Jennifer Norman, founder of The Human Beauty Movement, joins Amanda for a bright and beautiful conversation about inner beauty, resilience after loss, and finding oneself through radical self-love, self-awareness, and self-acceptance. Jennifer tells her story of being an Asian child adopted into a white family and feeling like she never fit it growing up. She also speaks about the challenges of being divorced twice and raising a child with severe disabilities on her own. However, Jennifer chooses not to dwell on the depression she felt in those darks days but uses her pain as motivation to be the best version of herself every single day. She tells us how she does it in this captivating and uplifting episode.

A few topics Amanda and Jennifer delve into include:

• The difference between self-love and self-acceptance.
• The body positivity movement and how you are loved just for being you, yet there is always room for growth into a healthier version of yourself.
• How to achieve mental health and mental WELLTH!
• The balance of showing up as your authentic self while living in harmony with others.
• Why narcissistic and codependent people attract each other and how to break the cycle.

The Human Beauty Movement is a Certified B Corp that promotes diversity, inclusivity, and mind-body-soul well-being through its products, media content, and unique wellness programs. Jennifer is also the founder of Humanist Beauty, a clean skincare & conscious lifestyle brand. An award-winning author of SuperCaptainBraveMan children’s books, podcast host, philanthropist, and disability advocate.

Visit The Human Beauty Movement to learn more.

Her skincare line can be found here and children's books here.

Follow Jennifer on Instagram.

*Email your thoughts about this show or if you have an idea for another show to solrisingpodcast@gmail.com.

*If you like this show, please follow, share, and leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.

Sol Rising is now also on YouTube. Check it out!

Follow Sol Rising on Instagram

Follow Amanda on Instagram

Get Amanda's book, Trust Yourself to Be All In on Amazon or amandamckoyflanagan.com.

Sign up for Amanda's monthly newsletter to receive your free guide, "5 Principles to Be All In" on her website.

Music credit: "Surfer James" by Tom Deis. Source: Premiumbeats.com.

How do you deal with loss and grief in sobriety? Who and what do you turn to while navigating some of life's toughest challenges? And how do secondary mental illnesses play a part in a person's ability to stay sober for the long haul?

Join Amanda and her guest Corey Hennings, host of The Sober By Design Podcast, to hear Corey's personal experience with staying sober through the loss of his mother and brother, two profound deaths that occurred within three years. Learn the tools Corey used (and still uses) to not only stay sober, but to increase his overall mental health and emotional well-being in good times and bad. A good example of two people who practice different methods of recovery yet find common ground to meet on, this diplomatic conversation drives home the immense value and benefit of life in sobriety regardless of one's individual path.

Key points they touch on include:

• Removing alcohol is the first step to figuring out the emotional turmoil that is going on underneath the addiction.
• Addiction is a mental illness classified in the DSM-5 and when coupled with another mental illness such as bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety, staying sober can be exponentially challenging.
• How connecting with other alcoholics was the foundation of Corey's recovery program in the early days of his sobriety.
• The challenge of watching a loved one progress in their illness and feeling powerless to help them.
• The importance of music and how it can be like a time machine, transporting you back to indelible memories and moments in life. (Listen for Corey and Amanda's picks that remind them of their loved ones!)

Corey Hennings dedicates his show, The Sober by Design Podcast, to helping others live a full life in recovery. A certified recovery coach, Corey works in a local organization helping folks find resources to better their lives and find their own path in recovery.

Check out The Sober By Design Podcast here.

Follow Corey on Instagram.

*Email your thoughts about this show or if you have an idea for another show to solrisingpodcast@gmail.com.

*If you like this show, please follow, share, and leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.

Sol Rising is now also on YouTube. Check it out!

Follow Sol Rising on Instagram

Follow Amanda on Instagram

Follow Ginny on Instagram

Ginny's furniture rehab website: https://theflippinphoenix.com/

Get Amanda's book, Trust Yourself to Be All In on Amazon or amandamckoyflanagan.com.

