Transcending Normal

In next week's episode,  I talk with my friend Dana Sturtevant.  Dana Sturtevant, M.S., R.D. (she/her) is the co-founder of the Center for Body Trust and the co-author of the book Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing and Liberation. As a registered dietitian, she helps people divest from diet culture, explore what it means to be embodied, and move toward more compassionate forms of radical care. 

Her work as a speaker, educator, and trainer focuses on humanizing health care, advancing health equity, and advocating for food and body sovereignty. For the past 20 years, Dana has trained thousands of healthcare providers in Motivational Interviewing.

As a sought-after speaker and writer, Dana is a champion for weight-inclusive models of care and offers supervision, training, and consultation to help professionals and healthcare organizations.

In this episode, we talk about the book she co-authored, Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing and Liberation, and also about Transcending Fat Phobia.   We’re going to unpack some of this with Dana to help us reclaim our body trust and liberate us all.

Tune in as Dana, and I talk about:

• Dana's story to doing the work she does in the world.
• The Path to Body Trust and how there's a lot more to unlearn than there is to learn.
• What comes between you and being at home in your body.
• How Systems, Politics, and personal things impact how we feel about our bodies.
• Breaking down the Three Phases of Body Trust: The Rupture, The Reckoning, & The Reclamation.
• Where did the first Rupture happen when you stopped trusting your body.
• Reckoning with ourselves and what we will no longer accept with our body stories to reclaim ourselves.
• Reclaiming desire, pleasure, and movement.
• Is it possible to rebuild trust with food, self, and body?

Air date: 8/28/2023

Want to connect or work with Dana Sturtevant and/or the Center For Body Trust?

Order the book:  Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing and Liberation
Website: https://centerforbodytrust.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CenterForBodyTrust/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/center4bodytrust/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bodytrustcenter

Work with the Center for Body Trust: 

The 2023 Fall schedule includes an online weekend body story retreat Oct 13-15 and an in-person provider training in Portland called Freeing the Body Narrative, Nov 2-3.

Offerings and Programs: Click here

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In next week's episode,  I talk with Lydia Lincklen, a Certified Life and Flow Code Coach. She experienced and overcame burnout personally, and she helps women and men manage their stress and overcome burnout to allow them to find their true authentic selves. From stress to serenity!

She's made it her mission to help other people find happiness, become their authentic self, let them enjoy life, and build resilience to stress. When she helps coach one person, she sees how it indirectly helps even more people around them. She believes in practicing what she preaches and loves seeing her clients go from burnout, stressed, and being overwhelmed to flourishing, which lights her up and gives her energy! 

Lydia is from the Netherlands and lives with her husband and 5-year-old daughter in Switzerland.

Tune in as Lydia, and I talk about:

• Are you experiencing burnout? We dive into signs you’re experiencing it and why things like emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, stress, foggy thoughts, drinking more often, forgetfulness, and low personal accomplishment could be warning signs. 
• Overcoming burnout and tools to help set you up for success. 
• Questions to ask yourself when you’re in burnout to help you re-wire a new path towards recovery.
• Why burnout, and the signs, is not a one size fits. Stop comparing yourself to others, and learn to honor your needs, energy, and emotional capacity to thrive. This is your life; stay in your lane to live YOUR desired path!
• Why connecting your mind and body is one of the first steps to start healing and how it’s not linear.
• Letting go of shame and self-judgment when you’re stuck in the burnout cycle.
• Even ambitious women passionate about the work they do in the world can get burned out! 
• 8-minute guided meditation to step out of overwhelm and into calm and serenity. 

Air date: 4/17/2023

Want to connect or work with Lydia Lincklaen?

Email  [email protected]
Website   https://serenitycoachlydia.com/
Instagram @serenitycoachlydia
Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/Serenitycoachlydia2

PODCAST EPISODE LISTENER EXCLUSIVE OFFERS: Lydia is offering a FREE 20-minute Zoom call Consultation and/or 10% off using discount code PODC10. Offers are valid only through August 1, 2023. Must say you heard about her through the Transcending Normal Podcast.

