Spiraling Higher

For the very first time on the Spiraling Higher Pod, we invited a guest to come back for round 2! Laurie Anne Briere, a practitioner, Transforming Touch therapist and breathwork facilitator who specializes in early trauma resolution returned to the pod to share her expertise on Neo-natal psychology and discuss the impact of early childhood experiences on our sense of safety and well-being as adults. We had a fascinating conversation around consciousness beginning before birth and how babies create memories, even if they are implicit and non-narrative.

This heart-led conversation explores the importance of feeling safe in our bodies and how early trauma can disrupt the ability to find that felt sense of okay-ness. Together we expressed a deep compassion for how tough simple daily living can be for someone in a body that experienced early traumatic memories or experiences for which they will never have words or narratives for given that they occurred before our mental capacities developed.

Whether you are aware of such possible early childhood or pre-natal experiences, Laurie Anne offers us hope that we can, at any time, learn how to become a secure base for our own selves and others and create a sense of safety again, no matter how unsafe or confusing we have felt in the past.

After listening to this conversation, you will feel an unexpectedly enormous well of compassion for why you and others may react and cope in the often hurtful ways we do. And although there may have been early experiences out of our control that negatively impacted us, the power is in our hands to expand the capacity for discomfort and create a safe world within ourselves.

Timestamps:

03:33 Consciousness and Early Memories

05:29 The Impact of Early Experiences on Safety

21:58 Becoming a Secure Base

22:26 The Need for Validation and Mirroring

23:19 The Impact of Early Life Experiences on the Nervous System

24:14 The Healing Power of Touch

29:43 The Impact of Proprioception on Sense of Self

33:00 The Transition from Living in the Mind to Living in the Heart

34:07 The Difficulty of Daily Living with a Hijacked Nervous System

36:09 The Impact of Early Attachment and the Role of Caregivers

40:41 Processing Traumatic Birth Experiences

45:18 Connecting with the Child Before Conception and During Pregnancy

47:12 The Primal Fear of Not Being Liked

51:10 Learning to Expand Capacity for Uncomfortable Sensations

56:43 Navigating the Tension Between Doing and Being

Also, if you haven’t already…make sure to listen to Laurie Anne on Episode 28: Finding Our True Selves By Healing Through The Nervous System.

In that episode, we discussed:

-Somatic Work

-Understanding trauma responses and coping mechanisms

-How to process emotions through the body (not the mind!)

-Emotional regulation

-Burnout!

-Shifting from the sympathetic nervous system to a parasympathetic (rest & digest) state

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Correct us if we're wrong, but in the almost 2 years that we've been recording...we haven't had the chance to really wind back the clock and talk about what led us here - the trials, tribulations, and turning points on our path that catalyzed our growth and inward journey. It's never lost on us that purpose is borne out of pain and that the hardest experiences of our life are what always lead us back home to ourselves. We know that this isn't true just for us, but anyone who is walking a healing, spiritual path is someone who has faced darkness. Without those experiences, we would not know the light.

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So grab a cup of tea, get comfy and join us for this storytime session where we reflect back on our past and the catalysts that initially contracted but then later expanded our consciousness. This conversation is equal parts funny and reflective and we are just so grateful to all of the past versions of ourselves for carrying us into this now moment and to you, our listeners, for giving that pain purpose.

After all, it was these very experiences that brought us to doing the work we do now and the creation of spaces for healing and conscious dialogue that we wish we once had.

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Finally, all of your HUMAN DESIGN questions answered!!! In today’s episode, we invited Holly Herbig to explain the basics of human design to help you better understand your unique energy type and how to live in alignment with your true selves.

Holly explains how human design focuses on individuality and uniqueness, unlike other systems that emphasize homogenization or “sameness”. She deep dives into the characteristics and strategies of each energy type, including generators, manifesting generators, projectors, and manifestors. This conversation is aimed to help you experience more fulfilment and satisfaction in life by allowing you to see where you may have fallen out of alignment with your energy archetype due to social conditioning. When we are trained our whole lives to energetically respond in a certain way, realizing your own unique energy type can be confronting, deep work but necessary to heal any nervous system dysregulation.

