If you listned to Podcast S1:E5, we did a meditation all about releasing the old misaligned mask and coming back to realigment. You can learn more about this inspiration meditation in The LCMHC Mystic Musings Playlist and watch the Season 1 Episode 5 video :)  Enjoy a grounding, psychospiritual meditation designed to help you gently loosen the misaligned masks you’ve been carrying—whether shaped by neurodivergence, trauma, family roles, or spiritual identity. Through breath, visualization, and somatic awareness, you’ll honor the protective function of the mask, release what no longer aligns, and call in a new energetic “retainer” that supports your current truth. This practice blends nervous-system regulation with mystical symbolism to guide you back into embodied alignment, safety, and self-recognition.

Episode 5 — The Masks We Wear: Neurodivergence, Trauma & the Invisalign Metaphor for Identity

In this episode of The LCMHC Mystic, we explore masking through a psychological, neurological, spiritual, and archetypal lens.
We dig into autistic masking, ADHD performance masking, trauma-based masking (PTSD/CPTSD), emotional masking, spiritual masking, and how each one shapes identity, safety, and self-understanding.

You’ll learn:
• What masking actually is, beyond the buzzword
• How autistic & ADHD masking differ — and why both are often misunderstood
• How trauma, attachment wounds, and survival physiology create lifelong “masks”
• Why masks are not deception — they’re retainers guiding us back into alignment
• The spiritual and archetypal history of masks across cultures
• How to identify misaligned masks vs. healthy ones
• A guided exercise to gently release outdated masks and embody your current alignment

Perfect for:neurodivergent listeners, trauma survivors, healers, therapists, sensitives, empaths, and anyone seeking deeper self-understanding.

Keywords: masking, neurodivergence, ADHD, autism, trauma, PTSD, CPTSD, fawning, identity, IFS, somatic therapy, spirituality, archetypes, healing, nervous system, masking psychology.

** I apologize, there is 30second no sound from minute marker 9:26-10**

New Podcaster Learning curve! Appreciate you all so very deeply.

In this episode of The LCMHC Mystic Musings, Christine explores the Sibling Archetype and the Sibling Wound — the often-overlooked ways sibling relationships shape identity, attachment, mental health, and spiritual development.

Drawing from her own childhood experience with older half-brothers, Christine shares how early rejection influenced her sense of belonging and interpersonal patterns, and how motherhood became a surprising source of healing.

This episode dives into:
• Family roles and sibling dynamics
• How children internalize rejection during ages 0–7
• Disenfranchised grief after sibling loss
• Archetypes, mythology, and Jungian depth psychology
• How sibling wounds show up in adulthood and in therapy
• A gentle EFT release for the inner child
• An introduction to my own Trauma healing modality

If you’ve ever felt unseen in your family, struggled with belonging, or carried the echo of childhood wounds into adulthood, this episode offers insight, compassion, and a pathway toward healing.

You are everything, and nothing less.

In this episode, we explore the sacred meeting place between Mother Nature and God — the space where the mystical, the psychological, and the deeply human all converge.

Through personal stories, shamanic experiences, clinical insight, and neuropsychology, Christine shares how the Divine often speaks through the natural world. From childhood spiritual encounters, to animal allies, to a profound lightning moment in 2020, this episode examines how intuition, nature, and God form a single, ongoing conversation.

You’ll hear about:
🌿 Early spiritual connections + the “imaginary friend” who wasn’t imaginary
🌿 The psychology of why nature helps us hear God clearly
🌿 How animals, elements, and synchronicities deliver spiritual messages
🌿 Water as the Divine Feminine
🌿 A powerful direct sign in the form of lightning
🌿 How nature accelerates healing inside clinical therapy
🌿 Why mysticism, shamanism, and psychology all point to the same Divine source

Whether you call it God, Source, Spirit, the Universe, or the Creator — you will leave this episode feeling grounded, connected, and spiritually seen.

✨ This podcast is where mind and mystery sit together.
✨ Where healing becomes multidimensional.
✨ Where your inner world is just as sacred as your outer one.

If this episode resonated, please support, like, or subscribe.
Your presence here helps expand this sacred corner of the world.

🌙 Connect with Christine:
Website: https://www.merkabasacredhealing.com
Instagram: @TheLCMHCMystic
Podcast: LCMHC Mystic Musings (Spotify + Apple)

✨ Thank you to every listener, follower, and donor who supports this work.
Your energy, your generosity, and your devotion to healing help weave this space into something larger than all of us.

You are everything and nothing less.

In today’s episode, Christine explores the Baader–Meinhof Phenomenon — also known as the frequency illusion — and how this psychological pattern weaves directly into our healing, our subconscious, and the magic of what we choose to notice.

This phenomenon is that strange experience when something you become aware of suddenly begins appearing everywhere. But what if we look at it through both a clinical lens and a mystical one?

Christine dives into:

✨ How selective attention & confirmation bias shape our reality
✨ Why the subconscious mind filters what we see and experience
✨ How Internal Family Systems (IFS) and “no bad parts” connect to noticing patterns
✨ How frequency, energy, and awareness influence the Baader–Meinhof effect
✨ Why healing shifts what shows up in our external world
✨ What happens when we intentionally choose to notice the good
✨ The deeper metaphor of the “good witch” and the “wicked witch” inside us
✨ How perception becomes a kind of magic — a frequency we project and receive

This episode blends psychology, mysticism, and the quiet power of inner awareness.
You may walk away asking yourself:

What am I noticing?
And what might be noticing me back?

✨ You are everything and nothing less.

FOLLOW CHRISTINE FREE:
Instagram: @TheLCMHCMystic
Website: www.merkabasacredhealing.com

Episode 1 • Season 1

In this first episode of LCMHC Mystic Musings, Christine Free — Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, energy healer, hypnotherapist, yoga instructor, mystic, and mother — opens the door to a sacred space where psychology and spirituality meet.

Christine shares the story of her path: from being the “therapist friend” as a child, to formally entering the world of trauma-informed counseling, and ultimately stepping fully into her soul’s work as The LCMHC Mystic — blending clinical wisdom with mystical insight, somatic awareness, and energy medicine.

This episode sets the tone for the journey ahead.
You’ll hear Christine’s vision for this podcast, the intention behind every musing, and her invitation to listen with curiosity, openness, and the knowing that nothing within you needs to be fixed — only remembered.

The episode closes with a gentle breathwork practice to help you reconnect to your heart space and return to your wholeness — the part of you that has witnessed everything you’ve survived, learned, and become.

✨ Reflective Prompt:
What part of me longs to be remembered today?

✨ Signature Reminder:
You are everything and nothing less.

Connect with Christine Free:
🌿 Website: www.merkabasacredhealing.com
✨ Socials: @TheLCMHCMystic

Gentle Disclaimer:
I’m still new to the world of podcasting, sound editing, and bringing these musings to life in audio form — so thank you for bearing with me as I navigate this creative process. Each episode will get a little smoother as I find my rhythm. I appreciate your patience and your presence as we grow this sacred space together.