The Tarot Diagnosis

This week on ⁠ ⁠The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast⁠⁠ , I’m pulling cards and offering a raw and vulnerable glimpse into what this last year has been like personally and professionally. From surgery, to a farewell - I touch on everything that has made this year what it was through the lens of Death as our anchor. The World , 8 of Cups , and King of Pentacles emerge first as reflections of the year and hav...

This week on ⁠The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast⁠ , I’m joined by Cami Ostman - a former Internal Family Systems therapist who has journeyed away from organized religion, into tarot and therapy, and now into storytelling.   Cami vulnerably explores her experience of entering and exiting a fundamental religion, how pivotal tarot has been in her personal healing journey, and how she has transitioned from o...

This week on ⁠ The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast⁠⁠ , Theresa Reed (aka @thetarotlady) joins me to discuss life’s most difficult moments and her new latest book “The Cards You’re Dealt - How To Deal When Life Gets Real.” Our conversation explores grief, loss, tragedy, and the role tarot can play in helping us to navigate life's difficulties.  Theresa and I touch on societal pressures, why we often ne...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, I tackle a topic I think many of you have pondered yourselves. How do we find harmony while we’re rooted in logic, but long for magic? A Symposium member reached out to me recently and posed an insightful question. I had already planned on doing some work with The Hanged Man this week, and I felt her question paired so well with that anchor. I begin the ep...

This week on ⁠The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast⁠ , Mimi Cirbusova joins me to explore the personal stories and baggage we carry around about money and personal finances.   Mimi is brilliant at taking a topic often dominated by shame and infusing it with compassion and understanding. We use tarot to help us explore our money scripts (take the quiz here ), find out what experiences contribute to our money...

This week on ⁠The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast⁠ , I have an epiphany about the Justice card. You’ll hear me realize why this card has always frightened me, made me squirm, and want to shove it back in the deck (or in the trash) and pull again. It was such a profound moment, even my partner was like… “Oh sh*t!”  I tackle the psychological concept of cognitive dissonance and somehow explore Temperance, F...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast⁠ , join me for a candid and personal conversation about the Wheel of Fortune and how we can humanize an often elusive, or superficial archetype. Sarah Thibault, host of The Side Woo podcast joins me and together we talk about how we can reclaim the Wheel of Fortune by viewing it through the lens of power and control, karma, comparison, radical acceptance, a...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , I’m talking to one of the coolest therapists in Canada! Candis Green from Many Moons Therapy joins me to explore the unconventional coping methods of horror for healing anxiety and regulating our nervous system. We explore the spectrum of horror, how it can help us learn to regulate our nervous systems, discuss what the window of tolerance is, and somehow...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , I get personal as I explore the concept of the core self through the archetype of The Hermit and the Internal Family Systems model. I had a great conversation with a listener recently who shared that she was listening to This Jungian Life Podcast when they spoke about how the first 50 years of our life is about finding our place in the world, and the next...

This week on ⁠The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast⁠ , I sit down with Thomas Witholt from Hermit's Mirror to create a space for us to unravel aspects of the shadow self - specifically as it relates to difficult emotions such as anger and fear.   Thomas brings in a Jungian and Buddhist approach to the shadow that helps to soften the edges on a topic that most of us find so uncomfortable.   We start off...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , the difficult topic of betrayal and the arduous process of learning to trust again is explored through the anchors of Strength and The Empress reversed . I explore the pain and fear associated with infidelity , including abandonment wounds, rejection , and scarcity . The cards help guide me towards a discussion on repairing trust , what that can look like...

This week on  The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , I spend time talking about some of the nuances of trauma including PTSD, C-PTSD, and generational trauma through the lens of The Chariot , Nine of Wands , Nine of Cups , Ten of Cups , and Three of Pentacles . I surprise myself with the depth and connection between the archetype of, and symbolism within, The Chariot . As I pull additional cards throughout...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , I sit down with Erin Jones, the owner of Hermit and The Moon , to explore the power, nuance, and healing properties of language. This conversation was inspired by a meetup in The Symposium a while back where Erin challenged the use of the phrase “stalker card” and changed the way I view repeating cards. This got me thinking about the language used within...

This week on  The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , I spend time reflecting on personal identity and parts work. I’ve been seeing a lot of folks in my therapy practice who are feeling disconnected from themselves and others and we’ve found that it stems from a disconnection from our multiple parts and identities. We often grab a hold of one identity (e.g. mother, therapist, tarot reader, etc.) and we forg...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , I sit down with *gasp* my accountant. But this isn’t your average boring financial conversation. Tony Cola and I sit down to explore the ups, downs, nuances, and celebrations of being a business owner (or having a side hustle).    We open the episode with the Three of Pentacles, which immediately has us talking about how important the beginning phases of...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , I step into the profound world of The Hierophant in order to expose the complexity of history, culture, and spirituality that carries both pain and hope within this archetype. By navigating this card’s inherent duality, I am able to explore the challenges it poses in today's world where rigid traditions often clash with our modern values.   Join me as...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , I sit down with author, storyteller, and tarot enthusiast Amanda “Mandy” Hughes from @HaintblueCreative . We explore the inherent narrative quality of the cards, and how we can utilize them for our own creativity . Plus, Mandy walks us through a narrative read of the cards and shares her Tarot Story Arc spread for storytelling. This was so fun to experien...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , I explore why The Emperor is one of the most contentious cards in the tarot (along with The Hierophant, but that's for a later episode). I’ve long had a distant and detached relationship with this card until recently. Join me as I spend time unraveling this archetype’s shadow in order to reveal its light - which we don’t often allow to shine. Througho...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , I had the opportunity to sit down with Sam and Aussie , a couple and castmates from the Netflix hit show "The Ultimatum: Queer Love," which debuted in May 2023 and follows five couples who disagree over whether or not they’re ready to get married. This might seem like a departure from my typical content, but Sam is actually a tarot reader and bo...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , I sit down with a body positive photographer and content creator who’s on a mission to help folks learn to love their body. Ashley Fenison and I get really vulnerable talking about existing in a fat body , how to develop a relationship with a body that society is always telling us to hate, and how to comfort our wounded inner child . We open the episode w...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, I celebrate the 100th episode of the podcast by exploring the idea of manifestation, the psychology behind it, and the connection of this experience to The Empress. I spend some time hanging out at the intersection of manifestation and privilege and talk about the role The Empress plays within this space. The Hierophant helps us open the conversation, whic...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, I find myself sharing personal musings on the paradox of growth and change. I shed light on how so many of us seem to be experiencing significant changes right now. I went back and forth between a few ideas for this week’s episode, but I kept landing on how paradoxical growth and change is. On one hand it can bring us so much joy and fulfillment, yet on th...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , Sonia Fregoso, M.A., LMFT joins me to explore somatic healing practices and how tarot can act as our personal medicine and wisdom . We get vulnerable and explore the ancient healing practice of crying , discuss how tarot is accessible medicine, and get real about how we've become disconnected from our bodies. We begin by inviting in the energy of the...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , I guide us to the tarot intersection of Internal Family Systems and Carl Jung's process of individuation . I have been deep in the world of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Jungian Depth Psychology the last few months - so, it’s not surprising that the theme for this week’s episode centers around both of these concepts. In fact, the workshop in The S...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, Nick Kepley from the In Search of Tarot podcast joins me as my very first guest post podcast shake up! We get nerdy about the importance of looking beyond the self , through the lens of The Magician . We peel back the layers of the card's overt and covert symbolism, while also exploring what it means to step outside of the binary , or all or nothing th...