In episode 13 of the podcast, I talk with Carissa Rodgers, a heart-centred Somatic Psychotherapist, Counsellor, Stress & Trauma Therapist, and Self-Compassion Coach. She is also the Co-Founder & Director of Wide Bay Counselling & Psychotherapy. . In this rich and powerful conversation, we talk about embodiment and its importance in healing trauma and grief. This is an inspiring and thought-provoking conversation.

:: The journey of trauma work

:: Feelings and embodiment

:: Nervous system

:: Seeking meaning and purpose

:: Trauma as a sacred gateway

:: Finding our deepest gifts through our trauma

:: Deep inner longing

:: Holding space for others particularly in grief

:: Unpacking and finding a place for grief in life

:: Grief as an everyday transitional change

:: Reconnecting with community to process grief

:: Connecting with our grief blueprint

:: How to feel supported in grief

:: The mystery and treasures of grief

Carissa holds qualifications in community services and completed her Master's degree in Gestalt Psychotherapy. She is also a Somatic Experiencing and Somatic Practice (touch for trauma) practitioner. All these methods are based deeply on neuroscience and the science of the nervous system to heal and move toward wellbeing.

Before entering private practice, Carissa spent over 12 years as a Counsellor and Community Educator serving a diverse range of people in community services. Of particular note, she played an instrumental role in helping her community recover from the trauma of successive floods through the development of workshops and the creation of a workbook for women to support their recovery process.

Through Wide Bay Counselling & Psychotherapy Carissa supports workplaces and organisations with Employee Assistance Programs, critical incident response and supervision for counsellors and helping professionals. Her specialised contracts include providing counselling, supervising and training for the Queensland Ambulance and Queensland Fire services.

In Episode 12 of The (re)Sourced Woman Podcast I sat with Louise O'Reilly a 'Warrwa-Noongar Aboriginal woman who focuses on cultural inclusion, diversity and anti-racism work for individuals and businesses from the inside out.'

In this inspiring call, we unpack

:: How inclusivity begins within

The Death Mother Archetype, which was first coined by Marion Woodman, can be confronting and debilitating. But when we move closer to this Archetype we dispel the idealised and idolised way that our culture, ancestors and familial landscape continue to feed and shape us from this Archetype. We can begin to bring healing, alchemy, self-compassion and acceptance to the human-ness of being a mother and woman.

Music by Finn Holleman

Aligning with who you Are goes much deeper than aligning with what you want, it brings you into connection with the power of life itself. When we align with who we are and tap into this resource within and around us we unlock the potential within.

In Episode 8 of The (re)Sourced Woman Podcast, I chat with Chameli Ardagh, my teacher and Founder of Awakening Women. We talk about feminine embodiment, why ancient mythology is so relevant for these times, resourcing yourself within, the power of storytelling, feelings as practise, Kali and the rhythm of Evolution.

In episode 7 I explore Embodiment practise particularly feminine in origin, the impact this 'in the body' practise has had on my clients and how it has powerfully healed and transformed my trauma, abuse, grief, loss and your connection to your power and body as well as supporting and deepening my other spiritual practices. Why moving your practice out of your head and into the body is the key to shifting cellular patterning and blockages from pain into joy. How to begin and continue your embodied practice journey and why it is still the most revolutionary and (re)Sourced spiritual practice that I still continue to use today.     

Healing your MotherLine is so important in finding your (re)Sources within. Patterns, trauma, abuse and dis-ease can be passed through the Ancestral Line where they become your story instead of the story of your ancestors. In this episode, I talk openly about the significance our ancestral lineage play in our daily lives, how I have healed (and continue to) the dis-ease, trauma and abuse in my own MotherLine, particularly the pattern of cancer in my Motherline. And how you can heal and transform the patterns of your own MotherLine to heal not just yourself and your ancestors but free yourself of the ancestral patterns that negatively impact your life.  

In episode 5 I delve into what the UnMothered Mother looks like and how this Archetype can inhibit connecting with yourself and your child. Sharing my own personal story with how I discovered and journeyed with this wound as a MotherLess Mother when I became a mother in 2007 and since then as a mother of 4 children. I share openly and candidly the ways in which you can heal this wound and how this wound is an opportunity to connect with your own self-compassion, love and power while discovering the mother within you.

In this episode, we talk Belonging, where anger fits in with what it is to be a spiritual woman and what it is to fully be YOU. In episode 4 of The (re)Sourced Womxn Podcast, I had the honour of sitting with Melanie Dewberry who is so very open, real and inspiring in her wisdom. In this episode, we talked about anger and spirituality, the common misconception that to be spiritual there is no place for anger. What it is to belong to self and source, to connect deeply within and how your intuition aka (re)Sourcing within is so important to who you as a womxn. And in today's climate what the term Indigenous means in a spiritual context.

Melanie is an Indigenous Ceremonialist, Seer, Speaker and author of the book ‘The Power of Naming. A journey towards your soul's Indigenous nature’ and a TEDx Speaker. She has described herself as a ‘Wordologist and in the business of troublemaking and wisdom’

This was an incredibly rich and beautiful conversation and I hope you enjoy where it takes you.