“...A universal path, a divine feminine path and...a universal quest for adventure, for transformation, for self discovery.” This is how awardwinning writer, teacher and consultant Janet Lucy, M.A defines the heroine’s journey. But why does it matter? In what stages does it occur and how can we identify them? Join us as Janet elaborates on the heroine’s journey, discovering one’s inner voice and courageously pursuing the path inward.
As the founder and director of Women’s Creative Network, Janet facilitates creative and professional development through writing workshops. She is also the author of The Three Sunflowers, a children’s book for all ages and the co-author of Moon Mother, Moon Daughter ~ Myths and Rituals That Celebrate a Girl’s Coming of Age. Janet holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from Antioch University and a California Teaching Credential from UC Santa Barbara. She offers individual consulting and counseling, weekly groups and international writing retreats in Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru and Italy.
Look up for an upcoming episode of Women in Depth with Janet Lucy and Terri Allison, Janet’s co-author in Moon Mother, Moon Daughter. Learn more and keep up with Janet at:
https://www.facebook.com/janetklucy
http://www.janetlucyink.com
The Women In-Depth podcast will be taking a one month break from releasing new episodes. I am looking forward to rest and relaxation and time with loved ones. The podcast will be back on schedule the third or fourth week of September.
In the meantime, if you haven't heard them yet, here are the top 10 most downloaded episodes of Women In-Depth!
1. Episode 11: Childhood Emotional Neglect: The Invisible Experience with Dr. Jonice Webb
2. Episode 62: After Childhood Emotional Neglect: Healing Your Relationships with Your Partner, Children, & Parents
3. Episode 88: Parenting the Highly Sensitive Child with Julie Bjelland, LMFT
4. Episode 63: Gifts & Challenges of the Highly Sensitive Person
5. Episode 1: Getting to the Heart of Loneliness with Sabrina Santa Clara
6. Episode 76: Set Yourself Free: Cutting Ties with Toxic People with Dr. Ashlee Greer
7. Episode 87: Busyness and the Overscheduled Woman with Yvonne Tally
8. Episode 8: Shadow Work: The Inner Journey with Keri Nola
9. Episode 68: Understanding & Healing Codependency with Sharon Martin, LCSW
10. Episode 85: How Childhood Emotional Neglect Impacts Professional Life with Erika Martinez, PsyD
Michael Gellert is a Jungian psychoanalyst practicing in Los Angeles and Pasadena. He treats individuals and couples and offers a Jungian Writing Workshop.
Michael was formerly Director of Training at the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and a humanities professor at Vanier College, Montreal. He managed an employee assistance program for the City of New York and has been a mental health consultant for the University of Southern California and Time magazine.
Michael was educated in rabbinic Judaism; studied theology at Loyola College, Montreal; and trained with the renowned Zen master Koun Yamada in Japan for two years.
He is the author of Modern Mysticism and The Fate of America (for which he received a letter of appreciation from Bill Clinton; and which was also given to Barack Obama by one of his advisors). He also authored The Way of the Small which was recognized by The Center for Spirituality & Practice as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2007.
His new book is The Divine Mind: Exploring the Psychological History of God’s Inner Journey.
Julie Bjelland is a licensed psychotherapist and author of several books, including, Brain Training for the Highly Sensitive Person: Techniques to Reduce Anxiety and Overwhelming Emotions.
In addition to her private practice, Julie also developed and teaches innovative online global brain-training courses for the “Highly Sensitive Person” (HSP) trait; is a consultant and supervisor to other therapists; teaches workshops; coaches HSPs globally; and consults with parents regarding their highly sensitive children.
Recognized for her expertise in the Sensory Processing Sensitivity trait, she is a featured guest expert on Dr. Rick Hanson’s Foundation of Well-Being Program.
Her passion is helping people live their best lives and thrive. Julie also specializes in working with anxiety, communication training, self-esteem, and the LGBTQQ community.
Julie is an HSP herself and the mother of two highly sensitive children.
For full show notes visit www.womenindepth.com
Yvonne Tally is the author of Breaking Up with Busy: Real Life Solutions for Over Scheduled Women. She is an NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) master practitioner, and leads meditation and de-stressing programs for corporations, individuals, and private groups in Silicon Valley.
Yvonne is the cofounder of Poised Inc., a Pilates and wellness training studio, and is the founder of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Scarves, a charity that provides headscarves to cancer patients. She lives in Northern California.
For full show notes visit www.womenindepth.com
Sean Fitzpatrick, PhD, LPC, holds master's degrees in religious studies (Rice University) and clinical psychology (University of Houston - Clear Lake) and received his doctorate in psychology through Saybrook University's program in Jungian studies. Sean is a psychotherapist in private practice and has been employed at The Jung Center since 1997. His research interests include the intersection of psychology and spirituality, ethics and the imagination, and vicarious trauma and the self-care needs of helping professionals and social service providers. He is a senior fellow of the American Leadership Forum and serves on the boards of the Houston Museum District Association and the Network of Behavioral Health Providers.
