The ReProgram

Why did the early church work so hard to bury the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, and what does her message about the divine within have to do with healing today? Okay y’all, grab your tea, because we are diving all the way into Christian mysticism, ego death, and The-Mary-Magdalene-Of-It-All! We are joined today by Chad Smith, a pastor investigated for heresy who was pushed out of his pulpit for being...

Happy Spooky Season Everyone! I am kicking off October with the first of several episodes this month themed on the Unseen, what we can experience that we were told wasn't real, and expanding our concept of what is actually around us, available for us, and wanting to connect with us. We are starting the series with local Asheville artist, "Ghost Girls" Podcast host, and wise brave swe...

Why does the woman who made "weaponized incompetence" a household term still catch herself doing it all when stress hits? Well, I got to talk to her, Laura Danger, author of No More Mediocre, for another expansive episode. We are once again unpacking the mental load, domestic equity, and why "just give me a list" never actually fixes anything. This convo really is two women who...

In this conversation I sit down with renowned psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas to talk about her latest book, "Come Closer; Childhood Wounds, Adult Love, and the Secrets of Emotional Intimacy" where she beautifully breaks down something I think about constantly: how our early wounds quietly run the show in our adult relationships — who we're drawn to, how we handle closeness, and what h...

This is one of those conversations I can't stop thinking about since having it, and while I was having it, I felt how impactful it will be for you all. Laura Shifter is a leading voice at the intersection of education and climate change. She has spent her already incredible career teaching at Harvard at the graduate level, working on policy change at the national level, and is leading some of...

In this conversation, therapist and podcaster Jodi White breaks down the truth behind this widely misunderstood pattern, revealing it has almost nothing to do with romance and everything to do with a child's unmet need for unconditional love. Jodi walks through Pia Melody's three core symptoms: seeking constant validation from another adult, placing that person on a pedestal while shrinkin...

New research on motherhood as leadership development says yes, and the findings will make you see caregiving completely differently. This conversation dives into groundbreaking dissertation research built on a thousand mothers' survey responses and ten in-depth interviews, uncovering that mothers already practice the leadership qualities workplaces prize most: logistics, emotional intelligence...

This conversation with fellow mama and Dr. Robin Dickenson, family physician who spent years doing trauma informed care for families breaking generational cycles, explains why (our) shame around puberty, reproduction, and sex education does the damage we don't want to do, and how to help ourselves out of it.  This conversation moves through adverse childhood experiences and why trauma shows up...

This conversation conveys something that I've been trying to find the words and way to describe to you all for awhile. It was my personal experience first, then I started running groups that set the stage for this healing to happen, and now I keep watching it work time and time again. Because my God, don't we all want to know what actually rewires an anxious or avoidant attachment style, a...

This is a good one y'all! I sat down with author of "Nowhere Girl; Life as a Member of ADHD's Lost Generation" Carla Ciccone to talk about the massive ADHD awakening happening in millennial mothers right now — and why so many of us are getting diagnosed in our 30s and 40s instead of, you know, decades ago when it actually would've solved so many problems. We get into it all: the wanderer gene (DRD...

In this rich bubbly conversation I am delighted to share with you, Bethany Webster (author of Discovering the Inner Mother ) breaks down the spiritual roots of the mother wound and how it distorts our very first relationship with life itself. There are four levels of the mother wound and we will talk about how patriarchy filters through the mother daughter bond, creating a double bind where becomi...

Today I sat down with Navajo Nation medicine woman Granddaughter Crow to walk through her book Ho Shon, unpacking how each body carries its own intelligence: the physical body's instinct for survival, the emotional body's longing for connection, the mental body's reasoning, and the spiritual body's quiet knowing. The conversation moves into epigenetics and ancestral memory, the cos...

I had the honor of meeting Thee Gloria Steinem last week because of an incredible organization called Moms First, that's working for practical policy change to make motherhood sustainable for Moms via universal childcare and paid family leave. I wanted to share my experience, and my thoughts on Motherhood in America for you all, so you can feel seen, hopefully deeply validated, and fired up to joi...

