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Human beings are on a constant search for synchronicity, connection, and aliveness, but those things are easier to access than we think.
Those “oh my gosh, this is so wild” moments are all around us, but we can’t experience them when our own channels are clogged up with emotional debris.
For most people, getting tapped into this channel of wonder comes on the back of a radical shift in consciousness often brought on by the notion of our mortality. Being reminded of our own impermanence has a way of waking us up. Could we make this shift happen without something terrible happening?
Being clogged up doesn’t just rob us of synchronicity, it’s like smoking an emotional cigarette that damages your health. The more aware we become of this unseen part of our health, the more we’ll feel like the universe is guiding us in a beautiful way. That, in turn, will allow us to experience magic in the mundane.
How do we kickstart change in ourselves and the world around us? Today, we’re delighted to be joined by CEO and Co-Founder of SuperMush, Alli Schaper. We talk about practices that will deepen our experience of aliveness.
Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
-Plug into synchronicity
Synchronicity surrounds us at all times, it’s something we can easily access if our channels are unclogged. How do we clear the debris so we can experience it?
-Changing without crisis
On an individual level and collectively, periods of contraction incite a lot of momentum in a beautiful way that allows us to move consciousness forward. Is there a way we can make that momentum happen without a negative trigger?
-Consume or co-create
As humans, we’re either operating as source or operating as a machine. How do we know if we’re consuming the world or creating as a part of it?
Guest Bio
Alli Schaper is the CEO & Co-Founder of SuperMush, an LA-based mental wellness lifestyle brand inspired by the 60s and 70s that creates superfood mushroom supplements, streetwear and media. Her mission is to bring the power of mushrooms to the masses alongside creating community and collaboration within the psychedelics industry. She is also the host of SuperMush's mental health podcast, @intothemultiverse. Their guests are globally-acclaimed artists, creatives, doctors, therapists, and thought leaders across wellness, mental health, consciousness, and psychedelics.
Alli is passionate about serving as an ally in bringing the future of psychedelics and microdosing to the mainstream wellness conversation. She has partnered and co-created experiences with 200+ wellness brands and is a trusted strategist and advisor across wellness and psychedelics. Her work has been featured in Forbes, National Geographic, Well+Good, Rolling Stone, Goop, Bloomberg and more. Follow @allischaper on Instagram and go to https://supermush.com/.
About Your Hosts
Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT*, is an evolutionary catalyst and freelance mentor who has been a pioneer in the field of body intelligence and conscious loving for over forty years. Katie has an international reputation as a presenter and seminar leader, bodifying the core skills of conscious living–authenticity, response-ability and appreciation–with conscious enthusiasts from many fields. She is the co-author of twelve books, including the best-selling Conscious Loving, At The Speed of Life and Conscious Loving Ever After: How to Create Thriving Relationship at Midlife and Beyond. Katie has been a successful entrepreneur for over forty years. She specializes in turning concepts such as commitment into felt experience and igniting new actions that emerge from the inside out. Her unique coaching and leadership programs have generated hundreds of body intelligence and relationship coaches in the U.S. and Europe. She co-founded the Spiritual Cinema Circle and the virtual Body Intelligence Summit. Katie has appeared on over 500 radio and television programs and traveled well over one million air miles as the ambassador for the work that she and her husband Gay Hendricks have developed.
Sophie Chiche is a seasoned coach and consultant who has traveled the world working with thousands of people and dozens of teams. With a passion for fully expressed living, Sophie coaches, and facilitates group sessions to help people and teams remove what gets in the way of them living their most meaningful lives.Not only does she work with clients to design the life they want, but she's also developed methods, mindsets shifts, and healing modalities to create it elegantly. Born in Paris, raised in Barcelona, and lived in LA for 30 years, Sophie now lives in the middle of nowhere Arizona, where she rides her Harley with her boo, Wall. And plays a lot of pickleball.
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One of the uncomfortable truths about human beings is that telling the truth and saying what's real is very difficult. In fact, some of us believe that lying about our experience preserves trust and makes our relationships stronger.
In reality, this discomfort with truth is a discomfort with feeling our feelings and expressing our real emotions.
That in turn dampens our spontaneity, disconnects us from our realness, and robs our relationships of the authenticity they need to be strong and fulfilling.
It’s impossible to truly BE WITH if we’re not expressing our unarguable truth. So many of us have spent years shoving our emotions down, and that means we’re actually living a lie with ourselves and the people around us.
Learning to feel our feelings starts with honoring what we’re experiencing.
How do we learn to tell our unarguable truth? In this episode, we talk about how to open up about your feelings and why it makes for better relationships.
