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Welcome to the Kaleidoscope of Possibilities: Alternative Perspectives on Mental Health, a podcast hosted by Dr. Adriana Popescu, a licensed clinical psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, speaker, author, thought leader, and empowerment coach. In each episode, Dr. Adriana examines what is beyond the traditional point of view of mental health diagnosis, care, and treatment. She speaks with leaders and visionaries in the fields of Energy Psychology, consciousness, healing, spirituality, and empowerment about what is beyond what we have decided we know about mental illness. This show is a journey of discovering the possibilities of holistic care and treatment through a variety of lenses: from the spiritual to the shamanic, the naturopathic and beyond. Each conversation is designed to empower listeners to embrace their own awareness, gifts, and capacities, and to create a greater world with them. #mentalhealthpodcast #energypsychology #mentalhealth #psychology #mentalillness #holistichealing #trauma #addiction #depression #anxiety #PTSD

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EP 14 – Healing From The Body Level Up with Amy St. Hilaire

Thursday Oct 22, 2020

Thursday Oct 22, 2020

To watch the video of this episode, please go to: https://youtu.be/_fYjl5SYtHc

 

What if we communicated with the body in ways it can understand?

 

How can we ask questions to get at what is true and what needs to be healed?

 

What else can show up in your life, when you heal what isn’t working for you?

 

Tune in to discover these revelations and more in the latest episode of Kaleidoscope of Possibilities. In this highly enlightening conversation, Dr. Adriana Popescu and Licensed Holistic Psychotherapist and Transformational Life & Health Coach Amy St. Hilaire discuss employing the body’s deep wisdom and using “pain” to access and heal traumas large and small.

 

Amy provides us with a wealth of information and examples of how to engage the body and its knowing to change what isn’t working, essentially “Healing From The Body Level Up.” 

 

There is also a pertinent, vulnerable and powerful discussion of using Energy Psychology tools during these highly stressful Covid times to have more awareness, ease, and productivity.

 

As Amy says, “We have the technology, let’s heal this.”

 

In this episode:

  • The mess becomes the message
  • Amy’s story
  • Healing fibromyalgia, chronic pain, and fatigue
  • Tapping to calm the body and mind
  • Enneagram
  • Calming tools
  • Energy Psychology
  • Clarity and presence
  • Bodies want to feel well
  • Communicating with the body
  • Healing From The Body Level Up (HBLU)
  • Muscle testing, asking the body yes/no questions
  • Getting the deepest wisdom online
  • Healing what doesn’t serve you
  • Trauma imprinting
  • The linchpins
  • Stress relief in Covid times
  • Dopamine and the pandemic

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

 

About Amy:

Amy St. Hilaire is dedicated to getting radiant souls BACK INTO THEIR FULL POWER. Through the use of Mind+Body Neurotools, her work upgrades brains to be wired for happiness and success. 

Amy has her Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University. She has been helping people reclaim their innate healing power for the past 22 years as a Mindset Transformation Coach and a holistic Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist using proven Energy Psychology methods that go far beyond talk therapy. 

Amy is the Founder of Mind Body Healing University which is dedicated to putting healing into people’s own hands with simple tools lay people and healers of any kind can use anytime, anywhere. 

Amy wants people to know we are not here to suffer, but to enjoy the fullness of life and make a contribution no matter what we have lived through...all of which we can do when we have the right tools and the right support.  

 

“You clear out the stuff you don’t need, you can just be and do and act more who you want to be and be that radiant soul you want to be.” - Amy

 

Would you like to continue this conversation and connect with other people who are interested in exploring these topics? Please join us on our Facebook group!(https://www.facebook.com/groups/kaleidoscopeofpossibilitiespodcast)

 

About your host:

Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide.
 
For more information on Dr. Adriana, her sessions and classes, please visit: https://adrianapopescu.org/
 
You can also follow her on social media:
 

Disclaimer: This podcast represents the opinions of Dr. Adriana Popescu and her guests. The content expressed therein should not be taken as psychological or medical advice. The content here is for informational or entertainment purposes only. Please consult your healthcare professional for any medical or treatment questions.

This website or podcast is not to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever, including but not limited to establishing “standard of care” in any legal sense or as a basis for legal proceedings or expert witness testimony. Listening, reading, emailing, or interacting on social media with our content in no way establishes a client-therapist relationship.

 

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EP 13 – Bliss Brain with Dr. Dawson Church

Thursday Oct 08, 2020

Thursday Oct 08, 2020

To watch the video of this episode, please go to: https://youtu.be/e4T0WpQ94q4

 

Bliss Brain

 

How can misery inspire action and lead to happiness?

 

What if we can create our internal and external realities…by thought alone?

 

What will allow you to find the bliss you have been looking for?

 

You won’t want to miss this truly exciting episode of Kaleidoscope of Possibilities in which Dr. Adriana Popescu speaks with celebrated guest Dr. Dawson Church.  

An award-winning science writer, best-selling author, neuroscience researcher and creator of EFT Universe, Dr. Church touches the lives of millions with his work in Energy Psychology. They discuss Dawson’s own journey from unhappiness to joy, his fascinating books, groundbreaking research, meditations and more.  

