Spaces Between

Gina Minardi
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Hi, I'm Gina Minardi, a licensed therapist. From rehabs in Malibu, to homeless shelters in East LA, and now in my private practice, I've witnessed the spectrum of human beings struggle through their stories, trauma, and healing. I've also observed my own — and it has been both painful and beautiful. Growth, self-actualization, and a spiritual practice are not for the faint of heart. There's no one "right" way to heal and you truly are your best resource. Therapists, healers, shamans, and intuitives are meant to support you on your path — but they don't have all of the answers. You do. "Spaces Between" is a podcast about the spaces between laughter, tears, thoughts, stories, breath, ego, soul, and growth. It's about personal liberation, inner knowing, and the tools that will get you there. I will cover topics that make many of us uncomfortable – and interviewing people who are willing to go there.

  1. 2D AGO

    Episode 51: 2025: When The Universe Lovingly B*tch Slaps You Back Into the Wholeness of Your Being

    2025 was a challenging year for me. Balancing motherhood, my career, taking care of myself, and my relationship felt like A LOT.    While also watching and feeling into the suffering and pain of all that is unraveling in the world…felt debilitating at times.    I decided to close out the year with a plant medicine journey, with a very specific intention to take ownership of my shadow, and things that felt out of alignment in my life.    The Universe (AKA Spirit) served me up quite a challenging ceremony, that I was unbelievably grateful for.

    21 min

  2. DEC 18

    Episode 50: The Wound Is Where The Light Enters

    Fenix is Gina's ceremonial guide with plant medicine, an artist, energy healer, and dear friend.  They discuss Fenix's personal healing journey including her battle with breast cancer, the search for her birth family, and her deep work with plant medicine, particularly Ayahuasca.  Fenix shares her experiences of moving from victimhood to a state of awe and curiosity, emphasizing the importance of feeling, intuition, and being present. They explore the themes of perfectionism, self-love, compassion, and forgiveness.  Rebirth through lived experience, not theory or surface-level healing. Remembering one's true nature after profound loss, rupture, or abandonment. Healing is non-linear and often initiated through crisis rather than choice. Listening to the body as an intelligence, not something to override or fix. Grief is a teacher and initiator, not something to "get over." Spiritual bypassing and performative wellness culture. Healing requires slowing down, presence, and deep honesty. Healing happens in relationship — with self, with others, our ancestors, and with the Earth. The importance of creating safe containers for transformation. Healing emerges from integration, not perfection. The feminine as embodied wisdom, not gender. Trauma is acknowledged as stored in the nervous system, not just memory. True restoration involves grief, anger, love, and joy — all welcomed. This conversation is less about becoming "better" and more about coming   home to yourself.

    59 min

  3. NOV 13

    Episode 49: Ayahuasca – Holding Hands With My Ancestors

    The Deepest healing of the Mother Line I've ever experienced. I reconnected with my mother, who passed away when I was 17 yrs old. Connecting to my ancestral line and all of the women who felt disrespected, under supported, and under-resourced as mothers and women. Feeling in my body the great disrespect to the Earth.  We are not separate from the earth. We deeply need to come back to our hearts and souls. What one does to another is not separate, we ALL feel it, and she feels it (The Great Mother).  The Climate crisis is also collective trauma, violence, and divisiveness. Looking at thought patterns and the relationship with my mind. The Divine Timing of Things. The ineffable experience of working with this medicine. Bliss and loving dance with the divine. All of the information that came through – this life, past lives, and future. I felt home – it was a deep REMEMBRANCE OF COMING HOME. All of the love I felt and received. Receiving and experiencing love at such a depth and allowing it in.  Feeling deeply into self-love. We are all so loved by the divine and we are all inherently worthy beings.   Breathing, Trusting, and Surrendering to life and the overwhelming moments in ceremony. Merging with the matrix of the universe, no time and no space, I died, the Eternal Space Between (no birth and no death).  The terror and beauty in that. Wild to experience while being alive in a body. Grandmother Ayahuasca spoke to me in moments of overwhelm.  "Come back to your breath. Come back to your heart." The power of remembering who you REALLY ARE. It is a miracle to be alive. To be human is to learn and relearn the lesson of letting go, forgiveness, and love. We co-create with the universe. Don't forget the power of your breath.

    30 min

  4. OCT 23

    Episode 48: Healing the Mother Line with Rebecca Campbell

    Bestselling author and spiritual teacher Rebecca Campbell and I sit down to explore the themes of her latest book, Your Soul Had a Dream – Your Life is It. Together, we dive into the sacred journey of healing the mother line, the experience of awakening, and the profound initiations of motherhood. We reflect on how grief, rage, and joy are all part of life's initiatory process, and how avoiding pain also numbs us to life's ecstasy. Rebecca shares how we are collectively being called by the Great Mother Earth to wake up, heal ancestral trauma, and attune our nervous systems to the rhythm of the Earth. Amid what she calls "rebirthing times," we discuss how embracing the sacred in everything — even in the descent — can guide us through personal and collective transformation. This is a conversation about deep feeling, sacred reconnection, and navigating the birth of a new humanity.

