Soul Path Sessions

Living a more soulful life involves evaluating and re-evaluating our perspectives. It is a path we learn to walk with intention and attention. The destination is the journey itself. This week's Soul Path Sessions podcast deals with aging and going from role to soul: who we are when we are controlled by ego and who we strive to become, informed by soul, when we stay on that path. Deborah and B...

In this episode, Deborah and Brenda discuss some of the research that underscores the significant connection between nutrition and mental health. How the food we eat affects our mood and can be an extremely useful method to reduce inflammation. The soulful journey recognizes those things that we put into our body that either helps or hinders us along the way, from what we eat, to what we listen to...

Deborah and Brenda discuss the topic of adolescence and how we deal with it, in our children and in ourselves, has a lot to do with where we are on our soul journey. The conversation shifts from an awareness that we tend to treat adolescents the same way we were treated as adolescents to the question about how adolescence live in our life no matter what age we are. There is an adolescent within ea...

This episode concludes a two-part discussion about Initiations, Invitations & Epiphanies. Deborah shares her deeply personal story about her experiences with grief and loss as an initiation and that, although painful, holds the promise of hope within them if we can pay attention to the messages, synchronicities and signs that surround these events. The conversation shifts to the possibilities...

“The Greeks believed that time had secret structure. There was the moment of Epiphany when time suddenly opened and something was revealed in luminous clarity. There was the moment of krisis when time got entangled and directions became confused and contradictory. There was also the moment of kairos; this was the propitious moment. Time opened up in kindness and promise. All the energies cohered t...

The metaphor of the chrysalis is examined and the process that the caterpillar undergoes reveals that it does not lead to it becoming a better caterpillar, but to becoming a completely different creature entirely. This lesson implies that when we fall apart and we put ourselves back together again, we don't return to where we were before we fell apart - to becoming a better caterpillar - but...

Therapists have traditionally used the genogram to help identify patterns and psychological factors that affect relationships. Those genograms are often highly "wound-aware" focusing on the dysfunctional elements within a family. Brenda & Deborah discuss the use of the genogram in a more soulful way to help clients identify the resources of our family and ancestors that are often neg...

The T.S. Eliot poem, Wait Without Hope, leads Deborah and Brenda into a conversation about mycelium, interconnection and potentiality. It's Brenda's turn to visit the "mead-hall" from episode #1 and she introduces us to the term ALTUS and a discussion about the underlying forces that inform everything that are deeply connected to soul and the importance, as therapists, of doing...

This first episode of Soul Path Sessions introduces listeners to the importance of embracing soul work and reclaiming the soulful parts of ourselves in healing. Deborah and Brenda share their influences and background stories during their initial training and how soul work was left out of those early teachings while introducing depth and eco psychology as part of the sacred conversation that psych...