What does it feel like to achieve a state of non-reactive neutrality in Service of another?

The act of holding space for the sake of a human in need happens all too rarely in today’s cultural landscape. Standing guard as the non-reactive neutral Source of council, comfort, and compassion used to be commonplace.

It is critical for us as humans to able to create containers where people we care about feel safe to fully and honestly express themselves without fear of judgement, dismissal, abandonment, or worse - be met with trauma-dominant reactions of another when they themselves are bearing their hearts in hopes of healing.

This week, we discuss building the capacity and the skill in your own integrity and knowingness of Self - The relationship you have with your Identity as it is built through our journeys of personal liberation from our own pains - to be able to truly BE THERE 100% for someone when they come to you in need.

Join us and learn what it feels like to transcend yourself in order to Give from a place of selfless compassion.

@ArtemisAscendant joins us for this week’s show!! Christa Whiteman is an adult-onset hunter, conservationist, practicing chiropractor, and clinical herbalist who shares her passion for the wild foods lifestyle she has so lovingly dedicated her life to with all manner of newcomers to the outdoors through social media, and through multiple educational outdoors organizations and mentoring opportunities.

I hope you leave after listening to todays episode with a deeper sense of belonging and feeling of being welcome in whatever outdoor pursuits you have a mind to start engaging in, and how life can be enriched when its shaped by the seasons and influenced by the landscape.

One thing will be really apparent as you listen in - When our minds are focused on engaging in the outdoors as an intrinsic value that is heavily connected to someone’s lifestyle, theres always something to be excited about.

We quickly flow into a talk on the importance of always striving to expand your knowledge of the local and not so local landscape to provide valuable insight to listeners new to hunting or foraging on the nuances and amount and types of effort it takes to actually be successful in procurement of wild foods. Each season’s peak may only be a certain month out of the calendar year, but each and every individual pursuit has year round work for us if we want to find sustainable success.

We then appropriately spend some time discussing optimizing our time in the outdoors and the dedication it takes to develop a well rounded relationship with your local ecosystems.

We also talk about how strong community exists in outdoors circles, the value of good mentorship in outdoor pursuits, biggest barriers to entry as adult hunters, for women, and for members of minority groups trying to get involved outdoors, social media’s influences on hunting and fishing culture, and what needs to change for this type of lifestyle to evolve with the times.

Tons of valuable info and great resources in the shownotes for today’s talk. Please do check out @artemisascendant - her content is awesome - and hope you enjoy the show!!

Show Notes:

Christa on Instagram

Christa’s Herbalism page on Insta

Artemis Sportswomen

Hunters of Color (HOC) - BIPOC Outdoors Mentorship and Resources

Arthur Haines - Foraging and Wildcrafting author and teacher

book - Conquistadors of the Useless

Backcountry Hunters and Anglers

Podcast with Jen Davis of Artemis Sportswomen

Time Markers:

@Start - 33:02 Introductions, Outdoors Small Talk, Christa’s Current Outlook on Wild Food in 2022, and the Value of Building an Expansive Network of Lands you Know

@33:02 - 50:11 Better Ways to Begin Hunting, Why One Person’s Tactics Might Not Work for Another, and Deciding to Begin Pursuing Wild Foods as an Adult.

@50:11- 59:11 Balancing Our Passions with Life’s Need for Our Participation - Optimizing Our Use of Time Outdoors

@59:11 - 1:13:05 Stepping into New Ways of Being in Nature, How Outdoorsmanship Offers a Lifetime of Learning, the Value of Mentorship, and Where Real Community Still Exists

@1:13:05 - 1:21:02 Biggest barriers to Entry - Knowledge and Confidence

@1:21:02 - 1:33:40 Unique Challenges of Becoming a Sportswoman

@1:33:40 - 1:51:32 A Social Media Driven Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging Renaissance, and What All Outdoorsmen Should Know to Promote Diversification in the Field.

@1:51:32 Christa Shares Some of Her Favorite Resources for Learning to Become Engaged Outdoors

Jill Alanna Nixon is a Reiki Master teacher, Manifestation Coach and Shamanic Healing Arts Facilitator. Jill has a great deal of passion for helping people recover from patterns of trauma, coping mechanisms, and addiction. She helps people heal themselves by identifying limiting belief structures that can keep us unknowingly bogged down in looping cycles of habits and reactions that get in the way of the opportunity we have to create the lives of our dreams.

