ALIVE with Jessica Schiller: Heal Your Inner Child + Ancestral Trauma

In continuation of honoring this month's series for Mental Health Awareness Month, this epsiode unlocks another aspect of our own internal struggle with all or nothing thinking and how this plays a role in triggering trauma or emotional disregulation.

I touch on the Tantric framework of polarity + bring to light the the Cosmic Couple, Shiva and Shakti, that exist in all of creation, and within ourselves!

What happens when you lean too heavily into masculine construct of Shiva, or the feminine in Shakti, and say with conviction THIS IS THE WAY (or the only way) is to lose touch with half of its entire existence! If you're already lost, I clarify all this in the episode!

The secret to healing + elevating your consciousness exists in knowing, honoring, and LIVING in both realities, and learning how to "live in the grey".
 

The Principle of Polarity states that all manifested things have ‘two sides’; ‘two aspects’; ‘two poles; and, ‘everything has its opposite’ with manifold degrees between the two extremes.” – The Kybalion, a text of hermetic wisdom

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If you’ve ever been gaslit, or have dealt with this challenging dynamic in your life, this episode is your elixir to a deeply intimate and enlightening conversation on what gaslighting looks like, and how to take your POWER back!

To me gaslighting at its core is a denial of your lived experience, and NO one has a right to have that say over YOU.

With May being mental health awareness month, I felt very passionate to bring this topic to light 💡 as suppression of our lived experience is the source of physical somatic symptoms + many chronic conditions when left unhealed.

Our bodies remember what our brains want to forget.

I also share some exciting news on my brand new ALIVE merch 🌈💕🫶 available through the end of the month of May!

“Alive is my vibe” merch is now available in super fab colors and of course, my fave tye dye swagga! ✨

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I'M BACK!!! Just in time for the divine month of May,  a window in time that celebrates Mental Health Awareness month, Jewish Heritage Month, and my birthday on May 12th!

Each episode this month will feature the real lived experience of what it feels like to be ALIVE and recover and heal from past trauma, along with my personal wisdom to help you navigate this season of healing fully embodied!

Overthinking is one of these common lived experiences, especially in the psyche of one who has experienced any level of trauma, which we all have been feeling deeply more so in the past 4 years.

In this episode, I will cover:

1. What causes the overthinking mind, and how it shows up subconsciously without you even realizing what's happening!

2. How the connection to past trauma heightens this experience, and why it's actually here to HELP you release this from your physical body.

3. Where you can get started to break the cycle of this conditioning in a trauma informed and somatic approach.

"Overthinking shows up as this quiet voice that never stops anyone but YOU." 
- Jessica Silverman, @mozen_wellness

P.S. You can now send me a text message by clicking the link above 👆🏼here in the show notes! Let me know what landed for you, and how you will take action from what you learned in this episode. 

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Just popping on to let you know I am taking a mini break for the month of April to focus on some fab new creations for the podcast that will come ALIVE in May, my birthday month! 🌈

In the meantime, listen to Ep. 95: How to Find Emotional Freedom + Dance with the Divine (and any other episodes that pop out at you!)

I will be highlighting my FAVE episodes over the next month on my Instagram stories, so be sure to follow me @mozen_wellness and DM me to let me know any topics you would love to hear on the show!

*Also, if you leave a 5-star review - I will feature you on my new Rate + Review segment to highlight your glowing review + YOU! 

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Are you the woman that is expected to hold it together, where all of your energy is consumed in the everyday? The type of woman who has wild dreams, but your obligations are overpowering, and those beautiful dreams stay on the backburner of your heart's greatest longings?

If so, this episode is for you! In one of my MOST cherished conversations on the podcast, New York Times bestselling author Lauren Grodstein joins me for an intimate and heartwarming discussion about living as a woman in what is still a Virginia Woolf world, indoctrinated as "women of labor" and the demands of life as the oldest daughter of her family.

