The Wholeness Network Podcast

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From science to the intuitive and from A to Zen, dive deep into interesting guests, mind-blowing information, and helpful advice on everything to support you mentally, emotionally physically, and spiritually. Topics have included: growing through grief; women’s empowerment; learning about the enneagram; sound healing; manifesting; awakening your psychic ability; and so much more! Join Mechelle Wingle to explore all the ways to live life whole

  1. 15h ago

    236. Surviving Cancer Twice: I Couldn't Ring the Bell with Lori Sill

    Lori Sill has been through cancer twice. When she reached her last treatment the second time, she couldn't ring the bell — she'd rung it once already, and it hadn't meant what everyone said it would mean.   In this episode, Mechelle finally brings her best friend of more than a decade to the mic. Lori talks openly about what she's living right now: the recovery nobody prepares you for, the years it took last time to get her strength back, the mental gymnastics of every new ache, and why going through it a second time was harder because she already knew what was coming. She also shares what changed in round two, from how she handled the medications to the boundaries she's holding now around her work and her energy.   Their friendship runs underneath all of it. They go back to the hike neither of them wanted to be on, the gas station drinks that became a lifeline, and the time on the couch when a quiz from a book pulled the blinders off Lori's marriage. Lori is also the reason this show exists — she went first into the oils, into Reiki, into the shamanic work, and left the door open behind her every time. Then they pull four Glow & Tell cards — Mind, Spirit, Body, and Soul. Lori answers what thought pattern she had to unlearn, how she explains the unseen to someone who only trusts proof, what her body does when it feels truly safe, and the difference between forgiveness and simply moving on. If you're in the after — the part where everyone thinks you're fine — this one's for you. Watch the video version in the wholeness library. Explore The Wholeness Library App FREE! Apple:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wholeness-library/id1545002697 ⁠Android:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thewholenessnetwork.thewholenessnetwork On the web https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/⁠ Follow us⁠ https://www.instagram.com/thewholenessnetwork/⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/thewholenessnetwork⁠ Leave us a message! tel:646-883-3350 Information is intended for entertainment only

    236. Surviving Cancer Twice: I Couldn't Ring the Bell with Lori Sill

  2. Sep 10

    235. Reiki Runes and Human Design with Cat Wagner

    Cat Wagner kept seeing the phoenix — in meditation, in birds, in everything — until one day she became it. That was the moment she finally named her business and stopped waiting for permission.   In this Wholeness Guide conversation, Cat and Mechelle get into what it actually looks like to hold multiple healing modalities at once: Reiki Master training, shamanic technique, angelic healing, tarot and oracle, runes, the I Ching, and human design. Cat teaches full time, reads for clients online, and weaves these tools together based on what a person actually needs in the moment.   We go into the question Mechelle has been sitting with: if human design says your energetic blueprint is fixed, and Reiki says energy is fluid and can shift — how do both stay true? Cat's answer is one of the clearest we've heard. She also walks us through what runes and the I Ching are and how to work with them, why she never picks the deck for you, and the most common mistake people make when they start reading for themselves — asking a question they've already decided the answer to. (Mechelle owns having done exactly that. Cat pulled the Tower. Twice.)   If you've ever wanted a reading but worried you'd be handing over your own authority, this one is for you.   In this episode: — Why the phoenix arrived before the business did, and what had to burn first — Holding a fixed blueprint and fluid energy at the same time — Runes and the I Ching, explained plainly — Why the Tower card isn't the bad news you think it is — Where to start if you want to read for yourself Connect with Cat Rising Phoenix Website: https://risingphoenixehs.com/ Instagram: @risingphoenix.ehs Email: risingphoenix.ehs@gmail.com Watch the video version in the wholeness library. Explore The Wholeness Library App FREE! Apple:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wholeness-library/id1545002697 ⁠Android:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thewholenessnetwork.thewholenessnetwork On the web https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/⁠ Follow us⁠ https://www.instagram.com/thewholenessnetwork/⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/thewholenessnetwork⁠ Leave us a message! tel:646-883-3350 Information is intended for entertainment only

