her work as a national consultant and promoter of baby mental health. Selma breaks down what babies remember from in utero and throughout infancy, and how those memories are stored within their bodies. Selma also shares insights into the power of a parent’s intention to do their best, and how to start making changes to ensure that your baby’s mental health is well taken care of.

Take a listen to learn more about how to consistently communicate a sense of safety and security to your infant.

About Selma Bacevac:

Selma Bacevac is a licensed psychotherapist, mompreneur, national consultant and promoter of baby mental health. She is an expert on how attachment-related problems and developmental trauma affects infants and toddlers. She provides webinars, workshops, and online training to parents and professionals who want more information on this specific topic.

Selma is the host of Raising Baby, a podcast devoted to helping parents and professionals understand the world from the baby’s perspective.

Some Questions I Ask:

How did you find yourself working in the niche of infant mental health? (4:50)
What is infant mental health? (6:49)
How does a baby perceive that they are not safe and secure? (7:36)
What does a secure attachment look like? (14:17)
How does developmental trauma impact mental health and physical health? (42:04)
How can parents start to shift things for the better? (49:20)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

How focusing on baby mental health affects experiences in adulthood. (3:23)
How babies retain memories from in utero. (8:13)
What the signs are of a baby experiencing the world from a place of survival over learning. (12:05)
Why it’s vital to empower those about to become parents. (22:16)
How your brain changes the minute you decide you want to become a parent. (31:41)
The difference between self-control and self-regulation. (38:41)

Resources:

Selma Bacevac’s LinkedIn

Infant & Toddler Mental Health 101 Webinar

Parent-Child Relationship Institute

Raising Baby Podcast with Selma Bacevac

117: When Grief is Complicated Sep 13, 2019

Grief is an expression of love for someone who isn’t here anymore.

Experiencing the loss of a loved one is one of the most challenging parts of being human.

When that loss is unexpected or happens in an “unnatural” order, the grief takes a different kind of toll on the person. All grief is complicated, but the loss of a child or loss as a result of a tragedy makes grief just that much more complicated.

In this episode, I talk with Dr. Sonya Lott about her work as one of the only clinicians in Philadelphia trained in evidence-based treatment for complicated loss. We discuss how grief affected her and eventually transformed her life; what makes someone vulnerable to this type of grief; and what this treatment involves.

Take a listen to learn more about how to help others experiencing complicated grief and reconstruct your own identity after experiencing it yourself.

About

Dr. Sonya Lott is a Clinical Psychologist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is one of only two mental health clinicians in Philadelphia trained in Complicated Grief Therapy. Helping individuals to transform their experiences of pre-death, acute, and complicated grief. Dr. Lott obtained advanced training from The Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia University, in Complicated Grief Therapy. She has recently launched CEM Psych LLC, which offers continuing education and multicultural competence for mental health professionals, approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. She is also the host of The Reflections on Multicultural Competence podcast.

Some Questions I Ask:

What drew you to working in the area of therapy around complicated grief? (2:29)
When you say, “complicated grief,” what do you mean? (9:08)
Are there types of loss that make an individual more vulnerable to complicated grief? (13:20)
What are some words of support that you have for those who have lost someone? (34:11)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

How grief manifests itself long-term. (5:33)
Why people get “stuck” in the grief process. (9:42)
Common types of deaths that put people at risk for complicated grief. (13:55)
How complicated grief impacts various areas of life and relationships. (18:50)
What complicated grief therapy realistically looks like. (24:44)
How to learn more about complicated grief. (37:02)

Resources:

Center for Complicated Grief

Grief Steps for Parents

Dr. Sonya Lott’s Website

Continuing Education in Multicultural Psychology

116: Re-Authoring the Narrative Identities of Men Aug 30, 2019

It’s important to revisit those strategies and elaborate, and that becomes a part of your identity.

When you sit down with your family around the dinner table, the storytelling begins.

Have you ever noticed who is doing the storytelling?

Typically, women and mothers in families are the ones who tend to elaborate and go in-depth with their storytelling, while men oftentimes may be more reserved with their explanations. The ways that families reminisce and dialogue about their lives have a significant impact on how children develop their adult identities.

Humans are storytelling creatures, but when men are not supported in developing their storytelling muscles, it can lead to lost pieces of their identities.

In this episode, I talk with Dr. Jared DeFife about his work as a clinical psychologist. When we begin, we discuss his interest in supporting men who deal with rejection sensitivity, depression, and more. Specifically, we discuss how these experiences take on different characteristics in men than women, and how storytelling may impact men’s ability to connect with himself and heal.

Take a listen to learn more about how to put yourself back in the author’s seat and regain your narrative identity.

About Dr. Jared DeFife:

Dr. Jared DeFife is a clinical psychologist in private practice. He’s also an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Science at the Emory University School of Medicine. Jared is passionate about helping “intense” people integrate interpersonal and personality-focused therapies drawing from schema-focused and mentalization-based therapies into their lives.

Some Questions I Ask:

What’s the template for the type of clients you attract? (11:32)
Do you think it’s hard for men to respond to depression screeners? (15:06)
When does the narrative disappear for men? (20:05)
How does one begin to re-author their life? (31:23)
What resources would you recommend for learning more about this? (52:47)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

About Jared’s work with men who experience rejection sensitivity and depression. (2:53)
How Jared transformed his approach as a therapist to connect with and reach men. (10:45)
How depression manifests itself differently in men and women. (11:52)
How language use and narratives impact how men perceive their struggles. (16:09)
What different types of emotionally unavailable men look like. (32:19)
What tools Jared uses to help men become the authors of their own stories again. (36:02)

Resources:

Jared Defife’s Website

I Don’t Want to Talk About It by Terrence Real

The Mask of Masculinity by Lewis Howes

Deepening Psychotherapy with Men by Fredric Rabinowitz

Deepening Group Psychotherapy with Men by Fredric Rabinowitz

Under Saturn’s Shadow: The Healing and Wounding of Men by James Hollis

115: Re-Visioning America’s Heroic Ideal Jul 04, 2019

“Character is fate.” - Heraclitus

United we stand. Divided we fall.

The United States is becoming an increasingly divided country with each day that goes by. The idea of what American culture and values are changes, depending on where you are on the party line.

In this episode, Michael Gellert discusses the newly-revised edition of his compelling book, The Fate of America, which explores the national character of the United States against the backdrop of its history, popular culture, and media.

Listen in as Michael explores the development of the American heroic ideal; how it reflects the nation’s aspiration towards greatness and its sense of identity; as well as its connection to the country’s deepening divisions; increase in societal challenges; and erosion of vital institutions.

Take a listen to learn about citizen- and enemy-oriented heroism; where you’re located among these ideals; and what is being called upon us now.

About Michael Gellert:

Michael Gellert is a Jungian analyst, practicing in Los Angeles and Pasadena, CA. He was formerly the Director of Training at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, where he is currently a research instructor. He’s also a humanities professor at Vanier College, Montreal, and a lecturer at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Michael has a Master’s degree in religious studies and social work and studied with Marshall McLuhan at the University of Toronto. He’s a mental health consultant for the University of Southern California and TIME Magazine.

Some Questions I Ask:

What is America’s national character? What does that reveal about challenges we face? (4:13)
Can you share about the Principles of Youth and Authority? (19:44)
How has America’s heroic ideal gone awry? (33:37)
What does the death-rebirth cycle mean for moving forward in America? (46:46)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

What the different types of heroism in America are. (6:30)
What happens when society loses sight of citizen-oriented heroism. (15:28)
Why the divide of the Spirits of Youth and Authority brings out the worst in both sides. (23:03)
How division dehumanizes the “Other.” (28:46)
America’s addiction to innocence (37:58)
The individual’s responsibility in relation to participating in society. (49:06)

Resources:

The Divine Mind by Michael Gellert

Modern Mysticism by Michael Gellert

America’s Identity Crisis by Michael Gellert

Michael Gellert’s Website

114: Exploring the Lived Experience of Men Jun 14, 2019

In celebration of Father’s Day, Women In- Depth is looking back at some of our previous episodes focusing on men and masculinity.

Episode 86: Reflections on Fatherhood in the 21st Century with Sean Fitzpatrick, PhD, LPC

Sean Fitzpatrick, PhD, LPC, the Executive Director of the Jung Center in Houston, spoke with me about what it means to be a father and how the presence, or lack thereof, of a father influences one’s life.

Episode 40: The Secrets Men Carry with James Hollis, PhD

James Hollis, PhD, a licensed Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C., joined us to discuss why it’s important to share the secrets of men; the pressure men face from being evaluated by their ability to produce; and how men long for a positive connection with their fathers.

Episode 77: Manhood, Masculinity, & Meaning with Boysen Hodgson

Boysen Hodgson is the Communications and Marketing Director for the ManKind Project USA, a nonprofit mentoring and training organization that offers powerful opportunities for men’s personal growth at any stage of life. He talked with me about the meaning of masculinity, why it matters, and why the biggest journey a man can take is the 18 inches from his brain to his heart.

113: Beyond the Myths: Understanding Self-Harm May 31, 2019

“It is across racial lines, socioeconomic status, religious beliefs, and the like. This is not a phenomenon that just occurs to a certain person that looks and dresses and behaves a certain way.”

Introduction:

When everything builds up inside, managing emotions can oftentimes feel impossible.

As children grow, oftentimes there’s no one to teach them how to manage their emotions. For those with the trait of high sensitivity and/or those who experienced trauma, sometimes the way that they learn to cope, manage, or maintain their overwhelming emotions is through self-harm.

Self-harm is a subject that is riddled with misconceptions and negative judgments. In this episode, I talk with Vena Wilson about why people self-harm, and together we dispel some of those myths.

Vena deepens our understanding as to why women engage in this type of coping mechanism. She also shares her insights into what causes the emotional state that pushes individuals into self-harming tendencies, and what to do when someone you love struggles with this topic.

Take a listen to learn how to identify self-harm, support a loved one, or spark the healing process for yourself.

About Vena Wilson:

Vena Wilson is a licensed clinical social worker who provides psychotherapy services to children, teenagers, and adults. She is the owner and operator of Honey Bee Behavioral Health. She works to assist individuals and families in creating healthy, adaptive, and well-functioning relationships. With this, Vena also helps clients see their concerns through a different lens: she provides information on how trauma effects the functioning of various parts of the brain. She teaches strategies that allow them to take suicide and self-harm off the table as an option to release overwhelming emotions.

Some Questions I Ask:

How did you come to work with women who self-harm? (3:48)
What happens that causes this emotional state? (17:40)
What other myths or misconceptions are there around self-harm? (25:10)
What are ways to support a loved one who self-harms? (28:52)
What words of wisdom would you share with someone who self-harms? (33:04)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

What self-harm looks like. (7:06)
How emotional deregulation affects the brain and presents itself in day-to-day life. (12:26)
About the trait of high-sensitivity and how it manifests itself. (21:08)
What to do and not to do when a loved one discloses that they self-harm. (29:11)
How to choose a therapist that will fit your specific needs. (34:21)

Podcasts that Discuss Dialectal Behavior Therapy Strategies, Managing Overwhelming Emotions, and Other Helpful Tidbits:

Charlie Swenson: To Hell and Back

Vena M. Wilson: The Honey Be Podcast

Practical/Helpful Reads on Validation, Mindfulness, Managing Overwhelming Emotions:

I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships by Michael S. Sorensen

Calming the Emotional Storm: Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Manage Your Emotions and Balance Your Life by Sheri Van Dijk

Freedom from Selfharm: Overcoming Self-Injury with Skills from DBT and Other Treatments by Kim Gratz

Books for Clinicians:

DBT® Skills Training Manual, Second Edition by Marsha M. Linehan

Doing Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Practical Guide (Guides to Individualized Evidence-Based Treatment) by Kelly Koerner

Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (Advances in Psychotherapy: Evidence-Based Practice) (Advances in Psychotherapy - Evidence-Based Practice) by E. David Klonsky

Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician’s Guide by Lisa Ferentz

Treating Self-Injury: A Practical Guide by Barent W. Walsh

For Parents and Caregivers:

Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions: DBT Skills to Help Your Teen Navigate Emotional and Behavioral Challenges by Pat Harvey

The Power of Validation: Arming Your Child Against Bullying, Peer Pressure, Addiction, Self-Harm, and Out-of-Control Emotions by Karyn D. Hall

When Your Daughter Has BPD: Essential Skills to Help Families Manage Borderline Personality Disorder by Daniel S. Lobel

Other Resources:

Vena Wilson’s LinkedIn

Honey Bee Behavioral Health

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112: The Wisdom of Mermaid Dreams May 16, 2019

“Mythology and storytelling are age-old methods of passing along wisdom, sharing experience, and explaining or teaching about life.”

Learning to trust your intuition, feelings, and dreams is a powerful experience.

With all the stories and lessons told to children today, our society does not seem to support the notion that women should learn to trust their intuition. This is a meaningful lesson for any woman, whether she’s a Maiden, Mother, or Crone. This is a lesson that is truly universal.

In this episode, I talk with Janet Lucy about her new children’s book Mermaid Dreams. This book encompasses many missing lessons from today’s children’s literature, while also depicting the connection between mother and daughter. Janet also tells the powerful story of goddesses and how goddess mythology illuminated her ideas within the book.

Take a listen to learn Janet’s new book Mermaid Dreams and how this story passes along universal wisdom to women.

About Janet Lucy:

Janet Lucy is an award-winning writer and poet, most notably the book Moon Mother, Moon Daughter: Myths and Rituals that Celebrate a Girl’s Coming of Age. She earned her master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Antioch University. She’s also the founder and director of Women’s Creative Network, which is a consulting business utilizing intuitive, creative, and professional development through writing. She is passionate about the connection between mothers and daughters and how mythologies and stories coincide with the universal truths that women experience.

Some Questions I Ask:

What inspired you to write Mermaid Dreams? (3:14)
What is the significance of the Mermaid to you? (7:17)
How does the story in Mermaid Dreams depicts the connection between mother and daughter? (12:46)
What coming-of-age concepts does Mermaid Dreams address? (14:15)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

About the story of the African goddess Yemaya. (9:12)
How the power to change your dreams coincides with the power you have over your psyche. (15:03)
How Janet’s book teaches children to go within themselves and learn to trust their inner voice. (18:00)
How Janet’s books apply to all women. (20:54)
How women’s internalized beliefs can manifest into the basis of fear. (25:15)

Resources:

Episode 91: The Heroine’s Journey: The Call to Transformation

Episode 95: Mothers, Daughters, Myth & Moon: Rituals to Honor a Girls’ Coming-of-Age

Janet Lucy’s Website

Janet’s Books

Women’s Weekly Writing Groups

Women’s Creative Network

111: Understanding Rejection Sensitivity May 02, 2019

“We all have blind spots. We all have pitfalls and life terms. Part of the therapy process is about gaining insight and awareness of what those traps and what those lenses are and seeing that this is a recurrent theme that happens for you in your life.” (24:49)

Introduction:

Some people look like they truly have it all. Great job, great family, and the drive to keep moving toward success.

Oftentimes, in those who look like they have it all together, they are actually coping with a personality trait called rejection sensitivity. On the surface, rejection sensitivity looks like intrinsic motivation and perfectionism. The deeper you go, rejection sensitivity looks like isolation, anxiety, and intensity.

In this episode, I talk with Dr. Jared DeFife about rejection sensitivity. Together, we talk about where this personality trait originates, what it looks like, and how people can work with rejection sensitivity rather than allowing it to have control over every action and relationships. Jared also shares insight into the role that rejection sensitivity plays in his own life, and why blending insight and awareness of this trait is essential to learning to thrive professionally and interpersonally.

Take a listen to learn about how to turn rejection sensitivity into a superpower-like trait and improve the lens through which you see the world along the way.

About Dr. Jared DeFife:

Dr. Jared DeFife is a clinical psychologist in private practice. He’s also an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Science at the Emory University School of Medicine. Jared is passionate about helping “intense” people integrate interpersonal and personality-focused therapies drawing from schema-focused and mentalization-based therapies into their lives.

