Fearless Self-Love

Do you believe you are worth the love you give others? I don't mean do you think others should love you as much as I mean, do you believe you deserve your own love. Yes, you can pause here. Breathe. This is a big question. It's the question Melanie Redd and I explore in this wide-ranging interview in which she shares her story of self-love by way of parenthood at an early age, launching a fitness business and learning new sports in her forties.

Melanie has passion for making self-love a prerequisite for meeting particular fitness goals. Looking at our bodies with disgust gets us nowhere we want to be, and fast. Listen in for tips to move gently into self-love no matter what your wellness goals are.

• Why authenticity is worth the hard work
• How to take a compliment, and mean it!
• How to learn something new at any age

Links Mentioned in Your Episode:

• Fearless Self-Love Retreat: www.fearlessselflove.com
• Dancing Spirit Ranch https://www.dancingspiritranch.com/workshops-retreats/
• Brené Brown: The Daring Way https://thedaringway.org/
• Email Andrea to sign up for the retreat bonus: [email protected]
• Fearless Self-Love Retreat www.fearlessselflove.com
• Shapr App where Melanie & I met http://www.shapr.co/
• Natha Campanella Interview Cancer Season and Pitta Dosha ~ http://fearlessselflove.libsyn.com/bonus-6-cancer-season-pitta-dosha
• Glennon Melton's Love Warrior https://momastery.com/blog/about-glennon/
• Can You Take a Compliment? Blog Post https://www.groundedhere.com/single-post/2018/01/15/Can-You-Take-A-Compliment
• Yoga Health Coaching www.yogahealthcoaching.com

Show Highlights:

02:15 Fearless Self-love Retreat Early Bird Bonus Details!!

06:36 Easeful LIving Practice ~ Cooling Breath

11:14 Interview with Melanie Redd begins

14:14 What does it mean to deserve self-love?

18:58 Melanie's personal journey into self-love and self-care -- intentional life disruption as an act of self-love

32:42 The work it takes to be authentic and why it's worth it. We can all do hard things.

52:21 How to take a compliment -- "Thank you, it's true." (hat tip: Yoga Health

Coaching community)

1:05:40 How to shift and name boundaries in order to show up and being loving to myself.

1:10:03 Learning new things at any age is possible, including skateboarding at 40 and snowboarding at 42

Favorite Quotes

"I'm learning to skateboard; what's the big deal?" -- Melanie Redd

"There is great risk for people to not love themselves." -- Melanie Redd

"The moment I found out I was pregnant was the day I started practicing the figure-it-out way of life." -- Melanie Redd

"I'm done sending my representative; I'm going to send me!" -- Andrea Catherine (in reference to Glennon Melton in Love Warrior)

"I just don't want to feel, ever again, like I'm coming from that place of inauthenticity, and I want to do the work that it takes to be authentic." -- Melanie Redd

"You've got to work on yourself, and I don't think I can help you with it." -- Melanie's husband

"The act of being vulnerable includes admitting what we don't know." --Andrea Catherine

Meet Melanie:

Melanie Redd is a Fitness business owner and runs a virtual training program for holistic exercise and total wellness programs. She is also a Strength & Conditioning Coach for a highschool football team and specializes in Functional Movement and corrective exercise for athletic performance and reduced injury risk.

Do you believe you are worth the love you give others? I don’t mean do you think others should love you as much as I mean, do you believe you deserve your own love. Yes, you can pause here. Breathe. This is a big question. It’s the question Melanie Redd and I explore in this wide-ranging interview in which she shares her story of self-love by way of parenthood at an early age, launching a fitness business and learning new sports in her forties.

Melanie has passion for making self-love a prerequisite for meeting particular fitness goals. Looking at our bodies with disgust gets us nowhere we want to be, and fast. Listen in for tips to move gently into self-love no matter what your wellness goals are.

