Ready To Rise

About Kim:

After almost a decade of being a movement educator, she wanted to know more about the mind and body connection. Thats when she learned about the Emotion Code and how your emotions can effect you mentally and physically.  She decided it was a path she would love to follow, and here we are today!! 

Peep her IG account at: @Kim_Cuna 

Find Audrey on IG at: @helloaudreyrose 

Quote: "The majority of our beliefs are NOT created from facts, but are created from fear" -> MEANING when we clear the stuck emotions stuck in our subconcious, through healing, we become whole again. 

Self-Care Tip: "Do something that makes you happy everyday"

Ali Kates (@alikates.co) is an Emotional Health Coach & Certified Trauma Coach, who's mission is to teach individuals how to gain authority over their life and emotions. Helping them heal from their past conditioning and learn how to find healing from their Emotional Pain, Trauma and Limiting Beliefs.

From her own healing journey, she decided to become a certified Trauma Coach and a Somatic Experience Practitioner (In-Training). She have guided dozens of students step into their highest selves & achieved their greatest potential.  We are super lucky to have her here with us to talk all about trauma on the podcast. 

** Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault 

A self care tip (or two) she shared was -

Find what works for you and how to feel empowered in your healing.  You need people who are doing the work alongside you to learn new healthy techniques.  When you are having those moments, so in your head, you can lean on them.  They can remind you because they are also doing to work on themselves.

And… BOUNDARIES!!

Quote Of The Episode - " Trauma is stored in the body.  Get out of your head. "

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Grief can be one of the WORST things we can go through.  Especially for anyone who has lost a loved one at a young age.  Let alone a spouse.  The subject is so deep, so unimaginable that many of us do not know what to say, let alone how to help a loved one through a situation like this.  I met Katherine Brito, who specializes in helping others through their grief.  After EVERYTHING she has been through (as you will hear), she still holds space in her heart to help others going through trageies similar to what she has faced.  Often times, those grieving do not know who to turn to, and feel as if people do not understand their pain (rightfully so), however, a grief coach who has been through it herself gets it.  I find this an amazing gift to share with the world, and commend her for doing just that.

The story isn't only about grief, but also about self love and how to help your loved one through a truky difficult time as well.  Enjoy 😊 

About Katherine:

I lost my husband Anthony on February of 2018 to cancer just a little under a month after being diagnosed. I was 36 years young, madly in love and starting to plan for a family when the rug was swept from underneath me. My heart and soul were shattered in a million pieces when I had to say goodbye to my extraordinary husband and human being, best friend, a life I loved and the future we were so happily working towards, all at once. I was so lost, alive but not living, in endless aching pain that I felt as profoundly as our love. Bones deep. I was the only widow I knew and as much as I was fortunate to have support from family and friends, I felt like an alien on earth. I didn’t know that everything going on inside me, that everything I felt is normal in grief and no one around me knew it either. How could anyone understand what I was going through if they hadn’t experienced losing someone they loved more than life itself?

Going through the most devastating years of my life and surviving what I was sure I possibly couldn’t, is what inspired me to become a Grief Support Specialist/Coach as well as a Self-love/Mindset Coach. It is my mission in life to provide support and guidance to grieving hearts during the time they need it most and normalize the reality of grief and life after loss. The pain of losing your favorite person, someone you love with every inch of your heart, is excruciating. Bearing what feels unbearable can be an incredibly isolating journey in more ways than one. You are not alone. We are in the trenches together and though I cannot take away your pain, it would be my honor to walk alongside you and support you as you go through your journey. Together, but at your pace, process your loss one moment at a time as you make space in your heart for the integration of what was and what is. Slowly but surely, they will come along with you on your healing journey as you move forward WITH the love that remains, not from it.

Find her on IG at: @griefembracedwithlove and at www.griefembracedwithlove.com

Find Audrey at: @helloaudreyrose

Let's get GRATEFUL

One of my FAVORITE seasonal episodes, push play before you head over to that family dinner.

