Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  What if the way you see yourself is influencing everything—and everyone—around you? My next guest, Deborah DiMiceli, author, speaker, founder of Esteem Academy, and author of Trading Mirrors, believes we each carry an inner mirror—a reflection of who we think we are, what we deserve, and how we believe the world sees us. And that mirror shapes how we show up: in our choices, our relationships, and how we see and treat others. Drawing from psychology, neuroscience, storytelling, and lived experience, Deborah invites us to trade the mirrors that limit us for ones that reflect possibility. But her mission goes beyond self-esteem. At a time when we are increasingly digitally connected yet emotionally disconnected, Deborah is building a movement around kindness, empathy, belonging, and human connection. In this episode of Your Healing Playground, we explore what happens when we change the way we see ourselves—and then look again at one another. Change the mirror. Change the ripple. 5 Key Takeaways The inner picture you carry of yourself may have been shaped by childhood experiences, criticism, and rejection, but it is not necessarily an accurate reflection of who you are. Grief can become a pathway to purpose when you allow love for the person you lost to inspire meaningful action in the world. Anger does not have to consume you, as it can be transformed into clarity about your values and motivation to create something different. Lasting change begins beneath positive affirmations by examining the beliefs and emotional blocks that prevent you from recognizing your worth. Surrounding yourself with people who see both who you are and who you are becoming can help you express your gifts more freely and create a ripple of kindness for others. Deborah DiMiceli is a movement builder and lifelong student of human potential whose work blends science, storytelling, and emotional intelligence. Her fascination with human behavior led her to study psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and complexity science. She translates the findings into practical, accessible programs through Esteem Academy, Kindness Culture, and her identity-shifting methodology, Trading Mirrors. Deborah helps individuals and organizations move past self-doubt and see themselves honestly. Drawing on over a decade of research and a lifetime of lived experience, she builds cultures of belonging, confidence, and possibility. https://www.esteemacademy.life/ Your Healing Playground: How Play, Pleasure, and Connection Unlock Your Body's Power to Heal   Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith   Amazon.com – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1997615347 Amazon.ca – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1997615347   ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~  Dr. Tina Koopersmith is an Integrative Medicine and Fertility Specialist, Transformational Healer, Speaker, Author, and Coach with more than 30 years of medical experience. She empowers people to move beyond symptom management by addressing the true roots of healing—energy, emotions, communication, and the mind-body connection—helping them reclaim vibrant health, purpose, and vitality. Passionate about transforming healthcare from a focus on illness to one of prevention and wellness, Dr. Tina inspires individuals to embrace self-care, self-love, and the wisdom of their own bodies. Through her compassionate and innovative approach, she helps people shift from surviving to thriving, unlocking the healing power that comes from safety, connection, acceptance, and living fully in the present.      DrTinaPlays.com   https://drtinaplays.com/    Email   [email protected]    YouTube   www.youtube.com/@DrTinaPlays    LinkedIn   www.linkedin.com/in/dr-tina-koopersmith-13585823/    Instagram   www.instagram.com/drtinaplays/    Facebook   www.facebook.com/tina.koopersmith/       TikTok   www.tiktok.com/@drtinakoopersmith Your Healing Playground with Dr Tina Koopersmith: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/your-healing-playground-dr-tina-koopersmith/

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  Healing From the Inside-Out: How to Release Trauma, Awaken to Pleasure What if pleasure isn't just a reward for healing—but a pathway to healing itself? Join me on Your Healing Playground Podcast with Sacha Fossa, sex, intimacy, and wellness educator, Erotic Blueprint Coach™, and founder of Sacred Temple Arts. With over 20 years of experience in holistic healing, Sacha invites us to explore how reconnecting with our bodies, releasing old patterns, and awakening our sensual and erotic energy can open the door to deeper intimacy, self-love, and embodied wholeness. Because healing isn't just about letting go of pain. It's about reclaiming our capacity to feel pleasure, connection, and the joy of being fully ALIVE! Come PLAY with us! To Your Overall, Intimate & Erotic, Health, Wellness, Pleasure, Embodied Education, Empowerment & Expansion!  