Brugmansia podcast
by Charla Adams, J.D., LPC, NCC
Brugmansias are flowers that bloom and only become most fragrant at night. The flower is also known as “Angels Trumpets”. Charla E. Adams, owner of Brugmansia Counseling Group PLLC chose Brugmansia’s name because she desires to help her clients continue to flourish even through life’s darkest moments. The Brugmansia weekly podcast is hosted by Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Attorney Charla E. Adams. This podcast is dedicated to providing insights, strategies, and support to help navigate life's challenges and enhance your mental health.
Episodes
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Season 2 Episode 26: The Art of Receiving: Letting Life Love You Back
This episode explores why receiving often feels harder than giving and how unworthiness, fear, or control can block our blessings. Learn how to open your heart, soften your body, and allow life’s love, support, and abundance to flow in freely.
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Season 2 Episode 25: The Haunted House
Step inside The Haunted House, where we explore what it truly means to be haunted—by memories, grief, and unfinished stories. This episode unpacks how to face the shadows within and reclaim your inner home with courage and light.
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Season 2 Episode 24: Forbidden Pages: The Stories We’re Afraid to Write
Forbidden Pages: The Stories We’re Afraid to Write explores the hidden chapters of our lives—the truths we silence, the emotions we bury, and the memories we avoid putting into words. In this episode, Charla E. Adams invites you to gently face the stories your soul still holds, guiding you to...
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Season 2 Episode 23: Burn This Book After Listening
This episode, “Burn This Book After Listening,” invites you into a sacred ritual of release—writing the words you’ve never dared to say and setting them free through fire. It’s about transmuting pain into power, truth into liberation, and letting the ashes become your renewal. Join Charla Adams…
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Season 2 Episode 22: The Three Things You’re Scared to Say
This episode uncovers the unspoken truths we hold inside—the pain we never name, the help we’re afraid to ask for, and the authentic self we hide from the world. Together, we’ll explore why these words feel so dangerous and how silence keeps them locked in the body. With compassion and gentle...
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Season 2 Episode 21: Lean Into Flow: Trusting Life After Control
This episode explores the shift from gripping tightly to life through control to softening into trust and flow. Together, we’ll uncover how surrender can bring peace, alignment, and unexpected freedom when we release what we cannot hold.
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Season 2 Episode 19: The Medicine of Saying NO
This episode reveals the healing power of saying NO, not as rejection. But as sacred protection. Discover how boundaries can become medicine for your body, mind, and soul.Creating space for what truly matters.
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Season 2 Episode 20: Aligned YES - When Your Soul and Boundaries Agree
This episode explores the difference between saying Yes out of obligation and saying Yes from deep alignment. Learn how to recognize the Yes that expands your soul, honors your boundaries, and leads you toward freedom.
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Season 2 Episode 18: I'm Done
In this soul-stirring episode titled "I'm Done," Charla E. Adams explores the sacred power of choosing yourself, drawing the line, and walking away from what no longer honors your spirit. It's a raw, healing conversation for anyone ready to end the cycle of overgiving and finally reclaim their...
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Season 2 Episode 17: When Silence Breaks: Finding Your Voice After Hiding
This episode explores the journey of breaking silence and reclaiming the voice that’s been hidden by fear, shame, or survival. Together, we’ll practice gentle ways to speak truth, release old patterns, and rediscover the power of authentic expression.
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Unseen Weight: What We Carry but Rarely Speak
This episode explores the hidden burdens we silently carry—the griefs, roles, and unspoken struggles that weigh on our bodies and souls. Together, we’ll gently uncover, release, and even transform these unseen weights into seeds of healing and freedom.
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Season 2 Episode 15: The Love That Didn’t Happen: Soul Ties, Silence, and Sacred Goodbyes
In this episode of The Brugmansia Podcast, we explore the tender terrain of soul connections that never fully bloomed—those loves that stirred something deep but never took root. Through reflection, release, and ritual, we honor the silent grief of what could’ve been and reclaim our power to say…
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Season 2 Episode 14: The Soft Life is Sacred: Healing Hustle Trauma & Reclaiming Rest as Resistance
In this powerful solo episode, Charla E. Adams invites listeners to heal hustle trauma and embrace rest as a sacred, revolutionary act. Through truth-telling, nervous system wisdom, and soulful reflection, she guides you back to the softness your body and spirit have always deserved.
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Season 2 Episode 13: Feeling Stuck Financially: When The Money Doesn't Match The Effort
This episode explores the deeper meaning behind feeling stuck, revealing it as a protective pause from the nervous system—not a personal failure. Charla guides listeners to see stuckness as a sacred space for grief, reflection, and rebirth, offering gentle practices to restore inner safety and...
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Season 2 Episode 12: And Then It Was Too Late
In “And Then It Was Too Late,” Charla E. Adams explores the ache of missed moments, unspoken truths, and delayed healing—reminding listeners that waiting often costs us pieces of ourselves.
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Season 2 Episode 11: What You Need to Hear: The Raw Truth
In “What You Need to Hear: The Raw Truth,” Charla E. Adams delivers a bold and compassionate message about the ways we hide behind fear, shrink to stay accepted, and betray ourselves for the comfort of others. This episode reminds listeners that true healing requires honesty, boundaries, and the...
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Season 2 Episode 10: Ain't This A Duck
2-Sentence Summary: In this soulful episode titled “Ain’t This a Duck,” Charla E. Adams uses a phrase from her husband’s grandmother to explore those shocking, disappointing moments in life that are really just patterns we’ve ignored for too long. Through truth-telling and gentle reflection, she...
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Season 2 Episode 9: He Drew The Dream
In this heartfelt episode, Charla Adams shares a powerful story about her son Connor, who visited a dream home and then confidently drew their family living in it—demonstrating the pure, fearless vision of a child.
