Our hope is that this podcast helps nudge us toward a deeper presence in our lives - bringing more empathy, creativity, and intellectual excitement!

Fully Human Psychology Podcast │ Episode 6

To Prepare Our Death & Dance Our Life w/ Courage & Love

Join us for a passionate conversation with our friend and fellow Existential-Humanistic psychotherapist, Vasilis Georgalakis, MD. Vasilis has written a beautiful book weaving personal struggle and redemption, deep clinical experience, and his irresistible love for humanity and for truly living well.

You will love his charm and depth--and his writing style reflects this!

Fully Human Psychology Podcast │ Episode 5

An Ethic of Radical Hospitality and the Practice of Living in Collaboration

In this episode of the Fully Human Psychology Podcast with Dr. Chris Bradshaw and Dr. Sophie Archibald, we enjoy exchanging with Dr. Gina Subia Belton, PhD about what it means to be and become fully human.

Dr. Belton shares a wide range of experiences and influences, including some of her early experiences on the path to become an end-of-life midwife, healer, professor, and poet.

Fully Human Psychology Podcast │ Episode 4

"Holding Deep Curiosity for the Unfolding Possibilities” w/ Dr. Nisha Gupta

Join Dr. Sophie and Dr. Chris as they connect with special guest Dr. Nisha Gupta, PhD—clinical psychologist, tenured psychology professor, arts-based phenomenological researcher, and creativity scholar.

In this episode, we were delighted to explore the following (and more) topics with Nisha:

  • In what ways are humans currently “hot messes,” and how do we interact with our fallibility with endearment?

  • What are the benefits of the irrational?

  • When it comes to mental health and spiritual crisis, how do we find “the wisdom in the symptom”?

  • What is a spiritual emergency, and how may we work with this creatively and therapeutically?

  • How do we co-create with the Unknown, balancing our “I don’t know” and our “maybe” with our creative will to sculpt a more humane and just world?

  • What does it mean to be seized by Daimonic forces in visionary artistic inspiration?

  • What are some ways that Artificial Intelligence (AI) might excite depth psychologists and all humans seeking liberation, spiritual and creative fulfillment?

Fully Human Psychology Podcast │ Episode 3

"The Skill to Truly Hear Others"

Dr. Sophie & Dr. Chris deep dive ideas explored in Episode 2 with Dr. Kirk Schneider, PhD.
Some of the topics explored:

  • What deeply moves us?

  • What blocks us from being deeply moved?

  • Many have concerns about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Is this partially because we humans sense that something mechanistic and automatic has already taken over within us? Do humans have a mechanistic/automatic/programmed side that is over-active, and does this block us from being deeply moved by wonder, empathy, remorse, awe?

Fully Human Psychology Podcast │ Episode 2

"The Capacity to Be Deeply Moved," with Dr. Kirk Schneider

Join Dr. Chris and Dr. Sophie as they connect with mentor and friend Kirk Schneider to explore deep questions.

  • What is essentially human?

  • Is it the capacity to be deeply moved?

  • The ability to cultivate the energy of attention and a quality of presence such that we can experience both the agony and the poignant beauty of existence?

  • What did Emerson mean by moments when "Jove nods to Jove," human to human?

Fully Human Psychology Podcast │ Episode 1

What Does it Mean to Be Fully & Experientially Human?

Welcome to our first episode, where Dr. Sophie and Dr. Chris explore initial impressions to the core questions of this podcast.

  • What does it mean to be fully & experientially human?

  • What holds us back from full humanness?

  • How do we want to move with this dynamic?

  • Who are some of our heroes in full humanness?

We explore the experience itself of asking deep questions, and the role of paradox, relationship, mentorship, love, the body.