Some Questions I Ask:

What is rejection sensitivity? (3:34)
How does rejection sensitivity show up in a personality? (7:35)
How can someone determine if they have rejection sensitivity? (19:47)
How can someone work with rejection sensitivity rather than let it take over their lives? (23:06)
How can people learn more about this trait? (35:37)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

How people develop rejection sensitivity. (5:16)
Why high rejection sensitivity often gets mislabeled as narcissism. (13:43)
How rejection sensitivity differs from high sensitivity. (22:30)
How schema therapy approaches taking action on high rejection sensitivity. (28:44)
How rejection sensitivity exposes various modes within the personality. (31:00)

Resources:

Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire

Don’t Take it Personally! by Elayne Savage

Reinventing Your Life by Jeffrey E. Young

Brené Brown

Jared’s Website

110: Recovering Resilience Apr 17, 2019

“Safety primes neuroplasticity: a sense that as you move through this, you’re okay and you’re safe.”

Introduction:

When was the last time that you experienced letdown, hurt, or even a traumatic event?

How did you rebuild yourself and your life after the event?

A significant part of the human condition is experiencing negativity in our environment, then that energy infiltrates itself into the brain. Brains tend to have a negativity bias. This means that one negative response from another person has more power over our minds than all the positive interactions within that same relationship. Whenever this happens, life and relationships must be rebuilt, no matter how small or large the damage was.

This is resilience. While resilience is largely an innate skill, it’s still possible to build it and strengthen it through various exercises and strategies.

In this episode, Linda Graham talks about how to build and strengthen resilience. She shares some deep insight into the wiring and functioning of the brain when stimulated with negativity, and how to learn to bounce back. Linda also shares how therapists and non-therapists alike can implement various strategies, mindsets, and somatic tools to refine the skill of resilience as well.

Take a listen to Linda’s thoughtful and practical strategies, tips, and tools to bouncing back into life.

About Linda Graham:

Linda Graham is a psychotherapist and award-winning author. She is passionate about guiding people on reliable paths of personal growth, self-transformation, and building relationships. Her professional specialty areas include helping reverse the impact of stress and trauma, cultivate mindful awareness, and ultimately recover a sense of resilience. Within her private practice, she integrates modern neuroscience, mindfulness practices, and relational psychology into her international trainings on resilience and wellbeing.

Some Questions I Ask:

How would you define resilience? (4:59)
How does our brain’s capacity to respond to stressors become derailed? (6:53)
Why is it difficult to develop resilience? (12:00)
How can we address the brain’s negativity bias? (19:05)
What are the 3 Levels of Disruption, and 5 Intelligences? (21:20)
Where should someone start with finding relief and building resilience? (27:10)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

Why individuals respond differently to the same stressors. (4:23)
Where an individual’s resilience originates and how to install new circuitry that increases the capacity for resilience. (7:22)
How resilience is strengthened through post-traumatic growth. (15:41)
How somatic tools help calm the mind and enter back into a space of resilience. (17:10)
How practicing positivity shifts the functioning of the brain into more receptivity and resilience. (19:14)
What therapists can integrate into their practices from Linda’s book. (29:13)

Resources:

Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and Even Disaster by Linda Graham

Bouncing Back by Linda Graham

Linda’s Website

109: Breaking the Silence of Trauma Apr 03, 2019

How do you respond to the word trauma?

Sometimes, those who experienced trauma reject even the term itself. Instead of acknowledging it and starting the healing process, survivors often minimize their experiences. When this happens, sometimes both healthy and unhealthy coping mechanisms are normalized for them, as well.

Childhood trauma is specifically difficult to deal with and conquer the lasting effects of. It’s oftentimes buried deep within and oftentimes has a silencing effect on the person and they grow into adulthood. This world of silence inhibits their behavior, mindset, and various aspects of life.

This is where therapy is needed. Even if the trauma happened 20 or more years ago, it’s never too late to heal. You can always take steps toward healing that trauma no matter how long ago it was.

In this episode, I talk with Amy Van Slambrook. She shares some deep insight into the specific behaviors and tendencies that survivors demonstrate, how to identify them, and how a partner may be able to assist in the healing process. She also shares some beautiful, impactful words of wisdom for any survivors listening to this podcast today.

Take a listen to Amy’s moving story and take one step closer toward breaking the silence.

About Amy Van Slambrook

Amy Van Slambrook is a licensed psychotherapist, certified life and workplace coach, experienced consultant, and writer. She is passionate about the work she does and compassionately interacts with her clients.

Amy has overcome significant hurdles in her life—her own journey and healing from real life struggles, wounds, and trauma. She was able to spark the healing process in herself through the best training ground available. This experience is one that solidified her vocational calling: to help others—especially women and couples—experience freedom, heal and gain the power from their past.

Some Questions I Ask:

How were you drawn to this work? (3:13)
Could you share a couple of examples of what trauma looks like? (21:07)
What can you see or hear that demonstrates how trauma is impacting relationships? (29:40)
How can the partner of a trauma survivor love and support their partner? (36:29)
What words of wisdom do you have to offer trauma survivors? (40:22)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

Why trauma survivors minimize experience and normalize their coping behaviors and experiences. (7:25)
How childhood trauma ripples to affect adult relationships and behaviors. (12:03)
How trauma reveals itself in the body rather than through language. (14:50)
Why trauma survivors are generally calm in crises situations. (18:18)
Why survivors get stuck in a cycle of trauma. (26:13)
How men often suffer in silence as a result of childhood abuse. (39:36)

Resources:

Daniel G. Amen

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

Soul-Healing Love by Dr. Tom Rodgers and Dr. Beverly Rodgers

Connect with Amy:

Website

Facebook

Instagram

108: Trauma Recovery - Somatics, Attunement, and Mindfulness Mar 20, 2019

“As human beings, we are meant for connection.“

I see you.

I believe you.

Sometimes, those are the exact words that survivors of sexual assault and violence need to hear. Genuinely affirming a survivor’s experiences, feelings, and responses are the first steps to entering into a space that the survivor has never let anyone else into before.

Oftentimes, those who experience trauma seem to have lost touch. Sometimes they appear checked out, forget to eat, and even lose their spatial awareness. On the other end of the spectrum, some survivors become hypervigilant and notice everything: the way someone holds himself when he walks into a room, small changes in expression or energy, and anything else.

In this episode, Robert Cox talks about this subject. He provides insight into the various responses that survivors have to their environment and new relationships. Robert discusses the importance of sitting in that vulnerable space with a survivor, listening to them, and helping them rewire their brains back to a healthy state.

Take a listen to learn more about how Robert Cox uses somatic exercises and active listening skills to help trauma survivors begin living once again.

About Robert Cox, LPC:

Robert Cox is a licensed professional counselor in Missouri and owner of Life Recovery Counseling. He specializes in trauma, addictions, and autism. He works extensively with survivors of sexual abuse, trafficking, and childhood trauma. One of his main focuses, too, is mindfulness training to help patients create their own pathways to emotionally regulate through the difficult processes of trauma recovery.

Resources: Life Recovery Consulting Website Mindful Recovery Podcast The Life Recovery Method: Autism Treatment From A Trauma Perspective by Robert Cox

107: Faces of the Divine Feminine: Maiden, Mother, Queen, and Crone Mar 12, 2019

“The feminine is about the connection among all things.”

Where are you in life? Where are you headed?

Traditionally, there have been four faces of femininity: Maiden, Mother, and Crone. These archetypes define the feminine mindset: wants, needs, and what is required for fulfillment.

Our culture places a certain value on each of these stages. Oftentimes, this value is based on desirability rather than one’s personal desires. Traditionally, femininity is overwhelmingly undervalued. Now, that’s beginning to change.

In this episode, I talk with Dr. Anita Johnston. She breaks down all three of these archetypes and adds in a fourth: the Queen. Anita explains each stage, what it means, and even includes some of her own personal experiences within each stage. Together, we discuss the social value placed on each individual stage, and how those values are swiftly transforming today.

Take a listen to learn more about the true value in your past, present, and future self in relation to your sacred femininity.

About Dr. Anita Johnston:

Anita Johnston is a clinical psychologist and a certified eating disorder specialist and supervisor. She has done some incredible work in the field of women’s issues and eating disorders for the last 35 years. In Guam, where she was raised, she experienced life in a matriarchal culture. She experienced the power and value of femininity, which shaped her worldview and desire to help others.

Currently, Dr. Anita Johnston is the clinical director of Ai Pono Hawaii Eating Disorder programs. She is also co-creator of The Light of the Moon Café, which is a series of online, interactive courses, women support circles, and soul hunger workshops. Additionally, she is also the author of the bestselling book Eating in the Light of the Moon.

Some Questions I Ask:

What drew you to focus on and create the four faces of the sacred feminine? (3:53)
What do you mean by the sacred feminine, divine feminine, and psyche? (5:09)
What exactly are the four faces? (10:52)
How do the roles of the Maiden and the Mother interplay? (19:34)
What do healthy and unhealthy displays of the Mother archetype look like? (23:58)

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

About Anita’s childhood within a matriarchal culture. (4:04)
How the feminine archetypal energy crosses culture and time. (5:26)
Why awareness can lead to valuing feminine archetypes. (10:22)
How archetypes are demonstrated through fairy tales and in reality. (11:01)
About the Maiden, Mother, Queen, and Crone archetypes. (13:46)
How the flipping priority of desires to desirability impacts self-esteem. (15:45)
About the struggle of balancing your own needs with another’s needs. (19:52)
Why the Queen seeks to fulfill the soul. (29:56)
How the Crone functions as a bridge between the material and spiritual worlds. (34:53)

Resources:

Episode 59: Cracking the Hunger Code Through Storytelling and Metaphor

Dr. Anita Johnston’s Website

Eating in the Light of the Moon by Dr. Anita Johnston

Circle of Stones: Woman’s Journey to Herself by Judith Duerk

New Crescent Moon Course with Dr. Anita Johnston

Tour of Light of the Moon Café

106: Depth Psychology in the Therapeutic Encounter Feb 27, 2019

In this episode of Women In-Depth Dr. Viado speaks with Gary Alexander about the experience of therapy through the lens of depth psychology. Gary shares how he was drawn to depth psychology; how it informs his life and the work he does with clients. He also explains how symptoms are not necessarily the problems we think they are, but messengers from psyche (soul).

Gary Alexander has been practicing psychotherapy for over 15 years. He has a BA in Psychology and MS in Counseling from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and completed his doctoral course work at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Originally from Las Vegas, Gary now practices full time in Portland, Oregon. He also teaches graduate counseling students and supervises post-graduate counseling interns. Gary works with a wide array of issues for individuals and couples, infidelity, chemical and behavior addictions, co-dependency and the health and development of the sexual minority community.

To keep up with Gary:

https://www.portlandtherapycenter.com/therapists/gary-alexander

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-alexander-2b591526/

https://www.facebook.com/GaryDAlexander

105: Everyday Codependency Feb 20, 2019

“The way I can get love is by being what other people need me to be. Being the good girl. Being the one that is quiet, the one that is well behaved …”

Welcome to this week’s episode of Women In Depth! Today we speak with Dr. Ashlee Greer, who is gracing us with a second visit after appearing on episode 76. In this episode Dr. Greer enlightens us to the idea of control and co-dependency; something she believes about 80% of our culture, particularly women, suffer from. Dr. Greer teaches highly-sensitive, empathetic women to live a “hell yes!” life. Her clients learn that the hero they’ve been waiting for is them. We can change. And beyond these ideas, she teaches her clients about boundaries, sacrifice, expectations, and soon in her new book she discusses “affectionate non-attachment.” Ashlee Greer has her Ph.D. in psychology, is powerfully psychic, and has over a decade of experience helping hundreds of people transform to feeling passionate, vibrant, fulfilled, and joyful.

To keep up with Dr. Ashlee Greer:

https://www.ashleegreer.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-4UPDzBse1kbQrw-YuLF9Q https://www.facebook.com/ashlee.greer.1111

104: Eros and Psyche - The Psychology of Romantic Love Feb 13, 2019

“Romantic relationships above all other forms of relationships seems to be where the deepest and most intense struggle presents itself.”

For our Valentine’s Day episode, we have our 100th episode guest back again: Dr. Stacey Shelby!

In this week’s episode, Dr. Stacey Shelby describes the psychology of romantic love from a depth psychological perspective. Using the Greek myth of Eros and Psyche as a lens for understanding the meaning and purpose of romantic love, she describes how Psyche’s experiences parallel our own responses to romantic love; and deepen our understanding of how the inevitable challenges of romantic love summon us into intimate relationship with our inner selves.

Dr. Stacey Shelby is an author, speaker, educator and depth psychotherapist. She holds a Master’s and Ph.D. in Depth Psychology with a specialization in Jungian and Archetypal Studies. She teaches the psychology of romantic love at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California.

Dr. Shelby works with adults in various stages of personal transformation online and in person out of a thriving clinical practice in Squamish, British Columbia. She specializes in the symbolic language of the soul and aims to honor the soul as it presents itself in the lived experience of daily life.

To Keep up with Dr. Stacey Shelby:

http://drstaceyshelby.com/ https://www.facebook.com/DrStaceyShelby https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-stacey-shelby-ph-d-rcc-8b249560/ https://twitter.com/stacey0shelby

103: Goals, Procrastination & Overwhelm - The Women We Have Become Feb 06, 2019

“I think a lot of times part of the reason we’re able to self-sabotage so easily is we really don’t own our goals. We don’t really own that picture of what we want our life to look like. We kind of keep it vague. As a result, we can’t really create that process to make changes because we don’t give ourselves any sort of timeline or specific picture of what we’re working towards.”

This week’s episode of Women In-Depth we speak with Nicole Liloia, Business Coach and Strategist enlightening us on the career, business and life burnout so many women deal with on a constant basis. We have unknowingly become experts at sabotaging ourselves; whether in our careers, or personal lives. We will discuss several ways we sabotage, how to notice it and what to do in response to create a richer and more fulfilled life.

Nicole Liloia earned her Master’s in Social Work at Columbia University before beginning a career in the non-profit sector. Nicole is both a life coach and a trained therapist. Now her passions are helping women entrepreneurs make more money and achieve their goals.

Nicole began this path after a volunteer trip to Venezuela after suffering from burnout in her 9-5. Upon coming home Nicole began working at various part-time jobs and ended up starting her own practice only to fall back into the rigid 9-5 lifestyle she was trying to escape. She realized her own self-sabotage with this repetition and decided that she wanted to help other women entrepreneurs stop wasting time and start making more money.

When Nicole is not busy helping her clients end their self-sabotaging ways she enjoys entrepreneurship, making women wealthier, Apothic Wines, and a good Taco Tuesday!

To keep up with Nicole Liloia:

https://nicoleliloia.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoleliloia/ https://twitter.com/nicoleliloia

References Mentioned:

Assess Align Action: The Boss Guide to Goal Getting by Nicole Liloia

102: Understanding Low Sexual Desire Jan 30, 2019

“We all are so different and it’s normal to be different. It’s just a matter of finding the ways that help you optimize your sexual desire and have a sexual relationship that you want to have.”

Many women experience diminished or decreased sex drive at one point or another in their lives. However sex-negativity from our backgrounds, media, and society, can make these challenges difficult to discuss.

With over half the population experiencing some version of sexual dissatisfaction, we can acknowledge that frank discussions surrounding sex and intimacy have the potential to drastically improve our overall well-being.

Dr. Nazanin Moali has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, San Diego in biology and psychology, a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Alliant International University.

She specializes in working with couples and individuals struggling with issues of sex and intimacy. She also hosts a weekly podcast called Sexology in which she introduces listeners to the most intriguing findings in the psychology of sex. She practices out of Torrance, California.

