Return to Wholeness

I'm THRILLED to introduce you to Victoria Kleinsman, Food Freedom and Body Image Coach. This conversation is very timely as so many women are navigating the body image struggles and feelings of failure that come up this time of year as yet another diet fails.

Victoria has SUCH a powerful perspective on healing body image and a heroine's journey that will inspire you to step more fully into your worth and power.

Here's what we cover:

• Victoria's journey navigating a vast spectrum of eating disorders from anorexia to binge eating to bulimia
• Her experience being in a 6 year abusive relationship and how she finally get the strength to leave
• Transforming blame into self responsibility
• Navigating the experience of "not wanting to get better" because staying sick = being loved and supported
• Victoria's absolute terror of gaining weight when she started to heal her relationship with food
• How she handles body image flare ups and the powerful question she asks herself when triggers come up
• How the life you desire is available to you in the body you're in today

Connect with Victoria here:

Free access to the first modules of my paid Food & Body Freedom Queen Program: https://victoriakleinsman.com/free-access-to-first-few-modules/

Website: https://www.victoriakleinsman.com/

Email: [email protected]

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victoriakleinsman

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/victoriakleinsman/

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/victoria-kleinsman “Break Free From Binge Eating - With Victoria Kleinsman” on any podcast platform.

Connect with me here: https://www.instagram.com/holly.toronto/

Return to Wholeness Playlist: https://mailchi.mp/0faf62a7a25a/b8stn2v3w4

I'm so excited to share this news with you dear listeners! The week that I'm releasing this episode, I'll be 29 weeks. I chose to wait a long time to announce my pregnancy for many reasons, but the biggest one being that navigating pregnancy after loss is complicated.

This episode is my most vulnerable yet where I'll be sharing about:

• My journey overcoming my resistance and limiting beliefs about motherhood
• My first pregnancy in April of 2021 that ended with a loss (I won't be going too much into the details of this experience and please know that if you're navigating loss or have experienced loss in the past, you have full permission to skip this episode)
• How my view of motherhood has done a complete 180
• How social media impacted my pregnancy loss
• Finding strength and solidarity with other women who had experienced loss
• Navigating my 2nd pregnancy after experiencing a loss
• The challenges I've had to overcome with this pregnancy
• How I've deepened into trust with my body and what I've learned about surrender

If you got something from this episode or want to share something with me about your own fertility journey, feel free to head over to IG and send me a DM: https://www.instagram.com/holly.toronto/

Diet Culture is LOUD this time of year, calling all of us to embark on yet another diet or eating plan and we all know how this ends - with yet another failed attempt to lose weight.

My girl Julie is joining me today to help propose a new path that invites you to consider what it would mean for you to ditch aesthetic related body goals in 2022 in favor of coming home to your body.

The phrase "come home to your body" can seem elusive and that's because it's incredibly individualized, yet Jules and I wanted to share with you what it has meant to experience homecoming in our bodies and how you might be able to as well.

Here's what we cover:

• The difference between health based goals and aesthetic based goals
• The " backtracking" that often happens on the Intuitive Eating journey being a necessary detour because there's something to be gleaned
• Reclaiming actions we take for our health from diet culture
• How NOT being at home in our bodies causes us to delay life and our desires
• Our unique experiences and definitions of Homecoming
• What it feels like to be in friendship/relationship with other woman who are at home in their bodies
• Your body being YOUR business
• Our exciting announcement to offer our signature program, Homecoming, as a self-study program in 2022

Link to explore and sign up for Homecoming Self Study:

https://julesandhollcoaching.com/homecoming-selfstudy

Link to explore and sign up for Anti Diet Health Coach Camp:

https://julesandhollcoaching.com/antidiet-health-coach-camp-20

Today I'm connecting with Life + Business Strategy Coach, Stacey Brass-Russell, who is also a friend and mentor of mine.

Our conversation is far-reaching as we discuss the necessity of allowing our evolution and the power of discomfort to guide us to the next chapter of our lives.

