The Spiritually Curious Therapist
The Spiritually Curious Therapist is a podcast exploring the intersection of nervous system science, mental health, spirituality, and healing.
Hosted by Jodi Silverman, LCSW, this show is for therapists, healers, and curious humans who sense that true healing happens below the level of insight alone. Through thoughtful conversations and solo reflections, we explore trauma, chronic pain and illness, altered states, regulation, meaning-making, and what it really takes to help the nervous system feel safe enough to change.
This is a space for grounded mysticism, where evidence-based practice meets soul-level wisdom, and where healing is approached with curiosity, compassion, and respect for the body’s innate intelligence.
Whether you’re a clinician expanding beyond talk therapy or someone on your own healing path, this podcast invites you to listen differently — to symptoms, to stories, and to what’s asking to be integrated.
The Spiritually Curious Therapist
When the Body Speaks: Decoding Symptoms Through Mind, Body, and Energy with Denise Schonwald
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In this episode, I sit down with Denise Schonwald, a nurse, mental health counselor, and author whose work bridges physical health, emotional healing, and spiritual awareness.
We start with Denise’s journey, from 20 years as a critical care nurse to stepping into mental health, and how she began noticing something that would shape her entire approach: physical symptoms and emotional patterns are not separate.
They tell a story together.
From there, we explore the connection between mind, body, and energy, and what happens when we ignore the signals our system is constantly giving us. We explore the chakra system, the mind-body connection, how unprocessed emotions show up as physical symptoms, and why your inner knowing is not the same thing as your anxious mind. If you've ever wondered whether that stomach issue, back pain, or fatigue might be connected to something deeper, this conversation is for you.
We talked about:
- How Denise went from ICU nurse to holistic mental health counselor
- Why a psychiatrist who was also a shaman changed the direction of her career
- How unprocessed emotions show up in specific areas of the body through the chakra system
- The difference between the fearful mind and the quiet inner knowing
- Why the language we use about our problems actually affects our nervous system
Denise's work bridges physical health, emotional healing, and spiritual awareness, and she has a gift for seeing how the body communicates what the mind has not yet processed.
Learn more about Denise and her books at deniseschonwald.com.
She is offering a free book to any listener who reaches out and mentions The Spiritually Curious Therapist podcast.
You can also find Denise on her socials
https://www.facebook.com/deniseschonwaldllc
https://www.linkedin.com/in/denise-schonwald
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https://www.youtube.com/@deniseschonwald/videos
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