What are you noticing right now? What are you craving right now?

If you don’t feel ready to “start” this “new year,” that’s fine. If you notice that it doesn’t feel like the beginning of a new cycle for you, or you aren’t ready to take any actions on things, that’s fine.

It’s still the darkest, slowest time in Nature right now, and you ARE Nature. Feel, honor, and align with what’s true for you, in your body. There are new starts, and endings and beginnings all around and within us on a daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal, and yearly basis.

I am especially loving long, meandering walks in the woods, salt baths, and yoga nidra right now. What about you? How are you feeling and what actions (or non-actions) are feeling supportive?

Devon Ray Battaglia, MS, AHA, ACC, is the creator and nurturing guide behind The InnerSpark Method. She brings her heartfelt dedication as an Integrative Health Expert, Ayurvedic Health Advisor, and Holistic Coach to guide folks through the complexities of modern life so they may transform health challenges, stress, trauma, and shame into resilience, peace, and vitality through the timeless wisdom of nature's rhythms.

With a rich tapestry of expertise in holistic nutrition, integrative health, energy healing, flower essence therapy, Ayurveda, yoga, meditation, breathwork, coaching, and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, Devon's approach is a harmonious blend of professional knowledge and personal, embodied experience. She views Nature as an essential, living classroom, continually shaping her personal growth and professional practice.

Embark on a journey with Devon to cultivate resilience, joy, and well-being. Through her gentle, whole-person approach, you’ll feel empowered to thrive and live from your InnerSpark.

Enliven your journey with the FREE Guide: “Nature’s Blueprint for Modern Thriving: 3 Steps to Transform Life’s Storms into Resilience, Peace, & Vitality.” Download it at https://www.theinnersparkmethod.com/3ways

Explore enlightening insights on the “Naturally Resilient: Thriving With Nature’s Wisdom” podcast at www.innerspark.life/podcast

Connect and grow with like-minded individuals in the Facebook group “Naturally Resilient: Transform Life’s Storms & Thrive With Nature’s Wisdom” www.innerspark.life/facebook

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For sensitive, deep-feeling folks, building resilience by focusing on cultivating a flexible nervous system is key. It’s virtually impossible to go from a hyper-aroused state, feeling overwhelmed and anxious to being completely still, yet many of us are trying to do just that…

Stillness can be a wonderful goal, however, when trying to go from 100 to 0 with the flip of a switch doesn’t work for you, it doesn’t mean you’re “not doing something right.” It means you’re a sensitive person who’s maybe on overdrive and needs a different tactic.

Let the journey from anxiety to stillness be a rhythmic dance, and not an all-or-nothing thing. Allow for a sense of deceleration, rather than seeking to come to a screeching a halt. As I am always inviting us to do, look to nature’s rhythms for guidance. We don’t go from summer to winter – autumn is in the middle, the deceleration. Going from hyper-aroused to stillness requires your own autumn. Listen in for the hows and whys of this process.

What helps you decelerate and come to stillness after being hyper aroused?

Devon Ray Battaglia, MS, AHA, ACC, is the creator and nurturing guide behind The InnerSpark Method. She brings her heartfelt dedication as an Integrative Health Expert, Ayurvedic Health Advisor, and Holistic Coach to guide folks through the complexities of modern life so they may transform health challenges, stress, trauma, and shame into resilience, peace, and vitality through the timeless wisdom of nature's rhythms.

With a rich tapestry of expertise in holistic nutrition, integrative health, energy healing, flower essence therapy, Ayurveda, yoga, meditation, breathwork, coaching, and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, Devon's approach is a harmonious blend of professional knowledge and personal, embodied experience. She views Nature as an essential, living classroom, continually shaping her personal growth and professional practice.

Embark on a journey with Devon to cultivate resilience, joy, and well-being. Through her gentle, whole-person approach, you’ll feel empowered to thrive and live from your InnerSpark.

