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Episode 156: 5 Effective Ways To Shift Your Mindset From Drained & Disheartened to Confident & Hopeful w/ Amanda Kingsmith on Matcha Mornings

Today you’re going to hear an interview like none other that you’ve heard on the Curious Monki before. That’s because today I’m the one getting interviewed! Instead of asking the questions, I’ll be answering them!

This episode is actually a re-publishing of the interview that I did on the Matcha Mornings podcast hosted by Amanda Kinsgsmith.

I wanted to share it here with you because it’s relevant to the exploration of energy that I’ve been doing lately. 2020 has been a handful and no doubt many of us are feeling drained and exhausted.

Last week you heard from Shamanic Healer, Kara Hanks 155: Essential Knowledge About Protecting Your Energy - A Shamanic Healer’s Guidance , and the week before that you heard from psychic medium Rebecca Gibson 149: Are You An Empath? How To Protect, Clear and Optimize Your Energy w/ Rebecca Gibson.

In this episode, I share with you what I know about creating more energy into your life. As I’ve said before, energy is your most important commodity. When you’re feeling drained and exhausted, it doesn’t matter how much time, money or friends you have because you won’t have any energy to enjoy it.

Here’s the perspectives in terms of mindset:

The thoughts you think most of the time can give you energy to create the life you want or it can drain you keep you tight in a bud. If you keep your energy clear, you’ll live to your fullest potential.

"Whether you think you can, or think you can't you're right" - Henry Ford.  If what you think is true, spend you energy on the thoughts that will bring you closer to the life that you want.

Grab and journal & a pen to follow along as I show you 5 ways to believe that you can do it. Each tool gets progressively deeper into the subconscious mind where our habits and deeply embedded thought patterns are stored.

Topic Summary:

• 5 ways to create a healthy, energizing mindset

• The subconscious mind and the role it plays in our thought patterns

+ Key Nuggets (Click here)

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5 Effective Ways To Manage Your Mindset So You Have The Energy To Create The Life You Want

1. What is your body telling you - is what you’re thinking a true or a lie?

2. Choose to think better thoughts

3. Dissolve energy draining thoughts by disproving them

4. Use a metaphor to access difficult problems that you otherwise wouldn’t be able to talk about

5. Align yourself to how you want to feel

Remember, the thoughts you think most of the time can give you energy to create the life you want or it can drain you keep you tight in a bud. Choose to spend your energy on the one that brings you closer to the life you desire!

Links:

Checkout Amanda Kingsmith’s podcasts, all hosted under her podcast network, WanderBarn:

Website: https://wanderbarn.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wanderbarn/

The episode that I did for Matcha Mornings: Tools for Shifting Your Mindset During COVID-19 with Veronica Thai

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Resources:

Episodes mentioned in this podcast:

Episode 28: Mastering the Business of Yoga: Three Key Items You Need To Succeed with Amanda Kingsmith

Episode 128: Feeling Crappy? A Simple Coaching Tool To Improve Your Mindset In Minutes with Amber Goodenough

Episode 149: Are You An Empath? How To Protect, Clear and Optimize Your Energy with Rebecca Gibson

Episode 155: Essential Knowledge About Protecting Your Energy - A Shamanic Healer’s Guidance with Kara Hanks

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Episode 155: Essential Knowledge About Protecting Your Energy - A Shamanic Healer’s Guidance with Kara Hanks

The exploration of energy continues!

Energy is your most important commodity. When you’re feeling drained and exhausted, it doesn’t matter how much time, money or friends you have because you won’t have any energy to enjoy it.

There’s a vast array of strategies to help you manage your energy ranging from the foods you eat (chaga mushrooms, gogi berries, elixirs…) to boosting your mindset (that’s my work as a life coach), to the energetic realm (frequencies, vibrations, empaths…).

Today, we get to learn about energy from Shamanic Healer and teacher, Kara Hanks.

Kara helps people explore, understand and tap into their limitless selves and experience a life from their hearts and souls. She helps them understand the wisdom in their life stories, how to integrate the energy of those lessons and live a life beyond their imagination.

In this episode, we hone into the “energy” part of what Kara does. She teaches us the importance of understanding who we are from an energetic standpoint and how to use this knowledge that everything is a bunch of vibrations and frequencies to help us manage our energy better.

