WtFP: Lisa Olivera on Being Human First
In this episode, psychotherapist Lisa Olivera takes us to life SCHOOL, y'all. You're gonna want your notebook and favorite pen for this one. 🤓
Episodes
Honor Your Spark
If you're a high-achiever who wants your ambition to extend beyond your professional goals and into your wellbeing and relationships— you're in the right place. I'm Valerie Martin, a Certified High Performance Coach and therapist of 12 years, and I'm obsessed with teaching and coaching folks how to cultivate Compassionate Self-Discipline. We ALL have a spark alive within us— no matter how small or dim it might feel right now. And it is our greatest purpose and greatest RESPONSIBILITY to honor it.Because when we do, we become better partners, friends, leaders, parents, creators, and family members in the interconnected web of this wild, dark, miraculous, beautiful world. 💞
Episodes
WtFP: Are you boxing yourself in?
In this short and sweet solo episode, we're exploring sense of self, WTF "self as context" is and why it matters to you, and how to recognize if you are boxing yourself in.
WtFP: Timothy Gordon on Weaving a Life of Meaning
Therapist, yogi, trainer, and author Tim Gordon (aka The Zen Social Worker) is too damn smart for his own good... but also humble, kind, and willing to define big words for me, so I'm okay with it.
WtFP: April Lang on Staying Curious & Being Vegan for the Animals
Psychotherapist April Lang encourages us to follow our curiosity in all aspects of life — including curiosity about the experiences of the animals that we may eat, wear, experiment on, or otherwise use for our own purposes.
WtFP: PaQuita Pullen on Cultural Humility in Mental Health
PaQuita Pullen gets real with us about what it's like being an African American within often-whitewashed western yoga, and why she's excited to educate the next generation of counselors around true cultural humility.
WtFP: Liz Talago on Embracing Sexuality and Navigating Professional Identity
In one of my favorite conversations to date, content strategist and career girl Liz Talago helps us smash some patriarchy.
WtFP: Megan Bruneau on Worthiness and the Ethics of Mental Health Care
YOU GUYS. Y'all are not gonna want to miss episode with badass therapist, coach, author, and host of Failure Factor podcast, Megan Bruneau. We talk relationships, body image, parenting (and NON-parenting), privilege, and a lot more. Get your notebook and pen ready for this one!
WtFP: Death to Biohacking
A brief solo pod musing/ranting about biohacking, human doing vs. human being, productivity, and self-care.
Dr. Allison Devers on Accessing the Subconscious
My guest this week is Dr. Allison Devers, a conventional-turned-functional physician who is currently working on a book about the power of accessing the subconscious to expand the potential for healing. After spending the last 6 days straight with her, I can validate first-hand that Allison is a total badass, and I'm grateful to now call her a soul sister. For full show notes, head to www.wonderwelltherapy.com/blog/wtfp-13 .
WtFP: Krystal of Power Femme Tarot on Socially Conscious Tarot
If you've been listening to the show, you know that I'm getting increasingly interested in the tarot as a tool for self reflection and accessing intuitive guidance. I've touched on the tarot with guests in previous episodes, but this is the first all-out-tarot episode, and I couldn't have picked a better guest for it. Krystal of Power Femme Tarot (@powerfemmetarot on Instagram) is a New Orleans-based queer femme witch, professional tarot reader, and with a PhD in Gender Studies, is a college pro...
WtFP: Tierra B on Pivoting from Federal Officer to Full-time Yogi
Tierra B is a yoga teacher and boss babe entrepreneur hailing from District Heights, Maryland. I was fortunate to meet her recently when she came to Nashville for a Prison Yoga Project training here, and was immediately drawn to her presence. Tierra recently left a career in law enforcement to pursue her passion full-time, and in our conversation we talk about how that transition came about, the perks and struggles of entrepreneur life, and how easy it is to get sucked into the pressures in our ...
WtFP: Spiritual Helicopters and F*cking Miracles
A short-and-sweet solo episode talking about a handful of truth bombs, or as I'm calling them, "fucking miracles." Listen to find out what the hell a "spiritual helicopter" is!
WtFP: Emmy Singer on the Union of Opposites
Y’all are about to be shook when you hear that my guest for this episode is, wait for it… a YOGA TEACHER. Why yes, I *am* hilarious since 4 of my first 6 guests have been yoga teachers — but, hallooo, so much more than only that, and each one a gem in her own right. This week’s guest is Emmy Singer, founder of Inner Light Yoga studio and one of my biggest inspirations and teachers in the yoga world. Like a few of my other guests so far, Emmy is a fellow Nashvillian —and unbeknownst (isn't that a...
WtFP: Sarah Jane Chapman on Body Liberation, Yoga, and Spirituality
I recently had the privilege of interviewing Sarah Jane Chapman, a massage therapist, yoga teacher, and heart-of-gold human who I am lucky to call a friend. In the conversation, Sarah Jane and I delved into: \* why she believes “yoga always wins” and how her personal practice and teaching have evolved \* how getting diagnosed with diabetes further complicated her eating disorder \* the practice that was most transformational in healing her mindset from toxic diet culture \* spending time in natu...
WtFP: Karen Kenney on Storytelling and Reclaiming Your Peacock-ness
Y'ALL. Get ready to hold onto your f-ing hats, because my guest on the pod this week is the fiercely loving and vibrant Karen Kenney. I have so many things I want to say about Karen and what she shared on this episode, but rather than you sit here and read this, just listen and hear it for yourself! The time during our conversation FLEW by, and even though this is a longer episode, I think you'll feel the same way. Enjoy, and if you find value in it, please share with a friend who would benefit ...
WtFP: Annie Diomedes on "Won't You Be My Neighbor?"
You guys. Last weekend, I watched a movie that left my jaw on. the. FLOOR. Afterwards I said that watching it felt like someone had reached into my chest, ripped out my heart, and gave it a giant hug. So many tears, but not necessarily sad ones. My friend Annie watched the same film over the weekend, and we both felt so passionate about it that we got together and had a juicy conversation about feelings, unconditional worth, education, mindfulness, yoga, and more. The movie was the recently rele...
WtFP: Laura Long on Radical Authenticity and Not Being an Asshole
If you enjoy that feeling of vacillating between laughing out loud and sinking into profound thoughts like 20 times within a single hour, episode 3 with Laura Long is for you. Laura is a therapist for women and couples in the Greenville, SC area, and chief badass (my words, not hers) at Your Badass Therapy Practice, where she helps other therapists shine their lights even brighter. On the episode, Laura and I get into: -how she developed a sense of radical authenticity -the lens through which sh...
WtFP: Sarah Rodgers on Drama Therapy, Everything & Nothing
For episode 2 of the podcast, I had a wonderful free-flowing conversation with fellow Nashville psychotherapist Sarah Rodgers (MA, LMFT, RDT). I'm lucky to call Sarah a friend, and she's a kindred spirit in that she's unapologetically into all kinds of holistic (is "new age" still a thing?) stuff, with plenty of science and healthy skepticism to balance it out. In this episode, Sarah and I chat about: - some of our most important spiritual guides (hint: furry) - how we each think of and approach...