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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today I’m interviewing Psychotherapist Renelle Bourdage.

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In this episode we discuss:

• The history of how we got here as a field
• Endless working that leads to insurmountable suffering
• ‘Its not you it’s me’ type thinking in these systems, and a movement to the ‘It’s you not me’ phase that predicts readiness for change
• Students following the direction of liability phobic governing bodies and agencies
• Conditioning and wounding that stems from oppression, and the story we tell ourselves
• Having less expectations and more agreements
• Acting responsibly vs being responsible
• The system changing by going after what we want and by innovating from Selfhood
• Different cultures doing things rooted in love and healing, and not fear

Renelle Bourdage, Psychotherapist and researcher in clinical neuropsychology shares with us her story of how she took huge steps to live outside of her conditioning. First by realizing she was stuck in an unsustainable agency model, and then noticing others were not recognizing this problem.

She believed she was powerless in making systemic change, and ultimately reached profound burn out. From this place she saw she needed to make significant changes and she gave herself permission to take the leap.

When she couldn’t keep up with all the demands, whether realistic or perceived, Renelle realized she was stuck in the rhythm of the treadmill with no end, never moving forward.

She felt the speed and structure of the way the agency model was set up to get clients off the waitlist, and she felt like she needed to be a miracle worker within a certain amount of sessions. Then getting them 'out the door' while working with their complex mental health diagnoses and managing a large caseload.

She shares that it led to a high burnout rate with no end, like being on that treadmill while never moving forward.

She realized it's also no one's fault, no one’s wrong. It's an unsustainable system and agency model that ultimately leads to compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and leaving therapists feeling depleted.

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today we're doing an encore of the amazing interview with Andrea Shuman of Mycrodrops.

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• Andrea tells us about how she started her healing career in Massage Therapy before studying Ayurvedic Medicine, and then became an entrepreneur in the foodspace making Ghee, before starting Mycrodrops
• She shares that women in midlife transitions have always been drawn to her, and how now in midlife herself she sees how dynamic of a time it is now
• Andrea describes how her own experience was very difficult even with her specialization in women’s health and her subspecialty in post-partum, and how difficult this was and that she’d set herself up well for the post-partum period but struggled a lot with weening depression
• We went more in depth into weening depression which isn’t well understood, and the general challenges of nursing women
• She shares how she needed support and needed a reminder that she had all of the tools, and could formulate her own solutions, so once clear, that’s what she did
• We discussed women’s hormones, in depth testing, and mental health and how that leads to over-prescription of antidepressants
• Andrea shares how her mother was on antidepressants for over 30 years and just came off of them (she also states that over 50 million Americans are on antidepressants!)
• The research that Andrea has done shows startling psychotropic over-prescription rates and the incredible bidirectional gender biases of prescription
• Andrea has heard a common refrain from women that they were commonly put on antidepressants after a sexual assault, with no plan for trauma treatment or an end game to get off of these medications
• I share my view that even after 30 years of antidepressants,...

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On this episode of Therapist Expanded, Erin is joined by guest Juliet Trnka!

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Juliet is a Shamanic spiritual coach with a powerful gift: the ability to see you more deeply than you've ever been seen before. She brings a well-stocked shamanic toolkit to excavate and liberate all that has been obscured or enfolded within you. She aims to help you reveal your potential for greater success, connection, meaning, and impact through direct knowing. Throughout this episode, Erin and Juliet discuss the importance of receiving coaching during different phases of your life. They take an in-depth look into Juliet's work and explore strategies for overcoming limiting beliefs when marketing yourself and your business. Tune in to discover these insights and much more!

Here’s a breakdown of Erin’s episode with Juliet:

02:30 – Juliet gives us an insight into her passions and her career

05:30 – Juliet and Erin speak on the power of ‘more’ and the importance of receiving coaching throughout different phases of your life

12:00 – Juliet speaks about her experience with having to market herself and how she worked through the feelings of inauthenticity with marketing your business that often come up for people

17:02 – Juliet shares her thoughts on manifestation and the impact it can have when done correctly

22:26 – Juliet talks about sales and how it shows up as a deeply sacred and transformative practice for her and how receiving teaching about sales aiding her in not being so scared of rejection through sales

31:40 – Erin speaks about the level of emphasis that is placed on offering training in self-care for therapists and how it needs to be improved so that it’s not seen as a ‘unicorn’ within therapist training

36:51 – Juliet shares what mental health revolution means to her

42:23 – Juliet explains that she is a radical through and through and she loves supporting people who have radical desires that seem impossible but know that there is a way

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On this episode of Therapist Expanded, Erin is joined by guest Joe Sanok, a TITNF coach.

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Joe is deeply passionate about spreading the message of the 4-day work week and helping others slow down, allowing them to devote more time to creative and impactful work. Throughout this episode, Erin and Joe engage in a discussion about how the mechanical system established by the Industrialists is no longer conducive to human well-being. They explore topics such as our pre-conditioning and how our childhood dreams and aspirations manifest in our adult lives. They also emphasize the significance of controlling the extent to which our external world influences our internal world. Join us for an enlightening conversation that delves into these themes and much more!

Here’s a breakdown of Erin’s episode with Joe:

02:11 – Joe gives us an insight into his passions and his career

06:05 – Joe and Erin speak about pre-conditioning and how our childhood hopes often comes up in our adult careers

10:18 – Joe shares his experience with holding himself back at different phases throughout his life and what he learned from those experiences

16:32 – Joe gives us an insight into some times throughout his career where he stepped out of his comfort zone to reach his full potential and how he managed to ignore the limiting beliefs of others

23:42 – Joe talks about how one of the most important things we need to be aware of is how much we let our external world inform our internal world

32:40 – Joe provides his best advice and encourages you to work backwards when, like when marketing – why do you want to market? Is marketing the only way you can get what you want from marketing?

For more information about Joe and how he can support you, visit the following links:

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On this episode of Therapist Expanded, Erin is joined by guest Linzy Bonham! Linzy is an MSW RSW Clinical Social Worker and therapist who has transitioned into a money coach role.

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Linzy helps therapists find a sense of calm and control when it comes to their finances. Linzy's main passion is to empower other therapists by showing them that money is something they can learn about, and it doesn't have to be overwhelming when starting from scratch. Throughout this episode, Erin and Linzy delve into various topics, including the importance of coaching support, understanding human design, and challenging one's own conditioning, among many other insightful discussions.

Here’s a breakdown of Erin’s episode with Linzy:

02:18 – Linzy gives us an insight into her background and her career

05:02 – Linzy speaks about the thing that fulfils her the most about her work and how she doesn’t see her career as ‘work’

11:22 – Linzy and Erin speak about finding balance with your work and finding that place where you are thriving

21:16 - Erin and Linzy discuss the human design and how it can bring awareness to your strengths

29:13 – Erin and Linzy talk about challenging your conditioning and the importance of coaching support

35:51 – Linzy provides some insight into her journey and how she had to push against her limiting beliefs and fears and trust that she was going to build the working environment she needed to be fulfilled

42:02 – Linzy shares what mental health revolution means to her

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In this episode of Therapist Expanded, Erin is joined by Alefyah Taqui, a humanistic therapist who practices from an attachment-based and person-centered perspective.

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Alefyah believes in treating the therapist-client relationship as a collaborative partnership where both parties work together to identify root causes and patterns in order to find the best path forward - and it's one that involves is built upon the therapist's authenticity.

Throughout the episode, Alefyah emphasizes the importance of authenticity in the therapy room, providing valuable insights into her approach to mentoring her interns and encouraging them to develop their own unique styles as therapists. She also shares personal anecdotes about her childhood and how her experiences have influenced her life today. Additionally, Alefyah speaks candidly about a life-changing moment when she lost her eye, which transformed her from someone who preferred to blend into the background to someone who is now living authentically and being seen, heard, and real.

Here’s a breakdown of Erin’s episode with Alefyah:

02:44 – Alefyah talks about her background, her work and her passions in the field.

05:30 – Alefyah describes her work as a therapist, saying it’s important to understand that you are the biggest asset and the biggest tool in the room

09:12 – Therapists need to embrace the new things they’re learning, which will help them encourage a client to embrace as well.

16:05 – Erin speaks on the rare instances where therapists overshare, speaking about an experience she had herself, while Alefyah speaks on how to know the line of sharing as a therapist

23:48 – Erin shares a little bit on how she trains interns and wants them to become who they are, rather than who Erin is.

27:05 – Alefyah says she starts with therapists by watching a session without a notepad and just reflecting back their strengths and highpoints

28:22 – We’re self-oriented towards healing and we always seem to want to come to how we were when we were little

32:07 – Alefyah tells us about a time in her life when she held herself back and when she really went for something and was vulnerable, as she shares what her childhood looked like and how losing her eye changed her life

39:26 – To Alefyah, Mental health revolution means taking away the thought that we’re on the two sides of the wounded and the healers, and we’re really in this together

44:04 – Alefyah asks Erin about how moving away from her home shows up for her in her life

49:09 – Alefyah wants you to know your journey within yourself is ongoing and you won’t reach an end

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In this episode of Therapist Expanded, Erin is joined by Betti Delorey, a returning guest who is a counselor with over eight years of direct individual and group counseling experience, specializing in addiction counseling.