• Why authenticity is worth the hard work
• How to take a compliment, and mean it!
• How to learn something new at any age

Links Mentioned in Your Episode:

• Fearless Self-Love Retreat: www.fearlessselflove.com
• Dancing Spirit Ranch https://www.dancingspiritranch.com/workshops-retreats/
• Brené Brown: The Daring Way https://thedaringway.org/
• Email Andrea to sign up for the retreat bonus: [email protected]
• Fearless Self-Love Retreat www.fearlessselflove.com
• Shapr App where Melanie & I met http://www.shapr.co/
• Natha Campanella Interview Cancer Season and Pitta Dosha ~ http://fearlessselflove.libsyn.com/bonus-6-cancer-season-pitta-dosha
• Glennon Melton’s Love Warrior https://momastery.com/blog/about-glennon/
• Can You Take a Compliment? Blog Post https://www.groundedhere.com/single-post/2018/01/15/Can-You-Take-A-Compliment
• Yoga Health Coaching www.yogahealthcoaching.com

Show Highlights:

02:15 Fearless Self-love Retreat Early Bird Bonus Details!!

06:36 Easeful LIving Practice ~ Cooling Breath

11:14 Interview with Melanie Redd begins

14:14 What does it mean to deserve self-love?

18:58 Melanie’s personal journey into self-love and self-care -- intentional life disruption as an act of self-love

32:42 The work it takes to be authentic and why it’s worth it. We can all do hard things.

52:21 How to take a compliment -- “Thank you, it’s true.” (hat tip: Yoga Health

Coaching community)

1:05:40 How to shift and name boundaries in order to show up and being loving to myself.

1:10:03 Learning new things at any age is possible, including skateboarding at 40 and snowboarding at 42

Favorite Quotes

“I’m learning to skateboard; what’s the big deal?” -- Melanie Redd

“There is great risk for people to not love themselves.” -- Melanie Redd

“The moment I found out I was pregnant was the day I started practicing the figure-it-out way of life.” -- Melanie Redd

“I’m done sending my representative; I’m going to send me!” -- Andrea Catherine (in reference to Glennon Melton in Love Warrior)

“I just don’t want to feel, ever again, like I’m coming from that place of inauthenticity, and I want to do the work that it takes to be authentic.” -- Melanie Redd

“You’ve got to work on yourself, and I don’t think I can help you with it.” -- Melanie’s husband

“The act of being vulnerable includes admitting what we don’t know.” --Andrea Catherine

Meet Melanie:

Melanie Redd is a Fitness business owner and runs a virtual training program for holistic exercise and total wellness programs. She is also a Strength & Conditioning Coach for a highschool football team and specializes in Functional Movement and corrective exercise for athletic performance and reduced injury risk.

Listen in as I chat with Laura Munson about her journey of self-love through the written word, and how she discovered she actually is a writer. She reminds us that the path we are often often surprises us, and that we need to be the ones to see in ourselves what is already of value. We need to give ourselves permission to be who we are, have it be easy and enjoyable.

In our conversation, Laura recounts her journey of writing a best-selling book and all that led to that point. She tells us about why she writes and recites quotes of other writers who inspire her to continue. Get a taste of why community is such an essential part of the process for a developing writer, and maybe you will end up on one of her famous Haven Writing Retreats here in Montana!

• When who we thought we wanted to become changes
• How community can enhance your writing experience
• Why be the one to give yourself permission to be just as you are

Links Mentioned:

• Dancing Spirit Ranch
• Brené Brown: The Daring Way
• Fearless Self-Love Retreat
• Laura Munson & Haven Writing Retreats
• Laura Munson's article in New York Times Modern Love column
• Terry Tempest Williams
• Naomi Shihab Nye

Show Highlights:

00:58 Fearless Self-Love Retreat: at home in your heart details

02:15 Easeful Living Practice: Write Before Read

05:57 Interview begins with Laura's story of Fearless Self-Love, including her submission to NY Times Modern Love

15:33 Laura's journey to knowing she was a writer

25:05 How having a community enhances Laura's writing & self-love

32:24 Haven Wander -- join Laura as she wander the globe

41:21 Strategy of being flexible

Favorite Quotes

"I sat at that intersection of heart and mind and craft...for a very long time before I let people see my work." -- Laura Munson

