Rise Higher

 In today's podcast Tonya talks with Billie Lynn Hillis, director and cofounder of Gaia Wellness. In this episode Tonya & Billie Lynn leave nothing on the table with an honest, raw, open talk about addictions, what it looks like to heal addictions in a world that celebrates drug and alcohol use, what it means to have to walk away from friends, family, and even your community. Talking about early childhood trauma, growing up in alcohol and drug fuelled homes, the importance of our networks and the cost of going home again... 

If you've ever struggled with toxic family members, experienced addictions, eating disorders or drug and alcohol dependancy, this podcast is for you. 

Billie Lynn is candid about her journey to spirituality in her quest, and ultimate success, with treating her addictions through the spiritual journey. 

Billie Lynn Hillis 
Co-Founder | Director of Programming & Client Services 
500hr RYT, KYT & KYT for Addictions | Spiritual Therapist Meditation Teacher | Certified Reiki & Sound Healer 
Billie (Jugat Joti Kaur) has been on a spiritual path for over 15 years. After experiencing many struggles in her early life including trauma, chronic anxiety and addiction, she turned to yoga, meditation and spirituality to find relief from suffering and support her recovery path.  

Billie has many years of experience teaching Kundalini Yoga, Hatha, Yin and Beyond Addictions Yoga as well as practicing Reiki, Sound Healing, BioTuning and other healing modalities. She is certified as a Compassionate Inquiry Therapist as well as a Insight Meditation Teacher. Billie has a deep respect for the teachings of Buddhism, Hinduism and all other Spiritual Traditions and is honoured to have studied with wise and compassionate teachers including Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Dr. Gabor Mate, Sat Dharam Kaur and many others.  

Billie offers her experience and knowledge in hopes of inspiring others on their journey towards personal freedom. Billie is known for her authentic, non-judgmental and compassion-centered teaching. Availing herself to continuous philosophical education from various spiritual disciplines, she integrates meditation with self-inquiry therapies, applying ancient wisdom to our contemporary western world in a useful and understandable way. She encourages growth of the physical and spiritual self, citing the interconnectedness to each other, to the world and to the universe at large. 

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In this episode, which is explicit, Tonya talks about unravelling both trauma and the small things that interrupt us each day. Whether it's something large like Tonya's childhood sexual abuse that's been undealt with for many years, leading to creating a life based on a lie, with no boundaries or standards, or whether it's the millions of small things that we don't deal with that end up becoming big things that get in our way. 

If you're trying to create a powerful, incredible life for yourself, build something or leave a legacy, it's critical to understand how these things can interfere and cause us to create the opposite of what we want. 

Tonya also shares personal experiences from her unpacking and her journey as she was led to find and create processes that we weren't available because much of the ancient and modern work was simply not working. 



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Pandora's awakening is all about talking about what we're not supposed to and shining light on what's been in the dark for too long. In today's podcast Tonya is talking about the shamanic journeying, recounting her first real experience with it, working with a shaman, the purpose of the journey, what to look out for, what to be mindful of and what kinds of journey's we do, as well as an introduction into the worlds. 

This is an exciting one delving into the topic of the journey, what we can undercover and how it can help us in life. 

You can check out some of Tonya's Journey's on her website at tonyawhittle.com 

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In today's podcast Tonya talks about how we create and recreate the same days, weeks, months and years over and over again. When our past hasn't been healed or cleared, we unconsciously create the same cycles over and cannot create a new future. 

If you've ever found yourself repeating a cycle in your life (relationship, money, health, etc) this podcast will help you understand why. Do the exercise and let Tonya know what you identified. 

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In this episode Tonya shoots straight with the conversation about what it takes to level up and move to the next level of your life. Sharing stories from her own journey and life she doesn't hold back on the challenging questions, straight to the BS stories we hold ourselves back on. 

Talking about growth and fixed mindset, stories, limiting beliefs and who we spend time with and what happens if we keep accepting less than we want, living in limits and fear or we take a chance and do what it takes to get us to the next level. 

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In today's episode Tonya talks candidly about announcing Tonya Whittle Inc and what it she had to go through to come to terms with more public failure, shame, limiting beliefs that developed as a result. 

When we fail, should we go home with our tail between our legs? Or should we find a way forward?

Tonya shares her journey to starting over, the lessons she learned on the way to saying YES, again. 

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In much of today's self help communities there is a trend of toxic positive thinking - meaning positive thinking at a cost of the truth. This is a REAL conversation on how that can deepen our trauma response, invalidate what we're experiencing and even cause us to remain stuck in the very negative reactions and responses we are trying to get out of. 

Positive thinking and being a positive person are natural side effects of shadow work, to face our shadow and not shove down the truth and pretend things are fine when they are not fine. This line of thinking has caused an even more people to suffer and unable to get help they are seeking. 

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Today I share about my journey to shamanism, what led me to open the doors to the mystical, how I found myself at the deepest level because of shamanism. Shamanism is nature's medicine and allows us to bridge the worlds, to find and access parts of ourselves that we otherwise can't see. It allows us to transcend the over thinking mind and move into another realm. 

In today's episode Tonya talks about how the body keeps score, how we become chained and trapped in life, what it means to explore our emotions, experiences and how to release those from our body so we can be truly unchained. The soul loves the truth, and when we live a lie, the soul cannot exist in those places. To live a life of soul we must live a life of truth. 

In this inaugural episode, Tonya introduces the Awakening Pandora Podcast by sharing her experience, her journey to the world of soul and how she arrived there. She'll take you on snippets of what will be covered in the podcast, what awakening pandora means and resonate with you on so many levels as she details how she came to searching for an answer to feeling blah, mundane and struggling with the day to day grind of life.