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Jen Pillipow
Jen Pillipow is a Canadian writer, teacher, podcaster, and subconscious coach. She creates online workshops in personal development so you can bring your most authentic self to your work and relationships. She offers online workshops, group sessions, and works 1:1 with clients who desire a guided subconscious transformation.
She lives in Saskatoon, SK with her husband and 4-year-old son.
I humbly acknowledge the land and water that sustains us, where I work, play, create, and live is on traditional lands, referred to as Treaty 6 Territory encompassing the traditional territories of numerous First Nations, including the Cree and Métis homeland.
As a white, heterosexual woman, I am committed to educating myself and investing in education about racial, systemic, discriminatory and social justice issues.
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Welcome to Season 2!
After doing season one, I realized there were some big topics I wanted to go into deeper detail and perfectionism was one of those topics.
How you know this season is for you:
• You have a tough inner critic & are ridiculously hard on yourself
• You can’t remember the last time you had a glorious failure – the kind where you give something your all but fail in an epic blaze of glory
• You don’t dream big anymore
• You self-sabotage
• You never ask for help (you’d rather die trying)
• You often feel resentful of others for asking so much
• You’re “all-or-nothing” (and maybe proud of it)
Join me with an open, curious mind in dissecting these themes and make space for perspective shifts.
“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” Tom Bodett
Show Notes:
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About Making Space: The Program
Reiki
Book with me
"The Pursuit of Perfect" By Tal Ben-Shahar
"Mindset: The New Psychology of Success" By Carol Dweck
This podcast is recorded in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on Treaty 6 Territory the traditional land of the Cree people and the homeland of the Metis Nation. If you’re not sure whose land you’re on I invite you to get curious by visiting native-land.ca.
The podcast music is called Full Light Up the Stars by Gyom.
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Listen to the full podcast season here: https://www.jenpillipow.com/making-space-private-podcast
Making Space was born out of the idea that our authenticity is "protected" under layers of social conditioning, traumas, and fears.
The goal in my work is to help elevate and empower through increasing self-knowledge, self-trust, self-awareness, self-compassion, basically all the "selves".
Because ... ugh I'm sorry to repeat the overused obvious, but you are the one that will heal you. AND - the "how" and "when" are out of your control.
I know this feels like terrible news.
It's scary to surrender. To not control.
But here's the thing: healing is not linear, it takes its own path and time.
I don't believe anyone is "blocked", broken, or needs "fixing".
But we like to believe that because it appeals to the victim in us that feels out of control.
By making space between the conditioning, trauma, fears, and our authentic selves, we can create a healed response (vs. knee jerk reactions that don't serve) and live in alignment.
Where it's easier to surrender to the process AND feel empowered.
From here we can really start to build an authentic, aligned life - safely.
What Making Space is all about:
- clearing out old beliefs, old patterns, old thoughts
- making space for more energy, vitality, connection, and empowerment
As with all my work (and well, most everything), please listen with consideration of context, nuance, and discernment.
Craving more authenticity? Check out Making Space - The Program
GO AND MAKE SOME SPACE FOR YOURSELF
This podcast is recorded in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on Treaty 6 Territory the traditional land of the Cree people and the homeland of the Metis Nation. If you’re not sure whose land you’re on I invite you to get curious by visiting native-land.ca.
Podcast music by Elliot Middleton "An Exciting Future"
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You can now find my new private podcast Making Space here - https://www.jenpillipow.com/making-space-private-podcast
My friends!! It's time to offer farewell to the Podcast Brain Boss. If you've been with me over the last 3 seasons - thank you - but you also know the impetus for the Podcast was to share mindset tools on weight loss.
Wow, have we evolved since then!!
I've learned so much from my own journey and from my clients. And what we all have in common is this desire to live a more aligned, authentic life. But it's not as easy as 1-2-3 even though it’s so much harder to survive when you’re trying to be someone else.
This is the basis for the new podcast coming in the next couple of weeks - more on that in the episode!
“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” Tom Bodett
Show Notes
5-Week Emotional Eating Workshop
Scholarship Application
"You shouldn’t have to spend your life savings or go into debt to heal, period. Let alone when what you need to heal from was placed on you without your consent". -Elizabeth DiAlto
10 Signs Your A Perfectionist by Jen Pillipow
Get your Gene Key Profile (free): https://www.designnowabundantly-dna.com/gene-keys
Rona Faison Designnowabundantly-DNA.com
@DesignNowAbundantly
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It's the final episode of the season!
Thank you for sticking with me this season on self-awareness.
