Somatic Wisdom

I am delighted to have the opportunity to talk with Raina Lagrand for this episode.

Raina LaGrand (she/her) is a somatic therapist, yoga teacher, speaker and facilitator specializing in racial identity, trauma, relationships and embodiment. In her practice, Root to Rise Somatics, she primarily helps mixed race adults and interracial couples build relationships where they feel emotionally connected, and she also works with people of all identities when her schedule allows. Outside of clinical work, Raina provides embodiment-based workshops and trainings for companies invested in anti-racism and social justice. Raina lives with her dog on occupied Anishinaabe land (Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA).

I hope you will enjoy our coverage of sensorimotor psychotherapy and how it helps us become more aware of our experience, following activation in the body, and becoming more embodied even if we have been through trauma.

We talk through how it feels to navigate spaces when we are "outsiders" in a group, not belonging necessarily to a particular group in a way. We need to understand broader context, and how some of our trauma is actually subconsious and and preverbal.

Healing these identities and having connections through family or learning aspects of our identity, beyond racial and cultural aspects. What do we value? How do we spend our time? What do we like to do? These all make up aspects of our value.

Sometimes we need to understand how our origin stories play into the become we have become. We also make choices about how we situate ourselves.

We speak about rejection sensitivity and how this plays a part not just in conditions like ADHD. Our mixed identities can sometimes lead to certain types of unknown rejection, and this can make us more sensitive to this process.

We explore the notion of being part of a "mixed" identity and how we need to serve as elders in a way, that this will be something we can created that we didn't have.

Raina explores her "Somatic Skills for Anxiety" class which available for purchase on her website.

To some extent, all of us struggle with interacting in groups. Loneliness is a big part of major health risk, and is at epidemic proportions according the Surgeon General.

Raina shares a practice called "the U turn" when she is working with couples, and things we can implement when we are working in relationship.

She offers a practice toward the end of our conversation to help ground ourselves.

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Check out Raina's offerings at Root to Rise Somatics.

Her Instagram is also Root to Rise Somatics.

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Hello Everyone,

If you already heard the interview with Anthea Bell from last week's podcast, you're in for a treat.

Even if you did not, I encourage you to listen to this in a quiet place where you can sit or lie down and turn inward for ~14-15 minutes.

Enjoy!

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Some mantras you may want to repeat when needed (from last week's interview):

You are enough. You are everything. Everything is oneness.

More about Anthea's practice can be found at the links here:

http://www.thepilatesspaceclifton.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/thepilatesspaceclifton/

https://www.instagram.com/_mindbodycoach/

https://polestarpilates.co.uk/

About Global Coach Training Company - Human Potential Institute https://www.humanpotentialinstitute.com/about-us-old/

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Hello Listeners!

You are going to love this conversation with my new friend and fellow coach and body practitioner, Anthea Bell.

Anthea is a Movement Coach, Mindfulness Teacher and Psychological Fitness Specialist with the Institute of Human Potential. She is an Education Mentor with international training school Polestar Pilates, and supports a global roster of clients in the holistic, corporate and rehabilitative spaces

Anthea believes passionately in the interconnection of mind and body, and in the power of physical, psychological and spiritual modalities to effect deep and lasting personal change. Humans are hard-wired for healing and with the right support, each individual can not only flourish, but become the agent of their own transformation. As a practitioner, Anthea aims to arm clients with the insights, tools and confidence to move into a life of joy, inner connection and deep physical freedom.

Some mantras you may want to repeat when needed:

You are enough. You are everything. Everything is oneness.

More about her practice can be found at the links here:

http://www.thepilatesspaceclifton.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/thepilatesspaceclifton/

https://www.instagram.com/_mindbodycoach/

https://polestarpilates.co.uk/

About Global Coach Training Company - Human Potential Institute https://www.humanpotentialinstitute.com/about-us-old/

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Hello My Lovelies!

I can't believe I haven't yet covered the topic of pleasure as a standalone episode. It's probably been embedded in some of the other themes we have covered. But I think this will be the first of a monthly series because it's a rich topic and there's so much more to cover.

Hope you enjoy the excerpts of my post Dance Church bliss and my reflections on the pleasure of solitude and letting my vacation mind wander.

References mentioned:

adrienne marie brown's book: Pleasure Activism

S2 E14 - Natalya Kolosowsky (episode 50 of Somatic Wisdom)

S1 E27 - The Joy of NIA with Beth Giles

Dunbar's number

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Welcome to the first episode of season 3!

I am going back into the concept of intution and asking you to practice asking your body parts for wisdom, especially when you suspect you might be taking on too much.