To find more information about Dr. Moali, you may visit:

https://oasis2care.com/

https://twitter.com/oasis2care

https://www.facebook.com/oasis2care/

http://www.sexologypodcast.com/

drmoali@oasis2care.com

Other Resources:

https://www.aasect.org/referral-directory

Better Sex Through Mindfulness: How Women Can Cultivate Desire - Dr. Lori Brotto

In this podcast, Dr. Viado and Dr. Moali discuss:

Why one might seek a sex therapist
Mindfulness and its influence on our sex lives
Brakes and Accelerators: the dual control model of sexuality
Self-image in sex

101: Re-visioning Aging: The Treasures of Later Life Jan 23, 2019

“We become women of all seasons.”

Our culture often associates negativity with aging. We dread what may come with age, despite mounting evidence that our worse fears are less likely than we think. Dr. Susan Stewart began examining this contradiction after encountering some rather heartening messages in myths, folktales, psychology, and gerontology that just encourage us to embrace and even look forward to the winter of our lives. Join Dr. Viado this week as she and Dr. Stewart discuss negative cultural messaging; the different dimensions of aging; and our lives in review.

Dr. Susan Stewart has been a Professor of Psychology for over thirty years (now emerita) at Sonoma State University, and is a retired therapist and a grandmother to four. She earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the age 26 and was a Marriage and Family Therapist for many years.

Her exploration of aging began in 2000 as she immersed herself into the myths and folktales after a series of encounters with the word crone. In place of the wicked and ugly portrayals she expected to find, she discovered some very inspiring old women.

She was compelled to share her discoveries after finding that gerontologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, and others were describing similar discoveries in late life development. She began to spread the word about the under-appreciated gifts of age in her classes, papers, presentations, and workshops. On the eve of turning 70, she completed Winter’s Graces: The Surprising Gifts of Later Life in which she weaves together folktales, themes from the world’s wisdom and spiritual traditions, current findings in gerontology and other fields, stories of her own and those of other older women, and characters of film - all of which reflect late-life qualities like contentment, agelessness, simplicity, and fierceness.

When she’s not enjoying the company of her four grandchildren, singing, dancing or playing her cello, Susan continues to make presentations and offer workshops on the gifts of late life. She is most passionate about sharing the gifts of late life in a culture that mistakenly equates old age with debilitating decline. She has found that stories, along with recent research; visual images of elders; and the opportunity for participants to reflect on and share their own attitudes and experiences of aging, are a potent mixture.

To find more information about Dr. Stewart:

https://wintersgraces.com/

https://wintersgraces.com/blog/

https://www.facebook.com/susanaverystewart/

In This Episode, Dr. Viado and Dr. Susan Stewart Discuss:

The True Story of the Crone
The Winter of Life
The Role of Elders in American Culture
Changes in the Perception of Chronological Age

100: Rediscovering the Wild Woman Archetype Jan 16, 2019

“To move toward that more wild feminine nature within the culture, and within our own psyches, and within the world...that wild feminine, it is so paradoxical and so confusing and it doesn’t want to be pursuing clarity and definition, it represents the opposite of that. It’s not an easy movement toward anything that represents that more lunar or feminine consciousness because it does mean a movement toward the uncertain and the unknown. It takes courage, a lot of courage.”

For the 100th episode of Women In Depth, we’ve returned to our roots in a discussion with Dr. Stacey Shelby about the wild woman archetype and her bewildering and beautiful manifestation in our lives.

Dr. Stacey Shelby is an author, speaker, educator and depth psychotherapist. She holds a Masters and Ph.D. in Depth Psychology with a specialization in Jungian and Archetypal Studies. She teaches the psychology of romantic love at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. Dr. Shelby works with adults in various stages of personal transformation online and in person out of a thriving clinical practice in Squamish, British Columbia. She specializes in the symbolic language of the soul and aims to honor the soul as it presents itself in the lived experience of daily life.

To Keep up with Dr. Shelby:

http://drstaceyshelby.com/

https://www.facebook.com/DrStaceyShelby

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-stacey-shelby-ph-d-rcc-8b249560/

https://twitter.com/stacey0shelby

In this podcast, Dr. Viado and Dr. Shelby discuss:

The manifestation of the Wild Woman archetype
Recovering what feels lost
Navigating confusing changes in relationships and sexuality
Marrying opposite archetypes within our psyche in pursuit of balance

099: Living with and Moving Beyond Chronic Pain Jan 09, 2019

"Of course we want pain to end, absolutely, but paradoxically, the fastest way to get through this is to get through it, is to be in it, to be with it...What we want to do is imagine that pain has a positive purpose, that there’s a reason that pain has shown up. It’s trying to show us something and in a sense, really, it’s a signal and it’s a messenger whether it’s emotional or physical, but it’s part of us trying to ask for help, it’s part of us - in this sense, it’s the feeling of us trying to heal something. It’s that part of us that says 'I need help, I’m out of whack here, I’m out of balance, you need to pay attention to me.'"

11.2% of American adults experience some form of pain, often at severe levels every day and have for the previous three months. A 2006 survey from the American Pain Foundation found that the vast majority of pain sufferers feel they have no control over their pain, that it severely impacts their quality of life, while 77% of the participants surveyed reported feeling depressed. Chronic pain can cause both mental health struggles, trouble in interpersonal relationships and feelings of powerlessness or and loss of identity.

When Sarah Anne Shockley was diagnosed with Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, her entire life changed. Due to acute, chronic pain, she found herself fighting and enduring every day for years. What began as a battle became a journey of understanding and redefining pain for in the hopes of healing and ultimately living a fuller life. Sarah is the author of The Pain Companion: Everyday Wisdom For Living With and Moving Beyond Chronic Pain. She has been a columnist for Pain News Network and is a regular contributor to The Mighty. Sarah is a multiple award-winning producer and director of educational films, including Dancing From The Inside Out. She has also worked in high-tech management, as a corporate trainer, and teaching undergraduate and graduate business administration. She currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

In This Podcast, Dr. Viado and Sarah Shockley Discuss:

Sarah’s experience with Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
Experiencing pain in a pain avoidant society
Changing our mindset to sit beside pain
Viewing pain like a wounded animal
How to support a loved one in pain

Links

https://www.thepaincompanion.com/

https://www.facebook.com/thepaincompanion

https://twitter.com/thpaincompanion

https://linkedin.com/in/sarahshockley

Book

http://a.co/0FrMWKp

098: Purifying Our Living Spaces Dec 14, 2018

“It’s really about approaching ourselves with love and compassion and approaching the stuff with love and compassion. It’s not the enemy. There’s nothing wrong with the stuff, it’s just getting real with ourselves and going ‘Do I want to keep carrying this? Is it time?’”

In a culture that simultaneously prioritizes materialism and organization, our accumulated belongings can become unmanageable.

As she confronted stagnant energy in the form of her own clutter, Michael Spencer unearthed a new, soulful approach to the flourishing minimalism movement. Using her background as a mental health counselor, Michael developed and founded Let’s Purify, an online service dedicated to purifying our living spaces, personal energy, and the planet. Let’s Purify helps people release attachment to accumulated belongings and experience greater freedom.

In this podcast, Dr. Viado and Michael Spencer discuss:

The five components of home energy purification
The difference between “purging” and energy purification
Confronting sentimental objects and objects we feel we should be sentimental about
Getting honest with ourselves about attachments to our objects

Links:

https://letspurify.energy/ https://www.facebook.com/letspurify/ https://www.instagram.com/letspurify/

097: Weight Discrimination and Disordered Eating Nov 30, 2018

“I have a body but I am also more than my body and you know, there’s this whole other rich world inside of me called the soul.”

Jodie Gale’s work surrounding bodies and food began long before her training as a soul-centered psychotherapist, counselor and eating disorder therapist. Jodie’s path stems from her own recovery from bulimia, addiction and childhood interpersonal trauma.

These days, Jodie works with women seeking to recover from body image problems, yo-yo dieting, chronic dieting and eating disorders from a soulful and holistic perspective. Jodie holds a BA of Social Work from University of Sydney, an MA in Psychotherapy from Middlesex University, and an Eating Disorder Coach Certification from the Carolyn Costin Insitute. Jodie practices counseling, psychotherapy, clinical supervision and private practice business coaching out of the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia and offers sessions via Skype.

This week Jodie and Dr. Viado resume their conversation about disordered eating and recovery specifically through the lens of internal and external weight discrimination. To find more information about Jodie and her work, please see:

https://jodiegale.com/ https://jodiegale.com/soul-sessions/

To find Jodie’s previous episode: https://lourdesviado.com/09-disordered-eating-a-search-for-wholeness-with-jodie-gale/

096: Technology and Boundaries: Parenting in the Digital Era Nov 15, 2018

“We have, at best, sort of this view of technology as a benign thing in our lives. And at best, this kind of projection on technology, that it’s really what makes or breaks modern life...Most people are floored once they really do the tally and become more aware of how incredibly engaged they are and how incredibly time-consuming their personal electronics are in their lives.”

As unique obstacles of modern times go, negotiating personal device use tops the list. The challenge becomes even more difficult as our children progress from early childhood into pre-teen and teen years and the issues of social media, video games and screen time escalate.

Dr. Anders Beier is the co-founder and COO of the London-based non-profit The Centre for Technology Awareness. He also holds an MA in counseling from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA and a Ph.D. in Jungian Studies from Saybrook University in San Francisco. He works with couples and individuals on treating depression, anxiety and life changes near Aspen, Colorado. This week Dr. Viado and Dr. Beier resume their discussion about technology, focusing specifically on navigating the complications of parenting in the information age; brain chemistry changes with technology use; and developing boundaries with personal devices for our kids and ourselves.

To listen to Dr. Beier’s last conversation with Dr. Viado please see Episode 28: The Shadow of Technology: https://lourdesviado.com/28-the-shadow-of-technology-with-dr-anders-beier-lpc/

To keep up with Dr. Anders Beier, please visit: http://beiertherapy.com http://technologyawareness.org

Other Resources: CDC’s Differences by Sex in Association of Mental Health With Video Gaming or Other Nonacademic Computer Use Among US Adolescents: https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2017/17_0151.htm Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain - Daniel Seigel: https://www.drdansiegel.com/books/brainstorm/ iDisorder Understanding Our Obsession with Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us - Dr. Larry Rosen: http://drlarryrosen.com/2011/03/idisorder

93: Menopause - Catalyst for a Healthier Lifestyle Oct 18, 2018

“I don’t know that we’re in a culture that supports a woman taking care of herself first, it’s really something that needs to be taught and I think probably the biggest thing that needs to be taught is self love and self compassion. I think we know how to be compassionate toward other people but I don’t think we know how to use compassion on ourselves, how to be kind to ourselves.” Dr. Deb Butler is a board certified chiropractor and acupuncturist, a certified nutritionist and master life and weight loss coach who helps women from all walks of life going through menopause end their struggle with weight. Dr. Deb Butler utilizes a blend of brain science, nutrition, physiology, life coaching and life lessons to help clients embrace real weight loss starting from the inside. When her lifelong struggle with her weight collided with the arrival of menopause, Dr. Deb realized how misguided her perception of both had been all along. Through research, courses and plenty of exploration, she has constructed a program to reframe how one views weight, balance and oneself. Join us this week as Dr. Deb shares how you can improve your weight and your life for good! You can learn more about Dr. Deb Butler at:

https://drdebbutler.com/

https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/thinner-peace-in-menopause/id1097852666

https://www.facebook.com/drdebbutler/

92: Reconnecting with Our Creativity Oct 04, 2018

“We have to be much more allowing of ourselves, allowing ourselves to try things out and make mistakes and that’s so crucial - Can we allow ourselves to make mistakes? And maybe use the mistakes to take us on a different journey?” Emma Cameron could reasonably be describing talk therapy or the practice of our creative energy but she is actually talking about both. How do we recover our creativity? How does the disconnection happen in the first place? How can we benefit from the practice of creativity in therapy and our lives? Join us this week as Emma discusses the role of creativity and creation in our journey toward self discovery. Emma Cameron is a registered Integrative Arts Psychotherapist based in Essex, England. She works in private practice and online with women who want to connect to their deepest creative self and heal from anxiety and trauma. Emma has a Masters degree in Integrative Art Psychotherapy and she is a HCPC registered Art Psychotherapist. Emma paints, draws and has been practicing art for many years. Through 2017 Emma’s work was featured in ‘Contemporary Masters from Britain’, an exhibition touring major art galleries in China; next year she will be exhibiting paintings in Poland and the UK. Learn more about Emma and her work at:

www.emmacameron.com

https://twitter.com/EmmaCameronArts

https://www.facebook.com/emmacameronarts/

91: The Heroine's Journey: The Call to Transformation Sep 27, 2018

“...A universal path, a divine feminine path and...a universal quest for adventure, for transformation, for self discovery.” This is how awardwinning writer, teacher and consultant Janet Lucy, M.A defines the heroine’s journey. But why does it matter? In what stages does it occur and how can we identify them? Join us as Janet elaborates on the heroine’s journey, discovering one’s inner voice and courageously pursuing the path inward.

As the founder and director of Women’s Creative Network, Janet facilitates creative and professional development through writing workshops. She is also the author of The Three Sunflowers, a children’s book for all ages and the co-author of Moon Mother, Moon Daughter ~ Myths and Rituals That Celebrate a Girl’s Coming of Age. Janet holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from Antioch University and a California Teaching Credential from UC Santa Barbara. She offers individual consulting and counseling, weekly groups and international writing retreats in Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru and Italy.

Look up for an upcoming episode of Women in Depth with Janet Lucy and Terri Allison, Janet’s co-author in Moon Mother, Moon Daughter. Learn more and keep up with Janet at: https://www.facebook.com/janetklucy http://www.janetlucyink.com

90: Top 10 Most Downloaded Episodes Sep 07, 2018

The Women In-Depth podcast will be taking a one month break from releasing new episodes. I am looking forward to rest and relaxation and time with loved ones. The podcast will be back on schedule the third or fourth week of September. In the meantime, if you haven't heard them yet, here are the top 10 most downloaded episodes of Women In-Depth!

1. Episode 11: Childhood Emotional Neglect: The Invisible Experience with Dr. Jonice Webb 2. Episode 62: After Childhood Emotional Neglect: Healing Your Relationships with Your Partner, Children, & Parents 3. Episode 88: Parenting the Highly Sensitive Child with Julie Bjelland, LMFT 4. Episode 63: Gifts & Challenges of the Highly Sensitive Person 5. Episode 1: Getting to the Heart of Loneliness with Sabrina Santa Clara 6. Episode 76: Set Yourself Free: Cutting Ties with Toxic People with Dr. Ashlee Greer 7. Episode 87: Busyness and the Overscheduled Woman with Yvonne Tally 8. Episode 8: Shadow Work: The Inner Journey with Keri Nola 9. Episode 68: Understanding & Healing Codependency with Sharon Martin, LCSW 10. Episode 85: How Childhood Emotional Neglect Impacts Professional Life with Erika Martinez, PsyD

89: The Divine Mind & The Evolution of Consciousness with Michael Gellert Jul 26, 2018

Michael Gellert is a Jungian psychoanalyst practicing in Los Angeles and Pasadena. He treats individuals and couples and offers a Jungian Writing Workshop.

Michael was formerly Director of Training at the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and a humanities professor at Vanier College, Montreal. He managed an employee assistance program for the City of New York and has been a mental health consultant for the University of Southern California and Time magazine.

Michael was educated in rabbinic Judaism; studied theology at Loyola College, Montreal; and trained with the renowned Zen master Koun Yamada in Japan for two years.

He is the author of Modern Mysticism and The Fate of America (for which he received a letter of appreciation from Bill Clinton; and which was also given to Barack Obama by one of his advisors). He also authored The Way of the Small which was recognized by The Center for Spirituality & Practice as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2007.

His new book is The Divine Mind: Exploring the Psychological History of God’s Inner Journey.