Sign up for Amanda's monthly newsletter to receive your free guide, "5 Principles to Be All In" on her website.

Music credit: "Surfer James" by Tom Deis. Source: Premiumbeats.com.

Returning to the roots of the show, Amanda (in her first solo episode) discusses the dire need for connection right now and provides great tools and tips for sidestepping the emotional booby traps many of us find ourselves in while dealing with our own heightened emotions as well as the heightened emotions of others surrounding the current political climate.

Some of the important points she addresses include:

• The danger of Common Enemy Effect: The psychological phenomenon when people bond over a shared opponent or issue even if they have nothing else in common, producing a false sense of connection.
• A new take on WE the people and how we will only find peace by working together.
• The necessity to take accountability for how we are each individually contributing to the problem with self-centered perceptions and divisive behaviors.
• How crucial it is for leaders and healers to not check out but to take a break when needed.
• The effects of being constantly triggered with visuals of violence that are commonplace now but were not in the past.
• Emotional immaturity and a lack of empathy are two root causes of the division.
• Addictive chemicals are released when we feel "right" and breaking this addiction will require immense amounts of commitment and discipline.
• The political division we are experiencing is a facade of the much larger issue of human survival, and how our energy holds the power to deliver us to harmony.
• How to apply the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous to heal the division.
• Four great phrases to use when you do not want to engage in a contentious conversation.
• A beautiful mantra to immediately shift the focus from blaming someone to addressing what needs to be changed within you.

Please share this with someone you think may need it. (Which is all of us!)

*Email your thoughts about this show or if you have an idea for another show to solrisingpodcast@gmail.com.

*If you like this show, please follow, share, and leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.

Sol Rising is now also on YouTube. Check it out!

Follow Sol Rising on Instagram

Follow Amanda on Instagram

Follow Ginny on Instagram

Ginny's furniture rehab website: https://theflippinphoenix.com/

Get Amanda's book, Trust Yourself to Be All In at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4M137BJ or https://www.amandamckoyflanagan.com/

Sign up for Amanda's monthly newsletter to receive your free guide, "5 Principles to Be All In" on her website.

Music credit: "Surfer James" by Tom Deis. Source: Premiumbeats.com.

Have you been on a healing journey for a while and still feel like something is missing? Are you still struggling after years of working on yourself? Perhaps it's because you've been treating only one part of the problem instead of all the parts.

Join Amanda and Hope Pedraza, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Reiki Practitioner, Human Design guide, NLP Practitioner and Hypnotherapist for a fascinating conversation where they uncover the secret to experience whole healing: treating all parts of you—body, mind, and spirit—simultaneously with energy healing, rewiring neural pathways, and nutrition. They also spend a significant amount of time talking about hormones and your innate power to balance them.

Other key points to listen for include:

• What presents on the surface (overweight, depressed, tired) are symptoms of the root cause. You will never truly heal until you address the root cause.
• 5 things to limit in your diet to reduce inflammation.
• The concept of cycle-syncing—knowing which phase of your menstrual cycle you are in and living in accordance with your natural cadence to maximize productivity and creativity.
• Hormone imbalance happens when we are pushing ourselves to do things the body is not aligned with. This creates stress. Cortisol is released, adrenals become overworked, and hormones become unbalanced.
• Listening to your body and honoring what it needs at certain times of the month is the first step to balancing hormones.
• The minerals you need in your food and supplements to support a healthy body.
• Where to get protein if you are interested in a vegetarian or vegan diet.
• What Human Design is and how to utilize it to break subconscious patterns and optimize your life-force energy.
• The importance of rewiring and regulating the nervous system to allow for a new pattern in thinking.

Hope Pedraza is also the founder of inBalance, a Pilates based fitness franchise and the host of the Hopeful and Wholesome podcast. She helps female entrepreneurs and leaders heal chronic symptoms, optimizing their energy and wellness with functional labs, Human Design, subconscious reprogramming and energetics so they can thrive and create more impact in their business and in life.

