The Shattering Place Podcast

Today’s teaser for Season 3 reframes healing, spirituality, and impact through one provocative idea: your presence is a transmission, and it already affects the people around you. Today starts a new chapter for The Shattering Place. See you next week! Get full access to Trauma, Growing Up, Waking Up at michelledixonwriter.substack.com/subscribe

[Spoiler alert for the novel IKONA from 1:14:00 & 1:40:00 on!] On this week’s episode of The Shattering Place Podcast , host Michelle Dixon turns the mic over to her 21-year-old daughter, Hannah, for an intimate, wide-ranging conversation that goes far beyond a traditional author interview. Unpacking the story behind her novel IKONA , Michelle traces her journey through a lifetime of creative stru...

In this week’s episode of The Shattering Place Podcast , I sit down with board-certified psychiatric and family nurse practitioner Sonia Luckey for an intimate conversation about the intersection of psychiatric care, spiritual psychology, and holistic healing. Sonia shares the pivotal moment nearly two decades ago when she realized she was living a dual existence: a high-performing clinician and p...

In this episode of The Shattering Place Podcast , I am joined by Safra Turner for an eye-opening conversation tracing her journey from the world of policy frameworks and activism into a profound spiritual awakening and holistic healing practice. Safra offers a deep dive into the architecture of reality, decoding how universal laws, sacred geometry, and subconscious archetypes shape our daily lives...

In this unusually personal episode of The Shattering Place Podcast , I am sharing nearly the complete recording of a Quantum Hypnosis Session (derived from QHHT which means Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique — only when it is online it’s just called Quantum Hypnosis). In this podcast episode, I am under hypnosis and being guided to recall past (parallel? other?) lives as well as to ‘channel’ my hi...

“You are not your story, you are the awareness behind it,” Swami Nityananda The joyful life is one of full embodiment, and that includes the spiritual life. In this episode, I sat down with Swami Nityananda to explore the intersection of ancient traditions, specifically Advaita Vedanta and Kriya Yoga, and how to embody joy of ananda into our day to daylife. Swami Nityananda brings a deeply grounde...

Are we in pain because we’re finally waking up to our collective system, and our place within it? In this episode of The Shattering Place , I’m joined by Liz Moyer Benferhat . She is an author, somatic educator, and founder of We Heal For All . Drawing from nearly two decades in international development, Liz shares her transition from high-level policy spaces to healing-centered approaches, explo...

My guest this week has spent her life living right on that razor’s edge of radical expansion, living at full throttle! Joining me on the podcast this week is TeZa Lord: a lifelong yogi, spirit activist, author, and artist whose journey reads like a crazy-fun, multi-dimensional map of the human experience. From witnessing UFOs in 1968 as a young woman, to navigating profound personal shattering mom...

What if your dreams are there to heal you? And might also predict the future? In this episode, I sit down with Valerie Johns, MFT—a psychotherapist, poet, and dreamworker with over 35 years of experience in depth psychology and somatic practice. Valerie joins us to share her profound insights into the nature of dreams, how they function, and how listening to the unconscious can lead to deep healin...

Whether you love channeled material, are completely new to it, or consider yourself a bit of a skeptic, this episode is for you. Today, we are demystifying channeling by looking at the real-life human journey behind it and then getting a taster! We are joined by Derek and Sandy from Anamlíniú , their organisation and mission, focused on walking alongside people through awakening and bringing highe...

What happens when the structure of who you think you are completely dissolves? In this episode of The Shattering Place , I sit down with Stephan Kerby, co-founder and lead instructor at the Mindscape Psychedelic Institute. Kerby trains facilitators in the profound art of plant medicine journeys, specializing in 5-MeO-DMT, often referred to as the “God Molecule.” This incredibly potent compound tem...

Tragedy can serve as a brutal catalyst for the unraveling of the ego and the opening of the spirit. In this episode, Annie Lisa shares the raw, deeply personal story of her sister, Dr. Teresa Sievers, who was tragically murdered in 2015. Moving past the true-crime narrative, Annie walks us through the profound spiritual landscape that opened up in the wake of her sister's passing. We dive into the...