88: Parenting the Highly Sensitive Child with Julie Bjelland, LMFT Jul 12, 2018

Julie Bjelland is a licensed psychotherapist and author of several books, including, Brain Training for the Highly Sensitive Person: Techniques to Reduce Anxiety and Overwhelming Emotions.

In addition to her private practice, Julie also developed and teaches innovative online global brain-training courses for the “Highly Sensitive Person” (HSP) trait; is a consultant and supervisor to other therapists; teaches workshops; coaches HSPs globally; and consults with parents regarding their highly sensitive children.

Recognized for her expertise in the Sensory Processing Sensitivity trait, she is a featured guest expert on Dr. Rick Hanson’s Foundation of Well-Being Program.

Her passion is helping people live their best lives and thrive. Julie also specializes in working with anxiety, communication training, self-esteem, and the LGBTQQ community.

Julie is an HSP herself and the mother of two highly sensitive children.

For full show notes visit www.womenindepth.com

87: Busyness and the Overscheduled Woman with Yvonne Tally Jun 28, 2018

Yvonne Tally is the author of Breaking Up with Busy: Real Life Solutions for Over Scheduled Women. She is an NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) master practitioner, and leads meditation and de-stressing programs for corporations, individuals, and private groups in Silicon Valley.

Yvonne is the cofounder of Poised Inc., a Pilates and wellness training studio, and is the founder of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Scarves, a charity that provides headscarves to cancer patients. She lives in Northern California.

For full show notes visit www.womenindepth.com

86: Reflections on Fatherhood in the 21st Century with Sean Fitzpatrick, PhD, LPC Jun 14, 2018

Sean Fitzpatrick, PhD, LPC, holds master's degrees in religious studies (Rice University) and clinical psychology (University of Houston - Clear Lake) and received his doctorate in psychology through Saybrook University's program in Jungian studies. Sean is a psychotherapist in private practice and has been employed at The Jung Center since 1997. His research interests include the intersection of psychology and spirituality, ethics and the imagination, and vicarious trauma and the self-care needs of helping professionals and social service providers. He is a senior fellow of the American Leadership Forum and serves on the boards of the Houston Museum District Association and the Network of Behavioral Health Providers.

For full show notes visit www.womenindepth.com

85: How Childhood Emotional Neglect Impacts Professional Life with Erika Martinez, PsyD May 31, 2018

Erika Martinez, PsyD. is the founder, owner of Envision Wellness in Miami, Florida. A Florida licensed psychologist and certified educator, she specializes in combining her expertise in assessment, trauma, and shame resilience to address a variety of mental health conditions experienced by young professionals and entrepreneurs, such as anxiety/stress, burnout, limiting beliefs, people-pleasing, self-worth, heartbreak, and toxic relationships/codependency.

Dr. Martinez has a passion for helping others cultivate self-awareness and confidence so they can lead achieve happy and meaningful lives that make the world a better place.

For full show notes visit www.womenindepth.com

84: The Highly Sensitive Mother with Julie Bjelland, LMFT May 17, 2018

Julie Bjelland is a licensed psychotherapist and author of several books, including, Brain Training for the Highly Sensitive Person: Techniques to Reduce Anxiety and Overwhelming Emotions.

In addition to her private practice, Julie also developed and teaches innovative online global brain-training courses for the “Highly Sensitive Person” (HSP) trait; is a consultant and supervisor to other therapists; teaches workshops; coaches HSPs globally; and consults with parents regarding their highly sensitive children.

Recognized for her expertise in the Sensory Processing Sensitivity trait, she is a featured guest expert on Dr. Rick Hanson’s Foundation of Well-Being Program.

Her passion is helping people live their best lives and thrive. Julie also specializes in working with anxiety, communication training, self-esteem, and the LGBTQQ community.

Julie is an HSP herself and the mother of two highly sensitive children.

For full show notes visit www.womenindepth.com

83: Mental Wellness For Moms with Alicia Taverner, LMFT May 10, 2018

Alicia Taverner is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (#50414) with a Bachelor's Degree in Speech Communications from the University of La Verne, and a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University.

Alicia has contributed to several online and print magazines and podcasts, and has a regular spot on a local radio show as a relationship expert.

Alicia specializes in helping women find the calm within the storm of some of the most difficult relationship struggles such as infidelity, divorce, and postpartum anxiety and depression.

She is also a trained Discernment Counselor, and helps couples explore options for continuing their relationship despite some very heavy challenges. She resides in Southern CA with her husband and three children.

For full show notes visit www.womenindepth.com

82: New Moms: Remembering Your Authentic Voice with Melissa Divaris Thompson, MFT May 03, 2018

Melissa Divaris Thompson is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a private practice in New York City, seeing primarily women in their 20s and 30s, pregnant women, and new moms.

As a holistic and depth-oriented therapist, Melissa’s role is to support clients in finding wholeness — mind, body, and spirit — creating more joy, ease, and healthy relationships. She helps clients remember their empowered, authentic voice and “tap back into” their true selves.

Melissa co-founded Honest Mamas to help support women emotionally and spiritually on the motherhood journey.

81: Mindful Grieving with Diane Rodriguez Apr 27, 2018

Diane D. Rodriguez, known affectionately as Dee Dee Rodriguez, is a registered mental health counselor intern with a private practice in Melbourne, Florida. With a passion for grief care, education and advocacy she can often be heard saying that she helps the bereaved heal their matters of their heart, mind, body and soul as they discover meaningful living despite everyday grieving. She holds a Master of Science in Counseling and Psychology with a focus on clinical mental health and a certification in addictions counseling. Her undergrad is in social psychology and she has a long history of working with families with children diagnosed with childhood cancer, is an avid bone marrow donor advocate and volunteered providing 11th hour services in adult hospice care. Diane is married to her high school sweetheart of 30+ years, has four children and is a blue star wife, mom and a gold star cousin.

Her grief specialty focuses on traumatic and sudden loss, child loss, parental loss and the loss of a spouse or significant other. In her couples work she helps couples who struggle with grief recovery from infidelity and betrayals. Her vision is to create a culture where grief care is embraced empathetically and compassionately; so that grief illiteracy and avoidance is replaced with compassionate connections that nourish a life in alignment with each individual’s authentic wellbeing.

80: Internal Family Systems: Parts In Parenting with Gina Abbeduto, LCPC, C-IFST Apr 19, 2018

Gina Abbeduto has been in the helping professions for the last 20 years, working as a psychotherapist and teaching psychology. Her work as a therapist revolves around the belief that clients are the experts in their own lives.

After earning her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Law & Society from Purdue University in 1995, she completed my Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from Benedictine University in 1998. Since that time, she has practiced in various settings, including a psychiatric hospital, community mental health center, partial hospitalization programs, and private practice. She also taught undergraduate psychology at Benedictine University and graduate psychology at Lewis University and facilitated training programs for Job Corps in Joliet, Illinois.

With her move from Chicago at the end of 2011, she brought fourteen years of expertise with effective, non-pathologizing models such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, mindfulness-infused models which offer clients the gift of embracing the power to change and create new meaning in their lives.

79: Living In Courage After Loss with Debra Oakland Apr 05, 2018

Debra Oakland is a Courage Advocate, Writer, Joyful Experiences, and founder of Living in Courage Online – A Spiritual Oasis for Overcoming Life’s Biggest Challenges and author of Change Your Movie, Change Your Life: 7 Reel Concepts for Courageous Change. Over a period of 4 years Debra experienced multiple losses: she lost her 21 year old son, her baby girl in the 8th month of pregnancy, both brothers, and her father. The loss experienced during this time was life - altering and illuminated a path forward that Debra never saw coming. Debra’s work since that point has been to share her story of courage and strength. Showing people that in the midst of immense tragedy, there are silver linings, and we each have own path to fearlessness. By sharing experiences in and around courage, we have the opportunity to make a powerful difference in our lives. Debra lives in Laguna Beach California with her husband and best-friend, Cody.

Full show notes available at www.lourdesviado.com

78: After Infidelity: Healing for the Offender with Beth Luwandi Lofstrom, MA, LPC Mar 29, 2018

Beth Luwandi Lofstrom, MA, LPC is a licensed psychotherapist and Life Coach in private practice in Cincinnati, Ohio. She works with couples and individuals experiencing betrayal, loss, and relationship tangles. Her Whole Human Theory (TM) suggests that a

77: Manhood, Masculinity, & Meaning with Boysen Hodgson Mar 22, 2018

Welcome to the podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Boysen Hodgson. Boysen is the Communications and Marketing Director for the ManKind Project USA, a nonprofit mentoring and training organization that offers powerful opportunities for men’s personal growth at any stage of life.

Boysen has been facilitating men’s work for nearly a decade. He’s a co-founder of the Springfield Open Men’s Group, former Director for the New England ManKind Project Center, and author of “The New Macho,” a credo for the new masculine. Boysen has been featured in numerous radio programs and publications including a New Conversation with Men, Good Men Project, Dallas Voice, and the Sunday Times of London.

Boysen received his BA with Honors from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, after completing 2 years of Design coursework at Cornell University. He has been helping organizations and individuals design the change they wish to see in the world for 15 years. He’s a dedicated husband, a cyclist, and an urban homesteader.

Full show notes available at www.lourdesviado.com

76: Set Yourself Free: Cutting Ties with Toxic People Mar 08, 2018

Ashlee teaches highly sensitive empathetic women to live a "hell yes" life where they leave the shoulds behind. Her clients learn to live a passion-filled, turned-on, lit-up life where everything is possible, and to connect with their own intuitive genius.

She helps her clients stop prioritizing other people's opinions; to give themselves permission to go after their own desires; to be deeply self-expressed, self-confident, and vibrant; and to release the limiting beliefs that have made them feel selfish or self-centered for putting themselves first in the past.

She has her Ph.D. in psychology, is powerfully psychic, and has over a decade of experience helping hundreds of people transform to feeling passionate, vibrant, fulfilled, and joyful.

Full show notes available at www.lourdesviado.com

75: Demystifying Medical Marijuana with Dr. Rachna Patel Feb 22, 2018

Dr. Rachna Patel has been practicing in the area of Medical Marijuana for half-a-decade now - since 2012.

She step-by-step walks patients through how to use medical marijuana for their specific medical condition without getting high off of it, without getting addicted to it, and without smoking it.

She speaks from the experience of having treated thousands of patients and having thoroughly reviewed the medical research on marijuana.

She completed her medical studies at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine (Vallejo, California) and her undergraduate studies at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois).

You can learn more about the work she does at www.DrRachnaPatel.com

What conditions do you commonly treat?

What results have you seen in the patients that you've treated with medical marijuana?

How exactly does marijuana relieve pain?

How does marijuana reduce inflammation?

How is it possible to use medical marijuana without getting high off it?

Are there ways to use medical marijuana other than smoking it?

Is marijuana addictive?
Who should not use medical marijuana?

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Why I Decided to Become a Medical Marijuana Doctor

Q&A about medical marijuana

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73: Dating & Relating Insights with Dalila Jusic-LaBerge, LMFT Feb 08, 2018

Welcome to the Podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Dalila Jusic-LaBerge, LMFT. Dalila specializes in working with accomplished women, who yearn for love but feel lost in romantic relationships. She helps them heal, connect to their own emotions, develop intuition, and be ready to connect on a deeper emotional level with loved ones.

Dalila is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, with an MA degree in Clinical Psychology with Emphasis on Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University. Prior to her graduate work in clinical psychology, she attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she completed her BA in psychology and worked in research involving health psychology. She has been practicing in this field for over nine years.

Born and raised overseas, she has traveled around the world and met many people from different cultures. She came to the United States, where she completed her formal higher education and training. Her diverse life experience taught her that happiness is a skill and it can be learned and practiced daily. She loves working with divorced women, helping them grow to become their true self from where they can enjoy loving and respectful relationships.

Full show notes available at www.lourdesviado.com

73: Dating & Relating Insights with Dalila Jusic-LaBerge, LMFT Feb 08, 2018

Welcome to the Podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Dalila Jusic-LaBerge, LMFT. Dalila specializes in working with accomplished women, who yearn for love but feel lost in romantic relationships. She helps them heal, connect to their own emotions, develop intuition, and be ready to connect on a deeper emotional level with loved ones.

Dalila is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, with an MA degree in Clinical Psychology with Emphasis on Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University. Prior to her graduate work in clinical psychology, she attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she completed her BA in psychology and worked in research involving health psychology. She has been practicing in this field for over nine years.

Born and raised overseas, she has traveled around the world and met many people from different cultures. She came to the United States, where she completed her formal higher education and training. Her diverse life experience taught her that happiness is a skill and it can be learned and practiced daily. She loves working with divorced women, helping them grow to become their true self from where they can enjoy loving and respectful relationships.

Full show notes available at www.lourdesviado.com

72: Awakening the Divine Masculine with Marilyn Steele, PhD Feb 01, 2018

Welcome to the Podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Marilyn Steele, PhD. Marilyn is a Jungian psychologist, author, speaker, and painter. Her work is dedicated to helping women access their wild feminine and return wild feminine power to the world.

Marilyn has worked with hundreds of patients and students in her 30 years as a Jungian psychotherapist and teacher, in their journeys of healing and learning - to connect with their wild souls to restore vitality, renew creativity, replenish joy.

As a writer and speaker, she has woven a new story of the Self from her thirty years of original research into women’s lives, feminist epistemology, new science, and Jungian archetypal psychology.

Marilyn’s career began with education, and progressed to psychology, art, writing and speaking. She completed her Master’s of Education from The Raskob Institute in 1979 and worked with gifted adolescents with learning disabilities. She later returned to school for her Master’s and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA, concentrating on female psychology and the evolution of consciousness.

During her career as a Jungian psychologist, Marilyn also taught at graduate schools and provided continuing education for psychotherapists on the topics of female psychology and re-visioning the self.

