Feel This with Frank and Jess

Sometimes we make the assist, sometimes we make the dunk. But can we hear our authentic voice? To hide or be seen, to say yes or say no… and how does the fear of disappointing or upsetting the other affect our response?

Recorded 02/14/23

New to Feel This? We're so happy you're here!

Our primer episodes establish the space our conversations take place in. The episodes below will enhance your listening experience as well as give you tools for your life and relationships.

Primer #1 - Modes of Communication

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Primer #2 - Looking into Internal Family Systems

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About this Podcast:

https://anchor.fm/feelthis

Feel This is a series of experiential conversations between Jessica Olberz Singleton and Frank D’Amato exploring trauma, healing and awakening through the lens of relationship.

Through the use of Authentic Connection, which focuses on our present moment experience, Frank and Jess share their emotions, inner dialogue and physical experience as a way of connecting more deeply to themselves, each other and the listener. Each episode is created to be an emotional and spiritual journey for all involved.

Your hosts:

Frank D’Amato is an Internal Family Systems practitioner and the creator of the Authentic Connection model.

Jessica Olberz Singleton is an artist, teacher, synthesizer of information, creator of safe spaces & delightful nerd.

Frank comes in in a somewhat dorsal state, feeling a bit disconnected, and though being in “dorsal” is not generally desirable, Jess is surprisingly grateful.  Today’s meditation moves our awareness from the outer world to our inner world and primary emotions.

Links: Dorsal vagal state

Recorded 02/14/23

New to Feel This? We're so happy you're here!

Our primer episodes establish the space our conversations take place in. The episodes below will enhance your listening experience as well as give you tools for your life and relationships.

Primer #1 - Modes of Communication

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/nzuOUvLZltb

Primer #2 - Looking into Internal Family Systems

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/PFdr9uLZltb

Your Feedback is Welcome!

Please leave us a comment. We might share it on an episode so let us know if we can use your name or if you prefer to remain anonymous. Either way, we would love to hear from you and include your energy and awareness into our creative process.

https://anchor.fm/feelthis/message

About this Podcast:

https://anchor.fm/feelthis

Feel This is a series of experiential conversations between Jessica Olberz Singleton and Frank D’Amato exploring trauma, healing and awakening through the lens of relationship.

Through the use of Authentic Connection, which focuses on our present moment experience, Frank and Jess share their emotions, inner dialogue and physical experience as a way of connecting more deeply to themselves, each other and the listener. Each episode is created to be an emotional and spiritual journey for all involved.

Your hosts:

Frank D’Amato is an Internal Family Systems practitioner and the creator of the Authentic Connection model.

Jessica Olberz Singleton is an artist, teacher, synthesizer of information, creator of safe spaces & delightful nerd.

“It Chat” can lead to meaningful connection when we’re willing (and able) to stop playing Three-card Monte. 

P.S. You can learn all about It Chat, Me Chat and We Chat by listening to Primer #1, link below 

Links: Viktor Frankl - Viktor Frankl: Self-Actualization is Not the Goal, Viktor Frankl: Our Need for Meaning and Purpose

Recorded 1/31/23

New to Feel This? We're so happy you're here!

Our primer episodes establish the space our conversations take place in. The episodes below will enhance your listening experience as well as give you tools for your life and relationships.

Primer #1 - Modes of Communication

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/nzuOUvLZltb

Primer #2 - Looking into Internal Family Systems

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/PFdr9uLZltb

Your Feedback is Welcome!

Please leave us a comment. We might share it on an episode so let us know if we can use your name or if you prefer to remain anonymous. Either way, we would love to hear from you and include your energy and awareness into our creative process.

https://anchor.fm/feelthis/message

About this Podcast:

https://anchor.fm/feelthis

Feel This is a series of experiential conversations between Jessica Olberz Singleton and Frank D’Amato exploring trauma, healing and awakening through the lens of relationship.

