Survivors2Thrivers: Recent Episodes
Joshua Blatman
Survivors2Thrivers podcast is a safe place to discuss and discover new or unique technologies that improve healing and recovery outcomes for the mind, body, and spirit... to achieve "Wholeness at Your Highest Level."
Some episodes present tools and techniques for healing and transforming trauma, including discussions with experts and survivors themselves. Other episodes discuss astrology and employ special astrological techniques to uncover meaning, direction, and purpose; understandings, that interest the podcast host. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joshuablatman/support
Accompanying video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/E0iaP_Arq7U
This astrology video seeks to discover subtle spiritual energies present during this waxing phase of the lunar cycle - March 2, 2022 to March 18, 2022.
Topics include:
- personal will or spiritual will?
- harbingers of valor
- certifications of worth
- nourishment and nourishing breath
- clarify and recommit to nourishment
- grounding techniques - I.e. yoga, kundalini yoga - poke, provoke, transcend
- root knowledge
- unsophistication
- socialization of desire
- mental restructuring
- protective shielding
- departure from old ways of being
- overlapping layers
- knowledge vs. wisdom
- resilience
The accompanying YouTube video with astrology charts and written notes: https://youtu.be/c0WmpQWI26A
This astrology video seeks to discover subtle spiritual energies present during this waning phase of the lunar cycle - April 16, 2022 to April 30, 2022.
Topics include:
- move to the music and let the music move you
- yang and yin, oscillations of wholeness
- waning hemicycle
- Pluto moving from direct to retrograde, a retracing of steps to confirm new directions... cultivate
- cultural reorientation to new intuitive guidance, and intuitive capacities
- new individualized and enduring values
- new approaches
- Jupiter Neptune conjunction
- informed social mind
- perceiving abundance
- emotional mastery and mastery of dedication
- learning from and responding to nature
- dancing with nature
- seeds of new growth
- bowl shape
- centralize and identify with impermanence
- differentiate and archetypalize at the same time
- erupting and collapsing at 'the speed of thought'
- notice, listen, let go
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This episode discusses the astrological energies from the new moon on March 2, 2022 to the full moon on March 18, 2022.
Themes include:
- new beginnings as a departure from old ways of being
- existence is motion
- nourishment
- resilience
- will power - personal power, god/good power, satanic/evil power
- wisdom - natural wisdom vs. root wisdom
- Knowledge vs. wisdom
Astrology from the full moon on Feb 16 2022, to the New Moon on March 2, 2022, this episode highlights changing energies and developments in consciousness.
YouTube link for video accompaniment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4g3nMyfvLU&t=3s
Themes include NOURISHMENT, WILL POWER, TRUTH, MASTERY, USA NATAL PLUTO RETURN, AMERICA'S NATAL PLUTO, CULTURAL CHANGES AND NEW BEGINNINGS, TEAMWORK, AND MORE.
This channel discusses tools and techniques for transforming trauma, healing after TBI / PTSD / NDE, and sharing light in the darkness.
This episode explores the composite astrology chart between the natal charts of the United States of America (Sibley Chart) and Bitcoin (Genesis Block), the first cryptocurrency.
Audio stands on its own, but audio is accompanied by a video at https://youtu.be/eQH-3DzGU9o.
A discussion of the growth and change in consciousness, as shown in the astrology, from the new moon on February 1, 2022 to the full moon on February 16, 2022.
Video accompaniment can be found on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/Hgcrc5gU5f0
Discussing growth and change shown in the astrology, from the Full Moon on January 17, 2022 to New Moon, February 1, 2022, focusing on understanding transitional energies that are present.
This channel discusses tools and techniques for transforming trauma, healing after TBI / PTSD / NDE, and sharing light in the darkness.
The following is a discussion about tools and techniques for transforming trauma.
Welcome to the Survivors2Thrivers show, I’m Joshua Blatman. Today I’m joined by Sara Pagel, a Functional Health Practitioner, for her take on stress, sleep, diet and nutrition, healing, and personal empowerment to shift the trauma narrative. Let’s jump in!
Keywords:
supplementation, functional health, health practitioner, nutrition, food sensitivities, trauma, stress, eustress, distress, emotions, gut health, mental health, boundaries, empowerment, space, grace, adrenal fatigue.
Join Joshua with Cavin Balaster from (adventuresinbraininjury.com) and (Feedabrain.com) for a discussion that covers shared experiences of traumatic brain injury and NDE, creating your own healing, the importance of diet, and other ideas from the lens of the unique life experience.
The Survivors2Thrivers channel seeks to share tools and techniques for healing and transforming trauma to support growth and change during this intense phase of human evolution.
Nothing said in this channel is intended as medical advice.
Here's the YouTube video with accompanying astrology charts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIhaj5HzlDw
This episode is about the growth and change in the astrology charts from the new moon on January 2, 2022 to the full moon on January 17, 2022.
