Women Waken: Spiritual Healing for Trauma in Relationships to Shift from Codependency to Divine Feminine

Happy New Moon in Cancer! I hope your Cancer season/July is off to a good start. As we roll into this moon you have some beautiful opportunities to surrender and relax into your feelings and explore what makes you feel emotionally safe & secure. At this time, don’t hesitate to lay low and conserve your time and energy. You may find that you need more rest than normal when as you’re tasked with feeling your feelings & all that comes with that process. This moon invites you to reflect on who and what makes you feel appreciated, secure, and cared for and taking time to slow down & care for yourself & perhaps allow for an emotional reset.

On this Identify & Heal solo episode we explore the watery depths of today's (July 5th) New Moon in Cancer & discuss the ways to embrace the cozy crab qualities of Cancer. I also address how to utilize them to find the places where you're needing more security in your emotional body. This is an important time to take inventory of your closest relationships. Are your friendships, romantic attachments, or family members leaving you feeling nurtured or depleted? Consider who you share your energy & space with. Take time to consider this as you surrender into softness, coziness, & nurturing moments of this Cancer moon.

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We all want to learn ways to be the best versions of ourselves.  Which is why so many Women are feeling called on a journey of self-discovery so they can live the life of their dreams. For the past few years my amazing guests this week, sisters Kelly & Jessica, have been on a journey to not only absorb information from others but also to implement those strategies into life changes. It’s hard work and often overwhelming yet they want to inspire others and give them the tools so that they too can unlock their potential. Kelly & Jessica are hosts of the fabulous Chasing Brighter Podcast and are wonderful Women with beautiful & well intentioned hearts.

On this guest episode I reunite with Kelly & Jessica after being on their show a few months ago. We jump right back into an exciting and vibrant conversation around starting a journey of self-discovery, joy in midlife, finding your purpose, the importance of connection, and the power of Women exploring who they are and then creating a life around what brings them the greatest joy & fulfillment. It's a delightful exchange of Sisterhood love and lifting one another up just as the Divine Feminine always desires to do!

​Kelly leads a strategy & technology consulting firm based in Chicago. She’s perpetually immersing herself in new projects and hobbies. Kelly loves applying innovative thinking to tap into the best ways to live and thrive in our world today.

Jessica is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Henderson, NV.  She is a trained Level 1 Reiki healing and a Certified Integrative Mental Health Professional.  Jessica has been in the social work field for over 20 years.

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If you can't go around it, you gotta go through it

The unexpected events that happen during the course of our lives are not always pleasant. They can be challenging, scary, uncomfortable, devastating even. So how are we supposed to come to terms with them, walk through them, with poise and grace when on the inside we're screaming, crying, or panicking? Acceptance truly can be the answer to all our problems. If only it were easier to embrace. Yet even just little efforts to be in a place of acceptance of life just as it is, can make a huge difference.

On this Divine Feminine solo episode I share an update on my current life experiences and how they're forcing me to embrace acceptance in the face of uncertainty. This of course dovetails into how we can all begin to practice calm surrender & acceptance in small ways to be able to navigate the bigger incidents when they occur. Life is unpredictable. That's what keeps it exciting and interesting. Yet it can also lead it to it being heartbreaking and confusing. We're all on this ride together and when we take a position of surrender and acceptance it inspires others to do the same, which in turn creates greater peace overall.

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Do you ever have those days when you feel a flood of creative energy towards something unexpected? It could be something small, like running to the craft store and getting all the material you need for a vision board or to put together a photo album. Or something as big as putting together a business plan for a venture you've always toyed with yet never gone for. These experiences represent what I call Creative Valves which will periodically open up within in us and allow the emphasis of our Soul to come through with the energy of creation.

On this Identify & Heal solo episode I share my ideas around Creative Valves and how making space to explore them can make all the difference. So often we put hard and fast parameters around what we believe our focus needs to be during our days and throughout our lives. Yet the single most important thing we can do to move towards our personal growth and evolution is to honor the creative emphasis that comes through us, guiding us towards what our Soul desires to express. I explore this concept on today's episode and share some ways to allow for and explore your own Creative Valves.

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We have been taught to seek love, power, and validation outside ourselves. To radically embody love is to know the truth of who we are. To recognize we are already love, already powerful, already worthy. This requires entering the portal of our cosmic heart. My beautiful guest this week, Nasrin Barbic, has made this statement the theme and focus of her work and life. A former NASA engineer,  Nasrin has transformed into a Certified Women's Empowerment Life Coach, and Reiki Master. She helps bring Women both depth and practical wisdom to apply in their daily lives through her coaching work and as one of the host's of the Radically Embody Love podcast.

On this guest episode, Nas shares her thoughts about the power of surrendering to the flow of the universe through awareness, alignment, and intention. Together we share our experiences of trying to love and accept ourselves from the outside in and how we began to cultivate unconditional self love and regard. Nas also shares her unique journey toward spirituality and how she chose trusting her own inner guidance rather than relying on the opinions of others. 

Nasrin Barbic is the founder of Pathway to Lasting Joy LLC, she specializes in guiding professional women who sense something is amiss in their relationships or careers. Nasrin empowers them to carve out a new path with clarity and confidence, enabling them to embrace life with joy and ease.

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"The path to emotional freedom is the Hero's journey..."

Choosing to make higher choices in our life, such as releasing negative thoughts about ourselves and others and and moving into a place of faith & trust, is the path to Emotional Freedom. It also involves breaking the attachments to things outside of ourselves to determine how we feel about ourselves. This is no easy task as this is what we are taught to do. This is the value system which we've created and live by. To gain our worth from things outside of ourselves. To believe we are enough if we have enough, often discarding our inner state of being. This, of course, is backwards logic and the pathway out of this place is walked by the Heroes seeking emotional freedom.

