Welcome back to the Women In-Depth Podcast, my guest this week is Chonteau McElvin who has been described as modern day medicine woman.
Chonteau wears many hats but her main reason for being on the planet is to assist in the awakening and remembrance that we are all connected and the time to step into our brilliance is now. In her early 20’s she received a vision and was told by Spirit that she was a teacher and healer of the old ways. This is when her modern day Shamanic training began. She completed her formal education as a Social Worker, followed in the footsteps of her father and became a Naturalist. At 20, her father taught her how to do self-hypnotism and she began to hone her skills as a Mindfulness Practition er, Folk Healer, and Herbalist.
For as long as she can remember she has been giving to others. As a child, she remembers being a volunteer for Meals on Wheels, she served lunch to “at risk” children. The spirit of service was instilled in her at an early age. What was not instilled in her, was the spirit of self-care. When tough times arrived, she did not know how to navigate her way through it. She did not know what it meant to take care of herself.
Twelve years ago, when she suffered major personal losses, she was forced to evaluate her self-care and spiritual practices, and something amazing happened, she put “spirituality into action” and soul self-care became a way of life. She wishes she could tell you life transitions are easier when you are a Lightworker or Alternative Healer, when in fact, our need for soul nourishment is greater because of all we give. For those of us who are constantly giving to others, there does not always seem to be a safe place to our deep soul work. This can leave us feeling frustrated, fragmented and lonely, which equates to, an inability to be fully present with our clients, families and most importantly ourselves.
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Today my guest is James Hollis, Ph. D, Dr. Hollis was born in Springfield, Illinois, graduated from Manchester University in 1962 and Drew University in 1967. He taught Humanities for 26 years in various colleges and universities before retraining as a Jungian analyst at the Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland (1977-82). He is presently a licensed Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. He served as Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center in Houston, Texas for many years and now is Executive Director of the Washington Jung Society. He is a retired Senior Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, was first Director of Training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute, and is Vice-President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation.
Additionally, he is a Professor of Jungian Studies for Saybrook University of San Francisco/Houston. He lives with his wife Jill, an artist and retired therapist, in Washington, DC. Together they have three living children and eight grand-children.
He has written a total of fourteen books and over fifty articles. The books have been translated into Swedish, Russian, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian, Korean, Finnish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Farsi, Japanese, Greek, Chinese, and Czech.
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Welcome to the podcast! Today I’m delighted to be joined by Dr. Marilyn Steele. Marilyn grew up in Hawaii, a land of great beauty and native wisdom where life is deeply intertwined with nature and its rhythms. She still considers Hawaii, a place alive with the sacred feminine, her soul home. She visits as often as possible.
Marilyn’s career began with education, and progressed to psychology, art, writing and speaking. Marilyn completed her Masters 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. Click here for past presentation topics, here for current programs, and here for a current Curriculum Vitae.
In 2013, Marilyn published her first book: The Wild Feminine: Stories to Inspire and Embolden. She is enjoying her home in Northern California and her return to painting.
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Welcome to the podcast! Today I’m joined by Susie Arnett. Susie is a writer, producer and creativity coach based in western Massachusetts. She spent 15 years as a producer and development executive, working for networks like Lifetime, Warner Brothers, HBO, and Fox. She has also written for multiple blogs as well as national magazines like More Magazine. Currently, she works with many of the world's top experts and teachers at the Kripalu Center, developing retreats, training, and digital experiences, and also runs a boutique consulting business where she supports thought leaders and businesses in developing original ideas that make the world a better place.
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Welcome to the podcast, today I’m joined by Michelle Farris, LMFT. Michelle is a licensed marriage and family therapist in San Jose, CA. She became a therapist after realizing the power of her own personal growth. She teaches others how to be more authentic in relationships by healing their anger and codependency. It's the power of accountability and unconditional support that helps us let go of the past and heal.
She helps people struggling in their relationships. Maybe you may feel alone and defeated. You've tried to talk things out, give in, or wait for the something to change...but nothing does. You find yourself choosing their needs over yours. That's a hard way to do relationships.