You can also hear about Dawson’s latest work, Bliss Brain, and the states of extraordinary happiness and bliss that are possible for everyone. 

Tune in for a truly beautiful, inspiring, and laughter-filled conversation.

 

In this episode:

  • From misery to happiness 
  • Our thoughts create our reality
  • Energy Psychology
  • Negative thinking/positive thinking and the brain
  • Alzheimer’s studies correlating negative thinking and beta-amyloid plaques
  • Stress, negative thinking, negative emotions
  • Elevated spiritual beings, absolute bliss, and brain studies
  • What is Bliss Brain?
  • The awakened mind 
  • EcoMeditation
  • Your body’s bliss biochemistry and brain waves
  • Trauma healing
  • EFT/tapping 
  • The emotion control circuit
  • Discovering your potential
  • The pandemic of compassion

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

 

About Dr. Church:

Dawson Church, PhD, is an award-winning science writer with three best-selling books to his credit. The Genie in Your Genes (YourGeniusGene.com) was the first book to demonstrate that emotions drive gene expression. Mind to Matter, (MindToMatter.com) showed that the brain creates much of what we think of as “objective reality.” Bliss Brain (BlissBrain.com) demonstrates that peak mental states rapidly remodel the brain for happiness. He has conducted dozens of clinical trials, and founded the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare (NIIH.org) to promote groundbreaking new treatments. He shares how to apply the breakthroughs of energy psychology to health and personal performance through EFT Universe (EFTUniverse.com), one of the largest alternative medicine sites on the web.

 

“Our thoughts are literally creating our realities, inside of our bodies and outside of our bodies.” – Dr. Church

 

Would you like to continue this conversation and connect with other people who are interested in exploring these topics? Please join us on our Facebook group! (https://www.facebook.com/groups/kaleidoscopeofpossibilitiespodcast)

 

About your host:

Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide.
 
For more information on Dr. Adriana, her sessions and classes, please visit: https://adrianapopescu.org/
 
You can also follow her on social media:
 
 

Disclaimer: This podcast represents the opinions of Dr. Adriana Popescu and her guests. The content expressed therein should not be taken as psychological or medical advice. The content here is for informational or entertainment purposes only. Please consult your healthcare professional for any medical or treatment questions.

This website or podcast is not to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever, including but not limited to establishing “standard of care” in any legal sense or as a basis for legal proceedings or expert witness testimony. Listening, reading, emailing, or interacting on social media with our content in no way establishes a client-therapist relationship.

 

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EP 12 – Energy Healing 101 with Jean Border

Thursday Sep 24, 2020

Thursday Sep 24, 2020

To watch the video of this episode, please go to: https://youtu.be/TFv4laSjX5I

 

Energy Healing 101

 

How is your body trying to get your attention?

 

What is really behind conditions such as depression, illness, or migraines?

 

What is possible beyond pills and protocols?

 

Tune in to discover this and more in this highly inspiring episode of Kaleidoscope of Possibilities, in which Dr. Adriana speaks with Jean Border, an intuitive, Holistic Healer, passionate coach, and mentor for other healers. You’ll hear about Jean’s personal journey and how it led to her own work with energy healing. There is also a powerful demonstration of Jean’s muscle testing work with which you can follow along and create change for your own body.

 

In this episode:

  • Jean’s powerful personal experience of healing migraines
  • The Body Code and The Emotion Code
  • The body’s cry for help
  • Muscle testing, intuition, and asking questions
  • Talking to the subconscious
  • Clearing and resolving trauma
  • Getting energetically congruent 
  • Ancestral issues
  • Energy shower
  • Intuition
  • Listening to your body
  • Muscle testing exercise 

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

 

About Jean:

Jean Border is an intuitive, a Holistic Healer, a passionate coach, and a mentor for other healers. She incorporates various healing modalities such as The Emotion Code, The Body Code, and Emotional Freedom Technique (or Tapping) to help her clients shed emotional baggage that might be negatively impacting their outlook, health, or emotional state. She is the author of the new book series Energy Healing 101 available on Amazon.  

 

“Every person has to be treated as a person and not looked upon as a protocol.” – Jean

 

Would you like to continue this conversation and connect with other people who are interested in exploring these topics? Please join us on our Facebook group! (https://www.facebook.com/groups/kaleidoscopeofpossibilitiespodcast)

 

About your host:

Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide.
 
For more information on Dr. Adriana, her sessions and classes, please visit: https://adrianapopescu.org/
 
You can also follow her on social media:
 
 

Disclaimer: This podcast represents the opinions of Dr. Adriana Popescu and her guests. The content expressed therein should not be taken as psychological or medical advice. The content here is for informational or entertainment purposes only. Please consult your healthcare professional for any medical or treatment questions.

This website or podcast is not to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever, including but not limited to establishing “standard of care” in any legal sense or as a basis for legal proceedings or expert witness testimony. Listening, reading, emailing, or interacting on social media with our content in no way establishes a client-therapist relationship.