5 Key Takeaways Healing can involve more than talking about the past, especially when difficult experiences continue to live in the body and nervous system. Sacred sexuality is not simply about sex, but about bringing presence, reverence, and connection into your relationship with your body and everyday life. A fulfilling intimate life begins with learning what helps you feel safe, connected, energized, and at home within yourself. Understanding your love language, attachment style, and personal pathways to pleasure can help you communicate your needs more clearly. Making room for pleasure and play can support relaxation, deepen self-connection, and remind you that healing can include feeling fully alive. Sacha L. Fossa: Sex, Relationship, Intimacy & Wellness Coach & Educator Holistic Healing Arts & Therapies Practitioner MA in Health Arts & Sciences Erotic Blueprint Coach™ Advanced Certified Tantric Educator™ Certified Sex Educator Choose Pleasure As A Way Of Life! & As A Pathway To More Consciousness! Explore Sacha's work: https://sacredtemplearts.com/ Your Healing Playground: How Play, Pleasure, and Connection Unlock Your Body's Power to Heal   Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith   Amazon.com – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1997615347 Amazon.ca – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1997615347   ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~  Dr. Tina Koopersmith is an Integrative Medicine and Fertility Specialist, Transformational Healer, Speaker, Author, and Coach with more than 30 years of medical experience. She empowers people to move beyond symptom management by addressing the true roots of healing—energy, emotions, communication, and the mind-body connection—helping them reclaim vibrant health, purpose, and vitality. Passionate about transforming healthcare from a focus on illness to one of prevention and wellness, Dr. Tina inspires individuals to embrace self-care, self-love, and the wisdom of their own bodies. Through her compassionate and innovative approach, she helps people shift from surviving to thriving, unlocking the healing power that comes from safety, connection, acceptance, and living fully in the present.      DrTinaPlays.com   https://drtinaplays.com/    Email   [email protected]    YouTube   www.youtube.com/@DrTinaPlays    LinkedIn   www.linkedin.com/in/dr-tina-koopersmith-13585823/    Instagram   www.instagram.com/drtinaplays/    Facebook   www.facebook.com/tina.koopersmith/       TikTok   www.tiktok.com/@drtinakoopersmith Your Healing Playground with Dr Tina Koopersmith: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/your-healing-playground-dr-tina-koopersmith/

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  IMPACT: I Matter. You Matter. We ALL Matter. Lessons from Kenya on Abundance, Gratitude & the Power of Presence I traveled to Kenya hoping to make an IMPACT. I returned realizing how profoundly Kenya impacted ME. From courageous students sharing their voices to conversations about second chances, menstrual equity, gratitude, and the richness of human connection, I was reminded that IMPACT is a two-way street. What does it mean to make an IMPACT? I — INSPIRE through interconnectedness M — MATTER. I matter. You matter. P — PRESENCE. Transform pain into purpose and power. A — ACTIVATE your superpowers. Acknowledge, accept, and achieve. C — CONNECT with care, compassion, and curiosity. T — TUNE IN. TURN ON. TRUST. Join me on Your Healing Playground Podcast as we explore how to live with greater abundance, gratitude, and intention. 5 Key Takeaways Living authentically begins with noticing whether your choices come from your own inner alignment or from the expectations and voices of others. Caring for yourself includes the fundamentals of rest, hydration, nourishing food, movement, time outdoors, and activities that genuinely restore your energy. You do not need a large platform to make an impact, because a sincere conversation, encouraging word, or moment of presence can influence someone’s life. Painful experiences can become sources of purpose, creativity, and wisdom when you acknowledge what happened without allowing the old story to define you. The more you accept and celebrate who you are, the more energy you have to connect, contribute, and create a life that feels fully alive. Your presence is a present. Your presence matters. And sometimes the greatest impact we make is allowing ourselves to be impacted by others. Your Healing Playground: How Play, Pleasure, and Connection Unlock Your Body's Power to Heal   Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith   Amazon.com – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1997615347 Amazon.ca – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1997615347   ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~  Dr. Tina Koopersmith is an Integrative Medicine and Fertility Specialist, Transformational Healer, Speaker, Author, and Coach with more than 30 years of medical experience. She empowers people to move beyond symptom management by addressing the true roots of healing—energy, emotions, communication, and the mind-body connection—helping them reclaim vibrant health, purpose, and vitality. Passionate about transforming healthcare from a focus on illness to one of prevention and wellness, Dr. Tina inspires individuals to embrace self-care, self-love, and the wisdom of their own bodies. Through her compassionate and innovative approach, she helps people shift from surviving to thriving, unlocking the healing power that comes from safety, connection, acceptance, and living fully in the present.      DrTinaPlays.com   https://drtinaplays.com/    Email   [email protected]    YouTube   www.youtube.com/@DrTinaPlays    LinkedIn   www.linkedin.com/in/dr-tina-koopersmith-13585823/    Instagram   www.instagram.com/drtinaplays/    Facebook   www.facebook.com/tina.koopersmith/       TikTok   www.tiktok.com/@drtinakoopersmith Your Healing Playground with Dr Tina Koopersmith: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/your-healing-playground-dr-tina-koopersmith/

