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
Read MoreToday 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.
Read MoreToday 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.
Read MoreToday on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Elana Jadallah. Elana is a photographer, educator, strategist and environmental advocate based on the Big Island of Hawai’i and the coast of Maine. As the Founder of ElanaLoo.com, a site dedicated to sharing regenerative and sustainable concepts for life and business, she and her partner Aaron Haynes work with conscious companies, providing brand photography, business consulting, mindful travel guides, and other digital resources.
Read MoreToday on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Kate Horsman. Kate (she/her) is a seasoned Integrative Practitioner. Merging her education and work as a Counsellor, Nutritionist, Mindfulness leader and now a Breathwork Facilitator and Integrative Healer in Vancouver, BC Canada. Kate is passionate about supporting individuals through brave conversations, creative practices and experiences that facilitate a reconnection and reclamation of self/soul, using integrative methods to cultivate agency and healing…
Read MoreToday on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Varvara Erochina. Varvara's work as a somatic depth coach, teacher and facilitator was born of her own unrelenting devotion to personal and collective healing. Varvara is the founder of Be With through which she offers a multi-disciplinary approach to healing, combining Gestalt psychotherapy, spiritual care, peer support, coaching and somatic trauma resolution…
Read MoreToday on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Alex Elle. Alex is an author & wellness consultant living in the Washington, DC metro area with her husband and children. Writing came into her life by way of therapy and the exploration of healing through journaling. Quarterly, Alex teaches workshops and retreats centered around assisting others in finding their voices through storytelling, poetry, and narrative writing…
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