Phil Mollon PhD is a psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, and energy psychotherapist. He has pioneered the development of Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy and teaches Blue Diamond Healing, which he will guide us through in this interview. Get ready to tap into deeper healing work and explore the philosophy of healing from an energetic standpoint. Phil Mollon’s journey can perhaps be seen in his authorship—I ask him about that, and he says it’s on a continuum. Here are his books listed; I just like the sound of the titles even:

The Fragile Self: The Structure of Narcissistic Disturbance   Multiple Selves, Multiple Voices: Working with Trauma, Violation, and Dissociation   Remembering Trauma: A Psychotherapist's Guide to Memory and Illusion   Freud and False Memory Syndrome   The Unconscious   Releasing the Self: The Healing Legacy of Heinz Kohut   Shame and Jealousy: The Hidden Turmoils   EMDR and the Energy Therapies: Psychoanalytic Perspectives   Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy: Inspired by Thought Field Therapy, EFT, TAT, and Seemorg Matrix   The Disintegrating Self: Psychotherapy with Adult ADHD, Autistic Spectrum, and Somato-psychic Conditions   Pathologies of the Self: Exploring Narcissistic and Borderline States of Mind  

AND the one we speak of today: "Blue Diamond Healing: Exploring Transpersonal and Trans-Dimensional Aspects of Energy Psychotherapy" from Karnac 2022

In this chapter of TAP we talk about themes such as:

-Energy Psychology Approaches - Freud and Libido - similar to descriptions of life force - We do the actual Blue Diamond healing! - The energy system is where information is stored - Congruence and coherence - Unconscious objections and sabotage patterns - The American commercial culture in the energy healing business - yet they all work very well by activating the subtle energy system -Creating necessary entropy in the too-ordered patterns in the mind

- Pathogens and parasites and intrusions that give rise to dysfunctional patterns

-Errant coding that can exist in a number of higher dimensions

- The reason why psychedelic work

- The Blue Diamond Healing and the high heart point as direct access point to the unified field

- The work of William Tiller

- Why we attract more of the same

- The SACRED UNKNOWN EVOLVING SELF

-Transference in a new light

- How the blue diamond field will bring about what we ask, if we dont have internal objections - but what if we have unconscious traumatized parts of us that do object to healing?

- Coherent thoughts expressed in coherent sentences that can work like magic

And much more

LINKS:

Find the book we speak of right here: 

https://www.karnacbooks.com/product/blue-diamond-healing-exploring-transpersonal-and-transdimensional-aspects-of-energy-psychotherapy/96169/?MATCH=1

Phil Mollons website:

https://www.philmollon.net/

Phil Mollon also recommends the website of Noel Tobin, who describes very clearly some of the background science:

https://creation-principles.org/

Mannahs website:

https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

Do you know about and or practice Energy Psychotherapy? Our guest today, Ruthie Smith, is the Director on a Training Programme teaching energy psychotherapy to counsellors and psychotherapists (run by Energy Psychotherapy Training Ltd.)

I (Mannah) am over the moon about her book, "Energy, Soul-Connecting and Awakening Consciousness: Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm", as it serves as an essential meeting place for different methods and ways of thinking within contemporary trauma therapy, while being rooted in ancient wisdom.

I had an extended interview with Ruthie because the information in her book is vast. You can choose to listen, pause, and come back to it as many times as needed. Personally, I love the long format, and you might too as you join us.

Here’s what you’ll hear about if you choose to stay with us:

• Ruthie Smith weaves together insights from neurobiology, epigenetics, and consciousness studies, presenting a framework that alleviates trauma and fosters self-awareness and personal transformation.
• The meaning of multidimensionality
• The interconnections of mind and body.
• How to experience ease and grace in the flow.
• Methods for clearing trauma from both past and present life.
• Realising Interdependence 
• From 3D to 5D
• Quantum Mechanics
• A glimpse of awakening
• Manifestation
• David Hawkins scale (levels of consciousness)
• The Veils of the ego
• Past lives coming through into this life
• Clearing repetition compulsion
• The aquarian age and aquarian technology
• How to feel better much quicker 
• The way out of suffering
• Clearing the clouds of our emotions
• SHAME 
• Exploring the shift in consciousness and accessing different timelines as part of personal healing and growth.
• Heart consciousness - PRESENCE
• Synchronicity
• Pure Awareness- the light of our true nature
• A snake unwinding 
• The 4 ways to handle poisoned plants - different antidotes to negative emotions
• The path of liberation
• Tantra, the path of joy
• Dharma - discernment
• Spiritual principles
• The noble truths 
• Dhogzhen
• Are we egoistical or coming from the heart?
• Traumatic invalidation - when ones own perception is being invalidated - scapegoat archetype
• Energetic Boundaries 
• Our DNA, how we come from the starts and originally had 12 strands of DNA
• God Eternal within the body
• The wisdom in the unconscious 
• The trauma of our age as being disconnected from soul