We get into many of Jill's personal stories that led her to be able to surrender to the knowing that the world does conspire in our favor. Her journey stands as proof that if we allow ourselves to be still enough to listen to the signals we are constantly receiving, great shifts in our Reality can occur.

We break things down down into practical, nitty gritty advice on what manifestation is, how it works for and against us depending on how we choose to express ourselves in the world, and what type of self-work we need to invest in to begin creating our own realities.

I think by expressing a lot of both of our own personal backgrounds including moments of awakening, some of the shadow work we've done over the years, and examples of self-work leading into present day - we manage to deliver a conversation on this sometimes very spacey topic in really clear and simple terms that should make manifestation feel like a skill accessible to us all.

Show Notes:

@JillAlannaNixon on Instagram

Bliss by Gary Ramsey

The Body Keeps the Score

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Joe Dispenza

Balanced Blonde - manifested Lyme Healing

Time Markers:

@Start - 8:45 Introductions

@8:45 - 18:06 Precursors to Manifestation - Knowing Thyself, Shedding Layers, and Personal Empowerment

@18:06 - 42:05 Jill’s Journey of Surrender and Trust - From Actress and Waitress to Spiritual Seeker and Healing Guide

@42:05 - 53:25 The Totality of Reality - Being Ready to Invest in Something More than the Physical, and Confronting the Source of all Suffering

@53:25 - 1:01:22 Living in Altered States of Reality without Psychedelics, and Why Talk Therapy without Integration Work does More Harm than Good

@1:01:22 - 1:17:04 Shadow Work 101: The Difference Between Temporary Relief and Permanent Transformation, and Why its Crucial Healing Comes to Us as a Feeling.

@1:17:04 - 1:35:24 Our Greatest Gifts Come from the Largest Adversities, and Reclamation of Your Childhood Soul Wisdom in Order to Embody Your Truth

@1:35:24 - 1:51:36 Manifestation as Prayer with Gratitude, and Common Blockages & Obstacles to Manifesting Your Best Life

@1:51:36 - Closing Thoughts

Kersten Kimura is a personal trainer and health coach that specializes in helping women overcome weight management, hormonal, and stress management issues.

She helps women work past misinformation and stigmas within the health and fitness industry that often keep them from achieving lasting results.

Kersten’s holistic coaching methods focus on long-term achievement and improvements in personal lifestyle choices by combining hormonal health and nervous system regulation with periodized macro-based nutrition tracking and personalized strength training programs.

She has developed a passion for everything she offers to the people she helps by way of her own health and fitness journey and the discoveries she’s made through over a decade of self exploration - from long distance running and strength training, to meditation, breathwork, psychedelic plant medicines, and cold exposure therapy… Kersten’s story is overflowing with wisdom from personal experience and this conversation is ripe with actionable information suitable for all humans - women and men alike.

Show Notes:

Kersten’s Coaching Website

Kersten on Instagram

Kersten on Youtube

Book: Breathing Cure by Patrick Mckeown

Time Markers:

@Start - Introductions and Major Life Shifts - Kerten’s Career Change as a PHD Exchange Student After Coming to the U.S.

@16:11 - 22:25 You are not supposed to struggle: Misinformation and physiological misperceptions in Women’s Health

@22:25 - 30:46 Eating More to Lose Weight, What to do Before and After Dieting, & Missing Links in Women’s Weight Loss

@30:46 - 48:04 Underweight vs Overweight - Training and Lifestyle Tactics for Overcoming Trauma and the Coping Mechanisms Behind Eating Disorders and Food Addictions

@48:04 - 56:28 Discipline Vs Dependance - The Fine Line Between Healthy Habits and Obsession in Pursuit of Fitness

@56:28 - 1:00:00 Our Old Friend, Hitting Rock Bottom - Signs, Symptoms, and Positive Outcomes

@1:00:00 - 1:08:04 The Importance of Coaching & Kersten’s Biggest Lessons from 5 Straight Years of Working with Coaches

@1:08:04 - 1:41:42 Breathwork & Cold Exposure for Health, Wellbeing, and Personal Empowerment

@1:41:42 - Closing Thoughts

What it Feels Like to Be Connected with Your Purpose! Today’s Show takes a super deep dive into what it feels like when we are in alignment with our highest timelines, on the road toward offering our greatest gifts back to the World and ultimately toward self-actualization.