Book a Free 20-minute Call: https://calendly.com/serenitycoachlydia/intro

Work with Lydia: https://serenitycoachlydia.com/

References:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9055794/#:~:text=Comparing%20the%20prevalence%20of%20burnout,in%20the%20pre%2Dpandemic%20period.

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/01/special-burnout-stress

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In this week's episode,  I talk with The Ecstatic Life Mentor, Alara Sage. Alara is an intuitively gifted mentor, teacher, and healer who coaches provocatively and soulfully. She has over 15 years of experience helping others reignite and transform their own lives.

Alara Sage works with ambitious female leaders and professionals who are highly successful but feel unfulfilled and lonely in love, life, and relationships.

She helps them reawaken their sexual power as a woman so that they can magnetize deep intimate connection, pleasure, and wealth…without sacrifice.

More importantly, she has walked the walk.  Alara is passionate about helping women become impactfully present and experience greater influence, power, and bliss by embracing their Woman.

If you’re an ambitious, high-achieving female who’s waiting to connect deeper with yourself, have some more fun in life, and become a vibrational match to your desires (hint: it’s being more vulnerable), you won’t want to miss this feminine, playful, powerful and pleasurable episode!

Tune in as Alara and I talk about:

• Performance vs. Pleasure Mindset - How we can achieve and do passion without letting go of our feminine power. 
• Our value and worth as ambitious women are not subject to what we achieve but to who we truly are within ourselves. 
• Taking off the societal masks and expectations. Why does society unconsciously teaches women to pour their entire self into things that we perceive as valuable but continue to be unfulfilled? 
• What can happen when we reconnect and TUNE into ourselves, our desires, and our needs for a fulfilling life?
• Why true fulfillment begins with a deep intimate connection to yourself and giving yourself permission to find what lights you up.
• Bringing more play into your life can shift your nervous system into creativity and an open state of being. 
• The Power of Vulnerability - Why it’s so powerful for women to receive what we want in life.
• Becoming a vibrational match to what we want in life. 
• 5-minute Activation: Connecting with our Womb, Heart, and Intuition.

Want to connect with Alara Sage?

Free Gift from Alara ----> The 3 Steps to Self-Trust: This series will deepen the relationship with yourself, allowing for clearer intuition, connection, and conviction. Get the series here: https://www.alarasage.com/self-trust-series

Her Website and/or Social Media platforms:

www.alarasage.com

www.youtube.com/c/alarasage

www.facebook.com/alarasage

www.linkedin.com/alarasage

www.instagram.com/alarasage

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In next week's episode,  I talk with Kristin Darga. Kristin Darga is a CEO, Author, Speaker, Exec Coach, and founder of Black Label Coaching and Impact Founder who spent over 5 years telling the real, gritty, and unsexy stories of entrepreneurship. 

She’s guided over 500 founders, CEO’s and their teams in the business. Her media company and her award-winning book, Impact Founder, provide an outlet for entrepreneurs to share their hardships AND...THEIR TRIUMPHS!! She is a contagious, creative, and visionary leader determined to activate people’s capacity to make profound changes.  

Kristin and I met years ago through the Colorado/Denver Entrepreneurial Community. We’ve been to friends' weddings together, celebrated birthdays, and connected deeply on feminine leadership and empowerment, and we’ve both been through the ups and downs of building and growing a business. 

Tune in as we talk about what no one talks about in Entrepreneurship, hitting rock bottom in business, and owning our value as female leaders.

If you’re a female leader that’s an entrepreneur, or in corporate, you’ll not want to miss this real, no b.s., authentic talk with two female leaders and friends. 