For full show notes visit www.womenindepth.com
Erika Martinez, PsyD. is the founder, owner of Envision Wellness in Miami, Florida. A Florida licensed psychologist and certified educator, she specializes in combining her expertise in assessment, trauma, and shame resilience to address a variety of mental health conditions experienced by young professionals and entrepreneurs, such as anxiety/stress, burnout, limiting beliefs, people-pleasing, self-worth, heartbreak, and toxic relationships/codependency.
Dr. Martinez has a passion for helping others cultivate self-awareness and confidence so they can lead achieve happy and meaningful lives that make the world a better place.
For full show notes visit www.womenindepth.com
Julie Bjelland is a licensed psychotherapist and author of several books, including, Brain Training for the Highly Sensitive Person: Techniques to Reduce Anxiety and Overwhelming Emotions.
In addition to her private practice, Julie also developed and teaches innovative online global brain-training courses for the “Highly Sensitive Person” (HSP) trait; is a consultant and supervisor to other therapists; teaches workshops; coaches HSPs globally; and consults with parents regarding their highly sensitive children.
Recognized for her expertise in the Sensory Processing Sensitivity trait, she is a featured guest expert on Dr. Rick Hanson’s Foundation of Well-Being Program.
Her passion is helping people live their best lives and thrive. Julie also specializes in working with anxiety, communication training, self-esteem, and the LGBTQQ community.
Julie is an HSP herself and the mother of two highly sensitive children.
For full show notes visit www.womenindepth.com
Alicia Taverner is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (#50414) with a Bachelor's Degree in Speech Communications from the University of La Verne, and a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University.
Alicia has contributed to several online and print magazines and podcasts, and has a regular spot on a local radio show as a relationship expert.
Alicia specializes in helping women find the calm within the storm of some of the most difficult relationship struggles such as infidelity, divorce, and postpartum anxiety and depression.
She is also a trained Discernment Counselor, and helps couples explore options for continuing their relationship despite some very heavy challenges. She resides in Southern CA with her husband and three children.
For full show notes visit www.womenindepth.com
Melissa Divaris Thompson is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a private practice in New York City, seeing primarily women in their 20s and 30s, pregnant women, and new moms.
As a holistic and depth-oriented therapist, Melissa’s role is to support clients in finding wholeness — mind, body, and spirit — creating more joy, ease, and healthy relationships. She helps clients remember their empowered, authentic voice and “tap back into” their true selves.
Melissa co-founded Honest Mamas to help support women emotionally and spiritually on the motherhood journey.
Diane D. Rodriguez, known affectionately as Dee Dee Rodriguez, is a registered mental health counselor intern with a private practice in Melbourne, Florida. With a passion for grief care, education and advocacy she can often be heard saying that she helps the bereaved heal their matters of their heart, mind, body and soul as they discover meaningful living despite everyday grieving. She holds a Master of Science in Counseling and Psychology with a focus on clinical mental health and a certification in addictions counseling. Her undergrad is in social psychology and she has a long history of working with families with children diagnosed with childhood cancer, is an avid bone marrow donor advocate and volunteered providing 11th hour services in adult hospice care. Diane is married to her high school sweetheart of 30+ years, has four children and is a blue star wife, mom and a gold star cousin.
Her grief specialty focuses on traumatic and sudden loss, child loss, parental loss and the loss of a spouse or significant other. In her couples work she helps couples who struggle with grief recovery from infidelity and betrayals. Her vision is to create a culture where grief care is embraced empathetically and compassionately; so that grief illiteracy and avoidance is replaced with compassionate connections that nourish a life in alignment with each individual’s authentic wellbeing.
Gina Abbeduto has been in the helping professions for the last 20 years, working as a psychotherapist and teaching psychology. Her work as a therapist revolves around the belief that clients are the experts in their own lives.
After earning her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Law & Society from Purdue University in 1995, she completed my Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from Benedictine University in 1998. Since that time, she has practiced in various settings, including a psychiatric hospital, community mental health center, partial hospitalization programs, and private practice. She also taught undergraduate psychology at Benedictine University and graduate psychology at Lewis University and facilitated training programs for Job Corps in Joliet, Illinois.
With her move from Chicago at the end of 2011, she brought fourteen years of expertise with effective, non-pathologizing models such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, mindfulness-infused models which offer clients the gift of embracing the power to change and create new meaning in their lives.
Debra Oakland is a Courage Advocate, Writer, Joyful Experiences, and founder of Living in Courage Online – A Spiritual Oasis for Overcoming Life’s Biggest Challenges and author of Change Your Movie, Change Your Life: 7 Reel Concepts for Courageous Change.
Over a period of 4 years Debra experienced multiple losses: she lost her 21 year old son, her baby girl in the 8th month of pregnancy, both brothers, and her father. The loss experienced during this time was life - altering and illuminated a path forward that Debra never saw coming.
