Wives Not Sisters

In this episode the host, Kayla Nielsen, does an impromptu share after an Instagram post that received a lot of questions, feedback, and engagement.

Kayla shares about her health journey from a young age, sharing the link between her physical and mental health through various relationships and experiences.

Kayla describes how her body changes and responds during mental health dips and crisis.

She goes into her experiences of being hospitalized abroad, as well as at home in the States.

She shares about some of the modalities she leans into for support, care, and healing.

And she describes where she’s currently at in her recovery process.

This episode is a vulnerable one from the heart.

Tune into the whole thing for all the details!

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In this solo episode the host, Kayla Nielsen, begins to dive into the topic of her relationship with food. 

After receiving many questions about how she eats, patterns and relationships around eating, she decides to take the mic and spill all from the beginning. 

She starts from childhood, and shares her tendencies, her strong opinions about meat from a young age, and her experience of being forced to eat things that felt out of alignment with her body’s needs. 

She moves on to adulthood, and how she body changes once she leaves the house and provides for herself. 

She explores the connection between body image and food, and how she learned to hate her body from a young age. 

She discusses multiple facets of her lifestyle that contributed to poor health (mentally and physically), and how this changed her relationship with food. 

She goes on to explain how eating changed once she started to travel, and where her priorities were when it came to food, body image, and traveling the world. 

She shares about transitioning from vegetarian to veganism and why. 

She talks about eating vegan while traveling and the difficulties that arise. 

She discusses boundaries with eating and traveling, and deciding your own when it comes to mixing politeness, integration, and culture. 

She talks about what changed her relationship with food to become more disordered or toxic, and why. 

Kayla shares about health conditions that create fear around food, and what she’s done (and is still doing) to heal these tendencies. 

She shares about her experience with intuitive eating, and provides tangible tips for implementing more mindfulness and awareness into the act of eating. 

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In this episode the host, Kayla Nielsen, interviews married couple Talia Sutra and Ezra Baderman.

This episode is longer than usual, but it’s worth a full listen for insight, contemplation, and heartwarming connection.

Talia and Ezra share their love story from both of their perspectives.

They each share what brought them unexpectedly to Israel (where they met), and how their contact evolved over their months apart.

Each of them open up about their emotional experience while being together and apart, describing all of the intricacies with eloquence and an easily relatable manner.

Talia and Ezra explain how they each had a strained relationship with their birth religion (Judaism), and how that changed after deciding to move permanently to Israel.

They dive into their separate and collective experience of embracing their culture and background, all the while falling in love with one another.

They share about their seemingly fast proposal and then wedding, as well as their difference in wedding preferences and family dynamics.

They talk about how they swung from one end of the spectrum to the other with religion, and how they’ve now landed in what they describe as a “peaceful” place and middle ground.

Talia and Ezra share about the rebirth of their entire family during the birth of their son, Akiva, and also briefly on their current life in Tel Aviv.

For all of the details, make sure to tune into the full show!

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In this quick solo show the host, Kayla Nielsen, dives into her experience on what it feels like to be engaged. 

She talks about how she wasn’t the type of person to fantasize or plan her wedding, and is starting completely in the dark. 

She shares about her views on gender roles and expectations of emotional reactions to weddings, engagement and marriage. 

Kayla describes how even though she’s joyful and excited, she still feels loss and grief. 

She explains how she can feel it ALL without that translating to doubt, or fear, or changing her mind. 

Kayla shares this episode in hopes to that’s describing her experience, others will feel less alone in theirs. 

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In this episode the host, Kayla Nielsen, interviews Taryn Arnold on her experience of being a Christian and then coming out as gay in her adult life.

Taryn shares her story of how she found Christianity, and how her faith shaped her community and experience of the world from high school through young adulthood.

She explains that once she started college, and was still heavily involved in Christian groups, activities, and missions- she also began to realize she had feelings for another young woman within her friend group.

Taryn describes the hardships of falling in love with someone when your faith is telling you this love is “wrong” or “sinful.”

She describes how this impacted her relationship with Christianity and God, and how she currently identifies.

Taryn also explains how she struggles to identify with a certain word of phrase within the LGBTQ community as well.

Taryn and Kayla relate to one another, and share stories of continual coming out moments, and what it feels like floating between two worlds.

This is a heartfelt and conversational episode that’s incredibly valuable for all sorts of listeners.

