Your Practical Magic

In 2005, our guest Catherine Varino’s first child was born early and before she could even process that experience, she had to evacuate her home in New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina. 

Catherine shares how that double whammy set her on the path to discover the deep but gentle healing potential of Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT), part of the energy psychology world.

AIT accesses trauma in the chakras to deeply clear both current and past traumas, and most uniquely, the connection between the two! By focusing on the chakras, the results are proving to be long-lasting and far-reaching.

Listen for the powerful takeaways you can start using today as you continue to navigate through this unforgettable year.

Disclaimer: Everything we share here is for educational purposes. We are not providing medical, psychiatric, or psychological advice or treatment. Please seek out professional help immediately if you're experiencing any serious psychological or psychiatric conditions.

We dig into the stories that color our reality and how to self-treat the anxiety, stress, depression or anger that sometimes stems from it. You’ll walk away with a very easy and instant exercise you can do at home as you practice your awareness around your thoughts.

We're rePLAYing this episode because, let’s face it, we still have some pandemic, political and personal mountains to climb and our primitive brain doesn’t know the difference between actual danger vs perceived danger. This friendly conversation and our regular YPM Dose to try at home will be just what you need to hear.

Noreen also deflates FEAR and shares what’s standing behind it: “False Evidence Appearing Real.”

Disclaimer: Everything we share here is for educational purposes. We are not providing medical, psychiatric, or psychological advice or treatment. Please seek out professional help immediately if you're experiencing any serious psychological or psychiatric conditions.

This one's inspired by Gennifer’s article about professional ghosting, published on Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global. You may find this relevant if you are struggling with job loss right now, but a big chunk of this episode talks about fear and how to move through it.

We share some easy tips and your YPM Dose to help you reclaim your power with our :30 energy brush and automatic writing. Gennifer also shares the story behind the photo she uses as a reminder to return to her truest self.

Disclaimer: Everything we share here is for educational purposes. We are not providing medical, psychiatric, or psychological advice or treatment. Please seek out professional help immediately if you're experiencing any serious psychological or psychiatric conditions.

Co-hosts, Noreen and Gennifer, are joined by Carla Blaha, Psychic Medium to talk about the different “Clairs,” (the ways we receive intuitive information through sight, sound, touch, taste and smell).Carla offers fascinating facts and anecdotes about how each of the various “Clairs” works for all of us. 

You’ll hear YPM superfan Beth share a powerful example with her moving story of the message she received when “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by The Rolling Stones played on the radio. Carla receives her own healing and breakthrough revelation upon listening to Beth’s story.

 

Disclaimer: Everything we share here is for educational purposes. We are not providing medical, psychiatric, or psychological advice or treatment. Please seek out professional help immediately if you're experiencing any serious psychological or psychiatric conditions.

Co-hosts Noreen and Gennifer interview each other about the different paths and training we’ve taken to become professional healers. We talk about early childhood moments when we became aware of our special gifts, the unique events that put us on our paths and the types of things we’d like to learn more about in our future. 

This light-hearted behind-the-scenes look at our Practical Magic education is sure to inspire you to follow your curiosity too.

In this episode, E.J. reveals a recent fragile realization that she has to make a difficult but necessary change in her life in the name of self-care. With great honesty, she shares her experience of accepting how much she can take on and moves from our co-host to a guest and contributor. 

We go through the many ways women, in particular, have a more challenging time putting ourselves first and saying no to people, projects and things that are draining, damaging or no longer serving us even when it doesn't feel right.

We also share ways to recognize and respect your own internal voice and the tools you need to identify and clear your blocks gently so you can forge a new path forward with guilt-free confidence, clarity and lots of compassion.

 

Disclaimer: Everything we share here is for educational purposes. We are not providing medical, psychiatric, or psychological advice or treatment. Please seek out professional help immediately if you're experiencing any serious psychological or psychiatric conditions.

The Dose featured in our Toxic Positivity episode is a session between Noreen & Gennifer using Byron Katie’s The Work. We found it so cool and insightful that we created a bonus episode featuring the full session. Give it a listen, we think you’ll love it — but we’re not pushing our positivity on to you, we promise! 

 

Disclaimer: Everything we share here is for educational purposes. We are not providing medical, psychiatric, or psychological advice or treatment. Please seek out professional help immediately if you're experiencing any serious psychological or psychiatric conditions.

Is too much positivity a bad thing? We learned that it sure can be. In this episode, we discover the term Toxic Positivity as well as how, when and why we hosts have perpetrated it, ya know, a few times in our lives. Gennifer has an aha moment — she might be enlisting her sunnyside personality to repel anything that triggers negative emotions. Wait, doesn’t that sound pretty good?Not so fast. We set out on a quest to find acceptance and embrace the beautiful truth behind “Yeah, that sucks!"

 

Disclaimer: Everything we share here is for educational purposes. We are not providing medical, psychiatric, or psychological advice or treatment. Please seek out professional help immediately if you're experiencing any serious psychological or psychiatric conditions.

We’ve all weathered weeks of quarantine, and we're focusing on resilience! We turned to our friend Jill, who runs a small company — 6 staffers plus 4 freelancers — because when the country’s shutdown took most of her business with it, she was faced with the choice to panic or persevere.

As Jill shares, all her personal pursuits and her commitment to self-care kept her out of panic and guided her pivot. Her state of being kept her open to inspiration and creativity, which led to new solutions that have her staff super-busy instead of worried. She talks about how moving out of her normal fear/anxiety mindset freed her up to think clearer and see the possibilities. 

We hope listening will help inspire new ways to make lemonade when you’ve got a surplus of lemons.

 

Disclaimer: Everything we share here is for educational purposes. We are not providing medical, psychiatric, or psychological advice or treatment. Please seek out professional help immediately if you're experiencing any serious psychological or psychiatric conditions.

As the world continues to shift and realign, we’re all working on finding our new footings. Yet, at Your Practical Magic, we’re still focused on how to reduce reactivity to life’s challenges.

In this episode, we’re talking about money and how to begin the transformation from seeing money as a scary green monster wielding overwhelm and panic to just another energetic vibration to interact with — and integrate — to add to life’s abundance.

We each found that the deepest wealth and success came from trusting that our experiences prepared us deep within to stand strong when old patterns and financial hardships challenged us to grow. That’s the reallocation we’re invested in!

Disclaimer: Everything we share here is for educational purposes. We are not providing medical, psychiatric, or psychological advice or treatment. Please seek out professional help immediately if you're experiencing any serious psychological or psychiatric conditions.