Curious Monki | Yoga, Spirituality + Wellness

Believe that your possibilities are limitless. In this episode, Jessica Dimas and I sit down for an in-depth conversation about the hurdles of entrepreneurship and why trusting your intuition to lead you is always the right choice.

Listen to discover:

• How to use joy as a compass to guide you through challenges as an entrepreneur.
• The #1 question that Jessica asks herself before she makes a decision.
• Being spirit-led doesn't mean you're immune to the demands of running a business. Jessica reveals how she manages the pressure to "show up" daily.
• Intuitively we know that we are enough. Jessica shares how this belief helped her in every stage of her business.

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RESOURCES:

Join me on New Years Eve

If you're in YYC, join me for an in person workshop at Yoga Passage on December 31st. Sign up at: https://www.passagestudios.ca/events-and-workshops/2021/12/31/-workshop-nye-create-the-life-you-are-meant-for

Listen to Part I: Ep 220 Connecting With Your Higher Self & Dwelling In The Magic

Full Show Notes:

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Have you ever realized that you're getting caught up in the whirlwind of doing too much but you don't know how to stop?

You know that self-care is important and that it's probably a good idea to slow down, surrender and be in the present moment... but you can't seem to unclench.

In this episode, I give you an easy, simple and soothing way to surrender. While vacations and spa visits are great, this way that I show you is more immediate and accessible to help bring you back to a sense of peace.

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Join me on New Years Eve

If you're in YYC, join me for an in person workshop at Yoga Passage on December 31st. Sign up at: https://www.passagestudios.ca/events-and-workshops/2021/12/31/-workshop-nye-create-the-life-you-are-meant-for

Let's get connected!

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In this episode I talk with author of the spiritual self-care blog Dwell In Magic, Jessica Dimas, about connecting to your highest self, manifesting and how to dwell in the magic. Jessica shares her story about how she visualized what she wanted, owned her power, and went from using food stamps to running a successful blog.

Listen to discover:

• How to connect with your highest self for answers through dreams

• How to shift the narrative inside your head so that you can tune into better feeling thoughts

• How to manifest even if you're too attached to your desire because you really, really, reallllyyy want it

• How your joy is more powerful than you think

[7:44-8:55] Starting a successful blog Dwell In Magic

• Jessica shares her story of going from being a stressed out mom to learning about self care
• Eventually this is the path that led her to begin the Dwell In Magic blog.

[10:58-11:20] What was the shift in your life that changed that perspective?

• Hitting financial rock bottom helped Jessica realize the negative thought patterns that she had.
• Jessica shares what shifted when she decided that the old thoughts just weren't working

[14:37-15:15] What did you change so that you could start changing the narrative inside your head?

• Changing thoughts and embracing gratitude

[21:02-21:25] Connecting with your higher self through dreams

• How to get answers from your higher self while sleeping
• Jessica's personal practice

[37:08-38:10] Signs of spiritual awakening

• What Jessica's spiritual awakenings looked like
• Signs that often indicate a spiritual awakening

[47:58-48:27] The biggest lesson that you've learned along the way

Surrender and trust no matter the situation works all the time. Hand it over to your highest self and trust that everything will unfold for everyone's highest good.

Journaling can help but even just a simple acknowledgement works.

[47:58-48:27] A nugget of wisdom for fellow seekers who are also on this journey of growth and transformation

Trust yourself, trust what you feel. Don't feel like others have it all figured out b/c they don't. They also get their answers from their higher selves. What you desire to learn about is also the direction that you're meant to go in.

• This episode is brought to you by Offering Tree. If you're looking for an all-in-one business platform to put your wellness brand online, use my link to get a special discount offeringtree.com/curious

• Speakers Mentioned: Abraham Hicks

• Book recommendation: Infinite Possibilities by Mike Dooley

• Book recommendation: A Course In Miracles

Visit Jessica's blog: Dwell In Magic

Let's get connected!

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In today's episode, I share one of my favorite practices to help keep your energy in check so that you don't feel like a used sponge by the end of the day. This is a practice that I share with clients and also use on myself every single morning. It's one of the worst feelings to feel depleted, like you're just a bystander in your own life because you don't even have the energy to fully participate in it. Yuck! Nobody wants that. Listen in to see how you can nip energy depletion in the bud.

