Leaning into finding as much help as possible when confronted with the duality between the history of your trauma history with the desire to disassociate and the wish to connect even deeper with people, children, and partners.
Apr 28, 2025•32 min•Ep. 45
Our own disease or distress can have meaning and be a kind of medicine that can help us better understand ourselves and what we have gone through.
Jan 27, 2025•36 min•Ep. 44
We all lose when someone has to spend all of their time, energy, and personal resources on coping with scarcity.
Dec 23, 2024•32 min•Ep. 43
Feeling the incredible hopelessness of doing all the right things and knowing that it’s not enough; that you need to find the courage and strength within yourself to take the journey of healing.
Nov 25, 2024•34 min•Ep. 42
As you listen to this, take a breath and let it into your soul. A woman who is articulate and clear about her vision of a community where it holds individuals’ struggles. Listen to the dream.
Oct 01, 2024•27 min•Ep. 41
How do we move out of our isolation and loneliness to welcome vulnerability and being in relationship with others?
Jul 16, 2024•39 min•Ep. 40
From the dining room table to a support group to an AA meeting, sitting and saying hello and goodbye to each other to bring comfort, growth, and ‘magic moments’ to our lives.
Jun 19, 2024•30 min•Ep. 39
A shared passion to be together mindfully, just feeling vulnerable in a world with others, all while the other part of us that wants to isolate and is vulnerable to any kind of substance use, nicotine, tobacco, and the way in which companies feed off of that vulnerability.
Mar 15, 2024•32 min•Ep. 38
An exploration of heart-centered therapy and how to hold people with great integrity while also caring for yourself.
Feb 12, 2024•30 min•Ep. 37
Exploring the duality of when you see the pain and suffering of another, you will either lean towards love, compassion, and understanding or you will lean towards fear and you will not want to see it anymore. We are in a community at a time when we are right in the middle of that question. I hope we resolve it towards love.
Jan 12, 2024•33 min•Ep. 36
There are times I am touched by the power of love, the power of connectedness, of seeing underneath. I invite you to listen to Dani, as she has gone through the experience of loving so deeply and so well that she lost herself and is now recalibrating how to be present and still hold onto her own heart, her own self.
Dec 19, 2023•32 min•Ep. 35
Start by taking 15 minutes a day and just listen deeply to another human being.
Nov 20, 2023•31 min•Ep. 34
Am I being helpful? Am I helping the people I serve to move forward in their lives in a way which is meaningful to them?
Oct 09, 2023•31 min•Ep. 33
Aug 30, 2023•39 min•Ep. 32
From condo to camper to backpack; one woman’s path.
May 17, 2023•31 min•Ep. 31
If we don’t invest in communities, especially in impoverished areas, to help people thrive, and not just survive, we won’t see much change.
Mar 20, 2023•30 min•Ep. 30
Building places where women can take the next right step and walk a path in community with others.
Mar 02, 2023•34 min•Ep. 29
In the face of tragedy, letting go of the need to control and surrendering to faith, to the courage to trust yourself and your community.
Feb 02, 2023•33 min•Ep. 28
Giving a voice to the people who are also in recovery alongside their family members and the people they love.
Sep 07, 2022•33 min•Ep. 27
A woman and mother sits with the issue of women’s reproductive health care in the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Jul 19, 2022•36 min•Ep. 26
Stephen checks in with his goddaughter, a now 32-year-old woman, on her journey.
Jul 06, 2022•34 min•Ep. 25
A change of pace for this one. Stephen is a guest of Glenn Hinds & Sebastian Kaplan on their podcast "Talking to Change". You can hear more from them here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talking-to-change-a-motivational-interviewing-podcast/id1395518686.
Jun 15, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 24
A tribute to Kari Morissette, and the path forward.
Jun 01, 2022•32 min•Ep. 23
A break in or even an absence of empathy and how much work it takes to recover.
Apr 26, 2022•29 min•Ep. 22
When grief internalizes all of the rage and anger that you grew up with and you find your own way to Spring, to quieting those personal demons and becoming who you were meant to be.
Mar 22, 2022•32 min•Ep. 21
Don't see me as a victim in this life. See me as a human, who needs love.
Dec 20, 2021•43 min•Ep. 20
Oct 11, 2021•27 min•Ep. 19
When the cost of maintaining the facade finally becomes too overwhelming and it all comes crashing down, the whisper of our true inner self can guide us back to our authentic self.
Aug 26, 2021•30 min•Ep. 18
Substance misuse being seen and treated as a health care and mental health issue, not a criminal justice issue. More treatment centers and less incarceration.
Jul 28, 2021•29 min•Ep. 17
A Fathers’ Day conversation between two fathers who have invested much of their lives into shifting attitudes and actions to end male violence against self and others.
Jun 21, 2021•33 min•Ep. 16
