Women In-Depth: Conversations about the Inner Lives of Women

Diane D. Rodriguez, known affectionately as Dee Dee Rodriguez, is a registered mental health counselor intern with a private practice in Melbourne, Florida. With a passion for grief care, education and advocacy she can often be heard saying that she helps the bereaved heal their matters of their heart, mind, body and soul as they discover meaningful living despite everyday grieving. She holds a Master of Science in Counseling and Psychology with a focus on clinical mental health and a certification in addictions counseling. Her undergrad is in social psychology and she has a long history of working with families with children diagnosed with childhood cancer, is an avid bone marrow donor advocate and volunteered providing 11th hour services in adult hospice care. Diane is married to her high school sweetheart of 30+ years, has four children and is a blue star wife, mom and a gold star cousin.

Her grief specialty focuses on traumatic and sudden loss, child loss, parental loss and the loss of a spouse or significant other. In her couples work she helps couples who struggle with grief recovery from infidelity and betrayals. Her vision is to create a culture where grief care is embraced empathetically and compassionately; so that grief illiteracy and avoidance is replaced with compassionate connections that nourish a life in alignment with each individual's authentic wellbeing.

Gina Abbeduto has been in the helping professions for the last 20 years, working as a psychotherapist and teaching psychology. Her work as a therapist revolves around the belief that clients are the experts in their own lives.

After earning her Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Law & Society from Purdue University in 1995, she completed my Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology from Benedictine University in 1998. Since that time, she has practiced in various settings, including a psychiatric hospital, community mental health center, partial hospitalization programs, and private practice. She also taught undergraduate psychology at Benedictine University and graduate psychology at Lewis University and facilitated training programs for Job Corps in Joliet, Illinois.

With her move from Chicago at the end of 2011, she brought fourteen years of expertise with effective, non-pathologizing models such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, mindfulness-infused models which offer clients the gift of embracing the power to change and create new meaning in their lives.

Debra Oakland is a Courage Advocate, Writer, Joyful Experiences, and founder of Living in Courage Online – A Spiritual Oasis for Overcoming Life's Biggest Challenges and author of Change Your Movie, Change Your Life: 7 Reel Concepts for Courageous Change. Over a period of 4 years Debra experienced multiple losses: she lost her 21 year old son, her baby girl in the 8th month of pregnancy, both brothers, and her father. The loss experienced during this time was life - altering and illuminated a path forward that Debra never saw coming. Debra's work since that point has been to share her story of courage and strength. Showing people that in the midst of immense tragedy, there are silver linings, and we each have own path to fearlessness. By sharing experiences in and around courage, we have the opportunity to make a powerful difference in our lives. Debra lives in Laguna Beach California with her husband and best-friend, Cody.

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Beth Luwandi Lofstrom, MA, LPC is a licensed psychotherapist and Life Coach in private practice in Cincinnati, Ohio. She works with couples and individuals experiencing betrayal, loss, and relationship tangles. Her Whole Human Theory (TM) suggests that a

Welcome to the podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Boysen Hodgson. Boysen is the Communications and Marketing Director for the ManKind Project USA, a nonprofit mentoring and training organization that offers powerful opportunities for men's personal growth at any stage of life.

Boysen has been facilitating men's work for nearly a decade. He's a co-founder of the Springfield Open Men's Group, former Director for the New England ManKind Project Center, and author of "The New Macho," a credo for the new masculine. Boysen has been featured in numerous radio programs and publications including a New Conversation with Men, Good Men Project, Dallas Voice, and the Sunday Times of London.

Boysen received his BA with Honors from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, after completing 2 years of Design coursework at Cornell University. He has been helping organizations and individuals design the change they wish to see in the world for 15 years. He's a dedicated husband, a cyclist, and an urban homesteader.

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Ashlee teaches highly sensitive empathetic women to live a "hell yes" life where they leave the shoulds behind. Her clients learn to live a passion-filled, turned-on, lit-up life where everything is possible, and to connect with their own intuitive genius.