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  What if the storms of life aren’t only here to knock us down—but can also teach us how to grow deeper roots? My next guest, Heather Trojan, understands that we are not separate from nature. We are nature. And just like nature, our lives have seasons. Sunshine. Rain showers. Thunderstorms. And sometimes hurricanes. Heather has weathered her share—from benign tumors to cancer, metastatic disease, and the storms that come when the people we love are struggling. Through it all, she has returned again and again to the practices that help her stay centered, grounded, aligned, and fully alive—mind, body, and spirit. Today, Heather is cancer-free and has been off cancer medications for several years. Her story isn’t a prescription or a promise; it’s an invitation to explore what helps us remain rooted when life feels anything but predictable. In this episode of Your Healing Playground, Heather shares the tools she uses to weather life’s storms, deepen her roots, trust herself and life—and somehow remain a ray of sunshine, even when it’s pouring. Because we may not get to choose the weather. But we can learn how to meet it. 5 Key Takeaways When facing uncertainty, return to the present moment and focus on what you can choose, appreciate, and act upon today. Informed health decisions can include medical evidence, thoughtful research, professional guidance, and your own knowledge of your body. Difficult emotions need to be acknowledged and felt, because suppressing them is not the same as healing or moving forward. Reading and learning can open the door to change, but transformation happens when knowledge becomes a consistent lived practice. You do not need a huge audience or universal agreement to matter, because positively affecting even one person is meaningful. Heather Trojan - I am one enerGy with the world - a spiritual BEing having a human experience. This perspective has guided me through a myriad of life's classrooms, including systemic education, transformative health and wellness coaching, and navigating cancer twice. Throughout my JOurneY, I've come to view life as a series of classrooms. In each one, I live by Robert Frost’s profound mindset: "I am not a teacher, but an awakener." I use my experience in life, education, and health coaching to help others navigate their own human JOurneYs. By guiding humans to align their mind-body, spirit, and soul, I emPOWER them to achieve their highest good - because all life is an enerGy rising together. https://gemtek.company/   Your Healing Playground: How Play, Pleasure, and Connection Unlock Your Body's Power to Heal   Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith   Amazon.com – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1997615347 Amazon.ca – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1997615347   ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~  Dr. Tina Koopersmith is an Integrative Medicine and Fertility Specialist, Transformational Healer, Speaker, Author, and Coach with more than 30 years of medical experience. She empowers people to move beyond symptom management by addressing the true roots of healing—energy, emotions, communication, and the mind-body connection—helping them reclaim vibrant health, purpose, and vitality. Passionate about transforming healthcare from a focus on illness to one of prevention and wellness, Dr. Tina inspires individuals to embrace self-care, self-love, and the wisdom of their own bodies. Through her compassionate and innovative approach, she helps people shift from surviving to thriving, unlocking the healing power that comes from safety, connection, acceptance, and living fully in the present.      DrTinaPlays.com   https://drtinaplays.com/    Email   [email protected]    YouTube   www.youtube.com/@DrTinaPlays    LinkedIn   www.linkedin.com/in/dr-tina-koopersmith-13585823/    Instagram   www.instagram.com/drtinaplays/    Facebook   www.facebook.com/tina.koopersmith/       TikTok   www.tiktok.com/@drtinakoopersmith Your Healing Playground with Dr Tina Koopersmith: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/your-healing-playground-dr-tina-koopersmith/

