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Deborah Meints-Pierson and Brenda Littleton invite you to accompany them on a soul path journey to discover the secrets of living a more soulful life as therapists, seekers and lovers of fate. Brenda is an educator, counselor and her practice is rooted in Jungian and Eco Psychology. She helps her clients understand the relationship between body/mind/spirit/earth for healing. Deborah is a licensed psychotherapist with over 35 years experience and has been trained in traditional and sacred psy ...
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In this encore episode from season 2, Deborah and Brenda explore Wabi-Sabi, a Japanese concept that values imperfection and impermanence. It's an aesthetic, ideal, a philosophy, an art or a way of life that celebrates the beauty of things that are broken, aged or imperfect. It can be applied to physical items, such as pottery or your favorite cup, …
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Season 1 Encore: Shelter In Place Interview: Poetry to Inspire a Sense of Belonging
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This is an encore presentation of a special Soul Path Sessions episode from season 1. In 2020, Deborah began a poetic journey to share her experiences as a therapist and spiritual life coach during the pandemic. The result is "Shelter In Place" a book of incredibly thoughtful and vulnerable poetry. Brenda interviews Deborah about the process and th…
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In this encore episode from season 2, Deborah and Brenda explore the possibilities of a Universal energy that informs all things - or God Particle - and how to connect with it and apply it in our lives in order to raise our conscious frequencies, push our thoughts towards higher dimensions and alter every aspect of our soul journey. The "God Partic…
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Season 2 Encore: Creating Soulful Relationships
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In this season 2 encore episode, Brenda and Deborah discuss how to identify and work with the dynamics of the relationships that we experience along our soul journey and what states of mind are the most efficient in how we invest our emotions and energy in them to help them (and us) grow.By Deborah Meints-Pierson LMFT & Brenda Littleton MA
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Season 2 Encore: The Soul of Relational Repair
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In this encore episode from season 2, Deborah and Brenda discuss the dynamics of repairing our relationship with those we share our life with and, more importantly, with our self. The latter requiring a skill set that asks us to be patient with our unresolved issues. Learning how to live with those questions takes us ever closer to the answers we s…
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In this encore episode from season 2, Brenda & Deborah discuss healing and how our culture seems to have embraced 'healing' as a more nebulous 'trending' topic as opposed to being a truly beneficial specific practice. Everyone seems to be 'healing' but what does that really mean? Brenda introduces Deborah to the possibility of embracing the more sp…
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In this encore episode, Deborah and Brenda introduce listeners to numerology and how it can be used to decipher the many layered personality traits that each of us possess. They explain that there is a mathematical perfection to the Universe in which we are a part and they explore Sacred Geometry and a way to decode your "numbers" to better underst…
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This encore episode from season 2 has Deborah and Brenda once again stretching their therapist muscles beyond the boundaries of traditional psychology and exploring the characteristics and possibilities that inform the Year of the Rabbit. The rabbit (兔) is the fourth in the twelve-year periodic sequence (cycle) of animals that appear in the Chinese…
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In this episode, Deborah and Brenda explore Wabi-Sabi, a Japanese concept that values imperfection and impermanence. It's an aesthetic, ideal, a philosophy, an art or a way of life that celebrates the beauty of things that are broken, aged or imperfect. It can be applied to physical items, such as pottery or your favorite cup, as well as relationsh…
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Deborah and Brenda explore the possibilities of a Universal energy that informs all things - or God Particle - and how to connect with it and apply it in our lives in order to raise our conscious frequencies, push our thoughts towards higher dimensions and alter every aspect of our soul journey. The "God Particle" is a quantum physics concept based…
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Brenda and Deborah discuss how to identify and work with the dynamics of the relationships that we experience along our soul journey and what states of mind are the most efficient in how we invest our emotions and energy in them to help them (and us) grow.By Deborah Meints-Pierson LMFT & Brenda Littleton MA
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Deborah and Brenda discuss the dynamics of repairing our relationship with those we share our life with and, more importantly, with our self. The latter requiring a skill set that asks us to be patient with our unresolved issues. Learning how to live with those questions takes us ever closer to the answers we seek, even when we cannot see them now.…
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The topic of 'healing' is discussed and how our culture seems to have embraced 'healing' as a more nebulous 'trending' topic as opposed to being a truly beneficial specific practice. Everyone seems to be 'healing' but what does that really mean? Brenda introduces Deborah to the possibility of embracing the more specific term and practice of Repair …
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There is a mathematical perfection to the Universe in which we are a part. In this episode Deborah and Brenda explore Sacred Geometry and a way to decode your "numbers" to better understand and find your soul path.By Deborah Meints-Pierson LMFT & Brenda Littleton MA
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Season 2 of Soul Path Sessions opens with Deborah and Brenda once again stretching their therapist muscles beyond the boundaries of traditional psychology and exploring the characteristics and possibilities that inform the Year of the Rabbit. The rabbit (兔) is the fourth in the twelve-year periodic sequence (cycle) of animals that appear in the Chi…
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Season 1 Encore: Initiations, Invitations & Epiphanies - Part 2
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This is an encore episode from Season 1: Initiations, Invitations & Epiphanies - Part 2 of 2 This encore episode from season 1 concludes a two-part discussion about Initiations, Invitations & Epiphanies. Deborah shares her deeply personal story about her experiences with grief and loss as an initiation and that, although painful, holds the promise …
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Season 1 Encore: Initiations, Invitations & Epiphanies - Part 1