As people, we all feel and that’s part of what makes us people. We’re messy and we’re structured - integrating those things is what makes us whole, not one or the other. -Sophie Chiche
Four Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
-Honor your feeling state
As humans, we’ve been taught to lean into logic because unlike our emotions, it’s neater and easier to control. Is that why so many people struggle to feel and tell the truth? How do we start speaking from discovery/experience?
-Give yourself a breath hug
When we don’t let sadness move through us and we push down our emotions, it disconnects us from ourselves and it creates a massive feelings backlog. How do we start to unravel our feelings?
-Learn to love with a spine
For those of us who are immensely empathetic, it’s easy for someone else’s emotions to overpower ours. How do we love others without abandoning ourselves?
-The deliciousness of being real
Telling the truth clears up the emotional debris and allows us to experience the full range of our aliveness. How does it make our relationships better?
About Your Hosts
Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT*, is an evolutionary catalyst and freelance mentor who has been a pioneer in the field of body intelligence and conscious loving for over forty years. Katie has an international reputation as a presenter and seminar leader, bodifying the core skills of conscious living–authenticity, response-ability and appreciation–with conscious enthusiasts from many fields. She is the co-author of twelve books, including the best-selling Conscious Loving, At The Speed of Life and Conscious Loving Ever After: How to Create Thriving Relationship at Midlife and Beyond. Katie has been a successful entrepreneur for over forty years. She specializes in turning concepts such as commitment into felt experience and igniting new actions that emerge from the inside out. Her unique coaching and leadership programs have generated hundreds of body intelligence and relationship coaches in the U.S. and Europe. She co-founded the Spiritual Cinema Circle and the virtual Body Intelligence Summit. Katie has appeared on over 500 radio and television programs and traveled well over one million air miles as the ambassador for the work that she and her husband Gay Hendricks have developed.
Sophie Chiche is a seasoned coach and consultant who has traveled the world working with thousands of people and dozens of teams. With a passion for fully expressed living, Sophie coaches, and facilitates group sessions to help people and teams remove what gets in the way of them living their most meaningful lives.Not only does she work with clients to design the life they want, but she's also developed methods, mindsets shifts, and healing modalities to create it elegantly. Born in Paris, raised in Barcelona, and lived in LA for 30 years, Sophie now lives in the middle of nowhere Arizona, where she rides her Harley with her boo, Wall. And plays a lot of pickleball.
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So much of our existence is being in relationship with others. Partners, parents, children, siblings, friends, colleagues and even competitors on the pickleball court! We’re always dealing with people, and that’s why so many patterns emerge out in the wild when we’re with other humans.
Relationships with others can be a source of stress and conflict or an opportunity for connection and shared essence.
Before we can even begin to have healthy and nurturing relationships with others, we have to deepen the relationship we have with ourselves. When we’re the source of our own value, it pours out into relationships and interactions that add to our aliveness.
What are some of the things we need to know in order to have healthy relationships? In this special episode, we share relationship insights and highlights from season 1 of Be.Play.Love.
You’ll also learn about;
-The incredible story of how Katie and Gay met
-How to have real relationships without hero-ing ourselves or others
-How to become a safe space for people through nurturing conversations
-How to clear the debris of past relationships
-What relationships where people love and be with each other look like
-How to give curious and kind attention
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There’s a reason why it’s so hard to silence or ignore our inner critic. It’s the same reason why we doubt our own experiences and body wisdom. It’s also why we often feel like in order to be lovable we need to do more instead of just being ourselves.
Childhood is our most sensitive phase. We’re like sponges soaking up everything around us with no filter. Unfortunately, some of the things the adults did (or didn’t do) become wounds that follow us into adulthood. So many of us grew up pickled in criticism, so we never felt like we were enough. The critical words we hear become the soundtrack of our lives, and even though we try, we just can’t shake them.
Here’s the thing: the core YOU is lovable as you are. Instead of being fueled by the approval and love of others, we have to shift to being our own source of love and approval. That’s how we heal from the wounds and experiences of our early years.
How do we identify the wounds that were created in our childhood? How do we become a stable source of our own self-love? How do we learn to speak to ourselves kindly?
In this special episode, we talk about how to heal our younger selves so that we change how we show up today.
You’ll also learn about;
-How to use an “mmmm” to interrupt the inner critic
-Why language is where we’re hardest on ourselves
-How to find your voice when you were raised to doubt your own experience
-The easiest way to dissolve being hard on yourself
-Why most people learned to earn love instead of experiencing it
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Our culture has taught us to put an emphasis on and trust only in the information we get from our brains. At best, we completely ignore what our bodies have to tell us, and at worst we treat our body and its sensations like the enemy. When we don’t tap into our body’s wisdom, we’re operating without the richest source of information available to us.
