She's Illuminated with Ellie Loves

This week I’m talking to friend and guest SYDNEY Zwicker, a Holistic Pelvic Care practitioner based in Colorado.

Syd's one of those people who has that time traveller quality about her - wise beyond her years and has an ability to push boundaries and facilitate healing for women of all ages. We met when we were both doing our Qoya teacher training and she felt I’d known forever.

Sydney came to her work through her own healing from sexual abuse in her late teens. In her words, she tried it all. From alcohol and meaningless sex, to talk therapy, dance therapy, jade eggs, energy healings, hitting a giant foam block with a baseball bat, screaming into a pillow, and everything in between. Though each time she removed a layer of the hurt, she always felt like there was something she couldn’t reach physically.

Then she discovered Holistic Pelvic Care, and her world opened. She was finally able to de-armour and heal and for the first time, she was able to release it from the physical body.

Sydneys mission is to shed the stigma around the female lived experience through awareness, education, and holistic healing. Sydney shares with us the power of holistic pelvic care and the value of de-armoring ourselves. How society teaches us that our female bodies are dangerous and dirty yet as women of age we are expected to be empowered, godesses! We discuss the effects this has on fertility and how we can heal our relationship with our body - end the war with our physical self and teach our daughters to the same.

We talk about:

Sydney Zwicker - https://zwickerhealingarts.com

Yoni Egg course - https://zwickerhealingarts.com/yoni-egg-online-course

Lois Bickerton, Womankind Health (based in Poole, Dorset) - https://www.womankindhealth.co.uk

Welcome to part 2 - where my guest is Nasreen El-Mariesh. Naz is an Empowerment + relationship Coach: helping professional women fall back in love with their life and their relationship - Her unique style of transformational coaching,  helps women to change their belief systems, connect with their heart and and take the starring role in their life. She's also the Co-Founder of Tonic Retreats and Events Director at Wellbeing by The Lakes - an annual boutique wellness festival in Dorset.

We talk about reaching that point in life when your body/mind is screaming at you to do something different. When you accept that you need to make changes in your relationship, job or life.

I share my own experience of therapy and getting help when I most needed it.

Naz talks about how transformational coaching can empower you to listen to your heart and do what's right for you whether that's to stay in the relationship and to find happiness AND to get your needs met, to leave knowing your worth and to be a peace with your decision and how to navigate co parenting with compassion and confidence.

We talk about:

Website: https://www.nasreenel-mariesh.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secrettolovinglife

This week’s guest is Nasreen El-Mariesh. Naz is one of those friends who will lift you up, inspire and remind you of your limitless potential - she's an Empowerment + relationship Coach: helping professional women fall back in love with their life and their relationship - but really she can coach anyone on anything.  She's one of a kind.

She's also the Co-Founder of Tonic Retreats and Events Director at Wellbeing by The Lakes - an annual boutique wellness festival in Dorset

Naz and I met originally, when she was working in PR, Marketing and Events and I was working in another job in a familiar pattern - frustrated and being called to speak up and recognise my worth!

She shares how she got into coaching and was invited to learn with Jayne Jewell, a renowned Tony Robbins Platinum and master trainer.

And how coaching transformed her own life and how she's passion about sharing the ways of how we can do the same.

We talk about:

Website: https://www.nasreenel-mariesh.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secrettolovinglife

This week I’m talking to Lili Petit, an inspiring intuitive home organiser and breathwork healer, based in LA.

Lili and I met a couple of years ago online as I loved seeing her epic organising for clients and her beautiful aesthetic - but more than that, I loved how she worked with her clients to understand and heal more than their spaces.

Lili matches expert organisation with intuitive energetic cleansing to evaluate, coordinate and completely rejuvenate a home. Trained in a series of respected and time-honoured traditions,She works one-on-one with clients to identify and uncover emotional attachments to their possessions and takes them on a gentle path toward releasing and removing them from the home. Leaving spaces clean and clients feeling relaxed, energised and inspired to begin a new lighter way of living.

We share our love of organising and talk about how this was a valuable coping mechanism, growing up. We talk all things energy, the connection between making space in your home and the process of healing ourselves.

