By Caitlin Dafni
The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.
It's been over 3 months since the last episode of Rev Rest. So what the heck have I been up to? Spoiler Alert: I'm pregnant! But that's only part of the story...
In today's episode, I talk about how I practiced deep rest this summer while navigating a sea of intensity. How at times, I forgot to rest and pushed too hard, and what I learned in the process. Also, what NOT producing the podcast brought up for me - from the guilt to learning to gratitude - and how this relates to the natural seasonality of creativity and output.
Plus, with baby on the way this November, a look at what's to come for Rev Rest. Enjoy!
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On today’s show I’m speaking with Dr. Erin Sepic. Dr. Sepic is a Chiropractor, Kinesiologist, brain development and movement nerd, as well as a professional Intuitive, Healer and Coach. She lives and works in the beautiful state of VT. Her core values are Growth and Spirituality, and as you'll find, she is a passionate storyteller.
I wanted to bring Erin on the show because she’s whip smart, an amazing storyteller, and is an embodied example of Left Brain and Right Brain beautifully weaving their faculties together to help others on their healing and wellness journeys.
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She had put together all the ingredients of a "happy life" - a beautiful family, home and career. Standing in the middle of it all, Mary realized how sad she actually felt. The discovery and practice of a powerful tool helped infuse her life with more intention and meaning.
Then, just as her last kiddo was leaving the nest and Mary was rekindling her marriage, tragedy struck. Mary was asked to accept an entirely new, painful, challenging and beautiful reality that she never saw coming.
In our conversation Mary reflects on her relationship to rest during her early years of mothering; how much it has changed since being asked to mother again; and why she now practices deep, solitary rest on a regular basis.
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Tara is an Anti-Diet Health Coach. After years of yo-yo dieting and finding that the answer lay in HEALTH & not in dieting, she is passionate about helping women ditch diets (and diet culture) for good!
Tara helps women learn to eat and live without restrictions or guilt around food by helping them build realistic, healthy habits that they can be consistent with. Her mission is to help women stop focusing their energy on food so that they can get back to living their lives!
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Tara on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tararyanofficial/
Tara's website: www.tararyanhealth.com
Caitlin's website: CaitlinDafni.com
Caitlin on IG @caitlindafnicoaching or on Facebook @caitlindafnicoaching
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Farheen Beg - lover of sleep, life coach and reiki practitioner - shares her transformative story of rest. How the context of her childhood - as a 1st generation South Asian Canadian born to Pakistani immigrants - shaped her ability to rest (or not rest) in early adulthood. Why she’s never going back to, as she calls them, “the years of depletion.” Plus, when she realized that her own inner peace and freedom are inextricably linked to the peace and freedom that many of us are seeking in our communities, and in our world. All this and more.
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How does a full-time working mother of two 5-year-old twins, who also runs her own real estate business, find time for rest? In this conversation, my hilarious and straight-talker sister, Gillian Roy, explains how she carves out micro-windows of time to nourish and rejuvenate herself.
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English Professor and Master Life Coach, Dr. Kirstin Hotelling Zona, tells us her story of rest, when rest became a life raft - a path back home to herself - and to the brilliant life she now lives. Kirstin explains how sexuality and rest interact; how rest is a portal to essential vitality, healing, and profound love. Plus, what Kirstin is teaching her kids about rest. All this and much more!
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How does our need for rest change with the changing seasons of our lives? In this episode, Caitlin talks about the metaphorical winters of our lives, why they can be so tough, and how to skillfully navigate their inevitable arrival. Caitlin talks about the hardest, longest winter she's ever experienced, what happened when she tried to ignore the waves of grief, and finally her surrender to the wintering she was in.
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In this episode and the next, Caitlin explores the rhythms of rest - How our needs for rest can vary quite a bit based on our individual constitution, and how our needs for rest are in tune with the seasonal rhythms of nature. Caitlin highlights the season of winter, a period to hibernate and rejuvenate, a time to go inward and develop our inner resources.
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In this first episode, Caitlin explains why resting is one of the most seditious things we can do in this culture, and how that is especially true for women. Plus, some fun facts about lions!
*Please note that when Caitlin talks about "culture" in this episode, she is referring to the mainstream, capitalist culture of the United States. Inherent in many cultures around the world are healthy rhythms for rest and play, work and leisure. Those natural rhythms have largely been neglected and pushed aside in the U.S. in favor of fueling the economic powers that be.
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The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.