Our bodies are our friends - they provide a level of wisdom we can’t get from our minds. They tell us what’s giving us life and what’s taking it away. They give us insight into the areas we need to heal emotionally, and they communicate a lot faster than the most brilliant brain ever could. They give us the tools we need to navigate fear and other challenges. If you’re disconnected from your body you’re robbing yourself of this vast and lush garden.
Learning to listen to our bodies and making them a safe space for us has a wealth of benefits.
How do we start building a friendship and connection with our bodies? What are all the amazing things we can learn by feeling into our body sensations instead of skipping over them? In this special episode, we revisit an important skill we all need to develop - listening to and trusting our body wisdom.
You’ll also learn about;
-Sense foraging and the power of exploring your inner landscape
-Presencing and the importance of shifting your attention within
-How to get fuel from life energy, not adrenaline
-How to use daily practices to care for your body
-Why your sensations are quicker than your thoughts
-Simple ways to bring attention to your body’s wisdom
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Most people experience an injury or other setbacks as an enterprise of the universe working against us. But what if the setback is an important transition, a demarcation point between who we were and who we’re going to be going forward? Maybe it’s buried traumas we need to address, or physical healing that will make us stronger.
We’re being given the opportunity for a completion so we can move into a deeper level of harmony with ourselves and others.
It’s so easy to fall into the old programming of self-pity and sadness, but everything that happens to us is reality trying to tell us something important.
It’s a powerful opportunity to rewire ourselves. We can give an open invitation to the universe to rewire and reorganize us in a powerful way. Instead of asking “why is this happening to me”, we can ask “what is the deepest message this event is trying to tell me?”
How do we stop recycling old patterns and traumas and put something to rest? How do we step into new energy instead of trying to fight it?
In this episode, we’re joined by Gay Hendricks and he shares what he’s learned from a recent health setback. We also close off season 1 of this podcast by reflecting on lessons and powerful takeaways from this experience.
Give an open invitation to the universe to reorganize you in the spirit of how you need to be now and what would best serve you now. -Gay Hendricks
Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
-How to bring completion to a pattern
For a lot of people, past patterns and traumas can continue recycling themselves and we find ourselves in a loop of rehashing them. How do we fully and finally flush those things from our hearts, minds and bodies?
-An opportunity to rewire yourself
Setbacks and challenges are something we often treat as the universe conspiring against us. Could they actually be the universe's way of helping us get rid of old energy and usher in what and who we need to be now?
-Connection, discovery and a fluidity of intelligence
As we reach the completion of the first season of the podcast, what are some of the biggest lessons and special insights we’ve gained from it?
Guest Bio
Gay Hendricks has served for more than 30 years as one of the major contributors to the fields of relationship transformation and bodymind therapies. Along with his wife, Dr. Kate Hendricks, Gay is the author of many bestsellers, including Conscious Loving, At The Speed Of Life, The Big Leap, and the New York Times bestseller, Five Wishes. Dr. Hendricks received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Stanford in 1974. After a twenty-one-year career as a professor at University Colorado, he founded The Hendricks Institute, and later co-founded its charitable organization, Foundation for Conscious Living. He was also the founder of a virtual learning center for transformation and a publishing company, and was a co-founder of a conscious entertainment company. Throughout his career he has done executive coaching with more than 800 executives, including the top management at such firms as Dell Computer, Hewlett Packard, Motorola and KLM. His book, The Corporate Mystic, is used widely to train management in combining business skills and personal development tools. Gay is also a mystery novelist, with a series of five books featuring the Tibetan-Buddhist private detective, Tenzing Norbu. In recent years he has co-created a popular podcast called The Big Leap with Gay Hendricks and Mike Koenigs. He has appeared on more than 500 radio and television shows, including OPRAH, CNN, CNBC, 48 HOURS and others.
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For most people, when our brains feel sluggish or clogged up, the first thing we do is reach for the coffee. But there could be an entirely different reason why your creativity and energy are getting all tangled up.
From to-do lists that never end, to decisions we’re not making and actions we’re procrastinating on - incompletions are a drain on our energy.
In order to open the pathway towards space, choice and freedom, we have to develop the skill of completion.
Having incompletions is like having a drawer full of junk taking up space. It’s like having 100 tabs open on your browser - all it does is create a gnarly mess inside us.
What’s the first step we need to take to deal with an incompletion? Do we have to finish everything in order to complete them?
In this episode, we talk about a simple step you can take to feel more aliveness.
Our brains hold onto things and we won’t experience the free flow of energy, attention, new ideas and creativity until we complete them. -Katie Hendricks
Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
-Out of your head and onto paper
Our brains can get clogged up by incompletions and it keeps us from experiencing flow and creativity. Why is a brain dump an important first step?