(For example, projectors like Sam will feel burnt out after even just 4-5 hours of work!)

We also ask Holly to share the significance of ‘profile’ in human design for those who want to go a little deeper than knowing their type and how it can affect your relationships, decision-making, and business.

We’re so excited for you to learn more about Human Design because this conversation helped us really solidify that what our intuition has been telling us is actually true, and that when we live in alignment with our energy, we experience more ease, trust, and manifestations.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction to Human Design

06:15 Energy Types: Generators and Manifesting Generators

17:25 Energy Type: Projectors

27:19 Energy Type: Manifestors

36:12 Difference Between Ambition and Initiation

03:00 Understanding Human Design

06:00 The Five Energy Types

21:00 Living in Alignment with Your Design

36:00 The Impact of Human Design on Relationships

39:00 Using Human Design in Decision-Making

42:00 Applying Human Design in Business

53:01 Living in Alignment with Business for Each Energy Type

01:20:25 Exploring the Conscious and Unconscious Profile

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Giving our listeners the crossover they didn't know they needed! We invited Kela Rose, the fantastic host of the Skinny Dipping Podcast, to have an authentic, roundtable discussion on what we're all moving through, the patterns we're shifting, and learning how to deeply trust ourselves in each moment. If you are looking for a warm hug, a spiritual bestie to hear and validate your experiences, this conversation feels like that friend.

Kela shares that she's going through a pretty large, confusing life transition that brings up a series of self-defeating questions that hosts Sam and Gina offer a loving lens to look at them through. This conversation will naturally make you pause to wonder what kind of questions you are constantly asking yourself. Are you asking yourself, "What am I supposed to do?" "What's wrong with me?" We chat about how these type of questions indicate that you're locked into a paradigm where you create fear and paralysis over an imagined "wrong" decision or constantly bring attention to what you perceive to be wrong or "bad” about yourself. This can often lead to attempts at overcorrection, which only leads straight back to the same patterns we are trying to heal. Healing is going slow, feeling curious, and invites us to release the force and tension we keep using to manage ourselves.

Something else we also discuss in this conversation is being identified with being the "problem solver," and how this identity actually perpetuates the creation and existence of problems. If we are always feeling tied to solving something, and getting a hit of worth or dopamine through it, then we naturally and unconsciously have to continue creating problems and chaos to feel those rewards. Lastly, we dive into flow state, why it feels so good, and how to live from it rather than chasing it.

In this episode, you'll also hear us reference our previous conversation on her podcast which was all about detoxing from the hustle culture and stress/adrenaline addiction. It was life-changing for people! You can listen to that convo here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1mtkDo7XKyRbZnX6u2KDwC?si=95f7b063d8014db6

Highlights:

-Fear of making the "wrong" decision + How to dissolve this fear

-Flow State + WHY it feels so good

-Being addicted to problem solving + How it attracts MORE problems

-Awareness does not automatically lead to change

-Spirituality should not be used as a mask for ego; true growth comes from embracing our humanity

-Interdependence vs independence

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We have all heard the phrase, "You are what you eat." After today's episode, those five words will resonate in a deeper way than ever before. If you are someone who has ever suffered from disordered eating, obsession with diet, or hyperfixation on your physical appearance...this conversation will radically shift the way you view food and help you heal your relationship to it to experience more energetic vitality and sustainable wellness in your life.

To better understand how our nutrition, or lack thereof, affects the body's internal stress levels, energy output, and mental health symptoms...we invited Kymber Maulden, a nutrition consultant and women's health coach, onto the pod. 

From the age of 15, Kymber experienced both mental and physical symptoms that were signs of deeper, complex trauma and the flawed social ideals of what a woman is "supposed to" look like from the 90s. Like most people, she went the medical route and was given diagnosis after diagnosis and was prescribed medications to dissolve her symptoms, further disguising the rooted cause. This led her on a winding journey in and out of different diet camps, such as raw veganism, and eventually back to her own intuition.

By studying neuro-somatics, nutrition, Internal Family Systems (parts work) and complex developmental trauma, she realized that refining lifestyle choices for peak women's health often goes against the grain of many commonly accepted male-centric beliefs around food, fasting, exercise and energy. Through both her own personal healing work and the professional work she's done with hundreds of women over the past few years, she's come to view everything in health and behavior through the lens of nervous system functions.

