a little room for healing

Today I'm visited by Allison Breininger, founder of The Negative Space. Allison became a caregiver when her husband was diagnosed with Fanconi Anemia in 2011. She founded the nonprofit, The Negative Space, to change the way caregivers are seen and supported. She cohosts the podcast, In Sickness, provides individual coaching, and facilitates groups and education sessions. On today's episode...

We are fresh off the trail and ready to discuss what happened while we were jeeping. We touch on the importance of having a container. We talk about our two minds - the ego self and the intuitive self (inner sage). And how mindful jeeping added new insights to my journey from victim mentality to owning my power. Come on in

Tommy is the co-author of Take The Wheel: An Offroad Monks' guide to quiet your mind and get back in the driver's seat of life. He also facilitates Zen Jeeping, a mindful practice of offroad jeeping. Today we talk about what Tommy calls the green zone, a place of stillness where the mind and body sync. I open up about my attachment to victimhood and what it means to be in my power. And we look int...

I’m pleased to have Shannon O’neill-Loyola joining me today.  Shannon is a seasoned healing practitioner with nearly 20 years of experience across multiple disciplines. A Reiki Master and licensed massage therapist trained in Five Element Chinese Medicine, Shannon also works with breathwork, 13th Octave LaHoChi, and Mexican Rose Healing. As an evidential medium and longtime Akashic Records channel...

Today I’m joined by Hanna Bernstein LMFT. Hannah is a psychotherapist and healer entranced by the intersection of mysticism and evidence based practices. She has done extensive work in trauma therapy and crisis intervention, with a special focus on consent ruptures. She is presently working with former guest of the podcast, Val, on a course in embodied listening. On this episode we spend time work...

On this episode I delve into people pleasing. I explore what I believe to be the underlying cause of people pleasing - fear, and how I work with it. I also share a story from last weekend and the realization I received while working with a heart opener in a crowd. Towards the end I take time to honor the opportunities we have every time we encounter discomfort. It is a gift that allows us to grow...

Today I explore the experience of finding my voice. This podcast journey has offered me an opportunity to speak my truth but it hasn’t always been easy and this episode is no different. The struggle of finding my voice has been a lifelong battle. I share some ways in which my voice was suppressed as a child and also give you real time updates of how my body feels about sharing these truths present...

On this episode I open up about the feelings of failure I’ve been sitting with. I give myself a reiki session. And then I do a deep dive with loneliness. How it feels in my system, the unhelpful ways I used to attempt to fill the hole and how I relate to it in the present. By the end something moves in me and I realize how my new relationship with loneliness offers me a new perspective on my feeli...

On today’s episode I delve into my pattern of fantasy relationships. I share in detail what they are and how they affected me. I describe the mechanism I discovered when I chose to explore the cause of these relationships which ultimately led me to the truth of why I do it. Then I talk about the path to healing them and my determination to face my fear of rejection and healthy romantic relationshi...

Today I step out of my comfort zone and do my first solo episode. Join me as I find my voice while I share about the road to finding my truth. There is a beautiful turning point halfway through where the ramblings about my healing journey shift to a more grounded share about where I am. I touch on my struggle with worthlessness, indoctrination, letting go of my grip on trauma, my affair with actin...

I welcome back Robin Kidder one more time. Robin is a medicine guide serving as a divine mirror and pattern worker awakening people to the truth of their power. She has a gift of seeing you and your power and the stories/systems/patterns that are blocking you from realizing your power. She’s passionate, resilient and determined. If you are in a place in your life where you’re ready to really get i...

Robin Kidder returns. Robin is a medicine guide serving as a divine mirror and pattern worker awakening people to the truth of their power. This is the second episode of our journey with Father. Today we begin integrating our experience. It's the day after and emotions are still high as we talk about what we felt and moved for the first time. I’m excited to share this powerful moment in my hea...

Robin Kidder returns to the podcast. Robin is a medicine guide serving as a divine mirror and pattern worker awakening people to the truth of their power. Today we set off on a special 2 part journey together. In this episode we prepare for a medicine journey with a plant commonly referred to as Father. We share where we are leading up to this work as well as what being a healer means to us. We di...

