Causing Friction

It feels so good to do a solo episode, WOW I MISSED YOU ALL! I thought I would give an update now that it has officially been 1 month since I packed my things and moved to Medellin, Colombia. Remember 5 months when I recorded an episode saying something big & life changing was about to happen? That I couldn't explain what or why but my gut was telling me my life was going to change.. well yeah.. it has. Or has it?

1 week away from 2022 and all I have to say is what the heck was that!? This week's episode is all about saying goodbye to 2021 and goodbye to old ways of doing things. We all are trying to achieve optimal productivity and want 2022 to start off on the right foot... but what does productivity even mean to you? How can it mean something different to each person? And how do we change our habits of procrastination, shift our focus and truly change our mindset around the value of TIME? because isn't that what productivity all comes down to? Valuing our time?

Amanda Rose is BACK! Amanda describes herself as "a Modern Astrologer, Movement & Breathwork Instructor and Intuitive Guide." This week's episode, Amanda assess my natal birth chart, breaks down each touch point, each house and explores both the high and low road of each path. You are so much more than you moon, sun and rising sign. Natal birth charts can help you to discover…

• Your individual conscious and subconscious motivators and personality traits
• Discover how you appear to the world and what your souls truest aspirations are
• Decode your relationship dynamics, love language, career and job destiny
• Learn to understand your challenging and opportunistic cycles that you may experience throughout your life
• Gain an in depth understanding of any karmic loops you may be experiencing in this lifetime and how to get yourself out of it to accelerate your ascension path

Amanda's website is HERE:  www.mindfulmagickmethod.com 

THE NEWS IS FINALLY OUT!!! Season 2 is starting off with a bang.. I finally interview my partner and we discuss our relationship, how it has developed over the years, the way that we fight/tackle problems, the sense of adventure that we LOVE in our relationship and most importantly we dive into why we are moving to Medellin, Colombia.

1 WHOLE YEAR!? EXCUSE ME!? How did I get here? Celebrating 1 year of this podcast, reflecting on how I have grown, who I am becoming and where the heck is season 2 headed... be on the look out for maybe a website, maybe a newsletter, maybe some BETTER special guests and maybe an international move...

This week we are discussing the easiest way to connect or reconnect with your partner. VALIDATE THEIR FEELINGS. That is it. It really is THAT simple. I walk through the steps of how to first see how you may be invalidating your partner then teach you some phrases to use, when your partner is experience a big emotion, to ensure they feel seen and heard. 

Short and sweet! This week's episode is about why we need to forgive those who didn't say sorry, who didn't apologize and why it isn't about them, but it is about US. How do we reach this level of peace and healing? How do we forgive the person who hurt us the most? Tune in and find out. 

This week's episode is all about to regulate your emotions and what to do when a BIG feeling is coming on. This mindfulness practice teachers us to process, accept, articulate and how to not be reactionary. We also touch on how to have your heart and head working in harmony, instead of fighting each other.  

This week's episode was HIGHLY requested. Everyone wants to learn how to be more confident, how gain more confidence.. but what I am here to tell you is that you already ARE confident. That confidence is already inside of you and in order for it to flourish, you need to let go of shame, slow down and get back to the present moment.

The average person will spend 90,000 hours at work over a lifetime. You deserve to wake up, every single day, excited about what lies ahead. You deserve to wake up and know that the career, job, or hobby you devote your time & energy to, is for YOU. That it aligns with your values, that it brings you joy and that it ultimately leaves your soul feeling fulfilled. Cultivating a spiritually conscious career is incredibly important whether you considered yourself a spiritual person or not. It just means you are actively choosing yourself; your happiness, your peace, and your overall well being over the modern day hustle & grind that has been glamourized or engrained in us by older generations. This week's episode I explain that you need to find your "pull", you need to find what sets your soul on fire and never look back.

Next up in the Mindfulness Foundations series, I go back to the basics with the question "how can I add mindfulness into my daily routine?". I walk you through the 6 easiest ways you can incorporate mindfulness into your routine so that you feel more confident, grateful and even more connected with your true authentic self on a daily basis. 

This week's episode took a TURN! A turn for the better.. not for the worse. This went the typical "3 things I wish I knew when I was younger", to "why didn't I question this sooner?". From questioning family members intentions to questioning my sexuality, to questioning why the heck no one taught me how to do taxes...from surface level why's about recycling to deep why's about our messed up system punishing marginalized communities, I covered it all. This episode is a wild ride. 

This episode we dive into the topic of how to make friends with your ego and how it totally kills your vibe and even could be pushing the people you truly need, out of your life. Like most characteristics or behaviors, your ego is also developed in childhood. Any harm or wounds that happened to you, as a kid, forced you to build walls as an adult and that is what your ego is made out of today. Your ego continues to adapt and develop everyday the more that you are tuned in to self-focused attention. Learn how to detach, become vulnerable and greet your ego with gratitude to live more peacefully. 

