Episodes

  • Healing Narcissistic Abuse with Inner Child Work

    Healing Narcissistic Abuse with Inner Child Work
    Oct 17 2024
    Learn why healing your inner child wounds is essential to removing harmful patterns in your life and in your relationships! My guest is Paula Smith, an intuitive healer who specializes in inner child healing. Paula shares her powerful story of how she left a narcissistic, abusive relationship of 15 years. We talk about what narcissistic abuse is, what a trauma bond is, and how to gather the strength to leave a relationship like this. We also discuss how helpful mindfulness and meditation can be during this process. Paula helps people examine their triggers, identify inner child wounds, and heal these inner blockages that can prevent them from forming stable, healthy relationships. Find Paula on Instagram @mindfuladventurecoaching Show timeline: 1:54 What is narcissistic abuse? Trauma bonding? 5:55 Paula’s relationship with a narcissist and how she left 11:35 Why we feel that we have to prove our worth to narcissists 12:50 How to identify our inner child wounds by examining our triggers 18:05 Why even 5 minutes of meditation a day can help you become non-reactive & more present 25:00 Why toxic individuals seek out strong people and why people often blame themselves for abuse 33:30 Paula's sessions and how to contact her
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    36 mins
  • Reclaiming Your Power After a Toxic Relationship: With My Guest, Alicia Rodriguez

    Reclaiming Your Power After a Toxic Relationship: With My Guest, Alicia Rodriguez
    Oct 11 2024
    My guest on this episode is Alicia Rodriguez, writer and storyteller. Join us as Alicia shares her compelling story about her relationship with a shaman that turned toxic, and how tuning into her intuition enabled her to reclaim her self-worth and leave the relationship. This led her to heal her inner wounds to become able to enter into relationships and navigate life as a whole, healed human being. After a divorce, Alicia met a shaman named Napo and, being a spiritual person, moved to Ecuador to work with him and open a spiritual retreat center. They eventually developed a relationship and Alicia lost herself in it. She recounts her story about how she began to trust her body’s “alarms” and intuition to find her power again, leave Ecuador, and heal. Her advice can help women or men who are in toxic, codependent situations, so they can tap into their courage, enforce boundaries and reclaim their power. Alicia wrote a memoir about her experience which is called “The Shaman’s Wife, A Mystical Journey of Surrender and Self-Discovery.”
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    38 mins
  • Enhance Your Meditation Practice With Jeff Patterson

    Enhance Your Meditation Practice With Jeff Patterson
    Sep 18 2024
    Take your meditation practice to the next level and optimize performance in your life with some of the techniques on this episode! My guest is Jeff Patterson, martial arts and meditation teacher. He owns a martial arts academy in Portland, Oregon. Jeff is the author of “The Yielding Warrior.” Jeff talks about different types of meditation practice: ritual, meditative, and philosophical, and how to incorporate each of them. He also talks about how meditation and the practice of “yielding” can be used to optimize performance in many areas of your life, including athletics, interpersonal relationships and your career. You can get his book at theyieldingwarrior.com/book. Find out more about Jeff’s programs at theyieldingwarrior.com
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    35 mins
  • Healing Anxious Attachment With Jennifer Nurick

    Healing Anxious Attachment With Jennifer Nurick
    Sep 4 2024
    Learn about the different attachment styles in relationships, and join my guest and I for a discussion about anxious attachment in this episode. My guest is Jennifer Nurick, clinical psychotherapist, couples therapist, energy healer, and author of “Heal Your Anxious Attachment.” Some of us have a secure attachment style, while others have a type of insecure attachment style: anxious, avoidant, and/or disorganized. Attachment styles develop in childhood. People with anxious attachment need a lot of closeness in relationships, because their caregivers were only sometimes available. Avoidants learned to rely on themselves because their caregivers were not available, and need a lot of distance in relationships. Disorganized attachment, caused by a trauma background, have the need for both closeness and separation. Jennifer talks about how people with the anxious attachment style can become secure in relationships. We also talk about why anxious attachment styles are attracted to avoidants, how to make a relationship like this work, and why women are often attracted to unavailable or avoidant men. Learn more about Jennifer and her book at psychotherapycentral.health.
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  • Changing the World With Optimism – with Dr. Paul Zeitz

