a podcast for helping professsionals

Soul Embodied Conversations

with SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPISTS TAJAH SCHALL & rachael collins

An experiential podcast for helping professionals, activists, and those who yearn for reconnection - with each other, the natural world, and spirit. Listen in as we contemplate how to connect across differences in an embodied way. We invite you to feel, move your body, engage and be inspired.

Can white and Black women really be friends?
Rachael Collins Rachael Collins

Can white and Black women really be friends?

This engaging episode invites listeners into the realm of somatic psychotherapy with hosts Tajah Schall and Rachael Collins. They discuss their shift from academic roles to fostering environments that cultivate deep relationships with 'hard things.' By sharing personal experiences and cultural narratives, the duo underscores storytelling's powerful influence in bridging human connections. They reflect on their journey of overcoming initial perceptions to form a lasting friendship, using their story as a testament to the profound impact of vulnerability and openness in transcending societal projections and assumptions.

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How Do We Stay Relational Amidst Massive Destabilization?
Rachael Collins Rachael Collins

How Do We Stay Relational Amidst Massive Destabilization?

Can we stay in contact with self & other during destabilizing times? Making space for an imperfect process…

In this episode, Rachael and Tajah discuss ways to stay present, embodied and relational with others in this intensely unstable moment in the United States.

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Claiming Our Medicine
Rachael Collins Rachael Collins

Claiming Our Medicine

In this episode, Rachael and Tajah discuss their ongoing journey of identifying and claiming their soul medicine, both separately and together. This is a tender one. Listen in and get a taste of how Rachael and Tajah support one another in their collaborative endeavors. How can we each honor the gifts that come to us naturally - instead of being pulled only towards what capitalism says we should be doing.

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Is Therapy Enough?
Rachael Collins Rachael Collins

Is Therapy Enough?

In this episode, Tajah and Rachael explore how helping professionals can begin to contemplate the ways in which individual therapy spaces aren’t enough for our current paradigm of collective suffering. Listen in and practice along side of them. Their deep invitation and challenge for us all is to get curious to engage outside of the norm as helping professionals, while staying rooted in our embodiment.

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