👉🏼👉🏼Catch the story where Kristina defies all the normal societal expectations for a young law student studying for the BAR EXAM✅, getting the job ✅,  then switching up her career a bit✅, and THEN starting a PODCASSSSTTTTT ✅!!!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

🙋🏻‍♀️Kristina was diagnosed with ADHD in her early 30’s.🥂🥳😧  AFTER passing the Bar exam, and holding down a HARD full time job.  She now dedicates a portion of her time to the NBD Podcast, where she shares her journey with the world.  For those struggling with ADHD, she normalizes things like leaving your keys 🔑in the fridge, for example. ⏰ Most importantly, she shows others they are not alone.  Our conversation enlightened me to the world of living with ADHD, and how she makes it work for her. 

Kristina is a lawyer, podcaster, and mental health advocate for women with anxiety and ADHD. ⚡️⚡️She was recently diagnosed as an adult with ADHD after struggling through years of adulthood, always feeling like she was less capable than all of the people around her💕. After getting an ADHD diagnosis, the world finally started to make a little more sense. 👉🏼Not wanting other women to feel the way she felt for so many years, Kristina created The NBD Podcast to help educate people on ADHD and help other women discover that they can have all the success they want even with ADHD.✅

Find her on IG at: @thenbdlife

Episode Quote: And there are days when I leave my phone in the fridge!!

Self Care Tip: Have different versions of your self-care routine to match your energy levels / Have interchangeable self-care routines

Meet Farzana!! She is here to chat about all the things!!! I am sooooooo intrested in the healing techniques she talks about.  Some I have been using for years already in my own personal healing journey.  I LOVE bringing you the things I am learning and implementing into my own life - in real time!!! I also LOVEEEEE bringing it to you through people who can really speak to the behind-the-scenes info about these modalities, and explain them better. 

Farzana Doctor is a Toronto-based author, activist and a psychotherapist. She has written four critically acclaimed novels and a poetry collection.  (AMAZING NOVELS, by the way!). Find her on IG at : @farzanadoctor

Find Audrey on IG at: @helloaudreyrose

Episode Quote: "Sometimes we don’t know we’ve gone into a state of stress…so just tuning in [to yourself]"

Self Care Tip: 🥳🥳  Help your body realize it is safe. 🌿

🥳🥳🥳🥳Know a friend who would make a great podcast guest?? Email 📩 [email protected] with the subject "Guest"!!! 

⚡️👉🏼👉🏼👉🏼Know someone who would benefit from listening to this episode ? 💕🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🙋🏿‍♀️💕 Share it with them!! ⚡️Take a screenshot, send it to their dms, tag me in your story!! Let’s spread the word!!  ✨⚡️If you leave a written review, that will help others find it.🥂

Jess, the host of the "Say It All" Podcast, is also a wife, momma, entrepreneur, certified personal trainer. Wine, coffee and Jesus fills her soul.  Find her with friends if she isn't spending precious time with her family.

Grab your cup of coffee, or tea and curl up to listen to us chat about making improvements to our lives, planning out busy schedules, and how she still finds time to center herself while enjoying life as a wife and a mama of a little one!!! 

Find Jess on IG at: @sayitallpodcast or @true_wholesome_living

Find Audrey on IG at: @helloaudreyrose

Sarah Young, the host of the "Calming The Chaos" podcast, speaks to changing your routines, giving yourself grace, and preparing for the stressful events we face in life.

As an autoimmune warrior, boy mom, dog mom, and wife, being healthy in mind, body and soul wasn't always easy for Sarah. So, she created systems and routines to bring calm to her chaos and now she helps busy moms do the same.

Find Sarah on IG at: @sarahyoung79

Find Audrey on IG at: @helloaudreyrose

Sarah's Tip for self care: Give yourself grace. Go in the room, shut the door, breathe for 5 minutes.

Episode Quote: “until you figure out where you are, you can’t make the changes…you wouldn’t go out and run a race if you hadn’t stretched!!”

