If you've ever thought of starting your own business, learning to read tarot cards or you just need a conversation with a friend, this episode is for you. Kate Van Horn is my dear friend and business mentor with an insanely developed intuition. We talk about her new candle line, The Elements, along with her tarot-reading process, tarot reading course and more. She'll help you balance out your missing element, create the business of your dreams and transcend even the darkest of nights.

Kate and I have both battled eating disorders and other bodily traumas and, together, we talk about what it means to heal and consciously create our lives. Hearing her story is nothing short of inspiring. She has helped me in so many ways and I'm beyond grateful to share her amazing work on Bright Side of the Moon.

Kate is a wellness influencer, business mentor, and yoga teacher based in Los Angeles. As a mental health advocate, Kate candidly shares her story and experience with sexual abuse, PTSD and an eating disorder with her audience. Through mindfulness and intuitive practices, Kate hopes to inspire others to radically accept themselves, their stories, their bodies, and live more intuitively. 

Kate's writing and teaching have been featured in mindbodygreen, Yoga Digest, Prevention Magazine, and The Fullest. Since launching her blog and brand in 2016, she has worked with brands such as Whole Foods, Athleta, Tampax, Dove and Soulcycle on content creation and social media campaigns. Kate was also named one of 25 Influential Women in Wellness to Watch in 2018 by Yogi Approved. Find her on Instagram @kate.van.horn.

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2020 has been intense. And, it's not random. We are shifting our entire paradigm, something the planet has waited 2,000 years for. As uncomfortable as this is right now, it's ultimately for our highest good. 

In this episode, I share the call that I've been feeling for years. I finally understand where it's been calling me - to help with this transition. The reawakening of the feminine, the fluid, open and heart-centered energy is changing things. Where we're going is more filled with love and peace than we could ever imagine and, in order to get there, we have to let some of the old systems crumble.

To me, it's a time to come back together, stop shaming and pointing fingers and hold the deepest compassion we can possibly express. Yes, there is fear, but there is also potential for so many amazing things to happen. I talk about my experience on Capitol Hill, seeing one of the sole instances of unity the country has shown in years and how powerful it was in my life.

This is one of those times where we can do the same. The flow is powerful, will you go with it?

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The Goop Netflix series put a lot of puzzle pieces together for me about my healing experience that many can relate to. Small and larger traumas that we all have come up for us to heal, and we can do so by accessing the subconscious mind. Behind these traumas and experiences lie our greatest truths and can lead us toward clarity in greater ways than we've ever experienced. This is the work we came here to do and the patterns we came to heal. To do so, we need to tap into the conscious mind. 

In this episode, we cover: 

- Why we need to access the subconscious mind to create the life we want

- Accessing trauma loops to heal in deeper ways

- How this work impacts your entire life 

- Healing limiting beliefs by showing up when you're ready

- Our life's work isn't a title or how much money we make, it's in what we came here to heal to create from our soul

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For a long time, I wondered how so many women act like everything is fine and normal during their periods. Between the energy lost shedding an organ and the subsequent hormonal changes that come with it, your cycle needs to be honored as the deeply restorative time that it is.

In modern life, we see it as a detriment for our body to tell us that we need time to rest once a month. Instead of honoring the moon cycle as the height of our feminine power, we see it as a pain and a detriment to "getting things done". I get it, I'm not saying I skip down the street when I have my period. But, I know that it's an extremely receptive and fluid time in which we can more easily tap into high-vibrational energy. This week, we dive into what this means and ways to tap into the incredible power of your body and energy during your moon cycle.

Another part of honoring your cycle involves using products that aren't laden with harsh chemicals that impact your hormones. MYBOXSHOP is an amazing brand with 100 percent organic, biodegradable products. You can shop their pads, tampons and liners on Amazon or on their website. Keep yourself safe and your moon cycle free from pesticides, bleach and chlorine.

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This is the episode I started this show to record. Truly, it is why I'm on this planet - to help other people heal from trauma and see their experiences as opportunities to align with their greater purpose. Even if you think you've never gone through anything "that bad", I promise that there's something for you to learn from this episode as you show yourself the love you need to validate your experiences. 

In this episode, I talk about:

• Why discussing trauma is important
• Trauma isn't always what we think
• Showing compassion to each other and ourselves as we shift into a new paradigm 
• Healing ourselves so we can heal others
• Why the saying "Time heals all wounds" is bullshit 
• My experience with trauma and athletics, how I'm just healing it now
• Healing old patterns by going back to when they happened
• Setting boundaries respectfully 
• Inner child work and how simple but powerful it can be

We cover so much ground in this episode and I hope it brings you the healing you need. My goal is for this show to feel like you're talking to a friend on your couch. I hope it brings you the comfort and peace that I feel when sharing.

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The life you want is just beyond your limiting beliefs. We all know this, but sometimes it can be difficult to spot when these beliefs come through. This episode covers my experience with an upper limit I thought I had conquered - my need for approval. 

In episode three, I talk about:

• My recent anxiety spiral around a meditation I released
• The upper limit and what it is
• How our upper limit and subconscious beliefs hold us back from living the lives we want and came here to experience
• The subconscious mind and the nervous system along with their impact on your life
• Being kind to yourself as you dive into these blocks to heal them
• Starting to see the blocks and notice when the limit stops you from receiving what you really want

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Singing along to Super Bowl Halftime Show this year with Shakira and JLo, I had no idea how much this performance showed how far I've come in healing my relationship with my body. It signaled such a large change within me and in my relationship with feminine expression. Rather than being offended and hating on the performance, as I did with Beyonce's six years earlier, I felt so happy and empowered just watching. Dancing has healed me and my relationship with my body in so many ways; this show was an indication of just how far I've come. 

This episode covers: 

• Where I was mentally when I struggled with disordered eating, how it made me project my experience onto others living their truth
• How dancing has healed me and helped me appreciate my body in ways I never knew were possible
• The Super Bowl Halftime performance by Shakira and JLo and what it meant for me to sing along appreciating the divine feminine
• Our relationship with sexual shame, why it keeps our creativity hampered, our true expression silenced and our hips inflexible
• The Halftime Show as a representation of our society's aversion to feminine, fluid expression through the hips 
• Understanding projection and what it means to feel triggered by another person's true acceptance of themselves

If you need meditation guidance, check out my profile on Insight Timer and follow along. Check out the show on Instagram @brightsideofthemoonpod and @paigepichler. As always, please rate and review so we can share more light in the world, together. 

This is the show that I needed five years ago. In the darkest place of my life, I battled my way back from traumas, disordered eating, crippling anxiety and self-worth issues. Not only did meditation and yoga save my life, but they also started my new one. 

In episode one, I talk about: 

• Healing from trauma by shifting my energy
• Why you can't always live in the light and that's okay
• Feeling the full spectrum of your emotions
• Why meditation is becoming more popular 
• Balancing your masculine and feminine energies
• How the paradigm around constantly doing is changing 
• Creating a community of healing to live happy, connected lives 

Connect on Instagram @brightsideofthemoon and @paigepichler. For more info, go to paigepichler.com. 

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