Nutritionally, she works within the growing niche often referred to as "prometabolic or bioenergetic," which places great emphasis on the impact of stress, in all forms, on the function of our cells' ability to produce energy. Disruptions in the ability of our cells to produce adequate energy to meet the energy demands of our modern lives is at the root of all chronic symptoms and illnesses, making metabolism a central focus within this niche. Tying in the effect of nervous system dysregulation and trauma within this approach to nutrition has provided Kymber with an insatiable desire to explore the intersection of nutritional and somatic healing.

Highlights:

-The interconnected link between nutrition, somatic healing, trauma, and wellness with respect to women's health

-Physiological stress and how it hurts the body

-Complex trauma, which often stems from environmental failure during childhood, can impact nervous system regulation and contribute to chronic illness

-How under-eating can have negative effects on mental health and overall wellbeing

-The male-centric approach to health and fitness and how it often overlooks the unique needs of women's bodies

-Embracing the theme of moving slowly and creating a safe space to rest

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction and Personal Health Journey

04:29 The Impact of Medications and Dietary Choices

09:25 Understanding Stress and its Effects on the Body

13:30 The Difference Between Acute and Chronic Stress

18:21 Complex Trauma and its Impact on Nervous System Regulation

31:03 The Importance of Nutrition for Mental and Physical Health

33:15 The Impact of Food Intake on Wellbeing

37:11 The Role of Energy Production and Stress Hormones

41:57 Understanding Caloric Intake and Protein Consumption

44:21 The Negative Effects of Under Eating and Over Exercising

48:04 The Male-Centric Approach to Health and Fitness

01:05:17 Moving in a More Feminine Way

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SPIRALERS, WE ARE BACK FOR SEASON 3! We have some SUPER special growth moments to celebrate with you today in addition to all of the upcoming new episodes. First off, we are now recording IN STUDIO!!! This has been a manifestation in the making since we began and we are so unbelievably honored and grateful to be growing alongside you and spiraling higher to new realities. It was only less than 2 years ago that we bought the second cheapest mics on amazon to being here now, with you, in the studio continuing on our heart-led mission to bring you conscious conversations that transform your perspective.

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In our comeback episode, after a much deserved nervous system demanded break, we chat about what it really means to even live up to your "FULL" potential and how chasing your potential is a lack-drenched pursuit. We talk openly about how our "old selves" would have perceived or judged our progress as "slow" or "behind," but in this new season of valuing our bodies over our insatiable egoic minds, we see this new pace as a win rather than a loss. Of course, the old selves only cared about speed and production; they frankly did not care about being present with ourselves because to do so, they'd have to slow down!

So while we might appear to be moving slowly, we are moving at the speed of a newfound trust that allows us to prioritize our needs over our wants. We are no longer normalizing the experience of burnout but being proactive in our efforts to increase the longevity and the quality of our lives. We want to be here for a long time, not a short time, and the only way to ensure that is to continue taking care of ourselves with love. THAT is healing <3

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First of all, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to our listeners for tuning in, doing the inner work, and making us your top podcast in 2023! When we started out last year, we promised each other that no matter how little or how many people cared or listened, that we would promise ourselves to never lose our hope, our creativity, and desire to serve humanity. Because we trusted ourselves, we attracted you!!! We feel an overwhelming amount of gratitude to every person who has trusted us to help them see their patterns, become more conscious, and release their fears.

Season 1 was about looking at our darkness and what needs more love while Season 2 was about removing the obstacles to true peace. What keeps us from feeling truly content or happy? What prevents us from fully being our true selves? What stops us from doing the things we KNOW we want to do...but don't feel like we are ready or deserve to?

If you've been listening along for a while or here for the first time, this episode will either remind or teach you about the gifts of presence, patience, and perspective. What we all really want, we already have...and once you can tune into that, abundance is yours.

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Sharing what works for us, what moves us, and what troubles us is what makes us feel alive. So from the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU for listening and learning with us this past season. We invite you to join our FREE community where we open up a dialogue with YOU every single month.

