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Mannah

Therapeutic Astrology Podcast (TAP) explores ways to remember and reconnect to our innate wholeness. In each episode, I, Mannah, talk with authors and thought leaders about personal growth, symbolic awareness, and how to live better lives. Tap into the well of wisdom when guests from diverse therapeutic schools of thought, metaphysical philosophies, and varied astrology and meditation backgrounds come and share with me about their field.

TAP's slogan is "A Place to Call Whole." Home may not be a loving association, but being whole is all about love. 

ME? I go by the name Mannah. I was born in Denmark during one of the retrograde periods of Pluto in Scorpio! Talking about wholeness (and knowing what it means to be divorced from my true nature), my Pisces Sun has a dedicated orientation toward healing and universal belonging. 

I hope you find something that resonates as you listen through the archive. You can text me at therapeuticastrologer@gmail.com

Visit my website at https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com.

Mannah, Copenhagen, May of 2023

Therapeutic Astrology Podcast

Welcome to the fourth chapter in the series about the work of Dr. Claus Springborg, who has a new book out — and it’s not a small one. We have plenty to talk about, and in this episode, we explore themes of agency, creating one’s own life, and how responsibility easily gets confused when situations are classified in certain ways.
 
Tap in as we talk about:
 
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 • When and how we use automatic habits to create negative inner states, such as anxiety, nervousness about public speaking, and feeling personally attacked when given feedback.
 • How we create our lives through unconscious processes and become alienated from our own creation and the world.
 • Energy efficiency 
 • First, we create it, then fight it.
 • Recognizing one’s own agency.
 • If you are unaware that problems are your creations, you will not accept responsibility — how can we recognize what is within our control and what is not?
 • Getting the identity upside down — the essence of who you are being confused with how you structure your experience.
 • Seeing the machine room.
 • Logical categories of learning with Gregory Bateson.
 • "You can’t step into the same river twice," but the only way we can learn by trial and error is by classifying experiences as if they were the same.
 • Classifications create the world to which you are reacting.
 • Classifications that are unconscious and habitual.
 • There is no true way of classifying situations — but one’s classifications have real effects.
 • Not wanting to be mansplained to — and how to avoid it without having to change anyone else's behaviour.
 • When the problem shows up in therapy several times but hasn’t been healed — and why that is not necessarily a problem.
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Find more on Dr. Claus Springborg right here:
 
https://www.sensingmind.com/dr-claus-springborg/
 
The book:
 
 https://sensingmind.simplero.com/products/208860-Pre-Order-The-5-Knots-A-Guide-to-Being
 
 
 
Mannahs web:
 
https://www.mannahguldager.com/

#78 - Dr. Claus Springborg: The Knot of Alienation (Part 4)

Is it a part or your Self? Can I be in Self 100 percent while still wanting my clients not to hurt themselves? Is who I think I am truly me, or a manager? When an exile has been healed, do I still carry it within me? How do I know my parts are real and not just something I’ve made up? If you sometimes wonder about questions like these, this episode is for you!
 
This is the second episode in the series with John Clarke, helping us tap deeper into Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Parts Work. John is the Clinical Director of Calm Again Counseling, a member of the IFS teaching staff at IFSCA, and the host of the podcast Going Inside: Healing Trauma from the Inside Out.
 
Listen in as we speak about topics such as:
 
⎯ Honoring your parts by naming them
 ⎯ Being Self-led
 ⎯ How we quickly get into our parts, for example when it becomes really important to be understood
 ⎯ Noticing your body as your parts ask if their services are needed
 ⎯ Understanding the truth of the part
 ⎯ Managers burning out is one reason we go to therapy
 ⎯ Addictive parts and their intention
 ⎯ Having compassion for others softens their parts
 ⎯ Listening to angry parts
 ⎯ Asking parts: How are you trying to protect me?
 ⎯ How validation can lead to healing
 ⎯ Protectors, exiles, and perceived threats
 ⎯ We only get to know a handful of the players in our internal system
 ⎯ Parts mapping to deepen connection to parts
 ⎯ Restoring internal attachment: Will you be here when I need you the most? How much do I matter?
 ⎯ Adults still waiting for their parents to apologize
 ⎯ The self-like agenda in therapist parts that want to rescue clients
 ⎯ Protectors hurting for a good reason
 ⎯ Why it’s not helpful to shame protectors
 ⎯ Moving beyond a top-down approach that only manages symptoms
 ⎯ Why the goal is not to stop the behavior
 ⎯ Honoring separateness — don’t jump into the hole with people
 ⎯ John Clarke’s 84-year-old therapist’s words of love
 ⎯ The real job of a therapist/what therapists owe their clients
 ⎯ The paradox of healing: When you no longer need the client to get better, the client gets better
 ⎯ Empathy versus compassion
 ⎯ Why compassion fatigue doesn’t exist 
 
Thank you for being here — there’s definitely a part of me that wants you to stick around.
 