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Betti's counseling style is unique in that she combines psychology and traditional spiritual perspectives, drawing upon her cultural and traditional values as foundational elements in her work.

Throughout the episode, Betti and I delve deep into the consequences of our conditioning and explore ways in which we can change the behaviors that result from our conditioning. We also discuss shamanic mentoring, recreating and rebirthing oneself, and the importance of letting go of the illusion of certainty, among other topics.

Here’s a breakdown of Erin’s episode with Betti:

02:37 – Betti shares some information about her medicine name, Don Starwoman

05:18 – Betti speaks about therapist conditioning and how we’re trained to hide our

authentic selves

06:17 – Betti talks about her journey in shamanic mentoring

16:06 – Betti gives us an insight into how her past trauma allowed her to

recreate/rebirth herself into who she really wanted to be

24:58 – Erin and Betti discuss how we have to be willing to let go of the illusion of

certainty

32:15 – Erin and Betti speak about being mothers and how conditioning can hold us

back

43:25 – Betti shares her thoughts on obedience within our conditioning

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Betti’s Intuitive Wellness Group | Book a session with Betti | Email Betti | Facebook

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In this episode of Therapist Expanded, Erin is joined by guest Julie Herres. Julie is a Certified Profit First Professional, an IRS Enrolled Agent, a speaker, and the host of the Therapy For Your Money podcast.

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Julie’s goal is to inspire private practice owners to achieve profitability. Over the last several years, she has helped hundreds of them take their profit first and attain financial freedom. Erin and Julie discuss how therapists tend to focus on compliance, which can hold them back from achieving financial independence. Julie shares insights into common mistakes private practice owners make and describes her daily efforts to improve their lives and profitability.

Here’s a breakdown of Erin’s episode with Julie:

01:59 – Julie gives us an insight into her background and her career

05:05 – Julie and Erin discuss how we’re compliance driven

07:34 – Julie speaks about some of the surprising things she’s noticed over the years

of mentoring therapists around their money and how oftentimes she has to convince

her clients that their practice deserves to make money

13:00 – Julie shares her passion for changing the narrative that being a therapist

has to be a vow of poverty

20:36 – Julie talks about some of the common pitfalls she notices with a therapist in

their first year of being a practice owner

29:46 – Julie speaks about a time in her career when she really held herself back

from going after an opportunity

36:55 – Julie wants everyone to know you can and should take your profit first

37:32 – Profit First For Therapists is available on May 2nd with pre-orders available

now from all good bookstores

For more information about Julie and how she can help you visit the following

Links:

Julie’s website | Green Oak Accounting | Julie’s Podcast | Instagram

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In this episode of Therapist Expanded, Erin is joined by guest Julie Jacinto. Julie offers soul therapy, soul parent programs, and generational healing programs to those who seek to heal and strengthen their relationships with themselves, partners, and immediate family.

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Throughout the episode, Erin and Julie delve into the complexities of transitioning from a 9-5 corporate job to pursuing a spiritual career. They also discuss the challenges Julie faced in her early years of motherhood and how she overcame fear, among other topics.

Here’s a breakdown of Erin’s episode with Julie:

03:37 – Julie gives us an insight into her life, her passions and her career

10:19 – Julie speaks about her experience of shifting from a 9-5 government job to a

spiritual career and dealing with others opinions of her new path

14:24 – Julie speaks about her experience during the early stages of motherhood

and how she has evolved positively since then

18:30 – Julie talks about her daughters and their experience with play therapy

26:14 – Julie shares a time where she was gripped by fear and how she worked

through it and overcame holding herself back from potentially great opportunities

32:13 – Julie shares what mental health revolution means to her and how the mind is

tool that can lead or be led.

For more information about Julie and how she can help you visit the following:

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On this episode of Therapist Expanded, Erin is joined by Brenda King, a clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience.

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Brenda also has education in Toltec wisdom, shamanism, hypnosis, and yoga Nidra meditation. Her work focuses on helping women connect with their inner knowing and the energy of the world around them.

Brenda believes that the world is undergoing major changes, and the way forward is being led by deeply intuitive women who understand that healing comes from connecting with nature and nurturing their intuitive energetic selves.

Throughout this episode, Erin and Brenda discuss breaking free from people-pleasing habits, navigating the world while being true to oneself, and the importance of answering one's spiritual callings, and so much more!

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Here’s a breakdown of Erin’s episode with Brenda:

3:04 – Brenda gives us an insight into her background and her career

5:56 – Brenda shares the passions behind her coaching business and how her

childhood heavily influenced her career

6:56 – Brenda explains how she is different to your normal psychologist as she

studied a specific psychodynamic programme focused on inner wisdom and

relationship patterns

12:00 – Brenda speaks about her younger years and being a people pleaser and

how she had to navigate through being part of the world whilst being herself

18:37 – Brenda and Erin discuss the therapist conditioning therapist go through in

grad school and how Brenda didn’t have the same experience as most therapist

26:40 – Brenda shares how she feels as though she put a limit on herself for the first

20 years of her life because she didn’t know how to be herself in the world and was

focused on pleasing others and ignoring her spiritual connection

32:23 – Brenda talks about the complexities of working with older women who have

a lot of regret for the things they didn’t do or flow into throughout their lives

38:04 – Brenda speaks about what mental health revolution is to her

40:37 – Brenda talks us through her new 12 week group programme that’s focused

on intuition and deepening all the ways we work with the world around us to build

trust in ourselves to build the life we want

For more information about Brenda and how she can help you visit the

following links:

Brenda’s website | Brenda’s 12-week group coaching program | Instagram | Facebook

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On this episode of Therapist Expanded, Erin is joined by guest Andy Wareham. Andy is a humanistic counselor who offers a calm, confidential, and reflective space for people to explore any difficulties they may be experiencing. He believes in creating awareness of current discomforts to help make necessary changes that bring wellness into people's lives. Throughout the episode, Erin and Andy discuss a range of topics, including Andy's bipolar disorder, the challenges associated with becoming a therapist, and Andy's theory for a better world!

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Here’s a breakdown of Erin’s episode with Andy:

2:11 – Andy tells us about himself and his bi-polar disorder, his work and his

passions in the field

6:35 – Bi-polar disorder can be great for working, but it’s not healthy for the

individual

8:23 – Andy talks about the wounded healer and how he falls into the category and

how he didn’t know who he was

9:17 – Erin speaks about her experience growing up in a community where mental

health services were shut down, to which Andy compares to the Thatcher reign in

the UK

13:41 – Andy talks about how you can feel like you’ve wasted time if you’ve lived

unconsciously for a long time, but he’d never changes his life because he has built

something great

15:50 – Erin speaks on her spirituality and how she lost it after some traumas, but

she wouldn’t be able to do what she does know if she hadn’t

18:26 – Erin explains how explaining how telling clients about how she was a drug

addicted single mom takes a weight off her clients, followed by Andy concurring and

sharing his experience of disclosing his own problems

22:40 – Andy talks about the courage it takes for a therapist to tap into their intuition

and leave the programming they have

25:24 – The mind is just a filter of the brain, it’s the weakest and the slowest part and

it’s a transformational process to stop listening to it

29:00 – Erin asks what Andy would say to someone who is thinking about opening a

practice or to someone who might be struggling in the early stages

33:31 – Andy talks about how he sees things from a different point of view as he

comes from a point of abundance and not lack

35:58 – Andy and Erin suggest to therapists to stand outside the indoctrination which

they received in graduate school, talking about Daniel Quinn’s books and Andy’s

vision of a better future

43:18 – Erin gives her insight on what she sees Andy’s theories could help or solve,

like poverty for example

45:06 – Andy shares his thoughts on what mental health revolution looks like

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On this episode of Therapist Expanded, Erin is joined by guest Mikki Gaffen Stone. Mikki is a board-certified behavioural analyst who coaches successful people ready to realise their bigger vision by helping them see greater possibilities and map out steps to achieve them. Throughout the episode, Erin and Mikki discuss various topics, from human design and different forms of therapy to the significance of power and intuition, and much more!

