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Soul Path SessionsSeason 2 Encore Episode: Wabi-SabiIn this encore episode from season 2, Deborah and Brenda explore Wabi-Sabi, a Japanese concept that values imperfection and impermanence. It's an aesthetic, ideal, a philosophy, an art or a way of life that celebrates the beauty of things that are broken, aged or imperfect. It can be applied to physical items, such as pottery or your favorite cup, as well as relationships...with other people or even with ourselves. Understanding how to embrace Wabi-Sabi in your life and recognize the opportunities it has to transform your perceptions about "what is" can lead to a much more rewarding, peaceful and...2024-02-2130 min
Soul Path SessionsSeason 1 Encore: Shelter In Place Interview: Poetry to Inspire a Sense of BelongingThis is an encore presentation of a special Soul Path Sessions episode from season 1. In 2020, Deborah began a poetic journey to share her experiences as a therapist and spiritual life coach during the pandemic. The result is "Shelter In Place" a book of incredibly thoughtful and vulnerable poetry. Brenda interviews Deborah about the process and the inspirations that informed her poems. From the book's foreward: "As a therapist and spiritual life coach I work with clients who experience anxiety and pain. This challenges me to work with my own shifting mental and emotional states. A poverty of p...2024-02-0255 minSoul Path SessionsSeason 2 Encore: The God ParticleIn this encore episode from season 2, Deborah and Brenda explore the possibilities of a Universal energy that informs all things - or God Particle - and how to connect with it and apply it in our lives in order to raise our conscious frequencies, push our thoughts towards higher dimensions and alter every aspect of our soul journey. The "God Particle" is a quantum physics concept based on the Higgs-Boson particle but informs so much more when you look deeper. As Erwin Schrodinger (The Nobel Prize winner in physics in 1933) said: "The total number of minds in the universe i...2023-12-1528 min
Soul Path SessionsSeason 2 Encore: Creating Soulful RelationshipsIn this season 2 encore episode, Brenda and Deborah discuss how to identify and work with the dynamics of the relationships that we experience along our soul journey and what states of mind are the most efficient in how we invest our emotions and energy in them to help them (and us) grow.2023-10-2427 min
Soul Path SessionsSeason 2 Encore: The Soul of Relational RepairIn this encore episode from season 2, Deborah and Brenda discuss the dynamics of repairing our relationship with those we share our life with and, more importantly, with our self. The latter requiring a skill set that asks us to be patient with our unresolved issues. Learning how to live with those questions takes us ever closer to the answers we seek, even when we cannot see them now. Trusting in that process informs a sense of faith in our soul journey, which is one of the keys to self-acceptance. When we are able repair our relationship with our self...2023-10-0334 min
Soul Path SessionsSeason 2 Encore: Repair & ReturnIn this encore episode from season 2, Brenda & Deborah discuss healing and how our culture seems to have embraced 'healing' as a more nebulous 'trending' topic as opposed to being a truly beneficial specific practice. Everyone seems to be 'healing' but what does that really mean? Brenda introduces Deborah to the possibility of embracing the more specific term and practice of Repair and Return instead. Their discussion centers around exploring how 'repair & return' can work to help those who are facing issues of trauma and other mental health issues. Becoming aware of your own innate abilities and how you can...2023-09-1933 min
Soul Path SessionsSeason 2 Encore: Soulful NumerologyIn this encore episode, Deborah and Brenda introduce listeners to numerology and how it can be used to decipher the many layered personality traits that each of us possess. They explain that there is a mathematical perfection to the Universe in which we are a part and they explore Sacred Geometry and a way to decode your "numbers" to better understand and find your soul path.2023-09-0936 minSoul Path SessionsSeason 2 Encore: The Year of the RabbitThis encore episode from season 2 has Deborah and Brenda once again stretching their therapist muscles beyond the boundaries of traditional psychology and exploring the characteristics and possibilities that inform the Year of the Rabbit. The rabbit (兔) is the fourth in the twelve-year periodic sequence (cycle) of animals that appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. Each animal represented in the Chinese zodiac have different personality traits that are believed to influence one's life and are used to provide guidance on how people live their lives. Many believe that the turmoil and change that the previous year (tig...2023-08-2922 min