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Season 2 Episode 8: Life-Changing Truths People Never Disclose
In this raw and tender episode, Charla E. Adams gives voice to the quiet truths so many carry but really speak.
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Season 2 Episode 7: The Truth About Parent Guilt: Healing The Weight We Carry
In this deeply compassionate episode, Charla E. Adams unpacks the quiet, heavy ache of parent guilt - the kind that lingers beneath even the most loving intentions.
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Season 2 Episode 6: When Forever Breaks: Processing Hurt, Deception & Manipulation
In this soul-stirring episode, Charla E. Adams, holds space for the quiet devastation of betrayal - especially when it comes from someone you never thought would hurt you.
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Season 2 Episode 5: Five Hidden Blocks To Abundance - That You Didn't Know Were There
In this insightful episode, Charla E. Adams, explores 5 hidden ways we unknowingly block abundance - not through mindset alone, but through the body and nervous system.
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Season 2 Episode 4: From "Why Me?" To "What Now?"
Through her deeply personal story, Charla shares how to transition from 'victimhood' to wisdom utilizing a transformative method.
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Season 2 Episode 3: A Pot of Gumbo
Charla takes you back to her New Orleans, Louisiana roots. Sharing how Gumbo has deep ties to healing.
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Season 2 Episode 2: Sorry For Existing: The Guilt of Being First
Charla uncovers the invisible weights we often don’t have words to describe.
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Season 2 Episode 1: The Secret To Solid Boundaries
In this episode, Charla reveals the secret to building successful boundaries.
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Season 1 Finale: The Gift Of The Birch Tree
Charla ends her first season by discussing the beautiful and symbolic topic shown to us through the Birch Tree.
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Personal Psychodynamic Psychology
In this episode, Charla guides listeners to a better understanding of Personal Psychodynamic Psychology.
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Tantra - Improving Your Connection Between You and Your Partner
Charla explores the often misunderstood topic of Tantra and how it can improve the connection within your intimate relationships.
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Ego versus Willingness
Charla explores the interplay between Ego and Willingness and how they impact our lives.
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Embracing Change: Getting Older and Adjusting to New Limits
Charla discusses the life challenge and natural process of getting older, the lessons we can learn along the way, and how we can navigate this process with grace.
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Harnessing Your Supernatural Wellness: A Guide For An In-Home Sacred Spiritual Healing Garden
Charla introduces her new book and explores the transformative concept of creating your very own Sacred Spiritual Healing Garden in the comfort of your home.
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Hypnotherapy, Psychodrama, and Breathwork
This episode unravels what hypnotherapy, Psychdrama, and breathwork involves and how they can benefit your mental and emotional well-being. Special guests: Lisa Ruane and Zachariah Crooks.
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Navigating Mental Health Challenges with Our Youth
Charla introduces her book, " Beautifully Tye-ing the Pieces Together." Additionally, Charla and her son discuss tools and techniques that will successfully help youth with their mental health struggles.
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Embracing The New Year While Staying True To Yourself
Exploring how you can embrace the new year while staying true to your core identity.
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The Butterfly Effect
A discussion of how small changes can lead to significant transformations.
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Beautiful Holistic Gifts
Exploring Gifts you can give to others or to treat yourself in order to promote mental wellness.
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Healing From Maternal Relationships: Finding Balance and Growth
This episode will explore healing from maternal relationships while also exploring insights and strategies for finding balance and growth.
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Bodywork
Discussion on how bodywork can benefit your physical and emotional health
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Maintaining Martial Bliss Even When Faced With Difficulties (4 of 4)
Charla Adams and her guest, Terrance Adams, continue their discussion on successful strategies that can be used to sustain and strengthen intimate relationships.
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Maintaining Martial Bliss Even When Faced With Difficulties (3 of 4)
Charla Adams and her guest, Terrance Adams, continue their discussion on successful strategies that can be used to sustain and strengthen intimate relationships.
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Maintaining Martial Bliss Even When Faced With Difficulties (2 of 4)
Charla Adams and her guest, Terrance Adams, continue their discussion on successful strategies that can be used to sustain and strengthen intimate relationships.
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Maintaining Martial Bliss Even When Faced With Difficulties (1 of 4)
Charla Adams and her guest, Terrance Adams, discuss successful strategies that can be used to sustain and strengthen your intimate relationship.
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This Is Much Stronger Than a Spell
Discussion on how a spell is not needed in order to create change in your life. There are tools and practices that can be much stronger than a spell.
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Healing from Paternal Relationships
This episode will provide valuable insights and strategies for finding balance and growth when healing from paternal relationships.
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Gaslighting
Exploring the meaning of gaslighting and discussing who typically engages in this harmful behavior.
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Avoiding Doing The Work
Explore why we avoid tasks and how to overcome this behavior.
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Sadness and Depression
Exploring the difference between sadness and depression. Additionally, how to navigate the healing process if you're dealing with depression.
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Vulnerability and Shadow Work
This episode will offer insights into how vulnerability and shadow work can lead to profound change in your life
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What To Do When You Feel Someone Has Wronged You
Exploring practical steps for handling situations with grace and resilience when you feel you were wronged.
About this show
Brugmansias are flowers that bloom and only become most fragrant at night. The flower is also known as “Angels Trumpets”. Charla E. Adams, owner of Brugmansia Counseling Group PLLC chose Brugmansia’s name because she desires to help her clients continue to flourish even through life’s darkest moments. The Brugmansia weekly podcast is hosted by Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Attorney Charla E. Adams. This podcast is dedicated to providing insights, strategies, and support to help navigate life's challenges and enhance your mental health.
Hosted by
Charla Adams, J.D., LPC, NCC