It doesn't have to stay that way. You can learn from those painful experiences and make the next relationship better - or improve the one you're still in.
When you see what didn't work you can learn what does. The end result isn't your fault, but you can be responsible for your part. You're looking for a solution. You just need the right kind of help.
She loves helping others gain control over their emotions so they can feel confident and empowered in relationships. She has helped people in 12 step recovery for many years. She can help if you are questioning your drinking, in substance abuse recovery, struggle with anger management, compulsive overeating, codependency, depression, relationships, grief, divorce and co-parenting.
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Welcome to the podcast. Today is going to be a bit different as I’m joined by, well, me!
This is my first time hosting the podcast solo, and I am a little nervous, but I’m just going to go ahead and feel the fear and do it anyway - which is especially meaningful as coping with fear is what this episode is all about.
For better or worse, fear is a primary motivator in our lives, whether we are consciously aware of this or not. I know this from experience and I see this in my practice, where many of the issues my clients struggle with are related to fear.
So I felt it would be meaningful to explore the experience of fear, the different types of fear, why fear is so powerful, and steps for changing how we understand and cope with fear.
Thanks for joining us!
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Welcome to the podcast, today I’m joined by MeiMei Fox. MeiMei is a published author, co-author, ghostwriter, and freelance editor of hundreds of non-fiction health, wellness, spirituality, and psychology books, articles, and blogs, including the New York Times bestsellers "Bend, Not Break" with Ping Fu and "Fortytude" with Sarah Brokaw.
Since July 2016, MeiMei has contributed five articles per month to Forbes as part of the Women@Forbes initiative. She writes about aligning your career with your life purpose, and profiles entrepreneurs and changemakers who can serve as role models to us all.
Her latest project is publishing her own blog, Adventures with Twins, whose daily posts include tips on raising twins, healthy recipes, product reviews, guests posts and interviews with other parents, and her own deep reflections on parenting. MeiMei has had two poems selected from among thousands of submissions for the books Multiples Illuminated, and the coming "Multiples Illuminated: Toddler to Tween."
Throughout her 15+ year writing career, MeiMei has edited books by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Columbia professor Robert Thurman; and was the Expedition Writer for Jacques Cousteau's granddaughter Alexandra's Expedition: Blue Planet.
Her articles have been published in the Huffington Post, Self, Stanford magazine, MindBodyGreen, and numerous other publications.
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Today my guest is Dr. Sharon Cohen, Ph.D. Sharon is a Relationship and Love Consultant in Newport Beach, California. She specializes in rational communication strategies and the social dynamics of men and women.
Her primary mission is to help women gain the skills to attract and keep long-lasting love.
A sub-set of that mission is to get women inspired to attract the love they desire. Her expertise and life experiences spark awareness and prompt change in her clients.
Using an educational and action-oriented program, Dr. Sharon’s clients see their interactions and relationships in a whole new light. With this new-found awareness, her clients free themselves from their past mistakes in their dating, relationships, and life so they can now relax into love.
Dr. Sharon graduated from UCLA (B.A. in Sociology; Business and Administration concentration), USC (Master in Social Work; Families and Children concentration) and the University of Texas at Austin (Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., School of Social Work).
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Welcome to the Women In-Depth Podcast, I’m delighted to welcome back Tamara Powell, LMHC. Tamara is a psychotherapist, and life coach who practices in Pensacola, FL. Tamara’s practice focuses on those struggling with issues related to sexuality and spirituality, including abuse and trauma. Tamara recently launched her own podcast “Undressing The Spirit” and in this episode we discuss sexual taboos, the issue of shame and the relationship between sex and spirituality.
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Today my guest is Dr. Cara Barker. Dr. Barker has spent over 40 years to support the process of Post Traumatic Growth, helping literally thousands of individuals transform their secret suffering into greater strength. Learn about Cara’s journey and be reminded that the process of disappointment and loss doesn’t end with acceptance; the stage of acceptance simply prepares us for deeper connection and collaboration with what helps us thrive. Her work, for close to half a century, focuses on what she calls “the Way of Soul;” aligning life with what nourishes body and soul. Join in to explore, and act upon, unexpected opportunity to love and be loved, to create fuller enjoyment of life.