On this Divine Feminine solo episode, I share my take on Emotional Freedom. Explaining what I consider it to be, what blocks emotional freedom and what creates it, the benefits of it, and how we begin on this path towards it. 

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Life can throw us some serious curve balls at times. Some so unique that it can be hard to feel that anyone could ever understand or that we could feel capable of moving through. Yet, if we came here to be an emotional Warrior, it's our Soul's plan to learn through challenging lessons. My guest this week, Kristina Gauthier, is one of those warriors with a very rich, powerful, and tragedy laden story. Kristina is a certified spiritual health and life coach. She thrives on creating a safe space where her clients can lean into their power and unlock their magic and medicine. Kristina guides her clients to heal their trauma and reconnect with their inner child, all while encouraging them to unapologetically speak their truth.

On this guest episode Kristina and I discuss the road through addiction that led us both to our Spiritual path, healing the Father wound, & learning to accept and celebrate all parts of ourselves. Kristina shares about being an intergenerational cycle breaker, breaking free from a lifestyle that unfortunately took the lives of both her late mother and sister. As a cycle breaker, Kristina talks about how her mission is to dive deep into the origins of her and her family's behaviors and root out unhealthy patterns. Despite facing tough challenges in lifetime , Kristina has consciously decided to work on herself and become the best version. As a result, she is using her journey to empower others to lean in, break toxic cycles and do the healing work.

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Kristina's early years were far from picture-perfect; she was born into a family with a colossal amount of trauma on both her mother's and father’s sides. Throughout Kristina’s life, her late mother struggled with her drug addiction, and her dad is a well-known Hell Angel. After years of dating abusive men, struggling with her own drug addiction, and feeling deeply insecure and unworthy of love or life, she chose to invest in herself and heal. In 2017, Kristina's late sister died of a fentanyl overdose, and that’s when everything shifted for her. Despite where Kristina
came from, she chose to lean into her darkness till she found her light and rose above the ashes, making her the first to break the cycle within her lineage. Not only is Kristina the first to break the cycle, but she's now rewriting her lineage by showing up for herself and her late sisters’ two children differently than anyone has done before. Kristina is proof that regardless of what cards you were dealt with when you choose to come home to yourself and heal your trauma, you, too, can turn your life around and create the life you’ve always desired.

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As I sat down to record on Father's day, I remembered that "Father Wound" was on my list of future solo episodes to record. So I figured today was the perfect day to check it off my list. It's a big topic with a lot to cover. So I used this episdoe to focus mostly on exploring the Father wound and offering ways to begin breaking the cycle of ineffectively trying to heal it through relationships & connections that mimics the original hurt. Which is often from our Father or another Masculine figure in our life. 

On this Divine Feminine solo episode I dive straight in to the idea behind the Father Wound, share a bit of my personal experience and wounding, and offer guidance to begin to address, heal, and move on from this wound. I then explain how we can begin stop lurking in the darkness of our deep emotional wounding and move towards the light of healthy, truthful, unconditional love. I also of course wish a very wonderful Father's Day who those who have an amazing Father who they share a beautiful relationship with. That bond is sacred and those healthy Father/Daughter connections help break generational patterns as well. 

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Alright everybody, I thought I had a pretty solid idea of how I was going to formulate this topic into an episode...yet after editing I'm not sure that it actually adds up to a cohesive thought. Hopefully it's not a totally loss and someone gets something out of it! The point I was hoping to explore is that as humans we're not one dimensional. We're multi-dimentional, complex beings that aren't always consistent in how we present in the World. And that's a good thing! On different days we may embody different personas; ambitious go-getter, reserved observer,  compassionate and nurturing presence, a wise-minded individual. The list goes on and on. Yet so often people don't feel safe to show up in different ways due to the expectations of others or the typical role that we play. With this episode I'm hoping to inspire you otherwise!

On this Identify & Heal solo episode, I do my best to share my ideas on the concept of our multi-faceted personalities and being open to embracing the many sides of ourselves that show up. That while we may have a few sides of ourselves that are most common, it doesn't mean that there aren't other parts of our persona which might want to come through now and then! On this episode I encourage listeners to ask, what are my various personalities? Are there some that I try to suppress or have fear of expressing? Embrace being a sparkling diamond with many facets to your amazing self!

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As the seasoned host of the successful Get Psyched podcast my guest this week, fellow therapist Lindsey Locke, has a lot to say about working towards a healthy lifestyle. In fact, she has worked extensively as a fitness coach which is actually how I came to find out about her as she previously worked at a substance abuse recovery center. This focus on the body & mental health naturally led Lindsey towards incorporating a holistic mind, body, and emotion approach in her work helping clients live a non-toxic lifestyle.

On this guest episode, Lindsey shares with us about how she has worked towards secure attachment and healing her own attachment style. As someone who always felt like "one of the guys" and really leaned into her masculine, Lindsey had to learn to slow down, receive, and surrender which were all BIG practices for her. She also speaks on reworking her own stories around love, IFS/parts work she's done to reparent and love her inner-child, and how that's shown up in her past relationships and led her ultimately to her current relationship with her fiance. 

Lindsey is a registered associate therapist. Having spent well over a decade in the health/wellness and fitness space, Lindsey approaches the body, mind, soul, and spirit in her work with clients. With a Master's degree in Holistic Counseling Psychology, Lindsey aims to address the whole person, their stories, the parts of them they are proud (and not so proud) of, unearth patterns that once kept that person safe, but are no longer serving them, and help clients move toward healing. 

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