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Episode 137: Have you mistaken “safety seeking” as your personality? With Jamie Lee Finch

Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Jamie Lee Finch. Jamie is an author, educator, somatic facilitator, and licensed bodyworker. She has a lot of titles, but how she most wants to be known is as a conflict mediator between humans and bodies – your own and everyone else’s, too. Because what she most wants to do in everything she creates and every space that she holds is advocate for the aliveness and goodness of bodies, and teach you how to do the same.

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Episode 136: The Body is a Doorway with Katja Markelova

Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Katja Markelova. Katja is a somatic healer, educator, and activist. 

She is the founder of Tales of Bodyverse -  the animate and relational approach to Somatics and to being a highly-sensitive human in this World.

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Episode 135: The Skills of Togetherness with Melissa Benintendi Part 4

Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Melissa Benintendi.

Melissa Benintendi is an owner and the Director of Clinical Embodiment at Beyond Healing Institute in Springfield, MO. Melissa began her career as a trauma therapist primarily practicing EMDR. She is now an international EMDR consultant and trainer and specifically focuses on practicing therapy with the body in mind. She is a coauthor and trainer of Somatic Integration and

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Episode 134: Your Desire is your North Star with Paula Crossfield

Paula Crossfield is Vedic astrologer and Business Strategist dedicated to helping a million spirit-led entrepreneurs make more money and impact so they can bankroll the change they want to see in the world (without burning out!)

She believes that when spiritually grounded business owners are aligned with their purpose and the planets, they can earn well and give back in profound ways to inspire a positive change in our culture – in fact she was able to give over $37,000 to indigenous, social justice and environmental causes every year from her overflow in 2023 alone.

Her insights on astrology and business strategy have helped hundreds of clients build successful businesses while still embodying their values. When she's not helping her clients

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Episode 133: How to be Full Of Yourself & Love Your Body with Siobhán Gallagher

Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Siobhán Gallagher.

Siobhán Gallagher is a Canadian illustrator and comic artist. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and Penguin Classics books. She is the author of "In a Daze Work" and

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Episode 132: Secure Attachment as a Spiritual Path with Melissa Benintendi

Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Melissa Benintendi.

Melissa Benintendi is an owner and the Director of Clinical Embodiment at Beyond Healing Institute in Springfield, MO. Melissa began her career as a trauma therapist primarily practicing EMDR. She is now an international EMDR consultant

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Episode 131: Sensual Sovereignty & Creating Conditions for Full Self Expression with Sonali Deepika


Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Dr. Sonali Deepika.

I’m Dr. Sonali Deepika, a lifelong learner who’s lived across the globe. After practicing psychiatry for many years, I decided to pursue my passion for holistic healing. My work delves into the root-cause of discomfort, disharmony and dis-ease. I found the greatest

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Episode 130: Who am I now? Navigating Transitions with Jessie Harrold

Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Jessie Harrold.

Jessie Harrold is a coach and doula who has been supporting women through radical life transformations and other rites of passage for over fifteen years. Jessie works one-on-one with women and mothers, facilitates mentorship programs, women’s circles and rituals, and hosts retreats and wilderness quests. Jessie is also the author of Project Body Love: my quest to love my body and the surprising truth I found instead, as well as the forthcoming title, Mothershift: Reclaiming

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Episode 129: Embracing Your Autism with Pippa Hastings

Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Pippa Hastings.

Pippa is a sock wearer. Autistic comedian storyteller. Artist. Sourdough maker. Mum. Truth teller. TikToker. Coach. She cares so much.In this episode Pippa and Madison have a candid conversation about their late in life diagnosis with autism, and how it has impacted their lives, health, friendships, intimate relationships and more! 

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Episode 128: Discovering your Authentic Style with Dacy Gillespie

Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Dacy Gillespie.

As a weight inclusive, anti-diet personal stylist, Dacy Gillespie helps her clients reject fashion rules and ideal standards of beauty imposed by the patriarchy, white supremacism, and capitalism so that they can uncover their authentic style. Through their work building a functional wardrobe, Dacy’s clients make a mindset shift from thinking they need to wear what’s flattering to unapologetically taking up space in the world.

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Episode 127: You are a Verb with Melissa Benintendi (Part 2 of a 4-part series)

Melissa Benintendi is an owner and the Director of Clinical Embodiment at Beyond Healing Institute in Springfield, MO. Melissa began her career as a trauma therapist primarily practicing EMDR. She is now an international EMDR consultant and trainer and specifically focuses on practicing therapy with the body in mind. She is a coauthor

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Episode 126: Returning Home to Our Bodies with Abigail Clarke

Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Abigail Rose Clarke.  Abigail is an author, somatic educator, writer, and artist. She has an inordinate amount of love for octopuses, the moon, and her extensive collection of anatomy books. She is the creator of The Somatic Tarot and The Body Oracle decks, and the author of Returning Home to Our Bodies: Reimagining the Relationship Between Our Bodies and the World.Abigail does not teach that embodiment always feels good, because it doesn’t. Her work prioritizes exploration over assumed results, because the body is always adaptable and always adapting. Our creative efforts should do the same, and they can, when we are in relationship with our own bodies. In a world of such rapid change, Abigail teaches embodiment as a practice and a responsibility. As the world changes so dramatically we are tasked with the enormous responsibility of remaining present to the world as it is, which requires us to remain present to ourselves as we are. From here, the way forward becomes possible.