- Mannah
 
LINKS:
 
Find more on John Clarke:
 
https://www.johnclarketherapy.com/
 
 
 
Going Inside Podcast: 
 
 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-inside-healing-trauma-from-the-inside-out/id1728733093
 
 
 
The podcast episode I mention in the end that hits home for me speaking about religious trauma, is right here:
 
 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-inside-healing-trauma-from-the-inside-out/id1728733093
 
 
 
My website:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
 
 
 
Video version: https://youtu.be/Td4i12zXMLY

#79 - John Clarke (Part 2) - Parts Work Perspective - Witnessing Without Judgment - Leading from Self, Listening to Parts - Having No Agenda

"Being isn't selfing — selfing is something we do to get something right. But if we approach life as though something is wrong, we become obsessed with what is right."
 (Quote from Dr. Michael Smith around 70 minutes in)
 
There’s no way I can summarize this conversation!! You just have to lie down, press play, and soak in Dr. Michael Smith's incredible inspiration.
 
I know Michael from the podcast Primordial Dao, Present Dao, but he is also an internationally respected clinician, author, speaker, and professor. As a doctor, he combines Functional Medicine, Evolutionary Nutrition, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Meditation, Breathwork, and Qi Gong to support individuals with autoimmune conditions, complex trauma, and addiction. I copied this intro from his website, which you can find below.
 
What I can summarize is that we speak about something like this:
 
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Assessing clients
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Intimacy and wisdom
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The difference between knowledge and wisdom
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Not practical but practicable
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A bit of Aries combat and survivalism
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Boundaries and how to care for your energy and woundedness
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Trauma bonding
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The authors of the DSM
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The DSM in the context of an industrial process
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Mercury in Pisces, because interviewing Michael feels out of this world
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The need for four hours of silence — the hippocampus can grow back
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If you keep waking up in the middle of the night, it might mean you need more silence
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Anchoring your spirit
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Exploring PTSD from a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective (Qing Zhi Bing — Traumatic and Emotionally Disorienting Wounds)
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Recognizing capacities and limits
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The skill set needed for helping people
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Emotionally disorienting wounds
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Your state of being — the person's vibe
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Your story and your "why"
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What we are certain we need to do
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The scars we have as the tapestry of our soul
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Imitating the client to better feel what life is like for them
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Ancient languages with verbs — sharing in relation, in experience
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What the client thinks of the world
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Metaphors to understand a quality
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How we all orient toward meaning
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Adaptive capacity
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Why TCM doesn’t really diagnose people
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Caring for clients’ symptomatic well-being while also helping them heal themselves
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The Six F's — we explore fawning
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The universe finding the center
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Different PTSD expressions
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Treating the sense of self
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How maturing spiritually changes how you relate to your symptoms
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A wound in the stomach (gastric ulcer) and how to relate to that "stress place" metaphorically
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Neuroception
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The importance of bonding with others rather than shaming experiences
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When soothing your pain makes you feel isolated and deep in existential pain
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When life becomes a matter of just getting through the pain
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The distress caused by diagnostic labels
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Training the mind and heart
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The self as a date at the prom
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Behind spirit is soul — but what is it like? Reorienting ourselves from literal phenomena to mindful awareness
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A rite of passage to let your self go
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Coming to truth rather than bouncing between extremes
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How healing begins with grieving and ends with gratitude
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I really hope you enjoy this as much as I do.
 