In this conversation, we also speak to how womanhood poses challenges as a Jewish woman specifically, in light of the tragic events on and following October 7th, and how her latest book release We Must Not Think of Ourselves was unintentionally a timely message sharing the stories of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940 and keeping their stories alive. 

We are once again living in a time when no choice feels like a good choice, but Lauren does an impressive job depicting this in her novel, and in real life on this podcast.

She truly has a way with words that awakens your senses to truly see + feel as if you are there, and encompassing all emotions.

Be sure to stay tuned till the end, where she graciously also shares with us secrets of the publishing process and how to make writing your book easier - bye bye Writer's Block, hello Paris?

About Lauren: 

Lauren Grodstein is the author of five novels, including the Read with Jenna selection and national bestseller We Must Not Think of Ourselves, New York Times bestseller A Friend of the Family and the Washington Post Book of the Year The Explanation for Everything. 

Lauren’s work has been translated into French, Turkish, German, Hebrew, and other languages, and her essays and reviews have been widely published.  She teaches in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden and lives in New Jersey with her husband and children.

Connect with Lauren:

Website:
www.laurengrodstein.com

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This is such a good episode and divine reminder from March 2023, I wanted to bring it back. The message is still potent.
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For centuries, women and the feminine embodiment have been silenced, and our voices not heard. Society runs on masculine energy, seeking logic and what can be seen as the only proof of existence. But in the Cosmos and conscious reality, both masculine + feminine energies exist. So why the weight only on the masculine as the golden rule?

In this excerpt from a live talk I hosted on the Insight Timer app, I discuss why WOMEN SHOULD SPEAK UP NOW, and how silencing the feminine embodiment causes trauma within one's physical body if not expressed.

Many chronic conditions for sensitive souls, and women especially, are a result of underutilizing the throat chakra, and her voice to express her needs, wants, desires, and emotions throughout life. Even as a child, we may have been taught to be "seen and not heard", and as a result found other ways to cope that stuff our needs away, thinking "I am not worthy of _____".

In this episode, you will learn 4 ways of healing the feminine wound of being silenced from a trauma informed perspective to heal the inner child + ancestral trauma wounds.

Stay tuned at the end for a special LIVE premiere of my meditation, "This Belongs", where you get a chance to practice the first steps to healing with me through radical acceptance + compassion therapy.

Access more of my FREE meditations, and follow my page on Insight Timer to join me on my next LIVE event, absolutely free! 

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If you've felt like there's more to life, but unsure of how to connect to Spirit or trust the signs, this episode will light the way! Destiny Hwang shares her Shamanic wisdom and secrets on how to deepen and trust your connection to Spirit, and your guides.

Trusting your inner knowing can be challenging, especially in the world we live in with overwhelming information at your fingertips that conflicts and fuels this self doubt within to TRUST WHAT YOU KNOW!

This inner knowing is activated by opening your Crown chakra, and development of your 4 Clair's which we speak about in this episode.

As she says so beautifully, "expectation kills connection",  so relax + listen to this conversation with an open mind that whatever is meant to be revealed will come through for you. Follow the breadcrumb trail, and allow listening to this episode to be your first step to "dabbling in the divine!"

About Destiny:

Destiny Hwang is a healer and intuitive. While she is trained in both the Usui and Karuna Reiki lineages and incorporates Reiki into her healing work, her healing sessions mostly consist of Shamanic techniques and energy techniques that she’s created or learned from her guides. Her focus is always on healing all parts of the person, not just the physical body, but rather the emotional body, the spiritual body and the pain body. Destiny’s goal is to help remind her clients how to connect to their own inner knowing and trust it. She often includes inner child work as well as shadow work and intuitive development. Her BIG reason for being here is helping others learn to connect with their own intuition and spirit guides. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Southern California. When she’s not doing her spiritual work, she enjoys yoga, painting, hiking, and gardening.

Connect with Destiny:

Website: theradiantpath.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/theradiantpath

Free gift: bit.ly/intuitionminiworkshop

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Your inner child longs to come alive in your creative spirit. Yet we live in a world that overemphasizes the power of form and technique over living in the play, or creating just for the sake of the person you become along the way.
 
