Soul Surgery with Nicky Clinch

Welcome to another episode of the Soul Surgery Podcast. I am so excited for you to hear this special solo episode where I take a look at the shadow side of the wellness industry.

There is an unsettling ideology being perpetuated by some parts of this industry that “negative” emotions like anger, grief, pain, or sadness are somehow wrong, unwanted and should be avoided at all costs. There is a pervasive toxic positivity that send the message that it’s only acceptable to be interested in love, light, and kindness. But in truth this avoidance and dismissal of the full spectrum of normal human emotions can be deeply harmful.

The topics of wellness and well-being are often surrounded by beautiful images of shiny, positive people. And while ALWAYS being happy might sound incredibly aspirational, the real underlying message being shared here is that anything that isn’t in this kind, nice, shiny, comfortable, pretty, smiley box is wrong, unhealthy and bad. There is a suggestion that any “negative” emotions do not have a place in the wellness industry and that is EXTREMELY dangerous.

We are being shown and, increasingly, conditioned to buy into an extremely narrow picture of what it means to be well. But in some cases niceness, kindness, and positivity can actually be used as a form of suppression and control, encouraging us to avoid and hide from what we are really feeling.

In this episode, we will discuss how in order to have a full human experience we need to accept and allow space for all of our emotions. True wellness is about honouring our whole, full and authentic selves. This episode is a love letter from my heart to yours and I can’t wait for you to listen.

Highlights

Thank you so much for listening to this episode. If it has brought up any feelings inside of yourself that are not bright and shiny and that scares you, I invite you to sit with those feelings. The greatest and most generous gift we can give to ourselves is our awareness and attention, so look deeply inward, and you just might find a different type of healing is accessible to you.

I would be so grateful if you could leave a review on iTunes, and we can share this message of healing and wholeness with as many people as possible.

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Welcome to another episode of the Soul Surgery Podcast. I am so excited to have you here today as we dive into the topic of grief. This week I had the pleasure of being joined by Donna Lancaster, who is so aptly known as the Queen of Grief. It's a subject that most people would prefer to ignore because it understandably brings up many painful emotions. But Donna manages to bring light and joy to a topic that is so often avoided.

You will hear us dive deeply into the wounds that we unknowingly hold in our bodies and how grief can serve as the gateway to transformation and deepen our ability to love and live in joy.

Donna explains how she was  initially drawn to this work after a diagnosis of depression. She dealt with this for over 20 years, carrying that label and not understanding what it meant or how to heal. It was only after sitting with this for a long time that she had an aha moment and realised that she wasn’t depressed but was dealing with unprocessed grief.

This episode will teach you to view heartbreak as a transformative portal to let in light and joy. This episode is one of my favourites so far and I can’t wait for you to listen.

Highlights

Thank you so much for listening to this episode. So many of us are experiencing collective grief right now, and I hope this episode provided you with some tools to BE WITH the pain and allow it to be your access point to an abundance of love and joy.

I would be so grateful if you could leave a review on iTunes, and we can share this message of healing and wholeness with as many people as possible.

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Welcome to another episode of the Soul Surgery Podcast, I am so excited to have you here today honouring your maturation journey. This week I had the pleasure of being joined by Yamile Yemoonyah, a powerful Spirit Guide and a Channel of deep connections with beings in other realms.

I had a reading with Yamile last year, and I can honestly say that in all my years of working with energy, ancestors and spirit realms, this reading was the most profound I have ever experienced and changed the way I connect with my guides.

In this episode, you will hear something that may surprise you. That the power you may be looking for by trying to connect with your spirit guides is already inside of you. This new paradigm we’re moving into as we move away from the old way of being in this world is an invitation to start dissolving borders and to begin opening our whole selves up to a deeper connection with other realms.

The main message that Yamile touches on again and again, is that the power we are searching for in our Spirit Guides already lies within us. We are moving into this new Aquarian age where I firmly believe that having a connection to other beings and realms beyond what we currently recognise will be normalised. A new type of human being is emerging on this planet, one that is evolved and open-minded. I can say without a doubt that Yamile is one of these beings.

You will hear the story of how she discovered her gifts and how she was guided to embody and align with her soul’s purpose. I also share what I experienced during my reading with Yamile and how I could connect to a being from another galaxy. Getting to meet my star being Spirit Guide was like remembering a part of myself I had long forgotten, and I can’t wait for you to hear all about it.