Soul Path SessionsWabi-SabiIn this episode, Deborah and Brenda explore Wabi-Sabi, a Japanese concept that values imperfection and impermanence. It's an aesthetic, ideal, a philosophy, an art or a way of life that celebrates the beauty of things that are broken, aged or imperfect. It can be applied to physical items, such as pottery or your favorite cup, as well as relationships...with other people or even with ourselves. Understanding how to embrace Wabi-Sabi in your life and recognize the opportunities it has to transform your perceptions about "what is" can lead to a much more rewarding, peaceful and accepting soul journey.2023-06-2730 min
Soul Path SessionsThe God ParticleDeborah and Brenda explore the possibilities of a Universal energy that informs all things - or God Particle - and how to connect with it and apply it in our lives in order to raise our conscious frequencies, push our thoughts towards higher dimensions and alter every aspect of our soul journey. The "God Particle" is a quantum physics concept based on the Higgs-Boson particle but informs so much more when you look deeper. As Erwin Schrodinger (The Nobel Prize winner in physics in 1933) said: "The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a...2023-06-1328 minSoul Path SessionsCreating Soulful RelationshipsBrenda and Deborah discuss how to identify and work with the dynamics of the relationships that we experience along our soul journey and what states of mind are the most efficient in how we invest our emotions and energy in them to help them (and us) grow.2023-05-1127 minSoul Path SessionsThe Soul of Relational RepairDeborah and Brenda discuss the dynamics of repairing our relationship with those we share our life with and, more importantly, with our self. The latter requiring a skill set that asks us to be patient with our unresolved issues. Learning how to live with those questions takes us ever closer to the answers we seek, even when we cannot see them now. Trusting in that process informs a sense of faith in our soul journey, which is one of the keys to self-acceptance. When we are able repair our relationship with our self, when we accept the lessons our...2023-04-1934 minSoul Path SessionsRepair & ReturnThe topic of 'healing' is discussed and how our culture seems to have embraced 'healing' as a more nebulous 'trending' topic as opposed to being a truly beneficial specific practice. Everyone seems to be 'healing' but what does that really mean? Brenda introduces Deborah to the possibility of embracing the more specific term and practice of Repair and Return instead. Their discussion centers around exploring how 'repair & return' can work to help those who are facing issues of trauma and other mental health issues. Becoming aware of your own innate abilities and how you can participate in your 'repair...2023-03-0133 minSoul Path SessionsSoulful NumerologyThere is a mathematical perfection to the Universe in which we are a part. In this episode Deborah and Brenda explore Sacred Geometry and a way to decode your "numbers" to better understand and find your soul path.2023-02-1536 minSoul Path SessionsThe Year of the RabbitSeason 2 of Soul Path Sessions opens with Deborah and Brenda once again stretching their therapist muscles beyond the boundaries of traditional psychology and exploring the characteristics and possibilities that inform the Year of the Rabbit. The rabbit (兔) is the fourth in the twelve-year periodic sequence (cycle) of animals that appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. Each animal represented in the Chinese zodiac have different personality traits that are believed to influence one's life and are used to provide guidance on how people live their lives. Many believe that the turmoil and change that the previous yea...2023-02-0222 minSoul Path SessionsSeason 1 Encore: Initiations, Invitations & Epiphanies - Part 2This is an encore episode from Season 1: Initiations, Invitations & Epiphanies - Part 2 of 2This encore episode from season 1 concludes a two-part discussion about Initiations, Invitations & Epiphanies. Deborah shares her deeply personal story about her experiences with grief and loss as an initiation and that, although painful, holds the promise of hope within them if we can pay attention to the messages, synchronicities and signs that surround these events. The conversation shifts to the possibilities that the path of joy can also be a very powerful initiation into a new way of seeing ourselves and our place in...2022-10-1135 minSoul Path SessionsSeason 1 Encore: Initiations, Invitations & Epiphanies - Part 1This is an encore episode from Season 1: Initiations, Invitations & Epiphanies - Part 1 of 2“The Greeks believed that time had secret structure. There was the moment of Epiphany when time suddenly opened and something was revealed in luminous clarity. There was the moment of krisis when time got entangled and directions became confused and contradictory. There was also the moment of kairos; this was the propitious moment. Time opened up in kindness and promise. All the energies cohered to offer a fecund occasion