Digging Deep
28 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsEach of our lives is compiled of stories. Each Monday, Dr. Shokrian will help you dig deeper into those stories. In each episode, you will hear raw, uncensored stories by people like you. We'll also hear from experts in the field to help us detangle some of these narratives. Tune in and be sure to subscribe.
Dr. Sasha Shokrian holds a masters and doctorate in Clinical Psychology and has a passion for quantum theory, as well as expertise in attachment theory, and is invested in helping people understand their own stories better, from childhood and onward.
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Episodes
Normalizing Life Postpartum with Dr. Sasha Shokrian
July 11, 2022 03:00 - 15 minutes - 37.1 MBOn this final episode of Digging Deep, Dr. Shokrian expresses her gratitude and appreciation for the vulnerability and authenticity shared by her guests over the last two seasons. After just recently having a baby, Dr. Shokrian was surprised to learn how prevalent the feelings of shame, sadness, and guilt are pre/postpartum. In todays episode, she speaks up about the realities of pre/postpartum, what we must recognize collectively as a society to support women, and how to seek the proper he...
Human Design 101 with Erin Claire
June 27, 2022 03:00 - 41 minutes - 95 MBHow Erin got into Human Design & What drew her to this path? Where do the teachings of Human originate from? The 5 types and the qualities we see within these types? Manifestors, Generators, Manifesting Generators, Projectors, and Reflectors What are the different strategies and authorities and how does one begin to master them? What do the different profile numbers mean? Can human design help us better our relationships or pick more authentic careers? How does human design hel...
How to Foster & Develop Resillience with Dr. Aliza Pressman
June 20, 2022 03:00 - 52 minutes - 120 MBWhat is resilience? Do our temperaments and attachments influence our ability to be resilient as adults? What can you do as a caregiver do to help foster resilience within your child? Autonomy Supportive Parenting Chronic vs. Toxic Stress? How to build resilience after growing up with Toxic Stress? Building resilience within your romantic relationships? Is optimism linked to resilience? After 2 years of a Pandemic - How do we create certainity in the midst of all th...
An Integrative Look At Anxiety, Depression & Our Overall Mood
June 13, 2022 03:00 - 46 minutes - 106 MBWhat is the difference between functional medicine and conventional medicine? What is the problem with treating the symptom? What is the gut brain axis & How does it connect to our mental health? Why the gut extends far beyond our digestive health? What is the role of serotonin in the gut? How does inflammation play a role in our mental health? How leaky gut syndrome causes neuro-inflammation? What is Molecular Mimicry and how does the immune system lose recogni...
Becoming Perfectly Imperfect with Vanessa Fitzgerald
June 06, 2022 03:00 - 45 minutes - 105 MBVanessa Fitzgerald otherwise known as @Vesshoney on Instagram discusses: - Her early childhood experiences - Growing up with a single parent and what it felt like having never met her biological father - Where her perfectionism was born and why it pushed her to become a people pleaser - Her addiction to Adderall: why it began, how it contributed to her inability to develop a true sense of self, and how she was eventually able to detox - Her take on Orthorexia a...
Understanding Your Attachment Style & Tools & Strategies To Help Develop a Secure Relationship With Yourself & Others with Licensed Marriage & Family Therapy Julie Mennano
May 30, 2022 03:00 - 48 minutes - 111 MBJulie Menanno also known as the “The Secure Relationship” on instagram discusses: What is emotionally focused therapy? How do we understand attachment types from an evolutionary perspective? How are our attachments formed in our early development? Anxious, Avoidant, Disorganized Why an overbearing parent can lead to an anxious or avoidant attachment style What is happening to us individually within each of these attachment styles? Strengths and weaknesses we experience as ...
Healing the Mother Wound & Overcoming Infidelity with Sophie Jaffee
May 23, 2022 03:00 - 45 minutes - 105 MBGrowing up in the midst of a divorce? Why moving around so much as a child, allowed her to become adaptable How confronting her painful relationship with her mother allowed her to individuate and understand who she was How she has been able to foster unconditional love for her children, despite growing up within a conditional environment How her difficult upbringing gave her the resilience she needed to work through her romantic relationship How the infidelity within her marr...
Navigating Motherhood As An Entrepreneur With The Career Contessa
May 16, 2022 03:00 - 50 minutes - 116 MBThe trial and error she experienced before founding the Career Contessa The reality of keeping your day job, to pursue your passion project The truth of being an entrepreneur and transitioning into motherhood How to work through the mental load that comes with being a mother and running your own business Mourning an old identity and working through the feelings and emotions many women experience postpartum The importance of joining communities and groups for mental health su...
