Finding Our Minds

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When talking about Personality Disorders it first helps to define personality. What is a flexible personality, a rigid personality, and how can one's personality become disordered? Dr. Arnd-Caddigan and her producer Leah discuss what a healthy personality is, can be, and how a healthy personality can respond to external narcissism. 

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What is narcissistic abuse? What is gaslightling? What is an energy vampire? Most, if not all, of us have had to bear the brunt of abusive behavior at least once in our lives. What drives a person to behave this way, and how can we protect ourselves from falling victim to abuse? Dr. Margaret Anrd-Caddigan and her producer Leah Faye discuss narcissistic abuse and outline how Season 2 of Finding Our Minds will tackle this difficult subject matter. 

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Trailer for Season 2 of Finding Our Minds, a podcast about Having Mind, Knowing Mind, and Changing Mind. Hosted by Margaret Arnd-Caddigan, PhD, Associate Professor of Social Work at East Carolina University. Produced by Leah Faye.

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In this special season-finale, Dr. Arnd-Caddigan and her daughter Leah Faye discuss their experience with Wicca, magic, spirituality, and what that all has to do with therapy. Thank you so much to our listeners for giving us such positive feedback, our idea for this episode was inspired by you. If you liked this season please rate us, review us, subscribe to us, share us with your friends, we have a lot of exciting plans for future episodes and seasons. 

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Your host is Dr. Margaret Arne-Caddigan, clinical social worker, associate professor at East Carolina University, and published author. Her next book titled Intuition in therapy practice: a mind-centered depth approach to healing is being published by Rutledge and will be available this summer wherever books are sold.

Producer: Leah Faye @BossWitchLeFaye
Associate Producer: Lindsey Price
Technical Director: David Caddigan
Artwork by Ray Gonzalez @rays_prints
And with1 music by Anton Ashmere.  

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In our last lecture of the season, Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses the relationship to the mind and body, and how one cannot exist without the other. This is our second to last episode of the season, and next episode will be an informal discussion on spirituality within mental health practices. Stay tuned! 

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This week's episode is less dense, Dr. Arnd-Caddigan talks research. We explore what the research shows about mind-centered therapy, and what it is that makes a therapy experience work for a client. The secret? You'll have to listen...

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Why do we need to unburden ourselves of our experiences? Why do we feel better after talking to someone? What's going on in our minds when a therapist is guiding mental healing? Margaret and Leah discuss the ways we relate to experience, how sharing qualia is a necessary part of cementing our understanding of ourselves.

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This week we take a semi-deep dive into the Jungian and Post-Jungian understanding of the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. What did Jung mean by the collective unconscious, and what are our interpretations of it today? Is the collective unconscious metaphysical, material, or is there perhaps better language to describe it? Margaret and Leah also discuss the notion of the afterlife. 

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This week Margaret goes into how to develop your intuition and how to tell the difference between intuition and projection. Have you ever felt belittled for relying on your intuition? Have you ever been vindicated for listening to your own intuition? Write to us! [email protected]

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What is intuition and how can we learn to apply it in our work, relationships, and practices? How do we know when we're having an intuitive moment, or when we're projecting our desires onto a situation. This week Margaret and Leah discuss how we use our intuition and why it shouldn't be stigmatized in the therapeutic alliance.