of initiative, creativity, and promise. Part of the art of living wisely is to learn to...2022-10-0443 minSoul Path SessionsSeason 1 Encore: Soul IntegrationThis is an encore episode from Season 1: Soul IntegrationDeborah and Brenda discuss the process of integration as we get older and how we use our intentions to create the possibility of becoming someone more attuned to our own soul, someone completely different than we use to be. At a certain point, nobody cares what you become. You are now the one in charge of you! How great is that? The pressure to maintain who you were has dissolved into who you want to be, or who you truly are. It is a state of absolute freedom...2022-09-2826 minSoul Path SessionsSeason 1 Encore: From Role To SoulThis is an encore episode from Season 1: From Role To SoulLiving a more soulful life involves evaluating and re-evaluating our perspectives. It is a path we learn to walk with intention and attention. The destination is the journey itself. This week's Soul Path Sessions podcast deals with aging and going from role to soul: who we are when we are controlled by ego and who we strive to become, informed by soul, when we stay on that path. Deborah and Brenda's conversation covers a range of topics from how the ego begins to share control with...2022-09-2034 min
Soul Path SessionsShelter In Place Interview: Poetry to Inspire a Sense of BelongingThis is a special Soul Path Sessions episode. In 2020, Deborah began a poetic journey to share her experiences as a therapist and spiritual life coach during the pandemic. The result is "Shelter In Place" a book of incredibly thoughtful and vulnerable poetry. Brenda interviews Deborah about the process and the inspirations that informed her poems. From the book's foreward: "As a therapist and spiritual life coach I work with clients who experience anxiety and pain. This challenges me to work with my own shifting mental and emotional states. A poverty of personal experiences would deprive me of t...2022-08-2355 min
Soul Path SessionsSeason 1 Encore: The Chrysalis of SoulThis is an encore episode from Season 1: The Chrysalis of SoulDeborah and Brenda discuss the metaphor of the chrysalis is examined and the process that the caterpillar undergoes reveals that it does not lead to it becoming a better caterpillar, but to becoming a completely different creature entirely. This lesson implies that when we fall apart and we put ourselves back together again, we don't return to where we were before we fell apart - to becoming a better caterpillar - but to becoming a completely different person. That leads Deborah and Brenda into a discussion...2022-08-1549 min
Soul Path SessionsSeason 1 Encore: Embracing Our Ancestor's Soul StoriesThis is an encore episode from Season 1: Embracing Our Ancestor's Soul StoriesBrenda & Deborah examine the soulful use of the genogram and identifying the strengths and resilience of our ancestors as important aids in dealing with current life challenges.2022-08-1029 minSoul Path SessionsSeason 1 Encore: Understanding Soul ConnectionsSeason 1 of the Soul Path Sessions podcast is a wrap! This is an encore episode as Deborah and Brenda explore the underlying forces that inform our life, and their work as therapists, through writing, aging and friendship.2022-06-2839 minSoul Path SessionsSeason 1 Encore: The Soul of PsychotherapySeason 1 of the Soul Path Sessions podcast is a wrap! This is an encore episode of the very first conversation between Deborah and Brenda as they discuss the importance of bringing soul into their work as therapists & counselors and how sacred conversation and soul work is what psychotherapy was meant to be about.2022-06-2143 minSoul Path SessionsSoul IntegrationThe Soul Path Sessions podcast will be taking a summer break after this episode! If you have not listened to any of our previous conversations, please check them out. We look forward to resuming our Soul Path Journey together in the Fall of 2022. Thank you for listening!Deborah and Brenda discuss the process of integration as we get older and how we use our intentions to create the possibility of becoming someone more attuned to our own soul, someone completely different than we use to be. At a certain point, nobody cares what you become. You are...2022-06-1426 minSoul Path SessionsFrom Role to SoulLiving a more soulful life involves evaluating and re-evaluating our perspectives. It is a path we learn to walk with intention and attention. The destination is the journey itself. This week's Soul Path Sessions podcast deals with aging and going from role to soul: who we are when we are controlled by ego and who we strive to become, informed by soul, when we stay on that path. Deborah and Brenda's conversation covers a range of topics from how the ego begins to share control with the soul as we age, to how anger, grief and perspective change as...2022-06-0734 minSoul Path SessionsSoul FoodIn this episode, Deborah and Brenda discuss some of the research that underscores the significant connection