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Today, we have an amazing Inner Coach Practitioner joining us. Jen Sprague is a health and life coach who used her own health challenges and chronic stress as the launching pad for her business.

She helps people transform their health in a way that honours the mind-body connection. And by helping them change their health, she is also able to help her clients transform their entire lives as a result.

In this conversation, we talk about:

• The impact of stress, mindset, and life circumstances in creating disease and disruptions in our physical bodies
• How to approach self-care from a place of intention and purpose. You'll also learn how to create your own nourishment menu
• Why play matters and how to incorporate it into your everyday life

Connect with Jen at https://bestselfwithjensprague.com/

This episode is one you can return to on a regular basis whenever you need it. Today, we'll be looking at Kayla's all-time favourite framework for slaying & thriving.

Having an inspiring and effective framework for approaching your goals, your life, and your challenges can change everything. It starts by changing the way we think, which effects our emotions. And it's our emotions that drive our choices, which then drive our results.

And our framework can sometimes shift depending on life circumstances, especially when things get hard. This episode can serve as a resource whenever hard times come up and you need a boost to return to a place of progress.

There will probably always be things in our lives that feel hard as we work towards our best selves and our best lives.

The good news is that there is one strategy that will make any hard thing easy. Tune in to today's episode to find out how you can apply this to any area of your life.

Hard is also going to be relative and vary from person to person. However, most people would probably feel that writing an entire book in one month (or writing a book at all) qualifies as a hard thing.

This is a special episode that will also share Kayla's National Novel Writing Month journey. She finished this year's project on November 14th - over two weeks early. You'll hear about her best practices for taking on a book-writing challenge, and how it's evolved over the years.

Not all shortcuts are bad. In fact, shortcuts can be a powerful way to ensure you slay and thrive.

Shortcuts can save you time and energy. They can also create a more joyful path forwards as you pursue your goals.

Today, we're going to be talking all about three powerful shortcuts with taking as you continue your journey towards your best lives ever. We'll also be including one bonus shortcut at the end as well.

I was honoured to have a special guest on this episode. Gabriela is a fellow member of the Inner Coach community, and I've experienced her magic during a practice session together. She is an author, healer, coach, magician... and many more things.

From Gabriela's website: Gabriela’s been steeping in universal wisdom teachings, contemplative expressive arts and energy medicine for over 20 years. Her guidance is infused with pure love and sober clarity. Her skills dive into the heart of matters, using the creative process as a catalyst for transformation. She is passionate about pioneering what it means to be fully alive.

In today's episode, we talk about a number of magical topics, including:

• The wisdom hidden inside our dreams and how to unlock that wisdom. I learned from Gabriela that there are no bad dreams.
• How to use all kinds of creative processes to activate a more full, unlimited life. We also talked about where resistance to certain types of creativity. For some, it might be drawing, singing, dancing, or writing. We talk about how to overcome these blocks.
• The power of healing modalities for greater joy and fulfilment, particularly the Superconscious Transformation Method, which we have both become trained in.
• The power of the feminine and how to access this magic in a masculine-centric world.

Enjoy this deep, juicy, expansive conversation with Gabriela. Learn more about here at her website: https://gabrielamasala.com/

There is no shortage of nutrition information in the world. There must be hundreds of thousands of books, podcast episodes, articles, Youtube videos, and blog posts. There's also no shortage of contradictions within this information.

Many people swear by Keto, while others choose vegan or vegetarian styles of eating. Some people get great results with a certain program, while another might not see any results at all.

After consuming countless resources on nutrition and obtaining two nutrition certifications, Kayla have discovered that there is one nutrition strategy that has trumped all the rest in her own life. It's allowed her to achieve her greatest health, get consistent with her habits, and heal from her pattern of binge eating.

This nutrition strategy can work for anyone, regardless of what their dietary preferences are.

• Unapologetic body confidence
• Unapologetic self-worth - which includes embracing our imperfections
• Unapologetic ownership of our stories and our past

"Finding joy in what you're doing is not an added feature. It is a sign of deep health." - Mark Nepo

This episode is an invitation to check-in with yourself. Are you finding joy in what you're doing? Ask yourself this across the board. Are you finding joy in your relationships, how you spend your free time, your job, how you're pursuing your goals?

If not, we're going to be discussing ways you can not only find the joy, but choose joy. We can find joy in our perspective, and we can also choose it with our decisions and our actions.

Choosing joy is one of the greatest things you can do if you want to spend more time thriving. You'll get strategies for how to both find and actively cultivate more joy into your life.

We have an incredible interview with Corinne Underwood today. Corinne is a Sex, Intimacy & Relationship coach. She was also one of my coaches, so I was even more delighted to have her on the podcast.

We talk about the importance of sexual alignment and how it looks different for everyone. We talk about pleasure and play. We talk about the importance of being in our bodies versus being disconnected from them. We also talk about how struggles with body image and diet are often connected to struggles with our sexuality and sexual desires.

Corinne shares some of her best practices for incorporating more play into everyday life, minimizing the detrimental effects of shame, and creating more  fulfillment and intimacy in our romantic relationships.

You can find more information about Corinne's work, how she came help you on your journey, and booking your discovery call with her at https://choicesforsexualhealth.com/.

"One of the recurring core truths I witness about the human psyche is that those who face the darkest parts of their life with courage, loving acceptance, and surrender — always — experience a massive blossoming in their life after. Confront the dragon; get the gold."
- Eric Godsey

Oftentimes, we spend so much time fighting one dragon in our life - whether it's our weight, our debt, or something other external issue - that we expend all our energy. Then we realize that there was another meaner, scarier dragon hiding behind the external challenges we're facing.

Our limiting beliefs. Our wounds from the past. Our trapped emotions. All the blocks that have been hiding behind our surface-level problems.

We can't get to our best lives without slaying the dragons lurking below the surface. Shadow work is essential for healing and thriving. Join Kayla as she gives you strategies for slaying the dragons in your life.