Healing Connections
A co-created podcast where we explore each other's healing journeys and various healing modalities. We share and discuss the things that supported and still support us on our path towards more emotional and psychological health. May this inspire and support people on their own journey back to wholeness.
Episodes
21 episodes
#21 - Guided practice on cultivating Joy
In this short (10 min) guided practice Apostol leads a meditation on Joy inspired from the social meditation practices that he has been facilitating for the past 18 months in the Buddhist Geeks network and beyond.While this guided medit...
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Episode 21
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16:55
#20 - Journeying with Ayahuasca
Apostol & Max talk about the different aspects of South American Ayahuasca shamanism. Ayahuasca is a tea which is prepared by the mixture of the Ayahuasca vine (Banisteriopsis Caapi) and the Chacruna plant (Psychotria viridis) which togethe...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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1:13:33
#19 - Journeying with Huachuma (San Pedro) the Grandfather Medicine
Apostol and Max talk about the Huachma which is also called San Pedro and is referred to the grandfather medicine (compared to Ayahuasca being the grandmother). Max shares his recent experience of a 2-week Huachuma retreat in Peru and Apostol s...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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1:01:19
#18 - Healing through journeying with MDMA
In this episode Max and Apostol talk about the healing effect and power of MDMA. Max shares his personal experience of discovering MDMA and subsequently having a very profound and powerful healing experience on it. He shares how he felt afterwa...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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57:52
#17 - Preparation and Safety in Psychedelic and Shamanic Journeying
Max and Apostol talk about the Secular and Shamanic approach to journeying with psychedelics and sacred plant medicines for the benefit of psychospiritual healing and growth. They go into their personal experience and recommendations on how to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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1:37:25
#16 - Multidimensional Meditation Practice On Inner Adulthood
This episode is an invitation to practice together with Liana and Max. Liana introduces and explains the social mediation practice they chose to share. Together they will demonstrate a Multidimensional Meditation on Inner Adulthood as an ...
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20:22
#15 - Exploration of the Inner Adulthood
Liana and Max are candidly discussing what inner adulthood means for each of them. They talk about strong resistance to adulting, challenges with finding a healthy balance between maturity and carefree energy that is typically associated...
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42:18
#14 - Worthiness and how to find it in the body
Max continues to explore the topic of worthiness and how to find a physical manifestation of it in the body. He shares how feelings of not-good-enough and guilt showed up in his body. At the end he offers a guided meditation aimed to rediscover...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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24:40
#13 - Worthiness and how we learned to forget about it
Max continues his exploration of worthiness. He shares his views on how we loose our sense of worthiness and what the mechanisms are that teach us that worthiness is not welcomed. The second half again offers a social meditaiton pr...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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17:17
#12 - Worthiness and how to rediscover it
Max explores the topic of worthiness in this first solo episode. He explains what worthiness means to him and how it was his antidote of feelings of insufficiency, not feeling good enough, not feeling loveable. Common variations of insuff...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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17:50
#11 - Shameless Joy and Healing
In this episode, Liana and Max dive into the critical role joy played in their healing journeys. Liana talks about discovering "ordinary" joy after being inspired by Rick Hanson's work on rewiring the "survival" brain. She talks abo...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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37:22
#10 - Attachment Styles and Burdened Relationships
Max and Liana really dive deep into attachment trauma and the ways we can heal it with awareness. Max goes right into it by giving a great overview of the different attachment styles and their effects on our relationships. He ties h...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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51:34
#9 - Working with Fear
In this episode, Max and Liana dive into fear as an evolutionary tool for survival, talk about the connection between increased fearful response and trauma, discuss the dangers of suppressing fear, and share ways of working with it in a healing...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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37:15
#8 - Roads to Embodied Self-Compassion and Heartfulness
In this episode, Max and Liana talk about the significance of practicing self-compassion in their healing journeys. Max shares about finding an ever-expanding capacity for compassion, overcoming challenges he had with receiving compassion...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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39:43
#7 - The Body's Gravestones
Max and Liana continue their conversation about the body and the special role it plays in healing. They touch on the body and its capacities to remember and store trauma as well as can serve as a means to release it. Max explains th...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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34:45
#6 - Befriending the Body
In this episode Max and Liana talk about befriending our body as an essential step in the healing process, taking us on a journey from relating to a body as a head taxi to it being a portal to wellness. Together they explore the differenc...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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33:16
#5 - Shadow Work and Acceptance
Max and Liana continue their conversation and further exploration of what healing means to them. Max shares about creating conditions and circumstances to safely experience emotions, seeing himself for who he is, and accepting it all, especiall...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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31:00
#4 - Finding Lost True Self and Practicing Self-Compassion
After a short inquiry mediation, Max and Liana reflect on what healing means to them. Liana talks about her understanding of the trauma, the repair work, and shares some learnings from her experience with it such as giving up victimhood, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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33:37
#3 - Meet Our Hosts: Liana and Her Bucket of Legos
In this episode, you get a front seat to a mini-life review as Liana puts it herself. She starts by introducing her eclectic "WE" identity, opens up about some of the challenges that she faced in her life, including rock bottom which star...
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41:21
#2 - Meet Our Hosts: Max and His Healing Journey
In this episode, you will learn more about Max as he shares details about his healing journey. In this intimate close up he opens up about what life was like before the journey started, the specific circumstances of his dramatic discovery...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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42:28
#1 - Introduction and Vision for Healing Connections
Liana and Max sharing about how they made their first connection that led here. Back story about Redwood Forest being an inspiration for Healing Connections. Vision for the podcast and opening for different voices in the future. Season 1 previe...
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Episode 1
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31:15