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Here’s a breakdown of Erin’s episode with Mikki:

2:15 – Mikki gives us an insight into her life, her career and her passions

4:30 – Mikki speaks about human design and how our undefined weight centres are

an avenue for conditioning

6:57 – Mikki talks about the problems that stem from conditioning

14:06 – Mikki shares some concepts she believes in such as ‘laziness doesn’t exists;

behaviour happens for a reason’

24:50 – Mikki speaks about the different forms of therapies and how they’re not one

size fits all

31:37 – Mikki and Erin discuss the power and importance of intuition

35:50 – Mikki shares her thoughts on mental health revolution

42:00 – Mikki provides her best advice to therapist who are feeling lost or need

grounding and re-centring

44:06 – Mikki encourages you to take note of how often you use limiting words and

empowering words so that you can begin to reduce the limits you put upon yourself

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Links:

Mikki’s Website | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram

Mikki’s Free Human Design Chart | Free E-Books & Resource Library | One-Hour of Free Coaching

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On this episode of Therapist Expanded, Erin is joined by guest, Lauren Ashley! Lauren is an aligned business coach who helps people build their dream lives and businesses with ease. Lauren has an emphasis on owning your truth, trusting your intuition, and not letting society’s conditioning sway you.

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Erin and Lauren touch on a number of important topics throughout this episode including human design, how creating from ease brings us to ease, and society’s ideology of ‘success’.

Here’s a breakdown of Erin’s episode with Lauren:

1:22 – Lauren gives us insight into her life, her career and her passions

4:56 – Lauren speaks about why she doesn’t define her identity by her career choice

6:35 – Lauren shares why she wanted to become a therapist and why she didn’t choose that path in the end

11:02 – Lauren talks about helping people create their life/business by working through emotions and taking the path with the least resistance

16:05 – Lauren talks about a time where she held herself back whilst working in a toxic environment

25:48 – Lauren speaks about a recent retreat she held where they participated in a free writing exercise that allowed them to rediscover how to connect with life and re-algin with what’s their hearts

33:38 – Lauren takes us through a story of her past which relays what mental health revolution means to her

39:23 – Erin talks about a shift in attitude she’s noticed towards therapy since the Pandemic

41:55 – Lauren gives us an insight into what she has coming up for the future of her business

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Lauren’s Website | Lauren’s Podcast | Lauren’s Magnetizing Money Masterclass

Lauren’s Instagram and Facebook

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today Erin is doing a second solo episode on one of her favourite topics - Fee Setting!

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Erin starts by recapping the last episode about setting a Thrive Fee, and she highly recommends that if you haven’t listened to that episode, start there and return to this one. Part of her recap for those of you who’ve heard that episode is to remind the listener about the ways that therapists and helping professionals usually set their fees:

• Worth: This gets tied into self-worth and doesn’t have anything to do with setting fees but is compelling for the ego
• Value: Professionals put off raising their fees to what they need to be well and abundant because they want more trainings to feel worthy and like their services are valuable
• Comparison: This is where professionals start comparing to what others are charging and this is not relevant to the individual’s situation and they have no idea how the other person is setting their fee.
• Fantasy: This is a step where helping professionals imagine what other people will or won’t pay or can afford.

Erin shares how unfortunately even when people have done the process to discover their Thrive Fee, they often revert back to the mindsets above and have a hard time actually implementing what they need to really stay well and thrive.

She shares a quote about how people will not necessarily get what they dream of, they’ll get what they tolerate. If you want to know what you’re tolerating, look around at the areas of your life you’re not satisfied with.

Erin believes the Thrive Fee is the answer to ending a lot of this toleration, and she gives some tips for not fudging the numbers and for considering new markets along with not owning what others can pay. She recommends a Google search to show your mind that people are paying what you may be afraid to charge (and especially in other areas of your own region or state that can be marketed to for virtual therapy clients).

She lays out the State, Story, Strategy method to help with actually implementing the new fee. Shifting your state shifts your story which shifts your strategy (you now have access to more options in terms of marketing and setting the Thrive Fee starts to feel more possible, while different ideas arise compared to the state of resistance, fear, and stress).

Erin shares how money story is essential to look at here, and that she shifted her money story by making an investment beyond her consciousness at the time. She spent 70K+ on coaching and it rewired her money story (it was absolutely terrifying). She explains why she actually made this investment and did not expect her money stories to be so affected.

She ends with an uplifting message about what’s truly possible for fee setting in order to help you expand your mind (i.e. people charging a million dollars for their coaching).

Erin shares that she hopes you’ll keep following along on her various platforms to receive a 100% promo code to a Therapist Fulfillment Activation she’s launching at the end of April. Stay tuned!

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today Erin is doing a solo episode on one of her favourite topics - Fee Setting!!

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Erin starts by reading what she recently wrote to her email list about the topic of fee setting in order to set the stage for the topic and act as an outline.

She goes further say that this is likely a part 1, and that she’s going to cover how people usually set their fees, a Thrive Fee system she teaches, and then briefly why people don’t usually set their fees according to the system she lays out (i.e. the blocks or pitfalls). She shares how in the next fee setting episode she’ll cover more about the topic of how to actually approach implementing the Thrive Fee (and she alludes to that it’s about State, Story, and Strategy), and one of the ways she overcame her money stories by investing in herself.

Erin lays out how she’s been supporting therapists to set fees since 2017, and how therapists usually look to what she calls Worth, Value, Comparison and Fantasy as ways to set fees - and how these do not really work to create a sustainable and THRIVING life for the therapist or helping professional. She also shares that when she started setting her own fees in 2016 she did all the things she now cautions against.

Erin defines the four ways people usually set their fees:

• Worth: This gets tied into self-worth and doesn’t have anything to do with setting fees but is compelling for the ego (Erin uses a thought experiment to demonstrate how worth cannot be earned or defined by anything we do or charge)
• Value: Helping professionals put off raising their fees to what they need to be well and abundant because they ‘need’ more trainings or certifcations.
• Comparison: This is where helping professionals start comparing to what others are charging and this is not relevant to the individual’s situation, and they have no idea how the other person is setting their fee.
• Fantasy: This is a step where helping professionals imagine what other people will or won’t pay or can afford.

Setting too low a fee starts to become a problem pretty fast, and then it affects our ability to stay well and affects the work.

Erin feels like it’s almost an emergency in her body when she sees therapists setting their fee too low for their needs because of the stories related to them needing to increase their worth/value first (i.e. they are setting based on what feels the most comfortable short term and sacrificing their long-term wellness).

Setting a Thrive Fee:

1. Do the math to figure out what you need financially for your basic needs to survive per month.
2. Write down what you need to Thrive (this is not the numbers - but is how you need your income to be the loving supportive container); this includes things like retirement savings, massages, vacation etc.
3. Apply the numbers to what you need to thrive (don’t play with these or fudge these - just assign numbers) and do this based on a month.
4. Decide how many weeks you are going to work a year (account for time off for vacation, sick time, etc.)
5. Take the numbers you’ve calculated for the month and multiply by 12. This is your take home amount you need per year.
6. Then multiply that by how much you will need to put away for taxes and then your estimate of how much you will need to pay for expenses (example is multiplying by 25% for taxes and 30% for expenses - these are examples as Erin is not an accountant, and an accountant could be a helpful asset here).
7. Then divide that total by how many weeks you’d like to work per year (let’s call this number X)
8. Decide your number of hours you’ll work per week to Thrive (be realistic here - Erin has seen numerous therapists say they want to work 20 hours per week, to then realistically feel like they’re thriving at 16 hours per week. Also calculate in here if you want to offer pro bono and sliding scale because that may mean more hours to make the same income).
9. Divide X by how many hours you want to work per week and that is your Thrive fee.

Once you have the number, prepare for that you will likely want to start fudging the numbers and rely back on the 4 factors mentioned above. Remeber this may be uncomfortable in the short term but look to the long-term and remember not setting a Thrive Fee turns into a problem over time.

Stay tuned for the next episode on fees to help you get into the state, story and strategy needed to actually make this change to charging a Thrive Fee.

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In this solo episode Erin talks about the theme of Power that completes the two-sided coin of power and responsibility she believes we need to be aware of in order to live the internal blueprint path of our fulfillment.

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Erin begins the episode explaining how power relates to her mission of mental health revolution, and this two-sided coin of fulfillment and walking the inner path of our desires, relates to how power and responsibility utilized consciously means we can follow the path of our deepest desires. Misused power or over-responsibility means we consistently walk off of our path of fulfillment.

She normalizes us waffling on that path and how we can check in with whether we’re holding full self-responsibility and stepping into our power, or we’re trying to use force, giving away power, or perhaps holding responsibility for others.

Erin describes through her own recent life experiences and stories the difference between power and force. She uses the opportunity here to model sharing openly as powerful. She uses the words “painful exorcism…living in a house of mirrors” about her experience as of late with the journey of Therapist Expanded unfolding.

She describes the nature of her power shoulders and the release of testosterone during what people call power poses, and how teaching assertiveness to clients as therapists is an example of the difficulty we can all have discerning power and force (like discerning assertiveness and aggression).

Erin goes on to talk about how power is truly vulnerable and speaks about Brene Brown and reads this quote from Juliet Trnka; “So asking for what you want starts to look like a really powerful tool to create the life you would love! It’s also super vulnerable! Most of us carry the residue of trauma around the ‘wrongness’ of asking.”