We may be surprised when we tune into a specific question and ask our heart, head, or gut about a decision? Or maybe we tune into our shoulders instead for a less conventional check in to ask:

Where is it I'm overdoing things?

What are you carrying right not that feels like too much?

Give these a try and let me know what you discover!

Resources Mentioned:

Harvard Study on Enteric Nervous System

Altered Traits book by Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson

Penny Peirce - Author and Guru for Intuition ;-)

Podcast episodes mentioned:

S2 E60 Somatics of Time, Chronos, Kairos, Solstice, Lunar Consciousness, Neurodiversity, & Shining Our Light with Patrick Geary

S2 E42 Sustainable Ambition and Using Curiosity as Our Compass with Kathy Oneto

S2 E46 Reclaim Your Peace with Stephanie Lindloff of Our Natural Wisdom

S2 E58 Dana Miranda, Creator of Healthy Rich, on Budget Culture, Inclusion in Finance Media and the Somatics of Money

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Season 3 starts on July 2nd!

Welcome new listeners and thank you to returning ones!

I invite you to embody the leader within you by learning practices that take a somatic and whole-body approach to living well in changing times.

Join my guests and me as we dive deeply into topics like somatic psychology, our relationships with people and money, navigating career and business transitions, and ways to live a more joyful and satisfying life.

Thanks for tuning in!

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Hello Lovely Listeners,

This episode covers a lot of territory, so grab a cup of something lovely and enjoy!

I'm heading out of town for Father's Day weekend with my family shortly so full show notes will be updated next week.

For earlier episodes with Patrick Geary, check out #39 and #47 of Somatic Wisdom.

Follow Patrick at his Substack Newsletter here, and learn more about his practice or schedule a reading by using this link.

For a collected list of episodes on astrology with Patrick, check out this Spotify playlist!

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Hi My Lovelies,

In response to our previous episode (58) with Dana Miranda of Healthy Rich on somatic practice to work with our difficult money stories.

I discovered from Bari Tessler's book The Art of Money workbook (from the podcast Inside Job with Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson).

Tessler does a lot of the practices that I actually detailed in my book but she applies them specifically to our difficult emotions around money, and almost ALL of us have these, no matter how much money we make.

What I love is the 3 step set of practices for our money dates or money clarity sessions as I think of them:

1. Body Check-in - feel and sense into your body and notice what's happening
2. Resource Ourselves - make adjustments
3. Titration - go slow and take it at your own pace

Rather than avoiding bad feelings, it is helpful to lean into them, describe where they appear in our bodies and realize they are not going to harm us. We can physically resource ourselves and make our money clarity session into a comforting ritual can help us approach it more gently.

I actually walk through my own feelings about money regret so you can be with me during one of these practices.

Hope this provides some helpful support to you!

And if my work is helpful to you and you want to send me a birthday gift or make a contribution to support my work at the Somatic Wisdom podcast, my Venmo ID is @Cristy-DeLaCruz. ;-)

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Hello My Lovelies,

This is a conversation about personal finance and the somatics of money. I know you'll appreciate the insights of my guest, and I am taking away quite a lot from our conversation.

Dana Miranda is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance® (CEPF®), an author and a personal finance journalist. She's the founder of Healthy Rich, a platform for inclusive, budget-free financial education, where she works with organizations, schools and companies dedicated to making money better for folks who are often left out of the conversation about money.

Dana has written about work and money for Forbes, Insider, Culture Study, the New York Times, CNBC, The Motley Fool, NextAdvisor, USA Today and Inc. magazine, among others.

In our conversation we talk about "budget culture" as a parallel to "diet culture" in that it encourages at attitude of restriction rather than of enjoyment regarding money. We talk about the shaming that happens around unemployment and debt, and ways we can think differently about money.

I love her focus on inclusion of many different voices when it comes to money. I hope you gain additional insights about your own relationship to money, and the somatic impact of the way we think about and talk about money.

The Make Money Better podcast is published through Dana's Healthy Rich platform, which I highly recommend for a more diverse group of voices about the topic of money and personal finance.

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Hi Lovely Listeners,

I'm excited to set the stage for my conversation next week with Dana Miranda by telling you more about some of my money experiences.

The Make Money Better podcast is published through Dana's Healthy Rich platform, which I highly recommend for a more diverse group of voices about the topic of money and personal finance.

I am honest about some of the struggles I have had around money and you'll get to hear more in this episode.

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Resources Mentioned:

Stephanie Lindloff (my creative coach) at Our Natural Wisdom spoke with Somatic Wisdom for episode 46 here.

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