{"podcast":{"title":"Back from the Borderline","slug":"back-from-the-borderline-4079851","podcast_index_feed_id":4079851,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/60e8deaefb090f0013116d69","website_url":"http://backfromtheborderline.com","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/60e8deaefb090f0013116d69/1735679446378-b2e8272f-396f-4979-a13e-2172ecffa88e.jpeg","author":"mollie adler","episode_count":358,"summary":"Back From The Borderline is a podcast about depth psychology, symbolism, spirituality, consciousness, and the search for a more meaningful life. I started this show years ago while trying to understand my own mind. Somewhere along the way, the questions became much bigger than me. They led into Carl Jung, mythology, Christian mysticism, dreams, tarot, philosophy, esotericism, religious history, artificial intelligence, and the symbolic patterns that quietly shape the way we see ourselves and the world around us. The word borderline has taken on its own meaning over the years. It speaks to the edge almost all of us eventually reach. That place where our old explanations stop working and we’re asked to learn an entirely different way of seeing. That’s the space my work inhabits. Some episodes are conversations with researchers, psychologists, philosophers, historians, and spiritual teachers. Others are long-form essays where I follow a question wherever it leads. Lately I’ve been especially interested in symbolic literacy, the way images, myths, dreams, and archetypes quietly organize human life, often long before we’re consciously aware of them. I’m not very interested in being “ce…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-08T16:23:45.590679+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851"},"episode":{"title":"Stop Healing Your Inner Child and Shed Your Dead Trauma Skin","slug":"stop-healing-your-inner-child-and-shed-your-dead-trauma-skin","published_at":"2026-04-28T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/stop-healing-your-inner-child-and-shed-your-dead-trauma-skin","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851","url":"https://shows.acast.com/back-from-the-borderline/episodes/stop-healing-your-inner-child-and-shed-your-dead-trauma-skin","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/60e8deaefb090f0013116d69/e/69ef91f61c25ec341e6fb851/media.mp3","summary":"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 like a dead snakeskin, and the only way to the higher branches of the tree of life is to leave the empty husks behind. This is the end of the search for external authority. You are the location of the light. Read the maps left behind for you by the ancients , inhabit your true identity, and stop looking back at the shells you’ve already outgrown. Are you not holy, too? 🕊️ WHAT WE EXPLORE: Holiness as Wholeness: Reclaiming the etymological root of the word \"holy\" (whole/hale/health) and exposing the \"purity\" narrative of modern religion as an institutional trap meant to keep you in spiritual debt. The Blackmail Economy: Why having absolutely nothing to hide makes you harder to control and sell to. The Chrysalis Theory of Healing: Why your \"inner child\" is an empty vessel on a lower branch of your tree of life, instead of a permanent resident in your psyche that you need to exert your precious energy negotiating with. Intergenerational Shedding: Breaking the cycles of intergenerational trauma by refusing to inhabit the un-shed skins of your own ancestors. Inquiry for MOODS (or your journal): I recommend taking these prompts to the Oriel or Noesis archetypes inside MOODS. The Root Inquiry: Identify one automatic reaction or \"social mask\" I use daily. How is this \"leaf\" currently blocking me from seeing my own light? The Transparency Check: Is there a part of my history I am still…","meta_description":"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…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4290,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/episodes/stop-healing-your-inner-child-and-shed-your-dead-trauma-skin/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/back-from-the-borderline-4079851/stop-healing-your-inner-child-and-shed-your-dead-trauma-skin.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}