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Ep. 79 – Game Changer: My Mental Health Journey – With Sarah Qureshi

Carol Chapman — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 22:35:49 +0000

In this interview, Sarah Qureshi shares her mental health journey, eye-opening moments, and her optimism and determination to be a game changer in the mental health field. She is a Pre-Med Psychology student at Georgia State University with a strong personal interest in mental health, rehabilitation, and proper representation in the medical field for minorities.

Sarah’s journey provides her the impetus to help others, including medical practitioners, understand the importance of explaining what is happening and how medications may positively and negatively affect someone struggling with mental illness. Sarah aims to educate the medical community about the importance of seeing a person holistically so they can better treat them.

Having grown up in a Pakistani household and community, she seeks to bring awareness of the impact of cultural norms, especially where there is a strong taboo on talking about mental health. It has been a difficult journey, but Sarah is excited about her future and plans to become a psychiatrist with a strong influence on the affordability, access, and appropriateness of the uses of medicine in mental illness treatments. She is grateful for the experiences that have led her to this point.

While interning at the Centered Recovery Program in Georgia, Sarah wrote articles on ADHD and Addiction, Music and Mindfulness, and Dopamine and Addiction. She shares that she is incredibly grateful for her education, family, circle of friends, boyfriend, and little sister!

Show Notes

A life of stories
The power of music and lyrics
Dream – to help others struggling with mental health
The problems with squashing feelings
Bullying that led to self-gaslighting – taking the blame for how others treated me
Cultural taboos and the stigma of labels
Lack of cultural representation or knowledge in the mental health community
Good and bad aspects of being hospitalized
Overwhelmed by medications
Natural ways of self-care have carried me
Grounding tools and techniques
Lessons learned about forgiveness
Put yourself first – ask for help – ask questions
Take a stand – set boundaries
Game changers in family dynamics

App Mentioned

Daylio – Self-Care Bullet Journal with Goals, Mood Diary & Happiness Tracker

Song Mentioned

So Far Away – Agust D (BTS Suga) – Feat. Suran

Sarah’s Writing

https://www.centeredrecoveryprograms.com/blog/music-and-mindfulness/https://www.centeredrecoveryprograms.com/blog/dopamine-and-addiction/https://www.centeredrecoveryprograms.com/blog/adhd-and-addiction/

Social Media and Resources

Memorable Quotes from Sarah

“In general, the illnesses are just words until they manifest, then I deal with them.”

“I’m my own best determiner of my mental state.”

“I can still forgive and learn from things that have happened to me without letting go or invalidating my experiences.”

“It’s all about making a new world. Making it more loving and accepting.”

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Ep. 77 – From Pain to Possibility – With Greg Wieting

Carol Chapman — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 23:04:39 +0000

In this interview, “From Pain to Possibility,” Greg Wieting shares his journey of insurmountable anxiety, trauma, depression, and chronic pain. He talks about the path that brought him to study neuroscience and trauma, leading to his healing from debilitating Scoliosis with miraculous results.

Greg is a health consultant, energy healer, speaker, leadership, and entrepreneurship facilitator. Through his own journey and training, Greg developed a program called Prisma Method that offers 7 steps or pillars to healing. He practices Mindfulness, Somatic Healing, and BodyTalk – a comprehensive and personalized healthcare system in tandem with Reiki. All these tools and his personalized consulting help his clients “get to the root of your anxiety, depression, and chronic pain and heal.”

Greg shares his story and mission with the world through speaking engagements on consciousness, energy medicine, trauma-informed healing, neuroplasticity, brain health, and the intersection of spirituality, purpose, and entrepreneurship.

Show Notes:

Reaching burnout on my way to “save the world”
Introduction to Somatics, India, and mindfulness
Trauma and neuroscience
A 7-step system to make healing more accessible
Acute, chronic, and complex trauma
Beyond Fight or Flight
Going from “pain to possibility.”
The orchestra of our bodies – music vs. noise
Depression and anxiety
Reconnecting to our innate wisdom
My arc of transformation
Shifting from extrinsic to intrinsic motivation
Defying the odds

Social Media and Resources:

Website

Facebook

Instagram

Offerings:

Free Masterclass – 3 Biggest Lies Keeping You Depressed & Anxious

Free Prisma Download

Use the following coupon code to receive 10% off Greg’s courses:

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Ep. 76 – Reframing Your Relationship With Money – With Amanda Strojny

Carol Chapman — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 17:10:00 +0000

Amanda Strojny shares the impactful journey that transformed her life and how she helps to “reframe your relationship with money.”

Amanda is a teacher at heart and in action. She combines her extensive business coaching knowledge and yogic training principles to assist her clients in uncovering their relationship with money. By uncovering our beliefs and following three basic tenets, which Amanda calls her Rules of Money, we can all live in alignment with the currency of energy called money.

Reframing our relationship with money can give us the “Golden Ticket” to financial freedom and empowerment. Amanda also has a podcast called “Untapped Power – Success On Your Terms” and meditations to share on her website.

Amanda is an ERYT 200-hour experienced registered Yoga teacher and a Certified Transformational Coach. She uses those skills and experiences to coach her corporate and small business clients and yoga instructors “in their business and career while staying rooted in their unique gifts.” In addition, she provides clients with a clear and concise Financial Roadmap to monetize their skills.

Show Notes:

How we tell our story
Do I follow the familial path or “my” path
Seeds of change – Transitioning to the entrepreneurial space
Discovering where attachment to beliefs come from
Value of patience, hope, and faith
The process of “unpacking our money story”
Defining how money and success relate
How to use a professional financial planner
Be accountable to yourself and in alignment
Three “Rules of Money”
Changing your inner and outer dialogue about money
Dealing with your blind spots
Meditation, journaling, yoga, and reaching out for support

Social Media and Resources:

Website: https://amandastrojny.com/

Podcast – “Untapped Power – Success On Your Terms”

Offering:

FREE 30-minute connection call with Amanda:

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FREE Quiz and access to E-Guide – Gaining Confidence in Your Money. https://amandastrojny.com/rules-of-money-quiz

Developing a Spiritual Money Mindset – a self-paced course available at:

https://amandastrojny.com/spiritualmoneymindsetworkshop

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14 Guideposts To Navigate 2023’s Uncommon Crossing

Lynnda Pollio — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 16:41:00 +0000

14 Guideposts to Navigate 2023’s Uncommon Crossing

Take a moment to acknowledge, review and release the surreal months of 2022. It has not been easy, but the person you are now is better prepared for what lies ahead.

There is a certain trepidation we feel entering 2023. We know things will continue to change as we traverse the coming days. Unexpected happenings will erupt into reality, scorching familiar comforts and beliefs. Accept this turmoil, however disruptive. Powerful new bedrock, ideas, and alliances will be forged from these fires. The quest for what is real and true is accelerating.

I want to think that the worst is behind us. But it is not. There is no going back to what was “normal.” That box we constantly try to think outside of…has broken apart. 2023 is the year you decide whether to jump into the front seat of your life, hands purposefully on the wheel, or escape to the back seat, resigned to where you are being led. Take small actions that steer you in the direction you want to go. Allow your heart to guide you.

Many of us will experience a profound event in our lives, a quantum shift towards a new way of being. There might be waves of disappointment and chaos, then opportunity and wonder. New friendships will appear. Familiar structures will dissolve. What we believe to be true might prove to be false. Something we assumed would last a lifetime does not. Trust will become both a question and an ally.

For those who choose to step up and be the designated driver in their lives this year, I offer these guideposts to navigate 2023’s uncommon crossing.

1. Question Everything

Don’t believe anything you’ve been told, read, or heard about from anyone. This year we will begin to discover the power of a question and our innate ability to feel into our own answers. We cannot know what we don’t have the right questions for. Learn to ask questions, lots of them. Examine every side before accepting someone else’s words.

2. Be Present to What Is

As illusions dissolve and current institutions and belief systems crumble, steady yourself by being present in what is, regardless of what was or could be. We must learn to adapt to each jolt and respond fresh from that moment without clinging to the verdicts of the past. Understand that you will not be sure of anything, so practice being in what is yet unknown.

