Welcome! I’m your host, Ashley Bates, and I’ve got an exciting announcement for all of you Scary Sweaty Sleepy listeners!   For the next three episodes, we’re diving into something special—a powerful mini-series called The Depth Sessions—featuring licensed professional counselor Zach Thompson, MA, LPC.   Zach is a therapist based in Mississippi who explores the intersection of trauma, transformation, and the human psyche. He brings a grounded and compassionate lens to healing, drawing from somatic therapy, Jungian analysis, Brainspotting, and other depth-oriented practices to help people reconnect with their bodies, explore the unconscious, and move toward lasting integration.   In this three-part series, we’ll be exploring big themes like shadow work, dream interpretation, trauma release, existential healing, and spiritual recovery.   So if you’re navigating depression, anxiety, insomnia, addiction, or relational wounds—these conversations are for you.   The Depth Sessions offers thoughtful, embodied insights to support your inner journey—because healing doesn’t happen on the surface.   This is where philosophy meets psychology… and where pain becomes a path to purpose. Let’s dive in. This episode is produced by Daniel Anderson at Audio Alchemy Productions.