Grow Into You: Recent Episodes
Melissa Manning
Soul chats to inspire & empower people to step into their true authentic selves, to come home to themselves, and to walk with their highest selves. My intention for this podcast is to support others in their journeys of getting to know and love themselves. I wish to share teachings of yoga that have been beneficial in my transformation and share people that have supported me in my journey. I’ll be interviewing guests that have been inspirational to me in the themes of yoga, meditation, body acceptance, personal growth, and self love.
In this solo episode, I share my ritual for reflecting on the previous year and how I set my intentions for the new year ahead. It’s a yummy heart-centered episode.
I share the importance of loving-kindness in reflections and tips on manifestation. I also share bits of my reflection for the past year and talk more about time in Costa Rica.
This episode will leave you feeling inspired to dream big, remove limitations, know how to journal for manifestation and connect you to love for yourself. I even pull a Tarot Card and share the meaning at the end for the collective for 2021. Big love to you all and to your dreams. xx
Find Me on Instagram @grow_into_you
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Lena, a strength coach and yoga teacher from Stockholm Sweden, joins the Grow Into You Podcast and we talk about experiencing burnout, the inner critic, and our yoga teacher training.
I met Lena in Costa Rica when we completed our 200 HR YTT. I connected to her right away and could not have asked for someone better to go through that experience with.
Lena shares how she found her way to yoga from the cusp of burnout, what she has learned from yoga and her inner work journey. I loved how we were able to talk about our inner work during this episode. How it’s something that can’t be rushed and how we still meet our inner critic and perfectionism. I think this will be a very relatable discussion to find relief that you are not moving through things alone and there tools that can help. In the end, we even share a funny story of our first experience of breathwork that occurred during our YTT.
Lena’s Closing Tips:
The importance of routine. During a stressful time, go back to the basics, have I ate today, have I moved today, prioritize your own health
Practice yoga and/or meditation: some kind of work where you allow yourself to feel your emotions and be able to observe your thoughts
Sharing. Share your thought out load and allow yourself to cry on someone’s shoulder before it’s too much. Find someone you trust, who can hold you. Sharing allows you to understand how you feel when you talk about it
Find Lena on Instagram @lenaovegard
Find Me on Instagram @grow_into_you
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
This episode is so much more than speaking upon a dream relationship. It’s about Aly’s journey, her inner work, and all the things that enabled her to fall in love with herself first, which allowed her to meet the partner she manifested.
Aly is an occupational therapist and yoga teacher who empowers women to see themselves as their own muse. guiding others to fall in love with themselves.
She shares stories from herself, from her guru, and we dive into so much goodness throughout. We talk about losing yourself in relationships, the inner work to find yourself, manifesting relationships, and the fear that comes along with new love.
We also share about discovering who you are, social media in connection to self, how to tell when you're losing yourself, Aly meeting her guru, seeing wounds as blessings, and about soulmates.
Key Takeaways:
Whatever love and love and validation you are wanting to relieve from anyone be it a love, a mentor, a friend, give that exact love to yourself first and give permission to give that love.
Be unapologetically you. Even if it pisses off others, if some people don’t like you, people think you’re weird. Be unapologetically you because you will find your tribe, your person, people who will love you for exactly who you are.
Always always be kind, to yourself, to the people around you, to your past self, to anyone because this world always needs more kindness.
Find Aly on Instagram @alyannamorales
Book Mentioned
All About Love, Bell Hooks
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Sharing a bit into who I am, my journey, and my intention for this podcast. I hope this podcast helps bring you back to yourself, to your home, to your soul. Follow along to hear from inspirational guests who have supported me along my path.
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Some of my most transformative, magical, and beautiful experiences have happened during yoga retreats with strangers that became soul friends.
Group programs hold such power that I have a hard time putting to words. It’s such a beautiful experience that I believe everyone should have. I share some stories from a women’s healing immersion that I had the absolute privilege to experience.
I also introduce my new program Bloom - a4-week program to gain self-confidence, connection, and love for yourself and your body. I got goosebumps talking about this program because I know how much magic and transformation is waiting for you. I am so excited to hold space for you and cannot wait to meet you.