Transforming Your Fear Into Faith with Dr. Sasha Shokrian
March 14, 2022 03:30 - 18 minutes - 43.5 MBIn this special season finale Dr. Shokrian discusses: How is faith born? What does maintaining faith mean? Why it’s difficult to hold on to faith, especially after growing up in an unpredictable environment. How faith is deeply connected to how we approach the unknown. Tools and steps you can practice to transform your fears into faith and push through the unknown. Produced by Dear Media
Tina Marie Clarks Untold Story Part 2
March 07, 2022 03:30 - 42 minutes - 97.5 MBWhat did relationships look like before she met her husband? How her relationship with her husband taught her how to maintain boundaries and access her femininity Why she recognized how her masculinity was rooted in her fear What it was like experiencing a deep depression during such a fragile period in her life What it meant for her to surrender How she found a healing and creative outlet during her most recent breakdown Why she developed the Shift Stirrer Method and what ...
Tina Marie Clarks Untold Story Part 1
February 28, 2022 03:30 - 45 minutes - 104 MBShowing up in in the world as who we really vs who we think we need to be (the good the bad and everything in between) Owning the parts of us we’ve disowned What it was like growing up in a poor home surviving on food stamps Internalizing the shame that came along with being different How she built a shield against the shame she experienced to protect herself from the pain Why her adult self can regresses in moments when she feels triggered and re-experiences her earlier sham...
What Is True Happiness, Why Do We Often Feel Stuck & How to Make Lasting Change In Our Lives With Dr. Sasha Heinz
February 21, 2022 03:30 - 52 minutes - 120 MBShe discusses the difficulties she faced that set her on the journey to pursue Psychology Why therapy and coaching are different yet both critical parts of adult development? What is happiness? How do we access our authentic selves? How do we become unstuck when we’re feeling or experiencing more difficult emotions? How do we make substantial change through dissecting our thoughts? Why we often feel overwhelmed by our own healing and how goals allow us to small incrementa...
The A-Z of Narcissism: Everything you need to know if you've ever been in a relationship with a Narcissistic
February 14, 2022 03:30 - 54 minutes - 126 MBWhat does Narcissistic Personality Disorder look like in relationships? What is a healthy version of Narcissism & how it exists on a spectrum? How does one become a Narcissists? What compensatory strategies do Narcissists use in relationships? How this shows up in parent/child relationships? How having a Narcissistic Parent causes us to develop a false sense of self? Why children of Narcissistic Parents have a harder time self regulating Why we can ALL easily attracted t...
The A-Z of Narcissism: Everything you need to know if you've ever been in a relationship with a Narcissist
February 14, 2022 03:30 - 54 minutes - 126 MBWhat does Narcissistic Personality Disorder look like in relationships? What is a healthy version of Narcissism & how it exists on a spectrum? How does one become a Narcissists? What compensatory strategies do Narcissists use in relationships? How this shows up in parent/child relationships? How having a Narcissistic Parent causes us to develop a false sense of self? Why children of Narcissistic Parents have a harder time self regulating Why we can ALL easily attracted t...
Toxic Positivity with Instagrams favorite Therapist, Whitney Goodman (SitwithWhit) Part 2
February 07, 2022 03:30 - 44 minutes - 103 MBInstagrams favorite therapist SitWithWhit discusses her new book Toxic Positivity and how it influences our mental health How do we define toxic positivity? Where did we develop this mindset from an evolutionary perspective? Why it’s difficult for us to sit with challenging emotions within our relationships? What areas do we see this most in? How the illusion of control plays a role in our need to be positive? How are manifestations and affirmations different from toxic positivity...
Toxic Positivity with Instagrams favorite Therapist, Whitney Goodman (SitwithWhit) Part 2
February 07, 2022 03:30Instagrams favorite therapist SitWithWhit discusses her new book Toxic Positivity and how it influences our mental health How do we define toxic positivity? Where did we develop this mindset from an evolutionary perspective? Why it’s difficult for us to sit with challenging emotions within our relationships? What areas do we see this most in? How the illusion of control plays a role in our need to be positive? How are manifestations and affirmations different from toxic positivity...
Toxic Positivity with Instagrams favorite Therapist, Whitney Goodman (SitwithWhit) Part I
January 31, 2022 03:30 - 31 minutes - 72 MBInstagrams favorite therapist SitWithWhit discusses her new book Toxic Positivity and how it influences our mental health How do we define toxic positivity? Where did we develop this mindset from an evolutionary perspective? Why it’s difficult for us to sit with challenging emotions within our relationships? What areas do we see this most in? How the illusion of control plays a role in our need to be positive? How are manifestations and affirmations different from toxic positivity...
“You Are More Than You Think You Are" with Wellness Expert & Celebrity Guide Kimberly Snyder
January 24, 2022 03:30 - 56 minutes - 130 MBKimberly Snyder is a spiritual guide, meditation teacher, nutritionist, and holistic wellness expert. She is the three-time New York Times bestselling author of five previous books, including Radical Beauty, which she co-authored with Deepak Chopra. Kimberly hosts the top-rated Feel Good podcast. She is the founder of Solluna®, a holistic lifestyle brand that offers wellness products, digital courses, Practical Enlightenment MeditationTM, and the Solluna Circle. She has been featured in doze...
