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Isn’t it amazing to consider that memory and impulses stored in our body lead to many decisions we make in our lives and impact our ability to be fully present?
In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun explores the therapeutic modality of Somatic Experiencing (founded by Peter Levine) with psychotherapist Caleb Tipple. Caleb discusses his own journey that led him to get trained in this particular modality, as well as the experience and knowledge he has working with clients who have experienced trauma using this modality.
Key Takeaways:
Somatic Experiencing is a natural approach to renegotiating trauma energy energy. Nervous system regulation is a balance and harmony between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. Your body is a wonderful teacher and holds incredible wisdom.Resources
https://www.thecalmingground.com/relax-and-energize-playlist
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
https://www.calebtipple.com/
Resma Menakum: https://resmaa.com
His book My Grandmother's Hands: https://resmaa.com/merch/
Peter Levine’s books:https://www.somaticexperiencing.com/se-books
https://traumahealing.org
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What if bodies hold an innate wisdom just waiting for us to tap into it? And, what if this wisdom can be particularly potent when we slow down enough to deeply access it?
In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun takes a deep dive with Edie Gudaitis, the CEO & founder of Edie Gudaitis Wellness, into her work and personal experiences with learning to slow down and deeply listen to her body. Edie is certified in yoga and breathwork, she is a best selling author, a meditation facilitator, and a wellness coach. Edie supports clients through retreats, workshops, public speaking, writing, and podcasting on “The Stress DETOX Podcast”.
Key Takeaways:
A deeper belief drives us to maintain current lifestyle patterns. Learning more about this deeper belief can help the process of shifting these patterns. It can be helpful to ask the question: “Who were you before the world told you who you should be?” Simple, accessible practices (like breathwork) can be incredibly helpful to create significant shifts in our internal narrative and lifestyle. 5 deep breaths every morning and every night can make a huge difference.Resources
https://www.thecalmingground.com/relax-and-energize-playlist
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
Connect with Edie on IG: @ediegudaitis.wellness
Connect with Edie on LI: Edie Gudaitis
Self led programs: https://ediegudaitiswellness.com/online-programs/
Mexico Retreat: https://ediegudaitiswellness.com/international-retreats/
Workplace Wellness: https://ediegudaitiswellness.com/employee-wellness/
1-on-1 Coaching - Stress and / or Grief:
https://ediegudaitiswellnessbookinglink.as.me/schedule/3fab735c/appointment/43794315/calendar/4399336?appointmentTypeIds%5B%5D=43794315
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What if by paying attention to what and how we eat, women could improve their experience of the peri and menopausal stages of life?
In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun talked with chef Christine Van Bloem. Christine shared her journey through professional and personal hardships that led her to shifting her nutrition to improve her wellbeing, and then inspired her to help others on their journeys. Christine particularly talked about her focus on lifestyle and nutrition to help alleviate symptoms for women in perimenopause and menopause.
Key Takeaways:
Nutrition that focuses on weight loss tends to not be as sustainable. Small shifts in eating (portion size rather than cutting out sugar, for example) tend more sustainable over time. The Mediterranean diet offers wonderful benefits and can be relatively easy to adopt.Resources:
https://www.thecalmingground.com/mindful-living-challenge
https://emptynestkitchen.com
Facebook: @emptynestkitchen
Instagram: @theemptynestkitchen
https://www.thecalmingground.com/relax-and-energize-playlist
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
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What does it mean to live in a mindfully embodied way?
In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun speaks with guest Linda Zurak, a trauma-informed Somatic Movement Educator, therapist, and embodiment coach. Linda’s primary vision in her work is to inspire others to live beyond their perceived limitations. Linda talks about both actionable steps that you can begin to practice now to increase your connection with your body, as well as her own journey that brought her to this work.
Key Takeaways:
An important key to living more mindfully is offering ourselves permission and acceptance to be as we are. There is a great emphasis in our society to focus externally; somatic work is about also connecting internally with the “inner landscape” and noticing what is happening within. This is as important as what is happening externally in embodiment work.Resources:
https://lindazurak.com/feel-free-in-relationships/
https://www.facebook.com/lzurak
https://lindazurak.com/
https://www.instagram.com/lindazurak?igsh=MWpyZjhzNGpkbnpodg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
https://www.thecalmingground.com/relax-and-energize-playlist
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
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Fear is a natural, protective response, often trying to keep us safe from perceived dangers. But what happens when our fears become blown out of proportion and start guiding our decisions in ways that don’t serve us?
