Ep. 86 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon In Leo :: Leading with HEART & Broadcasting LOVE
Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!
What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?
These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…
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#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon In Leo :: Leading with HEAR & Broadcasting LOVE
Venessa and Megan dive into the themes of this New Moon in LEO: Leading with HEART, Broadcasting LOVE & physically supporting the heart + cardiovascular system. We share tips on how to support your heart and heart-brain vibes with herbs and foods. We cover the concept of shen, share our own personal practices and ahas around heartwork, & offer some new moon reflection prompts to support you in this lunar cycle.
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Ep. 85 AUGUST :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Tune Out to Tune In & The Waves Within
About Monthly Soul Nourishment Readings: These readings are usually filled with metaphor & symbols, so may require a bit of unraveling & might mean something different for each person, so pay attention to what comes up for you as you listen on. Hope they provide value and moments of reflection in your journey.
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Solo Episode: August 2019 :: Tune Out to Tune In + The Waves Within
About Monthly Soul Nourishment Readings: These readings are usually filled with metaphor & symbols, so may require a bit of unraveling & might mean something different for each person, so pay attention to what comes up for you as you listen on. Hope they provide value and moments of reflection in your journey.
The message for August is Tune out to tune in, and the waves within.
Get ready to open up to receive divine downloads this month - we are reminded that we don’t need anything other than our body and heart’s intention (and SPACE) to receive these messages. Clean the mind slate, don’t be afraid to enter the void, and “follow the bouncy red ball.” It’s time to claim our rightful place as both drummer and beat follower, setting your own rhythm so that We as a collective can begin to work together in sync and harmony. Can you feel that drum beat?
Resources + Links Mentioned
https://www.heartmath.com/science/
The concept of biorhythms
Biorhythm app on itunes
On google play: Biorhythm Calculator
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Ep. 84 The Magical Mundane, Plant Allies As Guides, & Personal Sovereignty with The Botanical Bruja Lola Venado
“Don’t overlook the simple act of introducing yourself and asking for blessings... the spirits and ancestors are always ready to hear us.. We just have to speak.” ~ Lola Venado
We’re speaking with Lola Venado, The Botanical Bruja™, a folk herbalist, energy worker, kitchen witch, writer, speaker, and community gatherer. Lola’s work and creation as The Botanical Bruja™ and her business Xantico House inspire us to live more fully in the present moment, remember our own medicine, and to take respite in the little things.. Remember that these connections to the mundane are just as magical and special as the grander things in life.
In this conversation, Lola shares what led her to the creation of The Botanical Bruja™ and Xantico House, and why reclaiming this term bruja (“witch”) is an important part of honoring her lineage and medicine path.
She shares how a health crisis 5 years ago snapped her back into her plant path & magic roots, how Lola navigated a large Mexican family dynamic as a highly sensitive person, and the remarkable journey she is taking, stepping deep into trust and relationship with a plant ally and new land... and it all started from a dream she had one night.
Lola offers recommendations for people making big moves and feeling ungrounded in doing so, and how to establish connection with the land and cultivate a relationship with Magic in the mundane. Lola naturally demonstrates the power of plática - or creating space for discussion and connection around our daily lives so that we can share our stories... because when we can share and listen to stories, not only can healing occur, but it provides inspiration to pursue one’s own medicine path and sacred journey in life.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How time in the kitchen was a time of love connection and peace growing up, and how it was a sanctuary within her tumultuous relationship between Lola and her mother
How Lola’s mom’s DIY preference for potions, products, and remedios over store-bought items had an impact on Lola’s creation of The Botanical Bruja and Xantico House
Why Lola hates making the distinction between food and medicine
How plants have always been in Lola’s life, why bruja is still not an acceptable term in her abuela’s eyes, and how she is honoring and reclaiming her mother’s legacy and lineage of this path and bloodline
How chemical sensitivities and a health crisis led Lola to her plant medicine path, magical roots, and business
How Lola navigated a large Mexican family dynamic as a highly sensitive person
How the puzzle pieces begin to fall into place as you start to walk your path
Lola’s take on the Energy of The Fool in the tarot - starting at zero, naive but open to possibility
How this energy brought Lola to her most recent big move - which started with a dream and a connection to a plant
Something that is really important to Lola in her work is preaching personal sovereignty, reconnecting us back to our innate wisdom
Lola’s view on relationships, and how she sees beauty within all her relationships, even the shitty ones
Takes us on a journey of her dream with ocotillo in the closet and the messages she followed
Lola’s surprising discoveries about ocotillo and the connections to her main ancestral lands/ origin of her own maternal lineage in the desserts of Mexico as well as southern Arizona
How the yaqui/yoeme tribe is the ancestral line of her ancestral maternal lineage located in Tucson where she now lives
How following her curiosity and connection to plants has been answering the call
Lola offers recommendations for people making big moves and feeling ungrounded
Establishing connection with the land, creating ritual around introducing oneself to land, asking for blessings, getting intimate with the land and soil
How to cultivate a relationship with Magic in the mundane based on reverence and connection
The power of a plática and how you can expect a plática along with your remedy when working with Lola
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Connect With Lola Venado
Lola’s Podcast: http://www.branchandbonemedicine.show/
Resources + Links Mentioned
The Flower in the Skull by Kathleen Alcalá
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Ep. 83 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Lunar Eclipse Full Moon in Capricorn :: It’s In Your Bones
Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!
What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?
These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…
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#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Lunar Eclipse Full Moon in Capricorn :: It’s In Your Bones
In this episode, Venessa and Megan dive into this lunar eclipse Full Moon in Capricorn: What are you made of? The truths carried in our bones, the skeletons in our closets, and breaking thru old systems by following your inner knowing & authority.