Highlights

Thank you so much for listening to this episode. I hope that you were able to gain some deeper insight into how powerful it can be to connect with your Spirit Guides and that you now have some incredible tools to help you do so.

I would be so grateful if you could leave a review on iTunes and we can share this message of healing and wholeness with as many people as possible.

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Welcome to the Soul Surgery Podcast, I am deeply honoured that you’re joining me here. This week is a SOLO episode where I dive deeply into examining the correlation between our relationship with intimacy and our relationship with money.

I share intimately my own journey through this work and how I saw the direct link between my fear of being vulnerable and how I showed up in my intimate relationships, and how that inhibited me embodying my full power in my work and increasing my revenue.

There is a reason why the process of maturation is life long. It’s not something that you can briefly engage with and then suddenly you’re “fixed” or “healed”. It’s a living, breathing, and ever-evolving journey where you will continue to uncover new layers that need to be felt, processed and released. Each time another layer of your story will surface and so the journey unfurls.

It’s beautiful and intricate, and it can bring you to your knees at times, but there is no greater or more powerful work you can do.

This episode is all about how our relationship with money is inherently tied to our self-worth and our fear of full self-expression. When we allow ourselves to be seen that opens up us to judgment, and that terrifies us. I am excited for you to hear my radically honest experience as I continue to learn to live beyond my story.

Highlights

Thank you so much for listening to this SOLO episode, I hope you found it useful and enjoyed hearing what’s been in my heart recently.

I would be so grateful if you could leave a review on iTunes and we can share this message of healing and wholeness with as many people as possible.

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Welcome to another episode of the Soul Surgery Podcast, I am honoured to have you here. This week is a SOLO episode where I share the whole story around my family’s emigration journey to New Zealand during a global pandemic.

The emigration process reaffirmed what I already knew but at some times resisted which is learning how to let go. Despite all of the roadblocks and detours that occurred while trying to make this move happen, I continued to be led by intention. I also share how in the process of 5 years my entire life (and marriage) had to change in order to allow this process of alignment to occur.

I share intimately about the stories I personally had to shift in my own self around money, work, love, possibility and how I did that.  And how much none of it ever made ‘sense’ in my mind yet felt absolutely right within me.

This episode is a message of hope for those of you who are still learning to listen to life and figure out how to live beyond your limiting beliefs and story.

Highlights

Thank you so much for listening to this SOLO episode, it was a true joy recording it for you and I hope you find this message rich and meaningful.

I would be so grateful if you could leave a review on iTunes and we can share this message of healing and wholeness with as many people as possible.

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Welcome to another episode of the Soul Surgery Podcast, I am honoured to have you here. This week is another SOLO episode where I continue to share my journey with plant medicine.

This episode begins ten years on from my initial experience with plant medicine.  For ten years, I truly believed that my relationship with ayahuasca had finished after my first trip to Peru. I had learned so much and had such a profound awakening and experience with aya, but it had also been extremely challenging. The hours of purging, facing my dark night of the soul and the deep, unrelenting introspection was a lot, and I felt certain I could close that door for good.

That was until one day, ten years later, when I was driving, and a song came on from a CD I had purchased in Peru. The music awoke something in me, and I just knew, “I need to go back to the jungle.”Once again, I heard the call of plant medicine loud and clear.

Suddenly, everywhere I turned, these messages kept appearing, each one telling me that I needed to sit with ayahuasca and listen to her teachings again. I received a serendipitous email from my dear friend Emma Cannon about an alignment master training in the Amazon for healers. The incredible Gabor Mate was hosting the retreat, and I knew immediately that I needed to be there.

In this episode, I share what I learned in these ayahuasca ceremonies and how I healed my most profound trauma through the power of plant medicine. Through these lessons, my marriage was given new life, my self-worth renewed, and I was finally able to heal at the tap root of my pain and genuinely love myself.

Highlights

Thank you so much for listening to Part 2 of my Plant Medicine Journey. Psychedelics and plant medicines have changed my life in such a profound way, and I hope that as soon as the borders open again, I can return to the rainforest and continue this powerful maturation work.