What it means to be an empath & How to navigate the world as one with Dr. Sasha Shokrian
January 17, 2022 03:30 - 35 minutes - 81.8 MB- What does it mean to be an empath? - What is happening on a neurological level within our brains for someone who identifies as an empath? - What is happening on a developmental level for someone who identifies as an empath? - How does projective identification make it more difficult for empaths to distinguish their own feelings and emotions, from the emotions of others? - How to feel more empowered as an empath? - Why self regulation is such an important aspect of our adult ...
Lessons in Loss with Tania Nahai
January 10, 2022 03:30 - 55 minutes - 128 MBDr. Sasha Shokrian, Clinical Psychologist & Tania Nahai, Natural Food Chef & Yogi discuss the psychology of loss and its existence within our everyday lives. Tania discusses how she unknowingly took a path in her early 20’s that would help her work through the most painful experience later in her life, she explains why life transitions aren’t meant to be smooth, how she strives to work on her mental wellbeing, what she believes is the major difference between grief and loss, and why th...
Finding a Self within the Chaos and Discovering Trust within the Body with Lisa Hayim
January 03, 2022 03:30 - 55 minutes - 128 MBLisa Hayim, registered dietician and founder of the Wellnecessesities and Dr. Sasha Shokrian get real about having dated the same man and why they once couldn’t imagine becoming friends or colleagues. Lisa discusses her early experience with her parents divorce and how it contributed to her beliefs about relationships, conflict and so much more. She explains her motivation to stay thin, why she gained so much value from her body image, and how this eventually connected to her feelings of anx...
Paralysis to Pilates… A Forma Revolution with Liana Levi
December 13, 2021 03:30 - 40 minutes - 94.5 MBDr. Sasha Shokrian, Clinical Psychologist & Celebrity Pilates Instructor & Forma Founder, Liana Levi discuss Liana's early upbringing and the messages that may have kept her from getting to know her deeper self. She explains how she learned to cope with the trauma of her fathers death, and why the feelings she pushed aside resurfaced years later. Liana also discusses why she called off her wedding engagement to focus on her mental health, how her body broke down as a result of her trauma, an...
The Science Behind Manifesting: Quantum Love with Dr. Laura Berman
December 06, 2021 03:30 - 1 hour - 145 MBDr. Laura Berman, relationship and sex psychologist, is a New York Times Best selling author, repeat guest on both the Oprah & Dr. Oz show, host of In the Bedroom on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) and currently hosts a podcast called the Language of Love. Dr. Shokrian & Dr. Berman dig deep into the field of manifestation through a scientific and evidence based lens. Dr. Berman discusses her most recent book, Quantum Love, where she explains the psychology of Quantum Physics. She explains...
Transforming The Mother Within Us with Elissa Goodman
November 29, 2021 03:30 - 35 minutes - 83.1 MBElissa Goodman, is a holistic nutritionist and cleanse expert. Elissa digs deep into her all phases of her life, most significantly, the complicated and sometimes painful relationship she shared with her mother. She discusses why living a fast pace life was once her only way to detach from her pain, how her chronic stress contributed to her health issues and why seeking therapeutic help eventually forced her to take another path. Elissa also explains why feeling like the outcast within her f...
Why We Self Betray and How to Self Evolve with Marriage & Family Therapist Maria Sosa
November 22, 2021 03:32 - 53 minutes - 124 MBMarriage and Family Therapist & Holistic Health Coach: Maria Sosa, has made self betrayal her jam. She has gained quite a following as HolisticallyGrace on Instagram, where she shares mental health tips, and discusses how we self betray in many difference aspects and phases of life. In todays episode, we break down the psychology of what self betrayal really is, how it manifests within our everyday lives, and how it breads shame and resentment within our internal worlds. We also get into how...
Who the BLEEP Am I with Dr Sasha Shokrian
November 22, 2021 03:30 - 22 minutes - 53.4 MBDr. Sasha Shokrian, Doctor of Psychology & Relationship Coach, gives listeners an introduction to who she is, and how she got into the field of Psychology. She discusses her mission in creating a podcast that would be less about showcasing the highlights of ones live, and more about sharing the difficulties and struggles people face along the way. She plans to normalize the human experience, by asking the challenging questions we are all curious about and opening up conversations to topics ...
Digging Deep Trailer
November 15, 2021 03:30 - 1 minute - 3.16 MBTune in on Monday, November 22 to hear our first episodes of Digging Deep with Dr. Sasha Shokrian! Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss it. See you then. Produced by Dear Media
Sneak Peak--Digging Deep Coming Soon!
October 22, 2021 19:56 - 38 seconds - 1.6 MBNew Dear Media show Digging Deep is coming your way Monday, November 22.