Psychologist, relationship coach, and breathwork teacher, Leigh-Anne LoPinto, joins Jessica on the podcast this week to talk about conscious relationships. Informed by the work of Carl Jung as well as Internal Family Systems, Leigh-Anne offers a new paradigm of relationships - one that sees relationships as a vehicle for personal growth and divine union. 

Leigh-Anne shares her own journey, including her marriage that ended after almost 20 years of being together followed by a dark night of the soul that really took her into all of this work. Through her own healing, she has developed a deep understanding of attachment styles, how to break patterns that hold us back in relationships, and how to balance feminine and masculine energies especially within the context of a relationship.

In this episode, you will learn about:

Leigh-Anne breaks everything down in a way that is easy to understand, and she also offers tools you can put into practice right now to begin your own healing and re-patterning in order to move toward conscious relationships. For me, personally, I left the conversation feeling excited to continue working on my own marriage, and I know it will inspire you whether you are in a relationship right now or not.

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Connect with Leigh-Anne LoPinto (Guest)

Website: https://www.love-evolved.us/

Instagram: @love.evolv.ed

Substack: https://leighannelopinto.substack.com/

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Connect with Jessica Patterson (Host):

Instagram: @_howimetmyself

Website: https://howimetmyself.me 

Email: [email protected]

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Resources:

No Bad Parts book by Richard C. Schwartz, PhD

Conscious Loving book by Gay Hendricks PhD and Kathlyn Hendricks, PhD

In this episode, Jessica announces that she is pregnant with her third child. As she journeys through this initiation, a range of emotions has surfaced, and she is reckoning with these different parts. Drawing on expertise from the Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach, she explains:

Jessica also talks about the upcoming holidays and how it is not always easy to get into the holiday spirit when navigating a challenging period. She offers an exercise to help when we are in a difficult portal.

Lastly, she leaves listeners with several questions to consider ahead of the new year to help identify potential growth or focus areas.

SPECIAL OFFER: If you are looking for some extra help developing your New Year’s resolutions, Jessica is offering three complimentary 1-hour one-on-one sessions to create your resolutions. One spot remains for the first person to sign up. Email Jessica at ⁠[email protected]⁠ or DM her on Instagram ⁠@_howimetmyself⁠.

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Email: ⁠[email protected]⁠

In this episode, Jessica shares reflections from her recent solo working retreat. For listeners who want to take a solo retreat themselves, she offers advice on:

Listeners also get a first look at the mentorship program that Jessica is launching geared to women on the journey to and through motherhood. This program is available now! Email Jessica or send her a message on Instagram to learn more. 

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Instagram: @_howimetmyself

Website: https://howimetmyself.me

Email: [email protected]

In this episode, Jessica looks at the Taylor Swift Eras Tour and strives to understand why it has gained such widespread appeal. Through her own analysis and in reviewing the New York Times profile of Taylor Swift written by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, she arrives at the conclusion that the tour gives people permission to stop hiding from their pasts and to release any shame they carry.

Using the Eras Tour as a starting point, Jessica explores the concept of shame and offers tools to help release shame.

Through this episode, you will learn:

An Offer For Listeners

The first step to releasing shame is sharing what you’re ashamed of with another person. I know how hard this can be, and that’s why I am making myself available to you if you want to share yours with me. I would be honored to hold space for you to share so that you can liberate yourself from the shame. Feel free to reach out at any time on Instagram: @_howimetmyself.

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Instagram: @_howimetmyself

Website: https://howimetmyself.me

Email: [email protected]

Ali Ofstedal, an evolutionary astrologer and energy healer trained in intuitive, quantum and shamanic healing, joins Jessica on the podcast this week. She shares how she went from a corporate job to doing this work and how energy healing actually works to clear density, remove old programming and help us find closer alignment with our highest self.

In this episode, you will learn about:

Be sure to stay tuned until the very end for the Astrological forecast as well as a brief look back on the last three years! 

This conversation is sure to open your eyes to the unseen and the magic that exists all around us. When we get quiet enough and learn to tap into our subtle and energetic bodies, we have the power to heal trauma of all kinds - past life, ancestral and trauma from our lived experiences in this life. And when we do this, it opens up new ways of being and new opportunities that bring us closer to reaching our full potential and purpose.

