Within (U) with Dr. Vivian Carrasco: Recent Episodes
Dr. Vivian Carrasco: Wisdom Teacher, Guide & Spiritual Companion
This podcast explores what it means to turn inward and find the answers within us. It helps us listen to our silent voice within and let that be our guide. I’m a teacher and mentor who works with women to help them discover their unique path and learn to Love.Being.Human. I’m your guide to learning how to embrace your life, relationships and meaning with beautiful, inspired action. We can work together in 1:1 mentoring or within my learning community, Within (U)niversity.
A meditation master once said if you wear the same clothes every day, eventually, you'll begin to recognize yourself. If you practice Proprioceptive Writing every day, eventually, you'll begin to hear yourself. Trust yourself; you're on the right path. And remember the magic rules for self-trust: Write what you hear, listen to what you write, and be ready to ask the Proprioceptive Question.
Writing the Mind Alive
Looking back over the last decade, I can see more clearly how the divine discontent I felt wasn't a sign that something was wrong with me or my life, but instead was simply a signal of my growth and potential pulling me forward.
I’ve also realized that finding ourselves, recognizing ourselves, and trusting ourselves is something we learn to do. But we have to stop thinking and begin doing.
Practice over time helps us learn and unlearn—continuous and repeated practice, allowing the methods you choose to vary over time.
In 2017 I became curious about the Proprioceptive Writing method, but I didn’t establish a practice. Over the last few months, it's become clear that this practice is the framework for our next learning journey in Within (U)niveristy.
If you’re seeking ritual, wanting to cultivate a Wisdom Rhythm, develop a contemplative practice and connect and learn with others, this experience may be for you.
Our first gathering will be on February 22nd at 7:30 CST, followed by weekly community writes every Tuesday until Holy Week. It’s my bridge from Winter to Spring and a practice I’m looking forward to accompanying me through Lent.
Please join me in Within (U)niversity or reach out to apply for a scholarship if this resonates with you.
Suppose you’d rather dip into the method on your own? In that case, I recommend the book Writing the Mind Alive: The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice by Linda Trichter Metcalf and Tobin Simon.
May you be well in all ways,
Vivi
Interested in diving deeper into my work?
Explore these self-paced & free introductory experiences to the tools and strategies I use to help my clients move from their head to their heart and closer to their true nature here:
https://viviancarrasco.com/start-here/
If you’re more interested in playing with me and others, consider my online learning platform:
www.withinuniversity.com
If you’d prefer private personalized 1-1 support, please visit:
https://www.viviancarrasco.com/services/
Questions? Email me at vivian@viviancarrasco.com or schedule a conversation with me here:
https://viviancarrasco.as.me/
As always, we are here exploring the unknown, journeying together into what’s next and the unbalanced transitions of life. I hope every episode of this podcast helps deepen your understanding of yourself and what you want. Join me for this solo episode!
Show Highlights:
- How your journey toward creative self-expression can take different forms, and podcasting can be one of those
- Why I had to move through fear to get to this point in answering questions about podcasting from Libsyn, the hosting platform that I highly recommend (https://www.Libsyn.com - Use code Team for a free month!)
- How a “dark night of the soul,” big life transitions, and a near-death experience combined to help me shed my fear and see incredible opportunities
- What it means to love being human
- How I found support and community in the podcasting world
- Why I had to start podcasting to move through understanding and develop more self-awareness
- How I turned toward myself, listening and asking questions
- Why Turning Inward became Within (U), an online community that focuses on changing from the inside, learning new things together, and creating with our hearts and hands
- The difference in power and force as it applies to the journey of my last 30 years
- Why I recommend Team Podcast for podcast production as opposed to my initial efforts to do it all on my own
- Technical details about my podcasting set-up, which includes a microphone, recorder, headphones, and the Backpack and Squadcast apps
- Why I don’t promote my podcast but rely on organic growth
- Why I’m challenged and motivated to keep going to leave this legacy of “audio journals”
- What I wish I knew way back when: I need community, it’s OK to ask for help, I can’t do it alone, I have to move through my fear and be compassionate with myself.
Resources:
www.viviancarrasco.com
Blog
Team Podcast
Today’s show explores the concepts of fantasy AND reality, certainty AND paradox, now AND what’s next, alone AND together, etc. You get the picture. We can be in neither AND both at the same time. Let’s dive into these ideas together!
Shaina Barnholt is an Energy Mentor, Self Exploration Coach, and Shadow Advocate who describes herself as a “weirdo.” She loves holding safe spaces for others to explore their darker sides and live out their dreams. To sum it up, she is an advocate for self-love who helps people find and free their blocks and blindspots.
Show Highlights:
- Why the concept of moving into something while moving out of something else is difficult to understand
- How the pandemic craziness has led us to question our truth in the middle of the “system” we know
- Why it’s not our fault that we are human and built in certain ways
- Why we are taught to think more about what others think than what we think of ourselves
- How Shaina practices self-love to breathe and find out what she needs
- Why there are layers to what we need in pausing to ask questions with courage
- Why “different” is scary and comfort is addicting
- How growth can happen in tiny steps
- Why inside change is harder than big outside transitions
- How your experience can create change and tell you differently than your beliefs
- Why Shaina’s “perfect” life on paper didn’t feel right, but now it’s the opposite--a terrifying life on paper that feels full and grounded
- How achievement and happiness may not align for everyone
- How to create new circles of “your people” by being YOU and loving who you are
- How leveling up in your own consciousness can move you to a new level with different people
- Why some relationships, like a broken bone, need to grow apart for a time in order to grow back together better and stronger
- Key takeaways:
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- Have the courage to ask questions.
- Give self-love and compassion to yourself.
- Be patient in today’s microwave culture.
- How your love, compassion, and forgiveness for yourself allow these qualities to grow in your relationships with others
- Shaina’s tip: ”Find community and lean on them.”
Resources:
Connect with Shaina at www.pointypeople.com.
As humans, we move through different seasons of life. Each season brings new growth, inner-transformation, and discovery.
In today's conversation, Vivian explores what it means to move through new experiences as you shift from the inside out. She also discusses what it means to move through your awareness and how you can get to know yourself better through the process.
Join Vivian in this introspective and deep conversation.
Show Highlights:
- The natural posture of growth
- Moving into new experiences from changing inside out
- Exploring personal expression and fulfillment
- Shifting through your awareness
- Getting to know yourself through inner-movement
- The creative expression within humanity
- Deepening connections with ourselves and others
- The genesis of getting to know yourself
- Moving towards joy vs. away from fear
- Finding your internal wisdom
- “The Mommy Jar”
Links:
Website
https://viviancarrasco.com/my-grandmothers-wisdom/
https://store.cac.org/collections/cynthia-bourgeault/products/eye-of-the-heart-a-spiritual-journey-into-the-imaginal-realm
Many of us struggle to find our purpose, identify our gifts, or even find what makes our heart sing.
Today’s guest, India Delgado, had an epiphany one day when she was able to identify her purpose and pursue it wholeheartedly. Vivian and India discuss how to become aware in the search of your gift, the discomfort of discipline, and finding the undercurrent of joy in unenjoyable moments.
Join Vivian and India in this heart-felt and inspiring episode to learn more about how you can develop deeper insight on your purpose.
Show Highlights:
- India shares how she developed insight on her gifts
- How India became aware of her purpose
- Giving your gift no matter what you do
- How the pandemic has forced India to make pivots in her job
- Learning how to be disciplined
- The importance of surrounding yourself with the right people
- How to find people that will strength and lift you up
- Digging to find a mentor
- The importance of sharing success
- India shares what her “morning hour” looks like
- Figuring out what makes you happy
- Finding the undercurrent of joy
- How loving and respecting yourself more sets a standard for your relationships
Links:
https://self-compassion.org/category/exercises/
https://viviancarrasco.com/start-here/
India@idelgadoproductions.com
Love is the greatest force we can tap into in our lives. Love is stronger than fear, and can propel further than self-criticism.
Today, Vivian discusses the importance of having self-compassion and how it can change your life. Vivian shares how she increased her capacity to receive love and became her own friend. She also shares tools and embodied practices to help you develop your own self-compassion.
Join Vivian in this gentle and embracing episode to help you improve your own self-compassion.
Show Highlights:
- The importance of brining attention to your breath
- How self-compassion can change everything
- The power of love to combat fear
- Giving yourself compassion to receive compassion from others
- Ways self-compassion can change your life
- Ways to develop self-compassion
- Auditing your self-talk and learning to be your own friend
- Finding a friend to help you co-create
- What is love being human
Links:
www.withinuniversity.com
https://viviancarrasco.com/start-here/
Self-Compassion Meditations
Text “Home” to 741741 for FREE crisis counseling
This year has sparked change in a variety of ways, in both our internal and external lives. For many of us, this meant the loss of a loved one, the loss of normality, or the loss of a job. Moving forward through the world after these changes is going to look different for all of us, but we’ve been provided with an opportunity to shift our normal and focus on our divine calling.
In this episode, Vivian discusses what it means to find your job, career, or even a new hobby as a means of sparking your passion. She discusses how you can find practices that serve you and bring you closer to your goals as you move forward through these transitions. Join Vivian in this episode as she explores what it looks like to choose what you want to create.
Show Highlights:
- This year has provided us with an opportunity to create a new normal
- Setting intentions on the becoming and the unbecoming
- Shifting roles and identities in uncertainty
- Finding times of rest when discovering your passion
- Distinguishing the difference between a hobby, job, or vocation
- Establishing a consistent and deliberate practice towards your goals
- Finding a community to support you through transitions
- Vivian shares how her job journey has led her to her career now
- Looking for paths and people that’ll lead you towards your goals
- Setting your intentions and values
- Building your imagination muscle
- Choosing what you want to become
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.com
Every process has a beginning. Whether or not you recognize the art of the practice, every choice you make is in pursuit of some journey.
In today’s episode, Vivian shares what it means to make MINE goals, and how you can set intentions to achieve your goals. She explores how to look at your nature, find what brings you joy, and how to be innovative in your pursuit of your dreams. She also highlights the importance of practice, cultivating community, and how you can achieve your goals.
Join Vivian in this lighthearted and spiritually guided episode to learn how you can cultivate your dreams into reality.
Show Highlights:
- Vivian shares a passage to introduce the concept of beginning
- Moving through the cycles of the moon rather than the cycles of the sun
- Setting goals as a family
- Why you need to be a good judge of your own psychological needs
- The importance of cultivating a supportive community
- What are MINE goals and why they take courage
- The differences between MINE and SMART goals
- Using the movement of joy to guide you instead of fear
- Why Innovation has to be for you
- The importance of recognizing your true nature
- Time blocking according to energy
- Seasons of deliberate practice
- Why you have to learn to praise the process
Links:
Living Room Lecture
Design Your Life, Digital Workshop (Live Replay)
Imagine Your Ideal - 21 Day Email Experience
Cultivating curiosity will eventually lead you to compassion. Although today’s guest, Craig Constantine, describes himself as just a regular guy, he is an absolute jewel, and he has a myriad of different projects on the go. Vivian was fascinated by his project on cultivating curiosity, and then that leading to compassion, so she spoke to him about it. Today, we offer their conversation to you, the listener, as a gift from us.
Life is constantly changing. Along the way, Craig came to realize that compassion was like a doorway that he had always passed by without ever bothering to look at it. In this episode, he talks to us about his journey, and he explains how he discovered compassion and began to change. Join Vivian today to hear her sincere and heartfelt conversation with Craig about compassion and find out how being curious can help you to find compassion within yourself.
Show highlights:
- Craig shares his background.
- How Craig discovered compassion.
- What prompted Craig to change his default stance on his perspective of life.
- The importance of having good role models.
- Craig discusses his tipping point for change.
- The kind of support that Craig received when he began changing.
- Craig talks about the things that boys are missing out on today.
- Craig explains what parkour is all about.
- How Craig dealt with the uncertainty and chaos around who he was.
- The importance of being curious about everything.
- Why Craig encourages everyone to keep a journal.
- Cultivating your curiosity.
- Serving with compassion and empathy.
- Using humor with compassion.
- Craig discusses what it takes to be a great listener and what constitutes a good conversation.
- Craig talks about perspective.
- Using the notion of novelty to help you move through shifts.
- The power of the human voice and listening without looking.
Links and resources:
Craig Constantine's website
PARKOUR & THE ART DU DÉPLACEMENT:
Movement of Three
We need laughter in our lives. Laughter is carbonated holiness. It’s like the cavalry arriving to help us get our sense of humor back. Anne Lamont
https://breakingthejump.julieangel.com/
https://www.podchaser.com/
When navigating change, there comes a process of learning to let go and trust the process. In today’s episode, Vivian Carrasco shares the lessons she’s learned in her journey of mountain biking.
She talks about what it means to find your unshakeable core, and the importance of finding community in that journey. Vivian also explores various aspects of transformation and how you can find practices to help you find your center.
Join Vivian in this enlightening and powerful conversation.
Show Highlights:
- Vivian shares what mindset work does
- How to dig deeper with Vivian
- Practices that mountain biking has taught Vivian
- How to find that unshakeable core
- How to find your center and practice being there
- Why having community is important for finding your center
- Learning to let the bike do its thing
- The three categories of transformation
- Vivian shares the insight she gained from coaching
- Feeling your way there vs thinking your way there
- Finding practices that stop the noise
- Looking in the direction you want to go
Links:
Vivian@viviancarrasco.com
https://viviancarrasco.com
This year has pushed and pulled us in many directions, but it’s also provided us with many opportunities. In today’s conversation, Vivian shares what it means to re-imagine our approach to gathering.
She discussed ways we can find creativity, push the boundaries past our sense of self, and start being inventive outside of holiday traditions. Join Vivian in this exploration of self, imagination, and re-invention of traditional narrative.
Show Highlights:
- How do we re-imagine how we gather
- Making tough decisions as we transition
- How we can take an imaginative response to life
- Taking different methodologies to re-invent the script
- How the pandemic has opened a re-imaginative response
- Being in the messy middle
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.com
Vivian@viviancarrasco.com
Being kind, sparking conversations, and spreading awareness are all crucial to have a connected community. Today’s guest, Ren Newman, is the face behind Toughersations Cards. A company that advocates for supporting the LGBTQIA + community, and emphasizes on the importance of kindness.
In this conversation, Ren shares some of the experiences she’s been navigating over this past year, as well as her thoughts on how to move past societal pressure, breaking generational habits, and cultivating identity. Join Vivian in this gentle and wisdom filled episode.
Show Highlights:
- Ren shares the difficult things she’s been struggling with this year
- The importance of accepting change and taking responsibility for your own change
- Ren shares the inspiration for her toughersation cards
- Ren discusses how she’s navigating the unknowns moving to China
- How Ren and Vivian met
- How to establish your identify in a healthy way that cultivates change
- Establishing your core values
- Why everyone has intrinsic value
- How do we move past the societal pressures to monetize everything we do
- Why we shouldn’t reflect or refract other’s pain
- How the extension of adolescence has shifted milestones
- The state of listening now and how we have a distraction culture
- Ren shares what her upbringing was like
- Why having awareness of other cultures is important
- How to make decisions that disrupt our comfort zone
- Making generational changes
- How to make small changes to create bigger change
- Ways to reach out to people
Links:
https://www.faire.com/brand/b_a5goe0gkoq
https://creativemornings.com
You may have a daily routine that you like to follow. Maybe it’s when you get up in the morning, when you go to bed, or maybe you don’t have one at all.
Today’s guest, Peggy Freeh, interviewed 60 people on their daily practices and is now on her own personal journey to share that knowledge.
Peggy and Vivian discuss what it means to have a mindfulness practice and how to discover yours.
If you want to get past blocked thoughts and show up as your best self, tune into this insightful conversation with Vivian Carrasco.
Show Highlights:
- Peggy shares what she’s been currently working on
- What inspired Peggy to commit to trying to share her vision
- What is horse whispering
- Why practices are different for everyone
- Why staying present is a key part of daily practice
- Peggy shares her experience learning to horse whisper
- The difference between power and force
- Clearing your mind to be clear about your intentions
- How to make anything you do a sacred practice
- Finding resonance with a practice
- Why you don’t have to always have a goal to guide you
- Creating your own practice
- How long do people stick to practices
- Why you shouldn’t be ashamed to change practices
- Why you should begin no matter what the risks are
- How daily practices can impact those around you
- What to do if your practice isn’t successful
- How to move through the letting go
- The evolution of finding your practice
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.com
https://www.stitcher.com/show/simple-daily-practice-radio
I have a delightful treat for you in today’s show as I welcome back Sarah Dietman. As always, we’re talking about navigating between what’s now and what’s next. Specifically, we’re discussing how ordinary moments in life can be magical as we regard them with perspective and awareness.
Sarah Dietman is your “trusted wing-woman who is part teacher, part coach, and part systems set-up person.” Sarah and I have great fun as we talk about tuning into what you need to find what you really want in life. Join us to learn more!
Show Highlights:
- When a bath is much more than a bath and becomes a transformative experience of tuning into a deep need
- What we need in the moment is either within us or within our reach
- How bad things are like Velcro and good things are like Teflon
- Why we see what we look for
- The difference between being alone and doing something by yourself
- How we are experiencing mental anxiety and social unrest around the COVID-19 pandemic
- The phenomenon of survivor’s guilt in finding joy when others aren’t
- What it means to be an advocate for joy
- The graceful dance that takes place between ourselves and our emotions
- Remember that happiness is a hit, but joy is an undercurrent
- How a skeptic can build their belief in finding the positive
- How ordinary things can become magical when we live in the moment
- The benefits of reflection and journaling in finding moments that bring awe
- How sadness keeps us from reaching out and being social
- How you can find that what you want is within your reach when you tune into what you need
- Sarah’s upcoming endeavors
Resources:
Email Sarah: sarah@upgradeyourevolution.com
Life presents us with different seasons, and with each one comes new opportunities for growth. Today’s guest, David Carrasco, is an ex-military leader, mountain bike enthusiast, and husband of 30 years.
Vivian and David discuss the transformations of identity that happen over time, how they’ve watched each other grow, and the importance of giving your partner space and support in that process. They also explore the importance of staying anchored in yourself while still shedding beliefs that don’t serve you, the transformation of parenthood, and many other relatable topics.
Join David and Vivian in this motivating and comforting episode.
Show Highlights:
- How Dave made the transition from the military to a mountain biker
- The difference between showing up and doing the work versus buying the results
- Giving your partner space to do explore their own hobbies
- The origin story of the podcast
- How Vivian and Dave move through change differently
- The process of getting involved in mountain biking
- What pushed David get certified as a bike mechanic
- Taking experiences from the outside to have an inside transformation
- Navigating the mental transition of watching your children grow
- Holding yourself accountable in moving forward
- Letting go of financial stress in transitions
- Not letting go of anchors to your identity but releasing beliefs that no longer serve you
- Dave shares his favorite trails
Links:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnjTKHcAD0YtjNBKtb90dLg/videos
DC Productions – Dave's YouTube Channel
Instagram: @davebehindthebar
Life presents us with different seasons, and with each one comes new opportunities for growth.
Today’s guest, David Carrasco, is an ex-military leader, mountain bike enthusiast, and husband of 30 years.
Vivian and David discuss the transformations of identity that happen over time, how they’ve watched each other grow, and the importance of giving your partner space and support in that process.
They also explore the importance of staying anchored in yourself while still shedding beliefs that don’t serve you, the transformation of parenthood, and many other relatable topics.
Join David and Vivian in this motivating and comforting episode.
