Today I Am Alive

Margaret talks about why it is okay to be vulnerable when it comes to our emotions, and how nature's very own vulnerability might hold the key to being more resilient through its own vulnerability.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• When stress, fear and worry begin to creep in to you life, relax and let your mind sort through them in its own way. Be an observer.
• Even nature knows that the best way to weather a storm is to allow yourself to be bent and shaped by the wind itself - to go with the flow.
• Cultural norms dictate that vulnerability is something negative and to be avoided for fear of being criticised. But this is not the way to true growth.
• Vulnerability is the core of all emotions, and we must face what it means to be truly vulnerable - shame, fear and struggle for worthiness - if we want to be fully human.

BEST MOMENTS

'The trees love me for who I am'

'I learned to surrender to emotions'

'Vulnerability is a core factor for weathering storms'

'I decided to listen to my inner tutor'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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ABOUT THE HOST

A few years ago, Margaret underwent several life-threatening traumas, including domestic abuse, and almost killed by her ex-partner, kidney and brain cancer, mental health issues, and a near-death experience. Her life was encapsulated in darkness, and she welcomed the thought of dying. From a breakdown to a breakthrough, these words from Viktor Frankl’s book, Man's Search For Meaning, changed her life forever: “The existence of life is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering.” Once she became aware of this, her life changed, and choose to live each day like it's her last…

This week, Margaret is joined by yoga teacher, healer, mother, and guardian of love, Anna Love, whose mission is to empower the world through teaching them to embrace the art of self-love.

But the journey has not always been a simple one for Anna, having two years ago been diagnosed with breast cancer. In this episode, Anna shares the story of how she overcame one of life's most difficult hurdles through the power of nature and the vibrations of love.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Challenges such as cancer can always be re-framed as examples of our strength. Overcoming these things shows us what we are capable of.
• Cancer patients are instantly categorised as victims and sufferers of fear. But everything in life is a choice, including factors such as this. We can choose to be a victim, or we can choose the path of healing and empowerment.
• Intuition is a super power in itself. We have been conditioned not to obey the common sense that steers us through life. This needs to change.
• There is nothing wrong with prioritising ourselves over others, especially when we are in a place of healing. Stop feeling guilty and look after yourself wholeheartedly.

BEST MOMENTS

'Cancer makes you a superhero'

'Everything is a choice'

'We've lost our common sense'

'I decided to take responsibility for my own life'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Priceless Roles of a Mother'

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ABOUT THE GUEST

Anna Love is full of gratitude and is a student of life. She has been teaching Yoga & studying the mind-body connection for over 15 years. Anna is a single mother with 3 children and has a Yoga & Healing space in East London, where she holds space as a yoga teacher, healer, guardian & Warrior of love. Her passion is to witness the immense empowerment, healing & transformation that occurs through love & the embodiment of self-love.

www.thepranaspace.com

Instagram: https://instagram@thepranaspace

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Book Referral: The Encyclopaedia of Ailments and Diseases by Jacques Martel 

ABOUT THE HOST

A few years ago, Margaret underwent several life-threatening traumas, including domestic abuse, and almost killed by her ex-partner, kidney and brain cancer, mental health issues, and a near-death experience. Her life was encapsulated in darkness, and she welcomed the thought of dying. From a breakdown to a breakthrough, these words from Viktor Frankl’s book, Man's Search For Meaning, changed her life forever: “The existence of life is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering.” Once she became aware of this, her life changed, and choose to live each day like it's her last…

Join Margaret as she talks to Reiki Practitioner and Womb Goddess Siobhan Emin-Prentice. Siobhan opens up about how she healed herself from trauma and endometriosis, talking about the tools and methods she used and how she know helps and supports other women to do the same. Siobhan talks about her passion for all things surrounding the divine feminine and what that means for women and why now is the time for the define feminine to rise and start to align with mother earth and our sisters to live our truth.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Siobhan has healed herself from endometriosis and sexual trauma naturally and is passionate about sharing everything she learnt to help others.
• Working in women’s refuges allowed Siobhan to learn a tremendous amount about the struggles of other women and awakened her to start the process of healing herself.
• Our ancestors were more aware of their womb and bodies including their menstrual cycles, allowing them to live in accordance with them. Modern life and things such as the contraceptive pill throw women off balance.
• If we gossip and talk about others, we break the divine feminine and sisterhood, we need to come together as one, as women.
• We live in a masculine world and it’s time for the define feminine to rise and start to align with mother earth and our sisters to live our truth.
• To truly heal yourself you need to have trust and faith in yourself and listen to yourself.
• Sound healing helps bring up the stagnation of emotions, allowing yourself to heal from within.
• We carry the pain of the generations that went before us.
• Healing is a process, and we have to take responsibility for it as individuals and do the work.

