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Heartseed Health in Boulder, CO is an acupuncture and counseling practice offering holistic and integrative care. We can support you with medicine grounded in spirit and rooted in science.

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What is Brainspotting with Thad Frye, LCSW

Rachael Brody

No, it doesn’t give you spots on your brain. Brainspotting is a powerful technique used in psychotherapy for everything from athletic performance enhancement to working with trauma. If you’ve heard of Brainspotting and want to better understand it, or if you’ve never heard of it but want to be aware of the different psychotherapeutic modalities out there, this episode is a must.

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Thad Frye is a delightful and kind person who work in private practice with adults working through grief and loss, past traumas, major life transitions, anxiety, depression, self esteem issues and sports traumas and creative performance enhancement.

In our conversation here we explore:

  • How and why Thad started working with Brainspotting

  • What is Brainspotting and how it works

  • The relationship between Brainspotting and the body

  • What Brainspotting can treat

  • How Brainspotting is different from EMDR therapy

  • Where and how to find a Brainspotting therapist

This episode is vital for anyone looking to understand Brainspotting as a modality or who is seeking a basic understanding of the somatic interfaces of the mind.

Reclaiming the Birthright of Embodiment - A Conversation with Hannah Kinderlehrer founder of Rise and Thrive Coaching

Dr. Noah K. Goldstein, DACM L.Ac.

In this honest conversation, Noah and Hannah Kinderlehrer talk about the path to embodied wholeness and how to cultivate the qualities necessary to stay the course.

They explore the myth of “happily ever after” and how we, in our actual lives, can find ways to muster the strength to continuously face into the unfolding landscapes (and whatever mucky bogs we may have to traverse alongside the floral meadows).

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Dancing to our True Nature - A Conversation with Melissa Michaels, founder of GoldenBridge and Movement Mass

Dr. Noah K. Goldstein, DACM L.Ac.

Melissa Michaels, Ed.D., is the Founder and Director of SomaSource® Educational Programs, Surfing The Creative® International Rites Of Passage Programs, and Golden Bridge, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving and empowering the lives of young people through rites of passage, mentoring, and community support based in Boulder, CO.

She creates movement based cross-cultural educational opportunities focusing on the potential that is available at major life thresholds. Mapping the journey from trauma to dynamic well-being, her work utilizes the expressive and social arts to establish body and heart as resources authentic expression. Rooted in rhythm and fueled by breath, this work inspires the sacred union between Spirit, flesh, psyche, and deed.

Melissa is a social artist, dancing and dedicated to our collective renewal through the liberation of the creative spirit.

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Emotional Resilience and Adaptogens - Conversation with Rasa founder Lopa van Der Mersch

Dr. Noah K. Goldstein, DACM L.Ac.

In this episode, we talk to Lopa van Der Mersch, founder of Rasa, a company that’s created medicinal herbal brews that can serve as a coffee substitute. The blends are chock-full of adaptogens and hence support emotional resilience one of our themes throughout.

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Healing Trauma and Post-Traumatic Growth - with Katie Asmus, a nature based somatic psychotherapist

Dr. Noah K. Goldstein, DACM L.Ac.

In this episode, we talk to  Katie Asmus at Namaste Healing Arts. Katie practices as a somatic, nature-based and adventure psychotherapist, life coach, educator, mentor, quest guide and workshop facilitator. Katie focused her graduate thesis on body-centered interventions for working with trauma and she's presented internationally in these fields of study for the past 18 years…

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The Intersection of Functional Medicine and Shamanism - A Conversation with Tracy Shulsinger, Holistic Nurse Practitioner

Dr. Noah K. Goldstein, DACM L.Ac.

Tracy Shulsinger is a Holistic Nurse Practitioner and Shamanic Healer practicing at The Healing Collective in Boulder, CO.  After exploring how and why Tracy came to practice medicine, we dive into what  Functional Medicine, the evolution of traditional Western medicine, is. Then we pivot and explore her practices as a Shamanic Healer and discuss how Western medicine and Shamanic healing  can coexist and even work together.

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Becoming Who We Truly Are - Interview with Reuvain Bacal

Dr. Noah K. Goldstein, DACM L.Ac.

In this interview with Reuvain Bacal, a transformational coach who helps highly motivated men and couples, we explore what it means to live from who we truly are. Reuvain helps people become more aware of how their showing up and what habitual patterns may be holding them back. He also facilitates the practice of letting go these conditioned behaviors and embracing the authentic self. I've worked with him personally and I believe this is an inspiring conversation full of rich moments that can help all of us on the path of life.

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08: Grief as a Catalyst - Interview with Wendy Stern, Founder of the Grief Support Network

Dr. Noah K. Goldstein, DACM L.Ac.

In this episode we talk with Wendy Stern, the founder of the Grief Support Network in Boulder, CO.

We discuss:

  • The beautiful and inspiring story of what the Grief Support Network is and why Wendy created it?
  • The importance of culture and how people relate to people who are grieving in the healing process.
  • The Role of mindfulness in experiencing and moving through grief.
  • How grief can lead to an Identity shift
  • The role Pheonix Rising Yoga founded by Michael Lee played in developing programming for the Grief Support Network
  • The importance of being in community with others who are going through the same experience and a safe space where you’re allowed to show up authentically
  • The importance of being with oneself and processing the grief within oneself as an individual
  • The Art of listening - how to listen to oneself and others, connect and be in community
  • The importance of Rituals
  • Why Yoga was essential to Wendy’s ability to move through grief. And What it is about Yoga that is so helpful. (Hint: It brings together the physical, emotional, and spiritual).
  • The role meditation and journaling can play in working through grief.
  • The resistance that can come up working through grief.
  • The importance of being witnessed in your process.
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07: Mindfulness and Meditation - Interview with Ben Gaibel, LCSW

Dr. Noah K. Goldstein, DACM L.Ac.

  • Learn about Ben Gaibel's personal journey in becoming a social worker and therapist.
  • Why moving towards life’s challenges and uncomfortable elements are an essential part of healing and growth and how facing challenges doesn’t have to be scary or depressing.

  • How and why meditation and mindfulness are a part of the mental health work that Ben does.
  • Learn about Jon Kabat Zinn and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
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