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Healing Through Rest: Creating Balance for Your Nervous System [Solo Episode] Jun 28, 2022

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Have you ever struggled to truly feel rested no matter how much sleep or downtime you get? If so, this episode is for you.

There’s a lot of messaging encouraging us to rest and be soft. But what should we do if we’re trying to take it easy, but still don’t feel rested? What even is rest? I’m closing out our Modalities of Healing series with a solo episode about how we can heal through rest, and what our minds and bodies need to feel rested (in addition to adequate sleep).

With so much happening in the world, it can be natural to have a “tired but wired” feeling when we’re constantly on alert. This episode explores what rest is on a physiological level, and shares techniques we can use to start feeling more rested to support our healing.

I also talk about…

Your “fight or flight” and “rest and digest” systems, and how they work together.
Habits and techniques to help you feel more rested.
How to create better mind-body synergy.
Defining what it means to be “soft” for yourself.
The importance of taking breaks when needed.

Resources:

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Healing Through Nature with Toyin Ajayi of Outdoorsy Black Women Jun 21, 2022

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Nature is not a nice to have, it really is a must-have for physical health and longevity. Studies show that being in nature reduces feelings of isolation and promotes calm. For this episode, we are joined by Toyin Ajayi, the founder of Outdoorsy Black Women, which is a community for Black women to connect, celebrate, and open our minds to an outdoorsy lifestyle. Toyin is an entrepreneur, community builder, and creative who is helping Black women connect with nature and one another through her safe space that embodies positivity, celebration, and resources.

Toyin explains how it is possible to heal through our relationship with nature, and your idea of healing can shift over time. And nature doesn’t have to mean going in the woods. It can mean having plants. It can be opening a window, it can be putting your feet in the sand. Whatever makes sense for you.

We Also Talk About…

How connecting with nature can be imperative to self-care practices
Why we must be open to spending time outdoors and being in nature
How to explore nature and feel safe and connected doing so
What are important wellness practices of being outdoors
Why having access is a privilege and should not be taken for granted

Resources:

Join the Summer Solstice Journaling Challenge
Sign up for monthly meetups and hikes with Outdoorsy Black Women
Check out the Twerk n’ Trails event on July 30 in Atlanta
Join the Outdoorsy Black Women Book Club
Join an Outdoorsy Black Women Chapter near you
Nature Gap: Why Outdoor Spaces Lack Diversity and Inclusion
How Does Nature Impact Our Well-Being?
How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health

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Healing Through Community: Why You Don’t Need to Be Fully Healed to Be Loved [Solo Episode] Jun 14, 2022

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For many of us, hurt oftentimes happens in relationship to other people. Therefore, healing needs to happen in community as well. For the halfway point of our healing series, I’m exploring a statement that was introduced to us in last week’s episode — that healing often happens in community.

In this solo episode, I’m examining why being in community is such a significant, effective healing modality, why we don’t need to be perfectly healed to be loved, and ways we can cultivate healing in our immediate and broader communities.

I also talk about…

The Summer Solstice Journaling Reset, a 5-day journaling challenge.
Why healing is not a prerequisite for receiving love or support.
How being in a supportive community can be incredibly therapeutic.
Why being in community is an effective healing modality.
Ways we can cultivate healing in our relationships and communities.

Resources (contains affiliate links):

Join the Summer Solstice Journaling Challenge beginning June 20, 2022
Episode 111 Let People Show Up for You
The Healing Power of Community and Connection (Psychology Today)
The Importance of Community in Indigenous Peoples’ Healing (NAMI)
Community Healing and Resistance Through Storytelling: A Framework to Address Racial Trauma in Africana Communities (Journal of Black Psychology)
Connectedness and Health: The Science of Social Connection (Stanford)
The Art of Showing Up by Rachel Miller
How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong
Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
How to Be An Adult in Love by David Richo
What Happened to You? by Dr. Pruce Perry and Oprah

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Healing Your Inner Child + Finding Joy in Your Healing Journey with Dr. Peace Amadi Jun 07, 2022

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Emotional healing is probably one of the most challenging forms of healing. In order to attend to who we are as fully formed adults, it is imperative that we understand our inner child to aid in our healing journey.

That’s why we’re talking to the amazing Dr. Peace Amadi, a mental health expert, professor, author, TEDx speaker, TV host, and trauma-informed coach who has helped leaders heal including everyone from entrepreneurs to content creators, to pastors to parents.

Dr. Peace is a coach and cheerleader to the people in our lives that everyone goes to. She explains neuroplasticity and what affects our ability to change, what it means to heal, and how we can incorporate joy into our healing process.

We Also Talk About…

How to identify what your inner child needs to heal.
What “healing” means, and whether or not we can ever be fully healed.
How healing impacts our ability to adapt to change.
Why we should be asking “what happened to you?” instead of “what’s wrong with you?”
The importance of connection and relationships when it comes to healing.