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My guest on the podcast this week features Janeen Herskovitz. Janeen is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida and owner of Puzzle Peace Counseling, LLC. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Special Education from Rowan University in New Jersey, (1995) and her Masters of Arts in Mental Health Counseling from Webster University (2010). She is a trained as an EMDR Trauma Therapist and writes as a Topic Expert contributor on Autism Spectrum at goodtherapy.org. She has been married to her husband, Joe since 1995, and together, they have two teenage children.
Janeen’s podcast, Autism Blueprint, will be launching soon and covers a variety of topics surrounding living with autism in the home.
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My guest on the podcast this week features Coreen Haym, Coreen is a visiting faculty member in the marriage and family therapy program, at the university of Nevada, Las Vegas, teaching for UNLV since 2007. She has considerable experience presenting and instructing on clinical work with non-traditional families as well as sex therapy, sexual issues, crisis suicide risk assessment, language and diversity diagnosis, LGBTQ studies, kink friendly psychotherapy and gender & sexuality. She is a clinical fellow and a proved supervisor with of the AAMFT and is also a member of the American counseling association. Currently, Coreen is pursuing her Ph.D. in counselor education at Adam State University and is also a licensed marriage and family therapist with a small private practice in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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My guest on the podcast this week features Kim Hermanson, Ph.D. who is a transformative coach, author and shamanic intuitive who is known for her skill in quickly shifting people out of spiritual and psychological difficulties into a place of profound beauty, healing, and creative flow. A series of intense mystical experiences forcefully yanked her out of a conservative Midwest upbringing and profession as a corporate computer scientist and led her to develop Doorway sessions. Kim works with creatives, pioneers, visionaries and mystics to help them integrate their own experiences of non-ordinary reality and to connect with deep shamanic creative energies that urgently want to be expressed in our world. Kim currently serves as adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She has taught at the University of California Berkeley, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Sophia Center at Holy Names University, Meridian University, and Esalen Institute. She is the author of Getting Messy: A Guide to Taking Risks and Opening the Imagination and Sky’s the Limit: The Art of Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey. In addition to her own publications, she has co-authored several articles with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience and other books.
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My guest on the podcast this week features Dr. Anders Beier, who is a depth-oriented (Jungian) psychotherapist and Executive Coach in private practice near Aspen, Colorado. Working with couples and individuals, he has extensive experience in treating depression, anxiety, and serious life changes, including grief/loss, divorce, and midlife crisis. He has ten years of clinical experience in various areas of mental health counseling and has done years of research in the emerging area of the psychological influences of technology. Also, Dr. Beier is the co-founder and COO of the London-based non-profit, The Centre for Technology Awareness. The center’s mission is to raise awareness of the complex influences of technology as well as encouraging safe, responsible, and ethical uses of technology.
In addition, he has years of experience assisting and coaching high-level executives develop, balance and pivot their complex lives. Dr. Beier holds an MA in counseling from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA and a Ph.D. in Jungian Studies from Saybrook University in San Francisco. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Colorado.
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My guest on the podcast this week features Kirsten Goffena, LPC, RPT, Kirsten is passionate about helping clients reach their full potential in life. She weaves playfulness into her work with clients of all ages and her therapy dog Luna's calm presence helps clients feel safe and relaxed. She helps individuals, children, and families reconnect to themselves and each other.
Her counseling experience includes individual and group work with adults, children, and families in a mental health agency, elementary and middle school counseling, in-home family therapy for families with children at risk for out-of-home placement, and private practice.
My guest on the podcast this week is Anne Mcarthy Strauss, Anne has been writing since she penciled The Princeton Street News, a weekly report on the lives of her Long Island, New York neighbors, at age ten. Today, she is a versatile novelist, writer, interviewer, researcher and public relations pro who focuses on shelter, alternative healthcare, technology and women’s fiction.