Topic Summary:

• Energy from a Shaman’s point of view

• How to increase your energy

• How to protect your energy

• How to break energy cycles

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Episode 149: Are You An Empath? How To Protect, Clear and Optimize Your Energy with Rebecca Gibson

Energy is your most important commodity. When you’re feeling drained and exhausted, it doesn’t matter how much time, money or friends you have because you won’t have any energy to enjoy it.

There’s a vast array of strategies to help you manage your energy ranging from the foods you eat (chaga mushrooms, gogi berries, elixirs…) to boosting your mindset (that’s my work as a life coach), to the energetic realm (frequencies, vibrations, empaths…).

In this episode, you’ll learn about energy from the perspective of the energetic realm.

Rebecca Gibson, Spiritual Strategist and Psychic Medium, teaches us about empaths and how to manage your energy (whether you’re empathic or not).

In short, empaths are people who are so attuned to other people’s energies that they absorb what others are feeling emotionally and/or physically. For example, if a friend is sad and worried, you won’t just feel bad for them (sympathy) or just understand what they must be going through (empathy). You will actually feel the sadness and the worry (empath). This might also happen for physical pain like if somebody is sick or has a sore knee. If you’re an empath, you can actually feel it.

Most relevant for 2020 is that if you’re an empath, you might feel the continually transpiring world events weighing down on you. Maybe you’ve experienced unexplained dampening of your energy or maybe even bouts of sadness that leave you drained.

This all happens on a spectrum and maybe you feel it a little or maybe you feel it a lot. But when you don’t know that you’re an empath, you’re susceptible to getting bogged down and not be able to do anything about it because you don’t know what you don’t know.

Well, now you know ;)

We also dive into the deep layers of what it really means to be an empath and how to use it for the superpower that it is.

Oh! And I learned a new term - spiritual hygiene. I love that term and it really helps me better understand how to take care of my energy. I’m really excited for you to learn about it too because it makes all of this stuff feel more second nature and easy.

In specific, you will learn:

• Traits and signs to help you know if you’re an empath

• How energy exchanges cause empaths to feel drained

• What to do about the fact that empaths who are disconnected from themselves and operate through ego might attract toxic situations into their lives

• What you need to know about how empaths help bring others back to the frequency of love

• *How to protect your energy so that you don’t absorb what you don’t want

• Not only that, but how to get MORE energy

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Episode 142: Quick Guide To Intuitive Eating - Using Food To Deepen Your Inner Connection with Rachel Tu

Our relationship with food has become more complex than it needs to be. There’s a plethora of diets out there and even more information about what you should eat. One day eggs are good for you and the next they’re not. It’s confusing!

What’s even more confusing is that each diet restricts different things. The restricted foods are usually deemed as “untouchables” (I’m thinking about my good friend bread - completely refined carbohydrates….I love you so much).

But what if you lived in a world where you give yourself permission to eat whatever you want? Chips and chocolate cake are no longer synonymous with guilt. It’s not “indulgent” or “sinful” to have rich desserts.

Stay with me here. What I’m about to propose next is pretty radical…

Also, WHAT IF allowing yourself to eat whatever you want can even deepen your spiritual practice? Like, Cheetos can help with your spiritual growth??

Hey, I’m happy to live in a world where I get to hangout with bread whenever I want and not feel bad for it. I probably won’t eat it everyday but even just having the option to feels liberating.

Cue in this amazing thing called Intuitive Eating. Apparently spiritual Cheetos can become a reality!

I’m so glad to have Rachel Tu on this episode because she teaches us how Intuitive Eating works and how to initiate it into our lives right away.

Rachel is a busy new mom, registered dietitian, yoga teacher and creator of Food, Flow, Thought. She has worked in community health care for over 5 years and is passionate in helping others find food freedom and heal their body image to help decrease the prevalence of eating disorders. She integrates yoga in her counseling through her training and research in trauma-informed yoga, Yoga Nidra and embodied yoga.

In this episode Rachel teaches us about what Intuitive Eating is and how it can help deepen our mindfulness, yoga and spiritual practice. The cool thing about Rachel is that Food, Flow, Thought is her side hustle. This woman is an inspiring example of how you can totally love your day job and also branch off to create something to express a different side of you without having to choose on over another. We get to hear her story of how she landed in a place where she’s so in love with everything that she does.