She helps her clients stop prioritizing other people's opinions; to give themselves permission to go after their own desires; to be deeply self-expressed, self-confident, and vibrant; and to release the limiting beliefs that have made them feel selfish or self-centered for putting themselves first in the past.

She has her Ph.D. in psychology, is powerfully psychic, and has over a decade of experience helping hundreds of people transform to feeling passionate, vibrant, fulfilled, and joyful.

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Dr. Rachna Patel has been practicing in the area of Medical Marijuana for half-a-decade now - since 2012.

She step-by-step walks patients through how to use medical marijuana for their specific medical condition without getting high off of it, without getting addicted to it, and without smoking it.

She speaks from the experience of having treated thousands of patients and having thoroughly reviewed the medical research on marijuana.

She completed her medical studies at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine (Vallejo, California) and her undergraduate studies at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois).

You can learn more about the work she does at www.DrRachnaPatel.com

• What conditions do you commonly treat?

• What results have you seen in the patients that you've treated with medical marijuana?

• How exactly does marijuana relieve pain?

• How does marijuana reduce inflammation?

• How is it possible to use medical marijuana without getting high off it?

• Are there ways to use medical marijuana other than smoking it?

• Is marijuana addictive?
• Who should not use medical marijuana?

Website

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Twitter: @DrRachnaPatel

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Welcome to the Podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Laura Beann, LCSW, a therapist specializing in Psycho-Shamanic Counseling.

Laura recognizes that there are unseen resources to assist in healing and helps client discover those resources; explore the material of dreams; and reconnect with lost parts of themselves.

Laura was nudged by her helping spirits to commit to a shamanic path when a powerful initiatory experience changed her life. Laura believes that accessing and befriending spirit guides provides empowerment and healing. Her own experience of shamanic healing led her to complete a three-year shamanic training and initiation.

Laura’s shamanic and social work training includes Julie M. Kramer’s Three Year Initiation and Professional Training. Laura has a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Denver and clinical training in co-occurring disorders and medical social work.

Laura is also a member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (FSS).

Today, Laura is based in Santa Rosa, California where she provides psychoshamanic work for individuals and facilitates shamanic group work and retreats. She offers sessions in-person, phone, and video counseling over Zoom.

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Welcome to the Podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Dalila Jusic-LaBerge, LMFT. Dalila specializes in working with accomplished women, who yearn for love but feel lost in romantic relationships. She helps them heal, connect to their own emotions, develop intuition, and be ready to connect on a deeper emotional level with loved ones.

Dalila is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, with an MA degree in Clinical Psychology with Emphasis on Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University. Prior to her graduate work in clinical psychology, she attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she completed her BA in psychology and worked in research involving health psychology. She has been practicing in this field for over nine years.

Born and raised overseas, she has traveled around the world and met many people from different cultures. She came to the United States, where she completed her formal higher education and training. Her diverse life experience taught her that happiness is a skill and it can be learned and practiced daily. She loves working with divorced women, helping them grow to become their true self from where they can enjoy loving and respectful relationships.

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Welcome to the Podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by Marilyn Steele, PhD. Marilyn is a Jungian psychologist, author, speaker, and painter. Her work is dedicated to helping women access their wild feminine and return wild feminine power to the world.

Marilyn has worked with hundreds of patients and students in her 30 years as a Jungian psychotherapist and teacher, in their journeys of healing and learning - to connect with their wild souls to restore vitality, renew creativity, replenish joy.

As a writer and speaker, she has woven a new story of the Self from her thirty years of original research into women's lives, feminist epistemology, new science, and Jungian archetypal psychology.

Marilyn's career began with education, and progressed to psychology, art, writing and speaking. She completed her Master's of Education from The Raskob Institute in 1979 and worked with gifted adolescents with learning disabilities. She later returned to school for her Master's and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA, concentrating on female psychology and the evolution of consciousness.

During her career as a Jungian psychologist, Marilyn also taught at graduate schools and provided continuing education for psychotherapists on the topics of female psychology and re-visioning the self.