Changes:
Full moon on Dec 18, 2021, to full moon on Jan 17, 2022 —
illuminating next steps, how far we’ve come, and how much farther we have to go
(both in our personal missions, and individual/national missions).
Jupiter - continuing to restructure our thoughts and (Venus) relationship to power.
Mars has moved through a Waning Square to Neptune. New meaning for our personal role and direction related to gross cultural/social shifts
Sun transiting Pluto during this lunar phase — Huge for revealing new beginnings,
both at the personal level and the national/individual level , of how we’re transforming our relationship to power and achievement.
Mercury — going through the first 10° of Aquarius, illuminated in retrograde — recreates our sense of contribution.
Axis of full moon — 28th degree of Cancer and 28th degree of Capricorn — emphasizes illumination of the power of decision, inner rebirth, and a return to nature… a deepening relationship to our own nature.
Pluto moves almost an entire half a degree during these two weeks… emphasizing cultural shifts… while also being passed by the Sun, and the continued separation through retrograde motion of Venus… emphasizing culture shifts, and a RE-EXAMINATION of the power dynamic.
Lunar Nodes — growing beyond feigned innocence, opening up the possibility to integrate new dimensions of reality that support new harmonious relationships with nature.
This astrology episode explores the energies in the astrology charts of the New Moon on December 4, 2021, and the Full Moon on December 18, 2021 with discussion around how the energies are changing through the cycle.
The channel's mission (and website Survivors2Thrivers.org) is to share tools and techniques for healing, transforming trauma, and elevating consciousness.
Cranial Sacral massage, while I was in the ICU, helped wake me up from the coma, but I had PTSD that was not diagnosed for 15 years, becoming Complex PTSD, which gets exacerbated by TBI.
This podcast is a shallow deep dive into my story, only sharing what's relevant to another person's recovery. Here are a few links with more information to provide direction for survivors and their families to discover healing modalities that are outside of the western medicine domain.
At the end, I also briefly discuss that modern scientific astrology has been immensely helpful for me in finding my center after years of disorientation.
Just in summary:
1) Cranial sacral massage - https://www.integrativehealthcare.org/mt/what-exactly-is-cranial-sacral-therapy/
2) Brainwave biofeedback
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Neuroptimal – https://neuroptimal.com/discover-neuroptimal/
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Types of biofeedback programs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_neurofeedback_software
3) Yoga and kundalini yoga
- Kundalini Kriyas – https://www.3ho.org/kundalini-yoga/kriya
4) Interactive metronome
- What is Interactive Metronome – https://www.interactivemetronome.com/what-is-im
5) EFT (Brad Yates YouTube videos)
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Brad Yates interview is #2 on Survivors2Thrivers.org/podcast
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https://www.youtube.com/c/tapwithbrad/videos
6) Diet & Nutrition
- There are many options for diet and nutrition. In addition to organic foods, what has worked for me is a low inflammation diet, which you can read about in a book by Kathy Abascal called, “The Abascal Way”. – https://www.amazon.com/Abascal-Way-Inflammation-Health-Weight/dp/0978858603
Astrology Chart Theme: “Learning to Ride a Bike on a highway during Rush Hour”
I’m going to tell you about 3 main things in our episode today:
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The Sun/Moon conjunction and the inner planets (Mercury and Venus)
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The historic conjunctions in Capricorn with Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto
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Mars emerging out of retrograde
New Moon Sign:
24° Scorpio -- (SCORPIO 24°): AFTER HAVING HEARD AN INSPIRED INDIVIDUAL DELIVER HIS "SERMON ON THE MOUNT," CROWDS ARE RETURNING HOME.
KEYNOTE: The need to incorporate inspiring experiences and teachings into everyday living.
Challenge to Transformation
Concentrating intensity into what we can move forward with by discovering techniques/methods/systems to assimilate everything going on in the world.
How do we make this work?
How do we survive, function, and thrive while honoring American idealism?
We don’t have to be domineering or aggressive.
Venus: [[Libra 23°]] Appreciate demonstrations of American ideals.
People expressing their rights.
Don’t get consumed by worry.
Mercury: [[Scorpio 6°]] Manage your eagerness.
How can we as Americans generate consensus values for living into this new technological age?
Ideals and ethics that lift us up without holding us back?
Jupiter
Just this last week Jupiter passed Pluto.
In relationship to Pluto…
Instead of listening to doom and gloom emotional hijackers who take your creative power for their own, tune into personal balance and reclaim personal sovereignty in our own minds by listening critically to especially sensitive and intellectually gifted individuals who can give significance, form, and meaning to the most characteristic situations and interpersonal relationships of our society and culture.
We each need to fulfill our individual responsibilities to our culture.
