Rooted Souls

Although many Earth-based communities have faced genocide, extermination, and reduction practices, some survivors have been able to hold onto enough indigenous wisdom so that it can still be passed on today.

We are currently living in post traumatic stress society. By learning from the cultural and ceremonial frameworks that are still in place within the remaining indigenous communities, we can learn to repair and move forward by living in harmony with ourselves, each other, and the Earth.

As Modern People we face three main problems:

1) Disconnection from nature 

2) Disconnection from ourselves 

3) Disconnection from each other

In this episode we discuss the four parts of a human that need to be integrated for deep connection and wholeness and how we can begin cultural repair and renewal.

Tying together Sal’s 30 years with the Lakota Sioux people and his and Becca’s combined learning from indigenous cultures across the globe, this is a conversation of inspiration and hope for a better future.

Becca Speert is an executive and leadership coach, team facilitator, and organizational consultant with more than a decade of coaching experience. She helps people better understand themselves, each other, and the systems they work within, with a focus on self-awareness, communication, relationships, and meaningful change.

Becca is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC), and holds an M.S. in Executive Coaching and Organizational Consulting from NYU. Her work today spans executive and leadership coaching, team effectiveness, facilitation, and organizational consulting.

Learn more about Becca’s current work at ExecuMindsetCoach.com.

Salvatore has 30 years of mentoring and delivery of nature-based therapies and wellness practices. He has expert knowledge and experience in both ancient indigenous and modern therapies. His focus is on techniques which increase well-being for individuals, families, and communities. He has created a codified therapeutic method drawn from experiences and knowledge. Salvatore has designed and taught over sixteen courses based on this methodology and has presented these courses and seminars in 12 countries, to over 27 different cultures. Sal is the founder and current director of Helpers Mentoring Society, an international organization dedicated to supporting the revitalization of humanity’s relationship with hope and purpose, so that all life thrives. 

helpers journey intro course starts at end of January 2023 already taking registration. you can get started at the store tab.

Helpers Mentoring Society Links:

Website

Instagram

Facebook

Bison Project

Are you struggling to keep up with the news today because it’s too upsetting? 

Are you overly involved in community action but not taking care of your own mental health?

Over the last decade, tension has escalated so much in politics, with the climate crisis, and most recently with the pandemic. Collective trauma responses have been pouring out of us as a species.  

Where is the middle ground between self-care and community-care?

Historically, there has been an absence of spirituality in the activism space and a lack of activism in the spiritual space - this is beginning to shift as we are seeing the intersection of healing and trauma resolution in activism spaces. 

By bringing more activism into the spiritual space, and more spirituality into the activism space; there is more embodiment and cohesiveness when we bridge the two. 

*If we want to be liberated, we need to work for the liberation for all beings.*

When we focus too much on our own experience and our own narratives we can lose context of the whole community.

In spiritual spaces it is often about what we can do as individuals to become healthy. Since we are all interdependent there is no such thing as individual liberation.

In this episode we discuss:

How highly sensitive people can stay informed without traumatizing themselves with the news.

What anger is and what we can do with it.

Why we are becoming more traumatized these days and what can we do about it.

How we can protect ourselves in spaces of conflict on the front lines.

Practices that can help you heal, ground, and remember that we are all greater than our individual selves.

How to navigate conflict better.

How to avoid burnout.

And more…

We are interdependent beings. We live in an interdependent world and there is nothing we can do to separate ourselves from other living beings.

As we come up against more crisis we have more opportunities to come together. 

Rooted Souls Hostess- Becca Speert is a Life and Mindset Coach who has been helping people on their personal-growth journeys since 2007. She has been an environmental and social justice advocate for more than 20 years. 

Guest: Kazu Haga is the founder of East Point Peace Academy. He is an experienced trainer, certified in several methodologies of nonviolence and restorative justice. Having received training from elders including Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Rev. James Lawson and Joanna Macy, he teaches nonviolence, conflict reconciliation, restorative justice, and mindfulness in prison, jails, high schools, youth groups, and with activist communities around the country. He is also the author of the book Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm. 