 

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EP 11 – Therapy Outside the Box with Chris Hancock

Thursday Sep 03, 2020

Thursday Sep 03, 2020

To watch the video of this episode, please go to: https://youtu.be/da-eUyJxtK4

 

Therapy Outside the Box

 

How can clients be supported through extraordinary experiences?

 

What is possible to create alignment and change beyond simply talking about problems?

 

What if we are all connected energetically and how can we use that in therapy?

 

What outside the box solutions are available?

 

Welcome to another exciting episode of Kaleidoscope of Possibilities, where Dr. Adriana talks with Chris Hancock, LCSW, ACHMP, about Therapy Outside the Box. They explore Chris’s own personal journey and how this has informed his work with clients, therapy practice and development of his own modality. You won’t want to miss this fascinating conversation, promising insights and uplifting information. There is also a demonstration of Chris’ own Subconscious Heal & Release® technique. 

 

In this episode:

  • Chris’s story
  • Therapy Outside the Box
  • Darkness experiences/Dark night of the soul
  • Spiritually Transformative Experiences
  • Higher energies, mediumship, guidance
  • The spiritual science of the spoken word
  • Ask & Receive
  • Subconscious Heal & Release®
  • An experience of Subconscious Heal & Release
  • Trauma, limiting beliefs, and possibility
  • Muscle testing and more
  • We are all connected energetically
  • Support for extraordinary experiences
  • Integrative Counseling

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

 

About Chris:

Chris Hancock, LCSW, ACMHP is a licensed clinical social worker, therapist and creator of Subconscious Heal & Release®. He helps awakening souls rapidly clear subconsciously-held baggage, integrate spiritual experiences, heal, and evolve through modern therapy. More information about Chris can be found at: therapyoutsidethebox.com or on Instagram at @therapyoutsidethebox.

 

“This is a complement, an accelerated way to achieve that alignment, that just talking about the problem cannot do.” – Chris

 

Would you like to continue this conversation and connect with other people who are interested in exploring these topics? Please join us on our Facebook group! (https://www.facebook.com/groups/kaleidoscopeofpossibilitiespodcast)

 

About your host:

Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide.
 
For more information on Dr. Adriana, her sessions and classes, please visit: https://adrianapopescu.org/
 
You can also follow her on social media:
 
 

Disclaimer: This podcast represents the opinions of Dr. Adriana Popescu and her guests. The content expressed therein should not be taken as psychological or medical advice. The content here is for informational or entertainment purposes only. Please consult your healthcare professional for any medical or treatment questions.

This website or podcast is not to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever, including but not limited to establishing “standard of care” in any legal sense or as a basis for legal proceedings or expert witness testimony. Listening, reading, emailing, or interacting on social media with our content in no way establishes a client-therapist relationship.

 

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EP 10 – Crazy or Wise? with Phil Borges

Friday Aug 21, 2020

Friday Aug 21, 2020

To watch the video of this episode, please go to: https://youtu.be/q2WeFfLdkiw

 

Crazy or Wise?

 

In this entertaining and insightful episode of Kaleidoscope of Possibilities, Dr. Adriana talks with Phil Borges – producer, photographer, filmmaker, journalist, and visionary who has spent over 30 years documenting indigenous and tribal cultures around the world – about his groundbreaking film CRAZYWISE. This is a sanguine and powerful discussion about mental illness and spiritual awakening that is not to be missed.

 

In this episode:

  • Phil Borges, introduction, background and career
  • The film CRAZYWISE
  • Naming the film
  • Psychosis and spiritual awakening
  • Mental health crisis as a growth experience
  • Healers, shamans, and visionaries
  • Suggestibility and sensitivity
  • Wrongness, feeling alone, suicide, paranoid states
  • The role of medication
  • The Recovery Movement
  • Film screenings and messages of hope
  • Brain Mapping & Default Mode Network
  • Unity, oneness, extraordinary states of consciousness

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

 

About Phil:

For nearly thirty years Phil Borges has been documenting indigenous and tribal cultures, striving to create an understanding of the challenges they face. His work is exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide and his award winning books have been published in five languages. 

Phil’s Documentary, CRAZYWISE reveals a paradigm shift that’s changing the way Western culture defines and treats “mental illness.” The film highlights a survivor-led movement demanding more choices from a mental health care system in crisis.

Phil has hosted television documentaries on indigenous cultures for Discovery and National Geographic channels. He regularly lectures at universities and conferences worldwide and has spoken at multiple TED events.

 

“Are you looking at this as a potential growth experience or are you looking at this as pathology?” - Phil

 

Would you like to continue this conversation and connect with other people who are interested in exploring these topics? Please join us on our Facebook group! (https://www.facebook.com/groups/kaleidoscopeofpossibilitiespodcast)

 

About your host:

Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide.
 
For more information on Dr. Adriana, her sessions and classes, please visit: https://adrianapopescu.org/
 
You can also follow her on social media:
 
 

Disclaimer: This podcast represents the opinions of Dr. Adriana Popescu and her guests. The content expressed therein should not be taken as psychological or medical advice. The content here is for informational or entertainment purposes only. Please consult your healthcare professional for any medical or treatment questions.

