Can't Be Contained

Do you find yourself running into issues with the landscape of today's dating culture? There's so much toxicity out there with swipe culture. Not only that, but a lot of people are also sabotaging good relationships with toxic traits. The truth is that healthy relationships take work, and that's exactly why I had to bring on today's guest, John Kim. John is an author and a licensed therapist who practices transparency and shares his own story (which is not the norm in the therapy industry)! He talks about how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting dating culture. He shares his own experience of learning to surrender. We chat about what people do to sabotage their relationships and how your "relationship buds," like taste buds will change over time. John also shares how to figure out the difference between a healthy and unhealthy relationship.

About John Kim:John Kim is an author and licensed therapist who pioneered the online life coaching movement eight years ago, after going through a divorce and rebirth. He started a blog called The Angry Therapist and quickly built a devoted following of fans who loved the frank and authentic insights that he freely shared on social media. He pulled the curtain back and showed himself by practicing transparency and sharing his story, something therapists are taught NOT to do. Kim became known as an unconventional therapist who worked out of the box by seeing clients at coffee shops, on hikes, and the gym. He quickly built a coaching team of his own and launched a sister company called JRNI COACHING, an online coaching school. Kim's current obsession is sending out thousands of daily texts to change the way we change.

Inside this episode, John shares:

• How meaning makes John feel most alive
• The difference John's found between meaning and purpose
• The human cycles of creation and destruction
• What John's seeing with the dating scene and swipe culture
• His vision of healthy collaborative dating
• How the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting dating culture
• His experience of learning to surrender
• How defense mechanisms cause you to be a more lukewarm version of yourself
• The toxic things people do to sabotage their relationships
• How to unbind and rewire your addiction to fantasy relationships
• Why healthy relationships take work
• How your "relationship buds" change over time
• Discerning between healthy love and unhealthy love
• What a trauma bond is and how it affects your relationships over time

You can find more about John at:Website | Instagram | Facebook

Links:Food Freedom Journey Waitlist EP 118: HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH MARK GROVES I Used to Be a Miserable F*ck: An Everyman's Guide to a Meaningful Life John's Blog Posts Subscribe to Texts From The Angry Therapist

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We need to feel to heal. As we're at home, the temptation to binge can be very high. But what if I told you that it wasn't actually food that you're hungry for? In this episode, I am giving you a few questions that you should ask yourself when you feel the need to emotionally eat. I share how you have to feel first when you want transformation and how transformation happens at the intersection of love and pain. I also talked about how to develop the capacity to feel safe in feeling your emotions whether they're positive or negative.

Inside this episode:

• Why this time is all about contrast
• Creating new standards and ways of doing life centered around your priorities
• What our body is really communicating to us when we binge eat
• Understanding the intention behind the consumption of food
• Why we have to dig deep
• Developing the capacity to feel safe in feeling your emotions
• Becoming your own medicine
• What you need to ask yourself when you're about to emotionally eat
• Examining how you can clear out some emotional space
• Renegotiating how you treat yourself

Links:Food Freedom Journey

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Consistency is queen. In this episode, I shared 10 healthy habits that you can incorporate into your life. Becoming more consistent with these habits will help you live a more fulfilled life. Our souls have a beautiful way of telling us exactly what it wants, all you have to do is listen. Pay attention to how these healthy habits truly make you feel. Start to really listen to what your soul is yearning for and take the steps to make that a reality for yourself.

Inside this episode:

• Why you need longer, more consistent sleep
• Keeping your body hydrated
• How Sam incorporates breathwork throughout the day
• Why you need to get your body moving
• Getting in tune with your focus and vision
• Finding a community of people who have similar values to you
• Making growth and learning a daily habit
• Being cognizant of the words you speak into the world
• Feeding your body with food that it loves to eat

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Taking the time to truly get more connected with the earth and the source will get you closer to unlocking your feminine queen nature. We all have the power to cultivate our own queendom and it's up to us to hone in on it. Today I brought on someone to discuss this topic, Gina DeVee, founder of Divine Living, a women's empowerment company and author of The Audacity to Be Queen. We chat about how her relationship with the source has evolved over time and how variety in life makes her feel alive (plus the different forms of variety she relies on). She shares how you can pursue your own divine assignment and use your desires to guide you through your life's purpose.

About Gina DeVee:Gina's DeVee's journey from struggling psychotherapist (who lived at home with her parents) to globetrotting entrepreneur has led her to found her multi-million dollar women's empowerment company, Divine Living.

Divine Living is for the person who's excited about impacting the world; craves a spiritual connection, dares to be visible, and desires to fulfill their life's purpose.

