Ep #6: Depression and the Repressed Feminine

Ep 10: Food Addiction as an Attachment Disorder

Why it can be helpful to understand food through the lens of addiction, how relational wounding and sexual repression may influence our food relationships, and why consciousness and shadow integration may help satisfy our hunger.

Ep 09: The Labyrinth of Self-Compassion

On this episode I share an essay I wrote about the spiraling maze out of depression and into self-compassion, including my first experience in therapy and how I was able to find meaning from one of the scariest times in my life.

Ep 08: The Feminine and Masculine in Therapy

Different therapists take different approaches to therapy. I explore how some approaches are inherently rooted in masculine qualities while others in feminine. Why does this matter? Is there a right time for certain interventions? How can these different approaches be used in service to balance? https://www.thehungryfeminine.com/post/feed-the-feminine-transcripts Follow The Hungry Feminine: http://www.thehungryfeminine.com/ https://instagram.com/thehungryfeminine https://www.facebook.com/thehungryfeminine/

Ep #7: Mental Health as a Social Justice Issue

People experiencing oppression are not generating illness from within, they're being poisoned from the outside and then punished for how they respond to that poisoning. If we, as therapists, don't let that part of the conversation into the room, we're going to pathologize the wrong part of the equation, we're going to make our client the "Identified Patient," and we're going to perpetuate their oppression.

Ep #6: Depression and the Repressed Feminine

We hurt when the feminine is not present. We ache. Because qualities of the feminine are our most natural instincts, not instincts of war or protection, those are instincts but the feminine holds our instincts of peace, connectivity, spirituality, life itself. The feminine takes us beyond our skin and bones and allows us to reach our higher power, allows us to reach other human beings beyond just human chatter. The feminine gives us those experiences in life that are indescribable, that fill us with awe, that make us feel the most alive, so when we’re without that, things start to feel hollow. How can understanding our individual reactions to the collective’s repressed feminine help us understand our own hopelessness?