The Embodied Podcast

In today's episode, I discuss why precision and particularity are important when exploring and working with images. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com  

In today's episode, I discuss a particular pattern in the nervous system called global high activation. In this state, one can experience a sense of exhaustion or chronic overwhelm from being physiologically in a constant state of high activation whilst that activation is being suppressed by a dorsal vagal shutdown. This is like driving a car with the foot on the gas and the brake at the same time. I have discussed this pattern in different podcast episodes, such as: Ep 151: Addiction to falling in love Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com  

In today's unique podcast episode, I offer a sneak peek into the introduction call of my most recent workshop series called The Mother Archetype workshop series. This episode is a recorded replay of our live group call in which we opened a discussion on the particularities of the mother archetype. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I open up a conversation about what it means to be average. What are the true motivations behind being exceptional? Do we actually deeply fear being forgotten? Unaccepted? Unloved? The interview article with Marion Woodman can be found here. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I dive into how we can possibly learn to make contact with and support ourselves through recurring bouts of pain in a way that honor's the body's subjective experience. I use a client example to show how body armoring and muscle tension can correlate with each other and how we can respond in an alternative way to manual manipulation. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I discuss why this show isn't built upon foundations or intentions of fixing your problems. "Okay then, Danielle, then what is the show about?" I go into this a bit more deeply in the episode, and I use the James Hillman quote, "Evidently, a genuine solution must have the capacity to stabilize. It must sustain a condition, not merely dissolve it," to give flavor and context to my intentions behind the episodes! Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I discuss the immensity of grief that can accompany a transition out of dissociative life into a reality of complexity and relatedness. I believe grief reflects and 'makes real' our thresholds. When clients move from living their whole lives in a dissociative reality, disconnected from the here and now and the relational experience, returning to life can bring with it an immense amount of grief. "At the point the patient begins to abandon the instant and absolute 'truth' of dissociative reality in favor of internal conflict and human relatedness, the patient discovers that there is no path without pain." -Phil Bromberg Paul Russell also states, "We have to presume that the pain accompanying this grief is extreme, among the most painful of life's experiences." Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I offer a few contemplative meditations to reflect upon as we transition into the solar New Year season. The song used for this meditation is Naturaleza by Danit (Moses Edit). Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I discuss the process of embodying elements of divinity within the human vessel (aka the body). The paradoxical thing about incarnation is that I feel like the incarnation of spirit into the body is almost always traumatic. This is because we are dealing with immense mysterious forces. With this, I discuss the limitations and struggles we face when we are destined to attempt the incarnation of spirit in matter.  I quote at length the text The Religious Function of the Psyche by Lionel Corbett Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I discuss a random interaction I had with an individual which evoked a deep contemplation on different topics such as Jung's feeling function, narcissism, love and power drives, and much, much more. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

Hi all. Danielle here. Wow...It has been a BUSY month with A LOT of things going on (aka travel, sickness, conferences, etc)...all of which kept me from getting behind the mic and getting new episodes out to you. But today I am back with a unique episode for you. Today I am sharing with you an interview hosted by Jennifer McMaster and Shannon Gale with the goal of exploring who I am, the intricacies of my particular path and what led me towards Somatic Experiencing and Jungian approach towards my current practice. I hope you all enjoy the show and look forward to sharing more content with you all going into 2023. Enjoy!

In today's episode, I discuss why I find James Hillman's, the founder of archetypal psychology, work so influential and important to consider if you are interested in depth psychology. In this podcast, I discuss an important pillar of Hillman's called "Pathologizing," and I discuss its role in revisioning modern, and often one-sided, approaches to psychology. To find more information about my upcoming Book Club on James Hillman's The Soul's Code, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/souls-code-book-club Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I discuss why it is hard for some individuals to prioritize a stillness practice. I explore different states of the nervous system including high sympathetic drive and dorsal vagal shutdown. I also invite strategies to transition out of mobilization towards stillness. To find more information about the upcoming Book Club on The Soul's Code, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/souls-code-book-club To find more information on my upcoming Mother Archetype Workshop Series, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/mother-archetype-workshop-series Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode I answer a question asked on my IG feed: "How do mood/personality disorders (like bipolar) interact with or affect how psychological archetypes play out in our psyche?" I go into the nervous system patterns of bipolar disorder as well as Jung's map of the psyche where psyche and matter (body) are not considered separate. ***Given the sensitive exploration around mood disorders, please do not misuse the information supplied for substitution of licensed psychological medical advice. To find more information about the upcoming Book Club on The Soul's Code, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/souls-code-book-club To find more information on my upcoming Mother Archetype Workshop Series, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/mother-archetype-workshop-series Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com  

In today's episode I discuss navigating the somatic experience of resentment. I present the idea that perhaps resentment is the digestible form of thwarted fight responses that had be be split off during experiences of trauma or abuse. I present imagining resentment as a symptom that pushes against our defensives that have unconsciously been put in place to protect from the overwhelming intensity of deep anger or rage that once had to be dissociated. To find more information about the upcoming Book Club on The Soul's Code, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/souls-code-book-club To find more information on my upcoming Mother Archetype Workshop Series, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/mother-archetype-workshop-series Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I discuss why "faking it until we make it" doesn't feel great sometimes. I discuss acting "as if" and the capacity and flexibility that gives us when expanding into new and unknown aspects of the psyche. To find more information about the upcoming Book Club on The Soul's Code, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/souls-code-book-club To find more information on my upcoming Mother Archetype Workshop Series, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/mother-archetype-workshop-series Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I answer a question posed about episode 154: Dismemberment and Remembering of the Masculine. In that episode, I read the Grimm's fairy tale The Handless Maiden, also known as The Woman Without Hands. Someone asked the question, "what exactly do we do in the 7 years of being in the forest while growing back our hands?" In this episode I use the text The Feminine in Fairytales by Marie- Louise von Franz to aid in my answering of that question.  I discuss the implications of psychological introversion, confrontation with genuine loneliness, and stepping away from the projected roles that have been placed upon us by culture. In the forest, one is reclaiming a sense of spontaneity and trust in the self-regulating process of the psyche and 're-membering' themselves in the process; especially concerning the new potentials of the creative masculine energy within. Again, here is a text version of the fairy tale: https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm031.html Here is a lecture on the fairytale by Jungian scholar Dr. Raina Manuel-Paris: https://youtu.be/7VKEiNXRuGw To find more information about the upcoming Book Club on The Soul's Code, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/souls-code-book-club To find more information on my upcoming Mother Archetype Workshop Series, head here: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/mother-archetype-workshop-series Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, my fiancé Rick Alexander and I discuss the influence that porn has on us individually and collectively. We discuss the relationship, or lack thereof, to the feminine, the shadow, and to darkness. We talk about shame and its influence within this pattern. We talk about demons, darkness, and the perceivable loss of control one can feel when caught in this archetypal pattern. Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I read the Grimm's fairy tale The Handless Maiden, also known as The Woman Without Hands. I discuss the implications of psychological dismemberment and the process of remembering, especially concerning the new potentials of the creative masculine energy within. This is a story about dismemberment as a result of the old masculine principle making deals with the devil. Yet that comes at a great cost; a father must chop the hands off of his daughter. This dismemberment catalyzes her painful, but beautiful journey of transformation.  In this episode, I discuss how my fiancé was able to provide me with "silver hands" during a period of deep dismemberment in my life. I also discuss the process of pulling back those projections and learning to regrow a genuine connection to the inner masculine so that our own hands may grow back. Here is a text version of the fairy tale: https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm031.html As promised, here is a lecture on the fairytale by Jungian scholar Dr. Raina Manuel-Paris: https://youtu.be/7VKEiNXRuGw Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com

In today's episode, I discuss why trauma renegotiation is so confusing. In particular, I discuss the relationship of space and expansion and how that gets confused in the system with danger and threat. To check out The Soul's Code book club you can head to: https://www.drdaniellemcginnis.com/souls-code-book-club To check out the preview of the documentary on post-traumatic growth you can head to: https://www.posttraumaticgrowth.film/ Enjoy the show! Be sure to rate, review, and share the show with those who you feel would enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! To join my free community, head to https://dr-danielle-mcginnis.mn.co/share/ To follow me on social media, head to @drdaniellemcginnis To find my website, head to www.drdaniellemcginnis.com