"Writing has become my practice, my prayer, my meditation, my way of life, and sometimes my way to life." -- Laura Munson

"All writers are mining their lives." -- Laura Munson

"I write to shine a light on a dim or otherwise pitchblack corner to provide relief for myself and others." -- Laura Munson

"Nobody asks you to be a writer." -- Laura Munson

"Miss Munson, this is not cinema! Take this to the fools in the English department." -- Laura's impression of her screenwriting professor

"I didn't want to be a writer." -- Laura Munson

"Turn the mirror on yourself and look into how you're already showing up in your life and where the flow is."-- Laura Munson

"I write in a solitude born of community." -- Terry Tempest Williams

"Community is the soil and all the things in the soil, the water and sunlight that are going to allow the seed to sprout, but the seed sprouts alone." -- Andrea Catherine

"Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us / we find poems. Check your garage, the off sock / in your drawer, the person you almost like, but not quite. / And let me know." -- Naomi Shihab Nye

"I can be this happy, alone, at home, in my own bed, but I just had to go to Italy to find out." -- Laura Munson

"I can't really hide if I want to get what I want." -- Andrea Catherine

"I give myself permission to be exactly who I am, and have it be easy...and fun." -- Laura Munson

Meet Laura:

Laura Munson is the author of the New York Times and international bestselling memoir This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness(Amy Einhorn/Putnam 2010) which Book of the Month Club named one of the best books of the year. It has been published in nine countries and has been featured in Vanity Fair, Elle, Redbook, Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, Publisher's Weekly and many other newspapers, magazines, and online venues across the globe.

Laura is the founder of Haven Writing Retreats, which Open Road Media ranked in the top five writing retreats in the United States, and speaks and teaches on the subject of voice and empowerment through creativity at conventions, corporations, universities and schools, retreat and wellness centers.

Her work has been published in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, O. Magazine, The Week, Huffington Post, Redbook, Woman's Day, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, More Magazine, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Sun, The Shambhala Sun, Big Sky Journal and others. She has appeared on Good Morning America, The Early Show, WGN, many NPR stations, Hay House radio, as well as other media including London's This Morning and Australia's Sunrise. She lives in Montana with her family.

Listen in as I chat with Laura Munson about her journey of self-love through the written word, and how she discovered she actually is a writer. She reminds us that the path we are often often surprises us, and that we need to be the ones to see in ourselves what is already of value. We need to give ourselves permission to be who we are, have it be easy and enjoyable.

In our conversation, Laura recounts her journey of writing a best-selling book and all that led to that point. She tells us about why she writes and recites quotes of other writers who inspire her to continue. Get a taste of why community is such an essential part of the process for a developing writer, and maybe you will end up on one of her famous Haven Writing Retreats here in Montana!

• When who we thought we wanted to become changes
• How community can enhance your writing experience
• Why be the one to give yourself permission to be just as you are

Links Mentioned:

• Dancing Spirit Ranch 
• Brené Brown: The Daring Way 
• Fearless Self-Love Retreat 
• Laura Munson & Haven Writing Retreats 
• Laura Munson’s article in New York Times Modern Love column 
• Terry Tempest Williams
• Naomi Shihab Nye

Show Highlights:

00:58 Fearless Self-Love Retreat: at home in your heart details

02:15 Easeful Living Practice: Write Before Read

05:57 Interview begins with Laura’s story of Fearless Self-Love, including her submission to NY Times Modern Love

15:33 Laura’s journey to knowing she was a writer

25:05 How having a community enhances Laura’s writing & self-love

32:24 Haven Wander -- join Laura as she wander the globe

41:21 Strategy of being flexible

Favorite Quotes

“I sat at that intersection of heart and mind and craft...for a very long time before I let people see my work.” -- Laura Munson

“Writing has become my practice, my prayer, my meditation, my way of life, and sometimes my way to life.” -- Laura Munson