Enliven your journey with the FREE Guide: “Nature’s Blueprint for Modern Thriving: 3 Steps to Transform Life’s Storms into Resilience, Peace, & Vitality.” Download it at https://www.theinnersparkmethod.com/3ways

Explore enlightening insights on the “Naturally Resilient: Thriving With Nature’s Wisdom” podcast at www.innerspark.life/podcast

Connect and grow with like-minded individuals in the Facebook group “Naturally Resilient: Transform Life’s Storms & Thrive With Nature’s Wisdom” www.innerspark.life/facebook

Follow along on Instagram at www.instagram.com/_innerspark_

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The Solstices, which occur twice each year, are times of immense power and opportunity as the sun shifts into its time of waxing or waning. These are times of transitioning into opposite energies – either of hope, renewal, growth, and relief, or of deceleration, farewells, decay, and resting.

The sun is our life-giving force here on Earth. It’s stable, fixed, predictable, relatively unchanging, and represents The Triangle Principle. At the solstices, we take time to truly honor the sun’s presence in our life – within and around us, metaphorically and literally.

On InnerSpark’s Wheel of Frequencies, the Solstices are represented by The Void Archetype at winter and The Blacksmith Archetype at summer. This axis is one of polar opposites, yet truly two sides of the same coin that are interdependent.

Join me in this episode to dive deep into the mysteries, invitations, and power of the solstices through the lens of The Void and The Blacksmith Archetypes on InnerSpark’s Wheel of Frequencies.

Mentioned in this episode:

More on The Wheel of Frequencies: www.innerspark.life/eight

More on the equinoxes: https://innerspark.life/the-power-of-the-equinoxes-the-initiate-high-priestess-axis/

The InnerSpark Membership: www.innerspark.life/work-with-me

Sign up for my FREE GUIDE: 3 Ways to Prevent Burn Out For Womxn Who Feel Deeply & Overthink Everything! https://www.theinnersparkmethod.com/3ways

Join my Facebook group Freedom & Confidence For Burnt Out Deep-Feelers & Overthinkers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/123922478277111

Read the blog: www.innerspark.life/blog

Devon Ray Battaglia, MS, Integrative Health Educator, Holistic Coach, Shame Eradicator, & Founder of The InnerSpark Method, is pioneering innovative, whole-person approaches to identifying, uprooting, and transforming shame into a positive influence that guides us towards wholeness – both individually and collectively.

Her signature program, The InnerSpark Method, is specifically for supporting deep-feeling, sensitive women to identify shame as the root of what drives the cycles of burnout, overthinking, anxiety, and people-pleasing they experience so they can discover their true, shame-free nature, confidently thrive in body, mind, and spirit, and live from their InnerSpark.

A natural teacher and healing presence, Devon fiercely walks her talk and has an innate gift for supporting and guiding others to live a life of greater wholeness, vitality, and ease – as defined by them.

Her diverse background, assorted areas of expertise, and myriad trainings and education in the

areas of holistic nutrition, integrative health, coaching, energy healing, flower essence therapy, Ayurveda, yoga, meditation, breathwork, Earth-based wisdom traditions, shame, trauma, and more, reflect the dedication and passion that she brings through her work.

All of that aside, however, it’s the experience of her life itself as a living classroom, observing and living Nature’s rhythms that continually inspire and guide her personal and professional process.

Learn more at www.innerspark.life.

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Please, hear me, Sensitive, Deep-Feeler: You don’t have to put up with constant burnout, overthinking, and anxiety. You don’t have to sacrifice your needs, boundaries, and true nature.

If today I can honestly and without hesitation say I LOVE myself and my sensitivity, and I don’t mind being the “weird one” who does things their way to better support their true nature, then so can YOU. 😎

You’re not alone. Life CAN be sweet and you deserve that sweetness – in however you most desire that to be. Let's talk about the how and why. I’ve got you.

