We all love a good superhero movie. It’s hard not to leave the theater feeling inspired, empowered, and ready to change the world. Therapists are already changing the world, but for many trying to grow a private practice, it can seem difficult to push through the hard parts of growth. It’s easy to lose yourself in your practice, and you might start to feel the kryptonite of discouragement before long. Faster than a speeding bullet, Dr. Annie Schuessler is here to show you just where your inner p...
Jul 05, 2017•39 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Spirituality and sensuality are born of the same energy and you can’t separate them. When we can tap into both of them, you enter the dance of life and you can embrace who you truly are. Tamara Powell, founder of Arya Therapy Services, Tales of Being a Trapezoid Community and the Undress the Spirit Podcast joins us to talk about sexuality, identity, expression, and authenticity. In this podcast, we dive deep into: how to live life as a sacred dance of giving and accepting invitations the connect...
Jun 28, 2017•57 min•Season 1Ep. 24
What got Neil Sattin into his work as a couples coach and host of the popular Relationship Alive podcast? Believe it or not, it was dog training! In working with dogs and their owners, Neil discovered that he loved coaching people in relationship. We go way beyond puppy love in this episode…. You know we love storytelling on the POBScast, and we also know that “stories” can be tricky, especially when it comes the stories a person can tells about herself, her partner, and her relationship. Neil h...
Jun 21, 2017•51 min•Season 1Ep. 23
If someone told you that authentic relationships can cure just about everything, would you believe him? Listen to nationally recognized family therapist, author, and teacher Terry Real talk about “how to live a relational life” and there’s a great chance you’ll be on board with that idea. If relationships are so fundamental to who we are, why are so many couples in trouble these days? Marriage wasn’t built for long walks on the beach and sex into your 70s. Marriage was built for companion and st...
Jun 14, 2017•52 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Have you been taught to believe that nonstop working is the only way to sustain and guarantee a successful business? When your creative energy starts to dwindle, how can you find your purpose and embody it again? Licensed marriage and family therapist and ZynnyMe cofounder Kelly Higdon has established a business model that many of us don’t dare to dream of: she went from the kind of overwork that landed her in the hospital to taking up to four months off each year. In this episode: Kelly reveals...
Jun 07, 2017•50 min•Season 1Ep. 21
What are the biggest mistakes people make when they tell a story? It’s not “too much detail.” Storytelling Coach Marsha Shandur gives advice about how to be a powerful storyteller - even if you’re a private person or a therapist concerned about disclosing too much. When you meet Marsha in real life, she makes an impression. You always remember what you feel around her (it’s all about grinning and being fabulously real, we find). That phenomenon totally carries over into the POBScast experience. ...
May 31, 2017•51 min•Season 1Ep. 20
What does it take to claim your personal truths? What does that process look like when you’re trying to find the intersection between your passion, and the work you’re meant to do in the world, and the work you’re already doing every day? For the first time in many months, Marisa and Rebecca recorded a “Just Us” episode. In part, it’s a chance to dive deep into the project that’s front of mind at POBS: the (Re)Vision Retreat for Therapist-Healers that’s coming up this August. It’s also a chance ...
May 24, 2017•38 min•Season 1Ep. 19
What happens when you pair courage and humility? How can “coming from a heart of service” transform your business and your life? And how do you ride the continuum between honoring what the heart wants and needing to take care of all the practical things? In our conversation with Melvin Varghese, the clinician behind the phenomenally successful Selling the Couch podcast, we dive deep into the internal struggles and insecurities that come up for any entrepreneur, especially psychotherapists in pri...
May 17, 2017•47 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Nam Rindani joins us to talk about storytelling, listening, the therapist-client relationship, politics, restorative justice, and so much more. Much of the conversation focuses on the therapist’s relationship with herself, with her own stories, and with her clients, but everyone interested in understanding the human experience will see themselves in this episode. Nam gives us her own definition of the Practice of Being Seen - and we adore it. It’s the confident, solid practice of trusting that w...