    235. Reiki Runes and Human Design with Cat Wagner

  3. Sep 3

    234. If You Can't Answer "What Do You Want"

    We're taught that needs are legitimate and wants are indulgent. This episode takes that apart. Mechelle teaches the root chakra as the home of our needs — the foundation of physical thriving — and the throat chakra as the home of our wants — the foundation of spiritual thriving, and explores why the two are a circuit rather than a ladder. Plus: the difference between ask culture and guess culture, why hinting is a root-chakra strategy doing a throat-chakra job, and the request hiding underneath every hint. You'll learn how to tell a need from a want in your own body, and why resentment is almost always an unspoken want. Closes with a guided practice: Ground and Ask.   Keywords: root chakra, throat chakra, needs vs wants, ask culture guess culture, energy healing, nervous system regulation, self-expression, communication styles, spiritual thriving, guided practice, somatic practice, desire Watch the video version in the wholeness library. Explore The Wholeness Library App FREE! Apple:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wholeness-library/id1545002697 ⁠Android:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thewholenessnetwork.thewholenessnetwork On the web https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/⁠ Follow us⁠ https://www.instagram.com/thewholenessnetwork/⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/thewholenessnetwork⁠ Leave us a message! tel:646-883-3350 Information is intended for entertainment only

  4. Aug 27

    233. An Uncontrolled Experiment: Mark Michaels on Secrecy Psychedelics and Rewriting Your Story

    Content note: This episode includes discussion of suicidal ideation, violent crime, and psychedelic-assisted therapy. Please take care of yourself while listening. Nothing here is medical advice. Mark Michaels was conceived by donor insemination in 1958 and didn't find out until he was past thirty. He calls himself an uncontrolled experiment — half joking, but only half. The medical advice at the time was to keep it secret, mix the sperm to muddy the paternity, count a live birth as success, and assume everyone would forget. Mechelle sits down with him for a conversation. They talk about what happens when the story you were never told still lives in your body. About the ten-week intensive — ketamine with EMDR, MDMA sessions, treatment goals he set and then blew past — that did more for him than decades of previous therapy. About the therapist who ended things the moment he wanted to try something new, and the one before that who fell asleep during sessions and denied it. Mark discovered his fundamental attachment style is secure. Strongly so. He had spent years assuming he was anxiously attached, reading his whole life through the lens of trauma. What he's doing now is rewriting that narrative — not to deny what happened, but to see how good it actually was underneath it. That leads somewhere provocative. Mark argues there are narrative channels we get funneled into and advocates taking control of your own story, whatever that story turns out to be.  Connect with Mark: ⁠https://markamichaels.com/ Watch the video version in the wholeness library. Explore The Wholeness Library App FREE! Apple:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wholeness-library/id1545002697 ⁠Android:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thewholenessnetwork.thewholenessnetwork On the web https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/⁠ Follow us⁠ https://www.instagram.com/thewholenessnetwork/⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/thewholenessnetwork⁠ Leave us a message! tel:646-883-3350 Information is intended for entertainment only

