Episode 264: Fighting Past Trauma with an Integrated Approach | Jill Ongle

2025-08-27

Thank you for tuning in for another episode of Life’s Best Medicine. Jill Ogle is a Shadow Work practitioner and founder of the Alchemy Immersion, a radical healing approach that blends neuroscience, somatics, and soul work. After years of trauma, chronic illness, and spiritual bypassing, Jill cracked open—transforming breakdown into deep embodiment. Today, she helps clients unravel unconscious patterns, release emotional blocks, and reclaim their power with raw honesty and radical compassion. In this episode, Dr. Brian and Jill talk about… (00:00) Intro (05:37) How Jill became intere...

Thank you for tuning in for another episode of Life’s Best Medicine. Jill Ogle is a Shadow Work practitioner and founder of the Alchemy Immersion, a radical healing approach that blends neuroscience, somatics, and soul work. After years of trauma, chronic illness, and spiritual bypassing, Jill cracked open—transforming breakdown into deep embodiment. Today, she helps clients unravel unconscious patterns, release emotional blocks, and reclaim their power with raw honesty and radical compassion.

In this episode, Dr. Brian and Jill talk about…

(00:00) Intro
(05:37) How Jill became interested in and began studying Shadow Work
(09:25) Why suppressing emotions is so unhealthy and unproductive
(14:47) How every experience and interaction has the potential to grow us and heal us
(19:25) Karma, self-fulfilling prophecy, and the subconscious mind
(26:17) Why Jill no longer uses breath work or reiki when working with clients
(34:13) Childhood experiences and how they manifest in our lives
(39:50) The easiest kind of person to help with Shadow Work
(41:31) Jill’s health issues and how she healed them with her mind
(45:13) Outro
(49:26) What Shadow Work is