The Liminal Therapist

If you feel things deeply and have ever looked to the stars to make sense of it, this conversation is for you. In the first guest episode of The Liminal Therapist Podcast, Theresa is joined by Jessica Love, known as The Astro Mama, to explore where the cosmos meets the body and how your chart can help you understand and honor your sensitivity.

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In this episode:

• How astrology can support sensitive souls
• Taking breaks from your chart and transits as a detachment practice
• The psychosynthesis practice “I have a body, but I am not my body”
• Dissociation as the body’s way of protecting you
• Meeting coping habits with compassion
• Building a life that fits how you naturally operate
• Natal, progressed, and solar return charts explained
• Chart placements Jessica often sees in highly sensitive people
• Using the elements to bring balance to your chart

Resources mentioned:

• Time Passages (free astrology app)
• Astro Finesse on YouTube
• Haley Comet Astrology
• Book a reading with Jessica at the-astromama.com

About Jessica
The Astro Mama is a Certified Professional Astrologer, Board Certified Psychospiritual Life Coach and Real-Life-Mama, who brings the cosmos down to Earth to help ground deep feelers, creatives and mystics through readings, forecasts and events. She is a Gemini Sun, Sagittarius Moon and Pisces Rising and focuses on de-mystifying astrology, while maintaining its integrity, so seekers can apply it to their day-to-day lives. When she’s not practicing/studying astrology, she’s chasing after her toddler, watching reality TV, picking up a random new hobby or going down a rabbit-hole of some kind.

🌐 the-astromama.com
📸 Instagram: @theastromama_

About Theresa
Theresa Russell is a licensed somatic therapist and dreamwork guide who supports highly sensitive people come back to themselves. Her approach helps sensitive people move from doubt to trust by better understanding what their body is telling them.

🌐 theresarussell.co
📸 Instagram: @the.liminal.therapist

🎧 Edited by @cardinalstudio.co

Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only. Listening to the podcast does not constitute therapy or a therapeutic relationship. If you are looking to begin therapy and are in the state of California, book an initial consult with Theresa here.

What does it mean to feel alive?

I brought these questions to a small group of women in San Diego. And what came back was something true — the kind of honesty that makes you want to lean in.

We explored five questions together:

• When did you first remember feeling truly alive?
• What does being alive mean to you?
• Tell me about the last time you felt most like yourself
• What would you do if no one was watching?
• What does your body feel like when you're most alive?

Solo travel in a foreign city where all your senses ignite. The first time you realize you don't need anyone else to feel whole. A five hour breathwork session that unlocks something words never could. Standing front row at a concert you dreamed about as a teenager and thinking — look, I made it here.

These are the moments where aliveness happens. The moments when you come back to yourself as a living breathing being.

This is Alive. A series about what it means to be human.

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Meet the Guests:

Bethany Phillips — Somatic embodiment practitioner and love coach helping people attune back to the language of their body to create a life that is safe, desire-led, and joy filled.📱 @hersacredsoma🌐 hersacredsoma.com

Carina Fleckner — Born in Germany, raised in Rio de Janeiro, Carina spent 23 years teaching English across Brazil, Spain, England, and San Diego — helping people find the words for who they are. Now she does that with a camera. She's a personal branding photographer for female entrepreneurs in San Diego whose real work begins before she ever picks up the camera.📱 @carinafleckner_photography🌐 carinaflecknerphotography.com

Fernanda Calloway — Founder of Planted Nowhere, a company weaving together media, storytelling, business consulting, and spiritual education. Through her podcast At Spiritual Speed and her intuitive offerings she helps people grow personally, professionally, and spiritually.📱 @plantednowhere

Jazmin Cornejo — Founder of BIZZBITCH Community, a private membership for female founders built around genuine connection, and host of the BIZZBITCH Podcast, where she shares the real conversations that remind us we're not meant to build alone.📱 @bizzbitchcommunity | @jazminmcornejo🌐 jazmincornejo.com

Your HostTheresa Russell — Licensed Therapist | Somatic Practitioner | Dreamwork Guide🌐 theresarussell.co📱 @the.liminal.therapist

Accepting therapy clients in California

💙Book a 15 minute consult: Request appointment | Theresa Russell Marriage and Family Therapy, A professional corporation | SimplePractice

Have you ever noticed how much drinking is woven into everyday life — the ads, the television shows, the gold chalice in every hand on Love Is Blind?