Resources (contains affiliate links):

Follow Dr. Peace Amadi on Instagram @itspeaceamadi
Visit Dr. Peace’s Website
Why Do I Feel Like This?: Understand Your Difficult Emotions and Find Grace to Move Through by Dr. Peace Amadi
What Happened to You? By Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah
Join our Summer Solstice Journaling Challenge starting June 20 to get focused and re-aligned during the middle of the year.

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Healing Your Gut: Having A Healthy Microbiome and Immune System with Dr. Asia Muhammad May 31, 2022

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Our Modalities of Healing series continues with an important conversation about how gut health and the microbiome impact our overall well-being.

The digestive system is incredibly complex, and our gut health can influence several functions in the body and can be linked to many other ailments. That’s why when we look at healing from the inside out, healing our gut is a critical part of the conversation.

We’re talking to Dr. Asia Muhammad, an expert in the field of gut health and digestion. Dr. Asia values the power of lifestyle modifications to achieve optimal health. She uses evidence-based, science-based medicine to provide individualized attention to those in her practice.

As a naturopathic doctor, she utilizes nutrition, exercise, and supplementation through nutraceuticals, botanical medicine, and mind-body therapies such as hypnosis. She has a special interest in gastroenterology, mind-body medicine, and stress management, as increasing research demonstrates the role of stress in disease. She has received additional training in gastroenterology and mind-body therapies, including hypnosis, guided imagery, biofeedback, autogenic training, and progressive muscle relaxation.

Dr. Asia has a gift for making a complex topic such as gut health easy for us all to understand.

We Also Talk About…

The difference between naturopathic and conventional medicine, and how the two can work together.
What do we mean when we say “gut health” and why gut health is so important for everyone to understand and prioritize.
How common gut health-related ailments such as dysbiosis, leaky gut, IBS, Candida, and SIBO occur.
Simple daily practices anyone can implement to support their gut health.
How antibiotics impact gut health, and how to support your gut after taking antibiotics.
The importance of liver health, and why a healthy liver is important for a healthy microbiome.

Resources:

Follow Dr. Asia Muhammad on Instagram @dr.asiamuhammad
Subscribe to Dr. Asia’s Newsletter
Dr. Asia’s Liver Detox Tea
GERD E-Book

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Daily Healing Rituals + Using Your Voice to Heal with Ashley Curtis May 24, 2022

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Welcome to our new series, Modalities of Healing. In this series, we’ll be exploring what it means to heal from the inside out and emphasizing healing as a source of joy. Our first conversation will leave you feeling incredibly supported in your healing journey, and ready to implement a few new practices shared by our amazing guest, Ashley Curtis.

Ashley is the founder of The Journey Healing Oasis and is a Goddess, Healer, Yogi, spiritual doula, sound therapist, soul care coach, wellness advocate, Actress, director, and Writer. She hails from a long line of powerful spiritual healers such as her grandmother who is an ordained Evangelist and her Mother, an ordained evangelist and clairvoyant.

Ashley also has over 8 years of experience with Applied Behavior Analysis. And was certified as an Energy Healing Practitioner at The Mystic Living School based in LA.

In this episode, we explore sound and energy healing.

We Also Talk About…

How sound can heal on a cellular level.
Why using your voice is the most powerful sound instrument for healing.
Simple practices you can do daily to promote calm and energy healing.
The importance of cutting energetic cords.

Resources:

Visit Ashley’s website, The Journey Healing Oasis
Go to the Spiritual Day Spa Retreat May 29-30, 2022 in Atlanta
Go to Ashley’s Soul Care Weekend July 29-31, 2022 in Milwaukee
Follow The Journey Healing Oasis on Instagram @thejourney.healingoasis
Follow Ashley on Instagram @iamashleycurtis
Download our Wellness Rituals Journal

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How to Nurture Your Creativity Find Inspiration with Cristina Martinez May 17, 2022

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This week we’re continuing our exploration of the intersection of wellness and creativity. According to research, creative expression can support feelings of motivation and overall well-being. However, many people have aversions to creativity due to bias, perfectionism, and fear of failure or not creating a perfect result.

To wrap up our series on New Life and Creativity we’re talking to our guest Cristina Martinez about how she’s found healing through creativity, and how creativity has influenced her career and relationships.

Cristina Martinez is a contemporary visual artist based in Seattle, Washington. Her career started in fashion school before she explored self-expression through painting. Cristina’s work is rooted in telling the often-overlooked stories of Black and Brown people, encouraging them to water themselves to bloom and grow in this journey called life.

This conversation inspires us all to tap into our creativity for healing, and a deeper connection to our loved ones and ourselves.

We Also Talk About…

How our relationship with creativity can evolve over time.
Ways to draw inspiration when you need it most.
The ups and downs of having a creative career.
How Cristina supports her kids’ creativity.
The ways creativity can help us bloom, and what it means to bloom.
How collaboration and community can foster creativity.