BEST MOMENTS

‘The more you hold your womb and you talk to her, eventually she’ll respond”

‘We haven’t been taught how to sit with the divine feminine because we live in a masculine world’

‘It was showing me what my body needed to release, so I actually thank the endometriosis’

‘Just know you can heal and when you trust thyself you can free thyself’

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Priceless Roles of a Mother'

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ABOUT THE GUEST

Siobhan Emin-Prentice has a background in counselling, psychology, mental health, social care and education with young people, children, elderly and families. She has worked in women's refuges, schools, and more. She is a Reiki Practitioner, Womb Goddess, practicing Shamanism through sound healing and shamanic practices. Siobhan takes women on deep journeys within and creates safety, sisterhood and sacred spaces for womben to come together through her womb ceremonies.

Siobhan also is an artist, spoken word artist, creating magic through jewellery of crystals, natural healing remedies. She uses Turkish belly dancing, African sounds and drumming to help release trauma and ancestral blockages. She uses movement, sound through encouraging wombmen to speak their truth and sing, making sounds to release, feel, be seen and heard. 

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Instagran: https://instagram.com/goddesstouch88?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==ABOUT THE HOST

A few years ago, Margaret underwent several life-threatening traumas, including domestic abuse, and almost killed by her ex-partner, kidney and brain cancer, mental health issues, and a near-death experience. Her life was encapsulated in darkness, and she welcomed the thought of dying. From a breakdown to a breakthrough, these words from Viktor Frankl’s book, Man's Search For Meaning, changed her life forever: “The existence of life is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering.” Once she became aware of this, her life changed, and choose to live each day like it's her last…

Margaret is joined by intersectional gender specialist, Dr Gurpreet Kaur, to discuss her incredible journey as an endometriosis survivor, what the condition is and how it manifests within sufferers, and how we can best help those suffering with this condition.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Endometriosis is when the lining of the uterus grows externally to the uterus itself, implanting itself upon other organs in your pelvic area.
• Sufferers of this condition endure an accumulation of blood, which cannot exit, and it can manifest itself as extreme pain and inflammation.
• Endometriosis is far more common than we may believe, with over 190 million women suffering globally, amounting to one in ten women on the planet.
• Because this is a hormonal condition, sufferers see a lot of weight fluctuation. This makes holding a stable weight almost impossible. It also brings on chronic fatigue, meaning that enthusiasm and daily tasks are made more difficult.

BEST MOMENTS

'It is a reproductive issue that is very common'

'There was massive pain every month, to the point where I could not function'

'it's such an under-studied and under-researched condition'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Priceless Roles of a Mother'

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ABOUT THE GUEST

Dr Gurpreet Kaur is an intersectional gender specialist. She received her B.A. (Hons) and M.A. degrees from the National University of Singapore and has a Ph.D. in Gender and Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Literature from the University of Warwick.

From disempowerment to empowerment, Dr Gurpreet Kaur is here to share her journey as an endometriosis survivor. She was on a wheelchair for five years, and the steps she took to survive and rise like Phoenix.

Contact details: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gurpreet-kaur-phd

ABOUT THE HOST

A few years ago, Margaret underwent several life-threatening traumas, including domestic abuse, and almost killed by her ex-partner, kidney and brain cancer, mental health issues, and a near-death experience. Her life was encapsulated in darkness, and she welcomed the thought of dying. From a breakdown to a breakthrough, these words from Viktor Frankl’s book, Man's Search For Meaning, changed her life forever: “The existence of life is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering.” Once she became aware of this, her life changed, and choose to live each day like it's her last…

We seem to live in a fix-it world. Margaret discusses why sometimes uncertainty or discomfort is exactly where we need to be. Why we should live an emotional existence, should give in to the voice of our heart for life's journey, how the lessons of nature itself can be applied to our own journey of change, and why embracing both negative and positive emotions can be the richest source of growth to help us learn far more about ourselves than we may have realised. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Life is made up of challenges that test our emotions. We are told that some of these emotional responses are bad and should be shunned. It's natural to want to avoid these emotions, but when we shun negatives, we also inevitably shun positives.
• Only by embracing all emotions can we become fully-formed, high-functioning human beings. It's okay to feel sad, scared or anger. They teach us about ourselves.
• Every difficult life situation can either result in fruitlessness and folly, or provide personal and spiritual growth. The result is up to us.
• You always have three basic choices in how you respond to situations - to fight and tough it out, flee and not deal with it, or freeze and become numb.