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This is an encore episode from Season 1: Initiations, Invitations & Epiphanies - Part 1 of 2 “The Greeks believed that time had secret structure. There was the moment of Epiphany when time suddenly opened and something was revealed in luminous clarity. There was the moment of krisis when time got entangled and directions became confused and contrad…
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This is an encore episode from Season 1: Soul Integration Deborah and Brenda discuss the process of integration as we get older and how we use our intentions to create the possibility of becoming someone more attuned to our own soul, someone completely different than we use to be. At a certain point, nobody cares what you become. You are now the on…
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This is an encore episode from Season 1: From Role To Soul Living a more soulful life involves evaluating and re-evaluating our perspectives. It is a path we learn to walk with intention and attention. The destination is the journey itself. This week's Soul Path Sessions podcast deals with aging and going from role to soul: who we are when we are c…
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Shelter In Place Interview: Poetry to Inspire a Sense of Belonging
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This is a special Soul Path Sessions episode. In 2020, Deborah began a poetic journey to share her experiences as a therapist and spiritual life coach during the pandemic. The result is "Shelter In Place" a book of incredibly thoughtful and vulnerable poetry. Brenda interviews Deborah about the process and the inspirations that informed her poems. …
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This is an encore episode from Season 1: The Chrysalis of Soul Deborah and Brenda discuss the metaphor of the chrysalis is examined and the process that the caterpillar undergoes reveals that it does not lead to it becoming a better caterpillar, but to becoming a completely different creature entirely. This lesson implies that when we fall apart an…
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Season 1 Encore: Embracing Our Ancestor's Soul Stories
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This is an encore episode from Season 1: Embracing Our Ancestor's Soul Stories Brenda & Deborah examine the soulful use of the genogram and identifying the strengths and resilience of our ancestors as important aids in dealing with current life challenges.By Deborah Meints-Pierson LMFT & Brenda Littleton MA
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Season 1 Encore: Understanding Soul Connections
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Season 1 of the Soul Path Sessions podcast is a wrap! This is an encore episode as Deborah and Brenda explore the underlying forces that inform our life, and their work as therapists, through writing, aging and friendship.By Deborah Meints-Pierson LMFT & Brenda Littleton MA
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Season 1 Encore: The Soul of Psychotherapy
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Season 1 of the Soul Path Sessions podcast is a wrap! This is an encore episode of the very first conversation between Deborah and Brenda as they discuss the importance of bringing soul into their work as therapists & counselors and how sacred conversation and soul work is what psychotherapy was meant to be about.…
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The Soul Path Sessions podcast will be taking a summer break after this episode! If you have not listened to any of our previous conversations, please check them out. We look forward to resuming our Soul Path Journey together in the Fall of 2022. Thank you for listening! Deborah and Brenda discuss the process of integration as we get older and how …
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Living a more soulful life involves evaluating and re-evaluating our perspectives. It is a path we learn to walk with intention and attention. The destination is the journey itself. This week's Soul Path Sessions podcast deals with aging and going from role to soul: who we are when we are controlled by ego and who we strive to become, informed by s…
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In this episode, Deborah and Brenda discuss some of the research that underscores the significant connection between nutrition and mental health. How the food we eat affects our mood and can be an extremely useful method to reduce inflammation. The soulful journey recognizes those things that we put into our body that either helps or hinders us alo…
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Deborah and Brenda discuss the topic of adolescence and how we deal with it, in our children and in ourselves, has a lot to do with where we are on our soul journey. The conversation shifts from an awareness that we tend to treat adolescents the same way we were treated as adolescents to the question about how adolescence live in our life no matter…
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Initiations, Invitations & Epiphanies - Part 2
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This episode concludes a two-part discussion about Initiations, Invitations & Epiphanies. Deborah shares her deeply personal story about her experiences with grief and loss as an initiation and that, although painful, holds the promise of hope within them if we can pay attention to the messages, synchronicities and signs that surround these events.…
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“The Greeks believed that time had secret structure. There was the moment of Epiphany when time suddenly opened and something was revealed in luminous clarity. There was the moment of krisis when time got entangled and directions became confused and contradictory. There was also the moment of kairos; this was the propitious moment. Time opened up i…
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The metaphor of the chrysalis is examined and the process that the caterpillar undergoes reveals that it does not lead to it becoming a better caterpillar, but to becoming a completely different creature entirely. This lesson implies that when we fall apart and we put ourselves back together again, we don't return to where we were before we fell ap…
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Therapists have traditionally used the genogram to help identify patterns and psychological factors that affect relationships. Those genograms are often highly "wound-aware" focusing on the dysfunctional elements within a family. Brenda & Deborah discuss the use of the genogram in a more soulful way to help clients identify the resources of our fam…
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The T.S. Eliot poem, Wait Without Hope, leads Deborah and Brenda into a conversation about mycelium, interconnection and potentiality. It's Brenda's turn to visit the "mead-hall" from episode #1 and she introduces us to the term ALTUS and a discussion about the underlying forces that inform everything that are deeply connected to soul and the impor…
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This first episode of Soul Path Sessions introduces listeners to the importance of embracing soul work and reclaiming the soulful parts of ourselves in healing. Deborah and Brenda share their influences and background stories during their initial training and how soul work was left out of those early teachings while introducing depth and eco psycho…
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