Love the Voices

This show will continue to go through the Sub-Personalities, Debbie writes about in her book, "Talking to My Selves," with the Skeptic/Cynic/Seeker/Believer and Preacher/Guru to finish up the Triumverate of the Judge we started last week. And if there's time to move to Chapter 4, she'll describe more of the Intellectual Characters who live up in our heads (as opposed to the Emotional Characters th...

Today Debbie will start a series of shows that go through the chapters of her book, "Talking to My Selves: Learning to Love the Voices in Your Head." She'll spend the next few weeks going through the 24 voices - or Sub-Personalities - included in the book. Today she'll give a basic explanation of the basic theory, followed by the first three characters: The Judge, Skeptic and Preacher - or as far...

Today Debbie will do some fun teaching of a short piece, which once you learn, can change your life! Have you heard of the "Rep Systems"? They come from NLP and help you to know how you see, hear or feel the world around you. Learning this can help stop relationship quarrels once you can enter someone else's "Representational System" that may be different from your own. And if you work on it, you...

Continuing the discussion Debbie started last week on the connection between physical body symptoms and Past Lives, she will dig deeper into some of her own issues. She promised to tell more of the story of foot binding connected to a phobia she had around her feet from infancy. The practice is also known as Lotus Feet, and was popular for 1000 years in China among the wealthy. Could ballet shoes...

Do you believe in Past Lives? Whether you do or not, you'll hear some of the "proof" of them that Debbie has found in her life, both from her Past Life Regressions and doing them for others as a Master Alchemist over the last 40 years.

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Debbie has been saying for months she will talk about the controversy over abortion/pregnancy/women's medical rights at some point. Well, that time has come. Politics have come to her home state of Georgia and she'll shed some light on all of the current issues in terms of emotional/psychological health, if they want to make these issues political.

Continuing to discuss the results of stress and trauma in terms of the Fight/Flight/Freeze, today Debbie will talk about how the Freeze State morphs into a normal part of life, as no one turns into a virtual frozen stiff statue. Instead, since life must go on, it can be called the "Functional Freeze" and simply looks like general overwhelm, pain and ultimately can lead to illness that doctors trea...

Today Debbie will tell an unpublished story of an Alchemy session she had 25 years ago. In it she goes into her subconscious mind to sit down with different "Parts" of herself to create a strategy among them to write her book. Many people aspire to be an author, but few follow through. It's a fascinating look at how the active imagination can conspire to help in weird, wild and wonderful ways. Gua...

Debbie had her "Barbenheimer" moment like millions of others - reluctantly. She reserved her seats for "Oppenheimer" weeks in advance, but planned to boycott Barbie, until she got a whiff of the backlash from the right for its wokeness, and learned of its feminist message. Lend your voice as she discusses them.

Debbie will continue her conversation with Burge Smith-Lyons, founder of Essence of Being ( www. EssenceofBeing.com ), and this time they will explore some deeper esoteric subjects. Belief systems run people on the subconscious level, and come from many sources including family, culture, school and religion. Many people never challenge those beliefs, although it's obvious there are many differing...

Debbie has invited a good friend on today for the first of two shows. Burge Smith-Lyons is the founder of the Essence of Being Workshops and the Healing Forest Foundation, which built the Conscious Leadership Academy Schools in Africa, Europe and North America. Debbie and Burge will cover such topics as the Inner Child, Play, Trauma and Shame using their own personal experiences. They will also co...

Debbie delineates 24 "Characters" or "Sub-Personalities" in her book, Talking to My Selves. The list involves typical ones such as The Judge and The Rebel, etc. Today she will unveil a new one for the first time: THE FAN! Just like in the chart in the back of her book, she will list this archetype's Strengths and Weaknesses (aka its Shadow). Are you a fan of a sports team, a star or a singer? List...

Shame can be debilitating and is one of the most difficult emotions to heal from, or for therapists to even help with. Society constantly tells us it's all our fault and it's easy to agree and pile on self-blame and shame. It can even look like self-sabotage - but it's not. It's a defensive, protective internal process that we use to stay safe. Debbie will delve deeply into it today from the persp...

Debbie will discuss some of the latest brain research around Trauma today. Very cutting edge, but she'll make it understandable and relevant. Topics such as Shame, Dissociation, Please & Appease, Attach/Cry for Help and Collapse/Submit that goes beyond the Freeze State.

It's Pride Month! Do you think Drag Queens have a hidden agenda to indoctrinate kids? Why is this issue up in politics when in society by now is there anyone left who doesn't have a gay relative or friend? Have you been to a Drag Show? What about "Convergence Therapy" - does it work? Why are some countries imposing death penalties on homosexuals? Debbie will tell her "coming out story" from the 19...

As Americans in the 21st century, we may feel divided, but we basically live under very easily defined cultural norms, as much as we like to debate who is "right." But Debbie has learned without contrast, there is no way to change one's minds. She'll discuss some very different cultural norms to illustrate. For instance, Bikini Islanders define competition as: who can be more generous than whom.

To become a Master Alchemist, the first thing you need to "master" is yourself. We also have a saying in Alchemy, and hopefully any good therapist believes it, too, that you can't take anyone anywhere you haven't been yourself. Debbie will continue today to use her life, which is quite contrary to the norm in almost every way, as an allegory to personal power.

Debbie will confront the culture wars today, as she has been doing for half century. During her semester abroad in Paris she wrote her independent study research paper on "Abortion in France," because she couldn't believe it was illegal. Then she came back and became President of the GFL on her college campus at SUNY Brockport during her last semester in 1975. She says we're going backwards.

Debbie will be tying up loose ends with her own stories after having guests for the last three weeks. She's had to put her bitch sessions on the back burner, so she's making up for lost time. For instance, why there's more than just "he-said, she-said" when it comes to violent encounters, and how brain science trumps verbal accounts. You be the judge.

Debbie continues her discussion with Steven Taibbi, author of "Grateful Guilt," about the extraordinary story of his two heart transplants, after having lived through two open heart surgeries in the 1950's by the time he was 6.

Debbie welcomes Steven Taibbi as a guest one day after his 70th birthday. 70 years ago on his birthday his chest was cut open for his first of four times including two heart transplants! Steven is a high school friend of Debbie's as well as a photographer and author of "Grateful Guilt: Living in the Shadow of My Heart - a True Story."

Debbie invites another Master Alchemist, Avalon Haykus, to discuss her journey to and through her Alchemical Hypnotherapy sessions over three decades, in her new book: "Lifetimes: A Memoir of One Woman's Journey Into the Deep Past to Find Present-Day Freedom".

Today Debbie will be continuing the discussion of safety and freedom. She'll be adding some information about "parental attachment" and the role it plays in emotional health.

Being Free and feeling Safe are both necessary ingredients to health and happiness, so I can talk about them both!