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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

“Religiosity that is hostile to sex is the product of authoritarian society." & “The socially irresponsible man is the man absorbed in sexual conflicts.” Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism, which was banned by the Nazis - These quotes point to what I share in this experimental episode. It is a tapestry of the messages of Wilhelm Reich (24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) who was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Aries, sexuality fight, Mars in Cancer in square, for emotional, healing reasons, fighting against limited freedom in the family- Mercury in Pisces holstic thinking 
 
I mention Reich carried trauma, but of course we do not exactly know about a persons internal condition- but facts are that his mother committed suicide in 1910 after his father discovered she had had an affair and little Reich was involved in admitting to his father about the affair. Imagine the weight of that. And then his father died and WW1 broke out and Reich had to flee from his home and join the army. After this is when he studied with Freud at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute
 
But this talk is a lot more about the message Reich was fighting for and tragically he really had to fight for his right to speak about it. The way I talk about it is completely none-linear, meaning I blend his points from The Function of the Orgasm, 1942, with Mass Psychology of Fascism, 1933, and The Sexual Revolution, 1936............ Find something a lot more organized and contextualized here: https://wilhelmreichmuseum.org/about/research-and-publications/
 
Orgone energy is orgasm meeting organism; a vital cosmic force all around us- he started to built orgone accumulators and was imprisoned and his works burned and he died! Tragic! But we have access to much of his writing today, so in this episode I swirl in his theories and hope you can manage to hang in there as I talk.
 
Some core themes:
 
 • The physical basis for neurosis ...childrens blocked impulses
 • Trauma blocks the life force, Orgone
 • The ability to have an orgasm is an attribute of a healthy person
 • With neurosis you need more Orgone
 • Repressed feelings and sexual needs manifest as chronic muscular tension and creates character structure as a protective armour to keep the person from contacting his own underlying feelings
 • Character structure is protecting unwanted emotional reaction; that is the product of mass suppression 
 • Distorted sexuality in a capitalistic society
 • Exploitation of sexual interest
 
...and more...
 
I hope it entertains you in a substantial way - for any comments and critique text me at therapeuticastrolger@gmail.com
 
Again - I am no expert and this is mix a mans work throughout around 20 years - I am just reading, sharing and want you to join me in free associations to the theme...
 
find me on https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
 
- Mannah

#17 - The Function Of The Orgasm by Wilhelm Reich - Character Armour - The Fight For Freedom - Sexual Life Energy

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

Do you know about and or practice Energy Psychotherapy? Our guest today, Ruthie Smith, is the Director on a Training Programme teaching energy psychotherapy to counsellors and psychotherapists (run by Energy Psychotherapy Training Ltd.)
 
I (Mannah) am over the moon about her book, "Energy, Soul-Connecting and Awakening Consciousness: Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm", as it serves as an essential meeting place for different methods and ways of thinking within contemporary trauma therapy, while being rooted in ancient wisdom.
 
I had an extended interview with Ruthie because the information in her book is vast. You can choose to listen, pause, and come back to it as many times as needed. Personally, I love the long format, and you might too as you join us.
 
Here’s what you’ll hear about if you choose to stay with us:
 
 • Ruthie Smith weaves together insights from neurobiology, epigenetics, and consciousness studies, presenting a framework that alleviates trauma and fosters self-awareness and personal transformation.
 • The meaning of multidimensionality
 • The interconnections of mind and body.
 • How to experience ease and grace in the flow.
 • Methods for clearing trauma from both past and present life.
 • Realising Interdependence 
 • From 3D to 5D
 • Quantum Mechanics
 • A glimpse of awakening
 • Manifestation
 • David Hawkins scale (levels of consciousness)
 • The Veils of the ego
 • Past lives coming through into this life
 • Clearing repetition compulsion
 • The aquarian age and aquarian technology
 • How to feel better much quicker 
 • The way out of suffering
 • Clearing the clouds of our emotions
 • SHAME 
 • Exploring the shift in consciousness and accessing different timelines as part of personal healing and growth.
 • Heart consciousness - PRESENCE
 • Synchronicity
 • Pure Awareness- the light of our true nature
 • A snake unwinding 
 • The 4 ways to handle poisoned plants - different antidotes to negative emotions
 • The path of liberation
 • Tantra, the path of joy
 • Dharma - discernment
 • Spiritual principles
 • The noble truths 
 • Dhogzhen
 • Are we egoistical or coming from the heart?
 • Traumatic invalidation - when ones own perception is being invalidated - scapegoat archetype
 • Energetic Boundaries 
 • Our DNA, how we come from the starts and originally had 12 strands of DNA
 • God Eternal within the body
 • The wisdom in the unconscious 
 • The trauma of our age as being disconnected from soul
 
Thank you for listening- Be aware of a correction from Ruthie: "Made a mistake with yanas around 56/57 minutes – I say that the first ‘noble truth’ of the Buddha is to do no harm – I was muddled and this is incorrect. I meant to say 
 
 
 
‘the first teaching of the Buddha– i.e the first turning of the wheel of the dharma’ - was to do no harm
 
 
 
Similarly it isn’t the 2nd ‘Noble truth’ with Mahayana – 
 
 
 
instead say ‘the second teaching of the Buddha– i.e the second turning of the wheel of the dharma’ "
 
LINKS:
 
