As a continuation of our conversation on the Mind, we're diving into two major forms of self care for mental wellness today - Meditation and Journaling!

Today I am lucky enough to chat with Charmaine Houck, a wild soul warrior, trauma-informed ModiYoga teacher, and Reiki Master Teacher. Think Glinda the Good Witch of holistic energy healing!

She is a body positivity and sexuality advocate, and the author of Boost Your ‘You’ Power; Journaling to Manifest Your Dreams.

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YAY for our first of many #mombombmonday episodes!  I am so excited to bring the moms into our conversation, a group of women who struggle to prioritize themselves because of so many societal expectations. I am here to bring to light these concepts and help moms to prioritize their self care.

Through several conversations with Lisa about her experience, we realized there are some clear concepts that beginner meditators should definitely know about. For example, meditation is not about "turning your brain off". The act of noticing and becoming a witness to your thoughts, instead of an active participant is itself the practice.  

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Slowly but surely, we are normalizing talk therapy for managing anxiety, stress and improving our mental health overall, but how often do you hear someone talk openly about their experience in therapy?   

Sharing your past traumas, self discoveries, and lessons can be a very vulnerable. But Krista Kathleen, has done just that on this episode of Self Care Is My Job.   Krista Kathleen is a Life Coach from St. Louis, MO. She has chronicled her journey from labor and delivery nurse to life coach, and her growth process to begin prioritizing her own needs and desires in her book Beyond the White Picket Fence, to be released. Through coaching, she now helps women start online life coaching businesses.   

I want to thank her for brave and forthcoming shares on social media about her experience with therapy, as this only helps to destigmatize therapy as a form self care for mental health. You can find more information about Krista and all of her offerings at kristakathleen.com.  

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January 2021 is here and we are all working to set and keep our new years resolutions! #AmIRight

Here's just a suggestion. Instead of making a bucket list of to-do's for 2021, consider setting an intention to support your Mind, Body & Spirit this year. Contentment and fulfillment comes from the the balancing of an uniting of the three.

Think less about what you should do and more about who you want to be, or how you'd like to show up in the world. Ask: how can I bring balance and health in to my life so I can show up authentically as my Whole Self?

January through March, I will focusing on the Mind Body & Spirit in that order on the show. I already have some amazing conversations scheduled with experts in wellness. Today I offer sharing an intro episode -  Mind Body & Spirit 101.

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For info on yoga and self care coaching go to alignedheart.net or follow me on IG @the_aligned_heart.

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Yoga & Wine! Self care in the form of both "spirited" celebration and movement linked to breath. What could better?  

This week as we head into the holidays, I am "cheersing" with Morgan Perry - certified wine expert, yoga instructor, and founder of Vino Vinyasa Yoga for a chat about her journey as an entrepreneur and our shared love of yoga and wine - yoga and wine!  

We discuss how yoga can be transformational and making a career out of something you love. Morgan also shares some amazing self care suggestions, specifically ones we can all do while we are stuck at home.

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What's your happy weight? In this episode, I had the opportunity to talk with Allison Jackson (owner of Allison Jackson Fitness) about finding physical health according to your own  comfort level and wellness needs. What if we could redefine what it means to be physically healthy? It doesn't have to refer only to the number on the scale. As Allison expertly puts it "Wellness and health is a 3-legged stool: mind, body, spirit. You could be eating healthy food, you could be working out, but if you're feeding your mind garbage, if you're not in a good place mentally, if you're mindset isn't there, that's not 'healthy'."

Allison Jackson is the founder of Allison Jackson Fitness. She is passionate about all things health and fitness, but she really loves sharing her knowledge and expertise to help busy women get lean eating foods they love so they can be at their best. She knows exactly how hard it is to work full-time, take care of the kids and household...plus try to fit in working out, eating right and taking care of herself, too! Allison has spent the last eight years training and competing in figure competitions -- even winning three pro cards in one year -- so she has a crystal clear picture of what it takes to get to your "happy" weight and stay there. Now she’s ready to share what she’s learned and experienced. Learn more at www.allisonjacksonfitness.com.

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Self Care doesn't have to look a certain way. "It doesn't actually matter what it is,  all that matters is what it does for you." - Ankhara Rose 

Breathwork and meditation are great forms of self care to develop mindfulness, or what our guest this week refers to (I think more accurately) as a "presence practice". In this episode of Self Care Is My Job, we discuss breath and presence as a mode to cultivate self-awareness. Self-awareness is a way to come home to our body (to "get out of our head").  That connection allows us to experience real pleasure again, which is something we have lost touch with in a world that devalues stillness and the savoring of a moment and only rewards constantly striving and achievements. 

Meet Ankhara Rose! She is a modern day mystic with over 20 years of teaching breathwork, mindfulness, meditation, and sound healing. Her calling is to help people release hidden traumas through breath and sound healing so they can move past blockages and come back to pleasure.  You can view all her offerings at ankhararose.com and look out for a Pleasure Portal Breathwork Group Coaching Session coming December 2020.

#selfcare #selflove  #selfcareismyjob #pleasure #bringingpleasureback #alignedheart #yogilife #yogateacher #yogacoach #joy #makespace #mindbodysoul #getorganized #realign #selfcarecoach #selfcareformoms

Your intuition or that inner voice of your True Self, what does this have to do with self care? When we get reconnected with that inner Knowing we can remember how to fully trust the answers and curiosity inside of us. Those quiet but important cues that we sometimes set aside in order to fall in line with “what we are supposed to do“. When with get in tune with that inner voice we can live a fulfilled life that’s more aligned with that calling or purpose that you’ve always been drawn to.

Whether it’s a bad breakup, being laid off, or um... a global pandemic, it’s inevitable that traumatic events are going to happen in life. And these occurrences often come with major voluntary or involuntary life transitions. In a moment, we can shift from coupled to single, career-focused to unemployed, secure to unsafe. Often these life transitions can even have an affect on how we view ourselves. Our identity comes into question and we can spiral into a world of judgement, fear, and anxiety. 

Let’s have a conversation with Psychotherapist and Personal Development Coach, Lisa Drew, about how to navigate these life events and how SELF CARE plays a role in preparing us for the best possible outcome.  You can find Lisa on Instagram @findingmidlifemagic and she also has amazing Facebook group: Facebook.com/groups/wellnessandauthenticliving .

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