This full moon and eclipse season energy ushers us deep into our roots, and invites us to look at the stories we hold... What do you need in order for your body and spirit to release the old, and rebuild & restructure to support your inner authority? On a cellular level, what does your body need right now? We talk about the importance of systems and structures, how to look at our cravings as sign posts, and the beautiful medicine of pleasure activism.
We want to hear from you: Name 5 things that bring you pleasure! Let us know in the comments below!
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Ep. 82 Q & A :: Tending Your Fire, Acne Triggers, Gut Repair & Gut Instinct
Tune into our first full-on Q&A solo episode, answering questions from listeners like you. Today, I’m talking about the FIRE I’m feeling in the air and in the bellies of so many incredible folx, my highly satisfying first-timer experience at the exuberant Oregon Country Fair, and who is inspiring me lately.
I answer questions about acne triggers and what to consider, lots on the gut... including correlations between gut health and intuitive gut instinct, and how to repair the gut after extensive antibiotic use. I also share how to find trustworthy sources of information.
If you enjoyed this Q+A episode and would like to see more, or have questions of your own, please let me know! Give us a shout out here or over on Instagram @wildlyrooted.
http://www.wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
My experience Oregon Country Fair!
The power of chanting
Share and spread your fire - to express yourself in the most honest authentic brave way you can
Shout out to those beautiful artists, activists, souls that are doing their thing, unapologetically, inspired me
Questions about my acne journey, specifically triggers for breaking me out (certain foods)
The bathtub of toxicity example
Is there any correlation between gut health and intuitive gut instinct?
How to repair gut after extensive antibiotic use
How to find trustworthy sources for information
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Resources + Links Mentioned
Ayana Young, For the Wild http://forthewild.world/
Jaya Lakshmi and Ananda https://jayalakshmiandananda.com/home
Climbing PoeTree - Alixa Garcia & Naima Penniman
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Ep. 81 Indigenous Right Relationship Building & Unspoken Truths Living Through Us with Pulxaneeks
Having just observed 4th of July, aka Independence Day in the US, this interview with Pulxaneeks (Pul-ha-neeks), founder of Heart to Heart Indigenous Relations Consultation is both timely and meaningful. Pulxaneeks’ work supporting us in remembering these kinds of connections, that we belong to Mother Earth, and what it means to be in right relationship with Mother Earth as well as with Indigenous people, is critical and important to highlight as it relates to all of these seemingly unrelated areas such as health.
In this interview, we explore her work in Indigenous Allyship Training, whole-hearted understanding of what it means to be in right relationship with Indigenous peoples & what right use of privilege is & how to cultivate it. We talk about the power of asking heart-based questions and how many of us are waking up to the displaced and unprocessed grief that many of us carry from our own lineages.
Pulxaneeks reminds us that we’ve each been colonized at some point in our lineage, and the long term impact of this on our life experience and relationships. She shares how this affects being in Right Relationship with Indigenous People and what’s at the heart of cultural appropriation. This conversation extends far beyond this hour-long dialogue, starting with a deep intake process that allowed me to reflect on these issues within my own life experience, and continues to provoke questions and awareness long after. I hope it inspires helpful reflections for you!
Pulxaneeks (Pul-ha-neeks) is from the Eagle Clan of the Haysla First Nation located on the northwest coast of the place now called Canada.
Her path of being a group facilitator, program designer & event producer was sparked 19 years ago & has been applied in a wide diversity of ways throughout her life.
Her background includes cultural based youth outreach with First Nations youth who are considered ‘high risk’, Elder Care & Child Care.
Her passion for contributing to the future generations has made her a community oriented entrepreneur & visionary of next paradigm change. This has resulted in her most recent development called “Heart to Heart - Indigenous Relations Consultation”, which is based entirely on the unique understanding that has come from being exposed to both Indigenous & Settler decent cultures.
Pulxaneeks is a living, loving result of the coastal Indigenous village that raised her & all that survived in the lineage she was born to. She honours the Elders, Mentors and huge family whose love she is a living result of and the Ancestors whose strength and resilience is flowing through her veins.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How Pulxaneeks’ work is rooted in her roots
The enlightening intake process Pulxaneeks asks all those with whom she’ll work with, and the power of asking questions
How grief showed up for me as I engaged Pulxaneeks’ questions related to my own ancestors
How many of us are waking up to the displaced and unprocessed grief that many of us carry from our own lineages
What does it mean to be “in right relationship” with indigenous peoples and the land
Starting out with ancestry and intergenerational trauma and how not all cultures have a place to bring the grief and trauma, allowing it to impact everything
Considering how we have ALL been colonized in some way within our own lineages, and looking at the trauma that our own ancestors have carried over generations
Pulxaneeks’ belief that things will come up when it’s time and ready, and the importance of having silence
Her advice to those that are not connected to their lineage or where/whom they come from
How the trauma that you are experiencing in your current life is related to your lineage’s trauma
How to recognize privelege, what is right use of privlege and alleviating the shame of having it
Whole-hearted understanding of what it means to be in right relationship with Indigenous peoples
What’s at the heart of cultural appropriation
Call out culture and the need for community
The importance of being willing to be called out and do the work
Why having a basic understanding of trauma and conscious communication is critical when engaging in ancestry work and Indigenous relationship building
Pulxaneeks’ personal story and the helpful practices and therapies that helped her with her own trauma
Her advice to devote a time at least twice a month to become “timeless together” and to hear one another deeply and fully
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Ep. 80 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Total Solar Eclipse New Moon in Cancer :: Nurturing Body Talk
Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!