After majoring in Journalism at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Anne pursued a career in corporate public relations and freelance writing. She is the author of A Medical Affair (Booktrope 2013) and The Passion Thief (Booktrope 2014). Anne lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, with her husband and their two unconditionally loving Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) She appeared on HBO in the film Hard Times: Lost on Long Island (Blowback Productions, 2010). When not writing, she’s likely to be hiking, kayaking, painting, crafting, swimming, or spending time with her dogs.
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My guest on the podcast this week features Krysta Dancy, MA, MFT. Krysta is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Roseville, California where she has been working with clients since 2005. In addition to her private practice, she is the Co-Director and Supervisor of a local counseling nonprofit (The Place Within) where she supervises 8-12 interns on their path to licensure. The Place Within offers counseling on a sliding fee scale to those who might otherwise be unable to access counseling. She also keeps a blog and speaks for local groups on some of her favorite psychological topics. She also sometimes functions as a spokesperson for the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) where she has been a member (and previous board member) since 2005.
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My guest on the podcast this week is Dara Hoffman-Fox. Dara is a Licensed Professional Counselor and gender therapist in private practice who works with transgender, gender non-conforming, and gender questioning individuals. She frequently serves as a resource on transgender issues for the media and is a prolific gender-identity thought leader whose articles and videos have empowered thousands worldwide. She provides educational resources through a blog (darahoffmanfox.com), YouTube channel, social media networks, trainings and presentations, and her first publication: You and Your Gender Identity: A Guide to Discovery.
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Today my guest is Tamara Powell, Tamara is a psychotherapist, and life coach who practices in Pensacola, FL. Tamara’s practice focuses on those struggling with issues related to sexuality and spirituality, including abuse and trauma. Tamara first made her appearance on the podcast in episode 10. From that episode, there was a lot of feedback to get her back on the podcast to discuss further what spiritual abuse could really look like, how a person could become vulnerable to it and the long-term effects of experiencing spiritual abuse.
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Today’s show features, Sharon Martin. Sharon is a licensed therapist, counselor, and mental health and wellness writer based in San Jose, CA. She has spent 20 years providing counseling, therapy, and clinical supervision. Sharon has built a specialized private practice that reflects her belief that you matter and you can love yourself, heal, be empowered, speak your truth, and create a life you love. Listen for Sharon’s incredible insights on life, well-being and much more!
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Today’s show features Bethany Webster - a writer, transformational coach, international speaker and what you could call a "midwife of the heart." Her work is focused on helping women heal the Mother Wound so that they can step into their divine feminine power and potential. She coaches successful women on how to heal the Mother Wound so that they can make a quantum leap in their impact and leadership. Bethany is the author of the forthcoming book "Healing the Mother Wound: Move Beyond What Your Mother Never Gave You and Become the Woman You're Meant to be."
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My guest today is Namrata Rindani McMahill, a couples and family therapist in private practice in San Diego. Nam is an advocate and champion for discarded, diagnosed, shamed, judged, and marginalized people. Her career spans 12 years, 2 continents, and multiple languages. Today’s topic is a sensitive one, but one that is important and relevant to so many; we’re talking about “the other woman.” Join us!
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My guest today is Stacey Horn, a relationship coach and clinical hypnotist. Stacey has been a licensed clinical social worker for 25 years and has spent the last 7 years exploring the field of hypnosis in beautiful Eagle County, Colorado. Even though hypnotherapy has been used since the 1700’s, there are still many misconceptions, mysteries, and questions surrounding this therapy technique. Stacey is here to deepen our understanding of this technique that is used in various fields. Join us for this insightful episode and expand your knowledge of hypnosis!
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My guest today is Dr. Nicolle Zapien, a psychotherapist, certified sex therapist, and college professor from San Francisco. Our topic today is an important one because it affects so many people. We’re discussing the experience of infidelity in relationships. Join us!
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My guest today is Rebecca Wong, a relationship therapist, consultant, and speaker. She’s also the creator of Connecfulness, a research-based practice encouraging people to explore and embrace every aspect of humanity. Today’s topic is the need to be seen, heard, understood, and accepted. It’s something we both fear and desire. Rebecca is launching a podcast very soon, and she currently lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband, daughters, and furry family members. Join us!
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