Here's what we discuss:

• Stacey's unique journey growing up in show business and trying to be everything everyone else wanted her to be
• Yoga as the practice that brought her back to herself 
• How limiting thought patterns represent themselves in our bodies 
• The journey of reaching a goal or a milestone being about who you get to become on your journey vs just the goal itself
• Stacey's powerful perspective on change and discomfort as a sign from the universe that it's time to evolve
• Allowing ourselves to grow out of situations that no longer serve 
• Celebrating and owning what we're really good while being inspired by others' talent

We also talk about Stacey's new podcast, Passionate and Prosperous, which I highly recommend:

Apple Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Gjroni6caizIgoHMEN5kS?si=c93a64ed26464af1

Spotify: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/passionate-prosperous-with-stacey-brass-russell/id1593254671

Learn more about Stacey and her work here:

3. https://staceybrassrussell.com/

4. https://www.instagram.com/staceybrassrussell/

Sign up for the Return to Wholeness Playlist here: https://mailchi.mp/0faf62a7a25a/b8stn2v3w4

Connect with me here:

https://www.instagram.com/holly.toronto/

Today I'm chatting with Embodiment and Leadership Master Coach, Author and Podcaster, Sigrid Tasies.

Through out conversation, we covered so much ground and I feel like I got to explore my unanswered questions around why so many of us still feel like little girls in women's bodies.

Here's what we discuss:

• Sigrid's experience of being aware of her depths has a child but feeling like she needed to fake shallowness in order to fit in
• Her realization that the parts of herself that she had fragmented were actually her gifts
• Self reverence and truly mattering to ourselves
• The impact lack of initiation has on us as individuals and how she uses initiation to support her clients in deepening their transformation
• The phenomenon so many experience of "never feeling like an adult"
• Her 7 principles of Feminine Embodiment

Learn more about Sigrid and her work here:

Instagram:

www.instagram.com/sigridtasies

PRIVATE INITIATIONS / MENTORING WITH SIGRID:

https://sigridtasies.com/1-on-1-coaching

SACRED LEADERS PODCAST:

www.sigridtasies.com/podcast

FREE Inner-Alignment Starter Kit:

https://sigridtasies.com/inneralignment

Sign up for the Return to Wholeness Playlist here: https://mailchi.mp/0faf62a7a25a/b8stn2v3w4

Connect with me here:

https://www.instagram.com/holly.toronto/

Happy New Year!

We're kicking off 2022 with a powerful conversation around MONEY with Kaitlynn Newton.

She shares a powerful perspective on money as masculine energy that wants to provide for us.

Here's what we cover:

• Kaitlynn's experience of having different personalities depending on the social context
• The feeling of self betrayal we get when we agree with something we actually disagree with
• The evolutionary reason women tend to be more "agreeable" 
• Money as masculine energy that wants to take care of us
• How different attachment styles manifest in our relationship to money
• Kaitlynn's powerful money date practice and bringing gratitude to paying our bills
• Rebuilding trust with the masculine as a way to heal our relationship to money
• How we often make our spiritual practice about making more money or performing for the universe so that we can manifest more
• Wealth as being more than just money and the opportunity we have to define what a wealthy life looks like for ourselves

Learn more about Kaitlynn here:

https://www.kaitlynnnewton.com/activationsession

Sign up for the Return to Wholeness Playlist here: https://mailchi.mp/0faf62a7a25a/b8stn2v3w4

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year my loves!

We're doing something special for this episode. Join me for a trip down memory lane as I explore big takeaways and favorite moments from some episodes over this past year.

Here are the links to listen to the full episode:

Episode #1, Kat Lee: http://www.hollytoronto.com/po

dcast-1.html

Episode #6, Simi Botic: http://www.hollytoronto.com/podcast-6.html

Episode #11, Yours Truly: http://www.hollytoronto.com/podcast-11.html

Episode #12, Lindsey Lockett: http://www.hollytoronto.com/podcast-12.html

Episode #20, Julie Ohlemacher: http://www.hollytoronto.com/podcast-20.html

Episode #27, Madison Morrigan: http://www.hollytoronto.com/podcast-27.html

Episode #31, Evelyn Hale: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-31-the-insatiable-feminine-with-evelyn-hale/id1557255948?i=1000539631126

Grab the Return to Wholeness Playlist here: https://mailchi.mp/0faf62a7a25a/b8stn2v3w4

As a reminder, we'll be taking a week break but I will see you all again in 2022! Love to you all!