-Declare it done
You don’t have to finish something to complete it. You can decide not to do something but still close the loop. What actions count as completion?
-Consult your body
If you’re not experiencing more breath, more aliveness and more energy when thinking of an action or completion, what does it tell us?
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We live in an instant gratification culture, so it’s not surprising that a lot of people want to just skip to the good part. We’re looking for that button that will magically fix everything wrong with our lives.
Well, the truth is, the journey is just as beautiful as the destination we wish to arrive at. We expect great things to just magically appear, but we don’t expect the same for athletes and musicians. Great things take work, commitment, practice and recommitment.
Then you have to do it over and over again.
That’s why we have to fall in love with the journey instead of the outcome. Getting to the thing you want requires you to both build something new while enjoying exactly where you are right now.
It’s not a matter of leapfrogging to the top of the mountain, it’s a matter of enjoying the climb. How do we befriend and accompany ourselves? How do we make sure we’re making self-loving choices even when we’re not yet where (or who) we want to be? In this episode, we talk about the only “magic button” for getting everything we want.
We have to learn to be with ourselves so deeply that no matter what happens, we can accompany ourselves through the journey. -Sophie Chiche
Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
-Don’t obsess over the outcome
The myth of life is that if we get the great relationship or the achievement we desire, it will solve all our problems. Why does this only set us up for disappointment?
-A sensory experience of self-love
We’re either making choices that affirm that we don’t matter or affirm that we love ourselves. How do these choices trickle down even to what we eat?
-Become your own ground
It’s easy to tie our joy to other people or some external milestone. How do we become so stable within ourselves that we don’t need that?
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Whether it’s an aggressive interaction at pickleball or a misunderstanding at work, our biggest lessons often come from not-so-pretty moments…if we choose to shift and learn.
When we feel attacked by other people, it might feel justified to have a knee-jerk reaction and kick back, but we can accomplish a lot more by making another choice.
It might be easier said than done, but we have to work our way back to ourselves and towards something more loving. It’s okay to have a messy moment, but you can still recover your presence and create a new commitment.
If we can expand our repertoire of responses, we can move through these moments with more grace and kindness towards ourselves and others. How did a pickleball kerfuffle turn into an interesting moment of introspection and growth?
Instead of using conflict to prove that we’re right, how do we turn it into a profound learning opportunity? In this episode, we talk about a different way to deal with a moment of conflict and how to practice responding instead of reacting.
It’s a courageous act to not have a knee jerk reaction. Emotional reaction doesn’t have to be a reflex. You can make another choice. -Sophie Chiche
Four Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
-Reverse the fight or flight
When conflict comes up, we’re likely to flee from ourselves and end up in fight or flight mode. How do we drop into our bodies and find ourselves again?
-Don’t turn it into minus 10 moment
When we experience a moment of conflict, we can either shut down connection altogether or we can recommit. How do we avoid doing more damage by shutting down the whole game?
-How to honor yourself in challenging moments
Sometimes what makes an interpersonal misunderstanding worse is the inner stories and emotional scars we all have. How do we make ourselves so we understand each other better?
-Turn it inward
Instead of using conflict to prove that we’re right, how do we turn it into a profound learning opportunity?
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If you’ve ever felt uncomfortable and squirmy about celebrating your accomplishments, you have tall poppy syndrome AKA an upper limit problem. Unfortunately, because of how we’ve been conditioned to focus on others, women are more likely to struggle with this.
You’ll often find us downplaying our greatness, making ourselves smaller, and having a lot of difficulty sitting in something we should be proud of. You might even go as far as apologizing for doing something well. We’ve been taught that if we rise up too high, we’re in danger of getting chopped down to size, so it’s safer not to draw attention to ourselves.
Where does this come from? How does it manifest and what can we do to change it? How do you stop twisting your aliveness to make everyone else comfortable? In this episode, we talk about tall poppy syndrome and why women are so prone to it.
Be careful, don’t bring too much attention to yourself - that’s the tall poppy syndrome. If you look at the stats, you’ll find that’s how most girls are raised. -Katie Hendricks
Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
-Why women are uncomfortable in their muchness
Women are raised to believe that it’s our job to care for others, speak when spoken to, and not to declare too much. Is that why pride feels so unfamiliar and uncomfortable?
-How to stop abandoning yourself
It’s really easy to talk yourself out of celebrating your greatness. What are some of the ways women do that?
-Dare to be authentic
As women, we tend to spend time making the people around us comfortable, even if it’s at our own expense. How do we learn to take up the space that’s rightfully ours without apologizing?
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Recent stats show only 20% of women say they are truly happy, so it’s clear that we’re in the middle of a huge unhappiness epidemic. For centuries, we have been conditioned to abandon ourselves, not pay attention to what we need and externalize our experiences. No wonder so many of us live in a constant state of angst.