In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun explores a reframe of many fears as shadow puppets - seemingly ominous and large, when so often they are projected from situations or things that are not actually as large or threatening as they seem.
Key Takeaways:
Naming the fear can help create mental distance between the situation and the fearful emotion. Noticing what is happening non-judgmentally can be very useful in practicing compassion and managing/navigating the fear. Body-based relaxation strategies can help!Resources:
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
https://www.thecalmingground.com/relax-and-energize-playlist
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Imagine a life where your potential is no longer confined by limiting beliefs.
In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun speaks with returning guest Dawn Glasco, a community engagement strategist, speaker, author, and consultant. Dawn shares her journey - the empowering path of shedding the restrictions of limiting beliefs and conditioning, trusting the process, and the key role spirituality has played in her journey.
Key Takeaways:
We all receive messages about our limitations due to our upbringing, gender, socio-economic status, roles, appearance, etc. These limiting beliefs can be very restrictive and cause us to believe that we cannot follow our dreams. Trusting and listening to our intuition can serve as a guide along our journey in life. Practicing gratitude towards yourself for all the little steps you’ve taken in your journey can help honor your presence, your process, and foster trust and appreciation in yourself.Resources:
https://www.dawnglasco.com/
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
Interested in hearing the first interview with Dawn? Check out episode 27.
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Have you ever noticed how easy it is to fall off the bandwagon of prioritizing your self-care when life gets hectic?
In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun reveals her own journey to discovering grounding and centering self-care practices that worked for her and eventually led to her creation of The Calming Ground Membership.
Key Takeaways:
Simple activities that can be incorporated into daily life can be very effective at increasing inner peace and calm. Receiving reminders and support to practice grounding strategies can be useful - especially when life is busy and it’s particularly easy to cast them aside or forget.Resources:
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
https://www.thecalmingground.com/
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Have you ever had a person you deeply care about go through a terrible loss and you didn’t quite know what to say or how to help?
In our culture here in the United States, grief is so misunderstood. People often are very well-intended, but say things to their friends, co-workers, and family members in an effort to help that ultimately leads to greater isolation for the person in grief.
In this week’s episode, Elizabeth Mintun shares the “do’s” and “don’ts” on how to best support someone experiencing intense grief. She offers details and actionable steps that will hopefully support anyone wanting to be there for someone who is currently grieving.
Key Takeaways:
Advice-giving and attempting to “cheer someone up” is typically not helpful (and even potentially damaging) to someone in the grieving process. Everyone’s experience of grief is unique; one person’s grief cannot be compared to another’s. Offering to step in either to simply compassionately listen or to offer acts of service to lighten the load for the griever tends to be the most helpful. Telling a griever to “call me if you need me” isn’t usually helpful because that puts the work on the griever to reach out at a time when they’re exhausted and in survival mode.Resources:
https://refugeingrief.com/
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
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Is one of your greatest fears not getting things “right” and/or seeming like a fool?
Retired psychotherapist Margy Davis-Mintun suggests that being a fool in life at times is not only inevitable, it’s actually a privilege because it signifies that we have opportunities to learn and grow.
In this week’s episode, Elizabeth Mintun offers a short and powerful interview with Margy revealing her wisdom and insight into the beauty of making mistakes and the power of allowing ourselves the permission and space to be vulnerably human.
Key Takeaways:
Making mistakes is part of life; we can offer ourselves grace through the reframe of seeing foolishness and mistakes as part of our lifelong growing process rather than shunning ourselves. “Shoulds” were handed to us by others at some point in our lives; we inherit them. As we grow, we can decide whether or not we ascribe to those values and rules in our life.Resources:
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
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Have you ever felt trapped in a cycle of self-criticism, struggling to balance your aspirations with kindness towards yourself?
What if you could hold yourself accountable and practice self-compassion at the same time?
In this week’s episode, Elizabeth Mintun shares her ARROW framework to help others practice compassionate accountability. She offers details, actionable steps, and a real-world example of how to practice implementing this framework to support new habits, lifestyle shifts, and a happier life!
Key Takeaways:
Recognizing pitfalls and potential barriers with compassion can be key in implementing new habits and ways of being. It is possible to hold ourselves accountable successfully and build a more supportive, positive and compassionate relationship with ourselves at the same time.Resources:
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
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Have you ever felt like words were just too limiting to express what you were experiencing? What if art-based mindfulness could offer a non-judgemental and safe alternative to both release and express emotion?
