The Therapy Sisters

In today’s episode The Therapy Sisters explore the idea that often is internalized among those who grew up in religious communities that, whenever something goes wrong, it must be your fault. Struggle with depression? Pray more! Life hands you something challenging? Must be because you’re not doing enough. Or the right thing. It’s exhausting and it isn’t true. Listen as they share their experiences around this, how they see this pl...

Welcome! We're so glad you're here. Grab a cup of coffee (or your drink of choice) and join the Therapy Sisters as they sit down with Cassie Krajewski, LCSW. Cassie is an LCSW based in Denver, CO where she runs her private practice, Inner Atlas Therapy. She uses EMDR Therapy and Internal Family Systems Therapy to treat complex trauma, disordered eating and body image, and sex and relationships. Cassie is an EMDRIA Approved Consul...

Hello, and welcome back to The Therapy Sisters Podcast!

In today's episode, The Therapy Sisters discuss purity culture and some of the inherent messages young women internalized about their bodies as a result, including:

-Where shame about the body starts

-How the messaging within purity culture impacts the mind/body/emotion connection

-The "light switch effect" when women get married.

-How consent factors in

-H...

Welcome to the Beyond Sacred Scars podcast with The Therapy Sisters. We are so glad you're here. Today The Therapy Sisters have the honor of sitting down with Dr. Adrienne Rowland. Dr. Rowland is a certified sex therapist through the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and has her Doctorate Degree in Clinical Sexology from Modern Sex Therapy Institutes. Dr. Rowland is a fully licensed...

Today is a brief mini-sode, introducing the next Narrative the Therapy Sisters will attempt to unravel in their Beyond Sacred Scars Podcast.

Listen to discover what this narrative is (it's a biggie!) and when to tune back in for the next full episode.

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Welcome back to the Beyond Sacred Scars Podcast with The Therapy Sisters! We're so glad you're here and joining us for these conversations.

We have a guest today, our friend Kelly, who discusses her journey. Hers could have led to walking away from her faith but instead it solidified her beliefs while continuing to work on unpacking the narratives that were doing some harm to her. Kelly continues to be in worship mini...

Welcome! Grab a cup of coffee and join the conversation today. The Therapy Sisters discuss Narrative Two: There is No Gray. The Therapy Sisters unpack what black and white thinking is, how it is shaped in religious communities, and the narratives the come out of this line of thinking that pertain specifically to women. Want to connect? Us too! You can do so in the following places: ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠Facebook⁠ or shoot us an email ...

Today The Therapy Sisters welcome Beth Green to their podcast! Beth is a licensed school counselor with a big heart and a wonderful story and most importantly, she is Rachel's childhood best friend!

Beth shares her powerful story and how doing all "the right things" left her empty and questioning. She shares her journey towards healing and her wise counsel about how we can engage with our own questions and experi...

**A quick note: We had some challenges with the audio there at the end so this episode ends abruptly. It does end where the conversation wrapped up, but we understand it may feel sudden and wanted to give a heads up. Still, it doesn’t not detract from Jaymie’s inspiring message.

The Therapy Sisters welcome back friend and fellow clinician, Jaymie Bush. She shares her story of coming up in a legalistic and conservative religi...

In today's episode Charis and Rachel introduce the first internalized narrative from religious upbringing that they and many women they've met with have worked to address. In this episode Charis and Rachel share their own stories and transition from black and white thinking to embracing a journeyer's mindset. What if journey isn't dangerous? What if we can't fit ourselves into a box? What then? The Therapy Sisters discuss this ...

In the first fresh episode of 2024 we share about our journey to narrowing our focus for the podcast. After much discussion, brainstorming and curious exploration, we have landed on a direction. Tune into this episode to hear about our new focus, how our own stories and the stories of the women we work with have influenced this trajectory. We're excited to share this with you! Want to connect? Us too! You can do so in the followin...

Happy Podcast Day!

To kick off 2024 The Therapy Sisters are doing a "Best Of" Series. Today's episode, Unstucking Grief: An Interview with Jaymie Bush is the number one MOST PLAYED episode of 2023.

We hope you enjoy revisiting this conversation with Jaymie on how grief and other traumas can get stuck in our physical bodies and the hope that we can learn to release them.

Today's rerun episode discusses:

• Lis...

Hello, and Happy Tuesday!

To kick off 2024 The Therapy Sisters are doing a "Best Of" Series. Today's episode, Deconstructing Faith and Learning to Embrace Spirituality: An Interview with Suzanne Wolcott is the second most played episode of 2023.

We hope you enjoy revisiting this discussion!

Today's rerun episode interviews:

Suzanne Wolcott, MDiv, LSCSW,  who works as a social worker in an agency servin...

Hello and Happy Tuesday!

To kick off 2024 The Therapy Sisters are doing a "Best Of" Series. Today's episode, Coming Home To Our Physical Selves is the third most played episode of 2023.

We hope you enjoy revisiting what it means to understand what our bodies are telling us and how we can begin to listen. Our bodies are powerful communications but too often we shut out their voices, for a myriad or reasons.

Toda...

Happy New Year!

To kick off 2024 The Therapy Sisters are doing a "Best Of" Series. Today's episode, Coming Home To Our Emotional Selves is the fourth most played episode of 2023.

We hope you enjoy revisiting what it means to identify, acknowledge and honor our emotional selves. We can ALL use this reminder and is such a beautiful focus going into a new year.

Today's rerun episode explores:

Today is a minisode and Charis walks us through how to use the DEAR MAN tool from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy to approach conversations where you need to assertively ask for something or say no to something.

Deciding on a boundary is one thing. Communicating it is quite another. It can be challenging to know how to broach these conversations, but this tool provides a helpful framework from which to do so.

To grab a c...