3. Know Thyself

The most important thing you will ever do is be who you truly are. Grant yourself time alone. Turn off technologies and seek stillness. Commune with the earth, touch trees and walk barefoot. It will remind you of your connections here and initiate you into an expanded state of consciousness. Trust people who care about you enough to expose your blind spots, those unrecognized hindrances you cannot resolve until witnessed by another.

4. Stand Up

When someone is giving you crumbs, don’t let them convince you they are giving you the whole cake. Choose the world you wish to inhabit and stand fully in it. Reserve judgment of others but do not cower in the shadows. Allow yourself to be heard. This is the year to speak your boldest truth out loud. Women, step up! The planet needs your voices more than ever.

5. Suffering Is a Teacher

We will receive as much pain as it takes for us to change. Most of it will be unfair. But it will transform forever whomever it touches. Suffering is asking us to wake up, end stale routines, remember our humanity and pay attention to what is wrong. Suffering precedes every great breakthrough. Ask for help, and hold a caring and supportive space for others traveling through difficult circumstances. You are not failing. You are emerging.

6. Cultivate the Adult Within

Be the person who can handle anything. 2023 will require the adult in us to intercede and take responsibility for our emotions, actions, and goals. Find your courage to say I was wrong. The world needs adults now more than ever. Stop complaining, blaming, and shaming. Lead, care and share instead.

7. Have Fun

There will be radiant sparks of happiness available all year. Respite from the storms. Seek people and experiences that bring you joy and make you laugh. Take risks. Your best life exists on the other side of those gambles. Fun fuels courage. Let’s help each other enjoy as many moments as possible as we build toward the planet we dream of living on together.

8. An Explosion of Sharing

Share compassion, vulnerability, support, money, and things. It is the glue of a new community being born. Share not as a conventional Return on Investment but as a Return on the Future with people you believe in and trust. Holding too tight to what you have will only bring fear and separation.

Sharing will open hearts and doors to what is possible in the unfolding world. Those who give freely with no expectations understand the joy of that experience. Share yourself and what you have with others and see what might grow where you weren’t looking.

9. Love What You Don’t Understand

Everyone will struggle with something this year. We may not always respond to our stresses in the best way. Be compassionate, though know your boundaries. Another’s journey may appear different from yours, but in the end, the destination is the same. We will all need a little latitude as we evolve. Understand a stranger’s perspective and the cultural conditionings that created them as you forgive yourself. Practice patience.

10. Explore Death to Discover Life

Many more people will be dying this year in uncomfortable numbers. It’s time to create a new relationship with the unspoken taboo of death. When we transform our relationship with death, we transform our relationship with life. From death doulas to death with dignity, we are reassessing this final passage and what is beyond the membrane of life.

Eat healthily, move your body, and quiet your mind to stay alive as long as possible. Try new healthcare and mental support systems that might not yet conform to mainstream acceptance, like herbs, energy medicines, and sound therapies. Caring for the extraordinary physical vehicle that transports your spirit through life is the most important thing you will do for yourself in 2023.

11. Pray

Yes, pray. Reclaim the divine presence within you. Prayer is powerful, soothing, and meaningful. Prayer helps you remember who you are beyond our culture and technology and creates a spiritual cord that connects us, the planet, and our galactic roots. Prayer transforms what you cannot bear into freedom, especially when these prayers are shared in groups of like-hearted people. Prayer brings you into your inner wisdom.

12. Strange Brew

This is the year many will awaken and discover their Inner Resonance Signature, your unique cellular song, that one frequency that belongs to you alone. Once discovered, you will experience true magic in the life you are creating. The power of resonance, the Mandela effect, intuition, extraterrestrial life, and mystical moments. These are among the unseen spiritual concepts not yet understood by mass consciousness but will become a considered curiosity by many more in 2023. We may experience events that shatter our beliefs about reality.

13. Be Kind

That’s it. Just be kind every time. We all need more kindness and acknowledgment of each other. It’s the sweet butter on our bread of life.

14. Learn Where to Place Your Trust

Do not trust institutions, corporations, the media, or governments. Trust each other. Build community through shared vulnerability. Help your neighbors. Open to the possibility of our human connection. Take responsibility for your thoughts and actions. Apologize. You are the only one you need to change. Love more. Fear less. Walk faithfully into what you do not know. Invite someone to walk with you with no judgment or expectations. Communities of meaningful intention are the future.

This year, we are emerging from a birth canal. It will be messy and uncomfortable. Where we finally arrive dwells within our individual choices more than we have been willing to accept. Act towards the world you envision for yourself. Everything better we can become involves moving beyond our traumas, prejudices, and absolutes.

The good news is that we will begin to understand this as we continue our migration together toward somewhere we have never been before. Go where you feel called, even if no one you know follows. Others will be there, waiting just for you. Begin to recognize and fully embrace your fellow travelers. Let go! This is happening!

Trust the currents of 2023! I hope to meet you amidst these wild days of revelation and revolution. Try as best you can to allow your heart to lead and stay open to everything unexpected that appears. I am grateful and excited for your presence on the planet at this time in history. Everyone matters. These are not easy days upon us, but oh, the possibilities within each one!

“Sometimes only by looking back on something can we see its grandeur, what it gave us. Moments become monuments that create new beginnings.” From Trusting the Currents by Lynnda Pollio

Love, Lynnda

About Lynnda Pollio

Lynnda Pollio is a Consciousness Doula and author of the award-winning, best-selling visionary novel, Trusting the Currents. Lynnda has always been deeply committed to elevating human consciousness. As a Consciousness Doula, she helps people and businesses understand consciousness and connect to energetic frequencies that expand self-awareness for personal and global transformation. Lynnda recently moved from New York City to Sedona, Arizona. Find out more about Lynnda here.

Ep. 74 – ‘Transmosis Healing’ With Tracey Whittet

Carol Chapman — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 23:01:10 +0000

Tracey Whittet describes the journey that led her to create an integrated method to restore divine balance in the body called Transmosis Healing. In this conversation, she describes her journey through life as an explorer who always looked for answers – first in nature, then in books and teachers. What she learned through her life experiences led her to self-healing and to help others heal.

Tracey is an amazing spirit with many talents in the healing arts. Her skills resume is impressive, starting with a degree in Holistic Stress Management. She is also an intuitive facilitator. Her certifications and skills include Certified Spiritual Healer, Multidimensional Body Balancer, Reiki Master, Access Consciousness Bars® and Body Facilitator, Creative Wellness Instructor, a practitioner in Divine Healing Hands, Theta Healing, Yuen Method, and Healing Touch.

Tracey is intuitive, a teacher, healer, and facilitator. Reiki is the path that led her to become a healer. After years of practicing healing as a side passion, she retired from the corporate world to focus all her attention on healing. In the process, she received a divinely inspired message which led her to develop Transmosis Healing, a multi-dimensional way of balancing the body, mind, and spirit.

She is a co-author of The Magi Within: Unlocking the Gifts of the Inner Self.

Show Notes:

Always on the path to improve
We are good at creating our own misery
Trauma and loss
Making myself fit into a corporate mold
Receiving a divinely inspired word and practice – Transmosis
The way Transmosis healing works – steps to connect to self
Exploring spiritual hygiene
Role of the endocrine, chakra, and nervous systems
Quantum effects of clearing past generations
Contemplation – a potent practice
Say Thank You!
We are wired to be intuitive
Importance of relationship

Find Out More About Tracey:

Website: Tracey Whittet

Facebook – Tracey Whittet

Facebook – Transmosis Healing

Twitter

Offering:

Free ebook offer – The Magi Within

Book

The Magi Within – Unlocking the Gifts of the Inner Self – By Tracey Whittet, Vickie Brown, Sandra-Leigh Serio

References:

Course In Miracles – by Foundation For Inner Peace

Creative Wellness – by Michelle Lusson

Love is Letting Go of Fear – by Gerald Jampolsky

Attitudinal Healing Center

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Ep. 70 “Living In A World Of Inner Magic” – With Timothy Stuetz

Carol Chapman — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 16:02:13 +0000

Using Fairy Tales, Ancient Arts, Sacred Sciences, and EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, Timothy Stuetz empowers people of all ages to develop and use their infinite soul powers to achieve their full potential and “live in a world of inner magic.” Timothy is a healer, facilitator, yoga master, minister, and one of the most prolific children’s authors. He just completed his 86th Fairy Tale Of The Heart featuring Bliss Beary Bear. He is the creator of The Magical Miracle of You—A Self-Empowerment Course for Children and Families. He also created the Power Animal Frolics—A Yoga/Tai Chi/Qigong COURSE for children where they exercise along with 7 Power Animals in Disney-quality costumes.