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  What if the person who takes care of everyone else is slowly disappearing? Raised in the Bronx by a devoted single mother, Dr. Makeba learned empathy, responsibility, excellence, and service early. She became the protector, confidante, and helper — what she now calls the “original chief of staff.” Those gifts served her well. Until giving became depletion. Because success at the expense of your body, spirit, joy, and sense of being fully alive may look impressive from the outside — but feel empty on the inside. Then Reiki opened another door. Dr. Makeba realized that the gifts she had spent decades bringing to leadership — seeing what others couldn't, holding complexity, and guiding people forward — were also part of her spiritual calling. Today, through her Soul Bloom Method™ — Unearth, Clear, Center, Empower, Align, Bloom — she helps leaders, caregivers, and changemakers move from depletion to grounded, soul-led leadership. In this episode of Your Healing Playground, we explore the hidden cost of always being the strong one — the helper, fixer, caregiver, even the savior — and what happens when we stop giving from obligation and begin giving from overflow. Because you cannot sustainably pour life force into everyone around you while abandoning yourself. 5 Key Takeaways A physical challenge or persistent inner nudge can become an invitation to explore what is happening beneath the surface and discover a new sense of purpose. Trusting your intuition also requires discernment, grounding and the willingness to pause long enough to recognize where the guidance is coming from. Spiritual awareness, love and holistic healing can be brought into healthcare and corporate leadership without abandoning strategy, structure or practical action. Workplace wellness cannot depend entirely on individual self-care because policies, leadership behaviours, communication and organizational culture must also support people’s well-being. Strategic self-love means creating a clear vision for your life and intentionally making time for meditation, rest, intimacy and the practices that help you thrive. Join us for a conversation about leadership, healing, energy, self-love, and succeeding without sacrificing your soul. Dr. Makeba Morgan Hill is a Keynote Speaker, Leadership & Culture Strategist, and 4x Amazon bestselling author with more than 25 years of executive experience across healthcare, higher education, and philanthropy — whose work sits at the intersection of executive leadership, spiritual intelligence, and whole-person wellness. Through her signature Soul Bloom Method™, she guides high-responsibility humans and mission-driven leaders back to clarity, power, and peace — helping them move from depletion, stress, and self-doubt to leading, serving, and living with unshakable trust in themselves and their path. https://drmakeba4love.com/begin Your Healing Playground: How Play, Pleasure, and Connection Unlock Your Body's Power to Heal   Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith   Amazon.com – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1997615347 Amazon.ca – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1997615347   ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~  Dr. Tina Koopersmith is an Integrative Medicine and Fertility Specialist, Transformational Healer, Speaker, Author, and Coach with more than 30 years of medical experience. She empowers people to move beyond symptom management by addressing the true roots of healing—energy, emotions, communication, and the mind-body connection—helping them reclaim vibrant health, purpose, and vitality. Passionate about transforming healthcare from a focus on illness to one of prevention and wellness, Dr. Tina inspires individuals to embrace self-care, self-love, and the wisdom of their own bodies. Through her compassionate and innovative approach, she helps people shift from surviving to thriving, unlocking the healing power that comes from safety, connection, acceptance, and living fully in the present.      DrTinaPlays.com   https://drtinaplays.com/    Email   [email protected]    YouTube   www.youtube.com/@DrTinaPlays    LinkedIn   www.linkedin.com/in/dr-tina-koopersmith-13585823/    Instagram   www.instagram.com/drtinaplays/    Facebook   www.facebook.com/tina.koopersmith/       TikTok   www.tiktok.com/@drtinakoopersmith Your Healing Playground with Dr Tina Koopersmith: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/your-healing-playground-dr-tina-koopersmith/

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  What if menopause isn’t an ending—but an evolutionary invitation? This week on Your Healing Playground, I’m joined by Dominique Debroux to explore the new documentary WISE WOMEN — Humanity’s Untold Origins and its provocative reframing of menopause, aging, feminine wisdom, and women’s leadership. What if the qualities historically dismissed as “too emotional,” intuitive, spiritual, or even abnormal contain another kind of intelligence we are only beginning to understand? And what becomes possible when science and ancient wisdom stop competing and start becoming curious about one another? Perhaps the first half of a woman’s life asks her to create life. The second half may ask her to help create the world. 