In order to make happiness happen, we need to shift to taking action on our own behalf and connecting with ourselves. Happiness is like a house, we can build it within ourselves and create a state that sustains our souls. What are the aspects that make the house stable, nurturing and beautiful?
How do we create inner ease for ourselves? In this episode, we’re joined by #1 New York Times bestselling author, world-renowned transformational teacher and expert on happiness, success, and unconditional love, Marci Shimoff. She talks about the root of our unhappiness, how to partner with yourself in growing and sustaining your happiness.
Where there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. Where there is beauty in the person there will be harmony in the home. Where there is harmony in the home there, will be honor in the nation. Where there is honor in the nation, there will be peace in the world. -Chinese proverb
Four Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
-Self-esteem vs. self-love
We’ve been taught that self-esteem is a great thing, but it’s actually conditional. How do we shift to loving ourselves regardless of our circumstances?
-How to hold both happiness and sadness
Happiness doesn’t mean you’re not going to feel sad in sad moments. How can you possess both sadness and a backdrop of peace and wellbeing?
-How to practice happiness
What are simple but effective steps we can take to increase our happiness in the moment?
-Happiness isn’t selfish
As women, we’ve been taught to think wanting to increase our happiness is a selfish act. Does our happiness actually serve the people around us more?
Guest Bio
Marci Shimoff is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a world-renowned transformational teacher and an expert on happiness, success, and unconditional love. Her books include the international bestsellers Happy for No Reason and Love for No Reason. Marci is also the woman's face of the biggest self-help book phenomenon in history, as co-author of six books in the Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul series. With total book sales of more than 16 million copies worldwide in 33 languages, Marci is one of the bestselling female nonfiction authors of all time. Marci is also a featured teacher in the international film and book sensation, The Secret and the host of the PBS TV show called Happy for No Reason. She narrated the award-winning movie called Happy. Marci delivers keynote addresses and seminars on happiness, success, empowerment, and unconditional love to Fortune 500 companies, professional and non-profit organizations, women's associations and audiences around the world. Marci is currently leading a one-year mentoring program called Your Year of Miracles. Her opening seminar has been heard by more than 500,000 people.Marci earned her MBA from UCLA and holds an advanced certificate as a stress management consultant. She is a founding member and on the board of directors of the Transformational Leadership Council, a group of 100 top transformational leaders. Marci currently hosts a podcast called Living in the Miracle Zone and leads a global online program called Your Year of Miracles. Through her books, programs and presentations, Marci's message has touched the hearts and rekindled the spirits of millions throughout the world. She is dedicated to helping people live more empowered, happy and miraculous lives.
For more information, go to http://www.marcishimoff.com and https://happyfornoreason.com/.
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Intuition is something every single human being has access to. That wise and timely inner voice that seems to drop information from nowhere and *just knows* something we don’t. Though it may feel like information coming from another realm, it’s actually coming from within. It’s just another sense we’ve been given, and it takes many forms.
You feel an explicable pull to reach out to someone, only to find out they need you in that moment. You feel the gentlest nudge to do something and it ends up being the right thing to do. You hear an inner voice telling you not to do something, and that ends up saving you from harm.
These are all features of your intuition, and the more we listen, the better our lives get. Our surroundings are filled with so many things that speak louder than intuition, so how do we hear it? In this episode, we talk about the power of intuition and why we should add it to our senses.
Intuition is almost as much a guide for information as what we see, hear or taste. When we don’t have it or use it, we shrink our sense of the world. -Sophie Chiche
Four Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
-Intuition never yells
Because intuition doesn’t shout at us or draw massive attention to itself, it can go ignored. What lies on the other side of not listening?
-The mission to diminish your intuition
Our lives are filled with stuff that can overpower the quietness of our intuition. How do we suss out our intuitive voice amidst the noise of our surroundings?
-How to find your intuition again
From childhood, we’re taught that our intuition isn’t a legitimate source of information, that the cognitive and the data-driven are the only things worth listening to. How does this dilute our intuition?
-How to trust your inner friend
Fear muddies the waters of our intuition because it can’t coexist with inner openness. How do we distinguish between intuition, fear or a story we’re telling ourselves?
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In our society, we treat our body like machines. We push them hard and only pay attention to them when they break down instead of preventing the breakdown in the first place.
For many people, the solution is investing in all the trackers, watches and monitors to know what’s going on, but we completely abdicate our health to external influences in the process.
As a society, we’ve become so obsessed with biohacking and hitting the right numbers that we’ve ended up completely disconnected from our bodies.
In many ways, using the typical strategies of taking care of our health creates the very stress we’re trying to avoid. The more we can connect with our bodies and pay attention to what they are telling us, the easier it is to have wellbeing. This is especially true for chronic conditions that affect the microbiome.
How do we commit to taking care of our bodies without piling on more stress? In this episode, Naturopathic Medical Doctor and a Certified Functional Medicine Doctor, Dr. Mary Pardee shares why connecting with our bodies is the key to preventing illness and expanding our healthspan.
We really need to start focusing on the preventive model where you’re stopping disease from ever establishing instead of waiting until something happens. -Dr. Mary Pardee
Four Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
-Death is something we should talk about
The problem with the biohacking movement is that it’s based in a fear of death and an unrealistic lifespan. How do we shift to focusing on healthspan instead?
-Don’t delegate your health to a device
The problem with fitness watches and similar devices is that they train us to put more attention on a machine than what our bodies are telling us. How do we use them without disconnecting from ourselves?
-Health awareness, not health anxiety
Paying attention to our wellness should feel like a natural part of caring for ourselves, not another source of stress. How do we take care of ourselves without letting it cause more anxiety?
-CBT for gut-brain disorders is a thing
Our emotional state has a lot to do with how our bodies deal with chronic conditions. How can we use whole body thinking and diaphragmatic breathing to work through the anxiety that comes with chronic illnesses?
Guest Bio
Dr. Mary Pardee is a Naturopathic Medical Doctor and a Certified Functional Medicine Doctor who specializes in integrative approaches to gut health and longevity in Los Angeles, California. She is the founder of modrn med, a medical practice that provides medical and health services to patients via in-person consults as well as telemedicine. For those who can not work one-on-one with a modrn med practitioner, Dr. Mary also created a gut-health course that dives into the most common gut related complaints and natural solutions to start healing. Go to https://www.modrnmed.com/ and https://www.onecommune.com/marypardee for more information.
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Words have so much power, not just in the definition but also in the force behind them. Some of the worst things we say are to ourselves, and we often don’t even know it’s happening.
There’s a reason why we’re so good at addressing ourselves negatively. Our culture teaches us to stay in check, not to get too full of ourselves and it also teaches us to elevate others.
We’ve been taught that we can’t be “too much”, and sometimes we’re trained to feel like we’re not much at all. Our internal language is just a reflection of this.
Most people have a default critical brain, and it defines the context in which we hold ourselves. The good news is: we can change this by daring to expand into our muchness.
How do we learn to speak to ourselves more lovingly? How do we do away with the power dynamics that make us diminish ourselves? In this episode, we talk about the root of our inner critics and what we can do to change our internal language to one that’s more kind.
Speaking kindly to ourselves is one thing we can do to increase our self esteem- one simple thing- that can make a huge difference. -Sophie Chiche
Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
-The power of your internal language
Sticks and stones may break bones AND words can change our physicality. Why do words, especially the ones we say to ourselves have so much power?
-From power over to power with
So much of our society is built on power hierarchies. Often it’s the root cause of people diminishing themselves and elevating others. How do we shift to a space where we see and treat each other as valuable equals?
-A new way to relate to yourself
We can’t talk ourselves out of being critical. How can we use a “hmmmm” to release the criticism and invite curiosity and creativity?
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Whenever we make a commitment, set an intention or create an affirmation, we often need a little reminding, and words do that so effectively.
Some people write words that remind them of the commitment on Post-it Notes or in journals. That’s because words can be a powerful anchor that brings us back to what matters. They can be metaphors we can apply to all sorts of contexts or statements that move us.
Written words are something we can add to our consciousness toolbox, and printing them out on our skin - even temporarily - can deepen the commitments we’ve made to ourselves.
When we combine the life-changing power of words with the affirming effect of tattoos, the power of an intention is amplified.
How can we use words to recommit in a powerful way and deepen our relationship with ourselves?
In this episode, we’re joined by the founder of Conscious Ink, Frank Gjata. We talk about how to use temporary tattoos to support our intentions. We also discuss how to grow and change without suffering.
The more fun and alive we are, the quicker we learn and the quicker things get seated in us. -Frank Gjata
Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
-How to tattoo a context instead of static words in a commitment
There are so many ways tattoos can be employed to remind us of what’s important and what we want to focus on. Their permanent nature can be intimidating for a lot of us though. Can we use ink in an open-ended way so that the body art evolves with us?
-A case for play in any context
We’ve been taught to explore and talk about heavy topics by taking a serious and somber approach, it’s work after all. Can we actually achieve more by dealing with heavy topics with more light-heartedness?
-How to leapfrog suffering
They say in order to have a breakthrough, we first need to have a breakdown, but that might be the messaging of our Upper Limit problem. How do we uncouple change and suffering?