What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?
These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…
BUT we need YOUR help! Send us your questions and comments by clicking here, we can't wait to hang out with you <3
This Episode's Theme...
#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Total Solar Eclipse New Moon in Cancer :: Total Solar Eclipse New Moon in Cancer :: Nurturing Body Talk
In this episode, Venessa and Megan cover the healing themes of this total solar eclipse New Moon in Cancer: emotional wellness, focusing on solar plexus and heart chakras, and the power of internal dialogues and cultivating nurturing body talk practices.
This new moon and eclipse season energy provides an opportune time to plant the seeds of our body talk intentions and work with our bodies rather than against them. What are you saying to your body on the daily? What are the steps you need to take for a new and empowering conversation to take place? We also share updates on our personal lives during Cancer season including big moves, a week offgrid, and Megan’s llama drama.
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Ep. 79 JULY :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Somatic Remembrance, Course Corrections, Water As The Great Conductor
About Monthly Soul Nourishment Readings: These readings are usually filled with metaphor & symbols, so may require a bit of unraveling & might mean something different for each person, so pay attention to what comes up for you as you listen on. Hope they provide value and moments of reflection in your journey.
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Solo Episode: July 2019 :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Somatic Remembrance, Course Corrections, The Great Conductor
About Monthly Soul Nourishment Readings: These readings are usually filled with metaphor & symbols, so may require a bit of unraveling & might mean something different for each person, so pay attention to what comes up for you as you listen on. Hope they provide value and moments of reflection in your journey.
The message for July is Somatic Remembrance, Course Corrections, Water as the Great Conductor. The Goddess Diana guides us through the enchanted forest and the vasculature of Gaia... her beating heart, the flow of life force. We are cellular components of the greater soma that is Gaia, and it is our duty to remember our purpose and enact our gifts. We are invited into an intention experiment, provided ways of “course correcting” our life experiences and direction, and shown the importance of water as the great conductor.
A tarot card reading at the end pulls it all together, reminding us that there are no shortcuts in life and manifestation, only pivots and smart moves.
Resources + Links Mentioned
WE WANNA HEAR FROM YOU…
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Ep. 78 Moving Thru Personal & Collective Trauma Spells and Reclaiming Pleasure & Empowerment with Rachael Maddox
“How do we unravel from the individual gains of ‘winner vs loser’ and come into deep community togetherness that has nothing to do with money,[...] or achievement, and has everything to do with being beloved to one another, to ourselves, and the Earth?” ~ Rachael Maddox
Disclaimer: In this episode, we discuss themes of sexual trauma & abusive events, so if you feel this might be triggering, I invite you to be gentle with yourself and choose to nourish yourself. If that means skipping or pausing this episode, please support yourself in this way.
In this poignant chat with trauma resolution educator, coach and guide Rachael Maddox, we explore the realms of sexual trauma and trauma resolution, & how to begin reclaiming pleasure, power, and wholeness. Rachael shares her incredible personal story of sexual trauma, the spiralic path with DIY processes, facing melanoma, and ultimately uncovering healing and her soul work.
Rachael walks us through her ABCs of trauma informed transformation and the 5 key things to start coming into harmony with the body’s instincts. We discuss the necessary changes we need to create together at a societal level and how we can begin to shift our cultural/collective trauma spells.
Rachael Maddox has helped hundreds of humans move from sexual, complex or developmental trauma into pleasure, power and trust-filled relationships. Author of Secret Bad Girl: A Sexual Trauma Memoir and Resolution Guide, and the upcoming book ReBloom: A Soulful System for Post-Traumatic Growth in Sex, Love and Society – Rachael uses stories and metaphor to weave together healing methods that are accessible, safe, fun and effective.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
What is sexual trauma and trauma resolution, & reclaiming pleasure, power, and wholeness...
Trauma as an embodied violation hangover
How our reptilian brain and nervous system plays a role in trauma
How stuck energy in our bodies can perpetuate throughout our lives in a non-cognitive way
Connection of sexual trauma anchored in the heart space
The 7 core wounds we experience and the blueprints of wellness and vitality: Neglect, exploitation, shame and repression, control, violence, isolation and alienation, colonization
The original blueprints, with self worth being the first
Worthiness is our true nature
Rachael’s incredible personal story of sexual trauma and healing journey, the spiralic path, DIY processes, and facing melanoma
The profound therapeutic strategies that have helped Rachael break through
First steps people can take to begin unpacking trauma within their own bodies and life experiences
Rachael walks us through her ABCs of trauma informed transformation and the 5 key things to start coming into harmony with the body’s instincts: Attunement, Body First, Consent & Cooperation, Trust
Sex after trauma - Rachael’s words of advice on honoring your desires and cultivating a sense of safety
Rachael offers free meditations and resources for developing deep self love
Permission to go SLOW
Rachael’s favorite resources and books
Necessary changes we need to create together at a societal level and how we can begin to shift our cultural/collective trauma spells
Rachael’s Re-Bloom process and upcoming book
“I am one of many doing my part... How can I feel that with more gravity?”
The isolation of modern life, the cultural soma (body), and so many of us suffering because of disconnection form one another
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Connect With Rachael Maddox
Website | Instagram | Facebook
Rachael’s free resources: http://rachaelmaddox.com/free/
Resources + Links Mentioned
Peter Levine + Somatic Experiencing
adrienne marie brown’s PleaSure Activism
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Ep. 77 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon in Sagittarius :: Hips Don’t Lie. Root Chakra, Sciatica, & Taking Risks
Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!
