Podcast by Elizabeth Mann
14 December 2025
In this episode of The Alchemical Path, Elizabeth Mann interviews Liz Hides, a holistic grief and loss specialist. With a career spanning over three decades, Liz shares her personal journey through multiple family losses and how they inspired her calling in grief work. Her unique approach integrates energy healing, spiritual practices, and traditional therapy methods, particularly focusing on traumatic and sudden deaths. This conversation illuminates the resilience that can follow grief, as Liz emphasizes the transformative power of showing up fully to the process.
Liz Hides (she/her) is a Registered Social Worker, Wholistic Grief and Loss Specialist, Certified Thanatologist, Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Usui Shiki Ryoho Master/Teacher. She supports adults experiencing grief, with expertise in sudden death, traumatic loss, and complex emotional transitions.
Her holistic approach integrates:
✨ Mind-body-spirit-environment connection
✨ Energy clearing and intuitive grief work
✨ Meditation & mindfulness
✨ Clinical hypnotherapy
✨ Reiki and energetic attunement
Liz’s work helps clients cultivate resilience, shift the energy around their stories of loss, and re-establish a sense of wholeness after life-changing transitions.
She offers classes, workshops, sessions, and a seasonal newsletter at:
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07 December 2025
In this rich and grounding conversation, Liz sits down with Amber Bowers, Holistic Mental Health Counselor, Wellness Coach, and Certified NET Practitioner. Amber’s work centers around helping clients heal not just emotionally or mentally, but systemically — addressing the subconscious, the body, the energy field, and the emotional roots of physical symptoms.
With years of experience treating trauma and eating disorders, Amber brings a deeply integrative lens to healing. Through modalities like Neuro Emotional Technique, CRA, CEW, homeopathy, and holistic wellness practices, Amber empowers clients to uncover unconscious factors that influence their health and to release patterns shaped by unresolved stress and trauma.
Together they explore:
💫 How trauma and stress lodge in the body — and how techniques like NET help release them
💫 Why subconscious healing is essential for long-term behavior and belief change
💫 What it means to connect the whole picture beyond symptoms
💫 Amber’s powerful personal journey through misdiagnosis, chronic fatigue, and finding answers outside traditional medicine
💫 How holistic modalities like AK, TCM, QN, and energy medicine shaped her path
💫 The importance of treating the mind, body, emotions, and spirit as one integrated system
Amber also shares how her own healing led to the creation of Bowers Counseling and Wellness, and why she now helps clients reclaim trust in their own bodies and healing paths.
This episode is an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and discover what your body has been trying to tell you — and how whole-person healing can become the catalyst for profound transformation.
🌿 About Amber Bowers
Amber Bowers (she/her) is a Holistic Mental Health Counselor, Wellness Coach, and Certified Neuro Emotional Technique Practitioner serving clients worldwide. She specializes in whole-person healing that integrates the subconscious mind, nervous system regulation, somatic patterns, and the emotional roots of physical symptoms.
Her practice blends:
✨ Neuro Emotional Technique (NET)
✨ Contact Reflex Analysis (CRA)
✨ Creative Emotional Wizardry (CEW)
✨ Homeopathy
✨ Flower essences
✨ Essential oils
✨ Mind-body-spirit counseling
Amber’s work is deeply informed by her own journey through chronic fatigue and medical dismissal, leading her to study holistic modalities including Applied Kinesiology, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Quantum Neurology.
She offers free connection calls to help potential clients explore whether her approach is a good fit.
🌐 Learn more at Bowers Counseling and Wellness
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23 November 2025
In this deeply embodied conversation, Liz sits down with Brandi Rahim, a Somatic Therapist and Intuitive Healer who specializes in helping men and women release trauma from the body and rewire the subconscious mind.
Brandi’s work bridges clinical insight with intuitive knowing, combining somatic therapy, energy healing, tarot, and mind-body-soul coaching to help clients stop repeating trauma-based patterns and reclaim their lives. Her approach is gentle, spiritual, and profoundly transformational — guiding people back to safety, connection, and self-trust.
