The Shattering Place Podcast

In this episode, we explore the somatic and emotional symptoms of spiritual emergence with guest Natali Deftereos. Natali shares her powerful, non-traditionally guided journey through a profound Kundalini awakening—an intense physical and energetic process that completely transformed her body, emotional state, and understanding of self. Join my Substack community, the Stillpoint: Where personal gr...

Discover how intuitive development and inner work can shape both personal transformation and collective consciousness. Join us as Gloria Battini shares her journey from disconnection to spiritual awakening, emphasizing the importance of authenticity, energy mastery, and inner guidance in creating a new earth. Join my Substack community, the Stillpoint: Where personal growth naturally ripples out t...

This episode explores novelist Heather Hummel Gallagher’s extraordinary journey from a near-death experience to becoming a pet psychic. Discover how her spiritual insights, intuitive gifts, and personal stories about animals on the other side can deepen your understanding of the unseen world and the bonds we share with our pets. In this episode: * Heather shares her life-changing near-death experi...

Want to unlock deep healing through your body? In this episode, we dive into how Melanie Smithson integrates somatic practices, hypnotherapy, and spiritual work to expand human consciousness. Discover powerful insights on treating the body as a sacred communication device, and learn how intentional movement can lead to profound self-awareness and emotional release. Whether you are a spiritual seek...

What happens when a deep, cloistered spiritual life expands beyond the monastery walls? Former Carmelite nun Kimberly Braun joins the conversation to discuss divine intimacy, modern mysticism, and the profound transition of finding spiritual freedom outside of traditional religion. From childhood mystical experiences to her monastic life and her current work in spiritual leadership, we cover a lot...

What happens when psychotherapy meets the unseen world? In this episode, psychic medium and psychotherapist Cameron McLean joins us to explore the nature of spirit, life after death, and how our bodies act as an interface for the soul. Drawing from his unique journey from engineering to mediumship, Cameron explains how somatic awareness and authentic emotional alignment sharpen our intuitive capac...

In this episode, we sit down with coach and grief worker Tricia Baxley for a courageous conversation about the aftermath of her husband’s suicide. This is an exploration of how we live alongside profound grief as a lifelong, evolving journey. Tricia shares how her path through the crucible of grief became an unexpected portal, allowing her to revisit childhood wounds and open up to multidimensiona...

In this episode, Dixon dives into the intersection of energy healing and trauma recovery with Chris Wasko, a spiritual counselor, energy healer, and psychic medium specializing in trauma recovery and nervous system regulation. They explore how reading the body’s story through the chakra system can lead to profound nervous system regulation and soul-level healing. Want to go deeper into the archite...

Can plant medicine accelerate deep nervous system repair or even evolve collective consciousness? Dixon explores the intersection of trauma healing, plant intelligence, and collective evolution with Elizabeth Kromer of FieldGuide9. Want to go deeper into the architecture of the New Human? Before the interviews of Season 2, there was the solo narrative of Season 1—a journey exploring the somatic di...

What happens when intuition leads you to turn your life upside down and take the road less travelled? Is intuition actually a biological gateway to aligning with your soul? In this episode of The Shattering Place , Dixon sits down with Kirsten Snobeck to demystify the Akashic Records. They explore intuition, rejecting the safe voice of the known world and the ‘shoulds’ of family and society, the h...

BONUS episode after Season 1. The true story behind this podcast — the multidimensional journey that catalysed its creation, beginning with the angel who appeared to Dixon when she was six. In this threshold episode, Dixon traces the invisible architecture that shaped Season 1: the moments of knowing and resistance, the late‑in‑life awakening, life in the suburbs and intellectual isolation, impost...

In the season finale, Dixon synthesizes the shift from a materialist collapse to a new human operating system. We explore the biology of survival and speculate on the biology of emergence and transmission. We consider the purpose of being human, locating it within an embodied experience that may even have relevance to the wider, galactic field. Dixon asks: are you ready to stop fixing the old worl...

There comes a point where we realize our life itself is the message. We move from internal healing and spiritual awakening to the realization that every word and thought acts as a multidimensional event. What happens to the world around us when we audit our personal broadcast and choose to live as a transmission of coherence? THE NOVEL This podcast is a companion to the novel IKONA by M.D. Dixon....

Ascension is often understood as being somehow apart from or beyond the world, an escape from the mundane. But true awakening is a grounded, embodied experience. In this episode, we attempt to rescue the concepts of awakening and ascension from the distortions of popular culture, spiritual paywalls, and the myth of specialness. THE NOVEL This podcast is a companion to the novel IKONA by M.D. Dixon...

Global upheaval can feel like a catastrophe, but what if it is the labor pain of a planet in transition? Dixon looks at the collective shadow and the dissolution of old structures through a somatic lens. How do we stay grounded and resonant in our bodies while the world as we knew it falls away? THE NOVEL This podcast is a companion to the novel IKONA by M.D. Dixon. Purchase your copy and explore...

If we can feel the weight of the past, is it possible we can also sense the pull of the future? Drawing on the central themes of the novel IKONA , Dixon explores future memory —the phenomenon of a future self reaching back to guide the present. Could the blueprints for our species’ evolution already be available to us if we know how to listen? THE NOVEL This podcast is a companion to the novel IKO...

The history of your lineage isn’t just in the past; it is actually vibrating in your cells right now! Dixon dives into the science of ancestral resonance and the “phantom” frequencies of trauma and wisdom passed through generations. How can we clear these inherited echoes to finally reclaim our presence in the present moment? THE NOVEL This podcast is a companion to the novel IKONA by M.D. Dixon....

Most of us believe our thoughts are private, yet the evidence suggests we are living in a shared mental landscape. We look at the “Telepathy Tapes” and the reality of heart coherence to understand how our internal states act as a public broadcast. If our minds are interconnected, what does that mean for the way we hold our personal grief and joy, and how the collective might experience our own hea...

In this episode, we explore the body as an interface between dimensions. Drawing on her years of therapeutic experience, Dixon explores the mechanics of what she calls somatic resonance—the way the physical body senses and translates the unseen field. Is the human vessel truly capable of bridging different timelines and realities? THE NOVEL This podcast is a companion to the novel IKONA by M.D. Di...

Ep 1: The Crack in the Vessel: Outgrowing the myth of materialism. In this season premiere, author and somatic therapist MD Dixon explores what might very well be the collapse of the materialist worldview and how multidimensionality is becoming increasingly valid in various fields. Is it possible that the shattering of our old certainties is actually an evolutionary upgrade? What might this mean f...

The Shattering Place with MD Dixon The Shattering Place articulates a new paradigm for human evolution. Hosted by somatic therapist and author MD Dixon, PhD, this show proposes a radical reorientation of the human experience. We move beyond the myth of materialism to examine the living science of multidimensionality—in service to healing, awakening, and the evolution of consciousness. We are livin...