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08/27/2026

Mark Michaels was conceived by donor insemination in 1958 and didn’t find out until he was past thirty. He calls himself an uncontrolled experiment — half joking, but only half. 😂

The medical advice at the time was to keep it secret, mix the s***m to muddy the paternity, count a live birth as success, and assume everyone would forget.

Mechelle sits down with him for a conversation. They talk about what happens when the story you were never told still lives in your body. About the ten-week intensive including ketamine with M**A sessions, treatment goals he set and then blew past that did more for him than decades of previous therapy.

About the therapist who ended things the moment he wanted to try something new, and the one before that who fell asleep during sessions and denied it.

Mark argues there are narrative channels we get funneled into and advocates taking control of your own story, whatever that story turns out to be.

08/24/2026

She might have loved you. And she still wounded you.

Both things are true. That’s the part nobody prepares you for.

The mother wound doesn’t usually announce itself. It doesn’t show up as a memory you can point to. It shows up as the way your chest tightens when someone is disappointed in you. The way you apologize before you’ve done anything. The way you can sense the emotional temperature of a room before you’ve taken your coat off.

That’s not a personality trait. That’s a nervous system that learned very early that love had conditions and got very, very good at meeting them.

Do any of these land:
→ Emotional neglect — your needs weren’t punished, they just weren’t noticed → Conditional love — you learned which version of you got approval → Enmeshment — her feelings became your responsibility before you could carry your own → Dismissal of the feminine — softness, intuition, and wanting were treated as too much → Identity suppression — you made yourself smaller to keep the peace

If you felt something in your body reading that list, you don’t need to do anything with it right now. You don’t need to name it, fix it, or forgive anyone today. Noticing is already the work. Your body registered something. Let that be enough for this moment.

And to say it clearly: this isn’t about blame. Most of our mothers were doing exactly what they had been given the tools to do — often while carrying the same wound one generation up. Naming what happened to you doesn’t require making her the villain. It just requires telling yourself the truth.

Linda Nevin created a mother wound clearing inside the Wholeness Classroom online class.

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08/20/2026

What do you do when you have all the training, all the credentials, all the right answers — and none of it holds when your own life falls apart?
Dr. Cristi Bundukamara — “Dr. B” — is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner, retired Navy veteran, and mother of seven who has buried three of her children. When her son Johnny drowned, when Reggie’s DRPLA took him, when Miah died in her sleep with no warning, the coping skills she’d taught for decades weren’t enough. What finally cracked something open was her mother’s suggestion on a night she’d broken down crying: try journaling.

Out of that irritated, exhausted, one-page attempt came the Thought Map — and eventually the Mentally STRONG Method, now used with thousands of people.

In this conversation, Dr. B walks Mechelle through a live Thought Map on the air, using a real thought Mechelle is carrying about stepping into The Wholeness Network solo. It’s a rare thing to watch a method get demonstrated rather than described.

Links & Resources

Exclusive for TWN listeners — Dr. B created a free Thought Map guide just for this audience, plus a link to book a discovery call to walk through your map:
 → wholeness.mentallystrong.com

08/13/2026

What if the emotion you’ve been carrying had a shape — a color, a sound, a face? In this episode of The Practices, trained Heart Centered Therapy practitioner Mechelle Wingle guides listeners through a complete Heart Centered Therapy session in real time. Beginning with the arrival of a personal guide and moving through the full somatic protocol — from locating the emotion in the body, to giving it a shape, to looking into its eyes and saying I see you, I believe you — this episode goes places most podcasts never go. Find a quiet space, have a journal nearby, and allow yourself to be witnessed. Something in you has been waiting for this.

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