    233. An Uncontrolled Experiment: Mark Michaels on Secrecy Psychedelics and Rewriting Your Story

  5. Aug 20

    232. Mentally STRONG: When Knowing Everything Isn't Enough with Dr. Cristi Bundukamara

    Watch the video version in the wholeness library.What do you do when you have all the training, all the credentials, all the right answers — and none of it holds when your own life falls apart?Dr. Cristi Bundukamara — "Dr. B" — is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner, retired Navy veteran, and mother of seven who has buried three of her children.When her son Johnny drowned, when Reggie's DRPLA took him, when Miah died in her sleep with no warning, the coping skills she'd taught for decades weren't enough. What finally cracked something open was her mother's suggestion on a night she'd broken down crying: try journaling.Out of that irritated, exhausted, one-page attempt came the Thought Map — and eventually the Mentally STRONG Method, now used with thousands of people.In this conversation, Dr. B walks Mechelle through a live Thought Map on the air, using a real thought Mechelle is carrying about stepping into The Wholeness Network solo. It's a rare thing to watch a method get demonstrated rather than described. We explore: Why academic knowledge and protective factors weren't enough — and what was missing The Thought Map: "twenty years of journaling in twenty minutes" How to separate grief from trauma, and why you should never try to release the grief "Controlled grief" — feeling the pain on purpose, at your pace Why she'd decline EMDR on her children's deaths Doing energy work for her son and realizing she was the one receiving the benefit Where the culture's "just stay strong" message breaks people Mentally STRONG:⁠ https://mentallystrong.com⁠ Dr. B's site:⁠ https://cristibundukamara.mentallystrong.com⁠ Documentary — Strength in Vulnerability:⁠ https://mentallystrong.com/strength-in-vulnerability/⁠ YouTube — Mentally STRONG by Dr. B:⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@CristiBundukamara⁠ LinkedIn:⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristibundukamara/⁠ Book — Pain & Purpose: My Journey to Mental Strength More on the Method:⁠ https://www.mentallystrong.com/choice-mapping/⁠ Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins DRPLA (dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy), the rare neurodegenerative condition in Dr. B's family Links & ResourcesExclusive for TWN listeners — Dr. B created a free Thought Map guide just for this audience, plus a link to book a discovery call to walk through your map: →⁠ wholeness.mentallystrong.com⁠ Explore The Wholeness Library App FREE! Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wholeness-library/id1545002697 ⁠ Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thewholenessnetwork.thewholenessnetwork On the web https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/⁠ Follow us ⁠https://www.instagram.com/thewholenessnetwork/⁠ ⁠https://www.facebook.com/thewholenessnetwork⁠ Leave us a message! tel:646-883-3350 Information is intended for entertainment only Watch the video version in the wholeness library. Explore The Wholeness Library App FREE! Apple:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wholeness-library/id1545002697 ⁠Android:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thewholenessnetwork.thewholenessnetwork On the web https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/⁠ Follow us⁠ https://www.instagram.com/thewholenessnetwork/⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/thewholenessnetwork⁠ Leave us a message! tel:646-883-3350 Information is intended for entertainment only

    232. Mentally STRONG: When Knowing Everything Isn't Enough with Dr. Cristi Bundukamara

  6. Aug 13

    231. I See You, I Believe You: Heart Centered Therapy

    What if the emotion you've been carrying had a shape — a color, a sound, a face? In this episode of The Practices, trained Heart Centered Therapy practitioner Mechelle Wingle guides listeners through a complete Heart Centered Therapy session in real time. Beginning with the arrival of a personal guide and moving through the full somatic protocol — from locating the emotion in the body, to giving it a shape, to looking into its eyes and saying I see you, I believe you — this episode goes places most podcasts never go. Find a quiet space, have a journal nearby, and allow yourself to be witnessed. Something in you has been waiting for this. Watch the video version in the wholeness library. Explore The Wholeness Library App FREE! Apple:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wholeness-library/id1545002697 ⁠Android:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thewholenessnetwork.thewholenessnetwork On the web https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/⁠ Follow us⁠ https://www.instagram.com/thewholenessnetwork/⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/thewholenessnetwork⁠ Leave us a message! tel:646-883-3350 Information is intended for entertainment only

