Pretty Mental

Pretty Mental

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Pretty Mental episodes

  • 51. Spiritual Awakening & Re-claiming our Multidimensional Nature with Christina Luna

    For today’s conversation we sat with Christina Luna for a fascinating deep dive into the incredible story of the spontaneous spiritual emergence experience that expanded her consciousness and opened up her spiritual gifts. In this conversation we explored : 🌙 Why mental health professionals need to start making room for spiritual emergence experiences in the populations they serve 🌙 De-stigmatizing & normalizing naturally occurring non-ordinary states of consciousness 🌙 The deep wisdom of embracing naturally occurring cycles in the life experience 🌙 An exploration of the multitude of archetypes/parts that underlie our human identity 🌙 Supporting each other through spiritual emergence experiences so they don’t become spiritual emergencies 🌙 

    Christina’s astrological forecast for what we can expect in 2021 

    Christina's Website: Lunation.Live 

    Astrological Roadmap for 2021 by Christina Luna 

    Website: PrettyMental.Com 

    Breathwork with Valentina 

    Therapy with Paula  

    IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial 

    1 hr 19 min
  • 50. Awakening Through Ayahuasca, Nutrition & Mindfulness with David Palma

    Today we got the opportunity to sit with Spiritual Embodiment Mentor and sacred plant medicine guide David Palma. In this conversation we deep dove into:

    • The path of Self-mastery for creating our “Heaven on Earth”.
    • The importance of cultivating an intentional relationship with food for tapping more deeply into our intuition.
    • The story of how David recovered from severe illness and self-destructive habits in his early 20’s to his current state of optimal health and deep mind, body, spirit alignment.
    • Becoming conscious of faulty cultural programming so that we can tap into our powerful internal guidance system.
    • The main things we need to know if we’re considering engaging with the sacred plant medicine of Ayahuasca


      • David's Website

      Website: PrettyMental.Com

      Breathwork with Valentina

      Therapy with Paula 

      IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial

      Twitter: @PrettyMentalVal

      Support Pretty Mental on Patreon

      1 hr 8 min
    • 49. Achieving Peace, Balance & Happiness with Buddhist Psychotherapist Adam Funderburk

      In today’s episode we got to sit down with Mindfulness based Psychotherapist Adam Funderburk whose refreshing therapeutic approach is deeply infused with Buddhism and the eastern wisdom traditions. In this conversation we deep dove into:

      🕊Buddhist Insights into navigating fear and uncertainty

      🕊Navigating the emotion of anger and why learning to surrender is important for our collective healing

      🕊Why mindfulness is the first step to true freedom of choice

      🕊Anchoring to philosophical perspectives like compassion, peace and love

      🕊A mindfulness rooted perspective on our culture’s relationship to alcohol

      🕊How to be there for those in our life who are experiencing anxiety and other mental health challenges while still caring for ourselves

      Adam's Website 

      Website: PrettyMental.Com

      Breathwork with Valentina

      Therapy with Paula 

      IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial

      Twitter: @PrettyMentalVal

      Support Pretty Mental on Patreon

      1 hr 1 min
    • 48. Getting Real About Body Dysmorphia with Kristen Giorgi

      Today we had the beautiful opportunity to sit down with the incredible soul Kristen Giorgi to have a transparent, courageous and  honest conversation about

      • Both Kristen’s and our journeys of healing from Body Dysmorphia and appearance anxiety
      • Body dysmorphia 101 and therapeutic practices that are essential to the healing process
      • Learning to identify the differences and similarities between body dysmorphia appearance anxiety
      • The boundaries that can be really helpful for us to put in place when we’re healing 
      • Why cosmetic surgery and treatments will never be the cure if we don’t heal the psychology behind the suffering in regards to our appearance


        • Kristen's IG: @kristengiorgi.studio

        Website: PrettyMental.Com

        Breathwork with Valentina

        Therapy with Paula 

        IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial

        Twitter: @PrettyMentalVal

        Support Pretty Mental on Patreon

        53 min
      • 47. Sex, Sensuality & Pleasure with Kaycee Polite

        This week we dove into a very raw and real conversation on the intersection between Sexuality, Self-empowerment and mental health with Sex Therapist Kaycee Polite aka “The Pleasure Pusher”.  In this conversation we explored:

        • Why a conversation on mental health is not complete without an honest look at our relationship with sex and pleasure!
        • Why healing our relationship to pleasure and sexuality is essential for our emotional healing and self-empowerment in al all aspects of our life
        • Why cultural narratives which have been used to shame and limit women’s sexuality actually make no sense from an anatomical perspective
        • A deep dive into the difference and similarities between sex and intimacy
        • Changing the way in which we define and relate to foreplay

          • Kaycee IG: @ k_spot_therapy

          Website: PrettyMental.Com

          Breathwork with Valentina

          Therapy with Paula 

          IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial

          Twitter: @PrettyMentalVal

          Support Pretty Mental on Patreon

          1 hr
        • 45. Committing to a Wild Life with Dani Wild

          Today we had the absolute pleasure of connecting with beautiful soul Dani Wild. In this episode, we went deep into the truths of the human experience. A few of the topics we covered:

          🔥An overview of the chakra system and a deep dive into the power of the root chakra plus what a wounded root chakra looks like & its effects in our life

          🔥Dani takes us through the journey of leaving her relationship, city, job & all of her comfort zones behind, stepping into her highest truth and finding deep soul-level fulfillment

          🔥We get deeply personal and share the role that spirituality has played in all 3 of our mental health journeys

          🔥Dani’s journey of healing her relationship to sexuality and romantic intimacy

          🔥An overview of the Akashic field and Dani even channels akashic record messages for us!

          Tune in with us family!!

          #PrettyMental

          Follow Dani on IG: @DaniWild333

          Dani's Website

          Website: PrettyMental.Com

          Breathwork session with Valentina

          Therapy with Paula

          IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial

          Twitter: @PrettyMentalVal

          1 hr 11 min
        • 44. Healing from Sexual Assault & Post-Traumatic Growth with Lillian Gray Charles
          Today we brought the beautiful spirit Lillian Gray Charles back on the podcast. In today’s very open and very vulnerable conversation we cover: 
          💛 A deeper understanding of PTSD through the lens of Lillian’s personal experience with sexual assault..
          💛Learning to shed the layers of shame, stigma, guilt and feelings of self-loathing that so many experience when they’ve been sexually assaulted.
          💛An exploration of the many elements that are important for cultivating and facilitating Post-Traumatic Growth. Thank you for inviting us in Lillian, this was a much-needed conversation. 
          Website: PrettyMental.Com 
          Breath Work session with Valentina 
          Therapy with Paula
          IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial 
          Twitter: @PrettyMentalVal 
          1 hr 4 min
        • 43. Overcoming Anxiety & Stepping Deeper in Our Power

          In this week's conversation:

          • V’s journey with overcoming anxiety and her Cali adventures
          • Releasing control and stepping into our power
          • Challenging the taboo vibes around acknowledging mental health challenges and why we need to get over this already!!
          • Learning to identify what is ours and what belongs to the other in relationships
          • Finding peace from within without needing anything in our external world to change


            • Website: PrettyMental.Com

            IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial

            Twitter: @PrettyMentalVal

            Support Pretty Mental on Patreon

            46 min

          About Pretty Mental

          From the publisher's feed

          Pretty Mental is about accepting our full selves and inspiring others to do the same by being daringly unfiltered. This means completely normalizing all things mental health and the wild journey that has brought us here. We are challenging the stigmatization of normal human suffering. We are done pretending and subscribing to the notion that it’s taboo to have challenging mental health experiences.