The Middle Kath

The Middle Kath

If you are a person of extremes - emotions, moods, behaviors, addictions, obsessions, all-or-nothing thinking, this podcast is for you. We’re going to get deep into healing from behavior patterns that disconnect us from our true selves. Welcome to The Middle Kath, where we are finding the middle path to a balanced life through self worth, self love, self compassion and forgiveness. I am your host, Kathie. Follow me to be notified of new episodes, and thanks for listening.

Episodes

February 23, 2025 20 mins

My dad was a Catholic priest, my mom was a nun, and I'm Jewish! In October, in the lead up to the U.S. election, I was overwhelmed. I declared my refusal to join a “team,” and said I was not affiliating based on politics or religion or even sports. 

I refused to identify with a political party. I reject what I feel to be the body control of the right wing and the mind control of the left wing. I also reject rugged individualism and ...

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I have realized doctors may be experts on diagnosing diseases, but I’m the expert on me. With psychiatry, as with all healing modalities, I take what I like and leave the rest. 


Daily meds work for many people, but didn’t work for me. I was told I would need to take meds for both my thyroid and brain every day for the rest of my life. After over 15 years on thyroid meds and 4 years on psych meds, I successfully tapered off all dai...

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This is Eva Nelson's guided meditation for energy clearing and releasing. The purpose is to help you discover what it feels like to be in your own energy, in your own space.

Doing this meditation daily can help you get more and more connected to your essence, to who you really are, and to feel what your vibration feels like. Try to notice when and if you get knocked out of your center, or if other people try to cross your boundarie...

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Welcome to the first ever “healer reveal” on The Middle Kath podcast! Everyone I mention here has a pseudonym, except for me and my interviewees. The woman I named “Skye” in episode 12 on shamanic breathwork, and in episode 13 about her transformational breathwork retreat, is actually named Eva Nelson. In this interview, I share my experience working with Eva. We then dive into her healing work and what she has learned about hersel...

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Has anyone ever told you that your life story is so shocking that you should write a book about it? Have you ever survived a medical condition - or several - that were life-threatening, mysterious, or both? Abby Fenix has, and her autobiography, Forever the Phoenix, Life is Choice, is available now on Kindle and audiobook.

Abby’s story is one of extremes, with themes of resilience, hope, and “rising from the ashes.” Her healing jo...

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After watching the first video I saw on Brian’s channel, I knew I would interview him about inner work one day. His story about overcoming addiction to heroin and meth, while in prison and then on house arrest, is inspiring. 

Brian was an expander for me on what is actually possible in publicly speaking my truth and risking vulnerability on video. He demonstrates the freedom that inner work can bring, no matter the limits imposed up...

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In this first video episode, I share the concept of desperate versus expert bullies. I learned it from Shawn Smith, author of Surviving Aggressive People, on an episode of The Art of Manliness podcast (link below).

I refer to my personal experiences with getting bullied at home, in friendships, and at work. My goal is to be an expander for others on setting boundaries.

The song of the day is in honor of today's Sturgeon Moon, ...

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In this episode, I share two important concepts that came up recently in The Bipolar Social Club Google group: goal setting and how to love yourself. It’s a phenomenal group. Check out the links below to learn more:


The Bipolar Social Club | Paul English | TEDx Boston https://youtu.be/AV1c_0IuC8w?si=A_7SSXaAm2vIUrGl


Request to join here: https://www.bipolarsocialclub.org/


Book - Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yo...