What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?
These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…
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This Episode's Theme...
#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon in Sagittarius :: Hips Don’t Lie. Root Chakra, Sciatica, & Taking Risks
In this episode, Venessa and Megan talk about this full moon in Sagittarius and the junk in our trunk, aka all that we carry in our hips! We’re covering root causes behind hip issues and sciatica, the link to humiliation and boundaries crossed by family, and ways we can begin to shake out those energies from our hips.
This full moon energy provides an excellent time to explore risks and make changes. What’s reached its full cycle in your life, related to the root and ready for some release? We get into practical ways to open up and let go, as well as ways to beat the heat and squelch that inflammation.
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Show Notes
Risk taking - what are the risks that are worth taking this season?
Powerful horse power - challenges with movement in one’s life,
Venessa’s history of hip and sciatica issues and what she believes is at the root
Boundaries being crossed as a kid
Were you taught what boundaries are?
The link between childhood boundary issues and hip/sciatica problems
Fun ways to stay hydrated in the fiery summer and reduce inflammation and pain that are also kid-friendly
Ideas for opening and nourishing the hips
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Ep. 76 Farming While Black: Restoring Sacred and Just Relationship with the Land & One Another with Leah Penniman
Photo credit: Jamel Mosely
“The soil stewards of generations past recognized that healthy soil is not only imperative for our food security—it is also foundational for our cultural and emotional well-being.” ~ Leah Penniman
In this episode, we are speaking with Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm. You’ll experience her pioneering energy that supports our collective re-memberance of our sacred connection to land and the ways we can begin to unravel and heal the injustices of the imposed systems as a community.
Leah’s work with Soul Fire Farm is to increase farmland stewardship by people of color, promote equity in food access, and train the next generation of activist farmers.
Her book Farming While Black, is the first comprehensive manual for African-heritage people ready to reclaim their rightful place of dignified agency in the food system, with a concise “how-to” for all aspects of small-scale farming. But it’s not just Is a compendium of “how-tos” for small scale farming... it’s rich with historical context and weaving in the pragmatic with spirituality, soil ecology, planning, tools, plant medicine, healing trauma, and movement building. Leah breaks it all down for us in this episode!
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How Leah found a comrade in nature and cultivated a relationship that led to farming as a teenager
As a young person worked on many farms and realized that the sustainable agriculture world was super “white” and how she didn’t feel represented
How Leah found a mentor in Karen Washington Rise & Root Farm
How the story we’ve been told about farming is inaccurate and incomplete
Leah breaks down the external barriers and the history of exile, discrimination, violence and denigration of black people and forced disconnection from land
The importance of the return of black and brown people to the land and the need to fix land injustice
What are reparations and how can people give back and redistribute access and resources
How 98% of land is owned by white people and there is a 16:1 wealth gap between white folks and black folks at birth, the history of dispossession
Soul Fire Farm’s Action guide based on voices of black and indigenous people of color
How Leah weaves in spirituality with science in her book and in real life
How farming has allowed Leah to unfold into her whole self at Soul Fire, and Leah’s mission of supporting others to be able to experience the same
How Leah has navigated parenthood and raising her 2 children at Soul Fire Farm
Leah’s favorite resources in addition to her book (which also contains tons of resources!)
Learn the ways to support Leah Penniman’s work and Soul Fire Farm
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Farming While Black Instagram @farmingwhileblack
WEBSITE FOR BOOK: www.farmingwhileblack.org
Support Soul Fire Farm + Action Steps for Food Sovereignty
Resources + Links Mentioned
Dr. Monica White’s Freedom Farmers
Dr Ashanté M. Reese Black Food Geographies
Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass
Aurora Levins Morales Medicine Stories
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Ep. 75 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon in Gemini :: What wants to come up and out in you? Lungs as Gatekeepers
Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!
What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?
These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…
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This Episode's Theme...
#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon in Gemini :: What wants to come up and out in you? Lungs as Gatekeepers
Artwork: resin cast of lungs bronchi tree
In this episode, Venessa and Megan talk about this new moon in Gemini and one of the organ systems that this sign rules: respiratory system.
We discuss lung ailments and holistic ways to support the respiratory system, as well as the elemental and energetic aspects of the lungs and Gemini. We cover the power of breath and the Ayurvedic perspective of breath and lung health, and of course, practical tools and healing foods for our important gate keepers. Plus Megan shares a favorite home remedies for coughs.
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Show Notes
Minding our thoughts and writing them down, the violence within with self abusive mind chatter
Lungs as barrier and gate keeper
With every breath we are communicating and communing with out external environment
Venessa’s personal experience with holotropic breathwork
The power of breath and the Ayurvedic perspective of breath and lung health
How breathwork and any somatic experience can be triggering if not held in a proper space
How emotions and energetic blocks in the lungs can manifest as disease
Venessa and Megan break down the complex connections between lung health, stress, and immunity
The elemental and energetic aspects of the lungs and Gemini, and how this can manifest as a tissue state
One of Megan’s home remedies for cough - onion cough syrup:
2 large white or yellow onion
Honey
lemon
Lung tincture
Chop onions and place in double boiler. Cover to top of onion with honey and squeeze lemon juice. Cook on low heat for 3-7 hours. Strain when done and add in the lung tincture. Take 2-3 tsps per day in acute phase of coughing.
What wants to come up and out in you?
The struggle with setting boundaries
Where how am I limiting what wants to come in and through me, and what wants to come out?