5 Key Takeaways Menopause is not a disease, an accident of nature or the end of a woman’s relevance, but a natural transition into a new phase of wisdom and leadership. Wise Women: Humanity’s Untold Origins explores how postmenopausal women may have helped shape human evolution through leadership, social connection and the sharing of knowledge. Women’s health research becomes stronger when medicine, anthropology, evolutionary biology and women’s lived experiences are brought into the same conversation. Menopause support is not one-size-fits-all and may include hormone therapy, nonhormonal treatments, nutrition, movement, sleep and other individualized approaches. Midlife is not a deadline for everything you hoped to create because there are still years ahead to build, contribute, lead and become someone new. Dominique Debroux is a producer, entrepreneur, and nutritional chef whose work bridges storytelling, science, and women’s empowerment. She produced 40 Weeks and the new documentary Wise Women – Humanity’s Untold Origins, reframing menopause as the evolutionary foundation of female leadership. Through her film, food ventures, and advocacy, she champions women’s vitality and visibility in midlife and beyond. Your Healing Playground: How Play, Pleasure, and Connection Unlock Your Body's Power to Heal   Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith   Amazon.com – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1997615347 Amazon.ca – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1997615347   ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~  Dr. Tina Koopersmith is an Integrative Medicine and Fertility Specialist, Transformational Healer, Speaker, Author, and Coach with more than 30 years of medical experience. She empowers people to move beyond symptom management by addressing the true roots of healing—energy, emotions, communication, and the mind-body connection—helping them reclaim vibrant health, purpose, and vitality. Passionate about transforming healthcare from a focus on illness to one of prevention and wellness, Dr. Tina inspires individuals to embrace self-care, self-love, and the wisdom of their own bodies. Through her compassionate and innovative approach, she helps people shift from surviving to thriving, unlocking the healing power that comes from safety, connection, acceptance, and living fully in the present.      DrTinaPlays.com   https://drtinaplays.com/    Email   [email protected]    YouTube   www.youtube.com/@DrTinaPlays    LinkedIn   www.linkedin.com/in/dr-tina-koopersmith-13585823/    Instagram   www.instagram.com/drtinaplays/    Facebook   www.facebook.com/tina.koopersmith/       TikTok   www.tiktok.com/@drtinakoopersmith Your Healing Playground with Dr Tina Koopersmith: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/your-healing-playground-dr-tina-koopersmith/

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  Are you ready for an adventure? This Monday, Dr Tina sits down with Cat Caldwell Myers to discuss how to turn your life into an adventure. Cat made a decision to live an adventure and rather than follow the rules, she made her own rules, her own guidelines and chose to follow her dreams. From moving cross country, writing books, producing her own podcasts and speaking on many others--it seems she has a mission to ensure everyone chooses to live their life--their way.  Furthermore, she reminds us about the healing power from our equine friends-- the HORSE. Their hearts are huge and that energy can truly lift not just our spirit but help nurse people back to feeling much better--The first time I met her--she reminded me that when you ride a horse--you are not sitting in the saddle but RIDING the horse, moving your muscles, and literally engaging your entire body in the moment. If sitting is the new smoking, then perhaps horseback riding is the next 5K. Cat Caldwell Myers helps women own their voice, embrace their bodies, and express themselves through taking one adventure at a time. Cat is a Horse Adventure Coach who teaches healthy lifestyles with animals through podcasting. Her podcast, The Adventure Paradox, is  in the top 3% of all podcasts. She lives near Jackson Hole, WY. Cat is a jack of all trades--but perhaps, I should say jockey of all trades. An avid nature lover, and equine professional, she is a coach, speaker, podcaster and author--not to mention mom! Her book reminds us that adventures can be invented and designed by anyone--Your life is lived here and now, life is the journey --even if that dream includes a destination. She coaches people on how to dream and design your personal adventure, she reaches many through her podcasts--both interview style and monologue words of wisdom. She will get you out of your seat, and into the saddle to grab the reins of your life and head into the direction you have always dreamed of going. https://www.theadventureparadox.com/ 5 Key Takeaways Life itself is the adventure. The real adventure is not a single mountaintop experience but how you choose to live and show up every day. Your energy reveals more than your words. “Horse sense” is described as recognizing the energy beneath what someone says—the difference between what you claim to be and what you actually embody. Faith still requires action and preparation. Trusting that you are following the right path does not eliminate the responsibility to prepare, respond, and take care of what is within your control. Your dream is allowed to