May 10, 2017•55 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Kim John Payne of Simplicity Parenting and writer of the international #1 bestseller of the same name joins us to talk about how “we can be at our best when our kids are at their worst.” We talk about how kids “ping” us. They use their trusted parents, their safest place to figure out where they are emotionally. It’s important to try to understand when our kids have lost their bearings because, as Kim says, “I’ve never met a disobedient kid, but I have met a lot of disorientated ones.” Kim encou...
May 03, 2017•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Mercedes Samudio LCSW is a parent coach who is changing the world with the End Parent Shaming movement. She is on a mission to inspire Shame Proof Parents and counter the way that feedback from other parents, extended family, schools, and organizations so often diminishes a parent’s own inner knowing about their kids. When someone says “I’m failing my children,” it’s almost always because an external party is telling them they’re doing something wrong. The End Parent Shaming philosophy asks us t...
Apr 26, 2017•48 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Allison Puryear is an “LCSW with a nearly diagnosable obsession with business development.” We discuss the origin story of Alison’s company, Abundance Practice Building, and what it’s like to create a business that’s one of the loves of your life. Ultimately, it’s about building a business that is structured around the way you want to live. Have you heard of the “spider web effect”? Allison describes how it plays out for her: she helps someone start or build a practice they love and that gives t...
Apr 19, 2017•38 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Keri Nola joins us to shed some light on what it means to love the shadow and helps us dive deep into the energies of Mercury Retrograde. Even if you’re not a student of astrology, you probably know that people groan when they hear Mercury is going retrograde. This conversation helps you understand the power and potential of what is a nurturing, quiet time. This is time when miscommunication is more likely, when technology is prone to glitches, and travel is more difficult. but it is also a time...
Apr 12, 2017•40 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Soness Stevens asks “Why does the world need to hear your message?” A TED speaker and TEDx Head Speaker Coach, Soness unlocks what it means to connect with an audience. She offers valuable tools and speaking tips as well as personal stories and together we dive into “speaking is healing.” Simon Sinek is famous for asking “What’s your ‘why’?” Soness helps us see that you have to go beyond that in order to create and deliver a successful TED talk. You need to drill down to the universal truth. Son...
Apr 05, 2017•52 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Amy Tatsumi conjures up sacred rebellion, sacred leadership, and sacred unions. This conversation creates a container that enables us to explore our responses to current political events, connect to embodied wisdom, and play with the dance of the masculine and feminine. Amy gathers women together for their sacred work. She is a portal for them to remember who they are and who they have always been. Her own path of awakening includes Qoya and Tantra, both of which she describes in depth during th...
Mar 29, 2017•46 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Fiachra “Figs” O’Sullivan, an Irish born San Francisco-based dad, husband, and psychotherapist, gets real with us about the fears of showing up, being vulnerable, talking politics, and having fun - even when you have no idea how people will receive you. “Being real” with clients in a healing environment is one thing, but what does it mean to bring who you really are to the greater, public online space? Figs helps us understand that this isn’t a modern, online phenomenon: we all take these risks ...
Mar 22, 2017•54 min•Season 1Ep. 10
New York City based music therapist and psychotherapist Maya Benattar helps us explore the “new normal” that has emerged in our post-election world. Maya is a member of our Practice of Being Seen Community for Therapists and accepted our invitation to publish a piece on the contributor’s blog on practiceofbeingseen.com. To begin, Maya reads Finding the New Normal in Our Post-Election World which she wrote in mid-November and published on our site on inauguration day. Our conversation focuses the...
Mar 15, 2017•53 min•Season 1Ep. 9
The parts of the story that we leave out, the parts of ourselves that we’re too ashamed to share - what happens when you shape these into art? Our guest Eva Tenuto, co-founder of the Hudson Valley-based TMI project describes her life’s work: helping people uncover, shape, and share their stories. Through workshops that lead up to public performances, deep personal experiences are crafted to create community, healing, and help performers and audience members see that they aren’t alone. In our con...