In this interview, Carol asks how Timothy went from being a CPA to delving deep into the healing arts to heal himself and then share his knowledge with both children and adults. His programs and services inspire everyone to achieve their full mental, physical, emotional, and heart-filled potential. They are enriched through his having held children and others at birth and death and coaching people of all ages through a various life challenges.

Timothy also runs a Quantum Energy Training Academy, certifying graduates to teach multiple forms of Quantum Energy Healing, Meditation, Yoga, Qigong, and T’ai Chi for over 35 years.

Using Fairy Tales, Ancient Arts, Sacred Sciences, and EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, Timothy empowers people of all ages to develop and use their infinite soul powers to achieve their full potential.

Show Notes:

Fairy Tales
Man of many careers
Importance of integrity
CPA to Chocolatier
Heeding signs from God
Flowing through the lows and highs of life
Reconciling the logical brain with the exploring brain
Diving deep into the life
Idea for children’s books
Be-yond-a Book Club
Tai Chi, Chi Gong, and Power Animal frolics
Quantum Energy Academy
Gratitude

Social Media:

Offerings:

Free meditations, qigong exercises, children’s stories & songs, plus more: https://www.timothystuetz.com/freebies

Free Webinar: 3 Magic Wands For More Creative, Happier & Empowered Children: https://mailchi.mp/961fc3077dff/3magicwands

HRU Affiliate Link:

https://www.timothystuetz.com/a/jhh5s

Books Mentioned:

Ballad of the Bees – Timothy Stuetz

Bliss Beary Bear’s Fairy Tales of the Heart – Timothy Stuetz

Past Lives, Future Loves by Dick Sutphen

People Mentioned:

Ram Dass

Swami Muktananda

Quotes:

“Listen to your own truth” – Ram Dass

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Ep. 69 – “Love Is The Weapon Of Mass Illumination” – With teZa Lord

Carol Chapman — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:58:39 +0000

teZa Lord’s life experience is a testament to transformation and the power of LOVE. From a Caribbean She-pirate to a public sharer of “Everything’s Sacred” — We Are ONE is her language. Everywhere she looks, she sees/feels/touches, and interprets the sacred in the everyday. Her early path was not an easy one. She learned about herself as she experienced life in a time of exploration. teZa was an early explorer of both indigenous plant medicines and meditation. She learned that recovery from addiction is a great teacher and that meditation offered her a way to tune into the bliss of being alive. She has many messages to share and this interview is just a start of a rich treasure of insights from someone who is committed to healing ourselves and our planet.

Join Carol as she interviews teZa Lord, a sacred trailblazer! teZa is a spirit author-artist-activist, a lifelong yoga and meditation practitioner, adventurer, and nature lover. She is also a co-host of the ZLORD spiritual podcast with Carter Lord – documenting their inner and outer adventures. Spreading love, energy, and joy all around the world is teZa’s thing. She is the author of 4 nonfiction books that document the transformation available to us all. Her books are featured in the No BS Spiritual Book Club.

Show Notes:

Childhood of trauma
Running away physically and emotionally
Magical, mystical experiences looking for Nirvana
Being a botanical illustrator opened doors
Ego death – Exploring the psyche
Plant medicine – honoring the indigenous traditions
The Mind – our metaphysical organ
Meditation becomes the way
Choosing love over fear
Tune into the breath with “mind-stillers”
Nature – Modern spirituality is Environmentalism
Fill yearning with inter-connectedness
It is my duty to share our connection to oneness

Social Media and Resources:

Website teZaLord.com

Facebook

YouTube

Podcast ZLord

Soundcloud

Free Offer:

The first five listeners to write to teZa at teZalord@gmail.com will receive a complimentary book from among her four published books.

Books Mentioned:

teZa Lord’s books: Hybrid Vigor, In the I, We Are One, & Zen Love

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Into The Magic Shop by James Doty

How To Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

People Mentioned:

Eckhart Tolle

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Timothy Leary

Richard Alpert/Baba Ram Dass

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Ep. 68 – “Peace Within, Peace On Earth” – With Kate Heartsong

Carol Chapman — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 02:58:21 +0000

In this interview, Kate Heartsong shares how she empowers others to realize that as they better themselves and create inner peace, they also support creating peace worldwide. Carol finds out more about Kate’s passion for “empowering people to realize their brilliance and greatness and help ignite their potential.” She shares the early influences from which she evolved to being the coach she is today. Kate says her clients “benefit from the motivational, interviewing, coaching skills, empowering growth and confidence tools, and encouragement I share with them, leading to positive change.” In addition, Kate talks about how we can all raise our vibration and in turn raise the energy in a positive way for each other and our planet as we transition into the Age of Aquarius.

Kate is the empowering and life-enhancing author of two books Humanity’s Cry For Change and Deeply We Are One. She is also a confidence coach, workshop facilitator, co-author, public speaker, and Reiki Master Teacher. For over 20 years Kate has been receiving profound insights while meditating. She is passionate about supporting her clients, audiences, and readers with these insights along with the wisdom from her vast life experiences and education.

Show Notes:

1. Childhood defining moments

2. Hearing loss and shame

3. Taking control of myself

4. Tools to raise confidence

5. Study you – learn about yourself

6. Magic of a positive phrase

7. Meditation practice

8. Ushering in the Age of Aquarius

9. Learning to transmute stuck energy

10. Pay attention to the interconnectedness

11. Acknowledge what makes you feel good

12. Power of the ripples of self-healing

13. How do you show up?

Social Media and Resources:

Joyful Radiance Website

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

Offering:

Complimentary Coach Session – Ingomu App

2 Free Heartwarming Meditations: https://www.joyfulradiance.com/build-your-confidence/

Kate’s Published Books

Humanity’s Cry For Change by Kate Heartsong

Deeply We Are One by Kate Heartsong

Person Mentioned:

Dr. Joe Dispenza

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Ep. 67 – Tai Chi & Qi Gong -Navigating The Scars Of Loss and Trauma – With Sifu Rubia

Carol Chapman — Wed, 18 May 2022 15:48:45 +0000

Sifu Rubia discovered the benefits of the ancient healing arts of Tai Chi and Qi Gong as a way to navigate the scars of loss and trauma. An orphan born in Bangladesh, she experienced abandonment early in life, creating intense anxiety in her body and mind. Later in life, the traumatic loss of a miscarriage brought her to her first Qi Gong class. There she discovered the healing and strength-building power of this ancient tradition. Since then, she has accumulated hundreds of hours of teacher training, including Yang Family style Tai Chi, Yoga, and Iron Shirt Qi Gong.

With over a decade of teaching experience in community centers, drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, private group classes, and speaking engagements at places such as the Oprah Winfrey Network offices in Los Angeles, Rubia has transformed hundreds of lives. She has given students the tools to maintain health, rejuvenate their bodies and recapture youthful energy and equanimity in their life. In addition, she has produced online courses through her website and company Wei Wu Tai Chi in the hopes to extend the reach of these ancient healing arts.

In this interview with Carol, Sifu shares the positive impact of learning the ancient practices of Tai Chi and Qi Gong to heal her traumas. Sifu is committed to sharing what she has experienced with others who have been through some of life’s traumas. Her message is clear – our intention and commitment to self, through movement and meditation, will raise our awareness and tune us into the body’s healing power.

