Splish Splash with Theresa Andersen

What if a horse could see the real you even when you're hiding it from yourself?

In this Deeper Discussion, I sit down with Jane Strong to explore how horses act as non-judgmental mirrors for our energy, authenticity, and alignment. Horses can't override fear like we do. They believe what's happening on the inside, not the performance on the outside.

You Don't Have to Be Relaxed, Just Real: What Horses Teach Us with Jane Strong

What do horses know about you that you don't? In this Pondcast, Jane Strong shares how horses mirror our energy and reveal where we're out of alignment with our authentic selves — from her unforgettable moment with Cinders to simple grounding practices to bring you home to yourself.

A gentle, truth-bomb conversation about slowing down, becoming self-aware, and daring to be real.

Check out Jane's website to learn more:

https://www.theequuseffect.org/

DISCLAIMER: This episode is for relaxation, stress reduction and information only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider.

Feeling anxious, numb, or overwhelmed — and not sure why? You're not broken. Learn how to spot anxiety in your body and self-regulate in practical,doable ways.

In this Deeper Discussion, I sit down with therapist Katelyn Kohlen to talk about anxiety and nervous system regulation what dysregulation really looks like (it's not always panic; sometimes it's shutdown and numbness), howto build self-awareness through your body, thoughts and behaviours, and simple tools to find calm again.

We'll explore:

*How anxiety might show up: through avoidance, procrastination, irritability, racing thoughts, body sensations like a tight chest tension in the jaw to name a few examples.

*What overwhelm can feel like and how you can begin to locate yourself on a 0-10 Emotional Intensity Continuum and begin to notice and track your body, mind and experiences

*Explore resources that you can tap into and know that you are not alone, and you can seek support in whatevery way feels right.

About Theresa Andersen: Intuitive self-development coach since 2007, guiding you from burnout, people-pleasing and limiting patterns back to your authentic self. Find your way back to your authentic self.🎧 Podcast: Splish Splash Pondcasts — Today is a good day to build a better day... 📸 Instagram: @iamtheresaandersen Guest: Katelyn Kohlen, therapistFind Katelyn on Instagram: therapy_with_katelynhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/therapists/katelyn-kohlen-kelowna-bc/1577165 DISCLAIMER: This episode is for relaxation, stress reduction and information only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider.

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Why can't you stop people-pleasing even when you know it's keeping you from your authentic self?

In this deeper discussion, intuitive coach Theresa Andersen sits down with therapist Katelyn Kohlen to unpack people-pleasing as a coping mechanism you learned to stay safe, not a flaw in who you are.

If you grew up being accommodating or kept yourself small to keep the peace, saying things like: "I'm fine" when you were not fine, and saying yes when you really want to say no, this conversation is for you.

You'll learn how to start with value clarification: "What actually matters to me, who do I actually want to be?"Learn how to notice where there's a disconnect between your values and how you're living, and practice pausing instead of automatically saying yes.

Katelyn shares her toward and away moves framework for boundaries, and why sometimes the choice of most alignment doesn't feel good in the moment.

Practical tools from this episode: Try "Let me think about that," "Let me check my schedule," or "Can I get back to you?" to create breathing room. Theresa shares her empty chair role-play and 3 morning pages journaling to process feelings and build self-trust.In this episode, we explore:

• People-pleasing as a learned coping mechanism that kept you safe• Why the same coping no longer helps and creates distance from your authentic self

• How to clarify your values across relationships, family, work, and health

• How to pay attention to what you need learning about "toward moves vs away moves"

Guest: Katelyn Kohlen is a therapist working with adults and children navigating anxiety, people-pleasing, ADHD and trauma. She draws from CBT, DBT, ACT and Exposure and Response Prevention to help clients get unstuck and build self-awareness. https://nextstepkelowna.com/our-counsellors/katelyn/

Find Katelyn on Instagram: therapy_with_katelyn

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/therapists/katelyn-kohlen-kelowna-bc/1577165

Books mentioned: The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris, Are You Mad at Me? by Meg Josephson

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DISCLAIMER: This episode is for relaxation, stress reduction and information only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider.

In today’s visualization, we’re focusing on and exploring new ways of giving and receiving love.

Come with me to a beautiful reflection pond fed by pure, high mountain water, with a natural flow in and out, just like the human heart.

You’ll meet an inspiring frog guide, receive loving energy, and have fireflies delight you.Embrace new ways of welcoming in love and learn how you like to give and receive love.

You’ll leave with two simple practices: Perfect forwhen you’re tired of over-giving, feeling undervalued, or wondering how to direct an arrow of love more intentionally.

