The Ambitious Empath Show

Do you feel overwhelmed in handling life as a mother?

Motherhood is a lot, especially for empaths and HSP. Caring for a highly sensitive child can be physically and emotionally draining when you, as a mother, are emotionally dysregulated. That is why it is important to have self-awareness and a supportive community to help you navigate emotions and motherhood.

In this episode, Maria, a Certified Transformational EFT (Tapping) Coach, joins us to talk about using EFT in handling personal trauma while navigating being a mother.

Maria also shares her story of how she came across the benefits of EFT and tells us the advantages of having someone trustworthy to help you heal and be the best mom you can be. If you are excited to know more, listen to this episode!

Highlights of this episode:

• Following intuition and making a difference.
• Challenges of being an empath and absorbing other people’s emotions.
• The essence of having a community similar to your situation.
• The special connections of moms through experience.
• Forgiveness is a key piece to healing.
• Using EFT in handling and healing trauma.

Timestamps:

01:43 - Following intuition and making a difference

04:58 - The challenge of being an empath in absorbing moods

06:40 - Describing Marias' child as spirited more than an HSP

08:49 - Maria’s journey to self-regulation and being an empath mom

11:48 - The essence of having a mom community to share stories and connect to

17:56 - Mom-related therapy and EFT coaching 

19:06 - Forgiveness as a key piece to healing

21:41 - The guide to using EFT in one's healing journey

24:47 - Intellectualizing the problems

27:13 - Prioritizing self-care to navigate a lot of things

30:19 - The advantage of evaluating your to-do list to do what you actually want to

31:42 - Reach out and work with Maria Yakimchuk

Do you have questions about navigating motherhood as an empath and HSP? Meet and ask Maria Yakimchuk questions on our Instagram live on Monday. Check my Instagram page for more info. See you there!

Mentioned Resources:

The Highly Sensitive Child by Elaine N. Aaron

Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

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Do you ever feel like there's more to life than what meets the eye? That maybe there's another layer, a deeper level, that we can tap into? If so, you're not alone. Many of us have the desire to connect with something greater than ourselves, to uncover a spiritual side that we may have never explored before.

In this episode, we have Dr. Shuna Marr, an HSP and an empath as well as the founder of Spiritual Awakening Support, to help us understand the topic of spiritual awakening and how it can help us uncover our true selves and connect with our inner spirituality.

Dr. Shuna will talk about spiritual awakenings, what it involves, and how our emotions can help to guide us through them. Join us as we explore the journey of self-discovery and learn how to embrace our uniqueness and find our place in the world.

Highlights of this episode:

• Living a life that was untrue to your authentic self.
• Moving yourself up to a different level of consciousness.
• The different layers of the spiritual awakening journey.
• Setting your path and navigating your awakening.
• Being an empath is an expansion.
• Learn to embrace the purpose that finds you.

Timestamps:

01:20 - Entrepreneurship is not a linear journey

04:23 - Creating a connection that sparks conversation

07:59 - The Dark Night of the Soul experience

13:29 - Series of life contractions and expansion

14:33- Types of catalysts

16:22 - Seven stages of spiritual awakening

20:11 - Guiding people through their spiritual awakening journey

26:58 - Choosing your own path

36:39 - Being an empath is an expansion

44:04 - Is empathy a genetic trait or spiritual journey

49:31 - Your purpose will find you

51:37 - Connect and work with Dr. Shuna

Do you have questions about spiritual awakening and the different types of empaths? Meet and ask Dr. Shuna Marr questions on our Instagram live on Tuesday. Check my Instagram page for more info. See you there!

Connect with Dr. Shuna Marr:

Follow her on Instagram:

>> https://the-ambitious-empath.captivate.fm/shunamarr-instagram

Visit her website:

>> https://the-ambitious-empath.captivate.fm/shunamarrwebsite

All her free and paid offerings:

>> https://the-ambitious-empath.captivate.fm/shunamarr-offerings

Check her LinkedIn:

>> https://the-ambitious-empath.captivate.fm/dr-shuna-marr-linkedin

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Do you feel that stress takes over in everything you do? It is even harder to get things done as stress makes you feel twice the burden of your work. The key is to learn how to face stress head-on and find effective ways to manage it so you can get back to feeling like yourself again.