Show Notes:
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Link to my website - mel-manning
Music by Kabbalistic Village - kabbalisticvillage.com/
Molly and I are celebrating 10 years of friendship this year and I couldn’t be more grateful to have her in my life. It was really special to be able to reflect together in this episode on all the things our friendship has gone through. She has truly seen it all through these past 10 years the lows, the high, and everything in between.
Molly is a school psychologist where she helps others determine what they need to cope and how to pull it into the moment they need it. She shares tips on how to self advocate and how to speak with your teachers.
She also opens up about losing her mom, how she processed, and what supported her during that time. We dive into our high school memories and open up about the toxic boyfriends we fell in love with and the importance of friendship.
I hope this episode enables you to know red flags in relationships, reflect & be grateful for the friendships in your life, and feel inspired to know things can always change.
Takeaways:
Listen and trust in your friends. Trust yourself for the friends you choose.
Let yourself lean on people
Changing yourself isn’t a weakness
Show Notes:
Find Molly on Instagram @molly_k_riley
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Music by Kabbalistic Village - kabbalisticvillage.com/
Josephine started traveling at the age of 19 through Central and South America by herself without taking any flight only buses, boats, and even her own bare feet to explore and experience. She inspired me the moment we met with her care for Mother Earth and complete acceptance of others.
She holds so much wisdom and shares from her soul some of her most memorable experiences traveling, biggest perspective shifts, and tips for living authentic lives. She opens my mind to the possibilities that exist in this world and the magic that is held in each present moment. Being completely okay with ourselves is how we return home and is a big takeaway from what she has learned traveling.
I hope this episode inspires you to know the traditional path is not the only path. Inside of you lies so much wisdom, trust yourself, and allow your intuition to guide you to a fulfilled nurturing life.
Takeaways:
So many but here are a few:
Radical listening. Find someone that inspires you, read their autobiography and don’t be afraid to ask questions.
Dive deep into the existence of our beings.
Have the passion and courage to feel and love. Feelings are there to be felt, all emotions.
If a big emotion comes, acknowledge it, set a timer, sit with it, and then say you are seen and know free to go
Imagination, don’t let it sleep. Create with your hands, connect to our roots and Mother Earth.
Don’t let others tell you what you can and cannot do.
Feel your body, move your physical vessel.
Feed your soul.
Show Notes:
Find Josephine on Instagram @josephine_lydia
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Link to my website - mel-manning
Music by Kabbalistic Village - kabbalisticvillage.com/
I used to dread my period and cursed myself for being a womxn. Now, I love my period and see my cycle as sacred. I see how my body goes through the four seasons just as mother earth does throughout each cycle. Men’s hormones regulate in 24 hours, while womxn’s regulate on average every 28 days. Each phase womxn move through is so needed and a superwomxn can be found in each. It’s learning to connect with our bodies and embrace our cycles.
I don’t think womxn are taught enough about their cycle or allowed to talk about it nearly enough. That’s why I love this topic getting to spread education, debunk myths, and enable acceptance for our periods.
I talk about what the cycles (seasons) are, how I track my period, birth control, herbs to help period symptoms, and my journey with my period in this episode. I hope it is healing and helpful. I love you all.
Show Notes:
Recommended book: The Blood Book by Leanna Pareja and Ashley Cottrell
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Link to my website - mel-manning
Music by Kabbalistic Village - kabbalisticvillage.com/
’m very grateful to be able to share this episode with you all. I’m joined by my beautiful sister and best friend Katie Manning. Katie allows us to be with her in her vulnerability as she shares her journey. She is an entrepreneur who founded a social purpose company to help provide legal and emotional resources to sexual assault and abuse survivors. She inspires me and is always the one I can go to for advice.
Katie shares what high school was like for her and the bullying she faced. We talk about our relationship and what it was like being compared to one another, boundaries, and how confrontations can be positive. We share how we found belonging through traveling; how it enabled us to open our eyes and know there was so much goodness in this life. She shares about finding true sense of belonging through her first job and so much more. Katie was able to take such painful experiences and find her own self-worth. I hope this conversation can bring healing to anyone who can relate to Katie’s journey.