She describes her recent realizations in launching Therapist Expanded and the feelings of this 'trauma residue' and yet choosing to step into her power anyway.

She ends with saying that you uplevel the entire world by stepping into your power.

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! In this solo episode, Erin talks about the theme of Responsibility (or better stated over-responsibility), and the impossible bind in our field between working to help people empower themselves AND being asked to be responsible for them (under threat of disciplinary action, being sued, etc.).

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Erin begins by reading a powerful social media post that provides a framework and a summary for this episode.

She tells a story about a woman on Facebook sharing her screen in a group to show a course that was mandatory for her because her client died by suicide - she either took that course or could not practice.

Erin lays out the ways this over-responsibility is conditioned in childhood in a deeply codependent culture, especially in a society that encourages being liked and nice, over being safe.

Erin normalizes the role the ego plays in this over-responsibility, and the stories we tell ourselves about why we do and don’t do things based on others (and she lays out the truth of where we actually act from - hint: it’s not about others).

She described her clinical supervisor’s mic drop share about how he’s stayed well in this field for 50 years (!!); he acts responsibly and doesn’t take responsibility! This changed Erin’s life and she describes how.

Erin shares stories about how ending the responsibility trap is an evolving journey of trying to not take responsibility for what’s outside of herself. As well as how taking full responsibility for ourselves and our greatness is the truest gift to us and the world.

She ends with a question: If any story about how your greatness or your desires will hurt others is holding you back, can you surrender responsibility for what isn’t yours, and be a loving stand for freedom instead?

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On this episode of Therapist Expanded, Erin is joined by returning guest, Betti Delorey! Throughout this Part Two episode, Erin and Betti take us through a mini coaching session where they discuss the business that Betti is launching.

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Betti Delorey offers intuitive guidance sessions where she connects with spirit guides, passed loved ones, and ancestors, to direct you to what needs your attention. Betti works from a place of her Indigenous cultural values passed down to her by her mother, grandmother and aunties, and empowers people to act as their own innate guides so that they can access healing on their own, in their own time, and in their own way.

This episode is mainly focused on introducing the concept of creating ‘from’. Erin explains how we’re trained to set goals in North America, especially as high achievers, to think about where we’re creating ‘to’ and how to get there, which opens up the mind to think about all the ways that what we’re trying to achieve is impossible. This episode really navigates through the idea that we need to create a state of being or positive feeling and then vision the goal we want ‘from’ that positive feeling in order for us to create a pathway ‘to’ that state of being or feeling!

Here’s a breakdown of Erin’s episode with Betti:

3:53 – Betti shares how she would like some help working through her belief system

7:48 – Betti speaks about her fear of rejection and how she handles criticism because of her belief system

10:03 – Betti talks about her return to work after a traumatic experience and how it affected her in a way where she lost touch with a lot of the things that she knew to be true about her beliefs, and how she works with clients

14:17 – Erin guides Betti through a short experiencing task to help guide her through these feelings that are holding her back and keeping her stuck in fear

17:38 – Betti discusses her journey, and how it was difficult to reach her destination, and how she realized she’s craving feelings of joy

24:50 – Erin and Betti speak about Betti’s progress with becoming comfortable with the uncertainty of starting her business and the general uncertainty life brings

31:47 – Betti speaks about her realization that when you put down and set aside heavier energies you create more space for those joy and content pieces to enter into your daily life

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On this episode of Therapist Expanded, Erin is joined by Betti Delorey!

Betti offers intuitive guidance sessions where she connects with spirit guides, passed loved ones, and ancestors, to direct you to what needs your attention. Betti also has a decade of traditional counselling experience, with a specific focus on addictions. Betti works from a place of her Indigenous cultural values passed down to her by her mother, grandmother and aunties, and empowers people to act as their own innate guides so that they can access healing in their own way. Throughout this episode, which is a Part One of two episodes with Betti (the next is a mini coaching session), Erin and Betti discuss looking to nature for answers, gaining the ability to trust your intuition, what mental health revolution means, and so much more.

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Here’s a breakdown of Erin’s episode with Betti:

2:06 – Betti gives us an insight into her life, her career, and the flexible rules she lives by

4:29 – Betti shares how she relies on her intuition when guiding people and works from a place of her Indigenous cultural values, such as looking to nature for answers

7:17 – Betti speaks about how she often encourages her clients to go and spend time in nature

8:58 – Betti shares how her training under Medicine Women in her family taught her that every part of Mother Earth has its own energy, and expresses how lucky she is that she has the ability to connect and help others connect to that energy

12:47 – Betti describes her practice and how it’s most similar to, but still different from, a medium, as she can connect with and relay information from our past loved ones

14:05 – Betti shares how she calls herself a guide or a teacher as her end goal with her clients is to guide them to a place where they are able to utilise these intuitive practices and connect themselves

15:09 – Betti expresses what mental health revolution means to her and how she believes that everyone is capable of these practices

18:23 – Betti speaks about how her mission is to empower people to act as their own innate guides so that they can access healing on their own, in their own time and in their own way

24:00 – Erin asks Betti to share a moment where she has taken a risk and gone after a dream or desire

25:51 – Betti shares with us a time where she held herself back from fully living a dream due to fear of the unknown

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On this episode of Therapist Expanded, Erin is joined by guest, Maira Holzmann! Maira is a psychotherapist and founder of Somatic Therapy Partners in Denver, Colorado. Maira has nearly 20 years of experience as a therapist and specialises in trauma and anxiety through Co-regulating touch. Erin and Maira discuss a multitude of topics including the wisdom of our bodies, their missions as therapists, what it means to be living a fulfilling life, Human Design and mental health revolution.

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Here’s a breakdown of Erin’s episode with Maira:

4:35 - Maira takes us through her career as a Psychotherapist and her passion for helping people work through their trauma through a therapeutic touch approach called Co-Regulating Touch

12:12 - Erin speaks about trusting the wisdom of our bodies

17:02 – Erin talks about her mission and why she now mainly works with therapists

18:34 – Maira and Erin discuss what it means to be a truly thriving and fulfilled therapist

23:26 – Maira speaks about her business coaching for therapists program and how it helps her to help others, but it also inspires and fulfils a need for something within herself

26:05 – Maira takes us through the highlights of her program with the two main highlights being focusing on soul alignment and limiting beliefs

31:49 – Erin talks about Human Design, reflective and strategic minds, and utilising systems to help you in your daily life

34:32 – Maira shares some of the things she sees her clients taking away from sessions and encourages you to really get in tune with your body and learn to listen to your body and your soul so that you can truly and deeply thrive

36:59 – Erin and Maira discuss mental health revolution and how it’s related to how close you can come to expressing, behaving, and living in integrity with your most ideal self without becoming rigid or a perfectionist

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today I’m interviewing Psychotherapist Renelle Bourdage.

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In this episode we discuss:

• The history of how we got here as a field
• Endless working that leads to insurmountable suffering
• ‘Its not you it’s me’ type thinking in these systems, and a movement to the ‘It’s you not me’ phase that predicts readiness for change
• Students following the direction of liability phobic governing bodies and agencies
• Conditioning and wounding that stems from oppression, and the story we tell ourselves
• Having less expectations and more agreements
• Acting responsibly vs being responsible
• The system changing by going after what we want and by innovating from Selfhood
• Different cultures doing things rooted in love and healing, and not fear

Renelle Bourdage, Psychotherapist and researcher in clinical neuropsychology shares with us her story of how she took huge steps to live outside of her conditioning. First by realizing she was stuck in an unsustainable agency model, and then noticing others were not recognizing this problem.

She believed she was powerless in making systemic change, and ultimately reached profound burn out. From this place she saw she needed to make significant changes and she gave herself permission to take the leap.

When she couldn’t keep up with all the demands, whether realistic or perceived, Renelle realized she was stuck in the rhythm of the treadmill with no end, never moving forward.

She felt the speed and structure of the way the agency model was set up to get clients off the waitlist, and she felt like she needed to be a miracle worker within a certain amount of sessions. Then getting them 'out the door' while working with their complex mental health diagnoses and managing a large caseload.

She shares that it led to a high burnout rate with no end, like being on that treadmill while never moving forward.

She realized it's also no one's fault, no one’s wrong. It's an unsustainable system and agency model that ultimately leads to compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and leaving therapists feeling depleted.

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today I’m interviewing Megan VanMeter for Part 2 of our discussion.