“All writers are mining their lives.” -- Laura Munson

“I write to shine a light on a dim or otherwise pitchblack corner to provide relief for myself and others.” -- Laura Munson

“Nobody asks you to be a writer.” -- Laura Munson

“Miss Munson, this is not cinema! Take this to the fools in the English department.” -- Laura’s impression of her screenwriting professor

“I didn’t want to be a writer.” -- Laura Munson

“Turn the mirror on yourself and look into how you’re already showing up in your life and where the flow is.”-- Laura Munson

“I write in a solitude born of community.” -- Terry Tempest Williams

“Community is the soil and all the things in the soil, the water and sunlight that are going to allow the seed to sprout, but the seed sprouts alone.” -- Andrea Catherine

“Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us / we find poems. Check your garage, the off sock / in your drawer, the person you almost like, but not quite. / And let me know.” -- Naomi Shihab Nye

“I can be this happy, alone, at home, in my own bed, but I just had to go to Italy to find out.” -- Laura Munson

“I can’t really hide if I want to get what I want.” -- Andrea Catherine

“I give myself permission to be exactly who I am, and have it be easy...and fun.” -- Laura Munson

Meet Laura:

Laura Munson is the author of the New York Times and international bestselling memoir This Is Not The Story You Think It Is:  A Season of Unlikely Happiness(Amy Einhorn/Putnam 2010) which Book of the Month Club named one of the best books of the year.  It has been published in nine countries and has been featured in Vanity Fair, Elle, Redbook, Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, Publisher’s Weekly and many other newspapers, magazines, and online venues across the globe.

Laura is the founder of Haven Writing Retreats, which Open Road Media ranked in the top five writing retreats in the United States, and speaks and teaches on the subject of voice and empowerment through creativity at conventions, corporations, universities and schools, retreat and wellness centers.

Her work has been published in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, O. Magazine, The Week, Huffington Post, Redbook, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, More Magazine, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Sun, The Shambhala Sun, Big Sky Journal and others.  She has appeared on Good Morning America, The Early Show, WGN, many NPR stations, Hay House radio, as well as other media including London’s This Morning and Australia’s Sunrise.  She lives in Montana with her family.

Join me one Monday each month as I chat with Natha Campanella for a conversation about Ayurveda and Astrology!

NEW ON MONDAYS! Join Andrea and friends as they share 10-minute tidbits with you to start your week off with ease and joy. This week, Andrea speaks with Natha about Cancer Season and Pitta Dosha. How do you hit pause and nurture yourself? It's time to take a second and make sure you are nourishing your body with cooler foods and lots of water, both inside and out.

3 Bullet Points:

• Cancer, a water sign, is about home and family, with a motherly quality. Cancers are emotional secure and are selfless giver, but this can result in a 'giving to get' mentality.
• Pitta out of balance can have a hot temper or be very passionate, but can stay very focused. Strong Pitta energy learns quickly and remember things, and chase after adrenaline.
• It's a tough task, but start asking for what you want.

Show Highlights:

4:15 Natha explains Cancer and what the season can bring

7:50 Andrea talks Pitta- the combination of fire and water

11:15 Where do you go to collapse?

17:30 get introverted and prepare yourself for what's to come. Where do you overextend?

19:30 Planet retrogrades, present and future.

Your Favorite Quote

"The more we are willing to be open and honest with ourselves about our process, and about the things we want to change about our ways of being in the world, the better."

Join me one Monday each month as I chat with Natha Campanella for a conversation about Ayurveda and Astrology!

NEW ON MONDAYS! Join Andrea and friends as they share 10-minute tidbits with you to start your week off with ease and joy. This week, Andrea speaks with Natha about Cancer Season and Pitta Dosha. How do you hit pause and nurture yourself? It’s time to take a second and make sure you are nourishing your body with cooler foods and lots of water, both inside and out.

3 Bullet Points:

• Cancer, a water sign, is about home and family, with a motherly quality. Cancers are emotional secure and are selfless giver, but this can result in a ‘giving to get’ mentality.
• Pitta out of balance can have a hot temper or be very passionate, but can stay very focused. Strong Pitta energy learns quickly and remember things, and chase after adrenaline.
• It’s a tough task, but start asking for what you want.

