This Spiritual Fix

Anna and Kristina are graced today with the presence of Jay Fields, a leading expert in intimacy and self-growth through hacking the autonomic nervous system. In this episode you will learn the fundamentals of a regulated and dysregulated nervous system. Most importantly you will learn the tools you need to become unstuck when you find yourself trapped in fight, flight, fawn, or freeze responses. This episode is not to be missed.

Links:

Jay’s Website

Internal Family Systems

Linked In Courses

Yours Truly 12-Week Course

If kink had nothing to do with your sexuality, but rather with how much you let life turn you on — how kinky are you? How kinky are you willing to let yourself be? In this episode two best friends discuss how to dissolve one’s resistance to life with pleasure. They discuss the merging philosophies of Internal Family Systems and Existential Kink to help you gain more access to radical self-acceptance.

Links:

Existential Kink, by Dr. Carolyn Elliot

No Bad Parts, by Dr. Richard Schwartz

Working with Suzanne Raja

“Becoming whole means we recognize our dark, kinky side, and that we not only accept it, forgive it, and take responsibility for it, but that we love it, enjoy its antics, and finally integrate it into our whole being.”

Dr. Carolyn Elliot

As part of our series on the second chakra, today we explore art & creation. Our guest is Isadora Stowe, a multi-media visual artist and professor who lives and works along the border of Mexico, Texas, & New Mexico. Her artwork focuses on psychological landscapes. That is, how we all use our identity and memories to construct internal places.

This conversation is an interesting perspective on how you, dear listener, can give yourself more freedom to create. And, how artistic expression may be an essential component to your spiritual journey.

Links:

Isadora Stowe

Isadora’s Instagram

Artist/Mother Network

Research Articles :

Art Therapy

Art as an Intervention for Anxiety & Depression

Art to Sustain Mental Wellness

Benefits of Art in School

Art as for Mental and Emotional Management

Neural circuits and Neuroendocrine Markers Linked to Art

Art Fosters Adaptive Responses to Stress

Art Reduces Cortisol Levels

Neuroesthetics (the scientific study of the neurobiological basis of the arts)

This podcast is a serial and today we open the new season with a discussion of all things related to the second chakra. What is the second chakra? How does this chakra build upon the foundation you have laid in previous seasons?

Today’s episode is an invitation for you, dear listener, to understand and harmonize your second chakra. That means dive into, head first, the complexities of the personal & cosmic Father Wound, art & creativity, the kundalini, and the shadow chakra of abandonment.

Links:

WildFit

Internal Family Systems

TikTok about Interdimensional Love

Mother Wound MasterClass

Happy Mother’s Day! We welcome Maya Vorderstrasse to the show to discuss motherhood and mental health. Maya is an instagram sensation who shares her struggles, joy, and journey with other mothers or soon-to-be mothers. She has enjoyed magazine features by Elle, Cosmopolitan, and Us Weekly as well as countless other media outlets.

Discussed today are the seldom spoken-of stressors of motherhood: the changing self, marital strife, and postpartum anxiety, depression, and psychosis.This podcast episode is a must listen for any new parent, or soon-to-be parent.

Links:

Maya’s Instagram (@mayavorderstrasse)

Maya’s TikTok (@mayavorderstrasse)

Maya’s Website

We are taking a break between seasons three and four, but still providing our listeners with some bonus material. This episode was recorded on April 27, 2021 as part of our eight-episode primal wound series.

In this fifth episode in our eight part series on the Primal Wounds, our cohosts explore the final primal wound, the wound of Humiliation. Have you ever experienced the feelings of shame and unworthiness wrapped up in the the pain of humiliation? In this episode you will learn how to recognize the ways in which the humiliation wound shows up in your every day life. Anna and Kristina explore how masochistic behavior (self-suffering) is the coping mechanism to protect oneself from this wound. And, they explore tools and experiences that helped them forgive and love their own sense of humiliation.

Did you enjoy this episode? Explore our other episodes on the primal wounds of abandonment, rejection, injustice, and betrayal. 

If you liked this episode, click here to learn about our five week masterclass on healing The Mother Wound.

PDF Download:

1.18 Summary of the Humiliation Wound

Healing Packet:

Heal your Humiliation Wound

Quiz:

What is your primary wound ? Click here.

Links:

Heal Your Wounds and Find Your True Self, By Lise Bourbeau

How to Feed Your Demons

The Mother Wound Course

We are taking a break between seasons three and four, but airing our favorite episodes of all time. This is Kristina's pick, which originally aired in Season Two, as Episode 12 on August 24, 2021.It is the final part of the drama triangle series. Feel free to go back to season two to hear the entire five part series.

August 24

How has stepping back from the drama triangle changed your life? In today’s episode Anna and Kristina reflect upon the lessons presented in the drama triangle series and how this work has impacted their lives, personally, professionally, and romantically.

Also discussed in today’s episode: Dorito chip crumbs, next-level rescuing, and enhancing psychic abilities.

Anna & Kristina’s Hacks for Stepping Out of the Drama Triangle:

1. Ask directly for your needs to be met.
2. Before asking for your needs, make sure you are acting and not reacting (only bringing up the issue at hand).
3. Address your needs as they arise (don’t wait and then explode).
4. Address your inner drama triangle (your inner persecutor, inner victim, and inner rescuer).
5. Practice self-love.
6. When triggered, ask yourself, “Do I want to be the victim/persecutor/rescuer today?, “Is there really cheese at the end of this tunnel?” “How can I get my needs met without drama?”
7. Practice forgiveness and love for the persecutor, rescuer, victim, and inner critic (that annoyed witness).

Links:

How To Break Free of the Drama Triangle and Victim Consciousness, by Doctors Jane & Barry Weinholds

Self Abuse & The Inner Drama Triangle Workbook: Transforming the IDT & Learning to Parent Yourself Well, by Toni Rahman

Overcoming Intrusive Thoughts, by Sally Winston

Our Episode on Forgiveness by This Spiritual Fix

Ram Dass, Youtube lecture, Aspen CO

The Goose is Out, by Osho

We are taking a break between seasons three and four, but airing our favorite episodes of all time. This is Anna's pick, which originally aired in Season One, as Episode 14 on March 30, 2021.It is the first part of the primal wound series. Feel free to go back to season one to hear the entire eight part series.

Kristina and Anna, together, lead this episode about how forgiveness not only sets you free from the burden of suffering, but collapses the story that keeps you stuck. Kristina discusses “True Forgiveness” from A Course in Miracle, as taught by Gary Renard. Anna discusses Ho'oponono as taught by Dr. Hew Lin. If you want to learn the art of collapsing dimensions, which opens the door to new possibilities, you won’t want to miss this episode. This is the first of an eight part series on the Primal Wounds.

Visit the website show notes here.

What do we all seek and what do we all fear? Intimacy. This week’s episode concludes season three, and dives into the topic of what does it mean to be intimate with ourselves, our friends, our family, our beloveds.

We hope you have enjoyed learning about the Root Chakra this season. We aired twenty-one episodes on its related topics, like the divine masculine & feminine, sexual arousal & behavior, the Motherwound, and past-life origins. Journey with us next season as we explore the Sacral Chakra and all its fascinating aspects.

Links:

• Motherwound Masterclass
• Sex, Passion, Enlightenment Course with Warrior Sage
• WildFit Masterclass on Mind Valley
• Heal Your Past Life Fears by Ainslie Macleod (audiobook has regression at 1’ 14”)

This bonus is unlike anything we have recorded to date. We demonstrate for our listeners a real shadow-work process (Internal Family Systems) and Agape process (channelling).

Kristina and Anna take turns leading each other through an Internal Family Systems (IFS) dialogue, where the internal parts resisting the Divine come up to the surface. Then, these two best friends take turns channelling different parts of the Divine Mother: The Cosmic Mother, and Gaia.

This bonus episode is meant to accompany episode 3.20, “There are No Bad Parts.”

Links:

• No Bad Parts, By Dr Richard Schwartz
• Motherwound Masterclass
• Episode 3.20: There are No Bad Parts
• A Course in Miracles, (ACIM, W-35)