— Mannah
 
LINKS to find more on Dr. Michael Smith:
 
https://somadaoqigong.com/
 
Embodied Psychotherapy, Spiritual Recapitulation, and Traditional Chinese Medicine course:
 
 https://somadaoqigong.com/embodied-psychotherapy-spiritual-recapitulation-and-traditional-chinese-medicine/
 
Connect with Michael online:
 
Facebook:
 
 https://www.facebook.com/michaelsmithDr.TCM
 
somadaoqigong@gmail.com
 
 
 
Books (Kindle)
 
 Qi Gong Book – Beginning Your Qi Gong Healing Journey
 
 
 
 Returning to an Ancestral Diet
 
 
 
The podcast I know Dr. Michael Smith from - recommend it:
 
https://primordialdaopresentdao.podbean.com/
 
 
 
Mannahs website:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

#80 - Dr. Michael Smith - PTSD from a TCM Perspective - Awareness of Your Constructed Self - Where Healing Begins

“Someone who senses other people’s needs, problems, feelings, or pain and shows compassion for what the other person is going through.” This is the definition of sensitivity that Brid O'Donoghue writes about in her book "The Mystery of the Sensitive Child":
 
How can something so loving pose a challenge? We explore exactly that in this episode. Meet Brid O'Donoghue, author and spiritual healer, for a deep and meaningful conversation. Find links to her book and other work below.
 
Here are some key points we discuss in this episode:
 
 • Levels of sensitivity 
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Sensitivity connected to spirituality
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 • Being grounded to not be pulled into other peoples energy
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The difference between disconnecting and switching off emotions
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Dissociation, How to emotionally step out and then not being able to remember school
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It’s not daydreaming — it’s survival
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Are you okay? Being a caring person versus what do they want from me?
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 • The habit of switching off as an adult
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Remembering that it’s safe to be in your body and be present
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The concept of running two emotional programs simultaneously
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T-shirt exercise
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The energy that impacts us the most is the one that was around us when we were small
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Anger - picking up on frustration 
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Not understanding sensitivity can lead to great trauma
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Fight-or-flight response - the flaw - and living on the edge
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 • Even when we want to keep everyone safe, we can become the bear 
 • Identify the triggers and talk them off the cliff
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Calming tools for when kids are overwhelmed in class
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 • Different types of coping to try and control the situation
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Talking the day (I may have misheard this, but I liked it anyway) to come up with a strategic plan for the next day
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 • To not like the texture of things for example - figuring out what calms them and using it to their advantage- finding something they like the feeling of in this case
 • Child friendly ways to bring them into the present
 
I hope you enjoy this episode and discover the hidden gems in it about this massive theme of sensitivity and Brid O'Donoghue's remarkable work in the field.
 
- Mannah
 
THE BOOK we speak about:
 
 https://www.amazon.com/MYSTERY-SENSITIVE-CHILD-Brid-ODonoghue/dp/1739316304
 
Find more from Brid right here:
 www.thepsychiccode.ie www.bridodonoghuecelebrant.ie 
 
 
My website is:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

#81 - Brid O'Donoghue - The Mystery of the Sensitive Child - When Switching Off Emotions Becomes a Normal Way of Being - Understanding Sensitivity

Happy New Year! I want to sprinkle some good energy in yor direction, so I’ve invited a great astrologer and writer. Gray Crawford is a full-time astrologer, and as he shares in this episode, his career really took off with Neptune in Pisces. Now, Neptune is changing signs, coming into a conjunction with Saturn. Mercury will be up to all sorts of tricks, the nodes are shifting signs, we got eclipses, Mars-Pluto dynamics — there’s a lot to look at! Gray is incredibly helpful in this episode, guiding us through what it all might mean and I do recommend his writings - see links below.
 
Best wishes — and remember, YOU HAVE A PLACE TO CALL WHOLE — even if you find yourself alone on New Year’s Eve, surrounded by annoying people, or experiencing anything in between.
 
Let’s catch up in the new year! We’ve still got lots to tap into, and I personally have a few solo episodes I want to create as well — let’s see how it will all go down in 2025!
 
Mannah
 
 
 
FIND MORE ABOUT Gray Crawford right here:
 
https://graycrawford.net/
 
 
 
I recommend his blog:
 
https://graycrawford.net/blog
 
 
 
His youtube is:
 
https://www.youtube.com/@graycrawfordastrology
 
 
 
My web is:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

#82 - New Year Special - Astrologer Gray Crawford: The Astrology of 2025 - Follow Your Creativity

Let’s tap into embodied learning, the role of neuroscience in therapeutic work and energetic experiences. I’m so pleased to welcome therapist, teacher, and speaker Kim Barthel. She is a seasoned educator with 40 years of experience- Kim Barthel travels the world providing workshops and mentorship to therapists, educators, social workers, physicians, special-needs care providers, and parents.
 