This one’s a great one! It can also make you feel super good about eating bread or chocolate cake so what are you waiting for? Grab the earbuds and listen in!

Topic Summary:

- How can you know that the work you’re doing is aligned to what you’re meant to do?

- Connection between mindfulness, yoga and intuitive eating

-What is intuitive eating and how can it help us live more joyfully

- Intuitive eating vs. mindful eating

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Episode 141: How To Stop Emotional Suffering with Amber Goodenough

We met wellness coach, Amber Goodenough , in Episode 128 where we showed you a powerful tool that can help you completely change your mindset so that you can stop feeling crappy.

Today we have her back on the show! She shares her story of how she ended up becoming a wellness coach and the health journey that changed her perspective on life.

She’s experienced her fair share of physical and mental pain and because of that, she’s become quite adept at dealing with pain.

This all brings us back to the Byron Katie tool that we were showing you last time! Byron Katie is a profound spiritual teacher and her tool, The Work, helps you feel profoundly better.

As we said last time, when you experience dissatisfaction, pain or hardship in life, you’re suffering. More often than not, the dissatisfaction, pain or hardship isn’t coming from the circumstance, it’s coming from the stories we’re telling ourselves about the circumstances

(ex. circumstance - my cat ran away

but we might make up a story about that - my cat ran away because he hates me. Everyone hates me and runs away from me…even my furry friend. See how this story creates unnecessary suffering? How in the world do you know for sure that, that’s why the cat ran away?)

Suffering from the stories that we tell ourselves is called emotional suffering and The Work can help alleviate it.

The only thing is, it took me a minute to understand how to use it. I had so many questions about it and needed a deeper understanding before I was ready to dive in….

How could it be so simple? Aren’t we lying to ourselves if we try to pretend that something that bothers us doesn’t? Sounds kind of like an emotional bypass. And how about when other people are involved - do you just let them off the hook for lying/yelling/or otherwise breaking your boundaries?

That’s why we dive deeper into The Work in this episode and offer up another demo. These questions might be rolling around in your head too so I wanted to help you get a better sense of The Work.

This tool is free, you can use it on yourself and there’s even free resources and more info on Byron Katie’s website.

There is something to be said about being guided through it though. If you are experiencing emotional suffering and want help with it, both Amber and I offer complimentary intro coaching sessions.

Topic Summary:

- How did Amber become a wellness coach?

- How can our thoughts cause emotional suffering?

- How does The Work really work? (is it a bypass for actually dealing with a situation? how could it be so simple?)

- Demo of coaching tool for problem: urgency to get everything done faster. Exhausting to always have to rush.

Resources:

Byron Katie offers tools for The Work for free on her website thework.com

JOIN a free online community for you to find support and connect with like minded people to create heart-centered living.

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Episode 140: Veronica Get's Coached On "There's Never Enough Time!!" with Olena Gisys (3rd Interview)

We’ve finally made it!  After detouring with an episode on perfectionism (that’s well worth your time to listen btw), fellow life coach Olena Gisys is back for the third and final episode of this incidental mini series. 

In this episode, we show you, for a second time, how to use your home to deal with your problems. Listening to it a second time will help you get a better hang of using it on yourself.

Olena coaches me this time. My problem is feeling like time is moving too fast.

What happens is that I plan to do way too much which usually leaves me feeling like there’s not enough time!  Using the Living Space Tool, I was able to look at the problem without becoming completely overwhelmed. 

Ready to try this on yourself too? Grab a journal and pen to follow along!

PS. We also offer up a couple of BONUS tools that you might like to try on.

Topic Summary:

- How to use your home to help you deal with your problems

- Veronica gets coached “there’s never enough time”

- Outcome of coaching: are you being too hard on yourself?

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Olena and I started a new podcast together! Follow us on instagram and click on bio link to listen @by_podcast

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Episode 139: Ditch Perfectionism. 3 Supertips To Stop Worrying About What Others Will Think with Olena Gisys with Olena Gisys (2nd Interview)

Perfectionism is when you're gripped by the feeling of having to do more and/or having to do it right. 

There's no room for failure and there's an illusory set of high standards that you'll probably never meet. You’re never going to meet them because one of the foundations of perfectionism is the fear of not being good enough. So no matter how extraordinary your outcomes are, it’ll still feel like it’s not enough.

The other foundation of perfectionism is the fear of not being lovable.