Debra’s work since that point has been to share her story of courage and strength. Showing people that in the midst of immense tragedy, there are silver linings, and we each have own path to fearlessness. By sharing experiences in and around courage, we have the opportunity to make a powerful difference in our lives. Debra lives in Laguna Beach California with her husband and best-friend, Cody.
Beth Luwandi Lofstrom, MA, LPC is a licensed psychotherapist and Life Coach in private practice in Cincinnati, Ohio. She works with couples and individuals experiencing betrayal, loss, and relationship tangles. Her Whole Human Theory (TM) suggests that a
Welcome to the podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Boysen Hodgson. Boysen is the Communications and Marketing Director for the ManKind Project USA, a nonprofit mentoring and training organization that offers powerful opportunities for men’s personal growth at any stage of life.
Boysen has been facilitating men’s work for nearly a decade. He’s a co-founder of the Springfield Open Men’s Group, former Director for the New England ManKind Project Center, and author of “The New Macho,” a credo for the new masculine. Boysen has been featured in numerous radio programs and publications including a New Conversation with Men, Good Men Project, Dallas Voice, and the Sunday Times of London.
Boysen received his BA with Honors from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, after completing 2 years of Design coursework at Cornell University. He has been helping organizations and individuals design the change they wish to see in the world for 15 years. He’s a dedicated husband, a cyclist, and an urban homesteader.
Full show notes available at www.lourdesviado.com
Ashlee teaches highly sensitive empathetic women to live a "hell yes" life where they leave the shoulds behind. Her clients learn to live a passion-filled, turned-on, lit-up life where everything is possible, and to connect with their own intuitive genius.
She helps her clients stop prioritizing other people's opinions; to give themselves permission to go after their own desires; to be deeply self-expressed, self-confident, and vibrant; and to release the limiting beliefs that have made them feel selfish or self-centered for putting themselves first in the past.
She has her Ph.D. in psychology, is powerfully psychic, and has over a decade of experience helping hundreds of people transform to feeling passionate, vibrant, fulfilled, and joyful.
Dr. Rachna Patel has been practicing in the area of Medical Marijuana for half-a-decade now - since 2012.
She step-by-step walks patients through how to use medical marijuana for their specific medical condition without getting high off of it, without getting addicted to it, and without smoking it.
She speaks from the experience of having treated thousands of patients and having thoroughly reviewed the medical research on marijuana.
She completed her medical studies at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine (Vallejo, California) and her undergraduate studies at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois).
You can learn more about the work she does at www.DrRachnaPatel.com
Twitter: @DrRachnaPatel
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Welcome to the Podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Dalila Jusic-LaBerge, LMFT. Dalila specializes in working with accomplished women, who yearn for love but feel lost in romantic relationships. She helps them heal, connect to their own emotions, develop intuition, and be ready to connect on a deeper emotional level with loved ones.
Dalila is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, with an MA degree in Clinical Psychology with Emphasis on Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University. Prior to her graduate work in clinical psychology, she attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she completed her BA in psychology and worked in research involving health psychology. She has been practicing in this field for over nine years.
Born and raised overseas, she has traveled around the world and met many people from different cultures. She came to the United States, where she completed her formal higher education and training. Her diverse life experience taught her that happiness is a skill and it can be learned and practiced daily. She loves working with divorced women, helping them grow to become their true self from where they can enjoy loving and respectful relationships.
Welcome to the Podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Dalila Jusic-LaBerge, LMFT. Dalila specializes in working with accomplished women, who yearn for love but feel lost in romantic relationships. She helps them heal, connect to their own emotions, develop intuition, and be ready to connect on a deeper emotional level with loved ones.
Dalila is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, with an MA degree in Clinical Psychology with Emphasis on Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University. Prior to her graduate work in clinical psychology, she attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she completed her BA in psychology and worked in research involving health psychology. She has been practicing in this field for over nine years.
Born and raised overseas, she has traveled around the world and met many people from different cultures. She came to the United States, where she completed her formal higher education and training. Her diverse life experience taught her that happiness is a skill and it can be learned and practiced daily. She loves working with divorced women, helping them grow to become their true self from where they can enjoy loving and respectful relationships.
Welcome to the Podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Marilyn Steele, PhD. Marilyn is a Jungian psychologist, author, speaker, and painter. Her work is dedicated to helping women access their wild feminine and return wild feminine power to the world.
Marilyn has worked with hundreds of patients and students in her 30 years as a Jungian psychotherapist and teacher, in their journeys of healing and learning - to connect with their wild souls to restore vitality, renew creativity, replenish joy.
As a writer and speaker, she has woven a new story of the Self from her thirty years of original research into women’s lives, feminist epistemology, new science, and Jungian archetypal psychology.
Marilyn’s career began with education, and progressed to psychology, art, writing and speaking. She completed her Master’s of Education from The Raskob Institute in 1979 and worked with gifted adolescents with learning disabilities. She later returned to school for her Master’s and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA, concentrating on female psychology and the evolution of consciousness.
During her career as a Jungian psychologist, Marilyn also taught at graduate schools and provided continuing education for psychotherapists on the topics of female psychology and re-visioning the self.