Gina is an author, speaker and success coach. She has dedicated her career to helping clients connect spiritually, start businesses, create wealth and live life to the fullest.

Gina's mission is to uplift entrepreneurs through inspiring content, bold business training, and life-changing events.

Inside this episode, Gina shares:

• How variety makes Gina feel most alive and the different forms of variety she implements in her life
• Getting comfortable with uncertainty and how her relationship with the universe and source is the only certainty she needs
• How Gina's relationship with God has been cultivated over time
• Samantha's reawakening with the source and why it's so important to her
• What inspires Gina to step into and hone in on your queen energy
• The process for finding your life's purpose and divine assignment
• How to step into a new way of being and honing in on your queendom
• Supporting people in figuring out their archetypes
• What a day in Gina's life looks like and how she practices her queenhood
• How her desires come from her divine assignment
• How we can connect with the earth more to get unlock our feminine queen nature
• Learning to take care of yourself and your own needs by balancing your masculinity and femininity
• How being a queen is your God-given gift

You can find more about Gina at:Website | Instagram

Links:Food Freedom Journey Waitlist The Audacity to Be Queen: The Unapologetic Art of Dreaming Big and Manifesting Your Most Fabulous Life The Introduction and 1st Chapter of The Audacity of Be Queen, Meditations and Epic Life Video Training

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Having a consistent morning routine is so effective in setting up your day in a positive way. It structures your day and gets you started on the right note. In this episode, I am walking you through my own morning routine and what I do on a daily basis to start my day. You'll hear what I do plus my reasoning behind all of the steps to my morning routine. Whether you want to have a 10 minute morning routine or an hour-long morning routine, this episode will inspire you to get your day started in a powerful way.

Inside this episode:

• Having a sense of consistency for your morning routine
• The difference between what is real and what is true
• Why a morning routine is so important
• Creating a structure to your day
• Getting an alarm clock that wakes you up slowly
• Allowing yourself to be phone-free for the first few hours of your day
• Hydrating yourself when you wake up
• Doing her morning pages and reflecting on her dreams and goals
• Using breathwork to clear her mind, dropping into meditation then visualizing the future
• Getting her body moving
• Being more fluid and flexible with herself on the weekends

Links:Alarm Clock

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The connection between anger and addiction isn't something we can sweep under the rug. It's clear that these have a direct correlation with each other and that's something I talked about with today's guest Karen Salmansohn. Suppressed anger in our body can cause us to want to numb and distract ourselves from it, which for Karen translated into food addiction. Today we talk about tangible tools to help with overcoming addiction and anxiety plus how you can start to forgive yourself from the things that you've felt shame around. She shares strategies to help bring yourself to a place of wellbeing even with the heightened anxiety of today's world and how to lean into the contractions of life so we can enjoy the beauty on the other side.

About Karen Salmansohn:Karen Salmansohn is a former stressed-out advertising Senior VP and award-winning designer turned healthy living expert, bestselling author, and book designer, as well as longevity research geek and teacher at ISHTA Yoga. Her new book Instant Calm was written to share her "short, simple meditations for people who don't have time to meditate" - the people who need to relax the most.

Inside this episode, Karen shares:

• How the people she loves make her feel most alive
• Leaning into contractions so you can enjoy the beauty on the other side of it
• Why Karen has a desire to help the world through her work
• Why people's childhood programming leads to a resistance of going after what's good for them
• How many people self-sabotage and "keep down with the Joneses" to maintain their masochistic equilibrium
• Dealing with and overcoming her food addiction
• Triggers that were causing her to go in the hypnotic state and overeat
• Her work with forgiveness therapy and learning to forgive herself
• How you can start to forgive yourself
• Strategies to bring yourself back into a place of wellbeing during a time of heightened anxiety

You can find more about Karen at:Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube

Links:Food Freedom Journey Waitlist

Karen's Books

Karen's Courses

The Anxiety Cure

Instant Calm

Shower Power Meditation

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Are you able to truly and fully feel joy? Today's guest, Agapi Stassinopoulos joined me to talk about optimizing your joy to live a fulfilling life. We discuss why wisdom should be your priority and how denying your inner wisdom will be detrimental to yourself. She talks about embracing your full self, releasing your fears and freeing yourself from negative fields of energy. She touches on the breath and using it to feel love (and how we don't actually have anything to do with our breath). She also talks about the art of loving yourself and how it's a daily, never-ending practice that we have to embark on.