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• We’re back with Megan VanMeter - if you haven’t listened to part 1 I highly recommend going and listening because it’s a packed episode
• Megan begins with naming the crux of the issue - that helping professionals live the life they’re told they should want through their conditioning and when that doesn’t lead to happiness and fulfillment they feel shame
• I share how this relates to what I see as the therapist stages of career change - stage one I call It’s Not You It’s Me (where the professional hasn’t yet realized the broken system is at the route of the unfulfillment and so are still trying really hard to fit into it)
• We go into the second mic drop concept Megan brought up in our email exchange: “unmasking the self-care unicorn for the systemic oppression tool it is”
• Megan explains her views on self-care and the challenges given the trauma-exposure response and how we need to go beyond self-care. She recommends a book written by a Colleague of hers named Lisa Hines entitled “Beyond Self-Care For Helping Professionals” and it integrates the dimensions of information processing, and how the book takes people on a journey. But the key is that to change your output you need to change your input
• We discuss habituation and how it relates to self-care and falling into despair
• Megan speaks to what she does in her work and the path that she’s offering that’s the antidote to burnout and robo-life
• Megan explains what mental health revolution means to her and she explains it’s at the individual level and that individuals join together to make a larger change and relates to needs, and challenging the messaging they’ve been on the receiving end of most of their lives
• Megan walks us through her unique journey into private practice out of agency work
• She leaves us with a moving message!
• you can learn more about how Megan works with helping professionals and the important work she’s doing in the world: her website and LinkedIn profile.

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today I’m interviewing Megan VanMeter.

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• Megan is an art therapist and she takes us through the story of her early years in the field when managed care was coming on the scene and how that impacted her and the field
• Megan is licensed in Texas, Arizona and Indiana and has an online private practice
• Megan provides services to reignite the creative spark in people who have lived a life of self-sacrifice, namely helping professionals (therapists, physicians, nurses, clergy members, educators, dentists etc) who received childhood messaging that it’s better to give than to receive, and tending to the needs of others is more important, and that they don't need to have their own needs
• She shares that the systems, workplace and our own helper cultures in the workforce continues to reinforce the self-sacrifice and it leads to burnout, exhaustion, and vicarious trauma
• Megan reports this looks like her clients coming in with anxiety, burnout, depression, and that the work is to help the client find “that long-lost person of the Self"
• I share how I’ve seen this in the health providers I’ve worked with and we discuss that many of these health professionals are women and how the self-sacrifice is ingrained
• I also share how when we stop self-sacrificing we help people more and Megan describes this deep irony
• She shares how this deep socialized conditioning gets really loud when we start to change this way of living in the world
• Megan describes the institutions as “the titanic heading for the iceberg, and they’re not going to change directions anytime soon” and that even if the system changed over night, the trauma within the helpers is there and needs to be healed at the individual level
• I share that if we were meant to live someone else’s life we would and that the dreams and goals we have are why we came here
• I bring up some of the statements Megan shared ahead of our interview and that her emails actually felt like a mic drop. The first one is “Internalization works to unconsciously help us embody institutional values.”
• Megan explains perceptual processing and how that shapes this phenomenon and how we actually absorb culture through this perceptual channel that contributes to our sense of self. She gave us an example with the pandemic and graduate school.
• She describes the “sick toxic places” of internship sites we are sent into as students and that when we get back into the sites as workers we learn “sick stuff”
• Megan shares the research on what happens with a very difficult cognitive load like we have in mental health jobs, and that the studies found higher than anticipated levels of glutamate when mentally fatigued (with only a 6.5 hour day) and that leads to neurodegeneration
• I describe how I believe we can feel the body saying stop, but that we are conditioned to push through
• Megan further describes the cultural norms of therapists catering to this sick, overworked system
• I share how our group clinic is all about reversing this paradigm and how I feel when reading the oppressive paperwork from intern’s universities - I realize while hearing Megan that we’ve changed the system around us at our clinic
• I share my passion for working with interns because they’re less conditioned - but that change is a decision at any stage of conditioning
• Megan sees how what we’re doing at the clinic can nip imposter syndrome in the bud, and she goes on to explain the foundations of imposter syndrome and how therapists collect qualifications to try and feel enough
• I share my thoughts and feelings about the endless slew of trainings and workshops therapists take to try and feel enough after this hierarchical conditioning where we’re taught to earn our worth, and try to feel like less an imposter, while the dopamine control system hijacks the brain into only wanting more. There is a solution to this and I name that as well.
• We end by discussing that living from your deepest desires and purpose fully and freely magnetizes the life you want.
• Stay tuned for part two, and in the meantime, you can learn more about how Megan works with helping professionals and the important work she’s doing in the world: at her website and LinkedIn profile.

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today I’m doing a solo episode.

I start the episode by reading my new years message from my Therapist Expanded Facebook page to you my amazing audience. I’d be honoured if you’d checkout my Facebook page and become a follower <3

Here are the steps to deciding who you want to be in 2023:

Steps:

1. Make change at the Identity level - not about the outcomes, and focus on the process everyday in order to internalize the identity by watching what you’re doing and the choices you make. I share a personal story of focusing on outcomes to lose 65 pounds only to gain back 70. Focusing on identity level change will make the change more lasting and help when willpower runs out. Checkout my past podcast episode entitled 5 Questions to Move You Closer to Who You Want to Be, where I speak more about the day to day choices that relate to this.
2. Where are you creating from? - where are you going to create your identity from? This is not how we’re taught to set goals or resolutions. Our culture is so focused on the outcome and how we’re getting to it, but it’s ultimately a desire or feeling or need that we create from always - it’s just not usually conscious. I share several examples to illustrate this key concept in creation. Here’s a coaching podcast episode where I show the process of arriving at the place we want to create from: Coaching: Undoing Aloneness with Julia Rushlow. I also share about the free activation I’ll be hosting in the spring where I’ll walk you through this process in detail - you can join my Monday MINDUPS list to be in the know when that goes live.
3. What is the desired identity? I expand on some of the examples I’ve given to help creating the identity become clearer.
4. Rehearsal: Actors and athletes use it because it works. Also 90% of our inner processes and behaviours are unconscious , so to not let old conditioning (especially of stress) hijack each day, the research shows the first 30 minutes shapes the day and that 86% of people in western world reach for cell as soon as they wake up, and that’s the known and reminds of who have been and the familiar emotions there (especially of stress).

I share my cue card strategy for the first moments upon waking to remind myself of the identity I am embodying and where I’m creating from. This is so important for the reasons above, but also because the first few moments when we wake up we’re in the doorway between the conscious and subconscious mind (our brain waves are different than normal waking life) and that doorway is wide open because sleep suppresses the analytical mind, so we are highly programmable.

I share a study about the four groups and piano learning and make the case that rehearsal is so important so we don’t randomly do things and hope for change or sleepwalk through life - instead we become who we want to be and create from our deepest desires.

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today I’m interviewing Christine Hall of Black Sheep Counselling!

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• Christine Shares that she's fierce about choice when working with her clients and knows they are the absolute experts in their lives; authenticity is a core value for her
• We discuss the authentic self of the therapists and the push-back we’ve both gotten from colleagues when expressing our authenticity in our practices
• Christine states “wisdom is healed pain”
• She shared the importance of healthy self-disclosure, and how story has lineage and resonance that goes back to our ancient roots
• I shared what I see with interns and the conditioning from graduate school to not practice from the authentic self, and Christine shares how ‘self-care’ is not really modeled or allowed for at the graduate school level
• Christine shares her varied background (over 100 jobs, 35 moves, and travel to 45 countries) and that she sees how her background and her failures and successes contribute to her being a better therapist
• She also describes the meaning and importance she makes around bottom-up approaches - I agree and we discuss
• Christine sees how the many top-down approaches her clients have tried before meeting her leads to feelings of shame because none of us can think our way out of trauma
• I share that when taking on new therapists in my clinic I have two prerequisites: they understand we all fundamentally heal ourselves, and they’re open to bottom-up approaches
• We discuss our different views on mental health revolution, systems, and Christine’s strong aversion to a common statement, “we’ve always done it this way”
• Christine paints us a powerful and beautiful picture of her life as a traveler, and what that’s contributed to her worldview, along with how she brings the word 'awe' into the therapy room, and how experiencing awe is why she travels!
• I share what I believe is the psychic trauma of being continually measured and compared from in utero and beyond in North America
• I share a personal story of witnessing my conditioning and moving beyond it, and we discuss how awe and mindfulness fits into our daily lives
• I share how you can come from joy and ease; laundry can be easeful and joyful
• Christine shares her powerful story of when she held herself back and felt unworthy, and then when she let go with faith and went after her desire (this involved a fire that burned down her home!)
• Christine shares that she takes feedback from the person who’s in the arena, vulnerably living and putting themselves out there, rather than those in the cheap seats
• Christine has built a strong social media following where she shares free resources and important messages with the world - here’s where you can check her out: her website, Facebook page, Instagram, and LinkedIn profile

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today I’m interviewing Intimacy Coach Debbie Marielle Elzea.

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Debbie describes her unique approach to empowering women to take ownership of their sexuality and their romantic relationships while affirming men. Her focus and expertise is in supporting Cis gender women in heteronormative relationships.

