Science + Woo with Sarah McLachlan

What is unapologetic confidence? How do we navigate this bravely and with sensitivity towards the different aspests of ourselves? I'm beyond excited and honoured to speak with Amy Ruthworth this week to help you feel more centred, content and empowered, both inside and out.

Amy Rushworth is an Empowerment and Sexual Wellness Coach and Breathwork Teacher, for women who are ready to f*ck off the rules and create a life of unashamed pleasure and deep confidence.

As a globally-recognised thought leader on empowerment, Amy Rushworth helps women heal fear and shame, so you can step into the most outrageously free, unapologetically expressed version of yourself.

Amy has a burning passion for the taboo and "naughty areas" of womanhood - such as sexual wellness, bold self-expression and defying social expectations. The topics that women are typically taught to shut up about (or be ashamed of) are the type of conversations she lives for!

Plug your earbuds in to learn:

- What Rebirthing Breathwork is compared to other breathwork modalities. How it helps you feel more calm, peaceful and comfortable

- "It's ok to be gentle." Nose Breathing as a gentle experience of sustainable healing and growing, shifting neural pathways over time

- How to walk with your inner critic rather than bypass it, being brave and defiant in who you are

- The energy of "I can handle that" through tools and practices to ground your 'weirdness' and multi-dimensional self - without being too much!

- Amy's personal experience with sexual abuse, PTSD, witnessing abuse as a child and the impact of her parent's influence growing up

- How to bring your compassionate, big heartedness together with your fierceness; Being the sensitivite good girl as well as the brave bad-a*ss

- Why your confidence waivers, fluctuating like your nervous system, with a Window of Tolerance

- The untold story of Amy's 2022 experience, the highs and lows behind the scenes

- Amy's advice for increasing your resilience + grounding in unapologetic confidence, to be fully expressed, seen + radiant in yourself... and strong in who you are.

"I am not responsbile for what others think of me."

You can choose to be self responsible + self respectful instead.

Amy Rushworth combines her background and qualifications in Rebirthing Breathwork, transformational and sexuality coaching, somatic healing, integrative nutrition... with real-talk, practical wisdom. Over the years she's built a global coaching and healing business that serves thousands of clients and students in dozens of countries.

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www.amyrushworth.com

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Sound and music significantly impacts your brain, body, health and wellbeing. In this episode, Ian Morris and I explore the healing power of music for physical health, pathology and positive mentalities. Together we unpack how the frequency and beats of music can be 'prescribed' for healing the mind and body to live a thriving life.

Ian Morris is a Music Producer, Creator, Artist and Sound Alchemist who suffered digestion, autoimmune, pain and heart problems, obesity, anxiety attacks, migraines and severe food reactions. Ian used sound to shift both his mind and body, to reduce his weight from 320lbs, defeat his MS diagnosis and heal Colon Cancer.

Music lights up several parts our brain, creates new neural pathways, imprints our wellbeing and can facilitate incredible changes to our mind-body systems.

Music effects the body beyond the conscious mind, but through the physical mind.

Plug your earbuds in today to learn:

- Ian's personal health journey with obesity, MS and Cancer

- What Binaural Beats are, and how your brain responds to different frequencies, creating positive change in your processing patterns

- The specific music beats to support anxiety and feelings of dis-harmony based on your brain waves and frequencies

- Why we get sucked into the negative through entrainment and how this communicates within your body

- Case studies & clinical outcomes for the use of music in PTSD, dementia, asthma, allergies and experiencing more safety in your body

- The science behind how you can 'prescribe' music, it's benefits and what it does to your brain and body

- The vibration of masculinity in modern women, where it comes from and how it can become toxic

- Reforming the masculine and feminine to rebalance the world beyond gender

- Frequency-infused music, food and nutrients for consicously creating higher health, forming a positive frame of mind and body.

"Frequency is the greatest disruptor of the mind. If you bring intention to it as well, you will amplify it."

Ian Morris plays 28 musical instruments and creates and shares music for others worldwide through his company, Listening to Smile. His mission is to use his gifts and passion for people in search of healing and growth.

What makes his music unique and effective is that it is made with frequency in mind and the intentions to heal.