We can shape the world with our vibration. We can shape our culture by committing ourselves to spiritual laws present in all faiths… not one religion or another has access to truth; all spiritual paths climb the same mountain.
Collectively we’re learning to trust spiritual values… that joy and harmony are always present in us by the light of our soul realities.
Houses 7-9, Retrograde planets and Mars…
Individually, we’re not going to back to what many of us have been afraid of, but we have individual opportunities for personal activity in transcendent directions by using our individual power to create collective solutions.
Embrace holistic, nonrational, and intuitive activities.
Learning to act from awakening inner wisdom over oppressing outer authority.
“Becoming like a little child” instead of rehashing old habits.
“Stay in your lane”. Don’t dilute yourself with all the places there are needs.
Theme: “Learning to Ride a Bike on a highway during Rush Hour”
Stay in your lane and don’t give up!
If you quit, you’ll never learn to ride, and it’ll be a great personal regret.
Unconscious of drivers’ concerns.
Discover and Rediscover Inner Stability.
Don’t get divided by power struggles.
Instead, use energy of division to discover and rediscover how you relate to your relatedness. How you feel.
In this podcast, I talk through the astrology chart of the moment, share my personal journey to astrology, and answer questions submitted to me.
I talk through the changes in the chart that occur over the unfolding 42 minutes of this episode to provide listeners with a personal experience of the dynamic real-time nature of astrology.
I highlight the positions of planets in the zodiac and how they relate to current power struggles playing out across the country.
I end the episode by addressing a few specific questions that were submitted to me from a private Facebook group designed to support the spark of our soul missions in life.
A discussion about healing trauma with simple tools and distinctions that reveal truths at the level of who you are. The conversation is fast-paced and talks about mental health and trauma.
This solo episode of the Survivors2Thrivers podcast is about the Mars Retrograde cycle, 2020. Two astrology charts were cast in preparation for this conversation, one for the minute that Mars goes into retrograde and one for the minute that Mars goes direct.
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Today’s guest is finishing a PhD dissertation, titled, “the social life of Traumatic Brain Injury”.
His PhD is focusing on Medical Anthropology and Sociology through his own experience with TBI (traumatic brain injury), numerous interviews with survivors, their friends and family makers, and policymakers in Washington State.
One of the most fascinating things I learned in this interview is that the societal effects of TBI are demonstrated in his data, across all sets of Society.
Join me for this discussion with Tina Huang, PhD, a Holistic Brain Health Practitioner in Seattle, Washington. We talk about her methodologies and subtle energy she uses to bring about recovery.
She does an experiment with me at the end to test distance healing.
Check it out!
Rabbi Olivier Benhaim shares his experience of a heart attack and his sense of surprise after a heart attack. We discuss ideas of Fairness, Justice, Expectations, Planning, Attachment, Identity, Transitions, and we give recognition to the experiences of the loved ones of those who suffer major trauma.
Traumatic experiences impact trauma sufferers’ loved ones too, something called Secondary Trauma.
We also discuss Grief, the idea of “Falling from Grace”, Aging, Mourning, the machinery of the brain and the nature of thought, Kabbalistic principles about life, and we end the discussion with a guided meditation that I encourage you to try!
This is the first podcast and I could not be more excited to introduce Seth Ellner.
In this podcast, Seth and I discuss how Trauma affects the brain, and in turn, how that comes out throughout one's life experience. We talk about what's happening in the brain when we're feeling stuck, how stuckness effects learning and motivation, a learn about EMDR therapy to unlock and process emotional stuckness/disassociation.
This episode is a discussion with Brad Yates about his Emotional Freedom Technique videos on YouTube, what inspired him to start making them, and you’ll discover his unique comedic training!
Today I’m speaking with Dr. Carl Johan Calleman. He has a PHD in physical Biology, experience as a senior researcher, and is a published scientific author from the UW.
I became interested in his writings about calendar systems, which came from my fascination with how humans perceive time, particularly folks who’ve been effecting by existential crises, PTSD, and trauma. For nearly 40 years, Dr. Calleman has been exploring how the Mayan calendar system correlates with consciousness shifts and biological evolution.
Dr. Calleman is known for his theory that the Mayan calendar reflects the evolution of the global mind. He has dedicated his life to identifying the underlying evolutionary processes that govern human history and our individual lives, using the Mayan calendar as an inroad to some of the most fundamental problems of human existence.
He is the author of several books, including: “the global mind and the rise of civilization”, and his most recent book, “the 9 waves of creation: Quantum physics, holographic evolution, and the destiny of Humanity”.
For further learning about his work, check out his website: calleman.com.
Dr. Blatman shares his expertise developed over 30 years in treating pain and provides a deeper understanding of what pain is, how pain presents itself (what I’ve heard called the façade of pain), and the difference between regular/acute pain and chronic pain.