Show Highlights:
- How Dave made the transition from the military to a mountain biker
- The difference between showing up and doing the work versus buying the results
- Giving your partner space to do explore their own hobbies
- The origin story of the podcast
- How Vivian and Dave move through change differently
- The process of getting involved in mountain biking
- What pushed David get certified as a bike mechanic
- Taking experiences from the outside to have an inside transformation
- Navigating the mental transition of watching your children grow
- Holding yourself accountable in moving forward
- Letting go of financial stress in transitions
- Not letting go of anchors to your identity but releasing beliefs that no longer serve you
- Dave shares his favorite trails
Links:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnjTKHcAD0YtjNBKtb90dLg/videos
DC Productions – Dave's YouTube Channel
Instagram: @davebehindthebar
Growing up in a world that pulls what’s right and wrong in a million different directions can leave us feeling confused. Finding the answers within yourself can be a difficult and long journey, but will bring you so much peace.
Today’s guest, Rebecca Shisler Marshall, shares what her journey of transforming through identities has been. Vivian and Rebecca explore how life prepares us for our journeys, finding stillness, and how to replace negative beliefs with positive practices.
Join Vivian in this light and calming episode for more on how to move through your own transformation journey.
Show Highlights:
- How Rebecca’s found ways to stand in each world
- Rebecca shares the process of her transformation
- Finding clarity in discovery
- Giving up things you didn’t know you were holding on to
- Being led versus figuring it out
- Why you should look for yourself
- Different outlets Rebecca is utilizing to help people improve their wholistic perspective
- What is the whole body upgrade process
- What are the 5 Wellness Bodies
- How to navigate the search for the right answers, right path, and right choices
- What stands between you and looking for the answers within
- How selfishness shows up in different ways
- Rebecca share what the shape of her life looks like
- The process of internal rebirth
- Events that sparked transformation in Rebecca’s life
- How life prepares us for the next thing
- The nuances of being a mother and having a career
- How events can expand and open us to new opportunities
- Practicing gratitude for the events life has brought us
- The importance of accepting circumstances and changes
- How to be the source of your ancestors instead of looking at the outside
- How to find a sense of stillness that isn’t being still
Links:
Rebecca Shisler Marshall can be reached at https://www.centeredyou.com/
Rebecca’s Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfxRYWx1FUaguj5wm6Foq7w?view_as=subscriber
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centeredyou/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CenteredLiving/
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whole-body-upgrade/id1515960370
Every day mindfulness program: https://www.centeredyou.com/courses/everyday-mindfulness/
As the end of the year is nearing, we’re all preparing for the next chapter. Some of us, may have been ready for this season to end from the beginning.
Today, Vivian discusses the importance of shifting our focus from the end and initiating a new beginning. While it’s easy to want to rush seasons, many of them are important for our self growth.
Join Vivian in this conversation about shifting our mental direction, managing energy vs time, and how to turn inward to find answers.
Show Highlights:
- Finding love in self discovery
- Creating space for change
- Surrendering and letting go of planning
- The emphasis of productivity over presence
- Why things are never going to be “normal” again
- Why we need to find stillness in chaos
- Finding ways to connect with yourself
- How to move towards your joy
- Why you have to turn to yourself to get what you want
- Why you should be less serious and more kind
- Turning your attention towards the beginning instead of the end
- Why you should have a conversation with your childhood self
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.com
Vivian@viviancarrasco.com
http://withinuniversity.com
Life often presents us with opportunities for change, whether we’re ready or not and often the change is uncomfortable. Life has a way of pushing us in the direction we need to go.
Today’s guest, Mayda Poc, shares her journey of navigating life transition and how life has given her opportunities to make those changes. She also shares how she rekindled her spirituality, and how she’s learned to give herself grace.
Join Vivian in this remarkable episode to hear more about Mayda’s life changing story.
Show Highlights:
- Mayda shares a crisis she experienced that opened her consciousness
- Mayda’s experience discovering she had cancer and how it impacted her
- How cancer deepend Mayda’s inner transformation
- Mayda shares what her complete remarriage with God and her body looked like
- How life pushes us to make changes when we need to
- The journey of transformation
- How to recognize what makes you resourceful
- The importance of becoming more discerning in what we allow to take our energy
- What does inner knowing feel like
- Why you need to accept the past and give yourself a break
- Go back to your why’s
- How you can give yourself little gifts of kindness
Links:
https://maydapoccoaching.com/free-resources/
https://www.facebook.com/pg/maydapoccoaching/photos/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maydapoc
When we feel emotions of overwhelm, anger, or discontent creeping up on us, we have the ability to redirect those feelings. When you look at how we experience the world, it all comes down to brain patterns.
Today, Vivian Carrasco unveils how we can reprogram those brain patterns, cultivate the art of surprise, and allow ourselves to feel joy despite the negativity we may be experiencing.
If you want to learn how to develop the freedom to feel good in every situation, join Vivian in this conversation.
Show Highlights:
- How we can change our brain patterns to shift our experience
- Why we should stop focusing on what’s wrong and start focusing on what's wrong
- Moving in the direction of what you want and what brings you joy
- How you can always tap into your joy
- How to discover if something is giving you the power to feel good or not
- Finding ways to find beauty in your daily life
- How to take advantage of surprises
- Reflective questions that may offer a crack in your awareness and bring new perspective
- Notice what brings joy and love out of you
- Why time and practice are crucial to shifting your mindset
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.com
Vivian@viviancarrasco.com
In this special episode, Vivian captures the lessons and biggest takeaways she uncovered in her 46th year of life.
For her annual birthday review, she discusses her journey into wholeness, self-discovery, and how she has found spirituality outside of collective or organized religion. She talks about the many gifts she’s received from life in a physical and abstract sense and how those gifts have impacted her year.
Join Vivian in this encapsulation of her 46th year as she re-gifts all of the lessons and experiences she’s been given this year to you.
Show Highlights:
- Vivian shares how the gift of roses helped her accept beauty and abundance in her year
- This year has been a personal journey into wholeness through accepting personal cultural rituals
- Contemplation and self-reflection in isolation and community are both important to deepen you
- Vivian shares how community has brought her a new perspective of growth
- The journey of self-awareness is crucial for growth and development
- Your community is out there, you just have to find them
- There’s never an end, we’re constantly becoming more of ourselves
- The movement from religion towards spirituality has been a huge shift in Vivian’s life
- Being ill brought a new sense of gratitude for being healthy
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.com
https://viviancarrasco.com/start-here/
Vivian Carrasco, Ed.D, Master Certified Coach Mindset Mentor & Creative Midwife
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760-576-LOVE (5683) | www.viviancarrasco.com @viviancarrasco |
facebook.com/ViviHCarrasco
Resources:
Wild Mercy
The Way of the Rose
With all of the massive shifts happening around us, we are all in a state of self-exploration, learning, and growth. The need for systematic change is now more prominent than ever and there’s no better time to educate yourself and be a part of that change.
In this episode, Vivian discusses the prejudices she’s not only experienced but had to overcome herself. She discusses some of her own struggles as a woman of color, and the importance of elevating the voices of the black community.
Join Vivian in this necessary and pivotal conversation about racial injustice, the impact of assimilation, why we shouldn’t compare protesting, donating, and volunteering, along with so many other vital aspects of the changes we’re experiencing after the murder of George Floyd.
Show Highlights:
- Learning how to distinguish between fitting in and belonging is a growth process
- We don’t always know the impact what we have to say is going to make but we have to speak up
- Vivian shares some of the unconscious bias thoughts she’s had about race and how she’s begun to unravel them
- There are so many resources for learning about race and how it impacts our experience of the world
- Vivian shares how she’s opened herself up to learning about systematic racism
- We all have a unique path and purpose and there are different ways for each of us to contribute to making a difference
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.com
https://viviancarrasco.com/start-here/
Vivian Carrasco, Ed.D, Master Certified Coach Mindset Mentor & Creative Midwife
Join me here: Within (U)niversity
760-576-LOVE (5683) | www.viviancarrasco.com @viviancarrasco |
facebook.com/ViviHCarrasco
Resources:
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think and Do
My Grandmother's Hands
Books can bring us new ideals and perspectives that we wouldn’t have initiated on our own. In today’s conversation, Vivian and Heather Williams, of Green Buddhi Yoga, discuss the teachings that The Way of The Rose by Clark Strand and Perdita Finn brought them.
The scale a variety of concepts, such as how we can experience religion on a personal level, the bridge between religion and the patriarchy, and how we can treat sex as sacred and not dirty.
Tune into this episode for an insightful and introspective experience with Vivian and Heather.
Show Highlights:
- Vivian and Heather share what restraints they initially had towards the book
- Heather shares her inspiration to create her own rosary after the book club
- How the image of God has shifted from being part of the patriarchy to a mother
- Why we don’t have to search for God and should turn within ourselves
- Vivian shares her favorite passage from “The Way of The Rose”
- The joy is there for us to enjoy
- How trauma and childhood can effect religion
- Ways to practice prayer in your daily living
- How life always brings us the right answers
- Mary can be a way to bridge the gap in our relationship with God
- Coming back to your center in the storm
- Re-evaluating our perspective on death
- Experiencing the holiness and sacredness of sex
- Taking religion out of our connection to nature and the natural world
- Overcoming the fear of coming into new circles
Links:
The Way of The Rose Book
https://viviancarrasco.com
https://www.facebook.com/GreenbuddhiYoga/?fref=nf&__tn__=C-R
Mothering can show up in many different ways. It doesn’t have a specific gender, the need for children, or a limit on ability. Learning how to mother yourself, loved ones, employees, projects, and children, is crucial to nurturing your growth.
In today’s episode, Vivian shares the importance of allowing yourself to give and receive mothering. She explores the importance of learning to allow others to mother you, and the spiritual revival that can accompany letting your children nurture you.
Join Vivian in this gentle and abundance episode.
Show Highlights:
- The unfolding of love being human
- Why you need to become friends with yourself
- How our embodied practices shift
- Practices to explore how the structures of our minds work
- The importance of finding ways to express your creativity
- Learning how to mother ourselves
- How mothering can be a teacher
- Sensing into fundamental needs being expressed
- Finding ways to meet your needs in a positive light
- What makes kids better mind ninjas
- Why you should look to kids for spiritual training
- Why you need to open yourself up to give and receive mothering
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.com
Vivian@viviancarrasco.com
Prayer is a crucial part of self-growth and connecting to your soul. In today’s episode, Vivian has an exploration of prayer and shares what her journey with prayer has been.
She discusses the benefits, and what it looks like to open your perspective of prayer. She also teaches the method of the “body prayer” and how you can incorporate it into your daily life.
Join Vivian in this episode to find your prayer, find your method, and attend to what you’re called to.
Show Highlights:
- What is a practice and how do you learn
- The power in our language to communicate
- Finding your prayer and finding your method of prayer
- Finding ways to open your perspective
- The action and movement of prayer
- Learning to love being human and connect with our soul
- The 4 postures and the 4 intentions for the body prayer
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.com
In today’s episode, Vivian reflects on the lessons and topics she’s curated for you in the upcoming episodes.
She discusses what it means to find your why, what it means to love being human, and how death is an opportunity for new beginnings. She offers an invitation for you to reflect on what your milestones say about your growth, as well as to creatively express your becoming.
Join Vivian in this exploration as she guides you through this next season of growth.
Show Highlights:
- How to shift from how to why to find beautiful movement
- The death that happens to us as we find a new way of being
- We begin with death and then grow as we create our way to a rebirth
- Teaching people how to love people in the midst of being human
- The opportunity to become and unbecome in relationship
- Recognizing stages within our rebirth
- Reflecting on distinctions in our transformations
- What is love being human
Links:
Vivian@viviancarrasco.com
Creativity is the key to all change in our lives. As we move through transitional phases, finding ways to channel our energy and explore ourselves through a creative outlet is the best thing we can do for ourselves.
In this episode, Vivian explores the importance of creativity in seasons of growth. She discusses what it means to find a way of being that is an embodied practice and how to be open to the flow of creativity.
Join Vivian in this episode to reignite and practice your own creativity.
Show Highlights:
- Why creative expression is a practice to explore during growth periods
- Moving through transformations
- Why loving ourselves should always come first
- How finding your creative potential is the key to your growth
- Getting to a place of unshakable confidence and pure peace
- Emerging into your better self through collaboration with others
- Rediscover your creative potential
- Establishing a personal practice to build your creativity
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.com
Life is a continuous cycle of growth. No matter how far we’ve come, we’ll continue to evolve and change identities.
In today's conversation, Vivian talks about growing in the in-between spaces and how to distinguish between a role and yourself. As we move quickly through our identities, it can be difficult to be in the gap of significant changes.
Join Vivian in this exploration of self-growth and the importance of having the ability to reinvent yourself.
Show Highlights:
- Finding a way to see ourselves differently
- The difference between a role and yourself
- How the stages of life have shifted
- The shifts that happen within marriage
- Moving deeper into our sense of self
- Learning the ability to reinvent ourselves constantly
- How to build courage
- Ways to claim creative potential
- The importance of giving yourself extra love and self-compassion
- Using writing to move yourself
- Why Within U is a direct response to a near death experience
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.com
Self-compassion can bring our lives more happiness, more confidence, and more kindness. While overcoming our negative self-talk can be hard, it’s important to find a softness for ourselves.
In today’s episode, Vivian shares the benefits of self-compassion, along with tangible practices you can take on your own journey. Vivian explores the beauty of a self-compassion break, and physical practices to soothe your soul.
Join Vivian in this meditative and gentle episode to find what draws you closer to your own truth.
Show Highlights:
- Vivian shares an overview of the series she’s been doing
- Practices that help us feel safe moving through change
- Allowing ourselves to acknowledge our pain and responding with kindness
- The benefits of self-compassion
- How self-compassion can minimize anxiety and stress
- The stress defense and combating threats to our self-image
- Using soothing touch as a self-compassion practice
- Finding a word that brings you comfort
- Exploring self-compassion practices
- Discovering love being human
- Finding what draws us closer to our own truth
- Building a relationship with creativity
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.com
https://self-compassion.org/mindful-self-compassion-workbook/
You can’t give from a glass half full is a cliche we’re all familiar with, but tend to overlook. When it comes to loving others, we have to start with ourselves. While this can prove to be a struggle, it’s the only true doorway to growth.
In this episode, Vivian shares her journey of self-compassion and what it means to be kind to yourself. She discusses the barriers we have to overcome in order to reach a place of self-love, along with the strength it provides us.
Join Vivian in this self-exploration of love to learn how you can enhance your capacity to receive kindness.
Show Highlights:
- Choosing to refer to yourself with kindness and self compassion
- How self-love can help you love others better
- Turning insights into an experience for others
- The biggest barrier to self-compassion
- Learning to wield power by being kind to yourself
- The power in self-love
- Allowing the practice of compassion to reveal itself to you
- Giving yourself time and space to learn a practice
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.com/start-here/
https://viviancarrasco.com
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/love-leo-f-buscaglia/1003020533
The seasons allow us an opportunity to grow with them as we move through our own lives. When we find ourselves feeling stagnant, there are practices we can utilize to connect us back to our spirits.
This weeks practice is dedicated to breath. Vivian shares how you can use the practice of breath to center yourself and find connection in your daily life. Vivian also takes you through a guided breath meditation that you can take and use as your own.
Join Vivian in this rejuvenating and inspiring episode to find your own practice.
Show Highlights:
- What makes a practice so vital to growth
- What is a practice and how to integrate it into your daily life
- Vivian shares her exploration of overcoming excuses
- Using breath to center yourself
- Vivian walks you through a guided breath meditation
- Vivian shares ways you can integrate breath practices into your daily life
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.com
Vivian@viviancarrassco.com
Journeying through change looks differently for all of us, but there are strategies we can take with us to learn to center ourselves.
Today, Vivian talks about the path of growth and what it truly means to turn inward. She discusses her own process of change and the importance of releasing expectations of the path to be straight. She moves between teaching and practices to help you both learn and to gift you with tangible practices you can use in your own journey.
Join Vivian in this exploration of self to guide you through your own path of growth.
Show Highlights:
- Vivian shares an overview of the topics she’s covered over the past few months
- Why Vivian aligns her growth with the seasons instead of the “New Year”
- The path of turning inward
- Journeying through words with Vivian
- Finding peace moving through change
- Why growth doesn’t always mean you’re moving forward
- The art of surrendering
- Coming back to your own experiences to develop self knowledge
- Finding the support of your own breath
- Learning to release expectations of yourself and expectations others have of you
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.com
The process of inner-exploration is slow and never ending. However, as we choose to make these small changes every day, we can look back over the years to see how much progress we’ve made.
Winter in particular is a season for grieving the old, mourning, and deep rest. Winter gives us an opportunity to prepare for new birth.
In today’s conversation, Vivian shares how you can prepare yourself for new birth and how you can use the practice of advent to prepare your heart. Join Vivian in this conversation of inner-exploration and learn how you can use your physical space to support that journey to finding your own truth.
Show Highlights:
- Advent is a spiritual practice anyone can adopt to prepare their heart
- Sometimes it’s not about doing it right and more about learning how to do it in a way for you
- Recognizing your mistakes when trying to adopt new practices can help center you in the practice of learning how to learn
- Other people don’t notice your mistakes as much as you do
- Sometimes what causes us to fail isn’t us but the systems we’ve adopted
- It’s important to carve out physical spaces for internal change
- There’s so much value in building habits you want within a community
- It isn’t always about discipline so much as it is about repetition
- Winter is a time for grieving, mourning, and deep rest
- When you turn towards yourself you’re able to serve others better
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.com
https://viviancarrasco.com/start-here/
Vivian Carrasco, Ed.D, Master Certified Coach Mindset Mentor & Creative Midwife
Join me here: Within (U)niversity
760-576-LOVE (5683) | www.viviancarrasco.com @viviancarrasco |
facebook.com/ViviHCarrasco
Self-exploration takes time, patience, and a lot of soul-searching.
In today’s episode, Vivian talks about how she’s learned to navigate finding truth, uncovering your deepest values, and why nature is the best teacher. She shares her own strategies to do inner-work, along with why it’s necessary. She also discusses how nature can be a great teacher for self-exploration and how you can look to it as a mentor.
Join Vivian in another insightful and calming episode to learn more about how you can uncover the truest version of you.
Show Highlights:
- Exploring the transformation that happens inside of us when we align ourselves with seasons
- Sometimes setting “smart” goals isn’t the smart thing to do
- How to dance with your doubt and why it’s important to find your why
- Look with curiosity before you expect confidence
- Learning a new point of view can help you uncover your values
- Sharing with friends can help you explore your mindset intervention
- Your external life doesn’t have to change if your internal self does
- Seasons will bring you the lessons you need to grow if you listen
- Meditate on nature to watch how it moves towards its own light
- Being present allows us the opportunity to grow from our experiences
Links:
The Moon Phase Experience - October 2018
https://youtu.be/GAPjBzyomjc
Taking Time for Yourself without Feeling Awful About It - December 2017
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/takingtime
Being aligned with your core values is vital to pursue your true purpose and joy. Identifying those values can often seem intimidating and confusing, but it doesn’t’ have to be.
Today, Vivian Carrasco shares how you can get rid of the disconnect between you, your heart, and your values by using tangible exercises for self-exploration. She discusses the importance of being aligned with your “is-ness” and how to eliminate self-doubt.
Join Vivian in this episode to learn more about how you can pursue what you really want to do and what you’re actually doing by anchoring yourself in your values.