Show Notes:

1. Trauma of abandonment and loss

2. Alchemy of movement

3. Building a strong body through Yoga

4. Life force practice of Qi Gong

5. Qi Gong, Tai Chi, & Yoga

6. Melding forms of healing

7. Importance of breath to movement

8. Crystalized emotion

9. Where do you hold your emotions

10. “Mirror time”

11. Experience your dimensional self

12. Breathe, slow down, commit to a practice

13. Find your “Energy Management System”

Social Media and Resources:

TaiChiWellness.Online

WeiWuTaiChi.Online

Offering:

Qi Gong Course – Live online – use code HRUQI to access at TaiChiWellness.Online

Book Mentioned:

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

Quote:

“It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.” – B.K.S. Iyengar

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00:00:04

(Carol Chapman) Okay, thank you for tuning your heart’s in for another episode of the Hearts Rise up podcast. I’m Carol Chapman, your host along with my co-host, Ann Serrie and Concetta Antonelli. We share our own personal experiences, tips and strategies along with powerful stories and compelling insights from guest interviews. We’re here to inspire and empower your conscious evolution, help you tap into your inner wisdom and rise to your heart centered higher self Together we can rise to a higher level of consciousness, an elevated state of being and experience more love, joy and freedom. Well, hello again and welcome back heart centered listeners. I’m carol chapman, thank you for coming back once again for another episode of the Hearts Rise Up podcast where you’ll always find heart based wisdom to inspire your conscious evolution.

00:01:21

(Carol Chapman) My featured guest today is Sifu Rubia. Sifu Rubia discovered the benefits of Tai Chi as a way to heal herself. An orphan born in Bangladesh. She has navigated the scars of deep loss and trauma, creating intense anxiety in her body and mind, including the traumatic loss of a miscarriage which brought her to her first child gong class where she discovered the healing and strength building power of this ancient tradition. Since then, she has accumulated hundreds of hours of teacher training, including yang family style Tai Chi yoga and iron shirt qigong with over a decade of teaching experience in community centers, drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, private group classes and speaking engagements at places such as the Oprah Winfrey network offices in Los Angeles. Rubia has transformed hundreds of lives.

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(Carol Chapman) She has given students the tools to maintain health, rejuvenate their bodies and recapture a youthful energy and equanimity in their life. She has produced online courses through her website and company. Wei Wu Tai Chi in the hopes to extend the reach of these ancient healing arts. Rubia, welcome to the show.

(Sifu Rubia) Hi, it’s nice to be here. Thank you for having me Carol. It’s really an honor. I’m happy to be here.

(Carol Chapman) It’s wonderful for you to be here. And I have personally taken your Tai Chi course and I must say that you have such a confident, calming, engaging style of teaching. I love your soothing voice and of course the choreography.

(Sufi Rubia) Thank you, I’m glad you took it.

(Carol Chapman) Yes, it was wonderful and it was a really nice introduction to Tai Chi. I’ve never done Tai Chi before and I definitely want us to delve into the work that you’re doing and the benefits of Tai Chi and she gone and how they connect to heart centered awareness, the opening of the heart and releasing trauma and stress.

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(Carol Chapman) But first I would love for you to share your amazing story of challenge and opportunity that you went through in your life, to heal some of the deep loss and the trauma because, you know, none of us ever really escape trauma me included. We’ve all experienced it in various degrees and you have a story that I think others will appreciate and then can learn from you as to the experience that you had that lead you to the work that you’re doing today.

(Sufi Rubia) Well you said a lot of it in the bio. So my healing journey started from that moment of abandonment by my biological mother and you don’t realize that your nervous system is kind of set up for that trauma and that grief, it took me a long time to realize what was actually going on with me. So that’s where it kind of started. Yeah, the abandonment issues that come from there, the anxiety that my body held because of it and the triggers and all of that stuff.

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(Sufi Rubia) So for me, as I was just growing up, I discovered that movement was a really nice way for me to navigate some of those emotions, so it’s very athletic and I like to be in motion. So that helped me, you know, kind of move some of that energy that, you know, not necessarily I even knew was being moved at the time, I can only say all of these things in hindsight, right? But if we speak to yoga practice and Tai Chi and Qi Gong and how all of those have kind of helped me Malcolm eyes those traumas, then yeah, we, I think that’s what we’re here to speak of today, right?

(Carol Chapman) Yes, as we kind of go through our discussion today, I’m sure that you can bring out points in your life as we’re talking about Tai Chi and Qi Gong and what the work that you’re doing, how it has helped to release certain emotional triggers for you over time. But I think it would be helpful to really understand the differences between Tai Chi and Qi Gong.

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(Carol Chapman) And also I think yoga as well, because you’re well practiced in the art of yoga and those are all ancient practices, so it would be helpful to really understand the unique differences between them.

(Sufi Rubia) Sure. So, you know, I’m always just gonna be speaking from my point of view and my experience, that doesn’t mean that I hold you know, ultimate knowledge on any of these ancient practices, but I’ve been practicing yoga longer than Tai Chi and Qi Gong and I actually don’t teach yoga, even though I’ve done trainings and you know, I have developed yoga practice. I’ve mindfully not decided not to teach yoga just because it was, it’s my personal space to heal. My yoga practice is where I go to deal with myself. And when you teach what I know, and I think I’ve always known this that when you’re teaching something, you’re ultimately giving your practice away, you’re giving your pieces of yourself away

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(Sufi Rubia) And I was just never ready to do that. But for whatever reason when I was doing my Tai Chi and Qi Gong practices and trainings. I didn’t have that same attachment to those practices, the bigger part of my healing, I think came when I was melding all three of them together and finding this really this beautiful internal flow in my body that was started with my yoga was kind of harnessed in my Qi Gong and just really bloomed with my Tai Chi practice. So all three of them are very important and they hold different spaces. So Coming back to what you were asking about the differences between the three. If we start with Qi Gong, Qi gong simply means well Qi means vital force, vital energy prana and the yogi language and gong means to cultivate, to work to you know to toil. So Qi Gong is you know, a prana, life force practice and discipline and there are many different styles forms, lineages.

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(Sufi Rubia) It’s really a question of finding the one that suits you best. I work specifically with grounding Qi Gong practices. So they’re very rooting and you build a solid base for yourself in your energy body and then Tai Chi is a martial expression of your Qi Gong. So in simple form, that’s what Tai Chi is and someone who knows martial arts will know the martial applications will be very obvious. Otherwise you see Tai Chi being demonstrated in the park and it’s a very fluid movement exercise usually done in groups. So you don’t, you’re not necessarily looking at martial applications, but it’s more of an expression as moving meditation or a dance, you know a gentle dance. It’s multilayered and multifaceted and then the yoga has just always, it’s always a curious place, I’ve been doing it for over 20 years and it’s still it’s still some place where I go and I discover something.

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(Sufi Rubia) It’s a place of discovery. I mean they all are, but that one specifically an Asana practice is really there to strengthen and align your body for deeper spiritual practices. And so it’s part of an eight limbs system. And Asana practice is just one of those limbs. It’s there to build, build a strong body essentially.

(Carol Chapman) And particularly since you’re well versed in what you’re, what you’re teaching, let’s just put it this way, the Tai Chi and Qi Gong. That’s really what you’re mostly focused on in terms of helping others. How do these ancient practices activate heart centered awareness and the opening of the heart? Because what I have found particularly in today’s world, a lot of people have a real hard time because sometimes there’s a lot of trauma that has rests in the heart and they really have a hard time opening the heart. Many people are walking around with a closed heart.

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(Carol Chapman) So I think it would be helpful to understand a little bit more about these practices and how they benefit us and why it’s important to open the heart and have that heart-centered awareness.

(Sufi Rubia) That’s a great question and I love how it’s focused on your audience and your own mission. So yes, if we’re speaking of the heart chakra or the heart center or the heart meridians specifically my experience with it in a yoga practice a can, there’s you know, Asana’s, one of them is called fish pose, where you’re literally opening up your heart from very deep, deep place and it can be a little jarring, it can be pretty intense. Whereas in my experience, anytime I do too much yoga with heart-opening Asana, I end up crying a lot. Like I’m just to open that can create another whole other issue when you walk through the world with, with that kind of open heart. But what I found with Tai Chi and Qi Gong is that the same physicality with certain movements open the heart center and the heart line and heart meridian in a much more gentle way.

