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mollie adler 343 episodes Latest Jun 2, 2026

This podcast explores mental health and personal transformation, focusing on the idea that painful symptoms and self-sabotaging behaviors are adaptive strategies that once kept us safe. The host, Mollie Adler, encourages listeners to shift from asking 'What's wrong with me?' to 'What happened to me?' The show delves into emotional alchemy, the process of falling apart and rebuilding a stronger, wiser self. It is aimed at highly sensitive individuals who identify with mental health labels.

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The Female Shadow Jun 9, 2026 1:12:24 Female cruelty often works insidiously enough to make the person on the receiving end of it gaslight the hell out of themselves. The punishment that’s served up tends to arrive socially or emotionally, often in somewhat polite ways, which is part of what makes it so hard to call out without sounding rude, crazy, or dramatic.This episode takes a hard look at female shadow as something deeply shaped
The Christian Grimoire Evangelicals Forgot About (Part 1) Jun 2, 2026 43:17 Most people think Christian history has a simple answer to anything regarding “magic": don’t touch it, and all of it is “demonic.”The Arbatel of Magick makes that answer harder to defend. This strange little text, translated into English in 1655, sits inside a distinctly Christian worldview while talking openly about prayer, angels, spirits, hidden knowledge, and the deeply serious question of who
Why Everyone Sounds Religious About AI [Consciousness Stream for May 2026] May 28, 2026 26:46 Well folks, it’s that time again for our weekly recap of the month. On this one, we’ll dive into Richard Dawkins and his new essay on UnHerd. This is a man who spent years telling all of us that consciousness was chemistry and religion was nothing more than a very old and outdated coping mechanism to our inevitable demise into dust. Now, he’s sitting with Claude calling it “Claudia” and wondering
The Body Keeps the Mileage (On Mortality & Wellness Panic) May 26, 2026 1:00:51 The inspiration for this episode came to me after looking at a small scar under my daughter’s eye and realizing that our bodies really do keep the f*cking score. That thought sent me down a bit of an existential rabbit hole. Back to my millennial-era belly button piercing, my breast implants, and all the various little decisions I made when my body still felt endlessly recoverable to me and w
Why Tarot Feels So Accurate, And How to Actually Read a Card May 21, 2026 25:29 Someone tagged me this week in a Christian conversion testimony video and accused me of leading people into demonic tarot witchcraft, which honestly made me laugh. So naturally, I made an episode.I felt like it was important to explore why tarot feels so disturbingly accurate sometimes even when you don’t fully “believe” in it.I’ll introduce you to Pamela Colman Smith, the artist behind the Rider-
The Intelligence of Madness, Part Two: How We Come Back May 19, 2026 1:19:11 This is part two of a two-part series on madness and the performance of sanity.Most people are mainly just acting “normal” all day. We put on our work voices while we’re screaming with existential misery inside. We all know what it feels like to say “I’m fine” when we’re decidedly not.In part one, we looked at who gets to define madness. In part two, we begin after the rupture, when someone has se
Why “Disclosure” is a Distraction and How to Stay Sane as Reality Crumbles May 14, 2026 27:25 On May 8, 2026, the government released 162 files under what’ it’s calling the PURSUE initiative (the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters). While the mainstream media is obsessing over infrared videos and propulsion specs, I believe they’re missing the most important part of the story.In this episode, we’ll take a look at why “disclosure” is being used as a massive distr
The Intelligence of Madness, Part One: Who Gets Called Insane? May 12, 2026 59:51 Part One of a two-part series on madness, psychosis, and the thin line between breakdown and revelation.Sanity has always come with rules. Speak “correctly.” Show up to work and produce. If you hear a voice, see something other people don’t, or start asking questions that unsettle the people around you, there’s a shift, even if it’s subtle. Concern arrives, then usually a diagnosis. Then the extre
Why Your Mind Feels Broken in the Age of Babel May 5, 2026 45:58 Your mind wasn’t built for this much input. Every day you’re asked to absorb thousands of opinions, headlines, identities, emotional manipulations, and manufactured realities. You try to stay informed, but most days it just leaves you fragmented and weirdly numb. Then you wonder why you feel anxious as hell and entirely unable to hear yourself think. In this episode, I use the ancient st
Stop Healing Your Inner Child and Shed Your Dead Trauma Skin Apr 28, 2026 1:11:30 Many of us are realizing that what we’ve been calling “healing” might be the very thing keeping us from real growth and transformation.This episode is a case for letting your inner child die so that you can finally live. We’ll be dismantling some of the concepts around “inner child healing” pushed by modern pop psychology and look at the technical reality of the human spirit. Your history is a lik
The missing piece of your soul and the lost technology of Mary Magdalene Apr 21, 2026 1:41:43 Your profound feeling of spiritual isolation is the byproduct of the 2,000-year erasure of Mary Magdalene. This episode identifies the deliberate hit job on the manual of the soul and provides direct ways to reclaim your own state of being.We look at why spiritual talk often feels like empty repetition and how rigid religious systems were built on fear to keep you dependent on authority. By explor
Why your repetitive trauma cycles are fueling a reality that feeds on you Apr 14, 2026 2:03:35 Your repetitive trauma cycles are fueling a reality that feeds on you.The mental health industry's focus on disordered brains or biological explanations for your suffering often ignores the truth found in the Gnostic gospels. This episode takes a deep look at how your shame, fear, and trauma serve a system that thrives on your pain.The three faces of the entity that runs this world create the voic

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