Tune in as Kristin, and I talk about:

• The roller coaster of entrepreneurship and what no one talks about when you’re building a business and putting everything on the line. 
• Our personal and business experience during Covid: hitting rock bottom, and surrendering in entrepreneurship.
• The financial roller coaster of entrepreneurship and why no one talks about what happens behind the scenes until you’re successful or finally quote “make it”. 
• Nourishment, female leadership, entrepreneurship, and what it takes to honor ourselves in our lives and in our business.
• Taking our power back and sharing our value with the world when we live in a patriarchal society. 
• Ego deaths in business and life while allowing the ego to collapse.
• Re-framing business “failures” as wins.
• Before, during, and after covid as female leaders in business and in the corporate space.

Air date: 2/27/2023

Want to connect with Kristin Darga?

Her Website: blacklabelcoaching.com and impactfounder.com

Her Book: Impact Founder: Inspirational stories of entrepreneurs who risk everything for what they believe in

Work with Her: Kristin would love to consult and coach with you or your company or deliver a keynote at your next event. Contact her directly and create a strategy together.

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Today's episode is all about giving yourself permission that it's OK to not be OK and to feel it all when life throws you an emotional dumpster fire.

The last few months I've been moving through some heavy emotions and many compounded things that have brought me to my knees. As I've been speaking with my other open-hearted female leader friends who are going through the same thing, this seems to be an energetic theme right now.

In our conversations, I've also noticed this theme that as ambitious, female leaders there is an initial fear that pops into our minds that we should have our shit together and handle it all alone. 

Listen in as I remind us all... It's ok to not be ok. It's ok to not have your shit together. It's ok to not be perfect all the time. It's ok to let balls drop. 

It is normal for any human, female leader or not, to feel things like anger, sadness, confusion, shame, grief, and betrayal. It is normal to have a variety of emotions all at once and even at different times of the day. 

Let's transcend that what is actually normal, is your automatic response to what is coming up for you if you’re going through a shit storm, hellfire, or an emotional roller coaster in life, this month, week, or today.  The Universe sends us invitations to move through the hard to get to the great. 

In this episode:

• Sharing vulnerably as I’m moving through, feeling, and healing through current compounded life challenges and old repressed trauma. 
• Grieving the loss of your old identity, a person, an old way of being, or a belief that's no longer serving you.
• Giving yourself permission, and compassion, to be imperfect, let balls drop, and stop trying to have your shit together all the time.
• Unlearning the b.s. societal ways we’ve been taught as women, not to be emotional or express ourselves.
• Why ignoring your emotions can create blockages and dis-ease in your body. 
• There is light and dark, moving through the shadow to get through to the other side to help us grow and evolve to get to our higher selves
• The difference between witnessing an emotion evolve and ignoring it on the surface level.

UPDATE! Starting after this week episodes will move to bi-weekly, instead of weekly. I want to make sure all of the episodes (solo or interviews) are not rushed, and the content is done with intention. Bi-weekly will allow me to take my time and create the content I really want to share with you all in a more digestible, aligned, and intentional way.  This podcast has become so nourishing for me and my audience and you can't force things!

Air date: 2/13/2023

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In next week's episode, I talk with Georgia Grey, who is a Holistic Nutritionist and owns Whole Body Healing Nutrition. Georgia works with people who do not feel well, specializing in Lyme Disease, autoimmune disease, and hormone imbalance.

Georgia and I both have auto-immune diseases and talk about things we’ve learned along the way, ways we all can listen intuitively, eat mindfully and thrive holistically in our lives. If you have an auto-immune disease, it can feel like a long journey toward thriving. Listen in to learn ways to take your power and health back, living holistically, eating intuitively, and thriving with, or without, an Auto-Immune Disease! 

If you’re a high-achieving female recovering from burnout and perfectionism, you definitely don’t want to miss this episode! 

If you’re a high-achieving female recovering from burnout and perfectionism, you won’t want to miss this episode! 

