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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today I’m interviewing Psychotherapist Renelle Bourdage.

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In this episode we discuss:

• The history of how we got here as a field
• Endless working that leads to insurmountable suffering
• ‘Its not you it’s me’ type thinking in these systems, and a movement to the ‘It’s you not me’ phase that predicts readiness for change
• Students following the direction of liability phobic governing bodies and agencies
• Conditioning and wounding that stems from oppression, and the story we tell ourselves
• Having less expectations and more agreements
• Acting responsibly vs being responsible
• The system changing by going after what we want and by innovating from Selfhood
• Different cultures doing things rooted in love and healing, and not fear

Renelle Bourdage, Psychotherapist and researcher in clinical neuropsychology shares with us her story of how she took huge steps to live outside of her conditioning. First by realizing she was stuck in an unsustainable agency model, and then noticing others were not recognizing this problem. 

She believed she was powerless in making systemic change, and ultimately reached profound burn out. From this place she saw she needed to make significant changes and she gave herself permission to take the leap.

When she couldn’t  keep up with all the demands, whether realistic or perceived, Renelle realized she was stuck in the rhythm of the treadmill with no end, never moving forward.

She felt the speed and structure of the way the agency model was set up to get clients off the waitlist, and she felt like she needed to be a miracle worker within a certain amount of sessions. Then getting them 'out the door' while working with their complex mental health diagnoses and managing a large caseload. 

She shares that it led to a high burnout rate with no end, like being on that treadmill while never moving forward.  

She realized it's also no one's fault, no one’s wrong. It's an unsustainable system and agency model that ultimately leads to compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and leaving therapists feeling depleted.

Thanks for listening!

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Welcome back to Therapist Expanded! Today we're doing an encore of the amazing interview with Andrea Shuman of Mycrodrops.

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• Andrea tells us about how she started her healing career in Massage Therapy before studying Ayurvedic Medicine, and then became an entrepreneur in the foodspace making Ghee, before starting Mycrodrops
• She shares that women in midlife transitions have always been drawn to her, and how now in midlife herself she sees how dynamic of a time it is now
• Andrea describes how her own experience was very difficult even with her specialization in women’s health and her subspecialty in post-partum, and how difficult this was and that she’d set herself up well for the post-partum period but struggled a lot with weening depression
• We went more in depth into weening depression which isn’t well understood, and the general challenges of nursing women
• She shares how she needed support and needed a reminder that she had all of the tools, and could formulate her own solutions, so once clear, that’s what she did 
• We discussed women’s hormones, in depth testing, and mental health and how that leads to over-prescription of antidepressants
• Andrea shares how her mother was on antidepressants for over 30 years and just came off of them (she also states that over 50 million Americans are on antidepressants!)
• The research that Andrea has done shows startling psychotropic over-prescription rates and the incredible bidirectional gender biases of prescription
• Andrea has heard a common refrain from women that they were commonly put on antidepressants after a sexual assault, with no plan for trauma treatment or an end game to get off of these medications
• I share my view that even after 30 years of antidepressants,...

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On this episode of Therapist Expanded, Erin is joined by guest Juliet Trnka!

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Juliet is a Shamanic spiritual coach with a powerful gift: the ability to see you more deeply than you've ever been seen before. She brings a well-stocked shamanic toolkit to excavate and liberate all that has been obscured or enfolded within you. She aims to help you reveal your potential for greater success, connection, meaning, and impact through direct knowing. Throughout this episode, Erin and Juliet discuss the importance of receiving coaching during different phases of your life. They take an in-depth look into Juliet's work and explore strategies for overcoming limiting beliefs when marketing yourself and your business. Tune in to discover these insights and much more!

Here’s a breakdown of Erin’s episode with Juliet:

02:30 – Juliet gives us an insight into her passions and her career

05:30 – Juliet and Erin speak on the power of ‘more’ and the importance of receiving coaching throughout different phases of your life

12:00 – Juliet speaks about her experience with having to market herself and how she worked through the feelings of inauthenticity with marketing your business that often come up for people

17:02 – Juliet shares her thoughts on manifestation and the impact it can have when done correctly

22:26 – Juliet talks about sales and how it shows up as a deeply sacred and transformative practice for her and how receiving teaching about sales aiding her in not being so scared of rejection through sales

31:40 – Erin speaks about the level of emphasis that is placed on offering training in self-care for therapists and how it needs to be improved so that it’s not seen as a ‘unicorn’ within therapist training

36:51 – Juliet shares what mental health revolution means to her

42:23 – Juliet explains that she is a radical through and through and she loves supporting people who have radical desires that seem impossible but know that there is a way

For more information about Juliet and how she can support you, visit the following links:

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