Show Highlights:
- Letting go of others expectations of you is one of the first steps to step into your own desires
- Listening to your intuition can help you navigate journeying to become who you are
- Learning to accept yourself can help you find your true nature
- Lining yourself up with your values will allow you to live a life full of inspiration, energy, and true power
- Practicing a values affirmation is important before you move onto your aspirations
- Stress is an instinct that awakens soul searching and self-reflection
- Connecting to our values put this seed of hope that we can get through what we’re experiencing
- Fear is a natural response to trying new things but we have to learn how to listen to those responses without letting them hold us back
- Vivian shares an exercise you can do at home to self-reflect by identifying your values, why they’re important to you, considering which value is most important to you, identifying why and indicating your level of agreement with your answers
- Taking time to re-shift your values and align with what you want will bring you peace
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.com
https://viviancarrasco.com/start-here/
Vivian Carrasco, Ed.D, Master Certified Coach Mindset Mentor & Creative Midwife
Join me here: Within (U)niversity
760-576-LOVE (5683) | www.viviancarrasco.com @viviancarrasco |
facebook.com/ViviHCarrasco
The Upside of Stress Book
Each season brings opportunities for new growth. Learning how to tune into nature and your desires is a key part of moving through the liminal spaces of life. When looking at what each season teaches us, we also have to learn how to move through that growth and adopt those lessons into the next season.
In this episode, Vivian Carrasco discusses how to practically take steps to pinpoint your desires and move towards what brings you joy. While doubt often accompanies us on our journey, there are steps you can take to learn to dance with it.
Vivian shares her top 4 steps to take action and learn how to put new shoes on. Join Vivian in this introspective episode about transitions and discovering your desires through change.
Show Highlights:
- Vivian explains why she’s transitioning from “turning inward” to “within U”
- Fall is a seasonal shift for introspective thought and learning to let things go
- You should stop looking for the right answers and discover what you truly desire
- Letting go of others expectations doesn’t make you selfish or ungrateful
- Growth is not fluid, it can be messy and that’s okay
- Make a dream list to pinpoint your goals
- Once you’ve established your desires, you start by taking action
- Make sure you’re moving towards joy and not just further from fear
- What is the difference between joy and happiness
- Learn to dance with your doubt
- Face doubt with curiosity
- Ask yourself why you want something before you do it
- Aspirations are never-ending, you’re constantly going to be reaching to meet new desires
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.com
https://viviancarrasco.com/start-here/
Vivian Carrasco, Ed.D, Master Certified Coach Mindset Mentor & Creative Midwife
Join me here: Within (U)niversity
760-576-LOVE (5683) | www.viviancarrasco.com @viviancarrasco |
facebook.com/ViviHCarrasco
It’s human nature to resist change, defy uncertainty, and remain in our comfort zones. We’re genetically wired to only pursue our past experiences, but this often holds us back.
Today Vivian Carrasco shares her own personal experience of reaching outside of her limitations to reach a seemingly impossible goal, and how you can too! She discusses how to ignite your imagination in a way that will provoke meaningful engagement and fulfillment in your daily life. Join Vivian in this two-part series to learn more about how you can embrace your bravery, courageousness, and be the you you’ve always wanted.
Show Highlights:
- Expanding your reach to break out of limitations
- Cultivating in life relationships
- Giving yourself permission to achieve the goals you want
- Expanding your community and planting seeds of friendship
- Taking time to align with your values
- The importance of social interaction
- Allowing your imagination to create a reality that reflects your values
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.wistia.com/medias/k5gpg7ola2
Vivian Carrasco, Ed.D, Master Certified Coach Mindset Mentor & Creative Midwife
Join me here: Within (U)niversity
760-576-LOVE (5683) | www.viviancarrasco.com @viviancarrasco | facebook.com/ViviHCarrasco
Creating goals can often be daunting but as the holiday season approaches we’re all thinking about the future. When it comes to creating a life that reflects the vision you desire, it’s easy to talk down on ourselves and feel “stupid” for not knowing how to get there.
In this episode, Vivian shares her method for setting and achieving goals in a way that’s “MINE” and not “smart.” She reveals how to reset your internal framework and utilize your nature to create the life you desire. If you’re tired of running away from your fear and you want to run towards the future, join Vivian Carrasco in this inspiring and insightful episode.
Show Highlights:
- Exploring values and aspirations
- Navigating your internal compass
- How to look at goals without suppressing possibilities
- Establishing a solid framework to set goals
- How to move towards goals
- How innovation comes into play with setting new goals
- The importance of recognizing your nature when moving into uncertainty
- Energy blocking time
- The importance of having a place and community to create
- Creating space for the impossible to happen
Links:
https://viviancarrasco.wistia.com/medias/k5gpg7ola2
Vivian Carrasco, Ed.D, Master Certified Coach Mindset Mentor & Creative Midwife
Join me here: Within (U)niversity
760-576-LOVE (5683) | www.viviancarrasco.com @viviancarrasco | facebook.com/ViviHCarrasco
Today’s conversation of Within (U) is a deeply introspective exploration with Alexandra Kalinowski. Alexandra, the host of the What If Podcast, extends not only her heart but a shedding of light on some of the most intimate and transformative seasons of her life.
Vivian Carrasco and Alexandra dissect what it looks to shed your predispositions and embrace the flow of the world around you, and how it impacts you directly. Join Vivian and Alexandra as they navigate how to listen to your body, take notice of patterns from the universe, and find community internally and externally. This heart-to-heart inspires an urgency to dive into the world around you and explore the shifts you’re currently experiencing in an enlightened space.
Show Highlights:
- How to allow ourselves to develop mastery as we move through life
- Evaluating who you want to become and taking the steps to get there
- The emotional and physical impact that shifting beliefs can have
- How childhood habits subconsciously manifest in adulthood
- Learning to be in tune with your body
- Using experimentation to find what realigns your body
- Identifying your old self in comparison to your new self
- Why choosing to put yourself first is beneficial for others
- Coming into balance with others and allowing each experience to be new
- Recognizing what the reflection of others says about your life
- The struggle of trying to reach success without disappointing others or yourself
- Allowing things to unfold in their natural timing
- How to get rid of the idea that everyone needs to like you
- Seeking to understand people without projection
- Pruning relationships through discovering your identity
- How to integrate small changes into your daily life
- What it looks like to go through death and rebirth seasons
- Growing through seasons with other people
- Shifting your relationship with time to adapt to your own rhythm
Links:
https://www.viviancarrasco.com
Vivian@viviancarrasco.com
Resources:
You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay
This week’s episode is the first to introduce the new direction the podcast is taking. Joining us in this transition is Dan Simon, host of It’s Personal Podcast. In this episode, Dan prompts Vivian with a series of questions that not only reveal her truth but unravel her experiences in a way that you can apply to your own self-exploration.
Dan and Vivian discuss how to embrace your innate nature, along with the process of immersing yourself in the goodness around you. Join Dan and Vivian in this evolution of growth not only for the podcast but in understanding the common ground between ourselves and others.
Show Highlights:
- Who Vivian Carrasco is and the evolution of how she’s gotten to be who she is
- Shifting your mindset from being driven by fear to becoming driven by love
- The importance of being persistent in growth and retaining it
- Taking responsibility for experiences and emotions
- How to train yourself to capture and relive good moments
- Reflecting on impactful life events
- Vivian’s near-death experience and how it changed her life
- Embracing seasons and learning to integrate newly acquired skills into daily life
- Helping others grow through their own experiences and approaching things with a humble perspective
- Learning to ask the right questions and practicing patience
- Recognizing identity shifts and allowing others the space to embrace their own
- How to identify the root of questions and use it to resolve issues
Links:
https://www.viviancarrasco.com
Vivian@viviancarrasco.com
https://www.rickhanson.net/take-in-the-good/
Take in the Good with Dr. Rick Hanson
Resources:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/leap-second-video-journal/id1021405859
This podcast has been a journey of almost 6 years. I've learned a lot over those years. One thing I know is that you need to constantly reinvent yourself. It's been a process of learning and growing, and I'm still learning and I know that if I look within myself, I can find the answers.
Join me on this journey Within (U)!
Today’s topic is inspired by recent conversations of overcoming fear and building strength. In this episode, Vivian explores what it looks like to live a life without regret and how to create a life you’re proud of. She discusses what the most common regrets people experience at the end of their lives are and ways to redirect your life to reflect the life you want. It’s never too late to change or develop more heart, so join Vivian in this insightful discussion to learn how you can live a more intentional and courageous life.
Show Highlights:
- The epiphany that accompanies unexpected death
- The most common regrets people experience at the end of their life
- Building up the courage to express your true feelings and be the person you want to be
- The fulfillment of nurturing relationships and maintaining connection
- How to train yourself to be happier
- Identifying what’s holding you back from achieving what you want before you pass
- What thinking versus doing looks like
- Developing self-awareness to help identify what’s missing from your life
- The impact of togetherness and inviting people on your journey
- Breaking patterns to step outside of the rut you’re experiencing
- Exploring your regrets and identifying how you can mend them
Links:
https://www.viviancarrasco.com
Vivian@viviancarrasco.com
Resources Mentioned:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/the-top-five-regrets-of-the-dying-bronnie-ware/1105496434/2679536105992?st=PLA&sid=BNB_ADL+Marketplace+Generic+New+Books+-+Desktop+Medium&sourceId=PLAGoNA&dpid=tdtve346c&2sid=Google_c&gclid=CjwKCAjw1rnqBRAAEiwAr29II05YMf12yww4BSxaXeez0phIbX1Xvky3ZCkFEiNBZEUinhdFS4E7TBoC3CwQAvD_BwE
The road to happiness is paved by our experiences and self-exploration. While the journey may not be linear, the magic is in learning to ride the waves. Join Vivian Carrasco and Sarita in this soul-searching conversation while they unravel the process of finding your own happiness. This episode reveals some of the most daunting commonalities we all face and how to redirect our default reactions. Tune into this episode to hear more about the key components to finding self-alignment and how your fulfillment can help you better serve others.
Show Highlights:
- Evaluating Finding Your Way in a Wild New World and what Vivian and Sarita learned from it
- Surfing the wave of change and moving with transformation
- Discovering what makes us happy and how to get more of that
- Obstacles we face between ourselves and finding our happiness
- The high of achievements and resetting ourselves to enjoy the journey
- Creating daily rituals that reset your default
- Recognizing your default state and acknowledging what you need to nurture that
- Letting go of control and not letting worry guide you
- How to approach your happiness factor outside of basic needs
- How to find alignment with your values and actions
- Committing to fulfilling your needs
- Turning inwardly to unearth what you need
- Finding resources that bring you comfort without shame
- Books for the spiritually skeptical
Links:
https://www.viviancarrasco.com
Vivian@viviancarrasco.com
Resources Mentioned:
Finding Your Way in a Wild New World by Martha Beck
Wild Mercy by Mirabal Star
Spiritual Rebel by Sarah Bowen
Women Rowing North by Mary Pipher
Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander
If you’ve ever traveled the tube in London, you’ll hear an automated voice say, “mind the gap” when the door opens, reminding passengers not to fall into the crevice, that space between the train and the platform.
Today’s special guest, blogger Elizabeth Martin, from mindingthegaps.life, talks with Vivian about the opportunity she had to take a “gap year” many years after getting married and having a family. In her blog, Elizabeth documents these changes in her life as she strives to fully experience them. We are reminded to be careful where we put our feet, so as to avoid the crevices. You may not know where you’re going, but if you’re fully present, then it can become an adventure and a mindful experience, not just another day you can’t remember after rushing through it.
Join Vivian and Elizabeth for tips on how we can more fully value our daily experiences by “minding the gap”.
Today, Vivian and Elizabeth Discuss:
- The difference between doing and being
- Family and obligations to our roles as younger women (and younger men) can preclude taking time to be mindful
- Is this who you want to be, or what you want to do?
- The transitioning of a role
- Being open and guided
- Experiences can become the gifts that you give your family, rather than things
- The “homeless plan” or home-free plan for a year, became more than that
- Trying to let go of plans and mastering letting go of the outcomes
- Setting intentions but not being married to the outcomes
- The concept of “fallow time” - allowing yourself to just think
- Learning to sit alone and being comfortable with yourself
- Practicing things that make us uncomfortable
- Allowing your adult children to parent their children
- We go through life and when we reflect, we see it differently
- What is the practice you’re going to choose?
- Who sold us Retirement, what the heck is it, and why do I have to buy into it?
- End of work to end of life - lack of rituals and ceremonies
- Inspiritus, the Latin word for “breathe”, and its importance for minding the gap
- Leveling off from management to leadership
- Letting go of our expectations of how we want our children to turn out
- Letting go of judgment and accepting people where they are
- Meditation: meeting your past self and future self
- Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable
- Cutting ties to the anchor: are you anchored to the right things?
- The term “elder” doesn’t mean “old”. The term “elder” means “it’s time to give back”.
Resources and Links:
Within the community, the quest for this quarter is called the “The June Journey of Joy”. If you use #lovebeinghuman on social media or mention me, you can choose to journey towards joy with me. This experience is the beautiful intersecting of the way I live and what I love to teach.
Elizabeth Martin: https://mindingthegaps.life
Elizabeth Martin’s Consulting Business, launching next week: Inspiritus Leadership
Book:
“Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life” by Marc Freedman
Your Invitation:
I’m all about transformation, not just more information.
In a single word you can define it as *Metanoia: (n.) The journey of changing ones mind, heart, self, and way of life.
Join us in Within (U)niversity
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Join the Community - https://within-university.mn.co
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Char and Nancy join Vivian in today’s episode of Turning Inward, where they discuss the paradoxical nature of wanting to be open but not being able to take in everything that’s available to you.
Learn ways that will help you navigate life when it feels a bit overwhelming. Feeling the need for change is at the heart of your ability to make it happen. Change what you see in the world, how you make decisions, and the way you lead yourself and others.
Join in as they indulge in a heart-to-heart on these timely topics!
Today, Vivian Discusses:
- The relationship between integrity and integration
- Chemistry and dissolution - in order to find a solution you have to “solve" first
- Concept of being like a lake - salt in a cup of water vs body of water
- Allowing for more
- “A life in practice”
- What is the deeper intention?
- Does it make you feel safe?
- The more you look, the more you can see
- Throwing away the cultural expectation
- Paying attention to your bodily reactions
- Looking further into troubling sensations
- Having an intimacy with yourself
- Cultivating that kindness and curiosity with the things happening around you
- Hand to heart
- This is a LIVING practice - we practice life
- Authority and what we’ve been taught
- Trust and faith built on experience
- Being in the flow of life
- Safeguarding and boundaries
- Making active choices and taking responsibility
- Presence, truthfulness, and kindness
- The “chicken little” syndrome
- Peace in not anticipating the next emergency
- Adjusting to your internal temperature of your increasing happiness
- Change makes you uncomfortable
- Evolution of change
- Sense of impermanence
- Shifting into a more creative and collaborative relationship with your life
Resources:
Within the community, the quest for this quarter is called the “The June Journey of Joy”. If you use #lovebeinghuman on social media, or mention me, you can choose to journey towards joy with me. This experience is the beautiful intersecting of the way I live and what I love to teach.
Contact Char:
Charlene@charhaughey.com
Contact Nancy:
https://www.goddessoftheroad.com
Books:
“Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live” - Martha Beck
“21 Lessons for the 21st Century” by Yuval Noah Harari
Your Invitation:
I’m all about transformation, not just more information.
In a single word you can define it as *Metanoia: (n.) The journey of changing ones mind, heart, self, and way of life.
Join us in Within (U)niversity
and More…
Join the Community - https://within-university.mn.co
Start a Convo with Me, Here - https://viviancarrasco.as.me/
Visit the Within (U) Dashboard - https://withinuniversity.com/dashboard/
Watch Vivi’s YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/viviantv
Become a Patron - https://www.patreon.com/VivianCarrasco
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Equilibrium and liberation are two of the significant insights that Vivian shares with us, of her own personal journey to wholeness.
Things that might seem simple by outward appearances can actually have deep roots, and it can take some time to navigate your interior life, tapping into what your spirit calls you to, rather than what has been culturally conditioned into your psyche.
Join Vivian as she discusses her year in review, plus dig into some soulful details about “The June Journey of Joy”, the quest for this quarter. Find out how you can train yourself to live a more joyful life.
Today, Vivian Discusses:
- Tapping into what your heart says
- Learning to be a part of my culture by reclaiming it
- Diversity is us being ourselves, together, in a LIVED way
- Living into the verb of being me
- The lesson is in your practice
- Fear gets your attention
- Not moved by fear, but inspired by joy
- Being subjective, instead of judgmental
- Investing some time in identifying where you are right now
- Training yourself to recognize simple joys in life
- Moving with the flow, not with the force
- Our brain has a bias toward the negative, but you can change this
- Learning to interrupt a pattern
- Knowing where you rest your attention is important
- Beauty and wonder is accessible to you, wherever you are
- Magic ratio of 5:1
Resources:
Within U community, the quest for this quarter is called the “The June Journey of Joy”. If you use #lovebeinghuman on social media, or mention me, you can choose to journey towards joy with me. This experience is the beautiful intersecting of the way I live and what I love to teach.
https://austinkleon.com/keepgoing/
Your Invitation:
I’m all about transformation, not just more information.
In a single word you can define it as *Metanoia: (n.) The journey of changing ones mind, heart, self, and way of life.
Join us in Within (U)niversity
and More…
Join the Community - https://within-university.mn.co
Start a Convo with Me, Here - https://viviancarrasco.as.me/
Visit the Within (U) Dashboard - https://withinuniversity.com/dashboard/
Watch Vivi’s YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/viviantv
Become a Patron - https://www.patreon.com/VivianCarrasco
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Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/vivi_carrasco/
Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/vivicarrasco
Today, we have another heart to heart conversation with Char, Nancy and Vivian! We never know where these conversations are going to take us, but we are always impacted and enriched by the conversation.
Our lives have a format, almost a cadence to them that we don’t always understand. But in the same way that the spaces between music notes are as much a part of the music as the notes are, the punctuation in our lives adds to our stories. Join us as we dig in and see where we will end up.
Show Highlights:
- Space is important in written word and even in music. With spoken word, we tend to want to fill every space.
- It isn’t often that we get to have conversations where have the space to think and adapt.
- All participants of a conversation aren’t always wanting the same thing out of the conversation.
- The written word allows us to have the opportunity to edit our thoughts and words.
- When you are with the right people, interruptions can be ok and aren’t always unwelcome.
- Vivian finds herself grateful for poetry.
- Char shares the poem, The Time Has Come by Derek Walcott
- Sometimes our brain needs some distance from memories to be able to reflect on love and be open to the reality that what we think may not always be right.
- Sometimes we have to direct our brain and re-direct our thought patterns so that we aren’t supporting changes we want to make.
- An intuitive mind is a sacred gift.
- We many times aspire to follow our hearts, while getting completely lost in our heads.
- Why we run from our fears.
- Vivian shares that the best decisions she has ever made in her life were not a result of her intellect - they were decisions made against all odds.
- Facts and truth aren’t the same thing.
- Change doesn’t last forever, but it is worth the discomfort when you get on the other side.
- All the ladies share a tool from their tool kit to help you stay in touch with your heart and get out of your head.
- The Guest House by Rumi
Compassion is a key part of giving people the permission they need to change. Growth never stops and it’s important we allow ourselves to constantly move with it and provide others the space to do the same. Today, Vivian Carrasco talks about how we can find understanding for others throughout their growth processes and our own. Along with this, she shares how to build self-awareness, identify values to guide you through life, and finding your inner child again – not only for you, but to teach your children to do the same. Join Vivian in this journey of self-exploration in this episode of Turning Inward.
Show Highlights:
- The pressure of being responsible for raising a child and their growth
- Letting go of a need for control and developing a sense of self
- Reflecting on how we played as children and how it correlates with our adult lives
- The importance of choices and recognizing what you need
- The comfort that a sense of control provides
- Going through an identity shift during life transitions
- What makes the experience of getting to love your children fulfilling
- Expecting identity shifts from others and accepting them
- Creating a support system to raise children
- Creating a mission statement and culture for your family
- Identifying our values and using them to move through life
- Pinpointing your occupation and evaluating who you are through that
Links:
Vivian@viviancarrasco.com
https://www.viviancarrasco.com
Instagram and Facebook: Vivian Carrasco
Join Charlene, Nancy, and Vivian Carrasco in this week’s conversation about navigating relationships, change and growth. They all bring enlightening insight about how they’ve handled shifts within their own lives and relationships. From how to shift your patterns of behavior within relationships, how to navigate change with your partner, and the most effective ways to give and receive feedback, this episode has it all. If you’re looking for a gentle push to teach you how to use discomfort as a guide to your happiness tune into this episode of Turning Inward.
Show Highlights:
- Navigating change within relationships
- Having expectations and letting go of past versions of people
- Being present and open with people you’re in relationship with
- Practices to become more mindful in the moment
- Having awareness of our reactions to absence
- How our mind tries to protect us but shields us from connection
- Going through stages of awareness with your body
- Shifting expectations for how you show up to things
- Not making yourself smaller
- All things equal mentality
- Bringing the real you to relationships
- Supporting your partners growth
- Letting yourself go and exploring your childlike curiosity
- Navigating parts of yourself you want to express alone
- Stepping into becoming a new person and managing your partners reaction
- The tension of growing apart from your partner and being brought back together
- Listening without getting defensive or disregarding your partners feelings
- Tuning in to client’s energy and reading patterns
- Reflecting and being mindful of the lessons you’ve learned
- Contrast that arises within relationships
- Generating love and bringing your presence to conversation
- Being open and receptive to others ways of communication
- How trust plays a part in accepting feedback
- Expressing our needs in a patient way
- Negotiating change nonverbally
- Uncovering what you want
- Making friends with uncertainty and risk
- Taking predictable steps
- Doing something different until something feels right
- Dealing with internal misalignment
- How to go towards what brings us joy
Links:
https://www.viviancarrasco.com
Instagram and Facebook: Vivian Carrasco
https://withinuniversity.com
Vivian@viviancarrasco.com
Contact Char:
Charlene@charhaughey.com
Contact Nancy:
https://www.goddessoftheroad.com
In this episode of Turning Inward, Vivian Carrasco shares exclusive insight on the progress, process, and updates on her new book, Love Being Human. Along with this, Vivian also gives a sneak peek of her book by reading the completed introduction. Vivian covers topics such as finding harmony within yourself, learning to love being human, and establishing priorities that align with your values. To learn more about Vivian’s book and how you can find your own inner joy, join Vivian in this journey of finding your own true fulfillment.
Show Highlights:
- The purpose behind the book
- Vivian’s journey writing a book
- A reading of the introduction
- Moving through uncertainty
- Learning to love being human
- Finding alignment within yourself and life
- Letting go of your need for outside validation
- Finding how to shift your mindset and open your heart
- Exploring the mystery of life through sacred daily practices
- The interdependence of love
Links:
Vivian@viviancarrasco.com
https://www.viviancarrasco.com
Instagram and Facebook: Vivian Carrasco
Today’s episode is another heart to heart conversation with Nancy and Char. We’re talking about meaning and story, and how our different perspectives affect how we view events. We talk about how we are interconnected as humans, but also struggle to stay in our own lane and mind our own business despite the interconnectedness.
Show Highlights:
- Projection and how it affects our relationships
- Transference vs. projection
- Engaging in conversation is at the root of almost everything we do.
- Conscious and unconscious exchanges of information
- Knowing how to have engaging conversations is an essential skill.
- Having a safe place to have conversations without editing our thoughts can lead to a greater understanding.
- Giving yourself space to not edit your thoughts or writing can also lead to new perspectives
- Sometimes you can’t tell a story when you are still in the middle of the story. It takes getting past it to be able to share it.
- Facts don’t persuade us - the experience, meaning and emotions are what persuade us.
- Being open to others means realizing that someone else may have something to offer to a conversation.
- We have to be circumspect about who we allow to teach us.
- We adopt identities that we don’t always reflect what we think about ourselves.
- Self-discovery isn’t always easy, but it can be fun and definitely worth it.
Resources:
https://www.viviancarrasco.com
Instagram and Facebook: Vivian Carrasco
https://withinuniversity.com
Vivian@viviancarrasco.com
Growth is a natural process, but it never gets any easier. Learning to find peace and comfort in transitional seasons is the greatest skill you’ll ever master. Today, Candace Palmo, editor and literary midwife, shares anecdotes from her farm and enlightening messages she’s received from nature that have helped her through growth periods. Join your host, Vivian Carrasco, and Candace as they dig up these gems from the universe in todays’ episode of Turning Inward.
Show Highlights:
- How being bound by habits stunts growth
- The insight nature brings
- Finding comfort in transitional zones
- Helping others give birth to their projects and visions
- Looking at things with a different perspective
- How circumstances impact how we flourish
- Making choices that align with our goals
- Changing how we view others
- Releasing control and letting things run their natural course
- How obsession leads to neglect
- Staying in touch with the source
- How forest bathing and nature reset the soul
- The art of putting our oars in the boat
- Pausing to find clarity
- Gaining access to your intuition
- The importance of working with people who are aligned in values
- The differences between looking at the world through a window or through a mirror
- Bringing our minds to a place of openness and kindness
- Finding your inner peace to bring peace
Links:
Candacepalmo@gmail.com
https://www.viviancarrasco.com
Communication is the backbone of our society, whether it’s small talk, personal, business, or just day-to-day colloquy. It’s important to understand the questions our subconscious is asking through this communication and how to naturally direct conversation with others.
In today’s episode of Turning Inward, Vivian Carrasco has a heart-to-heart with friends about how to tap into your unconscious desires and begin to understand how they’re shaping your experiences and relationships. Tune into this enlightening conversation to learn more about how you can create intimacy with others and connect on a deeper level with the world around you.
Show Highlights:
- Not being stuck in certainty
- How to find specificity and depth
- Speaking things out loud to process
- Societal predisposition for small talk
- Having meaningful conversations and straying from being surface
- How to sense when others don’t want to go deeper
- Transforming small talk into a deeper connection
- Giving people permission share what they want to
- How personal desires shape our experiences with others
- Asking more useful questions
- Allowing yourself time to process and rest
- Being more aware of the unconscious questions we ask ourselves
- Finding what you need in your decisions
- Being aligned in your intentions
- Being in the moment and letting questions arise naturally
- Why it feels easier to find a topic of conversation with the same sex
- Releasing resistance to personal questions
- Why growth is a good conversation topic
- Letting go of expectations in conversation
- What attracts people to coaching spaces
- Learning to go with the flow and let go of control
- Bringing the less shiny parts of yourself to the table
- How to feel your way through conversation
- Evaluating the feelings others evoke when you interact
- Having clarity in intentions and communication
- How embedded asking questions is in our day-to-day life
- Understanding things through a needs’ perspective
Links:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashion/no-37-big-wedding-or-small.html
https://www.viviancarrasco.com
Instagram and Facebook: Vivian Carrasco
https://withinuniversity.com
Vivian@viviancarrasco.com
Vulnerability can be intimidating for many of us. There seems to be a cultural stigma in which we all tend to associate softness with weakness, but today's conversation expands on why that isn’t the case.
In fact, Elsie Escobar, yoga instructor, and podcast personality explains why embracing vulnerability is the best thing you can do for growth – along with opening yourself up to others' growth process, giving yourself permission, and learning to look inside yourself. Tune into this episode of Turning Inward with your host, Vivian Carrasco, for enlightening guidance and advice on how to embrace power in your vulnerability.
Show Highlights:
- Experiencing nostalgia as your children grow up
- How the E-league came into fruition
- Bringing philosophy into yoga and your everyday life
- Taking time for yourself before you focus on others'
- Personalizing coaching based on what individuals need
- Opening up and becoming active in our growing process
- Giving yourself permission to learn
- using your voice to resonate with others
- Acknowledging others unique and valuable gifts
- What ear-to-ear practice is
- Having patience and understanding for others' growth process
- Why you should stop looking for a solution and using the resources you already have
- Looking outside of ourselves
- Making choices that best align with your lifestyle
- Binding yourself to your choices and experiences
- Softening ourselves to deepen intimacy and connections
- Having power in our vulnerability
- Why culture struggles to find a balance between strength and softness
- Being an advocate for other Latina women
- Practicing using your voice and sharing things you’re passionate about with others
- Stepping away from social media and verbalizing our thoughts
Links:
http://elsieescobar.com/get-to-know-me/
In a world full of advertisements and fitness gurus it can be difficult to tune into your own body. Learning how to understand your own needs and creating a healthy relationship with yourself is the first step to having a wholesome life.
In this episode of Turning Inward, nourishment specialist, Cathy Cochrane, talks about how to become more aware of the choices you’re making for your health, how to have a healthy relationship with food, and the importance of accepting things for what they are. Join your host, Vivian Carrasco, in this enlightening conversation to learn how you can find balance in your own life.
Show Highlights:
- Finding health and balance through wholeness
- Surrendering to current circumstances
- The similarities and differences between whole and natural health
- Finding motivation to persevere and become the person you want to be
- Being cautious with conventional medicine
- Changing lifestyle habits in order to prevent progressive illness
- Integrating your mind and your body
- Learning how to become more in tune with your body
- Understanding embodiment
- Applied Kinesiology and using muscle tension to determine truth
- Realizing the importance of not closing off parts of yourself to appeal to others
- Why compassion is a key component to the medical field
- Finding positivity in sudden shifts of direction
- Learning to protect yourself in relationships
- Effectively opening doors for healing
- Why weight loss isn’t necessarily healthy
- Creating a healthy relationship with food
- Making eating an emotional experience
- Expanding to fit your internal growth
- Letting your legacy grow and radiate
- Letting go of expectations
- The gap between goals and aspirations
Links:
http://wholehealthservices.ca
Instagram: CathyCochraneWH
https://www.viviancarrasco.com
Sometimes it can be difficult to find a safe place to voice your thoughts. That is why creating that space for others is so important. In this episode of Turning Inward, Dr. Vivian Carrasco has a lighthearted conversation with Nancy and Char about creating a safe place for others and within American culture. To hear more about how you can nurture your emotional learning and improve your ability to receive vulnerability, join us in this episode of Turning Inward.
Show Highlights:
- Creating creative responses and improv thought
- Practicing being open and receiving
- How American education has evolved
- Setting up a safe space for everyone to be accommodated
- Learning emotional understanding and conflict resolution skills
- How to evaluate cues from other people
Resources:
Gather around, your invited to experience the "Design Your Life, Digital Workshop." It's a three session on demand replay, as my gift to you. Session 1: Imagine Possibilities Session 2: Begin Session 3: Fireside Chat https://www.crowdcast.io/e/design-you...https://www.michelesammons.comhttps://www.viviancarrasco.com
As we approach the holiday season and the end of this year, it’s likely your mind is flooded with what you want to achieve, where you want to be, and how you want to use that to pour into others. It can be a struggle to channel that energy and find a sense of direction.
Today, Michelle Sammons and Vivian Carrasco invite you to gather with them in lighthearted conversation to find how you can open your heart to find the sense of direction you’re yearning for. Tune into this episode of Turning Inward to help you discover your purpose and excitement for your own personal journey.
Show Highlights:
- The idea of giving and receiving gifts
- Being aware of your own emotional limits
- Giving without expectations of receiving
- Staying open to the love and energy being offered
- How self-awareness brings direction
- Learning to listen to your heart
- Letting go of initial anxiety to find excitement
- Intuitive spiritual coaching
- How transformation differs from seeking change
- Letting readiness and grace meet in transitional phases
- Releasing control to the universe
- What drives us away from support and to figure things out on our own
- How to identify your vibe tribe
- Tuning into intuition
- Following your curiosity
- Steps to draw in what you really want
- Creating space between unwanted thoughts
- Settling into a feeling space to achieve your desires
- The limitations we create for ourselves with time
- Using your now
- Channeling our power to co-create
- Finding resistant thoughts because we’re afraid
- Finding friction and allowing merging
- Finding our part in the cycle
Resources:
Gather around, your invited to experience the "Design Your Life, Digital Workshop."
It's a three session on demand replay, as my gift to you.
Session 1: Imagine Possibilities
Session 2: Begin
Session 3: Fireside Chat
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/design-your-life-digital/1?rfsn=586159.a6f352
https://www.michelesammons.com
https://www.viviancarrasco.com
Today, we will make a pilgrimage to our innermost selves by exploring our limiting beliefs and vulnerabilities. We will be sharing our personal insecurities and how to help you evaluate your internal dialogue by reversing negative thought processes. We extend the invitation and encourage you to join us in our heart-to-heart with Nancy Guerrera and Charlene Hoey, by doing some soul searching of your own. Tune into today's conversation while we delve the importance of self-love, discovering what fuels your joy, and how to cultivate your gifts to serve others.
Show Highlights:
- Dealing consciously with transition and feeling into change.
- Learning the process of building evidence.
- Tuning into the cycles of nature.
- Find constancy in shift and transition.
- Practicing self-compassion.
- Exploring kindness towards others and ourselves.
- Devoting energy to togetherness.
- The distinct differences in energy behind fitting in and belonging.
- Being seen in your strengths and glory can be scary.
- Recognizing transitional spaces and becoming aware of the rules we place on ourselves.
- We traditionally celebrate a sense of completion because reality doesn’t.
- The difference between being invited to a conversation and an interview.
- Finding fluidity in yourself.
- Cultivating courage to surrender to kindness and trust.
- Noticing when you’re out of whack or when you’re at peace.
- Using stillness and meditation to find courage.
- Recognizing if you have a lingering negative emotion.
- Taking heart and casting out fear.
- Understanding that no is a good enough reason.
- Reminding ourselves of our purpose and how to develop our own map.
- Having someone to reflect on when we can’t see our own brilliance.
Your Invitation to The Art of Possibility Book Club:
It’s experiential, because you learn from doing. I’m all about transformation, not just more information.
*Metanoia: (n.) The journey of changing one's minds, heart, self, and way of life.
We met live for 10 sessions January through March 2018. If you’d like to listen to the entire book club you can join us in Within (U) at https://within-university.mn.co/landing or send me an email with a request for the links at vivian@viviancarrasco.com
Watch the original YouTube here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3mMbg1nU6k
Links:
http://www.charhoey.com
https://www.goddessoftheroad.com
viviancarrasco.com
It's easy to assume that once you know your purpose and mission in life, that there are few barriers to actually accomplishing your mission. However there are times when, even though you know your mission, for some reason, you can't find your voice to speak the truth of your mission.
In today's episode, I talk about the time this happened to me. It was this past year and I just couldn't even verbalize why I couldn't record a podcast, but I just knew I couldn't. I pulled the plug on the podcast, and was ready to pack it in. When I told my podcast producer, Christy Haussler about this, she sent me an email that I read and re-read again and again. Eventually, I found my voice again. Learn what I did and how I dealt with myself during this difficult time.
Show Highlights:
- Finding your voice happens over and over again throughout our lives - it's not a one time thing.
- Why you have to give yourself grace and space when you can't find your voice.
- How Christy's email helped me give myself room to flounder a bit.
- Women in particular, are susceptible to losing their voices
- Where to find support when you don't even understand what is going on with you.
- Podcasting has been a tool that has given thousands of women a voice AND a platform.
- Why patience with yourself is critical when you can't find your voice.
Links:
Christy's Website
Teresa Ott isn’t afraid of the unconventional. When you find yourself questioning “why are we doing what we are doing”? - just because it’s what's expected - it’s time re-evaluate your answers. When she and her husband started questioning why they needed to have a house at all - they began looking for some out of the box ideas. Living in an RV was supposed to be a temporary transition - but after each started second guessing whether the other would “go for it”, they finally reached the point that they were done!
Turning Inward is all about the questioning process and figuring out why you are doing what you are doing and setting your life up to reflect that answers that you want to have to those questions.
Show Highlights:
- The transition out of the traditional life isn’t easy or quick
- You can’t put your transition on a calendar and make it happen on schedule.
- When you do what you are “supposed” to do, it puts you in a perpetual cycle of assimilation.
- Tribalism wants you to fit in and wants you to be like everyone else - but it isn’t your only alternative.
- It’s ok not to have everything all figured out. Give yourself the whitespace.
- In order for creatives to create, you have to give yourself the space to create.
- If we waited to speak until we had it all figured out, we’d miss so much learning from the doing part of the journey.
- The more you learn about something, the more you realize you don’t know a fraction of what there is to still learn.
- You have to find people to support you and believe in what you are doing, but no one else can give you the blueprint for your life.
- Sometimes your relationships will have to shift to accommodate your transitions.
Resources:
Teresa’s Blog - wanderingporcupine.com
AFearlessVenture.com - Teresa’s Business
Steph Lagana - business coach and a spiritual healer. Made a significant move when she decided to leave her career and pursue spiritual healing.
There was a time in Steph’s life when her health was failing and she was in a place where she wasn’t in alignment with her spirit. She knew some changes had to take place and she had a support system of people who believed in her and came to a different conclusion about Steph than she did. They held the vision for what Steph’s life could really be - a life of service that didn’t completely suck every bit of life out of her. Learn how Steph found the courage to transform her life, and how you can do the same.
Show Highlights:
- Your friends and your inner circle are so important in your life, so choose them wisely.
- You can learn new things about yourself by going through difficult times.
- Work can take so much of our lives, that we don’t have anything left over for us.
- We don’t really wake up, many times we wake down.
- Always serve from your overflow. Otherwise, you become resentful.
- “What’s else is going on right now?” Use this question as a tool for self-awareness.
- If your world is falling apart, find a world that is creating for you.
- Your journal is a great space for you. Any place devoid of productivity is a good space.
- Our conscious awareness is only 2% of what we can see. Our sub-conscious is 98%.
- Don’t dismiss your own intuition.
- Einstein time - scarcity of time is a figment and it doesn’t serve you.
- Notice the thoughts you are repeating to yourself - do those serve you?
- Your answers rest in that place of slowing down.
If you need a pep talk, stay tuned to the very end of this episode and be affirmed that you are going to be ok. You can’t even imagine what the future holds for you and it will all work out and be ok - if you will allow yourself the space to come into alignment with your true desires.
Resources:
Steph’s Website
Steph on Facebook
Instagram @yoursacredcraft
Facebook Group - Your Sacred Craft
The foundational principle of almost all religions is love. To love ourselves and love each other seems to be at the core of what connects us to the Divine. Organized religion has historically not been tolerant of a person attempting to find their own path to Source. Today’s show is a conversation with Nancy Guerrera about the walk through the journey of determining the distinction between religion, spirituality and what’s right for each person.
Vivian has come to appreciate mysticism for many reasons. Although Vivian doesn’t use her Catholic religion as a talking point in the show, she’s been able to find a way to allow both religion and spirituality to co-exist in a symbiotic way in her head and heart. It’s rare to have a discussion on spirituality that isn’t filled with dogma and demands, and this discussion is about giving each of us the freedom to find our own spiritual path - because we know that spirituality is a personal journey whose destination is love, but the path to love will vary from person to person.
Show Highlights:
- The concept of metanoia - change in one's way of life resulting from penitence or spiritual conversion.
- Metanoia is the Greek origin of Jesus’ first teachings - changing your mind - translated into English as repent, but that isn’t what it means at all.
- We go through a new birth 5 or 6 times in our lifetimes.
- The tension around “am I doing something against my faith” by exploring mysticism and other spirituality practices.
- The disconnection between the head and the heart can be a barrier to spirituality
- There is a difference between spirituality and the religion that is practiced.
- Looking at the differences between the historical version of religion and the cultural practice of spirituality can help ease the tension you may feel between the two.
- There is truth in all religions across all time.
- Being open to different types of spiritual experiences allows you to use all the tools available to you
- There are more similarities between different religions than many would have you believe.
- You can receive a sense of belonging from your spiritual practice.
- Each person will have their own spiritual journey, and to try and force one set journey on everyone actually strips away the freedom that spirituality affords.
- Looking at spirituality through child-like eyes can help you see things clearly.
- Original sin vs. original design
- Sin is a lack of a holistic approach in paying attention to your own thoughts and feelings about your spiritual path.
- People don’t relate to religion because it doesn’t naturally feels intuitive, magical or self-empowering.
- The shame surrounding religious traditions will rob you of the joy of your self-discovery.
- Mysticism is about the experiential knowledge - the drawing out from within.
- Balance or harmony - you need to be free to find your own “song”
- Art as a spiritual practice? Have you ever considered the gravity of elevating art to that level?
Resources:
Visit the Within (U) Dashboard - https://withinuniversity.com/dashboard/
Watch Vivi’s YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/viviantv
Become a Patron - https://www.patreon.com/VivianCarrasco
Watch the #21 Day Living Live Experiment - https://www.facebook.com/ViviHCarrasco/videos/734922213360738/
Shop in the store - https://withinuniversity.com/shop/
Yoga with Us - https://www.viviancarrasco.com/yoga/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/vivi_carrasco/
Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/vivicarrasco
Today on the podcast, Dr. Vivian Carrasco will tell a story called “The Parable Nietzsche”. Vivian will help you understand the transition you go through in life, by explaining the three transformations of the spirit. She will give you tips that can help you let go of what you were raised to do and allow you to do what you want to do.
Show Highlights:
- The Parable Nietzsche – The three transformations of the spirit
- The Camel – The season of obedience and following the rules.
- The Lion- Knocking down those should.
- The Child- Use the rules not being used by the rules
- The overlapping of “The Three Transformations of the Spirit” with her teaching of “Love, Being Human”
- Her experience with the art of Tokashi Murakami.
- She saw in physical form all three conformations in his artwork.
- The way she coped by learning about different traditions, religions, and cultures in order to help serve people.
- Vivian will discuss the three levels of awakening.
- She discusses the conformation that you are currently on and gives insight and guidance as you go through this process.
Resources Mentioned in the Show
Turning Inward Podcast
Vivian Carrasco Website
Within University
https://www.themodern.org/contact/press/modern-art-museum-fort-worth-presents-takashi-murakami-octopus-eats-its-own-leg-june
The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg by Takashi Murakami
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Visit the Within (U) Dashboard - https://withinuniversity.com/dashboard/
Watch Vivi’s YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/viviantv
Become a Patron - https://www.patreon.com/VivianCarrasco
Watch the #21 Day Living Live Experiment - https://www.facebook.com/ViviHCarrasco/videos/734922213360738/
Shop in the store - https://withinuniversity.com/shop/
Yoga with Us - https://www.viviancarrasco.com/yoga/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/vivi_carrasco/
Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/vivicarrasco
If you are, looking to change your mindset and tuning into what you want instead of what you do not want then you must tune into this podcast. You will experience a journey called “Moving from what I should do to what I want now” Vivian will help you transition and give you tips that can help you let go of your fears and focus on your desires.
Vivian is a mentor and teacher that helps people live their lives to the fullest. She has the gift of seeing into the heart of things in order to help clear away the things that keep you from moving forward. She consults for Fortune 50 corporations, nonprofits and other organizations such as the Army. She holds a doctorate in Educational Leadership, Masters in Human Relations and Bachelors in Psychology.
Show Highlights:
- An invitation to Experience and exercise with her to help you reconnect.
- The teaching that goes on in the University in the first class of summer school .
- What do you really want?
- Taking tiny steps to find out what you really want.
- A Significant Shift for Vivian was the change in direction. What are you moving toward?
- Levels of Asking
Resources Mentioned in the Show
Visit the Within (U) Dashboard - https://withinuniversity.com/dashboard/
Watch Vivi’s YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/viviantv
Become a Patron - https://www.patreon.com/VivianCarrasco
Watch the #21 Day Living Live Experiment - https://www.facebook.com/ViviHCarrasco/videos/734922213360738/
Shop in the store - https://withinuniversity.com/shop/
Yoga with Us - https://www.viviancarrasco.com/yoga/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/vivi_carrasco/
Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/vivicarrasco
It has been almost a year since the last podcast, and Vivian is really happy to be back, sharing this journey with you! Today she shares her review and some of what she's documented of the highlights and everyday moments in her life for the past year. She recalls the simple, joyful moments that have brought her meaning and fulfillment because it's really good to remember. And it's important to train your mind to remember things too. Join us on the show today to hear Vivian's review of the last year and find out about her insights and the shift she feels she's starting to step into.
A few shows back, Vivian had her birthday episode. So, on the show today, we're going to be reviewing her 44th year. And Vivian will be sharing the two biggest insights that this year has given her, and the shift that she feels she's moving towards right now. Listen in to find out more.
Show Highlights:
- A poem called Praying, by Mary Oliver, which really captures the intention of how Vivian would like to show up for you.
- Vivian's intention to remain herself, even in the public eye.
- Vivian explains the way that she serves.
- About Within University.
- Becoming is a never-ending journey.
- Being aligned with who you are and what matters to you.
- Vivian has been creating art lately- and it's been a new way to connect.
- What you'll find in the online store.
- The 21-day challenge in July. It was a fascinating experience. (Go to videos on Vivian's Facebook page.)
- Vivian is now creating on Youtube!
- Yoga, mindful movement, and guided rest is a part of Love Being Human.
- Vivian and David have both become involved with Veteran's Yoga Project. It's really mindful about trauma.
- You can join Within University for $35 per month.
- The more intensive group experience of Magnify is available for $140 per month.
- For one-on-one work, Vivian is offering a retainer service starting at $480 per month.
- Vivian's focus is currently on her authentic voice.
- Wish for what you want without driving yourself towards it. It is possible.
Resources:
Join the Community - https://within-university.mn.co
Start a Convo with Me, Here - https://viviancarrasco.as.me/
Visit the Within (U) Dashboard - https://withinuniversity.com/dashboard/
Watch Vivi’s YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/viviantv
Become a Patron - https://www.patreon.com/VivianCarrasco
Shop in the store - https://withinuniversity.com/shop/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/vivi_carrasco/
Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/vivicarrasco
Your journey to becoming is your bringing all of yourself to life. Vivian is very happy to have you join her in her workshop today. She's also really excited to be supporting you in your commitment towards transformation and moving in the direction of the becoming and beckoning that is happening in your heart. It is her honor and her joy that you have made the decision to allow her time and space in your journey.
In today's workshop, Vivian offers you a 'map' for your journey of becoming. And she will show you how to stay with your gut feeling as you make the journey on the long, slow, and arduous path towards becoming. If you are feeling any doubt about yourself, don't worry. It's actually a good thing because it's natural and it shows that you're on the right track. Vivian urges you to set your intention, stay with it, and let it carry you forward, as this will help you to remain open-hearted in your endeavors. Listen in to find out more.
Show Highlights:
- Moving slowly along this journey is going to require mastery.
- In your journey of becoming you drop the stick and create the carrot.
- Becoming requires deep time.
- Only you know what is true for you.
- Working gently and patiently with your soul.
- Motivating yourself by linking your actions to your values.
- Cultivating presence takes time.
- Some questions to help you figure out what you really want.
- We all have a unique voice.
- Figuring out who you want to be.
- Imagine the greatest possibility possible.
- Your doubts and fears are part of your design, so they won't go away. But they don't have to be in charge of you.
- Finding the truth of you.
- Setting goals that are aligned with the values of your heart.
- Building habits into your routine that move you forward in your aspiration.
- Small steps forward- slowly and consistently.
- Face your fears- they are your biggest obstacle.
- You are smarter than your thinking, so feel rather than think.
- Get some support- find a community.
- Create a routine around celebrating, clarity, insight, and community.
Resources:
Join the Community - https://within-university.mn.co
Start a Convo with Me, Here - https://viviancarrasco.as.me/
Visit the Within (U) Dashboard - https://withinuniversity.com/dashboard/
Watch Vivi’s YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/viviantv
Become a Patron - https://www.patreon.com/VivianCarrasco
Shop in the store - https://withinuniversity.com/shop/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/vivi_carrasco/
Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/vivicarrasco
Did you know that when you turn inward, tune in and really listen to yourself you actually help save the world? Because saving the world comes from a grounded and integrated presence. As well as increasing your understanding- listening, watching, and being curious, all involve taking personal responsibility. And this is where you start. Vivi is here to help you move from your head to your heart and she doesn't just share information, she actually guides you. So join today's workshop to learn more.
Joining this live training session today will mean that you have taken some time for yourself. And doing that could even mean that you're facing your fear, so thank and congratulate yourself! So, if taking some time for yourself, and feeling good about it, really resonates with you, listen in and allow Vivian to guide you.
Show Highlights:
- The way that your words frame your life.
- Developing a new language around your intention.
- Getting to know that everything begins with your language.
- Upping your game to the third dimension.
- We all have a deeper well of intuition.
- From your deep well of intuition, you don't have to take from one thing to give to another.
- A practical way to get into the third dimension.
- Considering the urgency and significance of your tasks.
- Managing your energy as an alternative to managing your time.
- How to poke your way out of the box.
- The death and rebirth of yourself may look like destruction.
- Learn to observe without judgment.
- Allow the change to happen easily by beginning to notice.
- Remember that you are your own best teacher.
- Tune in and give yourself permission and space for your own wants, needs, and feelings.
- Calibrating your body compass.
- Some practical tips for managing your energy rather than your time.
- A spiritual practice is something that enlivens you.
- Pay attention to your energy levels throughout the day.
Resources:
Watch the Crowdcast original recording
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/takingtime
Vivian's website - www.viviancarrasco.com
Vivian's email: vivian@viviancarrasco.com
Visit the Within (U) Dashboard - https://withinuniversity.com/dashboard/
Watch Vivi’s YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/viviantv
Become a Patron - https://www.patreon.com/VivianCarrasco
Watch the #21 Day Living Live Experiment - https://www.facebook.com/ViviHCarrasco/videos/734922213360738/
Shop in the store - https://withinuniversity.com/shop/
Yoga with Us - https://www.viviancarrasco.com/yoga/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/vivi_carrasco/
Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/vivicarrasco
Four years ago, after a pretty dark period in her life, Vivian created a pause for herself which allowed her to shift direction. Since then she has been working with groups of individuals to give meaning to the revelation that she was given at the time, through Love Being Human. As a result, she has experienced a significant difference in the quality of her life. So today's workshop is a celebration of the last four years of work for Vivian. Listen in to find out more.
No matter how good your life is, or what you've managed to achieve, you will keep creating your own troubles. So, to avoid becoming frustrated or embittered, you really need to understand how you're wired. In this live training session, Vivian will teach you how to get off the mental treadmill that has a negative impact on your health and happiness. You will learn that without effort, you will not experience what is possible for you. And you will discover the steps that you need to take, in order to feel fully alive. Listen in today to find out how to change the way you think and plant the seeds of joy in your heart.
Show Highlights:
- It's essential to understand the way that you're wired, in order to move forward.
- The first step in the action plan to installing a new way of being.
- Creating outcomes based on more than you know.
- The limitations of relying on your brain.
- The things that really box us in.
- Start by knowing yourself and gaining some cognitive control.
- Your brain is continuously problem-solving.
- Illuminating your inner world.
- Moving towards what you love and what brings you joy.
- Your brain is designed to be afraid and to minimize your danger.
- Changing yourself is a painful process.
- We all really need to feel connected and supported, in order to grow into where we're supposed to be.
- The transformation process is going to be difficult, so you really need to find someone to support you.
- Fear actually makes us become less human.
- Some ways to observe your brain.
- Knowing yourself is the first step to transformational change.
- Freeing yourself from automatic response.
- The basic skill of introception is the key.
- The M A A S (Mindful Awareness Attention Scale) quiz.
- We urge you to expand your decision capability through introspection.
- Why you really need to share your thoughts and feelings.
Resources:
Join the Community - https://within-university.mn.co
Start a Convo with Me, Here - https://viviancarrasco.as.me/
Visit the Within (U) Dashboard - https://withinuniversity.com/dashboard/
Watch Vivi’s YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/viviantv
Become a Patron - https://www.patreon.com/VivianCarrasco
Shop in the store - https://withinuniversity.com/shop/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/vivi_carrasco/
Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/vivicarrasco
How do you dance the dance of your life? Are you living with hope and courage and is this leading you to the right action? If you're looking for some inspiration, join Vivian today, as she talks to Paula Sprunger, someone who literally wears her heart on her sleeve! Paula is the founder and she's also the heart and soul of the HumaniTee Brand, which really is her passion, for bringing more love and light into the world.
Recently, Vivian had the wonderful opportunity to spend some delightful time with her. So, listen in, as Vivian introduces Paula and they have a really heartfelt chat about freedom and friendship and some of the other, truly real and relevant things that contribute to how they dance the dance of their lives.
Show highlights:
- The story of how humanity came to be.
- How freedom has become so relevant to Paula, since meeting Vivian about a year ago.
- Vivian's Magnify Program and how that has really brought everything into focus for Paula over the past year and helped her to see her purpose.
- What is your purpose right now?
- The way to follow your intuition is never a straight line.
- The magnificence of seeing your grown children in their own being.
- Growing into knowing what love is and experiencing it through having children.
- How Paula processes fear- always with God in mind.
- Shifts and changes are really an invitation to experience life.
- What Paula does to feed her heart.
- How Paula listens to herself.
- Paula reminds you that you are important and you really deserve to be good to yourself! It starts with you!
Links:
You can find the HumaniTee Brand on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Website: www.humaniteebrand.com This is where you can see their current collection, sign up for their newsletter and even get pre-access to their new collections.
Magnify will begin again in October 2017, so if you're interested, email Vivian vivian@viviancarrasco.com
Welcome to another chance to be inspired and Turn Inward. In this special Birthday Episode, Vivian shares the nuggets of wisdom she has gained over the past 43 years of her life. Making this episode extra special, Vivian has a chat with her bestie Sarah Dietman. Using the ebb and flow of excellent conversation, this week we dig into the experiences and choices that make us human. How can we set boundaries, let go of limitations, and express ourselves in a way that is authentic and encouraging?
- The 3 Things that make Vivian feel like a grown up.
- The power of intimacy and vulnerability.
- Stages of life, growing and unfolding in new insights.
- Boundaries are important! We share our understanding and insight.
- Strategies for decision-making.
- Discovering the difference between Belonging and Fitting In.
- A shift towards authenticity makes all the difference.
- What does it mean to “allow” yourself to do something?
- Grow your awareness in your feelings to better serve yourself.
Links
Learn more about Sarah
http://www.sarahdietman.com/
Explore our Online Community
http://www.withinuniversity.com
Welcome to another opportunity to pause and look inward. Examine your thoughts for a moment. What are they saying? What places feel chaotic? For so many of us, everything feels like a mess. Today is an opportunity to see the truth in things. All is well. This is a chance to welcome the light into your world.
Humans are also spiritual beings, and if there is a war going on outside of you, look and see how you can solve the war within you. What holds you within the reach of the chaos today? Is it fear? Is it hurt? This week, Vivian wants to encourage you to be happy and free!
- Chaos exists in the world, but we have an inner power that allows us to change things.
- We can’t stop suffering, but we can point to the places that are growing in disguise.
- Your inner spirit and your outer life of action are connected.
- Heal your pain first.
- Vivian’s Action Steps to marching through suffering from intention and fearlessness.
- Take action from love and not fear.
Links
Vivian’s Online Community: https://www.viviancarrasco.com/
Attention all book addicts! Vivian, like so many of us, waits for her box from Amazon with baited breath. Reading opens up all kinds of doors for us, and our personal growth and fulfillment is no exception. This week, Vivian shares a book that has impacted a book from her “virtual bestie” Kyle Cease, who gets what it means to give birth to a new version of himself.
The book is I Hope I Screw This Up, and this week Vivian shares her nuggets of wisdom and insight to inspire you to take the next step towards happiness. Kyle Cease understands that finding happiness is a process: it can be painful, it can be uncomfortable, but it is worth it.
Does this sound like you? Are you ready to let go and jump into a fully realized life? Join Vivian this week with the “Turning Inward” Podcast.
- Learning to let go means getting bigger.
- What is trying to express itself through me?
- Vivian shares excerpts from the book.
- Discover Kyle Cease’s Two Steps towards getting excited about You.
- How Vivian used the book to learn how to break the rules.
- Are you in a shell? How can you tell?
- Pain can be your teacher. Learning through it helps you drop the illusion.
- Give birth to a new vision of yourself.
Links
Kyle Cease on Youtube
Online Learning Community: Viviancarrasco.com
Did you know life can be both your playground and your school? It’s no surprise that life can get hectic. We float from thing to thing without focus and without intention. For many of us, we drift along without any true sense of happiness. Where are the places where you feel out of focus? Often, those are the places we are also unhappy.
“Turning Inward” is a place where Mindset Mentor and Creative Midwife Vivian Carrasco shares her insights on how to live a happier life. This week, Vivian shares how you can train your brain to build focus, resilience, and an overall happier lifestyle. Are you ready to strengthen your attention and intention? Vivian will show you how.
Also in this episode:
- The problem of our brains being build to hijack our attentions.
- Feel better, be less stressed out, be happier through training.
- Learn the steps that you will need to take to find happiness.
- Bringing back the wandering mind through meditation and awareness.
- Discover the bilateral highway between the body and the mind.
- Unpack the research of David Richardson and his Four Pillars of Wellbeing.
- What is a positive outlook, and how can you make it stronger?
- Dispelling the myth that our brains cannot change.
- Creating an intention to build your focus muscles. It’s a workout for your brain!
- Find a community that supports your growth.
Links
Online Learning Community: https://www.viviancarrasco.com/
Have you ever asked yourself if there's a better way to live? Have you ever wondered if you could be better? Do better? If you have, then Vivian has a hunch that you're ready to wake up and change. Listen in to find out why she thinks so and what you can do to assist the process.
This episode is a conversation with you, to give you a nudge and find out if you're ready to wake up and begin the process of transforming yourself. Vivian explains that the reason for wondering about a better way to live is because the act of bringing something into your awareness, allows for a choice, or a change. It's a way for you to become aware and design a different way for yourself and you already have everything you need, in order to do that. She points out that you can't avoid pain in your life, however, it is within your control to lessen your suffering. Listen in as Vivian explains how you can use your attention to change your brain so that you can begin to wake up and see things more clearly.
Today, Vivian discusses:
- That the thread throughout this episode is whether you're above or below the line.
- A visual aid to help you help you to find out whether you're above or below the line and what it means.
- What Twenty-First Century Training is all about.
- That wherever you rest your attention, you're going to take in information.
- Becoming aware of where you place your attention because it shapes who you are.
- Why you need to pause before you take action.
- Accessing the part of your brain where all the juice of life is- in the pre-frontal cortex.
- Creating a choice for yourself, above the line.
- What expanded awareness (above the line) looks like.
- An explanation of Michael Beckwith, of the Agape International Spiritual Centre's model of the template on the evolution of our consciousness, or the different ways of being.
- How you can bring more awareness to your natural wiring.
- Books that Vivian recommends, by Dr. Dan Siegel, about using your awareness to change your brain.
- No matter what your specific default state is, you really can change it.
- That there is nothing holding you back, but yourself.
- How to know when you've been hijacked by your brain.
- Moving from surviving to thriving.
Resources:
Recommended books: Life Visioning by Michael Beckwith
Mind and Brainstorm by Dr. Dan Siegel
Today's show is inspired by one of Vivian's favorite mystics, Anthony de Mello. His last book, The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello, The Way To Love, is a book that she keeps very close at hand and refers to often, as she resonates so closely with his writings. Listen to today's show and learn how to really love and accept yourself and develop your awareness, through the teachings of Anthony de Mello.
Vivian explains that the premise of his writing is that love springs from awareness- and awareness is really her thing! She points out that in order for us to truly begin to love, we have to awaken that awareness and it's really not that easy. In fact, it's painful - as de Mello says, “The most painful act is the act of seeing, but in that act of seeing, love is born.” Vivian explains that most of us are really not content to be ourselves because we are programmed from birth to be dissatisfied- or to be anything other than what we really are! She points out that any change that you make is always accompanied by inner conflict. She talks about how people suffer from seeing the achievements of others that they believe not to be possible for themselves. She also talks about how difficult it is for most people to be kind to themselves and what a challenge it is for people to simply accept who they are. Listen in today, as Vivian shares more of her wisdom, as inspired by the mystical writing of Anthony de Mello.
Today, Vivian discusses:
- Why most people really tend to disregard their own gifts.
- The Way of Self-Understanding.
- Why everything that she does is around awakening and awareness.
- Observing and studying yourself, without judgment, rather than trying to change yourself.
- What will happen to you from observing yourself, rather than trying to change?
- What happens to people, as a result of the transforming light of awareness.
- The difference between ego violence and nature violence.
- The amazing effect of awareness on your neurological system.
- Why you need to notice what enlivens you and really brings you to life.
- Noticing where your life becomes drained from you.
- Risking failure and really not knowing.
- Chiseling away at the layers that cover your soul.
- How you can touch your own heart- be still, wait patiently and watch closely.
- Allow the discomfort- don't push it away and wait patiently.
Vivian is back on the show, after several months sabbatical. She naturally follows the Texas Two Step process, in that she tends to withdraw at times because she's leveling up. Join Vivian today, as she starts out with a little freestyle, for you to get to know her again.
Today, Vivian explains what caused her to withdraw this time and she talks about the different formats that she's gone through with this show, since starting out, years ago. She says that although she finds that the deepest fulfillment and meaning for her, come from working with people one on one, she's still committed to her promise to continue to show up on the podcast. She feels good about the transformation that's gone on over the last number of years, since she was downloaded with the set of instructions to love being human and she used this podcast as a way to turn around and offer these instructions to you, as well. Listen in today, as Vivian shares what she knows in her knowing and returns to the show, to hand the tools over.
Today, Vivian talks about:
- How she retreated from her instructions, after being hit by a car in 2013. Not her highest choice.
- That her work is about growing in awareness.
- That noticing, naming and nurturing allows things to fall away without effort.
- What happens as you grow in confidence and courage and develop your skills of awareness.
- Why this podcast is called Turning Inward.
- Who she serves.
- That turning your focus inward sharpens your saw.
- That you don't have to be religious, but you do need to have faith.
- Being grounded in your own values and turning towards love.
- What she does, for the most part, through maintaining a Spiritual Practice.
- That she will help you in developing your own, personal Spiritual Practice.
- Moving slow and steady in working out what is really for the greater good.
- Developing a Spiritual Practice, as a Modern Mystic.
- That she works with people all around the world.
- Hot Yoga- a nice way to set your soul on fire.
- That she will be opening another Magnify small group in October this year.
- The work that she does with people.
Links:
Vivian's website: www.viviancarrasco.com
Vivian's email: vivian@viviancarrasco.com
Do you find yourself looking for ways to avoid the pain and discomfort that change inevitably brings? Would you like to find out how to best deal with this unavoidable aspect of your growth? Then join Vivian today, as she offers her gentle guidance to nudge you away from logic and into your heart.
On today's show, Vivian talks about change in identity. She talks about her own transformation and how she knew that she had to deepen her practice and commit full force to calming her mind and all its noise. She explains that she has learned to observe her reactions, rather than being subject to them and how this shift has brought so much joy into the process. Listen in today, as Vivian shares her insights and encourages you to enjoy creating your world and discover how you can transform your anxieties, worries, and stress into something that you can deal with.
Today, Vivian discusses:
- That the essence of you comes from your heart, not your head.
- How she would keep searching for the reason that she was afraid- and upon finding it, she could face it.
- That any change will bubble up fear in you and why it's unavoidable.
- That life's questions are answered through gentle inquiry.
- The difference between guiding people and teaching and leading them.
- That her vocation and service is is holding the space for her community to move through their own identity shifts- and loving you hard through all of that.
- The death and rebirth which occurs throughout your life.
- Who the true self really is.
- How much more you can see, when you look through your heart.
- That transformation takes courage.
Links:
Vivian's website: www.viviancarrasco.com
Vivian's email: vivian@viviancarrasco.com
Do you realize that you're actually much smarter than you think you are? Would you like to find out why, or how you can come to see that for yourself? Then join Vivian today and learn about how you can go about raising your awareness and developing your insight.
Today, Vivian talks about the Five Day Experience that she hosted in January and has now made available for you on her website. She describes it as a slow drip of daily insight to bring awareness to the fact that you're smarter than you think you are. She discusses what she leads you through in it and that the core intention is not one of self-help because you're not broken. She also discusses how, after a transformational process, people have a tendency to go back to logic and looking for facts, like trying to figure out a maths problem- and that's just not the way that it works. So, slow down, listen in and learn about how you can tap into your own inner wisdom, by becoming aware of what's going on in and around you. You're going to love this show!
Today, Vivian talks about:
- A relevant and beautiful speech by David Foster Wallace, that she shares a part of with you today.
- How we all tend to get lost in the intellect.
- Her own recent transformation and how she found herself looking for the logic in it- knowing that that it wasn't going to serve her.
- That you need to keep reminding yourself to pay attention to what's right in front of you and to what's going on inside of you.
- That her Five Day Experience is not about self-help, it's training and insight that will take you through.
- That she got the name 'You're Smarter Than You're Thinking' from Winnie The Pooh.
- She goes through what she teaches on each day, in her You're Smarter Than You're Thinking Five Day Experience.
Links:
Vivian's website: www.viviancarrasco.com
Go to www.withinuniversity.com/discover to join Vivian's Five Day Experience
Resource: David Foster Wallace Speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYGaXzJGVAQ
If you're looking for the right kind of inspiration to become all that you can be, without holding back, join Vivian today, as she encourages you to lean into the best within you and let all your actions come from a place of love and peace.
Today, Vivian ponders something that came up twice in her recent dreams- twins. After the second dream, she understood that it was telling her that two things can both be true at the same time. Today she talks about how we often make a choice, choosing one thing and disregarding the other, without considering that both could be appropriate. She talks about how healthy it is to have love as the motivation for all your actions and reminds you that no matter how big you can dream, the potential for what you can actually do is even bigger than that... but you have to be open to it, to let it happen. She also points out that it's possible for you to do your very best, and yet accept that the outcome is outside of your control. Join Vivian today and discover so much more within yourself than you have ever believed possible.
Today, Vivian talks about:
- How difficult it was for her to accept the idea that she deserves what she has and that she deserves even more.
- The inspiration she got from a conference she attended over the weekend.
- The question she asked herself: “Can I be all of me? Will that be okay?”
- Her fundamental belief that God is love.
- Her teachings revolving around kindness and love and taking inspired action.
- Opening yourself to receive more than you already have.
- Letting your actions spring from love and peace.
- Any action done in love is spiritual.
- Her definition of fear.
- How fear depletes your resources.
- A Cognitive Behaviour Therapy model which aligns with love being human.
Vivian's website: www.viviancarrasco.com
or
www.viviancarrasco.com/blog (for all Vivian's links)
Where are you right now? Do you dare to dream, or are you still bogged down by life? On today's episode of Turning Inward, Vivian Carrasco shares candidly about how she used to be stuck in the mud until she realized that she had created that for herself. She asks you if you're still stuck, or if you have managed as yet, to reach the place of giving yourself permission to wonder.
Vivian, a change maker, mindset mentor, Life Coach and Master Life Coach, has the gift of seeing into the heart of things. Join her today, as she helps you to discover that you too, can love being human.
Today, Vivian talks about:
- Some of her old ideas, which did not work for her.
- Finding your True Soul Desire.
- The first step- beginning to shift your gaze.
- The process of turning inward and taking responsibility for yourself.
- The second step- where you start to wonder what if?
- Becoming ready to dream and consider.
- Her digital workshop, Design Your Life Digital and how it can give you permission to dream.
- The necessity of moving beyond your thoughts.
- Her Yoga Church and her initial resistance to starting it.
- Her simple, but not easy process.
- How she realised that she had lost her sense of direction during her dark years.
- Her Pink Spoon Class-a free 5 day experience with Within University.
- How Within University comes directly from the experiences of Vivian's former clients and why it will be worth your while to invest in it.
Links:
Vivian's website: www.viviancarrasco.com
or
www.viviancarrasco.com/blog (for all Vivian's links)
For Vivian's free Pink Spoon Class: www.withinuniversity.com/discover
Would you love to live free of doubt and experience more of the joy that life has to offer? If so, listen in to today's episode of Turning Inward, with Dr. Vivian Carrasco and discover new ways to make your experiences deeper, fuller and far more enjoyable.
Today's episode is about doubt. Join Vivian as she shares her wisdom and explains why you need to unlearn that which no longer serves you. She also discusses how doubt can steal joy right out of your heart. You don't want to miss this episode!
Today, Vivian talks about:
- Million dollar moments.
- A fascinating incident that occurred during a retreat, demonstrating the effects of doubt.
- Some wise words from her good friend.
- How people can sometimes use doubt to protect others.
- How we tend to interpret new information based on previous beliefs.
- The need to unlearn old ideas so you can learn new, fresh ones.
- The need for faith in order to grow.
- The need for security in humans.
- An alternative suggestion to goal setting for the new year.
- How you can develop courage.
- Her “Texas Twostep” and how it can help you.
- The same three ways in which you are both controlled and can be set free.
Links: Vivian's website: www.viviancarrasco.com
Are you seeking more meaning in your life? Do you see the value in getting to know who you really are? If this is true for you, listen in to Vivian Carrasco, as she honestly shares her story and reveals her vulnerability, so that you can become inspired to dig deeper into yourself to find your own truth.
Join Vivian, a creative midwife and mindset mentor, on today's episode of “Turning Inward”. She will help you in navigating the interior sea of life and your restless heart, by unearthing your own personal truth, your insight, and your inner knowing, through awareness.
Join Vivian today as she talks about:
- Letting go of what no longer serves you.
- The value of following your heart, even though it's difficult.
- How you create your own meaning.
- What she realized through her deep journey of getting to know herself.
- The message she received through a recent meditation, about becoming a healing power.
- Why she's no longer afraid.
- How exploring her fear lead her to discover another, deeper fear.
- Her most precious stones.
- How she tripped up in her 'meaning making' in the past.
- The importance of uncovering what's underneath, what you don't see, in finding meaning in your life.
Links:
Vivian's websites: www.viviancarrasco.com
and www.withinuniversity.com
We've all got fears. I have them. You have them. Everyone on earth has them. In today's episode, I get very real and very candid about my fears. I talk about what's driving them and how they impact me, my business, my relationships, and everything I touch.
Come and walk with me on this journey!
Gratitude doesn't have to be saved for the million dollar moments in your life. Your attention is actually a type of alchemy. Noticing what your thankful for and investing precious time to express your gratitude actually makes you feel more alive, helps you sleep better, cultivates more compassion and kindness, and even strengthens your immune systems. Tune in as I announce our new season and format and share a few of the hearts, hands and humans that I'm grateful for as Love.Being.Human turns three.
Visit http://www.Viviancarrasco.com for more insight, wisdom and inspiration.
In this episode I share:
How Love.Being.Human. was birthed three years ago.
The pivot I made from avoiding what I feared to instead moving toward what I enjoy and love.
The community you can access via Within (U)niversity, because you don't have to figure it out by yourself. You are not alone.
Please send comments via text or voicemail
760-576-LOVE (5683)
Gratitude Section:Christy from TeamPodcast.com
New Podcast Editor:Mike Murphy
My guest today is Mike Murphy, a super-special guest who had the courage to follow his heart. Mike is a friend and fellow podcaster. Check out Mike Murphy Unplugged, where Mike helps people figure things out. I know you will love hearing from him, so join us!
You can read the full show notes at www.viviancarrasco.com
My guest is Stephanie Calahan, known by many as the Business Vision Catalyst. She is a visionary business coach who helps professionals grow their businesses exponentially while learning to work LESS. Check out her website for her programs and resources, and don’t miss this eye-opening conversation!
You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.viviancarrasco.com
My guest today is Sarah Dietman, a certified Martha Beck life coach. Sarah’s own path became clear when she hired a life coach, and now she does the same for other women. We’re discussing what it means to follow your heart and turn back into what matters to you. Join us!
You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.viviancarrasco.com
My guest today is Kim Nicol, a writer, fitness and Reiki instructor, and coach. Once a former lawyer at a large publishing house, she now identifies herself primarily as a meditation teacher. She holds workshops and retreats for her clients and lives a meaningful, fulfilling life. Join us to hear how she Turned Inward, changed her path and found her passion!
You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.viviancarrasco.com
My guest today is Mike Broadwell of Breakthrough Factory. Mike has over 25 years’ experience in technology marketing and sales. He is here to share the story of his own breakthrough and to give us tips on how deepen our awareness of ourselves, others, and the world around us. Join us!
You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.viviancarrasco.com
Welcome to a beautiful conversation with my guest, Christi Daniels. From the moment I met Christi, I’ve felt drawn to and aligned with her wisdom and her vision. Christi is a self-leadership mentor who wrote the book, Sabbatical From Yes. Although Christi has an adventurous soul, she shares the two-year birthing struggle and the reluctance that had to be overcome to bring forth her book. We’re discussing the book, Christi’s work, and why you MUST put your inner needs first! Find out how!
You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.viviancarrasco.com
My guest today is Erin Sharaf, who describes herself as a “free-range human.” You’ll have to join us in listening to see what she means by that. In addition, Erin is a mindfulness-based coach, workshop facilitator, program developer, and writer. She sees personal transformation as the vehicle for global transformation. Join us to learn how to add some mindfulness practices to your life!
You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.viviancarrasco.com
Welcome! My guest today is Lianne Soller, a coach who helps women entrepreneurs build their businesses and have happy, contented lives. We all make choices and go through changes that sometimes feel like a death and rebirth. Lianne faced difficult choices and monumental changes in leaving the academic world behind and pursuing her entrepreneurial dreams. Those choices and changes are the focus of today’s conversation. Come along as we turn inward with Lianne!
www.vivancarrasco.com
Welcome! My guest today is Lori Giuttari, a coach and consultant and a Certified Master Life Coach. Lori has experience in teaching, teaching yoga, and traveling. She is the mind behind the Beyond the Yoga Body book project, which focuses on looking at others without judgment. Let’s jump into this conversation with Lori!
You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.viviancarrasco.com
This episode is brought to you by Within (U)niversity ......
Candi Freed knew something had to give. She had an epiphany and nothing has been the same since that time. Candy is here today to talk about her change. She wasn’t happy and her life wasn’t fulfilling, and she actually did something about it.
In this episode Candi also discusses:
- Why Candi thought she was having a nervous breakdown
- How she feels calm now and why that was so hard to come by
- What changed about her life to bring it into connectedness
- Why Candi feels called to go out and share her story with the world
- Why stillness is so important
- The classroom of our lives and what it teaches us
- How magic eyes can change your perspective
- How rest has changed and she no longer suffers from insomnia
- How her Guides have led her
You can connect with Candi at:
http://www.changethescript.net
www.viviancarrasco.com
Join us:
I created a private community to connect modern creatives who crave meaningful connection, because when we support each other the tide rises together. Our community includes an exclusive online forum, monthly Q+A calls with me, unlimited coaching, short courses, and more!
Learn more about the community and if it’s a good fit for you here.
Welcome! My guest today is Susan Mobley, a life coach, small business owner, and talent strategist. Susan was raised in the Mormon Church and married at age 18. She went through an awakening in her early 20’s and came to the realization that she was meant to be something else—and something MORE! Since her husband didn’t feel the same way, their marriage ended in divorce. Susan received no support in the church, and she knew that she had to MOVE ON from her marriage and toward whatever the world had to offer her. Join me to hear Susan’s inspiring story!
You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.viviancarrasco.com
Join us:
I created a private community to connect modern creatives who crave meaningful connection, because when we support each other the tide rises together. Our community includes an exclusive online forum, monthly Q+A calls with me, unlimited coaching, short courses, and more!
Learn more about the community and if it’s a good fit for you here.
I’m honored to have as my guest Martha Beck, the inspirational life coach, sociologist, speaker, and author of many self-help books. Her newest book is the first installment of The Bewilderment Chronicles Trilogy. It’s an allegory called Diana, Herself, and is a symbol of what the human psyche does in awakening. The book is about finding the part of yourself that’s who you would be if no one had harmed or shaped you in any way. Martha urges us all to find our “wild selves” as she asks, “Do you want to get wild with me?”
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- A snapshot of Diana, the main character
- Why Diana feels degraded and devalued
- Find WILD, wherever it shows up for you
- Happy and healthy=GOOD, and Sick and miserable=BAD
- There are three questions for Martha from my book club members:
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- From Beth: How do we find the “Roy” within ourselves?
- From Todd: What books are on the cutting edge of bewilderment? (See resources below)
- From Lori: What are your thoughts on the Wayfinders’ Gathering, and will there be more such events?
- Moments of breakthrough
- The power of books—they SHOUT!
- Martha’s near-death experience
- Living “without a plan”
- The 2nd book in the trilogy: about freeing the divine masculine by the divine feminine
- The 3rd book in the trilogy: about the divine feminine and divine masculine working together to save the world!
- From the book: The 7 Tasks of Bewilderment
- A different kind of experiential learning
- Overview of the 2nd book
- Just follow your heart
Join us:
I created a private community to connect modern creatives who crave meaningful connection, because when we support each other the tide rises together. Our community includes an exclusive online forum, monthly Q+A calls with me, unlimited coaching, short courses, and more!
Learn more about the community and if it’s a good fit for you here.
You can access the show notes and all the resources at www.viviancarrasco.com
Welcome! Do you need some innovative thinking—maybe a NEW take—on MINDSET? My guest today can help. James Schramko is an entrepreneur in Sydney, Australia, who loves coaching his clients on scalability and leverage. I met James through a business group that we are in, and I’ve wanted to learn more about his strategy and philosophy about mindset. Join us!
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- Look inward and look after YOURSELF
- Start with seeking information
- The ever-changing definition of success
- Why you do what you do
- James’ latest passion: surfing!
- How he approaches parenting
- Today’s changing business landscape
- Build your own assets
- From six-figures to seven-figures
- Mindset shifts
- Why most entrepreneurs focus on the WRONG things
- What your business needs to be a well-operated machine
- Watch out for the “squashers”!
- Why a budget mentality is NOT good
Join us:
I created a private community to connect modern creatives who crave meaningful connection, because when we support each other the tide rises together. Our community includes an exclusive online forum, monthly Q+A calls with me, unlimited coaching, short courses, and more!
Learn more about the community and if it’s a good fit for you here.
You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.viviancarrasco.com Thanks so much for listening!
Welcome! Have you ever thought about “leaving it all behind”? Do you know what it’s like to feel the pull toward a different life? My guest today has done just that. Sunny McMillan is a lawyer turned life coach who made the move from Texas to Seattle—from one life to another. Sunny also hosts the Sunny in Seattle radio show on Alternative Talk 1150 AM on KKNW. Her show airs each Friday at 9 am Pacific, and you can even listen in via an app on your smartphone. Join me to find out more about Sunny’s story!
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- How and why Sunny ended up in law school
- A change of direction—in marriage and career
- The transformation of the Burning Man Festival in Nevada
- Essential self vs. social self: How an article in O Magazine impacted Sunny’s future
- Walking away from “it all”
- Around the world to volunteer
- How Sunny began her life coaching journey in 2013
- Self-worth—from the INSIDE
- Why the transformation process is slow-moving
- When it’s just NOT ENOUGH
- Who are YOU trying to impress?
