The Heartbeat

Today on The Heartbeat, Kevin talks about his big move, and why following his gut was the most important thing during this intuitive decision-making process.

The amazing guest we hear from is Kristina Athena, who is your relationship mirror, and who helps people in relationships consciously heal, evolve, and grow, by showing where one partner (or both!) may be projecting onto the other and not doing the inner work and self inquiry themselves.

It's about being more compassionate and loving towards our partner, who is their own person with their own problems, doing the best s/he can. It's also realizing that what we point out within our partner is also what we hold within ourselves, so judging another is really judging ourselves.

The hard truth for people to swallow here is that really everything that we draw to ourselves is exactly what we draw to ourselves, with our choices in life and what vibrations / life force / attitude we're putting out or attracting in. How we're showing up in the world. Meaning it's important to get curious enough to do that self inquiry, to recognize what blocks are holding us back at any given moment, and how those blocks are affecting our partner.

From there it's just allowing the patterns to move through without judgement, but with curiosity.

Find Kristina on instagram @journey.to.the.heart and let @the.heart.guy know how you enjoyed this episode!!

Welcome to the Heartbeat, where today the big conversation is around shame, with Milli Fox. We dive into why it's important to let it out and talk about it (recognizing the shadows and feeling the emotions), and how it doesn't actually help with changing behavior in the long run.

Lots of awesome info, as usual, and here are some highlights!

"It's just this balance between embracing who you are, accepting who you are, and not shaming yourself for those - maybe negative qualities, or things that you haven't quite worked on yet - to where you're happy with the way you react in certain situations. This whole 'self improvement' and 'personal development' sphere, it can be a very exhausting journey to go on and to commit to, right? When all you're doing is, you feel like you're monitoring yourself, cause you're trying to be intentional, you're trying to really live with mindfulness, but it can also feel like you're under a microscope. And it's trying to find that balance between giving yourself enough compassion and still being able to work through that shame and shadow, without denying that it exists, and just glossing over and doing the whole -- for many years I did the whole 'spiritual bypassing' thing."

"Guilt is, 'I did something wrong', shame is, 'I am something wrong.'"

"Bring it into the light, because shame can only live in silence, and in darkness, so you have to speak it out loud and share it."

"Perfectionism is born around shame."

Find Milli on instagram @millifox & her website millifox.com (lots of free tools, check it out!!)

Welcome to June, Love Bugs, and to this absolutely amazing and super fun episode with Karma! Today we're not taking things too seriously around here, and talking about just that! Chatting all about how it gets to be easy, it gets to be fun, it gets to feel good!

Wait for the plot twist at the end, and here are a few highlights --

"Who do you wanna be when this is all over? How do you want to emerge, realizing how much time there is in a day, you know? We're very aware now. Yeah. And just, again, not having expectation or obligation; not trying to say, 'when this is all over I'm gonna this this this this...' but just having that mindfulness of, 'Hey. Things can be a bit different now. I can have my power outlets in different forms now. I can choose the things that don't serve me, that I don't like, that I'm dreading going back in to."

"Ask for the corner room, ask if there's an upgrade, ask if there's a bathtub! Why not? Simple. Ask for the best table at the restaurant when you go. You know? Why not?? It's so easy for us to do these little things that bring us joy, that make us happy, that make things easier on us. Why not do it?"

"Allow yourself to give permission that when your body's being touched, you're telling your brain you deserve it! You don't only get a massage when you hurt your back, you get a massage when you need to feel another human touching you. And everything in between. But every breath and every moment in that undulation as the oxygen's moving through your body or the pressure is building and rising through you, you're telling yourself, 'I'm worthy, I deserve this. I'm doing this for me. Just because.'"

Hi and welcome to today's episode of The Heartbeat, where Kevin has a conversation with the lovely Willow Jane, who shares a lot of her wisdom on surrender, trust, faith, worthiness, and the inward journey that leads to true inner and outer transformation. At the beginning of the episode we catch up with Kevin and his own journey at this moment, and how his process ties in to the greater message of today's chat.

Here are some interesting highlights, and be sure to post in the Love Bugs Facebook page with how this all resonates with you!

".That's what I've been seeing is really unfolding for the collective, is like - wow - when I stop trying to pursue something outside of myself (to feel that sense of worthiness). And then I just come deep within my heart, and then these whispers of what's really most important for us in our lives, and our purpose, and how we wish to move and live in the world, I feel has been really been revealing itself to us each."

"There's this gap between who I am, and who I want to be, and embracing that gap and being like, you know, being able to really move into those places where we're shaming ourselves, and where who we are was shamed from our parents, from our time as a young child, and the more that we can really embrace our imperfections, would allow us to then be able to take off that blindfold."

"We're stopping looking for that guru and savior out there - that perfect idea of someone. And what we're wanting for true leadership and for the leaders that we're surrounding ourselves with - we're wanting people to support us to connect back into our own true power, and the leader that leads within us."

Head over to Facebook to connect with Willow: https://www.facebook.com/iamwillowjayne/ + her website: https://willowjayne.com/

This episode of The Heartbeat is with Natalie Stavola and it's such a good one! Natalie is a dating and relationship coach as well as actress, poet, and writer, and you can find her on instagram: @nataliestavola. Today we talk about redefining what it means to be "productive", taking things moment by moment, and just being a human / surviving this current time.

"We are in an intense and elongated fight-or-flight mode - these are raising cortisol levels. So if people are experiencing their skin breaking out more, that would be why. It's creating our ability to long term plan - that is shut down - and a lot of that is shut down because we don't even know what next month will bring. So it causes the fatigue, it causes the imbalance, and then when we want to fight it, when we want to go 'oh no there's something wrong with me' now we're going back into 'I'm not enough and I need to hide and I need to escape it', or 'there's something wrong and I need to fix it'."

"You're gonna be just fine. You chose those things because you were given gifts. You chose that path because you were given the strength that you needed in order to be the boss that you are today."

"Just because you are aware, too, and can intellectualize the things and figure it out, doesn't mean that it's gonna make it easier, or the journey easier. Still means that you have to put in the work and experience the emotions, and experience the doubt."