With her Sagittarian storytelling and value put on the experienced insights, we are well set up to tap in to these themes:
 
- Neuroplasticity and its role in knowing
 
- Why embodiment might come first
 
- Kim’s definition of healing
 
- The power of alignment and the expansive tension in us
 
- The difference between delusional optimism and having hope
 
- Spiritual connection and its relationship with the nervous system
 
- How polyvagal theory can ease shame
 
- The neurobiology of compassion and connection
 
- The attachment center in the brain
 
- Astrology’s transformative help—when it’s truly felt
 
- Staying curious and evolving our knowledge beyond the current research is essential
 
- Can talk therapy address somatic issues?
 
- Neurodevelopmental treatment and its impact
 
- Learning as an ongoing, layered process
 
- The magic of presence and energetic experiences that are not measurable 
 
- The need for multi-sensory engagement in effective therapy
 
- The missing emphasis on energy compared to earlier 
 
- Keep learning!!!
 
Plus, a quick look at the astrological archetypes of Sagittarius, Taurus, and Pluto in Aquarius.
 
Much love and thank you for listening!!
 
Learn more about Kim Barthel here:
 
https://www.kimbarthel.ca/
 
 
 
My website is:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

#83 - Kim Barthel - The Conscious Evolution of the Human Spirit - The Expansive Tension - Therapy as an Opportunity to Sense Yourself

Motivated by lingering effects of sickness, I bring you TAP! Death is coming for us, and I want to talk to you about real stuff, before it does. TAP will be me talking to you about different psychological topics and how astrological factors represent the same issue. And even bring in more wisdom to it.
 
Thank you for listening
 
- Mannah

#0 - Pilot - My personal background that has led me to right here

Do you have - or used to have - feelings of being inherently wrong? That's probably a deep one then. Let's dare to look at it and dismantle it a little bit.
 
Sort of the structure:
 
 • What is up with this the great idea about combining astrology and therapy? 
 • Origins of wrong-ness and how if you believe it, the environment can validate it for you
 • The archetype of Scorpio/Pluto - reading some Steven Forrest good stuff 
 • The end and then more growth through someone or something you merge with
 • Redefining you, trusting you, leaving other peoples projections (rejections) on you
 • If you are here - there is hope, promise!
 
Reach out if you feel like it at:
 
therapeuticastrologer@gmail.com
 
My website https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/ might also be worth a visit, who knows.
 
So happy you are here
 
Let's talk some more soon - on real life issues!
 
- Mannah

#1 - What's wrong with me? - Feeling bad, flawed, as an outsider - Self-reinforcing beliefs

Without connecting to emotions, it's hard to feel guided in life. Without contact to your body, it becomes an object to be perfected or just despised, probably both
 
I've found that different school of thoughts are using the work dissociation differently - in this talk I'm quite open to include a lot of symptoms, as the main point for me is the unstable sense of self. We talk about dissociation only in so far as it limits you from experiencing aliveness - otherwise, just carry on, binge it out.
 
First a recap where I highlight points in chap 1, and then progress into the theme:
 
 • Reading Greg Bogart
 • Why did I waste my life???- the cure to that question
 • A set of potentials - like in nature- that unfolds over time
 • Celestial instructions
 • Are you a problem to be fixed?? Why only some therapies work when you feel inherently screwed up inside
 • John Bowlby for a short remark on detachment
 • Dissociation as a survival style to avoid being overwhelmed by stressful (and life-threatening) experiences
 • Dissociative parts can judge each other (shame)
 • Feelings of alienation and estrangement from yourself
 • The consequences of shutting down
 • The unhelpful therapy of being asked to feel your body, when your problem is dissociation
 • Embodiment and integration and wholeness as the cure
 • Uranus - Moon inspired by googling "astrology dissociation" that led me some online forum with partly good stuff
 • Uranian and Neptunian "going beyond"
 
Thank you so much for being with me
 
Reach out, will you?
 
Here is one way: therapeuticastrologer@gmail.com
 
Here is another: https://www.instagram.com/mannah_therapeuticastrology/
 
and the website is to be found here https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
 
- enough with links already!
 
 
 
- Mannah

#2 - Dissociation - Disembodiment - Loss of self & Transpersonal Planets

The meditation is 13 minutes into the episode FYI. Let's carve out a few minutes to release the stress of the body and feel into being "what perceives". Over time this is will be healing and opening to new ways of relating to the world. Enjoy this soft meditation with the intent of accessing more of your true self via softness.
 
- Mannah
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

#0 - Pilot - My personal background that has led me to right here

#0 - Pilot - My personal background that has led me to right here

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