• Debbie is a romantic and focuses on the physical bond in relationships which she points out is the one thing we can’t get from ourselves
• She acknowledges that her work does not address the spectrum of gender and sexuality because that is not her expertise and experience, but she instead focuses on heterosexual relationships and female identifying intimacy and sexuality coaching
• Debbie lays out some of the ways that her work helps women identifying people to become present, embodied and out of task mode for love making
• She also explains some things about the neo tantric movement and how she applies aspects of it to her personal life and work; especially aspects like breathe, movement, and other somatic modalities to enjoy the journey
• Debbie describes how modern defacto sex education falls to pornography and how her work helps to give a more realistic understanding of sex and particularly women’s sexual preferences
• She shares how her ideal client is looking for romance, especially when either partner’s libido has decreased
• Debbie likes to focus on positive psychology and what makes life better rather than pathology
• To learn more about how Debbie works with therapists to fill a gap and with her clients visit her website where you can setup a free call, take a quiz, see and share her Love Tips blog, and checkout her Facebook group that supports Cis gender women in relationships with men
• Here is a link to her Tedx Talk entitled More Sex, Intimacy and love in marriage
• Here's a link to an article Debbie wrote with an MFT entitled How’s Your Client’s Sex Life?

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• I walk us through the macro level reasons personally and for our field to get beyond conditioning with these questions, as well as the micro-level moment-to-moment ways to use these questions to get beyond habits and disruptions so we stay on track with our goals
• Question 1. With this decision, am I moving closer (or further away from) who I want to be?
• This question open up the identity level of change and why that's so important
• Question 2. What would love do?
• This question can be applied in many ways including ethics and parenting which are two places where fear can masquerade as love
• Question 3. What is ease and what is comfort?
• This question points to an important distinction and our evolutionary preference to stay in our comfort zone, even if the long-term result is not what we desire and how ease differs from this short and long-term
• Question 4. What's worth being uncomfortable for?
• Question 5. What's worth being criticized for?
• Questions 4 & 5 confront the difference between ego or not-self level fears/desires, and Being or Self level desires
• I have a bonus tip about creating a soundtrack to shift your state when you face a choice point

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today I’m interviewing Andrea Shuman of Mycrodrops.

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• Andrea tells us about how she started her healing career in Massage Therapy before studying Ayurvedic Medicine, and then became an entrepreneur in the foodspace making Ghee, before starting Mycrodrops
• She shares that women in midlife transitions have always been drawn to her, and how now in midlife herself she sees how dynamic of a time it is now
• Andrea describes how her own experience was very difficult even with her specialization in women’s health and her subspecialty in post-partum, and how difficult this was and that she’d set herself up well for the post-partum period but struggled a lot with weening depression
• We went more in depth into weening depression which isn’t well understood, and the general challenges of nursing women
• She shares how she needed support and needed a reminder that she had all of the tools, and could formulate her own solutions, so once clear, that’s what she did
• We discussed women’s hormones, in depth testing, and mental health and how that leads to over-prescription of antidepressants
• Andrea shares how her mother was on antidepressants for over 30 years and just came off of them (she also states that over 50 million Americans are on antidepressants!)
• The research that Andrea has done shows startling psychotropic over-prescription rates and the incredible bidirectional gender biases of prescription
• Andrea has heard a common refrain from women that they were commonly put on antidepressants after a sexual assault, with no plan for trauma treatment or an end game to get off of these medications
• I share my view that even after 30 years of antidepressants, sleeping pills, etc, we as humans can still come off of them with support because we are innate healers, and Andrea agrees
• Andrea shares the way she views the patient as the expert and her mother’s experience with psychiatric in-patient care after de-repressed memory retrieval (it's common for people in midlife to have recovered memories surface)
• She shares how long-term antidepressant use is an off label use of the medication, and how the studies that have been done show that use over two years has negative consequences
• One of these negative consequences is a reduction in empathy over time, and with 50 million people on these drugs, she invites us to take a moment to consider the social ramifications
• Andrea explains the reasons she is developing an App to help people recall the granular data of their day-to-day experience to report how they’re doing to their practitioners so their prescriptions and treatment can be tailored to their life, because people do not tend to remember the granular details and instead remember a synopsized version of their lived experience
• She shares how Ayurvedic medicine is measured on a spectrum rather than binaries of less or more which are often the way measurements are done in allopathic medicine
• The app captures the important metrics of lived experience to better inform treatment with nuance
• Andrea shares how GPs are largely the ones prescribing antidepressants and this data would really help them, and that the American Psychiatric Association (the psychiatrists) are sounding the alarm because of the overprescription epidemic
• She gives the history of PMDD treatment and how PMDD was likely a created title to rebrand Prozac under a new name because they ran out of their patent
• Andrea says it’s important to look at the for profit and sociological factors to this complex problem, and how we need a complex solution
• I mentioned the dutch test and when I would recommend women getting that done
• Andrea shares about her Mycrodrops product and the development and history of where she is now
• She also explains some of the use of microdosing with psychedelics as well, and how what people are trying to treat with psychedelics without the aid of other herbs can be difficult, because some psychedelics bring the system up, some down, and they all have different bioavailability, and this is more complex than just taking some mushrooms and finding relief
• Andrea shares that her products all have a stable base and how the compounds in her base all work together (this is fascinating - she truly is an expert)
• She describes her 3 products called Motivated, Focus, and Grounded and what’s been added to her stable base to achieve these different result
• Andrea describes how these are all food-based, taste good, could be taken once a day instead of many times a day like many tinctures and herbs (I’ve checked out her reviews and people love her products!)
• I discuss the quiz she has on her website and her rave reviews
• What mental health revolution means to Andrea is about people being empowered to take their life and health into their own hands
• Andrea shares how a growth area she moved through was the fear and feelings of failure when she was holding onto something that wasn’t working anymore
• I wondered if she was experiencing the conditioning that therapists often do that they are hurting other people by going after what they need to do on the deepest level, and she gave examples of how at the time she had difficulty letting go, this was something she was experiencing and how this relates to self-trust
• Andrea shares how it felt like her therapist was brought to her by magic because there’s such a great fit, and it was very difficult to find therapists at the time, as well as how support is so necessary, rather than “cowboy heroics”
• Andrea describes her generous offer of a coupon code and the invitation to take her quiz to know what’s best for you, and to enjoy her blogs on mental health, herbal medicine, and microdosing

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today I’m interviewing Sabrina Andreucci.

• Sabrina is a Hypnocoach, and is accredited in RTT, hypnotherapy, NLP, Life Coaching, and Numerology (which she calls her party trick ; )
• She predominantly supports Company leaders with procrastination, Imposter Syndrome, and confidence (which she identifies as the tip of the iceberg)
• Sabrina describes how the word ‘business’ didn’t feel good to her and she found out the root of the word comes from the word anxiety!!
• She looked into the word ‘company’ and the multilayered meanings here alluding to connection, leadership, and union she much prefers
• Sabrina discussed how supporting company leaders results in much larger impacts in communities
• She supports these leaders with their subconscious blocks and beliefs on a root cause level instead of just treating the manifested symptoms and tactics
• We explored creating from ‘busyness’ versus from our deeper power and how that differs in terms of outcomes (the stones in the water metaphors)
• We discussed RTT, including my experience as a client and Sabrina’s detailed view as a practitioner
• Sabrina shared what mental health revolution means to her, and it’s all about truly honouring, feeling, and allowing our feelings
• She shared how the positive thinking movement can turn positive experiences into polluted experiences because we try to think our way out of feeling
• Sabrina describes how feelings can be messy, and not very ‘corporate’, and the importance of EQ and authenticity at work
• She gives us a subconscious mind trick!! Never ask why you’re feeling what you’re feeling because you’ll always hear an excuse or surface reason. Instead say to yourself, “I’m feeling this feeling because…” and it will lead to the deeper reasons and keep going deeper with “because…because…”
• Sabrina shares what her risk taking has been about in order to go after her dream that’s in service to Self-ness
• She followed her gift to support people in the way she had once ignored because of fear and perfectionism, but her talent to support others was even on her Kindergarten report card
• Sabrina lays out the chronic unexplained back pain and gut issues she experienced when she wasn’t listening to her deepest knowing, and how she overcame this pain
• I point out one of the states of conditioning so common for therapists: waiting for someone to give us permission to do what we want to do and how we can get credential after credential to try and get that powerful other to give the okay - but we need to define ourselves!
• We discuss feeling the fear and doing it anyway in life as bravery, and Sabrina names rejection as the most common and deepest fear that’s tied to evolution because of the deeper fear of death as a dependent mammal
• She states, “if we need a greater reason for self-development, it’s evolution!”
• We discuss the pursuit of happiness as an evolutionary shift beyond survival
• I again share the key question I ask that helps me overcome survival fear and ego blocks - What’s worth being criticized for?

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today I’m interviewing Rebecca Berens, MD.