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Learn how to do more of what you love by listening to stories from other yoga teachers, healers, and coaches about how they first got started.

Discover what they did to first make money, how they actually got started, and how they overcame their struggles like fear and burnout along the way.

Ashley Sondergaard, self-care coach and host of the Yoga Magic Podcast, felt the desire to help people with their self-care…maybe become a self-care coach or something. The fear part of her told her "it's a silly idea" and "there are already so many people doing that already" but she went and did it anyway. Today, she lives her desire of helping cultivate self-care.

This episode is about how she did it - how she overcame the fear, how she started and lessons learned from other challenges encountered.

Whether you're someone who's feeling inadequate, hating your job and trying to find your purpose, Ashley's story will be of great value to help you move forward!

In this episode, discover:

• How to create a life of doing what you love without having to give up what you aren't willing to do.

• How self-compassion pushed the button for Ashley to start chasing her dream of becoming a self-care coach

• A deeper understanding of how to break-free on the chains and challenges of self-resistance and use it to your advantage

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Resources Mentioned

• This episode is brought to you by Offering Tree. If you're looking for an all-in-one business platform to put your wellness brand online, use my link to get a special discount offeringtree.com/curious

• Listen to Ashley and my episode on her podcast Yoga Magic

Connect with Ashley Sondergaard

Website: www.ashleysondergaard.com

Instagram: @ashleysondergaard.yoga & @yogamagicpodcas

Listen to her podcast Yoga Magic with Ashley Sondergaard and explore the world of self-care and self-discovery

Let's get connected!

You can find me on Instagram @curiousmonki. Visit my website https://www.veronicathai.com

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There will be days when things feel hard and you might even feel discouraged because following what's true to you isn't the easy the path. The easy path is comfortable and you get to just follow along.

But it also keeps you small. You aren't challenged or stretched. You don't get to expand into all that you might become.

Following what's true to you challenges how you view yourself and the world. It pushes you (lovingly) to expand into who you really are.

This episode is inspiration for the days when it feels hard and you find yourself becoming small and stuck tight in a bud again.

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Resources:

Book - The War Of Art by Steven Pressfield

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"Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self to the self… What we really truly desire, want, and crave that could actually fulfill us is when we settle back into our own wholeness." - Veronica Thai

In this episode of the Curious Monki Podcast, Ashley Sondergaard and I have an amazing conversation about creating more self-compassion, how practicing self-care doesn't automatically cultivate self-compassion in your life, and tools that we use to elevate our self-care.

Ashley Sondergaard is a self-care coach, yoga teacher, astrologer, and host of the Yoga Magic podcast. For 9 years, she has studied yoga, meditation, astrology and mindfulness practices that prioritize self-care and self-discovery. After having her two girls, Ashley discovered the hard way that taking care of yourself first is the only way to take care of others. Today, she supports her students & clients in up-leveling their everyday routines into magical self-care rituals.

[00:01 – 05:19] Recovering Perfectionists and Ex-Hustlers

• Ashley and I introduce ourselves

[05:20 – 16:21] The Biggest Life Shifts When We Stopped Hustling

• How I switched from hustle to ease
• • Having to first uncover what ease and flow really meant
  • Starting in school, the pressure to get 100% marks and the nagging urge of never being enough carried itself into the corporate world, overworking, always wanting the next position, never being satisfied with which rung in the corporate ladder I stood on
  • Bringing the hustle mentality into my yoga business
  • How my life shifted when I hired my first coach
• How Ashley hustled for a pipe dream that wasn't even hers
• • Getting off the structured corporate pathway she was on enabled her to question what she really wanted
• We are not linear beings

[16:22 – 26:48] Are We There Yet?