Follow Hope on Instagram

Learn more about Hope on her website.

Listen to her podcast Hopeful and Wholesome.

*Email your thoughts about this show or if you have an idea for another show to solrisingpodcast@gmail.com.

*If you like this show, please follow, share, and leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.

Sol Rising is now also on YouTube. Check it out!

Follow Sol Rising on Instagram

Follow Amanda on Instagram

Follow Ginny on Instagram

Ginny's furniture rehab website: https://theflippinphoenix.com/

Get Amanda's book, Trust Yourself to Be All In at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4M137BJ or https://www.amandamckoyflanagan.com/

Sign up for Amanda's monthly newsletter to receive your free guide, "5 Principles to Be All In" on her website.

Music credit: "Surfer James" by Tom Deis. Source: Premiumbeats.com.

How do you keep an open heart after heartbreak, grief, trauma, and other painful experiences knowing that more pain is on the way? How do we love others fully and completely and lay bare the most vulnerable parts of ourselves knowing that loss is inevitable?

Ginny and Amanda divulge their own difficulty with this topic, especially Amanda, calling it the "bane of her existence!" The ladies talk openly and candidly about their own experiences with shutting down after traumatic loss and provide excellent tools for you to practice while moving through your own fear of future loss.

Other conversation includes:

• Connection is the cure for grief, addiction, and other difficult trials of life.
• Brene Brown's concept "foreboding joy," the definition of it and what happens when we do not allow ourselves to feel joy because we are in fear it will end.
• Fear of loss is rooted in childhood through emotional abandonment, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to never feel that again.
• Even though abandonment is something many of us are afraid of, we push people away due to an inability to be emotionally intimate with others (a protection method we used in childhood to keep us safe).
• It's selfish to keep ourselves in this fear, thereby, inhibiting true connection and love with those who love us.
• The solution is meeting, knowing, and loving ourselves unconditionally through connecting with source energy (God, Spirit, Universe) so we know deep in our heart we are never truly alone.
• Limiting our dreams and wishes by throwing up roadblocks and other self-sabotaging behaviors because we are afraid of rejection (aka loss).
• Breathwork to calm and reset the nervous system as a pathway to reducing stress accompanied by fear of loss.

Related links

Breathwork 1

Breathwork 2

Rats & Connection Study

RFK Recovering America: A Film About Healing Our Addiction Crisis

Johann Hari Ted Talk About Connection

*Email your thoughts about this show or if you have an idea for another show to solrisingpodcast@gmail.com.

*If you like this show, please follow, share, and leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.

Sol Rising is now also on YouTube. Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/@thesolrisingpodcast

Follow Sol Rising on Instagram

Follow Amanda on Instagram

Follow Ginny on Instagram

Ginny's furniture rehab website: https://theflippinphoenix.com/

Get Amanda's book, Trust Yourself to Be All In at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4M137BJ or https://www.amandamckoyflanagan.com/

Sign up for Amanda's monthly newsletter to receive your free guide, "5 Principles to Be All In" on her website.

Music credit: "Surfer James" by Tom Deis. Source: Premiumbeats.com.

We all know about "good vibes." But what are they really? How do we access them? And why is it imperative to tune into these vibrations right now?

Join Ginny and Amanda and their guest, Vicki Somoya, MFA, in an enlightening and informative conversation about what high frequency energy is, how to tap into it, and how to transmute your energy to align with these good vibes. Most importantly, learn how to use this empowered state of unconditional love, compassion, and forgiveness to assist the spiritual ascension taking place on the planet.

