The Art Of Listening To Your Body

**Trigger warning** This intro and podcast contains discussions around sexual violence and suicide. Please use your discretion before reading on.

I was honored to be joined by Leah Parsons. I knew she had her own pain story however I wasn't aware of the full history behind her story.

Leah's daughter Rehtaeh was just 17 yrs old when she died by suicide after being gang-raped and cyber-abused, placing Leah in a path of "honouring pain and becoming the voice of Rehtaeh.“

What happened to Leah's own body after this experience is the second part to this story. And how she walks with the dark and the light at the same time.

Her journey is one of going inward and listening to her intuition.

Leah is now walking a path of healing, offering workshops and presentations to bring awareness on topics of cyber abuse, sexualized violence, mental health, and healthy ways to walk through pain and suffering to students, educators, parents, communities, victims and their loved ones.

Leah has spoken all over Canada and the US on topics including:

• The impact of Cyber-abuse

• Sexualized violence in our society

• Mental health and suicide awareness

• The spiritual journey through grief

Leah now offers programs for those looking for healing both on and offline:

1. Soul Speak - the journey inward to change your mindset, honour your body, and embrace your sense of spirit (online)

2. Yoga - on and offline

3. Grief Retreats

You can reach out to Leah via email [email protected]

Website: rehtaehparsons.ca

Many of the documentaries about Rehtaeh Parsons are on the internet.

-Web Of Lies

-Un-Slut

-No Place To Hide- The Rehtaeh Parson's Story

Katelyn Parsons is an Entrepreneur, Speaker, Certified Intuitive Eating + Body Image Coach, as well as the host of The Modern Girl Podcast.

After years of struggling with bulimia and disordered eating, she not only found recovery but recognized a crucial missing link in the wellness industry- empowerment + individual sustainability around health. This inspired her entrepreneurial journey and life mission to shift the conversation toward healing our relationship with food and body. 

For the past 4 years, Katelyn has helped countless creative leaders transform their relationship with food and body image through an integrative, evidence-based process so that they can move through each day feeling more present, empowered, and comfortable in their skin, without worrying about what to eat.

You’ll also find Katelyn snuggled up with her cat or strolling the beach in sunny San Diego with her husband and their pup Winnie. 

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Website:

www.katelynparsons.com

The Modern Girl Podcast:

www.katelynparsons.com/podcast

Instagram: 

https://www.instagram.com/katelyn.parsons

Pinterest: 

www.pinterest.com/katelynparsonshealth

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Isha is a trauma psychologist and somatic expressive energy alchemist helping healers, bridge builders, and creative entrepreneurs harness their fiercest and fullest expression of their life force energy for the collective good.

Isha is the founder of (R)evolutionary Rompereglas, a private online community where women and non-binary folks are supported in uniting their sexual and spiritual power.

Find Isha on:

Instagram @revolutionary.rompereglas

www.revolutionaryrompereglas.com

If you're listening live and keen to join my six week Release live course head to

https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/release

We start 1st August and run for six weeks!

I decided to turn my two hour masterclass into a podcast. However this will only be up until the 31st July!

If everything I share with you resonates and you want to start processing your emotions with guidance. Join the live Release six-week course!

https://courses.theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/release

Elle Brown is a Women's wellness nutritionist, specialising in female fatigue, hormone health, emotional health and eating behaviours; binge eating and body system balance.

With 10 years experience working in the health space, Elle is passionate about education and empowerment. Known for unearthing the root cause, finding the 'why' and implementing attainable and practical strategies, Elle works closely with her clients to feel supported, heard and encouraged on their journey to health and wellness.

Elle endeavours to impart that food is not simply for fuel and often shares the importance of 'joy' within food choices; for health, happiness and energy! Elle has completed a Bachelor of Health Science in Nutrition and Dietetic Medicine and is currently completing a Masters at Deakin University in Human Nutrition and Research.