In this episode, Sheryl Benjy shares how her art is more than just the tangible piece she creates, but more of a moving meditation and a process that invites play through creativity and emoting the experience.
 
In the emoting, Sheryl helps people heal through trauma and challenging life experiences in both the creative process + by immersing in the piece as a divine reminder that the spirit always remains.
 
I personally connected with Sheryl through a painting of one of the hostages following the events on October 7th and was so deeply moved by how she uses her art to express what cannot be put into words, and evokes this same feeling in both the families of the victims and the entire community at large who feels so helpless in such a tragic time.
 
She also speaks so beautifully to the dynamic of being both Iranian and Jewish, and how this interplay of ancestral experiences continues to influence her artistry in a way that moves others to become more resilient and feel peace amidst the chaos.
 
This is my art, thank you for supporting by being a listener. 🩷 If this podcast has helped you in any way, please leave a 5 star review here so more can find this show.

*I highly recommend exploring Magic Mind at https://www.magicmind.com/awjess where you get a limited 56% off your first subscription & 20% off a one time purchase with the discount code AWJESS20!  

Connect with Sheryl:

Website: sherylbenjy.com
IG: @sherylbenjy_art - https://www.instagram.com/sherylbenjy_art/
FB: @sherylbenjy - https://www.facebook.com/sheryl.benjy
Listen to her Podcast::The Creative Spirits Pod https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-creative-spirits-podcast/id1598989646

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Your inner child longs to come alive in your creative spirit. Yet we live in a world that overemphasizes the power of form and technique over living in the play, or creating just for the sake of the person you become along the way.
 
In this episode, Sheryl Benjy shares how her art is more than just the tangible piece she creates, but more of a moving meditation and a process that invites play through creativity and emoting the experience.
 
In the emoting, Sheryl helps people heal through trauma and challenging life experiences in both the creative process + by immersing in the piece as a divine reminder that the spirit always remains.
 
I personally connected with Sheryl through a painting of one of the hostages following the events on October 7th and was so deeply moved by how she uses her art to express what cannot be put into words, and evokes this same feeling in both the families of the victims and the entire community at large who feels so helpless in such a tragic time.
 
She also speaks so beautifully to the dynamic of being both Iranian and Jewish, and how this interplay of ancestral experiences continues to influence her artistry in a way that moves others to become more resilient and feel peace amidst the chaos.
 
This is my art, thank you for supporting by being a listener. 🩷 If this podcast has helped you in any way, please leave a 5 star review here so more can find this show.

*I highly recommend exploring Magic Mind at https://www.magicmind.com/awjess where you get a limited 56% off your first subscription & 20% off a one time purchase with the discount code AWJESS20!  

Connect with Sheryl:

Website: sherylbenjy.com
IG: @sherylbenjy_art - https://www.instagram.com/sherylbenjy_art/
FB: @sherylbenjy - https://www.facebook.com/sheryl.benjy
Listen to her Podcast::The Creative Spirits Pod https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-creative-spirits-podcast/id1598989646

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The Radiance Sutras is a beautiful book that is a tantra, or manual of practices, that is a conversation between lovers, Shiva and Shakti.

Within you is both Shiva, the Divine Masculine and Shakti, the Divine Feminine.

This episode honors that in this essay entitled, "Love is a Practice" which I see as an embodiment of self love and cultivating compassionate conversations with yourself so you know what it is to LOVE another.

As it says in this passage,

" Love is a particular practice of yoga – complex, demanding, and exhausting. It can also be the most meaningful and rewarding practice in the world. When we give our total attention to someone, a special quality of spaciousness and tranquility can emerge."

In this episode, you will learn how to practice LOVE as a form of yoga to honor the Shiva and Shakti within you.

Let's continue the conversation on Instagram or Facebook, wherever you fancy!

If you are craving more connection to your inner guides + having more compassionate conversations to silence your inner mean girl, it's still not too late to join the Live Vibrant Sisterhood!

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