Full show notes available at www.lourdesviado.com

71: Understanding the Childfree Woman with Robyn D’Angelo, LMFT Jan 25, 2018

Welcome to the podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Robyn D'Angelo, LMFT, the founder of The Happy Couple Expert private practice in Orange County, California. Robyn helps frustrated and disconnected couples and singles learn to LOVE + BE LOVED, better. She walks them through how to connect deeply while creating space for fun. Robyn is a relationship expert for couples and individuals and a California licensed Marriage + Family Therapist. She is a highly sensitive individual, devoted wife to a U.S. Navy veteran and childfree woman. After working in the fast-paced world of marketing for six years, she was ready for a change. After some deep soul-searching and following her inner compass, she was led into a Masters program in Marriage and Family Therapy in San Diego, CA. Robyn helps couples master the messiness of couple-hood together and create their very own epic relationships that last. Her unique blend of traditional psychotherapy, neuroscience and educating lends to her #LoveGeek meets #BrainGeek title. She believes in the power of kindness, science + good old fashioned romance. Robyn’s clinical work and/or writing has been featured on: PsychCentral.com, MSN.com, DINKSInternational.com, HuffingtonPost, and she has been a guest on The Big Change of Heart Podcast, Coaching Through Chaos Podcast, and The Couples Expert Podcast and more. Full show notes available at www.lourdesviado.com

Episode 70: Parenting Through Addiction: The Other PTA with Ginny Mills, MA Ed, LPC-S, LCAS Jan 18, 2018

Welcome to the podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Ginny Mills, a specialist in the field of addiction treatment who runs Parenting Through Addiction, the other PTA. An affordable, accessible, convenient online way for parents to learn about substance use and how to address it at all stages on the journey. Ginny Mills is a Licensed Processional Counselor Supervisor and a Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist . She is also a parent of a daughter in recovery, recovery advocate and believer that a full life in recovery can be a reality! Ginny has been counseling with adults, adolescents, and parents and leading relapse prevention groups for over 25 years. She is the founder of Full Life Counseling & Recovery since its inception in 2008. Recognizing just how many parents lack access to hope, education, consultation and support, she developed Parenting Through Addiction: The Other PTA to meet that need for families everywhere. Through her membership website she offers free and paid plans, offering education and consultation about addiction, as well as access to a community of concerned and loving parents. PTA is a reliable source of information, a preventive measure, and an alternative to treatment clinics. Parenting Through Addiction allows us to seek guidance before our children are ready to face their troubles. We don't have to wait until our loved ones have hit rock bottom before we can begin to help them! Full show notes available at - lourdesviado.com/womenindepth

Episode 69: Exercise Resistance Syndrome with Francie White MS, RD Jan 12, 2018

Welcome to the podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Francie White, MS RD, an expert in the field of eating, exercise and body image disorders, both as a theorist and a practitioner. She is the co-founder of the Central Coast Treatment Center in San Louis Obispo and surrounding areas, where she recently created a brand new treatment program for Binge Eating Disorder and related overeating problems. With a bachelors degree in Health Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara; a masters degree in Nutrition Science from the University of California at Davis; and a Registered Dietitian license, Francie began a large private practice with a physician in Santa Barbara, California in 1985. Francie combined forces with psychiatrists, psychologists, licensed therapists and social workers to cross-pollinate through multidisciplinary efforts and create the roots of what was then an emerging specialty – one which recognized the myriad of eating and exercise symptoms as messengers of the toxic climate of our time. Early on, Francie teamed up with best selling author, Geneen Roth and had the privilege of leading thousands of overeaters through Breaking Free from Emotional Eating workshops, inspiring Francie to create her own theories on overeating and eventually on Exercise Resistance Syndrome. She published the first description of exercise resistance syndrome in Women’s Health Issues Journal in 1996, and has continued to treat women and train professionals using her specific inquiry process and formula for treatment. Twenty years ago, Francie White created a workshop company to host Jungian- psychology based retreats and professional trainings for women, called Tending the Feminine Psyche. Francie is currently a PhD candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies. For more information, and a free summary handout of her Exercise Resistance & Recovery e-book, go to www.franciewhite.com or email her at franciewhite2@gmail.com. Full show notes available at - lourdesviado.com/womenindepth

Episode 68: Understanding & Healing Codependency with Sharon Martin, LCSW Jan 05, 2018

Welcome to the podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Sharon Martin, LCSW. Sharon is a licensed psychotherapist, writer, speaker, and media contributor on emotional health and relationships. Her psychotherapy practice in San Jose, CA specialises in helping individuals overcome codependency and perfectionism, and learn to accept and love themselves. Sharon started her career as a psychotherapist working with the neediest members of our community -- those struggling with addiction, mental illness, homelessness, legal and family problems. With 20 years of experience counseling and studying human behavior and mindset, Sharon created a personal development website that provides self-improvement tools using positive psychology, mindfulness, self-compassion, and healthy habits. Full show notes available at - lourdesviado.com/womenindepth

Episode 67: Top 6 Women In-Depth Podcasts for Binge & Emotional Eating Dec 01, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today’s episode will be a little different, because I am not interviewing everyone else, it will just be me. I am delighted to share the top 6 Women In-Depth podcasts for binge and emotional eating, as put together in a blog post by my dear friend and colleague Jodie Gale. Jodie has a private practice in Sydney, Australia and is a Soul-Centred Psychotherapist, Eating Psychology Specialist, and leading specialist in women’s emotional, psychological and spiritual health and well-being. A few quick announcements: *I’m very excited to share that Women in-Depth has been downloaded over a 110,000 times in over 130 countries! It’s incredibly moving and humbling to see how the podcast has grown and is making a difference in the lives of listeners. Thank you so much for your support in this process; and for listening and sharing the podcast. *I’m taking a much needed break from releasing any new episodes until after the New Year. This is something I plan to do twice a year to rest, recharge, spend time with the family and get into a creative space for planning future episodes. Finally, Meeting Your Shadow, a five day self-guided exploration of shadow, will be available at a discounted Holiday rate until December 31st, 2017 at 11:59 (Pacific Standard Time). Full show notes available at - lourdesviado.com/womenindepth

Episode 66: The Dark Truths of Successful Relationships with Jake Thiessen, PhD Nov 24, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Jake Thiessen, PhD, a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist with a private practice in Lemoyne, Pennsylvania.

Jake’s orientation to psychotherapy is existential and experiential. What that means is that he believes the most productive focus of therapy is on the here-and-now as opposed to the there-and-then. Granted, we are all, in many ways, the product of our history. As a result, it is often important to explore events from the past.

Gathering information about the past and the patterns of behavior that were established then can be very useful and informative. But, the only place we can affect change is in the present. So, his primary interest is in how one experiences one's self and others in the present.

Although he frequently works with individuals, Jake’s primary interest is in relationship difficulties. As humans, we are essentially relational and emotional beings. Because of this, he works with couples whenever possible.

Jake believes change occurs most efficiently in the context of an intimate relationship where we have an opportunity to feel accepted just as we are. Most of us want to feel that no matter how messed up we are, we are still lovable and deserve respect. Psychotherapy offers a safe environment to address those things that keep us from feeling loved and respected.

Full show notes available at - lourdesviado.com/womenindepth

Episode 65: Stress & The Resilient Brain with Melanie Greenberg PhD Nov 10, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Melanie Greenberg PhD, who is a practicing psychologist, author, speaker, and life/business coach, with more than 20 years of experience as a clinician, professor, and researcher.

A recognized expert on stress management, and health and relationship challenges, she draws on neuroscience, mindfulness, and positive psychology in her work, blending science with mindful wisdom and heart-based compassion practices. Melanie seeks to educate, support, heal, and inspire her clients helping them to realize their full potential.

She is the author of The Stress-Proof Brain (New Harbinger) – an Amazon bestseller in Neuropsychology, Stress-Management, and Health. She also writes The Mindful Self-Express blog, which has over 8 million page views, for Psychology Today.

Melanie has delivered talks and workshops to national and international audiences, businesses, non-profits, and professional organizations such as the American Psychological Association and The Bay Club, A popular media expert, she has been featured on CNN, Forbes, BBC radio, ABC News, Yahoo, Lifehacker, and the Huffington Post, as well as in Business Insider, Self, Redbook, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Fitness Magazine, Women’s Day, and Marie Claire.

She has also been interviewed on numerous radio shows and podcasts. With almost 50,000 followers, Melanie was named one of the 30 Most Prominent Psychologists to follow on Twitter by the British Psychological Association.

Full show notes available at - https://lourdesviado.com/womenindepth

Episode 64: My New Normal: Life After Chronic Illness/Partial Remission Nov 03, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I am delighted to welcome back Daniela Paolone, who is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who practices in Westlake Village, CA.

Daniela specializes in supporting people living with chronic pain, illness, anxiety, and depression. Their unique challenges aren’t understood by those who haven’t experienced these issues. She’s here to deepen our understanding and awareness, because many of us have loved ones who are facing these challenges.

Daniela has worked as a therapist for the past seven years in many settings. That includes working at a non-profit agency, in schools, and in private practice.

Full show notes available at - lourdesviado.com/womenindepth

Episode 63: Gifts & Challenges of the Highly Sensitive Person Oct 27, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Julie Bjelland, LMFT.

Julie specializes in working with the highly sensitive person (HSP), anxiety, couple's communication, self-esteem, and the LGBTQ community.

Her passion and expertise is in neuroscience and determining how to successfully train the brain so people can live their best lives. Her most recent book Brain Training for the Highly Sensitive Person: Techniques to Reduce Anxiety and Overwhelming Emotions, has received beautiful reviews from world-renowned psychologists Tara Brach, PhD, Rick Hanson, PhD, and Ted Zeff, PhD.

As a licensed psychotherapist in California, Julie enjoys working with clients in her private practice and continues to expand her work by developing online brain-training courses; coaching the highly sensitive person globally; supervising interns; serving as a consultant to mental health professionals; working with parents of highly sensitive children; and serving on the advisory council for global sensitive leaders.

Julie loves her work and uses her deeply intuitive and empathetic abilities to truly connect with clients and students and to support them in getting to know and celebrate their authentic selves. It’s beautiful to be a part of the change that helps people live remarkably better lives.

Full show notes available at - lourdesviado.com/womenindepth

Episode 62: After Childhood Emotional Neglect: Healing Your Relationships with Your Partner, Children, & Parents Oct 20, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Dr. Jonice Webb.

Dr. Webb has been a licensed psychologist since 1991, and has worked in a variety of different settings over the course of her career, including a psychiatric emergency service and substance abuse programs. She has been the Director of several large outpatient clinics. For the past eight years, she has been enjoying her private practice in Lexington, Massachusetts, specializing in the treatment of couples and families.

Dr. Jonice Webb has been interviewed on NPR and over thirty radio shows across the United States and Canada about the topic of her book, Emotional Neglect, and has been quoted as a psychologist expert in the Chicago Tribune. She writes the popular Childhood Emotional Neglect Blog on PsychCentral.com.

Over two decades of practicing psychology, Dr. Webb gradually started to see a factor from childhood which weighs upon people as adults. This factor is extremely subtle. In fact, it’s so difficult to see that it goes virtually unnoticed while it quietly saps a person’s joy in life, causing him or her to struggle with self-discipline, or to feel disconnected and unfulfilled. Dr. Webb gave a name to this invisible factor from childhood. She calls it Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN).™

Full show notes available at - https://lourdesviado.com/womenindepth/

Episode 61: The Search for Belonging with Toko-pa Turner Oct 13, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I am very delighted to be joined by dreamer, writer, and artist Toko-pa Turner.

Toko-pa was born in a farmhouse in Devon, England by a midwife to poet-parents. Because they liked the music saying it made, they named her after the Maori deity, Toko-pa, who is the “Parent of the Mist” according to the Maori creation myth.

She came to Canada at the age of four, where her grandparents settled after the war in Poland, and was raised in a Sufi community in Montreal.

Along with yoga, meditation, Sufi dancing and singing, dreaming was an everyday part of her culture. From a very young age, Toko-pa was encouraged to share and explore her vivid dreams.

In her early twenties, Toko-pa toured with a band, eventually recording her first original album. It wasn’t until her mid-twenties that she returned to the mystical teachings of Sufism and the study of dreams. She became deeply interested in Analytical Psychology and did a 3-year internship at the Jung Foundation of Ontario, while pursuing her studies in spirituality, mythology and shamanism.

In early 2001, she was awarded a scholarship to study with psycho-physiologist and lucid dreaming expert, Dr. Stephen LaBerge, in Hawaii. She spent the following year writing a documentary series, “Awake and Dreaming” which was picked up for development by Vision TV.

Blending the mystical tradition of Sufism in which she was raised with a Jungian approach to dreamwork, Toko-pa founded the Dream School in 2001 from which hundreds of students have since graduated.

Toko-pa has been interviewed by CNN News and BBC Radio and has a community of over 100,000 online readers. Her writing has been published worldwide, and she is currently releasing her first book “Belonging” which explores the themes of exile, and the search for belonging.

Sometimes called a Midwife of the Psyche, Toko-pa’s work focuses on restoring the feminine, reconciling paradox, and facilitating grief and ritual practice. You can find Toko-pa on her beloved Facebook page “Dreamwork with Toko-pa” or on her website at toko-pa.com.

Episode 60: The Mindful Bus: Healing Anxiety Through Metaphor with Dr. Ellis Edmunds, Psy.D. Oct 06, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Dr. Ellis Edmunds, Psy.D. who is licensed psychologist in Oakland, California.

Ellis spent much of his childhood playing board games, card games, and video games. As a graduate student, he became interested in using games in a therapeutic context. In his training, he focused on learning Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Mindfulness and continues to practice ACT with his clients. He also continues to love games and plays them regularly.

Ellis was born and raised in Oakland, CA and graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology in 2009. Ellis received his Doctorate of Psychology (Psy.D.) from the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) in San Francisco in 2013 where he wrote his dissertation on teaching mindfulness to socially anxious young adults. He has worked in community mental health, college counseling, and various Bay Area schools helping people from a variety of backgrounds improve their mental health and live more fulfilling lives.

Full show notes available at - https://lourdesviado.com/womenindepth

Episode 59: Cracking the Hunger Code Through Storytelling and Metaphor with Anita Johnston, Ph.D. Sep 29, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I am joined by Anita Johnston, Ph.D. who is the Director of the Anorexia & Bulimia Center of Hawaii which she co-founded in 1982 and is the Clinical Director and the Founder of the ‘Ai Pono Intensive Out-Patient Eating Disorders Programs in Honolulu and 'Ai Pono Maui, a residential treatment facility in Maui. She is also Senior Clinical Consultant to EATFED intensive outpatient program in Sydney Australia.

Dr. Johnston developed Hawaii’s first inpatient eating disorders treatment program at Kahi Mohala Hospital in 1986 and is an expert in treating a wide range of eating disorders.

She is the author of Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationships with Food Through Myth, Metaphor, and Storytelling which has been published in six languages, and the co-creator of the Light of the Moon Cafe, an online e-course and support circle http://www.lightofthemooncafe.com

Dr. Johnston has a private practice specializing in women’s issues and is a recognized international workshop presenter, lecturing widely to professional organizations, universities, medical institutions, and the community at large.

In her work, she uses metaphor and storytelling in addition to her training as a clinical psychologist to explain the complex issues that underlie disordered eating behavior.

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Episode 58: Beyond the Myths: Older Women/Younger Men with Susan Winter Sep 22, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I’m very excited to be joined by Susan Winter (Allowing Magnificence and Older Women/Younger Men). Susan is a bestselling author and relationship expert specializing in higher thinking for an evolving world. She writes, speaks and coaches on cutting-edge partnership models as well as traditional relationship challenges from a platform that fosters self-esteem and personal empowerment.

Having graduated from Indiana University’s School of Music, her experience as a professional communicator led her from Opera singer to On-Camera Anchor. Transitioning from the stage to TV, Susan became the host/moderator of Corporate Profiles on FINANCIAL NEWS NETWORK (now CNBC). Prior to that position, she spent a decade as the On-Camera Spokeswoman for over 200 of the Fortune 500 companies. Susan is the recipient of numerous awards in the field of business communications.

Given her vast media expertise, she’s worked as a Consultant for the TELEVISION BUREAU OF ADVERTISING, MIRAMAX FILMS (Tadpole), and in strategic alliances with MCGARRYBOWEN’s Fortune 100 clientele. Aware that foundational shifts in social consciousness alter consumer preference, Susan’s understanding of human behavior helps her clients anticipate trends while connecting to the heartbeat of their customers.

Susan’s first book, “Older Women/Younger Men” quickly became an international bestseller as it opened the hearts and minds of readers’ worldwide to the validity of this type of age-gap love. Susan’s second book, “Allowing Magnificence” completely reframes how we view life’s challenges, empowering the reader to reconnect with the limitless power they already possess. Susan is currently a contributing writer for The Huffington Post and The Good Men Project.

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Episode 57: Feeding Your Wild: Food as Medicine with Venessa Rodriguez Sep 15, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I’m very excited to be joined by Venessa Rodriguez. Venessa is a certified holistic and integrative nutrition coach, practicing functional nutrition. That means she uses food as medicine and creates a roadmap to better digestion, more energy and healthy weight management that’s totally unique to YOU.

Her path to integrative nutrition and holistic health began when her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005. That’s when she truly witnessed the healing power of nutritious foods and a well-balanced lifestyle. After 5 long years of treatments, triumphs, ups, and downs… she lost her beautiful mom Norma. It was the most difficult and transformative time in their lives, and it taught her more than she could ever imagine.

Her mom's journey taught Venessa that we are the stewards of our own health and must be our own advocates; that food truly is medicine; that positivity, happiness, and love are more potent healing tools than anything else; that every day truly is precious so we better live like we mean it; and that we can’t do it alone.

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Episode 56: The Gifts of Letting Go with Anna Osborn, MFT Sep 08, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I’m very excited to be joined by Anna Osborn, LMFT. Anna Osborn, LMFT is a licensed psychotherapist and relationship specialist in Sacramento, California. Anna works with individuals and couples to restore connection, heal trust, improve communication and increase intimacy. Anna gets the privilege of seeing folks transform their relationships and begin to live a more happy, connected, and loving life.

