Join me on another Musing in the Woods walk. In this episode I talk about Self Love and how we are held from a place that doesn't know what it's like to not be held. I talk about how to connect to this secure place within us for grounding and stability through these uncertain times. I share about how I found my own empathic heart had unconsciously shut down as a protective mechanism during this year of such intensity where there has been so much to be felt.

It's time to be raw and vulnerable in our offerings as we merge with what is true for us, remembering always that birthing this new humanity is an inside job... it happens inside the hearts of individuals, through the soulful intentions of a greater purpose. I talk about the weight of lies and deceit on our humanness, boundary setting and making conscious where we're not being self-loving.

It's time to ask ourselves questions: 

• Has Covid and all that it's come with shut your heart down and made you numb too?
• What's it like to always be held, to not know what it's like not to be held?
• Is it ok to put yourself first? What does that even look like?
• How do you set healthy, self loving boundaries?
• What does it mean for the greater Collective when you personally practice self love?

When we love ourselves more, more becomes available to us in the world around us. What we create in our inner world, reflects in our outer world.

It's time to talk about what self love might look like at the different levels of collective development... it's time to imagine, and create, a self loving world!

Finally you are offered a practice that discerns between how thinking thinks, feeling feels and the deeper resonance of your hearts vibration and the wisdom it holds. This practice is one that will have you connecting into your deepest truth in profound and beautiful ways that will empower your inner guidance system to make the choices that move you forward in the right ways for you, and ultimately the collective.

You are listening to Carmel Cathie, host of It's Time to Talk - Podcasts to Elevate Consciousness, and Transformational Coach at BeingAndBecoming.Life

For personal guidance and support to help you find your truth through the turning tides of our current uncertainty take my look at my Being and Becoming Life website. If you would like to engage in long term, ongoing revolutionary growth message me.

Your future, Humanity’s future, is not set in stone. We have many futures we can choose to Become. Learn how to intentionally choose the future you want to live through Being embodied as deep consciousness and emotional awareness lead by the truth that lives in your heart. The de-structuring of our systems and the difficult transitions the 2020’s present are our opportunity to Become who we came here to Be. We are each an individual cell in the organism of Humanity, exploring and revealing as powerful and whole our inner selves, bringing online greater wholeness and intentionality for the greater good of our Collective future. What role are you playing?

Come for a walk with me as I muse in the woods! Grains of wisdom and insight regarding the systems within systems in which we live. Here I muse on how we might tweak different systems in which we live so that they may interact more smoothly with each other. I run over structures and states of consciousness, dimensions of reality, personal challenges and share how my mind works in a way that may help you see how yours is working.

I share about a road trip that I cut short because of the uncertainty I came across out there outside of my home and valley here in the mountains and how I processed the shifting terrain of my own inner world as a reflection of what is happening outside me in the dismantling of our current structures.

It's time to talk about surrender, acceptance and how we might navigate changing our mind as the world changes around us.

To find previous episodes go to www.itstimetotalk.life

For personal guidance and support to help you find your truth through the turning tides of our current uncertain times go to: https://beingandbecoming.life/

Your future, Humanity’s future, is not set in stone. We have many futures we can choose to Become. Learn how to intentionally choose the future you want to live through Being embodied as deep consciousness and emotional awareness lead by the truth that lives in your heart. The de-structuring of our systems and the difficult transitions the 2020’s present are our opportunity to Become who we came here to Be. We are each an individual cell in the organism of Humanity, exploring and revealing as powerful and whole our inner selves, bringing online greater wholeness and intentionality for the greater good of our Collective future. What role are you playing?

With everything that is being talked about on our planet at this time I'm wondering why so few people, especially mainstream media, are not talking about how to boost your immune system. It's basic. It's simple. It's relatively easy. And, in this climate, it could save your life.

It's time to talk about boosting our Immunity!!

We talk about the Core Four Secrets - completely simple and easy steps, so easy you can start doing them while you listen to this podcast.

We talk about toxic inner body terrains and the nutrients required to create balance.

We talk about we talk about cellular dehydration and the need for good water.

And above all, the need to take responsibility to heal yourself. The good news is that your body wants a balanced internal environment and when your internal terrain is balanced your immune system is boosted. If you have a toxic inner environment, which face it, most of us do to some degree simply by breathing in society today, then the implementation of a few simple lifestyle enhancements will kick start your body to creating more and more resilience to the health challenges we are facing today.

What mainstream society is doing is probably wrong for your body, and the planet too for that matter. Implementing a few simple daily action steps that enhance your body's innate healing power is where the rubber hits the road in the 2020's.

