Healing is F*ing Hard

What Nobody Tells You About Grief: Loss, the Body, and Learning to Feel it All

Grief is not reserved for death. And nobody tells you that. In this episode I'm talking about what grief actually is, where it lives in the body, why the five stages were never meant to be a checklist, and why your loss counts regardless of what caused it. We're going into anticipatory grief, the grief that arrives before the loss, how highly anxious nervous systems begin mourning months before an ending even happens, and what it actually looks like to move through grief rather than just push past it. I'm also recording this one from inside some fresh personal grief, which felt like exactly the right time to have this conversation. Guided ancestral breath practice included. Find me on Instagram, Threads or Twitter @darrynkrobinson. Interested in working with me? Check out my website at holistichealingtherapy.co [holistichealingtherapy.co]

What Euphoria Got Right — Addiction, Mental Health, and the Stories We Don't Tell Honestly Enough

The Euphoria series finale aired this week and the internet has a lot of feelings about it. As a psychotherapist who has spent years sitting with people living inside exactly what this show depicted, I wanted to offer something different than a hot take, which is a clinical and compassionate look at what Euphoria actually got right about addiction and mental health across three seasons. This bonus episode covers Rue's comorbid diagnoses and why the show depicted them with more clinical accuracy than most mainstream media attempts, the Rue and Ali relationship as one of the most honest portrayals of recovery mentorship I have seen on screen, what passive suicidal ideation that has calcified into a worldview actually looks like clinically and why it is so difficult to treat, the fentanyl crisis and what Angus Cloud's real death added to the show's ending, and the valid criticism of Euphoria alongside what I think it got undeniably right. This episode also contains crisis resources because the content warrants it. If anything here is activating for you personally, 988 is available by call or text at any time. Find me on Instagram, Threads or Twitter @darrynkrobinson. Interested in working with me? Check out my website at holistichealingtherapy.co [holistichealingtherapy.co]

Beyond the Talking Cure: When Reiki Meets Therapy

This medicine was never meant to be gatekept from us. In this episode I'm getting personal about what it cost me to come to Reiki as a Black woman from a religious family, the isolation of being trained without real mentorship, and the miracle that confirmed this gift was mine regardless. We're also having the conversation nobody in the spiritual community wants to have: why is the interdimensional space so white coded, and why aren't Black people acknowledged in anything cosmic? This one is a reclamation. Guided ancestral breath practice included. Find me on Instagram, Threads or Twitter @darrynkrobinson. I Interested in working with me? Check out my website at holistichealingtherapy.co [holistichealingtherapy.co]

The Body Keeps the Score: But So Does the Spirit

I finished writing my first book while living inside the very material I was writing about. In this episode I'm talking about what it actually means when your nervous system and your spiritual body are the same system, something every ancient healing tradition has always known and Western medicine is only beginning to catch up to. We're going into my fibromyalgia journey, what it felt like to be on medical disability while knowing everything clinically about what was happening and still not being able to fix it, and how red light therapy, LotusWei flower essences, Reiki, acupuncture, sound healing and essential oils became the layered daily practice that finally reached me. This one is also for every Black woman who has been told her sensitivity is a disorder. It might actually be an initiation. Guided self-Reiki practice included. Find me on Instagram, Threads or Twitter @darrynkrobinson. Interested in working with me? Check out my website at holistichealingtherapy.co [holistichealingtherapy.co]

Your Ancestors Already Knew: Healing Through Lineage and Ancestral Connection

In March I went to Savannah, Georgia with my mother and something in me that had been held for a very long time finally put itself down. In this episode we're going deep into ancestral healing, what it actually is, what it felt like to walk on land built by enslaved hands, the paranormal experiences that met us there, and how a QHHT session one month prior confirmed what my soul already knew about why I'm here. We're also talking about how to begin your own ancestral practice, including how I tend my altar and what it looks like to show up for your lineage daily. Guided breath practice to connect you to your ancestors included. Find me on Instagram, Threads or Twitter @darrynkrobinson. Interested in working with me? Check out my website at holistichealingtherapy.co [holistichealingtherapy.co]