From corporate to the creative life, Jessica Silverman stepped away from a six-figure career in venture capital in San Francisco to start her own venture, all inspired initially from a podcast! Learn how in this powerful show full of golden nuggets to help you learn how you can come ALIVE in your creative prowess, while creating financial + energetic flow. Each episode will help you uncover the secrets to debunking the "starving artist" myth!
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133: ALIVE Anniversary Special: 4 Years of Redefining Resilience Together
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The ALIVE podcast turns 4 today!!! 4 years ago today, on September 18, 2020, I released the very first episode of the podcast with my episode "Come ALIVE with Me" . Even more significant is the fact that I didn't plan it this way, but the release of this show on the 18th of the month is symbolic of the energy of Chai, or "life" in Hebrew. What star…
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132: Break Free from People Pleasing: Transform Your Tendencies with These Easy Steps
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Are you a people pleaser, or just hate to be the one to disappoint others so you say YES, when you really mean NO? If yes, then this episode is for you to help you BREAK FREE from people pleasing tendencies with 6 easy steps I share with you that will literally change your life, and save you from constantly feeling exhausted, depleted, and resentfu…
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131: New Moon Magic - How to Harness Virgo Vibes and Get Organized!
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Are you all over the place, and long to get more organized? Do you have a harsh inner critic that sparks when you try something new? If so, come soak in the Virgo vibes with this episode all about the New Moon in Virgo + how to harness the "Master Planner" of the Zodiac in your life! As Virgo is known as the Organizer of the Zodiac, this is divine …
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If you experience the same challenges, and find traumatic events continue to control you + your emotional state, this episode will bring you much clarity! Inspired by the athletes of the 2024 Paris Olympics, and one who truly inspired me in the realm of mental health recovery, Noah Lyles, I share the golden lessons learned over my month break from …
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129: How to Give Yourself Grace + Space in the Overwhelm (Replay)
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How do you give yourself grace + space in the overwhelm? In today's episode, I share with you the secrets of what has been serving me in these challenging and dark times. If you're a trauma survivor who has already been through SO much, adding even the simplest of things to your list can feel surmounting - I get that! Let me lighten your load in th…
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128: Showing Up For Yourself + Setting Energetic Boundaries, Part 2 (Replay)
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Are you easily picking up on other people’s energy, almost porous? Do you you find it challenging to be around certain people or places, and want to know how to protect and love yourself while in those spaces? I felt compelled to release this talk from my Insight Timer live as so many of us highly sensitives + empaths struggle with setting and main…
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127: Showing Up For Yourself + Setting Energetic Boundaries, Part 1 (Replay)
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Are you easily picking up on other people’s energy, almost porous? Do you you find it challenging to be around certain people or places, and want to know how to protect and love yourself while in those spaces? I felt compelled to release this talk from my Insight Timer live as so many of us highly sensitives + empaths struggle with setting and main…
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126: Leo Lessons + How to Harness the Energy of Rising Above the Chaos
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The collective chaos feels like a lot, especially for empaths and highly sensitives souls who carry so much. The collective chaos becomes collective trauma if you're not protective of your energy and where you place your attention. I've personally been feeling this, and wanted to continue the conversation from Ep. 125: We Are All Exhausted Right No…
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125: We Are All Exhausted Right Now + How to Recover from Burnout (for Empaths)
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The collective energy in the cosmos right now is INTENSE, and empaths and highly sensitives especially feel this. I wasn't physically able to record last week + release an episode because of this, and dedicated this episode to sharing my experience giving light and reality to our collective exhaustion, and how to recover with compassion, grace, and…
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124: Don't Be So Hard On Yourself with Reiki Master, Kelly Greene (Part 2)
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Are you hard on yourself? The harsh inner critic is very common for women caregivers, especially empaths and highly sensitives in the spiritual and recovery communities. What started as resonance in response to a post on Instagram has led to a beautiful connection + kindred spirit with my guest in this episode, Kelly Greene. She came into my life a…
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123: Don't Be So Hard On Yourself with Reiki Master, Kelly Greene (Part 1)
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Are you hard on yourself? The harsh inner critic is very common for women caregivers, especially empaths and highly sensitives in the spiritual and recovery communities. What started as resonance in response to a post on Instagram has led to a beautiful connection + kindred spirit with my guest in this episode, Kelly Greene. She came into my life a…
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122: Let Go and Live - How to Release Emotional Weight
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While feelings can be fleeting, the resonance remains and lives inside our bodies, our hearts, and our minds. Trauma is the body’s response to a lived experience that was not processed, causing emotional distress + living inside your own mind! In this episode, I speak to how to let go and live and find emotional freedom through 6 tangible tips that…
