Up on the podcast this week we have Phil Kreutzer. In this conversation we discuss healing through homeostasis, bringing about the right conditions in the body's nervous and energy system in order for the body to rebalance, for healing to occur and for us to experience our infinite potential within our wellbeing and our lives in general.

Phil is an intuitive guide, nervous system specialist, and energy integration coach with a passion for supporting people in awakening to their infinite potential. He has developed an original approach which draws on somatic experiencing, mindfulness, breathwork, and other practices to help clients heal trauma, integrate energetic blocks, access their intuition, and connect with higher intelligence. Phil is the founder of Awaken Through Anxiety, a cohort based program that guides people in learning to work with anxiety as an ally and a portal of awakening to the true self, intuition and spiritual connection.

In this conversation:

- the significance of the body's energy and nervous system in regards to healing

- trusting the fundamental intelligence of the body

- coming back to simplicity over complexity through acceptance for the present moment and shifting our frequency to unconditional love

- anxiety, pain, triggers all as signposts back into healing

- distortions and traumas as blocks in the body's energy system to be cleared

- shifting from victimhood and separation consciousness

into unity consciousness for integration and healing to occur

- reframing anxiety in the context of a desire for healing and reconnection, an intelligent function of homeostasis wanting to come back online, as a portal for awakening to the true self

- tangible tips for healing the body's energy system

To contact Phil & program links:

Awaken to Anxiety:

https://www.philkreutzer.com/awaken-through-anxiety

Awaken to Anxiety Facebook Group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/awakenthroughanxiety/

Delivering Divinity:

https://www.philkreutzer.com/delivering-divinity

IG: @philkreutzer

Up on the podcast this week we have Carelle Rose of Fire Fly Formula. Carelle is a reflexologist, a face yoga instructor and a Gua Sha Therapist. Carelle supports people embarking on a facial fitness journey via her online facial fitness membership, encouraging members to consider natural alternatives to injectables by training their facial muscles via Face Yoga, Facial Massage and Gua Sha.

I started following Carelle on instagram when she was on a deep journey to treat her psoriasis, taking a multi-pronged.. well, ALL the prongs, approach to healing. I was very inspired and over the past year I’ve resonated with so much of her story and her shares as they reflect my own experience healing my hormones and reversing my PCOS. Our approaches really align in terms of radical ownership, radical responsibility and radical prioritisation when it comes to our health, doing the “hard things” in order to get the results you want, connecting to the why behind why you’re doing it, getting to the root cause over endlessly treating symptoms and all in all taking this sense of new-found empowerment in our health into all aspects of our lives.

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Up on the podcast this week we have Eddie Sullivan (@mangomanmovement) Eddie is a movement and wellness coach, a husband and father of two. He has studied and trained in multiple movement disciplines and spiritual philosophies offering a unique perspective and experience for his clients. He is passionate about helping people to create meaningful long lasting change using methods that are thoughtful, consistent and manageable.

When I first spoke to Eddie, I was struck by what an incredible story he had, starting his life in an environment of drugs, violence and crime, hitting rock-bottom which was the catalyst for changing his world, struggling with addiction and committing to finding another way. Comparing where he was, to where he is now appears to be a huge quantum leap into a different reality, which it is. Yet, what Eddie draws attention to in this conversation is that it is a journey of a thousand steps, ten thousand steps, mirroring as he says the journey of not only the tortoise but of the snail. It being a marathon, not a sprint. And I feel this is so vital to recognise for anyone wanting to create meaningful, long-lasting change. We all too easily set the massive goals and give up long before getting there, because we don’t break it down into daily, weekly, monthly, yearly actions. And we look at other people who’ve achieved that and assume they’ve got some secret sauce we don’t have access to rather than understanding they too took thousands of steps to get there. I love talking to people like Eddie with incredibly powerful stories of personal transformation because it truly models what is possible and available.

In this episode:

- how rock-bottom moments can catalyse change

-shifting your environment to shift your perspective

& behaviours

- tools to help you create new habits

- following through on the small things to build self trust for the big things

- developing new connections and friendships

- small steps that compound into giant quantum leaps

- handling resistance and getting out of our heads

- common roadblocks to long lasting change

- disrupting our patterns by coming out of autopilot

- "doing the do-able" and letting go of our own limiting beliefs

Up on the podcast this week we have my beautiful friend and soul sister, ceremonialist, breath work practitioner and women’s guide, Betty Lewis Griffiths. Betty joined me for Episode 8. Love and Loss: reclaiming joy, peace and meaning in times of grief, which we recorded together six months after the passing of Betty’s mum back in 2021. 18 months on, I wanted to circle back to speak to Betty about how life has shifted for her in the past couple of years, with her mum’s death acting as a huge catalyst for deepening her work and her own relationship with love, life and death. Devotion, both to self and to life itself has become central to the way she lives her life, infusing the way she holds ceremony, the presence she cultivates with her clients, finding hidden pockets of joy all around and the way she prioritises herself and her needs, something that a lot of people struggle with amongst demanding lives and a busy culture. In this episode we discuss what she sees as living a devotional life, not just lighting candles and incense, but actually going back to basics so that we eat, sleep, breathe and connect better to keep falling more and more in love with this sacred life we have.