Mentioned Resources:

We Will Not Cancel Us

Fierce Vulnerability Network- climate justice and racial justice trauma healing.

What is the Vagus Nerve?  

How can mold, Lyme disease, trauma, and auto immune disease impact the Vagus nerve? 

How does a dysregulated Vagus nerve impact you?  

How can you measure how your vagus nerve is doing?  

What can you do to improve the health of your vagus nerve and what are the benefits?  

Listen to learn about these basics and what you can start to do today to improve your Vagal tone right away!  

In this epsiode we cover what the vagus nerve is, how stress and trauma can impact the vagus nerve, and what kind of self-care techniques you can use to begin healing your nervous system and recover from a traumatized state of being. 

Becca Speert is an executive and leadership coach, team facilitator, and organizational consultant with more than a decade of coaching experience. She helps people better understand themselves, each other, and the systems they work within, with a focus on self-awareness, communication, relationships, and meaningful change.

Becca is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC), and holds an M.S. in Executive Coaching and Organizational Consulting from NYU. Her work today spans executive and leadership coaching, team effectiveness, facilitation, and organizational consulting.

Learn more about Becca’s current work at ExecuMindsetCoach.com.

Dr. Amanda is a chiropractor who focuses on Neuro-Optimization. Her tools and strategies aim to help people regulate and optimize their nervous systems. Her motto is: The doctor determines the diagnosis, the patient decides the prognosis. Dr.Amanda believes that patients have more power and control over their healing than they think. They simply need the tools and strategies to support them on their healing journey. Learn more about Amanda on her website. She also has an online course and monthly workshops.

In this intimate three woman episode, we offer our personal stories inside and outside the 12 Step model for recovery. 

Listen to hear us explore…

What is 12 Step Recovery and what is it rooted in?

What does the 12 step model provide and what does it rob from us?

Is alcoholism a disease or something else?

Are the 12 Steps the answer to recovery? 

Are there alternatives to AA?

Disclaimer: What we share are our own personal experiences and beliefs and do not wish to impose them on anyone. We are simply offering our perspective. Your experience is valid too. Our hope is that this is a contribution to you, your healing, and your personal empowerment. Please take what works for you and leave the rest.

Books:

The Freedom Model

Quit Like a Woman by Holly Whitaker

Sober Curious by Ruby Warrington. 

Other Resources:

Baldwin Research Institute

Freedom Model Support 

The Luckiest Club

She Recovers

SMART Recovery

Refuge Recovery (brings in Buddhist principles and philosophies)

Moderation Management

Soba Yoga in Boston

Food has become a complex topic in the world today. With so many fad diets, changing nutritional research, and uninformed health care professionals, we can easily become overwhelmed and stressed by feeding ourselves. 

When eating in a rush has become so commonplace, and the lineage of our ancestoral diets has become distant, for most of us, our connection to food is not as strong as it could be. 

In this episode, Efan and I share some personal stories about our own spiritual and cultural experiences with food. We offer you different ways to connect with and understand your relationship to food so it can become a spiritually enhancing and soul nurturing experience. 

Whether you are living in a city, out in the suburbs, or on a farm, this episode can benefit you if you are looking to feel inspired and cultivate a deeper connection to your food, your body, and the world around you.   

Becca Speert is an executive and leadership coach, team facilitator, and organizational consultant with more than a decade of coaching experience. She helps people better understand themselves, each other, and the systems they work within, with a focus on self-awareness, communication, relationships, and meaningful change.

Becca is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC), and holds an M.S. in Executive Coaching and Organizational Consulting from NYU. Her work today spans executive and leadership coaching, team effectiveness, facilitation, and organizational consulting.

Learn more about Becca’s current work at ExecuMindsetCoach.com.

Efan Hsieh is a lifelong learner, adventurer, and coach trained at the Kresser Institute’s Adapt Functional Health Coach Training Program. As a functional health coach, she partners with her clients to uplevel their wellbeing in all areas of life by making sustainable shifts in their lifestyle, behavior, and mindset. She especially enjoys empowering Asian and BIPOC women to break out of burnout to get more energy, time, and balance so they can live life on their own terms. If you are interested in working with her, she offers group and individual coaching as well as classes. Reach out to her to be notified of upcoming group coaching programs. Follow Efan on LinkedIn  Instagram: @efanhsieh  Or e-mail.

