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

What does anxiety really look like, and how quick are we to judge someone without knowing what truly goes on inside the psyche? 

 In this episode, I had the divine honor to interview the Netflix star of Love is Blind, Season 2, Danielle Ruhl, where she uncovers more of the truth of her story and gives us a peek behind the curtain in her openness about living with mental health and her lifelong commitment to being an advocate and ally. 

In watching her on Season 2, I felt immediately drawn to her energy and I didn’t know why until she revealed more of journey in struggling with trauma, anxiety, and feeling her empathic nature which sometimes can be a struggle for those that are more sensitive in the world. 

She also reveals how she healed through her own dark night of the soul moments, and shared her passion of channeling her pain through music with her latest release,  Addicted to Pain! 

About Danielle: 

Danielle Ruhl, best known for starring on Netflix’s hit show, Love is Blind (season 2) is finally putting pen to paper and adding music in the background. The Chicago-native has always had a passion for writing and journaling as well as a love for music. Danielle, who began journaling as a form of therapy at the age of 14, has always been outspoken and an advocate for mental health. She has been a spokesperson for Mental Health America (MHA), the nation’s leading community-based nonprofit dedicated to mental health as well as other local charities and hopes to be a lifelong advocate.

On Instagram, she openly shares her struggles + urges people to be more empathetic and to become advocates for mental health awareness.

She wrote, "Nothing is more beautiful than women building up women and I can't wait to grow and learn from empathizing with each other. I hope for nothing but happiness for all." 

Aside from helping to destigmatize mental illness, she loves to travel and spend time with her loved ones. Her feed is filled with images of Ruhl on vacation and surrounded by friends and family. She's arguably one of the most interesting and inspiring people starring in this season of "Love is Blind."

Connect with Danielle:

Instagram: @dnellruhl

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dnellruhl

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dnellruhl

TikTok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@dnellruhl

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To invite the fresh energy of 2023, I begin this brand-new season and year with a solo confessional to reflect back on the lessons learned in 2022 to harness in this year peering through life from a different lens.

For so many of us, 2022 was an energetically exhausting,  yet incredibly healing to finally move through the traumas stored within our bodies, or feeling this grand RELEASE of what we can no longer carry into our future.

The last week of 2022 was an elevated experience for me of reliving all my traumas immersed into a crash course of leaning into love, surrender, acceptance, and deep healing.

In this episode, I invite you on a journey with me to this window in time to create a sense of ALIVENESS within the sorrow, the pain, the hard lessons, the dark night of the Soul experiences you had, and create a sense of safety within your nervous system that it is not only OK to have these experiences, but there lies within such POWER in its presence + reliving the memories.

And while I am not one to rush at the turn of the Gregorian calendar created by man to make sense of our humanity, I do feel you can find such grace and a deeper sense of purpose by harnessing the lessons learned from a previous year, inviting you to take one step forward from this Shadow side to envision and paint a more aligned reality, where Shadow + Spirit crystallize.

This year, the podcast blossoms into a WEEKLY format, so stay tuned every Friday for a brand new release + more epic guests coming ALIVE with me!

More ALIVENESS in 2023:

1. The Live Vibrant Sisterhood Spring Session starts February 2023 - DM me for deets

2. Be my guest at PodFest 2023  - use code ALIVE for 10% off or first 2 listeners to click here receive $99 off and complimentary EXPO pass!

3. Stay tuned for a BRAND NEW podcast I'll be co-hosting with my functional doctor, Damon Meixsell, Ancestral Magic + Medicine this Spring! 

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• I'm on the Gram! Find me on Instagram @mozen_wellness, click here to DM! Would love to hear how you're experiencing this episode + the pod. 
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Are you easily picking up on other people’s energy, almost porous? Do you you find it challenging to be around certain people or places, and want to know how to protect and love yourself while in those spaces? 

I felt compelled to release this talk from my Insight Timer live as so many of us highly sensitives + empaths struggle with setting and maintaining healthy boundaries in our lives. Especially around this time of year, when family dynamics + people in our aura can be very triggering.