It's so simple, but not easy. It's simple and powerful. It's brave and courageous to practice.
If you've been doing the work (took the quiz, and really practiced), you have more self-awareness now than you did 8 weeks ago.
You also have started to create ripple effects around you. Without knowing it, you're inspiring others to challenge old beliefs and patterns and try something new.
Well done!
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If you feel called to take this work deeper into the subconscious, I still have a couple of 1:1 spots available in March.
Examples of what people work on: perfectionism, people pleasing, emotional eating, and confidence.
Go HERE if you want to check out my philosophy and approach to 1:1 hypnotherapy.
Show Notes:
Self-awareness Quiz:
Perfectionism Workshop
Authenticity Workshops
Website
Follow me on Instagram @jenpillipow
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In this episode I share my own self-awareness style, how the shadow side showed up for me, and my favorite tools for using my style deliberately and consciously.
If you feel called to take this work deeper into the subconscious, I have six 1:1 spots available in March.
Show Notes:
Free Worksheet for Episode 7
Strengths Profile - Purchase the Intro Profile
Free VIA Character Strengths Survey
Self-awareness Quiz:
Perfectionism Workshop
Authenticity Workshops
Website
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Today I get to talk about my favorite RTT tool: RFPI (role, function, purpose, intention)!
You know when you say "I want to do it, but a PART OF ME WON'T LET ME"?
We all these "parts" of us.
And you know what?
We created them, so we can play with them, update them, re-purpose them, or even archive them.
In this podcast episode I talk about it from a conscious point of view - but if you want to take it deeper and explore in the subconscious mind AND update it - check out my online workshop HERE (podcast listeners use coupon code Authentic50 for 50% off).
You can download this week's worksheet HERE.
Shownotes:
Check out Jen Pielak and The Playfully Brave HERE
Self-awareness Quiz:
Perfectionism Workshop
Authenticity Workshops
Website
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Please join me over on the NEW Facebook Group for this Season - Self-Awareness (For Authentic Living)
Want to take this work deeper into the subconscious, not just the conscious? Tap into that 95% of your power?
Check out my online workshop: Discover Your Self-Awareness Style
Listeners of the podcast can use the discount code Authentic50 for 50% off!
It might sound strange that the subconscious sabotaging part of you has a positive intention (something I get into more detail about in module 2 of the workshop).
But what you can remember is that you created all the parts of you – you have the control. So you can always decide to update anything you created. This gives you the opportunity and space to do so.
More importantly, it reminds you that there’s no part of you that needs to be called bad.
All your parts were created by you and are trying to serve a positive purpose – but left to the subconscious it may be misguided.
You’re not broken, and you don’t need to be fixed.
But as human beings, we always have the opportunity to update for what will work with us today.
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Residents of or near Saskatoon, keep your eyes open for an in-person workshop coming soon...
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I'd love to hear from you - what's your Self-Awareness Style (free QUIZ HERE)
Email me at info@jenpillipow.com and let me know YOUR style and if you'd be interested in a live online workshop!
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As you're practicing your self-awareness style you might first realize how un-aware you are. And then you might notice it gets harder and you feel "tested". This is good news!
"Tests" are designed to come up before big shifts. It's a sign you're doing it right, going in the right direction.
Here’s what I invite you to do: ask yourself these 3 questions:
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What are your distractions teaching you?
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Who are you becoming in the process?
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What’s the real lesson?
You can download this week's worksheet HERE.
Self-awareness Quiz:
Perfectionism Workshop
Authenticity Workshops
Website
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In this episode I refer to knowing your own personal self awareness strength – if you’re jumping in at episode 4, you can discover your own self awareness strength by completing my short, free quiz on my website – but I highly encourage you to start from episode 1 as each episode builds on the last, is in a specific order.
In this show I share tips on when to practice your self-awareness style, how to slow down, and how to start looking at this habit we all have - to escape the present moment.
"Success doesn't always equal efficiency. And efficiency doesn't always equal success." Jen Pillipow
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." Lao Tzu
Self-awareness Quiz:
Perfectionism Workshop
Authenticity Workshops
Website
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"If you don't have any shadows you're not in the light." ~ Lady Gaga
Today on the podcast I start with a grounding, so if you typically listen to this episode while driving or walking, I recommend you find a cozy seat and settle in for this 20 minutes.
Today is one of my favorite topics: the shadow side.
We each have a self-awareness style. A way we connect to ourselves when we’re stressed and taxed. And we're either doing it in a deliberate, thoughtful way that helps us; or, we are getting sucked into the vortex of automatic, subconscious behavior that leads us to toxic habits and negative outcomes. I call this the shadow side of our self awareness style and that's what today's episode is all about.
“Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.” ~ Rumi
https://www.jenpillipow.com/
Self-awareness Quiz: https://www.jenpillipow.com/quiz/
Perfectionism Workshop: https://jen-s-school-ee17.thinkific.com/courses/perfectionism
Authenticity Workshops: https://www.jenpillipow.com/work-with-me-11/
Acknowledging the land and water that sustains us: I live on traditional lands, refereed to as Treaty 6 Territory, encompassing the traditional territories of numerous First Nations, including the Cree and Metis Homeland.
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Today we walk through what I've called the "4 Styles of Self-Awareness".
My theory is that we've all got a self-awareness style or strength – a way that we connect to ourselves when we’re stressed and taxed (or happy!).
We're either using it in a deliberate, intentional way that connects us to the present moment, or it's like a subconscious program running our lives and preventing us from creating the goals we want.
If you haven't taken the Self-Awareness Style Quiz yet, you can here: https://www.jenpillipow.com/quiz/
Homework to take this work deeper with journaling questions:
- What does safety feel like to you?
- How does it feel to you?
- And how do you recognize it when you have it?
Next steps:
- Join the Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/selfawarenessstyle
- Subscribe to the podcast
- Free Quiz: https://www.jenpillipow.com/quiz/
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In this introductory episode, I share why I believe self awareness is the ultimate foundational tool for self-care, authenticity, happiness and achieving your goals.
We're all connected and everything we do is connected.
The painter Antoni Tapies on the connectedness of things:
"Take a look at the simplest of objects. Let's take, for example, an old chair. It seems like nothing.
But think of the universe comprised within it: the sweaty hands cutting the wood that used to be a robust tree, full of energy, in the middle of a luxuriant forest by some high mountains.
The loving work that built it, the joyful anticipation of the one who bought it, the tired bodies it has helped, the pains and the joys it must have endured, whether in fancy halls or in a humble dining room in your neighborhood.
Everything, everything shares life and has its importance!
Even the most worn down of chair carries inside the initial force of the sap climbing from the earth, out there in the forest, and will still be useful the day when, broken into kindling, it burns in some fireplace.”
“Every morning, when we wake up, we have 24 brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift. We have the capacity to live in a way that these 24 hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Welcome to Season 3! Thank you for showing up. I'm excited to share with you some tips and tricks to building your self-awareness over the next 8 weeks.
Increasing your self-awareness can lead you towards deeper authenticity, aligned goals with values, and more peace and ease.
There's 3 things you can do to prepare for this season:
- Complete the Quiz: Discover Your Hidden Self-Awareness Style https://www.jenpillipow.com/quiz/
- Subscribe to the Podcast: Please help raise visibility and allow me to continue to create free content
- Join the private Facebook group @selfawarenessstyle where you can download all the free worksheets, ask questions, and have a sense of community
New episodes coming each Monday morning!
In today's short episode, I share:
-insights from client sessions
-a new offering
-reminder - deleting first podcast season and online courses Sept 30
Please vote for the topic you want for the next season on my FB page @jenpillipow
"Personality is something we create to try to fit in, to be accepted, to be loved. Individuality is who we actually are."
-Irene Lyon (paraphrased from)
Today's podcast episode is an update on my RTT practice, the podcast, and what I've been up to during the COVID hiatus.
My obsession with individuality and authenticity continues and I've found the most powerful aid in this pursuit to be RTT and educating myself on my nervous system. Mind + Body. (right?!)
The next next podcast season will start soon and I've realized I've outgrown Season 1 - so I'll be deleting all episodes up until March 22, 2020. If you had any favorites, now is your time to go and download them :)
My website will also be getting a refresh with some new photos and words...and I've decided to remove the Commitment Secrets program as well as The Craving Solution. If you purchased them, now is your time to download the videos and workbooks and save them to your computer.
September 30 is the deadline my friend to download all those items.
September is the real New Year, right? Starting fresh...
Calendar openings available in October to see if RTT is for you:
BOOK FREE INTRO CALL HERE
Show Notes:
Irene Lyon:
https://irenelyon.com/
Medical Medium Anthony William Liver Cleanse:
Cleanse to Heal https://www.amazon.ca/Medical-Medium-Cleanse-Heal-...
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"Pause Breathwork is a method where we use continual breath to breakdown emotions in the body and shift stagnant or stuck energy. It's our breath and it's so accessible."