Ultimately both fears’ fear ( a mouthful there) is rejection.

In order to avoid rejection by others (especially the ones we love), we strive to be, well, perfect. To say, do, look and act the “right” way. We may even tell ourselves that this behavior helps us become a better person and that’s how got so far in life in the first place.

What a lie! The truth is that perfectionism is self-destructive and it holds you back from being your true self in the world.

Also, before you decide that you're not a perfectionist, think again.  We all have perfectionist tendencies - even if it's just for a small part of our lives. Become aware of it so that you can choose to act differently rather than have it reign over you.  

Today fellow coach Olena Gisys is back to help us better understand perfectionism and gives us tips to stop worrying about what other people will think (will they judge me?  will they reject me?...) so that we can just be ourselves (*sigh of relief*)

Topic Summary:

- How do we end up becoming perfectionists?

- How to stop letting these feelings of “never enough” hold us back

- Making the shift from bettering ourselves because we’re ashamed of our shortcomings to a place where we’re bettering ourselves for healthy achievement

- 3 tips to stop worrying about what others think

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Olena and I started a new podcast together! Follow us on instagram and click on bio link to listen @by_podcast

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Episode 138: What Does Your Home Say About You? An Unexpected Coaching Tool That You Can Use To Access Your Subconscious Mind with Olena Gisys (1st Interview)

People reveal themselves in everything that they create, including the home that you live in. From the color of your walls to how you keep your bathroom - your living space is a reflection of your inner life.

This is a coaching episode where I'm joined by Confidence Coach, Olena Gisys. We teach you a coaching tool that you can use on yourself to access your subconscious mind and find answers to a problem that you're stuck on.

This tool is especially useful for when something feels wrong in your life but you can't pinpoint exactly what's causing the crappy feeling.

We also talk about how perfectionism holds you back, what life coaching really is, how it's helped us along our journeys.

Topic Summary:

- How can life coaching help you achieve your goals

- How do you know when you need a life coach versus a therapist?

- How perfectionism holds you back

- Tool (living space tool) to help you access your subconscious mind and find the answers that you need

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Episode 137: A Playful Way To Reveal Your True Self with Erica Buchholz

Laughter Yoga Teacher and fellow life coach, Erica Buchholz, is all about play nowadays but that's only because she she got sick (quite literally as well as metaphorically) of living the uptight academic life.

In this episode Erica tells us how she was able to transform from a rigid life to one of laughter and play.

We also teach you a fun tool that you can use on yourself to access your subconscious mind and solve limiting thought patterns that keep you stuck.

In between we take pit stops at:

- Getting more play into your life

- What is this whole life coaching thing anyway

- What you need about finding the right coach for you

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REsources:

Erica offers free laughter yoga sessions every Tuesday morning. You can sign up at www.becomingplayful.com

Episode 131 & 132: A Place To Rest

If you're exhausted, confused, anxious or otherwise feeling stretched (maybe even beyond your limits) here is a place to rest.

Not to avoid responsibility or to shy away from the dark places but to come back to your heart. To reconnect with your anchor - that place within you of ever present stillness, clarity and peace.

It’s not possible to create loving new perspectives with a heart that’s closed. 

An open heart is needed for creation, change, new perspectives, and peace.

It has always been an open heart that has created the kind of massive loving change that elevates us as human beings.  The type that inspires us to be kinder, more patient, more compassionate and to be more easily able to recognize the light within ourselves and in others.

Here’s a place to rest so that you can approach your issues with an open heart and learn, be and do more effectively.

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Episode 128:Feeling Crappy? A Simple Coaching Tool To Improve Your Mindset In Minutes with Amber Goodenough

When you experience dissatisfaction, pain or hardship in life, you’re suffering. More often than not, the dissatisfaction, pain or hardship isn’t coming from the circumstance, it’s coming from the stories we’re telling ourselves about the circumstances.

It’s emotional or psychological suffering.

Example: You go on a bad date. Now you’re convinced that you’ll be alone for the rest of your life.

Circumstance: you went on a bad date.

Suffering: the story that you created for yourself about being alone forever.

It’s not that the circumstance isn’t true or painful - maybe it was a reallllly bad date - but the stories make it worse. Meaning that oftentimes we create unnecessary suffering for ourselves.

