Given our many mini voice note marathons on Whatsapp, Julia and I finally sat down to speak at length about the topics we usually talk about in private. In this episode, I got to interview one of my closest, sweetest, sister and friend. It was so special having her on the show to share her message, mission and path.

As a spiritual psychotherapist, she shares about why she has merged both spirituality and psychotherapy. Perhaps contrary to popular belief, these two modalities can act as a beautiful marriage giving you the tools and the language to heal more deeply.

Together we open up the topics of victim consciousness and how that had stopped us both from going down the path our souls felt called to exploring, as well as womb wisdom, endometriosis, spirit babies and plant medicine.

Julia is a psychotherapist working in private practice with clients both local to London and internationally. Formally trained at Oxford University, she cites her own (ongoing) journey into her mental, emotional, spiritual, physical energetic Self as her greatest teacher and guide to integrating multiple modalities and creating an adaptable language that will be most helpful to her clients and others.

She is passionate about leading her clients back home to themselves, exploring where they are unconsciously restricted by internal narratives, playing out harmful attachment patterns and abandoning their intuition. Because of her own experiences, Julia is particularly interested in the topic of womb health and birth and its correlation with overall consciousness.

Outside of private practice, Julia, together with a team of experts, have been devoted to bringing people together for transformative retreats featuring the ceremonial use of plant wisdom, Breathwork and combining her professional therapeutic skills to prepare, contain and help integrate her clients experiences.

Contact:IG @spiritual.psychotherapy Private Practice [email protected] Retreat Portugal (October 2024)[email protected]

Many of us right now are being forced to see, in the most gruesome of ways, the dangerous outcome of bypassing the darkness. Many of us are bearing witness in real time what our society actually stands for. We are not only faced with all the ways we’ve abandoned parts of who we are but how our society’s systems have been poisoning the planet and its people.

In this very special episode with Dina, we openly talk all things spiritual bypassing and decolonisation of the spiritual and wellness “industries”. As you may have noticed over the last few months, the spiritual community has had many differing opinions about what’s been taking place on the world stage. Is it low vibration to talk about the suffering of the world? Why are we all so obsessed with ascension? Why is shadow work important? Who are the teachers that we are learning from?

Dina and I have both been very vocal about how these last few months have changed us and what it has been teaching us. We share these findings with you in hopes that you too can join the movement of active liberation and true embodiment of the spiritual teachings.

Dina is a Palestinian healer and bodyworker based in Dubai, UAE. She is also Jivamukti Yoga certified and has been sharing her passion for yoga for almost 9 years through community classes and world-wide retreats.

She's here to help women remember their strength, softness and resilience through nurturing sessions and experiences for all seasons of her life. Dina believes that yoga and healing are practices of liberation - of the self, in tandem with the liberation and elevation of suffering for all.

Website: dinaghandour.com

IG: @wellnesswithdina

If you’ve been following my journey for a while, you know just how much I love Human Design. Human Design is a spiritual system which allows each person to better understand their energetic essence. Think of it as a blueprint of how your soul chose to come experience and express itself in this lifetime.

When two Human Design readers meet, you bet you’re going to receive SO much juicy information around how to understand your own unique design.

In this very special episode, I got to interview Caline to share more about what this system is and how to come back into alignment with who you are meant to be.

Caline is a bright brilliant light who loves this system just as much as I do. As a Manifesting Generator, she is very much a multi-passionate being who wears many different hats and reminds us of the power of and importance pivoting.

If you’re curious to learn more about your own Human Design, but also understand other energy types better, this episode’s for you. Caline and I also explore how each energy centre can influence you and others. We dive more into how you’re meant to make your decision as well as understanding that it may be very different to another being.

Based between Lisbon and Dubai, Caline has spent over 15 years in journalism, highlighting regional issues and advocating for positive change. A transformative encounter with an energy healer led her on a decade-long spiritual journey, exploring meditation, yoga, energy healing, hypnosis, and journaling.

As a certified mindfulness coach and Human Design reader and coach, Caline conducts global readings and coaching sessions to unlock individuals' potential. She is also a certified Crystal Energy Healer, helping realign people’s chakras.

Website: www.calinebynature.com

Instagram: @calinebynature

Have you tried all kinds of diets but nothing seems to be working? Are you ready to say bye to the diet culture so you can be free in your own body?

In this very special episode, Rola opens up to us by sharing what it looks like to trust her own intuition, with food but also with her life decisions.

She shares the 5 stages of intuitive eating and how at first, intuitive eating is well, not intuitive.There’s always a transition phase when you’re moving away from diet culture into a more natural and cyclical way of eating.

So much has changed and transpired since Rola and I last recorded a podcast together last back in 2020. Having both moved to Dubai around the same time, we spend a lot of time discussing how important it is to listen to our own bodies, while at the same time taking into account the information we receive from the external world.