Julie + I are actually on FIRE in this episode talking about a Taylor Swift documentary, Ms. Americana, and the way it so beautifully articulates how good girl programming manifests itself.

It almost feels like Julie + I let you in on our fiery private conversations where we explore nuances and our different ways of viewing a topic.

Here's what we discuss:

• The need to be thought of as "good" being fuel for the compliant woman and living for praise
• Challenging circumstances in our life happening for us not to us
• My personal encounter with a Kanye-like man in the beginning of my career and how I internalized his opinion as truth
• Good girls being conditioned to take feedback at face value without running it through the lens of our own critical thinking
• Grounding ourselves in what matters beyond achievement
• What it feels like to be in a constant state of trying to earn our goodness
• How we devalue our work when it doesn't receive the praise we think it should/need it to in order to feel validated
• How we treat celebrities as products and our responsibility to be conscious viewers - ensuring we humanize the artists we idolize while knowing that we can opt out of the beauty standards they uphold
• Everyone having their own definition of goodness which makes it impossible for everyone to like you (aka kryptonite for a good girl)
• The spectrum of not good enough to "goody two shoes"
• Navigating situations where people don't like us or misrepresent us
• Our fear of forcing our opinions and making others uncomfortable with our views
• Self censoring vs choosing to remain silent from a place of integrity and making sure your words are your own

Check out the Ms. Americana Documentary on Netflix!

Return to Wholeness Playlist: https://mailchi.mp/0faf62a7a25a/b8stn2v3w4

It's just us today, loves, and I'm excited to take our conversation about good girl programming deeper by looking at how it intersects with body image.

Or what I call the first manifestation of good girl/compliant woman programming.

Here's what we cover in this episode:

• I share about my experience with insomnia over this past year and how I'm navigating it with more grace for myself
• Body image as the gateway into deeper connection to our feminine freedom
• How we often act out our good girl programming through our body image before any other area of our lives
• The drive to have men approve of our bodies
• Compliant woman/good girl programming depending solely on external feedback and validation
• The impact of our society's lack of initiation into different stages of our feminine journey
• How when a women transitions from her maiden to mother body, it's often seen as a failure
• The grief we may feel as our bodies change over time
• Dieting and ignoring hunger as a way we self silence
• Denying and delaying pleasure because we feel we have not earned it
• Pleasure as life force energy
• Objectification as a way we limit our humanity
• Self trust being at the root of the wounding that causes good girl/compliant woman programming

To learn more about private body image coaching with me click here: http://www.hollytoronto.com/body-image-coaching.html

If you got something from this conversation, head over to my IG and send me a DM https://www.instagram.com/holly.toronto/

Better yet, share this episode on social media or with a friend!

I'm so excited to introduce you to today's guest, Anna Anderson. She is a such a powerful example of the resilience that's built through rock bottom moments and how we can move beyond victimhood into empowerment.

Here's what we discuss:

• Anna's journey of searching externally for worth throughout her entire life
• The life altering experience of becoming pregnant and subsequently single at 28
• How alcohol became a way for her to cope with the pain of being a single mother who was unable to be with her son as much as she wanted and her experience healing her relationship to alcohol
• Her unconventional journey into becoming a yoga teacher
• Her conviction that even though so many parts of her journey were painful, she wouldn't change anything about it because who it allowed her to become
• How our worth lives in the present moment
• Moving away from unhealthy masculine and embodying the feminine
• How women often feel guilty for being in their feminine 
• Trusting the wisdom of our bodies
• How younger versions of us play out unhelpful coping strategies from a wounded place

Learn more about Anna and her work here:

https://www.instagram.com/iam.annaanderson/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/NurtureandNourishwithAnna

Learn more about the Feminine Freedom Coaching Experience here:

https://hollytorontocoaching.lpages.co/the-feminine-freedom-coaching-experience/