Disclaimer: These podcast episodes and podcast meditations are designed for relaxation, stress reduction, and personal growth. They are for educational and informational purposes only and are not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. These podcasts are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or health condition. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.Please ensure you are in a safe, comfortable place and never listen to this podcast while driving or operating machinery.

Are you feeling beastly, broken, or like you're hiding parts of yourself? You're not beastly; you're awakening.

In this Deeper Discussion, intuitive coach Theresa Andersen and guest Ann Marie use Beauty and the Beast as a spiritual mirror for shadow work, limiting beliefs, and finding your authentic self.

You'll learn why your "beastly" reactions are protection, how you put yourself under spells, and how to reclaim the gold you've given away to others.

We explore Belle's hero's journey, the unconscious "sorting hat" that tells you what's acceptable to show, why busyness keeps you deaf to yourself, and how your "loose screw" is actually your beauty to offer the world.

Perfect for you if you're on a spiritual awakening journey, doing inner child healing or tired of people-pleasing and hiding behind a mask.

Try this today: Pause in nature for 60 seconds and let beauty drink into your body.

Then journal: How can I turn towards myself and offer myself compassion and with kindness notice what is beautiful about myself instead?

💗 More from Theresa: check out her Instagram @iamtheresaandersenPondcast — new Guided Visualizations & Deeper Discussions weekly Instagram @iamtheresaandersen

With love, Theresa, and remember that "Today is a good day to build a better day..."

Disclaimer: These podcast episodes and podcast meditations are designed for relaxation, stress reduction, and personal growth. They are for educational and informational purposes only and are not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. These podcasts are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or health condition. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.Please ensure you are in a safe, comfortable place and never listen to this podcast while driving or operating machinery.

Tap into the energetic field of love in this guided visualization with Theresa Andersen. Come enjoy a soft, heart-openingjourney to expand your capacity to give and receive unconditional love.

We begin in a beautiful spring garden that is lush with exquisite blooming fruit trees, lemon, orange and cherry blossoms, birds and bees. You will follow a pathway to a reflection pond. There, a question awaits on a stone: “What do you know for sure about the energy of love?” As you rest by the water, the pond gently morphs into the shape of a heart, shimmeringwith ripples that match your own heart's rhythm until you hear the whisper: Theheart loves loving love.

 In this guided meditation you will:

• Relax into the energetic field oflove and open to receiving

• Explore the reflection pond as amirror for your heart energy and resonance

• Recall a memory of unconditionallove and offer that love back to yourself

• Create a visual snapshot that you can tap into when you need a loving boost you can return to in daily life

This visualization is for you if you're waking up to a false self, healing from burnout and people-pleasing, and learning to stay connected to your authentic self (especially through the 3Centers of Intelligence (Head, Heart, Body).

Stay with the journey until the end,then take a breath, wiggle your toes and fingers, and journal what came through. Trust your impressions, hunches, and new perceptions.

About Theresa Andersen — Intuitiveself-development coach since 2007, guiding sensitive seekers through burnoutrecovery, inner child healing, and spiritual awakening with gentle, heart-ledpractices, poetry, and guided visualizations.

If this resonated, please like,subscribe, and share your snapshot in the comments: what image of unconditional love came to you?

Disclaimer: These podcast episodes and podcast meditations are designed for relaxation, stress reduction, and personal growth. They are for educational and informational purposes only and are not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. These podcasts are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or health condition. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.Please ensure you are in a safe, comfortable place and never listen to this podcast while driving or operating machinery.

Have you been feeling estranged from yourself — like you’ve abandoned or rejected parts of who you truly are?

In this Deeper Discussion episode of Splish Splash, I share the poem that became a depth charge on my own spiritual awakening journey: Love After Love byDerek Walcott.

When I first read it, I realized: instead of looking outside myself for what I needed, I needed to turn back towards myself. Through self-inquiry and self-reflection, I learned to befriend myself, retrieve the rejected pieces, and finally — give back my heart to itself.

This is for you if you’re in that tender moment AFTER the awakening when you realize the life you’ve been living isn’t fully yours, and you’re ready to stay awake and come home to your authentic self.

IN THIS EPISODE:

— Welcome: The poem that woke me up

— Are you estranged from your authentic self? (An invitation)

— Reading: Love After Love by Derek Walcott (full poem)

— My story: 20 years of reclaiming myself & meeting Derek Walcott

— The real love affair: Why self-compassion sets you free

— Two gentle self-inquiry practices to try with me

— Closing: Today is a good day to build a better relationshipwith yourself

THE POEM — Love After Love (excerpt):

“The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirrorand each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self...

Give back your heart to itself, tothe stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another,

who knows you by heart...

