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The Embodied Podcast
by Dr. Danielle Alexander
This podcast explores human experiences and concepts through a depth psychological lens. In the podcast I discuss holistic methodologies that help individuals heal and integrate mind, body and spirit to create deep relationships with internal and external barriers to create a deeply meaningful existence.
Episodes
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Ep 176: Dancing into Presence with Allyssa Rivera
In this episode, I had a deep and inspiring conversation with Allyssa Rivera, a dance and movement therapist, about the profound role of dance in connecting to the body and our inner worlds. She explained how dance, for her, is a way to "remember the fullness" of her human experience—embodying...
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Ep 175: The Intention of Communitas with Tracy Holemeyer
In this episode of The Embodied Podcast, I’m joined by my dear friend and colleague, Tracy, for a profound conversation about the power of communal spaces in the healing process. Tracy shares her wisdom on the importance of creating retreat spaces where mystery is invited to lead, rather than the...
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Ep 174: Transformation by Subtraction with Mackenzie Amara
In this episode of The Embodied Podcast, I sit down with the insightful Mackenzie Amara to explore a profound topic: the importance of creating ritual spaces that foster transformation through subtraction. This conversation dives into the essence of transformation—not by adding or manifesting new...
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Ep 173: The Embodied Podcast is Back!
After a break since February 2023, I'm thrilled to return with fresh episodes of The Embodied Podcast! In this short first episode, I dive into personal updates, including my own initiations, growth, and reflections on life over the past year, as well as what has been inspiring me during this…
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Ep 172: The precision and particularity of images
In today's episode, I discuss why precision and particularity are important when exploring and working with images. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to...
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Ep 171: Living on ’high’
In today's episode, I discuss a particular pattern in the nervous system called global high activation. In this state, one can experience a sense of exhaustion or chronic overwhelm from being physiologically in a constant state of high activation whilst that activation is being suppressed by a...
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Ep 170: A dialogue on the Mother Archetype
In today's unique podcast episode, I offer a sneak peek into the introduction call of my most recent workshop series called The Mother Archetype workshop series. This episode is a recorded replay of our live group call in which we opened a discussion on the particularities of the mother…
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Ep 169: What if average is enough?
In today's episode, I open up a conversation about what it means to be average. What are the true motivations behind being exceptional? Do we actually deeply fear being forgotten? Unaccepted? Unloved? The interview article with Marion Woodman can be found here. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate,...
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Ep 168: Finding support through chronic pain
In today's episode, I dive into how we can possibly learn to make contact with and support ourselves through recurring bouts of pain in a way that honor's the body's subjective experience. I use a client example to show how body armoring and muscle tension can correlate with each other and how we...
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Ep 167: Why this is not a ”self-help” podcast
In today's episode, I discuss why this show isn't built upon foundations or intentions of fixing your problems. "Okay then, Danielle, then what is the show about?" I go into this a bit more deeply in the episode, and I use the James Hillman quote, "Evidently, a genuine solution must have the...
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Ep 166: Why do I feel WORSE during my trauma healing?
In today's episode, I discuss the immensity of grief that can accompany a transition out of dissociative life into a reality of complexity and relatedness. I believe grief reflects and 'makes real' our thresholds. When clients move from living their whole lives in a dissociative reality,...
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Ep 165: Contemplations through the Eyes of Wisdom
In today's episode, I offer a few contemplative meditations to reflect upon as we transition into the solar New Year season. The song used for this meditation is Naturaleza by Danit (Moses Edit). Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the...
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Ep 164: Embodiment of the divine
In today's episode, I discuss the process of embodying elements of divinity within the human vessel (aka the body). The paradoxical thing about incarnation is that I feel like the incarnation of spirit into the body is almost always traumatic. This is because we are dealing with immense…
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Ep 163: Finding reflections in others, or not...
In today's episode, I discuss a random interaction I had with an individual which evoked a deep contemplation on different topics such as Jung's feeling function, narcissism, love and power drives, and much, much more. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you...
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Ep 162: I’M BACK...with a personal interview
Hi all. Danielle here. Wow...It has been a BUSY month with A LOT of things going on (aka travel, sickness, conferences, etc)...all of which kept me from getting behind the mic and getting new episodes out to you. But today I am back with a unique episode for you. Today I am sharing with you an...
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Ep 161: James Hillman and Archetypal Psychology
In today's episode, I discuss why I find James Hillman's, the founder of archetypal psychology, work so influential and important to consider if you are interested in depth psychology. In this podcast, I discuss an important pillar of Hillman's called "Pathologizing," and I discuss its role in...
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Ep 160: Trouble Prioritizing Stillness? Here is why...
In today's episode, I discuss why it is hard for some individuals to prioritize a stillness practice. I explore different states of the nervous system including high sympathetic drive and dorsal vagal shutdown. I also invite strategies to transition out of mobilization towards stillness. To find...