Takeaways:
If you feel alone or lost, it is temporary and there are better things ahead. I truly believe the universe has your back and there are better days ahead. Everything is temporary and you can get through anything
You are so much stronger than you think you are.
Don't listen to what anyone tells you in a broad sense. Focus on yourself and what makes you happy. You are the only person that is going to decide things for you and the only person that will continue to write your story and decide how that’s going to go.
Show Notes:
You can find Katie on Instagram @beachbum.katie and @beyondbelievedorg and on her website https://www.beyondbelieved.org and www.beachbumcreative.co
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Link to my website - mel-manning
Music by Kabbalistic Village - kabbalisticvillage.com/
In this beautiful episode, I’m joined by my heart led friend, Rachel. Rachel is a yoga teacher and what I like to call a soul worker. She helps others cultivate better relationships with themselves through the tools of yoga and shadow work. She has also been nicknamed a truth seeker in our group.
She shares her journey of growing into who she is. I feel so honored to share her story with you all. After being diagnosed with cancer young, she looked at her life and asked herself had she lived it to the fullest if this was it. She recovered and made radical changes in her life to step into her authentic being. These changes were not easy and she became friends with inner work, transformation, and hard feelings. She has learned to find her voice, build and live her dream life, and love herself through shadow work.
We talk about and define identity work, ego, soul, and shadow work throughout this soul chat. If you are looking for inspiration to step into your authentic self, this is it.
Takeaways:
Start to learn how to tap into your inner voice. Learn to find your inner voice
Don’t be afraid of the heavy emotions. In the heavy emotions lies the real work and transformation
No matter what, completely honor your feelings.
Show Notes:
You can find Rachel on Instagram @rachelportyyoga and on her website https://www.rachelportyyoga.com/
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Link to my website - mel-manning
Music by Kabbalistic Village - kabbalisticvillage.com/
This is a very special episode near and dear to my heart. Juliana Mills, a Registered Dietician and also my best friend, shares her personal experience with eating disorders, how and why she became a dietician, and how to find trustful nutrition information.
Juliana helped me transform my relationship with food. We met while studying abroad in Italy and she was one of the first people I told about my eating disorder. She shares so many tips and wonderful advice during this podcast like how food affects our moods and advice on recovering from an eating disorder.
I feel this episode is so needed as too many of us can relate to disordered eating, obsessively counting calories, and wanting to be thinner. You are allowed to love food. It can be more than a means to survive, you can enjoy nourishing your body.
Key Takeaways:
If you are moving through an eating disorder, talk to someone. Find someone that inspires you that you can relate to and read about their journey. Remember it is a mindset shift, know you aren’t alone.
When trying to improve your nutrition, eat whole (real not processed) foods. Try new foods whenever you can, introduce things into your diet. Spices are herbs are amazing don’t be scared to use them. No one has ever said too many fruits and vegetables are a bad thing.
Be yourself, do what you like to do and you will attract people that like to do what you like to do.
Show Notes:
You can find Juliana and bug her to start a food flow on Instagram @juliana_km
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Link to my website - mel-manning
Music by Kabbalistic Village - kabbalisticvillage.com/
This episode is packed with inspiration and empowerment to step into exactly who you are. I’m joined by my super empowering friend Heather Lynn Bee who helps women create their dream careers as a professional coach, mentor, podcaster, and creator.
Heather shares her healing journey and how it has led her to having the dream career she has today. We talk about ex-boyfriends, the transformations she has had in her relationships with her parents, learning to sit with uncomfortable feelings, and how she got to know herself. There is so much inspiration packed into here with her stories of how the universe supported her journey and how she got to where she is today. She now is engaged to the love of her life, creating her dream home, continuing her healing journey, and supporting others with their own.
I’m so grateful Heather shared everything she did in this episode. I think we can all find ways to relate to it and with tips we can use in our everyday lives.
Key Takeaways:
Be okay with where you are. Enjoy the present, life goes quick so spend time getting to know yourself. Even if its just 5-10 minutes a day, adopt a journal/meditation practice or whatever feels good to you.