About Agapi Stassinopoulos:Agapi Stassinopoulos is a best-selling author and speaker who inspires audiences around the world. In her previous book, Unbinding the Heart: A Dose of Greek Wisdom, Generosity, and Unconditional Love, she shares the wisdom from her life's adventures and experiences. In her new book, Wake Up to the Joy of You: 52 Meditations and Practices for a Calmer, Happier Life, she takes readers on a journey and inspires them to let go of what doesn't work and instead create the lives they really want. Agapi was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and then moved on to receive her master's degree in psychology from the University of Santa Monica. Her previous books on the Greek archetypes, Gods and Goddesses in Love and Conversations with the Goddesses, were turned into PBS specials. She is currently conducting workshops for Thrive Global, a company founded by her sister, Arianna Huffington, to help change the way we work and live. Agapi has spoken and conducted meditations at many organizations and companies including L'Oreal, Accenture, SAP, LinkedIn, Pandora, Google, Nike, Weight Watchers, PepsiCo, Starbucks, Global Citizen Company, Museum of Modern Art, ABC Carpet & Home, Women's Health Magazine, Paul Mitchell, NYU, Gympass, and Hearst Communications amongst many others. She brings home the importance of self-care, practicing gratitude, generosity and self-love to enhance performance and productivity so we can experience happiness and fulfillment. She divides her time between New York and Los Angeles and was born and raised in Athens, Greece

Inside this episode, Agapi shares:

• How life makes her feel most alive
• Enhancing our enlightenment and what comes with the human condition
• Getting to know yourself and your patterns
• Why you need to learn to be compassionate to yourself
• Taking your energy into your heart center and breathing in the love
• How we have nothing to do with our breath
• Operating from a place of love, creativity, and excitement
• Releasing your fears to become free from negative fields of energy
• Experiencing other feelings in a safe place so you can fully feel joy
• Learning to be fully yourself
• How loving yourself is an art and the journey to doing so never ends
• Why she feels that you should listen to wisdom over discipline sometimes
• Her favorite affirmations for when things don't go your way

You can find more about Agapi at:Website | Facebook | Instagram

Get more meditations by emailing [email protected]

Links:Wake Up to the Joy of You: 52 Meditations and Practices for a Calmer, Happier Life

Unbinding the Heart: A Dose of Greek Wisdom, Generosity, and Unconditional Love

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Are you at peace with your body? This is something that I've had to learn to create for myself especially after years in the fitness industry as a competitor. Back in those days, I was using the sport of competing as a mask for my eating disorder. In this episode, I'm diving into how many fitness competitors are in the sport for the wrong reasons and why you need to move away from having a transactional relationship with exercise (and actually nourish your body!). I share why dieting isn't a sustainable way to achieve weight loss and how to use your breath in an intentional way to help you reconnect with your body.

Inside this episode:

• How being a fitness competitor was a mask for Sam's eating disorder
• Why many fitness competitors are in the sport for the wrong reason
• Having a transactional relationship with exercise and not using it for the right reasons
• How dieting isn't a sustainable way to achieve weight loss
• Finding peace and comfort in your body at any size
• Using your breath in an intentional way

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When we start our journey to healing, we often pour ourselves into consuming all the information. However, this will not get us to the breakthrough we are desiring. In today's episode, I'm sharing the number one thing that sabotages your progress when it comes to personal and spiritual development. This is something I struggled with and even blocked my own personal growth. As I've been on this journey, I've learned there are simple things we can do to break free and move forward in healing.

Inside this episode:

• Knowing when to step back, breath, and create space
• Sam's journey on learning to take her power back
• How "thinking" about healing can stop your progress
• Why you need to feel to heal
• Observing your feelings from an open heart space
• Why you need community for healing and support

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The Hungry for Happiness podcast combines personal development, deep conversations, and comedy to shake up the way you connect with yourself and the world. Be sure to subscribe on iTunes so you don't miss an episode!

We often take life so very seriously and it's so unnecessary. Bring joy back into your life and ditch the anxiety and stress that's taking away from your peace. In this episode, I'll be giving you advice on becoming your own healer and three effective solutions you can use to move through anxiety and stress you face in your day to day life. I share my own experience of untangling myself from the identity of being an anxious person and why you should allow yourself to experience more satisfaction by increasing the standard for your everyday life.

Inside this episode:

• Sam shares about untangling her identity of being an anxious person
• How she allows herself to experience happiness more often and increase her standard everyday
• Figuring out your mantra and what you're focused on
• Moving your body and your energy in an intentional way
• Using breathwork to unhook the mind and get into your body
• Realizing that you're your own healer

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The Hungry for Happiness podcast combines personal development, deep conversations, and comedy to shake up the way you connect with yourself and the world. Be sure to subscribe on iTunes so you don't miss an episode!