• Divine feminine and masculine energy and how to ground yourself when you're getting impatient with your process
• • Hustling starts in your mind
  • What are you making it mean?
• Ashley and I share where we want to bring more self-compassion into our lives
• • When something fearful or uncomfortable happens, our instinct is to want to breathe it away, but sometimes letting it stay and heal on its own is the best form of self-compassion
  • How Ashley learns about herself through astrology, where she thrives, is challenged, how she interacts with the world and the people around her

[31:35 – 41:39] Self Compassion Means Embracing All OThe Pieces of Yourself

• Ashley and I dive deeper into astrology
• • Ascendant and descendant signs
  • • As a life coach, you probably attract a lot of clients that have the energy of your descendant
• Looking at birth charts to help navigate self-care
• • The sun is your essence, your identity, and where you're shining the brightest. Use your sun sign to determine your physical practices

[41:40 – 52:27] Our Biggest Self Compassion and Spiritual Journey Lessons

• Ashley
• • Know yourself
  • Don't shit on yourself
  • Trust the process
  • We are more powerful than we realize
• Veronica
• • Yoga is the journey of self
  • Hold space for yourself
  • Breathe
  • Be with the fear

[52:27 – 53:43] Closing Segment

• Connect with Ashley Sondergaard! (Her links are below)

Key Quotes:

"When I first quit my job, started teaching yoga and a podcast, thinking I'm now aligned, I still brought in that habit of hustle… It was highly unhealthy and it was that self-pressure of not being able to stop until you reach a certain point. And it wasn't until I hired my very first coach, who was fantastic, that she broke that mentality for me." - Veronica Thai

"We are not linear beings, we are human beings, we're part of nature, which means that we're cyclical, just like how the seasons change from season to season, just like how trees change with the seasons, leaves grow, leaves fall off. We are human." - Veronica Thai

"Coaches need coaches too." - Ashley Sondergaard

"When I look at a birth chart, whether it be mine, my partners, my kids, my friends, or my family, I get to see who they are at their essence. And that's not always like good or bad. There are spectrums to every part of the chart and what we choose to embody. Whatever we decide to take on at that moment is really up to us." - Ashley Sondergaard

"My biggest lessons for self-compassion is to know yourself, don't sh*t on yourself, and just trust the process." - Ashley Sondergaard

Resources Mentioned

• This episode is brought to you by Offering Tree. If you're looking for an all-in-one business platform to put your wellness brand online, use my link to get a special discount offeringtree.com/curious

• Listen to Ashley and my episode on her podcast Yoga Magic

• Speakers mentioned

• Tara Brach

• Lisa Nichols

Connect with Ashley Sondergaard

Website: www.ashleysondergaard.com

Instagram: @ashleysondergaard.yoga & @yogamagicpodcas

Listen to her podcast Yoga Magic with Ashley Sondergaard and explore the world of self-care and self-discovery

Let's get connected!

You can find me on Instagram @curiousmonki. Visit my website https://www.veronicathai.com

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Behind every difficult emotion is a nugget of wisdom waiting to be discovered. Instead of being overtaken by a difficult emotion like anxiety, fear, sadness or anger, use this tool. It will help you sit with compassion and discover the inner wisdom that lies beneath the struggle.

While the conscious mind is factual and logical, the subconscious mind works in metaphors. That's why you can't think your way out of a feeling.

You can use this metaphor tool for any emotional struggle that you're experiencing.

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Learn how to do more of what you love by listening to stories from other yoga teachers, healers, and coaches about how they first got started.

Discover what they did to first make money, how they actually got started, and how they overcame their struggles like fear and burnout along the way.

Today we hear from manifestation coach & host of 'The Manifest Edit' podcast, Efia Sulter.

After university, Efia struggled with figuring out what she was going to do with the rest of her life. Despite being bogged down by anxiety and depression, she eventually found her way to doing what lights her up.

In this episode you'll discover:

• What action/tools helped bring Efia from feeling like her life couldn't get any worse to feeling like her life was more amazing than she could imagine
• Why it's important to stay aligned to your values
• The value of getting the right support in your journey

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Learn how to do more of what you love by listening to stories from other yoga teachers, healers, and coaches about how they first got started.

Discover what they did to first make money, how they actually got started, and how they overcame their struggles like fear and burnout along the way.

Today we hear from manifestation coach & host of 'The Manifest Edit' podcast, Efia Sulter.

After university, Efia struggled with figuring out what she was going to do with the rest of her life. Despite being bogged down by anxiety and depression, she eventually found her way to doing what lights her up.

In this episode you'll discover:

• What action/tools helped bring Efia from feeling like her life couldn't get any worse to feeling like her life was more amazing than she could imagine
• Why it's important to stay aligned to your values
• The value of getting the right support in your journey

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