Mark Wolynn is one of the foremost experts on inherited family trauma and the author of the award-winning It Didn't Start With You — and what he shared in this episode stopped me in my tracks more than once. We go deep on how trauma doesn't just live in our own nervous systems — it travels through generations and through our biology. Through the stories we tell ourselves about who we are a...

I have another amazing mama and woman for you today! One that was once a stranger on the other side of the internet (and country) and has now become yet another incredible woman in my orbit who has both received and provided me (and so so many others) with the life-giving, shame relieving, hope believing, exhale inducing magic that women naturally intuitively freely provide (when they're in th...

I have decided to pepper the summer with podcast episodes of the incredible women that are in my phone, that inspire, amuse and reinforce my faith daily that women are brilliant, and are absolutely gonna be alright.  You see, my phone is filled with Marco Polo groups of women that have done Safe Inside (my 6 week somatic coaching container) and Safe in the Shadow (my 6 week somatic group coaching...

I was a guest on Nicole's Podcast "Heal Out Loud," and the convo was so darn good, I wanted to copy and paste and make sure my people got to experience it too. We went deep into what it actually means to love yourself — not the aesthetic version, not the bubble bath version, but the version that makes loneliness lose its grip. The version that stops you from needing someone else in t...

Oooo this is such a timely and potent episode with the light, wise and innovative Wendy Synder, Parent Coach and author of the forthcoming book Fresh Start Your FamilyPowerful Parenting to Restore Peace in Your Home. Having been in the parenting field for roughly two decades each, Wendy and I explore what it really means to parent with both firm boundaries and deep connection without falling into...

What does somatic healing actually look like for a millennial mom in the middle of real life? In this episode I sit down with Allie McQuaid to talk about the specific emotional landscape millennial moms are navigating right now — burnout, identity, boundaries, and the societal and patriarchal pressures that shape so much of the motherhood experience without us even realizing it. We cover somatic r...

This episode with Tricia Wilson, fellow facilitator of the Circle of Security Training, hits to the root of all we need to know as parents. Circle of Security is a simple, powerful way of understanding what children actually need from us. Essentially, it shows us that kids move out into the world to explore (the top of the circle), and then come back to us for comfort, connection, and regulation (...

What an important conversation with wise seasoned clinician, writer, and somatic couples therapist Jordan Dann we have for you today. Jordan illuminates how implicit attachment dynamics play out in couples (that alone is worth the listen!), we talk about the drama triangle (something that was so powerful for me to learn and work with in the last year), shifting from codependence to interdependence...

Ready for to exhale? My goodness, my ancestral healer Kathryn Blau is here to groundedly expand our awareness into the ancestral support available to us all, and my Lord we need it more than ever down here on this motherloving earth plane. Kathryn is a mama herself, and was trained by Dr. Daniel Foor, one of the leading experts in ancestral healing for personal and cultural transformation. I wante...

MN-born Kathleen Hoagland LPC has stepped in to meet the moment of the acute and collective trauma that is happening in Minnesota and to our country at the hands of ICE. In this conversation, Kathleen inspires and soothes us by explaining the therapeutic mutual-aid she has organized for the people of MN, she empowers and educates us on the various nervous system responses that are happening for al...

This conversation with Kristina Kyser, PhD (brilliant brave neurodivergent mother of three, former psycho-therapist turned somatic-spiritual educator), came at a moment when all of our nervous systems are feeling deeply rocked by what is happening in our country. It feels (increasingly) impossible to talk about “mental health,” “normalcy,” or “healing” without naming the water we are all swimming...

I loved this conversation with the wise James Deegan, Irish intuitive healer and inner child shaman. In a world where so many women and children are still living with the consequences of unsafe masculinity, we desperately need examples of men who are willing to face their own shadows, take responsibility for harm, and become emotionally safe. His story is massive, his determination unbelievable, i...