Devon Ray Battaglia, MS, AHA, ACC, is the creator and nurturing guide behind The InnerSpark Method. She brings her heartfelt dedication as an Integrative Health Expert, Ayurvedic Health Advisor, and Holistic Coach to guide folks through the complexities of modern life so they may transform health challenges, stress, trauma, and shame into resilience, peace, and vitality through the timeless wisdom of nature's rhythms.

With a rich tapestry of expertise in holistic nutrition, integrative health, energy healing, flower essence therapy, Ayurveda, yoga, meditation, breathwork, coaching, and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, Devon's approach is a harmonious blend of professional knowledge and personal, embodied experience. She views Nature as an essential, living classroom, continually shaping her personal growth and professional practice.

Embark on a journey with Devon to cultivate resilience, joy, and well-being. Through her gentle, whole-person approach, you’ll feel empowered to thrive and live from your InnerSpark.

Enliven your journey with the FREE Guide: “Nature’s Blueprint for Modern Thriving: 3 Steps to Transform Life’s Storms into Resilience, Peace, & Vitality.” Download it at https://www.theinnersparkmethod.com/3ways

Explore enlightening insights on the “Naturally Resilient: Thriving With Nature’s Wisdom” podcast at www.innerspark.life/podcast

Connect and grow with like-minded individuals in the Facebook group “Naturally Resilient: Transform Life’s Storms & Thrive With Nature’s Wisdom” www.innerspark.life/facebook

Follow along on Instagram at www.instagram.com/_innerspark_

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Sensitive, deep-feeler: Is being burnt out robbing you of intimacy? Let’s talk about it.

When deep-feelers are living in a state of frozen shame, it may look something like some of the following:

✨Overthinking mostly everything, backwards and forwards, up and down, 10 steps ahead and behind

✨Being overly aware of others’ needs and going above and beyond to meet those while putting themselves in last place on their list of priorities

✨Viewing themselves as the problem in every situation because they’re the “weird” or “different” ones that must be inconveniencing everyone and everything else

✨Believing there’s something “wrong” with them that must be “fixed” if they’re ever to have a “normal” or “healthy” life

✨Choosing to go out of their way to stay quiet, small, hidden, and unseen and not ruffle feathers by using their voice, setting their boundaries, or stating their needs

These are just some ways… Can you relate to any of these?

All of this compounds with time and distracts and exhausts many deep-feelers (who don’t have a system in place to nurture their gift). In this shame-filled state of compounding distraction and exhaustion, plus an overly taxed nervous system, intimacy goes out the window in every sense…

Whether with close friends or family, or with a beloved, a deep desire to hide + an exhausted body that’s not interested in slowing down to receive pleasure = no intimacy of any kind in a meaningful, sustainable, enriching way.

Devon Ray Battaglia, MS, AHA, ACC, is the creator and nurturing guide behind The InnerSpark Method. She brings her heartfelt dedication as an Integrative Health Expert, Ayurvedic Health Advisor, and Holistic Coach to guide folks through the complexities of modern life so they may transform health challenges, stress, trauma, and shame into resilience, peace, and vitality through the timeless wisdom of nature's rhythms.

With a rich tapestry of expertise in holistic nutrition, integrative health, energy healing, flower essence therapy, Ayurveda, yoga, meditation, breathwork, coaching, and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, Devon's approach is a harmonious blend of professional knowledge and personal, embodied experience. She views Nature as an essential, living classroom, continually shaping her personal growth and professional practice.

Embark on a journey with Devon to cultivate resilience, joy, and well-being. Through her gentle, whole-person approach, you’ll feel empowered to thrive and live from your InnerSpark.

