Today we enter the heart chakra where we encounter love and relationships. Anahata means unstruck. The you within you that was, is, and always will be, perfect, whole and complete.

An excessive heart chakra can lead to codependency, poor boundaries, clinginess, jealousy,  being overly self sacrificing.

A deficient heart chakra can make you withdrawn, cold, critical, judgemental, intolerant, narcissistic.

When you know your tendencies in imbalance, you can make changes that will improve your experience in love and relationships.

Source text: Eastern Body, Western Mind, by Anodea Judith

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Today I’m inspired by the book ⁠Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience,⁠ by Brené Brown, and her explanation of hope–what it is, what it isn’t, and what I realized is true about hope from a chakras perspective.

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Think of chakra blocks as boulders on your path or dams in your river. Your whole system flows with your life force, your prana, your energy–but anytime there’s something that flows there is opportunity for a roadblock.

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A feeling of abundance, when your cups overflow, is a sign of a healthy and supportive chakra one and two. All your basic needs are met, so you can enjoy your life and its pleasures.  But when life gets to be too much, too spread out, whatever energy you have is pouring out everywhere, not held within the steady boundaries of the riverbanks, you might become overly emotional or sensitive as your bandwidth for stress diminishes.  The river dries up. 

You feel depleted.

Or at least that’s how it feels when it happens to me!

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If you or someone you know is a little "extra," this episode is for you!

This episode is an interview with Chelsea Cohen, a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor. We get to have a great conversation (spoiler alert--it's chakra two emotions stuff!) about so many things, including:

> Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and what it’s premise is.

> What is the middle path?

> What are the most challenging things people come up against with self awareness, emotions, identifying patterns, and creating positive change in their lives. 

Interview outline by minute:

7: DBT is evidence based therapy for people who have difficulty regulating their emotions. 

11: What are the steps and goals of DBT?

23: What is “urge surfing?” 

25: Finding the “middle path” as the synthesis between opposites.

31:30: What are some “superpowers” of people who feel emotions in the extremes?

32: 30: Nature vs. Nurture? “Orchids and tulips”

Austin DBT Associates (ADBTA) is Austin's premier agency for adherent, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for adults, adolescents, families and couples.

They have immediate openings in the in-person and virtual, adult and adolescent (ages 13-17) DBT and RO-DBT group skills classes. The current group schedule can be found on our website: https://www.adbta.com/our-services. In addition to group skills classes, we continue to offer in-person and virtual individual, couples and family therapy. 

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Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor specializing in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). She is originally from the Texas Panhandle and attended the University of Oklahoma where she received her Bachelor of Arts in English. After graduating, Chelsea worked in higher education administration as an academic advisor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Later Chelsea completed her Master of Arts in Counseling at St. Edward’s University where she was a Presidential Fellow and Outstanding Graduate Student in Counseling. Chelsea completed her graduate internship in the DBT Intensive Outpatient Program at Ascension Seton Behavioral Health Care and has been facilitating inpatient, intensive outpatient and outpatient DBT skills training groups since graduating in 2013. Chelsea specializes in treating adults diagnosed with mood, anxiety, personality and substance use disorders. In addition to extensive training in DBT, Chelsea is also trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Substance Use Disorders (DBT-SUD).  Chelsea enjoys working with clients to identify how they can effectively utilize coping skills to maintain sobriety and build a life worth living. In addition to seeing clients in private practice and serving as Director of Operations for Austin DBT Associates, Chelsea is an adjunct faculty member in the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences at St. Edward’s University where she teaches Abnormal Psychology. Chelsea resides in Austin, TX with her husband, son, and two dogs.

This episode is all about self care, specifically care of your physical self,  beyond the bubble bath and pedicures. This is REAL care–not the recommendations of health gurus who sell you supplements, or IG posts that remind you you are worthy. This is self love at chakra one, at the base of your mountain: giving your body grace, gratitude, and goodness. 

If you've ever had an injury or a chronic condition, or you have one now, I hope this episode will bring you a new perspective on caring for your body with an attitude of gentleness. I've learned a lot about being gentler with myself, and I know I'm not the only one who has some room for growth in this area.

If this episode rings true for you or helps in any way, please subscribe and leave a review!

Much love

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>Where it is, what it is, and what it does

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This episode is all about our body’s cues and communication with us. I’m hoping that you will open up to a relationship with your body that is inquisitive, compassionate, and caring. We continue our conversation around muladhara, or chakra one.

Here are some clues we discuss in listening to our body's signals:

May you pay attention to your earth suit, hear what your system is whispering to you through pain and tightness,sleep, and ama, and may you practice patience and compassion as you guide yourself towards balance, one little practice at a time.

Much love

Helpful links and resources:

Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation, by Stephen Mitchell

The Book of Ayurveda: A Holistic Approach to Health and Longevity, by Judith H. Morrison

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Today’s episode is all about embodiment.

We ask, are you actually living IN your body, WHERE your body is? Or are you more in your head, with your body as a bit of an afterthought?

This is the realm of muladhara, the work of the root chakra.

Physically, we place muladhara at the base of the spine.  Metaphorically, we place this at the base of the mountain.

Losing the sense of connection to our base, to our body, is often a culprit for increased worry/anxiety, weight gain, food issues, financial difficulty, and material obsession. It can be harder to focus, have proper boundaries, and generally practice good self care. If you’ve ever had major illness, surgery, physical abuse, or inherited trauma–you might have some work to do at chakra one.  From my experience, though, we could all use a little love at muladhara.

Embodiment challenge! Choose one to do this week:

As a certified yoga therapist, I work 1:1 with clients for goals they have to feel better, body, mind and spirit. Quite often, we must begin at the base–at muladhara–at the element of earth–before we can even address low back pain, anxiety, or weight loss. It’s something I come back to again and again in my own life as well.

To practice embodiment is to take your physical wellness and connection into your own hands, feel, be in, and accept your life just as it is, and learn to trust that life is conspiring in your favor, all your needs will be met, and life is abundant.

Much love

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Today’s episode is all about self-awareness: 

You are not alone on the mountain of life, but it sure is good to take some time to figure out how much you know about your closest climbing companion–YOURSELF. 

Love, Jess

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Today we're asking the question "What's a chakra"? 

In this episode, I'm going to simplify this large concept of what a chakra is, which will hopefully be useful as we continue this journey together in learning how to use the chakras as a tool for self-awareness.

Love, Jess

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