-Marni Singh
Marni is a Breathwork and Reiki Master in Vancouver, Canada facilitating her clients to feel. She talks about how numb she was before she found Pause Breathwork, and how this modality not only helped her see she was numb, AND help her to feel, but also shift her out of "all-or-nothing" thinking.
She explains what this style of breathwork is, and what to expect. And good news, you don't need to live in Vancouver to have a session with her where she can facilitate a session and leave you with a practice to do on your own, anywhere, anytime!
Show Notes:
Marni Singh Insta: marnisingh_
Wim Hof
https://www.wimhofmethod.com/
Sam Skelly Pause Breathwork: The Journey
https://www.samanthaskelly.com/pausejourney
Every weekday morning on Instagram at 8am Pacific join an integrative breath session with a Pause Mentor
@pausebreathwork
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"I help souls realize they're here for a purpose and to identify what that purpose is AND help heal their energy so they can move forward with that purpose."
-Patricia Broder
If you’re more of a scientific mind and not interested in the memory regression of RTT you are going to love what Patricia has to say about Psych-K. in Psych-K you have the ability to identify and shift the self limiting belief and you work to develop a self enhancing belief and by using physical postures so the facilitator can create cohesion between the left and right brain.
Show Notes:
Patricia's Website
Use the Code brainboss to get 25% off her 1:1 sessions!
Until July 31, 2020 get a Distance Energy Healing for just $25!
Facebook @PatriciaBroder444
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"You can't hide from energy. Everything that is in your system is being interpreted by the body on a cellular, molecular level."
Kathryn LaRoe, Healing Touch, Biofield Tuning practitioner
In this episode I share a conversation with Healing Touch and Biofield Tuning Practitioner, Kathryn LaRoe.
If you've been doing the work to get to a new future, a new 'you', you'll want to check out this form of energetic healing and integration.
You’ll definitely want to stick around for the end of this episode because Katie closes the conversation with a beautiful demo with an unweighted tuning fork; she grounds the body, opens up the body channels, and comb the chakras; and she walks you through what you may experience in this “rest and digest” state, as you come out of fight/flight/freeze and into your parasympathetic nervous system.
Show Notes:
Kathryn's Website
Book a session with Kathryn HERE.
Facebook @KathrynLaRoe
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"I want to get to the meat and bones of what's anchoring in the negative patterns"
-Linda Bolinger
In this episode I share a conversation with ThetaHealer Practitioner and Instructor, Linda Bolinger.
We cover health, healing & life purpose:
-what is Theta Healing and how does it work?
-ancestral healing
-what is life purpose?
-Anthony William and celery juice
-access consciousness bars (what the what?!)
-how your "work" (aka personal growth) benefits your family
Show Notes:
Linda's website: http://www.lindabolinger.com/
Book a session with Linda HERE.
FREE Rise and Thrive Workshop: register HERE.
Facebook @lindabolingermentor
Insta: @lindabolinger
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"What are you pretending to not know?"
-Cady Macon, Season 2, EP 9, Brain Boss
We are coming into the final weeks of Season 2 for Brain Boss and instead of rushing forward, I thought it would be great to pause and reflect.
This is something I've been endeavoring to do more of in my daily life and learnings.
Pause. Reflect. INTEGRATE.
It's crucial to moving forward.
Show Notes:
Irene Lyon's Work:
Smart Body Smart Mind. Truly, the best online course I've ever taken.
21-day Tune up
You Tube channel with free content.
No affiliation here, ha ha, just a pure advocate for her teachings.
Coming up in the last few weeks of this season we have a conversation with a Theta Healer, Psych-K + Emotion Code practitioner, Bio-Tuning whiz, and a Breathwork facilitator.
Lots more to come in helping you tune in to yourself, remove blocks (subconscious, or conscious) and live more authentically.
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"You picked the perfect template for your gifts to express themselves."
Cady Macon
This is the latest of the modalities I'm sharing (definitely the most "woo") that I'm utilizing in my journey back to authenticity.
In this episode, Cady shares what the Akashic Records are, what happens in a session - and of course, we talk about authenticity :)
Show notes:
@ maconmagic - work with Cady
Buy Compass Cards here:
https://compass.cards/
"That's the dance we dance. We remember who we are, then we forget."
Cady Macon
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A continuation from last week's episode, Cheryl guides us through a grounding meditation (right in the beginning, and it's only 3 minutes long).
She also explains why grounding is so important (especially right now), chakras, and control - what we can control and what we can't.