Tune in as Georiga, and I talk about:

• Georgia and DesiRae share their personal stories of living with auto-immune diseases.  
• The emotional impact of autoimmune disease and why self-care is so important.
• Our complicated relationship with food and how we're not alone
• Approaching self-care holistically.
• What you need to know as a high-achieving, go-go-go female who might be ignoring messages from her body to rest. 
• Uprooting the b.s. ways Capitalism has taught us to work as machines instead of feeding and nurturing ourselves emotionally and physically. 
• Intuitively eating and leaving “diet fads” behind so you can learn what YOUR body needs to thrive. 
• Being an advocate for your health, avoiding medical gaslighting, and remember you’re in charge!
• Living with a disease(s) you “have for life."
• Simple and manageable ways you can start this week to slow down and start tuning in to find ways to thrive holistically.

Air date: 2/06/2023

LINKS:

Want to connect with Georgia?

Her Website & Goods: https://wholebodyhealingnutrition.com/

Her Instagram: @wholebodyhealing

Her TikTok: @wholebodyhealing

Her Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whole-body-healing/id160740790

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In today’s episode, we discuss what you would do this year if you knew you were fully supported.

What leaps are you finally ready to take in 2023?

No matter where we are in our journey toward creating an authentic life taking leaps, big or small, can feel scary. We will face fears when we embrace messy actions and step out of our comfort zone. We’ll jam out on taking leaps, knowing you’re supported, facing your fears, and ten things to remember when doors close this year —> all so you can be to open more Hell Yes desires into your life. 

In this episode:

• If you knew you were fully supported… What Leap will you take this year?  
• Facing your fears to stop staying comfortable, and why fear is there to protect us.
• 10 things to remember when a door closes in your life as you take leaps toward creating your authentic self.
• Like attracts like, and becoming an energetic match for our desires.
• Stop resisting, let go of control, and surrender as you trust you are supported. 
• The Universe is meeting you halfway, but sometimes we’re given tests to see how badly we want something. 

Air date: 1/30/2023

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In this week's episode, I talk with one of my dear friends Amanda Testa. Amanda is not only a Sex, Love, and Relationship coach but a trusted healer and guide who’s served hundreds of clients over the years with masterful skills in coaching, pleasure embodiment, and somatic trauma resolution. 

She helps her client tenderly heal their relationship with their sexuality, shamelessly embrace pleasure, own their sexy confidence, and cultivate deeply connected relationships with her fiercely loving support. 

Tune in as Amanda, and I talk about:

• Uprooting limiting beliefs we’re taught as women about our sexuality and pleasure —> ways to transcend, heal and work through them.
• How can we love ourselves more as we do the deconditioning work and connect more with our bodies? 
• Beneath the Sheets: Learn why it’s common that women can feel discomfort or pain in the bedroom and why it could be happening to you. 
• Tools/Tips/Tricks to create space to connect with your pleasure, your five senses, being more present, and redefine what pleasure looks like for you.

Join us for laughter, friendship, and real talk as we help you uncover how to love yourself and your body and activate more ways to bring pleasure into your life.

Trigger warning: We touch on sexual trauma and abuse and how common it is for women as we do inner healing around sexuality. DesiRae briefly and vulnerably shares, without details, my journey with healing from sexual shame, trauma, and abuse. I share this from a place of healing and to share my voice to empower us all to love ourselves and create space for healing from it.  I received help from my psychotherapist. Please check in with yourselves before diving in if you have the space to hear that.

Air date: 1/23/2023

Want to connect with Amanda?

Her Website & Goods: You can find more about Amanda Testa, her Pleasure Foundation Membership, and more at https://www.amandatesta.com/thegoods/

Her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abtesta/

Her Podcast: https://www.amandatesta.com/podcast/ 

Free Gift from DesiRae: If you want more ways to tap into your feminine pleasure, grab DesiRae’s free guide to Embody your Sensual and Spiritual Side! https://desiraekraft.com/fuel-for-the-fire/  

Resources:

National Sexual Assault Hotline: https://www.rainn.org/resources

References:

​​Gentry QM, Nolte KM, Gonzalez A, Pearson M, Ivey S. "Going beyond the call of doula": a grounded theory analysis of the diverse roles community-based doulas play in the lives of pregnant and parenting adolescent mothers. J Perinat Educ. 2010 Fall;19(4):24-40. doi: 10.1624/105812410X530910. PMID: 21886419; PMCID: PMC2981190.