- The loudest voice in your “everybody”
- Why Sunny wanted relationships without the trappings of judgment and pretense
- Cut the deep roots and FIND FREEDOM
- Shackles on vs. Shackles off
- Dead ends and cul-de-sacs: They aren’t ALL BAD
Resources:
www.goldenoversoul.com
www.1150kknw.com
Join us:
I created a private community to connect modern creatives who crave meaningful connection, because when we support each other the tide rises together. Our community includes an exclusive online forum, monthly Q+A calls with me, unlimited coaching, short courses, and more!
Learn more about the community and if it’s a good fit for you here.
www.viviancarrasco.com
Welcome! My amazing guest today is Cara Lumen, a holistic medicine practitioner, explorer, spiritual philosopher, and metaphysician. Before retirement, Cara worked as a content development coach, but now—in her 80’s—Cara is the founder of the Deeper Song community. She says she is doing her best life’s work NOW! I hope you’re curious to find out more, so join us!
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- From Kansas City to NYC to CA, then back to Kansas City
- Why Cara doesn’t identify with “old people”
- A New Tribe
- How the Deeper Song community was formed
- The Deeper Song process of self-awareness
- It’s NEVER too late!
- Why you can’t be satisfied with keeping pace with those around you
- How to let life “unfold”
- I am a Rock
- Why I choose to be a stand-alone person
- “Fitting in” doesn’t feel good.
- Paths, directions, and walking beside you
- Cara’s work: self-awareness, spiritual expansion, and impactful service
- A favorite quote: “Live in the nowhere that you came from, even though you have an address here.” --Rumi
Join us:
I created a private community to connect modern creatives who crave meaningful connection, because when we support each other the tide rises together. Our community includes an exclusive online forum, monthly Q+A calls with me, unlimited coaching, short courses, and more!
Learn more about the community and if it’s a good fit for you here.
You can read the full show notes and access all the resources at http://viviancarrasco.com
Welcome! My guest today is Kathy Price, the founder of the Good Karma Center for Joy in Tacoma, WA. She is a life coach and counselor who loves sharing her mystical experiences and her spiritual path. Let’s jump into this conversation with Kathy!
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- How the last 7 years of her spiritual journey left the rest of her life unrecognizable
- How she found deeper magic and love after growing up with traditional spirituality
- Kathy’s life: meditation, consciousness, and life coaching in nature
- How her personal meditation boils down to the YES of total surrender
- The miracle of her healing arts center
- Her remarkable visualization experience and animal spirit connection
- How Kathy sees everything in pictures!
- Childhood dreams: they really do come true!
- What it means to “be my own woman”
- The freedom to be unique!
- Marriage can exist and thrive between two totally different spiritual paths.
- Women in ANY time period are connected to the divine feminine.
You can read the full show notes and access the resources at www.viviancarrasco.com
Welcome to Turning Inward with Dr. Vivian! My goal is to guide and inspire, to bring you peace of mind and more meaning to life. I’ll teach you to navigate your interior life and to see reality for what it is. Consider your posture for maximum learning, and remember that awareness is about letting go. Let’s jump in to this episode, Wake Up to a Whole New Way of Thinking.
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- Breathing exercises to tune in to your inner voice
- Two kinds of intelligence
- What are you hoping to have, feel, or do?
- What you ARE is more important than what you DO!
- Why I call myself a “creative midwife”
- My dark years of chaos and carnage
- “Love Being Human,” my core teaching method and methodology
- My experience in being hit by a car!
- How you can access my Clarity Calls on my website
- Listener questions about inner motivation, play, dealing with a significant other, redirecting and turning inward, and moving away from fear
- Are YOU the person that you yourself WANT to be?
You can access the full show notes and access all the resources at www.viviancarrasco.com
Join us:
I created a private community to connect modern creatives who crave meaningful connection, because when we support each other the tide rises together. Our community includes an exclusive online forum, monthly Q+A calls with me, unlimited coaching, short courses, and more!
Learn more about the community and if it’s a good fit for you here.
Welcome! Today’s guest is Dr. Sarah Seidelmann, a shamanic healer and life coach who wants to help you on YOUR PATH. Join us to learn how to reflect, let go, and move on to your best life!
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- Why Dr. Sarah wasn’t content with her career as a surgical pathologist
- How she went to part-time work, then took a sabbatical to spend time in nature
- Notice the animals around you
- How animal totem work happens
- I met a bear . . .
- How a peony became a magical and significant symbol
- Ask for help
- Let yourself EXPLORE!
- How to drop the conditioning of the “old life”
- The benefits of a guided shamanic journey
- Find your spirit animal
- Ask for a night dream
- The layers and levels to “letting go”
You can read the full show notes and access all the resources at www.viviancarrasco.com
This is a short audio of my experience with the The Manifesto Sessions, 2 weeks of deep and deliverable rich work that helped me get clear on what I personally need to do next, to move forward, to stop spinning my wheels and to get the traction. This experience was world class, with a myriad of women from Senior Executives in Organizations around the globe to Founders with businesses from 500K to 300+M. If your ready for a personal revolution to gain clarity, reach out to Kelsey. She was named Canada's Top Female Entrepreneur two years running, featured in Forbes and won various global awards for her ability to build not only world class businesses but a life that has included having 3 children and cancer....so she definitely has walked her talk. :)
www.viviancarrasco.com
Live your Truth from the Inside out
This short episode is an update on my message and methodology intended to help you imagine a new way to lead & live.
Question what you're thinking to get to your inner knowing.
Awareness isn't learning something new it's letting go of what doesn't serve your greatest good.
Choose to move in the direction of love.
Human - Where am I? What do I need?
Being - The state of your doing. Your personal spiritual practice.
Love - Not what it is, but what you know it isn't
www.viviancarrasco.com
You’re in the right place if you’re open to seeing things a bit differently and also experiencing life fully through all your senses, especially your intuition. Sarah and I will walk you through an audio experience of Martha Beck’s Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create The Life you Want.
I believe that our new revolution is Evolution. You can create your wild new world; we’ll show you how to begin. The future of our work provides daily meaning. We can work with a greater sense of purpose.
So reduce the head noise, get some space and resonate instead.
We’ll be with you the entire ride.
Wishing you well now and all ways,
Vivian
Week 12: Chapters 14 & 15
In the final call of this audio course, we reflect on a very important concept: how helping yourself helps others. From there we discuss an array of topics from the infinity loop of rest and play, empowerment and meaning making to finally discuss the importance of community and connection in the process of healing.
This chapter, and entire book for that matter, shows how being authentically you is essential to your happiness and work in the world. Bringing our complete, true identity into the world is shifting from a luxury to a form of survival. Being the real you in each part of your life—work, home, social circles etc.—will no longer consists of distinct roles or personas. What this also helps us see more and more each day is that it’s not just survival, but one of the best ways to live. If that’s not awesome, I don’t know what is!
Although this concludes the audio course and book club, we’d like to invite you to consider never-ending reciprocity.
Allow yourself to daydream about the possibilities of what can come from helping yourself. In what easy way can you do this for yourself today? Maybe you could even give it a try…
We look forward to continuing to connect, share and support you within and between, Teammate.
Xx,
Sarah
Learn more about Sarah here: www.sarahdietman.com
or reach out to her at sarah@sarahdietman.com
Learn more about Vivian here: www.viviancarrasco.com
Or reach out to her at vivian@viviancarrasco.com
You’re in the right place if you’re open to seeing things a bit differently and also experiencing life fully through all your senses, especially your intuition. Sarah and I will walk you through an audio experience of Martha Beck’s Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create The Life you Want.
I believe that our new revolution is Evolution. You can create your wild new world; we’ll show you how to begin. The future of our work provides daily meaning. We can work with a greater sense of purpose.
So reduce the head noise, get some space and resonate instead.
We’ll be with you the entire ride.
Wishing you well now and all ways,
Vivian
Week 11: Chapter 13
Forming Your Art, Mending Yourself is the focus of today’s conversation. We discuss the different ways we naturally mend ourselves and the roles they play in what we have to offer to the world. In this chapter, Martha outlines ways to explore this and we do so together in the recording.
Current events that are often shown on the evening news and social media depict depressing scenes of conflict. And while it is true that there are many suffering in this day and age, we are also living in an era of great opportunity. Today’s conversation may ignite gratitude and appreciation for being a part of this global transformation.
If you haven’t already, complete the list Martha provides regarding the 10,000 hours of deep practice on page 240. If you are having a difficult time coming up with ideas, go back to a hot track. When was the last time you found yourself truly immersed and enjoying the present moment? What were you doing then? Who were you with?
Xx,
Sarah
Learn more about Sarah here: www.sarahdietman.com
or reach out to her at sarah@sarahdietman.com
Learn more about Vivian here: www.viviancarrasco.com
Or reach out to her at vivian@viviancarrasco.com
You’re in the right place if you’re open to seeing things a bit differently and also experiencing life fully through all your senses, especially your intuition. Sarah and I will walk you through an audio experience of Martha Beck’s Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create The Life you Want.
I believe that our new revolution is Evolution. You can create your wild new world; we’ll show you how to begin. The future of our work provides daily meaning. We can work with a greater sense of purpose.
So reduce the head noise, get some space and resonate instead.
We’ll be with you the entire ride.
Wishing you well now and all ways,
Vivian
Week 10: Chapter 12
Forming is what it’s all about in this recording. We discuss the key factors necessary to form and I do a bit of coaching with Vivian to set some intentional forming in motion.
Paradox finds its way back in today as we explore the irony of letting your attachment to something go as a founding principle to forming what you desire. On the other hand, it makes complete sense when you look at things that already function this way, like planting a seed and letting the flower bloom.
Give yourself a moment to follow along with the forming coaching in today’s call or walk yourself through it. Release it---drop your resistance--let it go.
After, maybe have yourself a jam session with the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0MK7qz13bU
…we dare you! :P
Xx,
Sarah
Learn more about Sarah here: www.sarahdietman.com
or reach out to her at sarah@sarahdietman.com
Learn more about Vivian here: www.viviancarrasco.com
Or reach out to her at vivian@viviancarrasco.com
You’re in the right place if you’re open to seeing things a bit differently and also experiencing life fully through all your senses, especially your intuition. Sarah and I will walk you through an audio experience of Martha Beck’s Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create The Life you Want.
I believe that our new revolution is Evolution. You can create your wild new world; we’ll show you how to begin. The future of our work provides daily meaning. We can work with a greater sense of purpose.
So reduce the head noise, get some space and resonate instead.
We’ll be with you the entire ride.
Wishing you well now and all ways,
Vivian
Week 9: Chapter 11
In this recording we venture towards the theme of the hero’s call to adventure and explore ways to move towards love instead of away from fear.
Connect the things that want to connect through you. This is part of our purpose. We create new connections that haven’t already existed, and will continue in non-existence without us. Kiiiind of powerful, if I do say so myself!
Reflect upon your life and where you are now. Can you recognize specific times when you were called to adventure to live out the hero’s saga? Did you allow yourself to be broken open? What’s the resistance? What’s the goodness that can come from answering the call? Perhaps it’s time to get that journal out again.
Xx,
Sarah
Learn more about Sarah here: www.sarahdietman.com
or reach out to her at sarah@sarahdietman.com
Learn more about Vivian here: www.viviancarrasco.com
Or reach out to her at vivian@viviancarrasco.com
You’re in the right place if you’re open to seeing things a bit differently and also experiencing life fully through all your senses, especially your intuition. Sarah and I will walk you through an audio experience of Martha Beck’s Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create The Life you Want.
I believe that our new revolution is Evolution. You can create your wild new world; we’ll show you how to begin. The future of our work provides daily meaning. We can work with a greater sense of purpose.
So reduce the head noise, get some space and resonate instead.
We’ll be with you the entire ride.
Wishing you well now and all ways,
Vivian
Week 8: Chapter 10
On today’s call we jump into metaphors and more puzzle cracking. This leads us to examining purpose, employment, what that looks like in the world today and the metamorphosis the traditional models are experiencing.
The new way of doing is bringing your attention to the presence of being. If you are stuck, find natural rhythm and movement. Go for a walk or watch the rain fall, connect with that and observe what happens.
Xx,
Sarah
Learn more about Sarah here: www.sarahdietman.com
or reach out to her at sarah@sarahdietman.com
Learn more about Vivian here: www.viviancarrasco.com
Or reach out to her at vivian@viviancarrasco.com
You’re in the right place if you’re open to seeing things a bit differently and also experiencing life fully through all your senses, especially your intuition. Sarah and I will walk you through an audio experience of Martha Beck’s Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create The Life you Want.
I believe that our new revolution is Evolution. You can create your wild new world; we’ll show you how to begin. The future of our work provides daily meaning. We can work with a greater sense of purpose.
So reduce the head noise, get some space and resonate instead.
We’ll be with you the entire ride.
Wishing you well now and all ways,
Vivian
Week 7: Chapter 9
In today’s recording we continue discussing imagination, but with respect to suffering, our problems and how imagination helps us solve them. We also chat about science and its credibility related to imagination and Vivian does a bit of impromptu coaching.
Martha Beck often says it’s best to think like a dog. When you find yourself with a problem, first determine if a dog would perceive this same situation as a problem. If so, and it’s clear what a dog would do…do that. Otherwise, walk yourself through the four steps so that you can clear up the physical problem. If not, enjoy.
Xx,
Sarah
Learn more about Sarah here: www.sarahdietman.com
or reach out to her at sarah@sarahdietman.com
Learn more about Vivian here: www.viviancarrasco.com
Or reach out to her at vivian@viviancarrasco.com
You’re in the right place if you’re open to seeing things a bit differently and also experiencing life fully through all your senses, especially your intuition. Sarah and I will walk you through an audio experience of Martha Beck’s Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create The Life you Want.
I believe that our new revolution is Evolution. You can create your wild new world; we’ll show you how to begin. The future of our work provides daily meaning. We can work with a greater sense of purpose.
So reduce the head noise, get some space and resonate instead.
We’ll be with you the entire ride.
Wishing you well now and all ways,
Vivian
Week 6: Chapter 8
We’ve reached the imagination station. Vivian shares one of her experiences with us and why imagination is such a dominant player in her life.
A recording or two ago we lightly touched on the power that lies in potential. Today Vivian does a beautiful job illustrating that moment when she recognized and acknowledged potential in the moment after coming out of the bathroom and choosing to do what she wanted to do instead of living out the usual pattern. I love how something so powerful can be as simple as that!
We challenge you once a day to find space to recognize potential before a decision is made or acted out. What does it feel like? Become aware of it so that you can access it more readily.
Xx,
Sarah
Learn more about Sarah here: www.sarahdietman.com
or reach out to her at sarah@sarahdietman.com
Learn more about Vivian here: www.viviancarrasco.com
Or reach out to her at vivian@viviancarrasco.com
You’re in the right place if you’re open to seeing things a bit differently and also experiencing life fully through all your senses, especially your intuition. Sarah and I will walk you through an audio experience of Martha Beck’s Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create The Life you Want.
I believe that our new revolution is Evolution. You can create your wild new world; we’ll show you how to begin. The future of our work provides daily meaning. We can work with a greater sense of purpose.
So reduce the head noise, get some space and resonate instead.
We’ll be with you the entire ride.
Wishing you well now and all ways,
Vivian
Week 5: Chapters 6 & 7
In this recording we take on two chapters each dealing with relationships; those created out of connection with our furry friends and others not so furry. Who better to help us with that than Disney/Pixar’s 101 Dalmatians, The Little Mermaid and Inside Out? We also take a look at where we are placing our attention and Vivian helps us get a bit more hands on with some experiential learning exercises and techniques. Things even get a bit weird between Vivian and me when discussing liberation, leadership and listening. We keep it real!
We invite you to pay attention to your focus. Do you know where it is or why it is there? Once you’ve found it, try placing it on your inside self. Notice where your attention really wants to go. If you notice a funky-shaped leaf on your way out the door from work or a brightly colored candy package in the check-out line has caught your attention, perhaps you can give yourself a minute to check it out.
Are you allowing yourself to feel the wisdom you’ve been trying to teach yourself?
Xx,
Sarah
Learn more about Sarah here: www.sarahdietman.com
or reach out to her at sarah@sarahdietman.com
Learn more about Vivian here: www.viviancarrasco.com
Or reach out to her at vivian@viviancarrasco.com
You’re in the right place if you’re open to seeing things a bit differently and also experiencing life fully through all your senses, especially your intuition. Sarah and I will walk you through an audio experience of Martha Beck’s Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create The Life you Want.
I believe that our new revolution is Evolution. You can create your wild new world; we’ll show you how to begin. The future of our work provides daily meaning. We can work with a greater sense of purpose.
So reduce the head noise, get some space and resonate instead.
We’ll be with you the entire ride.
Wishing you well now and all ways,
Vivian
Week 4: Chapters 4 & 5
We transition from the topic of worldlessness to oneness in this recording. Martha explains that ‘Wordlessness is presence in the magical realm; Oneness is connection and communication through it.’ We also recognize our body as a tool for communication and play around with body dowsing.
Play around with the spoon bending and try body dowsing a couple of times. If this seems a bit too far out there, can you allow yourself to pause your disbelief? If not, how come? Have fun with it and get curious.
Xx,
Sarah
Learn more about Sarah here: www.sarahdietman.com
or reach out to her at sarah@sarahdietman.com
Learn more about Vivian here: www.viviancarrasco.com
Or reach out to her at vivian@viviancarrasco.com
You’re in the right place if you’re open to seeing things a bit differently and also experiencing life fully through all your senses, especially your intuition. Sarah and I will walk you through an audio experience of Martha Beck’s Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create The Life you Want.
I believe that our new revolution is Evolution. You can create your wild new world; we’ll show you how to begin. The future of our work provides daily meaning. We can work with a greater sense of purpose.
So reduce the head noise, get some space and resonate instead.
We’ll be with you the entire ride.
Wishing you well now and all ways,
Vivian
Week 3: Chapters 2 & 3
We dive right into ‘sense drenching’ today! Together we continue to discover the influence awakening our senses and training our focus has on our everyday experience. Vivian and I also introduce you to one of our fun phrases and dabble in the world of paradox.
Vivian mentions her awareness of an increase in choice and response and touches on the common response of ‘either/or’ whereas ‘yes/and’ is also an option. This triggers me to pay attention to where I only recognized ‘either/or’ when ‘yes/and’ was available to me.
Play with some of the koans Martha provides on pages 43 & 44, or find some examples of your own. Take time to contemplate them and observe what happens.
Xx,
Sarah
Learn more about Sarah here: www.sarahdietman.com
or reach out to her at sarah@sarahdietman.com
Learn more about Vivian here: www.viviancarrasco.com
Or reach out to her at vivian@viviancarrasco.com
You’re in the right place if you’re open to seeing things a bit differently and also experiencing life fully through all your senses, especially your intuition. Sarah and I will walk you through an audio experience of Martha Beck’s Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create The Life you Want.
I believe that our new revolution is Evolution. You can create your wild new world; we’ll show you how to begin. The future of our work provides daily meaning. We can work with a greater sense of purpose.
So reduce the head noise, get some space and resonate instead.
We’ll be with you the entire ride.
Wishing you well now and all ways,
Vivian
Find Your Truth, Week 2: Chapter 1
Today’s conversation focuses on Martha’s concept of wordlessness. We chat about being, doing and the difference between the two. These ideas may sometimes feel a bit abstract, so we also share a few of our practical experiences with them.
As it is mentioned in the recording, wordlessness doesn’t have to be this lofty meditation practice or routine where thoughts are absent.
In what ways do you already find yourself naturally dropping into wordlessness? Are there any, if even for a couple of seconds? Take note of the situations you find yourself in or what you are doing when you are able to ‘go there’.