Here is the book Energy, Soul Connecting and Awakening Consciousness - Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm:
 
 https://www.karnacbooks.com/product/energy-soul-connecting-and-awakening-consciousness-psychotherapy-in-a-new-paradigm/97034/
 
Learn more about Ruthies work:
 www.theflamecentre.co.uk energypsychotherapytraining.co.uk Contact: ruthie@theflamecentre.co.uk Find Mannah: https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

#84 - Ruthie Smith - Energy, Soul Connecting and Awakening Consciousness - Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm

Phil Mollon PhD is a psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, and energy psychotherapist. He has pioneered the development of Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy and teaches Blue Diamond Healing, which he will guide us through in this interview. Get ready to tap into deeper healing work and explore the philosophy of healing from an energetic standpoint. Phil Mollon’s journey can perhaps be seen in his authorship—I ask him about that, and he says it’s on a continuum. Here are his books listed; I just like the sound of the titles even:
 
The Fragile Self: The Structure of Narcissistic Disturbance 
 Multiple Selves, Multiple Voices: Working with Trauma, Violation, and Dissociation 
 Remembering Trauma: A Psychotherapist's Guide to Memory and Illusion 
 Freud and False Memory Syndrome 
 The Unconscious 
 Releasing the Self: The Healing Legacy of Heinz Kohut 
 Shame and Jealousy: The Hidden Turmoils 
 EMDR and the Energy Therapies: Psychoanalytic Perspectives 
 Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy: Inspired by Thought Field Therapy, EFT, TAT, and Seemorg Matrix 
 The Disintegrating Self: Psychotherapy with Adult ADHD, Autistic Spectrum, and Somato-psychic Conditions 
 Pathologies of the Self: Exploring Narcissistic and Borderline States of Mind 
 
AND the one we speak of today:
 "Blue Diamond Healing: Exploring Transpersonal and Trans-Dimensional Aspects of Energy Psychotherapy" from Karnac 2022
 
In this chapter of TAP we talk about themes such as:
 
-Energy Psychology Approaches
 - Freud and Libido - similar to descriptions of life force
 - We do the actual Blue Diamond healing!
 - The energy system is where information is stored
 - Congruence and coherence
 - Unconscious objections and sabotage patterns
 - The American commercial culture in the energy healing business - yet they all work very well by activating the subtle energy system
 -Creating necessary entropy in the too-ordered patterns in the mind
 
- Pathogens and parasites and intrusions that give rise to dysfunctional patterns
 
-Errant coding that can exist in a number of higher dimensions
 
- The reason why psychedelic work
 
- The Blue Diamond Healing and the high heart point as direct access point to the unified field
 
- The work of William Tiller
 
- Why we attract more of the same
 
- The SACRED UNKNOWN EVOLVING SELF
 
-Transference in a new light
 
- How the blue diamond field will bring about what we ask, if we dont have internal objections - but what if we have unconscious traumatized parts of us that do object to healing?
 
- Coherent thoughts expressed in coherent sentences that can work like magic
 
And much more
 
LINKS:
 
Find the book we speak of right here: 
 
 https://www.karnacbooks.com/product/blue-diamond-healing-exploring-transpersonal-and-transdimensional-aspects-of-energy-psychotherapy/96169/?MATCH=1
 
 
 
Phil Mollons website:
 
https://www.philmollon.net/
 
Phil Mollon also recommends the website of Noel Tobin, who describes very clearly some of the background science:
 
https://creation-principles.org/
 
 
 
Mannahs website:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

#85 - Phil Mollon - Blue Diamond Healing - Exploring Transpersonal and Transdimensional Aspects of Energy Psychotherapy

Welcome to the third and - for now - last segment with John Clarke, a passionate and dedicated IFS teacher and podcast host (Going Inside). In this episode, we explore the theme of anxiety through the lens of working with parts and Self. While this concludes the planned little series on IFS, I’m hopeful that John Clarke will come back for more IFS insights sometime in the future.
 
NOW for this this episode, we discuss:
 
- Threat Response in the nervous system
 
- Downward Arrow Technique (used in several therapies, NARM included) to really located the core fear/belief 
 
- How parts hold and express anxiety and fear and the practise of being okay without knowing
 
- Is anxiety a part? (We who have seen "Inside out 2" kind of think it might be this orange part??) 
 
- Fear of being taken advantage of
 
- What happens when a part has no translatable message when interviewed (by yourself or in a therapy session)
 
- The importance of starting the process by working with protectors
 
- Understanding the inner critic as a protective response
 
- Repressed anger and its impact
 
- Fear / Anger that don’t need to be acted out
 
 - Expressing emotions from multiple parts to acknowledge yourself, without focusing on the responses from other people
 
- In therapy session - how do we work with unfinished business, in the active imagination
 
- Collective anxiety and the importance of validating the difficulty of not knowing what the future holds
 
- BEING WITH (as oppose to doing something
 
- And two points in the end: From John about feeling fear and doing it anyway as one way of healing the anxiety - and from Mannah just the sense that it holds spiritual importance to overcome fear and anxiety and enter into peace of mind
 
Happy you are with us - I think we need this if we want to overcome anxiety, to speak openly about it, try and understand it to transform it & liberate from it.
 
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
 
 
 
My website:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
 
Hey if you want to the video versions, they reside here: https://www.youtube.com/@therapeuticastrology

#86 - John Clarke (Part 3) - Dealing with Anxiety in IFS (Internal Family Systems)

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

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