Through the use of Authentic Connection, which focuses on our present moment experience, Frank and Jess share their emotions, inner dialogue and physical experience as a way of connecting more deeply to themselves, each other and the listener. Each episode is created to be an emotional and spiritual journey for all involved.

Your hosts:

Frank D’Amato is an Internal Family Systems practitioner and the creator of the Authentic Connection model.

Jessica Olberz Singleton is an artist, teacher, synthesizer of information, creator of safe spaces & delightful nerd.

Its deep winter here and we’re wondering how you’re doing. Though February is associated with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), we’re looking at it differently. Is it less a lack of sunshine and more a lack of connection and healthy attachment?

The sense meditation is around belly awareness and staying grounded.

Links: Differentiation and Connection - Dr. Dan Siegel, SAD, PMDD 

01/31/23

New to Feel This? We're so happy you're here!

Our primer episodes establish the space our conversations take place in. The episodes below will enhance your listening experience as well as give you tools for your life and relationships.

Primer #1 - Modes of Communication

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/nzuOUvLZltb

Primer #2 - Looking into Internal Family Systems

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/PFdr9uLZltb

Your Feedback is Welcome!

Please leave us a comment. We might share it on an episode so let us know if we can use your name or if you prefer to remain anonymous. Either way, we would love to hear from you and include your energy and awareness into our creative process.

https://anchor.fm/feelthis/message

About this Podcast:

https://anchor.fm/feelthis

Feel This is a series of experiential conversations between Jessica Olberz Singleton and Frank D’Amato exploring trauma, healing and awakening through the lens of relationship.

Through the use of Authentic Connection, which focuses on our present moment experience, Frank and Jess share their emotions, inner dialogue and physical experience as a way of connecting more deeply to themselves, each other and the listener. Each episode is created to be an emotional and spiritual journey for all involved.

Your hosts:

Frank D’Amato is an Internal Family Systems practitioner and the creator of the Authentic Connection model.

Jessica Olberz Singleton is an artist, teacher, synthesizer of information, creator of safe spaces & delightful nerd.

The conversation continues! We explore how our dysregulated nervous systems lead to polarity and blame in relationships, what a regulated nervous system feels like, and how we see the world differently when we are grounded, open, and calm.

Also, let us know if you’re interested in continuing the conversation around this week’s episode and topics on Discord!

TW: This episode contains references to pain and chronic illness. Please listen with care for yourself and your nervous system.

Links: Enneagram, Somatic Experiencing

Recorded 1/17/23

New to Feel This? We're so happy you're here!

Our primer episodes establish the space our conversations take place in. The episodes below will enhance your listening experience as well as give you tools for your life and relationships.

Primer #1 - Modes of Communication

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/nzuOUvLZltb

Primer #2 - Looking into Internal Family Systems

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/PFdr9uLZltb

Your Feedback is Welcome!

Please leave us a comment. We might share it on an episode so let us know if we can use your name or if you prefer to remain anonymous. Either way, we would love to hear from you and include your energy and awareness into our creative process.

https://anchor.fm/feelthis/message

About this Podcast:

https://anchor.fm/feelthis

Feel This is a series of experiential conversations between Jessica Olberz Singleton and Frank D’Amato exploring trauma, healing and awakening through the lens of relationship.

Through the use of Authentic Connection, which focuses on our present moment experience, Frank and Jess share their emotions, inner dialogue and physical experience as a way of connecting more deeply to themselves, each other and the listener. Each episode is created to be an emotional and spiritual journey for all involved.

Your hosts:

Frank D’Amato is an Internal Family Systems practitioner and the creator of the Authentic Connection model.

Jessica Olberz Singleton is an artist, teacher, synthesizer of information, creator of safe spaces & delightful nerd.

After a short sense meditation, Jess and Frank look at their “anxious” and “depressed” cycles as natural and normal and being with old patterns in new ways.

TW: This episode contains references to depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. Please listen with care for yourself and your nervous system.

