The Embodied Podcast

In this episode, I had a deep and inspiring conversation with Allyssa Rivera, a dance and movement therapist, about the profound role of dance in connecting to the body and our inner worlds. She explained how dance, for her, is a way to "remember the fullness" of her human experience—embodying vitality, exhaustion, and everything in between. This episode is an invitation to embrace the power of da...

In this episode of The Embodied Podcast, I’m joined by my dear friend and colleague, Tracy, for a profound conversation about the power of communal spaces in the healing process. Tracy shares her wisdom on the importance of creating retreat spaces where mystery is invited to lead, rather than the needs of the ego or the pressures of trauma. Tracy reflects on how retreats allow space for deeper, mo...

In this episode of The Embodied Podcast, I sit down with the insightful Mackenzie Amara to explore a profound topic: the importance of creating ritual spaces that foster transformation through subtraction. This conversation dives into the essence of transformation—not by adding or manifesting new traits, but by shedding the illusions and layers that obscure our true selves. Mackenzie reflects on a...

After a break since February 2023, I'm thrilled to return with fresh episodes of The Embodied Podcast! In this short first episode, I dive into personal updates, including my own initiations, growth, and reflections on life over the past year, as well as what has been inspiring me during this time away. I'm also excited to announce my upcoming retreat series, WILD, beginning this November. The WIL...

In today's episode, I discuss why precision and particularity are important when exploring and working with images. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to  https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to  @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website,...

In today's episode, I discuss a particular pattern in the nervous system called global high activation. In this state, one can experience a sense of exhaustion or chronic overwhelm from being physiologically in a constant state of high activation whilst that activation is being suppressed by a dorsal vagal shutdown. This is like driving a car with the foot on the gas and the brake at the same time...

In today's unique podcast episode, I offer a sneak peek into the introduction call of my most recent workshop series called The Mother Archetype workshop series. This episode is a recorded replay of our live group call in which we opened a discussion on the particularities of the mother archetype. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the s...

In today's episode, I open up a conversation about what it means to be average. What are the true motivations behind being exceptional? Do we actually deeply fear being forgotten? Unaccepted? Unloved? The interview article with Marion Woodman can be found here. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my...

In today's episode, I dive into how we can possibly learn to make contact with and support ourselves through recurring bouts of pain in a way that honor's the body's subjective experience. I use a client example to show how body armoring and muscle tension can correlate with each other and how we can respond in an alternative way to manual manipulation. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and...

In today's episode, I discuss why this show isn't built upon foundations or intentions of fixing your problems. "Okay then, Danielle, then what is the show about?" I go into this a bit more deeply in the episode, and I use the James Hillman quote, "Evidently, a genuine solution must have the capacity to stabilize. It must sustain a condition, not merely dissolve it," to give flavor and context to...

In today's episode, I discuss the immensity of grief that can accompany a transition out of dissociative life into a reality of complexity and relatedness. I believe grief reflects and 'makes real' our thresholds. When clients move from living their whole lives in a dissociative reality, disconnected from the here and now and the relational experience, returning to life can bring with it an immens...

In today's episode, I offer a few contemplative meditations to reflect upon as we transition into the solar New Year season. The song used for this meditation is Naturaleza by Danit (Moses Edit). Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to  https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share...

In today's episode, I discuss the process of embodying elements of divinity within the human vessel (aka the body). The paradoxical thing about incarnation is that I feel like the incarnation of spirit into the body is almost always traumatic. This is because we are dealing with immense mysterious forces. With this, I discuss the limitations and struggles we face when we are destined to attempt th...

In today's episode, I discuss a random interaction I had with an individual which evoked a deep contemplation on different topics such as Jung's feeling function, narcissism, love and power drives, and much, much more. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to  https://dr-daniel...

Hi all. Danielle here. Wow...It has been a BUSY month with A LOT of things going on (aka travel, sickness, conferences, etc)...all of which kept me from getting behind the mic and getting new episodes out to you. But today I am back with a unique episode for you. Today I am sharing with you an interview hosted by Jennifer McMaster and Shannon Gale with the goal of exploring who I am, the intricaci...

In today's episode, I discuss why I find James Hillman's, the founder of archetypal psychology, work so influential and important to consider if you are interested in depth psychology. In this podcast, I discuss an important pillar of Hillman's called "Pathologizing," and I discuss its role in revisioning modern, and often one-sided, approaches to psychology. To find more information about my upco...

In today's episode, I discuss why it is hard for some individuals to prioritize a stillness practice. I explore different states of the nervous system including high sympathetic drive and dorsal vagal shutdown. I also invite strategies to transition out of mobilization towards stillness. To find more information about the upcoming Book Club on The Soul's Code, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcgi...

In today's episode I answer a question asked on my IG feed: "How do mood/personality disorders (like bipolar) interact with or affect how psychological archetypes play out in our psyche?" I go into the nervous system patterns of bipolar disorder as well as Jung's map of the psyche where psyche and matter (body) are not considered separate. ***Given the sensitive exploration around mood disorders,...

In today's episode I discuss navigating the somatic experience of resentment. I present the idea that perhaps resentment is the digestible form of thwarted fight responses that had be be split off during experiences of trauma or abuse. I present imagining resentment as a symptom that pushes against our defensives that have unconsciously been put in place to protect from the overwhelming intensity...

In today's episode, I discuss why "faking it until we make it" doesn't feel great sometimes. I discuss acting "as if" and the capacity and flexibility that gives us when expanding into new and unknown aspects of the psyche. To find more information about the upcoming Book Club on The Soul's Code, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/souls-code-book-club To find more information on my upco...

In today's episode, I answer a question posed about episode 154: Dismemberment and Remembering of the Masculine. In that episode, I read the Grimm's fairy tale The Handless Maiden, also known as The Woman Without Hands. Someone asked the question, "what exactly do we do in the 7 years of being in the forest while growing back our hands?" In this episode I use the text The Feminine in Fairytales by...

In today's episode, my fiancé Rick Alexander and I discuss the influence that porn has on us individually and collectively. We discuss the relationship, or lack thereof, to the feminine, the shadow, and to darkness. We talk about shame and its influence within this pattern. We talk about demons, darkness, and the perceivable loss of control one can feel when caught in this archetypal pattern. Enjo...

In today's episode, I read the Grimm's fairy tale The Handless Maiden, also known as The Woman Without Hands. I discuss the implications of psychological dismemberment and the process of remembering, especially concerning the new potentials of the creative masculine energy within. This is a story about dismemberment as a result of the old masculine principle making deals with the devil. Yet that c...

In today's episode, I discuss why trauma renegotiation is so confusing. In particular, I discuss the relationship of space and expansion and how that gets confused in the system with danger and threat. To check out The Soul's Code book club you can head to: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/souls-code-book-club To check out the preview of the documentary on post-traumatic growth you can head to:...

In today's episode, I discuss what happens when an experience of trauma dysregulates the internal wiring and high voltage energy floods the system physiologically. I discuss the importance of slowing the renegotiation process down to get into the high activation energy stuck in the micro-moments of the experience. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel...