Fearless Self-Love: Recent Episodes
Andrea Catherine, Wellness Coach & Yoga Instructor
Hello and welcome to the Fearless Self-Love Podcast. Loving ourselves is the most selfless thing we can do. When we prioritize our own needs, we show up more fully for others. We are more receptive and aware. We begin to live with ease. Each episode features conversations with creatives and wellness pros whose real-life stories will inspire you to take the next step toward living a life you love. Our bottom line is to cultivate communities of fearless self-love and compassionate connection, and you'll feel like you're right here with us, sitting around the table with a pot of tea. We'll walk you through an easeful living practice, and leave you with a courageous self-care tip. I'm your host, Andrea Catherine, Wellness Coach & Yoga Instructor, and your advocate to live a flourishing Life You Love.
In this episode, anti-diet yoga & fitness coach Billie Smith and I chat about why queer inclusivity matters and share about our upcoming virtual live workshop Saturday, May 31. The workshop will also be recorded.
You can sign up here: https://www.movewithbillie.com/pages/workwithme/teacher-workshops
Other mentions in the episode:
Foundations to Fruition with Tristan Katz and Brook Monaghan
HavAnna Cafe (where I was when Billie and I planned to collaborate)
Steph Plant and I chat about grief, collective and individual healing, the power of song, and our call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Listen in for deep wisdom from this musician and Montessori teacher as she reminds of our our true nature and our capacity to live full and beautiful lives. (Photo of Steph by Marie Esara)
Links mentioned in the show:
Groundedhere.com
Jamiewymanband.com
Michellecassandrajohnson.com
Scott Blossom: doctorblossom.com
Native_land.ca
Rebekah Dawn https://www.instagram.com/mulberrymudd/ and https://www.facebook.com/MulberryMudd/
Steph Plant on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steph.plant/?hl=en
Steph teaches at Metro East Montessori School: https://metroeastmontessori.com/
Steph Plant's Reflection Song on YouTube: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Op3nuZR5B3c
QUOTES
“It feels easy to feel discouraged, but the truth is I don’t feel hopeless, because I really do believe [we are] forcing out a very strong light frequency through the darkness.” - Steph Plant
“The desire of my heart is to be able to share a deep hope, a deep peace, and a deep love, that we can embody, and then choose to send and share, and let that fly out to wherever it is that our soul wants to carry it to. I feel very far from the scene geographically, but I feel very close to the scene spiritually and emotionally. My heart is with the Palestinian people. My guts are with the Palestinian people. My cries and my songs are with the Palestinian people." - Steph Plant
"I wish for grace and I wish for mercy and I wish for a ceasefire and I wish for an end to the occupation.” -Steph Plant
“Collectively the more that we can step into our personal power - and our personal love and our personal truth and our personal peace - the less important our fear will be to us and that’s really the only thing we actually have control over - is our own internal experience and how we respond to our external experiences.” - Steph Plant
“Let this grief and this rage radicalize me towards more compassion and courage.” - Roza https://www.instagram.com/yallaroza
“There is risk, but without doing it you’re risking never having the intimacy that you could have with that community or the power you could feel in actually making a change.” - Andrea Catherine Bachman
Andrea chats with Intuitive Life Coach, Pavitra Gurumurthi. Pavitra and I explore the difference between letting go and trusting ourselves through major life transitions. Pavitra's work is encompassed in one phrase "Walking the Path of Tenderized Authority," where she guides highly sensitive women to recognize the gifts held in their deeply empathic and feminine nature so they feel empowered to embrace a quiet confident approach to achieving their personal goals with ease. Part of this work includes embodied astrological readings that are therapeutic in nature. She has a unique way of marrying the wisdom of the cosmos with the innate wisdom held in the body and integrating free will and destiny in this lifetime.
Check out her story & her work in this interview and at the following links:
Website: https://www.pavitraguru.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavitragurumurthi/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pavitra.gurumurthi/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tenderauthority
In this episode we talk about:
- Gentleness in Major life transitions
- Self-trust
- Healthy boundaries
- Financial Stability & Equity
- Honoring our needs
Links Mentioned:
- George Kao
- Scott Blossom
Efia Sulter is a mindset and manifestation coach who is on a mission to teach ambitious women how to confidently manifest their desires, stop playing small and live their EXTRAORDINARY lives.
Check out her story & her work in this interview and at her website AND podcast:
https://www.efiasulter.com/
https://anchor.fm/themanifestedit
In this episode we talk about:
- seasonal change (including how to make a perfect cup of tea)
- how our love and understanding of self changes with the seasons of life
- mental health and self-advocacy
- navigating crossroads
- conscious manifestation
- the power of a good friendship
- solo travel
- anxiety
- race and gender representation in podcasting
Book Mentioned: https://pemachodronfoundation.org/product/comfortable-with-uncertainty-book/
Chai Recipe: groundedhere.com/tea
Graciela Moore is an ICF Certified Coach, Hope Expert, Licensed Sales Professional, HSP (highly sensitive person), and codependent in recovery.
If you're struggling to find hope, Graciela recommends asking yourself, "Who do you know? Who do you trust? And is their hop cup filled?... so you can borrow form it!"
Listen to learn more about Borrowed Hope, and lots of other kinds of hope!
Learn more about Graciela at
SoMCoaching.com or follow her on Instagram: instagram.com/songofmyself.ig
Join our chat about how an online directory of holistic practitioners can be utilized to build community for practitioners and clients alike.
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Kate Maslowski is a sales and business development
veteran of the marketing technology space. She is
leveraging her personal experience on her own wellness
journey and her passion for connecting people to helping
them find their ideal holistic healthcare practitioners and
doctors. Using her 15 years of experience in this field, she
created Holistic Health Collaborative to help you on your
journey to wellness. HHC is a searchable directory of Holistic
practitioners and doctors. Whether you’re seeking a
practitioner to help alleviate chronic back pain, an
unexplained bout of fatigue, or improve your overall health,
this database is designed to match you with your ideal
holistic health specialists.
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https://www.about.holistichealthcollab.com/our-team
https://www.instagram.com/holistichealthcollab/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/631818471033522
Annie Moussu is a certified EFT Tapping Master Practitioner who helps people overcome blocks to confidence, success and healthy relationships. She's a first-generation Vietnamese-American, living in western France. Her struggles with low self-esteem, perfectionism and toxic relationships spurred her healing process and spiritual awakening. Now as an EFT Master Practitioner, Annie is passionate about helping others navigate their mind, heart, body and soul to create a better world. Join us as we share our personal journeys with EFT (Annie) and Ayurveda (Andrea) and how they have invited us to settle into our abundance selves and potential.
Links:
Miles4Migrants: https://miles4migrants.org/
Wold Medicine Magic on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wolfmedicinemagic
George Kao: https://www.georgekao.com/
Blog article about EFT (free pdf with tapping points): https://hushyourmind.com/what-is-emotional-freedom-techniques/
EFT Group (I'll be there on 9/9!): https://hushyourmind.com/eft-tapping-group/
Website: https://hushyourmind.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hush.yourmind/
Join me as Yoga teacher, beautycounter representative and digital content creator, Holly Wielkoszewski, and I discuss our shared core value of SUSTAINABILITY and how it is a guidepost for running our businesses with integrity. We talk about the role story-telling (the story we tell ourselves, and our ability to rewrite our stories) plays in our healing. Sustainability touching on so many topics in our conversation including antiracism, hustle culture, & make up, just to name a few.
Learn more about Holly at http://hollyfromthebigsky.com/
Michelle Cassandra Johnson: michellecjohnson.com At Home in Your Body: groundedhere.com/yourbody Instagram: @fearlessselflove @groundedhere Email: andrea@groundedhere.com
This episode, while recorded last summer, is so timely with Amber's reminders of the values of discovery, play, and connecting with ourselves and what we love. Best to you as you navigate all the changes of our world and yourself while prioritizing what matters most!
Favorite Quotes:
- "Wherever you go, there you are." -Anonymous
- "The greatest joy and the greatest inward journey that we can experience is going to come from doing the things that we love." -Amber Sears
- "Secrecy is where all the guilt and shame is." - Amber Sears
- "What cracked my shell was sharing." - Amber Sears
- "Dance is the ultimate freedom and ultimate connection to yourself." -Amber Sears
Links Mentioned:
- Amber's Website, Epic Self
- Amber on Instagram
- Amber's husband, JP Sears - Ultra Spiritual
- Red Ants Pants Music Festival
Meet Amber:
Amber Sears is a business & transformation coach deeply dedicated to helping women heal, awaken and transform from the inside out. She specializes in 1:1 coaching, group coaching programs, retreats and teacher training programs that empower women to rise higher than they thought possible.
Diana Kirshner has spent a lifetime helping others find love within themselves and with others. Today Diana and I talk about how positive affirmations can change lives by changing our thinking. We also discuss how to free negative thoughts and rewire our brains. Lastly, Diana leads me through the steps of the “5 Minute Manifestation Miracle.” She is a joyful and vibrant guest who believes the sky’s the limit. Join me.
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How to create a positive affirmation
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How to free negative thoughts
- How to create a positive and fulfilling life
Links Mentioned:
Diana Kirshner: www.lovein90days.com
Free Session for listeners: www.lovein90days.com click on coaching tab put in Andrea sent me
Online University learn how to be a relationship and dating coach: https://www.lovein90daysuniversity.com/
Book Love In 90 Days: https://lovein90days.com/diana-kirschner/ make sure to get the 2019 edition
Fearless Self-Love Retreat www.fearlessselflove.com
Favorite Quotes:
“Make a positive affirmation in the present tense as if there are no limits.” -Diana Kirshner
“Growth is rarely linear, it is rocky.” -Diana Kirshner
“When negative thoughts surface to sabotage our positive affirmation, embrace and recognize them. Let them be. Free them and then go back to the affirmation.” -Diana Kirshner
“If we cling to self sabotage as an idea, then we’re not going to free that idea.” -Andrea Catherine
“The positive affirmations become sewn into your brain when you don’t explore the negative thoughts and instead go back to the affirmation.” -Diana Kirshner
“An affirmation can be about anything in your life. It’s about creating what you would prefer to experience.” -Diana Kirshner
“Affirmations rewire the nervous system as long as we don’t dissect the negative thoughts.” -Diana Kirshner
“Find confidence, passion and stability in yourself instead of seeking that in another person. Come to the table full.” -Andrea Catherine
“The sky's the limit. Decide how you want to experience life. -Diana Kirshner
Meet Diana:
PBS Love expert, psychologist and bestselling author, Diana Kirschner, Ph.D. has helped tens of thousands of singles and couples to find the relationships of their dreams. Along with her team of expert Love Mentor® and dating coaches, she uses a unique approach to help women and men heal from heartbreak, create high-value self-confidence, and find lasting passionate love. The team has given over 10,000 free sessions to women all over the world. Dr. Diana is the author of the bestseller, Love in 90 Days, now out in its 10th Anniversary edition. She has also authored, the relationship advice book, Sealing the Deal: The Love Mentor’s Guide to Lasting Love, Find Your Soulmate Online, The Diamond Self Secret and 30 Days to Love: The Ultimate Relationship Turnaround Guide.
Love Expert, Psychologist & Bestselling Author, Dr. Diana Kirschner, has handpicked a team of awesome Love Mentor® coaches. And you can talk with one of them for free for 40 minutes by phone or Skype! If you have any pressing dating or love questions just go to http://lovein90days.com/dating-coach/ and you will be talking to a wise helpful Love Mentor® very soon! Say “Andrea sent me” for VIP treatment!
Dr. Diana’s new university course:
The New Love in 90 Days Video and Teleconference course
With Dr. Diana Kirschner
Learn how to attract the One and create lasting passionate love, And get trained as a dating and relationship coach!.
Heal heartbreak and rejection. Become irresistibly confident.
And create a life and career you absolutely love!
www.Lovein90DaysUniversity.com
Quotes:
"So now I'm a therapist, after being a photographer for all these year, and being a man for all these years. Now I'm a therapist that's a woman!" - Kimberly Anderson
"I don't have a lot of time for art that doesn't mean anything, but I do have a lot of time for art that means everything." - Kimberly Anderson
"Letting go of that control, that need to control, that has probably been the biggest lesson for me.It's that I've really had to force myself to relinquish any expectations of how this thing called life is going to go, and really just embrace life in the moment, and not only be ok with that, but celebrate it and cherish it as it unfolds." - Kimberly Anderson
"The greater the distance between where we are and where want to be, the greater the pain...if we can narrow the gap, we can reduce the pain." - Kimberly Anderson
"Don't set yourself on fire in order to keep other people warm." - Kimberly Anderson
Links:
Mama Dragon Project - support for mothers with LGBTQ children
Meet Kimberly:
Kimberly Anderson is a transgender woman embarking on the second half of her life reinventing nearly every aspect of who she is. She was raised in an orthodox Mormon home, living as a boy on a horse-farm in rural Northern Utah. Anderson has both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Utah State University. For over twenty-five years she was a practicing documentary and fine-art photographer and was a university lecturer for ten years in Utah. She has worked all over the world with an emphasis in Asia and Scandinavia. She was married for twenty years to a woman and together they have raised two children. Currently Anderson is a recent graduate of the University of San Francisco with an MA in Counseling Psychology. She has been practicing as a Marriage and Family Therapist in the San Francisco and Sacramento areas with concentrations on Native American populations, adolescents, eating disorders, and trauma. Her particular specialty is working with LGBTQ+ youth and their families transitioning through various journeys of faith and spirituality. Anderson is the photographer and author of the Mama Dragon Story Project, an ethnographic study which features portraits and autobiographical essays from over 135 Mormon moms who have decided their love for their LGBTQ+ child is greater than religious dogma. Anderson has pursued a new spiritual path based on truth, science, and love.
It's been 2 full years since the Fearless Self-Love Podcast Officially launched!!! This episode is all about the thank you's:) .
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Are you a workaholic? Do you find your worth in what you do and hope that it will validate who you are? Psychologist Emee Estacio joins me to share her personal battle with imposter syndrome, how she found her way to asking for help and how she works with others to overcome it, too. She offers tools for imposter syndrome management and insight into how to reframe comparison so it doesn’t steal our joy.
- How to know whether or not you have imposter syndrome
- How to bounce back when imposter syndrome comes up
- When to offer your inner critic some TLC
Links Mentioned:
Fearless Self Love Retreat: https://www.fearlessselflove.com/
Book with Emee (mention this podcast for 10% off): http://thepamecode.com/
“When I had my child, it felt as if I lost a bit of control and I started doubting if I’m truly capable of becoming an academic and second whether I’m fit as a mother.” -- Emee Estacio
“Sometimes I would put in 60 hour work weeks, because I felt that if I didn’t that I wasn’t good enough.” -- Emee Estacio
“One of the characteristics of imposter syndrome, especially if you have this persistent feeling of self-doubt, incompetence and inadequacy, is that [you] tend to overwork and [you] tend to overstretch [yourself], to the point that [you] use every single time that [you] have to dedicate to [your] work. Because you have this false assumption that if you don’t work enough, if you don’t put that much time into your work, then … your’re going to make mistakes and people are going to find out that you’re incompentant.” -- Emee Estacio
“I had to hit rock bottom before someone nudged me to ask for help.” -- Emee Estacio
“We are all human; we get sick.” -- Emee Estacio
“Continuing to have these things surface helps me to hone my skills...and to remind myself I’m human and I’m connected to all the people I’m serving.” -- Andrea Catherine
“The inner critic is that tiny voice inside your head that tells you all these nasty things about yourself.” -- Emee Estacio
“For people who experience very severe cases of imposter syndrome they tend to have a very fixed mindset. If they believe they’re not good at something, then they stick to it, as if there is no more room for growth.” -- Emee Estacio
“Yes we might have imperfections...but that’s OK, it’s part of your learning experience, it’s part of growth and development.” -- Emee Estacio
“Just because you make mistakes sometimes, it doesn’t mean you are a fraud...it means you are human.” -- Emee Estacio
“Just because they are doing better than you, it doesn’t mean you’re not doing well.” -- Emee Estacio
“Comparison is the thief of joy.” -- Theodore Roosevelt
"Celebrate the success of others because it shows you what is possible." -- Emee Estacio
Meet Emee:
Emee is a chartered psychologist and Founder of the PAME Code. Her passion is to help people embrace their true worth, so they can live happy and fulfilling lives. Throughout her academic, coaching, and research career, she has worked closely with individuals and communities to unlock their full potential using simple and easy to apply methods for limitless success in life. She is the #1 best-selling author of the "Psychology in Your Life" book series, including titles such as "The Imposter Syndrome Remedy", "Change Your Life for Good", and "Fear is Not My Enemy". She is also now helping aspiring authors fulfil their lifelong ambition to write and publish their own books with her flagship course, "Self-Publishing Made Simple".
Circumstances ebb and flow in our lives with times of success and love, to times of failure and doubt. Jillie Johnston’s view is that no matter the circumstances, we can feel value and joy and learn to love ourselves just the way we are right now in this moment. On this episode, Jillie and I discuss self love and worthiness. Join me in this inspiring and vibrant discussion of navigating self love through this human experience we call life.
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How to love yourself just as you are right now.
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How to sit in the hard times and be okay.
- How to frame time to be full of balance.
Links Mentioned:
www.jilliejohnston.com
Instagram: @jilliejohnstoncoaching
Podcast: http://theworthinessmindset.libsyn.com/2018
Fearless Self Love Retreat: https://www.fearlessselflove.com/
Favorite Quotes:
“Shift your perspective. Choose to be and focus on seeing who you are right now. See yourself for everything you are, and are not and love that part of you.” -Jillie Johnston
“I can be and that’s enough.” -Jillie Johnston
Just because I have self doubt doesn’t mean I don’t love myself or believe in myself. Just because I struggle with anxiety and depression doesn’t mean I’m not a joyful person. It’s not a duality. It’s both and. You can be both. It’s part of our human experience.” -Jillie Johnston
“You only know your confidence because you’ve struggled with self doubt. You only know your resilience because you’ve been brought to your knees.” -Jillie Johnston
“ When you have a moment where you truly showed up for yourself, remember the path that brought you there. You can be our own role model. You did it once, you can do it again.” -Andrea Catherine
“See yourself in others, it is a representation of you and your possibilities.” -Jillie Johnston
“Loving yourself is not about actions. It is internal.” -Andrea Catherine
“The journey doesn’t end, it just keeps expanding with opportunities and challenges.” -Andrea Catherine
“It’s not about the destination. It’s about the journey and the relationships you cultivate along the way.” -Jillie Johnston
“Don’t label your emotions. Look at them as data for changing your narrative.” -Jillie Johnston
Meet Jillie:
Jillian Johnston, founder of The Worthiness Mindset Podcast, a life coach, joy spreader, and worthiness warrior, empowers people through self-love to rediscover their voice, worth, and power. Jillian has had a unique and uplifting journey that inspires people of all ages to rediscover their power and potential. In her workshops, speaking events, and 1:1 private coaching, she offers simple, creative ideas and daily practices to tap into self-love and cultivate worthiness.
Shame, trauma, fear, pain and dissociation are all words that many women associate with sexuality and body shaming. Salona Carlisle is on a mission to help women find pleasure and sensuality and come back home to their bodies. In this episode Salona and I openly discuss how being sensual in the everyday helps us heal and bring wholeness back into our lives. Join me in this interesting and informative episode.
- How to power down our nervous system to be home in our body.
- How to claim our freedom of expression and wholeness.
- How to invite more pleasure in our lives.
Links Mentioned:
Salona’s podcast on sacred sexual empowerment
At home in your body course
Free Gift!!!! 5 part audio series: The feminine soul fulfillment formula. A daily practice to feed your most luminous self and spirit. 7 practices and daily template
Alexander Lowen Bioenergetics
Fearless Self Love Retreat
Favorite Quotes:
“The power of sensuality is that it forces the nervous system to calm down, it forces us to become more receptive, and allows our aliveness to come forward.” Salona Carlisle
“Being numbed out and estranged from our bodies creates pain.” -Salona Carlisle
“When women dissociate from their sexual essence, they often feel that part of them is missing. It creates a lack of wholeness or completeness and vibrancy” -Solana Carlisle
“See the underlying sacredness of everyday life, of what seems like the ordinary experience.” -Salona Carlisle
“When we embrace our sexual life force, it provides a beautiful road map that gives us permission to fall in love with sex again and come back home to our bodies and our sexual aliveness in the most wholistic way. It restores sacredness back into those places that have been disowned and shunned and rejected so we can reclaim our freedom of expression and wholeness.” -Salona Carlisle
“We’ve turned away from the recognition of what is present and what is happening.” -Salona Carlisle
“Loving ourselves is a lifelong journey.” -Andrea Catherine
“The most powerful practice you can take on to wake up you sensual awareness, is self love. Practice coming back into your body and being with what is present in a space of unconditionality.” -Salona Carlisle
“Lean into the moments of joy and pleasure in all moments of life.” -Salona Carlisle
Meet Salona:
As a feminine embodiment coach, transformational guide, sacred sexuality mentor, and tantra practitioner, Salona guides women on the journey into radical self-love and back into their essential wholeness so they are empowered to truly master their fulfillment from the inside out.
Through her body-centered approach, she supports her clients in releasing the limiting beliefs and unconscious patterns that have been keeping them stuck and under-realized, so they can experience the freedom and fulfillment of embodying all of the women they aspire to become.
As a result, her clients are able to heal from deep-seated shame, discover their innermost beauty, reclaim their joie de vivre, and live into their most courageous selves, so they can liberate their fullest potential to do their soul’s sacred work in the world.
She has dedicated her life to helping women like you feel radiantly alive, reconnect to their essential divinity, and reclaim sexual wholeness as the gateway to their highest potential.
www.salonacarlisle.com
https://www.facebook.com/salonacarlisle
https://twitter.com/salonacarlisle
Like many women, Cammie has struggled with feelings of not being enough and feeling unworthy. Growing up in a Christian, she thought that loving God meant that she had to act, look, and be a certain way. This belief led her to look outward for acceptance and love until one day she “hit her head against the wall” and realized that love comes from within. Cammie discusses her journey to find love and unlearn the beliefs of who she thought God was and who she thought she should be. Join me as we discuss her journey to self-love.
Work with Cammie ~ How to Heal from Self-Sabotaging Beliefs course
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How stripping away beliefs of unworthiness helps us find love within ourselves
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How to give yourself permission to do the things you want to do without guilt
- Why learning to love yourself creates healing
Links Mentioned:
Podcast: Master Self Love https://podtail.com/podcast/master-self-love/
Higher Heart 6 week course with Cammie Knight starts August 18 https://www.cammieknight.org/a-higher-heart-1
Fearless Self-Love Retreat www.fearlessselflove.com
Favorite Quotes:
“Love is the absence of the presence of fear.” -Cammie Knight
“The absence of love is fear because it hides the truth of what love really is.” -Cammie Knight
“When we say we’re not enough we tear down our self-esteem.” -Cammie Knight
“Love is not about doing things. It is not external. It is not about being enough and it is not about people accepting us.” -Cammie Knight
“The unlearning and the stripping away of the beliefs that I was unworthy taught me that the love I was looking for was within me.” -Cammie Knight
“Acceptance is an inside job” -Andrea Catherine
“When we are In the fetal position of life, we surrender and let go of control.” -Cammie Knight
Meet Cammie:
Cammie Knight is a Healing consultant for women. She helps women heal from “DEEPLY ROOTED” Self-Sabotaging Beliefs, so that they may stand in their TRUE POWER which is LOVE. This was as soul journey that she initially went on for herself and later found that the awakening that happened in her life was bigger than herself. She awakened to SELF LOVE, and ALLLLL of what was truly revealed to her about this truth. As she began unpacking the layers that was blocking her true self , she started seeing that the lower vibrations of feeling that “she wasn’t enough, feeling abandoned, having low self -esteem, and feeling unworthy was not “Her” beliefs but rather the agreements she said “yes” to on a subconscious level that she took on as herself. ANNNND SO THE UNPACKING BEGAN, and on “her,” journey she saw what was REAL and that was the LOVE that lived inside of her! As she began aligning with this truth, it was revealed to her that this was a calling to help others, heal from Self Sabotaging BELIEFS. Because the truth is, the limiting beliefs that one may have towards themselves isn’t who we really ARE! And through her journey, she has helped others unlock the walls of what has blocked them from their Authentic selves. LOVE is the Key and she is grateful to help others on their journey of healing! ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cammie-knight-26822a161
Cammie's website: https://www.cammieknight.org/
Cammie's email: ahigherlove@cammieknight.com
Instagram: @camieluvs
Kathleen Hanagan is a spiritual activist. She believes that being able to hold space for our own feelings as well as for the beliefs and opinions of others -- without attaching ourselves to them -- creates healthy connections. Her compassion, humor, and candor help people discover deeper meaning in their own challenges. She shows us that courage and compassion can transform our lives, which then changes the world. In this episode, Kathleen and I have a thoughtful, poignant discussion about change, connections and the challenge of moving toward self love.
In this episode:
- How to embrace self-love through the power of mirroring
- How to challenge your inner voice/critic through life’s changes
- How healthy connections can heal and transform in times of grieving
Links Mentioned:
https://www.kathleenhanagan.com/
https://www.facebook.com/kathleen.hanagan
http://twitter.com/kathleenhanagan
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleenhanagan
Instagram---hanagannow
Loveseed, The Template For Birthing A New World by Kathleen Hanagan
https://www.amazon.com/Loveseed-template-birthing-new-world/dp/1945586141
Fearless Self-Love Retreat www.fearlessselflove.com
Johann Hari Ted Talk https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_you_know_about_addiction_is_wrong?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
Book: Changing For Good by James O. Prochaska
https://www.amazon.com/Changing-Good-Revolutionary...Positively/.../038072572X
The seven chakras: https://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-91/The-7-Chakras-for-Beginners.html
African Birth Song: https://neterianafricanreligion.net/the-role-of-birth-song-in-african-life/
Favorite Quotes:
“Healthy connection is what allows us to heal and transform.” -Kathleen Hanagan
“Our own life experiences are educational and serve us when we move into what we want.” -Andrea Catherine
“The voice of the inner critic is very loud. It is not the voice of our real self. It is a fear based voice that tries to keep us small and quiet.” -Kathleen Hanagan
“The best motivator for change is self-love.” -Kathleen Hanagan
“We don’t have to have resolve every problem in our life to have self love.” -Andrea Catherine
“If you don’t follow through with an intention, don’t judge or self criticize, examine why? What took precedence? Let it be. That is self love.” -Kathleen Hanagan
“If you say you love yourself but don’t take care of yourself then it is easier to justify doing other things. It is self deception.” -Andrea Catherine
“We are wired to feel things. It is not natural to stop the process of feeling.” -Kathleen Hanagan
“Reflect and hold space for yourself and others without taking on negativity. I hear you, I see what you are saying. I reflect back but I don’t take it on. That, is an art.” -Kathleen Hanagan
“You can’t heal until you feel. By bringing consciousness (without judgement) to pain, pain transforms. Grief transforms to compassion and love, anger transforms to power, and fear transforms to enthusiasm.” -Kathleen Hanagan
Meet Kathleen:
Kathleen Hanagan is spiritual teacher, modern mystic, psychotherapist, and author, whose work integrates the essential wisdom of the great spiritual traditions with scientific knowledge, 30 years working intimately with individuals, couples, and groups, and her own quest for liberation. Kathleen’s gift is her ability to translate esoteric knowledge into practical tools that help us navigate the stormy waters of the human journey. Her book, Loveseed: The Template To Birth A New World, teaches us how to live from the center of our being, and how to live our Soul’s purpose in full integrity and prosperity.
Social situations have always been a challenge for Harris Montanye. After years of practicing classic yoga and meditation, he realized this practice was creating a shell that kept him from engaging with others. That realization has thrown Harris on a path of self discovery and authenticity. A path where “interaction and community, now feel like the healthiest thing for me. It feels like I just ate a nourishing meal,” he says. Harris and I discuss his journey, his insights along the way and what is next in his life. Join me in a thoughtful and engaging discussion about engaging in your world.
- How can your insecurities can make you curious?
- How can you engage in the world in a practical way?
- Why noticing your behaviors, actions and thinking boost your authenticity?
Fearless Self-Love Retreat
Grain of Truth: The Real Case For and Against Wheat and Gluten by Stephen Yafa
Eat Wheat : by Dr. John Douillard
Wicked Good Farm Center For Restorative Youth Justice
Show Highlights:
02:58 Easeful Living Practice
05:28 Interview with Harris Begins!
14:48 How Harris’ Yoga perspective has changed -- from classical to Tantra
19:37 Tools for navigating insecurities and moving toward curiosity
24:38 Meaning of Authenticity
29:10 How Harris acts on Self-love
46:20 Courageous Self-Care Tip
Favorite Quotes:
“Being with people helps me become a more realistic version of the person I want to become.” -Andrea Catherine
“I’m trying to engage in my world rather than turn away from it.” -Harris Montanye
“I believed in enlightenment and blissful reality. Now I’m trying to show up.” -Harris Montanye
“What lights me up are my insecurities. When I really look at them, they make me turn toward life and make me curious.” -Harris Montanye
“Sometimes I feel like I’m teaching myself when I say something to a client or a class. It is a reminder to self, a check, that I am in integrity with what I am saying.” -Andrea Catherine
“Internal authenticity creates a conversation with external motivation and makes it more authentic. That conversation has to start from inside, not outside.” -Harris Montanye
“Even when we are on a path of authenticity, if we are not in a place of self validation, then we can’t hear or understand that authenticity.” -Andrea Catherine
“One of the gifts of human creation is that no one in the entire universe is like you. You get to decide who that person is going to be.” -Harris Montanye
“Advice is only helpful if you make the changes.” -Harris Montanye
“Self love is an action more than a feeling. I can feel upset with myself or feel really foolish about a mistake or an action I made. But that fool in me needs just as much compassion and care as the one who feels on top of the world...maybe even more.” -Andrea Catherine
Meet Harris:
Harris Montanye has his Bachelor's degree in psychology and has spent the last four years teaching and studying yoga. He is in his early twenties trying to find a way of living that is meaningful and authentic. In many ways he is lost and insecure trying to navigate the maze of life. He has found that the only way forward is to keep moving and to keep breathing. Knowing that sometimes the best movement is stillness and the greatest skill is being able to choose what you pay attention to.
Social situations have always been a challenge for Harris Montanye. After years of practicing classic yoga and meditation, he realized this practice was creating a shell that kept him from engaging with others. That realization has thrown Harris on a path of self discovery and authenticity. A path where “interaction and community, now feel like the healthiest thing for me. It feels like I just ate a nourishing meal,” he says. Harris and I discuss his journey, his insights along the way and what is next in his life. Join me in a thoughtful and engaging discussion about engaging in your world.
- How can your insecurities can make you curious?
- How can you engage in the world in a practical way?
- Why noticing your behaviors, actions and thinking boost your authenticity?
Fearless Self-Love Retreat
Grain of Truth: The Real Case For and Against Wheat and Gluten by Stephen Yafa
Eat Wheat : by Dr. John Douillard
Wicked Good Farm Center For Restorative Youth Justice
Show Highlights:
02:58 Easeful Living Practice
05:28 Interview with Harris Begins!
14:48 How Harris’ Yoga perspective has changed -- from classical to Tantra
19:37 Tools for navigating insecurities and moving toward curiosity
24:38 Meaning of Authenticity
29:10 How Harris acts on Self-love
46:20 Courageous Self-Care Tip
Favorite Quotes:
“Being with people helps me become a more realistic version of the person I want to become.” -Andrea Catherine
“I’m trying to engage in my world rather than turn away from it.” -Harris Montanye
“I believed in enlightenment and blissful reality. Now I’m trying to show up.” -Harris Montanye
“What lights me up are my insecurities. When I really look at them, they make me turn toward life and make me curious.” -Harris Montanye
“Sometimes I feel like I’m teaching myself when I say something to a client or a class. It is a reminder to self, a check, that I am in integrity with what I am saying.” -Andrea Catherine
“Internal authenticity creates a conversation with external motivation and makes it more authentic. That conversation has to start from inside, not outside.” -Harris Montanye
“Even when we are on a path of authenticity, if we are not in a place of self validation, then we can’t hear or understand that authenticity.” -Andrea Catherine
“One of the gifts of human creation is that no one in the entire universe is like you. You get to decide who that person is going to be.” -Harris Montanye
“Advice is only helpful if you make the changes.” -Harris Montanye
“Self love is an action more than a feeling. I can feel upset with myself or feel really foolish about a mistake or an action I made. But that fool in me needs just as much compassion and care as the one who feels on top of the world...maybe even more.” -Andrea Catherine
Meet Harris:
Harris Montanye has his Bachelor's degree in psychology and has spent the last four years teaching and studying yoga. He is in his early twenties trying to find a way of living that is meaningful and authentic. In many ways he is lost and insecure trying to navigate the maze of life. He has found that the only way forward is to keep moving and to keep breathing. Knowing that sometimes the best movement is stillness and the greatest skill is being able to choose what you pay attention to.
Flor Toraya is a traveler, photographer and psychologist. She, like many of us, has experienced significant loss. Her loss propelled her to travel, and along the way rebuild herself and change her story. Join me as Flor and I examine how we each can live change in our lives through feeling our fear, and asking for help.
- Is being who you are still serving you, or is it time for a change?
- Why change is not something you can learn, you have to live it.
- Why it is important to turn fear into courage
Links Mentioned:
Eat, Pray, Love
Yoga Health Coaching
Tara Brach meditations
Brene Brown
Show Highlights:
03:19 Easeful Living Practice
05:05 Introduction
07:25 Flor shares about the unplanned changes in her life and their impact on her family
25:17 Change, how to love yourself
31:30 The meaning behindFlor discusses tTraveling with POwer
37:30 Flor’s advice for women
49:04 Courageous Self-Care Tip
Favorite Quotes:
“We all have a story we tell. We can choose whether we tell it through the lens of feeling weak and not being able to be strong, or we can choose a new direction.” -Andrea Catherine
“We have to go through loss and grieving in order to get to a place that is more powerful.” -Flor Toraya
“It is through moments of loss that we examine ourselves and realise this isn’t me being who I want to be anymore.” -Andrea Catherine
“We need to learn to love ourselves and realize we are not perfect. Our body is not perfect, our face is not perfect. We are what we are and we have to accept that.” -Flor Toraya
“Don’t worry about learning in books. Change is not something you can learn, you have to live it.” -Flor Toraya
“You have to learn to feel every emotion including fear.” -Flor Toraya
“Let the fear be with you and pause with it, say hello to it.” -Andrea Catherine
“Sometimes we close our eyes to our problems. Go in front of it, face it and learn how to live with it.” -Flor Toraya
“Comparison is the thief of joy” -Theodore Roosevelt
“Just as we need help to move a sofa, sometimes we need help with in changing our lives.” -Flor Toraya
Meet Flor:
Flor Toraya studied psychology and earned her masters in Education. She worked more than 20 years with children, youth, teachers and parents. After several losses in her life she finally overcomes a time of sadness and depression. She continued working until one day she made a big decision, quit her job, sold her car, got rid of almost everything and started to travel and enjoy her freedom.Her mottos are now “one day at a time” and “more moments less things.” “Try to live in a minimalist way and practice new habits to protect the environment.” Follow her adventures on social networks like @TravelwithPOwer
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBmLHNoiI08
Ned Cooney loves meetings, good meetings! Ned says that just as a river guide may not know a particular river or a particular group, the guide has been on a lot of rivers and knows what to do if the boat turns over. His job as a facilitator is to bring a group of people together and bring out the best thinking that leads the group to a better path. Listen and Ned and I discuss how his facilitation skills and his knowledge of music and its effects on the brain to bring out the best in people.
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How finding sacredness leads to fulfillment
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How asking why you do what you do leads to discovery
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Why forgetting self allows you to be fully present
Links Mentioned:
Helpline https://connectriverside.org/helpline/
Malcolm Gladwell quote
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3364437-outliers-the-story-of-success
Gracious Space
http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/publications/email/pod/convio/leadingedge/au17/gracious-space.htm
Open Space
https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/what-is/
Ned Cooney
www.nedcooney.com
Show Highlights:
1:00 Introduction
4:08 Exploration of the sacred, being invited into a community and share in exploration
9:50 What it’s really like to bea facilitator
15:35 Fearlessness -- what it means to Ned
20:55 The role music plays in Ned’s life
33:00 Ned’s journey toward facilitation
41:20 Meeting strategies and the spectrum of “tions”
51:30 Ned’s self care tips
Favorite Quotes:
“Sacredness, to me, is being invited into a common mission to help people with their passions.” -Ned Cooney
“Selflessness helps me be fully present. When you forget yourself, you can be open to what comes and what shows up without having to own the outcome. -Ned Cooney
“When you are nervous, switch your energy to being eager. Eagerness allows us to use energy without being frozen in fear.” -Andrea Catherine
“Music creates richness, collaboration and connection. It is a common experience. Music makes us conscious of things we’re not really conscious of. It improves our lives and hearts. It touches people’s core without words.” -Ned Cooney
“Music is a uniquely human endeavor. Our brains are wired to respond to music.” -Andrea Catherine
“If we’re going to be a civilization that has institutions and organizations then we should not avoid meetings or destroy them with our lack of attention.” -Ned Cooney
Everything that we are passionate about or care about probably started with people gathering together to talk about it.” -Andrea Catherine
Meet Ned:
Ned Cooney, Facilitator/Consultant is an independent consulting practice, specializing in nonprofits, philanthropy and public agencies. His early career has been in the nonprofit sector, as executive director, program staff and board member. Now, Ned serves many organizations by helping people learn and make better decisions together. Ned specializes in organizational planning, board development, funding strategies, support for executives, and meetings/retreats. He is also rumored to be one Mellow Waters while singing songs on stage with a guitar.
Katie Visco pursues her passions with vibrancy and authenticity and every time she does, she finds her truth. She is a woman who is not afraid to face hard physical challenges. In those challenges she faces nothingness and exposes her truth. Her new adventure is preparing to run solo across the deserts of Australia. Join me as Katie and I discuss living your truth, defining yourself, and getting out of your own way.
3 Bullet Points
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How nothingness can bring beauty
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When you live in your own truth it helps others do the same
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How getting out of your own way brushes doubts and fears away
Links Mentioned:
Tim Ferris https://tim.blog/podcast/Katie’s website and campaign
www.katievisco.com;
If you are interested in her soup and bone broth delivery in Austin Texas and Missoula Montana checkout:
www.hotlovesoup.com;
You can follow Katie on Instagram at:
https://www.instagram.com/katievisco/
Help Katie earn money for Run Across Australia at Good Energy Juju Balls
https://goodjujuenergyballs.weebly.com/
You can also help Katie at her Go Fund Me site
https://www.gofundme.com/running-across-australia
Marianne Williamson quote, “Our deepest fear is that we are weak.”
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/17297.Marianne_Williamson
Show Highlights:
02:30 Easeful Living Practice: “How easy can it be?” mantra
09:27 Interview with Katie Visco begins! ~ How to be a vibrant human being while pursuing your goals
13:08 Raising money for Run Across Australia…& why Australia!? Katie’s consistency, drive, and passion
24:02 Introspection and self care that comes with breaking routine
38:08 Just do you ~ Getting out of your own way & cover the distance at your own pace 40:20 Katie’s campaign to make this run trip happen & how you can help:)
Favorite Quotes:
“Why run across Australia? Because it will allow me to confront all parts of myself. To be in nothingness. I’m curious what it will be like for my soul and my mind.” -Katie Visco
“Moving our bodies provides a gateway to our mind and emotions” -Andrea Catherine
“When we put ourselves in different experiences and different environments, our brain synapses in different ways.” -Katie Visco
“If I live my heart, I am bound to be of service to other people” -Katie Visco
“Think true and you will be true to yourself.” -Katie Visco
“When people live their truth, their dream, their dharma, their desire, they are alive and vibrant because of it.” -Andrea Catherine
“I am most passionate about helping others to simply shine.” -Katie Visco
“Your dream is worth pursuing.” -Katie Visco “You are enough. Your joys, your, light, your offering in this world are enough and the stakes are way too high not to believe it!” -Katie Visco
Meet Katie:
In 2009, promoting the importance of a bold and passion-driven life, Katie ran solo across America, from Boston to San Diego, and became the 2nd youngest and 13th woman overall to make the crossing. She spoke with more than 200 audiences along the way to encourage people to leap towards their dreams. Katie also has 10+ years of experience as a community-builder and entrepreneur. She has started eight businesses and campaigns, and is currently the proud owner and soup maestra behind Hot Love Soup, a soup and bone broth delivery company in Austin, Texas and now also in Missoula, Montana. She loves people and the trails, and now, with her upcoming run across Australia this July 2019, she will teach others that curiosity can be enough of a reason to follow the still small voices in your heart.
Monica Rivera is a woman who is not afraid to try new paths. She won’t hesitate to agree that life has its ups and downs and every part of it matters, has something to teach us, and also invites us to respond as our best selves. Listen in asMonica and I talk about making big decisions, being true to yourself and taking risks. Can’t get enough, check out Monica’s podcast: YOU WANNA DO WHAT?!
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How to ask yourself what you need, and answer that need, too!
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Why being intentional with your decisions matters every time
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How to find a community that helps you live the life you love
Links Mentioned:
“You Wanna Do What” podcast with Monica Rivera
https://www.youwannadowhat.com/
Yogahealer podcast
https://yogahealer.com/podcasts/
Fearless Self Love Retreat
https://www.fearlessselflove.com/
Dancing Spirit Ranch
https://www.dancingspiritranch.com/
Show Highlights:
02:30 Easeful Living Practice
26:02 Introduction of Monica Rivera
27:11 You can’t be what you can’t see, how others can help us believe what’s possible for ourselves
31:20 Staying in a curious mind set while balancing the old adage, “To thine own self be true.”
40:00 Self doubt and asking for help, premise of Monica’s show, You WANNA do WHAT?!
43:33 I love you affirmation, Andrea’s poem
45:33 Weight and self image -- oh this can be a doozy and we’re going there, gently
48:50 Confidence and Risk taking -- Is it worth it? How do we get more of it?
52:45 Community, connectedness, virtual community -- how can they each meet our needs for relationship
56:50 Paying someone to help you -- yes, it can be well worth it! 39:25 Making your own decisions is possible
104:50 Find your door and walk through it
109:17 Courageous Self-Care Tip & Insight into next episode with Katie Visco!
Favorite Quotes:
“I’ve never been someone who is too shy to ask questions. I am the person who sees a panel of buttons and want to press all the buttons to see what they will do.” -Monica Rivera
“I don’t want to do what everyone else is doing I want to give other paths a try.” -Monica Rivera
“Be curious, just observe. The more you do it, the more you exercise your curious ‘muscle.’” -Monica Rivera
“Sit in a space before you make a judgement.” -Monica Rivera
“Observation teaches you what isn’t serving you.” -Andrea Catherine
“Be intentional with the decision you make to help someone else. Ask yourself, does this feel good to the other person, and does it feel good to me?” -Monica Rivera
“Our body takes longer to learn than our mind, and we can’t fault ourselves for our process and our progress.” -Andrea Catherine
“If we’re not showing ourselves other forms of beauty aside from what’s popular, then how are we going to see ourselves as beautiful?” -Andrea Catherine
“When I’m making a big decision, I take people’s input up to a point, thank them for it, then I make the decision on my own and tell them about it afterward.” -Monica Rivera
“Doors open that are intended to open. Find your door.” -Monica Rivera
Meet Monica:
Monica Rivera is an action-taking maven. She has a passion for converting ideas into execution - quickly. (She started her podcast, YOU WANNA DO WHAT?! in just 3 days). A self-taught, NYC-based podcast producer, consultant and speaker, her signature approach comes down to giving you permission to pursue their personal goals through relatable stories and practical solutions.
As we move from winter to Spring, Aries is the fire of our transformation. It is also our birth into a new year and a new self.
Becky Shepherd reached out on Instagram after listening to, and loving this podcast. As a 22 year old the show helped her learn how to think about caring for herself rather than going through life as if it were an obstacle course. Join me as Becky and I explore how moving to a new place helps you redefine yourself and how anonymity allows you the freedom to be curious.
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How we can learn from others of any age
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How relocating can stimulate personal recreation
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How experiencing the difficult, helps us appreciate the beautiful
Links Mentioned:
Fearless Self-Love Retreat: www.fearlessselflove.com
The Center for Restorative Youth Justice
https://restorativeyouthjustice.org/
“No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering” by Clara Bensen
http://www.clarabensen.com/no-baggage-1
Becky Shepherd email: rebecca.shepherd96@gmail.com
Show Highlights:
01:21 Fearless Self-Love Retreat 2019: Embrace Your Story
02:30 Easeful Living Practice
07:37 Introduction of Becky Shepherd
10:45 Becky shares how this show has impacted her life
13:20 Becky shares her self care practices she’s taken on since listening to the show
18:16 We can learn from people of all ages
20:47 Becky shares about her graduate program epigenetics
25:40 What it is like to be anonymous after moving cities
34:31 Meaning of “It’s all going to work out” -- Becky’s 3 mindsets
46:21 Andrea shares what’s changed and what’s remained since she was 22 years old
53:10 The magic of traveling alone
Favorite Quotes:
“When we feel like we have a lot to learn it is a reminder of our zest for life.” - Andrea Catherine
“Learning new things lights me up.” - Becky Shepherd
“Epigenetics is the study of how we change; how we function and how we behave without changing our cells or our DNA.” - Becky Shepherd
“It’s nice when you strip yourself away from your family and the comfortable. You have to learn. It’s been liberating to throw the ‘plan’ away in the bin.”- Becky Shepherd
“Everything is so relative and I can’t appreciate beautiful amazing moments unless I’ve gone through some difficult moments that I can compare them to.” - Becky Shepherd
“Though everyone’s burden is different, we all carry our heaviest one the same way” - Andrea Catherine
“It’s important to create margins, to move with ease and make time for the things I am really craving.” - Andrea Catherine
“Travel helps remind me of my privilege and helps me understand more of what it is to be human.” - Andrea Catherine
“All across the world, different cultures, different micro societies and different experiences shape the way our cells and our bodies work.” - Becky Shepherd
“The real beauty in life comes from the unknown, and in order to change and grow it is important to keep learning, even from those we don’t think we can learn from.” - Becky Shepherd
Explore the intersection of Mercury's retrograde and pisces season
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Do you know if others are perceiving your communication as clearly as you believe you are sharing it?
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Pro Tip: Notice their reactions to your words and actions
Dr. Scott Blossom reminds us of why brain health is important. He challenges us to ask a question of our heart every morning, “What is it that I want? What is going to serve me and connect me with my hearts desire?”
Join me in a conversation with Dr. Blossom and learn how knowing our hearts desire leads us to change, redesigning our thinking and compassion. Attention: this conversation may challenge your perspective of self and motivate you to pay attention to your language judgments and paths for cultivating a more inclusive society.
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Why a head and neck massage in the morning can change your mood
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How to use redesigning thinking as a way to change behavior
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How self-care and self-love broaden compassion
Links Mentioned: Dr. Scott Blossom - http://doctorblossom.com
Dr. Robert Svaboda - http://www.drsvoboda.com/
Zhandor Remete https://shadowyoga.com/
Chandra Easton, Scott’s wife, at Tara Mandala https://www.taramandala.org/all-teachers/2032/dorje-lopon-chandra-easton/
Jimmy Chang - pulse reading - http://pulsynergy.com/
Cate Stillman - yoga healer - https://yogahealer.com/
Kyra Bobinet - A Well Designed Life - http://www.drkyrabobinet.com/
Tara Brach - psychologist - https://www.tarabrach.com/
Integrative medicine for underserved https://im4us.org
Fearless Self-Love Retreat www.fearlessselflove.com
Show Highlights:
06:52 Introduction of Scott Blossom
07:54 Scott introduces self and gives background of study
11:07 Scott talks about mid-career break to explore interest in neuroscience of behavior
17:10 Scott’s new understanding of brain health
24:22 The glymph of the brain
31:24 Scott’s morning health practices (that you can do, too!)
37:55 Moving forward after sabbatical
41:41 Integrative medicine for marginalized communities
46:20 How the health and wellness industry participate in systems of privilege and power
51:21 Behavior change, ways to circumvent the ways you keep score, and why to go for redesigning your thinking
54:10 Andrea talks about falling down as a way of learning
Favorite Quotes:
“ Designers don’t see things as right or wrong, they just redesign.” - Dr. Scott Blossom
“The brain is the ocean of the body.” - Andrea Bachman
“Ask a question to your heart, what do you really want? What is going to serve me in connecting with my hearts desire?” - Dr. Scott Blossom
“Being receptive to what I need and want [personally] has made it clearer as to what I need and want as a professional, and how I can give back to my community.” - Dr. Scott Blossom
“It’s impossible not to look at the world through a lens, so to say you don’t have a lens is the ultimate blindness.” - Scott Blossom
“Redesign, don’t think it’s right or it’s wrong.” - Dr. Scott Blossom
It’s a big day for the Fearless Self-Love Podcast, as Andrea Catherine welcomes Sara Hughes-Zabawa as her new co-host. As Andrea’s business partner in the Fearless Self-Love Retreats, Sara has been a guest on previous episodes but is thrilled to join as a co-host. Sara is licensed clinical social worker and yoga instructor. Sara and Andrea welcome Dana Pulis to today’s podcast.
Dana is a big supporter of the Fearless Self Love Retreat, both as a previous participant and as marketing and communication consultant. Dana brings the hard-earned wisdom of her self-care hacks as a successful business woman to today’s discussion. She is a natural and unique leader. She is the owner and operator of Kinetic Marketing and Creative (https://kineticmc.com) and provides an overview of how she stays grounded and connected in a demanding profession and leadership role.
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Why giving time and space for emotions is Dana’s Number 1
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How to create time every morning for meditation, reading and “clearing the deck”
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How to Use the “delete” button to clear certain beliefs
Links Mentioned:
Dana’s website
https://kineticmc.com/
Abraham Hicks https://www.abraham-hicks.com/
Fearless Self-Love Retreat www.fearlessselflove.com
Sara Hughes-Zabawa’s website
Show Highlights:
01:29 Easeful Living Practice
10:25 Introduction of Sara Hughes-Zabawa & Interview with Dana Pulis begins
15:02 How to live life with Juxtapositions
17:52 Dana reflects on the challenges of her childhood, leading her to start writing and learning about the power of words
22:57 Dana talks about how to be centered and grounded -- “natural, organic, hippy Dana”
27:07 How do you speak to yourself in moments of transition?
38:01 Dana discusses how to manage stress and stay grounded
41:20 Utilizing the “delete button”
52:40 Creating a culture of change for women who want to be a part of Dana’s professional business
1:03:18 Courageous Self-Care Tip
Favorite Quotes:
I don’t walk out that door until I know that I’m walking out that door set for the day. I’ve brought my whole person into my company and my whole person to myself.” -Dana Pulis
“Intentional living--that’s built in time, that’s built in structure, that’s built in self-care habits that allow you to show up as your best self.” -Sara Hughes-Zabawa
“Really good thinking comes forward in the right time when you’ve invested in it.” -Dana Pulis
“It’s just another day in this amazing paradise.” -Dana Pulis
“If we do these things long enough, they flow through us and we are one with what we do everyday.” -Dana Pulis
“I don’t believe I can be harmed anymore in most respects because I learned to carry with me my own safety and my own peace.” -Dana Pulis
“If there is no exposure or experience with failure or deep disappointment we aren’t as practiced in it.“ -Sara Hughes-Zabawa
We can’t control how other people show up, but we can choose our boundaries, and we can choose how much energy we allow them to take from us.” -Sara Hughes-Zabawa
“Nurture yourself, fill your brain with the good things. Learn on a daily basis how to navigate through every place where there is conflict and contrast.” -Dana Pulis
“Clear the deck: rage if you need to rage, let fear fly if it needs to fly. Whatever that emotion is, give it the place and the space and honor it.” -Dana Pulis
“If I encounter a difficult situation in my day, if I feel emotion coming through, I will just tell myself hang tight, put it in the parking lot, we’ll catch it tomorrow.” -Dana Pulis
“The biggest tool to change my thinking is delete or cancel or forgive the belief I have that is driving the results I don’t want. By doing that, I tell my brain, let go of that. I tell my brain we’re going to delete this thinking or this program and we’re going to fill it with this new program.” -Dana Pulis
“Allow all of yourself to show up.” -Dana Pulis
“The person who makes a mistake is the person who does something great.” -Andrea Bachman
Meet Guest:
Since launching her marketing and communications firm, Kinetic, in 2007 Dana Pulis has focused on moving businesses forward through creative marketing communications. Her intense focus has produced amazing results for a long list of local, regional and national clients. That focus has allowed her to dramatically grow her company, which has doubled in size since 2016.
Dana is a nationally-known marketing expert. She’s an award-winning writer, accomplished public speaker and respected business leader. She recruits top pros – account directors and project managers looking for the next challenge, and designers and writers looking to push their creative boundaries.
While her professional credentials are undoubtedly impressive, what makes Dana so fascinating is how she shows up everyday as her multidimensional self. She describes herself as a “hippy boss, wearing a pencil skirt and stilettos, while smelling like patchouli”. Dana’s ability meld her advanced self-care practices, including meditation and nutrition, with how she moves through the hard and fast paced world of business, provides lessons for all of us.
Brea Johnson’s passion for connection and living her truth is contagious. Yoga teacher, travel lover, mother and business owner, Brea’s experiences have shown her that the “intersection between our work is that self-care is self-love.” Speaking with my guest this week gave me new found hope and inspiration for my own practice of Yoga and of simply (or not so simply) being human. Listen in to our conversation for insights on how to beat imposter syndrome -- that sense that you’re not qualified or enough -- as well as how to let both vulnerability and confidence be the co-pilots of your life.
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How to overcome feeling like an imposter in your own field
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Why vulnerability and confidence are crucial to your success
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What to do when it’s not your job to change the world
Links Mentioned:
Interview with Liam Bowler, Season 2 Episode https://www.groundedhere.com/podcast-2
Show Highlights:
01:48 Easeful LIving Practice with Guest Brea Johnson
05:23 Interview with Brea Johnson begins
10:55 How Imposter Syndrome shows up when we start to teach Yoga
30:42 What’s vulnerability got to do with it? How to teach from a confident, yet vulnerable place?
40:22 Brea’s before & after Yoga pose posts for Yoga Teacher Training (AKA How to be a Human Being Training, AKA How Not to Be a Jerk training)
Favorite Quotes:
“The person who feels like they’re an imposter, that they’re not good enough, it’s because they care.” -- Brea Johnson
“I’m not really doing my Yoga if I’m shoulding all over myself.” -- Brea Johnson
“[Yoga is] being mindful, being aware, asking myself the hard questions...and the body stuff is a bonus.” -- Brea Johnson
“An effective teacher is one who’s connecting with the people in front of them; one that offers a really intentional space where [they] can help people feel better.” -- Brea Johnson
“There is so much more than the movement, and yet the movement is often what helps us connect inward, and helps us to feel better.” -- Andrea Catherine
“We’re all in a movement deficit.” -- Brea Johnson
“It’s not our job to change the world.” -- Brea Johnson
“Release the pressure valve, it’s not all on you.” -- Andrea Catherine
“The only way to be a good teacher is to actually make mistakes.” -- Brea Johnson
“That love that we all crave is 1) universal and 2) our students are not where we’re going to get that.” -- Andrea Catherine
Meet Guest:
Brea Johnson is a yoga teacher, mentor and community builder, with a focus on functional and sustainable approach to yoga, Brea teaches workshops, teacher trainings and retreats around the world. She is the founder of Heart + Bones online yoga studio and online yoga teacher continuing education. She is known for providing a safe foundation of healthy movement while remaining focused in the heart of the yogic teachings. As the popularity of yoga increases along with yoga-related injuries, this approach has made her a much sought-after teacher in the yoga and movement communities.
Listen for:
- Why routine matters
- Don't over think it
- How to ground your body & mind
Check out Natha's podcast!
Star Narratives
http://nathaperkins.com/star-narratives-the-podcast/
This cozy recording in which I hosted Spencre L.R. McGowan of @gingertoothandtwine in my tiny recording closet, she and I explore the impact of being publicly creative. What happens after the book is published, the art exhibit closes, the podcast launches? Then what? Do you pause, get sad, allow space for something new? Spencre boldly shares her story, the one of conception, birth, and a seeming postpartum depression before new ideas and clarity again blossomed. Join us as we explore this real thing we creatives feel, but don’t often reveal. We’ll leave you with a bath of tea and an herbal steam.
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Why to create even when you think no one’s watching (of very few)
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What the afterbirth blues of a creative project can reveal
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How to nourish yourself with herbs in your bath and beverage
Links Mentioned:
Ravenwood Outdoor Learning Center http://ravenwoodolc.org/
Kim Krans Wild Unknown https://www.thewildunknown.com/
Blotto Botany http://www.gingertoothandtwine.com/the-book/
Gingertooth & Twine http://www.gingertoothandtwine.com/
California School of Herbal Studies http://cshs.com/
Rosemary Gladstar https://www.sagemountain.com/welcome-to-sage-mountain-2016/about-rosemary-gladstar/
Haus Witch https://hauswitchstore.com/
Harper Collins https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062740618/blotto-botany/
J.K. Rowling https://www.jkrowling.com/
Show Highlights:
01:50 Easeful Living Practice -- Creative Cooking
5:17 Interview with Spencre L.R. McGowan begins -- our cooking and teaching connections, and an intro to Spencre’s book, Blotto Botany
09:21 Spencre’s journey from Nantucket to Montana by way of Herbalism school & her love of cordials
19:48 The book’s release date and the postpartum depression of sorts that followed
26:20 What Spencre learned about herself in the process of producing her book, Blotto Botany
32:00 Spencre’s Pie Delivery service
33:33 Courageous Self-Care Tip
Favorite Quotes:
“What we don’t talk about as creators is the process and the emotional toll that it can take on a person.” -- Spencre L.R. McGowan
“When you release a book, it’s like...a milestone birthday.” -- Spencre L.R. McGowan
“[In the process of writing a book] I’ve learned mostly what I don’t want.” -- Spencre L.R. McGowan
“I am fucking Harriet the Spy.” -- Andrea Catherine
Meet Spencre:
Spencre L.R. McGowan is an herbalist and writer from many places, primarily Maine and Nantucket. She is the creator of Gingertooth & Twine, a blog and shop dedicated to enhancing herbal wisdom through plant based brews, meals and publications. Spencre received her certification as an herbalist from the California School of Herbal Studies in 2013 and is the author of Blotto Botany: a Lesson in Healing Cordials & Plant Magic. She currently lives alongside the icy caps of Montana with some plants.
Kick off your new year by trading in fear for creativity and comparison for curiosity. In episode 5 of season 3 of the Fearless Self-Love Podcast, I interview artist, teacher, and creative coach, Jenny Bevill. Jenny’s career and personal life have taught her time and again how healing and essential creativity is, not just for artists, but for everyone. “Everybody wants to be creative,” she says. The problem is, we often feel we’re not good enough or don’t have certain skills. Listen in for tricks to peak your own curiosity and ultimately bolster your own creativity.
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How fear prevents us from being creative
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Why curiosity is the basis of creativity
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How to use your own personal connection to cultivate creativity
Links Mentioned:
Reggio Emilia https://www.reggioalliance.org/
Kylin O’Brien https://www.kylinobrien.net/
Kylin O’Brien Interview Season 1 Episode 19 https://www.groundedhere.com/season-1
Jamie Wyman https://www.jamiewymanmusic.com/
Jamie Wyman Interview Season 1 Episode 22 https://www.groundedhere.com/season-1
Kiki Smith’s Wolf Girl https://www.artnet.com/auctions/artists/kiki-smith/wolf-girl
Jenny’s Website: https://jennybevillcreative.com/
Show Highlights:
01:29 Easeful Living Practice ~ Reggio Emilia’s Emotional Continuum
13:25 Interview with Jenny Bevill begins! Our mutual gut feeling we would be collaborating in some way
19:20 Do we need a specific skill set to reflect our creativity? What about your fear? Is it getting in the way?
28:55 Jenny’s creative process ~ what lights her up
37:16 How Jenny helps people find their creativity
Favorite Quotes:
“When I’m feeling overwhelmed, I need to do something about it.” -- Jenny Bevill
“We can’t try to feel amazing all the time. That’s just not human, and it’s going to take so much energy, and it’s just not possible.” -- Jenny Bevill
“Everybody wants to be creative.” -- Jenny Bevill
“Art is way bigger than ‘can you copy something realistically?’” -- Jenny Bevill
“To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.” -- Joseph Chilton Pearce
“If you’re fearful you really can’t learn, and you can’t be creative.” -- Jenny Bevill
“If you never fail, you never learn to be resilient.” -- Jenny Bevill
What stops people is they think [creativity] is one thing, and that one thing doesn’t work for them, so then they think they’re not creative.” -- Jenny Bevill
Meet Jenny:
Jenny Bevill is passionate about creating shared experiences for children and adults around works of contemporary art. Her workshops help people unlock their own creativity by silencing their fearful inner critic and practicing creative behaviors and cultivating curiosity.
Jenny began collaborating with NYC public school teachers to integrate visual arts into the classroom in 1992. Before joining the Guggenheim Museum’s Learning Through Art program in 2004, she worked with the Brooklyn Museum, Grand Street Settlement, and other cultural organizations, both as an artist and as an educator. She earned her BFA from Parsons School of Design and her MA in Art and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
She and her teaching partner Ilana Ingber, are in their second year of a mentorship program with Success Academy, the largest charter school network in New York City. Happy HeART Teachers supports teacher wellness and prevents burnout.
Jenny serves the Missoula Art Museum as Educator Coordinator. In this role she collaborates to design interpretive strategy and educational programming around exhibitions.
Favorite Quotes:
"Do some thinking:
- Am I putting my efforts in the right places?
- Am I generating the kind of money and security I need to relax my nervous system?
- Are there rules I am following that I no longer need to follow?"
"Capricorn and Saturn say 'no, you don't snap your fingers and get anything of true value, you really have to work for it.'"
-- Natha Perkins Campanella
Lia Raz has reinvigorated my spirit! She brings to light the concept of eco-anxiety, its commonality and Her reminders about caring for ourselves through caring for the earth, serve as an affirmation and measure of accountability for some of my goals in 2019! As an Ayurvedic Health Counselor and current Horticulture student, Lia reminds us all of the connection between the nature within us and the nature all around us. We are the microcosm within the macrocosm. What we do impacts us all. After this interview, securing a composting system is at the top of my list for 2019!
- How gratitude can be the first step toward positive change
- Why composting matter and how to do it in your home
- How and why to be a contributor rather than a consumer
Links Mentioned:
The Science of Gratitude: https://www.wnyc.org/story/science-gratitude/
United Nations on Climate Change: http://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/climate-change/
Worm Bin Resources:
- From the EPA: https://www.epa.gov/recycle/how-create-and-maintain-indoor-worm-composting-bin
- Gardening Channel: https://www.gardeningchannel.com/worm-composting-indoors/
Dirt Rich Compost: https://www.dirtrichcompost.com/
Bio Bag: http://biobagusa.com/
Benefits of composting: https://www.epa.gov/recycle/composting-home
Lia’s website: http://www.liaraz.com/
Lia on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesharedheart/
Show Highlights:
02:28 Easeful Living Practice ~ Travel Tips for the Holiday Season
07:38 Interview with Lia Raz begins with an exploration of eco-anxiety and self-compassion
13:22 How our relationships with ourselves reflect our relationship with the planet
18:41 Gratitude as the first step to making change…from passive hope to action
21:40 The staggering impact of rising temperatures on the fate of humanity
29:01 Worm composting! How and why to start composting immediately.
37:32 Make things for yourself…contribute rather than consume.
43:15 What’s next for Lia in 2019
Favorite Quotes:
“Hope is great, hope is important, but it also needs to be active.” — Lia Raz
“Everything comes back to compassion. The greatest teacher we can have in compassion…is our relationship with ourselves.”
“To have that compassion for ourselves, to be kind to ourselves and forgive ourselves, that’s everything. That’s step one before we can really go out in the world and show compassion and care for others, for the planet. And not come at it from this kind of conflict.”— Lia Raz
“I get kind of angry when I’m sick, and it’s not my body being upset with me, it’s loving me and showing me where I need to work.” — Lia Raz
“What do we have to work with when we just feed ourselves processed food?” —Andrea Catherine
“When we create that gratitude for what goes into our bodies and what heals us, we also create a connection to the planet.” — Lia Raz
“All uncomfortable moments are gifts. They’re opportunities to practice and to learn. It’s just very hard to remember that when you’re in it.” — Lia Raz
“Food scraps in landfill are just as bad as anything else. They’re not breaking down the way they would in a compost.” —Lia Raz
“Be conscious of what you consume, and if you need it. Such a huge part of how we got to where we are is consuming things we don’t need.” —Lia Raz
“We are whole, we are beautiful we are perfect, and we don’t need things to make us any better. We’re perfect as we are.” — Lia Raz
Meet Lia:
I'm a Brooklyn native with a background in Ayurveda, birth and postpartum support, permaculture, composting and horticulture. My dream is to live in community, in self-sufficiency and in harmony with Mother Nature. I'm on the cosmic hero's journey to wholeness, just like everyone else, whether they know it or not.
Interviewing Jackie was a breath of fresh air. She offers enthusiasm, humor, insightful reflection and even sings her song for 2019! Host of the Organic Gardener Podcast, Jackie has interviewed hundreds of farmers and gardeners sharing insight on how to grow your own best garden. In this interview Jackie reveals her strategies for staying motivated. She shines a light on the power of creativity. And encourages us to celebrate our successes.
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How to earn motivation
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Why tune into nature
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How creativity spawns creativity
www.fearlessselflove.com
Organic Gardener Podcast with Jackie Marie Beyer https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/
Monte Dolack https://www.dolack.com/
Michael Hyatt https://michaelhyatt.com/
https://mailchi.mp/5611bc3d7dfd/free-garden-course
Jackie’s paintings: Jackiebeyer.com
Show Highlights:
01:47 Fearless Self-Love Retreat 2019! Book your spot now and save $100!
02:28 Easeful Living Practice: Set up yourself for success in the kitchen
10:51 Why getting older rocks, and some of the hurdles we all face
15:58 What’s motivation got to do with it?
24:50 Why it lights Jackie up to be 50 years old -- self-publishing, podcasting and a trip to Paris
32:59 The motivation of celebration and connection
39:56 Jackie’s theme some for 2019
Favorite Quotes:
“I feel like I’ve been waiting my whole life to be 50.” -- Jackie Marie Beyer
“Life happens for you, not to you.” -- Jackie’s 2018 Mantra
“Write it down, make it happen.” -- Michael Hyatt
“Draw it down, make it happen.” -- Jackie Marie Beyer
“I feel like Facebook could get rid of bullying, if it was used properly...how many kind comments can you make?” -- Jackie Marie Beyer
“Can You Feel It?” -- Michael Jackson
Meet Jackie:
Jackie Marie Beyer is the host of the Organic Gardener Podcast where she interviews backyard gardeners, market famers, sustainable agriculture experts and nutritionists. She’s lived in NW Montana with her husband Mike for the last 25 years where they grow as much food as they can each year. Their goal is to help you build an organic oasis of healthy food or an earth-friendly landscape using the best practices that will save you time and energy while developing a natural ecosystem that supports wildlife and the planet at the same time.
The host of an adventure podcast pauses to examine the internal adventures of kindness, humor, and stillness. Shelby Stanger of Wild Ideas Worth Living, sponsored by REI, shares her strategies for biohacking feeling good daily. She invites athletes to challenges themselves with quieter pursuits of meditation and Yoga and leaves listeners with the relief and encouragement she experienced when writing herself a letter from her future self.
Join us as Shelby and I resonate on the challenges of carving out space for quiet, slowing down and learning we actually have the tools and insight to offer ourselves the self-help we need, perhaps without needing to consult an external “expert.”
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How to biohack feeling good everyday
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How humor heals and helps us reach our goals
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Why kindness matters, especially when we’re kind to ourselves
Wild Ideas Worth Living Podcast https://wildideasworthliving.com/
Alex Honnold http://www.alexhonnold.com/
Courtney Carver https://courtneycarver.com/
Shelby’s Interview with Gabby Reece https://wildideasworthliving.com/gabby-reece-advice-on-life-finding-balance-and-optimizing-fitness-and-health/
Laird Hamilton https://www.lairdhamilton.com/
Jen Sincero https://jensincero.com/
Shelby’s interview with Cheryl Strayed https://wildideasworthliving.com/cheryl-strayed-on-hiking-getting-outside-being-kind-and-writing-like-a-mofo/
Shelby’s interview with Rebecca Rusch https://wildideasworthliving.com/rebecca-rusch-how-to-take-risks-and-carve-your-own-trail/
Yoga Healer Podcast https://yogahealer.com/podcasts/
Prince Harry surfing for Mental Health https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/prince-harry-and-meghan-join-mental-health-group-hug-on-bondi-beach-1.3669012
Show Highlights:
01:28 Easeful Living Practice ~ What are your internal adventures?
05:04 Interview with Shelby Stanger begins!
09:05 Another way to challenge yourself if you’re already an athlete: yoga, stillness, quiet
12:28 How Shelby biohacks feeling good everyday including JOMO (the joy of missing out!)
19:25 Letting go of perfectionism and being with the task at hand
24:00 Humor as a healer for perfectionism and its power to help us learn new things
29:57 Why kindness matters
33:24 Ayurvedic Self-Massage and quick transition into princess adventuring:)
37:21 More on humor and Shelby’s strategy of writing herself a letter, plus getting real about substances and emotions
Favorite Quotes:
“A good adventure is one that gets you a little out of your comfort zone, but helps you make a positive change in your life.” -- Shelby Stanger
“My physical challenge... is to try to do a little less, a little more consciously, and to carve some space for just quiet; that’s not easy for me though!” -- Shelby Stanger
“I don’t stack, I focus. I monotask.” -- Shelby Stanger
“I think being offended really sets us back, and doesn’t allow us to take power, it just allows us to divert our anger.” -- Shelby Stanger
“The biggest thing we can all do is just be really kind to each other.” -- Shelby Stanger
“There’s this perception (in the self-help world) that we have to wait for someone else to tell us what we need to help ourselves.” -- Andrea Catherine
Meet Shelby:
Shelby Stanger has been obsessed with storytelling since she inked her first article in a national newspaper at the ripe age of 15. As a longtime adventure journalist and marketing consultant in the action and outdoor sports world, the waterwoman has standup-paddled a portion of the Peruvian Amazon, dove into the punk rock scene reporting about a summer-long series called the Vans Warped Tour, surfed from Tofino to Tavarua, and interviewed countless CEOs, entrepreneurs and pro athletes on assignment for major international publications and brands like Outside Magazine and Vans. The common thread: A little adventure is life’s antidote. To second chances. To soul seeking. To success. Her Wild Ideas Worth Living podcast, established in 2016, amplifies these narratives with Shelby going further afield for high-impact storytelling that empowers others to live their passions, and get outside.
Book Recommendations for Sagittarius Season:
- Educated: https://tarawestover.com/book/
- The Night Circus: http://erinmorgenstern.com/writing/the-night-circus/
- A Place for Us: https://www.npr.org/2018/06/14/618351821/a-place-for-us-is-a-skillfully-drawn-family-saga
This was a beautiful surprise of an interview with Dr. Diana Kirschner. Our conversation begins with Dr. Diana’s personal story of self-love. Reaching back to pains of childhood and launching into her relationship with her “Fairy Godmother,” Dr. Diana provides truth, courage and does anything but paint a fluffy, unrealistic picture of love. Her invitation to discover your Diamond Self-Name as a pathway to self-love, confidence and finding true love with another is a beautiful and heartfelt practice. Listen as she guides me through the practice and challenges me to step into my own radiance. With gratitude and excitement, I welcome you to Season three of the show!
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How Life could Be even better than you can imagine
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Why explore your own diamond self name
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Who you already know to call on for love mentoring
Links Mentioned:
Fearless Self-Love Retreat www.fearlessselflove.com
Get a Free Session with a Love Mentor: http://lovein90days.com/dating-coach/
Show Highlights:
03:40 Easeful Living Practice ~ Grateful for Yourself?
08:18 Interview with Dr. Diana Kirschner begins
10:18 synchronicity of Diana sharing that life could be “even better than you can imagine” with Andrea’s revelation from a Faiths of our Mothers meditation
13:29 Diana’s love journey for herself, the impact of her family only valuing boys; laughter as an expression of truth
21:08 Dr. Diana’s Fairy Godmother, her mentor who has offered her much support and love and exploring the Diamond Self
26:08 Andrea’s exploration of her Diamond Self name
33:29 Healing the Disappointing Self Identity
40:48 How Dr. Diana connected with her Fairy Godmother
49:12 Courageous Self-Care Tip ~ how to find a love mentor
Favorite Quotes:
“Your life is going to be even better than you could ever imagine.” -- Andrea’s future self
“I had the opposite of self-love. I just felt like I was useless, stupid, you name it, unworthy.” -- Dr. Diana Kirschner
“Seeking out love and seeking out deservedness, and just a little bit of willingness to seek that out even though you’re in a terrible darkness, just that little willingness to find some healing and to find some love, and then the Divine gives that to you in spades.” -- Dr. Diana Kirschner
“We are wired to be healed. You don’t have to be stuck in the childhood you grew up in. We are wired to be reparented by loving figures.” -- Dr. Diana Kirschner
“The word strong and the word radiant have different energy...the word strong...is also fairly rigid. When I think of radiant is also strong, but they’re open.” -- Andrea Catherine
Meet Diana:
Bestselling love expert Dr. Diana has handpicked and trained a team of awesome Love Mentor® coaches. And you can talk with one of them for free for 40 minutes by phone or Skype! If you have any pressing dating or love questions, sign up for your free session now. Just go to http://lovein90days.com/dating-coach/ and you will be talking to a wise helpful Love Mentor® very soon! Just say “Andrea sent me” for VIP treatment!
Sarah Clark, host of the Get Pregnant Naturally podcast, shares her story of infertility and the food intolerances behind it. As a Certified Life and Health Coach, Sarah now supports women and couples in their quest to get pregnant naturally. Join us as we explore pathways to slowing down, embracing grief, change, and personal growth.
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How food sensitivities can impact fertility
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How patience for Functional and Ayurvedic medicine practices are worth while
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Why thoughts matter as much as action
Links Mentioned:
Fearless Self-Love Retreat www.fearlessselflove.com
Kripalu Yoga Retreats https://kripalu.org/stay/rr-retreats
Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast https://fabfertile.com/project/podcsat/
Integrated Health Associates (IHA) Nurse Midwives http://www.ihacares.com/locations/iha-nurse-midwives
Dr. Claudia Welch https://drclaudiawelch.com/
Sarah Clark’s Book, Fabulously Fertile https://fabfertile.com/product/fabulously-fertile/
Dr. John Douillard’s book Eat Wheat https://eatwheat.lifespa.com/
ShuNahSii Rose’s Women’s Sacred Mysteries Class https://www.insacredbalance.org/womens-sacred-mysteries/
Brené Brown’s book Daring Greatly https://brenebrown.com/books-audio/
Show Highlights:
02:00 Easeful Living Practice, Dirgha Pranayama, 3 part Breath
07:01 Interview with Sarah Clark begins with Andrea’s connection to supporting women in their childbearing years
11:19 Sarah’s story of infertility related to food-intolerance
21:03 Sarah describes food sensitivity testing and elimination diet
26:54 Sarah’s journey in life-coaching and her method of care and practice
31:00 Why eat an earlier lighter supper and how the slow science actually works quickly
34:00 Sarah’s favorite self-care practices
Favorite Quotes:
“I can’t keep doing it all; I have to take a step back. I can’t just add one more thing on. -- Sarah Clark
“We believe in using a foundation of the testing...then you’ve got to actually change your diet.” -- Sarah Clark
“99% of the thoughts you have today, you’ll have the same ones again tomorrow.” -- Sarah Clark
“A lot of people that are going through fertility, they may feel broken... there’s a lot of heartache, there’s jealousy, there’s triggers almost everywhere...by people expanding their family, pregnant bellies, baby showers, feeling stuck, everyone’s moving on that seemingly every woman should be able to do.” -- Sarah Clark
“Where’s your joy?” -- Sarah Clark
“We believe in it all, just not all at once, because that’s super overwhelming.” -- Sarah Clark
“Crying is something you can do and actually feel better after it.” -- Sarah Clark
“To help others, I have to work on myself first.” --Sarah Clark
Meet Sarah:
When Sarah Clark was 28 years old, she received a diagnosis of premature ovarian failure. She accepted the diagnosis and had both her children through in vitro fertilization. Years later she realized the root cause of her infertility was a food intolerance.
She is a certified life coach with accreditation from the International Coaches Federation and a health coach with training from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She is the author of Fabulously Fertile - Supercharge your Fertility Naturally, Fabulously Fertile Cookbook and Fertility Preparation Program. Her fertility coaching program, which includes functional lab testing, supports couples to make diet and lifestyle changes that dramatically improve the chances of a healthy pregnancy and baby!
On her Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast she shares that with functional medicine and natural fertility solutions we can eventually reverse infertility. Check it out on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play.
Lindsay-Jean Hard is the author of Cooking With Scraps. She has long taken action to ensure her actions promote sustainability and encouraged others to do the same. Her cookbook makes it easy to do this with your banana peels, coffee grounds, Swiss chard stems and other things you might otherwise compost or throw away.
I had a lot of fun chatting with Lindsay-Jean and reminiscing about my time in Ann Arbor, the start of my journey with local food, and contemplating what to prepare next with my food scraps!
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How to cook with food scraps you normally toss
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Why feeding ourselves is an act of self-love
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How to cook unfamiliar foods in your CSA (community supported agriculture)
Links Mentioned:
Fearless Self-Love Retreat www.fearlessselflove.com
Dr. Claudia Welch https://drclaudiawelch.com/
Workman Publishing https://www.workman.com/
Food 52 https://food52.com/
Lindsay-Jean’s recipes on Food 52 https://food52.com/recipes/search?q=lindsay-jean+hard
Buy Cooking with Scraps here https://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Scraps-Scrumptious-Surprising-Recipes/dp/0761193030/
Lab-grown meat 1:https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/lab-grown-meat/565049/
Lab Grown meat 2: https://www.wired.com/story/lab-grown-meat/
Samantha’s American Girl Doll Cookbook https://www.amazon.com/Samanthas-Cookbook-Dining-American-Collection/dp/1562471147
Real Time Farms https://blog.realtimefarms.com/
Gabrielle Hamilton’s Prune https://www.amazon.com/Prune-Gabrielle-Hamilton/dp/1743790716
SELMA Café http://selmacafe.org/
What is Dolphin Safe https://food52.com/recipes/76633-potato-peel-focaccia
Potato (Peel) Focaccia https://food52.com/recipes/76633-potato-peel-focaccia
Zingerman’s Bakehouse https://www.zingermansbakehouse.com/
Show Highlights:
02:00 Easeful Living Practice, Grounding Breath to ease that sense of rushing within
09:24 Interview with Lindsay-Jean Hard begins, origin of her book and all about lab-grown meat
22:17 How Lindsey-Jean eats now and how her plate/bowl looks at mealtime, including what to do with Swiss Chard Stems
25:27 Lindsay-Jean’s introduction to Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
31:30 Lindsay’s journey from Japan to publishing a book, including her support of start-up company, Real Time Farms
37:10 One person’s trash is another’s treasure--Lindsay-Jean’s history as a sustainability advocate and action-taker
41:31 Lindsay-Jean’s favorite go-to recipe for Fall: Potato (Peel) Focaccia
Favorite Quotes:
“It really was, and is, a form of self-love and self-care for me, because I do love cooking and making choices that make me feel good, and I like sharing that with others, too. It’s definitely a form of how I express love -- is by cooking for other people that I care about.” -- Lindsay-Jean Hard
“I realized the dinner plate didn’t have to look like the one main thing and two different sides, it could be a lot of different things.” -- Lindsay-Jean Hard
“I remember when I was little going to subway with my mom and being really concerned if the tuna was dolphin safe or not. So I went home and wrote Subway to make sure.” -- Lindsay-Jean Hard
“I made new all new signs for the Ann Arbor office to make sure people recycled all of their plastic and I would take all of that home and drive it to Grand Rapids periodically for my parents to recycle.” -- Lindsay-Jean Hard
“If I’m junking all this stuff and putting back into the earth and expecting the earth to feed me and nourish me, I know there is something not quite lining up.” -- Andrea Catherine
Meet Lindsay:
Lindsay-Jean Hard received her Master's in Urban Planning from the University of Michigan. Her education and passion for sustainability went on to inform and inspire her work in the garden, home, and community. The seeds of her first cookbook, Cooking with Scraps, were planted in her Food52 column of the same name. Today, she works to share her passion for great food and great communities as a marketer at Zingerman's Bakehouse. She lives, writes, loves, and creates in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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How ebbing and flowing with giving and receiving is tied to well-being
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How to begin your journey of finding your passion and purpose
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How to listen to yourself as way toward healing
Links Mentioned : Ithaka, poem by C.P. Cavafy https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51296/ithaka-56d22eef917ec
Fearless Self Love Podcast on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/groundedhere/
Show Highlights:
01:59 Easeful Living Practice, Ithaka poem
05:44 Interview with Karinna of Inward to Ithaka begins, meaning and purpose of her work, how it began
12:40 Karinna’s journey in the wellness world, balancing learning and teaching, balancing self-care and service
16:28 discussion of how the body changes when we begin to up-level self-care, including her battle with endometriosis
21:58 The purpose (and benefits) of giving and serving
24:18 The impact of passion and the deception that we should know it from day one
31:19 What going inward means to Karinna
34:19 Courageous Self-Care Tip” Sit with yourself for 5 minutes, ask yourself “What have you been trying to say that I haven’t been listening to?”
Favorite Quotes
“Even if you’re going through something, you can still help someone else.” -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka
“Don’t underestimate your ability to help the people around you when you when you’re in a withdraw help myself phase.” -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka
“To me, boredom, discussion lack of passion come from when we don’t have a sense of purpose.”-- Andrea Catherine
“When i’ve experienced giving as a way of receiving, it’s really connected to me feeling valued and valuable.” -- Andrea Catherine
“A lot of people are wandering around wondering what their purpose is and what their passion is...they know that their purpose is a big part of them, but they don’t know what their purpose is.” -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka
“As humans, what creates connection for all of us, is that we inherently benefit form connecting, from giving.” -- Andrea Catherine
“Feel the fear and do it anyway.” -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka
“Remember [you’re] this new upgraded model that is not in a rush. You’ve got patience now...so embrace it. Instead of being stressed out, just relax.“ -- Karinna of Inward to Ithaka
“To know where [others] end and I begin is just as important as how can we collaborate.” -- Andrea Catherine
This is a replay from S1 E8:
Do you think it’s possible to build future communities of belonging and connection? Living in a culture that values the immediacy and efficiency of life has placed a strain on the importance of connection and belonging to our natural roots. Open your heart and mind with an educational and engaging chat with Brett Holmquist, co-founder and Executive Director at Ravenwood Outdoor Learning Center. Listen as we explore how to cultivate the “survival skill of belonging” and why it's important for young people to learn the beginning steps of fearless self-love in community as well as on our own.
- How nature can teach us about gratitude and belonging
- How our connection to nature relates to our level of connection within ourselves/others
- How to help our youth foster self-sufficiency and self-love
Links Mentioned : Ravenwood Outdoor Learning Center http://ravenwoodolc.org
Jon Young’s “Coyote Mentoring” Book https://wildearth.org/shop/books/coyotes-guide-to-connecting-with-nature
Wilderness Awareness School in Duvall, WA https://wildernessawareness.org/about/about
Jake and Judy Swamp, http://www.thetrackingproject.org/ttp/native-communities/remembering-jake-tekaronianeken-swamp/
Life Coach Angela Christine and I dive into how thriving can look different than what we think of as success. Join us as we explore how we spent our much of our lives trying to be good enough for others and ultimately came to love ourselves.
What I love most about this interview is how Angela shares about her journey to self-love and the power of her words of wisdom. It is undeniable that they come from her heart and personal experience, Angela asks me to share my self-love discovery story, too!
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How thriving is connected to believing you deserve your dreams
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Why some of us flourish with change more than others
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What your number one job is and why it matters
Links Mentioned :
- Fearless Self-Love Retreat www.fearlessselflove.com
- Dancing Spirit Ranch www.dancingspiritranch.com
- Kripalu School of Ayurveda https://kripalu.org/schools/kripalu-school-ayurveda
- Introduction to Ayurveda Podcast, S2 E11: Ayurveda: Co-Creating Lives We Love https://www.groundedhere.com/podcast
- Tim Ferris Show https://tim.blog/
- Wayne Dyer https://www.drwaynedyer.com/
- You Can Heal Your Life By Louise Hay https://www.hayhouse.com/you-can-heal-your-life-paperback
- Reiki https://www.reiki.org/faq/whatisreiki.html
- The Art of Extreme Self-Care by Cheryl Richardson http://www.cherylrichardson.com/store/the-art-of-extreme-self-care/
- Tony Robbins https://www.tonyrobbins.com/
- Satya Narayan Das https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/presenters/satya-narayana-dasa
Show Highlights:
00:58 Fearless Self-Love Retreat Details
02:14 Easeful Living Practice with Angela Christine
03:38 Interview begins!
12:10 Angela’s reflection on thriving
22:27 Vata Dosha ~ Ayurveda’s way of saying the qualities of air & ether
27:48 Our most basic fear of not being good enough and where this starts
29:44 Andrea’s story of discovering she loves herself
36:36 How putting self-care first led Angela to understanding her calling to be a life coach
53:00 Courageous Self-Care Tip
Favorite Quotes:
“When I start to feel like I’m not successful, it’s because I’m ligning myself up with what the world sees as success...you’re on a growth path until you find what you want, and then you stay there.” -- Andrea Catherine
“Thriving comes from not wanting to just get by; not wanting to pass on that life to my children of not having enough.” -- Angela Christine
“I don’t want to have to put the grapes back. I want to be able to give my kids grapes, because that’s one of their favorite fruits to eat.” -- Angela Christine
“What is that limiting belief and get it the heck out of my head, because it is affecting my life daily.” -- Angela Christine
“[I’m] okay with where I am, but also...okay with my dreams...they are legitimate. I deserve them. I’m worthy. -- Angela Christine
“Proximity is power! Whatever you are close to will grow.” -- Angela Christine
“At the core we have the same basic fears...one of the biggest ones is we’re not good enough.” -- Angela Christine
“My dreams [have] an innate value because they’re unique to me.” -- Andrea Catherine
“You have to service your temple. No one else is going to do that for us...This is the body I was given. This is my temple. I have to take care of it. It is my number one job.” -- Angela Christine
“The self-care, self-love piece, if it isn’t there, then you can’t continually grow. You’re either growing or you’re dying.” -- Angela Christine
Meet Angela:
Life Coach Angela Christine values love and connection above all else and these are the values that shine through her 20 years as an energy worker, healer and spa therapist (offering body treatments, aromatherapy, organic facials). Angela’s optimism, passion, and continual learning inform her growth as a practitioner. She is a spiritual, family-oriented mother, partner and friend, who believes in universal love and is eager to support with you on your wellness journey. Visit her at Angelachristinelifecoach.com angelactolton@gmail.com
Sara Hughes-Zabawa and I give you a taste of the Brené Brown Daring Way Curriculum, movement and reflection participants will experience on the Fearless Self-Love Retreat October 10-14, 2018. To learn more, visit www.fearlessselflove.com
Join us for your 20 minute micro retreat! You’ll benefit most if you’re distraction free, have access to a wall to put your legs up, or a way to elevate your feet to at least hip height, something to write with and something to write on.
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What it means to retreat and why we need to
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Why clarifying your values matters
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How to utilize your values to enhance a challenging situation
Links Mentioned:
- Body Bloom wellness course www.groundedhere.com/courses
- S1 E3 | Self-Loving Self-Care: Can't Afford Not to Do It with Sara Hughes-Zabawa https://www.groundedhere.com/season-1
- Fearless Self-Love Retreat www.fearlessselflove.com
- Brené Brown www.brenebrown.com
- Brené Brown’s Daring Way Curriculum https://thedaringway.org/
- Center for Restorative Youth Justice https://restorativeyouthjustice.org/
Show Highlights:
02:55 Interview starts, easeful living practice included within interview!
06:29 Tools you’ll need for this practice today and what retreat means
10:35 Micro version of the Fearless Self-Love: at home in your heart retreat
36:11 Courageous Self-Care tip
Favorite Quotes:
“[To retreat is] an act of mindfully withdrawing, protecting or preserving time or energy to do our soul, or heart work.” -- Sara Hughes-Zabawa
“Our intention for our retreat is that people create the space and the container to really hear themselves and feel and learn and rest.” -- Sara Hughes-Zabawa
“[Humanism is] seeing everyone, including myself, as human with the same needs (whether they’re in a different order than mine or not) and the same worth.” -- Andrea Catherine
Meet Sara:
Sara is a licensed clinical social worker (LMSW) and a certified yoga instructor (RYT). She is passionate about helping clients achieve better balance and thrive as they enhance the quality of their lives. Either through therapy, yoga, or wellness coaching Sara partners with her clients to help foster the bravery and skills necessary to step towards holistic wellness that honors their mind-body-spirit connection.
Sara received a Masters of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Michigan, with an emphasis in Interpersonal Practice: Mental Health and Interpersonal Practice: Communities and Social Systems with a minor in Community Organizing.
She also received a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan. Sara completed here RYT 200 hours through the Yoga Alliance certified Bodhi Yoga Studio in 2010.
Connect with Natha at http://nathaperkins.com/
Connect with Andrea at www.groundedhere.com
Jada Stewart is a wise soul in a 16 year old body. Listening to Jada, I am inspired and encouraged for the futures of our young people. I am reminded about the value of stepping away from social media and toward things I love, learning something new, and connecting with others.
Join me as Jada and I talk about a teen journey to self-love, stepping back into strengths she had as a kid, and embracing who she is as she continues to look up to others, grow and change.
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How to remember who you are with the support of those you admire
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How to learn from others, while staying grounded in yourself
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How to get off social media (if a 16 year old can do it, so can you!)
Links Mentioned:
- Body Bloom wellness course www.groundedhere.com/courses
- Andrea's blog post about Your Bold Breakthrough with Jada https://www.groundedhere.com/single-post/2018/05/17/Whats-Your-Bold-Breakthrough
- Jada Stewart’s Your Bold Breakthrough Summit interview with Andrea http://boldbreakthrough.com/andrea-catherine/
- Pace Kids
- TED Talks: https://www.ted.com/
Show Highlights:
03:01 Easeful Living Practice ~ Write a letter to someone you want to know
05;57 Interview with Jada Stewart begins; background on Your Bold Breakthrough
13:06 Jada’s past self as shy and nervous and how she reconnected to her strengths
24:04 Jada’s breakthrough moment, after breakdown
31:21 Jada’s tips and tricks to stay in self-love, including how to speak to others who have said hurtful things
37:03 How and why Jada took a real solid break from social media, and how you can, too!
47:32 Jada’s self-love tips
Favorite Quotes:
“I shouldn’t rely on someone else to stand up for me, I should be confident enough to say, ‘You know what, I’m good enough for myself.’” -Jada Stewart
“I started wearing different clothing to cover myself up and conform to other things that weren’t me.” -- Jada Stewart
“At the end of the day, you’re going to be left with yourself and your own thoughts.” -- Jada Stewart
“How could I be speaking about confidence and getting confident and building all this self-love on the summit…[if] I wasn’t in the same mindset?” --Jada Stewart
“I need to stop this body shaming, because I love my body.” -- Jada Stewart
“I can wear my natural hair, I can be myself, I love the color of my skin, I just love myself.” --Jada Stewart
“Just ‘cause I don’t have what that person has, doesn’t mean that what I have is bad.” --Jada Stewart
“I’ve got to stop looking at everyone else’s life on social media and look at just me as a person.” --Jada Stewart
Meet Jada:
Jada Stewart is a Sixteen Year old teen who hosted a online series called Your Bold Breakthrough for Women Seeking Guidance. Although she is a teen, she uses her Youthful Experience to influence others on a personal level, and she strives to help Guide those on a path to find their Authentic Self and Own their Power.
Kelsey Bryant Starr, owner of Numi Yoga in College Park, Maryland, interviews Andrea Catherine about Ayurveda. Andrea shares about what is a dosha, how the five elements influence Ayurvedic perspectives.
Gain insight to navigate your emotions, digestion, and mind when you feel out of balance, and why you may notice particular changes in yourself during particular times of year, activities, and why you are just inherently unique in some ways.
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How the five elements - ether, air, fire, water, earth - show up in each of us
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Why digestion is central to understanding our wellbeing
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Why everybody’s balance looks different
Links Mentioned:
- Kripalu School of Ayurveda https://kripalu.org/schools/kripalu-school-ayurveda
- Hilary Garivaltis http://ayurvedichealtheducation.com/
- Body Bloom wellness course www.groundedhere.com/courses
- Heather Stoken https://www.synergybloom.com/
- Numi Yoga College Park, Maryland http://www.numiyoga.com/schedule/
- Yoga Health Coaching www.yogahealthcoaching.com
Show Highlights:
01:00 Easeful Living Practice ~ visualize starting your day ahead, or your next important activity
09:42 What is Ayurveda? What does it mean?
11:48 What’s a dosha?
15:26 What is Vata dosha? What is it responsible for? Where does it live in the body? What role does Vata play in digestion?
20:53 What Pitta really means, and what it has to do with healthy eyes.
24:47 How Kapha manifests in our bodies, personalities, and memories.
28:56 How the doshas support one another and how we can, too!
33:08 What’s the end game? How to “find balance” as yourself
36:27 What doshas being “at fault” really means
37:10 Courageous Self-Care Tip
Favorite Quotes:
“You are all already perfect, until you’re not.” - Hilary Garivaltis
“We disrupt [our enoughness, our perfection] with doubt and fear and choices and habits that don’t serve us well. It doesn’t take away from our deserving, or our humanness, though.” --Andrea Catherine
“We need pitta people to lead, to step up... to follow through...to take action...and do so fearlessly. Kapha’s going to be the one who’s like, ‘slow down, we need to think this through a little more.’ Vata’s... throwing the idea way out there, and pitta’s like, ‘yea let’s go!” -- Andrea Catherine
“As individuals who have different dispositions, we can offer our strengths to other people to help them find balance, to help them nurture and nourish their needs.” -- Kelsey Starr
“We definitely need each other.” -- Andrea Catherine
“Ayurveda is a wellness science that meets us all where we are.” -- Andrea Catherine
Meet Andrea:
Andrea Catherine supports overwhelmed, highly responsible women boost energy, sleep better, and fearlessly love their bodies. Are you committed to being an active part of your own transformation, eager to step into a life you love?
Andrea is the co-host of the Fearless Self-Love Retreats and group Ayurvedic Self-Care course, Body Bloom. She holds recognized certifications as an Ayurvedic Health Counselor, Yoga Health Coach, 500 hour Professional Level Kripalu Yoga Instructor along with her BA in social science from the University of Michigan.
Launching a heart-centered, community-oriented business is a cause that requires inner transformation. My guest, Kelsey Bryant Starr, owner of Numi Yoga in College Park, Maryland, seems to be a growth junkie, too. She’s on for asking the hard questions, like “am I enough?” and answering them with “‘yes I am , I showed up, I’m breathing, and I have something to offer.”
In this interview Kelsey and I interview each other about our journeys to starting businesses that reflect our personal desires for growth and learning. Listen as we share our reflections on our pathways to learning, loving and accepting ourselves while growing businesses that help others do the same.
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How to notice abundance amidst the challenge
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Why we need each other for true healing
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How being open allows for what’s to come
Links Mentioned:
- Interview with Brett Holmquist (Season 1, Episode 8) https://www.groundedhere.com/season-1
- Ravenwood Outdoor Learning Center www.ravenwoodoutdoorlearningcenter.org
- Grace Edison’s Yoga of Money http://www.graceedison.com/yoga-of-money/
- Numi Yoga College Park, Maryland http://www.numiyoga.com/schedule/
- Fearless Self-Love Retreat: www.fearlessselflove.com
- Body Bloom wellness course www.groundedhere.com/courses
- Kylin O’Brien interview (Season 1, Episode 19) https://www.groundedhere.com/season-1
- Tim Ferriss Show https://tim.blog/
- A2 Yoga in Ann Arbor, Michigan www.a2yoga.net
- Eat, Taste, Heal http://www.eattasteheal.com/
- Kripalu School of Ayurveda https://kripalu.org/schools/kripalu-school-ayurveda
- Dr. Claudia Welch https://drclaudiawelch.com/
- Cate Stillman https://yogahealer.com/
- Scott Blossom http://www.shunyatayoga.com/
- AmeriCorps VISTA https://www.nationalservice.gov/programs/americorps/americorpsvista
- Pilar’s Tamales https://www.pilarstamales.com/
Show Highlights:
03:58 Easeful Living Practice ~ Take advice from your younger self
12:03 Interview begins with Kelsey sharing how she went from studying Yoga for her own learning to opening a Yoga studio in a new city
21:33 Holding challenge and abundance in the same hand (particularly when starting a studio)
26:55 Addressing fears and allowing them to be present; how personal yoga practice informs teaching and starting a business
33;20 Vision of Numi Yoga Studio in College Park, Maryland & the origin of the Numi name
39:53 Kelsey interviews Andrea, starting with Andrea’s interest in and study of Ayurveda
48:52 Andrea’s lessons learned starting her own business
101:19 Courageous Self-Care tip ~ mantra: I showed up, I’m breathing, and I have something to offer.
Your Favorite Quotes:
“There is nothing less selfless than loving yourself.” -- Andrea Catherine
“We all get both be served and be of service.” -- Kelsey Starr
“Everyday something is a little bit beyond what I know about...but, everyday there’s someone who comes across my path...who is such a valuable resource.” -- Kelsey Bryant Starr
“Everyday, when I get on my mat, I get to answer the question, ‘am I enough?’...I get to choose to say ‘yes I am , I showed up, I’m breathing, and I have something to offer” -- Kelsey Starr
“Even when we’re experiencing so many blessings, and gifts and connections, it’s very human to wonder, am I even going to get by, can I even make it through?” -- Andrea Catherine
“There’s no other journey but to get to know our own self. When we can come to our own selves with loving compassion, we can offer that unconditionally to other people.” -- Kelsey Starr
“Those little nudges, for me, mostly come from when I’m able to let go of needing to have it a certain way or needing to let the thing I’m doing work, and rather open up to what could work, and knowing that may not be what I’m doing.” --Andrea Catherine
Meet Kelsey:
Kelsey is proud to join the ranks of the mighty Terrapins in College Park, MD. Her yoga training began with Ana Hough in Ann Arbor (200hr), and continued with national teachers Christina Sell and Gioconda Parker at the San Marcos School of Yoga (300hr). Kelsey participates in ongoing online studies with Christina Sell and attends DC-area continuing education.
Kelsey is passionate about exploring. Yoga is her map for the journey to love her body, community, and self. In Kelsey’s yoga classes students will playfully explore actions within poses and have opportunities to integrate yoga with life off the mat. She jokingly describes her classes as "offering too many alignment cues while you are trying to flow". Kelsey lives in University Park with her husband, Evan, and goldendoodle, Argo.
Do you notice you have a body when you are not in pain? So much of the time we treat our bodies as if they are simply a vessel to carry around our brains. In this episode, Regina @wolfmedicinemagic dives into her experience of feeling connected to her body and how she supports Yoga, Barre and Ayurveda students to connect to their bodies outside of when they are in pain. Join us to go behind the scenes of the wellness professional’s hustle for building clientele, fearless marketing, and utilizing the power to say no, or yes, when it comes to self-care and socialization.
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Why Yoga is about more than the perfect pose
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What it means to be connected to your body
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How to balance saying yes with saying no
Links Mentioned:
- Fearless Self-Love Retreat: www.fearlessselflove.com
- Dancing Spirit Ranch https://www.dancingspiritranch.com/workshops-retreats/
- Brené Brown: The Daring Way https://thedaringway.org/
- Email Andrea & Sara to sign up for the retreat bonus: hello@fearlessselflove.com
- https://www.instagram.com/wolfmedicinemagic/?hl=en
- https://www.facebook.com/WolfMedicineMagic/
- Regina’s favorite Hatha spiritual yoga class http://www.urbanasanas.com/
- Dolores Cannon https://www.dolorescannon.com/
Show Highlights:
02:42 Easeful Living Practice ~ Downward Facing Dog
09:41 Interview begins with Regina @wolfmedicinemagic who came to Yoga through dance and how her view of Yoga transformed from one of resistance to one of love
13:58 Yoga classes Regina loves & why
21:21 Regina’s dance background and our riff on the stability or instability of teaching Yoga
28:32 Regina’s fearless approach to promoting workshops on Instagram. We get technical about being a solo-prenuer and what it takes
34:04 What Regina’s learned about self-care
Favorite Quotes
“What lights me up is the profound learning I experience as a teacher in various modalities. Whether it be yoga, barre fitness, Breathwork or Ayurveda I am constantly learning from students and participants. Through my interactions with others I learn about myself and become a better teacher.” -- Regina @wolfmedicinemagic
“So much of we learn is impacted by who’s delivering it or how we’re learning it.” -- Andrea Catherine
“I like a challenge, but I don’t always feel the need to do the most advanced class and be the best in the front row. Because I realize that’s...very much an ego thing.” -- Regina @wolfmedicinemagic
“The point of yoga isn’t to get the perfect forearm stand...it’s very much about being in my body, being in my body, feeling my body, noticing my emotions and sensations as they come up, being a witness to them.” -- Regina @wolfmedicinemagic
“As much as I’ve danced and as much as I teach, I have to be reminded that not everyone is connected to their body.” -- Regina @wolfmedicinemagic
“Connect with your body outside of when your body’s in pain, because that’s often the only time when people recognize what’s happening in their body.” -- Regina @wolfmedicinemagic
Terminology:
Pitta: the energetic combination of fire & water, the essence of summer, midday and midlife
Ayurveda: East Indian Medicine, meaning “life knowledge”
Meet Regina:
Regina is an Ayurvedic Health Counselor, 500-hr registered Yoga Teacher and Breathwork healer living in Brooklyn, NY since 2004. She received her Ayurveda and yoga teaching certifications from the Kripalu School of Yoga and Ayurveda in 2014 and trained with master Breathwork healer and teacher David Elliot in 2017. @wolfmedicinemagic
Are you asking yourself safe or dangerous questions? In this hot off the mic interview with Liam Bowler of The Body Awake podcast we dive deep into the process of curiosity and inquiry and how to know when it's time to act instead of freezing in analysis paralysis. Listen in as I interview a fellow Montanan about his experience with practicing introspection as a pathway to self-love. This interview prompted me , almost immediately, to shift how I approach my reaction to suffering within myself.
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Why it’s important to ask the dangerous questions
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Why to sit with suffering instead of trying to relieve it
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How to move from inquiry into action
Links Mentioned:
- Fearless Self-Love Retreat: www.fearlessselflove.com
- Dancing Spirit Ranch https://www.dancingspiritranch.com/workshops-retreats/
- Brené Brown: The Daring Way https://thedaringway.org/
- Email Andrea & Sara to sign up for the retreat bonus: hello@fearlessselflove.com
- The Body Awake http://www.thebodyawake.com/about/
- Camp Kitchen where Andrea will be cooking www.ravenwoodolc.org
- Liam’s interview with Kimberly Ann Johnson http://www.thebodyawake.com/#/kaj/
- Liam’s Body Work practice https://dynamicalignmentbodywork.com/
- Stephen Porgus Polyvagal Theory http://stephenporges.com/
- Liam’s first interview with Irene Lyon http://www.thebodyawake.com/#/se-irene/
- Banksy http://banksy.co.uk/
- Liam’s upcoming workshops http://www.thebodyawake.com/workshops/
- Liam’s YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR1pE63MWey2Fq9QMCfiyRQ
Show Highlights:
00:58 Fearless Self love Retreat Bonus Details
02:48 Easeful Living Practice ~ What questions are you asking yourself?
05:15 Interview with Liam Bowler begins, Liam helps folks understand their body’s intelligence as well as their educational needs
10:14 Dangerous Questions are the ones that might change your life. Are you asking them?
22:44 Liam shares about dark days and months in his life and explore how he would interact with his younger self today
31;58 How to ask a dangerous question, the intimacy and the power behind the words
36:31 Liam’s invitation to reflect on what is being evoked by dangerous questions -- what is keeping you from being vulnerable?
41:38 Why try to relieve our own suffering? The pain of witnessing suffering and how it causes us to try to wish it away.
45:49 Anatomy of the Autonomic nervous system
49:55 How Liam navigates self-care and self-love as a practitioner and how he supports his clients and students in navigating their own dangerous questions with love and care
Favorite Quotes
“There is a growing interest among us, not just a ‘fix me’ mentality, but a kind of education, which comes in many forms.” --Liam Bowler
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” ― Socrates “Owning your own experience is infinitely more infinite and ambody and non-checked out.” -- Liam Bowler
“You’re not doing anything wrong here by suffering.” -- Liam Bowler
“Don’t wait for yourself to be perfectly healed and integrated before you start trying...to make something better.” -- Liam Bowler
“I have so much more to learn about myself.” -- Andrea Catherine, as inspired by Paula Greenstein
“Upon awakening, what gets liberated from what?” -- Adyashanti
“I have, lots in my life, used that lack of needing to solve something as a conceptual bunker, with which to hide from taking action.” -- Liam Bowler
“Self-hatred is one of the most narcissistic things out there; meanwhile life is happening.” -- Liam Bowler
“Do you care who gets the credit?” -- Liam Bowler
“Where are you hiding behind inquiry?” -- Liam Bowler
Meet Liam:
I’m Liam Bowler, a licensed massage therapist, structural bodyworker, musician and rock climbing guide (among other things, of course). Some of my loves lately: these heartbreakingly beautiful Montana sunsets, my weekly "Spotify suggests" playlist, yoga, cutting my own hair, this podcast, learning how my car works, meditation, taking my neighbors' dog for walks in the hills behind my house.
I live in Missoula, Montana, and make regular trips to Seattle—for work and fun—and sometimes other places, too. If you'd like what I do to come near you, please shoot me a line and let me know.
You can learn more about my bodywork practice at my website for that: Dynamic Alignment Bodywork.
This is not about relationship advice, or the mature loving relationship of many years. Nor is it about being in-lust. Rather it is about that in-love place, You can’t wait to see that person again, your life is overflowing with feelings and emotions. We explore the connection of being in love with another to loving ourselves, as well as the revolutionary qualities of being in love, both the wonderful and the challenging. People’s lives change when they fall in love.
Listen in as Michael and I riff on confidence, taking risks, fantasizing, and the value of throwing out sensibility from time to time. This is not an episode only for those in love or on the verge of it. We also talk about how to access the benefits of being in love when we’re not.
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How falling in love changes us for the better and the worse
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Why gaining confidence come from taking risks
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How to dance with your dreams and benefit from fantasizing
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Fearless Self-Love Retreat: www.fearlessselflove.com
- Dancing Spirit Ranch https://www.dancingspiritranch.com/workshops-retreats/
- Brené Brown: The Daring Way https://thedaringway.org/
- Email Andrea to sign up for the retreat bonus: andrea@groundedhere.com
- Fearless Self-Love Retreat www.fearlessselflove.com
- S1 E20: The Humanity of Self-Love with Michael Joseph https://www.groundedhere.com/season-1
Show Highlights:
:58 Fearless Self love Retreat Bonus Details
03:08 Easeful Living Practice ~ Love note to self
06:48 Interview with Michael Joseph begins -- he’s seen over 100 people in that in-love stage & what it has to do with self-love
18:06 What’s confidence have to with it? How being in love bolsters our courage to try new things and also our tolerance for unhelpful behavior
24:25 Patterns of falling in love: enlivening of the senses
31:19 How to get connection with ourselves, fearlessness, oxytocin if we’re not in love
41:20 Dance with the dream, the benefits of fantasizing
48:18 The value of trusting and, at times, questioning our intuition
56:06 Courageous Self-Care Tip: Take a risk!
Your Favorite Quotes
“When we see someone in love, sometimes we actually think, ‘they’re crazy, why are they doing that, what’s that about, why are they risking everything?’” -- Michael Joseph
“[Being in love] has a bright side, it has a danger to it, but it’s very enriching.” -- Michael Joseph
“Sometimes we connect with parts of ourselves in loving another person that had been forgotten...or we didn’t know was there... we actually not only fall in love with the person, but we may fall in love with a part of ourselves that have been lost.” -- Michael Joseph
“How am I allowing my connections with others to inform my connection with myself?” --Andrea Catherine
“We often attribute to another, a power that was already in ourselves.” -- Michael Joseph
“Sometimes that in-love feeling is really kind of a need we’re speaking to--I need some stimulation, I need some novelty, I need something to test myself against.” -- Michael Joseph
“Falling in love is sort of like an emotional extreme sport.” -- Michael Joseph
“Andrea, you need to go inside yourself, and find what makes you strong.” -- Paras Moghtader, Andrea’s friend (S1 E7 Fearless Abundance of Yoga & Ayurveda) https://www.groundedhere.com/season-1
“Tapping into the dream of yourself, and taking a step in the direction of that dream, that’s self-love.” -- Michael Joseph
“You get confidence by risking being told no.” -- Michael Joseph
Meet Michael:
I'm a therapist, musician, rock climber, basketball player. I've spent the last 30+ years of my life exploring in my own life and with my clients the nature of love, life, emotional suffering and emotional joy. I feel privileged to be in a profession where I have the opportunity learn something everyday about life in conversation with the people who come to me.
Do you believe you are worth the love you give others? I don’t mean do you think others should love you as much as I mean, do you believe you deserve your own love. Yes, you can pause here. Breathe. This is a big question. It’s the question Melanie Redd and I explore in this wide-ranging interview in which she shares her story of self-love by way of parenthood at an early age, launching a fitness business and learning new sports in her forties.
Melanie has passion for making self-love a prerequisite for meeting particular fitness goals. Looking at our bodies with disgust gets us nowhere we want to be, and fast. Listen in for tips to move gently into self-love no matter what your wellness goals are.
- Why authenticity is worth the hard work
- How to take a compliment, and mean it!
- How to learn something new at any age
Links Mentioned in Your Episode:
- Fearless Self-Love Retreat: www.fearlessselflove.com
- Dancing Spirit Ranch https://www.dancingspiritranch.com/workshops-retreats/
- Brené Brown: The Daring Way https://thedaringway.org/
- Email Andrea to sign up for the retreat bonus: andrea@groundedhere.com
- Fearless Self-Love Retreat www.fearlessselflove.com
- Shapr App where Melanie & I met http://www.shapr.co/
- Natha Campanella Interview Cancer Season and Pitta Dosha ~ http://fearlessselflove.libsyn.com/bonus-6-cancer-season-pitta-dosha
- Glennon Melton’s Love Warrior https://momastery.com/blog/about-glennon/
- Can You Take a Compliment? Blog Post https://www.groundedhere.com/single-post/2018/01/15/Can-You-Take-A-Compliment
- Yoga Health Coaching www.yogahealthcoaching.com
Show Highlights:
02:15 Fearless Self-love Retreat Early Bird Bonus Details!!
06:36 Easeful LIving Practice ~ Cooling Breath
11:14 Interview with Melanie Redd begins
14:14 What does it mean to deserve self-love?
18:58 Melanie’s personal journey into self-love and self-care -- intentional life disruption as an act of self-love
32:42 The work it takes to be authentic and why it’s worth it. We can all do hard things.
52:21 How to take a compliment -- “Thank you, it’s true.” (hat tip: Yoga Health
Coaching community)
1:05:40 How to shift and name boundaries in order to show up and being loving to myself.
1:10:03 Learning new things at any age is possible, including skateboarding at 40 and snowboarding at 42
Favorite Quotes
“I’m learning to skateboard; what’s the big deal?” -- Melanie Redd
“There is great risk for people to not love themselves.” -- Melanie Redd
“The moment I found out I was pregnant was the day I started practicing the figure-it-out way of life.” -- Melanie Redd
“I’m done sending my representative; I’m going to send me!” -- Andrea Catherine (in reference to Glennon Melton in Love Warrior)
“I just don’t want to feel, ever again, like I’m coming from that place of inauthenticity, and I want to do the work that it takes to be authentic.” -- Melanie Redd
“You’ve got to work on yourself, and I don’t think I can help you with it.” -- Melanie’s husband
“The act of being vulnerable includes admitting what we don’t know.” --Andrea Catherine
Meet Melanie:
Melanie Redd is a Fitness business owner and runs a virtual training program for holistic exercise and total wellness programs. She is also a Strength & Conditioning Coach for a highschool football team and specializes in Functional Movement and corrective exercise for athletic performance and reduced injury risk.
Listen in as I chat with Laura Munson about her journey of self-love through the written word, and how she discovered she actually is a writer. She reminds us that the path we are often often surprises us, and that we need to be the ones to see in ourselves what is already of value. We need to give ourselves permission to be who we are, have it be easy and enjoyable.
In our conversation, Laura recounts her journey of writing a best-selling book and all that led to that point. She tells us about why she writes and recites quotes of other writers who inspire her to continue. Get a taste of why community is such an essential part of the process for a developing writer, and maybe you will end up on one of her famous Haven Writing Retreats here in Montana!
- When who we thought we wanted to become changes
- How community can enhance your writing experience
- Why be the one to give yourself permission to be just as you are
Links Mentioned:
- Dancing Spirit Ranch
- Brené Brown: The Daring Way
- Fearless Self-Love Retreat
- Laura Munson & Haven Writing Retreats
- Laura Munson’s article in New York Times Modern Love column
- Terry Tempest Williams
- Naomi Shihab Nye
Show Highlights:
00:58 Fearless Self-Love Retreat: at home in your heart details
02:15 Easeful Living Practice: Write Before Read
05:57 Interview begins with Laura’s story of Fearless Self-Love, including her submission to NY Times Modern Love
15:33 Laura’s journey to knowing she was a writer
25:05 How having a community enhances Laura’s writing & self-love
32:24 Haven Wander -- join Laura as she wander the globe
41:21 Strategy of being flexible
Favorite Quotes
“I sat at that intersection of heart and mind and craft...for a very long time before I let people see my work.” -- Laura Munson
“Writing has become my practice, my prayer, my meditation, my way of life, and sometimes my way to life.” -- Laura Munson
“All writers are mining their lives.” -- Laura Munson
“I write to shine a light on a dim or otherwise pitchblack corner to provide relief for myself and others.” -- Laura Munson
“Nobody asks you to be a writer.” -- Laura Munson
“Miss Munson, this is not cinema! Take this to the fools in the English department.” -- Laura’s impression of her screenwriting professor
“I didn’t want to be a writer.” -- Laura Munson
“Turn the mirror on yourself and look into how you’re already showing up in your life and where the flow is.”-- Laura Munson
“I write in a solitude born of community.” -- Terry Tempest Williams
“Community is the soil and all the things in the soil, the water and sunlight that are going to allow the seed to sprout, but the seed sprouts alone.” -- Andrea Catherine
“Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us / we find poems. Check your garage, the off sock / in your drawer, the person you almost like, but not quite. / And let me know.” -- Naomi Shihab Nye
“I can be this happy, alone, at home, in my own bed, but I just had to go to Italy to find out.” -- Laura Munson
“I can’t really hide if I want to get what I want.” -- Andrea Catherine
“I give myself permission to be exactly who I am, and have it be easy...and fun.” -- Laura Munson
Meet Laura:
Laura Munson is the author of the New York Times and international bestselling memoir This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness(Amy Einhorn/Putnam 2010) which Book of the Month Club named one of the best books of the year. It has been published in nine countries and has been featured in Vanity Fair, Elle, Redbook, Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, Publisher’s Weekly and many other newspapers, magazines, and online venues across the globe.
Laura is the founder of Haven Writing Retreats, which Open Road Media ranked in the top five writing retreats in the United States, and speaks and teaches on the subject of voice and empowerment through creativity at conventions, corporations, universities and schools, retreat and wellness centers.
Her work has been published in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, O. Magazine, The Week, Huffington Post, Redbook, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, More Magazine, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Sun, The Shambhala Sun, Big Sky Journal and others. She has appeared on Good Morning America, The Early Show, WGN, many NPR stations, Hay House radio, as well as other media including London’s This Morning and Australia’s Sunrise. She lives in Montana with her family.
Join me one Monday each month as I chat with Natha Campanella for a conversation about Ayurveda and Astrology!
NEW ON MONDAYS! Join Andrea and friends as they share 10-minute tidbits with you to start your week off with ease and joy. This week, Andrea speaks with Natha about Cancer Season and Pitta Dosha. How do you hit pause and nurture yourself? It’s time to take a second and make sure you are nourishing your body with cooler foods and lots of water, both inside and out.
3 Bullet Points:
- Cancer, a water sign, is about home and family, with a motherly quality. Cancers are emotional secure and are selfless giver, but this can result in a ‘giving to get’ mentality.
- Pitta out of balance can have a hot temper or be very passionate, but can stay very focused. Strong Pitta energy learns quickly and remember things, and chase after adrenaline.
- It’s a tough task, but start asking for what you want.
Show Highlights:
4:15 Natha explains Cancer and what the season can bring
7:50 Andrea talks Pitta- the combination of fire and water
11:15 Where do you go to collapse?
17:30 get introverted and prepare yourself for what’s to come. Where do you overextend?
19:30 Planet retrogrades, present and future.
Your Favorite Quote
“The more we are willing to be open and honest with ourselves about our process, and about the things we want to change about our ways of being in the world, the better.”
In this interview with fellow Yoga Health Coach, Alexandra Epple, she gets real about her struggle with Anorexia and her journey to finding deep appreciation for who she is. Her passion for supporting women to love and care for themselves comes from her very real journey of learning to do so for herself. Listen as Alexandra not only reveals her personal trials, but also her triumphs. She offers practical tools for exploring how to enjoy your own company.
- How Alexandra’s anorexia transformed into a relationship of self-love
- Why nourishing touch can be foundational to cultivating self-love
- How time in silence and stillness can enhance one’s self-love
Show Highlights:
02:59 Easeful Living Practice: Mindful Eating Practice
11:20 Interview with Alexandra Epple begins
15:12 Alexandra’s recognition of her privilege and the development of her anorexia
20:02 Lack of self-love rooted in lack of purpose
26:35 Impact of another reflecting love as foundation of self-love
29:32 Spiritual self-discovery through Yoga & Thai Massage -- the power of touch
41:10 Nourishing the spiritual body with silence, sound, stillness, prayer
Favorite Quotes
“There is so much that can be done by the changing way we feed ourselves, the way we treat ourselves, the way we look at our bodies.” -- Alexandra Epple
“For so long I thought I was going to be a mom, I always thought I was going to be a mom. And now, I feel like my children are my students or my clients or my patients.” -- Alexandra Epple
“Purpose really comes from knowing your spirit, what your spirit wants, what you’re deeply desiring.” -- Alexandra Epple
“I still wasn’t loving myself; I still wasn’t eating” -- Alexandra Epple
“Falling in love [is] a mirror [in which] we see ourselves through someone else’s eyes.” -- Andrea Catherine (credit to my therapist Michael Joseph)
“If you can’t enjoy your own company, how can you expect someone else to enjoy your company?” -- Alexandra Epple
“Life is a lot more fun when I’m confident” -- Andrea Catherine
“Physical and emotional cleansing...needed to happen in order to actually get to the spiritual self, to get more subtle.” --Alexandra Epple
“By bringing hands onto our body the nervous system calms down, and the access opens to self-love.” --Alexandra Epple
“Once you really embrace money and just see it as an energy exchange...I’m giving something and someone sees it as being so worthwhile that they’re giving energy back.” -- Alexandra Epple
Meet Alexandra:
Alexandra Epple CAS, CMT is an Ayurvedic Practitioner & Teacher, Yoga Health Coach, seasoned bodyworker and Midlife Coach. Her approach to health is super practical and down to earth. She supports mature women through menopause and midlife so they come out the other end feeling better than they ever have; vibrant, joyful and luxuriously healthy. There is no complicated hormone stuff, vitamin hunting or mineral counting. When it comes down to it, healing is super logical and pretty easy too. You just need to learn some principles. Alexandra helps you do that. Her podcast Women Gone Vibrant revolutionizes the way you think about your body so you can create the next you, unapologetically. Download her FREE Better Menopause Video Series to get the scoop on a natural, easeful menopause.
This interview with fellow Yoga Health Coach Carly Banks grew out of our conversation in the surf on a Yoga Healer retreat in Mexico this past March. Carly is on for growth and embracing the changes that better her life. She is on for guiding others to do the same.
In this conversation we talk about the impacts of prioritizing self-care on family life. As a mom, Carly’s insights and personal transformation that she shares will resonate most with those those have a lot to tend to, and who are on for discovering they are much more powerful than they imagined.
- Why putting yourself first is a habit you want to have
- How to get unstuck from thinking you can’t change
- What strategies for building healthy habits work for moms
Links Mentioned:
- 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Brahmamuhurta (Sacred Time before Dawn)
Show Highlights:
02:59 Fearless Self-Love Retreat Details!!
08:24 Easeful Living Practice
13:31 Interview with Carly Banks begins with how and why thinking of herself first has been essential
19:51 Value of waking with the sun, the power of circadian rhythm, Nobel Prize Winners in Physiology
23:20 Relationships with others are dependent on our relationships with ourselves. How Carly got out of her own way as a new mom.
30:24 Carly’s journey to self-love from self-hate; highlight on Abhyanga (self-massage)
41:13 Figuring out who we are, so we can show ourselves and others, and love ourselves:) Carly’s celebration of healing in her marriage as a result.
44:26 Impact on physiology of honoring circadian rhythms ~ lighten your physiology
51:07 Courageous Self-Care Tip~ touch your own body in a way that will help you to love you more
Favorite Quotes:
“Everything just flows a lot more easily if you can just put yourself first, and then you become more able to serve others, and to serve your business.” -- Carly Banks
“Our minds are a part of our bodies, rather than the other way around.” -- Andrea Catherine
“The cool thing about our relationship with ourselves, is that we have the power to change [our] behavior.” -- Andrea Catherine
“I’m ... doing watercolor paintings, and making flower crowns... I’m being hyper creative in this brahmamuhurta, this sacred time before the dawn. It’s brought me a feeling of self, again.” -- Carly Banks
“As I massaged my body and gave thanks to my upper arms, for everything that they do, and the way they hold and support and embrace my children and my family and myself, all those feelings of hatred went away, and so much acceptance swept in.” -- Carly Banks
“The world is full of perfect people and they come in all shapes and sizes.” -- Carly Banks.
Meet Carly:
In learning the foundational teachings of Ayurvedic wellness, along with the science behind the power of routine, and the unbelievable level at which our habits - good and bad - dictate our reality, Carly's gone back to her roots. From the ground up she's created a healthy structure for her life, creating routines and daily practices that fill her up, thereby filling up her kids. Now, through her offerings at The Habit, Carly provides well-structured programs to support and nurture the growth and thrive of all women.
3 Bullet Points
- How to mother yourself as an adult
- Why knowing ourselves more enhances our self-love potential
- What is astrology and how can it help me
Links Mentioned in Your Episode:
- The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer http://amandapalmer.net/theartofasking/
Show Highlights:
03:16 Easeful Living Practice: Invite your emotions to sit with you
07:00 Interview with Natha Campanella Perkins begins
12:24 Natha’s first astrology reading and how it validated her
14:44 How to navigate our imperfections (and our inner critic) with self-love
18;18 Staying connected to and trusting your higher self
26:00 Andrea’s image of her older self and how she connects with her for guidance
29:30 Mothering yourself as an adult and how Taurus shows up in Ceres
35:39 Transformation of Andrea’s relationship with her own mom
40:00 How hearing other’s stories boosts our own aha moments
44:25 The Astrology of Self-Love: and introduction to astrology. Self-love requires acceptance. Acceptance requires awareness…
51:30 Astrological transits explained
Your Favorite Quotes
“Are you staying in reality?” -- Andrea Catherine
“When I’m cultivating my inner witness, suddenly it’s like I’m not alone.” -- Natha Campanella
“In order to keep your equilibrium, and feel nurtured and nourished, you need to make sure senses are pleased.” -- Natha Campanella
“How would we ever deal with adversity if our parents met our every single need?” -- Natha Campanella
“There is a true hunger for connection, and I know when that need isn’t met, that’s when I overeat...If I’m in connection with people...it does affirm this human need that I believe we all have to be connected at some level...that does satiate a certain hunger within us.” -- Andrea Catherine
“The more we know ourselves, the more self-loving we can be.” -- Natha Campanella
Meet Natha:
Extreme sensitivity to the emotions of other people prompted Natha Perkins Campanella to try and make sense of her own spiritual journey early in life. A natural student, she became fascinated with astrology when she realized how well it helped explain some of her most personal mysteries. She’s heard people say that “astronomy is a science but astrology is just an art…” (she begs to differ). Natha is a Master Life Coach, a writer and a professional Astrologer who uses a combination of astrology and intuitive guidance to help people understand themselves better, and THAT is definitely an art!
Your Monthly Astrology insight with Natha Campanella!
Join me one Monday each month as I chat with Natha Campanella for a conversation about Ayurveda and Astrology!
NEW ON MONDAYS! Join Andrea and friends as they share 10-minute tidbits with you to start your week off with ease and joy. This week, Andrea speaks with Natha to touch on Gemini and the quick, superficial energy that comes with it. It’s time to take note of how you are communicating on a daily basis, with yourself and with others.
3 Bullet Points:
- Gemini is a mutable air sign that acts as a bridge for communication and connecting with people.
- Gemini does not like to dive too deep, but rather stays just busy enough to remain superficial.
- Gemini is communication, writing, learning.
Show Highlights:
4:25 Natha touches on the recent full moon and its powerful effects on speaking and living in big and and little truths.
6:15 Details on the gemini sign- a bridge sign that collects information and facts and connects through communication.
9:25 How gemini is an invitation to notice how we communicate in our daily lives.
15:00 Embracing and being aware of the quickness in preparation for another energy change.
Your Favorite Quote
“...And we can be like the butterfly that is flying from one flower to another in the field.”
In this debut episode of Season 2, I speak with She Podcasts co-host, Elsie Escobar. Elsie shares her journey of finding her authentic voice, including her struggle to communicate as a young person and the ways in which uncovering her blind spots has informed and improved her communication with others interpersonally and as a podcast host. Tune in for insight into making podcasting not only an inclusive platform for diverse voices, but also in considering how we can make podcasts more accessible to listeners.
- How our blind spots impact how we give voice
- How to unlock your authentic voice
- Why to listen before speaking to build inclusive community
Links Mentioned in Your Episode:
- Elsie's Website
- Elsie on Twitter
- Elsie on Instagram
- Elsie on Facebook
- Ayurveda of podcasting episode with Cate Stillman
- Finding Forrester, the movie
Show Highlights:
01:00-Fearless Self-Love Retreat Details
04:27- Easeful Living Practice
11:08 - Interview with Elsie Escobar begins!
14:30 - The Elsie before podcasting & her key question: “What’s Your throughline?”
16:55 - Elsie talks of finding refuge in giving voice to other characters
19:24 - Podcasting as platform for letting her voice come through
23:05 -Teachers in our life that call us to own up to our bad habits and blind spots
30:45 - Voice, Acting and Yoga influence on podcasting
38:55 - Offering “Elsie’s Yoga Class” as one of Elsie’s biggest learning experiences as a teacher
41;35 -Process to unlocking your authentic voice; singing and acting as a pathway to keep going through the feelings
52:16 - Inclusion in podcasting, who speaks & who listens; mistakes Andrea made that led to separation instead of coming together
Your Favorite Quotes
“Being other people, I was really good at that, but giving voice to myself….I was not able to do that, because I didn’t know how to be myself and speak up.” -Elsie Escobar
“My biggest foundation is always thinking that I am not here for myself, I am here to represent a lot more. With that responsibility I feel powerful. There is no way I am going to let all of these people down, because I am representing.” - Elsie Escobar
“We have so many blind spots that we don’t see. Sometimes parents, sometimes culture, sometimes privilege...is sheltering us. We don’t see the totality of who we are sometimes.” - Elsie Escobar
“When I feel and sound the most at ease there is a lower quality, there’s a less rushed quality [to my voice].” - Andrea Catherine
“How do I cultivate a platform where all voices are welcome and included without disregarding my own privileg?” - Andrea Catherine
“You’ve got to be intentional about the clarity of your message in reaching it out. You’ve got to look at your own stuff and ask, ‘Are all of these conversations the same?... Would I benefit from opening up to other types of people, to other places, to other experiences?’”- Elsie Escobar
“First, always listen.” - Elsie Escobar
Meet Elsie:
I am a ten year plus veteran in the industry and inductee to the Academy of Podcasters Hall of Fame. I know the heart and soul of podcasters and podcasting beyond Apple Podcasts and public media. It is with this primary point of view of the average podcast listener (via thousands of hours of podcast listening) and independent podcast producer that I bring a unique perspective to the podcasting industry. My passion within the industry is podcasting’s rapidly-changing environment, impact, access, community building, and advocacy.I welcome the opportunity to elevate existing conversations around podcast consumption and initiate ways to reach new listeners above focusing on metrics, advertising and monetization into social change and using podcasting as a tool for personal growth and transformation.
NEW ON MONDAYS! Join Andrea and friends as they share 10-minute tidbits with you to start your week off with ease and joy. This week, Andrea shares 3 simple tools for motivation that will help you stay on track and committed throughout the week.
3 Bullet Points:
- Understanding the why behind what motivates you
- Setting resolutions at any given time
- Taking the opportunity to fall in love with yourself
Links Mentioned:
Grounded Here Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/GroundedHere/
Show Highlights:
1:33 Accountability- why does it help?
3:13 Making adjustments based on shifting desires
5:11 Rewarding yourself - intrinsic or extrinsic?
8:39 Making space for play
Favorite Quote
“Sometimes the reward is a natural outcome of the practice we are doing.”
Join me one Monday each month as I chat with Natha Campanella for a conversation about Ayurveda and Astrology!
NEW ON MONDAYS! Join Andrea and friends as they share 10-minute tidbits with you to start your week off with ease and joy. This week, Andrea walks you through three simple ways to boost your metabolism. You can put these practical tips to use today and feel the difference tomorrow!
What is Jyotish?
Natha Campanella's website
3 Bullet Points:
- What the sun in taurus can tell us about how to care for ourselves in Springtime
- How Kapha dosha and Taurus relate
- Why to cleanse in Springtime according to Ayurveda
Show Highlights:
1:24 Jam with Natha begins! Astrology & Ayurveda talk.
2:15 How the sun sign of Taurus represents Spring
4:04 The havingness bucket--do you know how to fill yours?
5:03 Ayurvedic perspective of Springtime, mud-season
15:25 How has the influence of smartphones influenced our connection with spiritual guidance
Meet Natha:
Extreme sensitivity to the emotions of other people prompted Natha Perkins Campanella to try and make sense of her own spiritual journey early in life. A natural student, she became fascinated with astrology when she realized how well it helped explain some of her most personal mysteries. She’s heard people say that “astronomy is a science but astrology is just an art…” (she begs to differ). Natha is a Master Life Coach, a writer and a professional Astrologer who uses a combination of astrology and intuitive guidance to help people understand themselves better, and THAT is definitely an art!
NEW ON MONDAYS! Join Andrea and friends as they share 10-minute tidbits with you to start your week off with ease and joy. This week, Andrea walks you through three simple ways to boost your metabolism. You can put these practical tips to use today and feel the difference tomorrow!
- How to boost your metabolism today
- Why closing your kitchen after supper is key
- How to eat in a calming environment
Links Mentioned
Grounded Here Community Facebook Page
The 3-Season Diet by Dr. John Douillard
Kripalu School of Ayurveda
Show Highlights
1:00 What is Metabolism
3:29 Tip One
4:55 Tip Two
7:51 Tip Three
Favorite Quote
“We start with not what we eat, but how we eat.” - Andrea Catherine
If you’ve been following along with Season One of this podcast, or even if you just saw the name “Fearless Self-Love Podcast,” it’s pretty clear that we focus on topics of self-love and self-care. But it’s important to acknowledge that we’re all at different points in our self-love journeys, and sometimes it can be difficult to figure out where to start. I’m excited for you to join me in my conversation with Cate Stillman, Yoga Health Coach, as we wrap up Season One by discussing what comes first - the habits or the self-love - and how to move forward no matter where we are in our journey.
- What it means to invest in yourself
- How to get to know your self-worth
- How to learn to trust your body
Links Mentioned
Yoga Healer
Yoga Health Coaching
Awake Living course
Anna Guest-Jelley, Curvy Yoga
Show Highlights
1:27 Easeful Living Practice
9:58 Show updates
11:43 Introducing Cate Stillman
12:50 What comes first, self love or changing your habits?
15:54 What it means to invest in yourself
20:06 Like increases like and opposites balance
23:41 Integration of intuition and physicality
26:34 The hurdle of “mind over matter”
30:54 How to tap into our self-worth
35:22 Practices of nourishment
39:28 Loving our bodies and using them as a tool
45:57 Courageous Self-Care Tip
Favorite Quotes
“Education is part of the process of making better decisions.” - Cate Stillman
“What’s the rate of return on that investment? Not just in terms of the money; in terms of the time and attentiveness, that the return on investment is exponential.” - Cate Stillman
“You plant a seed, it creates 10,000 seeds.” - Cate Stillman
“Like increases like and opposites balance.” - Andrea Catherine
“When something becomes a habit, it does have this connection with our intuition that it doesn’t feel like as much of a hurdle anymore.” - Andrea Catherine
“It’s really quite a thing to allow our bodies to feed themselves without all this information about what’s good for me and what’s not good for me getting in the way.” - Cate Stillman
“Tap into what are our senses telling us, honestly.” - Andrea Catherine
“Which makes your body feel more alive?” - Cate Stillman
“A rearrangement of rhythm… allows us more ease and flow and simplicity.” - Cate Stillman
“Mistrust happens when we’ve overridden the body’s needs.” - Cate Stillman
“If you just sit and taste something you know isn’t good for you but you think your body is craving, let the body really taste it.” - Cate Stillman
“Distraction is part of what erodes the trust.” - Andrea Catherine
Meet Cate
Cate Stillman founded Yogahealer.com in 2001 to guide Yoga people into Ayurveda and Ayurveda people into yoga. Built on the value of both personal and planetary thrive and a deep connect to one’s ecosystem, community and body, Yogahealer grew into a team, 2 podcasts a week, regular blogging, an arsenal of courses to guide people into their potential, an a professional community + certification program Yoga Health Coaching.
Cate wrote and self-published Body Thrive: Uplevel Your Body and Your Life with 10 Habits from Ayurveda and Yoga, an Amazon #1 Bestseller in Ayurveda, which helps people who dig yoga take a giant leap forward in their wellness trajectory with Ayurveda.
Cate have had a blast innovating on the edge of a 5000 year old deep wellness wisdom tradition. Tapping modern culture into ancient traditions is what Yogahealer has always been about and continues to become next!
Did you know you can have your own theme song? Seriously, you can and it's a great reminder for your life mission. Join in as we hear from Jamie Wyman, creative songwriter who writes heart-centered song for just about any occasion. Hear how she uses songwriting to share personal, transformative stories of people who are struggling to connect with their true self. It's a powerful episode and you can bet that it'll force you to take a closer, more authentic view of your own life.
- Why you should stop trying so hard to be you
- How singing can build courageous self-love within ourselves and others
- When to honor ourselves and challenge our security
Links Mentioned
Organic Gardener Podcast
Cate Stillman, Yoga Health Coach
Brene Brown, Researcher/Author
Jamie Wyman’s website
Jamie Wyman name tags
The Great Blue Song Project
Show Highlights
1:19 Podcast Update from Andrea
5:34 Easeful Living Practice
9:15 Meet Jamie
11:17 Being lost and finding her way back to her path
17:32 The creation of songwriting for healing/grief: Shifting focus from illness back to the heart of the person
20:29 Process of custom songwriting pt 1
27:47 Storytelling through song
30:37 “Play” as adults
31:47 Process of custom songwriting pt 2
35:17 The power of singing your truth vs saying it
39:05 Courage Self-Care Tip: Honoring your emotions/ body daily
42:12 How to determine when we're hiding from our potential vs honoring our capacity in the moment
43:47 Replacing people-pleasing for showing up fearless in the world
50:43 The new version of Courageous Self-Love
Favorite Quotes
“It was just a reflection of me, naturally.” - Andrea Catherine
“It’s not about change but the work does transform and change someone.” - Andrea Catherine
“I listen without trying to fix you.” - Jamie Wyman
“Giving voice to someone’s story is transformative.” - Jamie Wyman
“Every voice represents a thousand voices.” - Cate Stillman
“One of the ways I overcame my anxiety was [I] gave myself a break.” - Jamie Wyman
“It’s cool watching you grow into your lines.” - Jamie Wyman
“You don't have to try so hard because it's just you.” - Andrea Catherine
“Following what I know to be true...can feel really scary because I know this thing I've been holding on to, I have to let go of in order to be here.” - Andrea Catherine
“Whose opinions do I really care about?” - Andrea Catherine
Meet Jamie
Jamie Wyman is a self-identified introvert, dreamer, and creator who owns her own songwriting business out of Northwest Montana. You can catch her singing, creating awesome name tags, and speaking out on issues she's passionate about. To learn more about how you can create your own song, sign up for her newsletter, and listen to her music, visit Jamie at jamiewymanmusic.com. If you're wanting to know more about those awesome name tags, visit ihadyouathello.com.
How many of us, when times are tough, reach a point where we try to force ourselves into healing? If we can’t fix a broken vase by hitting it with a baseball bat, why do we think we can heal by being hard on ourselves? We have to soften our approach in order to move forward. Join me as I talk with Tracey Duncan about the many facets of self-love, and how we can move into a space of unconditionally loving ourselves.
- What happens when we discover we only love ourselves conditionally
- Why you can’t cultivate healing with force
- How to heal through softening
Links Mentioned
Yoga Health Coaching
Yoga Healer
More Yoga, Less Bullshit
Brene Brown
The Wisdom of a Broken Heart by Susan Piver
Crossfit
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
Hero course
Tracey Duncan on Vice
Show Highlights
5:02 Easeful Living Practice
13:02 Introducing Tracey Duncan
14:51 Disillusioned self-love
20:52 Unconditional and conditional self-love
22:27 Digesting details and setting boundaries
27:38 Finding support to work through the healing process
41:19 Demanding love and inviting love
48:14 “I don’t have to be good all the time”
51:49 Play
54:25 Where to find Tracey
Favorite Quotes
“There’s self-love and then there’s self-love. There’s unconditional self-love and then there’s conditional self-love.” - Tracey Duncan
“Don’t present undigested material.” - Tracey Duncan
“I can’t call 9-1-1 about my divorce.” - Tracey Duncan
“You can show your work without showing your intestines.” - Tracey Duncan
“Showing up and doing more work in that process is how we continue to gain strength.” - Andrea Catherine
“The deep healing happens when we show up, even when it’s difficult.” - Andrea Catherine
“Attention and love and acceptance and support are gifts and they can’t be demanded, they can only be offered.” - Tracey Duncan
“You cannot police or discipline a broken thing to become whole.” - Tracey Duncan
“I don’t have to be good all the time.” - Tracey Duncan
“You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” - Mary Oliver
“There’s so much value and so much love and so much opportunity in that freedom of exploration.” - Andrea Catherine
Meet Tracey
Tracey Duncan comes from what you might call poor white trash, unless you are poor white trash, in which case you probably just call her family. She dropped out of high school three times. Tracey misspent her youth in South Beach, where she worked for nightclubs and partied semi-professionally.
Sometime in her twenties, Tracey decided to get her $hit together. She sweet-talked her way into Columbia University, where she got a degree in Anthropology. She also has an MFA in Creative Writing. She has taught composition and literature at the university level, and is a retired Montessori Elementary teacher. Tracey is currently a writer, a yoga teacher, and a coach in New Orleans.
Tracey helps coaches, healers, and yoga teachers craft and share their personal stories to show others how to lead revolutionary lives. If you want to evolve into your superhero alter ego and show her to the world, Tracey wants to help. You can check out her teachings on The Hero Course. Read her work in Vice and on her website, More Yoga, Less Bull$hit. Follow her on Facebook and Instagram for the juiciest tidbits.
We all have multiple identifiers - maybe it’s your profession, a hobby, a belief, or your relationship to others - that make up who we are. These identifiers are just part of what makes us wonderfully human. And self-loving self-care shows up in every one of these arenas. Join me as I talk with Michael Joseph - a therapist, musician, and athlete - as we talk about self-love on many levels, the importance of paying attention to energy, and how emotions can propel us forward into a life with greater self-love.
- Why paying attention to energy is necessary
- How to use emotions as fuel
- How to experiment with your life
Links Mentioned
Crossfit
Ayurveda and Doshas
Zone of Genius
Zone of Excellence
Show Highlights
2:52 Easeful Living Practice - Hydrate
6:38 Introducing Michael Joseph
9:39 Self-love from a therapist’s, athlete’s, and artist’s perspective
14:31 Anti-personal growth weeks
18:30 Anxiety, depression, and dosha imbalance
20:08 Paying attention to energy
24:04 Zone of Genius and Zone of Excellence
26:32 Capacity to control our attention
28:12 “Dangerous” self-care
31:00 Capacity to pause and reflect
35:02 Tools of self-love
41:15 Using emotions as fuel
44:12 Experimenting with your life
Favorite Quotes
“Who you are as a person matters.” - Michael Joseph
“Nothing’s wrong with you. You’re bringing tools of your humanity to a situation. You just have to learn how to use them.” - Michael Joseph
“Anxiety moves us. Anxiety moves the world. If we didn’t feel anxious about things, we wouldn’t propel ourselves forward.” - Michael Joseph
“If you’re energy is low and you’re going on sleep deprivation, you’re not loving yourself.” - Michael Joseph
“If you’re meditating and you fall asleep, or you’re in savasana and you fall asleep, you probably needed it.” - Andrea Catherine
“Maybe we serve ourselves best - maybe we love ourselves best - when we’re tapping into those things that really feel nourishing and exciting and help us feel connected to who we are.” - Andrea Catherine
“Learning how to disappoint people gracefully is kind of a hallmark of mental health.” - Michael Joseph
“One thing that’s wonderful about being human is that we can stand down some of our instincts.” - Michael Joseph
“We have permission to pause until we’re ready.” - Andrea Catherine
“It’s OK to say to ourselves and to the world, ‘let me think about that.’” - Michael Joseph
“Self-love also means standing inside uncertainty.” - Michael Joseph
“Self-love is knowing how to use our emotions as fuel.” - Michael Joseph
“You’ve tried everything? Do the opposite.” - Andrea Catherine
“The opposite of fear is curiosity.” - Michael Joseph
Meet Michael
Michael Joseph is a therapist, musician, rock climber, basketball player. He’s spent the last 30+ years of his life exploring in his own life and with his clients the nature of love, life, emotional suffering and emotional joy. He feels privileged to be in a profession where he has the opportunity learn something everyday about life in conversation with the people who come to him.
It might surprise you that an artist’s best work does not always turn out the way they planned. Opening yourself up to uncertainty can elicit unexpected and wonderful results. And while we may not all consider ourselves artists in the traditional sense, everyone is a creator in one way or another. Join me in my conversation with multidisciplinary artist Kylin O’Brien as we discuss the how comfort with uncertainty, creation, and clearing your space all leave room for what serves us best at this point in our lives.
- How we can all approach life as creators
- Why authenticity and trust are key
- How clearing space can open up new opportunities
Links Mentioned
The Scream Room
Stress Less Day at Flathead Valley Community College
Imagine If Library in Kalispell
Show Highlights
02:08 Easeful Living Practice
05:15 Introducing Kylin and her Love Work
11:45 An artist’s comfort with uncertainty
16:24 We’re all creators
19:55 The process of creation
21:54 The Scream Room
32:42 Work based in authenticity and trust
36:12 Clearing your space, clearing your mind
46:35 How to connect with Kylin
Favorite Quotes
“I believe that we are all creators, and that we’re all creating our lives all the time.” - Kylin O’Brien
“Life is a collaborative project with the universe.” - Kylin O’Brien
“Art, when it’s effective, is potent.” - Kylin O’Brien
“Life is laundry; it’s never done.” - Kylin O’Brien
“Get down with the undoneness of it.” - Andrea Catherine
“It’s inside of space that new things come. And it’s inside of space that old things can leave. You don’t have any movement without space.” - Kylin O’Brien
“Your dog’s happiness is worth more than a perfectly made bed.” - Kylin O’Brien
“We’re allowed to reinvent ourselves.” - Kylin O’Brien
Meet Kylin
Kylin O'Brien is a New York City born Brooklyn based multidisciplinary artist. She holds a BA in Philosophy from Vassar College and a BA (Honours) in Contemporary Creative Practice from Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK, where she was awarded a part-time lectureship while pursuing advanced multimedia studies. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions and has enjoyed solo exhibitions in New York at Feature INC, Open Source Gallery and Chashama. She has been a Brooklyn Arts Council, Awesome Foundation and Pro Arts award winner. Kylin has created commissioned public work during Art Basel Miami and has had public works on display in Wynwood Miami, West Oakland & Brooklyn. In addition to her studio practice, she is currently directing multiple initiatives, collaborations, workshops and presentations.
Have you thought about working with a life coach but find something’s holding you back? When we’re comfortable with the status quo, we have little incentive to pursue change. It’s only when we view change as necessary that we’re ready to reach out for guidance. Join me in my conversation with life coach, Shelly Smith, as we discuss the power of working with a coach, how shifting thought patterns can change your trajectory, and the importance of fiercely protecting your own self-care.
- Why it helps to name your thoughts and feelings
- How you can choose to think something different
- How to fiercely protect your own self care
Links Mentioned
Body Thrive by Cate Stillman
The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
Show Highlights
03:59 Easeful Living Gratitude Practice with guest, Shelly Smith
7:20 Interview Begins
13:50 Thinking big and following the path
20:40 What stands out about coaching
24:00 Coaching inspirations
28:44 Necessity to be fully present
32:52 Why folks seek a life coach
41:14 Changing thought patterns
48:45 A coach’s own self care
50:10 Saying “no” and other ways of protecting self care
57:04 Are you sacrificing your higher intentions? Do you have everything you need?
Favorite Quotes
“You make decisions every single day, and you can decide to go left or right, and you can decide what you eat, and you can decide how to react to things, and every single choice changes the direction of your life.” - Shelly Smith
“People forget that they have choices.” - Shelly Smith
“Thinking big is just a series of choices that increase your belief each day.” - Shelly Smith
“Thinking big is really a bunch of little thoughts.” - Andrea Catherine
“Just start on that path, and one day you’re gonna look back and you’ll be pretty much there.” - Shelly Smith
“It’s when we decide to choose to believe in something we can’t see that things start to change.” - Andrea Catherine
“I just love fantastic conversations about real things.” - Shelly Smith
“People don’t change until the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.” - Shelly Smith
“Every habit we have has a reward, or we wouldn’t have that habit.” - Andrea Catherine
“There’s something energetically different about talking about what’s working.” - Andrea Catherine
“I’m a big fan of self care; in fact, I protect it pretty fiercely.” - Shelly Smith
“I think a lot of people need permission to say ‘no’ to things they don’t like and want.” - Shelly Smith
“If people don’t create boundaries and take care of themselves, everybody just starts wreaking havoc on each other because they’re not happy.” - Shelly Smith
“Who are you trying to impress at the expense of your own wellbeing?” - Shelly Smith
Meet Shelly
Shelly Smith, sales and leadership consultant, believes laughter is as important as discipline. She has coached over 170 clients in a wide range of industries. She hopes you stop taking yourself so seriously so you can enjoy the journey
When life hands us lemons, we make lemonade. Or in Upasna Kakroo’s case, use storytelling and art to make life’s difficulties a little bit sweeter. Our stories are important and they create connection between us and our consumers. Being fearless and authentic in our life, art, and business requires self-love and compassion toward the truth of our lives and experiences. Join me as I interview doodler, creative, and business leader, Upasna Kakroo, who shares how art inspires her life and helps her solve problems. Grab a cup of tea, a pencil, and a pad since you might just become more inspired with your life and find answers to the questions living within you.
- Why self-love requires you to prioritize your time and values
- How to use your life story in business and art
- Why creating always involves being your authentic self
Links Mentioned
Upasna’s Blog/Personal Website
Brandanew, Upasna’s Company Website
Lil’ Danny Runs a Race (book)
Yoga Health Coaching
Gretchen Rubin’s The Four Tendencies (book)
Grounded Here
Show Highlights
5:30 Show starts
9:32 Paradox of connection in social media. Responsibility of our action
12:55 The life doodles of Upasna
16:25 Bringing authenticity to social media
18:45 Balancing our time to reflect our values
22:50 Rubin’s Four Tendencies: How we uphold our expectations
24:35 The importance of the company you keep and saying “yes” to opportunities
29:05 Cultivating self-care when there's no model
33:43 Traveling as a means to self-discovery
36:05 Process of creating authentically and how it creates connection
43:00 Upasna's life reflected in art
49:58 Connect with Upasna and view her work
Favorite Quotes
“Stress doesn't solve problems.” - Upasna Kakroo
“The world doesn't exist so that it can be uploaded.” - Unknown
“I pay very close attention to what I say yes to.” - Upasna Kakroo
“Sometimes we tend to know ourselves better when we get away from where we're from.” - Upasna Kakroo
“...to create for the sake of creating.” - Upasna Kakroo
“When I draw, it simplifies the problem for me.” - Upasna Kakroo
“All art is personal.” - Upasna Kakroo
“...to see and admire our own skill set based on the life we've had.” - Andrea Catherine
Meet Upasna
Upasna Krakoo is a business owner, creator, and leader in brand marketing, storytelling, and art. Growing up through displacement and instability, she's found a way to embrace and share her life through art and business. She’s also the author of a children’s book and inspirational calendar, that you can order through the website listed above. Connect with her via Instagram for business content @brandanewco and her doodles at @upasnakakroo.
Valentine’s Day, or National Singles Awareness Day, as some call it, can be a frustrating and lonely reminder of our relationship status or lack thereof. But who says being single has to be devoid of love? Fearless self-love reminds us that we need to spend just as much time building a relationship of love within ourselves. Join me as I interview Ayurveda student and writer, Lauren Gernady, who also struggles with being single. Grab your favorite cup of tea and get comfy as we explore how Ayurveda teaches us about courageous self-love and being authentic to ourselves. Of course, one has to know themselves first; every thought, every feeling, every crevice.
- How Ayurveda can teach you to love yourself
- Why you need to embrace being single
- How to say yes to yourself
Links Mentioned
Kripalu School of Ayurveda
Everyday Ayurveda
National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA)
Ayurvedic Center of Vermont
Yoga Healer
Dr. Claudia Welch
Dr. Vasant Lad, Marma Points
Episode 7 Podcast
@ home in your body course
Grounded Here
Show Highlights
1:27 Meet Lauren
9:25 Ayurvedic Terms: What it means to be pitta
13:55 Lessons from @ Home in Your Body: Importance of Play
16:25 Ayurvedic Practices: Benefits of Shirodhara
20:45 Ayurvedic Practices: Panchakarma “5 actions”
27:45 Ayurvedic Practices: Abhyanga aka self-massage
35:30 How to create a routine of Abhyanga to experience the physical, relational, and spiritual benefits
43:10 Strategies for being single
46:25 Giving ourselves permission
49:43 Perspective of Time and cultivating the quality of non-rushing
Favorite Quotes
“Shoot for four out of five days...that other day is just as important and it's okay to blow it off.” - Andrea Catherine
“[Abhyanga] is a way to nourish the body from the outside in.” - Lauren Gernady
“It's impossible to be angry and curious at the same time.” - Unknown
“It's interesting to take an inventory [of our bodies] everyday.” - Lauren Gernady
“We're householders, we're not sitting in an ashram.” - Rosie Mann
“I can totally provide for myself what I want from someone else.” - Lauren Gernady
“While it's mine, its treasured time.” - Mae Erlewine
“We're so focused on how we show up for other people that we forget how to show up for ourselves.” - Andrea Catherine
Meet Lauren
Meet Lauren Gernady, Admissions Counselor and writer at Kripalu School of Ayurveda. Her passion for writing and Ayurveda has led her down a path of inspiring and teaching others who desire to know more about the science of self. If you're curious and want more information, you can email her at laureng@kripalu.org or visit Kripalu’s website here https://kripalu.org/schools/kripalu-school-ayurveda.
It’s easy to get caught up in the thoughts racing through our own minds. We can certainly learn from our head, but connecting with our hearts may be the key to finding joy in our everyday lives. “If our hearts are that powerful, why do we live up in our heads?” Guest speaker Kate Berry challenges us to get into our hearts, shift our perspectives, embrace humility, and live a life of genuine joy.
- Why getting out of your head allows you to receive the best messages
- How compassion leaves less room for judgement
- How to bookend your day with practices that bring you joy
Links Mentioned
Heartmath Institute
Tara Brach
The Eight Pillars of Joy (from The Book of Joy)
Nonviolent Communication
Byron Katie
Brene Brown
Show Highlights
4:01 Easeful Living Practice
11:27 Kate Berry introduction
12:13 About Heartset Coaching
13:22 Getting out of your head and into your heart
16:36 Emotions and judgement
20:09 “Inviting My Dragons to Tea”
20:33 Ego, meditation, and the heart
22:42 The First Pillar of Joy: Perspective
25:24 Reality checking
27:55 The Second Pillar of Joy: Humility
39:34 Leaving a trail of joy in your wake
42:23 Seeking pleasure that causes pain
44:15 Surviving and thriving
48:25 The difference between joy and happiness
53:50 Strategies for keeping joy at the forefront
58:21 Courageous Self-Care Tip: Start and end your day with joy
Favorite Quotes
“The best messages that I receive or the changes that I’m able to make always happen when I get out of my head and into my body, particularly when I tune into my heart and my gut.” - Kate Berry
“If our hearts are that powerful, why do we live up here in our heads?” - Kate Berry
“Our emotions are huge drivers of our choices.” - Kate Berry
“If we’re conscious of [our judgement of ourselves], we can see it’s actually in a way violence against ourselves. We’re not allowing ourselves to be compassionate.” - Andrea Catherine
“Don’t judge the judgement.” - Kate Berry
“There are seven and a half billion people on the planet Earth, which means that there are seven and a half billion different realities, there are seven and a half billion different truths. It’s crazy for me to think that my truth is the only truth and that my way of seeing things is the right way.” - Kate Berry
“All of us humans are really trying to go for the same things in this world, and that is to love, to be loved, and to be of service.” - Kate Berry
“You’re special, just like everyone else.” - Andrea Catherine
“Am I willing to believe the kind things people have to offer me? And how does that add to believing in my own worth?” - Kate Berry
“I don’t know if it matters where I’m headed; it’s just a joyride.” - Kate Berry
“If I could choose ease or growth, I almost always choose growth, and then I’m like, ‘I wish it was easier!’” - Andrea Catherine
“When you are thriving, what are you choosing and what are the common threads that run through each of those moments?” - Kate Berry
Meet Kate
Kate Berry is many things, including a "Heartset" Coach and Joyful Rebel. She helps creative entrepreneurs and healers redefine balance and prioritize their well being so that they can shine their light without burning out. Kate calls Whitefish home, where she embraces the ebb and flow of life with her husband, son, and 2 furry dogs. Visit her online at www.kberrycoaching.com
In life, we can often feel as if the present moment is escaping us. Between work schedules, family and relationship priorities, and our own needs, we can get lost in the illusion of busyness. Mindfulness can help bring us back into awareness, allow us more availability to be with ourselves and others, and inform every moment of our lives. Join me as I interview Meditation Teacher, Gina Garlie, who like most of us became caught up in planning for life rather than actively living it. With 15 years of experience, she shares about how meditation has benefited herself, her relationships, and the community around her. Listen as she explores how acceptance and the courage to notice our true self helps us find self-care in every moment, connection to all other things, and a clearer perspective.
- How to become mindful without changing your routine
- Why being present with ourselves informs our relationships with everything else
- How to generate joy and hold suffering
Links Mentioned
Open Sky Sangha, Meditation Community in Kalispell, MT
Tara Brach, Author and Meditation Teacher
Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist Monk and Author
“Peace is Every Step” Book by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Algebra Project, Nonprofit Organization
Grounded Here
Show Highlights
05:59 Easeful Living Practice, Simple Centering
12:52 Welcome to Open Sky Sangha in Kalispell, MT
17:10 Being available to yourself and others: “Enjoying the Present Moment”
19:55 Recognizing “bells of mindfulness” in everyday life
24:42 What it means to be mindful to the “fullness of life”
27:05 History of Open Sky Sangha and connection in practice
30:25 Three jewels of Buddhist practice: Buddha, dharma, and Sangha (community)
33:10 “Listening with bigger ears”- noticing how we relate to others
36:55 Mindful experiences in community- “we're all suffering”
41:19 How mindfulness changes our experience in being
45:22 Habit energy
39:00 Inter-are vs Inter-be: Inter-being= no separate self
52:45 Generating joy to hold suffering: Self-care in every moment
54:30 Cultivating Joy
Favorite Quotes
“[Mindfulness] really informs every moment.” - Gina Garlie
“If I bypass my emotions and my connection with who I am and what I'm feeling, then I'm not really being true and authentic.” - Gina Garlie
“You didn't change your routine; you just changed how your mind was in the moment.” - Andrea Catherine
“...allowing there to be pain and joy in the moment.” - Gina Garlie
“We all have aspects that are enlightened within us.” - Gina Garlie
“It's allowing us to use our mindfulness practice to deepen our relationships and also come face to face with our judgments- because we have them.” - Gina Garlie
“We can become more quiet and that can be a gift to a lot of relationships.” - Gina Garlie
“If you're not ready to forgive someone else, then you need more self-compassion.” - Tara Brach
“It's so easy to forget that all we have is this moment.” - Andrea Catherine
“We need to be able to hold the suffering but not until we're able to touch joy.” - Gina Garlie
Meet Gina
Meet Gina Garlie, 8th grade science teacher and meditation teacher at Open Sky Sangha in Kalispell, MT. She helps adults and children come into the present moment and teaches awareness techniques to help others listen to the “bells of mindfulness” in everyday life. Her personal experience and journey through meditation over the past 15 years gives her a wealth of knowledge about just being. Catch her at a meditation class, schedule listed here http://www.openway.org.
There's something to be said about opening ourselves up to life and letting go of the reins. You know, meeting life and our experiences in the here and now. Easy, right? If you're like me and catch yourself holding on to expectations, you may be causing more suffering than necessary. Join me as I interview Integrational Coach, Denise Dryden, about fearlessly showing up and cultivating surprise within ourselves, life, and our relationship with others. She has extensive experience working with parents struggling to integrate new experiences into their parenting strategies, but this episode reminds us why continuous integration is important for all of our lives.
- How to replace disappointment with surprise
- How to be uncomfortable with uncertainty (or comfortable with discomfort)
- Why life is a “continual process of integrating”
Denise Dryden’s website
Transformational Presence Coaching
Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking (book)
Aria Mae on Fearless Self-Love Podcast
Grounded Here
11:49- What is integrational coaching
17:29- Four pillars of coaching: Helping to adjust goals and expectations for flexibility
20:59- Letting go of expectations : Attachments > Disappointment > Relationship Killer
22:04- Presence and why it's important: Listening with your eyes, ears, and body
24:54- How to build trust within our world/life
27:18- How to replace disappointment with surprise: Four pillars
30:55- Spiritual bypassing and how it inhibits our growth
37:09- How to be uncomfortable with uncertainty
44:29- The Yes/No tool for guidance: Tapping into and trusting our intuition
56:53- “Parenting forward”: Tools for parenting with presence and curiosity
“When we're adhered to an expectation or attachment, the only emotion we can have is disappointment.” - Denise Dryden
“This is what I want, I might not get it.” - Andrea Catherine
“Presence is the idea that all of us have shown up and are paying attention.” - Denise Dryden
“Follow the energy.” - Denise Dryden
“It’s choice- to choose to be.” - Denise Dryden
“Their emergency can't always be yours.” - Denise Dryden
“We are constantly reacting to a checklist from outside, rather than choosing how we want to interact with it.” - Denise Dryden
“Sometimes obstacles are in our way to point us in the right direction.” - Andrea Catherine
“I can hardly wait to see what today brings.” - Denise Dryden
Denise Dryden is an Integrational Coach, mother, and adventurer who uses intuitive wisdom to help parents, families, and individuals restore alignment for better living within themselves and their relationships. She is passionate and experienced working with parenting, relationships, lifestyle choice, and metaphysical exploration. Visit her website at https://www.denisedrydencoaching.com for free downloads, video content, podcasts, and more.