For this episode, Elizabeth interviewed Jodi Rose Gonzales, ATR, NCC, ERYT, YACEP. Jodi is a nature-based artist, art therapist, author and yoga teacher who empowers creative people using art-based mindfulness, her unique fusion of art therapy, positive psychology, yoga philosophy, and trauma-informed neuroscience. Celebrated as Global Impact Artist of the Year by the International Association of Top Professionals, and Top Artist by Marquis Who's Who in America, Jodi is the author of two Amazon #1 new releases, an art therapy journal prompt card deck, and a suite of online courses.
Key Takeaways:
Art-based mindfulness offers an approach that is non-judgemental and intentional and offers a way to bear witness to our own process and experience.Art-based mindfulness can be a wonderful avenue for a regular mindfulness practice.Different materials can be intentionally and mindfully chosen in order to best respond to our needs in the moment.Resources:
JodiRoseStudio.com.
Link to 30 Free and Easy Expressive Art Therapy Prompts: https://www.jodirosestudio.com/art-prompts
FB: https://www.facebook.com/jodirose.studio
IG: https://www.instagram.com/jodirose.studio/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodirosestudio/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jodirose.studio/videos
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
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Have you ever wondered how you can both feel confident and good about what you wear and make a positive step toward creating a more sustainable earth-friendly lifestyle?
In this episode, following this month’s theme of living with compassionate accountability, Elizabeth Mintun interviews Nicole Riggs Broesch, founder and designer of fern+daisy. Nicole weaves her passion for ethical fashion and community upliftment into every garment. With an eight year career in apparel design as a small town girl from rural Central Appalachia America, she has merged her love for her community, the planet, fashion, and marginalized women. fern+daisy, born in 2020, creates sustainably made pieces that empower both wearers and makers, reviving ethical practices with timeless style. As an artist, mentor, and nature enthusiast, Nicole embodies the spirit of fern+daisy—where style meets purpose.
This information-packed and inspiring interview is definitely worth a listen!
Resources:
Website: https://www.fernanddaisy.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fernanddaisy/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fernanddaisy
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
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Has anyone ever told you: "Look at all you have, you should be grateful!" when you were experiencing an uncomfortable feeling like sadness, anger, grief, or maybe trying to uphold a boundary for yourself?
Some of us may have even expressed this kind of thing to other people too, or even to ourselves!
In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun explores the “dark side” of gratitude. In particular, Elizabeth addresses how gratitude can be used as a way to invalidate or minimize people’s struggles. This “gratitude platitude” is the opposite of the medicine of gratitude, which can uplift, connect us with our abundance, and offer ease.
Key Takeaways:
Using terms like “you should be grateful!” as a way to shame someone for struggling can be damaging. Reminding people of all that’s around them to be thankful for can be helpful, but often first it is important (and typically more effective) to meet them in the struggle they’re in rather than telling them to be different than they are. Gratitude can be a powerful medicine when used to connect with abundance rather than invalidate feelings.Resources:
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
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Did you know that when you are kind to someone else, your own brain’s pleasure and reward center activates, as though you were the recipient of the good deed – not just the one offering kindness? This is referred to as the “helper’s high”.
In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun explores the many physical and mental health benefits of practicing random acts of kindness. The research is astounding!
Key Takeaways:
Engaging in and witnessing acts of kindness stimulates the production of the feel-good hormones oxytocin and serotonin, which helps lift our mood and reduces stress. People who are regularly kind have 23% less cortisol (a stress hormone) in their bodies and live longer than people who are not regularly practicing acts of kindness. People who perform random acts of kindness report feeling stronger and more energetic, calmer and less depressed, and over all a greater sense of self-worth.Resources:
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/the-science-of-kindness
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Have you ever had an experience that completely transformed your life and offered you tremendous freedom?
In this week’s podcast episode, Elizabeth Mintun interviews Kelli Trinoskey, an award-winning writer and content creator, lives in Columbus, Ohio, where she practices storytelling as the associate director of marketing and communications at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Kelli’s documentary, Our Dyslexic Children, was the 2022 Toronto Documentary Film Festival winner for Best Long Form Short Film. In this conversation, Kelli talks about her incredible journey of moving from feeling stuck in a trauma-infused narrative, to feeling freedom and fluidity in her life - and how she has used the artform of collage as a way to integrate her experience.