It’s often easy for us to recall moments of elation, joy, relief, & full-bodied satisfaction that come with each passing milestone of success in life - Moments that come and go like passing reminders of how Life felt when we were young. They come as glimpses into how much simpler chasing our passions is as children. A far cry from what pursuing our Purpose becomes when we awaken the curious and creative child within us as adults.

Between these Sparks of Light within the fog that can surround us when we choose to chase our Dreams, the paths we take can sometimes feel uncomfortable. Maybe sometimes we feel more insecure than when we started. Other moments leave us feeling like we are taking steps backwards, like everything we are doing must be wrong.

How do we know for sure when we are on the right track? Aren’t these periods of uncertainty when it is most important for us to be able to tell? In This week’s discussion we break down many practical, easy, and natural ways to leverage our Intuitions and connections to our Truths in finding answers when we need them the most.

Time Markers:

@Start - 19:24 Introductions, What Connection with Real Lasting Truth Feels Like, and the Faults in Relying on Role Identification in Search of Authentic Alignment with Soul

@19:24 - Ego Attachment Happens throughout the Lifespan - So Our Trust & Vigilance in Surrendering Needs to Last as Well

@ 22:34 - 30:38 You May Be on the Right track If… No One In Your Life Understands What the Fuck You Are Trying to Do or Why….

@30:28 - 33:57 Can you Envision Your Highest Self in Full Bliss at the Completion of Your Current Objective?

@33:57 - 38:39 If ‘NO’ Comes from Within - You Are Off Target

@38:39 - 43:08 If Your Actions Bring Genuine Suffering Into Your Life - You Are Off Target

@43:08 - 1:00:36 Life-Spanning Inquisition - Testing for Intuitive Alignment in Various Life Categories, Starting with Relationships

@1:00:36 - 1:11:40 Living Situations: Are You Where You Belong? & Money Making Labels - Are You Aligned with Your Virtues at Work?

@1:11:40 - 1:18:22 Social Circles: Are You Gaining On Your Truth While Socializing, or Are You Holding Everyone Around You Up?

@1:18:22 - Finish - Honesty In Who You Need to Be and Who You Are Not In Alignment with Purpose - Life Habits, Human Design, Building Your Team, & Playing Your Strengths

How to Build your Intuition. Its Season 2 Episode 1 Everybody!!! I lead us on a deep dissection of all the root practices and principles behind unleashing your Intuitive Mind and living an Intuitive Life on this week’s Solo episode.

I Discuss why it is crucial to always challenge what we think we ‘know’.

I cite two types of callings in Life that are OKAY to act on in patterns outside of Intuitive Rhythm.

I explain in great detail why it is so important to accept that our imaginations are not only Real but are perhaps the most important guides we have toward Self-Actualization.

I break down how to recognize patterns and cycles of coping mechanisms and habits rooted in traumatic conditioning and how these programs cause static build up that keep us from being able to tune into our Intuitive Wisdom.

And of course, I also speak deeply on what it takes for us to remove these blockages and turn the VOLUME UP on our Authentic Innate Knowing.

All this and much more in our first show back on the air! Walk on with us!!

Don't forget to let me know what you think of the new show, and give us some feedback on our new DOPE logo, Trailer, and podcast Intro

Time Markers:

@2:53 - 6:51 Allowing Our Selves to Begin to Feel

@6:51 - 18:13 You can’t Live Intuitively without Always Challenging What You ‘Know’

@18:13 - 27:11 Everything in Life is Always Shifting According to Our Relationships with the Greatest Good and the Highest Self

@27:11 - 34:57 How to Listen: Accept that all Your Thoughts, Dreams, and Imaginations are Real

@34:57 - 38:25 How to Let Go: Accept that the body reflects the state of the mind and the mind reflects the state of the heart - The Somatic Experience of Vitality

@38:25- 43:50 How to Tune In: Patterns of Self Betrayal, Outcomes of Cyclical Coping Mechanisms, & How Accumulation of Static Clouds Our Innate Signaling

@43:50 - 47:43 Holistic Systemic Nourishment: What Following Our Intuition Demands of Us - What it Means, and How Much We Need to Give before its Real

@ 47:43 - 50:55 How to Turn up the Volume: Intuition Requires Regular Authentic Action, and Lack of Action Misaligned with the Highest Self

@50:55 - Closing out - What it Feels Like to be Connected to Your Purpose

An invocation of Intentions for Season 2 of our show, coming soon to all major platforms

On this special solo episode I share a glimpse into the inner workings of the passion it takes to create a one-man podcast production. I get deep down and vulnerable with my motivations and intentions for making the show during its first year.