Our culture can have a strong effect on the way we see ourselves and our role in society, especially between gender and sex. The messages men receive within our culture usually reinforce the “rough and tough” advice that's been passed down through generations, and often times, shows up within their relationships with others. Listen to this follow-up interview with guest speaker, Dave Cavnar as he reminds us why self-love isn't just for women. He shares his story honestly and provides insight into nourishing yourself first, along with tips to get started. This one’s deep, so grab a friend or take note; you'll want to share these insights with all the men in your life.
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How a morning routine sets the tone for the day
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How to find balance between pushing boundaries and easeful play
- Why we’re worthy of creativity and self-love
Links Mentioned:
Tim Ferriss
Some Things Are NOT Negotiable
5 for Love: Free Self-Loving Self-Care video series
Global Purpose Expedition
A Planet On Purpose by Brandon Peele
Feeding Your Demons (meditation practice)
The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin
REVOLUTION: 31 Days of Yoga by Yoga with Adriene
Dave Cavnar’s website
Show Highlights:
3:20 Easeful Living Practice
9:20 Dave Cavnar introduction - a year-and-a-half later
10:41 Living a simpler life
13:41 Prioritizing internal creative work over external requests
14:34 “The Morning Thing” and nourishing creative outlets
18:47 Not taking things too seriously
21:45 “If I was my significant other, what would that look like?” and other conversations with yourself
24:02 Fear and uncertainty
32:46 Feeding Your Demons, a meditation practice
34:45 Experiencing rejection
37:20 Doing what scares you
38:27 Playfulness and intuition
52:07 “Letting down our adult”
56:28 Path to Dave’s latest project
59:18 Dave’s project: yoga and doodles, The Dao of Doodle
1:08:10 Calls to action
1:13:42 Courageous Self-Care Tip: “Find something that can be the foundation for your day” and “Find your own doodle”
Favorite Quotes:
“Elegance in simplicity… I think it takes awhile to figure out your own formula.” - Dave Cavnar
“One of the most common threads, across all fields, for people that are considered successful in their field is a morning routine and meditation.” - Dave Cavnar
“I find [a morning routine is] just an experience with what feels the best for you and what gives you energy.” - Dave Cavnar
“If I can manage to do… the creative piece and the little meditation; if that’s all that I do [in the morning] it’s hard to knock me off track.” - Dave Cavnar
“All we know is that we have the moment with us right now, right? So you might as well play and have fun.” - Andrea Catherine
“Sometimes bad things do happen but, most of the time, we have each other’s best interests in mind.” - Andrea Catherine
“Everything we go through, all the trials and tribulations, I believe lead to the beautiful places. The hardest path leads to the most beautiful waterfall.” - Dave Cavnar
“I know that when I betray something I told myself I’m gonna do, I don’t really buy into it yet.” - Andrea Catherine
“There are practical aspects to living that require us to wear those adult hats, but why not turn it backwards and be playful in that?” - Dave Cavnar
“We are on the leading edge of our lives; at any moment you can start new and just totally change your life.” - Dave Cavnar
“Creativity and play and self love … we don’t have to earn them; they become part of our foundation and part of what’s essential for us to thrive.” - Andrea Catherine
“You could not be more deserving.” - Abraham
Meet Dave:
Dave Cavnar is a self-described doodler, learner, and ponderer. He is fascinated by consciousness, purpose, Soul, and each of our individual paths. Currently you can find him falling in love with himself and his life on Instagram @dvcavnar and you can read the first few chapters of Being Human / Human Being on his website https://davidcavnar.com/
Our culture can have a strong effect on the way we see ourselves and our role in society, especially between gender and sex. The messages men receive within our culture usually reinforce the “rough and tough” advice that's been passed down through generations, and often times, shows up within their relationships with others.
Listen in with guest speaker, Dave Cavnar as he reminds us why self-love isn't just for women. He shares his story honestly and provides insight into nourishing yourself first, along with tips to get started. This one’s deep, so grab a friend or take note, you'll want to share these insights with all the men in your life.
- Why men need self-loving self-care too
- How silence can teach us about ourselves
- Why being selfish is an important part of self-care
Links Mentioned:
The Rhythm of Life (book) by Matthew Kelly, https://www.amazon.com/Rhythm-Life-Matthew-Kelly/dp/1942611404
Into the Wild (book) by Jon Krakauer, https://www.amazon.com/Into-Wild-Jon-Krakauer/dp/0385486804
5 for Love: Free Self-Loving Self-Care video series, www.groundedhere.com/5
Dave Cavnar’s website, https://davidcavnar.com
Show Highlights:
1:30 Easeful Living Practice: Writing Exercise
3:40 “Love, Rest” Poem by Andrea Catherine
7:10 Interview with Dave Cavnar begins
10:50 Difference between self-love and selfishness. Is there?
15:10 Mentality of scarcity vs abundance
17:29 Energy shifts between selfish and selfless: Seeing both as opportunities to receive
23:00 Spirituality and the intersection of self. Loving ourselves as a step to loving others
27:15 Self-focus without self-love. Our “self” as always under construction
31:05 The journey of self-love: Perfection, judgment, human kindness, and forgiveness
37:00 Self-love for men: Dave’s story of coming home to himself
45:21 New messages for young men: “What story do you want to tell?”
49:50 Ways to encourage and nourish yourself: Tips to get started
57:00 Continuing to build connection
61:50 Courageous Self-Care Tip: “Enter the classroom of silence”
63:55 Andrea shares...and how you can start living the life you want
Favorite Quotes:
“Self-love is recognizing that...you can put yourself first.” - Dave Cavnar
“When you're truly embracing the idea that you're complete and you know yourself fully, then you can benefit those around you.” - Dave Cavnar
“...being self-focused without actually feeling self-love.” - Andrea Catherine
“Just because you're under construction, doesn't mean you're not complete.” - Dave Cavnar
“If your cup is empty, you can't share what you don't have.” -Dave Cavnar
“...when I forgive myself or others, it frees me up from being attached to the action and the association I have with that action.” - Andrea Catherine
“In reality, there's nothing more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.” - Christopher McCandless
“Move. Learn. Breathe. Repeat.” -Dave Cavnar
“You have to enter the classroom of silence.” - Matthew Kelly
Meet Dave:
Dave Cavnar is a self-described doodler, learner & ponderer. He is fascinated by consciousness, purpose, Soul, and each of our individual paths. Currently you can find him falling in love with himself and his life on instagram @dvcavnar and you can read the first few chapters of Being Human / Human Being on his website https://davidcavnar.com/
Whether you're already a solo entrepreneur or looking to start your own business, niche marketing can help you bring your ideas to fruition. Tune in to hear from Rachel Starr, owner of Distinct Darlings, who shares her own personal story through brand marketing and how to utilize your unique self to grow your business. She offers practical advice for getting started with your brand and how important vulnerability is in attracting your ideal clientele. This is the intersection of courageous self-love and fearless career dreams.
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How to focus your niche market to reflect your ideal client
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Why being fearless in business requires vulnerability
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How to create a brand that tells “your story”
Links Mentioned: Distinct Darlings, https://www.distinctdarlings.com/
Yoga Health Coaching, https://yogahealthcoaching.com
Grounded Here, http://www.groundedhere.com
Show Highlights:
12:52- How your brand matches your story and attracts your clientele
13:37- How Rachel found her niche
16:12- Being who you are rather than “selling big”- The consequences of trying to be something you're not
18:52- Niche marketing: How to market yourself
22:42- Envisioning your future with no attachments
24:42- Balancing our failures with self-care
26:08- Vulnerability in marketing: Risky or beneficial?
28:42- How to create “your story”- Start with your beginning, focus on evolution of your story
30:57- Relevance of place in building and branding yourself
34:32- Steps for starting your niche marketing plan: Brand your story, Pinterest your ideas, then Combine the two
39:23 - Courageous Self-Care Tip
Favorite Quotes
“I’m selling myself.” - Andrea Catherine
“If our brand represents who we are, then that helps people to connect with us more deeply.” - Andrea Catherine
“It’s a lot easier to market to a niche market.” - Rachel Starr
“You have to sit down and develop what your own story is. What brought you to this point? And why they should hire you over the other four people? And then, you have to run with your ideas, your thoughts.” - Rachel Starr
“The number [of people] doesn't always matter.” - Rachel Starr
“You don't need to have 30,000 people looking at what you post a day, you need four people to say ‘Oh, I want her in my life.’” - Rachel Starr
“The more you can be real, the easier your social media and aesthetic will be.” - Rachel Starr
“If you feel like you have this fake facade of your brand...people will feel that they can't measure up to you.” -Rachel Starr
Guest Bio:
Rachel Starr is owner and creator of Distinct Darlings located in Whitefish, MT. Her strategic marketing solutions are designed to help those looking for brand marketing, consulting, virtual assistance, and design assistance to take your business to the next level. You can visit her website at https://www.distinctdarlings.com/ or follow her on IG @distinctly_rachel.
- how to keep creativity alive in parenting and other phases of life
- Why self-care is an ever-evolving balancing act
- What we can learn from children's approach to life
Links Mentioned: Natalie’s website, http://wedrawtogether.com
Toddler yoga??
California Institute of Art, https://calarts.edu/
Ozone House http://ozonehouse.org/
Yoga Health Coaching www.yogahealthcoaching.com
A2 Yoga where Natalie & Andrea completed their 200 Hour Teacher Training Certification http://a2yoga.net/
Bhramari Pranayama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onQiVRq8WLA
Elephant Breath Video
5 for love ~ Free Self-Loving Self-Care video series www.groundedhere.com/5
Grounded Here Community Forum
Show Highlights:
03:20 Easeful Living Practice ~ Intermittent Movement with Warrior II
10:54 Beginning of Interview with Natalie
15:05 How to infuse creativity into all aspects of life
21:43 Being accountable & holding space for the things we love; Making a difference in people's lives through art: “Mitzvah Art”
25:23 Balancing self-care with service of others
30:34 The meaning of “mitzvah” in Natalie's artwork: Service within personal artwork
32:28 Bringing “silliness and lightness” into teaching yoga: How toddlers help us remember this
35:44 Resetting your “patience power”: Example of “elephant breath”
41:10 Tapping into your “native genius”
43:10 How our good “adult” intentions can become high, limiting expectations for children
46:33 Courageous Self-Care Tip ~ Elephant Breath
47:21 Do you take self-care too seriously? Check out this free video series for incorporating play into self-love
Do you think it’s possible to build future communities of belonging and connection? Living in a culture that values the immediacy and efficiency of life has placed a strain on the importance of connection and belonging to our natural roots. Open your heart and mind with an educational and engaging chat with Brett Holmquist, co-founder and Executive Director at Ravenwood Outdoor Learning Center. Listen as we explore how to cultivate the “survival skill of belonging” and why it's important for young people to learn the beginning steps of fearless self-love in community as well as on our own.
- How nature can teach us about gratitude and belonging
- How our connection to nature relates to our level of connection within ourselves/others
- How to help our youth foster self-sufficiency and self-love
Links Mentioned:
Jon Young’s “Coyote Mentoring” Book https://wildearth.org/shop/books/coyotes-guide-to-connecting-with-nature
Wilderness Awareness School in Duvall, WA https://wildernessawareness.org/about/about
Jake and Judy Swamp, http://www.thetrackingproject.org/ttp/native-communities/remembering-jake-tekaronianeken-swamp/
Show Highlights:
01:18 Ravenwood Family Packages Program
03:36 Easeful Living Practice ~ Sensory Awareness Meditation / Sit Spot
13:12 Interview with Brett Holmquist; Ravenwood Outdoor Learning Center history and purpose: “Nature connection mentoring program”
21:07 Culture of Gratitude at Ravenwood and blew me away about the campers & staff
24:04 Roots of Ravenwood’s mission: Connecting people with nature, community & self; Mentoring as modeling with elders and others
27:25 Core routines of Ravenwood: Skill-building, gratitude, survival skills
29:28 “The survival skill of belonging”: A difficult skills to learn in a disconnected and isolated culture
31:45 Andrea’s reflections on Ravenwood’s mission to cultivate freedom, nature, community, belonging
35:50 Examples of core routines and 8 attributes of connection
37:01 “Art of questioning”: Creating internal curiosity
42:11 Understanding bird language as a concept and skill: the “art of awareness”
45:26 Courageous Self-Care Tip ~ Survival Skill of Belonging
Favorite Quotes
“Our mission is connecting people with nature, community, and self.” -Brett Holmquist
“We find that our interdependence with nature and our relationships with nature are the perfect place to teach that [ecology of self]. It’s natural, it just happens.” -Brett Holmquist
“The practice of gratitude is the practice of connection. All people want is to belong.” -Brett Holmquist
“How do I stay in connection so I am healthy and thriving in this world?” -Brett Holmquist
“The belonging includes taking time for ourselves.” -Andrea Bachman
“Any individual has these deep ropes of connection to every plant, every tree, every mountain, every river, all the people, all the things that we have relationship with.” -Brett Holmquist
“The translation of health in Ayurveda is, ‘to be situated in oneself’.” -Andrea Bachman
Meet Brett:
Brett Holmquist is the co-founder and executive director of Ravenwood Outdoor Learning Center located in Whitefish, MT. Brett is passionate about using nature to help youth foster better relationships within and with the world around them. Learn more about all the amazing work Ravenwood is doing and connect with Brett at brett@ravenwoodolc.org.
Leaving the comfort of our daily lives is often frightening. It can also lead us back to ourselves and teach us lessons that we might otherwise not have learned. Meet Paras Moghtader- as she fearlessly shares her personal story of transformation through yoga, Ayurveda, and trusting the signs from the universe to to create a life of abundance for herself. Paras’ method of bringing abundance into her life involves bestowing love on others. Listen and feel the light and love of this courageous woman, and gather up some courage for your own New Year.
Health Coaching is a term that’s getting a lot of attention these days, but what is it? I talk with Health Coach Liza Baker who studied at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition about her work and how it parallels my own. Though we trained in different arenas, our approaches are similar.
I love Liza’s insight about putting your schedule on a diet. She gives practical tools for reflecting on what we say yes to, and understanding if our schedule reflects what authentically matters to us. This is a great show to listen to as you transition into the New Year, as it’s a perfect time for reflection and preparing yourself to, as Liza would say, “live in alignment with what you want and what you need,” in 2018.
- Pattern Interrupt is the key to self-nourishment
- Keystone Habits help you live with ease
- Make lifestyle choices based on what feels right to you
Links Mentioned:
- Liza’s book: Flip Your Kitchen
- Liza’s website
- Institute of Integrative Nutrition
- Liza’s Group Course “Put Your Schedule on a Diet”
- Love Lives Here
- Montana Human Rights Network
- Yoga Health Coaching
- @ home in your body
- The Power of Habit
Show Highlights:
01:28: Easeful Living Practice: Sensory Awareness Meditation
06:09: Interview with Liza begins!
10:15: Nourishment with food, relationships, & schedule, including details about Liza’s group course
11:05: “Pattern Interrupt” ~ Description of what we do in 2 to 5 words
12:12: Keystone Habits Discussion
23:57: Andrea’s Keystone Habit is Starting the Day with Ease. She gives some pointers her for how you can start with ease, too!
27:07: The Breakfast Experiment: Way to train yourself to notice “How do I feel?”
28:30: How are you doing? Versus How are you feeling (physically, emotionally, spiritually)? Are you connected with yourself?
32:23 What Andrea & Liza are up to now
Favorite Quotes:
“SOUL foods: seasonal, organic, local & ethical” -- Liza Baker
“If you’re eating take-out 21 meals a week, let’s start with one day [cooking].” -- Liza Baker
“The purpose of pattern interrupt is to come back into alignment with self and needs and ‘what do I need?’” -- Andrea Catherine
“Pattern interrupt isn’t just about how you’re shifting your time...but the way that your mind works, and the way that you’re talking to yourself.” -- Andrea Catherine
“Food is our first economy. We have to eat to live.” --Liza Baker
“It takes longer to watch an episode of Iron Chef than it does to cook dinner.” -- Liza Baker
“We’re so used to looking outside ourselves for validation and for answers….’Should I be vegetarian?’ I can’t answer that for you. The only person who can answer that is you.” --Liza Baker
“You’re not a failure. You’re just not living in alignment with what you want and what you need.” --Liza Baker
“The habits that I encourage people to do are not the be all end all, they’re great. But they are really the tool to learn how to learn about ourselves and to learn what we need.” --Andrea Catherine
“Right is not an external judgment. It’s, ‘this feels right for me.’” --Liza Baker
Meet Liza:
Liza is an Integrative Nutrition® Health Coach and Sanity Whisperer to under-appreciated, under-listened to, under-taken-care-of, under-valued, overwhelmed, overworked, over-scheduled, and OVER. IT. ALL. working wives and mothers who dream of (re)claiming a starring role in their own lives. She lives with her husband in a half-empty nest in Ann Arbor, MI and is passionate about health and happiness, education and exercise, SOLE food and social justice. You can get a taste of her work at https://simply-healthcoaching.com.
Have you struggled to truly feel comfortable in your own skin, at home in your body? Have you battled with self-acceptance and tried so many ways to cultivate change, but come up short? None of us is perfect, but learning to approach our relationship with ourselves from a place of compassion instead of shame propels us forward. In this episode, Dawn Branham and Jessica Ortiz talk about their journeys with self-care habit change and how it has enhanced their own expressions of self-love. You hear from these guests first in late December of 2016 and again just this week (December 18-22, 2017).
- How to develop a healthy and realistic relationship with your resistance to change
- How to change your habits that come from being a natural obliger
- Why to compare this holiday with the last holiday sason instead of with last month
Links Mentioned:
@ home in your body course page
Fearless Self-Love Retreat
Brené Brown
Yoga Health Coaching
Spiral Dynamics
Book a Strategy Session
Glennon Doyle
Show Highlights:
01:19 Easeful Living Practice: Hands-free Nadi Shodhana (alternate nadi shodhana)
07:42 Interview with Jessica and Dawn begins (recorded December 2016)
20:02 How resistance shows up even when we want to be in touch with our bodies & intuition
34:48 What shifts when we have someone to hold us accountable in a group setting
39:00 What can you get out of a 15 minute one-on-one coaching call?
42:00 Applying habit science skills to life challenges
49:28 How this work has changed Dawn’s son’s perspective
51:44 Yes, And Concept as a tool for habit change
54:50 What’s changed with Jessica Ortiz inthe past year
1:06:17 How to change your habits as a natural obliger
1:18:00 Let’s focus on doing this holiday season differently than the last Holiday season, rather than comparing this holiday season to last month or the month before
1:21:02 Letting go of the expectation of perfection
1:37:00 Our relationship with our identity and habits can change
1:40:07 Courageous Self-Care Tip ~ Try a new habit on for size
Favorite Quotes:
“Being at home in my body means approaching wellness from a place of self-love rather than a place of shame” -- Jessica Ortiz
“There is an intentional unveiling and revealing that has to happen to know yourself, and then in order to love who you are.” -- Andrea Catherine
“I feel more patient with myself and I think in feeling more patient with myself I’m able to be more patient with others in my life.” -- Dawn Branham
“I may not have meditated every morning for the past 6 weeks... but every time I did, I took a step in the right direction.” --Jessica Ortiz
“You know mom, these little positive sayings that you’ve put around the house on these post-it notes. I think it’s really starting to rub off on me. I’m feeling really happy and I’m feeling a lot better in my life.” -- Dawn's 12 year old son
“I’m not going in a circle, I’m going in a spiral. I’m slowly growing.” -- Jessica Ortiz
“If I stay in a rhythm for long enough I’m going to break free of it, because something within me won’t allow me to stay in it.” -- Andrea Catherine
“I’m also an introvert and I don’t think I realized that community could be so beneficial to me.” -- Jessica Ortiz
“We can change… parts of ourselves, and be healthier and more self-loving and still hold onto those parts of ourselves that we really value.” -- Dawn Branham
Meet Jessica & Dawn:
Jessica Ortiz is a macro social worker and civil rights advocate who's finally learning the real meaning of that "self-care thing” she heard all about in grad school. Her favorite wellness practices include honoring an early bedtime, carving out quiet space for journaling, and snuggling with her kitties. These days, she lives by the mantra coined by one of her favorite authors, Glennon Doyle: “We can do hard things!” Jessica is a lifelong Michigander who now resides in Brighton with her boyfriend and their two cats.
Dawn Simpson Branham is a doctoral candidate in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education at Michigan State University. She is currently completing her dissertation on the topic of global education in the community college sector, a topic that combines her passions for international education and equitable access to quality education for all. Dawn has worked in the field of education for 15+ years as a teacher, advisor, administrator, and researcher. Dawn has lived and worked in Japan, South Africa, and Germany and believes that we learn best when we seek to engage with and understand those who are different than ourselves. You can contact Dawn via her LinkedIn page at:www.linkedin.com/in/dawnbranham
Just because someone does not look like your picture of health does not mean they are not taking care of themselves or unaware of their appearance. Cherie Bachman of @thickfunfabulous breaks down the pain and beauty of embracing a fat body. She courageously tells her story of coming to self-love and how deciding to love herself transformed her sense of self and providing her the tools she needed to take care of herself. Listen as Cherie challenges the perception that fat people who are happy are promoting obesity, “People who are thicker, who are fat, can be joyful, and enjoy their lives.” She makes it clear that “It’s always important to take care of your body. Period. What that looks translates to is different for everybody individually,” and asks me to speak to weight gain from an Ayurvedic perspective. This interview is raw and to the point. Let it open your heart in love.
Cherie Bachman has always had a passion for people, but that has been expressed in different ways through out her life. She began her work in child care and then worked with college students. Most recently, she has changed gears in her career to work in clothing retail. This shift still allows her to focus on her love for people, but now specifically with plus size people in helping them feel comfortable and beautiful in their own skin. In the past year, Cherie was inspired to start her own fashion and body positive blog and Instagram with one of her good friends, Erin. They consistently strive to be vulnerable in their journeys of self love and excitement for fashion in order to inspire others to do the same!
Sara’s vulnerability with her own self-care story offers courage and inspiration to those who might be on the face about taking the leap to invest -- time, money, emotion-- into lifestyle changes, courses, professional guidance to amplify self-care practices, or dive in for the first time. Sara debunks the too busy for self-care myth and gives practical strategies not only for prioritizing self-care, but also for how to offer yourself compassion when facing fears that arise when we make significant lifestyle changes. Sara’s experience with @ home in your body provided her the accountability and structure she needed to make these changes. It’s a community ready to embrace you on your journey to self-loving self-care. Are you ready?
Do you struggle to communicate authentically with yourself or others? Or feel it is easier to be empathetic to others than to get your own needs met? Learn both how to practice empathy and honest self-expression in a ways that honor your own humanity and the humanity of others. Lisa Gottlieb shares her personal experience with her changing relationship with herself and practical tools, strategies and her vision for reunification in our world.
Do you find yourself holding on and bracing for the daily battle of life? If you're like me, you've probably also learned the hard way and experienced the consequences of not letting go -- of pain, of anger, of our self-sabotaging stories, and our expectations. In this episode, spiritual heart surgeon, Aria Mae, teaches us about surrendering to life as it is, and how to move with the flow of our emotions rather than be lead by them -- how to respond after a pause rather than react without hesitation. We've become disconnected from our true selves and we can learn heal ourselves.