As hard as it is to admit, we are our relationships. Whether we are in an amazing relationship, a lonely one or an unhealthy one, it has a profound impact on success in all areas of our lives. Specializing in relationships over the past 10 years has allowed Anna to work with folks leaving abusive relationships to singles seeking out "the one", to couples wanting to improve their relationships, and even divorced parents struggling to maintain a healthy co-parenting relationship.

As a psychotherapist and relationship specialist, she knows the profound impact that working on our relationships has on improving all aspects of our lives. Anna sees the folks that she works with improve their primary relationship and then experience amazing success in their professional lives, their hobbies, and their friendships.

Anna practices in the vibrant town of Sacramento, California and loves having a practice there and having the opportunity to work with diverse people who are successful in their professions and want to have that same success reflected in their relationships.

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Episode 55: On Living with Dying: A Guide for Caregivers Sep 01, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I’m very excited to be joined by Katie Ortlip, RN LCSW & Jahnna Beecham, authors of the book “Living with Dying: A Complete Guide for Caregivers.”

At this moment in the U.S., nearly 10 million people over the age of 50 are caregivers for a parent or loved one. They are often overwhelmed trying to handle health emergencies, confusing legal matters, and prepare for the worst, while trying to live their own lives.

Given there wasn’t a guidebook for death, Katie always wanted to write a sort of “Death for Dummies,” because it was sorely needed by her patients and their families. Being a writer, Jahnna said, “Let’s do it together.” It was at this time that Jahnna’s 90-year-old father was told his long-dormant prostate cancer had spread to his bones. She became his caregiver; Katie became his hospice social worker; and their writing journey began.

Katie Ortlip is a Hospice Expert on SHARECARE, Dr. Ahmet Oz’s online health and wellness platform that provides consumers with expert information to help them lead healthier lives. She is also the co-author of Spiritual Tools for the Dying, a booklet distributed by Asante Health Care of Oregon to patients on hospice.

She received her nursing degree from Santa Barbara City College in 1982 and then spent three years working in neonatology at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City and Mary Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Jahnna Beecham most recently edited National Geographic’s Science Encyclopedia, which was released in the fall of 2016; and was a contributing editor for National Geographic’s The Ultimate Explorer Field Guide: Birds.

For the past 15 years she has been a contributing writer and editor for Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader—both the adult books and For Kids Only. Under the pen name Jahnna N. Malcolm, Jahnna Beecham and Malcolm Hillgartner have written more than 130 books for juveniles and young adults for Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Random House, HarperCollins, Bantam and others.

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Episode 54: When Successful Women Fail at Relationships with Sharon Cohen, Ph.D Aug 18, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I’m very excited to be joined by Dr. Sharon Cohen who is a Relationship and Love Consultant in Newport Beach, California.

She specializes in rational communication strategies and the social dynamics of men and women. Her primary mission is to help women gain the skills to attract and keep long-lasting love. A sub-set of that mission is to get women inspired to attract the love they desire. Her expertise and life experiences spark awareness and prompt change in her clients.

Using an educational and action-oriented program, Dr. Sharon’s clients see their interactions and relationships in a whole new light. With this new-found awareness, her clients free themselves from their past mistakes in their dating, relationships, and life so they can now relax into love. Dr. Sharon graduated from UCLA (B.A. in Sociology; Business and Administration concentration), USC (Master in Social Work; Families and Children concentration) and the University of Texas at Austin (Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., School of Social Work).

She was in charge of the Outpatient admissions process at Seton Shoal Creek Hospital in Austin, Texas. Included programs: a Substance Abuse & Addictions Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) and an Adult (Mental Health & Well-Being) IOP. She’s worked for start-up companies, music festivals, as a social coordinator and much more. All these experiences add to the secret sauce that makes Dr. Sharon who she is.

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Episode 53: Understanding the Highly Sensitive Person with April Snow Aug 11, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I’m very excited to be joined by April Snow, a psychotherapist in San Francisco, California who wants to help you heal your past wounds, embrace your true self and begin to thrive again.

In an effort to survive the struggles of early life or cope with present-day stressors, we often become disconnected from ourselves, needs and innate internal resources. We also may lack connection and nurturance during these difficult times, making them even more challenging to navigate.

April's own journey towards emotional healing and growth has come most easily through safe connections with another. By offering a compassionate and supportive atmosphere suited specifically to your needs, she aims to be that safe place for you to explore your deepest feelings without judgement.

April helps her clients explore these areas of deep suffering or disconnection; their current impact; and how the impact prevents them from living fully. April truly believes that when we can begin to feel, we can finally begin to heal.

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Episode 52: When Parenting Reveals Our Shadow with Lisa Marchiano, LCSW Aug 04, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I’m very excited to be joined by Lisa Marchiano, LCSW who is a Jungian analyst, writer, and mom. She has a private practice in Philadelphia, PA, and is on the faculty of the Philadelphia Jung Institute.

Lisa has a particular fondness for fairy tales and what they can teach us about relating to our inner lives and leads workshops on fairy tales nationally. She enjoys running an online workshop for mothers that explores how being a mom can be a catalyst for personal growth.

Lisa holds a BA in history from Brown University, a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University, and a Masters in Social Work from New York University. She trained as an analyst with the Inter-Regional Society for Jungian Analysts.

Lisa has taught across the United States on fairy tales and related topics, and is the Seminar Director for the Philadelphia Jung Institute. She is currently writing a book on motherhood as a psychological growth opportunity.

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Episode 51: Women and Anxiety with Elizabeth Cush, MA, LCPC Jul 28, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I’m very excited to be joined by Elizabeth Cush, MA, LCPC who is a therapist in Annapolis, Maryland. She works with people whose stress and anxiety overwhelm them, and they don't know where to start and find it hard to ask for help.

What prevents you from living your life with ease and purpose? Maybe you're feeling stressed out, anxious, overwhelmed, and disconnected from yourself and the those you're closest to. You've been able to manage your stress and anxiety by keeping busy, you're always moving, but recently that just feels exhausting. You would like to know yourself better, to show up in your life in an authentic way, but you're not sure how to do that.

Elizabeth helps you fully engage with yourself and others in more meaningful ways, to show up more fully, and live your life with more intention and purpose. She provides support, encouragement, compassion, and guidance to help you move toward the person you want to be.

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Episode 50: A Woman's Journey to Authenticity with Ruth Bleakley-Thiessen Jul 21, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I’m very excited to be joined by coach, author and artist, Ruth Bleakley-Thiessen.

Ruth was born in Northern Ireland and now lives in the north of Germany. Before her life as a coach, she studied Communications Design and did freelance work as a designer, illustrator, artist and entrepreneur.

She is the mother of three adult sons. After the birth of her third son, she experienced a “vegetative exhaustion” - which propelled her into a long search for herself, which has become an ongoing journey.

Ruth became a certified Journey Practitioner and has worked for thirteen years with clients of all ages. Ruth has been called the “Protectoress of Authenticity” - helping others to live authentically from the truth of who they are; clearing out blocks; unhealthy habits; and issues that make people shut themselves down.

As a coach, teacher and writer, working with women in her private coaching sessions and mentorship programs, Ruth is fiercely committed to guiding her clients to achieve extraordinary results through the use of the Journey method. Her deepest passion is to help women transform their pain of low self-esteem, lack of confidence, eating disorders, body confidence and weight issues, fertility, miscarriage, abortion, emotional and health issues, abuse, grief, depression, physical issues, intimacy issues, relationship or family concerns - into an opportunity to reinvent themselves and experience new possibilities.

She has written six books, including Woman Rise and Shine, a simple path for women who want to be themselves and Flown the Coop, a guide to dealing with transition when the kids leave home. Both books come with workbooks to assist you in your own journey.

Ruth has also written two children's books: Snotme: The Unicorn who thought he wasn't a Unicorn and Nuffin -The Land Where Feelings are Not Allowed.

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Episode 49: Healing Inner Child Trauma with Hypnosis with Dr. Elizabeth Bonet Jul 14, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I’m very excited to be joined by Dr. Elizabeth Bonet who is a certified hypnotherapist with a PhD in Clinical Psychology.

Dr. Elizabeth Bonet helps people feel more emotionally stable, happier and more connected to their partner, friends, and loved ones of their choosing. No one wants to feel bad about themselves or their parenting. She helps you feel better and more stable about both.

She specializes in hypnosis for a variety of problems and chronic conditions, such as if are you feeling overwhelmed or anxious, having physical symptoms due to psychological problems or trauma in your past, chronic pain, IBS and even if you just want to stop smoking.

She has also been a yoga teacher for over 15 years and was the founder of the award-winning Yogafairy Prenatal Yoga company, won The 2014 Top 100 Leading Moms in Business Award, and ran the company for close to 15 years before selling the company in May of 2016. Her prenatal yoga classes have been repeatedly featured in the Sun-Sentinel and the Miami Herald. She has two kids, a cat and a rescue dog who she loves to walk.

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Episode 48: Intuition - Listening To The Voice Within with Jocelyn Mercado Jul 07, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I’m very excited to be joined by Jocelyn Mercado, a transformational life coach, author, holistic health consultant, and environmentalist. She worked in finance and project management for over 15 years before taking the leap to leave the corporate world and begin her coaching and consulting career, and she has never looked back!

Jocelyn has been studying indigenous wisdom, shamanic practices, and earth-based healing methods for years. She has experienced major life shifts that have led her to develop a life coaching method based on the following ideas: 1) we must heal ourselves first; and then 2) connect with others and help others to heal. In this way, we will find our innate power to change the world.

As a transformational life coach, Jocelyn works with visionary clients all around the world to help them discover their life's purpose; break free from everything that holds them back; launch their inspired vision or new business to the world, and turn their skills as a healer or teacher into a financially sustainable business.

Jocelyn helps people to connect to their heart's truth, and then redesign their lives so they can spend more time (or all of their time!) doing what they love and what they are meant to do in this precious and beautiful lifetime.

Her website, Sacred Planet, was created to connect a global community of visionaries, revolutionaries, and thought leaders who are unified by the knowledge that we CAN and we MUST work together to create a brighter future for ourselves, our children, and the next generations of beings on our beautiful planet.

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Episode 47: The Personal Erotic Myth with Galen Fous, MTP Jun 30, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I’m very excited to be joined by Galen Fous, MTP. Galen is considered one of America’s leading sex educators, psychotherapists & sex researchers on understanding the unconscious psychological dynamics of kink, fetish and D/s-BDSM sexuality.

Galen is the author of two books: “Decoding Your Kink – Guide to Explore, Share and Enjoy Your Wildest Sexual Desires” and “The Sharp Edge of Love – Extreme Sex, Mythic Passion, Primal Intensity.”

He regularly presents at sexuality related conferences, lectures at universities and grad schools on sex-positive topics, and has been interviewed in numerous media for his innovative views on conscious sexuality and the nature of fetish sexuality

Galen frames his scholarly understandings of sexual identity and expression in the contexts of myth, history and the mediating power of social and psychological constructions. His contributions are made more powerful with his compelling sense of the contemporary and rapid shifts in what is and isn’t sexually taboo.

As a therapist, Galen helps his clients shift from compulsive, dishonest, risky sexual behaviors to authentic sexual expression, and heal from the decades of fear, shame and judgments that held their authentic desire back.

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Episode 46: Follow Your B̶l̶i̶s̶s̶ Fear with Laurel Moll Jun 23, 2017

Welcome to the Women In-Depth Podcast! This week I’m delighted to be joined by Laurel Moll, who is a lifestyle writer, dancer, fitness instructor, and co-owner of the inspirational t-shirt company Golden Rhino.

She was born and raised in Florida and has also spent several years living and working in New York City. Her writing has been featured in The Huffington Post, VitaMix Blog, Quiet Revolution, TinyBuddha, Mind Body Green, and more.

Laurel's latest book, Following Fear: How I Faced 30 Fears and Learned to Trust the Unknown, is a memoir about how the curious events of the summer of 2013 inspired Laurel to stop following her bliss and start following her fear. This collection of intimate short stories about facing 30 of her biggest fears shares the journey of learning to trust everything that happens—the wins, the heartbreaks, the embarrassments, the deepest disappointments—and to find safety in the unknown.

Following Fear offers a fresh approach. Instead of encouraging readers to get rid of their fears and be fearless, it looks more at what happens when you are willing to take yourself to the edge; see what’s underneath the fears; and learn to love the experience of growing through your discomfort.

It shares its unique message by telling 30 honest and vulnerable experiences of one woman who never expected to become the brave one.

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Episode 45: The Money Mirror: Our Inner Feelings About Money with Tiffany McClain May 26, 2017

Welcome to the Women In-Depth Podcast. This week I’m delighted to be joined by psychotherapist Tiffany McClain, who speaks to me about the taboo subject of money, our feelings toward it and the importance for us to have boundaries and a sense of safety.

For Tiffany, watching her parents level up was… interesting. In some ways, they equipped her mightily for success! In other ways – not so much. With a generation of poverty, violence and societal racism on one side of the equation and rigid, fundamentalist Christian conservatism on the other, she had a herculean cargo of doubt, insecurity, confusion, and mistrust all combined with a devastating fashion sense.

Being an in-the-flesh product of two extremely opposite worlds led to the feeling that she was an outsider in every situation. So, she did what any fun-loving misfit does: she became a psychotherapist.

But first, she had to overcome huge external, but more importantly, internal, barriers that kept her from going after the life of freedom that she wanted – for herself, her family and the people who she is so stoked to serve. Though the doubts once felt insurmountable, she finally came to learn that battling forces inside could lead to fundamental paradigm shifts – shifts that stand to change the course of one’s life.

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Episode 44: Shining a Light on Maternal Mental Health with Dr. Kat Kaeni May 18, 2017

Welcome to the Women In-Depth Podcast. This week I’m delighted to be joined by Dr. Kat Kaeni about the issue of Maternal Mental Health, which is all about maternal mental health during conception, pregnancy, miscarriage or loss, birth and postpartum.

Dr. Kat is a psychologist who helps her clients find ways out of suffering or confusion and into wellness. People go to her psychotherapy practice when they are struggling with things in their life and want to feel better.

Her style of working with people is to be real and keep therapy down to earth. In her sessions, she uses compassion, insight and empathy in addition to education and training to guide healing. Her belief is that therapy should not be a mysterious process. She believes that we all have the ability to get better. Sometimes we just need a little help, and sometimes we need a lot of help.

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Episode 43: Thriving After Divorce with Mia Quaglia, LCSW May 11, 2017

Welcome to the Women In-Depth Podcast, this week I’m delighted to be joined by Mia Quaglia who speaks to me about divorce, how to overcome it, ways in which to support others going through it and what thriving can look like at this difficult time in a woman’s life.

Mia started Divorce and Thrive after she was a woman in a divorce situation after being married for 25 years. She felt lost and didn’t know where to turn, even as a therapist. Now she feels the need to help others with what they’re feeling. She also wants to walk them through steps that help them recover. Divorce and Thrive is for women that are in the process of going through their divorce, or have been divorced and are still going through grief or the healing process.

The Divorce and Thrive Academy and Coaching, will provide resources and a safe place to process your own unique situation. You’ll be able to find yourself again, be more empowered, and become more resilient. You’re not alone, there are other women going through the same process, and I can help you with the use of my programs and support.

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Episode 42: Re-Visioning Relationships with Tamara Powell May 04, 2017

Welcome to the Women In-Depth Podcast, I’m delighted to welcome back for her fourth appearance, Tamara Powell, LMHC. Tamara has previously appeared on the podcast in episode 10, episode 23 and episode 33 talking about spiritual abuse and navigating sexuality with spiritualty, but today she joins me to talk all about re-visioning relationships.

Tamara is a psychotherapist, and life coach who practices in Pensacola, FL. Tamara’s practice focuses on those struggling with issues related to sexuality and spirituality, including abuse and trauma.

