
Overcoming Powerlessness: Finding Strength in Adversity
Coping with Powerlessness: A Personal Account At 5am on January 16th, while I was asleep, my home was invaded, my car and identity (my purse)

Coping with Powerlessness: A Personal Account At 5am on January 16th, while I was asleep, my home was invaded, my car and identity (my purse)

Today I felt like a turtle with its shell ripped off mid workout out at the gym. In an archaeological dig, you pick away at

Sometimes people reach out to me for sex therapy, but within our first 20-minute consultation it becomes clear that their global capacity to feel pleasure,

Cancel culture is public shaming with the hope that those who are canceled will lose their power and position. As a society, we are struggling

Your vagina may have big feelings and lots of opinions. My body often knows how I feel before an emotion is conscious before there are

It has taken me a month to finish this blog post because I have been sitting with so many complex personal feelings and systemic concerns

Reparenting is the theme of my life as I’m leaving for a week-long camping trip in Montana where I hope some reparent in the wild

Are you respecting your own pace? One of the side effects of developmental trauma can be a feeling of urgency and internal pressure. Even when

Sex After Incest Sex after incest….how can one find healing? A listener sent in a question about navigating her first sexual relationship after becoming sober

What nourishes us? Periodically, we need to view our lives from an aerial perspective and reassess what used to be functional, but may no longer

Sexual Assault can be a “Delayed” Reaction Here is a question sent in from a LaidOPEN Podcast listener about sexual assault. Remember the more detail

Father’s Day is this weekend. Men can be more than one thing. They can be good fathers. They can also be boys who assaulted girls,

Somatic therapist Charna Cassell joins Emerald Podcast host Josh Schrei to explore myth, ritual, and animism as paths to trauma healing and nervous system regulation.

Some patterns in life feel impossible to shake. Maybe it’s a recurring relationship type, self-sabotage in work or health, or an emotional trigger that always

Psychotherapist and host Charna Cassell talks with Social RV creator Chase McCarty about remote viewing, psi abilities, and how to train your psychic intuition. Includes a guided meditation to develop your own psychic perception.
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