If you’d like to tackle you home or spaces - check out amazing online her course, Sacred space - held over 8 weeks you’ll get to the root of your clutter and where it all began, so that when things feel unmanageable, you’ll know how to reset You’ll learn expert tricks of the trade on how to organise your things Plus the tools to keep yourself accountable, emotionally stable and grounded through the process. 

You’ll find her at clutterhealing.com and join instagram as @clutterhealing

We talk about:

This week, I’m talking to Keri Bainborough, Human design expert and manifesting generator based in Cape Town, SA.

You’ve probably heard of Human design - but if you haven’t - this conversation will give you a great insight!

Human design brings together the principles of The I Ching, astrology, Kabbalah, the Hindu-Brahmin chakra system, and quantum physics.

Your Human Design Chart, also called a BodyGraph, is calculated using your birth date, time, and place, to reveal your genetic design.In short, its a system that explains how you were built, and how to best respond to the world.

Keri has worked with hundreds of clients all around the world to help them live in alignment with their unique Human Design and energetic gifts. She has a gift for being able to structure complex conceptions into layman’s terms makes her popular with clients of all ages and backgrounds.

She also a passionate social and environmental activist

My reading with her was really illuminating as a generator I love starting things and should wait until I get that pelvic energy stirring before I commit to things like creative endeavours.. I also get tired and burnt out if I don’t conserve energy as the generators internal motor can keep running if you don’t take time out. Sound familiar?!

We talk about:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keribainborough/

Website: https://keribainborough.com

To book a reading - email Keri at: [email protected]

CLICK HERE to find out your Human design type and basics

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Welcome to episode 9

This week I’m taking to Jame Wythe, aka @HealthylivingJames

His story is pretty extraordinary. 10 years ago he fell seriously ill, out of the blue and was admitted to hospital with a suspected brain tumour. He was eventually diagnosed ME  - also known as chronic fatigue syndrome. This left him bed bound for the next two years an unable to leave his house for the next 4 years. He shares the devastation of life being indefinitely on pause, in your twenties, without any hope of a cure.

James talks about how he started to explore food as medicine and how as he changed his diet his health dramatically improved. James’ story is so inspiring. From not knowing how to cook, he has become a self confessed foodie, a fully qualified Health Coach and hugely successful food blogger - inspiring millions of people around the world to create quick, healthy and easy recipes. All of which are gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free and mostly plant-based!

If you’ve heard of ME or chronic fatigue, or know someone who has it, or has been recently diagnosed with it, this episode is such a valuable insight.

It’s also a story about courage and tenacity and how your biggest challenge can become your biggest opportunity for transformation.

Find James on Instagram @HealthylivingJames or at his website  Healthylivingjames.co.uk

Find me on insta: @_ellieloves or at ellieloves.com

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So Welcome to episode 8!

This week I’m excited to share a conversation about the power of plant medicine with Marta Wanderlust, space holder, spiritual mentor, Yoga teacher and a Breathwork facilitator.

I’ve long been intrigued by ayahuasca, listening to friends, watching documentaries wondering if the opportunity arose if I’d feel called to try it.

Ayahuasca’s appeal has become widespread over the last 10 -15 years and now you don’t have to travel to source to experience it - you can find ceremonies in your neighbourhood, in apartments in London and New York but you also hear a lot of negative stories of people feeling blown open, even traumatised and questioning their desire to try it in the first place.

Marta shares her experiences living in the Amazon jungle and the High Andes, working with the Shipibo people and plant medicine, and being immersed in community.

She brings rich context the power of plant medicine, its history, its place in amazonian shamanism and how the importance of being held in a safe container with experienced practitioners, either directly or directly from the communities - with which it holds its roots.

Its a fascinating conversation about healing, self awareness, and Marta has such reverence and respect for the medicine. I’m still not sure if its for me - but I definitely feel I can make an informed decision and understand the care necessary in the preparation before and the integration afterwards!

Marta also opens up about her own journey and how plant medicine has help her heal from trauma and addiction - and how it has helped her to guide others on the healing path.

Enjoy!

Find Marta on instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/martawanderlustyoga/

And at her website:

https://www.martawanderlust.com