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Episode 41: Natural Healing for Women at Mid-life with Chonteau McElvin Apr 27, 2017

Welcome back to the Women In-Depth Podcast, my guest this week is Chonteau McElvin who has been described as modern day medicine woman.

Chonteau wears many hats but her main reason for being on the planet is to assist in the awakening and remembrance that we are all connected and the time to step into our brilliance is now. In her early 20’s she received a vision and was told by Spirit that she was a teacher and healer of the old ways. This is when her modern day Shamanic training began. She completed her formal education as a Social Worker, followed in the footsteps of her father and became a Naturalist. At 20, her father taught her how to do self-hypnotism and she began to hone her skills as a Mindfulness Practition er, Folk Healer, and Herbalist.

For as long as she can remember she has been giving to others. As a child, she remembers being a volunteer for Meals on Wheels, she served lunch to “at risk” children. The spirit of service was instilled in her at an early age. What was not instilled in her, was the spirit of self-care. When tough times arrived, she did not know how to navigate her way through it. She did not know what it meant to take care of herself.

Twelve years ago, when she suffered major personal losses, she was forced to evaluate her self-care and spiritual practices, and something amazing happened, she put “spirituality into action” and soul self-care became a way of life. She wishes she could tell you life transitions are easier when you are a Lightworker or Alternative Healer, when in fact, our need for soul nourishment is greater because of all we give. For those of us who are constantly giving to others, there does not always seem to be a safe place to our deep soul work. This can leave us feeling frustrated, fragmented and lonely, which equates to, an inability to be fully present with our clients, families and most importantly ourselves.

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Episode 40: The Secrets Men Carry with James Hollis, PhD Apr 21, 2017

Today my guest is James Hollis, Ph. D, Dr. Hollis was born in Springfield, Illinois, graduated from Manchester University in 1962 and Drew University in 1967. He taught Humanities for 26 years in various colleges and universities before retraining as a Jungian analyst at the Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland (1977-82). He is presently a licensed Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. He served as Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center in Houston, Texas for many years and now is Executive Director of the Washington Jung Society. He is a retired Senior Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, was first Director of Training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute, and is Vice-President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation.

Additionally, he is a Professor of Jungian Studies for Saybrook University of San Francisco/Houston. He lives with his wife Jill, an artist and retired therapist, in Washington, DC. Together they have three living children and eight grand-children.

He has written a total of fourteen books and over fifty articles. The books have been translated into Swedish, Russian, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian, Korean, Finnish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Farsi, Japanese, Greek, Chinese, and Czech.

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Episode 39: Soul Song: Awakening the Wild Feminine with Dr. Marilyn Steele Apr 06, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I’m delighted to be joined by Dr. Marilyn Steele. Marilyn grew up in Hawaii, a land of great beauty and native wisdom where life is deeply intertwined with nature and its rhythms. She still considers Hawaii, a place alive with the sacred feminine, her soul home. She visits as often as possible.

Marilyn’s career began with education, and progressed to psychology, art, writing and speaking. Marilyn completed her Masters of Education from The Raskob Institute in 1979 and worked with gifted adolescents with learning disabilities. She later returned to school for her Master’s and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA, concentrating on female psychology and the evolution of consciousness.

During her career as a Jungian psychologist, Marilyn also taught at graduate schools and provided continuing education for psychotherapists on the topics of female psychology and re-visioning the self. Click here for past presentation topics, here for current programs, and here for a current Curriculum Vitae.

In 2013, Marilyn published her first book: The Wild Feminine: Stories to Inspire and Embolden. She is enjoying her home in Northern California and her return to painting.

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Episode 38: The Testosterone Project with Susie Arnett Mar 30, 2017

Welcome to the podcast! Today I’m joined by Susie Arnett. Susie is a writer, producer and creativity coach based in western Massachusetts. She spent 15 years as a producer and development executive, working for networks like Lifetime, Warner Brothers, HBO, and Fox. She has also written for multiple blogs as well as national magazines like More Magazine. Currently, she works with many of the world's top experts and teachers at the Kripalu Center, developing retreats, training, and digital experiences, and also runs a boutique consulting business where she supports thought leaders and businesses in developing original ideas that make the world a better place.

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Episode 37: Women and Anger with Michelle Farris, LMFT Mar 24, 2017

Welcome to the podcast, today I’m joined by Michelle Farris, LMFT. Michelle is a licensed marriage and family therapist in San Jose, CA. She became a therapist after realizing the power of her own personal growth. She teaches others how to be more authentic in relationships by healing their anger and codependency. It's the power of accountability and unconditional support that helps us let go of the past and heal.

She helps people struggling in their relationships. Maybe you may feel alone and defeated. You've tried to talk things out, give in, or wait for the something to change...but nothing does. You find yourself choosing their needs over yours. That's a hard way to do relationships.

It doesn't have to stay that way. You can learn from those painful experiences and make the next relationship better - or improve the one you're still in.

When you see what didn't work you can learn what does. The end result isn't your fault, but you can be responsible for your part. You're looking for a solution. You just need the right kind of help.

She loves helping others gain control over their emotions so they can feel confident and empowered in relationships. She has helped people in 12 step recovery for many years. She can help if you are questioning your drinking, in substance abuse recovery, struggle with anger management, compulsive overeating, codependency, depression, relationships, grief, divorce and co-parenting.

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Episode 36: Fear in the Driver's Seat Mar 17, 2017

Welcome to the podcast. Today is going to be a bit different as I’m joined by, well, me!

This is my first time hosting the podcast solo, and I am a little nervous, but I’m just going to go ahead and feel the fear and do it anyway - which is especially meaningful as coping with fear is what this episode is all about.

For better or worse, fear is a primary motivator in our lives, whether we are consciously aware of this or not. I know this from experience and I see this in my practice, where many of the issues my clients struggle with are related to fear.

So I felt it would be meaningful to explore the experience of fear, the different types of fear, why fear is so powerful, and steps for changing how we understand and cope with fear.

Thanks for joining us!

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Episode 35: Depth Psychology: Viewing Life Through the Lens of the Soul with MeiMei Fox Mar 09, 2017

Welcome to the podcast, today I’m joined by MeiMei Fox. MeiMei is a published author, co-author, ghostwriter, and freelance editor of hundreds of non-fiction health, wellness, spirituality, and psychology books, articles, and blogs, including the New York Times bestsellers "Bend, Not Break" with Ping Fu and "Fortytude" with Sarah Brokaw.

Since July 2016, MeiMei has contributed five articles per month to Forbes as part of the Women@Forbes initiative. She writes about aligning your career with your life purpose, and profiles entrepreneurs and changemakers who can serve as role models to us all.

Her latest project is publishing her own blog, Adventures with Twins, whose daily posts include tips on raising twins, healthy recipes, product reviews, guests posts and interviews with other parents, and her own deep reflections on parenting. MeiMei has had two poems selected from among thousands of submissions for the books Multiples Illuminated, and the coming "Multiples Illuminated: Toddler to Tween."

Throughout her 15+ year writing career, MeiMei has edited books by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Columbia professor Robert Thurman; and was the Expedition Writer for Jacques Cousteau's granddaughter Alexandra's Expedition: Blue Planet.

Her articles have been published in the Huffington Post, Self, Stanford magazine, MindBodyGreen, and numerous other publications.

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Episode 34: Advice for Dating and Keeping a Healthy Love Relationship with Dr. Sharon Cohen Mar 03, 2017

Today my guest is Dr. Sharon Cohen, Ph.D. Sharon is a Relationship and Love Consultant in Newport Beach, California. She specializes in rational communication strategies and the social dynamics of men and women.

Her primary mission is to help women gain the skills to attract and keep long-lasting love.

A sub-set of that mission is to get women inspired to attract the love they desire. Her expertise and life experiences spark awareness and prompt change in her clients.

Using an educational and action-oriented program, Dr. Sharon’s clients see their interactions and relationships in a whole new light. With this new-found awareness, her clients free themselves from their past mistakes in their dating, relationships, and life so they can now relax into love.

Dr. Sharon graduated from UCLA (B.A. in Sociology; Business and Administration concentration), USC (Master in Social Work; Families and Children concentration) and the University of Texas at Austin (Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., School of Social Work).

For full show notes, head to lourdesviado.com/womenindepth

Episode 33: Navigating Sexuality and Spirituality with Tamara Powell, LMHC Feb 24, 2017

Welcome to the Women In-Depth Podcast, I’m delighted to welcome back Tamara Powell, LMHC. Tamara is a psychotherapist, and life coach who practices in Pensacola, FL. Tamara’s practice focuses on those struggling with issues related to sexuality and spirituality, including abuse and trauma. Tamara recently launched her own podcast “Undressing The Spirit” and in this episode we discuss sexual taboos, the issue of shame and the relationship between sex and spirituality.

Full show notes available at lourdesviado.com/womenindepth

Episode 32: World Weary Woman: Her Wounding and Healing with Dr. Cara Barker Feb 17, 2017

Today my guest is Dr. Cara Barker. Dr. Barker has spent over 40 years to support the process of Post Traumatic Growth, helping literally thousands of individuals transform their secret suffering into greater strength. Learn about Cara’s journey and be reminded that the process of disappointment and loss doesn’t end with acceptance; the stage of acceptance simply prepares us for deeper connection and collaboration with what helps us thrive. Her work, for close to half a century, focuses on what she calls “the Way of Soul;” aligning life with what nourishes body and soul. Join in to explore, and act upon, unexpected opportunity to love and be loved, to create fuller enjoyment of life.

Read the full show notes at - lourdesviado.com/womenindepth

Episode 31: Perspectives on Motherhood: The Experience of Autism Moms with Janeen Herskovitz Feb 09, 2017

My guest on the podcast this week features Janeen Herskovitz. Janeen is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida and owner of Puzzle Peace Counseling, LLC. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Special Education from Rowan University in New Jersey, (1995) and her Masters of Arts in Mental Health Counseling from Webster University (2010). She is a trained as an EMDR Trauma Therapist and writes as a Topic Expert contributor on Autism Spectrum at goodtherapy.org. She has been married to her husband, Joe since 1995, and together, they have two teenage children.

Janeen’s podcast, Autism Blueprint, will be launching soon and covers a variety of topics surrounding living with autism in the home.

You can read the full show notes at lourdesviado.com/womenindepth

Episode 30: Beyond the Myths: Understanding BDSM with Coreen Haym, MFT Feb 02, 2017

My guest on the podcast this week features Coreen Haym, Coreen is a visiting faculty member in the marriage and family therapy program, at the university of Nevada, Las Vegas, teaching for UNLV since 2007. She has considerable experience presenting and instructing on clinical work with non-traditional families as well as sex therapy, sexual issues, crisis suicide risk assessment, language and diversity diagnosis, LGBTQ studies, kink friendly psychotherapy and gender & sexuality. She is a clinical fellow and a proved supervisor with of the AAMFT and is also a member of the American counseling association. Currently, Coreen is pursuing her Ph.D. in counselor education at Adam State University and is also a licensed marriage and family therapist with a small private practice in Las Vegas, Nevada.

You can read the full show notes at www.lourdesviado.com

Episode 29: The Power of Metaphor to Unlock Creativity and Inspire Breakthroughs with Kim Hermanson, PhD Jan 26, 2017

My guest on the podcast this week features Kim Hermanson, Ph.D. who is a transformative coach, author and shamanic intuitive who is known for her skill in quickly shifting people out of spiritual and psychological difficulties into a place of profound beauty, healing, and creative flow. A series of intense mystical experiences forcefully yanked her out of a conservative Midwest upbringing and profession as a corporate computer scientist and led her to develop Doorway sessions. Kim works with creatives, pioneers, visionaries and mystics to help them integrate their own experiences of non-ordinary reality and to connect with deep shamanic creative energies that urgently want to be expressed in our world. Kim currently serves as adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She has taught at the University of California Berkeley, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Sophia Center at Holy Names University, Meridian University, and Esalen Institute. She is the author of Getting Messy: A Guide to Taking Risks and Opening the Imagination and Sky’s the Limit: The Art of Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey. In addition to her own publications, she has co-authored several articles with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience and other books.

You can read the full show notes at www.lourdesviado.com

Episode 28: The Shadow of Technology with Dr. Anders Beier, LPC Jan 19, 2017

My guest on the podcast this week features Dr. Anders Beier, who is a depth-oriented (Jungian) psychotherapist and Executive Coach in private practice near Aspen, Colorado. Working with couples and individuals, he has extensive experience in treating depression, anxiety, and serious life changes, including grief/loss, divorce, and midlife crisis. He has ten years of clinical experience in various areas of mental health counseling and has done years of research in the emerging area of the psychological influences of technology. Also, Dr. Beier is the co-founder and COO of the London-based non-profit, The Centre for Technology Awareness. The center’s mission is to raise awareness of the complex influences of technology as well as encouraging safe, responsible, and ethical uses of technology.

In addition, he has years of experience assisting and coaching high-level executives develop, balance and pivot their complex lives. Dr. Beier holds an MA in counseling from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA and a Ph.D. in Jungian Studies from Saybrook University in San Francisco. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Colorado.

You can read the full show notes at www.lourdesviado.com

Episode 27: Lost in Motherhood with Kirsten Goffena, LPC, RPT Jan 12, 2017

My guest on the podcast this week features Kirsten Goffena, LPC, RPT, Kirsten is passionate about helping clients reach their full potential in life. She weaves playfulness into her work with clients of all ages and her therapy dog Luna's calm presence helps clients feel safe and relaxed. She helps individuals, children, and families reconnect to themselves and each other.

Her counseling experience includes individual and group work with adults, children, and families in a mental health agency, elementary and middle school counseling, in-home family therapy for families with children at risk for out-of-home placement, and private practice.

26: Women Who Stay In Unhappy Marriages with Anne Strauss Dec 21, 2016

My guest on the podcast this week is Anne Mcarthy Strauss, Anne has been writing since she penciled The Princeton Street News, a weekly report on the lives of her Long Island, New York neighbors, at age ten. Today, she is a versatile novelist, writer, interviewer, researcher and public relations pro who focuses on shelter, alternative healthcare, technology and women’s fiction.

After majoring in Journalism at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Anne pursued a career in corporate public relations and freelance writing. She is the author of A Medical Affair (Booktrope 2013) and The Passion Thief (Booktrope 2014). Anne lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, with her husband and their two unconditionally loving Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) She appeared on HBO in the film Hard Times: Lost on Long Island (Blowback Productions, 2010). When not writing, she’s likely to be hiking, kayaking, painting, crafting, swimming, or spending time with her dogs.

You can read the full show notes at www.lourdesviado.com

25: Understanding Birth Trauma with Krysta Dancy, MA, MFT Dec 14, 2016

My guest on the podcast this week features Krysta Dancy, MA, MFT. Krysta is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Roseville, California where she has been working with clients since 2005. In addition to her private practice, she is the Co-Director and Supervisor of a local counseling nonprofit (The Place Within) where she supervises 8-12 interns on their path to licensure. The Place Within offers counseling on a sliding fee scale to those who might otherwise be unable to access counseling. She also keeps a blog and speaks for local groups on some of her favorite psychological topics. She also sometimes functions as a spokesperson for the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) where she has been a member (and previous board member) since 2005.

You can read the full show notes at www.lourdesviado.com

24: Beyond The Myths: Understanding Gender Identity ft Dara Hoffman-Fox, LPC Dec 07, 2016

My guest on the podcast this week is Dara Hoffman-Fox. Dara is a Licensed Professional Counselor and gender therapist in private practice who works with transgender, gender non-conforming, and gender questioning individuals. She frequently serves as a resource on transgender issues for the media and is a prolific gender-identity thought leader whose articles and videos have empowered thousands worldwide. She provides educational resources through a blog (darahoffmanfox.com), YouTube channel, social media networks, trainings and presentations, and her first publication: You and Your Gender Identity: A Guide to Discovery.