What might a medical free society look like? Would we even need medicine if we knew how to boost our immune system properly from within? How might our world look different if we didn't have the medical systems in place that we currently have and instead had systems that worked on balance and prevention?

For more about Tim James and to find links to the products we discuss in this interview click this link here.

For more about It's Time to Talk and other fun stuff I'm up to go to ItsTimeToTalk.Life and BeingAnd Becoming.Life

It's time to talk about Tantra, that too often misunderstood practice of being literally everything. In this episode we talk about the sexual, emotional and intuitive layers blended within Tantra and the different ways intimacy between self and others shows up inside this practice. In Part A of my talk with Emily, we talk about the human need for connection and touch, the inner critic and how vulnerability is the all important ingredient for authentic relating. We talk about the humans' potential to process, how the senses bring us into our body and this present moment, the devotional aspects of this practice, how a safe container  based in a solid capacity to communicate free of judgment allows us to open and receive the gifts of connection on multiple levels and how the energy of tantra dances with the physical body and world. It's a juicy topic, one steeped in the play of what it's like to, as Emily would say, 'be in discovery'.

Emily has dedicated the last 22 years to explore a broad scope of healing modalities and crafted them into digestible experiences for you. Her deep dive into yoga, meditation, sound Healing, and bodywork lead her into the fascinating world of both classical and NeoTantra. 

She describes Tantra as:. A practice that allows us to lean into all parts of our being with curiosity in order to heal our wounds and activate deep intimacy within ourselves and the world around us. It’s about being With and witnessing what is actually there for us to work through while allowing love to remain present.  

With a background in Wilderness Therapy facilitation, her blend of working with the mind, body, and spirit weaves into her vast knowledge and passion for human growth and awareness in todays world.      

You're invited to visit her website to explore her many offerings and coaching possibilities for women and couples. She has a 7 Day Relationship challenge launching July 15 2020 called "Remembering Your Spark". This seven day challenge calls you back to the spark that originally ignited your love and brought you together.

You'll find Part B of this talk with Emily Weer in Episode 20.

For past episodes and more information about your host, Carmel Cathie please visit ItsTimeToTalk.LIFE

In Part B of our Tantric talk we explore the Divided States of America and the polarization of it's people through our inability to talk to each other from a judgement free territory. We talk about what it means to transcend an either-or stance, co-exist with our differences and look for a third possibility. What might a non-dual perspective look like and how might we, as two white girls talking, go about the journey from black and white to multiple shades of gray? How can we use a Tantric perspective to embrace humanity's differences in the choppy waters of 2020?

You're invited to visit Emily's website to explore her many offerings and coaching possibilities for women and couples. She has a 7 Day Relationship challenge launching July 15 2020 called "Remembering Your Spark". This seven day challenge calls you back to the spark that originally ignited your love and brought you together.

You'll find Part A of this show with Emily Weer in Episode 19 of It's Time to Talk.

For past episodes and more information about your host, Carmel Cathie please visit ItsTimeToTalk.LIFE

In this latest, and much delayed, episode, I segway from my normal conversational-style podcast to share whats been in my unsettled heart this year of 2020 as I've been riding this wave through the realm of physical life. It's personal. It feels raw to share, but it also, in all it's imperfections, felt like it wanted to be shared... as if whoever listens might in turn find a mouthful of medicine for their own unsettled heart. I talk about having to evacuate our house with our two year just as Covid was becoming a thing and being homeless when lockdown happened, the depletion of my immune system, my son getting sick, was it Covid? I don't know. I talk about the fearful path I trapsed into all manner of conspiracy theories and what it takes for me to discern my own truth. And somewhere through it all I talk about creativity and how my impossible pregnancy came about....

Throughout sheltering in place I've found the remnants of who I used to be pre-mamahood slipping away and the mama in my woman emerging.... and somewhere in there, along with the release of different beliefs and ideas about the world and how I fit into it, Kali as my name slipped away too. Her energy and power forever lives in my heart but her time as my name has come to an end, altho some are slow to let her name as me go.... I feel it as Her reminding me She will remain after she is not my name. So if you wonder why I introduce myself as Carmel for the first time in this episode, this is why. It became time to again take my seat as Carmel, only this time within the heart lays the fierce grace of Kali reminding me to always remain awake to this wild ride we call life. If you'd like to read more about the changing name process see this blog here.

More conversational-type podcasts will follow, as will some more personal stories... my hope is that this will make this show one fit for our times and our changing needs. May these crazy, wild and challenging times have us all birthing into deeper levels of inclusion, integration and LOVE. 