In 2015, the brutal murder of Dr. Teresa Sievers made national headlines, but the most profound part of her story was never told on the evening news. Next week, on August 3rd, I am releasing my interview with Teresa’s sister, Annie Lisa, for a deeply personal conversation that transcends the traditional true crime narrative. We will step beyond the tragedy itself to explore the spiritual awakening...

At The Shattering Place , I am deeply committed to exploring the frontiers of evolving consciousness. Arguably, a massive part of that evolution is how we, as individuals, personally experience and connect to “All That Is.” It’s easy to look to trending modern practices like meditation, yoga, and even plant medicine and miss some ancient traditions hidden in plain sight in the conservative world o...

This was a nourishing conversation that took us to the edges of contemplating global crises, and back to a deep contemplation of what community means and what , as spiritual beings, it means to be of service. Join me with food security activist and practicing Buddhist Jane Powell as we explore the vital intersections of food sovereignty, community resilience, and spiritual practice. From navigatin...

If someone you love is a veteran or in any way embodies the ‘warrior archetype’, this episode is not to be missed. Dr. Edward Tick has been working with veterans for several decades, and has developed some of the most transformational recovery programs out there … but this conversation (and his incredible work) is not just about healing the wound of war. Fundamentally, it’s about healing the wound...

In this episode, we explore the somatic and emotional symptoms of spiritual emergence with guest Natali Deftereos. Natali shares her powerful, non-traditionally guided journey through a profound Kundalini awakening—an intense physical and energetic process that completely transformed her body, emotional state, and understanding of self. Join my Substack community, the Stillpoint: Where personal gr...

Discover how intuitive development and inner work can shape both personal transformation and collective consciousness. Join us as Gloria Battini shares her journey from disconnection to spiritual awakening, emphasizing the importance of authenticity, energy mastery, and inner guidance in creating a new earth. Join my Substack community, the Stillpoint: Where personal growth naturally ripples out t...

This episode explores novelist Heather Hummel Gallagher’s extraordinary journey from a near-death experience to becoming a pet psychic. Discover how her spiritual insights, intuitive gifts, and personal stories about animals on the other side can deepen your understanding of the unseen world and the bonds we share with our pets. In this episode: * Heather shares her life-changing near-death experi...

Want to unlock deep healing through your body? In this episode, we dive into how Melanie Smithson integrates somatic practices, hypnotherapy, and spiritual work to expand human consciousness. Discover powerful insights on treating the body as a sacred communication device, and learn how intentional movement can lead to profound self-awareness and emotional release. Whether you are a spiritual seek...

What happens when a deep, cloistered spiritual life expands beyond the monastery walls? Former Carmelite nun Kimberly Braun joins the conversation to discuss divine intimacy, modern mysticism, and the profound transition of finding spiritual freedom outside of traditional religion. From childhood mystical experiences to her monastic life and her current work in spiritual leadership, we cover a lot...

What happens when psychotherapy meets the unseen world? In this episode, psychic medium and psychotherapist Cameron McLean joins us to explore the nature of spirit, life after death, and how our bodies act as an interface for the soul. Drawing from his unique journey from engineering to mediumship, Cameron explains how somatic awareness and authentic emotional alignment sharpen our intuitive capac...

In this episode, we sit down with coach and grief worker Tricia Baxley for a courageous conversation about the aftermath of her husband’s suicide. This is an exploration of how we live alongside profound grief as a lifelong, evolving journey. Tricia shares how her path through the crucible of grief became an unexpected portal, allowing her to revisit childhood wounds and open up to multidimensiona...

In this episode, Dixon dives into the intersection of energy healing and trauma recovery with Chris Wasko, a spiritual counselor, energy healer, and psychic medium specializing in trauma recovery and nervous system regulation. They explore how reading the body’s story through the chakra system can lead to profound nervous system regulation and soul-level healing. Want to go deeper into the archite...

Can plant medicine accelerate deep nervous system repair or even evolve collective consciousness? Dixon explores the intersection of trauma healing, plant intelligence, and collective evolution with Elizabeth Kromer of FieldGuide9. Want to go deeper into the architecture of the New Human? Before the interviews of Season 2, there was the solo narrative of Season 1—a journey exploring the somatic di...