If you are an animal lover this is an episode that will be sure to entertain ;) In this heartfelt discussion Vicki and I discuss telepathy between humans and animals. I share how skeptical I was about the process and how Vicki confirmed for me that it is real. Vicki covers how she overcame her skepticism as well, and how she trained, and practices now. Come listen to learn how you can have a deeper relationship with your pets, both living and dead!

In this episode, Vicki and I discuss…

•How do pet psychics communicate with animals? Is it for real?

•Can anyone communicate telepathically with animals even if we are not trained?

•How can we do it, ourselves?

•Is it different communicating with living animals rather than the dead?

•What happens to our pets when they die?

•How is pet telepathy different than human to human? What about wild animals and insects?

...All of this and more!

Becca Speert is an executive and leadership coach, team facilitator, and organizational consultant with more than a decade of coaching experience. She helps people better understand themselves, each other, and the systems they work within, with a focus on self-awareness, communication, relationships, and meaningful change.

Becca is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC), and holds an M.S. in Executive Coaching and Organizational Consulting from NYU. Her work today spans executive and leadership coaching, team effectiveness, facilitation, and organizational consulting.

Learn more about Becca’s current work at ExecuMindsetCoach.com.

Vicki Hager, Pet Communicator and Crystal Sales Woman can best be reached on Facebook and instagram.

Listen in to learn about:   

• What dreams actually are and what they offer us 

• How to influence your dreams 

• Utilizing your dreams to know yourself more deeply  

• Dream symbolism and anatomy of dreams   

• Decoding messages in your dreams.  

• The historical roots of dreams   

• How dreams inform us about the collective unconscious 

...and more!    

Becca Speert is an executive and leadership coach, team facilitator, and organizational consultant with more than a decade of coaching experience. She helps people better understand themselves, each other, and the systems they work within, with a focus on self-awareness, communication, relationships, and meaningful change.

Becca is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC), and holds an M.S. in Executive Coaching and Organizational Consulting from NYU. Her work today spans executive and leadership coaching, team effectiveness, facilitation, and organizational consulting.

Learn more about Becca’s current work at ExecuMindsetCoach.com.

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My guest, Carole Kammen, is an entrepreneur, speaker and educator in both the personal development and professional sectors. In 1986 Carole founded the Pathways Institute, a public organization offering seminars in psychological and spiritual development. With over 41,000 graduates worldwide, the Institute continues to offer public programs. She is a pioneer in bringing depth work into mainstream arenas, sharing her expertise and practice in various forms of meditation, intensive study of world religions, world mythology, and Jungian theory. You can learn more about Carole's dream coaching and conferences at www.pathwaysinstitute.com

*Trigger warning at 40minutes, 10 seconds into episode: (discussion of gynecological violence, medical abuse, and racial trauma) 

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Lexi Mondot, The Cycle Witch is back with me again for another episode! 

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- Find out what cyclical living arts are and why honoring them is so important to healing ourselves and our world.  

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- How has it historically been repressed and how can we revive it now? 

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- How Medicine can be just another layer of avoidance of the root cause of disconnection & disease and how we can reclaim empowerment with our bodies.  

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- How colonized gender has kept us away from truly knowing what all bodies need. 

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- How modern spirituality can be more about avoidance than tuning in & what we can do to shift... and more! 

