Soulful Insights

Soulful Insights

By Ruth Katerelos & Rebecca HarrisSociety & CultureHealth & FitnessMental HealthEducationSelf-ImprovementRelationships
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Soulful Insights episodes

  • How does shame harm? (part 2)
    In this second episode on shame, Rebecca and Ruth explore adolescent and adult shame. They discuss why adolescence is a time when shame can be magnified, why this can have devastating impact, and they suggest possible ways to minimise shaming young people at this vulnerable time. They discuss the impact adult shame may have, and why it can be such a barrier to relationships with self and others. Ruth and Rebecca explore why healing shame is so complex, and they propose certain factors that support the healing of shame, as well as discussing some of the impediments to that healing.

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    47 min
  • How does shame harm? (part 1)
    In this episode, Ruth and Rebecca discuss how shame arises in infants, and how complex it can be to identify, and to own feelings of shame. They explore how the magnitude of shame experienced depends on interactions with our caregivers, and they explore the difference between remorse and shame. Rebecca and Ruth also touch on the chemical and relational components of shame, and why, unhealed, it can be so destructive in people's lives.

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    34 min
  • What really matters?

    What are the things in life that matter? In this episode Ruth and Rebecca discuss personal narratives around what's important and why. They chat about inherited, and protective narratives that develop, and why sometimes exploring, and living our mattering can be challenging. They also explore how such interrogations can lead towards deeper self-understanding, and greater authenticity.




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    34 min
  • What shapes personality?
    In this episode, Rebecca and Ruth chat about personality. They explore the notions of nature versus nurture, and why some aspects of personality, sometimes assumed to be enduring, are potentially changeable. They discuss certain components of personality, and the fact that sometimes what we might perceive as personality traits, are potentially adaptive mechanisms, and why these sometimes result in people seeking therapeutic support.

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    30 min
  • Why reach for freedom?
    In this episode, Ruth and Rebecca explore facets of freedom. What does it mean to be free from? Or free to? What factors can impede our freedom? They chat about the connections between freedom and choice, freedom and responsibility, and why freedom can be such a subjective experience. What does freedom mean to you?

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    28 min
  • What impedes trust in intimate connections?
    In this episode Rebecca and Ruth continue their conversation on trust, focusing on intimate relationships. They discuss some of the factors which can impede trust in intimacy, and what some of the conditions to facilitating trust might be. They also chat about the relationship between self-trust, and trusting others.

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    26 min
  • Why does trust challenge us?
    In this episode Rebecca and Ruth explore trust. They look at why trust is both so significant in our lives, and yet, so complex. They discuss how early trust can be impacted, about why it's never wise to trust blindly, and they discuss the importance and challenges of self trust.

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    29 min
  • What about needs?
    In this episode Ruth and Rebecca speak about human needs. They discuss some of the needs identified in Maslow's Hierarchy, and the interplay between them. They explore why sometimes people are disconnected from their needs, or are perhaps reluctant to identify them, and about the importance of being able to sometimes meet our own.

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    33 min
  • Why conflict?

    In this episode Rebecca and Ruth discuss conflict. What is it, and why is it such a significant issue for us psychologically?

    They explore how our patterns of conflict engagement occur, discuss some of the factors present within conflict, and offer some strategies about understanding conflict and managing our reactions to it.

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    37 min
  • Why do inner child work?
    What is inner child work, and how is it employed therapeutically? In this episode Rebecca and Ruth explore the benefits of inner child therapy. They discuss why it is a powerful tool that is frequently used by therapists, and how it can support integration and the living of an authentic life.

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    30 min

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How do we connect more fully with ourselves and others? How do we unite the different parts of ourselves that don’t always seem to be in conversation? How do we shift some of the patterns and…