Enjoy the show!

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Content Warning: eating disorders, disordered eating,

In this episode the host, Kayla Nielsen, interviews Tiffany Ima.

Tiffany is known on Instagram for helping women establish body confidence through her content and writing.

Tiffany shares her own journey to body confidence through mental illness, eating disorders, disordered eating, over-exercise, fitness, and finding her career path.

She shares what “health at every size” means, compared to “healthy at every size.”

She explains how intuitive eating works, and the harm within food morality based on her own experiences and health struggles.

Tiffany reiterates that eating disorders are NOT only for white women, as so often portrayed in the media- and what her experience with eating disorders and race have been.

She describes how she overcame her mental health struggles with food and body image, and offers advice for those in need.

Tiffany is an incredibly empowering woman, with a great message.

Make sure to tune into the entire episode for all the details, and great takeaways.

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Content Warning: suicide, sexual assult, rape, depression, mind control, manipulation, abuse, domestic violence, violence

In this episode the host, Kayla Nielsen, interviews India Oxenberg.

India and her mom (Catherine Oxenberg) have recently released a docuseries on Starz called “Seduced,” which outlines India’s experience in the self-help guised sex cult that is NXIVM and DOS.

In this episode, India shares about her time in both NXIVM and DOS.

She describes what drew her in, why she stayed, and how she eventually left.

India describes her mental health, and the brainwashing that occured.

Kayla draws parallels to her experience being in an abusive relationship.

India goes on to share about her recovery process, and how reliving the trauma in the court case was another trauma in and of itself.

Both women discuss mental health in relation to manipulation and mind control.

They touch on intuition, and how this area deteriorates overtime when in an abusive relationship.

India goes on to share recovery tools, people, and practices that are supporting her recovery journey.

This is a heartfelt episode you won’t want to miss.

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In this episode the host, Kayla Nielsen, interview Jas (known as The Moon Mother).

Jas guides conscious entrepreneurs to awaken their soul’s purpose through Human Design.

In this episode, Jas shares what Human Design is, and how she started learning about it.

She talks about the five types (Manifestor, Generator, Manifesting Generator, Projector, and Reflector) so that listeners can get a brief understanding.

Jas then shares more about the Authority, Strategy, Not-Self Theme, and Profile of each type.

She gives specific examples based on her chart, Kayla’s chart, and her husband’s chart as a reference point.

Jas explains the chakra system according to Human Design, and what it means for each area to be filled in or undefined.

She shares which parts of our chart can reveal different parts of ourselves, and how we can use this information to be empowered in our truth, rather than conditioned to be something else.

Above all, Jas emphasizes the point of using Human Design to come back to yourself, rather than to compare, or fit into a mold other than your own individual purpose and needs.

To learn more about Human Design, and how this intricate modality can support your mental health- make sure to tune into the full episode!

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In this episode the host, Kayla Nielsen, interviews Africa Brooke. 

Africa is a mindset coach, who specializes in helping women overcome self-sabotage, perfectionism, and playing small with her signature Expansion Program. 

She shares about her own journey with sobriety, sexuality, and entrepreneurship. 

Africa describes her fascination with the mind, and a variety of techniques she implements and uses with herself and her clients. 

This episode is incredible powerful, and will undoubtedly offer insight to people around the world. 

Make sure to tune into the full show for all the details, and to follow Africa and her work for more of her knowledge and tools.  

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In this episode the host, Kayla Nielsen, dives deep into the healing powers of Ayahuasca with Nimea Kaya co-founder, Jill Levers. 

Jill starts by sharing what Ayahuasca is, how the plant medicine works, and where it’s found. 

She goes on to share her experience with the medicine, and what brought her to Peru for the first time 15 years ago. 

Jill then explains why and how she (and her business partner) founded Nimea Kaya, a holistic healing retreat center in Peru that facilitates monthly Ayahuasca retreats for people around the world. 

She shares experiences from participants, and how this plant medicine has impacted those with both mental and physical illness. 

Jill describes the structure of the Ayahuasca ceremonies, part of the affects one might feel, and how someone should prepare before starting the retreat. 

Kayla and Jill also touch on cultural appropriation versus cultural appreciation as the Ayahuasca tourism industry has grown in the last decade. 

This is an extremely eye-opening conversation that will inevitably shed light on the healing power of plants. 

Tune into the conversation for full details!

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