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Womb resources: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XPXoOiyLXpx9SYzfGm3QekDIb61bK6wK/view 

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Anti-Racism & Trauma/Anxiety Release Resources for Yoga Practitioners :https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rie-du6DpkFk_GBCFvllEtmsc1m57oGZrTfzrbTCUkE/edit 

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Cyclical Arts 5 Day Guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TQFEESnQFruPWlOpfMlFOdKMRKl42K8e/view?usp=sharing 

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Historical education:   

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-History of Misogyny  

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-When God Was a Woman 

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-When God Was a Black Woman  

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-The Great Cosmic Mother- Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth

Becca is Spiritual Life Coach who supports clients through their spiritual awakening and knowing themselves more deeply. She helps purpose driven people break free from being stuck, step into their natural gifts, & live a life true to their core. Reach Becca online at www.beccaspeert.com or connect with her via social media on instagram: @beccaspeertcoaching or Facebook: Becca Speert Coaching. To follow the podcast you can *subscribe* to get notified when a new episode is released, every Monday. You can also follow and support the podcast on Instagram @_rooted_souls and Facebook: Rooted Souls Podcast.

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Lexi, aka The Cycle Witch, has a B.A. in Dance and Theatre, a Certification in Arts Management from Hollins University, and is genderqueer and neurodivergent. They are a 200hr Certified Yoga Instructor through The Mindfulness Center and have been practicing witchcraft for 15 years. Lexi helps healers, coaches, instructors and spiritual leaders of the new earth movement decolonize oppressive systems from their practice using Cyclical Arts. They are dedicated to healing all genders' relationship to the menstrual cycle as a pathway to end oppressive systems. They use 25 years of academic and experiential mind/body study paired with professional experience as a somatic and evidence based healer, practicing witch, ritualist, and thriving survivor of PTSD, to offer you a feminine perspective on menstruality + spirituality that’s accessible, grounded, and rooted in evidence-based methods, science and anthropology.

Are you psychic?

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Curious about psychicism?

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Are you a psychic junkie?…

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Think psychics are scam artists?

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Or maybe you have yet to frame an opinion?

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This talk is for you!

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*In the most articulate, informed, and grounded conversation about psychic phenomena I have ever had or heard, Myahrissa and I cover topics such as…*

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What is it to be psychic?

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Are we all psychic?

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How have psychic powers become such a taboo subject?

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Why is the psychic industry so toxic?

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What is possible to bring reverence and honor back to the practice?

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Why do people become empathic?

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How can we all explore and expand our own psychic gifts?

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What is the purpose and value of using our psychic skills?

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How do you develop your gifts?

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Does the psychic realm benefit us or facilitate harm?

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And much much more!

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Myahrissa Ramsey is professional psychic/medium who weaves together mysticism, spirituality, & science through her understanding of the quantum field. She received her doctorate of psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology. Throughout her psychic development journey she has worked with several mentors & development groups. She finds that she learns the best when she studies with her own intuition & with the spirit realm. She has taken everything she’s learned throughout her journey from a psychologist to a psychic/medium to support other empaths & budding psychics understand & develop their gifts from a trauma informed grounded & foundational approach. For more information about what she does & how to work with her in a psychic/intuitive reading or psychic gift development session you can find her at @myahrissavietta on Instagram 

How have we become blind to our body cycles? 

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Why is there so much shame about menstruation? 

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How can people of all genders and sexes reclaim our cycles and why would we even want to? 

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 What are the different phases within a menstrual and infradian cycles? 

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 What power lies in womb-holder bleeding time and how can we best harness it? 

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 Stay tuned until the end for guidance on how to create your own rituals and find out about manifestation spells that include the use of menstrual blood. 

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Lexi, aka The Cycle Witch, has a B.A. in Dance and Theatre, a Certification in Arts Management from Hollins University, and is genderqueer and neurodivergent. They are a 200hr Certified Yoga Instructor through The Mindfulness Center and have been practicing witchcraft for 15 years. Lexi helps healers, coaches, instructors and spiritual leaders of the new earth movement decolonize oppressive systems from their practice using Cyclical Arts. They are dedicated to healing all genders' relationship to the menstrual cycle as a pathway to end oppressive systems. They use 25 years of academic and experiential mind/body study paired with professional experience as a somatic and evidence based healer, practicing witch, ritualist, and thriving survivor of PTSD, to offer you a feminine perspective on menstruality + spirituality that’s accessible, grounded, and rooted in evidence-based methods, science and anthropology.