Show notes:
Cheryl offers:
Online Yoga Therapy private sessions
Online Live Streaming classes
Corporate Online Wellness Educational programs
www.UphillAllTheWay.ca
"My modality is to teach you how to help yourself. Not fix yourself. You're not broken." - Cheryl Uphill
Today on the podcast I chat with Cheryl Uphill, certified yoga therapist specializing in helping people heal from chronic pain and so much more.
We talk about what yoga therapy is, what a marma treatment is, and I share the incredible breakthrough I had while working with her. We also talk about authenticity, looking inward for answers, and finding meaning in life. So, not deep at all ;)
Cheryl offers:
Online Yoga Therapy private sessions
Online Live Streaming classes
Corporate Online Wellness Educational programs
www.UphillAllTheWay.ca
email: cheryl@uphillalltheway
Show Notes:
Eckhart Tolle https://eckharttolle.com/books/
Anita Moorjani - Dying to be me: My journey from cancer, to near death, to true healing
Bronnie Ware - The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying: A life transformed by the dearly departing
"I want everyone connected to their Inner Voice" - Liz Rogers
What is Inner Voice Coaching?
A brilliant way to connect with your intuition, understand yourself, and make decisions from a place of integrity and your personal value system.
In other words, the best way to break free of perfectionism, anxiety, and people pleasing!
Liz is an Inner Voice Coach who specializes in helping you understand how your Inner Voice (Intuition) communicates with you so you learn the difference from your fear voice - you know, the one that scares you, holds you back, and keeps you people pleasing and stuck.
In this conversation she helps you understand how your Inner Voice/Intuition may be trying to communicate with you, and how it isn't always in full sentences, and where to start if you're completely new.
Show notes:
You can find Liz here:
https://www.mindaloe.com/
Lively Community Foundation:
https://www.livelycommunityfoundation.org/
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A conversation with Laura Lea: RTT therapist, Reiki, Energy worker
Laura shares how fibromyalgia led her to train in RTT and how she helps her clients recover from physical illness.
Topics:
-how the subconscious sometimes creates illness to protect us
-what is integration / processing after a RTT session?
And I share some of my personal story working with Laura to heal my thyroid.
Show notes:
You can find Laura here to learn more about her and book a session:
https://lauralea.io/
Read her fabulous blog post on energy processing (ie: integration)
https://lauralea.io/blog-allposts/energy-processing
Follow her on Instagram @ lauralea.io
https://www.instagram.com/lauralea.io/
Book a Reiki healing here:
https://lauralea.as.me/minireiki
Lacy Phillips program To Be Magnetic:
https://tobemagnetic.com/
Alisa Vitta:
https://www.floliving.com/
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today on the podcast I explore 2 questions:
What’s the difference between a habit and a subconscious blockage?
And then to go even deeper:
How do I know the difference between an obstacle / life lesson for me to learn and overcome AND
I’m just on the wrong path?
Or simply put - how do I be just me?
Show Notes:
The Practice of Happiness by John Kehoe - free PDF:
https://www.learnmindpower.com/store/books/the-practice-of-happiness/
Ted Talk by Caroline McHugh "The art of being yourself."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veEQQ-N9xWU
Irene Lyon - Nervous System Expert:
https://www.youtube.com/user/irenegutteridge/videos
A conversation with Fabienne Corinne Thommen, Optician, Vision Trainer, and RTT Therapist who helps people improve and recover their vision.
We talk about how some people create a need for glasses in their mind as a protection system and I think this perfectly describes my fascination with trying to improve my eyesight naturally.
I could just go get laser eye surgery ... but to me, that's missing the point. I want to understand myself better and understand why I created a need for protection.
It's not like I had a traumatic childhood - far from it! But I love this definition of trauma from Psychology Today:
trauma is.... "anything that's too much, too soon, or too fast for our nervous system to handle, especially if we can't reach successful resolution."
If you wear glasses, and are also curious about why and what layer it may reveal for you, check out Fabienne's program starting soon!
Diamond 20/20 Vision And Sight Alchemy Masterclass
Fabienne's Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/fabiennecorinnethommen/
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In this episode I talk about the importance of knowing yourself, grounding, and what's to come next week.
Show notes:
Irene Lyon: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBkXgr0E9ZWUg4iSDEUKqVA
Yoga with Adrienne: https://www.youtube.com/user/yogawithadriene
In this episode I talk about what I've been doing since the last episode, the importance of Integration after personal development work, and my new free class.
If you're interested in the free RTT group class, it will be online through zoom and I will be sending out the recording if you can't make it live.
Please email me at info@jenpillipow.com so I can get you more details.