Today we take on death. My guest is Iván Chocrón, a plant medicine facilitator, public speaker, and educator. Iván and I talk about fear of death and how it influences our beliefs, and how death like experiences on psychedelics changed his views on death and spirituality. We wonder if fear of death is actually a result of a fear of life. He also gives us a closer look at what a shaman is and we di...

My guest today is Emily L Collins. Emily is a spiritual technologist. Reviving ancient spiritual technology for transformation and creativity. She is working on her first film, Spaceborn, and founded a community called Union Tribe Church. Together we talk about her desire to have a child and how she is preparing for that journey when it comes. Including healing her mother wound, and working throug...

Today I’m sitting with Val Bentson. Val is a sound facilitator, folk singer-songwriter, and a mindfulness-based somatic practitioner. We discuss our body’s intelligence and how we get in the way of it. We talk about opening ourselves to expressing sounds to move pockets of emotions. We explore shame, the importance of voicing it, our relationship to it, releasing it and when it is good for us. We...

Sherry is a lifelong spiritual seeker and deep diver who previously worked in tech and is now on a sabbatical that includes explorations into her deepest longings and impulses, healing trauma through somatics, and learning and practicing the wisdom of Eastern spiritual traditions. On this episode we journey through the challenges of taking up space and allowing the spotlight to be on her. We talk...

James Lavrakas joins me on today’s episdode. James is a psychedelic integration coach helping introverts and highly sensitive people move forward, heal, and make lasting change. You can find him on instagram @the_psychedelic_introvert. Together we talk about integrating psychedelic experiences, asking for help in ceremony, the importance of community in medicine spaces, and how some lessons need t...

Today I’m spending time with Ash Witham. Ash is a coach, creator, and facilitator. She is a course leader at Authentic Relating Training (ART) International, a certified coach through the Relateful Co, and is now training in Somatic Coaching through the Strozzi Institute. She is the co-founder of Shadow Academy and ARCI Retreat. And committed to creating offerings that cultivate emobodied expressi...

Gillian is a harpist, singer/songwriter, writer, and screenwriter. She is also a facilitator of a relational meditation practice called relateful flow or circling, a space holder, and coach. On this episode we attempt to ground amidst the chaos and triggers, we talk about finding community, body dysmorphia, loving all parts of us and healing artist wounds. We also have a drop by visit from Gillian...

Today I’m spending time with Nicole Derseweh. Nicole is a plant medicine practitioner, author and healer. On this episode she tells me about her initiation into energy healing, the ways in which religious trauma affected her and how she found her way back to spirituality after leaving the church. She talks abut her bout with severe depression and what pulled her out of it. We also talk about recei...

Ezra Goh returns for a second exploration on the podcast. Ezra is a somatic movement coach. He uses movement as a language to create spaces and containers for people to have conversations with their bodies, especially when there’s fear in the body or fear of the body. On this episode we delve into the world of meaning and how one can get lost in a maze while seeking it. We look at who is making th...

Today I’m spending time with Lisa Gaub. Lisa has been practicing as a licensed clinical therapist for 20 years. She also owns and operates Sugar and Fire Baking Company creating super delicious vegan cookies. Highly recommended. On this episode we talk about her current clinical work as the supervisor of the transitional foster care program in Philadelphia, the challenges she’s been having navigat...

My guest is Brenna Carswell. She’s the executive director of Collective Prana, a nonprofit focused on bridging the gap of mental wellness so people can have access to changing unproductive thought and behavior patterns. Together we discuss corrective experiences, meditation, hypnotic states, and finding compassion for our parents. We share some of our formative experiences and how the path to heal...

Delia shares her experience of becoming a mother. She talks about the ways it has changed her, as well as the challenges and opportunities the process has afforded her to learn and grow. We move from conception, through the pregnancy, and into the emotions of birth. She also gives me a little insight into the super powers a mother's body receives to be able to take this incredibly important jo...