016: Secure Relationships with Dr. Rebecca Jorgenson

016: Secure Relationships with Dr. Rebecca Jorgenson

Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen joins me to discuss how to avoid common pitfalls and achieve more secure relationships. We talk about how our need to connect is locked in a dance with our insecurities. How our defensive, protective strategies are activated when we feel insecure. Our guard goes up, we go behind a wall, or get critical of others and push them behind a wall. Blocking ourselves from having what we need the most, secure connection. And this is why we need to cultivate safe sacred space to deepen our awareness around how these adaptations to our insecurities inadvertently increase our pain and loneliness rather than cultivate security.

015: Journey To Discover The Self with Jan Bergstrom, LMHC

015: Journey To Discover The Self with Jan Bergstrom, LMHC

In this episode, one of my teachers, Jan Bergstrom, LMHC explains how the Self exists in relation to our own perceptions, our own thoughts, our own experiences, and our own souls. Jan is an expert in field of codependency, developmental and relational trauma in the lineage of Pia Mellody, a pioneer in treating childhood trauma.

014: Peeling Back the Layers of Multicultural Competence with Sonya Lott, PhD

014: Peeling Back the Layers of Multicultural Competence with Sonya Lott, PhD

I'm talking with Dr. Sonya Lott, a licensed psychologist in private practice with a specialization in complicated grief, and the host of the Reflections on Multicultural Competence podcast. She's on a mission to transform the narratives created about ourselves and others through the socialization process and our experiences with power, privilege, and marginalization based on our many intersecting cultural identities.

013: Part 2, Unraveling The Survival Knot with Hedy Schleifer

013: Part 2, Unraveling The Survival Knot with Hedy Schleifer

In part 2 of Unraveling The Survival Knot with Hedy Schleifer we’re diving even deeper into the process of being a host/visitor and opening ourselves to each others deepest truths, to our own deepest truths, on a level where we may not have exposed ourselves to that in the past. If you haven’t already tuned into part 1 of this series, we recommend you begin there.

012: Part 1, Unraveling The Survival Knot with Hedy Schleifer

012: Part 1, Unraveling The Survival Knot with Hedy Schleifer

Hedy Schleifer guides, counsels and teaches couples, partners, business associates, therapists and families about relational maturity. Hedy is the founder of the Encounter-centered Couples Transformation approach (EcCT), an integrative and interdisciplinary model that lies at the intersection of philosophy, clinical theory, organizational methodology, and relational neurobiology and memory reconsolidation.

011: Riding The Feminine Current with Maya Luna

011: Riding The Feminine Current with Maya Luna

In this month's episode I'm joined by Maya Luna, a Feminine Mystic and a Poet exploring the Tantric Path and Feminine Embodiment. We muse about our collective hunger for deep acceptance of who we really are. Our fear of letting go, of surrendering, and of softening into the moment. The deep feminine is the soulful nourishment of being we are craving. All our doing is an attempt to experience fulfillment. And the truth is that the feeling of fulfillment and satisfaction is available unconditionally in every moment no matter what.

010: Mending Racialized Trauma: A Body Centered Approach with Resmaa Menakem

010: Mending Racialized Trauma: A Body Centered Approach with Resmaa Menakem

Resmaa Menakem, healer, author, and trauma specialist, says that to address white-body supremacy we need to work with race or culture to cultivate a somatic abolitionist mindset or community. And part of that is gaining some reps to know what to pay attention to, some reps with each other’s nervous system so we can create a culture that knows what to pay attention to. Otherwise it’s just strategy.

009: Contemplating Life through Grief with John Eric Baugher, PhD

009: Contemplating Life through Grief with John Eric Baugher, PhD

In this episode, we’re contemplating how caring is what makes us fundamentally human and how we’re connected by suffering. I’m joined by John Eric Baugher, a scholar, writer and teacher exploring the transformative possibilities of contemplative end of life care. His book, Contemplative Caregiving offers encouragement to show up in the fullness of life.