Healin Podcast

I had a one of a kind episode with the brave divorce coach, Olga Nadal from @divorceforlove who shared her healing journey with Ayahuasca ceremonies in Costa Rica. We talked about what Iowasca is, how it works and how truly transformational it was to treat her addictions where she stopped almost immediately and arrived at balance, how it transformed her divorce, and most importantly, how it ended a negative cycle, a chapter in her life for her children to benefit. You can learn more and work with Olga at www.divorceforlove.com.

I had a great conversation with an expert parenting coach and educator Michelle Kenney, about the importance of letting our children fully express their big emotions with us to be able to offer them a "safe haven" at home and increase connection. We spoke about the importance of parenting without yelling, bribes, threatening, rewards, punishments, and what the alternatives are, and the necessity to heal ourselves to be able to practice it. Her brand new course "Understanding Big Emotions" can be found at this link .

In this episode, I speak with psychologist and "Divorce Doctor" to learn and understand how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Somatic Experiencing work to help people heal specifically after divorce and how both modalities can be integrated to achieve even greater healing results. We also learned about her online course "The Ultimate Divorce Kit", and gained great tips on how to we can "stay on our own lane" and be better parents for our children during and after divorce.

I had the pleasure of talking to experienced parent and parenting coach Sue DeCaro about conscious parenting, what it is, how it works, and how she advises us all to go deep and connect with ourselves and with our children. We talked about the importance of being aware of our upbringing and conditioning, as well as our childhood wounds to then listen to ourselves and arrive at how we want to show up for our children. Incredibly valuable episode.

In this episode, I share my own personal experience of the concepts and strategies that I learned about, and that shaped my parenting experience. This includes concepts like attachment parenting, conscious parenting, both psychologically and spiritually, the importance of emotional intelligence, reducing conflict at work and in your marriage, parenting by consequences, and more. I also share my struggles and what I am still healing and learning to improve. In my opinion, parenting is the hardest and most impactful (to our happiness and to society) out there, and therefore, the more we learn and heal, the better!

Healing is a journey, a journey that takes time and different modalities, and one of the oldest and most effective modalities to help you go deep and have a life-altering experience is Psychedelics. I had an interesting discussion with Natasja Pelgrom who has lead more than 500 psychedelic ceremonies in Amsterdam explain what psychedelics is, how it works and what it is and it is not good for and how crucial it is to experience it in a legal and experienced place like the Synthesis Retreat.

I had an eye-opening discussion with EMDR Certified Dana Carreta-Stein about the origins of childhood anxiety and issues and why it is important to heal the root causes from the perspective of what happened to them that is causing the issues versus only focusing on treating the symptoms. We discussed how she and her colleagues conduct EMDR therapy sessions on children while also keeping the parents at the forefront and arming them with the tools and skills necessary to support our children's healing progress.

I had an amazing discussion with a licensed marriage and family therapist and author of the book "Transcending High Conflict Divorce: How to Disengage with your Ex and Find your Power" where she shared her story of transcending from an "apocalyptic" divorce into an amicable one, discussed the roots and characteristics of a high conflict personality, gave us advice on all the things that we can do to manage and heal from it and discussed the importance of having spiritual values and a mission statement to gain your power and your life back!

A day after the 2020 US election and with CNN's anchor Van Jones emotional outcry of the systemic racism that minority groups have felt and internalized especially over the past 4 years, this is a powerful episode with anti-racist psychotherapist David Archer where we talked about systemic racism, what it is and how it is felt in America and in Canada, what it does to the self, what racial trauma is, and how EMDR and other forms of therapy can do to heal it. His new book "Anti-racist Psychotherapy: Confronting Systemic Racism and Healing Racial Trauma" is due to come out in early 2021!

I had the pleasure to sit down with Psychotherapist Jennifer Varley to discuss my three favorite modalities - EMDR, the role that nutrition plays in our mental and emotional well being and how she integrates Pschospiritual psychotherapy into her sessions. We discussed anxiety, emdr, nutrition, spiritual methods and what the Dark Night of the Soul is. This episode provides a wealth of information as to the use of different healing modalities, my own personal use of them all as well as a list of books and documentaries that my guest provides for those of you who are curious and want to learn more!

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