I discuss how my reasons must change moving forward and what my current WHY for continuing to produce this podcast is. I talk about my expectations for the show versus our actual outcomes for year one. I also give an insider's perspective on the impact leading a health-oriented show like this has had on my life.

Then we look forward into Season 2, sharing changes and talking about what improvements in the quality and value of production I hope to make in the year to come. I dive into what you can look forward to for our conversations in 2022 and what big changes our listeners should really be excited for. As always, know that you are loved, and thank you for listening.

Today we are painting a picture of the galactic myriad of systems and influences that come together to create our food - Starting with the Cosmic Bio-battery of the living soil complex, and ranging far and wide into areas of discussion including but not limited to:

• What it means for our food to be recently alive and well

Show Notes:

Links to Resources

Victor Schauberger

Rudolph Steiner

Phillip S Callahan on Paramagnetism

Weston A Price Foundation

Dr. Thomas Cowan's Works

Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve

Omnivores Dilemma Michael Pollan

Aldo Leopold Sand County Almanac

Biochemical Individuality

Supersize me 2

Clarkson’s Farm

Biggest Little Farm

The Hidden Life of Trees

I Will Teach You to Be Rich

Time Markers

@Start - 17:04 Introductions and Episode Breakdown

@17:04 - 25:31 No one needs this conversation. We already know what food is. We always have known and always will know. We are designed to identify food.

@25:31 - 36:16 Is your food recently alive and well?

@36:16 - 42:10 Post harvest treatment

@42:10 - 49:31 Would your food give back nothing but benefit should it be returned to the Earth.

@49:31 - 58:41 Bring the Wild back into Your Life

@58:41 - 1:08:37 Chronobiology and Ancestry in the Diet

@1:08:37 - 1:15:12 Be King of the Tribe

@1:15:12 - 1:23:54 The Baxter Effect - Saying Grace, Gratitude, & Reprogramming your Food for Bodily Acceptance

@1:23:54 - 1:31:21 Cooking, Preservation, and Storage Methods Matter

@1:31:21 - 1:46:50 What Food is and how it is created… starting with paramagnetism and astrological influences

@1:46:50 - 2:02:55 How paramagnetic and diamagnetic potential comes together to create the stage for Life in the soil

@2:02:55 - Nutrient availability and transmutation in real soils, and how fungus dictates ecological health. +How ecology is destroyed by relying on external inputs that kill natural system-builders. +Bringing it all together!

Learn everything about what is not food and discover ways to begin avoiding fake foods. We arm our listeners this week with defenses against poor decision making by talking about the inner mechanisms behind why harmful food products exist.

We discuss why we have such a hard time breaking free of fake food in our efforts to live healthfully, and reveal how we have come to be raised in a world where children are often conditioned to be emotionally attached to harmful food choices for reasons you may not expect.

This episode is also a big tease! - you’ll hear us discussing the whole time how we are supposed to be building up to describing what food is, but in reality we spent so long covering what isn’t food that we decided it should stand on its own merit, and now we have a 4 part series in the making!

This is our most important conversation to date on the show, and its dense with information and perspectives on nutrition you aren’t likely to find anywhere else - so don’t miss it!!

Time Markers:

@start - 12:21 - Introductions, and defining your dreams by knowing your nightmares

@12:21 - 29:41 Why we should care about what we eat and where its from - Cellular Membrane Integrity, Gut Health, and Food as Environmental Information

@29:41 - 40:10 The Pitfalls of Diet Idolatry - How our needs constantly change on an individual and seasonal basis

@40:10 - 48:02 Why we should care about how to define food

@48:02 - 57:24 More Variety! Real food means cooking your own, and that means fostering creativity, curiosity, and excitement in your life

@57:24 - 1:05:37 We don’t know how we feel until we have something to compare to our baseline

@1:05:37 - 1:43:18 What Food Isn’t, why its last in our budgets, and what cooking in low socioeconomic groups used to look like

@1:43:18 - End: On what’s to come in this most important series on food