Together, Liz and Brandi explore:
💫 What it means to heal trauma on a cellular level
💫 How subconscious rewiring helps break old patterns and beliefs
💫 The role of somatic work in restoring safety and embodiment
💫 Blending intuitive gifts with therapeutic skill in the healing process
💫 How energy healing and spiritual practices support trauma integration
💫 Brandi’s personal journey into this work, and the experiences that shaped her calling
Brandi also shares how she uses reiki, tarot, and holistic coaching to help clients align mind, body, and soul — creating lasting inner shifts that ripple into every area of life.
This episode is an invitation to slow down, breathe into the body, and discover the wisdom that’s always been there.
🌿 About Brandi Rahim
Brandi Rahim (she/her) is a Somatic Therapist and Intuitive Healer who helps men and women heal trauma at the cellular level and break free from subconscious patterns rooted in old narratives.
She offers:
✨ Somatic mental health therapy
✨ Reiki energy healing
✨ Intuitive tarot readings
✨ Mind-body-soul coaching
Brandi’s work blends science and intuition, helping clients reconnect with their bodies, release stored emotional pain, and step into a life aligned with clarity, purpose, and empowerment.
Outside of the healing space, Brandi loves yoga, karaoke, line dancing, beach days, and singing out loud — especially in cozy cafés.
Connect with Brandi
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Facebook/IG: heal_you_whole_you
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01:14:09
16 November 2025
In this illuminating episode, Liz sits down with Victoria Gore, the CEO of Holistic Recovery Services and a Licensed Master Addiction Counselor, whose work is transforming the way we understand addiction, recovery, and healing.
Victoria specializes in helping individuals release the energetic and emotional attachments that keep them bound to patterns of addiction. Her mind-body-spirit approach to recovery emphasizes connection, compassion, and self-empowerment — guiding clients to move beyond symptoms and into sustainable wholeness.
With over a decade of experience, Victoria also works with therapists in burnout, offering her Mental Fitness for Therapists in Burnout program — a powerful framework designed to help healers restore balance and continue serving from a place of vitality.
Together, Liz and Victoria explore:
💫 The role of energy healing and holistic practices in recovery
💫 How to rebuild trust with your body, your emotions, and your spirit
💫 How self-awareness, intuition, and connection become the foundation of freedom
💫 The role of love in healing work
Outside of her professional life, Victoria’s passion for holistic living is woven through everything she does — from her love of birth charts and human design to her bee-friendly yard and crystal-filled home that radiates intention and light.
This episode is a reminder that recovery isn’t about restriction — it’s about release, reconnection, and returning home to yourself.
Victoria Gore (she/her) is the CEO of Holistic Recovery Services and a Licensed Master Addiction Counselor. She helps individuals recover from addiction through a mind-body-spirit framework that incorporates energy healing, spiritual counseling, and holistic wellness practices.
In addition to her clinical and healing work, Victoria supports fellow professionals through her Mental Fitness for Therapists in Burnout program — helping clinicians and helpers reconnect with their purpose and energy.
When she’s not guiding others toward recovery, Victoria loves studying birth charts and human design, tending to her bee-friendly garden, and surrounding herself with crystals and intentional energy that reflect her approach to life and healing.
🌐 Learn more at: Online Therapist in North Dakota | Holistic Recovery Services
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09 November 2025
In this inspiring and expansive conversation, Liz sits down with Emily “Emma” Donovan, a therapist, spiritual counselor, and functional nutritionist who’s reshaping how we understand mental health and emotional well-being.
As the founder of The Holistic & Functional Psychology Institute and a practitioner at Alternative Therapy STL, Emma helps women — and the clinicians who serve them — move beyond symptom management to address the root causes of emotional, mental, and physical challenges.