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(Sufi Rubia) Again, this is based on my experience. That’s not to say that’s going to happen for everybody. It’s really, I’m just sharing with you how it’s affected my experience. So Tai Chi is just been a softer way to, to fall into a heart-opening space. It’s just been gentler for me based on the movements with the arms flowing gently, there are certain Qi Gong movements where you’re opening up your arms in a horizontal line, like wide open as if you’re about to hug someone. So it’s just gentler, it’s just a gentler way to keep your heart open and because we sit a lot and we’re hunched over our desks and were not made to live the way that we’re living right now. So these practices are important to keep those lines open and not close us off to the world around us or even, you know, internally to ourselves and going against ourselves. So these practices are definitely they’re beautiful practices in keeping your body more fluid and more open and receptive.

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(Carol Chapman) So how did they activate healing based on your experience in your body and your mind and even your heart? I mean, how do they activate that.

(Sufi Rubia) breath to movement anytime you’re linking your breath to movement.

And that’s with any given discipline, You know, swimming, basketball, like the all of these athletes have the mastery of their breath to movement to be able to sustain, you know, the physical demands of what they’re doing. I mean, they’re not necessarily in a therapeutic setting, although, you know, the sports is therapy for many people, but the healing aspect in soothing the nervous system is really linking the breath two gentle mindful movement. And it’s really it’s the synergy of all of it happening together and the repetition. So that’s where we get into the physical healing.

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(Sufi Rubia) But if you understand that your body, your body is basically crystalized emotion and that you’re kind of chipping away through the physical body at the emotional distress, then you’re bringing it all together in a in a holistic approach to healing the mind. The body and the spirit, the spirit is taking on the responsibility of developing an ethical practice, you know, in your daily endeavors, whatever that means to you through religion through volunteer work and generous practices and giving and offering and all of that. So that’s the spiritual process. But we’re addressing the well, we can address all of it. We’re right now, we’re talking about the physical part, Right?

(Carol Chapman) What else would you like to share with respect to that interesting term that use crystallized emotion. Maybe we can talk a little bit more about that and how it releases that and maybe even transforms it.

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(Sufi Rubia) I feel that you have to approach these technologies and modalities with intention. You can move to move for the sake of moving and you’ll benefit from, you know, from the movement. You know, you do an hour class and you moved for an hour and there’s a benefit there. But if you know internally that you’re dealing with some stuff, then it’s locating it in your body with mindfulness, gentleness, self-compassion and allowing the movement and the breath to become the tool by which your healing that within that that physical space. So some people hold their emotions and their hips and their bellies, you know, in their chest and their shoulders. You know, like we have the warnings the warnings are there. So it’s really taking the time to acknowledge something’s going on. And then mindfully peeling back the layers of the stagnation or the points of tension.

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(Sufi Rubia) Again, Still, in my experience, I think yoga creates more tension than release for me. For whatever reason, it’s really through my Tai Chi practice and Qi Gong practice that I find it’s a gentler place to release the tension.

(Carol Chapman) Yeah, I was going to say softer, a little bit softer, more gentle. Whereas yoga is a bit more rigorous.

(Sufi Rubia) If you have a Vinyasa practice, even yin practice yin yoga is very intense. Yes, you’re going deeper into the connective tissue and you’re holding these Asanas for a longer period of time and they’re useful. It’s useful. Again, I don’t shy away from yoga, it’s just I don’t know, Tai Chi is a gentler place to start if you’re on a healing journey.

(Carol Chapman) How did it heal you? Or let’s put it this way, I don’t think we’re ever fully healed. How has the healing occurred for you as a result of these practices?

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(Carol Chapman) Number one and number two, how has it changed your perception of yourself and the world?

(Sufi Rubia) Those are two big questions. You might have to repeat the second one. Let me address the 1st Yeah. Again, coming back to mindfulness, I wanted to hell, I knew there was something, you know when you’re when you’re dealing with trauma, you are often find yourself in a reactive state because you’re protecting yourself. So it’s transcending that reaction in your body and again, the Tai Chi practice and the Qi Gong practice when you first start, it’ll activate it, it’ll trigger those responses, but then you breathe through it. What it has done is that it’s created a soft place for me to work on those triggers and because I’ve created that mindfulness and awareness in your breath and in your body in these moments of being triggered, I know how to breathe through it, how to pause in order how to slow down and become less reactive to the situation at hand.

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(Sufi Rubia) So in that sense, it just soothes the body in the moment of a reactive situation. So that’s one way and I think the most important way that it’s helped me, it’s an energy management system. That’s one way I put it, is learn how to manage your energy and tap into a different way of existing and moving through the world. And again, when you’re dealing with trauma, you’re dealing with very reactive behavior. Yeah, I’ve done some psychotherapy and that hasn’t always helped for me, moving meditation, moving mindfully has been my therapy.

(Carol Chapman) And that second question was how has it changed your perception of yourself and the world around you?

(Sufi Rubia) When you start moving through the world differently because of these practices. I think this is a place where I would add that I’ve recently started studying astrology and you and I we’ve spoken about that off mike and I feel that even with the decades of these physical practice is the practice of reading the sky and understanding the archetypes of planets and planetary alignments and transits.

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(Sufi Rubia) Understanding that in addition to having that body cosmic connection has made me a much more compassionate person in dealing with people and dealing with the chaos that is our humanity essentially. So it’s cultivated more compassion. So it’s a combination of all of it. And it’s only because I’ve been doing it for a long period of time with the discipline, with the repetition, with the willingness to move through the world in a different way, with less aggression. Again, another thing that trauma ignites his aggression, I walked through the world very angry for a long, long time and not all the time. But, you know, there are certain situations that just triggered, you know, a rise of anger and I just I just didn’t want to do that anymore. So when you don’t want to do something anymore, you look for what what’s the, what’s the alternative to that?

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(Sufi Rubia) So, you look to peaceful practices meditation again, Movement. But I wanted to do it. So it starts with the desire for change and the desire to transcend the circumstances, right? So, those were the circumstances of my life and that those were the challenges that were given to me without my permission. Right? I didn’t ask for this and trauma will do that to you, that you’re like, well, I didn’t ask for this. Why are you impressing me with that, that belongs to you? So it’s separating yourself from that and the laws of non-attachment. I’ve read a lot of books. So, you know, The Four Agreements is a really beautiful book to understand, you know, your place in the world and the relationship that you hold towards others and vice versa. It just comes back to me for you have to want to do it and commit to the practice. Commit to yourself, commit to your healing. That in itself is very difficult, especially when you’re hardwired for self-destruction, which is, you know, I feel like in many ways I was hardwired for that and I had to go against that to find something different or at least create something different for myself.

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(Sufi Rubia) It’s ongoing. You find systems to help you manage.

(Carol Chapman) That is true. I have to admit my go to system has been meditation which has really helped me to become more aware of, you know, certain aspects of myself that were triggered because of trauma in my life. And it’s a way of processing it and calming the mind and moving beyond it. And it really is a matter of just finding the right practice for you that is going to fit your nature for what you need at any given point in time. Because sometimes we even moved through different practices, You know, even different meditation practices. You know, you started out with yoga, but you have really gravitated more towards Tai Chi and Qi Gong for the work that you’re doing with others and you’re getting the benefit of all three of them just in different ways. It’s interesting how these kinds of practices can help us become more mindful and aware of ourselves, not just what’s going on emotionally and mentally, but also what’s happening in the body.

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(Carol Chapman) Because all of that builds up in the body and if we don’t find ways to release it, I think that’s really, in many respects, is occurring within the world. More people were to be involved in practicing some of these ancient practices. We might have a gentler kinder world today. That’s not really the case at the moment.