Thank you for listening- Be aware of a correction from Ruthie: "Made a mistake with yanas around 56/57 minutes – I say that the first ‘noble truth’ of the Buddha is to do no harm – I was muddled and this is incorrect. I meant to say 

‘the first teaching of the Buddha– i.e the first turning of the wheel of the dharma’ - was to do no harm

Similarly it isn’t the 2nd ‘Noble truth’ with Mahayana – 

instead say ‘the second teaching of the Buddha– i.e the second turning of the wheel of the dharma’  "

LINKS:

Here is the book Energy, Soul Connecting and Awakening Consciousness - Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm:

 https://www.karnacbooks.com/product/energy-soul-connecting-and-awakening-consciousness-psychotherapy-in-a-new-paradigm/97034/

Learn more about Ruthies work:

Let’s tap into embodied learning, the role of neuroscience in therapeutic work and energetic experiences. I’m so pleased to welcome therapist, teacher, and speaker Kim Barthel. She is a seasoned educator with 40 years of experience- Kim Barthel travels the world providing workshops and mentorship to therapists, educators, social workers, physicians, special-needs care providers, and parents.

With her Sagittarian storytelling and value put on the experienced insights, we are well set up to tap in to these themes:

- Neuroplasticity and its role in knowing

- Why embodiment might come first

- Kim’s definition of healing

- The power of alignment and the expansive tension in us

- The difference between delusional optimism and having hope

- Spiritual connection and its relationship with the nervous system

- How polyvagal theory can ease shame

- The neurobiology of compassion and connection

- The attachment center in the brain

- Astrology’s transformative help—when it’s truly felt

- Staying curious and evolving our knowledge beyond the current research is essential

- Can talk therapy address somatic issues?

- Neurodevelopmental treatment and its impact

- Learning as an ongoing, layered process

- The magic of presence and energetic experiences that are not measurable 

- The need for multi-sensory engagement in effective therapy

- The missing emphasis on energy compared to earlier 

- Keep learning!!!

Plus, a quick look at the astrological archetypes of Sagittarius, Taurus, and Pluto in Aquarius.

Much love and thank you for listening!!

Learn more about Kim Barthel here:

https://www.kimbarthel.ca/

My website is:

https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

Happy New Year! I want to sprinkle some good energy in yor direction, so I’ve invited a great astrologer and writer. Gray Crawford is a full-time astrologer, and as he shares in this episode, his career really took off with Neptune in Pisces. Now, Neptune is changing signs, coming into a conjunction with Saturn. Mercury will be up to all sorts of tricks, the nodes are shifting signs, we got eclipses, Mars-Pluto dynamics — there’s a lot to look at! Gray is incredibly helpful in this episode, guiding us through what it all might mean and I do recommend his writings - see links below.

Best wishes — and remember, YOU HAVE A PLACE TO CALL WHOLE — even if you find yourself alone on New Year’s Eve, surrounded by annoying people, or experiencing anything in between.

Let’s catch up in the new year! We’ve still got lots to tap into, and I personally have a few solo episodes I want to create as well — let’s see how it will all go down in 2025!

Mannah

FIND MORE ABOUT Gray Crawford right here:

https://graycrawford.net/

I recommend his blog:

https://graycrawford.net/blog

His youtube is:

https://www.youtube.com/@graycrawfordastrology

My web is:

https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

“Someone who senses other people’s needs, problems, feelings, or pain and shows compassion for what the other person is going through.” This is the definition of sensitivity that Brid O'Donoghue writes about in her book "The Mystery of the Sensitive Child":

How can something so loving pose a challenge? We explore exactly that in this episode. Meet Brid O'Donoghue, author and spiritual healer, for a deep and meaningful conversation. Find links to her book and other work below.