Forever committed to continual learning, Elle has completed further study in the emotional body and binge eating space and is a chai, chocolate and peanut butter enthusiast; feeling most at home by the ocean.

https://www.ellebrownnutrition.com/

@ellebrownnutritionist on IG and facebook

@she.spray for her amazing Magnesium products

Heidi Hadley originally trained in mainstream medicine as a Medical Technical Officer in Neurophysiology at the University Hospital (formerly The Queen Elizabeth) Birmingham, UK. It was whilst working there that a number of her patients suffering with side effects from their anti-epileptic drugs informed her that they received regular complementary/natural therapy treatments to alleviate the side effects of their pharmaceutical drugs.

After thorough research Heidi decided to study and train in Natural Therapies. Heidi has a holistic approach to her treatments. Rather than deal with the symptoms of a problem, she aims to deal with the root cause. Treating the whole person is her objective.

Heidi started her career in natural therapies in 2001 and has acquired many different techniques over the years to bring greater choice to her clients. She ran clinics in England treating people with serious disabilities and many of these clients suffered with Multiple Sclerosis. In 2010, Heidi and her husband emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia.

As a qualified teacher in adult education, Heidi has created many courses and transferred them into the online arena. Qualifying as a baby and infant Massage educator in 2008 in the UK, Heidi has taught many parents and carers over the years how to practice effective massage techniques on their beautiful babies. She has taken the course content she teaches in Adelaide, South Australia and designed it for everyone to access, wherever you live in the world by creating the online program, Baby Massage Adelaide & Beyond. The baby and infant massage techniques are designed for babies over the age of 6 weeks and up to the age of 5 years, although many of the techniques can be adapted to older family members.

Heidi is the founder of Total Somatics® www.TotalSomatics.com, an online program designed to reduce pain, improve posture, increase mobility, develop mindfulness and allow you to resume or continue with the activities you love to do. She is a Certified Clinical Somatic Educator and Somatic Movement Teacher in the work of Thomas Hanna. Heidi is also a qualified Pilates instructor. This gives her clients greater awareness of their bodies, movement patterns and educating them with a skill set so they can perform specific exercises for 10-20 minutes each day in the comfort and privacy of their own home.

Heidi has her own podcast, Somatic Movement & Mindset. Within these episodes, Heidi delves into the fields of neuroscience, pain, mindset, mindfulness, habits and how to use your amazing brain and body to create lasting healthy changes. Somatic Movement & Mindset is available on all major podcast platforms and you can also listen to it at www.TotalSomatics.com/podcast.

Heidi is passionate about her work. She has written and continues to produce informative and easy to follow guide books on various therapies. She is known for constantly updating her skills by attending post graduate courses within her home country Australia and internationally.

To access your FREE eBook, go to https://totalsomatics.com/free-ebook-somatics-what-is-it-how-can-it-help-me/

Heidi is very excited to bring Total Somatics to you!

Follow Heidi @totalsomatics on Instagram

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To sign up for the July 18th Release masterclass at 11am NZT head to

https://theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com/release

Invite your friends! This will be recorded however if you turn up live there will be a special offer dropped in the chat for those who choose to continue to the 6 week course.

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This podcast is very dear to my heart. Today I am joined by Robyn Edleston, the mother of one of my close personal friends, Kate Callaghan.  

Kate was an internationally respected nutritionist, author and hormone healer who passed away one year ago today – on June 25, 2020 – after a short but courageous battle with breast cancer, aged just 36 years old. 

Throughout Kate’s cancer journey, we worked together to process the devastating diagnosis and the emotions surrounding it. It was an enlightening practice for myself, and for Kate, to work through the complex emotions within such an event, and an experience that I will cherish forever (you can listen to my podcast with Kate here). 

Kate was an exceptional woman; brave, determined and an absolute fighter right up until the end. Robyn shares many of the same beautiful qualities as Kate and she and I have worked together to help process the emotions throughout the various stages of grief after we said goodbye to Kate.  

In this moving podcast, Robyn shares with us an insight into her life with the incredible Kate Callaghan, the rollercoaster of Kate’s cancer, and the emotional upheaval that such a diagnosis can inflict on a family. I hope you enjoy this special conversation.