This episode  (Part 2 of a 2 part series) will help you return home 🤍 to yourself and help you feel more safe and connected to be yourself. To speak up when someone is not respecting your boundaries, and how to show up for yourself when others are constantly demanding your time + energy. 

In this solo series, I will discuss how to:  

1. Believe you have ownership of your own experience. 
2. Develop a strong sense of self. 
3. Decide what type of energy you will bring into the room, event, situation you’re going into.
4. Set an energetic boundary around yourself.
5. Be aware of what your body physically feels like in the moment + your nervous system response.
6. Decide what you will/will not tolerate with a "tolerance tally". 
7. Practice this. Affirm to others what you are needing in this moment, and what you will no longer tolerate in your life. 

Part 2 also dives even deeper with 12 distinct types of boundaries + how to build resilience in relationships and your life by setting an intention to start with choosing just ONE of these today! 

Follow me here on the Insight Timer app to join me for a future LIVE session + access my talks and meditation library. 

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Are you easily picking up on other people’s energy, almost porous? Do you you find it challenging to be around certain people or places, and want to know how to protect and love yourself while in those spaces? 

I felt compelled to release this talk from my Insight Timer live as so many of us highly sensitives + empaths struggle with setting and maintaining healthy boundaries in our lives. Especially around this time of year, when family dynamics + people in our aura can be very triggering.

This episode  (Part 1 of a 2 part series) will help you return home 🤍 to yourself and help you feel more safe and connected to be yourself. To speak up when someone is not respecting your boundaries, and how to show up for yourself when others are constantly demanding your time + energy. 

In this solo series, I will discuss how to:  

1. Believe you have ownership of your own experience. 
2. Develop a strong sense of self. 
3. Decide what type of energy you will bring into the room, event, situation you’re going into.
4. Set an energetic boundary around yourself.
5. Be aware of what your body physically feels like in the moment + your nervous system response.
6. Decide what you will/will not tolerate with a "tolerance tally". 
7. Practice this. Affirm to others what you are needing in this moment, and what you will no longer tolerate in your life. 

Follow me here on the Insight Timer app to join me for a future LIVE session + access my talks and meditation library. 

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• Support mental health awareness month (May!) with ALIVE swag! Click here to peruse the shop.
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• I'm on the Gram! Find me on Instagram @mozen_wellness, click here to DM! Would love to hear how you're experiencing this episode + the pod. 
• Come ALIVE with me - click here to see what's new:  https://bio.site/mozenwellness
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Do you desire to make money doing what you love, but feel there's no abundance in being an artist? In my conversation with Lara, you will hear a fresh perspective on the creative life, and how the "starving artist" stories of yesterday are simply a myth. It is a mission close to my own heart, and this conversation speaks volumes as to how you can leave your legacy as a creative, and yes....make money doing so! If you have a creative passion, this is your birthright and your episode. 

In this episode, Lara and I talk about the state of the world regressing + progressing and how to harness this energy as a changemaker, exploring the creative life with curiosity, seeing artistry as a skill, asking what you're worth, and how the world is slowly shifting to value creativity in entrepreneurship over strategy. 

Lara is also dedicated to helping artisans elevate their craft, and create sustainable practices within their work to preserve the precious planet we live on. She also donates her time and proceeds to art restoration projects through the Sustainable Artisan Guild.

"I can be found usually covered in paint, with gold leaf in my hair and a minimum of 3 books in my handmade bag while juggling a raspberry mocha from a local coffee shop, my three kids, a handful of slow flowers. I’m a sucker for a great antique chandelier, a vintage dresser with impeccable dovetail joints, a good farmers market, a well-created sustainable brand, a stone paper journal, a handcrafted scented pencil, and any opportunity to learn something new." - Lara Cornell

About Lara:

Lara Cornell is a brand strategist and business coach specializing in supporting artisans, artists and makers. To that end, she founded the Artisan Business Academy, Artisan+Co and the Impactful Artisan Alliance focusing on educating, certifying and showcasing impact-driven and eco-conscious artisan businesses around the world.  She is also the international best selling author of Maker's Mark: Make a Living and an Impact with your Artisan Business, and the creator of The Impactful Artisan Podcast.

Connect with Lara:

Website: https://www.laracornell.com/

Artisan + Co: https://www.artisanandcompany.com/

Free Book: https://www.laracornell.com/free-book

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laracornellart/

Email: [email protected]

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• Support mental health awareness month (May!) with ALIVE swag! Click here to peruse the shop.
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• I'm on the Gram! Find me on Instagram @mozen_wellness, click here to DM! Would love to hear how you're experiencing this episode + the pod. 
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If you’ve been feeling stuck and seeking the motivation to “wake up and show up”, this conversation will give you a kickstart to evaluating what needs to shift in your life + wellness practice. 

I had the pleasure of meeting Marci at PodFest this past May when she attended my talk on podcasting and mental health and felt the resonance of being part logical, part hippie brain! 

In this episode, Marci uncovers the Accountability Code she created to help you create a system to measure your sleep, self-care, water intake, and movement to have the courage to take your health in your hands, in a way that’s sustainable and fun! 

But like the title, “nothing changes till your mind does”, so open your mind and your heart ❤️ today as you listen to new perspectives on your healing and wellness journey through Marci’s lens on life. 

About Marci: 

Marci Barker is a life and fitness coach from Ogden Utah but has been coaching online since 2015. She started out with personal training and nutrition programs to help others lose weight and stay accountable to the right plan for them. Soon she saw a disconnect in physique and mental health in her clients while also battling mental health issues with her dad. 

Marci continued striving for and teaching her clients to connect the mind and body through following through and tracking their progress through her app.

In an effort to scale her business and share the message of fun and sustainable Fitness, Marci established herself as an official expert by publishing her book called The Accountability Code Wake Up and Show Up. 

Marci is a mother to 4 daughters, has been married 15 years and loves having neighbors over for dinner.

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Website: https://marcibarker.com/

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In the episode and conversation with Jen Gaita Siciliano of the Not As Crazy As You Think Podcast, I open up about my work in consulting,  personal path of mental health, and the state of the Western medical approach to mental illness, and how we can be more vigilant in our healing. 

Through a trauma-informed approach, I explore the landscape behind all forms of trauma, including collective and ancestral, and how working through these issues are part of the the beginning steps to finding purpose through the pain.  During the interview, I also share self-care strategies and self-love rituals, as well as offer astute advice for those who are trying to find a better path to healing, but find it difficult to get out of bed everyday. 

I honor getting to the root cause of mental distress,  rather than throwing away the individual through the treatment of getting labeled and medicated through traditional psychiatry, and share my own special purpose in helping others on this healing journey.

About Jessica (yes, your host!): 

Jessica Schiller Silverman is a spiritual wellness expert to help heal past trauma + inner child wounds. Through a trauma-informed approach, she enables women to come ALIVE in her creative passion without sacrificing money, time, or energy. Jessica stepped away from a six-figure career in venture capital in San Francisco to start her own venture, all inspired initially from a podcast, and now is the host of the A.L.I.V.E. podcast with Jessica Silverman. Jessica also runs her Live Vibrant program and steers women in a sisterhood to access their true selves and discover what's deep inside their souls.

About Jen Gaita Siciliano + Not As Crazy As You Think podcast: 

Mental Health is attainable for anyone--especially those labeled with mental illness. Join artist, memoir writer, and bipolar psychiatric survivor, Jen Gaita Siciliano each Wednesday at 6pm, as she challenges our world's current limited understanding of mental illness in interviews with artists, healers, educators and shamans, who offer fresh perspectives on mental health and creativity. Episodes also include Jen's personal writing on living as a bipolar creative, as well as news commentary that exposes psychiatry as an incompatible paradigm with the true landscape of the human mind. If you are ready for a new narrative on the mental realm in a place that celebrates crazy and cool without penalty, then Not As Crazy As You Think is for you!

Connect with Me:

Instagram: @Mozen_Wellness

FB Group: A.L.I.V.E. with Jessica Silverman: bit.ly/mozenwarriors

Free gift: Bit.ly/ikigaimagic

Website: https://jessicasilverman.vipmembervault.com/

Connect with Jen:

Subscribe to the Not As Crazy As You Think YouTube channel @SicilianoJen

And please visit my website at: www.jengaitasiciliano.com

Connect: Instagram: @ jengaita

LinkedIn: @ jensiciliano

Twitter: @ jsiciliano

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The whole concept of "leadership" and what it means to truly be a leader in your life isn't something that has to involve a specific title or role you play, but an inherent feeling within you to take back your power and know you have all the answers already inside of you. 

If you've been waiting for permission or a sign to take your power back, know it starts with YOU! 

Maya Roffler of the MaYapinion podcast brings a fresh perspective to female empowerment and leadership, love + life in this episode where Maya shares her passion (and opinion, that's her MO!) for women in leadership after being on a reality TV show, Married at First Sight: Second Chances, and realizing her true mission and message was to be a voice for women to be independent and "become the leader of her life". 

About Maya:

Maya Roffler is the founder of the MaYapinion® Podcast and Brand. She is a podcaster, entrepreneur, advocate, investor, and more. She's also the host of The Surviving Siblings Podcast.

Her podcast, MaYapinion™ , is the leadership podcast for women, where she shares her opinion about leadership, her journey through corporate America and entrepreneurship, and she invites onto the show inspiring women who are leaders from all different walks of life.

From the creation of the MaYapinion™ Podcast, she also mentors women “How to be the Leader of Your Life.”

Connect with Maya:

Website: https://mayaroffler.com/

IG MaYapinion® LLC: https://www.instagram.com/mayaroffler/

IG Surviving Siblings: https://www.instagram.com/survivingsiblingspodcast

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mayaroffler

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayaroffler/

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Who were you as as a child, and how does this energy transmute itself into the way you are in world today as an adult? No matter your age! Over 90% of our trauma was created up till the age of 7.

Come rewild this inner child inside of you in this powerful special 50th episode with Cendie Stanford of the grassroots organization, ACEs Matter on healing childhood trauma, and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).  ACEs are linked to challenges in adolescence and adulthood, and they can potentially negatively impact education, job opportunities, and earning potential.

I was honored to have connected with Cendie at my mental health talk at Podfest, and have felt our divine connection ever since in our collective mission to heal the mental health crises that impacts our society at a global and growing scale.

“I believe that Adverse Childhood Experiences are generational curses. I also believe that experiences from our childhood have the power to shape how we treat the adult version of ourselves and others. I firmly believe this vision was placed on my heart by our Creator and it is my life’s mission to spread awareness to others.”  ~ Cendie Stanford

And being the 50th episode today, I wanted to share this:

Angel number 50 is a sign from the divine realm about independence, self-determination, and taking charge of our own lives. It appears
to those who may not be making their own decisions in life and those who may need to make some positive changes in order to
manifest their ideal future.

About Cendie:

Cendie Stanford has lived experiences with childhood adversities, most of which were experienced in zip code 79403. Unaware that her childhood adversities played a role in how she responded to stressors in her career as an educator, relationships, and even parenting, she sought out the why. 

In 2020, Cendie Stanford founded ACEs Matter because she believed three things: 

1) Many generational ACEs are passed down because of a lack of awareness, but the cards we are dealt are not our final destination 

2) Every person in the world deserves to learn about ACEs

3) Everyone has to experience childhood to get to adulthood 

Communities deserve to learn about ACEs and the associated risk and the mission of ACEs Matter is to start the conversation wherever it does not exist. The vision for ACEs Matter is to significantly reduce the number of ACEs that are passed down through generations and increase the number of positive childhood experiences within generations.

Since 2021, Cendie has made several public appearances discussing the impacts of ACEs as a lived experience survivor in underserved and professional communities. Communities are learning that ACEs impact us as a humanity and no one should look the other way. 

Connect with Cendie:

Know your ACEs quiz: acesmatter.org

Website: https://linktr.ee/acesmatter

About ACEs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49YZ2rn5R2M

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