This website or podcast is not to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever, including but not limited to establishing “standard of care” in any legal sense or as a basis for legal proceedings or expert witness testimony. Listening, reading, emailing, or interacting on social media with our content in no way establishes a client-therapist relationship.

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EP 9 – What is NET? with Dr. Scott Walker

Thursday Aug 06, 2020

Thursday Aug 06, 2020

To watch the video of this episode, please go to: https://youtu.be/XPfwXAyAZd4

 

What is Neuro Emotional Technique (NET)?

 

How was it developed?

 

How can NET address stress and trauma and facilitate healing?

 

What is truly possible to unlock the root of trauma from the body and mind?

 

You won’t want to miss this most engaging episode of Kaleidoscope of Possibilities, in which Dr. Adriana speaks with Dr. Scott Walker – chiropractor, speaker, and developer of the Neuro Emotional Technique (NET). This powerful yet elegant and simple modality, which has brought freedom and healing to so many, is the subject of compelling research and has even been featured on network television. You’ll learn how Neuro emotional Technique was developed, hear amazing stories of change, and even experience a demonstration of how to use the FAST technique on yourself.

 

In this episode:

  • How Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) was developed
  • Dr. Deb Walker
  • Dr. Adriana & NET
  • Powerful stories of healing
  • Traumatizing events and locked-in trauma 
  • The role of emotions 
  • Discovering the root and releasing it
  • Stress and the limbic system
  • Research projects 
  • FAST Technique demonstrated
  • Neuro Emotional Technique on Grey’s Anatomy

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

 

About Dr. Walker:

Dr. Scott Walker graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa in 1965. After many years of a successful practice, he started developing the Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) in the mid-1980s. Dr. Walker began teaching NET Seminars in 1988 and later, in 1994, created unique homeopathic NET Remedies products to support the NET process.

Dr. Walker is a dynamic and motivating speaker. He is frequently requested to speak at national professional meetings, and his articles on NET have been published in a number of professional journals. As the Founder of The ONE (Our Net Effect) Research Foundation, a nonprofit multi-disciplinary health education, research, and service organization, he is actively supporting research exploring the effectiveness and various applications of NET.

Dr. Walker is married to Dr. Deb Walker, and they have 2 sons (Scotty Blue & Oliver Scott) and 2 grandchildren (Dylan & Athena).

 

“The labels that we put on things are not always helpful.” – Dr. Walker

 

Would you like to continue this conversation and connect with other people who are interested in exploring these topics? Please join us on our Facebook group!(https://www.facebook.com/groups/kaleidoscopeofpossibilitiespodcast)

 

About your host:

Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide.
 
For more information on Dr. Adriana, her sessions and classes, please visit: https://adrianapopescu.org/
 
You can also follow her on social media:
 

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCflL0zScRAZI3mEnzb6viVA

Vurbl: https://vurbl.com/station/MjMRyCcTpj/

Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/club/kaleidoscopepossibilities

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dradrianapopescu?

 

Disclaimer: This podcast represents the opinions of Dr. Adriana Popescu and her guests. The content expressed therein should not be taken as psychological or medical advice. The content here is for informational or entertainment purposes only. Please consult your healthcare professional for any medical or treatment questions.

This website or podcast is not to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever, including but not limited to establishing “standard of care” in any legal sense or as a basis for legal proceedings or expert witness testimony. Listening, reading, emailing, or interacting on social media with our content in no way establishes a client-therapist relationship.

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EP 8 – What is Pragmatic Psychology? with Susanna Mittermaier

Tuesday Jul 21, 2020

Tuesday Jul 21, 2020

To watch the video of this episode, please go to: https://youtu.be/siwnw44P9ME

 

 

What is Pragmatic Psychology?

 

 

What is pragmatic psychology?

 

How does this approach open a different possibility?

 

How can being different create a future?

 

 

In this exciting episode of Kaleidoscope of Possibilities, Dr. Adriana is joined by psychologist and author Mag. Susanna Mittermaier. Tune in for a fascinating discussion of what is actually possible for clients and practitioners when they are empowered to know what they know, do what works, and use awareness and question.

 

 

In this episode:

  • Empowering people 
  • Asking questions
  • Tunnel vision with diagnosis
  • Anxiety and depression 
  • Sensitivity
  • The treasure of awareness
  • Healing others
  • Difference as a resource
  • Wrongness as a strongness
  • The power of questions

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

 

About Susanna:

Susanna Mittermeier inspires the world to discover talents and possibilities that are hiding beneath what appear to be weaknesses. She is the founder of the revolutionary new approach of Pragmatic Psychology, an active worldwide speaker, an international bestselling author in twelve countries with her new book: Pragmatic Psychology – Tools for Being Crazy Happy – and founder of the Pragmatic Psychology Centre in Vienna.