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121: Grounding Rituals to Release Stagnation + Gems in Gemini Season
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If you're feeling unsettled, get grounded with me in this Gemini season where I unravel how to find yourself back on solid ground. With so much uncertainty in the world, and the instability of what tomorrow can bring, it can be easy to spiral, especially when we are in the season of an Air sign in Gemini. If you have been through trauma, or just a …
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120: Normalizing the Human Experience + Gathering Gold from the Pioneer of Kids Yoga with JodiGolda Komitor
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Being human can be challenging, especially in light of the global shift over the last 4 years.How can we embrace these changes with grace, and not pressure ourselves to live up to cultural standards that are honestly, unattainable and rooted in the presumption that you, as you are, is "not enough"? In this episode, my guest, JodiGolda Komitor, unra…
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119: How to Support Someone Who Struggles, Suicide, and the Wolf Spirit Way
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If you’re struggling, or want to know how to support someone and be an ally for mental health 🫶 this message and episode is for you! 💕💕 In this last of a special series to honor Mental Health Awareness month, I share both a somatic + spiritual approach to trauma recovery and suicide prevention. As something I've been a devout advocate for many year…
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118: Overcoming All or Nothing Thinking + the Shiva-Shakti Dance
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In continuation of honoring this month's series for Mental Health Awareness Month, this epsiode unlocks another aspect of our own internal struggle with all or nothing thinking and how this plays a role in triggering trauma or emotional disregulation. I touch on the Tantric framework of polarity + bring to light the the Cosmic Couple, Shiva and Sha…
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117: What Gaslighting Looks Like + How to Take Your Power Back
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If you’ve ever been gaslit, or have dealt with this challenging dynamic in your life, this episode is your elixir to a deeply intimate and enlightening conversation on what gaslighting looks like, and how to take your POWER back! To me gaslighting at its core is a denial of your lived experience, and NO one has a right to have that say over YOU. Wi…
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116: How to Tame your Overthinking Mind + the Connection to Past Trauma
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I'M BACK!!! Just in time for the divine month of May, a window in time that celebrates Mental Health Awareness month, Jewish Heritage Month, and my birthday on May 12th! Each episode this month will feature the real lived experience of what it feels like to be ALIVE and recover and heal from past trauma, along with my personal wisdom to help you na…
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Just popping on to let you know I am taking a mini break for the month of April to focus on some fab new creations for the podcast that will come ALIVE in May, my birthday month! 🌈 In the meantime, listen to Ep. 95: How to Find Emotional Freedom + Dance with the Divine (and any other episodes that pop out at you!) I will be highlighting my FAVE epi…
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115: When No Choice Seems like a Good Choice + How to Make Writing Your Book Easier with Lauren Grodstein
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Are you the woman that is expected to hold it together, where all of your energy is consumed in the everyday? The type of woman who has wild dreams, but your obligations are overpowering, and those beautiful dreams stay on the backburner of your heart's greatest longings? If so, this episode is for you! In one of my MOST cherished conversations on …
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114: STOP the Shame Cycle + SPEAK Up for the Feminine Voice (Re-air: March 2023)
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This is such a good episode and divine reminder from March 2023, I wanted to bring it back. The message is still potent. ____________________________________ For centuries, women and the feminine embodiment have been silenced, and our voices not heard. Society runs on masculine energy, seeking logic and what can be seen as the only proof of existen…
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113: How to Deepen + Trust Your Connection to Spirit with Destiny Hwang
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If you've felt like there's more to life, but unsure of how to connect to Spirit or trust the signs, this episode will light the way! Destiny Hwang shares her Shamanic wisdom and secrets on how to deepen and trust your connection to Spirit, and your guides. Trusting your inner knowing can be challenging, especially in the world we live in with over…
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112: How to Practice Play + Experience Joy in the Creative Process with Sheryl Benjy - Part 2
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Your inner child longs to come alive in your creative spirit. Yet we live in a world that overemphasizes the power of form and technique over living in the play, or creating just for the sake of the person you become along the way. In this episode, Sheryl Benjy shares how her art is more than just the tangible piece she creates, but more of a movin…
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111: How to Practice Play + Experience Joy in the Creative Process with Sheryl Benjy - Part I
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Your inner child longs to come alive in your creative spirit. Yet we live in a world that overemphasizes the power of form and technique over living in the play, or creating just for the sake of the person you become along the way. In this episode, Sheryl Benjy shares how her art is more than just the tangible piece she creates, but more of a movin…
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110: Love is a Practice - A Reading from the Radiance Sutras
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The Radiance Sutras is a beautiful book that is a tantra, or manual of practices, that is a conversation between lovers, Shiva and Shakti. Within you is both Shiva, the Divine Masculine and Shakti, the Divine Feminine. This episode honors that in this essay entitled, "Love is a Practice" which I see as an embodiment of self love and cultivating com…