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✨ How depression can come from even just a change in our life and then knock us out of our routine, causing more depression.  It is important to have grace for ourselves.  Take some time for ourselves, and bring ourselves out of it just a little at a time. ✨

⚡️I feel like an imposter sometimes, 🙋🏻‍♀️ telling people how to live their best lives, or what to do to improve them. 😳 🥂 But, life is a roller coaster, with ups and downs. 🍾👉🏼 Even after my "big" journey and my life changing so much for the better, I still struggle with my depression and anxiety. ✅ I am at a time in my life where I have it creeping up again.

⚡️Multiple factors cause this, such as work stress, relationship stress like family dynamics, deadlines and limited "me" time.💇🏻‍♀️💃🏽  One habit slips,💅🏽 then another 🧖🏼‍♀️and another.  🌚Next thing you know, we are basically giving into the depression and anxiety as we get away from our self-love habits.  🥨🥞🍡Eat takeout one time too many, stop writing in that gratitude journal and exercising 🌿.  Don't even mention the extras like calling old friends or family.  Even though we KNOW how good it feels when we are doing all of this, it is hard to stay afloat sometimes.  🐠🐠

⚡️I am here to share with you that a journey doesn't mean we have healed our depression completely just becuase we changed our life and felt like our best selves for 3 years.  🥳💕 We will have those amaxing times, but likely end up back in a different place fighting it again at times.  And that is OK.  It does NOT negate the work we have done.  It does NOT discredit us.  We still brought ourselves back from a very dark place, and now, get to use our tools and do it again.

We also HAVE to remember that it is NOT the time to punish ourselves for not keeping up on self-care or using those tools.  This may have happened regardless.

I cannot wait for you to hear my chat with one of the most inspiring people on this planet.

On a mission to leave the world a little better than how she found it, Mindy strives to help create a world where inclusion is the norm, where people see possibilities instead of limitations, and where no challenge is too big to overcome.

Driven to build a world that welcomes and includes EVERYONE, Mindy is a powerful leader in disability/ability rights, with specific interests in accessible air travel, universal design, inclusive style and better representation for the disabled community in entertainment.

A popular motivational speaker (giving her first speech at the age of four as the Texas State Poster Child for the Muscular Dystrophy Association!), Mindy’s mission is to show up as an example of positivity, hope, bravery and possibilities, and to help individuals to own their adversity, to stop making excuses, to see their fullest potential and to give them the tools to reach for it. 

Mindy’s book,  "The Truth About Things That Suck" is for anyone who wants a new perspective on adversity when times get tough. The book covers job loss, parenting challenges, love, life, loss and more, and teaches us ALL that the wrong mindset can be far more disabling than what any wheelchair might represent.

Mindy is the Editor-In-Chief of the national Muscular Dystrophy Association’s family of Quest content including the magazine, blog, and podcast. The Quest mission is to empower the neuromuscular disease community - and the broader community of individuals with disabilities - to live their lives to their fullest potential. Engaging thought leaders in conversations that matter and that move the community forward, content is intended to inform, educate, inspire and entertain.

Named a 2022 “Woman of Influence” by Success Magazine, Mindy is also the host of "The Truth About Things That Suck" podcast, guest contributor of “Morning Motivations” on CBS Austin’s “We Are Austin” lifestyle morning show and was recently named an “Austin Woman to Watch” by Austin Woman Magazine.

In the spirit of living a life without limits, despite her significant physical limitations, Mindy has also accomplished:

- Multiple singing appearances on national television

- A CD recorded with George Strait’s musicians accompanying her

- A trip to one of the least wheelchair accessible countries on the planet, spending two weeks there, and visiting three different cities to adopt her daughter…after the government of that country told her that her disability made her unfit.

Mindy's passion for making the impossible, possible, is contagious…and she’s not finished yet!

Find her on IG : @mindyhendersonspeaks

Find Audrey on IG: @helloaudreyrose

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