change. Transformation can reveal that what you originally thought you wanted was pointing you toward a deeper desire or an entirely new dream. Be present while allowing the future to unfold. You can hold a bigger vision while appreciating where you are today and allowing the timing, path, and details to evolve. *Listen now on the Inspired Choices Network app!  https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/links/ Your Healing Playground: How Play, Pleasure, and Connection Unlock Your Body's Power to Heal   Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith   Amazon.com – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1997615347 Amazon.ca – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1997615347   ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~  Dr. Tina Koopersmith is an Integrative Medicine and Fertility Specialist, Transformational Healer, Speaker, Author, and Coach with more than 30 years of medical experience. She empowers people to move beyond symptom management by addressing the true roots of healing—energy, emotions, communication, and the mind-body connection—helping them reclaim vibrant health, purpose, and vitality. Passionate about transforming healthcare from a focus on illness to one of prevention and wellness, Dr. Tina inspires individuals to embrace self-care, self-love, and the wisdom of their own bodies. Through her compassionate and innovative approach, she helps people shift from surviving to thriving, unlocking the healing power that comes from safety, connection, acceptance, and living fully in the present.      DrTinaPlays.com   https://drtinaplays.com/    Email   [email protected]    YouTube   www.youtube.com/@DrTinaPlays    LinkedIn   www.linkedin.com/in/dr-tina-koopersmith-13585823/    Instagram   www.instagram.com/drtinaplays/    Facebook   www.facebook.com/tina.koopersmith/       TikTok   www.tiktok.com/@drtinakoopersmith Your Healing Playground with Dr Tina Koopersmith: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/your-healing-playground-dr-tina-koopersmith/

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  CHOICE is the space between what happens to us and what we create next. Sometimes life brings us to enormous crossroads—leaving a community, marriage, career, country, belief system, or identity—and sometimes choice lives in the tiny decisions we make every day: Do I stay with what is familiar or step toward the unknown? Do I wait to be happy, or participate fully in my life today? Change can bring fear and excitement, grief and freedom, loss and possibility—all at once—and rather than rushing past those sensations, we can feel and metabolize them as part of becoming who we are next. We cannot control everything that happens to us, but we can keep asking: Where is my agency now? What am I choosing FOR? Who do I want to be from here? CHOICE becomes a practice: Consciousness, Home, Optimism, Intuition, Creator, and Energy/Eros—coming home to ourselves, listening to our inner knowing, choosing from our values, and following the energy that reminds us: I am still here, I am alive, and I get to participate in what comes next. 5 Key Takeaways Choice is a practice that creates your life. Becoming more conscious and intentional about your words, thoughts, and responses allows you to actively shape your reality. You cannot control everything, but you can choose your response. Taking responsibility for how you respond moves you from reacting to consciously creating. Challenges can become opportunities for growth. Obstacles and difficult experiences can be approached with curiosity and used for transformation rather than reinforcing a victim story. There is space between what happens and how you respond. Slowing down, becoming curious, and choosing your response can change both your experience and your interactions with others. Life is created one choice at a time. You may not choose what happens around you, but you can continually choose how you respond, what you believe, and who you become. Your Healing Playground: How Play, Pleasure, and Connection Unlock Your Body's Power to Heal   Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith   Amazon.com – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1997615347 Amazon.ca – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1997615347   ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~  Dr. Tina Koopersmith is an Integrative Medicine and Fertility Specialist, Transformational Healer, Speaker, Author, and Coach with more than 30 years of medical experience. She empowers people to move beyond symptom management by addressing the true roots of healing—energy, emotions, communication, and the mind-body connection—helping them reclaim vibrant health, purpose, and vitality. Passionate about transforming healthcare from a focus on illness to one of prevention and wellness, Dr. Tina inspires individuals to embrace self-care, self-love, and the wisdom of their own bodies. Through her compassionate and innovative approach, she helps people shift from surviving to thriving, unlocking the healing power that comes from safety, connection, acceptance, and living fully in the present.      DrTinaPlays.com   https://drtinaplays.com/    Email   [email protected]    YouTube   www.youtube.com/@DrTinaPlays    LinkedIn   www.linkedin.com/in/dr-tina-koopersmith-13585823/    Instagram   www.instagram.com/drtinaplays/    Facebook   www.facebook.com/tina.koopersmith/       TikTok   www.tiktok.com/@drtinakoopersmith Your Healing Playground with Dr Tina Koopersmith: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/your-healing-playground-dr-tina-koopersmith/