    49 min

  5. FEB 27

    Episode 47: Listening to Life: My Guided Psilocybin Journey

    Psychedelic experiences are notoriously hard to render in words; to try is necessarily to do violence to what has been seen and felt, which is in some fundamental way pre- or post-linguistic or, as students of mysticism say, ineffable. Emotions arrive in all their newborn nakedness, unprotected from the harsh light of scrutiny and, especially, the pitiless glare of irony. Platitudes that wouldn't seem out of place on a Hallmark card flow with the force of revealed truth.   -Michael Pollan   Themes in this personal episode: The importance of set, setting, and safe facilitators. Individual and Collective healing in a group setting. Noticing my analytical mind before and during ceremony. Healing the feminine wound - the resonant emotional waves we would go through. Boundaries of not caretaking other women (for all of us). Up front and personal with my shadow material. Whoa! The presence of a Benevolent spirit (AKA God, the Universe, Spirit). Feeling my emotions on the deepest level. The power and impact of sound (moaning, grunting, humming, and releasing). We were held in the feminine (The divine mother, the facilitators, nature). Mirrors (Everyone is a mirror). We are here to grow, learn, and open our hearts. The beauty of being alive is magical and mysterious. ginaminardi.com ginaminardi.substack.com

    30 min

  6. FEB 13

    Episode 46: Jenna K: Healing Trauma Held in the Body and a Journey of Softening into the Heart

    In this conversation, I sit down with my friend Jenna K., to discuss her ceremonies with MDMA and psilocybin.   We discussed her "Why?" and this space of pain and trauma living in her body - that she couldn't quite access for over a decade with other modalities. It led Jenna to want to explore on a deeper level with plant medicine, to heal what was held in her body for so many years.    Themes within the discussion: Feeling the "call" to sit with the plant medicine.  The deep surrender to letting go of control. Feeling safe enough in the life that she had created, to feel like she would be held through these experiences. How her life made sense to her after the initial MDMA journey. Her body purging out the trauma during the ceremony. The shame and feeling of brokenness when the childhood trauma was revealed. That her childhood abuse was not her fault. Stepping into her Knowing - that her body and these memories were the truth. The deep healing, illuminations, and heart opening within herself. The continual and necessary work between ceremonies. How to resource oneself after uncovering traumatic material. How anger and rage have protected her. The need for continual softening. That plant medicine is not a "cure all" but dives deeply into traumatic material that needs to be seen and held. The connection to spirit in these experiences.  @jennakristina ginaminardi.com ginaminardi.substack.com

    1h 12m

  7. JAN 29

    Episode 45: My guided MDMA session - Seeing with the heart

    After being a therapist for over a decade and being committed to my personal therapy for years... I decided it was time for me to heal on a deeper level.  Every bit of my intuitive being knew that  I needed to heal trauma and imprints from life on a cellular level. To show up as a better partner and mother, but most importantly... healing the relationship with myself.  What I learned is that talking through our problems only goes so far and we must tap into the body to truly heal trauma. Themes in this episode: Trusting myself and trusting life A complete surrender to the unknown We know the way back home to ourselves Individual and Collective projected pain - the pain body We all have things to heal (Look at the state of our world) We are all temperature dials in a room (What energy are you bringing?) How do we come back to the heart and heal from the heart...not the mind Old spaces of trauma held in my body The release through movement and sound Release control and allow The non-negotiable of set and setting and safe facilitators

    32 min

  8. 01/25/2024

    Episode 44: Existential Kink

    I've been thinking a lot about individual and collective shadow. How do we keep our hearts open during dark times? We all must become closely acquainted with our shadow or dark side.  Each of us has a dual nature: we are light (conscious) and dark (unconscious). The dark side of our personality—the "other," the shadow side—is made up of what we think is our primitive, primal, negative impulses—our "existential kink." Our existential kink also drives the dark or negative repeating patterns in our life: always choosing the abusive partner or boss, settling for less, thinking that we're undeserving, not worthy. But it also is the source of our greatest power. I do a deep dive into Carolyn Elliot's book, Existential Kink, which offers a truth-telling guide for bringing our shadow into the light. Inviting us to make conscious the unconscious, Elliott asks us to own the subconscious pleasure we get from the stuck, painful patterns of our existence.

    27 min
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Hi, I'm Gina Minardi, a licensed therapist. From rehabs in Malibu, to homeless shelters in East LA, and now in my private practice, I've witnessed the spectrum of human beings struggle through their stories, trauma, and healing. I've also observed my own — and it has been both painful and beautiful. Growth, self-actualization, and a spiritual practice are not for the faint of heart. There's no one "right" way to heal and you truly are your best resource. Therapists, healers, shamans, and intuitives are meant to support you on your path — but they don't have all of the answers. You do. "Spaces Between" is a podcast about the spaces between laughter, tears, thoughts, stories, breath, ego, soul, and growth. It's about personal liberation, inner knowing, and the tools that will get you there. I will cover topics that make many of us uncomfortable – and interviewing people who are willing to go there.

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  • Creator
    Gina Minardi
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    52
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    Spaces Between

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