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Ep. 74 JUNE :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Cosmic Rhythm, Breaking Sound Barriers, & Tuning Into Miracles
About Monthly Soul Nourishment Readings: These readings are usually filled with metaphor & symbols, so may require a bit of unraveling & might mean something different for each person, so pay attention to what comes up for you as you listen on. Hope they provide value and moments of reflection in your journey.
Resonant art of C# by Louviere and Vanessa - Resonantia Images
Statement from the artists: “Each photograph was made by creating a frequency on a home made spectrograph representing one of the 12 notes in music. The images were archivally printed on kozo paper. Hand made strechers were built to hold the dibond which was primed and covered in gold leaf. The image was laid down over the gold and flooded with resin. Once dry, the piece is wet sanded to remove all reflections then a second pass of resin and polish was hand applied to specific parts of the piece.”
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Solo Episode: June 2019 :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Cosmic Rhythm, Breaking Sound Barriers, and Tuning Into Miracles
About Monthly Soul Nourishment Readings: These readings are usually filled with metaphor & symbols, so may require a bit of unraveling & might mean something different for each person, so pay attention to what comes up for you as you listen on. Hope they provide value and moments of reflection in your journey.
The message for June is all about rhythm and attunement. It’s time to get outside, shower in the healing cosmic light, and tune your instrument. Ready to break through limitations and your “sound barrier”? This month we’re guided by a collective of voices, with the loving sternness of big mama earth and those that can see the power within us that we, ourselves, may be blind to...
A word about the artwork of this post - I found this after some research of C# since that was the specific note that was mentioned in our reading. Remarkably, the sound of C# (thought to be the closest to the primordial sound of Ohm) renders a vibrational pattern that looks like a tree encircled by a spiralic ouroborus snake!
Resources + Links Mentioned
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Ep. 73 Connecting to Our Inner Wildness Thru Breathwork & Curiosity with Eryn Johnson
Today we’re speaking with Eryn Johnson from the Living Open podcast for mystics and seekers! Eryn Johnson is a Philly-based witch, intuitive, and creative. The foundation of her work is energetic and based on the belief that there's nothing wrong with you-- we are simply programmed from a young age to forget the truth of who we are.
She uses Reiki, tarot, breathwork, movement, and storytelling to bring her back to herself and to bring you back to you- back to your power, back to your magic, back to your intuition.
We chat about curiosity as intuition, how judgement has been a big part of Eryn’s journey with healing and how breathwork has totally cracked her open. We talk about nature as a mirror and reflection of the emotions we carry, and I share a very vulnerable moment of grief and how expression and release of these energies is so critical for our vitality.
Eryn shares how she builds her trust muscle for greater connection to her intuition and the practices and tools that have been game-changing in her life experience.
Eryn is also offering a free gift for listeners (which is different from the one she mentions in the interview!), click below for detailed show notes and to access her 8-minute breathwork meditation for daily spiritual practice.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How yoga taught Eyrn about something greater than herself and reignited her spiritual connection, which led her to starting the podcast
How Eryn sees curiosity as intuition, and how following her curiosity brought her to various teachers and spiritual practices that led her down a soul path
How judgement has been a big part of Eryn’s journey and healing, chiron in virgo
How community support and breathwork have been able to shift her life experience
How breathwork has cracked her open, allowing for the intelligence of the emotional and physical body to let go and heal, and experience
How we can use breathwork to energize us in the morning (in lieu of our morning coffee ;)
Eryn shares how expression of anger has shifted for her and allowed a connection to her inner wild self
Nature as a mirror and reflection of the emotions we carry, from the storms and tsunamis to the calm breezes and waves
Venessa shares an extremely vulnerable moment of grief and how expression and release is so critical
How Eryn works with TRUST and builds her trust muscle in her life
Eryn’s work with the throat chakra and the fear of being seen
The power of being witnessed during an emotional release, a fuck up, or any other highly vulnerable situations
The spiralic journey of healing, and how it can feel exhausting and yet is truly empowering
How Eryn uses tarot and reiki to help her see the unseen and to open portals into the places that need to be healed within us and bring our awareness to it
Eryn shares how she is working with the tarot’s 10 of Cups as an invitation to be present with life
Our take on the World card, the energy and messages that come through
How Eryn is feeding her wild through ecstatic dance and community connection
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Connect With Eryn Johnson
GIFT: Access Eryn’s 8-minute breathwork meditation for daily spiritual practice here: https://www.living-open.com/subscribe
Eryn’s Podcast: https://www.living-open.com/podcast
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Ep. 72 Evolutionary Herbalism :: Tending to the Inner Cosmos with Holistic Plant Medicine with Sajah Popham
In this episode, Sajah talks about his own plant path and how he went from being on track to becoming a doctor to then studying various herbal and healing traditions, uncovering universal truths that led to his goal to honor both the physical and spiritual.
Sajah walks us through what is evolutionary herbalism is and the 5 pillars of evolutionary herbalism. We talk about the importance of “learning by heart” and how to practice transformational medicine, working with plants for transformational healing and assist us in reclaiming our true natures and support us in working through traumas and breaking through conditionings.
Sajah shares how he uses medical astrology to translate patterns within a person’s life and the difference between a “hope herbalist” and a holistic herbalist, and how an evolutionary herbalist.
We cover how to tend to the inner cosmos and Sajah walks us through a fantastic case study to ground these principles into practice, including planetary patterns, plant medicine, and energetics for healing body, mind and spirit.
Plus... a book giveaway!
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We’re hosting a giveaway on Instagram through the Feed Your Wild podcast - your chance to win a free copy of Evolutionary Herbalism to 1 lucky winner.
