Alchemical Toil | Inner Work Library

Conversations at the intersection of psyche, body, myth, and the unconscious.

Alchemical Toil is a podcast exploring the inner life through depth psychology, Jungian and post-Jungian thought, psychoanalysis, mythology, embodiment, imagination, and the many ways psyche makes itself known.

Hosted by psychotherapist Alexis Durgee, the podcast brings together conversations with analysts, psychologists, scholars, authors, artists, and thinkers whose work asks us to look beneath the surface of human experience. Through long-form interviews and solo episodes, Alexis explores the ideas, images, stories, symptoms, dreams, and experiences that shape our relationship with ourselves and the world around us.

This is a space for curiosity rather than easy answers—for following an idea into its depths, staying with complexity, and discovering what becomes visible when we learn to listen differently.