In this episode:

- Betty's passage of grief following the death of her mother in 2021

- how devotion emerged as a way of life and continues to evolve

- what it means for Betty to 'live a devotional life'

- the symptoms - individual and collective - of us living outside of devotion

- a devotional approach to eating, resting, movement and taking it back to basics

- living in accordance with the cycles of nature and using nature as the blueprint

About Betty: (Reclaim Your Wild)

www.reclaimyourwild.co.uk

CEREMONIALIST, BREATHWORK PRACTITIONER AND WOMEN’S GUIDE. 

Betty works with wild-hearted humans, guiding them back to their wisdom within so they can access their full pleasure portal and live a life that welcomes all that they are.

Living every day full of presence and pleasure, Betty teaches others to do the same, through women’s circles, powerful breathwork ceremonies, rewilding programmes, sacred ending ceremonies and working with nature and the elements. 

She uses breath, sound, movement, meditation, mantra and self-inquiry to facilitate transformation and enable us to reconnect with our wild essence and live a life that welcomes our fullest expression. 

She sees life (and death) as a ceremony, making everyday life sacred, with the smallest touches to bring us into presence, gratitude and joy.

 As a free tool we all have access to, Betty believes changing your breath can change your life. She guides others to feel safe in their body and reconnect with themselves to live an empowered and embodied life.

Working one to one and delivering group workshops and programmes, Betty uses breath, sound and self-inquiry to facilitate transformation and enable others to connect with their true essence.

This theme has been popping up with clients all over the place recently so I felt to share some reflections and insights to act as inspiration and a catalyst for deeper healing, releasing and transformation. We are all consciously or subconsciously pertaining to certain rules we've created around what we can and can't do and often when we want to create change or grow, we need to give ourselves full permission to do so. Sometimes we might be unconsciously waiting for someone else to give us permission, often our parents or care-givers, from our peers or remnants of memories from growing up. Perhaps we'll receive that, perhaps we won't, and ultimately as we continue to forge our own path in life and move into greater truth and authenticity with ourselves, we must become adept at granting OURSELVES permission. Over and over. And on a bigger and bigger scale until we are fully free. Enjoy!

Up on the podcast this week we have Jonny Miller. Jonny is an emotional resilience researcher, host of the Curious Humans podcast and Founder of 'Nervous System Mastery' — a cohort based course for cultivating calm & agency over your internal state. This course seeks to rewire your neurobiology with evidence-backed protocols and equip you with a personal toolkit to increase calm, upgrade resilience and increase aliveness. 

I met Jonny many years ago whilst we were both living in Canggu, Bali and have since followed his journey with intrigue, partaking too in his September 2022 cohort of Nervous System Mastery. My partner and I benefitted so significantly from the course individually and also as a couple in partnership. Understanding the language of our nervous system is immensely powerful and necessary for our optimal wellbeing and to give us greater agency in our lives, so I've been so looking forward to recording and sharing this conversation with Jonny.

In this episode:

- Jonny's experience with other modalities and how this led him into the nervous system
- what exactly is the nervous system and why should we care about it
- using the nervous system to avoid burn-out
- an overview of polyvagal theory and how this informs us on our nervous system states
- tools and practices that have helped Jonny and his clients, including longer term approaches to benefit our system over time, things to implement immediately whilst experiencing disregulation and techniques to keep working on our triggers when we are regulated and safe
- approaching our triggers as teachers and gifts to build our emotional resilience
- Jonny's observations of the correlation between nervous system state and our mental landscape
- nervous system in relationship: understanding the language of our partner's nervous system so we can form betterconnection and hold better space for our partners
- co-regulation, both the impact of being in positive community or a positive therapeutic dynamic upon our nervous system and also the negative impact of toxic environments

To contact Jonny:
Nervous System Mastery: https://nsmastery.com/
Twitter and IG: @jonnym1ller

References:

Dr Stephen Porges "Polyvagal Theory"