Here's how to enter to win a copy of Sajah's new book Evolutionary Herbalism:⠀
*Follow both @wildlyrooted and The School of Evolutionary Herbalism at: @evolutionary_herbalism on Instagram
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Sajah Popham, founder of Organic Unity and The School of Evolutionary Herbalism, is a student of the universal truths found within both ancient and modern herbal traditions from around the world. He is also the author of Evolutionary Herbalism: Science, Spirituality, and Medicine from the Heart of Nature (North Atlantic Books, 2019). The focus of his work is on integrating ancient teachings for a new paradigm of plant medicine, one that is truly holistic in its honoring of the spirit, energetics, and body of both people and plants. His unique synthesis bridges herbalism not only east and west, but north and south, above and below, into a universal philosophy that encompasses indigenous wisdom, Ayurveda, western Alchemy and Spagyrics, Astrology, clinical herbalism, and modern pharmacology.
Sajah’s vitalist approach utilizes plants not only for physiological healing and rejuvenation, but for the evolution of consciousness, for a truly holistic practice of plant medicine. His teachings embody a heartfelt respect, honor and reverence for the vast intelligence of plants in a way that empowers us to look deeper into the nature of our medicines and ourselves. He lives in southern Oregon with his wife where he teaches at his school, makes spagyric medicines, and practices his art.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How Sajah knew he wanted to work in medicine as a kid and how the plant path pulled him from the track of becoming a surgeon
Sajah’s realization that healing is so much more than fixing what’s broken
How Sajah considers himself more of a spiritual seeker before an herbalist
How Sajah began studying various herbal and healing traditions, uncovering universal truths that led to his goal to honor both the physical and spiritual
How the current education system structures our way of thinking and the importance of “learning by heart” - gnosis cardiaca, and Sajah’s interest in the “perennial truth”
The importance of the natural world and the light of nature being the core pillar of evolutionary herbalism
The 5 pillars of evolutionary herbalism
3 primary energetic patterns at the basis of herbal medical traditions and cosmic science: the 3 principles, 5 elements, and 7 planets
Universal herbalism is understanding how these patterns are reflected in life and health, and traditions of herbalism throughout the world and ages
Transformational medicine which addresses the mind, heart, body, and soul
“The body is the most material aspect of the soul, and the soul is the most volatile aspect of the body - they’re not separate.”
Pillar #5: Know thyself -
The spiralic journey and the nonlinear energetic patterns of nature
Sajah’s perspective on dogma and how we’re usually all saying the same thing in different words
How we can work with plants for transformational healing and assist us in reclaiming our true natures and support us in working through traumas and breaking through conditionings
How Sajah uses medical astrology to translate patterns within a person’s life
The significance of archetypal forces and patterns within medicine, plants, and people as a bridge
How to tend to the inner cosmos and Sajah walks us through a fantastic case study to ground these principles into practice, including planetary patterns, plant medicine, and energetics for healing body, mind and spirit
How working with plant in an alchemical way helped to heal the expression of the pattern and archetype of the person
How working with a single plant that is a “match” energetically to the patterns of the person can be profoundly powerful in the healing process
The difference between a “hope herbalist” and a holistic herbalist, and how an evolutionary herbalist is looking at the spiritual and archetypal expression too
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Sajah’s book Evolutionary Herbalism
Resources + Links Mentioned
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Ep. 71 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon in Scorpio :: Riding Emotional Waves, Pain + Pleasure, & Body Sovereignty
In this episode, Venessa and Megan talk about this full moon in watery Scorpio. We’ve been feelin all the FEELZ this week leading up to this full moon, how about you? We talk about the timing of this full moon and planetary connections to the elements of control and power... and how this impacts the organs and 1st & 2nd chakras that Scorpio rules: reproductive organs, our genes, and colon.
Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!
What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?
These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self, and if you want to come along for the ride, we are LOVING the Many Moons book by Sarah Gottesdiener - you can grab yours here!
BUT we need YOUR help! Send us your questions and comments by clicking here, we can't wait to hang out with you <3
This Episode's Theme...
#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon in Scorpio :: Riding Emotional Waves, Pain + Pleasure, & Body Sovereignty
In this episode, Venessa and Megan talk about this full moon in watery Scorpio. We’ve been feelin all the FEELZ this week leading up to this full moon, how about you? We talk about the timing of this full moon and planetary connections to the elements of control and power... and how this impacts the organs and 1st & 2nd chakras that Scorpio rules: reproductive organs, our genes, and colon.
We discuss the nervous system and importance of feeling safe and grounded to support ourselves, our fave books right now on the topics of PLEASURE and SEX, and of course, practical tools and healing foods to carry us through shaky grounds and turbulent waters.
Plus a suggested ancient practice for this full moon in Scorpio to support our connection to Mama Earth, wild wisdom, and our sovereignty.
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Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
Supporting ourselves through this emotional full moon, and the how to honor the need for letting go/forgiveness/moving with a release in a way that feels safe
Looking at power and control - how does control play out in your life esp with others or in relation to external world (esp with Pluto - plant of power, and Saturn - planet of control are both in retrograde)
Scorpio rules Physical/Organs: Genitals, rectum, anus, urethra, genital glands, ovaries, prostate, pubic bone, genes.
Common Challenges: infertility, menstruation problems, constipation
The importance of the nervous system in supporting our 1st and 2nd chakras, impacting our digestive and reproductive systems
The different ways we root down and connect for more grounding with food and practices
Emotional aspects of this full moon: watery emotional waves, dreams, subconscious, etc.
