Pieces To Wellness

Episódios

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  Amperella: Reconnecting w/ Allison- Somatics Energy Alignment 12.08.2026 50min

  This week, your favorite dynamic duo welcome Allison Karoly to the show! Allison is an energy and somatic practitioner, and founder of Amperella. Through Amperella, Allison provides a variety of complementary therapies including and often blending somatic experiencing, reiki, and emotion code to facilitate nervous system regulation and calm. Allison shares her story of why this work chose her, and how it helped her in her own life, eventually leading her to share these healing practices with ...
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  Fun Questions: Seeing & Hearing Your Hosts 05.08.2026 24min

  Every day, every where, people ask and answer questions as a means of learning information and getting to know each other. This week, the Instigator and the Yogi decided to use some fun, familiar questions to help our listeners know us more fully. In this episode, you'll get to find out about our favorite sandwiches, our beliefs about the afterlife, even our favorite songs! Some details may seem minor, other topics give a peek into the deep wells within your hosts, Tim and Karen. We share det...
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  The Eightfold Path: An Overview 29.07.2026 25min

  Every once in a while on Pieces to Wellness, the Instigator and the Yogi get a little spiritual about mental health and healing. This is one of those times. This week we're discussing the Eightfold Path. Many spiritual and wisdom traditions offer lists of things to do, things not to do, values and principles to live by. The Eightfold Path has its origins in Buddhism. In Buddhism, the Eightfold Path is the 4th of the Four Noble Truths, and is meant to function as a practical guide to eth...
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  Safe Surroundings w/ Susan From LightNest Interiors 22.07.2026 46min

  This week we're delighted to welcome Susan DePauw of LightNest Interiors to the show! Susan is local to the 518 and takes a unique approach to helping herself and others manage nervous systems through managing their environments. Susan describes her structured approach to soothing the nervous system through intentionally designed spaces. Whether it's furniture, lighting, floor space, organization, or best of all, plants, there are many ways in which the spaces we live in impact our overall we...
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  Getting Curious w/Bridget From Curious Hearts Press 15.07.2026 41min

  One of the things we enjoy most here on Pieces to Wellness is looking at familiar things in new ways. This week we are delighted to be joined by Bridget Kleinert, social worker, therapist, mom, author, and overall delightful human being. Bridget is the founder of Curious Hearts Press/Picture Books for Grownups, a therapy-informed way to use stories for connection, reflection, and self-understanding. Bridget describes for us that humans are wired to learn through story, and we discuss ho...
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  Our Desired Impact: It’s What We Do Here 08.07.2026 13min

  Every so often, it's useful to remind ourselves as well as our listeners (especially any new ones!) what we're all about here at Pieces to Wellness. Our desired impact is three-pronged: Educate. Inspire. Support. Those three things are what we do here every week. The Instigator and the Yogi believe in the power of shared storytelling, the value of lived experience, and the vitality of connections built on respect and authentic support. Not only do we have conversations with guests who are sub...
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  Exploring Letting Go: Unleashed 01.07.2026 25min

  This week, we're exploring the topic of letting go from a high level perspective. And what's the first thing you have to do to explore? You have to let go of the idea that you already have all the knowledge, experience, control, etc. Only then can you be truly unleashed (Karen's love of that word is another story for another day). This week we're posing as many questions as we're answering. What do you typically cling to? What's easy for you to let go of? What's the first feeling you experien...
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  Riding The Waves Of Change: Balancing Accountability & Grace 24.06.2026 34min

  One of the persistent themes here on Pieces to Wellness is that healing and health are journeys of change and growth. This means that we are also constantly adjusting, re-evaluating, and adapting to what's going on within and around us. This requires the ability to balance accountability and grace, easier said than done. So of course, we had to dig into the nitty gritty of how this shows up for us. Over-emphasizing accountability looks like rigid adherence to routines, structures, ideas, whil...
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  Elevate With Anjali 17.06.2026 50min

  This week we are delighted to welcome Anjali Mehta onto Pieces to Wellness. Like us, Anjali lives in NY's Capital Region, though she works with clients all over the world. Anjali is a Conscious Life & Parenting Coach, Somatic Breathwork Practitioner, and Immersive Meditation Facilitator. We were drawn to her vulnerability, and openness that what she offers is based in her lived experience; it's not borrowed wisdom. Anjali describes what it means to work as a somatic breathwork facilitator...
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  How To Handle Your Demons 10.06.2026 31min

  This week we're getting down and dirty with our demons. Often, we hear people talk about fighting their demons. As usual, the Instigator and the Yogi start there and branch out to discuss other less-familiar perspectives. What would it look like to engage our demons in other ways? What are our demons anyway? In his book, Tim describes mental-emotional demons as "brain gremlins". In other circles they may be considered to be negative narratives, self-talk, or inner messaging that can be hard t...
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  Does Love Rule? 03.06.2026 33min