Key Takeaways:
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a technique in psychotherapy that can be quite powerful in reprocessing traumatic memory.Collage can be a creative tool that nourishes expression on the conscious and unconscious levels and can be a beautiful and accessible part of a healing journey.The process of collage can offer a space for self-care within which we can attend to whatever is coming up for us in the moment, in playful, creative, and expressive ways.Resources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ7xa6meD2Q&t=6s
https://kellitrinoskey.wixsite.com/website
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/313183/the-body-keeps-the-score-by-bessel-van-der-kolk-md/
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
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What if you could transform your life – and even change your brain structure, by practicing something as free and simple as gratitude?
In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun explores the many physical and mental health benefits of having a regular gratitude practice. She also explains some of the important ingredients in a gratitude practice to increase those juicy medicinal benefits of vitality, wellbeing, and overall happiness.
Key Takeaways:
Engaging in a regular gratitude practice can have a lasting impact on physical and emotional health and wellbeing by impacting important areas in the brain and hormonal responses. The impacts of a regular gratitude practice are not immediate, but they are long-lasting and worth the effort! Saying a simple “thank you”, while it matters, is not a gratitude practice that will reap lasting rewards - to truly engage in a gratitude practice it is best to dedicate 3-5 minutes and truly notice and/or express more depth and detail of what it is you are grateful for.Resources:
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
https://positivepsychology.com/neuroscience-of-gratitude/
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Have you ever heard of medical astrology? I hadn’t until this interview with functional medicine practitioner, astrologer, UN Peace Ambassador, and best-selling author Mariett Ramm.
On this week’s podcast episode, Mariett talks about the importance of unmasking; that health issues often have an emotional/spiritual underpinning which, if uncovered, can lead to a deeper healing process.
Key Takeaways:
There is great value in facing underlying emotional and spiritual issues because they can also deplete our health and lead to chronic illness. It is important to be surrounded by a loving, supportive community for emotional, physical, and spiritual health.Resources:
http://mariettspeaks.com/
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Mariett-Ramm/author/B08JQLBJH7?ref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
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Pause for a moment and consider: what are the little or big aspects of your life that nourish your hopefulness?
In this week’s short episode, Elizabeth Mintun offers a reminder of the simple ways that we can return to hope and, ultimately, experience greater ease and inner peace.
Key Takeaways:
Identifying the “crumb path” of elements of life that nourish our hope can help us return to it like a lifeline in times of need. Sometimes it is the simplest elements in life that can be hope- and life-affirming.Resources:
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
https://www.wordwoman.com/
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Every single one of us has had an experience of either losing someone or something we love or knowing someone else who has, right?
Even though this is a painful truth about the experience of living, oftentimes we do not have the tools or the support we need to navigate through grief in healing ways.
On this week’s podcast episode, Lisa Heacock, an international best-selling author, inspirational speaker, and international certified life coach, grief coach, and grief educator, offers her perspective on grief. She speaks both from her professional background as well as from her personal story, after losing twelve loved ones through death in twenty-two-months. Lisa offers wisdom and bite-size tools and steps that can easily be digested and implemented when and if needed.
Key Takeaways:
One of the best ways you can support someone in grief is to say something like, “I just want you to know that I'm here, and I love you, and I'm sending all my loving energy your way. No pressure to respond at all.”Often people experiencing grief will wonder if they sound crazy or broken. If you are grieving, you are not broken - you are simply grieving.It is important to reach for as many healthy resources as you can to support you and/or your loved ones in your/their grieving process.Resources:
https://holisticlifecoaching.org.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/holistic_coach_lisa/
https://www.facebook.com/holisticlifecoachingwithlisamarie
https://linktr.ee/CoachLisaMarie
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
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Do you or someone you know seem to be successful in a variety of ways, and yet chronically stressed?
In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun reflects on the qualities she’s noticed to be present in people with high-functioning anxiety, as well as how they often appear to outsiders. It’s amazing how people who can appear so organized, calm and collected, and high performing can internally feel so overwhelmed, stressed, anxious, and exhausted.
Key Takeaways:
High functioning anxiety and stress is multi-facted: it’s a gift to be able to manage so much, and it’s overwhelming and can lead to depletion and stress. It can be difficult for people who are high functioning with stress and anxiety to shift their way of being because often self-worth is closely knit with their ability to achieve. It’s important to offer ourselves and others compassion who struggle with this, and slowly incorporate small steps of slowing down and self-care in order to support a shift.Resources:
https://www.thecalmingground.com/free-guided-meditation
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