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I'm inviting you via a heart-to-heart to be a part of my "Becoming Divergent" project. Have a watch and let me know what you think!

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In this episode, Elle finds herself in meaningful conversation with Amy Guthrie - interior designer and coach specializing in helping those experiencing partner trauma.  

They get into it quickly and explore topics spanning:

• Interior design
• Psychotherapy and Coaching
• Partner trauma from sex addiction & Infidelity 
• Harm from the Codependency framework 
• Doing the f*@king hard work of inner reflection required to evolve into your truest self
• Self-compassion for earlier versions of ourselves 
• Going for your dreams
• Dealing with other people’s voices and expectations 
• Knowing what you want
• Big versus small dreams
• The effect of, as a woman, not being allowed to dream while growing up
• Learning how to dream individually and collaboratively
• The trap of the American dream
• The allure of control
• Physical manifestation of emotional and mental trauma
• EMDR
• The power and beauty of physical space to calm our nervous system, help us feel safe, and help us heal
• The essential nature of lighting
• How constant learning leads to a healthy life
• Steps to finding the right coach or therapist 
• The hard work is worth it
• The beauty, youthfulness, and energy that is possible with aging
• The value of putting in the work to grow

Amy, thank you, thank you. For your insight.

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If you'd like to connect with Amy and learn more about her work, you can find her at:

• Design work: instagram @trilogydesignla or www.trilogydesignla.com
• Coaching work: instagram @trilogypsychotherapy or www.trilogypsychotherapy.com

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Elle wrote a book and self-published in mid-2022 to no fanfare! Here she reads the foreword to you. 
She didn't have "the nerve to write - always 'not knowing where to start.'"
"Painting inside the lines is boring. Our lives are works of art. I want to live a dynamic, creative life that follows the true rules - the natural laws - and not man-made rules for social order and for the elite to maintain power and suppress and repress people."
Enjoy.

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In this episode, Elle Bottrell is joined by none of than - John C. Pollard - musician and sometimes marketer. John's presence in the world as a creative, contemplative learner and achiever comes through right away in the discussion with myriad references to useful thinker, researchers, and philosopher's words, insights, findings and more.

Their shared history in Evangelical Christianity makes numerous appearances in their conversation as they share about their expanding views of the world, life, and spirituality.

The arching discussion reaches such places as:

• the importance of knowing yourself
• mental, physical, and spiritual components to health
• Karl Paulnack's address to freshman parents at Boston Conservatory https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/centers/boisi/pdf/s091/Welcome_address_to_freshman_at_Boston_Conservatory.pdf
• how injuries and traumas relate to curiosity
• neuro personal training and teaching your mind and body to feel safe again
• how eye movements can decrease back pain
• how vital feeling safe it
• moving from a religion teaching human depravity and brokenness towards a God of love and humans being made in God's image
• the intersection between using words like "God" and "universe"
• centering prayer
• Internal Family Systems - IFS - by Richard Schwartz
• embodiment
• presence
• being is better than achieving
• bone rhythm
• slow exhalations - https://zhealtheducation.com/
• “The Awakened Brain” by Lisa Miller
• MindValley's 3 Most Important Questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTVtBhVYZwY&t=13s&ab_channel=Mindvalley
• "Finding the Mothering Tree" by Suzanne Simard

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John created:

"Days to a Deeper Connection to God" which is an app sharing 31 five-minute guided prayer sessions that include narrated poetry, abstract art, prayer prompts, and space for silence before God while gentle music plays underneath. 

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/31-days-to-a-deeper-connection/id1582461275

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You can interact with John and here his musical creations at:

Instagram, Threads, YouTube and TikTok  - @johncpollard

Facebook - @johncpollardmusic.

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Thank you, John C. Pollard, for sharing your experience, interests, enthusiasms, and insights with The LYHL Podcast audience!

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The LYHL Podcast host Elle Bottrell reintroduces herself and gives you an update on changes in her life and what this means for the podcast. She’s on a mission to companion you in Living Your Healthiest Life (LYHL).

In this brief episode she discussed:

• Thank you for the positivity the  The LYHL Podcast 
• Career changes
  • Stopping teaching in graduate school setting
  • Transitioning from PT (physical therapist) to more expansive knowledge as healer
  • Moving to expression of healer as health coach specializing in movement and integrated living
• Value-based living arising from
• Transitioning through divorce
• Evolution into queer relationship with her fiancée!
• “Holy Shit” book project:
  • Available at: www.theellebottrell.com
• Announces her next project exploring the experience of becoming marginalized 
  • Becoming Divergent 
• Her emerging neurodivergent diagnosis with autistic and ADHD properties
• Launching of The LYHL Newsletter:
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• Benefits of Suffering
• Art as essential for healthy living
• Life transitions 
• The importance of community
• A teaser into her enrollment in Clown School

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Author of "I Want to Remember This" and champion of life transitions in tiny and radical moments, Rumi Tsuchihachi, graces The LYHL Podcast with her soulful, observant, poetic, and discerning presence. Prepared to be altered as you let her words sink in. She and host, Elle Bottrell discuss
* Career changes
* The power of being present
* The beauty in observation 
* Life’s small moment and joys
* Living an authentic life
* Feeling like you have to hide who you are
* Feeling like you can’t bring all of you to every setting
* Discovering work that lights you up
* Helping others discover their purpose
* Being a sensitive and tender person in a demanding world
* Flipping the narrative in a world that demands things of you that it shouldn’t 
* Alternative pathways to becoming an artist
* The problem with bringing productivity mindset into artistic living
* The long road of becoming
* Shame
* Importance of small decisions 
* Scaling small decisions into big decisions
* The Buddhist concept of the middle way
* Interplay between permission, experiences, feelings, growth, failure, risk, curiosity, hope, perception, control, commitment, difficulties, compassion, kindness, and peace
* And so much more!
You can reach Rumi at her Substack: rumitsuchihashi.substack.com
And purchase some of her books here: whatislovebook.org and iwanttorememberthis.com

Thank you Rumi for all your insights and sharing some of your enlightenment with us!

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Today's guest is none other than fear coach, Dex Ereon. Dex embodies principles of curiosity, joy, and love to help people establish a positive relationship with fear.

With a background in modeling, acting, climbing, and trail running amongst myriad other activities, Dex comes to this conversation with his calm, open, and gentle spirit. The conversation that ensues is heart-warming, encouraging, and nurturing.

Elle and Dex discuss:

• how we all have fear and anxiety
• knowing our emotions and sensitivities
• the importance of being in nature
• rock climbing
• moving towards fear
• failure
• judgement
• ridicule
• the interplay between safety and danger
• sense of self
• gifts of hearing and listening
• how limits relate to creating
• practicing in calm aiding performance in panic
• balance
• appropriate vacation lengths
• how balance and perspective relate to one another
• doing the right thing
• being compassionate
• asking questions
• learning to ask for help
• judgement
• the relationship between curiosity and judgement
• fear can lead to awareness
• eliminating "should", "always", and "never" from beliefs
• the importance of nuance
• moving from fear to joy
• joy needs space
• joy requires contrast
• how suffering and joy relate to each other
• trail running

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Yes, it was a beautiful conversation!

You can learn more and reach out to Dex at gobeyondprocess.com or his delightfully active instagram and tiktok accounts - @gobeyond.love

Thank you, Dex, for blessing us all with your life experience, wisdom and insight, and transformative perspective on fear!

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To all,

May you see the blessing!

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This conversation from spring 2023 is long-overdue and we are so excited to share with you all. Elle sits down with Stacey Carr, TV development executive and consultant. They cover a lot of ground and make many meaningful connections. Topics covered include:

• providing access and professional development for under-represented persons
• how to get into TV/film
• deciding to leave the U.S.
• how helping others eases burnout
• impact of media on people's lives & sense of belonging
• how to know when a chapter is done
• calling
• miracles
• pursuing joy
• incorporating healthy habits
• dancing
• morning pages (al la "Artist's Way" by Julie Cameron)
• self-awareness
• how being yourself helps others to be themselves
• letting go of what others think of you
• allowing multiple emotions to co-exist
• emotional and disordered eating
• being soft, kind, vulnerable and curious
• reflecting on our behavior versus labeling good or bad
• continuing/resuming what you enjoyed doing when you were young
• joy is contagious
• the gifts of being child-like
• creativity is for everyone 

As this non-comprehensive list indicated, there was a lot of useful discourse. Thank you, Stacey for sharing your wisdom and experience with The LYHL Podcast!
You can connect with Stacey on LinkedIn.

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Join Elle Bottrell & Jon Feingold as they discuss what it means to LYHL - Live Your Healthiest Life. Jon is intuitively curious and a wealth of knowledge, insight, and humility. He is a law professor at Boston University and a critical race theorist. Yes, he studies CRT, which he is surprised to find has become such a mainstream topic for such an academic pursuit!

At BU, he teaches property law and this includes how conquest and slavery have impacted property laws!

Over the course of our conversation we discuss:

• Curiosity
• The impact of education
• Luke Harris, Kim Crenshaw and the African-American Policy Forum https://www.aapf.org/
• critical race theory
• making sense of the world we live in
• fighting for the dignity of people
• his podcast "Race Class" https://soundcloud.com/user-808872105
• Victor Ray - "On Critical Race Theory"
• ongoing impacts of and loss from the COVID-19 pandemic
• structural and communal impacts of the pandemic
• public and private interests limiting access to high quality food
• eating food that doesn't poison you
• why and how he stopped eating bread & the positive impact he feels
• being comfortable in the kitchen, getting sufficient sleep, exercise
• the need for super affordable childcare in the US ($10/month!) in the wealthiest country in the world
• importance of social connections & communal meals
• natural mythology
• the current toxic, inhumane political environment
• how ones access to safety and dignity can vary bases on the state you live in the U.S.
• Kiese Laymon's memoir  "Heavy"
• how sometimes we are the worst to the people we should be the best to
• how do our actions allow others to live their healthiest lives?

Thank you, Jon, for such an insightful conversation!
You can learn more about Jonathan or reach out:
https://www.bu.edu/law/profile/jonathan-feingold/

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Learn more about Elle's work at: www.theellebottrell.com

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Elle had the distinct pleasure of sitting down with Meg Miller - executive and transformational coach with Novus Global, emcee, mother of two and darn good laugher! Her wittiness is always a delight to behold and the authenticity and vulnerability she brings to this conversation is a true gift. 

Over their conversation they discuss:

• Curiosity 
• Work vs vocation
• Togetherness, unity, vulnerability, and growth
• Creating spaces for others
• Self-regulation, regulating the nervous system, regulation color zones
• Impacting individuals, groups, and the human race
• Pixar film: “Inside Out”
• Morning routines
• Creating delightful and sustainable habits 
• Doom scrolling 
• Meaning making 
• Associated behaviors
• “The Three Laws of Performance” by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan
• Indoor hammocks chairs
• Anger, shaming out
• Practical next steps for LYHL!

Thank you, Meg, for stopping by The LYHL Podcast. 

You can reach Meg at: [email protected] or www.novus.global.com and since she’s not much on insta: @novus.global

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