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CONNECT WITH IAN MORRIS:

Get Ian's Music on Bandcamp here

Follow on Instagram @listeningtosmile

www.listeningtosmile.com

CONNECT WITH SARAH McLACHLAN:

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When it comes to regulating your nervous system, there's a lot more to it than what social media might elude to. We cannot change the state of our body from the mind alone - no amount of affirmations, positive thinking or discussion will "sort things out".

Truth be told, your nervous system directly influences your digestion, reproductive ability, relationships and EVERY aspect of your life.

Karolyn Zinetti holds over 20 years experience in the health field, bringing together Breathwork, Naturopathy, Somatic & Trauma Informed Certifications, and much much more.

Overcoming stress and anxiety through our nervous system and emotions allows us to heal FAR more deeply than talking about our problems - or medicating them.

Plug your earbuds in to learn:

- How to access your parasympathetic nervous system, and respond rather than react, coming back to harmony, calmness and aliveness

- The real meaning of Rest & Receive

- What the Window of Tolerance is and how to build your Window capacity

- Hyperarousal vs. Hypoarousal, Micro vs. Macro Trauma and The Four Trauma Responses

- DIY: A Vagus Nerve Exercise and Containment Exercise: to create introception, calm the body and increase your experience of safeness

- Ways to give yourself more cellular energy at home right now

- How your nervous system state is influencing and impacting your digestion +/- causing your digestion problems

- How to create spaciousness in order to open your nervous system and capacity, creating space for joy and aliveness

- The benefits of resting during your cycle and why your nervous system optimises reproductive function

Affirm it with me: "The more I rest, the more I receive!"

Karolyn is highly experienced, qualified and fully embodied in her practice. This is an episode not to miss!

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CONNECT WITH KAROLYN ZINETTI:

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Attracting success and abundance is more than affirmations and actions. Releasing beliefs can open the flood gates to achieving results in business and support your success.

This week Business Coach Lisa Morgan unpacks how she helps women shift their passions and purpose to receive more financial abundance through releasing limiting beliefs.

Plug in today to learn:

- Lisa's Chakra Audit to detect blocks in your system

- Things to do to dial down money chatter on negativity and turn up measures of success

- How potent it is to become an expert on YOURSELF

- Understanding how the chakra system shows up every day, and ways to unblock your system

- How you can nurture your root chakra for more money and abundance

- Supporting your body through the seasons all year round

I hope you enjoy this beautiful conversation with Lisa!

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CONNECT WITH LISA MORGAN:

Instagram @thehealthy_entrepreneur

www.lisamorgancoaching.com

Listen to Lisa's Free Chakra Meditation

CONNECT WITH SARAH McLACHLAN:

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Every woman must hear this episode! It's time to flip the narrative and redefine perimenopause beyond the 'old woman' stereotype. There ARE ways to navigate this time with a strong and healthy mind, higher body confidence and emerge as an even better version of yourself.

Perimenopause as a subject is quite taboo and usually avoided by women over 35. With more awareness, you can move through this time in your life feeling prepared, confident and empowered, and take back control of this stage in your life.

Becks McCulloch and her doctors missed many signs and symptoms of perimenopause for over 8 years. After circling around the truth of what was going on, with uncertainty, upheaval and dysfunction, Becks is now passionate about raising the awareness of perimenopause, dropping the stigma and helping women navigate this time with more ease and support.

Plug your earbugs in your earholes today to learn:

- Becks' own initimate and personal story and how easily the signs and symptoms were missed - even as a highly self aware woman and health professional

- The ACTUAL time frames, diagnosis and reality of perimenopause

- How we can drop the fears, stereotypes and misconceptions around perimenopause and embrace it with more reassurance and support

- The first steps to approach and support your mind and body, before and during perimenopause

- The 3 Pillars to managing perimenopause with body confidence

- Becks suggestions to increase your awareness, support your girlfriends and work with your GP, for an empowered experience that is natural and expected!

Perimenopause can impact you and ALL areas of your life. But you CAN take back control of your health and life, and rebirth a NEW next level you.

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CONNECT WITH BECKS MCCULLOCK:

Follow on Instagram @menopause_bff

Connect on Facebook: Becks McCulloch

As mentioned in the show: @themenopausedoc

CONNECT WITH SARAH McLACHLAN:

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A beautiful evolving partnership is one that meets your needs and desires - as well as your lover's. In this deep conversation with Jacob O'Neill, he shares an uncensored male perspective and his own experiences in relating. Which will honestly blow your mind.

