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  • The Hidden Way - Trailer

    The Hidden Way - Trailer
    2025/08/20
    In this trailer, therapist Rudi O. Betzold introduces The Hidden Way—a podcast for anyone who feels like they’ve been surviving, performing, or adapting for so long they’ve lost touch with themselves. It’s also for those drawn to self-discovery, meaningful and thought-provoking conversations, and deeper connection. Rudi shares why moving forward often starts with the courage to look inward and what listeners can expect from future episodes: thoughtful conversation, metaphor, and therapeutic insight to help you live with more honesty, compassion, and self-trust.The first episodes release September 3, 2025.
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    2 分
  • Hidden Doorways: Finding Your Inner Life

    Hidden Doorways: Finding Your Inner Life
    2025/09/03
    The Hidden Way is here for those of us quietly carrying something heavy—for seekers, creatives, and deep feelers, as well as the therapists, coaches, and healers who walk alongside them.In this first episode, I share:-How this podcast began: The unexpected moment that shifted my focus from writing a book to creating a space for spoken reflection and conversation.-Who it’s for: Those who feel like a mystery to themselves, those longing for clarity and language for what they carry, and those who help others do the same.-How metaphors and symbols (like rivers and secret gardens) help us access our inner life, and why I believe they can open hidden doorways into parts of ourselves we’ve forgotten or misunderstood.If you’ve ever wanted to feel seen, to find new ways of making sense of the old stories and patterns that keep repeating in your life, or to bring together the poetry and practicality of healing—this space is for you.To go deeper into this topic & for journal prompts & additional resources >> Subscribe to my Substack newsletterJoin the conversation on Instagram >> @thehiddenwaypodDon't miss an episode >> Follow The Hidden Way wherever you listen to podcasts.This podcast isn't therapy, but I hope it feels therapeutic. If something here stirs more than you can hold alone, I encourage you to seek support from a licensed professional in your area.
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    14 分
  • The Stories That Shape Us and the Clues They Reveal

    The Stories That Shape Us and the Clues They Reveal
    2025/09/03
    What if the stories you’ve always loved—your childhood superheroes, the fairy tales you couldn’t let go of, even the bedroom you once called your own—were holding clues about who you really are?In this episode of The Hidden Way, we’ll explore:- Why the stories and spaces we’re drawn to hold surprising clues to our inner life-How my kids’ fascination with digging for clay teaches us about the raw material (emotions, beliefs, and patterns) we all carry inside-Why it’s our responsibility to shape that material with care and creativity-Gentle questions to help you reflect on your own stories and spacesAs you listen, notice: What stories have always stayed with you? And what clues might they be offering about the life stirring beneath the surface?To go deeper into this topic & for journal prompts & additional resources >> Subscribe to my Substack newsletterJoin the conversation on Instagram >> @thehiddenwaypodDon't miss an episode >> Follow The Hidden Way wherever you listen to podcasts.This podcast isn't therapy, but I hope it feels therapeutic. If something here stirs more than you can hold alone, I encourage you to seek support from a licensed professional in your area.
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    30 分
  • The Fog We Carry: How Coping Hides Our Greatest Gifts

    The Fog We Carry: How Coping Hides Our Greatest Gifts
    2025/09/03
    What if your greatest gifts are hidden inside the very patterns that help you cope and manage life?In this episode, I use the metaphor of fog to describe how our coping skills can mask our deepest strengths—and how noticing these patterns is often the first step toward change.You'll hear:- How being called "sensitive" as a child pointed to one of my greatest strengths- Why our patterns act like weather systems that shape how we move through life- How simply noticing a pattern can create change- An introduction to the Enneagram and its 9 "fogs" and hidden gifts- Gentle questions to help you notice what resonates in your own inner lifeAs you listen, pay attention to what stirs in you--an emotion, a recognition, a question. Those responses may be pointing toward your hidden gifts or unique patterns.To go deeper into this topic & for journal prompts & additional resources >> Subscribe to my Substack newsletterJoin the conversation on Instagram >> @thehiddenwaypodDon't miss an episode >> Subscribe to The Hidden Way wherever you listen to podcasts.This podcast isn't therapy, but I hope it feels therapeutic. If something here stirs more than you can hold alone, I encourage you to seek support from a licensed professional in your area.
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    26 分
  • When Words Fall Short: A Map for the Nervous System & Soul

    When Words Fall Short: A Map for the Nervous System & Soul
    2025/09/10
    Have you ever struggled to put words to what you’re feeling? In this episode of The Hidden Way, Rudi explores why symbols, metaphors, and stories reach us so deeply—helping us name and navigate the galaxies within. Along the way, she grounds this in the biology of the nervous system, showing how our bodies and brains are wired to process meaning through image and story as much as through words. From mermaids and myth to beetles and constellations, discover how the images you’ve always been drawn to hold hidden clues about who you are and what you’re seeking. This is an invitation to see your inner life not as chaos to control, but as a landscape of meaning waiting to be explored.To go deeper into this topic & for journal prompts & additional resources >> Subscribe to my Substack newsletterJoin the conversation on Instagram >> @thehiddenwaypodDon't miss an episode >> Follow The Hidden Way wherever you listen to podcasts.
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    21 分
  • Light and Shadow, and Why We Need Both

    Light and Shadow, and Why We Need Both
    2025/09/17
    This week, I set aside my original plan to talk about something that feels deeply necessary in light of recent events: our ability to hold complexity.Holding complexity means being able to carry multiple — and often conflicting — emotions, beliefs, and desires at the same time. It’s a mark of maturity, and it’s essential for healing at every level: personal, relational, communal, even global.In this episode, I explore:- Why we “contain multitudes” (thank you, Walt Whitman).- Carl Jung’s idea of the shadow, and why light and dark always come together.- The parable of the Prodigal Son as a story of holding both/and.- Dialectics: how two opposite truths can coexist without canceling each other out.- What happens when we can’t hold complexity: fear, rigidity, stalled growth.- How curiosity and compassion become the doorway and the key to transformation.I close with a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke that reminds us to let both beauty and terror shape us, and to keep going.To go deeper into this topic & for journal prompts & additional resources >> Subscribe to my Substack newsletterJoin the conversation on Instagram >> @thehiddenwaypodDon't miss an episode >> Follow The Hidden Way wherever you listen to podcasts.
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    19 分
  • Go to the Edge: How Growth Happens in the Unknown

    Go to the Edge: How Growth Happens in the Unknown
    2025/09/24
    In this short reflection inspired by Rilke’s poem Go to the Limits of Your Longing, I explore what it means to “go to the edge.” Growth asks us to step into the liminal space—where the light is still behind us, but we’ve gone far enough into the dark to feel uncertain. It’s in that place of risk and fear that transformation begins.
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    8 分
  • When Bad Things Keep Happening: Finding Wholeness Again

    When Bad Things Keep Happening: Finding Wholeness Again
    2025/10/01
    In this episode, I explore the natural cycles we all move through: times of disintegration, when life feels scattered or overwhelming, and times of integration, when the pieces come back together. Using metaphors of puzzles, baking cookies, and renovating a house, I reflect on why disintegration happens, how it connects to trauma as a kind of wound, and why wholeness is different from perfection. My hope is that you’ll leave with a gentler way to locate yourself in these cycles — and a reminder that falling apart is never the end of the story.To go deeper into this topic & for additional resources >> Subscribe to my Substack newsletterJoin the conversation on Instagram >> @thehiddenwaypodDon't miss an episode >> Follow The Hidden Way wherever you listen to podcasts.
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    14 分