Skin and Soul™: Beyond the Pale with Gwenm A. Carsley

Skin and Soul™: Beyond the Pale with Gwenm A. Carsley

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Skin and Soul™: Beyond the Pale with Gwenm A. Carsley episodes

  • Rites of Return: Women, Healing and Home
    In this episode of Skin & Soul, Gwenm is joined by Terry Folks for a conversation on women, healing, and the return to what feels like home within. Terry’s work sits where psychotherapy, spirituality, and women’s lived experience meet — especially through grief, trauma, transition, and inner change.
    We explore her new book, Another Spring, a seasonally shaped guide rooted in self-therapy, spiritual practice, and women’s wisdom. Together, we touch on stillness, grief, trust, intuition, emotional resilience, and the quiet reclaiming of inner authority.
    This is about the soul after winter,  and how women’s healing ripples beyond the personal.
    46 min
  • Rites of Return: Women, Healing and Home
    In this episode of Skin & Soul, Gwenm is joined by Terry Folks for a conversation on women, healing, and the return to what feels like home within. Terry’s work sits where psychotherapy, spirituality, and women’s lived experience meet — especially through grief, trauma, transition, and inner change.
    We explore her new book, Another Spring, a seasonally shaped guide rooted in self-therapy, spiritual practice, and women’s wisdom. Together, we touch on stillness, grief, trust, intuition, emotional resilience, and the quiet reclaiming of inner authority.
    This is about the soul after winter,  and how women’s healing ripples beyond the personal.
    46 min
  • America in Therapy
    In this episode of Skin and Soul Beyond the Pale, Gwenm Carsley sits down with psychotherapist and author Phyllis Leavitt for a deep conversation on abuse, learned helplessness, family systems, boundaries, power, and repair.
    Together they explore how what begins in the home does not stay in the home. The child who becomes symptomatic, the family that cannot repair, the absence of healthy boundaries, the silence around pain, the pull toward blame, helplessness, aggression, and disconnection — all of it echoes outward into culture, community, and nation. Phyllis brings decades of therapeutic insight to the question of what happens when individuals and societies lose their capacity to listen, to tolerate difference, to stay in dialogue, and to heal.
    This conversation moves through trauma, witness helplessness, nonviolent communication, accountability, belonging, and the power of love not as sentiment, but as a real force in healing. It is a conversation about what breaks us, what hardens us, what keeps us repeating harm, and what becomes possible when we begin to repair.

    57 min
  • America in Therapy
    In this episode of Skin and Soul Beyond the Pale, Gwenm Carsley sits down with psychotherapist and author Phyllis Leavitt for a deep conversation on abuse, learned helplessness, family systems, boundaries, power, and repair.
    Together they explore how what begins in the home does not stay in the home. The child who becomes symptomatic, the family that cannot repair, the absence of healthy boundaries, the silence around pain, the pull toward blame, helplessness, aggression, and disconnection — all of it echoes outward into culture, community, and nation. Phyllis brings decades of therapeutic insight to the question of what happens when individuals and societies lose their capacity to listen, to tolerate difference, to stay in dialogue, and to heal.
    This conversation moves through trauma, witness helplessness, nonviolent communication, accountability, belonging, and the power of love not as sentiment, but as a real force in healing. It is a conversation about what breaks us, what hardens us, what keeps us repeating harm, and what becomes possible when we begin to repair.
    57 min
  • The Sounds of Hands
    His name means My Voice.
    And yet he has spent more than forty-five years standing between silence and sound ~ translating not just words, but grief, sarcasm, poetry, justice, faith, intimacy, and pride.
    In this episode, we explore what it means to live as the bridge between Deaf and hearing worlds. What it means to transmit without altering. To hold neutrality in courtrooms, in family calls, in moments of tenderness between sisters. To speak fluently in sarcasm - in two languages.
    We talk about the sensuality of language. The fact that signing does not merely say “It’s raining,” but shows the force, the wind, the impact - all at once. How eye contact is built into the grammar. How music becomes visual poetry in motion. How the body becomes tone, rhythm, emphasis.
    And beneath it all, a deeper question:
    If words are but pictures of our thoughts… what happens when the picture is made with hands?
    This is a conversation about the human need for connection and the world inside silence. About standing between silence and sound. About the extraordinary depth of a language that turns the body into voice.
    1 hr 1 min
  • The Sounds of Hands
    His name means My Voice.
    And yet he has spent more than forty-five years standing between silence and sound ~ translating not just words, but grief, sarcasm, poetry, justice, faith, intimacy, and pride.
    In this episode, we explore what it means to live as the bridge between Deaf and hearing worlds. What it means to transmit without altering. To hold neutrality in courtrooms, in family calls, in moments of tenderness between sisters. To speak fluently in sarcasm - in two languages.
    We talk about the sensuality of language. The fact that signing does not merely say “It’s raining,” but shows the force, the wind, the impact - all at once. How eye contact is built into the grammar. How music becomes visual poetry in motion. How the body becomes tone, rhythm, emphasis.
    And beneath it all, a deeper question:
    If words are but pictures of our thoughts… what happens when the picture is made with hands?
    This is a conversation about the human need for connection and the world inside silence. About standing between silence and sound. About the extraordinary depth of a language that turns the body into voice.
    1 hr 1 min
  • After Usefulness: Desire, Identity & the Quiet Panic of Freedom
    What happens when usefulness ends and life finally slows down.
    In this episode, I sit with Dawn Marcotte, a Certified Professional Retirement Coach who works at the inner edge of retirement. Not the financial planning. Not the bucket lists. The moment when roles fall away and time opens up, leaving many people face to face with freedom, grief, desire, and a quiet panic they did not expect.
    We talk about identity after productivity, what surfaces when no one is waiting for you to perform, and how retirement can become a threshold rather than a retreat. This is a conversation about aliveness, unlived longings, and the courage it takes to meet yourself when the scaffolding disappears.
    56 min
  • After Usefulness: Desire, Identity & the Quiet Panic of Freedom
    What happens when usefulness ends and life finally slows down.
    In this episode, I sit with Dawn Marcotte, a Certified Professional Retirement Coach who works at the inner edge of retirement. Not the financial planning. Not the bucket lists. The moment when roles fall away and time opens up, leaving many people face to face with freedom, grief, desire, and a quiet panic they did not expect.
    We talk about identity after productivity, what surfaces when no one is waiting for you to perform, and how retirement can become a threshold rather than a retreat. This is a conversation about aliveness, unlived longings, and the courage it takes to meet yourself when the scaffolding disappears.
    56 min
  • Carrying the Tiger: Love Practiced in the Presence of Death
    What does love become when there is no cure ~ only time, devotion, and choice?
    In this episode of Skin & Soul, I sit with Tony Stewart to talk about Carrying the Tiger - a memoir that refuses to sentimentalize illness, grief, or recovery.
    We talk about:
    • loving someone while they are dying
    • caregiving as an act of intimacy
    • how grief lives in the body, not the calendar
    • the moment joy returns — and the guilt that can follow
    • loving again without erasing what came before
    This is a conversation about staying present when life cannot be fixed.
    About learning to live with your hands open.
    About what it means to carry love forward, while remaining with life.
    58 min

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Welcome to Skin and Soul™ : Beyond the Pale with Gwenm A. Carsley. I’m Gwenm, your transformational body, soul, and sex coach. This podcast invites you to an uncensored and authentic exploration of…