Jacob O'Neill is a leadership coach, embodied lover and fully expressed human. Jacob is an adventurous, active and open-hearted man with an incredible fiancé, Meg O'Sullivan, by his side after 8 years of conscious honouring together.

Whether you're a male or a female, this weeks episode will empower and open your capacity to create a deeper, more supportive partnership with your lover. It will also help you understand, express and receive more of what YOU crave in love.

Plug your earbuds in today for our open and insightful conversation on all things devoted relationships, including:

• Developing a willingness for yourself, and for your partnership, and what it looks like

• The polarity of pleasure and pain that comes from the moment you meet your edge

• The beautiful love story of when Jacob met his partner, Meg O, and it's very unique and polarising dating period

• Needs vs. Wants, and the subtle, nuanced relating dynamics when you're attracting love

• How freedom comes from commitment: The male pursuit of freedom stemming from a desire for new experiences and expanding his edges (through activation)

• The ways Jacob has grown to best support his wildly expressed, embodied, extremely powerful and independent woman over their 8 years together (~ 53mins)

• How men can live life as an initiatory experience and witness the glory, beauty and full spectrum of women, as we do with nature, and 'cope' with a woman in her wild moments

• The activation that men are capable of: The man that knows what's beyond his edge and keeps his word with integrity

• Key examples to use for epic conversations to have with your partner, to embody both your true essence's and navigate your relationship - without attacking, and with consent

• 3 practical ways for men to prioritise their desires AND develop their relationship, initiating more depth and unity while growing his freedom (~ 1hr 5)

• Jacob's side serving of Humble Pie for the independant Woman

• 3 practical ways the full spectrum woman can activate her man into his greatness and call him forward inside love

"Men want to love women so deeply. They just don't have the tools in this modern world." Jacob is here to support this evolution for the man wanting to step the F*** up.

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CONNECT WITH JACOB O'NEILL:

DM + Follow on Instagram @thejacoboneill

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You don't need to have it all together to help others, to be a positive change-maker or a great leader. Your own self doubt will limit you FAR more than your actual ability to step up and lead. It's time we changed the dialect around 'leadership'.

You don't need anyone's permission. You need to stand up, back your beliefs, go first with courage and let go of perfectionism. Lead by example and hold a space of gratitude and grace in your heart.

In this week's motivating and inspiring solo episode I share:

- How to shift your awareness and mindset to notice your enormous potential and create positive shifts in the world each day

- The characteristics you already own that make YOU a beautiful heart-led and attentive supporter to impact the world for the best

- Real Heart-led Leadership: The very humbling moment I had a kind lady offer to pay for my shopping bill when I struggled for cash

- The List of Key Traits and Qualities, to identify in yourself and in others, as a Leader

- Why cultivating inner leadership and a strong sense of discernment is required for GREAT leadership

- Taking leaders off the Pedestal of Perfection

- The potency of self TRUST and self INTEGRITY as a conscious leader in this day and age

- Journalling cues and questions for you to move beyond self doubt and tap into your own leadership capacity - to ignite and re-member your own in-built strengths and empowering qualities

Feel into this; Where are you hiding or holding yourself back with the inner leadership capacities you already have? How can you be the leader you wish you had?

I believe in collaberation and community over competition. The world needs ALL of us to play our part in every day life. YOU can impact the world with positive change and influence the ripple effect.

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This month I experienced one of my most significant breakdowns to date. In the lead up to this, I neglected to notice all the support that was actually there for me, with me and always around me. I felt like I was expressing and asking for it with love, but I was clearly in my own way.

I truly believed I was "doing all the things" to emotionally, mentally, verbally and physically support myself. But the meltdown eventuated... with everything going pear-shaped just last week.

The walls of separation that we all construct in our minds are part of being human. In being human, we forget. And we don't 'see'

We get stuck in our minds, actions and to-do list, and block our capacity to receive deeper support from the world around us every day.