Show Highlights:

4:15 Natha explains Cancer and what the season can bring

7:50 Andrea talks Pitta- the combination of fire and water

11:15 Where do you go to collapse?

17:30 get introverted and prepare yourself for what’s to come. Where do you overextend?

19:30 Planet retrogrades, present and future.

Your Favorite Quote

“The more we are willing to be open and honest with ourselves about our process, and about the things we want to change about our ways of being in the world, the better.”

In this interview with fellow Yoga Health Coach, Alexandra Epple, she gets real about her struggle with Anorexia and her journey to finding deep appreciation for who she is. Her passion for supporting women to love and care for themselves comes from her very real journey of learning to do so for herself. Listen as Alexandra not only reveals her personal trials, but also her triumphs. She offers practical tools for exploring how to enjoy your own company.

• How Alexandra's anorexia transformed into a relationship of self-love
• Why nourishing touch can be foundational to cultivating self-love
• How time in silence and stillness can enhance one's self-love

Show Highlights:

02:59 Easeful Living Practice: Mindful Eating Practice

11:20 Interview with Alexandra Epple begins

15:12 Alexandra's recognition of her privilege and the development of her anorexia

20:02 Lack of self-love rooted in lack of purpose

26:35 Impact of another reflecting love as foundation of self-love

29:32 Spiritual self-discovery through Yoga & Thai Massage -- the power of touch

41:10 Nourishing the spiritual body with silence, sound, stillness, prayer

Favorite Quotes

"There is so much that can be done by the changing way we feed ourselves, the way we treat ourselves, the way we look at our bodies." -- Alexandra Epple

"For so long I thought I was going to be a mom, I always thought I was going to be a mom. And now, I feel like my children are my students or my clients or my patients." -- Alexandra Epple

"Purpose really comes from knowing your spirit, what your spirit wants, what you're deeply desiring." -- Alexandra Epple

"I still wasn't loving myself; I still wasn't eating" -- Alexandra Epple

"Falling in love [is] a mirror [in which] we see ourselves through someone else's eyes." -- Andrea Catherine (credit to my therapist Michael Joseph)

"If you can't enjoy your own company, how can you expect someone else to enjoy your company?" -- Alexandra Epple

"Life is a lot more fun when I'm confident" -- Andrea Catherine

"Physical and emotional cleansing...needed to happen in order to actually get to the spiritual self, to get more subtle." --Alexandra Epple

"By bringing hands onto our body the nervous system calms down, and the access opens to self-love." --Alexandra Epple

"Once you really embrace money and just see it as an energy exchange...I'm giving something and someone sees it as being so worthwhile that they're giving energy back." -- Alexandra Epple

Meet Alexandra:

Alexandra Epple CAS, CMT is an Ayurvedic Practitioner & Teacher, Yoga Health Coach, seasoned bodyworker and Midlife Coach. Her approach to health is super practical and down to earth. She supports mature women through menopause and midlife so they come out the other end feeling better than they ever have; vibrant, joyful and luxuriously healthy. There is no complicated hormone stuff, vitamin hunting or mineral counting. When it comes down to it, healing is super logical and pretty easy too. You just need to learn some principles. Alexandra helps you do that. Her podcast Women Gone Vibrant revolutionizes the way you think about your body so you can create the next you, unapologetically. Download her FREE Better Menopause Video Series to get the scoop on a natural, easeful menopause.

In this interview with fellow Yoga Health Coach, Alexandra Epple, she gets real about her struggle with Anorexia and her journey to finding deep appreciation for who she is. Her passion for supporting women to love and care for themselves comes from her very real journey of learning to do so for herself. Listen as Alexandra not only reveals her personal trials, but also her triumphs. She offers practical tools for exploring how to enjoy your own company.