• On this episode Rebecca explains what led her to leave managed care and go into private practice, and we discuss the industry factors that contribute to provider resignation, burnout, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma
• Rebecca works in private practice in Houston Texas, and many of her patients are referred from dieticians and mental health providers because she works with a health at any size model, and many of her patients have felt shame or otherwise had negative experiences in the past with physicians
• We discuss how the system cannot provide what’s needed in 10-15 minute appointments for these patients; many of whom have experienced trauma
• We explore how COVID influenced physicians and healthcare providers in general to re-think their career paths
• Rebecca shares how burnout was a doorway for her out of the system, and how med school and residency is designed to be so much at such a fast pace that evaluating what’s really desired and meaningful at that time is difficult
• She also shared how non-compete clauses for physicians in managed care can make them feel trapped to get out of the system, and how the data shows that female physicians are at a higher likelihood of being either at part-time or out of the medical field by 6 years into practice
• Rebecca shares for us what mental health revolution means to her and it’s a hopeful take on how these systems could all be waking up to mental health realities
• To refer to Rebecca or learn more about her work, here are her contact details: Practice Website, Personal Website, Instagram, and Tik Tok

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today I’m interviewing Megan Melo, MD.

• Megan is a family medicine physician 12 years into the field, and she shares her own journey with burnout and how she's seen burnout in the lives of women she's treated, as well as her female colleagues
• Megan left a practice where boundaries were difficult and burnout was present and she got training as a coach to answer the question, "how do we care for ourselves in a sustainable way when caring for others?"
• Megan mainly coaches physicians and physician assistants
• She shares the intense sacrifice that’s made in medical school and residency, and how this “service mode” takes a toll on physical health and wellbeing in the moment, and normalizes poor self-care through not responding to our own needs, but to relieve as much suffering as possible in others
• I share a synopsis of what was described last episode about the history of medical overworking beginning in the 1700s
• We discuss over-performing and over-functioning and how that can lead to self-righteousness and resentment
• Megan did the courageous thing of listening to her need for change in herself and now supports others
• She laid out some of the gender differences she perceived in terms of boundaries and self-care for her male counterparts (especially older males), and how people pleasing and feeling put upon was leaking out as frustration and resentment for her female counterparts
• Megan identifies that part of that issue is the huge medical system issues, but also the people pleasing, perfectionism, and lack of boundaries that lead to real suffering, blame, and resentment until one sees the parts in themselves that are so well conditioned to over-function
• We look at what mental health and allopathic revolution mean to her
• We look at how physicians are conditioned to respond and perform when others come with urgency, even if it’s not the best use of their time, and how there is so much extra time put into medicine, such as “pajama time,” to try and keep up with all of the work
• We discuss the human cost of the business of healthcare
• I give an example from the book Clockwork by Mike Michalowicz that is analogous to the struggle she’s describing with the business of healthcare
• I suggested these organizations look outside of their entrenched boxes and outside of medicine to other business models and other countries and cultures to innovate
• Megan lays out the messiness of the squeeze between constant suffering and people pleasing and boundaries with a real-world example of sports physicals
• I lay out the codependent culture lens on our society and the wonder of how dare we take that away from them (meaning the experience of people feeling their difficult feelings)
• Megan relates this boundaried approach to allowing others to build the skills needed to navigate failure when we don’t take their suffering away, and the importance of us being willing to sit in the discomfort of not rescuing
• We discuss how it feels unsafe for us in a codependent culture and conditioning: if our role has been to make nice and care for others, and that people’s upset with us feels unsafe and Megan shares how confronting this pattern is important
• Megan shares her brave journey of opening her own coaching business to take care of herself and contribute to positive change for physicians and physician assistants
• She shares how she had an either-or-mindset with being primarily a physician or a coach, and she asked herself, “why can’t I have both?” and now she has a clearer vision
• Megan describes her experience of being in a coaching group for female physician entrepreneurs and the inspiring and remarkable mindsets and innovations she’s seeing, and what that is going to mean for healthcare going forward
• We discuss the magic of googling, coaching, and

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today I’m interviewing Megan Cohoon.

• Megan describes her clientele and her relational approach, as well as her love for working with couples and families
• I love her quote, “I don’t work with disorders, I work with people,” and how the DSM is not grounded in science and is “so confining”
• She reports her frustration about the narrow view of humanity, therapy, and the medical model
• Being a blacksheep in a room full of therapists is something we share, and how we both relate to people without the pathology model
• Megan lays out the roots of Marriage and Family Therapy, and how psychology and marriage and family therapy have melded over time
• Megan has researched the history of medicine, including Chinese and Western medicine
• She describes the origins of sleep deprivation and superhuman expectations of medical professionals born out of the late 1700s (this story has to be heard to be believed!), and how what translated and lingered in the medical culture is astounding, considering what has been forgotten about this timeframe
• The paradigm shift of working faster and surgically in western medicine was born out of the need and creativity necessitated by WWI, so surgery became a “love affair” that lingers today. Then during WWII, the focus became antibiotics. She lays out how these two branches of medicine have dominated Western medicine since.
• She asks, “Why do we talk about mental health, why don’t we just talk about health?”
• She shares how Chinese medicine does not separate the brain from the body
• Megan describes how the most exciting healthcare revolution is about alternative medicine and the tremendous opportunities there, because allopathic medicine is so ineffective at managing and curing chronic conditions
• Megan wants to see a Health revolution; not specific to mental health, and to her that looks like incorporating other health approaches into Western medicine (like the Integrative Psychiatry model, and Functional Medicine model)
• Megan recommends looking for the readily available functional medicine information available on the internet
• We talk about some other important historical factors, and Homeopathic mindsets and practices
• Megan asks, “where’s the curiosity?” in science and how that applies to healthcare
• We discuss the discomfort as the opportunity to be curious, and how curiosity and not knowing can lead to amazing changes (and has lead to amazing changes historically)
• Megan describes the shocking history of handwashing

https://fmpha.org/free-resources/ Free Functional Medicine Resources

https://www.ifm.org/functional-medicine/patient-resource-center/ More resources and questions to ask functional medicine practitioners as well as other medical professionals https://p.widencdn.net/iymmsf/Questions-For-Functional-Medicine-Practitioners

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today I’m interviewing Reina Lombardi. Reina shares her background in Expressive therapies Reina is a group practice owner and trains and consults with other therapists who want to create a private practice or entrepreneurial arm to their creative therapy practice.  She outlines how she got into training other therapists because there’s a lot of fear of getting into private practice because of concerns for stability, and how working in agencies does not necessarily support sustainability. Reina shares a story of working at an agency and having her salary cut to under 30k per year!  Reina explains how in private practice you actually have more control over your energy, stability, and sustainability - ‘making your own way’. She felt terrified to start her podcast and for months recorded and deleted. We briefly touched on the great designation and how there’s a lot of turnover in the profession, and the adage that makes Reina sick: “you didn’t get into this for the money” Reina shares the setting of “allowable” rates by insurance companies and how some insurance companies cut their rates and otherwise many have not increased their rates in 15 years!  She explains the “pressure cooker environment” and how this relates to unsustainable amounts of client sessions needed to make ends meet in this model, and how that relates to not being able to take breaks on a 7-8 hour face-to-face client day to meet billable requirements for the week. Ultimately resulting in turnover and resignation. In her clinical supervision work she makes it clear to therapists (especially those who hire her and work in agencies) that it’s not them, it’s the system. She wondered in her earlier career why she wasn’t staying with organizations for more than a year or two and she wondered if there was something wrong with her, and she realized the truth over time that the rage and fire in her was saying to get out and take care of herself. There are many of us with similar stories of leaving agency work and overcoming the burnout and toxic environments to thrive. I share the question I use to differentiate heart from ego centered motivations, especially when I feel fear: ‘What’s worth being criticized for?’ and Reina shares she’ll be writing down the question and using it to discern as well. You can find Reina at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-creative-psychotherapist/id1495052860 (The Creative Psychotherapist podcast) and her website https://www.creativeclinicianscorner.com/ (Creative Clinician’s Corner)