**Please note an addition. Before Kate did go to Mexico she did travel to Australia after a friend organised her to see an additional private oncologist. She was prescribed medications.

Website:

https://drjinong.com and to read the article written by NZ Herald on 25th June 2021.

Wendy Bjork is The MS Warrior Queen and now a mentor for empowering other women diagnosed with MS.

She loves working with them to improve their Mind, Body, Relationship and Environment by bringing out their Inner MS Warrior Queen.

She lives in NW Wisconsin in the US with her husband and two teenaged sons but loves to travel. In her free time she loves to read and spend time outdoors as long as it's warm out. (Wisconsin is one of the coldest states in the US during the winter months.)

As someone who has dealt with MS for over 30 years, Wendy now wants to give others hope by designing premium custom programs to help them with their lifestyle reset.

Wendy is an author for the National MS Society's Momentum magazine, and has participated in roundtable discussions with Dr. Terry Wahls in regard to her Wahls Protocol as well as being featured on several podcasts.

To find Wendy

Website www.heartsofwellness.com Instagram @MS.WarriorQueen.

Facebook and LinkedIn is Wendy Bjork.

Michelle Irving is best known for guiding women into the Sacred Power of Illness. Michelle gets it.

Whilst bed-bound twice in the past decade, she mastered the practical demands of work, insurance, medical appointments and relationship dynamics.

She also immersed herself in mythology, mysticism and embodiment teachings. She emerged with an understanding of the deeply spiritual dimension of serious illness.

She now mentors women around the world, teaching them to harness the Sacred Power of Illness. She keeps it real. In her forthright style, she provides practical relationship and self-care strategies for the whole illness journey from diagnosis to survivorship.

Michelle is driven by a mission to de-shame and transform conversations around illness.

She has created a methodology for women to claim the precious power that lies at the heart of any underworld journey, knowing it calls them into deep feminine wisdom and maturity.

To find and follow Michelle and listen to her podcast:

website: https://michelleirving.com.au/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michelleirvingofficial/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MichelleIrvingOfficial

Twitter: https://twitter.com/michelleirving_

The PJ Interviews: http://www.thepjinterviews.com

Emma Ferris is the trailblazer behind The Breath Effect. She has been described as a wellness architect, a breathing geek and someone who is truly, madly, deeply committed to teaching the world to embrace stress and reduce its impact by breathing effectively and tuning into yourself.

By sharing her life journey of trauma, stress and grief, she shares the tools that have helped her reset her health and life.

She motivates people to make a change when they are ready and in a sustainable way.

Emma's training as a physiotherapist and breathing coach have combined to offer a unique lens on how you reset your health when in times of stress. She believes learning to change the physical habits of your body, including the way you breathe are critical elements to processing trauma and stress.

Emma combines the research into stress with practical everyday tools. She has created multiple online experiences and trainings that help people reset their bad habits, reduce stress and cultivate more moments of calm.

Her first online training is Breathe Right & Reduce Your Stress, a 30-day revolutionary training where Emma coaches you in her videos and live Breathing Masterclasses. Designed for both men and women Breathe Right is targeted at people that are ready to make a change in their relationship with stress and health.

After working with women on retreat and seeing the need for a women-specific guided coaching experience, Emma created The Busy Women's Guide To Cultivating Calm. The Cultivating Calm Virtual Retreat guides women through a journey to reset their stress, health and relationships.

Emma is not your average Physiotherapist. She is a Breathing and Stress Transformation coach, a motivational and corporate speaker, an acupuncturist, a Pilates instructor with over 15 years clinical experience.

In collaboration with her sister Sarah, Emma has created a podcast to share her pain story about being conned by the man she dated.

You can learn more about the Conning The Con Podcast here https://shows.acast.com/conningthecon

You can connect with Emma on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter @thebreatheffect

To find out more about Emma's virtual retreat Cultivating Calm CLICK HERE

To find out more about the Breathe Right online course CLICK HERE