Her integrative approach blends functional nutrition, spirituality, and holistic psychology, weaving together science and soul to create lasting change from the inside out.
Together, Liz and Emma explore:
💫 The connection between nutrition, mood, and emotional regulation
💫 How spirituality and science can coexist in modern therapy
💫 What “root cause healing” really means — and how it changes everything
💫 How therapists can begin integrating holistic and functional methods into their own work
💫 The power of mind-body-spirit alignment in creating resilience and vitality
Emma also shares insights from her global travels to 34 countries, where she’s gathered wisdom about healing and the human experience from many cultures.
This conversation is a deep dive into what it means to heal holistically — honoring the body’s intelligence, the mind’s potential, and the soul’s longing for wholeness.
Emily “Emma” Donovan (she/her) is a Therapist, Spiritual Counselor, and Functional Nutritionist at Alternative Therapy STL, and the Founder of The Holistic & Functional Psychology Institute.
She helps clients address the root causes of emotional and mental challenges by integrating functional nutrition, holistic psychology, and spiritual counseling. Through her institute, Emma offers therapist training programs, online courses, and international retreats, helping clinicians bridge traditional and holistic methodologies in their work.
With a passion for travel and a heart for healing, Emma has visited 34 countries, continually expanding her understanding of how culture, connection, and spirit influence health and transformation.
Learn more and connect with Emma:
Holistic Therapy | Alternative Therapy STL | Saint Louis, Missouri
Check out The Holistic Wellness Questionnaire https://www.holisticandfunctionalpsychology.com/hwq
Emma is offering a Black Friday sale on her retreat at the end of this month. The code is BLACKFRIDAY and it's available from 11/27 to 12/2. Anyone who registers with the code will get all activities included in the purchase price, which is worth over $400. Learn more about the retreat here: https://www.holisticandfunctionalpsychology.com/retreat
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59:47
26 October 2025
In this expansive and heart-centered conversation, Liz sits down with Dr. Heidi Dalzell, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, author, and pioneer in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. With over 30 years of experience, Dr. Dalzell brings a compassionate, integrative approach to healing — one that honors the intersections of mind, body, and spirit.
Heidi specializes in trauma, eating disorder recovery, EMDR, and psychedelic-assisted therapies including ketamine, psilocybin, and MDMA. She is a graduate of the Integrative Psychiatry Institute, certified in Ketamine- and Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy, and MAPS-trained in MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy. Through Journey Clinical, she mentors other therapists as they begin to integrate these powerful modalities into their own practices.
Together, Liz and Heidi explore:
💫 How psychedelic and plant medicines can support embodiment, body image, and recovery
💫 The role of psychospiritual counseling in creating lasting transformation
💫 The ethical, clinical, and sacred dimensions of working with these medicines
💫 What integration really means — and how to bring insight from ceremony into daily life
💫 Heidi’s personal journey as both a clinician and seeker, and her upcoming move to Sedona as part of her own next chapter of expansion
Heidi’s work reminds us that healing is not a linear process — it’s a spiral of remembering, reclaiming, and coming home to the truth of who we are.
Dr. Heidi Dalzell, PsyD (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist specializing in trauma, EMDR, eating disorders, and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. She is certified in Ketamine-Assisted Therapy and Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy, and is a MAPS-trained MDMA provider.
Heidi offers 1:1 holistic therapy, EMDR intensives, psychedelic retreats, and integration coaching, with a special focus on midlife transitions, recovery, and spiritual awakening. She is also an author, educator, and frequent conference presenter, known for her ability to bridge clinical wisdom with soul-centered practice.
When she’s not in session, Heidi is an avid traveler — having visited 41 countries — and finds joy in meeting local cats and exploring new cuisines. Beginning in 2025, she will call Sedona, Arizona home, where she’ll continue her healing work surrounded by red rocks and sacred energy.
🌐 Learn more at: https://www.talktogrow.com/ and https://www.soulfulconnectionscoaching.com/
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