Guest Bio
Frank Gjata is a transformational coach, accomplished writer, speaker, filmmaker and the founder of Conscious Ink. He is dedicated to creating innovative tools that support people (including himself) to wake up, live consciously and enthusiastically love the life we live. In 2010, Frank founded Conscious Ink, an empowerment company utilizing temporary tattoos to support people on their personal journey. With his creation of this innovative company, Frank actually invented an entire new category for temporary tattoos, geared at adults in this meaningful way, as it never had existed before. Today, Conscious Ink is recognized internationally, serves tens of thousands of people, supports countless charities and causes through its “Give-Ink Back” initiative, and can be found in hundreds of retail stores around the world. With a unique ability to communicate deep, meaningful and transformational concepts in a fun, lighthearted, and sometimes even quirky way, Frank and/or his work, has been featured in publications, such as Mantra Yoga + Health Magazine, Shape Magazine, Modern Meditation, The Good News Network, Fitness Magazine, Forbes, and Yoga Journal. He’s been on numerous podcasts, and was a member of the Speaker Selection Committee for TedX Bend. Go to https://www.consciousink.com/ for more information.
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Being kind to ourselves is an ongoing conversation, and one of the ways it expresses itself is through the things we do to nourish ourselves physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Ultimately, our ability to fully experience and express our essence is hinged on our daily habits and practices of self-care and self-love.
We can think of each of these daily habits, from the state of our minds to the foods we eat and the people we are around, as deposits and withdrawals to our wellness bank. What fills that wellness bank? What depletes it?
This work requires us to become aware of and unlearn the habits that make it hard to be kind to ourselves. It also requires listening to ourselves and our bodies because every morsel of food and activity will leave clues as to whether it’s working for us [or against us!].
What are the non-negotiable practices that make up our lives? How do we learn to eat in a way that supports and truly nourishes us? How do we take an inside-out approach to our well-being? In this episode, we talk about the practices that allow us to live essence-filled lives.
Energy is like money. Some habits drain our energy, others replenish it. Choose habits that refill your energy ‘bank account’. That’s how you become in charge of your life. -Sophie Chiche
Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
-Tokens of wellbeing
Whether it’s a stuffed pig or a crocodile, how can we use little objects to remind ourselves to be well?
-Experience your body as a friend
Most people think of the body as the automobile and themselves as the driver, and they only pay attention when there’s a breakdown. How do we see the interconnectedness of all the pieces of our health and practice proactive wellness?
-Unlearn the unkind
The way we give attention to ourselves is a reflection of the way people have attended to us from a very young age. How do we change it if we might have picked up some harmful messages from our environments growing up?
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Our bodies are the vessels we occupy from the start of our lives, but so many of us feel disconnected in this home we have within ourselves. If we live in our bodies, how can they feel so foreign to us? For a whole lot of reasons, we’re taught to ignore body wisdom even though it holds the most potent information about ourselves and how we move through the world.
How do we get acquainted with our body wisdom and why is keying into this innate knowledge so important? In this episode, we’re joined by licensed clinical professional counselor, dance/movement therapist and author, Erica Hornthal.
We talk about movement and body awareness and why it’s critical to our ability to be, live, create and heal.
When the body is the source of your pain, no one wants to revisit that. But we can’t escape our bodies. You’re bringing the place where the pain happened with you all the time, you may as well dialogue with it. -Erica Hornthal
Four Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
-Our bodies never stop speaking
Human beings are always moving, even when we think we’re stuck in a freeze response, there is still so much happening within. How do we learn to decode what our bodies are telling us through even the smallest of movements?
-How to find safety in your body
One thing that cuts us off from our innate body wisdom is how we’ve been conditioned to sit still and not “act weird”. How does this impact the movements we do make and how do we learn to move on our own terms again?
-Meet in movement
People don’t have to understand your body’s messaging to support you. How can we use mirroring to recognize, validate, and normalize what people are feeling?
-Movement speaks where words fail
Before we can process a thought and speak it, our bodies have already felt and noted something. How do we use this to move through the world with more self-awareness?
Guest Bio
Erica Hornthal is a licensed clinical professional counselor, board-certified dance/movement therapist, author, and the CEO and founder of Chicago Dance Therapy. Since graduating with her MA in Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling from Columbia College Chicago, Erica has worked with thousands of patients aged 3-107. Known as “The Therapist Who Moves You,” Hornthal is changing the way people see movement with regard to mental health. Erica is the author of Body Aware and The Movement Therapy Deck. For more information, head to https://www.ericahornthal.com/ and follow @the.therapist.who.moves.you on Instagram.
