The metaphor of the chrysalis is examined and the process that the caterpillar undergoes reveals that it does not lead to it becoming a better caterpillar, but to becoming a completely different creature entirely. This lesson implies that when we fall apart and we put ourselves back together again, we don't return to where we were before we fell apart - to becoming a better caterpillar - but to becoming a completely different person. That leads Deborah and Brenda into a discussion about the therapeutic value of being more vulnerable and recognizing that where we are most wounded is often where our soul is hiding, waiting to emerge.

Therapists have traditionally used the genogram to help identify patterns and psychological factors that affect relationships. Those genograms are often highly "wound-aware" focusing on the dysfunctional elements within a family. Brenda & Deborah discuss the use of the genogram in a more soulful way to help clients identify the resources of our family and ancestors that are often neglected: The resilience, determination and creativity that enabled them to survive/thrive that can be recognized and inspire us when dealing with our own life challenges. Informed by family stories and creative imagination, the strength of our ancestors can become our own and help guide us into the future.

The T.S. Eliot poem, Wait Without Hope, leads Deborah and Brenda into a conversation about mycelium, interconnection and potentiality. It's Brenda's turn to visit the "mead-hall" from episode #1 and she introduces us to the term ALTUS and a discussion about the underlying forces that inform everything that are deeply connected to soul and the importance, as therapists, of doing their own soul work in order to help their clients connect with their own soul journeys so they can show up and do their best. Using writing to invite soul into one's work segues into a conversation about getting older and the value of seeking guidance from our older selves and the need to surround our self with others whose soul resonates and connect with our own so that we can always embrace the soulful part of conversation that enriches our life.

This first episode of Soul Path Sessions introduces listeners to the importance of embracing soul work and reclaiming the soulful parts of ourselves in healing. Deborah and Brenda share their influences and background stories during their initial training and how soul work was left out of those early teachings while introducing depth and eco psychology as part of the sacred conversation that psychotherapy was meant to be about.  A conversation about how ego and soul are meant to work together in cooperation,  instead of against each other, leads into an introduction into how to harvest the gold of dreams and sets the "mead-table"  for a somatic exercise that Brenda uses to guide Deborah on which helps her to move from resistance to surrender by bringing the unconscious to consciousness and thus to greater meaning.