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today I’m interviewing Dr. Nicola DePaul. Nicola shares her personal passions and her professional passion for clinician wellness She goes on to describe how her past work focused on thinking globally and acting locally, as well as how her own vulnerable journey with burnout now informs her work and life Nicola describes how she’s implemented boundaries in a field that asks for self-sacrifice, and that unlearning that self-sacrifice and that burnout is a wakeup call (once someone is ready to see they’re experiencing burnout) Nicola shares that she works with healthcare leaders and how important, easeful, and empowering it is to focus on what’s within a their control I share my supervisor’s question that helps prevent burnout: Am I acting responsibly or taking responsibility? Nicola describes what acting responsibly looks like in her work. She mentions the loss of physicians in her organization and how that relates to not hearing the basic concerns of those physicians and how that has big impacts on morale and more when a physician leaves an organization We discuss the use of anonymous surveys to gauge employee needs and improve morale Nicola describes her core value of openness and how sharing our own mental health struggles as clinicians within organizations is important, and that some organizational cultures do not support this. We discussed the difficulties of being a graduate student and how the hierarchical, less-than conditioning of being a student, and then entering a field that is full of trauma and gives out rewards for overworking, really fosters some of these challenges We discuss the books Clockwork and The Big Leap Nicola shares what mental health REVOLUTION means to her (it’s about empowerment and living in the zone of genius, and that a person’s contribution is so much more expansive showing up this way than in the societal expectations of pleasing and self-sacrifice). We explored her journey to showing up radically transparent in her relationships so others can have her actually in their lives. She shares that hosting her own podcast Menders is what she’s meant to do, and allows her to create artwork in relationship Nicola shares her perspective on failure and how this is leading to exciting new horizons Checkout Nicola's Podcast https://mendersloveleadershipinhealthsystems.buzzsprout.com/ (Menders: Love & leadership in Health Systems)

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today I’m interviewing Natalie McCrory. Natalie begins by sharing that she’s going unscripted and will allow whatever is meant to arise to do so  Natalie shares her amazing journey of working in the Canadian arctic as a social worker She describes living in a remote community with a rich culture and cultural history, as well as a devastating history of colonization Natalie lived in the town where Nanook of the North was filmed and describes how her life and career were shaped by her experience in the Canadian North, and how this imparted a deep humility Natalie describes how her 27 year journey as a therapist has unfolded in ways she could have never expected, including her first counselling experience, how her flow state comes about in 1:1 work, and how she landed in private practice How the most profound healing happens when people remember the innate things that they forgot and then remember what they already knew about themselves that then leads to joy, peace, and something to hold onto to get them through struggles Natalie describes how life will remind her to be humble when she forgets, and how it’s deep in her heart and being to support Indigenous people How Natalie has turned to Indigenous people when lost literally and metaphorically Natalie shares her passion for connecting therapists with one another and creating a network to step into community and connection  The destigmatization of mental health and empowerment of clients and therapists was discussed How therapists often enter the field because we’ve had our own pain and trauma and what it means to walk the walk with our own care to be present for our families and our clients, and how many of the people Natalie supports are therapists The importance of seeing, speaking,and living our truth Natalie shares how she didn’t see the truth at first when in an abusive relationship and what happened when her eyes were opened and she stepped into truth, courage, alignment, and starting over Natalie thanks all of you, and shares her hope that her story and vulnerability will touch future generations

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! In this episode I do a coaching episode with my close friend and business partner Julia Rushlow. Julia is a talented and unique Play Therapist who specializes in working with children, parents and families using Non-Directive Play, Sand, and her amazing intuitive gifts. In this episode, Julia vulnerably shares her fears, doubts, and blocks about her recent launch, and she realizes how these mirror the feelings of the parents she’s serving (namely aloneness, self-doubt, self-judgment, and failure) Through coaching we get to the core concern that Julia is having and then use mindful-experiential methods for her to reach past the fears, concerns, and conditioning that cast doubt on her dreams Julia sees a clear vision of the feeling, energy, and embodiment state of her core desires and this is where she needs to create from We discuss how she can use this as a guidepost when she feels the conditioning pop back up in order to clarify her next steps and re-align her with her deeper mission and heart-based vision, rather than following what the fear and self-doubt would direct her to do

Want paradigm shifting parenting support for yourself, your loved ones or for your clients? Seriously, who doesn't? This parenting thing is tough and we're not meant to go it alone. Learn more or signup for https://clarityclinic.ca/parentgroups/ (Julia's Parenting Groups) - innovative, affordable, flexible, anyone can show up anonymously. Want a weekly bite-sized, mindset shifting message to keep your week aligned with your dreams? Signup for https://therapistexpanded.com/contact/ (Monday MINDUPS), where I can serve you with bite-sized weekly emails that provide ah-ha generating messages to set the tone for your week. Please Subscribe, share, rate and review if it feels genuine to you - I bet your colleagues will thank you

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! In this episode I interview my close friend and business partner Julia Rushlow. Julia is a talented and unique Play Therapist who specializes in working with children, parents and families using Non-Directive Play, Sand, and her amazing intuitive gifts. Julia walks us through her life as a therapist before and after a transformational shift she made both personally and professionally after a 15-day play therapy training  We discuss the shift from putting clients first to putting the clinician first and how that benefits everyone involved Julia details the 100+ consultation calls she’s had with parents in recent months and how the work she’s done is unique and in demand resulting in waitlists, but how that interest isn’t translating into her offers for parent groups We look at some of the factors holding parents back from signing up, as well as what's holding Julia back We pick up more on this topic in the next episode where Erin provides coaching on the topic with Julia

Want paradigm shifting parenting support for yourself, your loved ones or for your clients? Seriously, who doesn't? This parenting thing is tough. Learn more or signup for https://clarityclinic.ca/parentgroups/ (Julia's Parenting Groups) - affordable, convenient and innovative. Want a weekly bite-sized, mindset shifting message to keep your week aligned with your dreams? Signup for Monday MINDUPS, where I can serve you with bite-sized weekly emails that provide ah-ha generating messages to set the tone for your week. Please Subscribe, share, rate and review if it feels genuine to you - I bet your colleagues will thank you

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today I’m interviewing Katrina James: We look at how the frame or story around our human experience as individuals shapes our reality How the reframe came first from photography for Katrina and how the zoom-in or out works in human psychology and neuroscience (particularly during EMDR) Katrina spoke about how reframing works in the case of entrepreneurs who can get stuck feeling like they and they alone can do things in their business Katrina’s concept of burning down the house and starting fresh to revolutionize mental health, and how the shifts towards de-stigmatizing mental health in the younger generations may mean we don’t have to burn the whole mental health establishment down just yet Indoctrination of therapists happens at different levels and we discussed how this relates to Katrina’s concept of living someone else’s life and how she helps entrepreneurs, and how Therapist Expanded is here to help therapists wake up from the dream of what we ‘should’ do in the field, and instead follow our dreams and desires to live our own life freely and fully  A discussion of risk taking and burning things down in our own lives shows how we have overcome the safety messages, and Katrina shared specific examples of where she has let go of living other people’s idea of what her life should be I shared my black sheep origins and how I pulled away from people and things to not be held down by feeling rejection The common misconceptions around fear (particularly for entrepreneurs) My ultimate reframe with fear and the way I got to my current relationship with fear and risk-taking as exhilarating instead of paralyzing (hint - I now turn towards pain and fear after the type of meditation I mention in the podcast taught me how) Katrina has an ah-ha about what she’s holding herself back from and where her deepest desire to act is centred We end with the power of belonging and modeling to face fear with others

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! In this solo episode I: Do a brief intro about myself and a teaser for my https://therapistexpanded.com/about/ (professional bio) and for my personal bio that will be in an episode to come (my personal story of moving from a trauma and addiction focused life to healing and becoming a mindful-experiential therapist, clinical supervisor, group practice owner, innovator, and now a Fulfillment Coach for Therapists) I lay out who the show is for: therapists being educated, new therapists, therapists in the ‘it’s not you it’s me’ phase in their career, in the ‘it’s not me it’s you phase’, therapists done tolerating, therapists living what on paper is the dream but not feeling as fulfilled as they’ve been promised, and therapists relatively happy but with a huge dream they’re ready to set free into the world. Even people outside of therapy like doctors, nurses, and coaches who can apply the same principles to expand beyond their industry conditioning. I present the vision: No matter where listeners are in their career, my goal is to present the knowing that we are at the heart of mental health revolution when we live freely and fully and I’m here to support others because one thing no one can do is convince me of their limitations. Laying out the framework for starting with the end in mind for the podcast (a way to vision and to lay the mind to rest and create from the deeper place of Being and how that changed what I saw in terms of the podcast vision). Here is my blog post with a https://therapistexpanded.com/starting-with-the-end-in-mind/ (step-by-step process) for this type of visioning to bring your dreams to life. The strategy for how I'll deliver this content: covering topics like expansion, power, responsibility, abundance, freedom, desire, self-saboutage and limitlessness through solo episodes, coaching, and in interviews where guests are doing the things other might say are impossible in our field and the healthcare field as a whole. Some important things I touch on: The question to clarify deepest desires from other desires, “what's worth being criticized for?”; https://therapistexpanded.com/starting-with-the-end-in-mind/ (the blog post with the visioning framework link); and my Monday MINDUPS

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Welcome to Therapist Expanded! Here's a trailer to give you an idea of who this podcast is for and how Therapist Expanded is inciting a mental health Revolution. A Revolution that begins with supporting therapists to freely and fully live our dreams. Enjoy! Want a weekly bite-sized, mindset shifting message to keep your week aligned with your dreams? Signup for Monday MINDUPS  Please Subscribe, share, rate and review if it feels genuine to you - I bet your colleagues will thank you