In this episode, we have Valerie Petit, a Stress Management Coach, to help us better understand the mechanics of stress management. She will help us achieve a great way of handling heavy situations and lead us to the best possible state of mind.

Valerie will share her story of how she got into stress management coaching. Learn the difference between therapists and coaches in helping people realize their goals of living. If you want to know more about managing stress, hop on and listen to this episode!

Highlights of this episode:

• The effect of stress on a working environment.
• Find out how to handle stress challenges better.
• Differentiating a therapist and coach based on their accountability.
• Breakthrough from self-sabotage and creating new healthy habits.
• Dealing with friendship ghosting and breaking up.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction

00:48 - The new changes that are happening on the show

02:32 - Explaining the shift to copywriting as a profession

08:09 - The story of becoming an expert in stress management

11:37 - How stress affects the working abilities of a person

13:10 - The effects of social media and negative news on people

15:45 - Resolving stress by addressing its roots

19:22 - The need to have an expert to work with you with stress

23:54 - Difference of accountability between a therapist and a coach

25:42 - Managing the negative people from your external environment 

30:25 - How to handle friendship breakup

31:47 - Different angles and reasons for ghosting 

39:08 - Being self-resilience when dealing with heavy emotions

42:53 - Connect with Valerie Petit

43:55 - Outro

Meet and ask Coach Val questions about stress management on our Instagram live on Tuesday. Check my Instagram page for more info. See you there!

Connect with Valerie Petit:

Check out her Facebook: 

>> https://www.facebook.com/coachvalmn?mibextid=ZbWKwL 

Follow her on Instagram:

>> https://instagram.com/coachvalmn?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= 

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Have you ever thought of the meaning of your suffering? Whether physical or emotional, suffering, if not healed, can be your worst nightmare. 

In this episode, we have Stephanie Romeo, a certified life coach specializing in trauma and creator of the KAL™ Method. She will explain some useful ways to break free from suffering and regain control of yourself even in your worst life experiences.

Stephanie also shares her tragic experience from an unexpected explosion which drives her to a new perception of navigating emotions. If you want to release the pain of suffering and take control of your feelings, listen to this episode!

Highlights of this episode:

• Triggering trauma from physical pain and past tragic event
• Unconscious thoughts build up negative reactions.
• Separate the thoughts and the facts.
• Looking more to yourself in worst-case scenarios to handle emotions and actions.
• Learning the KAL method to control negative emotions.

Timestamps:

01:28 - Success is the reflection of what you feel inside

04:06 - Choose what best serves you

05:38 - Stephanie Romeo’s introduction

08:38 - Triggering trauma from physical pain and past tragic event

13:33 - Finding meaning in the suffering

16:12 - Searching what thoughts initiate the negative emotions 

20:00 - The pain from arguing with reality and ways to heal it

21:15 - Unconscious thoughts generating confusing and challenging emotions

26:20 - Lifting yourself up from a negative emotional baggage

27:58 - The KAL method and its components; Knowledge, Awareness, and Love

32:32 - Breaking down the thought feelings mechanism

37:04 - Connect and learn more about Stephanie

Meet and ask Stephanie questions about breaking free from trauma and suffering and the KAL method on our Instagram live on Tuesday. Check my Instagram page for more info. See you there!

Connect with Stephanie:

Visit her website:

>> https://www.stephanieromeo.com/ 

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Do you have an overly high standard? Maybe you are someone who feels exhausted and emotionally drained all the time because of setting unrealistic goals for yourself and others. If you are ready to heal your perfectionism mindset as an empath - Listen.

In this episode, we are joined by Anna Lawrence, a total well-being coach, and an Ayurvedic Health and Primordial Sound meditation teacher. Anna shares with us how to be mindful in creating sustainable and realistic behavioral change to protect your energy and emotions and break free from perfectionism.

Throughout the conversation, we talk about the all-or-nothing mindset that comes with perfectionism, how to give yourself permission to be flexible, and how meditation and energy healing help people who struggle with perfectionism.

Highlights of this episode:

• The mental and emotional drain of being a perfectionist.
• Embracing the empath nature as a superpower in life and as a coach.
• Anna's holistic and intuitive coaching approach.
• Making meditation a little less scary.
• Having a rage party and emotional freedom.
• Using energy healing on emotions.
• Being more productive in taking breaks and having fun.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction

05:17 - All-or-nothing thinking and perfectionism

07:02 - Discovering the empath nature and being a total well-being coach

08:15 - Anna's unplanned journey of being a coach

11:20 - Healing perfectionism through wellness practices

13:55 - The struggles of letting go of control as a perfectionist

15:19 - Primordial Sound Meditation

17:34 - Working beyond the perfectionism mindset

20:02 - Different practices to have emotional freedom

23:34 - Energy healing using the device frequency called an AO scanner

26:42 - Making things simple, easy, and fun

30:06 - Learn more and connect with Anna Lawrence

31:44 - Outro

Meet and ask questions, Anna, on our Instagram live on Tuesday, April 18th, 2023. Check my Instagram page for more info. See you there!

Mentioned Resources:

Judith Orloff's books

Free Primordial Scan

Connect with Anna Lawrence:

TikTok: @annalawrencecoaching 

>> https://the-ambitious-empath.captivate.fm/annalawrencecoaching

Instagram: @annalawrence_coaching

>> https://the-ambitious-empath.captivate.fm/annalawrence-coaching

Primordial Sound Meditation Course - waitlist

>> https://the-ambitious-empath.captivate.fm/primordial-sound-meditation-course 

Free Breakthrough Coaching Call

>> https://the-ambitious-empath.captivate.fm/free-breakthrough-coaching-call

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Do you ever feel you are being too sensitive and overthinking everything a lot? It is a part of you wanting to analyze every situation and express your feelings visibly. But it does not have to be a negative feeling that affects your life. Thus you have the opportunity to make it your strength.

In this episode, we have Sarah Plochl, a professional business English trainer, an artist, and a performer on her business EDGY Individual Language Coaching. Sarah shares how she uses her sensitivity as a positive manifestation of navigating her and other people's feelings.

Sarah also shares how her personality affects her life and work balance. If you want to know how sensitivity could be a good thing, come and listen to this episode!

Highlights of this episode:

• Signs of sensitivity from childhood.
• The positive effect of being an empath, introvert, and HSP at work.
• Learning not only the language but also how to use it freely.
• Building firm boundaries for better work-life integration.
• Using sensitivity and emotional accuracy to discover what you desire.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction

02:54 - Being sensitive starting from childhood

06:11 - Influence of being an empath, introvert, and HSP to life and work

07:25 - Being confident and approachable as a special combination 

10:38 - Managing the family emotion as a child

12:07 - Theater as a way of healing and support

15:05 - David Bowie as the biggest role model for freedom

17:03 - Learning English from the roots to build and improve identity and mindset as well

23:51 - Balance life with work and clients

28:21 - Sensitivity and emotional accuracy as a compass to know what to do in life

33:02 - Outro

Connect with Sarah:

Visit her website:

>> https://the-ambitious-empath.captivate.fm/edgycoaching 

Follow her on Instagram:

>> https://the-ambitious-empath.captivate.fm/sarah-instagram 

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Emotions are not something that we totally understand. And very often, we are scared of them. But emotions are what make us human. They are part of the human experience, and the more we know and learn about them, the better we can understand ourselves. For empaths and HSP, it is particularly important to understand emotions because they are a big part of our lives.

This is why, in this episode, I will be explaining what emotions are: what makes an emotion, how do they exist, what their meanings are, and how to learn to be more emotionally intelligent. 