(Sufia Rubia) No, but what’s happening is necessary also, you know, you need to burn everything down to rise again. There are Hindu philosophies and you see it even in cosmology, all of the cycles of humanity, the cycles of planetary alignments and all of that stuff. I mean, I don’t want to necessarily get into all of that. But what we’re seeing is not unusual. We’re in the phase of humanity. That is, we’re right on time, I guess, destroying ourselves. We’re right on time and destroying the narcissism, the greed, the need for materialism, all of that is being burnt to the ground or it’s being brought to the front, but it’s also being burnt down at the same time.

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(Sufi Rubia) We’re not going to see it fully diminish in our lifetime. We’re going to see a process. We’re going to see the beginning of the transcendence of all of that. And the alchemy. And it’s our responsibility to do this work. Mm hmm. I mean, I would say google Kali Yuga, you know, I don’t want to speak out of pocket, but the information is out there. Google Kali Yuga. Kali Yuga—the Hindu speak of, you know, the four major cycles of humanity. And so we’re in the last one. We’re in the fourth one, which is self-destruction. And before we go back to the top to them.

(Carol Chapman) Rebirth.

(Sufi Rubia) Yes, exactly, exactly. I mean, it’s not pleasant. It’s not pleasant to watch. It’s not pleasant to be connected to. But you have to also consider its necessity to move forward. And until then do your work, do your part to heal yourself because we are ultimately responsible for our own healing.

00:25:23

(Sufi Rubia) And it’s in that healing that we expand that outward. So it starts small, it starts within your own family. It starts with yourself, your own family, your own lineage, your community. And then, you know, everything expands outward from you. So start there.

(Carol Chapman) What’s the biggest lesson that you’ve learned about yourself.

(Sufi Rubia) I think I’m still learning. I don’t think I’ve learned the biggest one yet. I don’t know. That’s a big question carol. I don’t know that it’s about myself, but the biggest lesson that I’ve learned is that everything is it’s an illusion. First of all, everything is an illusion. And the biggest gift is experiencing my dimensional self. I’ve experienced myself dimensionally. Which that shapes you. That definitely that’s an experience that changes you forever. And when you go through that I think you move through life differently more mindfully more purposefully and with a lot more clarity.

(Carol Chapman) Don’t always believe what you see and question what you believe.

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(Carol Chapman) Always, Always, always. And I think that that’s really interesting that then we can save that for another conversation. But life is an illusion in many respects. Everything that was experiencing, thinking, feeling, seeing and what we believe is affected by actually you know what we believe?

(Sufi Rubia) We’re limited. We’re limited with the five senses and that’s fine. That’s the experience of being here on this planet and this body. We’re here to experience those senses. But those senses are limited. And it’s through meditation and discipline. It’s through discipline practice that you experience something else. Again, it’s only through practice that this what I shared with. You didn’t happen overnight, right?

(Carol Chapman) No, it doesn’t even what I have gained through my meditation has been years and years and years of meditating for most people.

00:27:30

(Carol Chapman) That really is the way it is. It’s a process of unfoldment. It’s a process oven peeling all these layers, these heavy layers. And once we peel them, we’ve become a little lighter and in some respects we find some things that we don’t really like about ourselves that we have to.

(Sufi Rubia) Oh yeah, You have to go through that too.

You have to take a long hard looks and some serious mirror time. But that’s what I love about Tai Chi is that it will always meet you where you are. It’s a discovery process. And when you approach it, I would hope that people would approach it that way that you walk into a class or you start your courses or what not and that you approach it with the eyes of a child in the eyes of a beginner and excitement and discovery. And okay, I want to discover something new today. I want to feel something new today. And it requires you to be in the present moment at every single moment. So, that’s another gift of when you’re dealing with anxiety separate from trauma.

00:28:35

(Sufi Rubia) Sometimes you’re in your head a lot where you’re overthinking and you’re projecting you’re thinking back so you fluctuate between anxiety for the future and depression of the past. And so when you have these places where you can kind of settle into, you don’t want to be anywhere else. Once you discover certain sensations and certain feelings and realizations, small things at a time. It’s not an effort to practice. It’s not an effort to be disciplined. It’s a place where you’ve committed for yourself, allow that to happen.

(Carol Chapman) Yes. And it’s a place where you feel and experience the benefits and because of that, it encourages you to want more of it. Because it fuels and fills the soul and the heart with the mending that it needs.

(Carol Chapman) I would love to know what you’re most grateful for right now.

(Sufi Rubia) The air in my lungs, for whatever reason, I’m always grateful for the air in my lungs.

00:29:41

(Sufi Rubia) The gift of sight, I think seeing color is really is a gift, wonderful, grateful for you in this moment.

(Carol Chapman) Yes, me too. Tell us a little bit about your future endeavors and the online courses that you’re offering.

(Sufi Rubia) Sure, thank you for the opportunity for me to share that. But right now I’ve produced a Qi Gong course, a full Qi Gong course, a short Qi Gong set that I’m offering for free and I’ll speak to that more in a second and a Tai Chi fundamentals course. So all of those are live online. I’m currently working on producing an intermediate Tai Chi course to the one that’s already up there, Tai Chi fundamentals, which is the one you experienced and working on bridging Qi Gong with the yamas and the yamas. So bringing my Yogi and my Tai Chi practice together, which is really beautiful.

00:30:45

(Sufi Rubia) So we’re working on that and I spoke of astrology earlier. So, I’m trying to speak to astrology, transits, planets and archetypes and, you know, helping people navigate through their birth charts, we go through different things at different phases in our lives and you can always link them back to planetary alignments. So, movement for those things and the house systems and stuff like that. So, working on that, circling back to the courses that are available and I’d like to offer this to your listeners today. There’s a short Qi Gong for grounding course that I’m making available for free. The website is Tai Chi wellness dot online. So T A I C H I I W E L L N E S S dot online. And you can find the short Qi Gong series for grounding and use V. I. P code: HRUQI

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(Sufi Rubia) Okay, so for your audience and HRUQI. That course and they’ll get 100% off,

(Carol Chapman) Wow, that is so generous of you.

(Sufi Rubia) And I’ve also just started last week, I’m offering a sliding scale, so I’m trying to make it as easy and accessible for everyone out there. You’ll see that on the website.

(Carol Chapman) We’ll be sure to include all of this in our show notes, all the details. Any anything else that you’d like to share just in terms of your future endeavors?

(Sufi Rubia) There’s always something on the burner. But right now I definitely encourage people to try the Qi Gong. It’s a beautiful short practice for the morning to get you grounded. There’s some tapping in there and then the Tai Chi class, you know, the Tai Chi course. Again, it’s available on the sliding scale if you’ve ever wanted to learn Tai Chi, It’s a beautiful introduction to it, you know, getting into activating the waist, you know, learning how to move and step in that fluid motion that you see.

00:32:53

(Sufi Rubia) And I think there are eight minutes long, the little chapters. If you’re restricted with time, you can take one module at a time and they all build on each other.

(Carol Chapman) So that’s kind of how I did it. I carved out some time for some of those modules and then I had to go back to them.

(Sufi Rubia) Once you have access to the portal, then you’re in.

(Carol Chapman) Before we wrap up one final question. Do you have any words of advice or just insight for others that you’d like to share on their journey?

(Sufi Rubia) I can share other people’s wisdom. I mean I have quote, I look at every day and then one of them is from BKS Iyengar and he says “it is through your body that you realize you’re a spark of divinity,” explore your body in new ways, explore movement in new ways and those sparks of your divinity will come through somebody else’s advice. I don’t, I’m not really good with that awesome.

(Carol Chapman) Well I know that you’re a fabulous teacher because I’ve experienced your online courses firsthand and I want to thank you so much for joining me today Rubia.

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(Carol Chapman) Been a pleasure and I wish you well as you move forward on your continued journey.

(Sufi Rubia) Thank you carol. It’s been an honor to meet you and I know that we’re going to keep in touch. I’m grateful for the friendship that you’ve extended and this opportunity to share. Thank you.

(Carol Chapman) Well, feelings are mutual and so thank you so much. And I just want to say to all of you listeners out there, I encourage you to definitely check out Rubia’s site. You have some fabulous courses there and certainly that free offer is available to you. And I just want to thank you for joining us today and listening in until next time. Just keep rising up. Bye for now.

