Mastin Kipp: Healing, Higher Consciousness and Claiming Your Power
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During this episode of A Richer Life, host Rich Weingart speaks with Mastin Kipp, #1 Best-Selling Author, Creator of Functional Life Coaching, a methodology to help accelerate his clients lives and businesses by identifying and dissolving the root cause of obstacles impeding human success. Mastin Kipp has been recognized by Oprah Winfrey on her Emmy Award-winning Show Super Soul Sunday. Oprah refers to Mastin as a ‘spiritual thinker for the next generation.’ Mastin and Rich talk about emotional trauma, attachment theory, our nervous system, how we heal and the work Mastin does through Functional Life Coaching.
Episode Highlights:
- Rich Weingart introduces Mastin Kipp.
- Mastin Kipp explains emotional trauma and how it relates to his family.
- Is it possible to go through life without trauma?
- What are symptoms of emotional trauma?
- Mastin talks about brain-to-body pathways.
- How does the Vagus nerve work?
- What does Mastin mean by attachment patterns?
- Address the root causes of attachment patterns.
- How does neuroplasticity work?
- Mastin Kipp discusses strategies of self-regulation and co-regulation.
- Nobody is alone in their struggles.
- Transitional Characters: ending the pattern of trauma in your life.
- We need to help single mothers raise their children.
- Which two books should people read?
3 Key Points:
- The symptoms of trauma include: depression, anxiety, distractibility, lack of follow-through, personality disorders, divorce, not feeling seen or heard, not feeling safe in your relationships, ADHD, PTSD, OCD, etc...
- Trauma work is a lifestyle shift with ongoing maintenance.
- Attachment theory is a way to analyze and mentalize your relationship to a relationship. The four basic attachment patterns are secure attachment, anxious attachment, avoid attachment, and disorganized attachment.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “Emotions are a huge part of your life, and if you don’t know what you are feeling, and you don’t know where you are feeling it, and you don’t know where those emotions come from, they will run you.” – Mastin Kipp
- “You need to ask yourself the question: do you want to be in charge of your life, you want to direct your life, you want to guide your nervous system, or do you want to be at the whim of it?” – Mastin Kipp
- “Emotions of trauma are stored in our body and regardless of how long it has been since the traumatizing event, our body always remembers. In fact, we relive our nightmares until we realize that we are the dreamers and can wake up." – Mastin Kipp (from his book, Claim Your Power)
- “There is really no way to improve your brain health without improving your body health first, outside of maybe neurofeedback and brain surgery, and meditation. Maybe” – Mastin Kipp
- “Emotional trauma is caused by relationships and it is also healed through relationships.” – Mastin Kipp
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