I am SO happy to announce that I am opening up my 1 : 1 mindfulness coaching for 2 individuals ONLY who are ready to stop living on autopilot, want  to tune-in with their emotions and learn how to become more self-aware. If you work with me, you will not only get access to the podcast early, as well as personalized resources, you also will learn about yourself and develop the mindset you need to live your life a little bit lighter and a whole lot more peacefully through implementing mindfulness daily to unlearn negative thought patterns and behaviors. Send me a DM right now on Instagram, claim your spot before it’s gone! I cannot wait for you to join me on this mindfulness journey, and I feel so lucky that we get to grow, together. 

BONUS EPISODE: Beauty guru & IG queen who recently has been using her platform to open up, be more vulnerable about the truth behind being an influencer gives us the inside scoop on the affect being a full-time influencer has on her mental health. I brought Jess on the podcast to discuss the highs and lows of the influencer career, the imposter syndrome we all seem to face no matter the career choice and how Jess implements mindfulness to get past insecurities to reach her full potential as a successful entrepreneur. 

So happy to have collaborated with @KARMA.MIND meditation for this week's special episode which is the second installment of the Mindfulness Foundations series! Before Mieke takes over, I dive into the top 7 misconceptions of meditation. Meditating is intimidating. Who can sit still for 20 minutes straight and not have a single thought!? How is that even possible? Join myself and Mieke as we put your mind at ease, reassuring you that having thoughts during meditation is normal, and that the power of meditation is to let them flow freely without shame or guilt. I invite you to stay until the very end where a guided meditation will help you implement everything you learned in this week's episode. 

Check out more of Karma Mind's meditations on her Instagram @karma.mind

This episode is all about high-functioning anxiety and depression. We all have that one friend that comes to mind, when we think of "the strong one". The one who is RESILIENT and no matter how many times they get knocked down, they get back up. They are the over achievers, the positive ones. They always just seem okay... well I am here to sadly tell you that they probably aren't. So we, as a society, discredit happy people as not having problems. As not ever struggling! Their life seems great, they seem busy, they have friends, a boyfriend, a job, they have their shit together! They wouldn’t be depressed or anxious, they have it all... This episode explores the 2 sides to this problem. That of those with high-functioning disorders, and that of society's misconception of what a depressed or anxious person is suppose to act like.

ANOTHER GUEST EPISODE? THAT IS AN HOUR LONG? YUP! This week's episode I got the pleasure to speak with Taylor and Kirstyn about how to "reparent" yourself. Whether that means you came from a broken family or you just didn’t seem to receive the love, comfort or security you needed as a child.. This one is going to help you notice some negative patterns that may have stemmed from a lack of parenting when you were a kid and give you the tools you need to work on those areas you need a little extra love.

BONUS EPISODE! Amanda is a spiritual teacher & guide that uses multiple forms of energy healing and divination with counselling techniques that promote an environment that is healing and empowering. Today she is my first guest and honestly, this person deserves to be number one because she is someone who really helped me connect with my soul.  This episode we go deep into how Amanda pulled herself out of a victim mindset and flipped it to empower her and build a business to help others who experienced the same.

Amandas website: https://www.mindfulmagickmethod.com

INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/mindfulmagickmethod/ 

I never realized you could have any kind of relationship with money, let alone a bad one. I didn't realize how growing up poor, left an everlasting negative impact on the way I view money or wealth or successful in general. More importantly, I didn't realize that it affected the way that I valued myself as a person well into my adult life. What is the first memory you have where you felt worried or disappointed about money? Think about that when you listen to this week's episode... It will all make sense soon.

How often do you say "well, if that was me, I would __"? How often do you put yourself into someone else's shoes and cast judgement onto the decisions people make? We all do it. We all get into these patterns of using ourselves as the standard and everyone else is measured from what we perceive as "normal" or "common sense". This week's episode is to help put back into perspective the possibility that our way of thinking, and rationalizing, is not the end all be all. When trying to understand why people make the decisions they do, the question is not what would YOU do, it is what are THEY thinking.

So todays episode I want to take things back to the basics of mindfulness because it’s a new year, lots of new goals and fresh starts. This is going to be a nice reminder for those struggling with anxiety or depression, just how in control of your mind you are (although it doesn’t always feel like it). Living in the present is so much easier said than done but practicing the basics of mindfulness in this episode are KEY in helping you achieve that "at peace" feeling. 

This episode is a tough one. Trauma is never an easy topic. But no matter how hard I try to heal, why am I never cured? Well well well...let me tell you! This is without a doubt the hardest pill I have had to swallow.

I mean that is the MOST dramatic way possible. I am so over the old and stale new year's resolutions that have just become blanket statements for us dreaming of who we want to be one day. Why do we never check them off? Why do we never achieve these goals? Why are they SO different than any other goal we set? This episode I give you some tips & tricks on how I actually checked off ALL of my 2020 new year's resolutions (and more). New year, new approach. Here's to 2021!