554. Brainspotting Trauma - With Mark Grixti
The Embodiment Coaching Podcast
Release Date: 12/01/2023
777. Awakening Without Escaping the Body - With Henry Shukman
The Embodiment Coaching Podcast
In this episode, I speak with Zen teacher, poet, and mindfulness app co-founder Henry Shukman about awakening, trauma, and the relationship between meditation and embodiment. Drawing on his own journey—from a childhood marked by chronic illness and emotional pain to a profound spontaneous awakening that led him to decades of Zen practice—Henry shares why genuine spiritual development is about becoming more fully human, not escaping our experience. We explore what this means for coaches and therapists, examining the relationship between awakening and psychological healing. Henry reflects on...
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776. Embodied Trauma Work in Times of War - With Kateryna Timakina
The Embodiment Coaching Podcast
In this episode, I speak with Ukrainian psychologist and trauma trainer Kateryna about what it means to practice embodiment, resilience, and trauma-informed care while living through the ongoing reality of war. Drawing on four years of frontline experience training therapists, healthcare professionals, lawyers, veterans, and humanitarian workers, Kateryna shares what she's learned about supporting others when safety is not something that can simply be restored. We explore what this means for coaches and therapists, examining the challenge of working with nervous systems that cannot fully leave...
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775.The Coaching Paradox: Finding Transformation Through Stillness - With Nic Askew
The Embodiment Coaching Podcast
In this episode, I speak with filmmaker and interviewer Nic Askew about presence, stillness, and what it means to truly see another human being. Drawing on decades of creating deeply intimate filmed conversations, Nic shares his perspective on why the most meaningful moments emerge not through technique or performance, but by letting go of agenda and allowing something authentic to unfold. We explore what this means for coaches, examining the paradox at the heart of coaching: while clients often come seeking outcomes, the greatest transformations frequently happen when neither coach nor client...
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774. Coaching Across Cultures: What Every Coach Needs to Understand - With Tamara Tan
The Embodiment Coaching Podcast
In this episoden, I speak with cross-cultural coach Tamara Tan about the often-overlooked role culture plays in coaching, communication, relationships, leadership, and personal development. Drawing on her experience living and working across multiple countries, Tamara explores how culture shapes the way people build trust, express emotions, communicate feedback, approach authority, and make sense of their identity. We discuss why coaching models that work well in one culture can fall flat in another, and why cultural awareness is becoming an increasingly important skill for coaches working in...
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773. How Coaches Can Stay Calm in a Dysregulated World - With Mark Walsh & Dr Helen Machen-Pearce
The Embodiment Coaching Podcast
In this episode, I’m joined by nervous system specialist Helen Machen-Pearce to explore what regulation really means, why nobody stays perfectly regulated, and how coaches can better support both themselves and their clients in an increasingly dysregulated world. We discuss the hidden impact of trauma, stress, modern technology, and generational patterns on the nervous system, and why it’s remarkable that so many people are functioning as well as they are given the pressures of modern life. Helen and I explore the difference between empathy and overwhelm, why regulation is not about...
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772. Coaching for Meaning: Beyond Goals and Happiness - With Mark Walsh & Dr Helen Machen-Pearce
The Embodiment Coaching Podcast
In this episode, I speak with Helen about the meaning crisis, purpose, and what coaching can offer in a culture increasingly shaped by distraction, individualism, and disconnection. We explore the difference between happiness and meaning, why purpose cannot be reduced to personal achievement, and how embodiment helps us access a deeper sense of direction, contribution, and belonging. We discuss Aristotle's ideas on purpose, the role of service and community in a meaningful life, and why coaches need to move beyond goal-setting to engage with questions of significance, values, and vocation....
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771. Why coaches need shadow work -with Lucija Glagolic Hora
The Embodiment Coaching Podcast
In this episode, I speak with Lucija Glagolic Hora about coaching, shadow work, archetypes, and the role of hardship in human development. We explore how suffering, trauma, and uncertainty can deepen our humanity, why coaches need to engage with darkness as well as growth, and how real transformation often emerges through humility, vulnerability, and connection rather than positivity alone. We discuss the cultural lessons of the Balkans, including the relationship between hardship, humor, community, and resilience. Along the way, we examine shadow work, toxic positivity, archetypes as...
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770. Staying Human in the Age of AI - With Margaret Moore
The Embodiment Coaching Podcast
In this episode, I speak with Margaret Moore about coaching, consciousness, leadership, and the impact of AI on human development. We explore what makes a great coach, why real coaching goes beyond techniques and frameworks, and how presence, curiosity, and the ability to disrupt habitual patterns lie at the heart of transformation. We discuss the tension between artificial intelligence and human consciousness, including what AI can and cannot replicate, how technology shapes attention and thinking, and whether AI will deepen or diminish our humanity. Along the way, we examine...
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769. Coaching Through the Meaning Crisis- with Mark Walsh and Dr. Helen Machen-Pearce
The Embodiment Coaching Podcast
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Helen Machen-Pearce about meaning coaching, modern nihilism, and why so many people today feel lost despite unprecedented comfort and freedom. We explore the collapse of traditional sources of meaning — including religion, community, family, and vocation — and how modern culture often replaces them with “idols” such as status, money, pleasure, productivity, and online validation. We discuss practical approaches to helping people reconnect with purpose through embodiment, values work, narrative coaching, death awareness, belonging, and service. Along...
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768. The Coaching Skill Nobody Wants to Practice - With Sean Fargo
The Embodiment Coaching Podcast
In this episode, I speak with former Buddhist monk and mindfulness teacher Sean Fargo about the changing role of mindfulness in coaching, therapy, and modern culture. We explore why mindfulness went from being widely celebrated to increasingly questioned, and how trauma-awareness, attention fragmentation, and modern lifestyles have changed the way people relate to contemplative practice. We discuss the tension between classical Buddhist teachings and contemporary therapeutic culture, particularly around emotional expression, boundaries, discomfort, and the growing expectation that spiritual...
info_outlineBrainspotting trainer and clinical psychologist Mark joins me to talk trauma, David Grand, EMDR, relational attunement, BS language patterns, “safety”, how to find a trauma therapist, scaling trauma work, the lack of “village”, the MSM fight-back, and psychedelics. A good dialogue about trauma and therapy today.
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