The LCMHC Mystic Musings ✨

Today's episode marks a special milestone—my very first guest on The LCMHC Mystic Musings. I sit down with Brooke Johnson, Licensed Massage Therapist, Reiki Master, and Somatic Experiencing® trainee, to explore the incredible wisdom of the body and the role our nervous system plays in healing trauma. Together, we discuss Somatic Experiencing®, body awareness, nervous system regulation, embodim...

Minimizing isn’t just something we do— it’s something we’ve learned. In this episode, Christine explores how minimizing forms across generations, how it shows up through comparison and self-invalidation, and why it often begins as a survival response. Through the lens of the Atrium Somatic Resonance Method (ASRM), she introduces the idea that even when we make experiences feel small, their energet...

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is one of the most misunderstood and stigmatized trauma-related diagnoses in mental health. In this episode of The LCMHC Mystic Musings , I offer a calm, grounded, trauma-informed conversation about what DID actually is — and what it isn’t. This is not a sensational episode. This is not a fear-based episode. This is a truth-telling episode. We explore: What Dis...

Healing has become something we chase. Perform. Optimize. Brand. But what if healing isn’t something you achieve? What if it’s something your system is already doing — and what actually matters is how you nurture? In this episode of The LCMHC Mystic Musings, I explore: • The commercialization of healing • Why grief doesn’t feel like healing — and that’s okay • The trauma-informed truth about adapt...

If you listned to Podcast S1:E5, we did a meditation all about releasing the old misaligned mask and coming back to realigment. You can learn more about this inspiration meditation in The LCMHC Mystic Musings Playlist and watch the Season 1 Episode 5 video :)  Enjoy a grounding, psychospiritual meditation designed to help you gently loosen the misaligned masks you’ve been carrying—whether shaped b...

Episode 5 — The Masks We Wear: Neurodivergence, Trauma & the Invisalign Metaphor for Identity In this episode of The LCMHC Mystic, we explore masking through a psychological, neurological, spiritual, and archetypal lens. We dig into autistic masking, ADHD performance masking, trauma-based masking (PTSD/CPTSD), emotional masking, spiritual masking, and how each one shapes identity, safety, and...

** I apologize, there is 30second no sound from minute marker 9:26-10** New Podcaster Learning curve! Appreciate you all so very deeply. In this episode of  The LCMHC Mystic Musings , Christine explores the Sibling Archetype and the Sibling Wound — the often-overlooked ways sibling relationships shape identity, attachment, mental health, and spiritual development. Drawing from her own childhood ex...

In this episode, we explore the sacred meeting place between Mother Nature and God — the space where the mystical, the psychological, and the deeply human all converge. Through personal stories, shamanic experiences, clinical insight, and neuropsychology, Christine shares how the Divine often speaks through the natural world. From childhood spiritual encounters, to animal allies, to a profound lig...

In today’s episode, Christine explores the Baader–Meinhof Phenomenon — also known as the frequency illusion — and how this psychological pattern weaves directly into our healing, our subconscious, and the magic of what we choose to notice. This phenomenon is that strange experience when something you become aware of suddenly begins appearing everywhere. But what if we look at it through both a cli...

Episode 1 • Season 1 In this first episode of LCMHC Mystic Musings , Christine Free — Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, energy healer, hypnotherapist, yoga instructor, mystic, and mother — opens the door to a sacred space where psychology and spirituality meet. Christine shares the story of her path: from being the “therapist friend” as a child, to formally entering the world of trauma-in...