Discover + Heal + Growđź”❤️🩹🌱 : A Taproot Therapy Collective Podcast
We felt the world had enough whispery mental wellness podcasts asking you to eat healthy and breathe deeply. We aim to be more honest and sometimes irreverent and funny about the forces that affect us all. Some episodes feel like hanging out with professional therapists at the bar after work, while others might feel like you’re listening in on a university class with professional thought leaders. We discuss creativity, intuition, trauma, and the overlap between the three in the spectrum of consciousness and the psyche. Approaching topics from a depth psychology and brain-based medicine perspective, we explore the archetypes inherent in arts, design, and mass media. We delve into neuroscience, cutting-edge trauma neurobiology, Jungian psychology, relationships, political psychology, and feature interviews with both amateurs and experts. Discover + Heal + Grow is the podcast of Taproot Therapy Collective, a complex PTSD and trauma-focused therapy practice in Birmingham, Alabama. Hosted by Joel Blackstock and the other therapists at Taproot, it focuses on consciousness and all the cool and messy parts of being human. Subscribe for new episodes where we unpack topics like: The neurobiology behind new age and eastern medicine concepts Psychology of artists and design Cutting-edge trauma therapy approaches Brain-based medicine Archetypes in culture and media Psychology of true crime Therapy representation in entertainment Burnout in helping professions And much more! Whether you’re a fellow trauma therapist or just a fellow seeker, we offer authentic conversations that challenge conventional thinking and explore the depths of consciousness and healing. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, Taproot Therapy Collective is the premier provider of therapy for severe and complex trauma, PTSD, anxiety, and depression. We provide EMDR, Brainspotting, ETT, somatic and Jungian therapy, as well as QEEG brain mapping and neurostimulation. Website: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/ #TraumaHealing #DepthPsychology #ConsciousnessExploration #MentalHealthPodcast #TherapyCollective #PTSD #EMDR #Neuroscience #JungianPsychology #BirminghamTherapy The resources, videos, and podcasts on our site and social media are no substitute for mental health treatment. Please find a qualified mental health provider and contact emergency services in your area in the event of an emergency. Our number and email at Taproot Therapy Collective are only for scheduling, are not monitored consistently, and are not a reliable resource for emergency services.
Episodes
"We built institutions that were supposed to reflect reality. But the windows became mirrors."
In the second century, the Gnostics believed our world was a false reality created by a confused lesser god known as the Demiurge. Today, we are trapped in a modern equivalent: a labyrinth of metrics, models, and algorithms that dictate our lives while entirely missing our humanity.
In Part 7 of The Mirror World, we dissect the collapse o...
Are we navigating reality, or just a highly optimized map of the past? In this episode, we dive into the architecture of our modern ghost story. We explore how the digital systems built to reflect our world have instead consumed it, replacing human experience with statistical prediction, algorithmic herding, and mechanical objectivity.
Drawing on a wide synthesis of philosophy, media theory, and history, we deconstruct how the "map...
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In this episode, I’m joined by Tania Kalkidis for a deep, evidence-based conversation on the growing gap between research, academic psychology, and real-world clinical practice — with a sharp focus on the DSM and its role in modern mental health care.
Together, we unpack the challenges of evidence-based practice in psy...
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Why does modern mental health care often feel like a bureaucratic ritual rather than a healing encounter? In Part 5 of The Absence of Idols, we explore how psychiatry emptied the temple of meaning and replaced it with a checklist.
We begin with the ancient dream of Addudûri and the terror of an empty temple, using it as a map to understand our current crisis. Drawing on the work of histori...
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Why is the most therapy-literate generation in history also the most depress...
Can Therapists Start a Union? The Antitrust Trap, the Shadow Committee, and the Economic Strangulation of American Psychotherapy
Analyzing America’s Healthcare Regulations and Their Effect on Us: Why the Law Prevents Therapists from Organizing While Allowing a Private Committee to Fix Prices for the Entire Medical System
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The Monthly Rage ThreadI...
https://gettherapybirmingham.com/what-is-a-diagnosis-anyway-is-the-dsm-dying-part-2/
The Archaeology of a Label: What We Forgot About Diagnosis and Why It Matters Now
The book that decides if ...
Is the DSM Dead? The "Bible" of Psychiatry, The Thud Experiment, and The Crisis of Diagnosis
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It dictates every diagnosis you receive, every medication you’re prescribed, and every insurance dollar spent on your mental health. But what if the "Bible of Psychiatry" isn’t actually scientific?
Pull back the curtain on the Diagnostic and Statist...
Joseph Campbell is arguably one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century. If you have watched a Marvel movie or read a modern fantasy novel or sat in a screenwriter’s workshop you have encountered his fingerprints. Georg...
Join Joel Blackstock for an extraordinary conversation with Dr. Steven Vazquez, the inventor of Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT), as he reveals the 25-year scientific journey that led to one of the most innovative breakthroughs in trauma treatment. From skeptical experimentation to treating cancer with eye movements, discover how specific wavelengths of light directly impact the brain'...
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Join Joel Blackstock as he sits down with MJ Denis, LPC, LMFT, and certified ETT trainer from Austin, Texas, for an eye-opening conversation about Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT) - a groundbreaking approach that integrates light, color, and neuroscience to transform emotional healing.
In this eye-opening episode of the Discover Heal Grow podcast, host Joel Blackstock sits down with healthcare policy expert Timothy Faust to demystify America's complex healthcare system. They explore how Medicaid expansion actually saves states money, why cutting healthcare funding costs more in the long run, and the real economics behind healthcare policy.
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Is your therapist accidentally making your dissociation worse? Why does ketamine - a dissociative drug - keep getting prescribed for dissociative disorders? And what if everything we think we know about treating trauma is backwards?
The ancient wisdom that keeps coming back because it's true
Athens, 399 BCE. Socrates holds the cup of hemlock, about to die for something that can't be proven - only known. The daimonion. The inner voice. The shamanic function that guides from beyond rational thought.
2,400 years later, we call it the unconsci...
How therapy became a computer program and lost its soul
1973: A researcher walks into a psychiatric hospital claiming to hear voices saying "empty, hollow, thud." He's immediately diagnosed with schizophrenia and held for weeks. The twist? He's perfectly sane. It's all an experiment to prove psychiatric diagnosis is fiction.
From genius discovery to UFO battles: The man who found trauma in the body
Wilhelm Reich made one of psychology's greatest discoveries: The body remembers what the mind forgets. Trauma doesn't just live in thoughts and memories - it's held in muscle tension, breathing patterns, and physical armor that protects us from unbearable feelings.
The mystic who mapped the soul while America decided it was too scary
https://gettherapybirmingham.com/the-weird-history-of-psychotherapy-part-2-jungs-and-the-bottom-of-consciousness/
While Freud was projecting his trauma onto patients, Carl Jung made a radical discovery: There's a layer of mind beneath the per...
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