If you want to experience plant medicine, I encourage you to work with the right people who lead with integrity and pure intentions. These plants aren’t a  game. They are tremendously powerful teachers. Approach them with an open heart, a desire to learn and complete humility. If you do so, they will treat you well and serve your deeper maturation.

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I am so happy to share my latest solo episode for the Soul Surgery Podcast. Here I talk about the beginning of my plant medicine journey and my first ceremonies with ayahuasca. This was such a beautiful, sacred experience for me, it literally cracked my heart wide open, healed deep trauma, and directed me onto a more authentic path.

After I got clean from my addictions, I did everything I thought I SHOULD be doing. I was going to 12 steps meetings, abstaining from drugs and alcohol and eating nourishing food I told myself I SHOULD feel healed and whole, but I didn't, something was missing. Then I turned 30, and it hit me; just how trapped and broken I felt.

I was experiencing enormous shame and fear deep within my soul. People around me assumed that because I wasn’t high or drunk all the time any more than I was “better”. And  I was doing better on the outside, but inside I wasn’t free and I had not healed.

There was still a huge shadow inside me. I wanted to be a mum and wife, but every time I got close to that dream, I failed. I chose the wrong people, or I sabotaged my own happiness because deep down I didn’t feel worthy.

I was dating a man who had done a lot of work with ayahuasca, and one day I heard her calling me. The signs appeared everywhere and the message was clear - I NEEDED to experience ayahuasca myself. I met the man who would become my shaman and everything fell into place. Before I knew it, I was headed to Peru for 5 life-changing weeks. The minute I stepped off the plane my whole body exhaled and I knew I was where I needed to be.

Ayahuasca showed me exactly what was blocking my freedom and told me with everything I needed to hear.

My heart told me to follow and trust, and I am so glad I listened. It was a profoundly challenging 5 weeks. I spent the first few ceremonies in absolute terror as my veil of victimhood was finally lifted. I was forced to face the parts of myself I had abandoned.

After that trip I was a completely different person, but it was then the hard work began. The true shift came as I started to integrate everything I had learned and it was hard. I  broke up with my then-boyfriend, leaving at at 2 am.  I drove away leaving behind something profound; my self-doubt and the denial of my innate value and worth.

I became a powerful person who knew her value. I vowed never to give away my power again. The next phase of my life was fundamentally transformational, and I met the man of my dreams and gave birth to the daughter I dreamt about in the jungle.

Highlights

Thank you for listening. That trip helped me step out of child-like thinking and into an embodiment of womanhood.

If any of this resonated with you, or you’ve had a transformational experience with ayahuasca, I would love to hear from you.

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Welcome to another episode of the Soul Surgery Podcast, I am so glad that you are here. This week I am thrilled to introduce the beautiful soul that is Michaela Boehm. She is, without a doubt, one of the most extraordinary, brilliant, and heart-led women I have ever met and it was such a pleasure to speak with her.

Michaela Boehm is a world-renowned relationship intimacy and sexuality expert and is the creator of The Non Linear Movement Method®, a somatic release modality which utilises principles of trauma therapy, polyvagal theory and movement for nervous system regulation. Michaela was also educated in a female held Tantric Shakta tradition (Kashmir Shaivism). Mentored by her female teacher, she is now the lineage holder of this tradition and dedicated to passing these teachings on to the women she mentors.

During the recent COVID crisis, Michaela has pivoted her mission to online teaching to support people through emotional, health and relational challenges.

In this episode, we discuss how the pandemic has forced us to engage in examining our inner world. What we’ve previously used to fill our lives and our time has been removed, and many of us have had to face our whole selves and our relationships head-on for the first time.

For the first time in a LONG time, we are all having to face our shadow and examine the parts of ourselves we don’t want to acknowledge, the parts that are raw and painful. The parts that we don’t want to show to anyone, not even ourselves.

For many of us, lockdowns have put our closest relationships under a microscope. We’ve had to adapt to staying indoors, not travelling and being with our partners a lot more than usual and this isn’t easy.

Michaela and I share how you can learn to find a new flow in your marriage or partnership by reclaiming your power and providing yourself with an unwavering base of self-love and self-trust.

Being at home has shown many of us how dependent we are on validation from our partners, our jobs, our social lives and our hobbies. Now we are being called to shift the lens through which we view our lives and our purpose, and to understand that your self-worth must come from within.

