The ReProgram

Clinician and author, mother and daughter Katherine Fabrizio is on the pod to tell us all about the archetype of the Good Daughter that she discovered in her thirty years working clinically with women. This award-winning book names so beautifully the issue of being an empathic daughter being raised by narcissistic, borderline and difficult mothers, and how to individuate and change the dynamic no...

I sat down with author, mother, sister and daughter Gina Demillo Wagner to discuss her beautiful memoir "Forces of Nature," where she recounts with such wisdom and warmth her experience growing up in an abusive household, having a special needs sibling, and mourning his sudden death in adulthood. While the details of her life story are specific to her, we zoom out into the complexity of...

I am beyond happy (wink) to have author, researcher, speaker and general wonderful human Stephanie Harrison on the pod today to illuminate the ways this culture has brainwashed us and the ways we can get free. Stephanie has been researching happiness for the past decade, and with her internationally bestselling book, "The New Happy" she's here to teach us how to get happiness right i...

The deeply wise and playful somatic coach, host of the Radio Somonaut Podcast, choreographer and mama Whitney Dawn Pyles is here today to deepen our understanding of these bodies and how we can put them in places, spaces and positions to bring forward our highest healing and expression of Self. I met Whitney at a retreat we did at the top of the year, noticed her instantly (you'll hear about t...

Artist, father, professor, co-founder of the Conscious Center for Living and Dying, and Mankind Project member Brent Skidmore is here with us today to talk about all things healing, community, healthy masculinity and actually, life and death. He's a multi-faceted man and we are here for it. For those of you who are expanding your definition of the masculine (what is possible, what healthy *fre...

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and author of "Till Stress Do Us Part" Elizabeth Earnshaw @lizlistens deeply understands the unique challenges couples are facing at this time and how our nervous systems and unconscious are running the show. This episode will create so many lightbulb moments for you-- especially regarding how we can upwardly edit the stress in our lives, the ways w...

Award-winning singer-songwriter Ruby Rose Fox is here for a fascinating conversation about all things our nervous systems. Ruby is the author of "Superplay: Your Instrument is You" a Polyvagal-inspired revolution for harnessing stage fright and deshaming your nervous system. While I know most of us aren't trying to write a Grammy-winning song (we're just trying to get these kids...

This is a big one y'all. Sam Kelly teaches women how to break the cycle of motherhood burnout by empowering their kids to be proactive contributors in the home and sharing the mental load with the whole family. I knowwww. She's a therapist turned feminist coach, mother of three, and as a working mother and a wife, she has been living in the current gender inequities of our time, and decide...

We have a special treat for you today: one of our "Founding Mothers" from the first cohort of our Nurtured Mama Group is on the pod with me and my co-facilitator Maggie Viers to reflect on the experience, the shifts, and the turbo-charged magic that occurs when a group of women come together to heal.  If you're Nurtured Mama Curious, or just want to learn more about this whole healing and Cycle St...

I am so happy to share my conversation with somatic fitness trainer Lizzy Zima with you today, she is doing something really unique, needed, and I am obsessed with it. Lizzie has in-person and an online studio where she provides ritual fitness and somatic self-care for women so they can "build strength, process their emotions and align with their highest selves." Lizzy has connected the dots with...

My colleague and friend Kathleen Fleming is on the pod today to delve into the complexities of postpartum mental health, the importance of emotional regulation, and the need for community support for mothers. We discuss the significance of understanding anger as a valid emotion (I know, again....we can't stop won't stop talking about anger!), the role of attachment in parenting, and the cultural c...

Asheville artist, icon, and emerging comedienne Robin Plemmons is on the pod today to make us giggle, open our hearts, and show us what it looks like when we're stepping into our mastery. She's this insane combination of Brene Brown and Dave Chapelle, and everyone needs to know her and what she's doing. Robin did her first comedy show in Asheville earlier this year called "Spread Eagle at the Grey...

I am so happy to share this beautiful conversation between me and Jessica Jocelyn, a deeply wise, vulnerable, relatable poet who has published 5 books on healing, cyclebreaking and mothering. I knowwww. This conversation centers on her latest book called "Stars at Last," about the healing she has found in finally having a daughter juxtaposed by the recent loss of her mother's life due to untreated...