Here are some key points we discuss in this episode:

• Levels of sensitivity 

• Sensitivity connected to spirituality

• Being grounded to not be pulled into other peoples energy

• The difference between disconnecting and switching off emotions

• Dissociation, How to emotionally step out and then not being able to remember school

• It’s not daydreaming — it’s survival

• Are you okay? Being a caring person versus what do they want from me?

• The habit of switching off as an adult

• Remembering that it’s safe to be in your body and be present

• The concept of running two emotional programs simultaneously

• T-shirt exercise

• The energy that impacts us the most is the one that was around us when we were small

• Anger - picking up on frustration 

• Not understanding sensitivity can lead to great trauma

• Fight-or-flight response - the flaw - and living on the edge

• Even when we want to keep everyone safe, we can become the bear 
• Identify the triggers and talk them off the cliff

• Calming tools for when kids are overwhelmed in class

• Different types of coping to try and control the situation

• Talking the day (I may have misheard this, but I liked it anyway) to come up with a strategic plan for the next day

• To not like the texture of things for example - figuring out what calms them and using it to their advantage- finding something they like the feeling of in this case
• Child friendly ways to bring them into the present

I hope you enjoy this episode and discover the hidden gems in it about this massive theme of sensitivity and Brid O'Donoghue's remarkable work in the field.

- Mannah

THE BOOK we speak about:

https://www.amazon.com/MYSTERY-SENSITIVE-CHILD-Brid-ODonoghue/dp/1739316304

Find more from Brid right here:

My website is:

https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

"Being isn't selfing — selfing is something we do to get something right. But if we approach life as though something is wrong, we become obsessed with what is right." (Quote from Dr. Michael Smith around 70 minutes in)

There’s no way I can summarize this conversation!! You just have to lie down, press play, and soak in Dr. Michael Smith's incredible inspiration.

I know Michael from the podcast Primordial Dao, Present Dao, but he is also an internationally respected clinician, author, speaker, and professor. As a doctor, he combines Functional Medicine, Evolutionary Nutrition, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Meditation, Breathwork, and Qi Gong to support individuals with autoimmune conditions, complex trauma, and addiction. I copied this intro from his website, which you can find below.

What I can summarize is that we speak about something like this:

• Assessing clients

• Intimacy and wisdom

• The difference between knowledge and wisdom

• Not practical but practicable

• A bit of Aries combat and survivalism

• Boundaries and how to care for your energy and woundedness

• Trauma bonding

• The authors of the DSM

• The DSM in the context of an industrial process

• Mercury in Pisces, because interviewing Michael feels out of this world

• The need for four hours of silence — the hippocampus can grow back

• If you keep waking up in the middle of the night, it might mean you need more silence

• Anchoring your spirit

• Exploring PTSD from a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective (Qing Zhi Bing — Traumatic and Emotionally Disorienting Wounds)

• Recognizing capacities and limits

• The skill set needed for helping people

• Emotionally disorienting wounds

• Your state of being — the person's vibe

• Your story and your "why"

• What we are certain we need to do

• The scars we have as the tapestry of our soul

• Imitating the client to better feel what life is like for them

• Ancient languages with verbs — sharing in relation, in experience

• What the client thinks of the world

• Metaphors to understand a quality

• How we all orient toward meaning

• Adaptive capacity

• Why TCM doesn’t really diagnose people

• Caring for clients’ symptomatic well-being while also helping them heal themselves

• The Six F's — we explore fawning

• The universe finding the center

• Different PTSD expressions

• Treating the sense of self

• How maturing spiritually changes how you relate to your symptoms

• A wound in the stomach (gastric ulcer) and how to relate to that "stress place" metaphorically

• Neuroception

• The importance of bonding with others rather than shaming experiences

• When soothing your pain makes you feel isolated and deep in existential pain

• When life becomes a matter of just getting through the pain

• The distress caused by diagnostic labels

• Training the mind and heart

• The self as a date at the prom

• Behind spirit is soul — but what is it like? Reorienting ourselves from literal phenomena to mindful awareness

• A rite of passage to let your self go

• Coming to truth rather than bouncing between extremes

• How healing begins with grieving and ends with gratitude

I really hope you enjoy this as much as I do.