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  What if the parts of ourselves we cannot see are influencing everything we can? This week on Your Healing Playground, I sit down with Amanda Huddleston, Stanford-educated scientist turned energetic guide, master coach, and founder of Soul of We. Amanda works with high-functioning leaders, entrepreneurs, couples, mamas, wayshowers, and deeply feeling humans to create what she calls embodied coherence—a felt alignment between body, mind, heart, behavior, relationships, and our deepest sense of self. ✨What does energy healing actually mean? ✨Can we honor science while remaining curious about what science cannot yet fully explain? ✨What happens when the mind says one thing, the body feels another, and the soul seems to be asking for something entirely different? ✨And how do we bring all of these parts back into relationship with one another? Amanda describes herself as a Soul Virtuosa, Energetic Guide, and Lover of Life—and has been described by others as “an angel with muddy boots.” I love that image: grounded in the real world while willing to explore the sacred, subtle, and unseen. Together we explore Amanda’s journey from science to energetics, the meaning of embodied coherence, and how she helps people create transformations that can sometimes feel a little like magic. Because perhaps healing isn’t always about becoming someone new. Perhaps it’s about coming back into alignment with who you already are. Your Healing Playground with Amanda Huddleston Amanda Huddleston is a Stanford-educated strategist, Soul Virtuosa, Master Practitioner, field-shifter, and creator of Soul of We Coherence Energetics™. She works with high-functioning leaders, creators, and deeply feeling humans who have already done the work — the therapy, the books, the breathwork, the meditation — and still find themselves against a ceiling. What moves in her presence tends to move quickly. Bodies integrate what they have been bracing against for years. Leaders access clarity they have not been able to find by any other means. Women who have been carrying more than anyone knows finally set something down. People become more free and connected to something they had quietly stopped believing was available to them. Amanda is Faculty at the Coherence Institute and a leader at Warrior Sage, where she is currently co-launching Warrior Sage Women alongside Suzanne Raja, creator of The Secrets of the Well-Loved Woman™. Having walked through her own fires, she meets people in theirs — bringing both the sacred and the real to the moments where something true is ready to emerge. She lives in Austin with her beloved Steven and their family, devoted to loving fully and living what she teaches. https://soulofwe.com/ 5 Key Takeaways Your body and energy field are constantly communicating. Greater awareness of both can create new possibilities for healing and greater coherence. Your body knows where energy is available. Paying attention to how your body responds can reveal where there is resistance and where there is greater flow. Go where there is energy first. Connecting with the future can provide the energy and fuel needed to address what is unresolved in the past. Feel the future before trying to create it. Imagine what you want and experience how it will feel before beginning the work of changing your current reality. Greater attunement creates greater options. Tuning into the energy and spaciousness within and around you can change how you connect with yourself and others. Your Healing Playground: How Play, Pleasure, and Connection Unlock Your Body's Power to Heal   Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith   Amazon.com – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1997615347 Amazon.ca – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1997615347   ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~  Dr. Tina Koopersmith is an Integrative Medicine and Fertility Specialist, Transformational Healer, Speaker, Author, and Coach with more than 30 years of medical experience. She empowers people to move beyond symptom management by addressing the true roots of healing—energy, emotions, communication, and the mind-body connection—helping them reclaim vibrant health, purpose, and vitality. Passionate about transforming healthcare from a focus on illness to one of prevention and wellness, Dr. Tina inspires individuals to embrace self-care, self-love, and the wisdom of their own bodies. Through her compassionate and innovative approach, she helps people shift from surviving to thriving, unlocking the healing power that comes from safety, connection, acceptance, and living fully in the present.      DrTinaPlays.com   https://drtinaplays.com/    Email   [email protected]    YouTube   www.youtube.com/@DrTinaPlays    LinkedIn   www.linkedin.com/in/dr-tina-koopersmith-13585823/    Instagram   www.instagram.com/drtinaplays/    Facebook   www.facebook.com/tina.koopersmith/       TikTok   www.tiktok.com/@drtinakoopersmith Your Healing Playground with Dr Tina Koopersmith: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/your-healing-playground-dr-tina-koopersmith/