In this week's episode, I share:

- How I moved through the process of feeling completely alone, useless and unsupported

- The language, stories and mental barriers that block our receiving, our awareness and get in our way when navigating tough times

- How to receive more support in your partnership, business, with friends and from the world around you, and how to know and express your needs

- WHY we, as human's, actually forget so much when we "know" what we should do to help ourselves

- The exact questions I ask myself, and the steps I took, to receive more support in times of need and desperation - both last week and over the years

- How to increase your capacity TODAY and receive help, nurturing, strength, and return to a place of ease and love

You are not alone. You are so supported. You have so much available to you, and for you. Mother Nature is one of them.

Send me a private message to let me know how this lands for you.

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In a time of such expanded self awareness, we are on the precipice of actualising our own human potential through shadow work, becoming self empowered and being our own healer.

This week, I'm genuinely over the moon to chat with Odysseus Andrianos to explore what shadow work actually is, the 3 stages of processing and how we can integrate the higher awareness of ourselves by re-mapping the root cause, core confict + our emotions.

This episode is loaded with the most incredible wisdom shared from Ody's heart-centred knowledge with over 20 years experience as a coach. Ody is a Kinesiologist, expert in Taoist Healing Principles and so much more, and owns 3 coaching facilities in Northern California.

I'm absolutely honoured to host this interview as Ody shares his vast knowledge of the mind + NLP, the body + DNA, on the day of his book launch, Shadow Awakening: The Dawn Of Human Potential!

*As we spoke, his new book flew up the Amazon ratings!!*

Plug your earbuds in today to explore incredible truth bombs on:

- The Future of Exercise: Nervous System + Emotional Regulation

- How to Integrate your self awareness, inner wounds + wisdom of your body

- Understanding Taoist Nature and reconnection through harmonising Jing, Chi + Shen

- 'Disassociation of our Psyche' as the reconnection to our soul

- How to navigate, reframe and restructure your unconscious mind

- Why "Your issues are in your tissues" and how your body holds the emotional debris: repressed, supressed + unresolved emotions

- Ody's infamous Titanic Analogy that you won't want to miss ;)

- How and why our trauma helps us step into our magic

I hope you love this episode as much as I did...

I jumped off this podcast and cried tears of joy in how powerful this man truly his, and how honoured I am to help him propel his message and magic for the world.

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CONNECT WITH ODYSSEUS ANDRIANOS:

BUY 'Shadow Awakening: The Dawn of Human Potential' here

DM on Instagram @iamodywankenobi

Connect with Ody on Facebook

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Our emotional and physical feelings are BOTH required for positive change + healing. When you release the emotions stored in your body, you free up your energy, break the chains of old patterns and alter the very chemistry + biology of your body. You shift pain, rewrite past experiences and redirect the course of your life - in ALL areas.

In this week's solo episode, I share clinical case studies, demystify traumatic stress and help you understand the impeccable wisdom of your body, through my expertise as a registered Physiotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Energy Alchemist + Healer.

I also share my personal experiences of somatic healing, the revelations and the health resolution through the messages and wisdom of my body.

The mind-brain-body holds the aftermath of distressing experiences which effects the outcomes we create, each and every day.

Today unpack how body-based healing (rather than 'top-down' / talking / psychological approaches) can positively shift our emotional patterns, mental thoughts, physical injuries + experience of life.

Plug your earbuds in today to learn:

- The broad span of 'trauma' + our relative perspectives on stress

- How bypassing your body and somatic experience is tripping you up, causing reoccuring negative outcomes, injuries, ill-health + reoccurring patterns

- The biggest challenges to connect with the wisdom of your body, understanding it + decoding it's messages

- How I disassociated from my body as an endurance athlete and ultimately avoided the truth behind my eczema, amenorrhoea, gut problems, asthma, sports injuries, deep-seated emotions + more

- Why your body reacts readily to perceived stress across 11 body systems (not just your nervous system alone) and why the reaction becomes stored in the physical/somatic body as a psychosomatic imprint

- The Two Approaches to Mind, Brain + Body Transformation

*Most coaches are only doing ONE of these two approaches, by focussing on 'mindset', thought patterns and brain-based approaches*

- How to open and attune your connection to your body technology, decode it's messages + grow your relationship with it's innate wisdom

Your body KNOWS.

Your body hold the score.

Your body must come FIRST.

Your body loves you SO much! It is always there for you as a messenger and wisdom keeper. It will guide you without fail... when you keep it clean and clear - and when you tune in.

Body-based healing is the future of human transformation.

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As mentioned:

The Body Keeps The Score, Bessel Van Der Kolk