Cue in life coaching! Coaching is all about challenging the thoughts and stories that we tell ourselves so that we can reach a better state of well being. We become happier and feel more in control of our response to life because we see the circumstances for what it is. The scary stories don’t get to be on autoplay anymore. You get to decide what meaning you’d like to make of it.

Today I'm joined by a fellow coach, Amber Goodenough, and we talk all things coaching.

- What does life coaching help with anyway?

- How can you know if a coach can help you?

We share a tool with you that you can use on yourself to relieve any emotional grief or suffering that you're experiencing - from self doubt to overwhelm to judgement and shame. 

Topic Summary:

- How does life coaching help?

- How to know when you need a life coach

- Byron Katie’s The Work

- Demo of coaching tool for problem: life plans got derailed because of COVID-19. Amber was going to move to her favorite city but now that’s on hold. Dealing with the grief and disappointment of it.

Resources:

Byron Katie offers tools for The Work for free on her website thework.com

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Episode 126 BITE SIZED: 3 Tools To Save You When Everything's Falling Apart (1st Phase Of Transformation)

Today we go deeper into the first phase of Martha Beck's Change Cycle: Square 1 Death and Rebirth. 

The Change Cycle, created by life coach and author, Martha Beck, depicts the phases that we go through for every major change.

Phase 1 is when everything seems to be falling apart. Your old way of life crumbles around you

and while it might feel like chaos, it's the first step to transformation.

There’s relief and validation when you can understand what you’re going through. Once you know what the heck is happening then you can take the right action.  I give you 3 tools/advice on how to move through this phase with more ease.

Topic Summary:

- What happens in the first phase of transformation

- 3 tools to help you through this tumultuous phase

Resources:

If you haven't listened to the first episode of the Change Cycle yet, listen here.  I give you an overview of all 4 phases.

Other episodes referenced:

Ep 118: Press Pause (to help you with presence)

Ep 119: Presence Is The Path To Peace (to help you with presence)

Ep 104: Using Story to Heal + Transform Your Life with Anjanette Fennell (to help you understand Hero's Journey)

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Episode 125 BITE SIZED: Making Sense of Challenges - Get Through Difficult Times With More Ease

Challenges can feel scary because they throw a wrench in our plans and test us on what we think we know (are you really happy in your relationship? can you really stay in your comfort zone forever? is being the big fish in a pond that you don't like really better than being a small fish in a brand new pond?). 

It breaks down the current systems in which you work and pushes you to try on new perspectives.  A new way of living - a new way of being in the world.

One of the scariest parts of a challenge - whether it be a breakup, leaping for a dream, or say a pandemic like Covid-19 (which is what 2020 is going to be known in history for)…, is the uncertainty.  You really don’t know what’s going to happen.  Will you be alone forever?  Will you fail miserably and lose everything? Will the world be the same after this?

What if you could reduce the level of anxiety and number of sleepless nights caused by uncertainty?

Actually, you can! There’s relief and validation when you can understand what you’re going through.

In this episode, I share with you the Change Cycle - a process created by life coach and author, Martha Beck. It depicts the phases that we go through for every major change. Even a pandemic.

When you realize that feeling confused and formless is just part of a bigger picture you get a bit of relief. And when you know that each phase is part of a transformation that’s taking place within you, it doesn’t seem so hard. You know that there’s an end and not only that, you can take relevant action to move through each part with more ease.

This pandemic of Covid-19 is uncharted territory but the process is the same. Knowing this process will help you navigate the odd new terrain of the pandemic as well as any other challenging times that you may come across in your life.

I’ll go into more depth and give you useful for each phase over the next few Bite Sized episodes.

Topic Summary:

- Phases of The Change Cycle:

• Breakdown of something in your life

• Imagining a new way of being

• Creating a new life and new identity

• Living, transformed, in a way that you could’ve never imagined as your old self

Resources:

Referenced in this episode:

Episode 104: Using Story to Heal + Transform Your Life with Anjanette Fennell

Join the 8 Week Coaching Program to help you Reconnect With The Possibilities Within You

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Episode 122: How To CHOOSE A Meaningful and Intentional Life with Meghan Pherrill

“I’ve been given this opportunity to live and it’s my duty to find goodness in it and to actually do something with it”

Meghan Pherrill an international yoga and meditation teacher as well as the host of the Balance Your Life podcast; a podcast designed to inspire and empower you to begin and maintain your yoga, health and wellness journey.