  This week's episode has been brought to you in the form of a question from the delightfully curious mind of the Instigator: Is love really all we need? Does love rule? In our usual roundabout way, your favorite dynamic duo dissect the enormous topic of love. We find it to be a huge variable in life and living a healthy lifestyle. It can be a catalyst in many ways. Love can motivate or inspire us just as much as it challenges us and sometimes feels elusive entirely. We talk a lot about how off...
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  IFS: A Conversation w/ Chani Getter 27.05.2026 45min

  This week, we are honored to welcome Chani Getter to the show. Chani is a renowned psychotherapist, interfaith minister, and author of the book Mapito: Embrace Yourself. One of the therapeutic modalities Chani uses with clients is IFS, Internal Family Systems, an approach developed by Dick Schwartz. IFS takes an integrative approach to therapy, emphasizing a strong body-mind connection, and the notion that our inner experience consists of various "parts". Sometimes these parts work toge...
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  Methods Of Knowing: Let Yourself Be The Guide 20.05.2026 26min

  This week we're excited to talk about a topic suggested by a listener, "when you have a decision to make or you're trying to understand a situation or experience, how do you know? How and when do intuition, insight, and logic factor in?" Shameless plug: reach out to us through the methods below with ideas related to mental health and lived experience, and we'll talk about it on the show! We explore some of the similarities and differences between intuition - gut feeling, insight as a deeper u...
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  Dr. Arielle Schwartz: From Pain To Possibility 13.05.2026 52min

  This week we are beyond honored to welcome Dr. Arielle Schwartz to the show! Get out your notebook, this episode is full of juicy nuggets of wisdom that you won't want to miss! Dr. Schwartz is a distinguished clinical psychologist and world-renowned author of several books spanning topics of trauma recovery, neuroscience, yoga therapy. She is a leading voice in trauma recovery, applied polyvagal theory, and is the founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy®. We found her to be a wa...
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  High Stakes = High Impact 06.05.2026 24min

  This week your favorite duo jumps right in with several familiar metaphors about what to do when the stakes are high. It would be nice if we could just stride along effortlessly, but life is full of obstacles, challenges, opportunities. Not all tools were meant for all jobs. This week we're unpacking what it feels like to try to even figure out which tool to use when you don't know which way to turn. It's been a while since the Serenity prayer has crept into our conversation, but she's here t...
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  Tune Up-Ready Yourself For Maximum Performance 29.04.2026 9min

  Time for a tune up! These tune up episodes are short and sweet, and are meant to give you quick pieces, little bits of inspiration for everyday life. We use a lot of food analogies and vehicle metaphors here on Pieces to Wellness, and this week we're talking about tuning up our instruments. In this metaphor, our body-mind-self is the instrument, and our lives are songs. We inevitably discuss the importance of practice (practice makes progress, not perfection), and building healthy habits one ...
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  Evolving Through Safe Connection w/ Dr. Jessica Higgins 22.04.2026 40min

  This week we're excited to bring you a conversation with Dr. Jessica Higgins! Dr. Jessica is a psychologist, relationship coach, facilitator, and host of Empowered Relationship Podcast. In her over 25 years of experience working with people therapeutically, she draws from multiple evidence-based modalities and has advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), which we dig into DEEP in this conversation! Dr. Jessica describes EFT's effectiveness with couples, in helping them co...
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  Moving Through 15.04.2026 26min

  This week the Instigator and the Yogi dig into a topic brought to us by a listener. This listener asked us to talk about what it's like to move through/past things, people, habits that no longer serve us. In true Pieces to Wellness fashion, this conversation gets messy and vulnerable - just the way we like it. We talk about the challenges that arise when we're at a crossroads, when we have the opportunity to choose differently in service to our growth and well-being. That familiar comfort can...
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  Unbroken: Turning Your Pieces Into Peace And Joy w/ Karen Carey 08.04.2026 32min

  This week you get two Karens for the price of one! That's right, we're delighted to welcome Karen Carey to Pieces to Wellness. She felt like a friend right away, as you'll hear in our conversation. Karen is a life and success coach who recently published a book titled Unbroken - Turning Your Pieces Into Peace and Joy. Karen is a fellow resident of the 518, so it's extra special to get to connect with someone so close to home. Karen shares with us about her own healing journey which included l...
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  Stop Abandoning Yourself 01.04.2026 34min

  One of the things we practice here on Pieces to Wellness is bringing our whole selves on the podcast. More often than not, our topic ideas come from our lived experience. That's what you'll hear here today. Karen shares an example in which she recently chose herself instead of abandoning herself, and the dynamic duo walk through strategies you can implement in your own life to move in this direction. Tim drops some yogic wisdom about the importance of studying yourself (svadyaya in Sanskrit) ...