Moving into Wellness Podcast
Movement intervention specialists Karin Pleasant, psychotherapist, dance/movement therapist with Muse Creative Arts Therapy, and Gloria Doran Murray, Human Development specialist and creator of the Hansi Inner Child Workshop, combining yoga, meditation and dance, discuss destigmatizing mental healthcare and ways to manage everyday mental health issues.
Episodes
51 episodes
Ego and Discomfort: Barriers to Organizing?
In this episode Karin and Gloria use posts from an organization as a conversation prompt to address the challenge that our desire to be "right" gets in the way of building community.-------------------------------------------------------...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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40:05
TBI, Mental Wellness & a Path to Healing: Chat with William Person
CONTENT WARNING: Episode includes discussion of suicide, and suicidal/homicidal ideation resulting from brain injuries. In this episode Gloria chats with former Olympic bobsledder William Person about his journey through the mental ...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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38:24
Our Grounding Principles
In this episode Karin and Gloria discuss their ways of grounding. Introvert? Extrovert? Ambivert? We talk about being with people while maintaining personal boundaries. Of course, we boil it down to movement and community. Pardon th...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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33:45
Cultivating Internal Justice
In this episode Karin reconnects with Cashel Campbell to discuss how restructuring her practice led to a deeper connection to herself and her work. Cashel is a New York State licensed & board-certified dance/movement psychotherapist, gradua...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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38:37
Staying Sane in Insane Times
In this episode, Karin and Gloria chat about ways they acknowledge current events in their practices with people they serve and ideas about what shapes their approaches.--------------------------------------------------------------------...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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35:02
Resilience and Refueling: Honoring Ourselves When Depleted
In this episode Gloria chats with Jason Williams, MS, cofounder of Brain Wise Solutions, to discuss resilience. They offer suggestions for ways people can address feelings of overwhelm and how to honor ourselves when we need refueling.Ch...
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Season 4
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31:12
Lifelong Friends in Community
In this bonus episode Karin speaks with her lifelong friend Tenisa Frye about building and maintaining connections with others, touching on how social needs change and ways we've adapted as we've aged.-------------------------...
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Season 4
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53:20
Reactions to and Recovery from Betrayal
In this episode Gloria and Karin discuss betrayal, with personal examples of how it affects people and ways they've used body-based interventions to recover from it.-------------------------------------------------------------...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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40:37
Making Time in Chaos
In this episode, Karin and Gloria chat about the importance of community and doing 'enough' to support people while in their own life transitions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------National ...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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44:01
Graduated, But Still Growing: Finding Our Way Back to Wellness
In this heartfelt episode of Moving into Wellness, Gloria is joined by fellow graduates Trevor Dalton and Brendan Crawford for a candid conversation about the challenges of staying grounded during the final stretch of their master’s program. To...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:08:13
Relocate, Reset, Restart
In this episode, Karin will discuss what has taken so long to post the first 2025 episode, reflecting on thinking that could get in the way of just restarting something you care about. Karin also shares what led to relocating and applying the p...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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31:58
Gratitude Meditation
Please enjoy this less-than-10-minute gratitude meditation led by Gloria! Thank you for supporting our pod and look for more episodes in 2025.------------------------------------------------------------------------Natio...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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10:36
Takeaway from the Year: Communication
In this episode, Karin and Gloria talk about lessons learned in 2024 regarding communication, including the ideas of opportunities for learning, adaptability to situations, setting boundaries for self, and clarifying meaning in the relationship...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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36:00
Invisible Symptoms
In this episode Karin and Gloria discuss how emotional challenges may go unnoticed or mischaracterized by others and not always be identifiable or understood by a person who is experiencing them.-----------------------------------------...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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39:58
Bonus Clip: Freud and Other Ideas
In this bonus clip from the conversation with Regina Scheitel, Karin and Regina talk about mental health interventions, in particular regional focuses, having a specialized vs integrative approach, and continuing education to maintain a critica...
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Season 3
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11:57
Social Work across the World: Chat with Frau Scheitel
In this episode, Karin chats with former coworker Regina Scheitel, MA, MSW, Ph.D. candidate, who is currently a professor at the University of Applied Sciences, Department of Social Work, Bachelor of Social Work Program in Burgenland, Austria. ...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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33:36
Connecting in Travel Abroad
In this episode, Karin and Gloria discuss their experiences overseas, including dancing that brought connectivity and social observations that exhibited common interests for wellness that communities are working through.----------------...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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33:05
DMT and Forensic Populations: Chat with Alicia Brewster
In this episode, Karin chats with fellow DMT Alicia Brewster, MA, BC-DMT, who has worked for close to 9 years at Department of State Hospitals - Napa. Alicia gives her perspective on working with a forensic population and why dance/movement the...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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34:28
Imposter Syndrome
In this episode, Karin and Gloria discuss ideas about imposter syndrome, including people's discomfort with being a 'beginner' and the effects of comparing ourselves to others.------------------------------------------------------------...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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38:15
Anytime Is the Time to Make a Choice
In this episode Karin and Gloria discuss how the power to learn is to live by making a choice, fears or no fears.------------------------------------------------------------------------National hotline numbers: National Sui...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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33:28
Embracing Change
In this episode Karin and Gloria discuss how embracing change helps prepare someone to accept and overcome natural and incremental change throughout different stages of life.--------------------------------------------------------------...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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30:55
New Year, Same Problems
In the first episode for season 3, Karin and Gloria talk about personal insights for the new year, breaking patterns and the slowness of change, and reasons to continue actively discussing mental wellness. -------------------------...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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37:47
Cleansing Water Visualization
In this last episode of the season, Gloria leads a meditation using water as a metaphor for healing, renewal, and growth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------National hotline numbers:
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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11:38