The (re)Sourced Woman Podcast

In episode 13 of the podcast, I talk with Carissa Rodgers, a heart-centred Somatic Psychotherapist, Counsellor, Stress & Trauma Therapist, and Self-Compassion Coach. She is also the Co-Founder & Director of Wide Bay Counselling & Psychotherapy. . In this rich and powerful conversation, we talk about embodiment and its importance in healing trauma and grief. This is an inspiring and thought-provoking conversation.

In this conversation we unpack

:: The journey of trauma work

:: Feelings and embodiment

:: Nervous system

:: Seeking meaning and purpose

:: Trauma as a sacred gateway

:: Finding our deepest gifts through our trauma

:: Deep inner longing

:: Holding space for others particularly in grief

:: Unpacking and finding a place for grief in life

:: Grief as an everyday transitional change

:: Reconnecting with community to process grief

:: Connecting with our grief blueprint

:: How to feel supported in grief

:: The mystery and treasures of grief

Carissa holds qualifications in community services and completed her Master's degree in Gestalt Psychotherapy. She is also a Somatic Experiencing and Somatic Practice (touch for trauma) practitioner. All these methods are based deeply on neuroscience and the science of the nervous system to heal and move toward wellbeing.

Before entering private practice, Carissa spent over 12 years as a Counsellor and Community Educator serving a diverse range of people in community services. Of particular note, she played an instrumental role in helping her community recover from the trauma of successive floods through the development of workshops and the creation of a workbook for women to support their recovery process.

The Death Mother Archetype, which was first coined by Marion Woodman, can be confronting and debilitating. But when we move closer to this Archetype we dispel the idealised and idolised way that our culture, ancestors and familial landscape continue to feed and shape us from this Archetype. We can begin to bring healing, alchemy, self-compassion and acceptance to the human-ness of being a mother and woman.

In this episode, we talk Belonging, where anger fits in with what it is to be a spiritual woman and what it is to fully be YOU. In episode 4 of The (re)Sourced Womxn Podcast, I had the honour of sitting with Melanie Dewberry who is so very open, real and inspiring in her wisdom. In this episode, we talked about anger and spirituality, the common misconception that to be spiritual there is no place for anger. What it is to belong to self and source, to connect deeply within and how your intuition aka (re)Sourcing within is so important to who you as a womxn. And in today's climate what the term Indigenous means in a spiritual context.

Melanie is an Indigenous Ceremonialist, Seer, Speaker and author of the book ‘The Power of Naming. A journey towards your soul's Indigenous nature’ and a TEDx Speaker. She has described herself as a ‘Wordologist and in the business of troublemaking and wisdom’