She’s an international retreat leader and teaches locally in her home country of Canada. When she isn't doing all things yoga you can find her sitting on a beach, counting her crystals, or reading.

My first interaction with Meghan was so energizing! She’s got this bubbly, energizing, no nonsense attitude that’s so easy to appreciate. What I liked most about her was her outlook on life - she’s ever so grateful for what life has brought her and she’s so FULL of life herself!

It’s surreal to think that she was once an OCD, anxiety ridden, depressed and suicidal person. I’m honored to have her on this episode to share her story of being in such pain to becoming the life filled person that she is today. Meghan shares all that she’s learned about living a meaningful and intentional life, starting with how you need to start by choosing it. When she decided that she didn’t want to be that miserable person anymore, things started to change. The journey after that was about doing the things that helped her feel better everyday.

Topic Summary:

- How Meghan shifted from a life of OCD, anxiety, depression and addiction to a life full of contribution and joy

- Every single day is a choice

- How to choose the things that create a meaningful life for you

Resources:

Checkout the podcast I did with Meghan on her podcast, Balance Your Life - How to figure out what you want in life with Veronica Thai

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Episode 120: How To Do More Of What You Love with Amanda McKinney

“ Not everyone is going to like you but once you identify who you are, people respond to that.  Basically, the more you are you, the more confident you become”

Our guest today is a marketing coach as well as a fellow yoga teacher and podcaster. Today is all about inspiration and actionable exercises to figure out what you actually want to be doing (aka. what your passion is) and how to do more of it.

But first, an introduction…

Amanda McKinney  has a passion for empowering yoga teachers to earn more money doing what they love.

She does this through her podcast: Marketing Yoga With Confidence and Online Membership. Both focuses on building confidence and community with an extra dose of encouragement every step of the way.

Before working with yoga teachers, Amanda graduated from the University of Florida with her Masters in Marketing and then spent almost 10 years in international corporations.

She eventually created her own business…only to find that it felt lackluster and not very satisfying. In this episode she shares with us how she went from not really enjoying her business into creating one where she loves every single project and every single client.

She had to take some leaps and make some hard choices, but ultimately she kept following what she actually liked doing and found more of it in her life.  This isn't just applicable to owning a business or your career.  This is something to apply to your entire life so that you can wake up everyday excited about what you've filled it with!

Plug in those earbuds and start listening so that you can start doing more of what you love!

Topic Summary:

- Exercises and tips for discovering what you enjoy doing

- Exercises and tips for doing more of what you enjoy doing

- Choosing the things that feel true to you

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Yoga Classes Online:

As mentioned in the episode, I’m offering Live Online Yoga classes on YouTube Live. Sign up here to be notified about upcoming classes: www.veronicathai.com/yogaonline

Resources:

Listen to my episode on Amanda’s Podcast, Marketing Yoga With Confidence.

Episode 24: How To Market Yourself Using Your Energy

Episode 119 BITE SIZED: Presence Is The Path To Peace

Bite Sized episodes is where I go deeper into a subject.  In this episode, I elaborate on presence and mindfulness.

Presence is the root of yoga philosophy, spiritual teachings and all other self help.  Tools that stem from these teachings all basically show you how to maintain presence and mindfulness in various ways.

I would even go as far as to say that maintaining a practice of moment-to-moment awareness (presence) is even more foundational than self-love.

Maybe it sounds like a radical statement to you but think about it - you need some level of awareness in the first place to even be able to recognize the negative emotions arising within you. And then a great sense of presence to hold the space so that you can sit with the shame/judgement/guilt/worthlessness (name your poison) while maintaining a sense of love.

Being in presence helps you navigate difficult emotions like uncertainty, make better decisions and ultimately be in peace. It’s also a practice that we need to consistently practice.

In this episode, I share with you what I’ve learned about presence from a variety of teachings including The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, life coaches like Martha Beck and spiritual teachers like Eckhart Tolle.

Of course, the practice part of it is always most challenging so I also share with you a few of my favorite ways to get into a sense of presence.

Topic Summary:

- What is presence and mindfulness

- Connection of presence from the world of yoga, coaching and spirituality

- Tools and techniques to get into a state of presence

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Episode 117: Using Yoga To Get Through Challenging Times with Nichole Hines

“ Keep doing the work to stay connected the universe, god….faith. Stay grounded especially when times were good”

Why do you practice yoga?