Sit. Feast on your life.”

— Derek Walcott

TRY THIS GENTLE SELF-INQUIRY (from the episode):

Be gentle. Be curious. Start a conversation with yourself.

ABOUT THERESA ANDERSEN: I’m Theresa Andersen, an intuitive self-development coach since 2007, guiding you through burnout recovery, inner child healing, and spiritual awakening to find your way back to your authentic self throughthe 3 Centers of Intelligence (Head, Heart, Body)

In this guided visualization, explore three symbolic bridges that reveal the patterns blocking your relationships and the wisdom to repair them.

Through the metaphor of a drawbridge, a stone bridge with a troll, and a suspension bridge, you'll discover where communication breaks down, how you erode your own connections, and when to pause before crossing emotional waters.

This 15-minute journey guides you from awareness to empowerment, helping you identify which relationships need repair, which need distance, and which need allies to fortify them.

What You'll Experience:

*A journey through three bridge metaphors that mirror your real relationships

*Clarity on patterns you've been unconsciously repeating

*Practical wisdom on when to rebuild, repair, or pause

*A sense of agency: you ARE the architect of your connections

Perfect for anyone feeling disconnected, stuck in old patterns, or ready to take conscious action in their relationships. Settle in, open your heart, and let's build unbreakable bridges together.

Find your way back to your authentic self.

Disclaimer: These podcast episodes and podcast meditations are designed for relaxation, stress reduction, and personal growth. They are for educational and informational purposes only and are not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. These podcasts are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or health condition. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.Please ensure you are in a safe, comfortable place and never listen to this podcast while driving or operating machinery.

What does it mean to truly wake up to your authentic self and how do youstay awake?

In this Deeper Discussion podcast episode, host TheresaAndersen sits down with Ann-Marie to explore Rumi's timeless poem "The Breezes at Dawn" and what it means to answer the call: "Don't go back to sleep."

Ann-Marie shares her earth-shattering realization of self-imprisonment and the diligent work required to anchor spiritual insights so they don't fade away. Together, they explore practical, actionable strategies to sustain awakening:

🔹 Journaling with your non-dominant hand to tap into inner wisdom

🔹 Finding a "noble witness" mentors and like-minded community todialogue with

🔹 Using simple affirmations to reinforce your awakening

🔹 Taking small, consistent steps to stay true to what you've discovered

Whether you're in the midst of a spiritual awakening or seeking to deepen your connection to your authentic self, this episode is an invitation to stay present, stay awake, and keep walking the path home.

Listen for: Ann-Marie's powerful insight on self-imprisonment, the transformative practice of using your opposite hand for journaling, and Theresa & Ann-Marie's wisdom on why community matters in anchoring your spiritualwork.

Rumi's full poem is recited at the beginning of this episode.

🌸 Ready to go deeper? Explore Theresa's guided visualizations and continue your journey of awakening and find your way back to authenticity. “Today is a good day to build a better day!”

Disclaimer: These podcast episodes and podcast meditations are designed for relaxation, stress reduction, and personal growth. They are for educational and informational purposes only and are not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. These podcasts are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or health condition. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.Please ensure you are in a safe, comfortable place and never listen to this podcast while driving or operating machinery. 

Your emotional heart has gifted you with the capacity to give and receivelove — but life has a way of closing us down. This guided visualization will help you open back up.

In this gentle meditation, I'll guide you to connect with the field of love that already lives within you.

Together we'll breathe through the heartspace, release what's been weighing you down, and invite a fresh infusion of loving energy to fortify and nourish every part of you.

You'll be guided to identify what's ready to be let go — the"stickiness" you've been carrying — and to trust that love issoftening and transforming it, moment by moment. By the end, you'll feel refortified, revitalized, and wrapped in a sparkly blanket of grace.

This is the field of love. It's always here for you. Come back wheneveryou need to remember how loved and loving you truly are. 💗

🕯️ 0:00 — Settling into the body

🫀 2:15 — Breathing through the heart

✨ 5:30 — Expanding radiant heart energy

🌿 8:45 — Releasing what's ready to go

💫 12:00 — Receiving a fresh infusion of love

15:30 — Meeting your twin of pure love

You are very lovable. And you are so enough, just as you are inthis moment.

🎧 Listen to more guided visualizations on the Splish Splash podcast 📸 Follow along on Instagram: @iamtheresaandersen

Disclaimer: These podcast episodes and podcast meditations are designed for relaxation, stress reduction, and personal growth. They are for educational and informational purposes only and are not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. These podcasts are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or health condition. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.Please ensure you are in a safe, comfortable place and never listen to this podcast while driving or operating machinery.