Highlights of this episode:

• Switching off and appreciating silence
• The benefits and ways to practice emotional literacy
• Sensing a map of sensation of emotions to your body
• Proper language to understand emotions
• Doing something about your emotions to deal with it
• Different interpretations of feelings and emotions

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction

03:10 - Switching off and appreciating silence

03:52 - The benefits of emotional literacy

05:37 - What are emotions and how do they exist?

09:42 - Emotions start with an interpretation

13:40 - Emotion is information

19:15 - How to increase our emotional awareness

20:30 - Book recommendation: The Unopened Gift by Dan Newby and Lucy Núñez

21:12 - Outro

Mentioned Resources:

The Unopened Gift by Dan Newby and Lucy Núñez

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You know the famous adage: be the change you want to see in the world. Although empaths' intentions are usually pure, they are also only human. So let's take a moment to look at ourselves in the mirror and try to be better people. 

In this episode, I'll share the pitfalls we empaths commonly face, to understand where it comes from, and how you can change these matters and feel much better. We can easily fall into the trap of negative emotions, so having an open and real conversation about them hopefully can help one empath or another.

Highlights of this episode:

• Empaths are humans too
• Investigating the victim's zone to understand true feelings
• Prioritize yourself and set healthy boundaries
• Handling shocking aggression and anger
• Being reminded of what is empath to the world

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction

03:35 - Empaths as normal imperfect humans

03:48 - Victimhood is the biggest pitfall of the empaths

06:36 - Answering others' needs way too much, leading to resentment

08:25 - Aggression as an ironic pitfall of empaths

12:11 - A pitfall of taking things personally

13:57 - Remembering the role of empaths in the society

15:49 - Outro

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Have you ever felt a constant pain in your body and have no idea where it came from? Your body remembers the trauma and pain from your past, that your mind wants to forget. But trauma does not have to be your life sentence, and if you're wondering can trauma heal? - Listen.

In this episode, we have Sandra Cooze, a loving wife and mother, intuitive mentor & coach, certified trauma healer, author of ‘Journey to Your Self – How to Heal from Trauma,‘ and also a trauma survivor. She shares her past traumatic experiences, how she was able to heal her own traumas and use it in helping others to handle theirs. 

Sandra also shares insights, and useful tips on how trauma impacts our lives and how to work from it. So if you are ready to know how to heal trauma, this episode is for you!

Highlights of this episode:

• The limiting barrier of our trauma
• Self-reflection as a starting point of healing
• Being free of trauma makes us not run away from negative emotions
• Spiritual awakening and full circle trauma healing, and;
• Generational and ancestral trauma.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction

01:41 - The awareness of being an empath

03:01 - Trauma is not a life sentence

03:54 - Allowing trauma to limit us 

04:32 - Self-reflection as a way to get over trauma

06:53 - How life without trauma offers freedom

10:30 - The often stage where people go to therapists 

15:10 - Spiritual awakening through little things

17:36 - What are generational and ancestral trauma

13:02 - Outro

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Are you being too harsh on yourself? Maybe you received or heard hurtful comments from your parents, friends, and in your environment and started directing them to yourself. It's time to STOP! Don't let your self-criticism take over the real YOU.

In this episode, I dive deep into the roots of self-criticism, how it becomes toxic in our life, and share the three simple ways I use (and you can, too!) to protect and break free from those negative self-talk and have inner peace. If you are ready to stop criticizing yourself for good, listen to this episode.

Highlights of this episode:

• The negative voice that attacks you inside
• Self-criticism is built from the comments you received as a child
• Self-criticism can also come from internalizing your social context
• The best thing you can do to distance yourself from it; and
• Learn to build and train your self-love muscle

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction

02:26 - The psychology of self-criticism

03:55 - Why do people hide their emotions

04:49 - How you may have internalized other comments you heard

06:47 - The best things you can do to protect yourself

06:03 - Collecting positive comments and feedback

09:08 - Deciding your own definition of "who you are."

12:10 - Create your own avatar

13:42 - Outro

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