• How Alexandra’s anorexia transformed into a relationship of self-love
• Why nourishing touch can be foundational to cultivating self-love
• How time in silence and stillness can enhance one’s self-love

Show Highlights:

02:59 Easeful Living Practice: Mindful Eating Practice

11:20 Interview with Alexandra Epple begins

15:12 Alexandra’s recognition of her privilege and the development of her anorexia

20:02 Lack of self-love rooted in lack of purpose

26:35 Impact of another reflecting love as foundation of self-love

29:32 Spiritual self-discovery through Yoga & Thai Massage -- the power of touch

41:10 Nourishing the spiritual body with silence, sound, stillness, prayer

Favorite Quotes

“There is so much that can be done by the changing way we feed ourselves, the way we treat ourselves, the way we look at our bodies.” -- Alexandra Epple

“For so long I thought I was going to be a mom, I always thought I was going to be a mom. And now, I feel like my children are my students or my clients or my patients.” -- Alexandra Epple

“Purpose really comes from knowing your spirit, what your spirit wants, what you’re deeply desiring.” -- Alexandra Epple

“I still wasn’t loving myself; I still wasn’t eating” -- Alexandra Epple

“Falling in love [is] a mirror [in which] we see ourselves through someone else’s eyes.” -- Andrea Catherine (credit to my therapist Michael Joseph)

“If you can’t enjoy your own company, how can you expect someone else to enjoy your company?” -- Alexandra Epple

“Life is a lot more fun when I’m confident” -- Andrea Catherine

“Physical and emotional cleansing...needed to happen in order to actually get to the spiritual self, to get more subtle.” --Alexandra Epple

“By bringing hands onto our body the nervous system calms down, and the access opens to self-love.”  --Alexandra Epple

“Once you really embrace money and just see it as an energy exchange...I’m giving something and someone sees it as being so worthwhile that they’re giving energy back.” -- Alexandra Epple

Meet Alexandra:

Alexandra Epple CAS, CMT is an Ayurvedic Practitioner & Teacher, Yoga Health Coach, seasoned bodyworker and Midlife Coach. Her approach to health is super practical and down to earth. She supports mature women through menopause and midlife so they come out the other end feeling better than they ever have; vibrant, joyful and luxuriously healthy. There is no complicated hormone stuff, vitamin hunting or mineral counting. When it comes down to it, healing is super logical and pretty easy too. You  just need to learn some principles. Alexandra helps you do that. Her podcast Women Gone Vibrant revolutionizes the way you think about your body so you can create the next you, unapologetically. Download her FREE Better Menopause Video Series to get the scoop on a natural, easeful menopause.

This interview with fellow Yoga Health Coach Carly Banks grew out of our conversation in the surf on a Yoga Healer retreat in Mexico this past March. Carly is on for growth and embracing the changes that better her life. She is on for guiding others to do the same.

In this conversation we talk about the impacts of prioritizing self-care on family life. As a mom, Carly's insights and personal transformation that she shares will resonate most with those those have a lot to tend to, and who are on for discovering they are much more powerful than they imagined.

• Why putting yourself first is a habit you want to have

• How to get unstuck from thinking you can't change

• What strategies for building healthy habits work for moms

​

​Links Mentioned:

• 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

• Brahmamuhurta (Sacred Time before Dawn)

​

Show Highlights:

02:59 Fearless Self-Love Retreat Details!!

08:24 Easeful Living Practice

13:31 Interview with Carly Banks begins with how and why thinking of herself first has been essential

19:51 Value of waking with the sun, the power of circadian rhythm, Nobel Prize Winners in Physiology

23:20 Relationships with others are dependent on our relationships with ourselves. How Carly got out of her own way as a new mom.

30:24 Carly's journey to self-love from self-hate; highlight on Abhyanga (self-massage)

41:13 Figuring out who we are, so we can show ourselves and others, and love ourselves:) Carly's celebration of healing in her marriage as a result.