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Episode 125: Healing from Enmeshment with Astrid Schmidt

Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Astrid Schmidt.

Astrid is a transformational guide and created a therapeutic healing system called Spiral Mapping Method, which is designed to build emotional mastery in your healing work, and to fall in love with life. She is a Certified Gestalt Therapist, trained at the Gestalt Center for Psychotherapy, and received her Master of Social Work from Columbia University. She has been a social worker for 20 years. Astrid’s mission is to end suffering in our mental health. Her love for my work is fueled by her reverence for life, this miracle we are graced with getting to experience. As a woman, a mother, and an artist, she is continually exploring the depths of this work. She sees herself reflected in every one of her clients. Her offering to others is her warmth, humor, mothering spirit, guidance & wisdom, hope & encouragement. She believes anything is possible.

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Episode 124: Creating a Culture of Celebration with Rachael Maddox

Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Rachael Maddox.

Rachael Maddox is a Head Witch and Business Alchemist with 15 years experience. A Somatic Trauma Specialist who's supported over 1000 people on their post-traumatic growth journeys. 2-Time Author. Serial Creative. Mom to a very small rascal. And wife to a real life wizard. She’s turned on by supporting World Changing Witches, birth their most powerful contributions and experience wild abundance while doing so, and she’s devoted to pouring her genius into the cultivation of a more beautiful world.

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Episode 123: Risking Authenticity - Madison gets personal with Melissa Benintendi

Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Melissa Benintendi.

Melissa Benintendi is an owner and the Director of Clinical Embodiment at Beyond Healing Institute in Springfield, MO. Melissa began her career as a trauma therapist primarily practicing EMDR. She is now an international EMDR consultant and trainer and specifically focuses on practicing therapy with the body in mind. She is a coauthor and trainer of Somatic Integration and Processing, which is a case conceptualization model that teaches therapists to understand their work through the lenses of somatic psychology, interpersonal neurobiology and adaptive information processing models. She is also a cohost and creator of ‘Notice That – An EMDR Podcast’ which reaches an international audience of over 40,000 listeners monthly. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Transpersonal and Somatic Psychology through the California Institute of Integral Studies. Melissa has also been trained in CranioSacral Therapy and Reiki Energy Healing and utilizes both in her private practice.


In this episode the tables are turned as our guest, Melissa guides our host, Madison on a heartfelt exploration of authenticity, fear around expressing the True Self, and a guided practice to creating a Fortress of safety in the heart. 


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Episode 122: Melting Freeze at the Dawn of the Golden Age with Brigit Viksnins

Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Brigit Viksnins, MAT, SEP, RCST®, BCTMB. Brigit created the flourishing professional training program "Alchemical Alignment, Somatic Work for Trauma Resolution and Embodiment of Spirit," which harmonizes with any mind, body, or spirit therapeutic practice using Biodynamic Craniosacral, Pre and Perinatal, shamanic, and Aikido principles, along with Somatic Experiencing-informed trauma resolution skills.

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Episode 121: Intimacy in Business with Sammie Fleming

Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Sammie Fleming.

Sammie is a coach for devoted space holders who are here to connect with their true, deep, integrity-fueled leadership. Over the last decade of coaching over 500 clients, circle and workshop facilitation and retreat hosting, she has fallen in-wild-love with humans who choose a courageous path, who want to build a more beautiful world and are willing to enter into brave self enquiry, conversation, connection and ceremony to explore the work they're here to do.

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Episode 120: Healing from High Control Religion & Relationships With Dr. Laura Anderson

Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Dr. Laura Anderson. Dr. Laura Anderson (PhD, Saybrook University; LMFT) is a therapist, trauma resolution and recovery coach, writer, educator, and creator who specializes in complex trauma with a focus on domestic violence, sexualized violence and religious trauma.

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Episode 119: Social Media Sovereignty with Cody Cook-Parrott

Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Cody Cook-Parrott.

Cody Cook-Parrott (they/them) is a writer, dancer, quilter, and the author of How to Not Always Be Working and Getting to Center. They teach people the history and the how to of quilt making, write books, and make dances.

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Episode 118: Humanize your Business with Katie Kurtz

Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Katie Kurtz, MSW LISW-S. Katie (she/her) is a subject-matter expert & integrative trainer who specializes in trauma-informed training and consultation that are inclusive and adaptable for all professions. As a licensed social worker & certified coach, she has spent the last 15 years specializing in trauma-informed care work across multiple disciplines and industries. 

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