Latest Disconnection Podcast Episodes

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Welcoming our Protective Systems in a Disorienting World with Juliane Taylor Shore

Connectfulness Practice - April 17, 2020 18:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Juliane 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...

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Embodying Resilience During COVID19 with Dr. Shideh Lennon

Connectfulness Practice - April 10, 2020 14:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Dr. 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...

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Secure Relationships with Dr. Rebecca Jorgenson

Connectfulness Practice - February 14, 2020 15:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Dr. 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...

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Journey To Discover The Self with Jan Bergstrom, LMHC

Connectfulness Practice - January 20, 2020 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
The 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...

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Peeling Back the Layers of Multicultural Competence with Sonya Lott, PhD

Connectfulness Practice - December 18, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
This 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...

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Unraveling The Survival Knot, Part 2 with Hedy Schleifer

Connectfulness Practice - November 18, 2019 12:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
This 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...

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Unraveling The Survival Knot, Part 1 with Hedy Schleifer

Connectfulness Practice - October 18, 2019 22:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
I’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...

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Riding The Feminine Current with Maya Luna

Connectfulness Practice - September 16, 2019 08:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
In 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...

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Amy Baglan: That's a Wrap! Wellness 3.0 Season 1

Wellness 3.0 - August 27, 2019 20:45 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In our final episode of Season 1, we wanted to leave you with some inspiration from the best memories and the most actionable insights that we’ve learned from our incredible guests over the past few months. We look back at some of the most impactful conversations that Amy’s had to help us pave t...

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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 ...

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Debra Fine: Ways to Have Better Small Talk

Wellness 3.0 - August 06, 2019 17:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
This week our guest is Debra Fine, author, speaker, and guru of all things small talk. Debra began her career as a highly analytical engineer, an occupation that allowed her to maintain her natural shyness and avoid situations that required social interactions. But, seeing how others’ speaking a...

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Mark Shapiro: How to Use Technology & Social Media to Feel More Connected

Wellness 3.0 - July 30, 2019 19:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
This episode’s guest is Mark Shapiro, the man behind the Are You Being Real? Podcast. Mark’s a TedX speaker, life coach, avid voice memo sender, and social media experimenter. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to wish every single one of your Facebook friends a personalized happy birt...

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Contemplating Life Through Grief with John Eric Baugher, PhD

Connectfulness Practice - July 19, 2019 19:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Rebecca 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...

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Tyler Norris: How to Build Healthy Communities & Grow Healthy People

Wellness 3.0 - July 04, 2019 16:22 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
This episode’s guest is a highly accomplished leader in the health and well-being space. Tyler Norris is a social entrepreneur, a trusted advisor, and a community healer. He’s CEO of Well Being Trust,  an independent, national foundation dedicated to advancing mental, societal, and spiritual wel...

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Chad Littlefield: Start with Intention for Conversations That Matter

Wellness 3.0 - June 25, 2019 23:17 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
This episode features guest Chad Littlefield, the Co-founder and Chief Experience Officer of We and Me, Inc., where he’s on a mission to create conversations that matter. Forbes has called him a global expert on asking questions that build connection and trust in teams. Most recently, Chad and h...

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Jeff Howard: Lean Into Discomfort and Other Lessons from Men’s Groups

Wellness 3.0 - June 18, 2019 21:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
This week’s guest is Jeff Howard, a somatic psychotherapist based out of Boulder, Colorado with a practice called Three Leaves Counseling. Somatic therapy is a body-centered therapy that looks at the connection of mind and body and uses a combination of talk and physical therapy for holistic hea...

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Jason Shepherd: Creating Meaningful Community Spaces

Wellness 3.0 - June 13, 2019 15:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Today’s guest is Jason Shepherd, a master community builder in Denver, CO who has become a good friend of Amy’s over the years. Jason is an investor, an entrepreneur, and a partner at Atlas Real Estate Group. Jason is driven by a strong purpose to create vibrant, connected, and equitable communi...

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Becoming Parents: A Roundtable Discussion with Elly Taylor and Barb Buckner Suárez

Connectfulness Practice - June 12, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
In 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...

