By Virginia Grenier
I’ve long believed that healing is more than just symptom reduction. It’s not just about coping skills or cognitive restructuring—it’s about uncovering the deeper threads that shape who we are and how we move through the world. That belief is exactly why this latest episode of Language of the Soul resonated so deeply with me.
Our guest, Carolyn Coleridge, is a psychotherapist, intuitive, and healer who has spent over 30 years at the intersection of traditional therapy and spiritual insight. In our conversation, Carolyn shared something that’s stuck with me since we recorded: “We’re all souls. That’s my premise.” It sounds simple, but when you really sit with it, that one sentence flips the entire clinical model on its head.
What if instead of viewing our clients—or ourselves—as broken minds to be fixed, we saw each of us as whole souls navigating a very human experience?
That’s the lens Carolyn brings into her work and into this conversation. And honestly, it’s a shift I think our culture is hungry for. Too often, we compartmentalize mental health and spirituality, treating them as separate tracks. But Carolyn reminds us that true healing—real, deep, transformational healing—requires us to listen to the voice of the soul, not just the chatter of the mind.
She talks about the “golden thread” that runs through our experiences, even the painful ones, and I couldn’t help but connect that to narrative therapy—my own theoretical lens. Our stories aren’t just a reflection of what’s happened to us; they’re clues to what our soul is calling us toward. Carolyn's approach helps clients trace that thread, reframe their suffering as part of a larger purpose, and see their lives through a lens of empowerment and growth.
There’s one moment in the episode where Carolyn explains how clients often describe being “burned out,” “drained,” or “dead tired”—and she connects these phrases to elemental energies: fire, water, earth, air. That moment reminded me of how disconnected we’ve become from the language of intuition. We speak it every day without even realizing it. Carolyn gently helps her clients—and now our listeners—tune back in to that deeper awareness.
Another thread that runs through this conversation is the danger of spiritual incongruence. When we live out of alignment with our soul’s purpose, we suffer. That suffering shows up as stress, inflammation, even illness. In a world that’s constantly pushing us to perform, compare, produce—it takes intentionality to pause and ask: What is my soul actually needing right now?
Carolyn doesn’t shy away from calling out the noise we’re all bombarded with—social media, news cycles, the endless swirl of opinions—and how it keeps us from accessing our own truth. She challenges us to quiet the external chaos long enough to hear that still, small voice inside.
And here’s what I found most grounding: she doesn’t offer this insight from a place of spiritual bypassing. This isn’t about pretending darkness doesn’t exist. It’s about knowing that transformation begins inside. As Carolyn said, “The darkness isn’t real; it disappears when you shine your light.” That’s not a metaphor. That’s a call to action.
As both a clinician-in-training and someone who walks my own healing path, I find Carolyn’s work to be a vital reminder that our inner work is not selfish. It’s world-changing. When we forgive, when we operate from compassion, when we choose love over fear—we raise the vibration of not just ourselves, but everyone we interact with.
If this kind of integration—where therapy meets intuition, where science walks hand in hand with spirit—speaks to you, I encourage you to listen to this episode. It’s more than a conversation; it’s an invitation to come back to yourself.
🎧 Listen now to "Mental Health Meets Spiritual Healing with Carolyn Coleridge"
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