Enliven your journey with the FREE Guide: “Nature’s Blueprint for Modern Thriving: 3 Steps to Transform Life’s Storms into Resilience, Peace, & Vitality.” Download it at https://www.theinnersparkmethod.com/3ways

Explore enlightening insights on the “Naturally Resilient: Thriving With Nature’s Wisdom” podcast at www.innerspark.life/podcast

Connect and grow with like-minded individuals in the Facebook group “Naturally Resilient: Transform Life’s Storms & Thrive With Nature’s Wisdom” www.innerspark.life/facebook

Follow along on Instagram at www.instagram.com/_innerspark_

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Embracing the wisdom of seasonal flow is a prime way to support sensitive, deep-feelers in healing and preventing burnout, increasing resilience, and creating great vitality and ease! In this episode, I shared the wisdom of the axis of the equinoxes through the lens of the archetypes they represent on InnerSpark's Wheel.

Think of the growth journey. The part of yourself that goes from beginner to master; from student to teacher. There are so many beautiful steps in between and in reality, this journey is never over! This is mirrored to us through the equinoxes - the sacred axis of growth, evolution, and mastery through the lenses of The Initiate Frequency (spring equinox) and The High Priestess Frequency (autumn equinox) on InnerSpark's Wheel.

Tune in for ways to work with the literal and metaphorical seasons for profound healing and transformation and living a simpler, more nourishing life. These poles are simply destinations - the journey in between is everything. Deepen into your practice of spirally, seasonal, cyclical living. 

Devon Ray Battaglia, MS, AHA, ACC, is the creator and nurturing guide behind The InnerSpark Method. She brings her heartfelt dedication as an Integrative Health Expert, Ayurvedic Health Advisor, and Holistic Coach to guide folks through the complexities of modern life so they may transform health challenges, stress, trauma, and shame into resilience, peace, and vitality through the timeless wisdom of nature's rhythms.

With a rich tapestry of expertise in holistic nutrition, integrative health, energy healing, flower essence therapy, Ayurveda, yoga, meditation, breathwork, coaching, and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, Devon's approach is a harmonious blend of professional knowledge and personal, embodied experience. She views Nature as an essential, living classroom, continually shaping her personal growth and professional practice.

Embark on a journey with Devon to cultivate resilience, joy, and well-being. Through her gentle, whole-person approach, you’ll feel empowered to thrive and live from your InnerSpark.

Enliven your journey with the FREE Guide: “Nature’s Blueprint for Modern Thriving: 3 Steps to Transform Life’s Storms into Resilience, Peace, & Vitality.” Download it at https://www.theinnersparkmethod.com/3ways

Explore enlightening insights on the “Naturally Resilient: Thriving With Nature’s Wisdom” podcast at www.innerspark.life/podcast

Connect and grow with like-minded individuals in the Facebook group “Naturally Resilient: Transform Life’s Storms & Thrive With Nature’s Wisdom” www.innerspark.life/facebook

Follow along on Instagram at www.instagram.com/_innerspark_

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Something I wish I would’ve known and embraced more fully back then…

The power of awareness cannot be overstated.

Your awareness serves as the container for your entire experience, and it has the power to create sustainable, lasting change.

Many of us are challenged by harnessing our awareness and sticking with things – especially challenging and uncomfortable things.

For many, when in that constant state of burnout, awareness is hijacked by the patterns, beliefs, and habits that keep you burnt out:

😩 constantly trying to avoid mistakes or ruffling feathers or being seen

😣 constantly on the lookout for the next threat

😑 constantly trying to “fix” or “heal” yourself

😱 constantly looking away from yourself, rather than inside yourself

Something I wish I would’ve known back in the day was that deep, lasting change at the core level doesn’t happen by dipping your toes in the

water a time or two…

It comes from radical self-honesty, courage, willingness, CONSISTENCY.

There has to be a willingness to call your own bullshit (and even better if there’s a willingness to have a trusted, unbiased outsider to support

you in calling your own bullshit).

This takes courage! All we have to do is continually show up consistently and with an open heart.

In The InnerSpark Method, we work with the mind and come into a whole new relationship with it as the container for our experience and the way to create sustainable, lasting change.

We work to befriend our mind and come into a collaborative, harmonious relationship with it. Through deep, honest self-inquiry, we come to see blind spots, contradictions, and areas for change.