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109: Healing an Invisible Illness + How to Demystify any Dietary Restriction with Andrew Hollar
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Have you been experiencing unusual symptoms that Western medicine has been unable to help you with? I know this feeling wholeheartedly, as I've been sharing my experiences in decoding this mystery throughout the podcast since my initial episode back in August 2022. So many conditions are undiagnosed in Western medicine, often being put into a label…
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108: You are the Healer You Seek + Learning How to Trust Yourself with Jamie Gavagan
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Do you feel safe to express yourself within your physical body? In today's episode, I had the divine pleasure to speak with Jamie Gavagan about her five- year journey of healing chronic pain to ways of expressing herself as she never could. We speak about the grief and rage that is felt when you can no longer do what you easily could before the con…
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107: How to Love All Parts of You, Healing through Feeling, and Lyrical Therapy with Karen Conner
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There's not always a reason for what you go through, but everything you go through makes you who you are, it's all how you respond to life. These are the beautiful and profound words of Karen Conner, my dear friend, and guest in this episode. In this deeply intimate conversation, Karen shares her journey through healing trauma and her autoimmune co…
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106: How to Self Regulate as a Highly Sensitive Soul with Alissa Boyer
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Triggers can feel emotionally overwhelming, especially when you're a highly sensitive person (HSP). In this beautiful conversation, I had the honor to have Alissa Boyer back on the podcast to share more of what it means to live life as an HSP (highly sensitive person), and how to know if you're even sensitive yourself? I didn't know this until I wa…
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105: How to Start Slow + Somatically and Find Your Feminine Flow in 2024
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Does your "inner mean girl" creep in when you even think about slowing down? This has been the spirit of my life for SO many years, and it's often right after the New Year that I start to feel the PRESSURE TO SHOW UP, when all I want to do is ease back in after the holidays. I'm questioning the status quo in this solo episode, inviting in the energ…
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104: [New Moon in Sagittarius] Setting Spirit's Intentions + Inviting in Alchemy for 2024
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Happy New Moon in Sagittarius! (My rising sign) I felt called to close this year with a special episode calling in the Divine Masters (from Kyle Gray's The Divine Masters Oracle deck) to guide us into 2024. In fact, I won't reveal much here to invite you to listen, and see what sparks for you. Let's invite in alchemy, and turn the lead of 2023 into…
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103: How to Have a Better Year in 2024 + Manifest with the Moon with Yasmin Boland
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Have you always been spiritually curious, or seeking deeper connection with the Divine? In this episode, I had the devout honor to interview one of the most spiritually influential people on the planet, the goddess + creator of Moonology, Yasmin Boland. Yasmin shares with us how she fell into the Moon's secrets from a career as a former journalist.…
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102: How to Give Yourself Grace + Space in the Overwhelm
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How do you give yourself grace + space in the overwhelm? In today's episode, I share with you the secrets of what has been serving me in these challenging and dark times. If you're a trauma survivor who has already been through SO much, adding even the simplest of things to your list can feel surmounting - I get that! Let me lighten your load in th…
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101: How to Find the Light in the Darkness + Activating G-d Consciousness
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In a time when so many of us are struggling, I wanted to offer you solace from the storm with a minisode on how to find the light in the darkness. In this episode, I share 3 powerful concepts: 1. How to begin again, a Japanese concept called "Mushin" or beginner's mind 2. Connecting to a community where you feel safe to be yourself, whether that's …
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100: Redefining Resilience - How Relationships Thrive in the Face of Trauma with Ryan Silverman
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Happy 100 Episodes!! Thank you so much for your support in listening + sharing in my collective mission which was birthed with Ep 1: Come ALIVE with Me in September of 2020. Join me in celebrating this milestone with a very special episode with my first guest on the podcast, my husband, Ryan Silverman. We last spoke on Ep 6: Faith, Finances, and St…
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99: Raising the Frequency in the Face of Chaos + Remembering Your Mission with JJ DiGeronimo
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In a time of collective chaos, how do we stay grounded, let alone work on raising our frequency that we emit to the world? It seems like such a tall order, but today's guest, JJ DiGeronimo has a beautifully enlightening perspective on frequency alignment, and how to learn the lessons of our collective and individual "tower" moments. The tower card …
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98: How the Universe Conspires in Our Favor + Returning to our Cosmic Collage with Lori Menna
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In a time when the world feels incredibly broken, amidst my own internal traumas coming alive day to day, I am finding it incredibly healing to hold space for fellow healers, and in doing so, to REMIND YOU OF WHO YOU ARE. In this beautiful conversation, I had the honor to connect with the creative force behind the Cosmic Collage brand, @cosmiccolla…
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97: The Power of Expression in Trying Times with Jill Pagano