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My unscripted answer to my first listener question, “Do you have any recommendations for how to detach self-worth from work/accomplishments?” Notes: Hailey Magee - Author, Stop People Pleasing https://www.instagram.com/haileypaigemagee?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA== Jefferson Fisher - Attorney, talking points for boundary setting https://www.instagram.com/jefferson_fisher?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==
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For this first ever interview episode, I am grateful my brother agreed to share his experience in 12-step recovery with Alcoholics Anonymous. Having experienced many meetings myself at Al-Anon, a 12-step program for friends and family members of alcoholics, I know firsthand how transformative 12-step can be. In this episode, Ben shares the experiences that brought him to AA, how he found good meetings, how he chose his sponsors, a...
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I learned the hard way that healing work and energy treatment can sometimes trigger a healing crisis of the body, temporarily. In April, I attended a healing retreat, which was, without question, the most valuable retreat of my life. The focus of it was “remembering who you are” through transformative breathwork and yoga. At the retreat, it began with a bacterial finger infection - cellulitis. A few days into dealing with the inf...
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Shamanic breathwork is the biggest bang-for-buck healing modality I’ve tried, in terms of both money and time invested. In this episode, I share what I gained in each of my five shamanic breathwork journeys from 2019 to the present: Journey 1: Massive rage release Journey 2: Reunification with inner child Journey 3: Vision of leadership that came true Journey 4: Strength and truth Journey 5: Letting go Other topics featured in t...
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January 11, 2024 58 mins
In this episode, I ring in the new year by sharing some of the results I’ve realized through healing work since my breakdown/breakthrough five years ago. I hope that sharing these 11 wins will make the healing modalities episodes to follow more relevant, applicable, and realistic for you in your healing journey. 11 Healing Wins: 1. Awakening to the reality of narcissistic abuse trauma 2. Unlocking self worth through nutrition 3....
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One of the most memorable stories in the book, More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, is called “The Bed by the Window.” A jealous man destroys another only to find he did it for nothing. Instant karma. In my experience, this story touches on what it’s like to be pedestalized as a Golden Child, which attracts intense jealousy. Jealousy is central to narcissistic family dynamics, and I have found that compliments from the self abs...
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December 5, 2023 39 mins
Whatever someone’s accomplishments, accolades, degrees, power, fame, fortune, humanitarianism, religiosity, talent, brilliance, influence, whatever: no one belongs on a pedestal. Pedestaling is the opposite of an honor, and it hurts all parties. Circularly, we maintain our pedestals to validate our fantasy of reality. The pedestalized aren’t allowed to be real, we don’t want real, we want the pedestal. Pedestals are harmful for ev...
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This episode on healing the extreme behavior of avoiding confrontation underwent a full rewrite and re-recording. In fact, the Scapegoat episode emerged while writing this episode on confrontation, and may be worth hearing before this one, if you haven’t already. The first version of this episode was so angry that the middle path was not in sight. While anger is certainly justified, it can turn off perspective, narrowing focus and ...
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October 20, 2023 57 mins
There’s a truism that is sometimes used to let people off the hook: hurt people hurt people. Of course it’s not okay to abuse someone the way you were abused yourself. But with no healing work, how is the cycle supposed to stop? All we know for sure is: abusers are traumatized too, and need help just like the rest of us who are traumatized. As Gabor Mate says, “trauma isn’t what happens to you, it’s what happens inside you as a res...
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Did you or anyone you know play a childhood role like the Golden Child, the Scapegoat, or the Lost Child? Well, I have learned none of these roles have anything to do with who we really are underneath that trauma. Awakening to the reality of these roles, and healing from them, brings unique challenges for each. I believe the solution to the illusion of the trauma roles lies in seeking the mix of healing modalities that work to rep...
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September 8, 2023 39 mins
I have tried many healing modalities, and therapy is one that has made a massive difference in my life. As Trevor Hall sings in his song, “You Can’t Rush Your Healing,” healing takes time. There’s no silver bullet for trauma recovery. It’s hard to know how the healing modalities I’ve tried interacted with each other along the way in the complex experiment that is my life. I am reporting on them individually, offering my take on how...
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September 4, 2023 46 mins
Throughout my life, I have found myself easily obsessed with new ideas, music, work, self-absorbed people, and more. One thing that’s important to mention about why I have so much energy to obsess about something or someone comes from, I believe, a total lack of interest in me. I didn’t want to feed me, clothe me or take care of me in any way. By adulthood, I did those things at a minimum level, to pass as normal, masking and joini...
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