Your Healing Playground - Dr. Tina Koopersmith  This Monday on Your Healing Playground Podcast, I’m sitting down with Natalie Kabenjian—pole dancer, sensual movement artist, Erotic Blueprint™ coach, and fellow champion of ALIVENESS. Natalie and I met through our Erotic Blueprints coaching certification and immediately discovered a shared mission: helping humans get out of their heads and back into their bodies—moving beyond judgment, shame, and endless thinking to actually feel and embody life. After leaving an emotionally abusive relationship and navigating profound self-doubt and suicidal thoughts, Natalie found her way back to herself through movement, sensuality, dance, and authentic expression. Today she helps others reconnect with their Eros—their life-force energy—discover their needs, wants, desires, YESes and NOs, and find the courage to voice them. We’ll talk about pole dancing, pleasure languages, boundaries, celebrating mistakes, trying things we might not be good at, and what becomes possible when we stop performing life and start FEELING it. Because aliveness isn’t something you think your way into—it’s something you embody. Natalie Kabenjian (aka the Dragon Queen and MAD Mage of Mischief) is a pole artist, embodiment teacher and relational intimacy guide, who has nearly a decade of experience supporting people of various walks of life to inhabit their bodies, becoming more tuned in and turned on to themSelves. Natalie is the founder of Pole with Soul™️; home to the newly opening Awakened Animal: School of Sensual Sourcery & Embodied Intimacy and the transformational somatic movement brand Freek Flow, where through Pole Dance, Somatic Movement and Erotic Embodiment Practices, she ignites high achieving humans who are stuck and disconnected in their sensuality and sexuality to feeling fully alive and sExpressed within their own skin. She is considered by her students and colleagues alike to be the 'whole f*cking package.'; a raw & real permission slip for you to embrace the depths of yourself & your Authentic Aliveness. She is known to be a Magician when it comes to reading the body & helping you access emotions & deeper truths lodged within, unleashing yourself to even bigger self-expression, love & worship. Natalie is all for arousing you to feel so wet & hard for your life; well-fed, well f*cked, & liberated in your Human Artistry. Aliiiiive in all that makes you, YOU. For “it’s all here for your Pleasure.” https://linktr.ee/nataliekabenjian 5 Key Takeaways Your body is constantly communicating with you. Presence begins by slowing down enough to notice what your body actually needs and feels. Breath is the doorway back into your body. Connecting with your breath builds presence, safety, and the capacity to experience sensation. You can expand your capacity to feel. Learning to stay present with anger, sadness, joy, and pleasure allows a greater range of emotional and physical expression. Movement can challenge perceived limitations. Building presence and trusting the body can reveal abilities and confidence you didn't know were possible. Feeling safe in your body creates greater freedom. When you stop shrinking or running from sensation, you can become more fully present in your life, relationships, and experiences. Your Healing Playground: How Play, Pleasure, and Connection Unlock Your Body's Power to Heal   Author Dr. Tina Koopersmith   Amazon.com – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1997615347 Amazon.ca – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1997615347   ~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~  Dr. Tina Koopersmith is an Integrative Medicine and Fertility Specialist, Transformational Healer, Speaker, Author, and Coach with more than 30 years of medical experience. She empowers people to move beyond symptom management by addressing the true roots of healing—energy, emotions, communication, and the mind-body connection—helping them reclaim vibrant health, purpose, and vitality. Passionate about transforming healthcare from a focus on illness to one of prevention and wellness, Dr. Tina inspires individuals to embrace self-care, self-love, and the wisdom of their own bodies. Through her compassionate and innovative approach, she helps people shift from surviving to thriving, unlocking the healing power that comes from safety, connection, acceptance, and living fully in the present.      DrTinaPlays.com   https://drtinaplays.com/    Email   [email protected]    YouTube   www.youtube.com/@DrTinaPlays    LinkedIn   www.linkedin.com/in/dr-tina-koopersmith-13585823/    Instagram   www.instagram.com/drtinaplays/    Facebook   www.facebook.com/tina.koopersmith/       TikTok   www.tiktok.com/@drtinakoopersmith Your Healing Playground with Dr Tina Koopersmith: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/your-healing-playground-dr-tina-koopersmith/