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What happens when the healing journey itself becomes another thing to optimize? In this conversation, Sammi Rose Barrett — teacher of somatics for the female nervous system — traces her own path from vinyasa yoga through yin, through burnout, through motherhood, into the work she does now. We talk about the difference between forcing a cathartic experience and letting the body arrive at one on its own; the particular flavor of shame that gets mistaken for personal failure when it's actually collective and structural; and why so much of "wellness culture" is really just perfectionism cloaked in another form. Sammi offers a grounded, funny, unsentimental picture of what it looks like to live in a female nervous system that ebbs and flows rather than grinds forward — and why oxytocin, not another five-step protocol, might be the thing most of us are actually starved for.

Molly's Offerings:
Sliding scale therapy offerings available to California residents for a limited time at Vessel Psychotherapy and Healing Collective 

Find Sammi Rose:
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Access Sammi's Somatic Self Touch Library

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-Veronica @wakingwomb

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This podcast was produced in association with Channel the Sun by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.  Musical stylings by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.

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In this episode, depth + somatic psychotherapist, and The Whole Paradox Host, Molly Mitchell-Hardt welcomes psychotherapist, yogi, and mindfulness teacher, Jodi Strock LMFT for the third time (they love talking to each other!).  They talk about:

• ways to support ourselves in times of turmoil and upheaval
• bridge building in times of division
• the relief in the unveiling, even when it is painful
• projection and personal responsibility as practice
• internalized patriarchy
• the dehumanization inherent in US capitalism
• visions of the future
• grief work
• and much more...

Molly's Offerings:
To inquire about 1:1 work or about 1 x per month Cycle-Synced Deep Tide Sessions, schedule a free consultation or email [email protected]

Find Jodi Strock:
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Reach out to Jodi for details on her workshops and Retreats: [email protected]

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Check out Vessel Psychotherapy and Healing Collective for psychotherapy support throughout California

This podcast was produced in association with Channel the Sun by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.  Musical stylings by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.

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In this episode, Molly Mitchell-Hardt interviews dear friend and colleague, trained Depth Psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Psychedelic Facilitator and Integration Therapist, Pilar Brooks for the second time.  They discuss:

• What is therapy anyway?!
• What depth psychology is and its role in the modern landscape of the psychological field 
• The plant medicine path 
• Meeting people where they are
• Soul-centered practice 
• Walking through grief
• And much more...

Find Pilar Brooks:
Follow Pilar @somasenses
Check out her offerings on her website.

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Check out Vessel Psychotherapy and Healing Collective for psychotherapy support throughout California

This podcast was produced in association with Channel the Sun by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.  Musical stylings by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.

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In this episode, depth + somatic psychotherapist, and The Whole Paradox Host, Molly Mitchell-Hardt again welcomes psychotherapist, yogi, and mindfulness teacher, Jodi Strock LMFT.  They talk about:

• Jodi begins with a ~10 minute grounding meditation
• navigating fear, despair, and grief in our time
• buddhist practice and psychology
• the myth of separation and what feeds polarization versus connection 
• meeting self with compassion and care 
• and much more...

Molly's Offerings:
To inquire about 1:1 work or about 1 x per month Cycle-Synced Deep Tide Sessions, schedule a free consultation or email [email protected]

Find Jodi Strock:
Follow Jodi on instagram
Reach out to Jodi for details on her workshops and Retreats: [email protected]

January will be Jodi's Mom and Teen Workshop

4 Day Women's Retreat in San Lois Obispo February 19th-22nd

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Check out Vessel Psychotherapy and Healing Collective for psychotherapy support throughout California

This podcast was produced in association with Channel the Sun by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.  Musical stylings by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.

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In this episode, depth + somatic psychotherapist and The Whole Paradox Host, Molly Mitchell-Hardt interviews couples psychotherapist and coach Ashley Batistick for the second time, because the first time was so juicy! They talk:

• Marriage on multi-dimensional levels
• Tension around the distribution of the labor in relationships and what lies underneath this dynamic 
• Couples therapy and the Emotionally Focused Therapy modality
• Limitations and challenges in navigating relationships in the modern context
• Having a relationship to something greater than us as a way through the present chaos and upheaval
• Romantic relationships as a vessel of individuation and pulling our projections back
• Grief work and ecstatic sense of connection
• and much more...

Find Ashley Batistick:
Follow Ashley Batistick on instagram and substack
Visit Ashley's therapy website and coaching website

Molly's Offerings:
To inquire about 1:1 work or about 1 x per month Cycle-Synced Deep Tide Sessions, schedule a free consultation or email [email protected]

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Check out Vessel Psychotherapy and Healing Collective for psychotherapy support throughout California

This podcast was produced in association with Channel the Sun by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.  Musical stylings by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.

