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Hosted by Dirk Winter · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 28 episodes
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A podcast about healing trauma and finding meaning. Have you ever wondered what your therapist has figured out about life's big questions? Join psychiatrist Dr. Dirk Winter as he speaks with colleagues, therapists, and other healers about what they have learned from their clinical work about how to heal trauma and build more meaning and purpose into our lives. Developing Meaning is NOT CLINICAL ADVICE and is NOT AFFILIATED WITH ANY INSTITUTIONS. It is intended to play with ideas that are emerging, fringe, and outside of the mainstream in order to discover the meaning of life. Produced by Dirk Winter and Violet Chernoff
Dirk Winter hosts Developing Meaning, a health show with 28 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail This episode is a companion audio diary to my interview with Ted Riskin, recorded while participating in one of his five-day Internal Family Systems (IFS) ketamine-assisted group retreats in Asheville, N
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I sit down with Ted Riskin — social worker, IFS expert, and pioneer of group ketamine retreats — after spending a week at his beautiful home in Asheville, North Carolina participating in
Send us Fan Mail Note: This conversation with Dr. Patricia Gerbarg was recorded in August 2025. In this episode, we explore how breathing patterns reshape the emotional brain, restore a sense of safety, and allow meaning
Send us Fan Mail In this New Year’s episode, I explore the very real consequences of last year’s Past Year Review. Most notably, I decided to retire from a beloved community mental health clinic and launch Park West Inte
Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year! It's time to do a meaning inventory in order to set intentions for 2026. Toward that end I am re-posting my meaning inventory from last year. Our next episode will delve into how these un
Send us Fan Mail Mike Mandel is a world-leading hypnotist with over 50 years of professional experience. He's performed nearly 5,000 stage shows, trained over 10,000 students at his Toronto hypnosis academy, and co-hosts
Send us Fan Mail Joanne Twombly, LCSW and author of Trauma Informed Internal Family Systems , has been treating complex trauma and dissociative disorders for over 30 years. In this conversation, she explores how right-br
Send us Fan Mail What happens when you combine military experience, personal recovery, cutting-edge trauma therapies, and the healing power of nature? Beau Laviolette's remarkable journey answers this question through a
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I take you inside my experience of learning Internal Family Systems therapy while simultaneously navigating prostate cancer surgery and recovery during the fall and winter of 2023-24. Th
Send us Fan Mail Margaret Conley, LCSW, Minister, and IFS Assistant Trainer, joins me to explore how trauma is passed down through families, culture, and society —and how we can heal. Drawing from her own powerful story,
Send us Fan Mail Can you imagine learning at 35 that you were adopted? In this episode Ridghaus, my friend and Level I IFS Program Assistant, shares how this discovery transformed his sense of identity and led him to adv
Send us Fan Mail This episode invites listeners to engage in a meaningful past year review, turning away from traditional resolutions toward a more insightful approach to personal growth. By exploring the themes of begin
Send us Fan Mail The Internal Family Systems (IFS) Level I training is an experiential group learning process that teaches us how to identify and heal traumatized parts of ourselves and others. In October 2023 I began th
Send us Fan Mail Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS) is a type of therapy that views the normal human mind as an internal family of inner conscious beings. In this episode we unpack the key IFS concepts of 'Exiles,' 'F
Send us Fan Mail Dr. Bliss Lewis is a child and adult psychiatrist, expert in integrative and alternative treatments, and creator of Mind Body 7, one of the most innovative and successful group psychotherapy practices in
Send us Fan Mail Please enjoy this guided six minute coherent breathing exercise led by Dr. RIchard Brown, co-creator of Breath Body Mind. This is a spontaneous demonstration taken out of our longer Episode 12 Interview
Send us Fan Mail For thousands of years breathing has been used to heal trauma, optimize health, and build connection. Dr. Richard Brown has spent his life mastering these techniques, and is also an expert in integrative
Send us Fan Mail Deb Dana is a master healer, teacher, author, and the creator of a unique polyvagal-informed approach to therapy that is based on The Polyvagal Theory of Dr. Stephen Porges. In this episode you will lear
Send us Fan Mail Dr. April Minjarez is the only therapist I know who is both experienced at healing infant trauma and an end of life doula. She is also an expert in multiple trauma healing modalities including Eye Moveme
Send us Fan Mail When Richard Brockman was seven years old his mother died by suicide. He went on to become an expert in trauma and suicide, and is now a Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia, Psychoanalyst, Playwright, Au
Mike Mandel
Master Hypnotist
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Dr. Richard Brown
Business Transformation Director · Breath Body Mind
2 appearances on this show
Deb Dana
clinician, consultant, author, speaker · Polyvagal Institute
1 appearance on this show
Justin Townsend
CEO · MycoMeditations
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