Mar 08, 2017•54 min•Season 1Ep. 8
The noise of the media and the noise in our own minds - how do we stay sane when there is no “off” button? Mindfulness teacher, Kabbalistic healer, and author Sharon Rosen helps us think about essential goodness, discernment, and integration in this age of distraction. What if distractions are the opportunity to strengthen the muscles of our attention? Painful moments can become moments of awakening that remind us to tune into our humanity. We talk about the reality of our online lives and how t...
Mar 01, 2017•43 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Did you see the signs from the Women’s Marches featuring Princess Leia and “A woman’s place is in the Resistance?” Carrie Fisher’s character was part of childhood for so many us and now, she’s part of our politics and our identity. Leia wasn’t just a princess. She was also a hero. Her multifaceted identity speaks right to our desire to save others and even as we want to be saved. We have permission to be both and we have permission to be walking contradictions. We have permission to be both lovi...
Feb 22, 2017•21 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In this conversation with dad, yogi, meditation teacher, and entrepreneur KC Carter, you get spiritual truths, self-deprecating humor, brilliant social and political insights, and lines like: We’re all pieces of jagged glass in a turbulent sea and we’re all just trying to end up with some beautiful piece of seaglass eventually. We know that relationships are a key aspect of the Practice of Being Seen so we asked KC for his ideas and insights about relationships. Listen in as KC discusses how peo...
Feb 15, 2017•46 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this conversation, relationship therapist Rebecca Wong guides us through an essential truth about relationships: Happy couples fight. Fighting actually enables people to show one another that they matter. You can learn how to fight well and how to create a container of belonging in your partnership. In the face of disagreements, you can create a practice of commitment that enables you to tolerate occasional divisions. Much of this conversation is about marriage and romantic relationships, but...
Feb 08, 2017•27 min•Season 1Ep. 4
NOTE: For the best listening experience, please use both earbuds! We're still mastering the recording process and, in this episode only, you'll hear Rebecca in one ear and Marisa in another. In this episode, we explore what the divine feminine is and why it matters to all people today. We begin to cover this vast topic with discussions about: the complementary dance of sacred masculine and the divine feminine when we can equate divine feminine with the goddess and when those concepts are distinc...
Feb 01, 2017•34 min•Season 1Ep. 3
“A story is true if it is well told.” We open this episode with a line from novelist Elizabeth Cunningham’s Maeve Chronicles, a series of books that reimagines Mary Magdelen as a Celtic warrior woman. It’s a brilliant truth when we’re talking about myth and fiction, but it’s terribly problematic it comes to contemporary politics. In this episode, Marisa and Rebecca discuss alternative facts, how they influence relationships, and what they have to do with storytelling. What were the Women’s March...
Jan 27, 2017•25 min
In this conversation between Rebecca and Marisa, we explore some of the structures and theories that support our vision of the Practice of Being Seen. Listen in and discover what Interpersonal Neurobiology founder Dan Siegel’s Triangle of Well-Being and the Story Triangle have in common. You’ll learn what it means to sense, birth, and hold an idea. And, we introduce you to what it means to be a Storyteller, Story Keeper, and Story Healer. For more, please visit: practiceofbeingseen.com...
Jan 24, 2017•23 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Sometimes, the best way to see yourself is to see yourself reflected in someone else’s eyes. When you launch a new podcast, sometimes the best way to explain your vision is to have a friend come on air to ask you about it. We invited our friend and colleague Robert Cox to interview us about our mission and our vision for the Practice of Being Seen. Robert is a therapist in the Kansas City area specializing in trauma, addictions and autism. Having been through his own trauma work and addictions, ...
Jan 24, 2017•31 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Meet your Practice of Being Seen hosts, relationship therapist Rebecca Wong and storytelling coach Marisa Goudy. What can you expect when you join us for the Practice of Being Seen journey? Tune in for conversations and interviews that explore the stories, spirit, and psychology that shape our relationships and form our society. And please pardon the sound quality on the first few episodes. It gets better - we promise! For more on the Practice of Being Seen including our events, consulting and o...
Jan 24, 2017•3 min
