This is a very special episode near and dear to my heart. Juliana Mills, a Registered Dietician and also my best friend, shares her personal experience with eating disorders, how and why she became a dietician, and how to find trustful nutrition information.

Juliana helped me transform my relationship with food. We met while studying abroad in Italy and she was one of the first people I told about my eating disorder. She shares so many tips and wonderful advice during this podcast like how food affects our moods and advice on recovering from an eating disorder.

I feel this episode is so needed as too many of us can relate to disordered eating, obsessively counting calories, and wanting to be thinner. You are allowed to love food. It can be more than a means to survive, you can enjoy nourishing your body.

Key Takeaways:

If you are moving through an eating disorder, talk to someone. Find someone that inspires you that you can relate to and read about their journey. Remember it is a mindset shift, know you aren’t alone.

When trying to improve your nutrition, eat whole (real not processed) foods. Try new foods whenever you can, introduce things into your diet. Spices are herbs are amazing don’t be scared to use them. No one has ever said too many fruits and vegetables are a bad thing.

Be yourself, do what you like to do and you will attract people that like to do what you like to do.

Show Notes:

You can find Juliana and bug her to start a food flow on Instagram @juliana_km

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This episode is packed with inspiration and empowerment to step into exactly who you are. I’m joined by my super empowering friend Heather Lynn Bee who helps women create their dream careers as a professional coach, mentor, podcaster, and creator.

Heather shares her healing journey and how it has lead her to having the dream career she has today. We talk about ex boyfriends, the transformations she has had in her relationships with her parents, learning to sit with uncomfortable feelings, and how she got to know herself. There is so much inspiration packed into here with her stories of how the universe supported her journey and how she got to where she is today. She now is engaged to the love of her life, creating her dream home, continuing her healing journey, and supporting others with their own.

I’m so grateful Heather shared everything she did in this episode. I think we can all find ways to relate to it and with tips we can use in our everyday lives.

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Key Takeaways:

Be okay with where you are. Enjoy the present, life goes quick so spend time getting to know yourself. Even if its just 5-10 minutes a day, adopt a journal/meditation practice or whatever feels good to you.

Be open and curious to continue to learn about yourself. Your later years will be much easier.

Give your self grace and forgiveness every single day. And have fun.

Show Notes:

You can find Heather and follow along on her journey on instagram @heatherlynnbee or on her website at https://heatherlynnbee.com/#home .

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In this special episode, my beautiful friend Grace shares how being bullied in high school and her body image issues led to her journey of yoga and healing. She is now a healer helping to empower women through the tools of yoga, reiki, astrology, and chakra balancing.

We dive into self love and self nourishment, and how those practice have developed for her. Starting from drawing and finding comfort alone to being in community trusting friends that introduced her to taking care of her body.

She introduces us to astrology, reiki, and chakra balancing. These tools allow us to get to know ourselves, stay in the light, have compassion for ourselves and others, practice self care, and provide healing. You can heal yourselves. Grace shares how she found reiki during a break up to help her heal her heart.

I hope you feel inspired to give yourself some extra love after listening to this episode.

Takeaways: Allow yourself to receive good people in your life if they are there for you, take class with nutrition basic to gain understanding of how to use food to nourish your body, and practice looking in the mirror and say, “I am perfect, I love my body”.

Show Notes:

Get in touch with Grace on instagram @gracienoellie or her website  guidedgracehealing.com

Find the Chakra Guide here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yiin126oo77huwv/Cultivating%20Self-Love%20and%20Abundance%20Through%20the%20Chakras%20%285%29%20%281%29.pdf?dl=0

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In this special episode, I am joined by my teacher Pablo Lucero. Pablo was a catalyst for change in my life and is such an inspiration to me. I completed my 200 HR Yoga Teacher Training with Pablo and his wife Sarah near their home in Costa Rica.

He is the creator and program director of Functional Power Yoga and leads transformative retreats, workshops, conferences, and yoga teacher trainings across the world.

During this soul chat we cover topics such as what it means to be a human being, asking ourselves questions of who am I and what is my purpose. We talk about sex, sacred sexuality, and intimacy. Pablo shares stories from his teenage years facing racism, fitting in, and the rite of passage to become an adult. Throughout this conversation we talk about what love truly is, triggers, and how to be ourselves.

Key Takeaway

Ask who are you, what is my purpose in life, and what is your goal in life.

The book mentioned is The Art of Sexual Ecstasy by Margo Anand.

You can find Pablo on instragram @pablo_sometimes and @functional_power_yoga and online at https://pabloluceroyoga.com/ and https://www.functionalpoweryoga.com/

In this episode I get the chance to talk with Melissa Moffett on all the things. Seriously, we cover so many topics in this time. She has been a daily inspiration of mine for finding my worth, yoga, mindfulness, and meditation.

Melissa is a mindfulness and yoga teacher, a writer, a dancer, an environmentalist, and an animal lover. She supports people in their discovery of their own wholeness and self-love. She leads retreats over the world, has meditation guides, and multiple online courses helping people find their worthiness and freedom.

We talk about the love that exists inside us, suicide, meditation, self awareness, growing into us, feeling fragmented, anger towards our parents, healing parental relations, feeling our feelings and not exploding, journaling, therapy, holding space, triggers, compassion, and growing through and from painful experiences.

Key Takeaways:

Begin a mediation practice, be kind to yourself, and start a gratitude practice.

Show Notes:

You can find Melissa Moffet as melissa.moffett on IG and on her website https://www.melissamoffet.com/

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I share a bit more of my journey and how yoga has made such a huge impact on my life. Here how I was in high school and where I am now. For this podcast, I wish to share these tools and introduce you to some of the most inspiring people in my life to help you discover your self love.

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