Hella Well With Danielle

Like your hair, your emotions can become a matted hot mess if you don’t regularly check in on your emotions and work through your life knots. Trust me, I know from personal experience about both. I spent the last three days attempting to detangle my hair. At one point, I thought cutting it off was the answer, but like in life, that doesn’t get to the root. This entire process gave me insight into how best to detangle the knotted chaos in my life so I can continue to level up without breaking.

Many wellness gurus will tell you they are here to empower you. That's a lie. In this week's episode, I explain why you should run from anyone telling you they can empower you to do anything. No one can empower you to be successful or a better you, but if you don't have the awareness to understand why this isn't true, you may buy into this wellness scam.

Is it just me, or is it a struggle to be unapologetically yourself and embrace true identity 24/7? Sure, it’s easy to say I’m going to keep it real, but then there are those times when we get back in our comfort zone of saying yes when we want to say no to please others. Or you catch yourself talking negatively to yourself because it comes so naturally.

This is the struggle I share in today’s episode. I am a comfort zone junkie, and I’m trying to stop, so I can live the life I say I want; A life where I don’t have to wear the masks society has assigned to me. One where code-switching doesn’t exist, and I’m free to be me in a world that demands that I fit in. So how am I navigating the sea of a lifetime of conditioning to living on my terms? Tune in!

If you hate yoga, I was with you for most of my life. So, how does one go from hating yoga to being a yoga teacher? Sounds crazy, I know. In this episode, I share my journey from feeling shame and like I didn’t fit into an encounter with a Balinese healer that tricked me into yoga. I never thought I’d like yoga, let alone want to become a teacher to deepen my practice. Hopefully, sharing my journey home to Kundalini yoga will inspire you to try it.

NEW CLASSES: Intro to Kundalini Yoga, Wednesdays at 5 PM PT at YogaLove Oakland (virtual and in-person) starting Sept 7, 2022.

https://www.yogaloveoakland.com/classes

This six-week Kundalini Yoga series for beginners is a beautiful mix of physical practice, breathwork, meditation, and moments to chill. Join us as we cleanse blocks, reconnect with ourselves, and breathe loving energy into our routines. It's time to discover how to re-treat yourself amid chaos when needed.

Your inner critic will have you do crazy things to keep you safe. The blogs will tell you how to silence your inner critic, but that's a lie. The key to peace is finding ways to calm your inner critic, and that's today's focus.

This is the last of a four-part series on the Inner Critic. If you haven't listened to the other episodes, you can still get something out of this one, but I encourage you to listen to those to get the full picture of how your inner critic is showing up and affecting your life. My inner critic almost made me lose a good friend. Thank goodness for one of the practical techniques I discuss in today's episode.

One of the methods I shared to calm your inner critic is the Meditation for a Calm Heart. This Kundalini Yoga meditation is a soothing breath practice (pranayama) that relieves anxiety and promotes calmness and mental clarity. It's perfect for beginners and a great way to help calm your inner critic in its manic moments.

https://youtu.be/os1N7JKMLyI

Silencing your inner critic will not work. Many podcasts and blogs will encourage you to silence your inner critic, but that's like trying to have a philosophical debate with a drunk person. It's pointless. The inner critic isn't going anywhere, so let's think about how you can work with your inner critic and not against it. In this episode, we explore creative ways to befriend your inner critic because fighting it just makes it stronger, and that's not what we want.

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The trance of unworthiness is so deep and powerful it’s hard to tell when you are in it. It's a fixed negative belief you've deemed so true that you no longer look for ways to contradict it. You can have high self-worth and still be caught in the trance of unworthiness in certain aspects of your life. Even your personal development can signify that you're unconsciously living in this trance.

How do you know you are in the trance of unworthiness? And how is it unknowingly affecting your life choices? That's what we are discussing today. This episode is part of a month-long series on the inner critic in honor of National Wellness Month. I encourage you to listen to last week's episode, where we discussed the origins of the inner critic before diving into how having a dominant inner critic shows up in your life in ways you could never imagine.

Next week we'll discuss ways to work with your inner critic instead of the constant internal battles.

Have you ever wondered when and how your self-judgment started? You weren't born with an inner critic, but there 100% was a moment of birth of this negative inner voice in all of us. August is National Wellness month and I wanted to do something special. I believe one of the biggest blocks to living hella well is our inner critic's death grip on our thoughts and actions. Every week this month, we'll be diving deeper into what is the inner critic and where it comes from, how it's unknowingly affecting your life, how to work with your inner critic, and helpful tips on ways to silence/calm your inner critic.

This week's episode focuses solely on the birth of the inner mean girl that keeps you thinking you're not enough. We'll discuss the survival strategy tests we create to prove we fit in or are worthy, where the inner critic comes from, and some journal prompt questions.

BONUS WORKSHOP: To honor the upcoming Lion's Gate Portal, join Noela Star Queen and me Sunday, August 7 at 12 PM PST for a mix of Kundalini Yoga and astrological and cultural knowledge on how to harness this powerful energy happening on Monday.
https://noelastarqueen.com/pages/kemetic-kinetics-2022

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Affirmations simply don’t work for me. I’ve tried writing them down, meditating with them and even carrying my affirmations with me. I know saying affirmations work for some but I’m just not one of them, but I’ve discovered a workaround that is working for me.

In today’s episode, I discuss:
- Reasons your affirmations aren’t working
- A research study that shifted how I manifest
- My how-to workaround for affirmation

Also, in honor of the upcoming Lions Gate Portal, join me and Noela Star Queen for an afternoon of Kundalini Yoga and meditation with a mix of astrological, cultural, and historical knowledge. August 7th at 12 PM PST. Space is limited:
https://calendly.com/noelastarqueen/kemetic-kinetics?month=2022-08

I finally got COVID, and it taught me some hard lessons I wasn't ready to learn. In this week's episode, I discuss how getting COVID didn't happen to me, but it happened for me, which probably sounds odd. There are key life lessons we all need to discover that I was able to get from this experience. I don't wish for anyone to go through my exact situation, but if you can get the lessons without getting COVID you're winning.