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Shaylyn Romney Garrett: 4 Cultural Norms That Keep Us from Connecting

Wellness 3.0 - June 04, 2019 23:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Today’s guest is Shaylyn Romney Garrett, a woman who has dedicated all of 2019 to reconnecting — you’ll hear a lot about her journey in this episode. Shaylyn has spent her whole life studying, experimenting with, being fascinated and frightened by community, yet she thinks she has less community...

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Aaron Kahlow: Feel Deeply Connected, Our Greatest Human Need

Wellness 3.0 - May 28, 2019 21:43 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Aaron Kahlow has become a close friend of Amy’s over the last few years, ever since they first met when he was working at Conscious Company Media. Aaron has over 20 years of experience as a founder and CEO, building and growing 5 companies and organizations. Over the past 5 to 10  years or so, h...

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Casper ter Kuile: Rituals & The Purpose of Religion

Wellness 3.0 - May 21, 2019 20:11 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
On this episode, Amy interviews Casper ter Kuile, a man with a very cool job title — the Director of Possibility at The On Being Project. Casper is also the co-creator of How We Gather, a millennial-led spiritual startup collaboration between Harvard Divinity School, the Fetzer Institute, and On...

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Sue Heilbronner: Coaching Conscious Leadership & Authentic Relating

Wellness 3.0 - May 15, 2019 17:58 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In this episode, Amy calls up a mentor, personal friend, and a fierce woman in leadership, Sue Heilbronner. She’s a speaker, a startup CEO, an investor, a professor at CU Boulder, a conscious leadership coach, and the co-creator of both Leadership Camp, as well as MergeLane, an accelerator for s...

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Inherited Family Trauma with Mark Wolynn

Connectfulness Practice - May 14, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Have 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...

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Arielle Ford: How to Use the Law of Attraction to Manifest Anything

Wellness 3.0 - May 07, 2019 15:33 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In this episode, Amy chats with Arielle Ford, the “Cupid of Consciousness” and the fairy godmother of love. Arielle is a figurehead in the personal growth and contemporary spirituality movement. She’s a celebrated love and relationship expert, author, speaker, and is co-creator and host of Evol...

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Justin Kruger: Giving Back to Our Community

Wellness 3.0 - May 01, 2019 00:32 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Justin Kruger is the founder of Project Helping, a non-profit based out of Denver, Colorado that improves mental wellness through what he has dubbed kyndfulness, or a daily practice of volunteering, intentional acts of kindness, and gratitude. Practicing kyndfulness brings awareness to the impac...

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Dr. Rachel Abrams: Understanding the Human Animal, Love, and Right Relationship

Wellness 3.0 - April 23, 2019 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In today’s episode, Amy digs deep with Dr. Rachel Carlton Abrams, voted the “Best Doctor” in Santa Cruz County for 9 years running. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, Rachel received her MD from UC San Francisco and a master’s degree in holistic health from UC Berkeley. Bo...

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Why Are Relationships Difficult? with Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT

Connectfulness Practice - April 19, 2019 02:31 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
If 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...

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Scott Kriens: Modeling Leadership with Authentic Relationships

Wellness 3.0 - April 16, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In today’s episode, Amy hops on the phone with Scott Kriens, a highly successful entrepreneur, the co-founder of 1440 Multiversity with his wife Joanie, and, we’re lucky to say, one of Fabriq’s investors. After losing his father in 2004, Scott began to think long and hard about the question “W...

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Joan Blades: The Art of Conversation & Connection

Wellness 3.0 - April 08, 2019 16:20 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In this episode, we’re connecting with Joan Blades, the creator of Living Room Conversations. Joan is on a mission to rebuild respectful discourse across ideas, cultures, and party lines, while embracing our shared human values because when we care about each other, we find ways to meet each oth...

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Melody Warnick: How to Make Friends In a New City & Belong

Wellness 3.0 - April 04, 2019 01:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In the first Wellness 3.0 interview, Amy connects with Melody Warnick, a journalist who set out to find out how to fall in love with and feel at home in the places where we already live. Author of This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are, Melody interviewed long-time residents who...

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