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Ep. 210 The Drama Triangle: Why it’s Wrecking Your Relationships and How to End It

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Do you want to create more healthy relationships with your partner, family, co-workers and friends? In today’s episode, Katie shares a powerful framework for understanding your patterns in relationships, the Drama Triangle. It’s time to shine a light on the unconscious patterns that are sabotaging your relationships so you can get out of the Drama Triangle!

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In this episode about the Drama Triangle, you’ll hear:

~ An invitation to study with us in Ayurveda School!

~ What is the Drama Triangle?

~ Psychiatrist Stephen Karpman

~ Are there really so many narcissists?

~ The danger of labeling and “othering” people

~ Dissolving the labels you’ve given yourself

~ Characteristics of our inner victim, perpetrator and rescuer

~ Carl Jung's theory of projection

~ How to identify when you’re projecting

~ The Vedic concept of Samsara

~ How to recognise when you’re playing the victim, perpetrator or rescuer in your relationship

~ Examples of common dysfunctional relationship patterns

~ How to break free from the Drama Triangle

~ The Jungian concept of self-integration

~ How to develop more mature, healthy relationships

~ Awareness as a digestive enzyme

~ Taking radical responsibility for our feelings

~ Get our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda for Women!

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ 2025 Chakra Yoga Nidra Workshop: Study with Katie and other luminary teachers this fall in the Bahamas!

~ 2026 Chakra Yoga Nidra Retreat: Deep dive into the chakras with Katie as your guide in the beautiful Bahamas in spring 2026!

~ Sign up for our newsletter on our website

~ Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

~ Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy

Episodes related to the Drama Triangle:

~ Ep. 178 Boundaries

~ Ep. 198 Family Archetypes: Understanding the Thanksgiving Dinner Table Dynamics

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Ep. 184 Psychic Secrets Held in Your Skin

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Our culture is obsessed with having youthful, juicy skin! While there’s nothing wrong with wanting beautiful skin, we’ve been sold a lie that only youthful skin is beautiful. In this episode, Katie goes way beyond skin deep by exploring the Ayurvedic and Jugian psychological perspectives of skin. Learn how your skin health is intimately connected to your ego, self-worth, emotions, and personal boundaries. Then start improving your skin and mental health today with Katie’s favorite skin-care practice!

Ready to truly feel comfortable in your skin? Tune into this episode and join Katie LIVE on July 30th for our FREE Summer of Love Webinar. Katie will be sharing summer skin health tips and so much more! Click here to register!

In this episode, you’ll hear:

~ The Ayurvedic perspective on skin

~ How skin is connected to your feeling of worthiness

~ The tissues of the body (dhatus) according to Ayurveda

~ Why your muscle health important to skin health

~ How your skin relates to your personal boundaries

~ Working with the skin to heal trauma

~ Why your skin health has everything to do with your ego

~ Expanding your capacity to work with your feelings

~ Why who you let touch your skin is so important!

~ What does it mean to feel comfortable in your skin?

~ Learn more about our year-long Ayurveda School here. This month only, get $100 off your tuition and a free year of our Spirit Sessions membership when you register before July 31st using discount code HotGirlSummer!

Other links mentioned in this episode:

~ Psychodermatology: How Skin Reveals Unconscious Conflicts - This Jugian Life Podcast

~ The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud

~ Kleinian analyst Esther Bick

~ Dr Lad’s Texbook of Ayurveda Volume 1

~ Sign up for our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda!

~ Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

~ Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy is available now!

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Ep. 174 Explore Your Inner Child with Nicole Frolick

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Are you doing everything you’re “supposed” to do to create the life of your dreams, but still can’t break free from self-sabotaging patterns? Your inner child may be trying to get your attention. In this episode, Katie chats with practical mystic and intuitive coach Nicole Frolick about how to connect with and heal your inner child. They share how the neglected parts of ourselves often hold our most powerful and potent hidden strengths, talents, and purpose!

Tune in to learn how you can start getting in touch with your inner child today so you can heal yourself and generational karma.

TW: Childhood SA

In this episode, you’ll hear:

~ What is your inner child?

~ What happens when the inner child is suppressed?

