Finding Our Minds

Write to us, we want to hear from you! Suzanne Rodgers is a licensed therapist, holistic health practitioner, the owner of Living Well with Suzanne Rodgers and your cheerleader to LIVING WELL! She helps high-achieving women release what no longer serves them through a blend of talk therapy, energy, and sound healing at The Living Well Center of St. Louis. You can find Suzanne on IG and FB at Livin...

Write to us, we want to hear from you! Chris McDonald is a Licensed Holistic Therapist with a group virtual practice, “Path to Hope Counseling” in North Carolina. She is a 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher and offers gentle yoga to clients in session, workshops and private yoga sessions. She specializes in treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma and grief in young adults in transition. She teaches...

Write to us, we want to hear from you! Vanessa Holliman, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, founder of BEing Wholistic and practices Integrative Mind-Body-Spirit Social Work. Her work is rooted in the belief that healing trauma, especially the niche of adult sexual trauma, requires addressing the whole person—mind, body, and spirit. With training in psych...

Write to us, we want to hear from you! Emily is a psychospiritual therapist whose therapy practice is rooted in an integrative clinical framework that honors Transpersonal, Psychodynamic, Attachment/Family Systems, Trauma-Informed, Existential-Humanistic, Epigenetics, Ecopsychology, Experiential, and Energy Psychology—woven together to create a multidimensional and deeply personal healing experien...

Write to us, we want to hear from you! Dr. MAC and Léa Fae discuss the clinical gray area of defining altered states of consciousness. Many of the holistic therapists we've interviewed this season utilize modalities that drop their clients into altered states of consciousness. We discuss some theory behind this from the post-Jungian perspective. 

Write to us, we want to hear from you! Katie Fields is the creator of CounSouling, a psycho-spiritual model of developmental psychology that focuses on the dynamic between ego and soul. Inspired by Internal Family Systems therapy and infused with psycho-spiritual assessments, including Numerology, Human Design, and the Enneagram, CounSouling helps clients appreciate their lived experiences and rec...

Write to us, we want to hear from you! Dr. Arnd-Caddigan and Léa Fae discuss the difference between theory and modality, and delve deeper into different theories that can support holistic psycho-therapy practice.

Write to us, we want to hear from you! In this episode we interview Dr. Tina Vitolo, a licensed clinical social worker, educator, and thought leader in the ethical integration of unconventional practices within mental health care. She is the founder of The Black Sheep Therapist platform and the Innovative Practitioner Accelerator (IPA) Program , which supports clinicians in aligning holistic, spir...

Write to us, we want to hear from you! Welcome back to Season 5 listeners! This season we are talking about Holistic Psychotherapy, a post-materialist perspective on alternative spiritual practices and their place in therapy. We have interviewed several therapists who incorporate spirituality into their therapy practice, and we have a variety of discussions on the ethics, theory, legality, and cul...

Write to us, we want to hear from you! It's our last episode of the season! Our guest Niki talks about her harrowing journey of family, love, and leaving Evangelicalism to find a new relationship with the Divine. You can find her on instagram @ Niki_corcoran_nc and @ Phoenix_uncaged . Her podcast is Tales of a Trailblazer: Uncaged , check it out! 

Write to us, we want to hear from you! We have another special guest! Our friend Justin discusses his life growing up in a conservative Evangelical environment and how it was not an easy road to accept his gay identity and reconcile his faith. In this season about spiritual trauma, we've discussed how it is rooted in one's fear for their immortal soul. Justin's story is a beautiful...

Write to us, we want to hear from you! We have a special guest! This season we have been unpacking religious trauma and spiritual abuse. Our guest today is Mikayla Gilbreath (she/her), LMSW, CCTS-I. Mikayla discusses discovering her queer identity in an Evangelical community, coming out, and her work as a grief and trauma therapist. 

Write to us, we want to hear from you! Grief, loss, and trauma can all accompany leaving a spiritually abusive environment. While previously we talked about how an institution can be religiously abusive -even if it's not a cult- today Dr. Mac and Léa Fae talk about the trauma associated with removing oneself from a high-demand environment. Leaving is never easy. 

Write to us, we want to hear from you! Earlier this season Dr. MAC and co-host Léa defined spiritual abuse, and discussed the unique characteristics of trauma from religious/spiritual abuse. Healing wounds from this specific type of trauma is its own unique journey, and in today's episode we discuss what that can look like. 

Write to us, we want to hear from you! Today's episode Dr. Margaret Arnd-Caddigan (she/her) and Léa Fae (they/he/she/fae) discuss types of organizational structures that don't meet the standard definition of a cult, but still practice spiritually abusive tactics. 

Write to us, we want to hear from you! Spiritual abuse that takes place during childhood is unique in the trauma developed by the abused. In this episode of Finding Our Minds. Dr. Margaret Arnd-Caddigan (she/her) and co-host Léa Fae (they/he/she/fae/faer) discuss how religious trauma differs from other types of childhood trauma, and how that can affect development. Sources for this season can be f...

Write to us, we want to hear from you! Welcome back, listeners! Season 4 tackles the topic of spiritual and religious abuse. In this introduction your hosts Dr. Arnd-Caddigan and Léa Fae Caddigan discuss their personal relationship with spiritual abuse and the inspiration behind this season's topic. A short and sweet introduction to the material before delving deeply into the topic in subsequ...

Write to us, we want to hear from you! It's (finally) the final episode of the season! Dr. Mac and Leah wrap up this season's discussion on "the sense of self." Why is the medical model not the best way to look at mental un-wellness and the healing journey? How can we help our clients without infantalizing them? How dose a mind-centered depth-approach therapy allow for an indiv...

Write to us, we want to hear from you! Today's final episode of this season's lecture series, Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses what it takes for inner change to occur in an individual, and how other people are involved in the process. Works discussed in today's episode include: Benjamin, J. (2004). Beyond doer and done-to: An intersubjective view of thirdness.  Psychoanalytic Quarterly,...

Write to us, we want to hear from you! Our final installment of discussing identity, personality, and character, Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses what makes up one's character. She goes on to review personal ethics in the context of forming identity and character, and how this relates to treating mental suffering in the therapeutic context. Works cited in today's episode: Carol Gilligan (1982...

Write to us, we want to hear from you! Today's episode is a review of personality through the lens of developing a healthy self. How does this relate to identity, character, and development? Dr. Arnd-Caddigan and Leah Faye discuss.  

Write to us, we want to hear from you! In this episode Dr. Arnd-Caddigan and co-host Leah Faye discuss the various ways in which those suffering from mental illness choose to identify. Today's lecture unpacks how mental suffering can arise when a society chooses to project an identity onto an individual whose sense of self is at conflict with the societal projection. 

Write to us, we want to hear from you! This meditation is meant to be paired with episode 5, and focuses on our sense of self. 

Write to us, we want to hear from you! In this episode Dr. Arnd-Caddigan breaks down the concept of multiple selves, and the experience of multiple selves in a dissociative context. How does one unify the self? What is the difference between multiple selves and multiple experiences? Works cited in today's episode: Steven Kuchuck:  The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy....

Write to us, we want to hear from you! In this episode Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses the Jungian definition of individuality, and the means by which Carl Jung studied the sense of self. The co-hosts discuss the impact Jungian and post-Jungian psychology has on the sense of binaries, and the concept of individuation.  Works cited in today's episode: Murray Stein: Handbook of Jungian Psychology C...