Untying Knots: Minds and Souls Untethered

Note: While this episode discusses the pandemic, the skills we discuss in this episode are applicable to stress in all areas of life. On this rebroadcast, I chat with ellow Brainspotter Alexis Overstreet about her training and work in Trauma and Tension Release Exercises (TRE). We talk about how they hae used it to address Pandemic Stress, the Brain/Body Connection, and mental health as a Person of Color. Links: https://metaspacecounseling.com

On this rebroadcast, I chat with Brain Ragas, is the Director of the SF Aids Foundation program Black Brothers Esteem, which serves Queer Black Men within the community and those who are living with HIV. We talk about this type of work, the need for it, and a number of the challenges facing Queer Black men in the San Franscisco area. Listen and share. Link: https://www.sfaf.org/programs/black-health/

This week, I sit down with creators Jadzia Axelrod and Michael Varrati to continue discussing Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stackeddeckpress/fourseasons-of-fear-a-year-of-queer-horror Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror is an all-LGBTQ+ horror comics anthology from award-winning publisher Stacked Deck Press. It features horror stories from queer perspectives that draw inspiration from holidays and seasonal activities. Four Seasons of

This week, I sit down with creators Sonya Saturday and Tara Avery to talk about the queer horror comic anthology Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror and other projects they're working on. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stackeddeckpress/fourseasons-of-fear-a-year-of-queer-horror Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror is an all-LGBTQ+ horror comics anthology from award-winning publisher Stacked Deck Press. It features horror stories from queer perspectives that draw inspirati

This week, I sit down again with Dr. Jonathan Lassiter to continue our conversation about relationships. Jonathan Mathias Lassiter, Ph.D. is a polymath who utilizes psychology, writing, and dance to help others heal and thrive. His roles include licensed clinical psychologist, holistic wellness and relationship coach, professor, author, public speaker, and choreographer. As a public intellectual, Dr. Lassiter has been featured on television, radio, podcasts, and print such as PBS, Sirius XM, an

This week, I sit down with Dr. Eric FitzMedrud, author of The Better Man, to talk about existential crises, humanism, and responses to the current state of the world. Eric FitzMedrud is a therapist specializing in relationship and sexual issues in the San Francisco Bay Area. His specialty is helping men improve their sex lives by learning to regulate their emotions, removing sexual entitlement, and honing their sexual consent and negotiation skills. FitzMedrud is a member of the American Associ

This week, I sit down with Dr. Jonathan M. Lassiter to talk about his new book How I Know White People Are Crazy. Jonathan Mathias Lassiter, Ph.D. is a polymath who utilizes psychology, writing, and dance to help others heal and thrive. His roles include licensed clinical psychologist, holistic wellness and relationship coach, professor, author, public speaker, and choreographer. As a public intellectual, Dr. Lassiter has been featured on television, radio, podcasts, and print such as PBS, Siri

This week, I sit down wtih Dr. David Grand to discuss Brainspotting. We talk about what brainspotting is and how it works with relational therapy; the meaning of neuroexperiential and how it relates to brainspotting; and the frameworks we use to be effective in our brainspotting. David Grand, PhD is the developer of Brainspotting, the groundbreaking relational brain-body, mindfulness-based method. He is the author of Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change an

This week, I sit down with Mercedes Samudio to discuss the new Marvel show "Wonderman." Mercedes Samudio is a licensed clinical social worker, bestselling author, international speaker, and visionary entrepreneur. She works with parents around the world in developing a healthy parental identity with her revolutionary Parental Identity Development Model and incorporating her Shame-Proof Parenting philosophy to help reduce the shame parents experience as they raise healthy children. Mercedes is a

This episode I chat with Dr. Lonny J. Avi Brooks about Afrofuturism & Black Mental Health. We cover what Afrofuturism is and where mental health has appeared within and through the collective works that are part of the Afrofuture / Black Speculative Arts Movements. We also discuss the attempts to erase the movements, including how that erasure theme has appeared in modern times, including elements we see in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Discovery. Dr. Brooks and I also talk about gaming as anot

This week, I sit down with my friend Goddess Lakshmi to talkabout caretaking and taking care of yourself when you are acting as a caretaker.

This week, I sit down with psychotherapist Dr. Myron Krys. We talk about living authentically in the face of community expectations, his therapeutic perspective of "release, reclaim, and redesign", neurospiciness, and therapy for diverse communities. Dr. Myron Krys is a body- and sex-positive, queer-affirming psychotherapist specializing in identity development, self-esteem, sexuality, and trauma and addiction recovery—particularly within BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and spiritually diverse communities (Jewi