Xx,
Sarah
Learn more about Sarah here: www.sarahdietman.com
or reach out to her at sarah@sarahdietman.com
Learn more about Vivian here: www.viviancarrasco.com
Or reach out to her at vivian@viviancarrasco.com
You’re in the right place if you’re open to seeing things a bit differently and also experiencing life fully through all your senses, especially your intuition. Sarah and I will walk you through an audio experience of Martha Beck’s Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create The Life you Want.
I believe that our new revolution is Evolution. You can create your wild new world; we’ll show you how to begin. The future of our work provides daily meaning. We can work with a greater sense of purpose.
So reduce the head noise, get some space and resonate instead.
We’ll be with you the entire ride.
Wishing you well now and all ways,
Vivian
Week 1: Introduction
Welcome, welcome! Today’s recording introduces you to us, explains how we ‘met’ Martha Beck and also gives you a glimpse at our personal rhinoceros stories.
Have you contemplated your own rhinoceros story? Try not to trick yourself into thinking you don’t have one. Perhaps it may be beneficial to journal about it or share it with a friend.
Xx,
Sarah
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or reach out to her at sarah@sarahdietman.com
Learn more about Vivian here: www.viviancarrasco.com
Or reach out to her at vivian@viviancarrasco.com
Turning Inward
Deeper connections through meaningful conversation
Dr. Carrasco’s Heart to Heart Conversation
With Rebecca Polvi, Chief happiness Officer at www.Viviancarrasco.com
Connect with Rebecca: Rjpolvi@gmail.com
0:045 Thoughts on love
01:05 An honest awakening to choose love
2:00 natural heart song
02:34 Moments of clarity
04:50 practice listening to your inner voice
08:00 Acting on love versus fear
12:07 Growing as a person
15:00 Fear is when it goes through your head
16:50 radiate your smile from inside out
21:00 naturally drawn to a loving life
Dr. Vivian Carrasco
Leadership Coach & Lifestyle Strategist
760-576-LOVE (5683)
Creator of the Love.Being.Human Health and Well-Being Model
Author of the forthcoming book,
The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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Tags: Love, Being, Human, Fear, Heart, honest, natural, inner voice, listening
Dr. Carrasco’s Heart to Heart Conversation
With Christine Harriger, Owner/Counselor at career View
Connect with Christine: http://careerviewcom.weebly.com/
01:00 Turning inward and listening to the voice without sound that comes from our heart not our head
02:00 We are lovingly held
04;20 It comes back without intention
05:00 Touching individuals lives one at a time
05:38 Being present in our doing
07:17 It’s the fear of fear itself that holds people back
09:40 Trust that it will all work out
10:00 Christine shares her recent awakening
14:00 Be in the world but not of it
16:00 Be who you are everywhere
23:00 To teach, to help, to lift
29:00 Being in the moment
Dr. Vivian Carrasco
Leadership Coach & Lifestyle Strategist
760-576-LOVE (5683)
Creator of the Love.Being.Human Health and Well-Being Model
Author of the forthcoming book,
The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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Tags: Love, Being, Human, well-being, Fear, Heart, Teach, Intention,
Dr. Carrasco’s Heart to Heart Conversation
With Chris Brogan, CEO of Owner media group
Web Site: http://chrisbrogan.com/
2:25 Deep sense of integrity and compassion
2:40 Love is a choice, and live your own life
3:30 We either operate from fear or love which is also called courage
4:37 Defining moments come with great editing
6:45 How do you uncover your unique truth
8:30 How to help people with what’s next by working on what’s now
10;45 daily spiritual practice
12:40 The distinction between life, work and play
14:35 Chris Bogan’s closing thoughts
Dr. Vivian Carrasco
Leadership Coach & Lifestyle Strategist
760-576-LOVE (5683)
Creator of the Love.Being.Human Health and Well-Being Model
Author of the forthcoming book,
The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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Tags: Love, Being, Human, well-being, Fear, Courage, Spritiual,
Summer 2015
Season Four Episode 5
Exploring the question, What is Freedom?
4:30 Freedom to – Not from
5:00 To be full in our living
7:00 Bring forth from within
9:00 Faith and trust in God’s hands
10:50 Love is a choice
11:20 A different level of awareness
14:00 Move beyond the futility of our own mind
16:00 Living in the power of the present moment
19:00 Surrender to the storm
Played: Janis Jophlin song “me and Bobby McGee”
Dr. Vivian Carrasco
Leadership Coach & Lifestyle Strategist
760-576-LOVE (5683)
Creator of the Love.Being.Human Health and Well-Being Model
Author of the forthcoming book,
The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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Tags: Love, Being, Human, well-being, Freedom, living, spiritual, soul, faith, trust, Freewill,
Turning Inward
Deeper connections through meaningful conversation
Summer 2015
Season Four Episode 4
Exploring the question, What is Imagine?
2:45 To see things in a more broader complex – a more holistic view
3;40 Moving to a better existence than we have here
4:51 One thing does not end another
6:00 We can strive for the ideal
7:20 Conversation of conversion
10:15 Imagination is the brush on the canvas
12:01 Opens a space of possibility
15:00 Does it lead you closer or farther from your true ideal
17:50 Imagine big
Dr. Vivian Carrasco
Leadership Coach & Lifestyle Strategist
760-576-LOVE (5683)
Creator of the Love.Being.Human Health and Well-Being Model
Author of the forthcoming book,
The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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Tags: love, being, human, well-being, Imagine, conversation, energy, meaning, Adventure, creating, ideal, Awareness,
Turning Inward
Deeper connections through meaningful conversation
Summer 2015
Season Four Episode 3
Exploring the question, What is Explore?
1:50 Love_Being_Human is all about noticing and exploring
3:30 New because it is something you are noticing differently
5:00 We each have things that draw our spirit forward
6:50 What delights you?
8:00 The shift in posture
8:55 Turn towards our own wisdom
9:35 Grow in grace
10:10 Courage doesn’t always roar like a lion
11:15 Daily movement towards love
Dr. Vivian Carrasco
Leadership Coach & Lifestyle Strategist
760-576-LOVE (5683)
Creator of the Love.Being.Human Health and Well-Being Model
Author of the forthcoming book,
The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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Tags: Love, Being, Human, well-being, play, learning, heart, curiosity, laughter, joy,
Turning Inward
Deeper connections through meaningful conversation
Summer 2015
Season Four Episode 2
Exploring the question, What is Play?
2:40 We are either being or doing
3:55 The way we learn best is through play
5:02 Love is play
7:14 Our mind connects to our heart
8:00 Following our natural curiosity
10:40 Lightness of heart as play
12:20 A natural light switch
14:30 You initiate – you begin
16:40 To show and share love
18:30 Knowledge becoming understanding
Albert Einstein quote: “Play is the highest form of research”
Dr. Vivian Carrasco
Leadership Coach & Lifestyle Strategist
760-576-LOVE (5683)
Creator of the Love.Being.Human Health and Well-Being Model
Author of the forthcoming book,
The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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Turning Inward
Deeper connections through meaningful conversation
Summer 2015
Season Four Episode 1
Exploring the question, What is Adventure?
3:00 The mystery – We don’t know when the end will come
4:10 The micro movements are the destiny
4:35 It’s an unfolding of an adventure
6:10 Love_being_Human is a training that helps you move towards love
8:25 Fear has a language without words
10:55 You have everything you need within you
12:42 Choice and awareness
Dr. Vivian Carrasco
Leadership Coach & Lifestyle Strategist
760-576-LOVE (5683)
Creator of the Love.Being.Human Health and Well-Being Model
Author of the forthcoming book,
The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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Tags: Love, Being, Human, well-being, adventure, Training, Teaching, Deciding, Awareness, journey
Turning Inward
Deeper connections through meaningful conversation
Spring 2015
Season Three Episode 5
Exploring the question, What is Wisdom?
3:00 If it has no voice than it is most likely stirred from within
5:30 The moment in front of us opens hundreds of opportunities
6:51 The outcome that serves the greater good
11:15 Learn and change direction
13:10 Wisdom is a spiritual intelligence
16:00 Putting your mind inside of your heart
Dr. Vivian Carrasco
Leadership Coach & Lifestyle Strategist
760-576-LOVE (5683)
Creator of the Love.Being.Human Health and Well-Being Model
Author of the forthcoming book,
The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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Tags: Love, Being, Human, well-being, Wisdom, Past, Future, Direction, nurture, Spiritual, within, heart, Mind, Create, Expand
2:30 Can discernment be learned?
3:30 It’s more of a silence
4:30 We acquire and then live out that knowledge
5:50 Learning to remember what your soul already knows
8:00 The intention as an emptiness
9:38 To be true and honest with yourself
11:20 We shouldn’t should all over ourselves
15: 45 It’s like a seed, and part of our highest potential
Dr. Vivian Carrasco
Leadership Coach & Lifestyle Strategist
760-576-LOVE (5683)
Creator of the Love.Being.Human Health and Well-Being Model
Author of the forthcoming book,
The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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2:30 How does power feel and fit in the Love_being_Human experience?
3;20 Power is not strength
4:00 The silence of your heart
5:30 Power is something you see and feel in action
7:00 Notice the difference
9:00 Allow what naturally wants to come forth
10:25 There are coinciding actions
14:00 Loving is awareness
16:00 We all have the power to create
Dr. Vivian Carrasco
Leadership Coach & Lifestyle Strategist
760-576-LOVE (5683)
Creator of the Love.Being.Human Health and Well-Being Model
Author of the forthcoming book,
The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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1:00 Looking for insight through prayer and meditation
2:10 For me Power is weakness
3:30 Power is in our awareness
4:30 I found my power when I stopped running away from my weaknesses
6:30 Climb up in growth and learning
8:25 Those flashes of learning what is real I have found in love
Quote from Mark neppo: “Weakness in spiritual terms as any habit of mind or heart that prevents us from seeing things exactly as they are or in there entirety or with our entire capacity to feel”.
Dr. Vivian Carrasco
Leadership Coach & Lifestyle Strategist
760-576-LOVE (5683)
Creator of the Love.Being.Human Health and Well-Being Model
Author of the forthcoming book,
The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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2:45 We move away from our thinking
3:43 Create from inside to outside
4:55 Nothing on the outside frames us unless we allow it
5:45 You don’t have vision if you are looking backward
7:00 Your best yes
8:50 Made a decision to move towards love
11:40 Turn the knowledge of your body into action
12:35 perspective is never absolute
14:25 Help people to create more with their hearts
Dr. Vivian Carrasco
Leadership Coach & Lifestyle Strategist
760-576-LOVE (5683)
Creator of the Love.Being.Human Health and Well-Being Model
Author of the forthcoming book,
The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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3:10 Love_Being_Human puts the learner in charge
4:00 Translating the feelings and desires
5:08 Seeing through the cloud
5:25 Everyone has a right to their highest potential
8:05 Love_Being_Human is a tool to become more aware
9:15 Love_Being_Human gives you the framework to reflect
11:06 We have the ability to create within ourselves
12:35 Hold what is possible
14:55 The seeking of knowledge
Dr. Vivian Carrasco
Leadership Coach & Lifestyle Strategist
760-576-LOVE (5683)
Creator of the Love.Being.Human Health and Well-Being Model
Author of the forthcoming book,
The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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Turning Inward
Deeper connections through meaningful conversation
Winter 2015
Season Two Episode 5.1 - After the Show
Exploring the question, What is Rest?
0:39 Look at the blades of grass
1:40 Words are so heavy sometimes
2:45 Are we over planning our lives?
3:47 Love the work we are doing
Dr. Vivian Carrasco
Leadership Coach & Lifestyle Strategist
760-576-LOVE (5683)
Creator of the Love.Being.Human Health and Well-Being Model
Author of the forthcoming book,
The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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Turning Inward
Deeper connections through meaningful conversation
Winter 2015
Season Two Episode 5
Exploring the question, What is Rest?
1:45 Everyone struggles with rest
2:40 Submit your questions to Rebecca at: Rebecca.polvi@viviancarrasco.com
3:00 If you are achieving then you are not resting
4:32 How do you know your rest is real?
6:29 We don’t always realize when we need rest. “Turning down the flame”
7:48 How does not being able to rest impact a person?
8:51 How would you say rest fits into Love_being_Human?
10:25 Love is resting in trust
13:44 Stopping in the here and now
14:46 Create an allowing between doing and being
Quote from: Alan Watts: “To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”
Dr. Vivian Carrasco
Leadership Coach & Lifestyle Strategist
760-576-LOVE (5683)
Creator of the Love.Being.Human Health and Well-Being Model
Author of the forthcoming book,
The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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Winter 2015
Season Two Episode 4.1 - After the show
Continuing to Explore the question, What is Forgiveness?
Vivian and Rebecca have a conversation about being on 2 different spheres while discussing forgiveness. Rebecca saw it as forging oneself or a person. Vivian saw it as letting go of a thought or idea which allows us to let go of our suffering. Vivian’s insights on our intimacy with our own suffering and understanding of what pain looks like.
Dr. Vivian Carrasco
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Author of the forthcoming book,
The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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Winter 2015
Season Two Episode 4
Exploring the question, What is Forgiveness?
1:47 How does not being able to forgive impact a person?
3:40 Forgiveness is allowing the seed of growth
4:43 Happiness doesn’t take us down the same path as pain.
5:28 How do trust and forgiveness fit together in the Love_Being_Human experience?
9:30 That thing allowed me to become who I am now.
11:22 The promise of growth and the seed planted.
13:08 Pain mirrored and pushed out to the world. Seeing the essence of a person.
14:40 How does Forgiveness fit into the Love_Being_Human experience?
15:34 Vivian shares information on her new book
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Author of the forthcoming book,
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Winter 2015
Season Two Episode 3
Exploring the question, What is Trust?
1:50 Do you feel trust is developed by acting in mutual interest?
3:20 Correction: The Aspen Tree (not cedar Trees) are the underground- Family Tree. They are intricately connected underground by a large parent root system, aspen regenerates by sending up shoots called suckers.
4:20 How do we develop trust?
6:57 Clarity in our preferences – continuing to build trust.
10:39 Trusting that it’s all going to be okay.
13:10 How does trust fit into the Love_Being_Human experience?
20:00 Love_Being_Human is a ripple, and a framework.
WHO Global Health Estimates over 800,000 people die due to suicide every year and there are many more who attempt suicide. Suicide occurs throughout the lifespan and was the second leading cause of death among 15-29 year olds globally in 2012.
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Winter 2015
Season Two Episode 2
Exploring the question, What is Movement?
1:55 Moving and growing towards love
5:44 The state of our being
7:58 Why could Love_being_Human provide what we are yearning for?
9:43 Could movement could be related to time?
14:40 Moving our thoughts upward and moving our thoughts so that they become more expansive. The first step is to ask yourself, "How do I know?"
Picture of the leaf Joshua created-
Who Moved my Cheese by Spencer Johnson
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Winter 2015
Season Two Episode 1
Exploring the question, What is Time?
1:50 Time is our only non-renewable resource
2:29 Time is critical in the here and now
6:00 Past, present, and future as it relates to time
8:07 We don’t explore enough as human beings
9:15 Rob Bell: What we talk about when we talk about God, excerpt from page 79 & 80
...subatomic particles, which, we've learned, disappear in once place and appear in another place without traveling the distance in between.
...subatomic particles travel all possible paths and then choose one when observed, and there is no precedent for such a thing.
9:50 How you react in the present defines your future
11:00 Using Love_being_Human as a tool
13:35 Living in the present
Vivian’s 50 words she was asked to write when she was preparing to cross the stage to accept her Doctorate in May 2009:
As I make my way across this stage, taking the final steps towards this commencement, I celebrate this journey as I begin another but I also pause and turn towards you as I reverently bow in gratitude grateful for your confidence and thankful for your love and friendship and also hopeful that when history writes my story, as I cross that great stage called life it notes that I have achieved success. Success in my devotion to my family, working with my community and to improving the lives of others.
18:00 Transcript and Video of Full Commencement Address by Jim Carrey
"But even with that, comes a feeling of divine dissatisfaction. Because ultimately, we’re not the avatars we create. We’re not the pictures on the film stock. We are the light that shines through it. All else is just smoke and mirrors. Distracting, but not truly compelling.
I’ve often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it’s not where you’ll find your sense of completion."
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Vivian shares her personal experience learning the technique of Vipassana Meditation at a ten-day residential course.
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Fall 2014
Season One Episode 5
Exploring the question, What is Courage?
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Underpinning of Love_Being_Human journey is Courage
Courage is when you face or listen to your fear. Courage and fear are dance partners
Harmony and integration of our difference
How do we synchronize our mind and body?
Finding our own simple practices in our everyday lives
“My Eyes So Soft”
by Hafiz, trans. Daniel Ladinsky
Don't surrender your loneliness so quickly.
Let it cut more deep.
Let it ferment and season you
As few human or even divine ingredients can.
Something missing in my heart tonight
Has made my eyes so soft,
My voice so tender,
My need of God
Absolutely
Clear
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Fall 2014
Season One Episode 4
There's a sun in every person - the you we call companion. Rumi
How does Compassion relate to the Love_Being_Human system?
4:45 Be your own Best Friend First
5:10 Vivian's idea of what compassion is and her car accident
8:00 The practice of compassion is individual for everyone, but everyone is on the same journey
We all share the same pain, fear and confusion. In the Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life ...By Mark Nepo he shares the story from the Talmud that captures this soft paradox of being alone but always together in our journey.
10:12 The alchemy of self-compassion
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Fall 2014
Season One Episode 4.1
After the show on Compassion
We all want to share and experience things together.
Touch each other with kindness, growing and evolving up.
We unfold from the inside out.
Self-awareness allows us to step back and see things a bit differently.
Cultivate the earth around us, grow our compassion like we grow a garden.
Gratitude as the power practice to soften and open your heart.
It's such a mess and it's all ok.
The tapestry of life as a thread that runs through the universe.
Move from the center of ourselves, where joy resides.
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Fall 2014
Season One Episode 3.1
After the show
Rebecca's insights on Courage: Action with Bravery
Love in its Truth is without expectation
Growing into your Best Self
The Discipline of Thought
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Fall 2014
Season One Episode 3
1:38 How does breath fit into the Love_Being_Human system?
8:30 Choices are either made from love or fear
10:00 Offer yourself a gentle entry into your day, offer yourself kindness. Begin with gratitude.
11:15 Vivian's end of the day practice, What are 3 amazing inspiring things that happened today?
13:15 Rebecca's natural emergence, drawn to take the Love_Being_Human journey
14:14 The experience that changes everything
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The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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Fall 2014
Season One Episode 2
We explore the question, What is Love_being_Human?
1:42 A brief description of Love_Being_Human
3:15 The personal impact of Love_Being_Human for Vivian
5:58 What do the synonyms for Love_Being_Human mean?
9:47 The Synonyms for Love_Being_Human
10:15 For someone considering learning the Love_Being_Human process what kind of awareness or changes could one hope for?
12:00 What are our next steps?
Dr. Vivian Carrasco
Leadership Coach & Lifestyle Strategist
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Creator of the Love.Being.Human Health and Well-Being Model
Author of the forthcoming book,
The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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Turning Inward
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Fall 2014
Season One Episode 1
Exploring the question, How did we get here?
How we met. Rebecca and Vivian share their story.
8:56 What makes our relationship work?
11:47 Who are we?
17:47 What do you feel has been the most defining moment of your life?
Dr. Vivian Carrasco
Leadership Coach& Lifestyle Strategist
760-576-LOVE (5683)
Creator of the Love.Being.Human Health and Well-Being Model
Author of the forthcoming book,
The Art of Harmony Within: Integrating Your Intellect, Your Heart Wisdom and Gut Instinct
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