Today’s guest, Cynthia Lorena, is a yoga teacher and energy healer. We talk about healing anxiety through yoga and mindfulness, the pressure to look a certain way while practicing yoga on social media, the beauty of energy healing, a breakdown of the 7 chakras, evolving into who you really are, and SO MUCH MORE.

 

Head to Cynthia's website to learn about the retreats and classes she teaches! cynthialorena.com and follow her on Instagram at @cynthialorena.

 

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We all know someone or experience for ourselves some form of mental health disorder. In this episode, we chat with Roberta Marin to break down mental health stigmas and elevate supportive and compassionate discussion around anxiety and depression.

 

Roberta Marin is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in New York City. She is all about helping people be their best selves. Roberta started her own practice this year and works with women on a wide range of mental health issues including depression, anxiety, relationship issues, and women’s issues.

 

This episode is filled with valuable takeaways and action items to begin exploring how counseling could be beneficial to you or someone you know. We talk about how social media plays a roll in how we feel about ourselves and others, dating apps, stigmas, and the journey to becoming your most true self. 

 

Roberta's IG: @robertamarinpsych

Learn more about Roberta here.

 

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We all know that sleep is essential for our physical and emotional well-being. Just as sleep plays a role in our mind-body connection, allowing us to be more emotionally and physically well, sleep and spirituality go hand in hand as well.  Sleep is really a practice of letting go and surrendering to the experience of the soul. 

The sleep-soul connection is an often overlooked, and powerful tool that we have to live our most vibrant (and awake) lives.                    

The secret to getting good sleep and aligning your sleep-soul connection is DOING THE SPIRITUAL WORK DURING THE DAY.

Here are four ways to strengthen your sleep-soul connection

Spiritual intention

 

Asanas: Chandra Namaskar

Learn the movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-QxVypp86U

 

Mantra: I accept and connect with the spirit of deep sleep.

 

Breath (pranayama): Nadi Shodhana (Alternate Nostril Breathing)

See what alternate nostril breathing looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH3n55NnJg8

                                                                                                                                                      

There are so many extremely useful and scientifically proven ways to improve your sleep- I encourage you to research what works best for you and truly honor your body.

Everyone has this amazing [masculine and feminine] duality within themselves and that is what makes women especially special. - Emma Marty

Emma Marty is the designer, silversmith, and owner of the handmade jewelry company-- Emma Marty Jewelry.

In this episode, we discuss what it’s like to be a feminine entrepreneur in the masculine industry of silversmithing and how we can embrace different aspects of our personality in order to attract an authentic audience.

A lot of women embody a balance between masculine and feminine energy, and everyone presents it differently. Emma teaches us that we can tap into different parts of ourselves and manifest our masculine and feminine natures in so many different ways.

Authenticity attracts authenticity--- honor your true self!

 

To see some of Emma’s beautiful work, find her on instagram: @emmamarty_jewelry

To purchase from one of her collections visit: http://www.emmamarty.com/

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Listen to this if you're feeling unmotivated or down on pursuing your dreams!

 

Meghan talks about why we should reframe 'failure' as the most wonderful and positive thing that could happen to you on your journey. 

 

Consider this: Failure is never bad. Failure is amazing. Failure is the strongest, most accurate, most in your face wonderful coach you’ll ever have.

 

It tells you when things need to be adjusted, worked on, rethought. It’s teaching you with experience.

 

 

Drown out the noise of others who are uninspired and who try to drag you down in their lack of aspiration or imagination. Dream big, dive in, use failure as cues to change direction and keeping building on your dreams.

 

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In this episode, we chat with Aly- a denim artist and the founder of The Untrend Shop.

Aly lives in NYC and elevates consumers to think about what they wear and how that relates to who they are and how they feel. She is paving the way as an independent designer in the fashion industry by embracing individual style, even if that means being off-trend.

Starting this journey just over one year ago, she has now launched The Untrend Shop which encourages consumers to be uniquely themselves and embrace their authenticity through custom denim.

 

This episode is all about breaking down the expectations that society puts on us and gives perspective on how we can embrace consumer culture in ways that make us authentically happy.

 

Follow Aly’s amazing work on Instagram: @alyuntrend // @theuntrendshop

 

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Danielle Dillard is a coach, energy healer, writer, yoga teacher, and akashic channeler. She has a magnetic way of living and is absolutely passionate about helping others find their soul alignment. We chat about energy, soul, spirituality, attachments, ego, relationships, and what it means to play. 

 

This episode is packed with relatable stories and lessons and carries an overall message to find your inner light and trust it. Danielle believes all of the answers we seek are already within us and it's just a matter of getting back to the soul-level connection we all have. 

 

Connect with Danielle!

Her website here.

Her Instagram here. 

Her coaching here. 

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In this episode, Krista has a conversation with Cassandra Bodzak about the secrets to tapping back into our body’s wisdom and redirecting that energy towards living our most authentic lives.

Cassandra is the author of the best selling book “Eat with Intention: Recipes and Meditations for a Life the Lights You Up” the happy, healthy living guru from ABC’s The Taste, the founder of the online mind-body-soul support community, Aprecity.com and so much more. Cassandra helps women make peace with their body, quiet their mind and reconnect with their soul. 

Craving a super juicy life? Cassandra shares her Practical Magic Training, a six-month training to awaken your mind-body connection and tap into its divine wisdom. You can find more information here: http://www.practicalmagictraining.com/indoctrination-page-19859934

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Jessica Rich, MS, MHC-LP is a mental health counselor, yoga teacher, and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Mental Health Counseling in New York City. 

 

Jessica became inspired to choose this career after she was going through challenging times as a child and began meeting with a therapist at the age of 8.

 

The therapy ended up being life-changing for Jessica and the close and nonjudgmental relationship she developed with her therapist was the catalyst for her wanting to someday be that person for others who needed someone to listen.

 

In her work today, Jessica backs everything up with scientific studies to talk through individual issues and work toward feeling better. She specializes in working with couples, anxiety, depression, LGBTQ issues, grief, and women’s issues.

 

We talk about why communication is the key to a healthy and long-lasting relationship, why we should never settle, ways we can know when we've found 'the one', and the importance of mastering openness and vulnerability with our partners. 

 

If you're in the NYC area and would like to work with Jessica, you can contact her for more information at [email protected] and find her Psychology Today profile here and her Instagram page here. 

 

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In this episode, Krista describes what it means to embrace change.

What changes are you going through right now? Are you going to college for the first time, moving to another city, experiencing a breakup, developing new relationships, or starting a new job? Understanding how you deal with change and embracing, rather than resisting, that change can help to bring you back to yourself.

There are three ways to embrace change:

1.Think of change as an opportunity.

2.Challenge your ideas of certainty.

3.Embrace the present moment.

One thing that we all know deep down is that change is necessary to living and fulfilling our most authentic lives.

Without change, we could never grow into the life that we are meant to live.

 

Tara Brach, Responding to Change with a Wise Heart: https://www.tarabrach.com/responding-change-wise-heart/

 

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