 

She offers classes, keynote speeches, and lectures. The people who come to these courses are doctors, teachers, parents, therapists, ward sisters, social workers, people with different diagnoses, people who think there’s something wrong with them, and would like to find out how they can use their difference to their advantage, and everyone who chooses to empower people to know what they know.

 

She shows the world that depression, anxiety, ADHD, autism and every other diagnosis we think of as mental illness are actually capacities, which are often not recognised, and which can be transformed into new possibilities – as part of a life that is way greater than you could have imagined.

 

“There is a superpower behind everyone one of these diagnoses.” – Susanna

 

Would you like to continue this conversation and connect with other people who are interested in exploring these topics? Please join us on our Facebook group!(https://www.facebook.com/groups/kaleidoscopeofpossibilitiespodcast)

 

About your host:

Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide.
 
For more information on Dr. Adriana, her sessions and classes, please visit: https://adrianapopescu.org/
 
You can also follow her on social media:
 
 
 

Disclaimer: This podcast represents the opinions of Dr. Adriana Popescu and her guests. The content expressed therein should not be taken as psychological or medical advice. The content here is for informational or entertainment purposes only. Please consult your healthcare professional for any medical or treatment questions.

 

This website or podcast is not to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever, including but not limited to establishing “standard of care” in any legal sense or as a basis for legal proceedings or expert witness testimony. Listening, reading, emailing, or interacting on social media with our content in no way establishes a client-therapist relationship.

 

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EP 7 – What is Shamanic Healing? with Julie Oreson Perkins

Thursday Jul 09, 2020

Thursday Jul 09, 2020

To watch the video of this episode, please go to: https://youtu.be/c7_CBsPgvVU

 

What is Shamanic Healing?

 

Have you ever been curious about shamanism?

 

How does the shaman work with nature and the earth?

 

What gift is shamanic healing and journeys to those with trauma,

depression, mental illness, anxiety and more?

 

Join Dr. Adriana Popescu for this very exciting and unique episode of Kaleidoscope of Possibilities as she talks with Julie Oreson Perkins, a shaman, healer, and coach who gives us a fascinating introduction to Shamanism and Shamanic Healing & Practices. 

 

In this episode:

  • Julie’s journey of awakening
  • Shamanism and shamanic trance
  • Connection to nature and communion with earth
  • Shamanic journeys explained
  • Birth of a healer: The treasure of a healing crisis 
  • A shaman’s view of mental illness
  • Energy management and sovereignty 
  • Compassionate de-possession
  • Soul retrieval
  • Healing beyond the mind

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

 

About Julie:

Thousands have benefitted from Julie O’s “conversations of change” as a coach, teacher, motivational speaker, radio show host, international best-selling author, energy worker/healer, breast cancer sur-thriver and shamanic practitioner.

She’s a Certified Life Coach (CLC) with a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential from the International Coach Federation (ICF), with specialties in Energy Leadership and Life Transitions as well as an Access Consciousness® practitioner.

 

“Shamanism is a direct revelation practice...We know this works.” – Julie

 

Would you like to continue this conversation and connect with other people who are interested in exploring these topics? Please join us on our Facebook group! (https://www.facebook.com/groups/kaleidoscopeofpossibilitiespodcast)

 

About your host:

Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide.
 
For more information on Dr. Adriana, her sessions and classes, please visit: https://adrianapopescu.org/
 
You can also follow her on social media:
 

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCflL0zScRAZI3mEnzb6viVA

Vurbl: https://vurbl.com/station/MjMRyCcTpj/

Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/club/kaleidoscopepossibilities

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dradrianapopescu?

 

Disclaimer: This podcast represents the opinions of Dr. Adriana Popescu and her guests. The content expressed therein should not be taken as psychological or medical advice. The content here is for informational or entertainment purposes only. Please consult your healthcare professional for any medical or treatment questions.

This website or podcast is not to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever, including but not limited to establishing “standard of care” in any legal sense or as a basis for legal proceedings or expert witness testimony. Listening, reading, emailing, or interacting on social media with our content in no way establishes a client-therapist relationship.

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EP 6 – Addressing Depression & Anxiety: Energy Therapies, Microbiome, Lifestyle, Epigenetics with Dr. Anne Merkel

Tuesday Jun 23, 2020

Tuesday Jun 23, 2020

To watch the video of this episode, please go to: https://youtu.be/lpnzpK6JBFI

 

Addressing Depression & Anxiety: Energy Therapies, Microbiome, Lifestyle, Epigenetics

 

Our bodies are miraculous organisms constantly giving us awareness and information about what we can clear and change. 

 

How do we actually get at the root cause of illness and disease in the body?

What keys are epigenetics, microbiome, food, water, and environment to our health and wellbeing? 

What immediate steps can we take to help our bodies have more ease?

 

Tune in for a dynamic conversation with Dr. Anne Merkel, Ph.D., ND, a “whole person practitioner,” who specializes in energetic and naturopathic approaches to health and healing. 

You will not want to miss Dr. Merkel’s simple and powerful “quick fixes” to get started on a path of naturopathic health and happiness for body and mind. 