Dutch Psychologist Barlas Gunay is back and he's here to go all into boundaries with me! We've both noticed that boundaries is a concept the average person is more familiar with than ever before (yay), but we both see in our clinical work that there's a surface level behavior-based knowledge, that isn't moving the needle for most of us Cyclestarters as we have a lot of development to catch up firs...

Hello Loves! Our dear friend Alli Monday interviewed me on her podcast "Sex & Somatics" during my Hurricane Helene experience, and I felt called to share it here too! This is me, digesting and sharing and exploring what I know, and what I'm learning in real time. There is so much I didn't get the chance to say here-- about the epic tantrums and expressions of feeling I witnessed my children ha...

Marriage and Family Therapist and Childhood Trauma specialist Amber Trejo is here to illuminate the ways untreated childhood trauma shows up in our parenting, and MAN, will you have some lightbulb moments in this episode. Amber explains the symptoms of childhood trauma that often become activated by becoming a parent (catastrophizing, emotional flashbacks, over-reacting to age appropriate behavior...

Our Somatic Sex, Love, and Relationship bestie Faith Laux is back on the pod to go even deeper (haha, wink wink) into the topic of sex, connection, safety and liberation. Yes yes yes. Get ready for lots of giggles and stop-you-in-your-tracks statements from this incredible woman. In this conversation, Faith and I explore the intricate relationship between healing, pleasure, and sexuality. We discu...

I am so happy to share this timely episode on two topics pressing for my WNC community right now, and also for all of us as we heal and live these lives. Kadhi is a transformational counselor trained in the Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy, and is also an old family friend who was the first embodied woman I ever saw in my twenties. Kadhi talks about shifting our orientation to lif...

We have fine art nude and somatic photographer and worshiper of women Alli Monday back on the pod today to help us shift our mindset from "work to receiving" for our highest healing and thriving. Sounds good right? It is. Alli recovered from Complex PTSD, treatment-resistant depression, and sexual assault through deep somatic healing understanding and practices. She tells us her story, provides so...

I LOVED this conversation so much, and think it's an essential piece for those of us in partnership with men, male bodies, and raising boys. Kieran Pollitt, British emotional release and trauma coach (and champion of inner child healing, you know I love it!) illuminates so beautifully the complexity of masculinity today, how cultural conditioning impacts men's ability to emotional express,...

I've been wanting my colleague Dr. Catherine Tucker to come on the pod for awhile now to discuss Theraplay, a therapeutic modality that utilizes the child-parent relationship to foster secure attachment through play-based activities. Catherine illuminates this modality, where the Practitioner guides the parent and child through playful, fun games, developmentally challenging activities, and tender...

TedX Speaker, author and mother of 4 Katie Kimball is on the pod today to discuss the concept of picky eating and how it is not solely about the food! What?? I know. She introduces the five P's that contribute to picky eating: palate, pain, processing, pressure, and power. She emphasizes the importance of understanding the physiological and sensory aspects of eating, as well as the impact of p...

I am so excited to finally bring to you Veronica Rotman, a somatic nervous system healing practitioner and teacher to discuss with me the importance of somatics in parenting and the impact of the nervous system on our experiences. This conversation encompasses everything I have learned and believe that parents need to know to get free from the invisible prisons of performance, perfectionism and pa...

I have been wanting Occupational Therapist and Parent Coach Maggie Viers on the podcast for ages and today is the dayyyy! Maggie and I are so aligned with our approaches and the conclusions we have drawn from knowing, living and teaching the science of attachment and parenting. She is brilliant, down-to-earth, and my professional twin. Today, Maggie and I are so excited to bring to you Our first G...

I am so fired up to present this conversation to you today with Jessica Elefante, the author of "Living Well, Raising Hell: Freedom from Influence in a World Where Everyone Wants Something from You," co-chair of Mothers Against Media Addiction, mother, & tech critic at the heart of modernity & humanity. I devoured Jessica's book where she furthers her work to open people’s ey...