A New Approach to Healing Depression with Astrid Schmidt, LCSW-R | Ep 249

The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast

Erin Holt

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.9 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Can we take a root cause approach to healing depression? And is our current clinical psychiatry model supportive of finding a root cause? Just like with chronic physical illness, a common pattern in psychiatric medicine is to reach the diagnosis and then manage symptoms, rather than addressing the root issue. But what would it look like to get curious and ask why depression is there, and what it might be trying to tell us on a deeper, psychospiritual level?

Join Erin for a conversation with Astrid Schmidt, LCSW-R, a Certified Gestalt Therapist and the creator of the Spiral Mapping™ Method, a creative healing approach designed to help folks master their core healing themes of this lifetime. This conversation digs into the effects of being labeled a “depressed person,” the invitation of depression, working with the inner child, and ultimately how to find *your* medicine. Please note that this is NOT medical advice or a condemnation of conventional psychiatry; rather, this episode is a big-picture conversation which intends to explore new ways of thinking about our health.

Timestamps:

(5:45) Introducing Astrid and Gestalt Therapy

(12:42) “Organic depression” vs. “clinical depression”

(19:25) What is the Self?

(33:15) Depression as an initiation

(38:35) What does your diagnosis feel like?

(42:25) Spiral Mapping™ explained

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Functional Nutrition Podcast. I'm your host, Erin Holt. I'm an integrative and
0:07.2	functional medicine nutritionist with a feisty attitude in well over a decade of clinical experience.
0:13.1	I work with women all over the world through my online programs. And I'm also the founder of the
0:18.0	Functional Nutrition Academy, a school in practitioner mentorship
0:21.7	where we help other clinicians level up with functional medicine methodologies.
0:26.9	I've got a bone to pick with diet culture and the conventional healthcare model that are both
0:31.7	systematically failing so many of us. Creating a new model is my life's work, and this is what this show's all about.
0:39.3	Please keep in mind, this podcast is created for educational purposes only and should never
0:44.1	be used as a replacement for medical diagnosis or treatment. If you like what you hear
0:48.4	today, I would love for you to subscribe to the show, leave a review in iTunes, share with
0:53.0	a friend, and keep coming back for more.
0:55.3	Now give me the mic so I can take it away.
1:02.0	Hello, friends.
1:03.1	We're back with another show.
1:04.3	And today I have got Astrid Schmidt, who is a certified Gestalt therapist.
1:09.2	She was trained at the Gestalt Center for Psychotherapy in
1:13.0	New York City. She received her master's of social work from Columbia University 20 years ago
1:18.7	and has been practicing psychotherapy for 17 years. Astrid is passionate about helping folks
1:24.3	transform into deeper expressions of self. That's capital S self. And don't worry,
1:31.2	I did ask her to define that in today's show. She created spiral mapping method, a creative
1:37.0	healing approach designed to help folks master their core healing themes of this lifetime.
1:43.2	We're also going to get into that. So get excited.
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