Be open and curious to continue to learn about yourself. Your later years will be much easier.
Give your self grace and forgiveness every single day. And have fun.
Show Notes:
You can find Heather and follow along on her journey on instagram @heatherlynnbee or on her website at https://heatherlynnbee.com/#home .
Follow along on TikTok & Instagram - grow_into_you
Link to my website - mel-manning
Music by Kabbalistic Village - kabbalisticvillage.com/
In this special episode, my beautiful friend Grace shares how being bullied in high school and her body image issues led to her journey of yoga and healing. She is now a healer helping to empower women through the tools of yoga, reiki, astrology, and chakra balancing.
We dive into self love and self nourishment, and how those practice have developed for her. Starting from drawing and finding comfort alone to being in community trusting friends that introduced her to taking care of her body.
She introduces us to astrology, reiki, and chakra balancing. These tools allow us to get to know ourselves, stay in the light, have compassion for ourselves and others, practice self care, and provide healing. You can heal yourselves. Grace shares how she found reiki during a break up to help her heal her heart.
I hope you feel inspired to give yourself some extra love after listening to this episode.
Takeaways: Allow yourself to receive good people in your life if they are there for you, take class with nutrition basic to gain understanding of how to use food to nourish your body, and practice looking in the mirror and say, “I am perfect, I love my body”.
Show Notes:
Get in touch with Grace on instagram @gracienoellie or her website guidedgracehealing.com
Find the Chakra Guide here: Cultivating Self Love Through the Chakras
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Link to my website - https://www.mel-manning.com/
Music by Kabbalistic Village - kabbalisticvillage.com/
In this special episode, I am joined by my teacher Pablo Lucero. Pablo was a catalyst for change in my life and is such an inspiration to me. I completed my 200 HR Yoga Teacher Training with Pablo and his wife Sarah near their home in Costa Rica.
He is the creator and program director of Functional Power Yoga and leads transformative retreats, workshops, conferences, and yoga teacher trainings across the world.
During this soul chat we cover topics such as what it means to be a human being, asking ourselves questions of who am I and what is my purpose. We talk about sex, sacred sexuality, and intimacy. Pablo shares stories from his teenage years facing racism, fitting in, and the rite of passage to become an adult. Throughout this conversation we talk about what love truly is, triggers, and how to be ourselves.
Key Takeaway
Ask who are you, what is my purpose in life, and what is your goal in life.
The book mentioned is The Art of Sexual Ecstasy by Margo Anand.
You can find Pablo on instragram @pablo_sometimes and @functional_power_yoga and online at https://pabloluceroyoga.com/ and https://www.functionalpoweryoga.com/
In this episode I get the chance to talk with Melissa Moffett on all the things. Seriously, we cover so many topics in this time. She has been a daily inspiration of mine for finding my worth, yoga, mindfulness, and meditation. Melissa is a mindfulness and yoga teacher, a writer, a dancer, an environmentalist, and an animal lover. She supports people in their discovery of their own wholeness and self-love. She leads retreats over the world, has meditation guides, and multiple online courses helping people find their worthiness and freedom. We talk about the love that exists inside us, suicide, meditation, self awareness, growing into us, feeling fragmented, anger towards our parents, healing parental relations, feeling our feelings and not exploding, journaling, therapy, holding space, triggers, compassion, and growing through and from painful experiences. Key Takeaways: Begin a mediation practice, be kind to yourself, and start a gratitude practice. Show Notes: You can find Melissa Moffet as melissa.moffett on IG and on her website https://www.melissamoffet.com/ Follow along on TikTok & Instagram - melmanningg Link to my website - https://www.mel-manning.com/ Music by Kabbalistic Village - kabbalisticvillage.com/
I share a bit more of my journey and how yoga has made such a huge impact on my life. Here how I was in high school and where I am now. For this podcast, I wish to share these tools and introduce you to some of the most inspiring people in my life to help you discover your self love.
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Link to my website - https://www.mel-manning.com/
Music by Kabbalistic Village - kabbalisticvillage.com/