~ Signs that your inner child needs attention

~ Nicole’s step-by-step meditation practice to connect with your inner child

~ Why we repeat self-sabotaging patterns

~ The gifts of your inner child

~ How inner child work is so much more than facing your pain and fears

~ What is soul fractal healing?

~ Why disconnecting from our inner child = disconnecting from our power

~ The importance of learning how to play

~ How the womb is a portal to your intuition and universal wisdom

~ Practices to move out of ancestral karma and trauma

~ Katie’s new book, Glow-Worthy: Practices for Awakening Your Inner Light and Loving Yourself as You Are—Broken, Beautiful, and Sacred is available now!

Other links mentioned in this episode:

~ Connect with Nicole on her Website and Instagram

~ Check out Nicole’s coaching programs and Forbidden Journey retreat

~ Tune in to Nicole’s podcast, Enlighten Up

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Ep. 160 Courage in Facing the Shadow

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This week on the podcast, Kaite chats with licensed psychotherapist and yoga teacher Ashley Turner. They share candidly about the beautiful and ugly parts of their spiritual journeys. Learn how to recognize when your shadow is running the show and how to deeply accept and work with the parts of yourself that you want to hide. By moving beyond spiritual materialism and into a higher level of awareness we can show up in our lives with more confidence and less insecurity!

Join Katie and Ashley as they deep dive into the intersection of Yoga, Buddhism, Tantra, and Jungian psychology in this conversation about how to take our spiritual awareness to the next level.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ Level 1 Ayurveda School is open for registration, at the lowest early bird tuition price! Early bird prices are active through October 31st, so get in this month to save! Click here to learn more, register, or book a call with a graduate of the program. Payment plans abound!

~ What does “to heal” actually mean?

~ Why Katie is a Jungian psychology PhD dropout

~ How to start integrating all the parts of yourself

~ Tools to expand your awareness beyond spiritual materialism

~ What does “shadow work” mean?

~ How to work with your shadow

~ What is a healthy, balanced ego

~ Katie’s new book, Glow-Worthy: Practices for Awakening Your Inner Light and Loving Yourself as You Are—Broken, Beautiful, and Sacred is available now!

Other links mentioned in this episode:

~ Ashley’s online yoga & mental health platform, The Haven

~ Connect with Ashley on Instagram and on her website

~ Ashley’s teacher Mona Miller

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Ep. 92 Attachment Theory & The Science of Life with Vanessa Durrant

Vanessa Durrant is a licensed psychotherapist, reiki master, yoga teacher, public speaker and graduate level adjunct professor. She’s a graduate of our Ayurveda training and teaches in our Level 2 training.

In this episode you’ll hear:

~Brain spotting: how where you look affects how you feel

~Healers, Ancestors and our Innocence

~Herman Hesse poem on trees

~Who can hold your heart

~Healer folk and the quality of our presence

~The power of being a witness and being witnessed

~Attachment in our physiology

~The link between Ayurveda and Attachment theory

~Why you can’t do your healing via social media

~Find Vanessa online at https://www.kindredtreehealing.com/

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Ep. 85 Intuition as a Life Guide with Dr. Siva Mohan

I’m joined in this juicy, real-talk episode by Dr. Siva Mohan. Siva began her path to healing in neuroscience, and this sparked her interest in the mind-body connection. In medical school she focused her studies on the extension of the mind-body relationship: the effects of community, development, and culture on health behavior. Siva brings a unique and integrative perspective to the Ayurvedic tradition. She teaches in Level 1 and Level 2 of our Ayurvedic training program.

In this episode you’ll hear:

~The Western medicine and Ayurveda connection

~Integration of Ayurveda in modern times

~Thoughts on spiritual bypassing

~Why finding hope is difficult during times of trauma

~The primal brain’s innate wisdom and intuition

~How to access your inner voice and emotional body

~Drawing boundaries in relationships

~Trust-falling into the emotional body as a life guide

~Finding alignment to usher in high-vibrational experiences

~Daily practices to commit to one’s own heart

~ Find Siva online: ayurvedabysiva.com

~Siva’s Resolving Internal Conflict Course

~Siva’s Ayurveda for Yoga Teachers and Students: Bringing Ayurveda into Your Life and Practice Book

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