    Changing the World With Optimism – with Dr. Paul Zeitz
    Jul 11 2024
    How can our own personal healing lead to collective and societal healing? How does activism and finding our purpose help with this? My guest on this episode, Dr. Paul Zeitz, and I talk about these topics and more! Dr. Zeitz is a preventative medicine physician, epidemiologist, author and award-winning champion of global justice and human rights. He is the author of Revolutionary Optimism: 7 Steps for Living as a Love-Centered Activist. We talk about how healing, taming our “inner dragons” and harnessing optimism can help us rise to the task of helping to heal the collective and lead from a place of love. Paul also goes into detail about a few of the steps in his book, and we talk about how to find our purpose to spark a peaceful revolution. When we feel anxious about our lives and the future, we lose touch with our power and the connection to our purpose. When we reclaim our power and unify with others on the path of love, this is when we can start to make a difference in the world. Learn how to break free from feelings of confusion and cynicism and step into self-empowerment, resourcefulness and inspiration. Dr. Zeitz is the host of the “Revolutionary Optimism” podcast and the organizer of unifymovements. Find out more about Paul and his work at drpaulzeitz.org and find the book at revolutionaryoptimism.com.
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  • Healing Through Poetry With Susan J. Farese

    Healing Through Poetry With Susan J. Farese
    Jun 19 2024
    On this episode, I chat with an eclectic and creative guest, Susan J. Farese. Susan is a public relations professional, a registered nurse, a military veteran, author, and actor. She worked as a nurse in the military, and in general nursing, and is a poet. Susan is the author of the book “Poetic Expressions in Nursing: Sharing the Caring.” Susan reads a few poems from her book, which is dedicated to nursing and recounts some of her experiences working in the field. She talks about the haiku poetry workshops she hosts and the healing power of creativity. Writing or experiencing poetry and the literary arts can help reduce stress, reduce anxiety and depression and promote a positive mindset. She also reads a few poems from her book, which is dedicated to nursing and recounts some of her experiences working with veterans and other hospitalized patients. Find out more about Susan at sjfcommunications.com.
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    36 mins
  • Healing Depression and Anxiety with Claire Uncapher

    Healing Depression and Anxiety with Claire Uncapher
    Jun 5 2024
    In this episode, I chat with Claire Uncapher, intuitive and transformational life coach. Claire helps people uncover the root causes of their depression and anxiety by helping clients tap into the subconscious mind. Healing the beliefs that cause depression and anxiety can help us step out of the darkness. Claire shares a little bit about her 28-year journey with depression and anxiety, and how medication and therapy didn’t work for her. She talks about how she helps people access their subconscious mind, so they can examine and release unprocessed traumatic events from their past. A former mental health nurse, Claire talks about why depression and anxiety show up as symptoms of past, unhealed, traumatic experiences. And how validating people’s experiences and helping them process the trauma, can help them truly heal. We also chat about the importance of self-acceptance and why it is normal to “backslide” during healing. Find out more about Claire and how to work with her at claireuncapher.com or on Instagram @claire.uncapher
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  • Reframe Your Mindset With Dr. Maiysha Clairborne

    Reframe Your Mindset With Dr. Maiysha Clairborne
    May 22 2024
    My guest on this episode is Dr. Maiysha Clairborne, physician, thought leader, consultant, and trauma-informed communication trainer. Dr. Maiysha is also trained in coaching, hypnosis, and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). NLP incorporates spoken and unspoken language to empower people, and examine the “programs” we run in our heads. By helping people tap into their subconscious mind, Dr. Maiysha helps them reframe their mindset and transform their lives by examining what “programs” work for them, and which ones they should remove. We discuss how finding the source of our limiting beliefs can help us change our thoughts about ourselves and others, release these unhelpful beliefs, and propel us to a more positive direction in our lives. We also discuss tips for building confidence as entrepreneurs, goal-setting, and the importance of community. The founder of Mind Re-Mapping Co. and a 2022 TEDx Asheville Speaker, Dr. Maiysha is also the co-author of Conscious Anti-Racism. She also helps organizations create a culture of safety, trust, inclusiveness, belonging, and well-being. Find out more about her on mindremappingacademy.com.
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