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Ep. 63 – Releasing Emotional & Mental Blocks For Permanent Breakthroughs – With Micaela Passeri

Carol Chapman — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 03:49:58 +0000

In this interview, Micaela Passeri shares her journey to releasing emotional and mental blocks for permanent breakthroughs and what led to this mission to help others. Based on her own experience, she discusses the many different modalities and tools to help her clients expand, evolve, and transform their lives – both in business and personally.

Micaela leads women on transformational journeys through her unique custom and experiential retreats in her hometown of Florence, Italy. She firmly believes that business success is directly tied to an individual’s ability to free themselves from the emotional ties of the past and what better way to do so than being plucked out of your day-to-day life and placed in the middle of the Tuscan countryside to look at yourself and life from a different perspective. Micaela helps participants go deep into their spiritual hearts to find “home.” Her work has helped hundreds of clients “go from stuck, stagnant, and unfulfilled to happy, liberated, hopeful, and healed”. They learn to take action using their inner truth to create abundance on their own terms.

Micaela Passeri is an award-winning emotional intelligence and business performance coach. She is the Founder & CEO of Love You Revolution. She is an international speaker, fashion designer, and author. Her mission is to guide women to financial freedom by helping them heal their emotions around money. Micaela has used her business degree, 20 years of experience, and many certifications to help entrepreneurs open their hearts and enjoy life to its fullest.

Show Notes

Origins in Italy
Death as grief & a path to catharsis
Who do we attract based on past patterns?
Victimhood & inadequacy drain lifeforce
Driven to introspection and self-development
Discovery of the Emotion Code
Breaking out of negative self-talk
Subconscious memory banks
Power affirmations create new neural pathways
Be the co-pilot of the life you want
Releasing trapped emotions – be willing, dig deep, seek a guide
Transformational retreats in Tuscany
Create! No matter how big or small

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Thank you for tuning your heart’s in for another episode of the Hearts rise up podcast. I’m carol chapman, your host along with my co host Ann Serrie and Concetta Antonelli. We share our own personal experiences, tips and strategies along with powerful stories and compelling insights from guest interviews. We’re here to inspire and empower your conscious evolution. Help you tap into your inner wisdom and rise to your heart centered higher self. Together we can rise to a higher level of consciousness, an elevated state of being and experience more love, joy and freedom. Mm hmm. Yes. Welcome back. Heart centered listeners. Thank you for joining us again for another episode of the Hearts Rise Up podcast where you’ll always find heart based wisdom to inspire your conscious evolution.

I have a very special guest today. Her name is Micaella Passeri. Micaela is an award-winning emotional intelligence and business performance coach. Her mission is to guide women to financial freedom by opening their hearts to heal their emotions around money. Success and being seen With over 20 years of experience building six and 7 figure businesses. Kayla puts her business degree experience and many certifications to use helping entrepreneurs open their heart to more financial abundance With strategic monetization and sales structure implementation. She uses her proprietary technique of marrying business R. O. I. Planning with emotional subconscious release work. Kaylee uses many different modalities and tools to help our clients expand, evolve and transform permanent breakthroughs. one of the ways she has been doing this is through her unique custom and experiential retreats.

Micaela has led transformational journeys to her hometown Florence in the Italian countryside since 2009. She firmly believes that business success is directly tied to an individual’s ability to free themselves from the emotional ties of the past, conscious or unconscious and what better way to do so than being plucked out of your day to day life and placed in the middle of the Tuscan countryside to look at yourself and life from a totally different perspective. Her work has helped hundreds of clients go from stock stagnant and unfulfilled to happy, liberated, hopeful and healed the result. They get out of their own way and take action from an unwavering inner truth and create abundance on their own terms. Michaela, welcome to the show. Thank you so much carol. I’m so happy to be here this morning. I just love your story, what you’re doing today and what you’re doing to help women.

I definitely want us to get into seeing an inside glimpse into your work and how you help women unpack these blocked patterns for permanent breakthroughs. But first I’d love for you to share your own personal story and some defining moments in your life that have shaped who you are today and has led you to the work that you’re doing as well. Well as you mentioned, my hometown is in Florence. So I was born and raised in Florence Italy and I was there for the 1st 20 years of my life until I moved to California to go to college and as much as everybody loves Florence and loves Italy growing up there, it felt oppressive as a young woman, it felt oppressive and so there were things about interacting with my peers, interacting with my family members, the culture, the deeply ingrained victim and sacrificing conversations that just the populists had all of these things together really made me feel attract, made me feel you know, not free and on top of that, you know, my relationship with my father was one of love hate, he was my greatest rock, but he was also my greatest critic and so as I grew up, my experience as a young woman was constantly not feeling not good enough, constantly not being up to par constantly the feeling that I wasn’t capable, right?

So all of those conversations that I took up through my you know, personal young experience, I then brought into my adult life now one of the biggest defining moments for me apart from okay, the experience that I had in this love hate relationship with my father, where I was uplifted in some moments and then totally criticized and torn down in other moments and so I never really knew where I stood because obviously you look to your parents for guidance, you look to your parents for support and there were moments where oh you know, you’re amazing and others like you totally wrong, why did you do that? You know, all of those types of things. So, once I moved to America within the first year, my father passed away. And so that was really the biggest defining moment of my life up until that point, because I had, you know, I had obviously took on conditioning, like we all do from my culture, my family life, my peer experiences, all of that, and then all of a sudden, one of the people that highly contributed to my conditioning just disappeared.

And there was no opportunity for closure, there was no opportunity for conversation, there was no opportunity for anything because he was, he was gone. And so that really his death, as tragic and as painful as it was, was really the cathartic, momentous in my life, to propel me into seeking and wanting to learn and really into self discovery, and I just dove headfirst into personal development, because there was a part of me that really wanted to understand how I worked as a human being, and then there was another part of me that really wanted to understand how not to feel the pain anymore, the pain of grief. And so that’s kind of how my story and my journey started. It was just really with this tragic event in my life that then brought on other events, you know, when I deal with my clients and their emotionality, their connection to their emotional past. It’s really about looking the various sequences of events that have contributed something.

And so for me, yes, the tragedy of my father’s death at 20 was one. But then subsequently, because of all of the conditioning, because of the fact that I couldn’t didn’t have closure. There were other events. There are other things that I manifested in my life that were not empowering, that were not supported because of the emotional baggage that I had been holding on, that I had been been carried into my future right into my life as an adult woman. So, that’s kind of how it all started. What were those other things that surfaced after your father died? If you can think about a young woman who does not love herself, does not feel confident, has low self esteem, feels inadequate, really feels inadequate and inferior because of the constant criticism. Now, this woman goes out into the real world as an adult and starts living life and as I started living my life, I started making decisions based on all of those conversations, right? Based on all of those feelings and emotions of inadequacy, inability, inferiority and capability, All of that.

Right? So that woman feeling those things, thinking those thoughts about herself, attracted into her life, certain relationships, certain opportunities discussed, well, things disguised as opportunities that weren’t really opportunities. So, some of the things that happened were I started attracting men in my life that did not take care of my heart, whether they cheated. Whether they pushed me down, Whether they verbally and emotionally abused me. That was one thing that shows up and specifically for me, showed up in one specific relationship. Many relationships, but another big defining moment in my life was relationship with my my daughter’s father, where I basically dove headfirst in the relationship, really felt this deep connection. You know, I was ready to marry this guy. All of that. I gave everything gave my body, my mind, my heart, my soul, my money. I gave him six figures in cash money to buy his love because of all of the feelings of inadequacy, you know, inferior, all of those things trying to buy his love so that we could have lived this happily ever laughter that I had made up in my head.

