Season 2

Beginning Again — Creating Your Healing Blueprint for the Year Ahead

with Dr. Cheri & Ellice Boone

What if starting a new year didn’t require reinventing yourself… but simply choosing yourself more intentionally?

In this New Year 2026 special, Dr. Cheri and Ellice invite you into a gentler, more sustainable way of beginning again. Rather than resolutions driven by pressure or self-correction, this episode introduces th...

Episode 11: A Year of Becoming — Integrating the Journey From Root to Rise

Root & Rising Podcast with Dr. Cheri

As the year comes to a close, Dr. Cheri guides listeners through a reflective, integrative journey of healing, growth, and self-discovery. In this expanded 45-minute episode, she revisits the core themes of the past 10 episodes—Rooting, Rebounding, Rising, and reclaiming intuition, joy, and wholeness—helping you...

🌿 Rooted & Rising Podcast — Episode #10

Purposeful Contemplation — The Sacred Pause in Psychedelic Healing

with Dr. Cheri & Ellice Boone

What if the most powerful part of your psychedelic journey isn’t the experience itself… but the pause that comes afterward?

In this episode, Dr. Cheri and Ellice explore Purposeful Contemplation — the sacred, intentional stillness that turns psychedelic insight into lasting tr...

In this episode, Dr. Cheri and Ellice explore the healing potential of psychedelic medicines—focusing on mushrooms and ketamine. Together, they break down the latest science of how these medicines affect the brain, why they can be powerful tools for trauma healing, and the importance of safe integration practices.

You’ll also hear personal stories and client experiences that bring the research to life, offering both inspiration ...

What if the quiet pull of your intuition is actually your unconscious guiding you through unhealed grief—leading you exactly where your soul is ready to rise?

In this episode, Dr. Cheri and her co-host Ellice explore the powerful partnership between intuition and strength. Too often, trauma separates the two—silencing inner knowing while overactivating control, perfectionism, or force. Healing requires weaving them back together...

In this episode of Rooted & Rising, Dr. Cheri is joined by Debbie Kenney, LCSW, to explore unresolved grief and loss. Together, they uncover what grief really is, how it shapes us, and the ways it can be transformed into healing and meaning. From Hospice work to integration practices, Debbie shares insights and stories that reveal how grief—though painful—can become a bridge to resilience, compassion, and wholeness. The episode...

What if healing didn’t have to take years of talk therapy, but could begin with a single breakthrough moment? In this episode of Rooted & Rising, we explore whether psychedelic therapy—specifically clinical ketamine—can create lasting transformation.

Dr. Cheri shares the science behind ketamine therapy, why she became licensed to administer it, and the results she’s witnessed with clients. Ellice opens the episode with a gro...

In this episode, Ellice and Dr. Cheri dive into the wisdom of the body—our soma—and explore how somatic therapies reconnect mind and body for deep healing.

✨ Inside this episode:

A guided EFT tapping practice with Ellice to ground and calm your nervous system

The science behind tapping: how it lowers cortisol and regulates the amygdala

Insights from The Body Keeps the Score on why trauma lives in the body

A discussio...

In this episode of Rooted & Rising, Dr. Cheri and Ellice explore the power of story—how the narratives we carry can shape our lives, and how talk therapy integrated with Holistic Integral Therapy (HIT) can help us rewrite those stories from the inside out.

✨ Inside this episode:

A thought-provoking opening reflection: What narrative have I written that’s keeping me from living the life I am meant to live?

A short somat...

In this episode of Rooted & Rising, Ellice and Dr. Cheri explore what it means to reclaim the parts of ourselves we’ve left behind — the playful child, the silenced truth-teller, the part that once felt free. Through a guided inner child practice, clinical insight, and real client stories, they unpack how trauma fragments our identity and how practices like parts work and Internal Family Systems (IFS) can help us return to whol...

What if the key to rising into your fullest life isn't in becoming something new, but in remembering who you’ve always been?

In this episode, Dr. Cheri McDonald and Ellice Boone guide you through a grounding and soul-nourishing journey back to your roots. Together, we explore how life, trauma, and cultural conditioning can pull us away from our authentic selves—and how to begin the sacred work of coming home again.

This episo...

Rooted & Rising with Dr. Cheri & Ellice Boone

A raw, real, and uplifting podcast for anyone ready to rise beyond trauma.

Hosted by therapist and trauma specialist Dr. Cheri McDonald and healer/coach Ellice Boone, Rooted & Rising blends psychology, spirituality, and lived experience to support deep, lasting healing.

Expect honest conversations, real stories, and practical tools for mind, body, and soul. Topics inc...