In this episode, I get curious about our collective relationship with alcohol and what's underneath it. Not to pass judgment, but to ask a genuine question: what are you actually looking for when you drink? More and more people are waking up to that question. This episode is an invitation to sit with it yourself.

Can you handle unread messages? It sounds like a simple question but it actually says a lot about your nervous system, your boundaries, and how you're navigating life in a digital world that was never designed for the way we're built. In this episode we explore two types of people, what your relationship with your phone might be telling you, and what happens when the override becomes the new normal.

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A note before you engage:

This space is shaped by my work as a therapist — but it isn't therapy. Take what resonates, leave what doesn't.

🦋 Accepting clients in California. Ready to work together? Reach out at [email protected]

🌹 theresarussell.co

I deleted ChatGPT from my phone. Not forever, but because I noticed something — I was relying on it in a way that started to feel automatic. This episode is a short, honest reflection on AI, intuition, and what it means to be a living breathing human in a world increasingly shaped by machines. Because while AI can be a tool, it is not a replacement for your gut. What's your relationship with it?

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A note before you engage:

This space is shaped by my work as a therapist — but it isn't therapy. Take what resonates, leave what doesn't.

🦋 Accepting clients in California. Ready to work together? Reach out at [email protected]

🌹 theresarussell.co

In this episode, we’re exploring life force energy - a concept from Somatic Experiencing that describes the aliveness within you. That pulse of energy, passion, or even restlessness you feel. It’s not always anxiety. Sometimes it’s your body waking up to itself.

We get into what life force energy actually is, why it can feel uncomfortable even when it’s a good thing, and what it looks like to contain it without realizing you’re doing it.

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A note before you engage:

This space is shaped by my work as a therapist — but it isn't therapy. Take what resonates, leave what doesn't.

🦋 Accepting clients in California. Ready to work together? Book a free consult on my website.

theresarussell.co

[email protected]

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Abi blakeslee

https://www.abiblakeslee.com

In this episode, we're exploring the relationship between social media and mental health — specifically how using pain points as a connection strategy can actually keep people stuck in their suffering.

We also get into the difference between identifying with your symptoms (anxiety, codependency, depression) versus recognizing you're a person experiencing those symptoms. A gentle but important distinction that changes how healing can feel.

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A note before you engage:

This space shares education and reflection shaped by my work as a therapist—but it isn’t therapy.

Nothing here replaces individualized care, and not everything will apply to every human or nervous system.

Please see the pinned disclaimer for more context.

🦋 California therapy inquiries are welcome

🦋 Reflections shared by email

More on my website 🌹

www.theresarussell.co

[email protected]

Do you ever imagine your boundaries as a physical force around you? For me, it’s usually a clear bubble.

In this episode we explore the possibilities of using imagery when wanting to create a little more protection or distance from others. This one is for the deep feeler who takes on others emotions.

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A note before you engage:

This space shares education and reflection shaped by my work as a therapist—but it isn’t therapy.

Nothing here replaces individualized care, and not everything will apply to every human or nervous system.

Please see the pinned disclaimer for more context.

🦋 California therapy inquiries are welcome

🦋 Reflections shared by email

More on my website 🌹

www.theresarussell.co

[email protected]

Tired of pushing, efforting, doing more? What would it look like to pause and give yourself a break. Healing is not your purpose. And rest is a healthy part of existence.

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A note before you engage:

This space shares education and reflection shaped by my work as a therapist—but it isn’t therapy.

Nothing here replaces individualized care, and not everything will apply to every human or nervous system.

Please see the pinned disclaimer for more context.

🦋 California therapy inquiries are welcome

🦋 Reflections shared by email

More on my website 🌹

www.theresarussell.co

[email protected]

If you’ve ever been overwhelmed in an airport - this one’s for you.

What if your irritation is not about being around people, those lights, those sounds but the fact that those external things are louder than you? Recognizing you are overstimulated is power.

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A note before you engage:

This space shares education and reflection shaped by my work as a therapist—but it isn’t therapy.

Nothing here replaces individualized care, and not everything will apply to every human or nervous system.

Please see the pinned disclaimer for more context.

🦋 California therapy inquiries are welcome

🦋 Reflections shared by email

More on my website 🌹

www.theresarussell.co

[email protected]