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You’ve likely heard about the “whole body yes” and “whole body no”, and maybe even practiced using these to make your decision-making process a little easier. But choosing is really hard when we don’t feel that nudge from our body wisdom, and we just feel “meh” about the whole thing.
When it’s not a definite yes or no, we’re stuck in limbo, and that’s a dangerous place to be.
Learning to locate ourselves within a moment of indecision can be as simple as taking a breath. It interrupts the patterns of anxiety, fear, and adrenaline, and that creates a whole new structure for us to make a decision that is based on our actual wants.
How do we figure out what we want when it’s not a whole body yes or no? In this episode, we talk about the quickest way to cut through indecision.
Finding your “no” actually opens a space for “yes”. -Katie Hendricks
Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
-How to identify your energy source
What’s the difference between introverts, extroverts, and INTIMATE extroverts?
-The space between a whole body yes and a whole body no is limbo
When we feel ambiguous about a choice, how do we find the answer by locating ourselves?
-Learn to trust your inner signals
A lot of our confusion and doubting our own experience is the result of mixed messaging we receive as children. How do you identify your wants when all you know are the rules and regulations of what we were told to do?
The Choice Map
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The old way of showing up to work meant shoving our emotions away, not being vulnerable and putting on a facade of confidence, no matter what. Admitting you were afraid, unsure or overwhelmed? That was an absolute no-no.
The problem is, this also meant we were showing up without a lot of the intelligence we actually need to have emotionally healthy workplaces and great results.
Today, we give our emotions a seat on the team, we tap into the intelligence of our feelings, and we are vulnerable when we feel afraid or uncertain. Not only does this create a new way to work, but a new language for living. It allows us to band together as teams and face this rapidly changing world as an emotionally intelligent unit.
How do we invite emotional intelligence to work? Why must this process start with committed leaders? In this episode, co-founder of The Conscious Leadership Group, Diana Chapman shares how work is changing for the better and how we can start working alongside our feelings.
Vulnerability in leadership is now an act of courage, not an act of weakness. -Diana Chapman
Four Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
-The intelligence of fear
It’s okay to say “I don’t know”, “I’m doing the best I can” - how do we demystify being vulnerable and what impact can it have on even the bottom line?
-Pay less in “drama tax”
Teams cut off from their emotions pay a lot in “drama tax”. How does this weigh our teams down, and how can we create awareness of this dynamic and get our team out of reactivity?
-The rise of bottom-up leadership
The old way of introducing changes to a workplace was for leaders to tell people what to do. Why do leaders need to commit to befriending their feelings before anyone else?
-Teach the class
If something we don’t want happens, how can we use play to recreate the situation and laugh our way to creative solutions?
Guest Bio
Diana Chapman is the co-founder of The Conscious Leadership Group. She is an advisor to exceptional leaders who has worked with over 1000 organizational leaders and many of their teams, and is a founding partner at Conscious Leadership Group. She has created and implemented professional onboarding and ongoing programs—based on the comprehensive body of work she developed with CLG co-founder Jim Dethmer—with clients such as Asana and Esalen. In addition to facilitating CLG Forums in the Bay Area for founders, venture capitalists, and CEOs, Diana facilitates YPO Forums and Chapters worldwide. She also trains coaches in conscious leadership in the CLG training program she and Jim created. Diana co-authored the best-selling book, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success, in 2015. She has been a speaker at TEDx, Mindful Leadership Summit, Wisdom 2.0, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Haas School of Business, YPO, and Kauffman Fellows.
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Moving house, they say, is one of life’s most stressful events, but it doesn’t have to be. Sure, it stirs up a ton of emotions and learned patterns, but with the right awareness and intention, it can be a magical time and a beautiful voyage to a new world.
We can discover new parts of ourselves, deconstruct feelings as they come up, and treat the move as a trampoline to jump into the future with ease and excitement.
Moving to a new home also reveals something deeply rooted in us. The way we navigate all transitions surprisingly tells us a lot about the biggest transition we’ve ever made - being born. With curiosity, we can examine this pattern and use this time to heal ourselves.
How do we move with ease and essence? How do we honor all the difficult emotions that come up, while also celebrating this amazing transition?
In this episode, we talk about how a situation most people find chaotic and stressful offered many beautiful moments to be, play, and love!
You’re going to continue moving through life in the same way you first learned to make transitions unless you change the pattern. -Katie Hendricks
Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
-Accompany your whole self to the new place
When we commit to revealing rather than concealing, we get access to all these delicious tools that allow us to move through transitions with greater ease. How do we bring that forth?
-Turn towards each other
If we’re experiencing a transition with a significant other, how can we create a shared space of safety, nurturing, and celebration?
-The work works
Of course, moving won’t be a smooth process and wobbles are par for the course. How do we recover and recommit to tapping into the magic?
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