 

In this episode:

  • Dr. Merkel’s background & healing journey
  • Helping people find root causes
  • Functional medicine explained
  • Epigenetics
  • Keeping genes working
  • Each person is unique
  • Microbiome
  • Food sensitivities
  • Dr. Merkel’s quick fixes to get started

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Dr. Merkel's websites - 

Visit these websites for the complimentary 20-minute consultation sessions mentioned by Dr. Merkel in this episode.

About Dr. Merkel:

Dr. Anne Merkel has offered energy therapy to clients worldwide for over 35 years, incorporating NET (Neuro Emotional Technique), EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), Energy Remedies, Acupuncture, Kinesiology – now with Classical Naturopathy, to treat chronic health and emotional issues in a “Whole Person” approach.

Her natural medicine practice specializes in functional medicine approaches for autoimmune, cancer, dementia, trauma, and more. She addresses depression and anxiety on a regular basis among other stresses induced by emotional, chemical, environmental, nutritional, and epigenetic influences.

 

“If I can heal myself, everybody should have hope that they can get beyond it.”

– Dr. Merkel

 

Would you like to continue this conversation and connect with other people who are interested in exploring these topics? Please join us on our Facebook group! (https://www.facebook.com/groups/kaleidoscopeofpossibilitiespodcast)

 

About your host:

Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide.
 
For more information on Dr. Adriana, her sessions and classes, please visit: https://adrianapopescu.org/
 
You can also follow her on social media:
 

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCflL0zScRAZI3mEnzb6viVA

Vurbl: https://vurbl.com/station/MjMRyCcTpj/

Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/club/kaleidoscopepossibilities

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dradrianapopescu?

Disclaimer: This podcast represents the opinions of Dr. Adriana Popescu and her guests. The content expressed therein should not be taken as psychological or medical advice. The content here is for informational or entertainment purposes only. Please consult your healthcare professional for any medical or treatment questions.

This website or podcast is not to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever, including but not limited to establishing “standard of care” in any legal sense or as a basis for legal proceedings or expert witness testimony. Listening, reading, emailing, or interacting on social media with our content in no way establishes a client-therapist relationship.

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EP 5 – The Gift of Spiritually Transformative Experiences with Dr. Katrina Michelle

Saturday May 30, 2020

Saturday May 30, 2020

To watch the video of this episode, please go to: https://youtu.be/XTw7iFpKFxo

 

The Gift of Spiritually Transformative Experiences

 

Who are we and what are we actually capable of?

What is the gift of transcendent experiences?

What is often missing from traditional psychological approaches? 

 

In this episode of Kaleidoscope of Possibilities, Dr. Adriana is joined by Dr. Katrina Michelle, a psychologist and filmmaker, whose own journey and spiritual awakening profoundly changed her life and inspires her personally and professionally.

 

In this episode:

  • Dr. Katrina's journey
  • Transcendent experiences, near death, spiritual emergency
  • Limits of traditional psychology
  • What is transpersonal psychology?
  • Facilitating spiritual emergence
  • What is ACISTE?
  • Educating mental health professionals
  • When Lightning Strikes

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

 

About Dr. Katrina:

Katrina Michelle, Ph.D., LCSW is a holistic psychotherapist and adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Social Services and The Institute for the Development of Human Arts. Informed by her doctoral research on spiritual emergence and her own transcendent experiences, she supports people in exploring, embracing, and integrating the multifaceted human experience.

Dr. Katrina currently serves as the executive director for The American Center for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences (ACISTE), an organization that reflects her desire to evolve mainstream systems so they acknowledge, honor, and include the spiritual component of human development. As co-founder of Emergent Entertainment, a company on a mission to demystify awakening experiences through storytelling and art, Dr. Katrina is also producing her first documentary film, When Lightning Strikes: The Unsexy Side of Awakening.

 

“This idea of one-size-fits-all medicine is just not fair and it’s not helpful.” – Dr. Katrina

 

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About your host:

Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide.
 
For more information on Dr. Adriana, her sessions and classes, please visit: https://adrianapopescu.org/
 
You can also follow her on social media:
 

Disclaimer: This podcast represents the opinions of Dr. Adriana Popescu and her guests. The content expressed therein should not be taken as psychological or medical advice. The content here is for informational or entertainment purposes only. Please consult your healthcare professional for any medical or treatment questions.

This website or podcast is not to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever, including but not limited to establishing “standard of care” in any legal sense or as a basis for legal proceedings or expert witness testimony. Listening, reading, emailing, or interacting on social media with our content in no way establishes a client-therapist relationship.

 

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EP 4 – Conscious Recovery: A Fresh Perspective on Addiction with TJ Woodward

Saturday May 30, 2020

Saturday May 30, 2020

To watch the video of this episode, please go to: https://youtu.be/NQIOxdtTOgo

 

Conscious Recovery: A Fresh Perspective on Addiction

 

What are the deep root causes of addiction?

How does trauma influence addictive behavior?

How can we move from addiction treatment to addiction healing?