Adrienne Marie Brown’s Pleasure Activism
Living in the “Amazon Prime time” and the illusion of instant gratification or healing
Not waiting for the perfect time/place/body to experience pleasure or whatever it is you desire for yourself
Practice/Tools/Foods/Tips:
Playing with earth! Get dirty, play with mud and clay
Laughter as medicine and a gateway to pleasure
Tea - 1 part raspberry leaf, 1 part nettle, 1/2 part peppermint
Eating seasonally grounding and grounding place - from earth
Light sourcing or energy release outside with Mother Earth and she takes what we’re releasing - a practice called outtesette esp during full moon
We can begin by sitting out on the land and gazing in nature: Outisette (literally outsitting) - practicing ancient way of connecting with the elements, universe and spirits at night (Deshu’s book)
Women were banned from outisette for evoking natural spirits “for the sake of gaining knowledge”!
Resources + Links Mentioned
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Dr. Emily Nagoski*
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Ep. 70 FEED YOUR WILD TURNS 1! First Anniversary Special :: Curanderismo, Prophecy & Mindfulness with Brenda Salgado
Happy Mother’s Day & Happy 1st Birthday to Feed Your Wild! Today is such a special day and episode, thank you for being on this journey with me :)
Today we’re talking with Brenda Salgado, spiritual leader, healer, author and guide.
In this episode, Brenda gives us an introduction to curanderismo and indigenous prophecy about our current times and the shift in consciousness we are experiencing. Learn how mindfulness practice can help you cultivate more inner power, peace, dignity and grace as well as navigate challenges and difficulties with more clarity and courage in this current time of shift.
Happy Mother’s Day & Happy 1st Birthday to Feed Your Wild! Today is such a special day and episode, thank you for being on this journey with me :)
Today we’re talking with Brenda Salgado, spiritual leader, healer, author and guide.
In this episode, Brenda gives us an introduction to curanderismo and indigenous prophecy about our current times and the shift in consciousness we are experiencing. Learn how mindfulness practice can help you cultivate more inner power, peace, dignity and grace as well as navigate challenges and difficulties with more clarity and courage in this current time of shift.
You’ll hear how Brenda began connecting to her ancestors in childhood, and how the visions she had as a young girl began to be realized as she stepped deeper into her work as a healer.
Brenda talks about how she navigated leaving a good stable job she loved to make healing work her primary offering, plus important advice for those who consider themselves sensitive and the dangers of being “too open.”
Check out Brenda’s free gifts below: An excerpt from her book Real World Mindfulness for Beginners: Navigate Daily Life One Practice at a Time as well as an audiofile of her reading one of the meditation practices.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How Brenda received the message that she was to be a healer when she grew up
How different spiritual and religious traditions fit differently throughout her life
How Brenda began connecting to her ancestors, as if she were picking up a phone energetically and calling them
Her grandmother told her she comes from a long line of medicine women in Nicaragua, and to begin a conversation with her mother about it
Got on the medicine path and began trainings with various indigenous teachers, and how clear direction from the spirit of her grandmother led her down a specific road
How the visions she had as a young girl began to be realized as she stepped deeper into her work as a healer
How Brenda navigated leaving a good stable job she loved to make healing work her primary offering
Brenda shares the ways that we can begin to connect to a similar level of guidance and awareness with spirit, including spending time in nature, slowing down, mindfulness practices, setting intention before sleep and more
Important advice for those who consider themselves sensitive and the dangers of being “too open” and practices to do at bedtime
How the power of setting boundaries and exercising them with grace when communicating with spirit world has changed her life
Brenda shares the teachings of the Indigenous prophecy of the eagle and the condor, and how it relates to our current time and the shift in consciousness we are experiencing
How Brenda considers it’s a tremendous responsibility to be alive today and tips for those who feel overwhelmed, scared, or confused
What Spirit has told Brenda about social media
What might come up when we choose to move into the path that our spirit is calling, and how to navigate the challenges
Insight into the “school of life” and other helpful metaphors that can help us
Brenda breaks down what are 3rd, 4th and 5th level consciousness, and the differences between the 3 (and how humanity is moving into 5th level)
What you’ll notice as you move into 4th level consciousness, and helpful ways of being to allow the process to happen with more intention and flow
Why there’s so much violence, fear, and upheaval right now
How fear is the only thing keeping us from moving into 4th and 5th levels of consciousness
How we need to consciously create new systems to replace the old systems that are obsolete and can no longer exist in higher levels of consciousness
How to death doula the energies and ways of being that are fear-based
The importance of protection and stepping into a difficult situation prepared and supported
Powerful questions to ask ourselves, and the difference between “Do, have, be” vs “Be, have, do”
Brenda leaves us with a beautiful blessing that you can use anytime and bring into groups for the
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Connect With Brenda Salgado
FB Author page: https://www.facebook.com/RealWorldMindfulnessForBeginners/
Real World Mindfulness for Beginners: Navigate Daily Life One Practice at a Time bit.ly/realworldmindfulness
Gift #1: An excerpt from her book Real World Mindfulness for Beginners: Navigate Daily Life One Practice at a Time. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD
Gift #2: Audio file Brenda Reading a meditation: CLICK HERE TO LISTEN
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Ep. 69 MAY :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: RELAX INTO EVOLUTION: Crimson Blessings & Green Hearts
About Monthly Soul Nourishment Readings: These readings are usually filled with metaphor & symbols, so may require a bit of unraveling & might mean something different for each person, so pay attention to what comes up for you as you listen on. Hope they provide value and moments of reflection in your journey.