Links: Deb Dana and the Polyvagal System

Recorded 1/17/23

New to Feel This? We're so happy you're here!

Our primer episodes establish the space our conversations take place in. The episodes below will enhance your listening experience as well as give you tools for your life and relationships.

Primer #1 - Modes of Communication

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/nzuOUvLZltb

Primer #2 - Looking into Internal Family Systems

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/PFdr9uLZltb

Your Feedback is Welcome!

Please leave us a comment. We might share it on an episode so let us know if we can use your name or if you prefer to remain anonymous. Either way, we would love to hear from you and include your energy and awareness into our creative process.

https://anchor.fm/feelthis/message

About this Podcast:

https://anchor.fm/feelthis

Feel This is a series of experiential conversations between Jessica Olberz Singleton and Frank D’Amato exploring trauma, healing and awakening through the lens of relationship.

Through the use of Authentic Connection, which focuses on our present moment experience, Frank and Jess share their emotions, inner dialogue and physical experience as a way of connecting more deeply to themselves, each other and the listener. Each episode is created to be an emotional and spiritual journey for all involved.

Your hosts:

Frank D’Amato is an Internal Family Systems practitioner and the creator of the Authentic Connection model.

Jessica Olberz Singleton is an artist, teacher, synthesizer of information, creator of safe spaces & delightful nerd.

Ready for today’s adventure story time? Frank’s father becomes deregulated, leading Frank into a cascade of young parts. Can he hold onto himself? Can he practice what he preaches in a stressful moment and come back to himself? Jess brings interesting inquiries to the postmortem analysis.

TW: This episode contains references to childhood trauma and violence, Ketamine treatment, psychotic breaks. Please listen with care for yourself and your nervous system.

Links: Polyvagal, dorsal vagal

Recorded 1/3/23

New to Feel This? We're so happy you're here!

Our primer episodes establish the space our conversations take place in. The episodes below will enhance your listening experience as well as give you tools for your life and relationships.

Primer #1 - Modes of Communication

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/nzuOUvLZltb

Primer #2 - Looking into Internal Family Systems

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/PFdr9uLZltb

Your Feedback is Welcome!

Please leave us a comment. We might share it on an episode so let us know if we can use your name or if you prefer to remain anonymous. Either way, we would love to hear from you and include your energy and awareness into our creative process.

https://anchor.fm/feelthis/message

About this Podcast:

https://anchor.fm/feelthis

Feel This is a series of experiential conversations between Jessica Olberz Singleton and Frank D’Amato exploring trauma, healing and awakening through the lens of relationship.

Through the use of Authentic Connection, which focuses on our present moment experience, Frank and Jess share their emotions, inner dialogue and physical experience as a way of connecting more deeply to themselves, each other and the listener. Each episode is created to be an emotional and spiritual journey for all involved.

Your hosts:

Frank D’Amato is an Internal Family Systems practitioner and the creator of the Authentic Connection model.

Jessica Olberz Singleton is an artist, teacher, synthesizer of information, creator of safe spaces & delightful nerd.

It’s an exciting ride of revelation and connection. Jess comes in significantly triggered, while Frank is annoyed with “Frank the Podcast Host” after listening to a recent episode.

In today’s meditation we notice our thoughts as the “Theater of the Mind” and reflect on the recent Holiday season

TW: This episode contains references to Ketamine treatment. Please listen with care for yourself and your nervous system.

Recorded 1/3/23

New to Feel This? We're so happy you're here!

Our primer episodes establish the space our conversations take place in. The episodes below will enhance your listening experience as well as give you tools for your life and relationships.

Primer #1 - Modes of Communication

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/nzuOUvLZltb

Primer #2 - Looking into Internal Family Systems

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/PFdr9uLZltb

Your Feedback is Welcome!