between nutrition and mental health. How the food we eat affects our mood and can be an extremely useful method to reduce inflammation. The soulful journey recognizes those things that we put into our body that either helps or hinders us along the way, from what we eat, to what we listen to, to what we read. Both Deborah and Brenda highly recommend a diet high in poetry.2022-05-3142 minSoul Path SessionsThe Ageless Wisdom of AdolescenceDeborah and Brenda discuss the topic of adolescence and how we deal with it, in our children and in ourselves, has a lot to do with where we are on our soul journey. The conversation shifts from an awareness that we tend to treat adolescents the same way we were treated as adolescents to the question about how adolescence live in our life no matter what age we are. There is an adolescent within each of us and it can happen at any age as we move from an ego-centric life where it's all about creating our own strength...2022-05-2442 minSoul Path SessionsInitiations, Invitations & Epiphanies - Part 2This episode concludes a two-part discussion about Initiations, Invitations & Epiphanies. Deborah shares her deeply personal story about her experiences with grief and loss as an initiation and that, although painful, holds the promise of hope within them if we can pay attention to the messages, synchronicities and signs that surround these events. The conversation shifts to the possibilities that the path of joy can also be a very powerful initiation into a new way of seeing ourselves and our place in the world and is able to lead us across those thresholds that grief may hold sway over. 2022-05-1735 minSoul Path SessionsInitiations, Invitations & Epiphanies - Part 1“The Greeks believed that time had secret structure. There was the moment of Epiphany when time suddenly opened and something was revealed in luminous clarity. There was the moment of krisis when time got entangled and directions became confused and contradictory. There was also the moment of kairos; this was the propitious moment. Time opened up in kindness and promise. All the energies cohered to offer a fecund occasion of initiative, creativity, and promise. Part of the art of living wisely is to learn to recognize and attend to such profound openings in one’s life.” ~ John O'Donohue Ini...2022-05-1043 minSoul Path SessionsThe Chrysalis of SoulThe metaphor of the chrysalis is examined and the process that the caterpillar undergoes reveals that it does not lead to it becoming a better caterpillar, but to becoming a completely different creature entirely. This lesson implies that when we fall apart and we put ourselves back together again, we don't return to where we were before we fell apart - to becoming a better caterpillar - but to becoming a completely different person. That leads Deborah and Brenda into a discussion about the therapeutic value of being more vulnerable and recognizing that where we are most wounded is...2022-05-0349 minSoul Path SessionsEmbracing Our Ancestor's Soul StoriesTherapists have traditionally used the genogram to help identify patterns and psychological factors that affect relationships. Those genograms are often highly "wound-aware" focusing on the dysfunctional elements within a family. Brenda & Deborah discuss the use of the genogram in a more soulful way to help clients identify the resources of our family and ancestors that are often neglected: The resilience, determination and creativity that enabled them to survive/thrive that can be recognized and inspire us when dealing with our own life challenges. Informed by family stories and creative imagination, the strength of our ancestors can become our own...2022-04-2629 minSoul Path SessionsUnderstanding Soul ConnectionsThe T.S. Eliot poem, Wait Without Hope, leads Deborah and Brenda into a conversation about mycelium, interconnection and potentiality. It's Brenda's turn to visit the "mead-hall" from episode #1 and she introduces us to the term ALTUS and a discussion about the underlying forces that inform everything that are deeply connected to soul and the importance, as therapists, of doing their own soul work in order to help their clients connect with their own soul journeys so they can show up and do their best. Using writing to invite soul into one's work segues into a conversation about getting...2022-04-1939 min
Soul Path SessionsThe Soul of PsychotherapyThis first episode of Soul Path Sessions introduces listeners to the importance of embracing soul work and reclaiming the soulful parts of ourselves in healing. Deborah and Brenda share their influences and background stories during their initial training and how soul work was left out of those early teachings while introducing depth and eco psychology as part of the sacred conversation that psychotherapy was meant to be about. A conversation about how ego and soul are meant to work together in cooperation, instead of against each other, leads into an introduction into how to harvest the gold of dreams an...2022-04-1643 min