 

In this episode of Kaleidoscope of Possibilities, Dr. Adriana chats with revolutionary recovery expert, bestselling author, inspirational speaker, and addiction treatment specialist TJ Woodward about The Conscious Recovery Method™.   

Frustrated with the limitations of the traditional treatment system, and informed by his own journey, TJ developed a new and unique perspective on addiction recovery that integrates the spiritual in a holistic process of empowering the client.

“This is such a nutrient-dense conversation!” – Dr. Adriana Popescu

 

In this episode:

  • How Adriana & TJ met 
  • Limitations in the current system with its focus on symptoms and labels
  • From addiction treatment to addiction healing
  • The Conscious Recovery Method™
  • 3 deep root causes of addiction
  • Addiction as a “brilliant strategy”
  • Therapist burnout
  • The Four Rooms of Conscious Recovery
  • TJ's recovery journey
  • Trauma and addiction
  • Living in the question
  • Practicing spiritual principles

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

 

About TJ:

TJ Woodward is a revolutionary recovery expert, bestselling author, inspirational speaker, and addiction treatment specialist who has helped countless people through his simple, yet powerful teachings.

He is the creator of The Conscious Recovery Method™, which is a groundbreaking and effective approach to viewing and treating addiction.

TJ is a featured thought-leader on wholehearted.org along with Brené Brown, Dr. Gabor Maté, and Mark Lundholm. He was also given the honor of being ordained as an Agape minister by Dr. Michael Beckwith and is also the founding minister of Agape Bay Area in Oakland, which was the first satellite community of The Agape International Spiritual Center in LA. 

TJ is the author of the books Conscious Being: Awakening to your True Nature and Conscious Recovery: A Fresh Perspective on Addiction.

www.tjwoodward.com

 

“I don’t think we really change, unless we want to change.” – TJ 

 

Would you like to continue this conversation and connect with other people who are interested in exploring these topics? Please join us on our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/kaleidoscopeofpossibilitiespodcast

 

About your host:

Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide.
 
For more information on Dr. Adriana, her sessions and classes, please visit: https://adrianapopescu.org/
 
You can also follow her on social media:
 

Disclaimer: This podcast represents the opinions of Dr. Adriana Popescu and her guests. The content expressed therein should not be taken as psychological or medical advice. The content here is for informational or entertainment purposes only. Please consult your healthcare professional for any medical or treatment questions.

This website or podcast is not to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever, including but not limited to establishing “standard of care” in any legal sense or as a basis for legal proceedings or expert witness testimony. Listening, reading, emailing, or interacting on social media with our content in no way establishes a client-therapist relationship.

 

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EP 3 – A Different Take on Kids with ADD, ADHD, OCD, and Autism with Anne Maxwell, LCSW

Saturday May 30, 2020

Saturday May 30, 2020

To watch the video of this episode, please go to: https://youtu.be/l7nw9OOi6ug

 

A Different Take on Kids with ADD, ADHD, OCD, and Autism

 

What if there is nothing wrong with kids who have ADD, ADHD, OCD, and Autism? 

What gifts, talents, and abilities do they have?

What is it like to empower them?

 

Join Dr. Adriana Popescu on this episode of Kaleidoscope of Possibilities for a lively and informative discussion with Anne Maxwell, LCSW, RPT-S, a psychotherapist who specializes in working with kids who have been diagnosed with these labels.

This show offers invaluable tools, fascinating stories, awareness, and possibilities for kids, families, teachers, and mental health professionals. 

 

In this episode:

  • How Anne’s background and experience allowed her to see these kids from a different perspective
  • Kids with ADD/ADHD, OCD, and Autism – What if their “disabilities” are actually abilities?
  • Questioning the diagnoses and the mental health system
  • Anne’s revolutionary book, Would You Teach a Fish to Climb a Tree? 
  • Kids, schools, and how to create new perspectives in the system
  • X-Men, superpowers, and abilities we all have
  • Empowering parents and kids
  • Anne’s classes and creations

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Anne’s website: annemaxwelllcsw.com/

Would You Teach a Fish to Climb a Tree? book

Access Consciousness®

 

About Anne:

Anne Maxwell, LCSW, RPT-S, has over 25 years of experience working with children who struggle with not fitting in, being labeled with “disorders,” and with being different. She has developed a unique and empowering approach to working with these kids, their families, and teachers. In addition to her clinical practice, Anne travels around the world teaching classes and speaking to parents, teachers, and psychotherapists who work with or on behalf of children.  

 

“Behavior is a form of communication…so what are people saying?” – Anne 

 

Would you like to continue this conversation and connect with other people who are interested in exploring these topics? Please join us on our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/kaleidoscopeofpossibilitiespodcast

 

About your host:

Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide.
 
For more information on Dr. Adriana, her sessions and classes, please visit: https://adrianapopescu.org/
 
You can also follow her on social media:
 
 

Disclaimer: This podcast represents the opinions of Dr. Adriana Popescu and her guests. The content expressed therein should not be taken as psychological or medical advice. The content here is for informational or entertainment purposes only. Please consult your healthcare professional for any medical or treatment questions.