Please leave us a comment. We might share it on an episode so let us know if we can use your name or if you prefer to remain anonymous. Either way, we would love to hear from you and include your energy and awareness into our creative process.

https://anchor.fm/feelthis/message

About this Podcast:

https://anchor.fm/feelthis

Feel This is a series of experiential conversations between Jessica Olberz Singleton and Frank D’Amato exploring trauma, healing and awakening through the lens of relationship.

Through the use of Authentic Connection, which focuses on our present moment experience, Frank and Jess share their emotions, inner dialogue and physical experience as a way of connecting more deeply to themselves, each other and the listener. Each episode is created to be an emotional and spiritual journey for all involved.

Your hosts:

Frank D’Amato is an Internal Family Systems practitioner and the creator of the Authentic Connection model.

Jessica Olberz Singleton is an artist, teacher, synthesizer of information, creator of safe spaces & delightful nerd.

Continuing their conversation, Jess and Frank explore the interplay between authentic desire, the honest Yes and No, and what happens when Shoulds soften. Hint: We don’t need to put so much energy into controlling the flow of our lives.

TW: This episode contains references to sexuality. Please listen with care for yourself and your nervous system.

Links: Somatica

Recorded 12/06/22

New to Feel This? We're so happy you're here!

Our primer episodes establish the space our conversations take place in. The episodes below will enhance your listening experience as well as give you tools for your life and relationships.

Primer #1 - Modes of Communication

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/nzuOUvLZltb

Primer #2 - Looking into Internal Family Systems

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/PFdr9uLZltb

Your Feedback is Welcome!

Please leave us a comment. We might share it on an episode so let us know if we can use your name or if you prefer to remain anonymous. Either way, we would love to hear from you and include your energy and awareness into our creative process.

https://anchor.fm/feelthis/message

About this Podcast:

https://anchor.fm/feelthis

Feel This is a series of experiential conversations between Jessica Olberz Singleton and Frank D’Amato exploring trauma, healing and awakening through the lens of relationship.

Through the use of Authentic Connection, which focuses on our present moment experience, Frank and Jess share their emotions, inner dialogue and physical experience as a way of connecting more deeply to themselves, each other and the listener. Each episode is created to be an emotional and spiritual journey for all involved.

Your hosts:

Frank D’Amato is an Internal Family Systems practitioner and the creator of the Authentic Connection model.

Jessica Olberz Singleton is an artist, teacher, synthesizer of information, creator of safe spaces & delightful nerd.

In today’s 8 minute meditation we turn toward the present moment and see how that changes the present moment.  Then we each share examples of that juicy, very human tendency to want to squirm our way out of our missteps and lies and the medicine of setting the record straight.

TW: This episode contains references to sexuality, aging parents, illness and mortality. Please listen with care for yourself and your nervous system.

Links: Somatica

Recorded 12/06/22

New to Feel This? We're so happy you're here!

Our primer episodes establish the space our conversations take place in. The episodes below will enhance your listening experience as well as give you tools for your life and relationships.

Primer #1 - Modes of Communication

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/nzuOUvLZltb

Primer #2 - Looking into Internal Family Systems

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/PFdr9uLZltb

Your Feedback is Welcome!

Please leave us a comment. We might share it on an episode so let us know if we can use your name or if you prefer to remain anonymous. Either way, we would love to hear from you and include your energy and awareness into our creative process.

https://anchor.fm/feelthis/message

About this Podcast:

https://anchor.fm/feelthis

Feel This is a series of experiential conversations between Jessica Olberz Singleton and Frank D’Amato exploring trauma, healing and awakening through the lens of relationship.

Through the use of Authentic Connection, which focuses on our present moment experience, Frank and Jess share their emotions, inner dialogue and physical experience as a way of connecting more deeply to themselves, each other and the listener. Each episode is created to be an emotional and spiritual journey for all involved.

Your hosts:

Frank D’Amato is an Internal Family Systems practitioner and the creator of the Authentic Connection model.

Jessica Olberz Singleton is an artist, teacher, synthesizer of information, creator of safe spaces & delightful nerd.