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In this episode, depth + somatic psychotherapist, and The Whole Paradox Host, Molly Mitchell-Hardt interviews Medicine Stories podcast Host, Amber Magnolia Hill. They talk about:

• the experience of a metabolic health crisis - chronic fatigue, depression, and weight gain
• the dangers of chasing the "optimization of health" and "bio-hacking"
• the myths of the health and wellness space
• the danger of cutting carbs
• the down regulation of metabolism due to restrictive eating
• weight gain due to under eating
• remineralization
• the pro-metabolic diet
• and much more...

Molly's Offerings:
To inquire about 1:1 work or about 1 x per month Cycle-Synced Deep Tide Sessions, schedule a free consultation or email [email protected]

Find Amber Magnolia Hill:
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Amber's Website

Check out Amber's Podcast

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Check out Vessel Psychotherapy and Healing Collective for psychotherapy support throughout California

This podcast was produced in association with Channel the Sun by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.  Musical stylings by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.

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In this episode, depth + somatic psychotherapist, and The Whole Paradox Host, Molly Mitchell-Hardt interviews psychotherapist, yogi, and mindfulness teacher,  Jodi Strock LMFT. They talk about:

• sensitivity and abandoning our sensitivity
• the healing journey
• buddhist practice and psychology
• the courage of vulnerability
• meeting self with compassion and care
• deep listening 
• and much more...

Molly's Offerings:
To inquire about 1:1 work or about 1 x per month Cycle-Synced Deep Tide Sessions, schedule a free consultation or email [email protected]

Find Jodi Strock:
Follow Jodi on instagram
Reach out to Jodi: [email protected]

References: Support your local bookstore

Follow us @mollymitchellhardt and @thewholeparadox

Check out Vessel Psychotherapy and Healing Collective for psychotherapy support throughout California

This podcast was produced in association with Channel the Sun by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.  Musical stylings by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.

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This the fourth meditation in this series, led by depth and somatic psychotherapist Molly Mitchell-Hardt Field. 

This meditation (< 10 Mins) is meant to do while doing the chores of the home and is intended to remind us of the sacred in the mundane, allowing us to slow down and become more present in our embodied experience. Feel free to put this meditation on while cleaning, doing laundry, doing dishes and allow it to work on and within you. 

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Check out Vessel Psychotherapy and Healing Collective for psychotherapy support throughout California

This podcast was produced in association with Channel the Sun by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.  Musical stylings by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.

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In this special episode of The Whole Paradox, we collaborate with The Pink Hearse Podcast where hosts and partners Molly Mitchell-Hardt Field and Zachary Murdock interview Jungian Analyst, author, and host of This Jungian Life Podcast, Lisa Marchiano. 

Together, we explore "the mysterious identity of the Lilith archetype, how to kill time during an apocalypse, and the difference between dad jokes and mom jokes. And a bunch of other depthy things of course." -Zachary Murdock

Molly's Offerings:
To inquire about 1:1 work or about Molly's Sacred Motherhood Online Support Group, schedule a free consultation or connect here.

Find Lisa Marchiano:
Discover Lisa's books                                                                                                    Follow Lisa's work
Find Lisa's podcast This Jungian Life

Find Zachary Murdock:
Follow Zachary on instagram
Listen to The Pink Hearse Podcast

Song: “how many buddhas?” 

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Check out Vessel Psychotherapy and Healing Collective for psychotherapy support throughout California

This podcast was produced in association with Channel the Sun by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.  Musical stylings by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.

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In this episode, depth and somatic psychotherapist, Molly Mitchell-Hardt Field dives into the archetypal pattern of psychological transformation as depicted in the art and science of Alchemy. She argues that a symbol understanding of alchemy serves as a foundational understanding of psychology.

"Alchemy can serve as a framework to hold the archetypal patterns of transformation, not only intrapsychically, but also interpsychically between two people, a group of people or even on a global scale. When we are able to see ourselves in an archetypal pattern, it takes us out of the solopsistic view of the individual and into a sense of connection to the all, the everything. We get out of the illusion that we are alone in our experiences, in our own heads, in our own lives, even in our own time on the planet. It connects us to this universal substrate of reality. On some level, I believe that to understand psychology one must understand alchemy."

Molly's Offerings:

To inquire about 1:1 work or about Molly's Sacred Motherhood Online Support Group, schedule a free consultation or email [email protected]

References:

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The Anatomy of the Psyche by Edward Edinger

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Check out Vessel Psychotherapy and Healing Collective for psychotherapy support throughout California

This podcast was produced in association with Channel the Sun by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.  Musical stylings by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.