This website or podcast is not to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever, including but not limited to establishing “standard of care” in any legal sense or as a basis for legal proceedings or expert witness testimony. Listening, reading, emailing, or interacting on social media with our content in no way establishes a client-therapist relationship.

 

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EP 2 – The Other Side of Bipolar with Lauren Polly

Saturday May 30, 2020

Saturday May 30, 2020

To watch the video of this episode, please go to: https://youtu.be/QVi4m4oy-kE

 

The Other Side of Bipolar 

 

What is it like to be diagnosed as bipolar?  

How does that shape your world and your choices?

 

In this episode Dr. Adriana Popescu talks with author Lauren Polly about her book The Other Side of Bipolar: Revealing Your Strengths to Move Beyond the Diagnosis.

What if there is hope, inspiration, and a different possibility? Join us as we discuss Lauren’s personal journey from a bipolar diagnosis to a happy, creative life, and what she discovered along the way. 

 

In this episode:

  • Lauren’s story
  • A bipolar diagnosis, or something else?
  • What does a diagnosis create?
  • Lauren’s turning point
  • Holistic treatments 
  • Empathic capacities vs. pathologies
  • Getting support along the way
  • The importance of taking care of you

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Lauren Polly’s website: LaurenPolly.com

The Other Side of Bipolar book

Lauren’s Lighten Up podcast

Access Consciousness®

 

About Lauren:

Lauren Polly is many things, a Certified Speech Language Pathologist who runs a hospital department; a Coach who empowers college students, individuals, and businesspeople; a gifted speaker and author. Chiefly what she is, is an inspiration: someone who stirs people to be more proactive, find their way, and make the proverbial lemonade out of what we’re handed.

 

“I’m actually a bigger thing than this label. And when I started to develop my sense of self that way, a whole new world opened up for me.” – Lauren

 

Would you like to continue this conversation and connect with other people who are interested in exploring these topics? Please join us on our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/kaleidoscopeofpossibilitiespodcast

 

About your host:

Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide.
 
For more information on Dr. Adriana, her sessions and classes, please visit: https://adrianapopescu.org/
 
You can also follow her on social media:
 
 

Disclaimer: This podcast represents the opinions of Dr. Adriana Popescu and her guests. The content expressed therein should not be taken as psychological or medical advice. The content here is for informational or entertainment purposes only. Please consult your healthcare professional for any medical or treatment questions.

This website or podcast is not to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever, including but not limited to establishing “standard of care” in any legal sense or as a basis for legal proceedings or expert witness testimony. Listening, reading, emailing, or interacting on social media with our content in no way establishes a client-therapist relationship.

 

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EP 1 – Introduction

Saturday May 30, 2020

Saturday May 30, 2020

To watch the video of this episode, please go to: https://youtu.be/fXKrtk3PYDI

 

Introduction 

What if "mental health" isn't everything we've been told?

What if there's more to it than just a “brain chemistry imbalance?”

What if what we consider a pathology is actually an ability and a possibility?

What if these are not permanent conditions but ones, 

that with the proper interventions, can actually be changed?

 

Welcome to the Kaleidoscope of Possibilities: Alternative Perspectives on Mental Health, a podcast hosted by Dr. Adriana Popescu, a licensed psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, and empowerment coach. In each episode, Dr. Adriana examines what is beyond the traditional point of view of mental health diagnosis, care, and treatment. She speaks with leaders and visionaries in the fields of Energy Psychology, consciousness, healing, and empowerment about what is beyond what we have decided we know about mental illness.  

She also explores the unique and fascinating stories of individuals, and those who care for them, who have used “alternative” treatments and paths to recovery. This show is a journey of discovering the possibilities of holistic care and treatment through a variety of lenses: from the spiritual to the shamanic, the naturopathic and beyond. Each conversation is designed to empower listeners to embrace their own awareness, gifts and capacities, and to create a greater world with them. 

  

“I see everything as energy, and that everything is interconnected. So you can’t really treat the body without also treating the mind. And if you want to change something that isn’t working, a place where someone is stuck, you’ve got to shift the energies. And we can do that through a variety of modalities that are incredibly powerful.” – Dr. Adriana

 

Would you like to continue this conversation and connect with other people who are interested in exploring these topics? Please join us on our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/kaleidoscopeofpossibilitiespodcast

 

About your host:

Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, addiction and trauma specialist, and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide.
 
For more information on Dr. Adriana, her sessions and classes, please visit:https://adrianapopescu.org/
 
You can also follow her on social media:
 
 

Disclaimer: This podcast represents the opinions of Dr. Adriana Popescu and her guests. The content expressed therein should not be taken as psychological or medical advice. The content here is for informational or entertainment purposes only. Please consult your healthcare professional for any medical or treatment questions.

This website or podcast is not to be used in any legal capacity whatsoever, including but not limited to establishing “standard of care” in any legal sense or as a basis for legal proceedings or expert witness testimony. Listening, reading, emailing, or interacting on social media with our content in no way establishes a client-therapist relationship.

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