  7. Aug 6

    230. Conscious Healing: How Crisis Can Opens Us to Deeper Healing with Alaya Chikly

    When chronic pain forces us to face what we've been resisting, something shifts. In this conversation, Alaya Chikly shares her three-year journey with hip necrosis—from spiritual resistance to medical intervention to profound cellular and generational healing work. We explore how the body holds the imprint of our choices and our ancestors' choices, how surgical scars carry the energy of the hands that held them, and what it means to trust both medicine and intuition. A masterclass in surrender, embodied consciousness, and the integration of healing modalities. Connect with Alaya https://chiklyinstitute.com/ Watch the video version in the wholeness library. Explore The Wholeness Library App FREE! Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wholeness-library/id1545002697 ⁠ Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thewholenessnetwork.thewholenessnetwork On the web https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/⁠ Follow us ⁠https://www.instagram.com/thewholenessnetwork/⁠ ⁠https://www.facebook.com/thewholenessnetwork⁠ Leave us a message! tel:646-883-3350 Information is intended for entertainment only  KEYWORDS: hip pain healing, cellular trauma, generational healing, surgical recovery, mind-body-spirit healing, acceptance and surrender, conscious medicine, somatic therapy, scar tissue healing, energy work, trauma resolution, chronic pain recovery, intuitive healing, heart-centered therapy, feminine embodiment, fluid body, water body meditation, medical intuition, spiritual acceptance, holistic medicine, healing resistance Watch the video version in the wholeness library. Explore The Wholeness Library App FREE! Apple:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wholeness-library/id1545002697 ⁠Android:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thewholenessnetwork.thewholenessnetwork On the web https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/⁠ Follow us⁠ https://www.instagram.com/thewholenessnetwork/⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/thewholenessnetwork⁠ Leave us a message! tel:646-883-3350 Information is intended for entertainment only

    230. Conscious Healing: How Crisis Can Opens Us to Deeper Healing with Alaya Chikly

  8. Jul 30

    229. If I Could Ask Anything: Dr. Gabor Maté — The Body Was Never Lying

    What does it mean when your body keeps saying no? In this Summer Shorts episode, Mechelle sits with four questions she wishes she could ask Dr. Gabor Maté — one of the most important voices in trauma and mind-body medicine alive today. From the trauma that lives in people who "don't feel anything," to the childhood wound of choosing attachment over authenticity, to what it takes to look at yourself honestly — this episode draws on Maté's landmark work in When the Body Says No and The Myth of Normal to offer some of the most important concepts in healing. Thoughtful, personal, and genuinely life-changing. Books to Reference / Link in Show Notes: When the Body Says No — Gabor Maté The Myth of Normal — Gabor Maté In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts — Gabor Maté Scattered Minds — Gabor Maté Content Note: This episode touches on childhood trauma, emotional suppression, and chronic illness. It does not go into graphic detail but does ask listeners to reflect on their own histories. Delivered with warmth — no trigger warning needed, but be gentle in your pacing. Explore The Wholeness Library App FREE! Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wholeness-library/id1545002697 ⁠ Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thewholenessnetwork.thewholenessnetwork On the web https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/⁠ Follow us ⁠https://www.instagram.com/thewholenessnetwork/⁠ ⁠https://www.facebook.com/thewholenessnetwork⁠ Leave us a message! tel:646-883-3350 Information is intended for entertainment only SEO Keywords: Gabor Maté podcast, when the body says no, trauma and the body, somatic healing, emotional suppression illness, authenticity vs attachment, childhood trauma, wholeness network summer shorts Watch the video version in the wholeness library. Explore The Wholeness Library App FREE! Apple:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wholeness-library/id1545002697 ⁠Android:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thewholenessnetwork.thewholenessnetwork On the web https://www.thewholenessnetwork.com/⁠ Follow us⁠ https://www.instagram.com/thewholenessnetwork/⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/thewholenessnetwork⁠ Leave us a message! tel:646-883-3350 Information is intended for entertainment only

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From science to the intuitive and from A to Zen, dive deep into interesting guests, mind-blowing information, and helpful advice on everything to support you mentally, emotionally physically, and spiritually. Topics have included: growing through grief; women’s empowerment; learning about the enneagram; sound healing; manifesting; awakening your psychic ability; and so much more! Join Mechelle Wingle to explore all the ways to live life whole

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