While the path of yoga ultimately leads to the union with our oneness (true nature), the journey there is as colorful as the flora and fauna of this Earth.

Yoga may mean different things at different times in your life - maybe at one point practice because it’s a good stretch and at another you want to press your body to new limits. Still, as your practice evolves you may move away from asanas (postures) altogether and become interested in the mindfulness and meditative part of the practice.

Sometimes, circumstances like a difficult challenge shifts your intention for practicing.

Today’s episode is a story of how yoga helped one woman through one of the toughest challenges of her life.  In 2011, Nichole Hines’ young daughter was diagnosed with leukemia.  Life as she knew it changed in the blink of an eye and the following year became about chemo, relapse and the children’s hospital.

Nichole Hines shares with us her journey, how her yoga practiced helped her stay anchored as she not only took care of her daughter but also run two businesses at the same time.  Nichole shares with us her lessons learned on how to get through challenging times and her insights about human connection, faith, letting go and giving back.

This episode is so relevant right now because we’re all experiencing a challenging time worldwide.  Nichole says “when you connect with others, you’ll find that your story isn’t so different from theirs”.  I hope you find connection in this story.  Happy Listening!

Topic Summary:

- Letting go/surrendering

-Staying grounded through challenging times
-Insights about how to move through challenging times

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Episode 116: Let Your Soul Lead They Way. Ego, Forgiveness + Manifesting with Rebecca Gibson

This is a jam packed episode with Rebecca Gibson who worked as a mental health nurse for 20 years before stepping into her work as a psychic medium and Spiritual Strategist. It’s fascinating to learn about her story of coming into her own spiritual health - she always had her psychic senses but learned to shut them down because they were not well accepted. Going against who she really was took its toll on her health and through a number of pivotal events, she started to do the work that was calling out to her.

Today, she helps people align to their soul and transform their lives

I have SO many questions for her!! Which is why this episode is jam packed. We talk about spiritual health and how to let your soul lead the way, being energetic beings, manifestation, forgiveness and gratitude. All with the intention of understanding ourselves at a deeper level.

This is a thrilling and eccentric episode! Plug in your earbuds and let’s go!

**As excited as I am about this episode, we touch on some heavy stuff like forgiveness of abuse. I invite you to take what resonates and leave what doesn’t. If you’re not ready for this episode yet, then no worries. Leave it and it’ll be here for when you are ready <3

Topic Summary:

- Spiritual health is about letting the soul lead the way but how do we know what comes from ego and what comes from soul?

- On an esoteric level, we're energetic beings - frequencies and vibrations....but what do we do with that information?  How do we use it to our benefit?

- How does the knowledge of the first two points help us manifest the lives that we desire?

- The energy of gratitude and forgiveness.  How forgiveness leads to soul alignment and better manifestations

Resources:

• ho'oponopono prayer/meditation for forgiveness

• Heal For Free documentary on Gaia TV

• EFT Tapping

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Episode 115: A Yoga Story. Lessons of Self-acceptance, Worthiness and Dealing With Difficult Emotions with Cory Angel

I don’t think I’ve said this enough lately:

This journey is your own but you’re not alone

We’re interconnected beings, each living our own unique stories with many points along the way in which we can connect and relate to each other.

It’s like we’re an Earth sized venn diagram, each person’s journey is a circle and various pieces of our experiences overlap with others’. Each story interwoven one way or another, held together with the common threads of human experience.

The human experience being the vast array of emotions that we feel - love, hope, despair, anger, fear, compassion, acceptance, peace….

In this episode, hospice nurse and yoga teacher, Cory Angel shares the story of her Yoga journey. She shares the benefits that she got from yoga including how her practice has helped her through injury, grief, perfectionism and ultimately changed the way she sees the world.

What I like most is that Cory is a wizard at bringing her lessons from the mat and into real life!

As she says, “Who you are on the mat is who you are in real life”

Listen in and see where your own story might connect with hers!

Topic Summary:

• Learning to take what you need “what do I need right now?”

• Slowing down

• Taking lessons from the mat and into real life

Resources:

Mentioned in this episode was Episode #40 with Melanie Klein: Body Image and Yoga [RE: When me and Cory were talking about feeling safe in your physical body)

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