Latest Connectfulness Podcast Episodes
Welcoming our Protective Systems in a Disorienting World with Juliane Taylor Shore
Connectfulness Practice - April 17, 2020 18:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsJuliane Taylor Shore, LPC, LMFT, SEP (AKA Jules) joins Rebecca to discuss the impact of being quarantined at home, experiencing isolation, fear and grief. How these experiences work in tandem with our implicit memory systems, and the effect it all has on our relationships. It's such a quick pr...
Embodying Resilience During COVID19 with Dr. Shideh Lennon
Connectfulness Practice - April 10, 2020 14:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsDr. Shideh Lennon, a clinical psychologist and Somatic Experiencing practitioner, joins us to discuss how to embody resilience during the current COVID-19 pandemic. We're talking about simple practices that we can use to bring ourselves back into our bodies. We’re still going to feel it all, but...
Secure Relationships with Dr. Rebecca Jorgenson
Connectfulness Practice - February 14, 2020 15:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsDr. Rebecca Jorgensen, or Becca, joins me to discuss how to avoid common pitfalls and achieve more secure relationships. Becca shares from the EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) perspective that, being human, we all need to feel secure. Our initial insecurities often develop into defensive, prot...
Journey To Discover The Self with Jan Bergstrom, LMHC
Connectfulness Practice - January 20, 2020 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThe family system is the first filter children experience the world through, it informs the senses and creates the meaning from which each of us understand the “me”, our unique “who I am.” It’s up to parents to reach in and help the growing child navigate their reality —but that‘s not what usual...
Peeling Back the Layers of Multicultural Competence with Sonya Lott, PhD
Connectfulness Practice - December 18, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThis is a powerful discussion about the ways each of us dances with power and privilege. How the very ways we are oppressed have possibly become how we oppress others, and also ourselves. And the liberation that begins when we remove the blinders and really see ourselves in each other. I’m tal...
Unraveling The Survival Knot, Part 2 with Hedy Schleifer
Connectfulness Practice - November 18, 2019 12:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThis is part 2 of Unraveling The Survival Knot with Hedy Schleifer. If you haven’t already tuned into part 1 of this series, we recommend you begin there. We’re diving even deeper into the process of being a host/visitor and opening ourselves to each others deepest truths, to our own deepest t...
Unraveling The Survival Knot, Part 1 with Hedy Schleifer
Connectfulness Practice - October 18, 2019 22:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsI’m joined by Hedy Schleifer, an internationally renowned relationship builder and motivational speaker who guides, counsels and teaches couples, partners, business associates, therapists and families about relational maturity. Hedy is the founder of the Encounter-centered Couples Transformat...
Riding The Feminine Current with Maya Luna
Connectfulness Practice - September 16, 2019 08:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsIn this month's episode I'm joined by Maya Luna, a Feminine Mystic and a Poet exploring the Tantric Path and Feminine Embodiment. We muse about our collective hunger for deep acceptance of who we really are. Our fear of letting go, of surrendering, and of softening into the moment. The masculine...
Mending Racialized Trauma: A Body Centered Approach with Resmaa Menakem
Connectfulness Practice - August 09, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings“Healing from white-body supremacy begins with the body — your body. But it does not end there. In order to heal the collective body that is America, we also need social activism that is body centered. We cannot individualize our way out of white-body supremacy. Nor can we merely strategize our ...
Contemplating Life Through Grief with John Eric Baugher, PhD
Connectfulness Practice - July 19, 2019 19:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsRebecca is joined by John Eric Baugher, a scholar, writer and teacher exploring the transformative possibilities of contemplative end of life care. His book, Contemplative Caregiving offers encouragement to show up in the fullness of life. This is an in-person (one microphone) interview and it’s...
Becoming Parents: A Roundtable Discussion with Elly Taylor and Barb Buckner Suárez
Connectfulness Practice - June 12, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsIn this episode we’re reframing how to prepare parents for parenthood and dispelling the myth that you can't prepare for parenthood. Our last few episodes have been about why relationships are difficult and inherited family trauma and as we dive into this content, we keep coming back to how si...
Inherited Family Trauma with Mark Wolynn
Connectfulness Practice - May 14, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsHave you ever said something like “I’m just wired this way” in response to someone asking why you can’t just relax and go with the flow more? Maybe you’re scared of certain smells, places, uniforms, noises and other common things found in everyday life without knowing where you developed that pa...
Why Are Relationships Difficult? with Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
Connectfulness Practice - April 19, 2019 02:31 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsIf you've ever wondered "why are relationships difficult?" you'll want to catch this episode with Dr. Stan Tatkin. We start with an exploration of how our species’ survival relies on an inborn negativity bias and how this same mechanism makes relationships difficult and more challenging to susta...
Pleasure and the Body's Wisdom with Cyndi Darnell
Connectfulness Practice - March 13, 2019 11:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsCyndi Darnell is an internationally renowned sex and relationship therapist. Her approach spans the clinical to the esoteric. She’s spearheading progressive sex & relationships seminars and workshops for adults and clinicians that deeply change people’s lives. Cyndi’s on a mission to eliminate s...
Parenting and Reckoning with Your Identity with Mercedes Samudio, LCSW
Connectfulness Practice - February 13, 2019 21:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsMercedes Samudio, LCSW is a parent coach, speaker, bestselling author, and founder of the Diversity in Parenting conference who helps parents and children communicate with each other, manage emotional trauma, navigate social media and technology together, and develop healthy parent-child relatio...
Erotic Simmering and Lasting Love with Stephen Snyder MD
Connectfulness Practice - February 12, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsDr. Stephen Snyder is a sex and relationship therapist, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and the author of the acclaimed sex and relationship book, LOVE WORTH MAKING: How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Long-Lasting R...
Buddhist Wisdom for Relationship Discomfort with Susan Piver
Connectfulness Practice - February 11, 2019 21:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsSusan Piver is a New York Times bestselling author of 9 books including her latest, The Four Noble Truths of Love: Buddhist Wisdom for Modern Relationships, and a renowned Buddhist teacher. Susan joins me to talk about how to survive the inevitable discomfort of relationships and how she disc...
Welcome. Start Here.
Connectfulness Practice - February 11, 2019 09:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsWelcome to the Connectfulness Practice Podcast. Here we settle in to the murky, tangled, and freaking hard parts of life to restore our relationship with the self, so it can ripple out to the people we love, the work we do, and the world around us. We can’t fix what’s wrong if we can’t talk abo...
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