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Ep 159: Nervous System Dysregulation and the Archetypal Realm
In today's episode I answer a question asked on my IG feed: "How do mood/personality disorders (like bipolar) interact with or affect how psychological archetypes play out in our psyche?" I go into the nervous system patterns of bipolar disorder as well as Jung's map of the psyche where psyche…
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Ep 158: Navigating Resentment
In today's episode I discuss navigating the somatic experience of resentment. I present the idea that perhaps resentment is the digestible form of thwarted fight responses that had be be split off during experiences of trauma or abuse. I present imagining resentment as a symptom that pushes…
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Ep 157: Acting ”as if” that were true...
In today's episode, I discuss why "faking it until we make it" doesn't feel great sometimes. I discuss acting "as if" and the capacity and flexibility that gives us when expanding into new and unknown aspects of the psyche. To find more information about the upcoming Book Club on The Soul's Code,...
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Ep 156: PART TWO of Dismemberment and Remembering of the Masculine
In today's episode, I answer a question posed about episode 154: Dismemberment and Remembering of the Masculine. In that episode, I read the Grimm's fairy tale The Handless Maiden, also known as The Woman Without Hands. Someone asked the question, "what exactly do we do in the 7 years of being in...
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Ep 155: The Mysteries Behind Porn
In today's episode, my fiancé Rick Alexander and I discuss the influence that porn has on us individually and collectively. We discuss the relationship, or lack thereof, to the feminine, the shadow, and to darkness. We talk about shame and its influence within this pattern. We talk about demons,...
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Ep 154: Dismemberment and Remembering of the Masculine
In today's episode, I read the Grimm's fairy tale The Handless Maiden, also known as The Woman Without Hands. I discuss the implications of psychological dismemberment and the process of remembering, especially concerning the new potentials of the creative masculine energy within. This is a story...
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Ep 153: Why is trauma renegotiation so confusing?
In today's episode, I discuss why trauma renegotiation is so confusing. In particular, I discuss the relationship of space and expansion and how that gets confused in the system with danger and threat. To check out The Soul's Code book club you can head to:...
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Ep 152: When trauma trips the internal wires
In today's episode, I discuss what happens when an experience of trauma dysregulates the internal wiring and high voltage energy floods the system physiologically. I discuss the importance of slowing the renegotiation process down to get into the high activation energy stuck in the micro-moments…
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Ep 151: Addiction to falling in love
In today's podcast I discuss the relational dilemma of modernity: everyone seems to be wanting a hit of the "highs" that one can feel when falling in love. This is an archetypal experience, meaning it is in the realm of the gods. We can become disappointed when our partners do not live up to…
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Ep 150: Boundaries, and not the type we usually talk about
In today's episode I discuss boundaries, and not the type of boundaries we usually talk or hear about. Boundaries describe the relationship between self and Other. Well, what if trauma has interrupted the development of your sense of self? Can you actually set boundaries with another person if…
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Ep 149: When you are doing inner work, but you are not feeling better
In today's episode I discuss what happens when we go into an inner process and solely expect to "feel better" in that process. We start to lose perspective and start denying the value in moments of contraction and creating a capacity for conscious suffering. We may be prioritizing an approach…
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Ep 148: The Ego-Self Axis and Religious Intimations
In today's podcast I share one of the first religious/mystical experiences I had during a rock bottom moment in my life. I discuss how this experience shattered my ego defenses and allowed a connection to something greater than myself and the inflated ego structure I had at that time. I circle...
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Ep 147: Navigating Body Image and Indwelling
In today's episode I share part of my experience in navigating body image and read an Instagram post to a past version of myself. I also discuss the importance in turning unconscious violence into conscious suffering. To check out the Instagram post, head here. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate,...
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Ep 146: When the creative well runs dry
In today's episode I discuss what happened for me when I sat down to record a podcast and came upon the absence of image and ideas. This is a circling around the experience of the creative well as the image of void, nothing, no-thing. In that void, we may stumble upon the inherent fullness of...
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Ep 145: A Conversation on Embodiment
In today's episode, Rick and I dive into another deep end episode in exploration of the topic of embodiment. We dive into: What is embodiment? How does Rick view embodiment through Eastern yogic traditions and how does Danielle view embodiment through her lens as a Somatic Experiencing...
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Ep 144: Psychological Weeds
In today's episode I discuss the metaphorical weeds that spring up between the cracks in our defensive and adaptive ways of navigating the world. To join the upcoming free community roundtable discussion on July 26th at 7pm EST in my Transformation Collective community, head to...
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Ep 143: Navigating a Cultural ”Meaning Crisis” through the Body
In today's episode I discuss the importance of reconnecting to the felt sense experience of body sensations to anchor the stories and images that may be vulnerable to cultural oppression and manipulation. Here is the nervous system polyvagal chart I mentioned in today's episode. If you are...