You can read the full show notes at www.lourdesviado.com

23: Understanding Spiritual Abuse, Part 2 with Tamara Powell, LMHC Nov 30, 2016

Today my guest is Tamara Powell, Tamara is a psychotherapist, and life coach who practices in Pensacola, FL. Tamara’s practice focuses on those struggling with issues related to sexuality and spirituality, including abuse and trauma. Tamara first made her appearance on the podcast in episode 10. From that episode, there was a lot of feedback to get her back on the podcast to discuss further what spiritual abuse could really look like, how a person could become vulnerable to it and the long-term effects of experiencing spiritual abuse.

You can read the full show notes at www.lourdesviado.com

22: Overcoming People Pleasing with Sharon Martin, LCSW Nov 23, 2016

Today’s show features, Sharon Martin. Sharon is a licensed therapist, counselor, and mental health and wellness writer based in San Jose, CA. She has spent 20 years providing counseling, therapy, and clinical supervision. Sharon has built a specialized private practice that reflects her belief that you matter and you can love yourself, heal, be empowered, speak your truth, and create a life you love. Listen for Sharon’s incredible insights on life, well-being and much more!

You can read the full show notes at www.lourdesviado.com

21: Healing the Mother Wound with Bethany Webster Nov 16, 2016

Today’s show features Bethany Webster - a writer, transformational coach, international speaker and what you could call a "midwife of the heart." Her work is focused on helping women heal the Mother Wound so that they can step into their divine feminine power and potential. She coaches successful women on how to heal the Mother Wound so that they can make a quantum leap in their impact and leadership. Bethany is the author of the forthcoming book "Healing the Mother Wound: Move Beyond What Your Mother Never Gave You and Become the Woman You're Meant to be."

You can read the full show notes at www.lourdesviado.com

20: The Other Woman in Therapy with Namrata Rindani-McMahill, LMFT Nov 09, 2016

My guest today is Namrata Rindani McMahill, a couples and family therapist in private practice in San Diego. Nam is an advocate and champion for discarded, diagnosed, shamed, judged, and marginalized people. Her career spans 12 years, 2 continents, and multiple languages. Today’s topic is a sensitive one, but one that is important and relevant to so many; we’re talking about “the other woman.” Join us!

You can read the full show notes and access the resources at www.lourdesviado.com

19: Beyond the Myths: Understanding Hypnosis with Stacey Horn, LCSW Nov 02, 2016

My guest today is Stacey Horn, a relationship coach and clinical hypnotist. Stacey has been a licensed clinical social worker for 25 years and has spent the last 7 years exploring the field of hypnosis in beautiful Eagle County, Colorado. Even though hypnotherapy has been used since the 1700’s, there are still many misconceptions, mysteries, and questions surrounding this therapy technique. Stacey is here to deepen our understanding of this technique that is used in various fields. Join us for this insightful episode and expand your knowledge of hypnosis!

You can read the full show notes at www.lourdesviado.com

18: Crossing the Line: How an Extramarital Affair Begins with Nicolle Zapien, PhD, MFC Oct 26, 2016

My guest today is Dr. Nicolle Zapien, a psychotherapist, certified sex therapist, and college professor from San Francisco. Our topic today is an important one because it affects so many people. We’re discussing the experience of infidelity in relationships. Join us!

You can read the full show notes at www.lourdesviado.com.

17: The Practice of Being Seen with Rebecca Wong, LCSW Oct 19, 2016

My guest today is Rebecca Wong, a relationship therapist, consultant, and speaker. She’s also the creator of Connecfulness, a research-based practice encouraging people to explore and embrace every aspect of humanity. Today’s topic is the need to be seen, heard, understood, and accepted. It’s something we both fear and desire. Rebecca is launching a podcast very soon, and she currently lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband, daughters, and furry family members. Join us!

You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.lourdesviado.com

16: Heartbreak: Healing When Your Relationship Ends with Stephanie Macadaan, LMFT Oct 13, 2016

Welcome to a show about how to deal with the end of a relationship. My guest is Stephanie Macadaan, LMFT, who practices in Los Angeles. Her work focuses on couples and individuals who are healing from breakups and starting over. Stephanie runs a support group called Happily Ever After Divorce: Healing Support for Women. This conversation is relevant to almost everyone, because the end of a relationship is a universal experience that most people go through at some point in their lives. Join us now.

You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.lourdesviado.com/podcast

15: Stay or Go? Making the Decision to Stay In or Leave Your Relationship with Anne Goshen, PhD. Oct 06, 2016

My guest today is Dr. Anne Goshen, a licensed psychotherapist in San Diego, CA. Anne’s work focuses on helping couples solve conflicts, rebuild trust, and reconnect. She also helps individuals improve relationships and cope with divorce. In addition to her private practice, Anne teaches graduate courses in marriage and family therapy. Today we’re discussing how to make the decision to stay in or leave a relationship. Join us in this conversation about this important topic!

You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.lourdesviado.com

14: Women and the Midlife Crisis with Diann Wingert, LCSW Sep 29, 2016

Today’s show features my guest, Diann Wingert, a psychotherapist and life coach in Pasadena, CA. Diann specializes her counseling and coaching to help women approach change with mindfulness, neurobiology, positive psychology, and attachment theory. Have you faced the fear of change as you approach your mid-life years? Listen for Diann’s moving and inspiring insights!

You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.lourdesviado.com.

13: Coping with Infertility with Erika Labuzan Lopez, MA, LMFT, LPC Sep 22, 2016

My guest today is Erika Lopez, a psychotherapist in private practice in Houston, TX, who specializes in issues surrounding infertility. This topic is one that touches SO many lives, and Erika will help us understand why this is difficult to deal with and how friends and family can best offer help. Erika is married with a toddler daughter and has been a therapist for about three years. She offers workshops for parents and couples. Let’s jump into this topic with Erika!

You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.lourdesviado.com

12: Dreams and the Divine Feminine with Renee Beck, MFT Sep 15, 2016

My guest today is Renee Beck, a marriage and family therapist in private practice in Oakland, CA. Renee specializes in dreamwork and transpersonal therapy for alternative healers, inner seekers, and artists. She has been an approved clinical supervisor for the California Institute of Integral Studies and has supervised hundreds of beginning therapists working toward licensure. Renee is the author of The Art of Ritual and has several decades of experience working with dream, ritual, energy, and symbolic systems. Today’s conversation explores digging deeper into dreams, feminine and masculine energies, and archetypal symbols. Dreams can be powerful sources of wisdom and guidance. Want to know more? Join us!

You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.lourdesviado.com

11: Childhood Emotional Neglect: The Invisible Experience with Dr. Jonice Webb Sep 08, 2016

My guest today is Dr. Jonice Webb, a clinical psychologist in private practice in Lexington, MA, specializing in work with couples and families. She has been featured on NPR and on many radio shows and online magazines. She’s here to deepen our understanding of what childhood emotional neglect (CEN) really is. It’s really about what DIDN’T happen, and even though it can be subtle and invisible, CEN has a tremendous impact on many individuals. Our conversation will cover how CEN shows up and how we can begin the healing process. Join us!

You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.lourdesviado.com

10: Spiritual Abuse: What It Is and Why It Matters with Tamara Powell, LMHC Sep 01, 2016

My guest today is Tamara Powell, a psychotherapist and life coach who practices in Pensacola, FL. Tamara’s practice focuses on those struggling with issues related to sexuality and spirituality, including abuse and trauma. Many people don’t even realize that spiritual abuse exists and that it has the profound ability to impact many with deep psychological issues. I hope you will join us for this meaningful conversation.

You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.lourdesviado.com

09: Disordered Eating: A Search for Wholeness with Jodie Gale Aug 25, 2016

Jodie Gale is a soul-centered psychotherapist living among the beaches of northern Australia. She helps women who struggle with body image concerns, yo-yo dieting, chronic dieting, and eating disorders. These are issues that many, if not most, women encounter at some point. Jodie’s approach is from the perspective of wholeness, healing, transformation, and growth. She helps women find purpose, value, and meaning out of suffering.

You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.lourdesviado.com

08: Shadow Work: The Inner Journey with Keri Nola Aug 18, 2016

Welcome! My guest today is Keri Nola, an intuitive psychotherapist, best-selling author, and soul mentor for healing entrepreneurs worldwide. She has a thriving clinical practice focusing on holistic healing, and her practice has recently evolved to create virtual products, programs, and retreat experiences to support the sacred work of healers. Keri is on a mission to ignite a global, heart-centered movement that holds space for healers to awaken and bring their soul work to life. Join us as we look at the Divine Feminine, healing energies, and Shadow Work.

07: Qualities of Strong, Successful Women with Agnes Wainman, PhD Aug 11, 2016

Welcome! My guest today is Dr. Agnes Wainman, a clinical psychologist in private practice in London, Ontario, Canada. Agnes’ practice focuses on working with burned out and overwhelmed women, new moms, and those struggling with infertility. Today we’re discussing qualities of strong, successful women, from the writings of Glennon Doyle Melton, the author of Carry On, Warrior and Love Warrior.

You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.lourdesviado.com

06: How to Respond When a Child Reveals Sexual Abuse with Laura Reagan, LCSW-C Aug 04, 2016

My guest today is Laura Reagan, a clinical social worker in private practice in the Baltimore area. Laura specializes in childhood emotional neglect and trauma. She is a board approved clinical supervisor, holds advanced certification in trauma therapy, and is a certified Daring Way facilitator. Laura hosts the Therapy Chat podcast, where she covers many topics that give support and meaning to those who’ve experienced trauma. We’re tackling a difficult topic today: How to respond when a child reveals that sexual abuse has taken place. Sexual abusers are usually people that the family and the child know. How do we respond and move through this difficult time? Join us for this important conversation.

You can read the full show notes at www.lourdesviado.com

05: Understanding and Supporting Those Living with Chronic Pain and Illness with Daniela Paolone, LMFT Jul 28, 2016

Welcome! Today’s guest is Daniela Paolone, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who practices in Westlake Village, CA. Daniela specializes in supporting people living with chronic pain, illness, anxiety, and depression. Their unique challenges aren’t understood by those who haven’t experienced these issues. She’s here to deepen our understanding and awareness, because many of us have loved ones who are facing these challenges. I hope you’ll join us for this enlightening conversation with Daniela!

You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.lourdesviado.com

04: How to Cultivate and Nourish Your Relationship with Yourself with Shirani Pathak, LCSW Jul 21, 2016

Welcome! My guest today is Shirani Pathak, an entrepreneur and holistic psychotherapist in San Jose, CA. Shirani is the founder and owner of The Relationship Center of Silicon Valley. As an educator, Shirani holds workshops and classes about the most important relationship of all—the one with ourselves. In addition, she does writing and coaching, formulating her unique approach of blending spirituality into all that she does. Shirani’s work is holistic in every way, using the mind, body, and spirit approach. She is a healer and a certified energy medicine practitioner who focuses her work on women, because we so often neglect ourselves. I know you will learn much from our conversation, so join us!

What you’ll hear in this episode:

Why we MUST nourish and cultivate the relationship with ourselves
Why people are thirsty for what her practice offers
How she blends spirituality with clients from different spiritual backgrounds
Meet the client where they are
“Care for others first”—it’s what women are taught!
Two relationships that must be nurtured and nourished above all others
Signs of those who don’t have a nourishing relationship with self
What is the common denominator?
How to “step into” relationship with yourself
Loving yourself: it takes more than yoga!
How positive affirmations can help
It’s a process that takes time
Resistance, challenges, and sacrifices
Old relationships become “old stories”
The “sifting” as we grow, heal, and evolve
Misunderstandings and myths
How do I find time for myself?
“The Inner Hustler”
Make a “to-be” list, and not a “to-do” list
Suggestions for beginning this process (begin with quiet time each day for YOU!)

Resources:

www.relationshipcentersv.com (Visit Shirani’s website for the Free Guide to Writing Powerful, Positive Affirmations. Also, find information about the Relationship Retreat in Lake Tahoe, CA, scheduled for Sept. 30-Oct. 2.)

03: Support for Relationships Dealing with Sexual Addiction with Mari Lee, LMFT, CSAT-S Jul 14, 2016

Are you hurting or deceiving someone you love? Or has someone you loved betrayed you with an affair or sexual secrets and your heart is broken? Perhaps you have been struggling with depression or anxiety and don't know where to turn. If so, you are not alone. Every person and couple stumbles at some point in their life and needs support along the way.

Today’s guest is Mari Lee. She’s a respected and trusted therapist, who brings a compassionate and direct focus to her work treating each counseling client as a unique human being. Mari is recognized nationally and internationally for her work with spouses and partners of sex addicts, and with male and female sex, love and pornography addicts. Additionally, Mari is the best-selling author of, “Facing Heartbreak: Steps to Recovery for Partners of Sex Addicts” and speaks and teaches nationally on this topic, as well as supervises and trains other therapists and counselors around the world in sex addiction recovery treatment.

You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.lourdesviado.com/women-in-depth-podcast

02: A Closer Look at Infidelity with Alicia Taverner, LMFT Jul 06, 2016

Today we’re talking about relationship issues, especially when couples face infidelity and divorce. My guest is Alicia Taverner, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. Join us as Alicia shares her wisdom on these difficult topics.

What you’ll hear in this episode:

Why Alicia’s purpose in therapy has always been to help and support women
How her practice focuses on women and couples who are trying to “put themselves back together”
Statistics on extra-marital affairs: (they are more common than you think!)
The HUGE paradox in our beliefs and actions
The importance of the language we use surrounding infidelity
What is an “affair”?
The emotional impact
How women and men differ in their reactions to affairs
How a relationship becomes vulnerable to an affair
From Alicia’s blog: 5 things that come between couples and cause affairs
The roles of disconnection and loneliness
Why people have affairs
The Vacuum of the Affair
How to strengthen your relationship connection
Don’t play “the blame game”
How to take responsibility and HEAL
Why the same problems might still exist
Myths about infidelity
Qualities of couples who recover
Why an affair is a psychological trauma
Alicia’s advice

01: Getting to the Heart of Loneliness with Sabrina Santa Clara, LPC Jul 06, 2016

Do you know what loneliness feels like? Loneliness may NOT be exactly what you think it is, but it probably affects more women around you than you realize. We’re talking with Sabrina Santa Clara, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Las Vegas. She is also the co-owner of the Center for Integrated Wellness, and her approach includes traditional and non-traditional therapy tools incorporating holistic methods. Join us for more!

What you’ll hear in this episode:

How Sabrina’s practice incorporates mindfulness, creativity, and spirituality
“Non-clinical” vs. clinical therapy
How Sabrina uses aromatherapy, creative arts, touch therapy and MORE!
Why culturally-appropriate methods matter
How Sabrina trains other clinicians in the art of psychotherapeutic touch
Why touch therapy is a “touchy” subject
Why traditional therapy emphasizes “thinking”
Why Sabrina focuses on loneliness
What is loneliness?
The disconnection/the reconnection
The different levels of loneliness
Attuning—What is it?
The wound of “not being seen”
Why authenticity is important
Myths about loneliness
The root of loneliness
“Big Love”
Gifts of loneliness
How to pay attention to your tender parts

00: Introducing Women In-Depth Jul 05, 2016

Welcome to the Women in Depth podcast! Today’s show will be different than the others as I tell you what to expect for future shows. We will be cultivating conversation around the entire experience of being a woman, with all its different aspects. Thank you for beginning this journey with me!

What you’ll hear in this episode:

How we will shine a light into life’s shadows
Being human involves uncertainty, suffering, pain, and struggles.
Life’s difficult places affect us.
Why the most painful challenges lead to the most growth
When we face fears with intentionality, we can heal and move forward.
Who Am I? Meet me, learn what I do, where I work, and the topics I’m most passionate about.
My inspiration is my clients, who move me, honor me, and astound me.
Support for YOU as we explore the inner lives of women
What my goals are for this podcast

You can visit the website and access all the show notes and resources mentioned in the show. www.lourdesviado.com

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