Listen for key points like:

• How to use breathwork and meditation to access and embody high frequency energy and upgrade your DNA.
• Christ is in all of us (aka Christ Consciousness), the importance of embracing this fact, and why this concept is muted in mainstream religion.
• The necessity of treating trauma with both cognitive and experiential practices in order to reach the highest state of compassion possible.
• The positive effect of regulating the nervous system (rewiring neural pathways) with somatic work in conjunction with acknowledging and healing deeply rooted emotional pain.
• The paradigm shift we are experiencing in terms of understanding what humans are and what we are doing here.
• Polarity is not real, everything is part of the One, and the importance of bringing all pieces of life into coherence.
• Stepping into our power comes with intentional blocks by lower energy and how to sidestep these blocks.
• High vibe eating, including how to program the water you drink.
• And so much more!

Listen for Vicki's beautiful prayer, "Prayer for Paradise on Earth" as well as affirmations to claim your power.

Vicki Somoya, MFA in Dance and Somatics, works with quantum light technology and movement to treat trauma by reprogramming the nervous system. She is a YTT 200 hr Kundalini Yoga trauma-informed facilitator, combining her training in movement with prayer, breathwork, and consciousness practices to assist humans to re-attune their bodies, minds & souls to the new higher frequencies of God Source Love, Compassion, Joy & Light.

Follow Vicki on Instagram

*Email your thoughts about this show or if you have an idea for another show to solrisingpodcast@gmail.com.

*If you like this show, please follow, share, and leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.

Sol Rising is now on YouTube!

Follow Sol Rising on Instagram

Follow Amanda on Instagram

Follow Ginny on Instagram

Ginny's furniture rehab website: https://theflippinphoenix.com/

Get Amanda's book, Trust Yourself to Be All In on Amazon or her website.

Sign up for Amanda's monthly newsletter to receive your free guide, "5 Principles to Be All In" on her website.

Music credit: "Surfer James" by Tom Deis. Source: Premiumbeats.com.

Fear. The tiny 4-letter word that runs your emotional show! Fear underpins all anxiety, resentment, and painful relationships that make your life difficult. Can we really rid ourselves of it? Is being completely "fearless" attainable? For most of us, this natural human instinct is here to stay (on some level), so how can we use it as a messenger, showing us where to lean in and grow.

This episode is packed with tips and tools for becoming aware of when and how fear is driving you and suggestions for how to step into it (scared, not fearless!) and emerge from it transformed. Learn the value of exposing fear with the intention of transmuting it into an energy that no longer hinders, but transforms you into the highest version of yourself, which is love.

Key conversations to listen for include:

• The topic of death and how to accept the reality that everyone dies, and how to put this universal fear in perspective
• How to recognize fear and use it as a tool to set boundaries
• We cannot let fear consume us, rather we need to acknowledge it, heal it, and move through it with the intention to be love
• Ginny and Amanda's greatest fears and how they manage them by seeking the real fear under the surface fear
• Calming fear by asking yourself: What if the story I'm telling myself is not true?
• Using a frame of reference to show yourself how you walked through fear before and most likely came out the other side wiser and stronger
• How being of service naturally eliminates fear
• Fear is ALWAYS under anger, and how to get honest about what's really going on
• Becoming aware of how the news uses fear as a tactic to divide us and keep us out of our power
• And more!

Stick around till the end to hear one of the best suggestions of the show!

Books mentioned are:

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky

Anna, The Grandmother of Jesus by Claire Heartsong

The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

*Email your thoughts about this show or if you have an idea for another show to solrisingpodcast@gmail.com.

*If you like this show, please follow, share, and leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.

Sol Rising is now also on YouTube. Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/@thesolrisingpodcast

Follow Sol Rising on Instagram

Follow Amanda on Instagram

Follow Ginny on Instagram

Ginny's furniture rehab website: https://theflippinphoenix.com/

Get Amanda's book, Trust Yourself to Be All In at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4M137BJ or https://www.amandamckoyflanagan.com/

Sign up for Amanda's monthly newsletter to receive your free guide, "5 Principles to Be All In" on her website.

Music credit: "Surfer James" by Tom Deis. Source: Premiumbeats.com.