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Solo Episode: May 2019 :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: RELAX INTO EVOLUTION: Crimson Blessings & Green Hearts
About Monthly Soul Nourishment Readings: These readings are usually filled with metaphor & symbols, so may require a bit of unraveling & might mean something different for each person, so pay attention to what comes up for you as you listen on. Hope they provide value and moments of reflection in your journey.
The message for May is Relax Into Evolution. We’re guided on a journey into the underworld and different dimensions, all leading to the same place - the cosmic vastness that lies within each of us. From big fish to ritual ceremony, to being ushered into the depths of our third eye consciousness, we are invited to sip on the fluids of creation and be nurtured to be reborn. Can you relax into your evolution as we forge a new path?
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Ep. 68 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon in Taurus :: Tending the Throat Chakra, Sore Throat Tips, Speaking Your Truth
Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!
What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?
These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…
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#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon in Taurus :: Tending the Throat Chakra, Sore Throat Tips, Speaking Your Truth
In this episode, Venessa and Megan talk about this lovely new moon in Taurus (and first new moon right after Beltane)! Tending to your throat, activation of the 5th chakra and vagus nerve, and expressing your truth in this fertile time! And of course, discussions on supportive healing foods & herbs, lifestyle aspects, helpful supplements and nutritional tips.
We chat about soothing throat teas, stimulating your vagus nerve and chakra system by getting LOUD, and honoring your own timing and healing process. Plus a suggested intention for this new moon in Taurus to support our beautiful embodied lives and Mama Earth.
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Ep. 67 BOUNDARIES :: How to Have Healthy Ones, Dealing With Boundary Bullies, & Ditching the Disease to Please with Terri Cole
We are talking with Terri Cole, licensed psychotherapist, relationship expert and founder of Real Love Revolution and Boundary Bootcamp. Terri is a global leading expert in mindfulness, meditation, relationships, and wellbeing. Her strategies combine practical psychology, eastern mindfulness practices plus harnessing the power of intention to create sustainable positive behavioral change i.e. true transformation…
“If we say YES when we really want to say NO, what we’re really doing is not letting the people in our life authentically know who we are... And how will we ever be authentically LOVED if we never really let anyone know who we are?” ~ Terri Cole
We are talking with Terri Cole, licensed psychotherapist, relationship expert and founder of Real Love Revolution and Boundary Bootcamp. Terri is a global leading expert in mindfulness, meditation, relationships, and wellbeing. Her strategies combine practical psychology, eastern mindfulness practices plus harnessing the power of intention to create sustainable positive behavioral change i.e. true transformation.
We cover all things BOUNDARIES: the different categories of boundaries, and examples of each plus good questions to ask yourself to assess your own boundaries.
Terri shares the 5 pillars of transformation that she developed from her 22 years of working with clients, the importance of discovering and understanding your “boundary blueprint” and what being a boundary master looks like.
We chat about our inner mean person aka “mafia mind” and how we developed this collective identify and lack of self-compassion.
Terri shares how to create a boundary proactive plan to deal with “boundary bullies” and navigating the tricky waters of relationships and how to unpack the “disease to please,” shape-shifting, and other adaptive behaviors that are very common for highly sensitive, empathic folks.
Finally Terri walks us through how to take a fearless inventory as the first step to building better boundaries and is giving away TWO free gifts... see below for how to access those!
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How Terri discovered her calling and began teaching what truly lit her up
The power of asking smart questions
Terri’s thoughts on “guru” culture
Why boundaries is such a hot topic and why
How the #metoo movement is all about boundary violations
The different categories of boundaries, and examples of each plus good questions to ask yourself to assess your own boundaries
How to begin cultivating awareness around boundaries and specific steps to take
Terri’s 5 pillars of transformation that she developed from her 22 years of working with clients: (1) self awareness, (2) self knowledge, (3) self acceptance, (4) self compassion, (5) self love & self celebration
The importance of discovering and understanding your “boundary blueprint” (see free gift below)
Examples of a “boundary disaster” vs “boundary master,” repeating boundary realities
The concept of transference and how it can mess up your current life experience
Our inner mean person aka “mafia mind” and how we developed this collective identify and lack of self-compassion
Why excuses like “this is just who I am” don’t fly with Terri and what new science of brain plasticity says we can change what we don’t like in our life and behavior
Terri’s “boundary bible”, how to become fluent in boundary language to support your health & well-being
How to create a boundary proactive plan to deal with “boundary bullies” and navigating the tricky waters of relationships
How to lube up your communication channels when setting boundaries for a smoother experience
How to unpack the “disease to please,” shape-shifting, and other adaptive behaviors that are very common for highly sensitive, empathic folks
The not-so-obvious connection between overly functioning people (aka strong, resilient, brilliant people) and codependency
How the quality of one’s boundaries is reflected in their health through physical manifestations
Terri walks us through how to take a fearless inventory as the first step to building better boundaries
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Gift #1: Guilt Free Boundary Meditation: Most of us, especially women, were taught to be nice - and saying no can make you fear you’re being mean or selfish. But if you want to have successful relationships, saying NO is a part of drawing healthy boundaries and being authentic. Terri created this meditation for you so that you can begin to reset your internal dialogue and be on your way to honoring your “No” with less fear, guilt or anxiety.
Gift #2: Boundary Blueprint: Your unique boundary blueprint impacts how well or poorly you’re creating boundaries in your personal and professional relationships right now. This guide contains specific questions that will help you understand the boundary styles you learned in your family of origin.
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The Disease to Please by Harriet B. Braiker
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