To join us for the next free connection call, click the link below. Our next one is on December 30th at 10AM PST (1 PM EST) - all about that new year energy and intentions. Who are you going to BE in 2024?! Don't miss this one!

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True abundance is not the accumulation of money. Abundance is a frequency and state of being - not a destination!

Yet so many of us spend all of our energy chasing money and trying to leave the present moment in order to get somewhere better. We keep trying to approach an illusory time in the future where we are happier and more worthy than we are now. What this does though is reinforce the belief that money itself has the power to give us happiness, joy and self-worth. We confuse money with abundance and think that becoming abundant happens by becoming "rich."

Understanding the key difference between 'Abundance' and 'Money' for us has been paramount. We become "rich" when we first recognize and embody the richness already within us. We don't chase money thinking that it will make us richer, we become rich internally and then money chases us. This is a complete paradigm shift!

If you are looking to master the energetics of money and finally become its master...we have a super special limited opportunity for you.

Between 11/17 - 11/27, you can download the "Wealthy Woman Bundle" which is a collaboration between us and 55 other financial content creators and wealth advisors to offer you access to 62 different courses and guides about all things money & business. Normally, these courses purchased each separately would cost over $8,400!!!

But for our exclusive Black Friday special...you can get it for just $85. What's the catch? There is none. This is about helping more people attain financial freedom so that it's no longer the rare exception, but the norm.

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Almost all of us are familiar with budgeting our money and our time...but what about our energy? Most of are counting our dollars and trying to make the best use of our hours, but in doing so, we are falling into an energetic deficit.

In today's episode, we share some personal details about how we've transitioned from budgeting our time to budgeting our energy. For years, we both had a strict timeline and to-do list that attempted to ensure we would be the most productive, unconsciously putting ourselves into energetic debt over and over again. At a certain point...we had to ask ourselves, "Why?"

Most physiological cues are considered positive, and thankfully, we know when we need to eat or use the bathroom. Yet the physiological signs of being overworked and tired are not met with the same self-caretaking behavior. Most of the time, these cues are met with internalized narratives about how "bad" and "lazy" we are. This conditioning has resulted in us shaming ourselves out of receiving the very thing we so need.

It's unfortunate that we don't see rest as either neutral or positive in our fast-paced, Capitalist culture. Rest has been demonized as the idle threat to our precious productivity. We wear badges of fatigue and show off how much we've done rather than caring about how we truly feel. But for us? It's no longer of utmost importance to be "productive" (we've unlinked productivity from our self-worth!), it's more valuable to be truly well. And in order to become well, we had to rest.

True abundance, to us, is knowing that we have more than enough time to do all the things we desire AND having enough energy to do them.

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Ashley Nelson became a two-time widow before the age of 35. She also said “goodbye” to ten other relatives and friends in between those drastic losses. These deaths, alongside her 10-year career in the health and death-care industry, gave her deep insight into life after loss that led to her becoming a certified grief specialist. Today, Ashley leads ‘Learning About Grief’ - an organization that offers loss-specific groups, one-to-one private grief sessions, and free education to over 25,000 people from 50+ countries.

In today’s episode we ask her about the stages of grief and how to move through them, as well as support people going through them. She sheds light on the research that led to the well-known ‘5 Stages of Grief,’ but shares that these stages were well-documented only with respect to those who were dying. However, we know that grief not only affects the dying but the ones who have survived their death.

If the colloquially known 5 Stages of Grief have never resonated with you as a person who has lost a loved one, and experience them more in waves, this conversation will leave you feeling more seen and heard.

Carrying grief is human, and you are exactly where you are meant to be.

No matter what season of grief you are in, or even if you have never lost a loved but want to support those that have, this conversation will help you ease pain and feel more connected.

Episode highlights:

-The 5 Stages of Grief (what it gets right + what it gets wrong)

-Celebrating someone’s life while simultaneously grieving them

-Why we resist the ‘acceptance’ phase for so long

-Comparing your grief or attempting to justify it

-The guilt of joy (Survivor’s Guilt) experienced after losing loved one

-Finding a new identity after loss

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