Tonya Lester, LCSW, is the author of Push Back: Live, Love, and Work with Others Without Losing Yourself and a Brooklyn-based psychotherapist and writer.

Tonya is a well known couples therapist, so it’s particularly juicy and important that we’re going to talk about struggles Tonya faced in her own marriage, and how she and her husband worked through them in couples therapy.

My guest today did some significant healing at a psilocybin ceremony at a retreat center in Mexico. She takes us there and explains why she was able to heal in that environment in ways she hadn’t before. You’ll also hear how and why she does psychedelic work as a therapist.

Deb Benfield has helped hundreds of women heal their relationship with food, eating, and their bodies in her 35-year career as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist.

She is a needed expert at the cross section of pro-aging and body liberation. Her new book, Unapologetic Aging, teaches us to navigate anti-aging and diet and wellness culture so we can enjoy our lives.

My guest today went through a huge personal transformation when she learned Internal Family Systems, or IFS. For example, the ways that she was incredibly productive and excelled at pretty much everything? For the first time in her life, that was not as celebrated. In fact it was something she was encouraged to stop doing.

Sarah Buino, host and creator of the podcast Conversations with a Wounded Healer interviewed me recently, and I’m sharing that conversation with you. I love the questions Sarah asks me and I just love Sarah and I know you will too.

We talk about a pivotal psychedelic journey I went on, estrangement, authenticity, and how my own healing led to a recent career pivot.

Sonya Brewer is a trauma specialist and relationship expert who specializes in creative life and relationship design for overachieving trauma survivors and their partners.

In this conversation Sonya shares vulnerably about doing her own deep work, including the processes she went through to heal her childhood emotional neglect and other traumas.

You’re going to hear some courageous and vulnerable stuff right now. My guest today is a therapist who uses two methods to help her clients heal trauma. Her own healing journey started in an unexpected way.

Today’s guest shares deeply and vulnerably how she’s done her own healing through big stuff, including childhood sexual abuse, realizing she’s a lesbian while married to a man, and the death of her father. You’ll hear about the beautiful process she guides people through, why she took a sabbatical recently, and why she’s working with a shaman now.

I’m SO excited to introduce Jaclyn Tyson, a therapist and spiritual companion who helps people reconnect with their inner wisdom through spirituality, creativity, and healing practices. She weaves together approaches like Brainspotting, parts work, energy healing, and expressive arts to support personal and collective transformation.

My 2 guests today, Iris Brilliant and Justine Epstein, created and will co-facilitate The Hour Before Dawn

A Program for Inheritors of Wealth with Family Ties to the Nazi Regime who want to take ancestral responsibility and create a more just world.

They both come from wealthy families. You’re about to hear how they’ve done intense personal work AND justice work.