44:26 Impact on physiology of honoring circadian rhythms ~ lighten your physiology

51:07 Courageous Self-Care Tip~ touch your own body in a way that will help you to love you more

Favorite Quotes:

​"Everything just flows a lot more easily if you can just put yourself first, and then you become more able to serve others, and to serve your business." -- Carly Banks

"Our minds are a part of our bodies, rather than the other way around." -- Andrea Catherine

"The cool thing about our relationship with ourselves, is that we have the power to change [our] behavior." -- Andrea Catherine

"I'm ... doing watercolor paintings, and making flower crowns... I'm being hyper creative in this brahmamuhurta, this sacred time before the dawn. It's brought me a feeling of self, again." -- Carly Banks

"As I massaged my body and gave thanks to my upper arms, for everything that they do, and the way they hold and support and embrace my children and my family and myself, all those feelings of hatred went away, and so much acceptance swept in." -- Carly Banks

"The world is full of perfect people and they come in all shapes and sizes." -- Carly Banks.

Meet Carly:

In learning the foundational teachings of Ayurvedic wellness, along with the science behind the power of routine, and the unbelievable level at which our habits - good and bad - dictate our reality, Carly's gone back to her roots. From the ground up she's created a healthy structure for her life, creating routines and daily practices that fill her up, thereby filling up her kids. Now, through her offerings at The Habit, Carly provides well-structured programs to support and nurture the growth and thrive of all women.

This interview with fellow Yoga Health Coach Carly Banks grew out of our conversation in the surf on a Yoga Healer retreat in Mexico this past March. Carly is on for growth and embracing the changes that better her life. She is on for guiding others to do the same.

In this conversation we talk about the impacts of prioritizing self-care on family life. As a mom, Carly’s insights and personal transformation that she shares will resonate most with those those have a lot to tend to, and who are on for discovering they are much more powerful than they imagined.

• Why putting yourself first is a habit you want to have

• How to get unstuck from thinking you can’t change

• What strategies for building healthy habits work for moms

​

​Links Mentioned:

• 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

• Brahmamuhurta (Sacred Time before Dawn) 

​

Show Highlights:

02:59 Fearless Self-Love Retreat Details!!

08:24 Easeful Living Practice

13:31 Interview with Carly Banks begins with how and why thinking of herself first has been essential

19:51 Value of waking with the sun, the power of circadian rhythm, Nobel Prize Winners in Physiology

23:20 Relationships with others are dependent on our relationships with ourselves. How Carly got out of her own way as a new mom.

30:24 Carly’s journey to self-love from self-hate; highlight on Abhyanga (self-massage)

41:13 Figuring out who we are, so we can show ourselves and others, and love ourselves:) Carly’s celebration of healing in her marriage as a result.

44:26 Impact on physiology of honoring circadian rhythms ~ lighten your physiology

51:07 Courageous Self-Care Tip~ touch your own body in a way that will help you to love you more

Favorite Quotes:

​“Everything just flows a lot more easily if you can just put yourself first, and then you become more able to serve others, and to serve your business.” -- Carly Banks

“Our minds are a part of our bodies, rather than the other way around.” -- Andrea Catherine

“The cool thing about our relationship with ourselves, is that we have the power to change [our] behavior.” -- Andrea Catherine

“I’m ... doing watercolor paintings, and making flower crowns... I’m being hyper creative in this brahmamuhurta, this sacred time before the dawn. It’s brought me a feeling of self, again.” -- Carly Banks

“As I massaged my body and gave thanks to my upper arms, for everything that they do, and the way they hold and support and embrace my children and my family and myself, all those feelings of hatred went away, and so much acceptance swept in.” -- Carly Banks

“The world is full of perfect people and they come in all shapes and sizes.” -- Carly Banks.

Meet Carly:

In learning the foundational teachings of Ayurvedic wellness, along with the science behind the power of routine, and the unbelievable level at which our habits - good and bad - dictate our reality, Carly's gone back to her roots. From the ground up she's created a healthy structure for her life, creating routines and daily practices that fill her up, thereby filling up her kids. Now, through her offerings at The Habit, Carly provides well-structured programs to support and nurture the growth and thrive of all women.