In this episode we discuss….

Thank you so much for listening to this episode.

I hope we have helped you to realise that your pleasure and sense of self-worth comes from within. You hold the keys to your own satisfaction and happiness.

I would love to hear from you if any of this episode moved you, so feel free to send me an email or reach out via DM’s on Instagram.

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I am so excited to share with you this week’s episode of the Soul Surgery Podcast! This week is a very special solo episode that I felt called to share with you, all about how to get out of your head and start listening to your heart.

All of the experiences and collective memories inside of our minds are steeped in the past. The whole nature of vision and dreaming is about expanding and growing beyond the limitations of our minds. To step into our expansive futures, we need to learn to move beyond our comfort zones and be willing to face our fear without judgement.

It’s about learning to envision something that doesn’t yet exist and realising that it is within our power to pursue it. If you can dream it, it can happen.  As humans, we are programmed to want to stay in our comfort zones where things feel safe. We like to know how things will turn out, and it is often the fear of the unknown that prevents us from ever pursuing our wildest dreams.

What we think we know in our minds keeps us “safe”, so dreaming and visioning can only happen in the heart. Because in the heart, there is no story, no limits and no memories, only spaciousness and stillness.

In Chinese medicine, the heart is known as the house of all answers and the seat of consciousness and truth. There is no language or conditioning, only truth. The heart isn’t concerned with understanding. It just is interested in flying and soaring beyond what we deem as safe towards our deepest desires.

If you already have a picture in your mind of how you want life to be, you aren’t dreaming. You are planning! There is a time and a place for being organised and planning the life you want, but that is not how you will achieve your biggest dreams and most powerful visions.

In order to fly, you must be willing to take that first step into the unknown. The number one thing that prevents people from listening to their heart is that nagging inner voice saying “You don’t know how to get there, it’s not safe”. It’s this not knowing and sense of fear that kills so many of our  dreams.

The beauty of leading a heart centred life is daring to step into the unknown and create something from nothing. To be a visionary who can build something that doesn’t yet exist.

Highlights

Thank you so much for listening to this episode, I am so honoured to have you here.  I am so grateful that you are committed to doing the work of maturation alongside me and I hope this episode spoke to your heart. It’s where your magic lies.

I would be so grateful if you could leave a review on iTunes and we can share this message of healing and wholeness with as many people as possible.

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Welcome to the final Soul Surgery Podcast episode of 2020! This year has been unlike anything we’ve ever seen before, and I hope this podcast has provided you some refuge from the storm and a little soul nurturing.

I knew that I wanted this episode to go DEEP, and that I needed a guest who could uncover the valuable lessons we can take forward from the events of the past year. It is so important that we not only acknowledge the many obstacles we have all faced, but also take time to celebrate our wins and the moments of joy and connection. This is an opportunity for us to appreciate what we can learn from our biggest challenges, and how these shifts can contribute to  our evolution.

I couldn’t think of a better person to share this with than the incredible Tamu Thomas. Tamu is a somatic coach and entrepreneur as well as being a soulful, powerful, honest, heartfelt and truly authentic black woman.

It’s so important for us all to take the time to process and make sense of this crazy year and closeout 2020 with wholeness and completion. The intention being that we can move into the new year with an open heart and a feeling of peace and safety. In order to do this we must FEEL it all.

What we resist persists and what we don’t feel fully can become stuck in our hearts, bodies and souls. An integral part of ceremony is facing and honouring what has been so that we can then release what we have been holding on to that no longer serves us.

Learning how to ground ourselves, soften and bring awareness into our bodies is key for healing. When we are living from a place of survival we limit our opportunities for allowing this healing. We need to create space, stillness and drop much more deeply into our bodies.

Tamu and I share our own challenges from this year and how we have grown through them. If you can allow yourself to sit with your experiences  and feel all of your emotions, even the darkest most painful ones, you create the possibility to alchemize those experiences. Your hard times really can become an opportunity for enormous growth.

Highlights

Please take the time to ask yourself some of the questions we discussed in this episode about what you can take away from this year. How have you moved through the challenges that 2020 has brought into your life to grow and further your maturation? I want to know!

I would be so grateful if you could leave a review on iTunes and we can share this message of healing and wholeness with as many people as possible.

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