— Mannah

LINKS to find more on Dr. Michael Smith:

https://somadaoqigong.com/

Embodied Psychotherapy, Spiritual Recapitulation, and Traditional Chinese Medicine course:

https://somadaoqigong.com/embodied-psychotherapy-spiritual-recapitulation-and-traditional-chinese-medicine/

Connect with Michael online:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/michaelsmithDr.TCM

[email protected]

Books (Kindle)

Qi Gong Book – Beginning Your Qi Gong Healing Journey

Returning to an Ancestral Diet

The podcast I know Dr. Michael Smith from - recommend it:

https://primordialdaopresentdao.podbean.com/

Mannahs website:

https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

Is it a part or your Self? Can I be in Self 100 percent while still wanting my clients not to hurt themselves? Is who I think I am truly me, or a manager? When an exile has been healed, do I still carry it within me? How do I know my parts are real and not just something I’ve made up? If you sometimes wonder about questions like these, this episode is for you!

This is the second episode in the series with John Clarke, helping us tap deeper into Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Parts Work. John is the Clinical Director of Calm Again Counseling, a member of the IFS teaching staff at IFSCA, and the host of the podcast Going Inside: Healing Trauma from the Inside Out.

Listen in as we speak about topics such as:

⎯ Honoring your parts by naming them ⎯ Being Self-led ⎯ How we quickly get into our parts, for example when it becomes really important to be understood ⎯ Noticing your body as your parts ask if their services are needed ⎯ Understanding the truth of the part ⎯ Managers burning out is one reason we go to therapy ⎯ Addictive parts and their intention ⎯ Having compassion for others softens their parts ⎯ Listening to angry parts ⎯ Asking parts: How are you trying to protect me? ⎯ How validation can lead to healing ⎯ Protectors, exiles, and perceived threats ⎯ We only get to know a handful of the players in our internal system ⎯ Parts mapping to deepen connection to parts ⎯ Restoring internal attachment: Will you be here when I need you the most? How much do I matter? ⎯ Adults still waiting for their parents to apologize ⎯ The self-like agenda in therapist parts that want to rescue clients ⎯ Protectors hurting for a good reason ⎯ Why it’s not helpful to shame protectors ⎯ Moving beyond a top-down approach that only manages symptoms ⎯ Why the goal is not to stop the behavior ⎯ Honoring separateness — don’t jump into the hole with people ⎯ John Clarke’s 84-year-old therapist’s words of love ⎯ The real job of a therapist/what therapists owe their clients ⎯ The paradox of healing: When you no longer need the client to get better, the client gets better ⎯ Empathy versus compassion ⎯ Why compassion fatigue doesn’t exist 

Thank you for being here — there’s definitely a part of me that wants you to stick around.

- Mannah

LINKS:

Find more on John Clarke:

https://www.johnclarketherapy.com/

Going Inside Podcast: 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-inside-healing-trauma-from-the-inside-out/id1728733093

The podcast episode I mention in the end that hits home for me speaking about religious trauma, is right here:

 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-inside-healing-trauma-from-the-inside-out/id1728733093

My website:

https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

Video version: https://youtu.be/Td4i12zXMLY

Welcome to the fourth chapter in the series about the work of Dr. Claus Springborg, who has a new book out — and it’s not a small one. We have plenty to talk about, and in this episode, we explore themes of agency, creating one’s own life, and how responsibility easily gets confused when situations are classified in certain ways.

Tap in as we talk about:

• • When and how we use automatic habits to create negative inner states, such as anxiety, nervousness about public speaking, and feeling personally attacked when given feedback.
  • How we create our lives through unconscious processes and become alienated from our own creation and the world.
  • Energy efficiency 
  • First, we create it, then fight it.
  • Recognizing one’s own agency.
  • If you are unaware that problems are your creations, you will not accept responsibility — how can we recognize what is within our control and what is not?
  • Getting the identity upside down — the essence of who you are being confused with how you structure your experience.
  • Seeing the machine room.
  • Logical categories of learning with Gregory Bateson.
  • "You can’t step into the same river twice," but the only way we can learn by trial and error is by classifying experiences as if they were the same.
  • Classifications create the world to which you are reacting.
  • Classifications that are unconscious and habitual.
  • There is no true way of classifying situations — but one’s classifications have real effects.
  • Not wanting to be mansplained to — and how to avoid it without having to change anyone else's behaviour.
  • When the problem shows up in therapy several times but hasn’t been healed — and why that is not necessarily a problem.