Tell me: How do you work with your awareness? 

Devon Ray Battaglia, MS, AHA, ACC, is the creator and nurturing guide behind The InnerSpark Method. She brings her heartfelt dedication as an Integrative Health Expert, Ayurvedic Health Advisor, and Holistic Coach to guide folks through the complexities of modern life so they may transform health challenges, stress, trauma, and shame into resilience, peace, and vitality through the timeless wisdom of nature's rhythms.

With a rich tapestry of expertise in holistic nutrition, integrative health, energy healing, flower essence therapy, Ayurveda, yoga, meditation, breathwork, coaching, and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, Devon's approach is a harmonious blend of professional knowledge and personal, embodied experience. She views Nature as an essential, living classroom, continually shaping her personal growth and professional practice.

Embark on a journey with Devon to cultivate resilience, joy, and well-being. Through her gentle, whole-person approach, you’ll feel empowered to thrive and live from your InnerSpark.

Enliven your journey with the FREE Guide: “Nature’s Blueprint for Modern Thriving: 3 Steps to Transform Life’s Storms into Resilience, Peace, & Vitality.” Download it at https://www.theinnersparkmethod.com/3ways

Explore enlightening insights on the “Naturally Resilient: Thriving With Nature’s Wisdom” podcast at www.innerspark.life/podcast

Connect and grow with like-minded individuals in the Facebook group “Naturally Resilient: Transform Life’s Storms & Thrive With Nature’s Wisdom” www.innerspark.life/facebook

Follow along on Instagram at www.instagram.com/_innerspark_

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Let's talk about mothering ourselves, what that means, and why it’s important for us deep-feeling, sensitive women. Tune in for ways to begin this practice today!

This weekend marks the fifth anniversary of my mother’s death. I’ve shared a lot about my mother and how she was an addict and the impact that had on me.

She’s a great inspiration for my creation of The InnerSpark Method and the work I do today, because sadly, her story, my story, aren’t unique… so many women are suffering, living half-lived lives, numbing themselves, feeling like there’s something wrong with them, and more, and, this is why I do what I do.

Devon Ray Battaglia, MS, AHA, ACC, is the creator and nurturing guide behind The InnerSpark Method. She brings her heartfelt dedication as an Integrative Health Expert, Ayurvedic Health Advisor, and Holistic Coach to guide folks through the complexities of modern life so they may transform health challenges, stress, trauma, and shame into resilience, peace, and vitality through the timeless wisdom of nature's rhythms.

With a rich tapestry of expertise in holistic nutrition, integrative health, energy healing, flower essence therapy, Ayurveda, yoga, meditation, breathwork, coaching, and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, Devon's approach is a harmonious blend of professional knowledge and personal, embodied experience. She views Nature as an essential, living classroom, continually shaping her personal growth and professional practice.

Embark on a journey with Devon to cultivate resilience, joy, and well-being. Through her gentle, whole-person approach, you’ll feel empowered to thrive and live from your InnerSpark.

Enliven your journey with the FREE Guide: “Nature’s Blueprint for Modern Thriving: 3 Steps to Transform Life’s Storms into Resilience, Peace, & Vitality.” Download it at https://www.theinnersparkmethod.com/3ways

Explore enlightening insights on the “Naturally Resilient: Thriving With Nature’s Wisdom” podcast at www.innerspark.life/podcast

Connect and grow with like-minded individuals in the Facebook group “Naturally Resilient: Transform Life’s Storms & Thrive With Nature’s Wisdom” www.innerspark.life/facebook

Follow along on Instagram at www.instagram.com/_innerspark_

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What are you creating in your life right now? And, what’s the motivation behind this intention?

Is it because you are running from the past or trying to “prove,” “overcompensate,” or “fix” something? Or, is it because you are genuinely and excitedly running towards something?