It's time to talk about the current vaccination schedule that parents are being mandated to enforce for their children. This conversation with Dr Godfrey, a GP turned Naturopath, is raw and real. Having been in medical practice for half a century this is the kind of Doctor I gravitate towards. I seek to hide my biases, but to some listeners maybe not so well.

As a routine GP he used to routinely vaccinate his patients but over the years he started questioning what he was actually doing and if it was actually helping to heal his patients. And so started a deep inquiry into the nature of immunology that has spanned several decades.

Whether you are on the anti-vaccination or pro-vaccination side of this particular fence, as a parent you most likely care more about the health of your child than anything else on the planet, and that makes this topic a highly charged, hot tamale all round.

This talk is more about the common sense behind boosting the immune system of your child than it is about anything else. Thanks to the internet we now have at the push of a button access to more information than ever before conceived possible. We can find evidence to support pro-thinking and anti-thinking about pretty much anything. Everything is prone to being called a scam or conspiracy theory by those who wish you would think differently, regardless of what the deeper truth might be.

Being both informed and empowered in your decision making so you can make your choices with as much confidence as you can in an uncertain world is the game here. And often that place from which a decision is made is from an unidentifiable, yet powerful, knowing located deep in the soul of the parent.

It's time to talk about the changing landscape of childhood illnesses, how natural illnesses affect the development of the immune system and brain function, what real heard immunity is, what vitamins and trace minerals your child needs (regardless of whether or not they are vaccinated), the implications of mutating strains and the unstoppable force of mothers united in a common quest for the health of their children.

For more about Dr Mike Godfrey, take a look at his work with Clinical Thermography here and you'll see a huge array of personal praise from his patients here.

It's time to talk about addiction, anxiety, depression, humanity, climate crisis, psychedelic therapy, denial and the unmet need that lays beyond it all.

Carolina Grace and I roam the windy path of denying the feminine, seeking to control through addiction and neglecting the emotional terrain of both ourselves and our lineage and the disconnected humanity that follows. The underlying message being that when we don't feel good, we don't treat others so well. Here we discuss the various avenues to treating ourselves well.

Come journey with myself and co-author of "Practice - Wisdom from the Downward Dog", Carolina Grace Lorenzo, into the shame and disconnection so many of us live with. Carolina Grace is a therapist, yogini, singer/song writer and lover of humanity. The lens she views most everything through holds a deep reverence for the inner child found within each of us, and most specifically our self. Listening to her talk swelled the heart of my woman, calmed and soothed my inner child and opened me to the Grace of a gentle, yet fierce, warrioress.

You can find out more about Carolina Grace and her yoga offerings here and her therapeutic offerings here.

It's time to talk with a man about and what's happening with men. Drop into this conversation with brother of my soul Ben Grasseschi and myself. Ben has been a coach of nordic skiing, running and biking for the past 20 years. His Nordic Skiers include Olympic Athletes in the US Ski Team, and 4 to 94 year olds. He's also a writer, he meditates, practices yoga and offers yoga and meditation workshop series for men with Shari Beard (see previous episode to get her perspective on offering these workshops).

In this conversation it was time to talk about the men who are being called to take the dive inward that women have been taking. We talked about the similarities between the set up for coaching athletes and holding space for the emotional heart of men in a workshop setting. From how any body type can practice yoga to what happens when we meditate to the profound effect just listening, without needing to fix or sooth, can have on relationships and deepening connection and intimacy.

We talked about the rift between the masculine and the feminine and how maybe it's not actually a rift afterall and perhaps more about catching up with each other. However you view it, it was a beautiful dive into the juicy topic of men and the art of being present and the profound difference that can make in how we relate to both ourselves and each other.

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It's time to talk about the rift between the masculine and the feminine and why Shari and Ben are offering six week yoga and meditation workshop series just for men. It's time to talk about how women have received opportunities for awakening and now it's time for the men to be take advantage of that same space in which to evolve and grow. It is together we rise and together we fall, for the masculine and feminine are the inseparable and equal opposites halves of each other.

In this heart swelling talk with yoga teacher and sister of my soul, Shari Beard, we open up the conversation around the growth needs of men at this time. We talk about loneliness and suicide awareness. We talk about isolation, not being held and the deeper needs we are calling forth from relationship now.

As we reflect on the state of relationship and relating we realize this is a new conversation, one that has become overdue. This is a small dive into the soup of our changing relationship world and I look forward to it being an ongoing conversation.

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