The Whole Paradox
Welcome to The Whole Paradox podcast, where we explore timeless wisdom in the modern age to cultivate a greater sense of meaning and belonging to ourselves, our world, and one another. We will integrate the sacred, mythic, somatic, creative and poetic to expand our meaning of truth and our capacity for complexity and nuance.
The Whole Paradox
The Gifts of Depression with Astrid Schmidt
In this episode, depth + somatic psychotherapist and The Whole Paradox Host, Molly Mitchell-Hardt interviews season psychotherapist and coach, Astrid Schmidt. They talk about:
- Healing through being a healer
- Postpartum underworld experience
- Gestalt and how all your parts are trying to help you
- Impact of identifying with diagnoses or family roles/dynamics
- Depression as health
- Navigating race as a biracial woman
- Ancestral exhaustion
- Money and scarcity
- More money and more responsibility
- Staying mobilized during times of unknown or crisis
- Motherhood as a spiritual path
- Radical accountability and responsibility
- and much more...
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References:
Rudolph Steiner
Gestalt Therapy
Francis Weller
David Whyte
This podcast was produced in association with Channel the Sun by Kevin Joseph Grossmann. Musical stylings by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.