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In a time when I am finding it so hard to put how I feel in words, I was blessed to have my first guest interview since the October 7th attacks on Israel with a woman I met in a trauma healing community, Jill Pagano. Jill is the host of The Power of Expression pod and this conversation felt so fitting for the times we are living through as to how i…
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96: Your Mental Health Matters and the Collective Trauma of Denying Your Reality
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In light of the recent tragic events in Israel, I am taking a moment to honor World Mental Health Day and share with you my listeners what is on my heart. Mental health affects all of us. 1 in 4 suffer everyday. I vow to say this stat is probably an understatement. I myself am doing the best I can to show up + spread truth while honoring my own men…
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95: How to Find Emotional Freedom + Dance with the Divine
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Continuing with the conversation of how to deal with uncertainty from the last episode, today I speak on how to find emotional freedom and liberate yourself from the need to know. From a spiritual perspective, unknowing is where you free yourself from the constant connection to logic and the physical world of societal expectations and surrender to …
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94: How to Deal with Uncertainty + Seeing the Signs
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Uncertainty is very unsettling. It is human nature to want to know what lies ahead, and how to best protect yourself in situations that arise as anxiety. If you have experienced trauma in your life, there's an added layer to uncertainty in the form of hypervigilance, which is when you're constantly on high alert for potential threats around you, ev…
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93: You Are Safe to Take Up Space with DeAhn Robbins
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Are you tired of staying small just to fit in, and feel like you belong? If so, this episode will evoke inside of you the feeling that "you are safe to take up space" and MAKE SOME NOISE! Today's guest, DeAhn Robbins, is a mindset + empowerment coach who after years of living the labels, has learned what it means to BEGIN LIVING BOLD, to live out l…
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92: There is Magic in the Mess + How to Transform What Triggers You
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Living in today's world can be incredibly overwhelming, on top of what you already carry in your own personal life + past traumas. There are some days I feel so consumed by it all, especially being a highly sensitive soul and empath, that I have to completely disconnect to hear my own voice and Soul's needs and desires. But what if I told you that …
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91: From Breakdown to Breakthrough with Seaside Shaman, Athena Monet
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There are so many things you don't know until you know. As a sensitive child, no one taught you how to navigate life and deal with the emotions you are feeling, the same way we learn the ABC's. As we grow older, this translates into carrying these emotions within the physical body, but again - often not knowing what's happening inside of you, other…
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89: Train Your Brain - Understanding Time + Your Cognitive Functions with ST Rappaport
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Do you feel like you never have enough time, or become easily overwhelmed and stressed? If your answer is yes, this episode is solid GOLD for you to understand WHY and how your brain is wired! If you have experienced trauma, this may affect your cognition even more, which is empowering as we learn how to rewire these trauma patterns so you can find…
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88: Breaking the Cycle with Emily Palacios + Stephanie LoVerde
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Are you a creature of habit, or do you feel challenged to break the cycles + stories of what has been conditioned in your life? As a trauma-informed wellness expert and fellow #cyclebreaker, the 3 words "breaking the cycle" run deep as a practice to healing inner child, ancestral and intergenerational trauma wounds. In a fun, light hearted conversa…
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87: Healing Intergenerational Trauma with Manpreet Johal Bernie
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So much of what you carry is not your own. Intergenerational trauma can carry up to 7 generations through your lineage. While it may be a part of your family's history, it doesn't have to be your burden to bear in this lifetime. In fact, it may be your calling to break the cycle for your lifetime + future generations to come, your children, grandch…
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86: Self Regulation, Serotonin + New Moon in Cancer Blessings
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Regulating your mental state, especially in times of feeling triggered, can be quite challenging. How do you bring yourself back, without continuing to feel reliant on others? Or even worse, feeling like you're asking for help and not getting what you need. In the trauma informed wellness world, we speak about this concept of "self regulation", whi…
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85: Don't Abandon Yourself + How to Heal the Abandonment Wound
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Are you tired of feeling abandoned by others? Often times, you don't realize it starts with yourself and small ways you have neglected your needs. In a society that is constantly telling you what you need, how can you blame yourself? Collectively, we are conditioned to thinking that our worth is tied to stories of societal expectations, or what oth…
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84: Stop Overcomplicating + Embrace the Easy (From a Trauma-Informed Perspective)
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Are you an overthinker, or easily overwhelmed? If so, this episode is full of golden nuggets as to how you can stop overcomplicating + embrace the mantra of “let it be easy” from a trauma-informed perspective. I will share 6 ways to learn to embrace the easy, and simplify your life with the spirit of ONENess and Somatic presencing. When you can’t g…
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