Gruber KJ, Cupito SH, Dobson CF. Impact of doulas on healthy birth outcomes. J Perinat Educ. 2013 Winter;22(1):49-58. doi: 10.1891/1058-1243.22.1.49. PMID: 24381478; PMCID: PMC3647727.

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Hey, hey, ladies! Today we’re going to talk about embodying your confidence, stopping negative self-talk in its tracks, and loving ourselves as we age.  It’s an invitation to be in awe of our bodies and beauty and to love MORE of who you are. Creating a ripple in ourselves and our lives. Towards the end of the episode, we’ll do a 5-minute feminine embodiment exercise. Don’t worry if you’re running around as you’re listening to this; you can always come back to it later!

In this episode:

• Why activating your confidence is contagious.
• How to feel in your element, seen, sassy, fun, and with an open heart for the world to see. 
• Why embodying more of your confidence will shift your external world. 
• Having self-acceptance. 
• Loving all our bodies and embracing new grey hairs and boob wrinkles as we age. 
• Giving ourselves a break and letting the pressure off!
• Are you tuning in and listening to what your body is asking from you?
•  5-minute Feminine Activation for grounding and activating our feminine power.

Want more tools to Activate You Confidence as an open-hearted, ambitious woman? Grab DesiRae's free guide here:  https://desiraekraft.com/fuel-for-the-fire/

Join me next week on 1/23/23 as I interview my dear friend Amanda Testa! Amanda Testa is not only a Sex, Love, and Relationship coach; she is a trusted healer and guide who’s served hundreds of clients over the years with masterful skills in coaching, pleasure embodiment, and somatic trauma resolution. 

We’ll talk about uprooting the limiting beliefs we’ve been taught to believe about our sexuality, we’ll pull the sheets back on bedroom talk and intimacy, and you’ll walk away with some new tips to feel more empowered, grounded, and seen around your sensual and sexual body.

See you then, ladies!

Air date: 1/16/2023

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In this first episode:

• Who this podcast is for.
• Intro on me, DesiRae.
• DesiRae shares high-level in three parts; where she started, where she’s been, and how she got here today. From her upbringing, career, tragedy, entrepreneurship, and through the global pandemic to today.
• What you can expect from Transcending Normal.
• Take my hand as we're in this together.
• Embracing all parts of who we are as beautifully imperfect and complex Humans. 
• We all have the power to reinvent ourselves.

Who am I? My name is DesiRae. I’m a Highly Sensitive and Intuitive alpha female living in Denver, CO, with my husband and two dogs. In 2012 a tragedy in my life evoked a spiritual awakening, and in 2016 I left the corporate world and built a 6 figure coaching business guiding women to create a soul-aligned life, work, and relationships.  In 2019 After becoming burned out building a business that was not sustainable and seeing how the saturated coaching industry was also creating unethical practices, I felt called to do things a different way… only to be met with the global pandemic. Now on the other side, I’m on a bridge in-between where I’m creating a new ecosystem re-branding my coaching business, starting this podcast, and completing my master's program to become a future psychotherapist.  Showing up imperfect, well-rested, and open-hearted.

I am SO excited to tell you a bit more about how I got here today, where I started, what happened when I finally “made it”, and moving through the death and rebirth of our constant evolution through self, life, relationships, and business. I’ll share the challenges, FEARS, and wounds I’ve had to heal toward creating mental, emotional, and spiritual wholeness. Spoiler: We never fully arrive. 

“Healing is not a one-time event. It can begin with a one-time event — typically some form of sudden loss that disrupts our projection of what the future might be. However, the true work of healing is allowing that disruption to wake us from a deep state of unconsciousness, to release the personas we adapted into and begin consciously piecing together the full truth of who we were meant to be.” -  Brianna Wiest,  Author

Air date: 1/11/2023

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