Resources:

Follow Cristina on Instagram @sew_trill
Purchase Cristina’s work from her website June and Mars
Check out Cristina’s collection at Nordstrom
Research Article: Everyday Creative Activity As A Path to Flourishing
Download our Wellness Rituals Workbook to find your daily inspiration

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How Creativity Impacts Your Health + Overcoming Perfectionism with AJ Clarke of Soul Rehab May 10, 2022

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Have you ever referred to yourself as a perfectionist? Have you ever felt like perfectionism holds you back from expressing yourself creatively? I know I can relate to both.

The truth is, creativity is not a gift that only a select few have. It's a skill we can all cultivate. And the outcome of creative expression isn’t where the magic is – it’s the act of being creative itself. That’s because creativity is a vital part of health and well-being that isn’t talked about nearly enough. According to research, healthy creative expression is linked to better mental and physical well-being outcomes including higher levels of optimism and improved immune response. But for perfectionists, it can be hard to let go and let ourselves be students.

Our guest today is AJ Clarke, and our conversation is so special. AJ is a creative marketing agency owner, wife, and creative director behind Soul Rehab. She’s had an eye-opening journey learning how to release feelings of perfectionism and the pressure to over-achieve to pursue a creative career.

In addition to her work as a marketer, she realized that the “self-love” space was full of well-intentioned but surface-level endeavors that didn’t tell you how to overcome, but that just told you that you should. Soul Rehab is birthed from the most vulnerable of spaces – the fiery place of healing.

We Also Talk About…

How creativity impacts your health.
Ways you can incorporate more creativity into your life.
Learning how to detach creative expression from the final product.
Advice for navigating perfectionism when it feels unsafe to not overachieve.
Building self-care communities that are rooted in vulnerability.

Resources:

2014 Study: Can Musical Training Influence Brain Connectivity? Evidence from Diffusion Tensor MRI
2010 Study: Optimism and Its Impact on Mental and Physical Well-Being
Download our Wellness Rituals Workbook to start your journaling practice
Follow Soul Rehab on Instagram @mysoulrehab
Follow Soul Rehab on Pinterest @soulrehab
Subscribe to the Soul Rehab Podcast
Subscribe to the Soul Rehab Newsletter, Hey Lovely
Join the 7-Day Affirmation Challenge

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Shadow Work, Self-Care, and Balancing Entrepreneurship and Motherhood with Erica and Milah of Good Moms, Bad Choices May 03, 2022

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During our New Life + Creativity series, we’ve gone from fertility awareness to birth, and now we’re transitioning to talk about navigating motherhood while pursuing your dreams. Our guests today are Erica and Milah, co-hosts of Good Moms, Bad Choices.

If Oprah and Howard Stern had a baby it would be Good Moms Bad Choices. Erica and Milah, are uncensored and outspoken sex and cannabis-positive parents who are redefining what modern motherhood looks like. Good Moms, Bad Choices is a community and audio diary is for those who feel alone in their good and bad choices.

Tune in for a fun, candid conversation that will make you laugh and make you think.

We Also Talk About…

How they juggle entrepreneurship and motherhood.
Redefining what it means to be a “good mom.”
What self-care looks like for them as busy moms and entrepreneurs.
How their creative endeavors influence their parenting styles.
Their experiences with dating as mothers.

Resources:

Listen to the Good Moms, Bad Choices Podcast
Follow Erica and Milah on Instagram @goodmoms_badchoices
Check out Good Moms, Bad Choices on Patreon
Come to the Good Vibes Retreat in Costa Rica in July and August 2022

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Overcoming Mom Guilt, The Fourth Trimester, and Reparenting Yourself with Dr. Veronica Eyo and Rosalyn Davis Apr 26, 2022

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We all experience identity shifts throughout our lives, and the transition into motherhood can bring a very significant shift in one’s identity and how one views the world. To discuss these shifts, I’m sitting down with Dr. Veronica Eyo, a licensed therapist who specializes in supporting moms of color, and Rosalyn Davis, a community builder, breathwork practitioner, and new mom.

This episode is full of honest takes about what the transition into motherhood can feel like, how new and seasoned mothers can reconnect with themselves, and how we can all reparent ourselves.

We Also Talk About…

The importance of friendship for people with and without children.
Moving through feelings of mom guilt.
Why rest during the postpartum period is essential.
The connection between motherhood and creativity.

Resources (contains affiliate links):

Follow Dr. Veronica Eyo on Instagram @drveronicaeyo
Book recommended by Dr. Veronica: Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much Going On
The Fair Play Deck: A Couple's Conversation Deck for Prioritizing What's Important
Follow Rosalyn Davis on Instagram @thesoulfulguide_ and @wearetakingupspace
Join Rosalyn’s supportive community for new moms
Subscribe to Rosalyn’s newsletter

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