We speak to Trinity Wilbourn, founder of Arkitekt, which guides and facilitates community circles for women seeking self-exploration, community connection, and spiritual growth. She talks about the revelations that grew from the ashes of personal trials and loss, what it means to be truly listened to, and how she creates spaces of trust for spiritual and narrative healing.

Sarah Mitchell is a life coach and medium based in Northern California. She talks about the value of finding a mentor and truly being heard, how she transformed her innate intuitions into an empowering and healing coaching practice, and the importance of listening in a safe, deeply honesty and clear space. Our reporter this week, Alexis Austere, also reflects on having a session with Sarah, where she rediscovered the power of her grandmother's love.

Our healer this week is Shannon Darling, a psychiatric nurse practitioner in Fort Collins. Using listening to provide wholistic mental health care, she offers ketamine prescriptions and ketamine assisted therapy for appropriate clients. We discuss why ketamine is an effective tool in therapy, what offering wholistic treatment entails, and how to interpret and diagnose the right psychiatric treatment for each patient. We also discuss the power of group therapy for first responders and why Darling has focused her practice on women, children, and adolescents.

Veterinarians must listen, diagnose, and treat patients who can’t express themselves verbally. They do this while creating trust with both the pet and client. Our healer this week is Jody Engel, Owner and Veterinarian for the Meadows Veterinary Center in Windsor, Colorado. We discuss non-verbal listening, negotiating trust, and how team listening fosters support in stressful and emotional environments. 

In this episode, we speak with the therapist of one of the podcast team members. The therapist asked to remain anonymous. He talks about the ways he breaks (at least some people's) rules of therapy, his own opinions about listening and narrative, and how a life less travelled led him to healing.

The faces of the ER for patients are the emergency medicine doctors who are responsible for diagnosis, referral, and treatment of patients in an environment where time is at a premium. This week, we are joined by healer Rachel Pearl, an ER doctor for Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, California. We discuss mental preparation for the ER and how she has developed a style of listening that’s not taught in medical school. We also discuss the influence of genetic trauma and the value of medically-guided psychedelic therapy for healing psychosomatic issues.

We begin the podcast by listening to the first person you see when you walk into a medical facility. Xenia Copeland-Fuentes is the Front Desk Coordinator at a low-income health clinic, the first line of care. How she hears patients' stories plays an important role in their healing experience. We also tell the story of how we started the podcast and introduce the staff.

Music by White Records.