The difference may feel subtle, and sure, a pain point can serve to get us initially motivated to create change, however, it won’t be sustainable.

Many clients come to me and The InnerSpark Method because they are done feeling burnt out. That’s their motivation. Pain motivates change.

However, without the missing ingredient of self-love and a belief that you’re worthy of a new way of being, the cycle of burnout may just continue… Listen in to learn about this cycle and how to stop it!

Devon Ray Battaglia, MS, AHA, ACC, is the creator and nurturing guide behind The InnerSpark Method. She brings her heartfelt dedication as an Integrative Health Expert, Ayurvedic Health Advisor, and Holistic Coach to guide folks through the complexities of modern life so they may transform health challenges, stress, trauma, and shame into resilience, peace, and vitality through the timeless wisdom of nature's rhythms.

With a rich tapestry of expertise in holistic nutrition, integrative health, energy healing, flower essence therapy, Ayurveda, yoga, meditation, breathwork, coaching, and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, Devon's approach is a harmonious blend of professional knowledge and personal, embodied experience. She views Nature as an essential, living classroom, continually shaping her personal growth and professional practice.

Embark on a journey with Devon to cultivate resilience, joy, and well-being. Through her gentle, whole-person approach, you’ll feel empowered to thrive and live from your InnerSpark.

Enliven your journey with the FREE Guide: “Nature’s Blueprint for Modern Thriving: 3 Steps to Transform Life’s Storms into Resilience, Peace, & Vitality.” Download it at https://www.theinnersparkmethod.com/3ways

Explore enlightening insights on the “Naturally Resilient: Thriving With Nature’s Wisdom” podcast at www.innerspark.life/podcast

Connect and grow with like-minded individuals in the Facebook group “Naturally Resilient: Transform Life’s Storms & Thrive With Nature’s Wisdom” www.innerspark.life/facebook

Follow along on Instagram at www.instagram.com/_innerspark_

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Let’s talk real quick about burnout.

Burnout is the bane of a deep-feeler’s existence.

You overthink, you feel deeply, you overcompensate for your perceived shortcomings, you people-please, you try to hide out, and all of that constant analyzing burns you the fudge out!

The truth is, however, that burnout is just a symptom. Burnout in and of itself isn’t the thing to focus on or to “fix” or “heal” or “overcome.”

The truth: Burnout is a symptom of shame, an effect of shame.

Tune in for more and how to begin understanding yourself and finding the confidence to thrive in body, mind, and spirit.

Devon Ray Battaglia, MS, AHA, ACC, is the creator and nurturing guide behind The InnerSpark Method. She brings her heartfelt dedication as an Integrative Health Expert, Ayurvedic Health Advisor, and Holistic Coach to guide folks through the complexities of modern life so they may transform health challenges, stress, trauma, and shame into resilience, peace, and vitality through the timeless wisdom of nature's rhythms.

With a rich tapestry of expertise in holistic nutrition, integrative health, energy healing, flower essence therapy, Ayurveda, yoga, meditation, breathwork, coaching, and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, Devon's approach is a harmonious blend of professional knowledge and personal, embodied experience. She views Nature as an essential, living classroom, continually shaping her personal growth and professional practice.

Embark on a journey with Devon to cultivate resilience, joy, and well-being. Through her gentle, whole-person approach, you’ll feel empowered to thrive and live from your InnerSpark.

Enliven your journey with the FREE Guide: “Nature’s Blueprint for Modern Thriving: 3 Steps to Transform Life’s Storms into Resilience, Peace, & Vitality.” Download it at https://www.theinnersparkmethod.com/3ways

Explore enlightening insights on the “Naturally Resilient: Thriving With Nature’s Wisdom” podcast at www.innerspark.life/podcast

Connect and grow with like-minded individuals in the Facebook group “Naturally Resilient: Transform Life’s Storms & Thrive With Nature’s Wisdom” www.innerspark.life/facebook

Follow along on Instagram at www.instagram.com/_innerspark_

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands