If you’ve been exploring the personal and spiritual growth space, you’ve heard these phrases when it comes to decision making:

“Trust your intuition.”

“Go with your gut.”

And these statements are great advice—WHEN you know how to connect with your intuition.

But what if you feel disconnected from this part of you?

What if you feel hurt by past decisions you've made?

What if you don't fully believe you have an intuitive part?

I believe everyone is intuitive—the only difference between us is the degree to which we are connected to this part of us. 

Learning the language of your intuition and it’s communications is vital when creating a trusting relationship with this intuitive, wise part of you. 

In this episode, I’m chatting with one of my life-long best friends and spiritual mentors, Kimberly Manley. Kim is an intuitive—she is a student and teacher of mindfulness and intentional thought.

When you tune into this episode, you’ll hear Kim and I sharing our wisdom into:

• How to stop outsourcing your decisions making.
• Practical steps to reconnect with your intuition.
• Supporting yourself in healing when you don’t trust your intuition. 

You can learn more about Kim and the magic she is bringing into the world on her instagram: @fromthemanleyhouse

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Unfortunately, we're often judgmental and shaming toward ourselves during what should be the healing process.

There are probably terrible things you say to yourself that you would never say to someone you love.

I’ll go ahead and admit I'm guilty of this sort of negative internal dialogue.

And I’m curious if you're guilty of this too? 

Engaging in a judgmental, shaming inner dialogue isn’t propelling any of us forward.

Learning how to navigate and shift this dialogue is essential for you to anchor in your self-worth and finally move beyond your emotional suffering.

This is a mentoring episode—this simply means I'm providing a straightforward, practical approach to shifting your shameful, self-talk. 

After listening to this episode, you'll be more anchored in how to give yourself permission to feel your feelings and move forward instead of keeping yourself stuck in your emotional pain and suffering. 

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Website: www.thesacredrebelcollective.com

The phrase “Inner child work” is quite popular these days—there are a lot of people out in the ether speaking about this work and the depths of healing that come from it.

But, if you’re wondering what the heck inner child work is and why we can’t stop talking about it, I’m excited to introduce you to my guest on this week’s episode—my friend and my mentor, Melissa Greene. Melissa is a psychotherapist based in Nashville, TN and she is sharing her wisdom surrounding inner child work.

In this episode, Melissa and I are sharing into our stories of inner child work and giving insight into how to begin this journey of being present with and healing your inner child.

Connect with Melissa here: www.mdgreenecounseling.com

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We’re not present.

With our lives, other people, ourselves.

If we’re being honest, most of us don’t know how to be present in the moment.

And, for some of us, we don’t want to be. There are times when our present moment is steeped in emotional pain, trauma and truths we aren’t wanting to see—so, of course, we disconnect from presence.

Learning how to come back to presence is a process, especially when it hasn’t felt safe to be present in the moment.

There are a lot of benefits to bringing presence back into your life. One, in particular, is being present supports in the processing of your emotional pain and moving forward.

When you aren’t present, you stuff your pain and keep yourself in cycles of coping that aren’t supportive. When you safely come back to yourself and the present moment, you can fully attune to your needs and facilitate intentional processing.

And finally. let. that. shit. go.

In this episode, I’m sharing two quick tips to invite presence back into the here and now. In less than ten minutes, you have the opportunity to bring the energy of presence back into your life.

Links:

Instagram: @dani.hickman

Website: www.thesacredrebelcollective.com

Most of us have pretty complicated relationships with ourselves, food and our bodies. 

We’re living dis-embodied lives—disconnected from who we are, our self worth and our bodies. 

I’m thrilled to bring my friend Amy Gartenberg into the Be the Scandal podcast.  Amy is a Psychotherapist and Body Peace Coach. Her work centers around helping people heal their relationship with food and body, and in turn, live a life that feels authentically theirs. 

In this episode, Amy talks about the power of coming home to your body and gives practical tools to support yourself in releasing old programming surrounding food and body. 

If you want to feel more empowered and connected to your body, this episode is for you. 

Interested in connecting more with Amy? You can find her here:

Website: www.amygartenberg.com

Instagram: @amylynnlpc

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You outsource your power.

Your decision making.

Your self-worth.

You make choices that are rooted in achieving approval, acceptance and praise from others.

And of course you do. We’re taught at an early age to learn what is safe and unsafe by bouncing our choices off of other people—which is purposeful and protective.

But, at some point, you need to come back home to yourself—to your inner knowing and learn how to make wise, intuitive decisions that are most expansive for YOU—separate from the expectations of others.

In this episode, I’m sharing insights into how we become so disconnected from ourselves and give an invitation to start living a more free and expansive life.

You are worthy of a life that feels expansive, fulfilling and pleasurable. And you are deserving of the autonomy to live a life in most alignment with your soul’s desires.

Links:

Instagram: @dani.hickman

Website: www.thesacredrebelcollective.com

Welcome to Be the Scandal.

This podcast is for the person who has spent years being a chameleon. The person that made themselves small as a way to make others feel less distressed...and lost themselves along the way.

This podcast is also for the person whose trauma has kept them disconnected from their most authentic self. I see you, I honor you, I’m with you, AND I invite you to reconnect to the power of being unapologetically YOU. The power of exploring and anchoring into your most authentic self. I invite all parts of you into this space because….at the core of this podcast is this ethos: All parts of you are welcome here.

And, let’s be honest: those people you’ve been afraid to upset by being the authentic you—they’re probably going to talk about you anyways. You might as well give them something to talk about—something that not only offers you the freedom of your authenticity but also the invitation to anyone in earshot: that they too can liberate their most authentic self.

Because this is what I know to be true: When we have the courage to be our true selves, it gives others the permission to do so too.

If you’re ready to join the sacred rebellion of being your most authentic self—let’s be the scandal—all together, hand in hand.

I’m glad that you’re here—welcome to the journey.