BEST MOMENTS

'There's no comfortable way to say this - sometimes life sucks'

'It's important to know that both types of emotions are necessary'

'What you resist, persists'

'Our feelings can either set us free or freak us out'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Priceless Roles of a Mother'

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CONTACT METHOD
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Email: [email protected]
ABOUT THE HOST

A few years ago, Margaret underwent several life-threatening traumas, including domestic abuse, and almost killed by her ex-partner, kidney and brain cancer, mental health issues, and a near-death experience. Her life was encapsulated in darkness, and she welcomed the thought of dying. From a breakdown to a breakthrough, these words from Viktor Frankl’s book, Man's Search For Meaning, changed her life forever: “The existence of life is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering.” Once she became aware of this, her life changed, and choose to live each day like it's her last…

Margaret is joined by energy healer and specialist, Sunita Kaur, to talk about the transformative, positive benefits we can bring to our lives through the gift that is energy healing, a practice that preaches the message of hope in life and love, and how all subconscious encouragement may be a message from those we have loved and lost in the past.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Theta is the ability to connect on a really high level through four strands - our core, our life, our thoughts and feelings.
• Many feel a sense of disconnection or undeserving. Remember that you are truly important, unique and valuable to the world.
• We may not believe the things that our family believe, but the belief systems we inherit from them live within our physical form.
• When our ancestors communicate with us through time and space, it is with a need to protect and nurture us, and in so doing, ensure that their legacy can be carried on.

BEST MOMENTS

'I knew the things that I needed to work on'

'Please remember how important you are in this place, at this time, and how valuable that feeling is'

'Connection was what changed everything for me'

'Those are the synchronicities that I like to call magic'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Priceless Roles of a Mother'

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Sunita Kaur - https://www.energyhealersunita.com

CONTACT METHOD
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ABOUT THE HOST

A few years ago, Margaret underwent several life-threatening traumas, including domestic abuse, and almost killed by her ex-partner, kidney and brain cancer, mental health issues, and a near-death experience. Her life was encapsulated in darkness, and she welcomed the thought of dying. From a breakdown to a breakthrough, these words from Viktor Frankl’s book, Man's Search For Meaning, changed her life forever: “The existence of life is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering.” Once she became aware of this, her life changed, and choose to live each day like it's her last…

Brenda Dempsey, who is here to make a difference. Brenda Dempsey is a Best Selling Author, Master Coach, Speaker, CEO and founder of Book Brilliance Publishing.

Brenda joins Margaret this week for an inspiring episode in which she talks candidly about how she elevated herself from traumatic beginnings to become a business powerhouse and a woman in total control of her own destiny.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Sometimes the pull of destiny is so strong that it can encourage us to defy the accepted way of thinking and stake our claim to a better world.
• When we put good into the world, the results blossom out into other arenas, causing a ripple effect of positivity.
• Love is a growing thing. The more we plant, the healthier and stronger it grows in the world. Love begins at home and should be nurtured.
• Vulnerability can be imbued with power. Strength can be founded upon weakness. Human beings are marvellously contradictory, which makes them all unique.

BEST MOMENTS

'There was something in my soul that made me think "No, mum, you are wrong"'

'I wanted to tell my children every day that I loved them'

'I thought if I don't get out of here, I'll never get out of here alive'

'I am such a strong woman!'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Priceless Roles of a Mother'

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Brenda Dempsey LinkedIn - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/brendadempsey

CONTACT METHOD
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ABOUT THE HOST

A few years ago, Margaret underwent several life-threatening traumas, including domestic abuse, and almost killed by her ex-partner, kidney and brain cancer, mental health issues, and a near-death experience. Her life was encapsulated in darkness, and she welcomed the thought of dying. From a breakdown to a breakthrough, these words from Viktor Frankl’s book, Man's Search For Meaning, changed her life forever: “The existence of life is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering.” Once she became aware of this, her life changed, and choose to live each day like it's her last…

Today, Margaret is joined by opera singer and yoga practitioner, Birgit Beer, who is a proponent of the message that through the voice, and through the healing, empowering force of yoga, trauma can be overcome.

In this show, Birgit talks about her own experiences, and how she has harnessed the power of expression to bring positive light to herself and those around her.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• People these days are feeling a sense of pain, and are subconsciously searching for a way to heal. Sometimes the answer presents itself when we least expect it.
• We all share some traits and senses of trauma. Through connecting with others we share the pain, but also share the healing effects.
• We don't need to help the entire world, we just need to do what we can/ When we create positivity it is like planting seeds that grow and do the same for others. It has a rippling effect.
• if every one of us can only see the perfection we all have inside, and recognise how unique we are, then we will truly feel the love we're meant to feel.

BEST MOMENTS

'If you're on the hamster wheel, you never know what is coming next'

'It is important that you find yourself somehow'

'Yoga heals permanently'

'The male and female energy needs to find its flow - its power'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Priceless Roles of a Mother'

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ABOUT THE GUEST

Birgit Beer was born in Germany, grew up in Vienna, and presently residing in London. She is an opera singer and yoga teacher. Her passion for yoga is now her main focus. Birgit says yoga, along with singing, humming, and chanting, is an effective way to heal trauma.

https://www.birgitbeer.com/yoga

CONTACT METHOD
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ABOUT THE HOST

A few years ago, Margaret underwent several life-threatening traumas, including domestic abuse, and almost killed by her ex-partner, kidney and brain cancer, mental health issues, and a near-death experience. Her life was encapsulated in darkness, and she welcomed the thought of dying. From a breakdown to a breakthrough, these words from Viktor Frankl’s book, Man's Search For Meaning, changed her life forever: “The existence of life is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering.” Once she became aware of this, her life changed, and choose to live each day like it's her last…

Margaret is joined by coach, counsellor and facilitator, Masana De Souza, to discuss her fascinating path through life and how she discovered her own sense of spirituality.

Masana and Margaret also talk about the ways in which spirituality, yoga and meditation practices, and deep understanding can help us to overcome the scars of trauma.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The finest and most effective way of discovering our own path in life and spirituality, is to be given the freedom to do so on our own. We are all unique beings and therefore our paths will be unique ones.
• Each of us are blessed with a special gift in this world - that remarkable, once-in-a-lifetime thing that makes us special. Finding that one thing and sharing it with the world is our most special gift.
• Each of us have experienced trauma, even if we are not consciously aware of it. Trauma is any damage caused to our personal essence, on a mental, physical, emotional or physical level.
• Nature still has an abundance of lessons to teach to us. We have only scratched the surface of the gifts it can impart. We should remain open to the message of nature and listen when it tries to steer our society.

BEST MOMENTS

'It gave me the freedom to find myself, and discover. my own spiritual path'

'I believe each of us have a golden thread of particular speciality'

'Each moment is precious, is new'

'That trauma lodges deep within the subconscious mind of who we truly are'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Priceless Roles of a Mother'

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ABOUT THE GUEST

Masana De Souza, originally from Jamaica, presently residing in London, has an extensive background in coaching, counselling, facilitation, mediation and training. She has been studying & teaching Raja Yoga Meditation for 18 years. She is also a Facilitator for Values in Healthcare A Spiritual Approach.

CONTACT METHOD
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ABOUT THE HOST

A few years ago, Margaret underwent several life-threatening traumas, including domestic abuse, and almost killed by her ex-partner, kidney and brain cancer, mental health issues, and a near-death experience. Her life was encapsulated in darkness, and she welcomed the thought of dying. From a breakdown to a breakthrough, these words from Viktor Frankl’s book, Man's Search For Meaning, changed her life forever: “The existence of life is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering.” Once she became aware of this, her life changed, and choose to live each day like it's her last…

With the passage of spring upon us, Margaret takes time to reflect upon the ever-changing nature of the world, why we should adapt to change alongside it, and how we can harness the power of trauma to kick-start us into an empowering spiritual awakening.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Spring is a time for new beginnings. We should use this passing of the seasons to ignite change in ourselves, thereby keeping a sense of balance and harmony with the world around us.
• Post traumatic growth helps people to find a new sense of life and personal strength, and only appears in the wake of trauma.
• There will always be some degree of suffering that we have to face in life. When it comes we should not see it as negative. We should look deep into it for the embedded opportunity for growth and transformation.
• There are three core types of spiritual transformation that we experience as a result of intense turmoil and trauma
  • Temporary awakening experiences
  • Gradual but permanent awakening
  • Sudden and dramatic awakening

BEST MOMENTS

'My heart sang with the rhythm of nature's melody'

'We are part of nature and nature is part of us'

'Many people define this as post-traumatic growth'

'Beneath the terrible painful surface, there is a massive reservoir of spiritual potential'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Priceless Roles of a Mother'

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CONTACT METHOD
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Email: [email protected]
ABOUT THE HOST

A few years ago, Margaret underwent several life-threatening traumas, including domestic abuse, and almost killed by her ex-partner, kidney and brain cancer, mental health issues, and a near-death experience. Her life was encapsulated in darkness, and she welcomed the thought of dying. From a breakdown to a breakthrough, these words from Viktor Frankl’s book, Man's Search For Meaning, changed her life forever: “The existence of life is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering.” Once she became aware of this, her life changed, and choose to live each day like it's her last…