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Ep 142: The Zodiac Sign of Cancer and the Creative Matrix of Feeling
In today's episode I share a lecture I presented in my Transformation Collective community on the zodiac sign of Cancer. If you are interested in taking this conversation on Cancer season further, join the free Transformation Collective community:...
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Ep 141: Engagement as a ’Death Mountain’ Experience
In today's episode, after two years of engagement, I share my personal experience of getting engaged to my fiancé. Rather than being overwhelmed with joy and happiness, I found myself experiencing immense fear of who I would become in the relationship as well as a loss of who I had been.…
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Ep 140: Complexification of the Psyche
In today's show I expand upon a notion I discussed in episode 122 on the transcendent function. In today's show I expand past the tension of opposites into the value of multiplicity and the theory that if we can hold differing experiences then we increase our capacity to deal with the…
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Ep 139: What if your partner is not doing inner work?
In today's Deep End episode, my fiancé Rick and I discuss the question: what happens if only one partner in a couple is doing "inner work." We discuss: -What even is inner work? -How projections can play out in these situations. -We share personal experiences from our relationship around this...
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Ep 138: Trusting Dream Images and Trusting the Divine
In today's episode I discuss a contemplation that I've been working with: is one's ability to trust the dream images from the unconscious correlated with one's ability to trust the divine? Does one's image of God affect the relationship with the dream? Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and...
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Ep 137: Alchemizing Anger
In today's episode I discuss the horizontal and vertical aspect of the way the sensation of anger moves. Often anger gets stuck in the horizontal; leaving us stuck in cycles of projection and blame and/or internalization, self sabotage, or self hatred. The invitation within the podcast is to...
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Ep 136: From Dissociation to Discrimination
In today's podcast I talk about the process of moving from dissociation/disconnection to discrimination. Typically, before consciousness can meet those parts during trauma renegotiation, they remain disconnected from the totality of who we are. When the dissociated parts begin to re-associate, we...
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Ep 135: Held in arms of Synchronicity
In today's episode I discuss an essay I wrote on Jung's theory of synchronicity, the experience of meaningful coincidence where the inner subjective experience of a person collides with an outer objective experience. I discuss how synchronicities can unlock stuck places in the trauma…
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Ep 134: The Moon, the Death Mother, Underworld Journeys, and the Beauty in Rebirth
In today's episode I read an essay I wrote amplifying an astrological opposition between a Taurus Moon and a Scorpionic Pluto. I discuss the feminine symbols of the Moon, the different sides of the Mother, descents into the underworld, and death and rebirth initiations. Enjoy the show! Be sure to...
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Ep 133: Discipline vs. Willpower, what’s the difference?
In today's episode I discuss the contrast between discipline and willpower. Willpower involves human will to me, remains quite personal. Discipline on the other hand, coming from the roots of disciple, connect us with devotion; devotion to something greater than yourself. That something is what I...
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Ep 132: Are we forcing down regulation on the nervous system?
In today's episode I amplify the importance of engaging with our higher activation states in the body in order to allow the body to remember its self regulating capacity that is often fragmented during traumatic experience. Although down regulating the nervous can be incredibly helpful in moment…
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Ep 131: Why I Left Clinical Physical Therapy
In today's episode I discuss my journey through the discovery that clinical physical therapy practice was not the path that was connected to the deeper calling welling up within me. I discuss the ambivalence that came up along the way and the steps I took to work the dissonance, ambivalence, and...
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Ep 130: Memorial Day Special: Who is the God you serve?
In today's Deep End episode, my fiancé Rick and I discuss the values that underlie the way we unconsciously monetize a holiday like Memorial Day. We dive into values, sacrifice, hierarchical world views, quantitative vs. qualitative experience, emotions such as guilt, shame, pride, as well as…
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Ep 129: Turning Events into Experiences
In today's episode I discuss the difference between an "event" of something as opposed to an "experience" of something. For example, what is an "event" of depression vs. an "experience of depression. I amplify the qualitative nature of experience and how we can deepen into the feeling tone of how...
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Ep 128: Amplifying the Conflict Within Ourselves
In today's episode I archetypally amplify a scene from The Lord of the Rings to offer a mythical mirror into the inner conflicts we all face between different parts of the personality. To watch the visual of the scene, go to: https://youtu.be/NB2CNr692RE To check out Episode 123: Amplifying the...
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Ep 127: Love is Complex w/ Rick Alexander
In today's Deep End episode, Rick and I discuss the Jungian theory of complexes, projection, and how those topics weave together in a practical application of healing trauma and relational wounds. We referred to the book Complex, Archetype, Symbol by Jolande Jacobi in this episode. To join my…
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This podcast explores human experiences and concepts through a depth psychological lens. In the podcast I discuss holistic methodologies that help individuals heal and integrate mind, body and spirit to create deep relationships with internal and external barriers to create a deeply meaningful existence.
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Dr. Danielle Alexander
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