Rola is a US registered dietitian, a certified intuitive eating counselor and a yoga teacher with 11 years of experience. She founded the intuitive eating academy to spread this approach in the Middle East. She graduated over 100 dietitians and health experts who are now leading figures in the field. Rola helped over 1000 women reclaim the joy eating and reach genuine health without dieting.

Get to know Rola:

• ⁠follow her to Instagram @rola_ghaddar
• •start listening to "MISH DIET" podcast

In this solo episode, I chose to speak about a controversial and perhaps taboo topic: beauty treatments and procedures.

After going to a couple of clinics in Korea, and doing a few treatments myself, I felt it important to share my experiences with you.

Completely unscripted, I wanted to remain as open and authentic about a topic I avoided bringing up for so long. In a world that tends to shame you for what you do or don’t do, I wanted to share with you how I’ve been dealing with the standards of beauty our society has created.

There can be so many extreme thoughts and beliefs about what is right or wrong when it comes to beauty procedures, and what I hope to convey through this episode is that not everything is so black and white.

Should we or should we not beauty treatments? What is the driving force behind doing them? How important is it to be honest with others about what we do? Is beauty a distraction? I ask many questions in this episode that I try to answer in order to start a conversation with you.

What has your experience with beauty been like? How has it made you feel? You can share your thoughts and feelings in the comments below.

Tables have turned in this very special episode with Haya Yasmeen.

As a presenter, she is usually the one doing the interviewing, but this time we have her in the guest seat. In this episode, we get to uncover more of Haya Yasmeen’s story.

You know her as a world traveler and presenter, but what you may not have known is her love and curiosity for the healing and spiritual realms too. In this conversation, we discuss how her personal life stories shaped the person she is today and how healing has been integral to her growth and transformation.

Over the last few years, Haya’s inner work has been around remembering her power and finding her authentic voice. This has led her to taking many leaps of faith and make big life decisions. Haya Yasmeen Nasser is a Palestinian actress, TV presenter and producer, with a drive to use the arts to provide a form of expression for those who don’t have that freedom.

In 2016 Haya moved to Dubai where she began her international career at MBC TV, ultimately creating, curating and producing her own travel segment on Sabah Al Khair Ya Arab, MBC1’s morning show which broadcasts globally to over 50 million viewers daily. Through her travel segment Haya Yasmeen has traveled to over 45 countries showcasing different cultures and stories from around the world. Fostering international relationships and using her performance skills to tell the story of many different communities.

A beautiful, authentic and heart opening conversation with my sister, Mariam.

Many people assume the spiritual path towards realizing oneself is all rainbows butterflies. However, what we both share in this conversation is that inner and external conflict are bound to arise when you choose to devote yourself to this journey.

The discoveries one can make about themselves can many times be unpleasant, irritating, uncomfortable. However, recognizing them and working through them allows you to cleanse the mind, heart, body and spirit.

Mariam is a fountain of wisdom, spiritual lessons love whose love for the Divine is one that inspires me daily. In this episode, we share how we met, how much we’ve grown over the last year our love for the inner work. I’m so grateful to share this episode with you which will most definitely open your heart, expand your mind nourish you deeply.

Website: www.sindhudasi.com

IG: @pacha_mamma

5 years later, Layla and I sit down again to discuss all the incredible changes and shifts that have taken place in her life. From motherhood, to nutrition and intuitive eating, Layla and I spoke about how important it is to eat according to the season of life that we are in.

Last time her and I spoke at the end of 2019, she was pregnant with her first baby. Now, mother of two, Layla talks about the postpartum blues, how important it is to be disciplined at home when it comes to food and how she chooses to nourish her daughters.

There’s so much information out there in terms of what foods to eat and not eat. However, one key thing Layla mentions in this episode is that we need to move beyond just labelling foods as good and bad.What works for one person will not work for another. What is healthy for one person might be poison for another.

Understanding what your body needs is a journey in itself hopefully this conversation can shed light on what you need.Layla is a holistic nutritionist who went down this career path due to health issues of her own at a young age, she works one on one with women all over the world to better their overall health, well being and also healing their relationship with food.

Check Layla’s website: laylaalnaif.com or IG: @Layla.alnaif to learn more about her different nutrition offerings.

It’s been over 2 years since my last podcast episode and so much has transpired since. Moving to Dubai, publishing a poetry book, feeling more at home within myself than ever before, I feel like I’m in a new season of my life.

As someone that takes leaps of faith and likes to explores uncharted territories, I've become a lot more comfortable with the unknown. Digging deeper into the body, psyche emotions, there's so many gems and treasures that I feel called to sharing with you.

In this season, I want to take you to places you might not want to explore on your own. We’ll be exploring patterns, belief systems, breaking free from our conditioning, reclaiming more of our worth and power, as well as shadow work and Human Design.

As I’ve grown a lot these last 2 years, I’m sure you have too. There might have been moments of discomfort, uncertainty, chaos, doubt, and fear. To move from one way of being to another is not an easy process, but so worth it once you come out the other side.