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Connect with Ali Ofstedal (Guest)

Instagram: @aliofstedal

Website: https://aliofstedal.podia.com/ 

Soul Archaeology Podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ali-ofstedal 

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Connect with Jessica Patterson (Host):

Instagram: @_howimetmyself

Website: https://howimetmyself.me 

Email: [email protected]

Gratitude is the most potent energy for manifesting our dreams for the future, so as we close out 2023 and begin to set our resolutions for 2024, this meditation is an opportunity to express our gratitude for all that the past year has brought.

During this 10 minute meditation, you will be guided into an altered state to help you cultivate gratitude for the experiences you had in 2023 and the people who surrounded you. By the end, you will be basking in the powerful energy of gratitude, feeling an elevated vibration running through your body.

From this place, you will be a magnet for all that you want to create in the year ahead! 

This is a great practice to do to honor the past year or before writing your resolutions for next year. It is also very relaxing and can be done at any point around this transition from one year to the next. I hope it serves to elevate your spirit, raise your vibration, and facilitate the closing out of 2023 and ushering in of 2024.

I’d love to know if you did this meditation and how you felt afterwards. Share it on Instagram by taking a screenshot and posting it to your stories. Be sure to tag me ⁠@_howimetmyself⁠⁠, so I can reply!

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Instagram: ⁠@_howimetmyself⁠

Website: ⁠https://howimetmyself.me⁠

Email: ⁠[email protected]⁠

As we approach the end of the year, we start to think about what we want to achieve in the new year. In what areas do we want to grow? What are our dreams? Are there lifestyle changes we want to make? What do we want to focus on for the year ahead?

In this episode, you will learn:

Special Announcement: 

Jessica wants to help you develop New Year’s resolutions that help you live a more aligned life - a life of purpose! As a gift to you, Jessica is offering three 1-hour one-on-one sessions to create your resolutions - a special offer for the first three listeners to sign up! Email Jessica at ⁠[email protected]⁠ or DM her on Instagram ⁠@_howimetmyself⁠.

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Connect with Jessica:

Instagram: ⁠@_howimetmyself⁠

Website: ⁠https://howimetmyself.me⁠

Email: ⁠[email protected]

Second generation Tarot card reader, Jessica Kruskamp aka. TarotMalibu, is on the podcast this week, sharing how she came to read the Tarot despite initially resisting it. She discusses Tarot both through the Jungian lens of archetypes and as a tool for divination.

In this episode, you will learn:

Stay tuned for a special Tarot reading exclusively for listeners of the How I Met Myself podcast (approximately 1:05:38). The messages that come through are very clear and give listeners a lot to consider in their own lives as we move toward the Winter Solstice. As part of the reading, TarotMalibu walks through how to do a three card spread and how to ask the deck follow-up questions to gain more clarity. 

You will walk away from this conversation not only with a new perspective on Tarot but also tips you can employ to begin practicing with your own deck.

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Connect with Jessica Kruskamp aka. TarotMalibu (Guest):

Instagram: @tarotmalibu

Website: https://www.tarotmalibu.com/ 

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Connect with Jessica Patterson (Host):

Instagram: @_howimetmyself

Website: https://howimetmyself.me 

Email: [email protected] 

In this episode, Jessica discusses breathwork as a healing modality. She shares her own experience with breathwork - how she discovered it, how she initially felt resistance to it and why she finally decided to lean into it. Once she did, she found deep healing to the point that she ultimately trained in the David Elliott lineage of breathwork and is now a breathwork facilitator for individuals, groups and corporate groups.

Through breathwork, people can experience:

Jessica invites listeners to join her for a special Online Eclipse Breathwork Circle that she is hosting on Saturday, October 28th, 2023 at 4:00 - 5:30 PM PT. The cost to participate is $15.

To register, Venmo $15 to @howimetmyself and be sure to include your email address in the notes. Once payment has been received, the Zoom link will be emailed to the address provided. This is a great opportunity to try breathwork for the first time and work with the potent Eclipse energy to release what you are ready to let go of and usher in new beginnings.

If you can’t make it to this breathwork circle and still want to give breathwork a try, reach out to Jessica on Instagram: @_howimetmyself⁠.

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Connect with Jessica:

Instagram: @_howimetmyself

Website: https://howimetmyself.me

Email: [email protected]