Emotional Compass

Dr. Brooke Higgins is a Licensed and Board Certified Primary Care Physician specializing as an Acupuncture Physician. We discuss with her how Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) talks about how emotions and physical health are intimately connected. This integrated mind-body approach to health and healing operates in a dynamic loop where emotions impact the health of the body and vice versa. Download the chart on how the energy of emotions effects the organs: https://bit.ly/2Ja5SXB

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• Traditional Chinese Medicine - How the Energy of Emotions Effects the Physical Organs

Recounting our personal anecdotes of the many times music has healed us, uplifted us or even pulled us out of darkness. For Abiel, it has been playing the Ukelele and for Bodhi it has been his experience with ecstatic dance.

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Bodhi talks about his travels through Arizona, Utah, and Colorado, while sharing some insights and epiphanies as he reconnected with nature.

In the previous episode we talked about the creator of the Enneagram. In this episode we explore the Enneagram personality types and how they relate to your everyday life and can further your personal development. To dive deeper into the personality types checkout The Wisdom Of The Enneagram.

Claudio Naranjo was a remarkable individual whose major contribution to our society was the Enneagram. In discovering his background we came upon his last book The Revolution We Expected, which talks about the state of our modern society and how we can change things for a better future.

We explore the book called The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest where the author talks about how to transform self-sabotage into self-mastery. The book has insights, anecdotes, and wisdom on how to identify self-defeating patterns and overcome them to live a life where you can leave a legacy behind.

The author David Deida, talks about the masculine and feminine energies and how they come together to form the yin and yang of a relationship. Not to be mistaken with the male and female bodies. In his book, Way of the Superior Man, the author proposes that either gender can embody the masculine or feminine energies. When a couple understands their dominant energy they can then bring about harmony in their relationship.

Kayleigh Oser is an award-wining podcaster, her podcast is called What I Love About You. Besides being a podcaster, she's a mother of four, a daughter of a minister, and her husband is also a minister to the youth. She shares about growing up as a preacher's kid, navigating life as a busy mom, and dealing with life during a pandemic.

One of the keys to a happy life is knowing yourself. In Emotional Agility, Susan David leverages ACT therapy to help us navigate our feelings by giving us the tools we need to avoid the emotional ruts that keep us from reaching our potential.