Peter Levine "Waking the Tiger"

Earlier this month I turned 34 and with it I felt the transition into a new chapter and a new energy in my life. I don’t always feel this on birthdays. In fact the last birthday I think I felt such a gear shift was turning 27, the start of our Saturn Return. For this this birthday was an initiation from The Maiden into The Mother archetype, leaving behind a 9 year cycle of more playful experimentation and coming into grounded stability and depth within my work, my partnership, my relationships, my presence and my life in general. It inspired me to share some reflections and it felt even more apt and synchronistic that this is Episode 34.
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Up on the podcast this week we have Alex Croxford. Alex is a transformational coach who supports women to heal their relationship issues from the root in order to cultivate deeper connection, inner peace and freedom. Her vision is to break down the protective walls humanity has built around their hearts so that love can rule the world.

About Alex:

In 2018, Alex found herself in total despair; beneath the surface of her ‘perfect life’ her marriage had started to disintegrate along with the relationship to her body and her emotional health. She soon discovered that the problems were not external but instead deeply rooted within herself and set about on a path of deep healing and transformation, peeling back the layers, addressing her core wounds and unprocessed trauma, conditioning and limiting beliefs and renavigating feminine and masculine energetics. On the other side, she found new love, a new partnership and a new life path fully aligned to who she truly is and came here to be. The message of her journey is that there is light on the other side of heartbreak and it can be the catalyst to great awakening, to loving yourself and others and trusting life again.

Up on the podcast this week we have the fabulous Naomi Gale. Naomi Gale is a vaginologist, educator , guide, speaker, content creator and author of the book "In Your Vagina: Lies the Keys to Your Happiness". Naomi is a highly qualified, nervous system-led, somatic-focused, root-healing mentor, guiding people back into connection with their wombs, vaginas and vulvas. As a former classroom-based teacher, Naomi educates with ease, making everything accessible. Her primary focus is on people learning the tools needed to live a more rooted nervous system0led life. Naomi’s work has been featured widely, from BBC podcasts to sex-positive influencers YouTube channels, to articles in Cosmopolitan and elsewhere.

In this episode:

- The essence of Naomi’s work as a pelvic educator and her book “In Your Vagina: lies the key to your happiness”
- suppression of feminine wellbeing amidst mainstream culture and social systems including medical practice and social media
- other key issues that make this work so important for women individually and us as a collective
- the remnants of the ‘witch wound’ that plays amongst women and women’s health
- Naomi’s own healing journey around her body, fertility and pelvic bowl
- discerning where we are on the continuum of connection and disconnection to our body and vagina
- how to begin on this journey of reconnection and taking the first steps
- tools and practices that have helped Naomi and her clients most

- a mindful journey of healing for those affected by sexual trauma or abuse
- rites of passage such as menarche that play such an important role in our relationship to our body and cycle and re-mothering ourselves in that process
- the ‘Then Vs Now’ of doing this work and what could be possible for us as a collective if this work became mainstream culture

To contact Naomi:
W: www.thisisnaomi.co.uk
IG: @thisisnaomigale
TikTok: @thisisnaomigale_
YouTube: @naomigale
You can find her book “In Your Vagina lies the keys to your happiness” via Amazon or her website

Up on the podcast this week we have one of my big girl-crushes Charlotte Holmes. I’ve been following Charlotte on Instagram for years and I thought it was about time to get her on the podcast to discuss her area of expertise: MINDFUL MOVEMENT.

About Charlotte:

Charlotte has worked in the health and fitness industry for over a decade as a movement coach, fitness model and brand ambassador alongside her career in modelling and pageantry. She won the Miss England title in 2012 and was placed 4th in Britain’s Next Top Model in 2010. Around this time in her early 20s she qualified as a PT and group fitness instructor and her love of the physical elements of yoga paired with the desire to delve deeper took her to India where she began her teacher training. Since then Charlotte has worked across some of the top London fitness boutiques, internationally on fitness retreats, as a founding instructor on the FiiT app, as a PT on MTV’s Beach Body SOS and as Head of Yoga for Virgin Active UK.

In this episode:
- the essence of mindful movement
- Charlotte's journey to Self throughout movement
- limitations and trappings of the fitness industry and building a healthy mindset around movement
- the art of slowing down in a go-go-go society and creating more space for being rather than doing
- building dedication and patience through your practice as opposed to the 'quick-fix' culture of immediate gains
- finding the extraordinary in the ordinary through mindful living

Charlotte's details:

Website: https://www.misscharholmes.com/

IG: @misscharholmes