Find more on Dr. Claus Springborg right here:

https://www.sensingmind.com/dr-claus-springborg/

The book:

https://sensingmind.simplero.com/products/208860-Pre-Order-The-5-Knots-A-Guide-to-Being

Mannahs web:

https://www.mannahguldager.com/

Join us in tapping into a real 9th house discussion as we explore insights from the book "Where - The Metaphysics of Matter" by my guest Dennis Cobélean. I highly recommend sticking around for this one, as it only gets better when we tap into topics like the universe, matter, energy, consciousness, and ultimately, the point of it all.

Topics we discuss include:

• The idea that nothing is meaningless
• Treating everything as important and meaningful
• Creating balance and understanding energy patterns
• The story of Hakuin
• "When you let the energy from God or soul flow through your consciousness to your mind-body, it energizes the physical world" (quote from page 51)
• What matter is and what we are meant to do with it
• The Stone Ape Theory and its implications around psychedelics
• The relationship between beauty, matter, and the non-physical aspects of objects
• "You cannot manifest anything that your consciousness does not find useful for your journey"—what this means for personal development (quote from page 74)
• How non-moral beliefs become societal norms
• The mind’s challenge in grasping timelessness
• The tyranny of the mind and time
• Little mind and timeless mind
• The role of the hermit and loneliness in spiritual growth

And much more. This episode is especially for those reflecting on the meaning of life and existence. As I said, 9th house matters.

The astrology I mention is that Dennis was born on a lunar eclipse - An eclipse is a season finale, where everything is peaking, and when you are born on an eclipse, you can feel the pressure of everything that has been held back for generations, It also brings to a person that feeling of something special and of higher forces - kings and queens and other public figures are often born on eclipses - but what it means for a person in general is that there is so much happening through him, which can be overwhelming, and the person might slow it down in order not to drown in it.

LINKS:

The book: https://pegasuspublishers.com/books/dennis-cobelean/where

My website: 

https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

"You are in a new phase of the Earth, and the old decisions with predictable outcomes are not necessarily there." This quote from author and spiritual channel Kim Chamberlain captures a central theme of her chapter: everything is shifting! Some souls are leaving to assist us from a higher frequency.

Join us as we explore this new phase of the Earth and dive into key highlights from Kim’s contribution to the collaborative book Channelled Soul Messages: Guidance for Thriving in the World Today, written alongside six other authors. Each look at 14 life issues - its pretty cool put together!

TAP in as we discuss:

• Ascension
• How Kim channels
• The bumps and the songs
• Change is coming, and you chose it
• Your visible and invisible work
• Attuning to a higher vibration to come into individual power and purpose 
• Fear of missing out - and what you allow into your funnel
• The need to pause and slow down, especially because of INFORMATION OVERLOAD
• We vibrate at different levels
• Kids being born today as very different humans
• Is it possible to see your entire timeline?
• Society off track – the spiritual perspective
• Two aspects of loneliness
• The void and the need to retreat to reconnect with the soul
• Aries in the 12th house can mean: active self being spiritual connected- Pioneering for the collective purpose  - Creative Intelligence (that comes from who knows where) (Kim shares a powerful affirmation fitting the Aries archetype: "Your way is your way," while the 12th house represents "the great unknown," which she mentions in the very beginning "do not go where the path may lead" as this piscean archetype is "the great unknown"--  and she expresses those spirit energies through her Mars (ruler of aries) in the third house, in her writing)

I hope you enjoyed this insightful talk, and yes, its a new jingle playing, how are you coping? : -)

Links to discover MORE about Kim Chamberlain:

https://www.kimchamberlain.com/channelled-soul-messages

The Facebook group she runs ''Channelling Development & Spiritual Growth" https://www.facebook.com/groups/1966783297042867 

Mannahs web: 

https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/