So that relationship just left me flattened like feeling like I had been a use drag and now I’ve been used and I trust to the garbage, right? So that was something that also showed up. And then so that was on the personal side. On the business side, I made a decision to go into business with a client of mine at the time and she left me with a big tax bill. So when we look at the kind of the underlying conversation, right? It’s the conversation of victimhood. It’s the conversation of inferiority of inadequacy and how it showed up was in relationships that were taking away from me. They were taking away life force. They were taking away money, they were taking away my essence. That’s how it showed up at the point where these two things happened with the business partner and my ex, That’s when then my, the opening of personal development and introspection kind of like went into high gear like tenfold because I just was like, okay, that’s enough.

I was like, okay, wait a minute. There’s something here that I’m not seeing that I’m not aware of, but it’s driving my life and it’s driving me somewhere where I don’t want to go, I want to go over here into a happy life, you know, where I wake up every day and I feel like the sun is shining, but I’m being driven where I wake up every day and I feel like there’s a black cloud over my head, like nothing good is ever going to happen like this doom and gloom type of feeling. And so that’s when then it was like trying a lot of different modalities and going to a lot of seminars and reading a lot of books and just doing a lot of interpersonal work. A lot of transformational journeys to open myself up to heal, to really make the connection with all of these past events that created Mi Mikaela as the now adult woman in life with a child and a business Yes, you had so much that you were dealing with at what point did things start to click for you, everything that I did contributed something for me?

But I feel that the biggest contribution was when I found the modality called emotion code, which is the modality that I use with my clients and the reason I feel that’s when everything clicked is because it allowed the practitioner that was working with me to really identify the subconscious triggers the subconscious stuck energies that we’re driving, that driving force to the place that I didn’t want to go to. And so once I experienced that and I experienced the lightness and the weight lifted off my shoulder and the healing and the happiness and the joy that came out of that, I was like, wait a minute. I know where I was before and I know where I am now and if I can get here everybody else can get here. I want this for everybody. I want every woman to feel this freedom, this liberation, this lightness, this happiness, this joy, this grounded nous and into the truth of who they are, just like me.

And that’s why I chose then to get certified and use it as the foundation of the work that I do with the women that I work with. What are some of the limiting beliefs that you have found in your work with clients that seem to be the most prevalent that women, particularly women are dealing with. Well, you know mostly it’s it’s really always the same conversation. The majority of the conversations are around self worth. And there are around whether it shows up as a fear of being seen and putting oneself out there to fully be vulnerable or whether it shows up as not being able to ask for what what is worth. Or if it shows up as maybe holding holding relationships that only take from you instead of give to you and contribute to your life.

Like it shows up in different ways. But the general conversation is one of you know, feeling not good enough, feeling inadequate, Feeling that one doesn’t measure up to the other people and that one sees out in the world. It’s that conversation and it just shows up differently for every individual. So every human being is unique in their own conditioning. We all have our own life experiences. We all make up things about our life and our experiences in different ways. So there’s no one cookie cutter way. Because we’re all unique in that way. Mm hmm. The river so to speak. Right. The general connotation of the river is a value conversation. It is. And that value conversation often stems particularly the lack of self worth and the lack of just not feeling good enough. Often stems from those ancestral patterns that we were early conditioning. As you had mentioned. But also how we have come to feel about ourselves And oftentimes we have this we get into this spiral.

If one is conscious about their thoughts, thoughts can negative thoughts can run rampant. How have you helped others, particularly women break that cycle of negative self-talk? One of the very important cores of the work that I do with women is looking at identifying the disempowering and negative conversations that were birthed from an emotional experience. Because those are those negative beliefs that you were mentioning. Those are the ones that get formed as well. We’re conditioned as we experience life And they get recorded into the subconscious because the conscious mind can only hold about 10% of the information. So where does the rest of the information go? Just like our memories, Where do they, where are they held there held in the subconscious. So these beliefs, these ideas, these conjectures these interpretations. These conversations get formed because of a negative emotional experience.

They then get recorded in the subconscious and they get held unconsciously to the individual. The key is to identify the conversation. What was the conversation that you made up at the time when X, Y. Z happened and what did that conversation bring forth into your future into your life to where you are right now? And then once we identify that conversation. So awareness is key number one, right? It’s becoming aware of what’s in the subconscious, it’s bringing that unconscious to the conscious so that the conscious mind can connect the dots and say, oh okay, now I get it, you know, this led to this led to this and it’s because of this underlying conversation? So key number one is to become aware and it’s to become aware of the disempowering conversation that was created in the past. Once we’re there, we can then use the conscious mind to create a new conversation, what I call power affirmations. So part of the work that I do with my clients is just that, as we look at Using the modality of emotion code, we identify what’s in the subconscious, we look at the conversation that was created in the past and then we create a new one and so in doing that, we’re creating new neural pathways and slowly the old one gets erased and the new one gets ingrained and that’s what we really want.

We want to create new neural pathways, new positive empowering conversations that then from today bring us into our future tomorrow, and when we do that, we know that our future is going to be bright because we are basing it with the foundation of something that empowers us that supports us that uplifts us, that’s positive, so with that, we can only create goodness, We can only create success, We can only create happiness, you know, life can be really messy for a lot of people and we’re all unique individuals, we have all these unique and different experiences that we bring forward in our lives? How do we get to the point where we can unpack all of that. Where does one start, if you’ve got all of this baggage that you’re dealing with? What’s the one thing that they could do to at least begin to unpack, even if they’re just doing it on their own, what would they do? Yeah. So the first step is they have to be willing to look at themselves.

They have to be willing to look at themselves because everybody has baggage, everybody has emotional triggers and everybody has trapped emotions in the subconscious that they’re not aware of, but some people are not willing to look at it and so they’d rather punch in and punch out and be on automatic and just go through their life and that’s fine, that’s their, you know, everybody, it’s our prerogative. So the first thing though, if one really wants to achieve their highest potential and wants to really connect to their highest self, they’ve got to be willing to look at themselves and they’ve got to be willing to dig deep to find those connections that the conscious mind can say, okay, that experience created this thought, this conversation disbelief about myself for the world that brought X. Y. Z into my life. Now X. Y. Z. I didn’t like it, it didn’t feel good, I don’t want to recreate that so now let me look at that conversation, let me look at that event, Let me bring some healing to it, some acceptance, some forgiveness, whatever needs to be brought compassion and then create a new conversation.

So the first key is to be willing and then secondly, when you’re willing, then when you start feeling friction within yourself, whether it’s frustration overwhelmed stress, it’s just take that moment and say, okay, what is this about? What’s underneath this emotion that I’m experiencing right now. So it’s really starting questioning process, a self questioning process of introspective process where you’re asking yourself, what’s this about, what’s underneath this, You’re just kind of starting to think about it to really bring more awareness to it. That is what people can do on their own. Obviously this work is really held by someone outside of that person’s life experience. So you’ll get farther when you work with someone like me that can be the guide. I don’t heal people, the person, we are all healers of ourselves, right?

I’m just guide. I just guide the person to the freedom to the liberation to the lightness, the release by supporting that process. But they have to be willing and they have to be over. Those are great points is to be willing to look at yourself, take a good hard look at yourself and then to get underneath and take the introspective route of really digging deep with the right questions and it is important to have someone as a guide and I think one of the things that you do really well as a guide is holding space, you know that container of space so that the person feels safe, that they can begin to explore because oftentimes when we start to explore some things, it can be pretty scary, scary things about ourselves and we’re not quite sure how to deal with them. And particularly when we’re dealing with the egoist mind and then the heart, how do you align the mind with the heart?

Because you know the mind wants to protect you and the mind is limited, whereas the heart is very expansive and all knowing and one of the things in your work that you do is to help people tap into their inner voice. Let’s talk a little bit about how you do that and what’s the biggest obstacle that keeps people from really hearing and listening to that inner voice. What I have found in my work is that the biggest obstacle that people have is not being aware of those conversations, Once one becomes aware, That’s like 80% of the work. So it’s the kind of being in the dark of one’s own makeup of what really makes you, what drives you, What makes you tick right? Why certain patterns are present in your life, Why you make certain decisions in certain ways, right?

I think that’s really the biggest obstacle is world number one we talked about it earlier is like not being willing, right? When you’re not willing, you just stay stuck and then two is just the unawareness. So then when you become aware, you can actually start making decisions in different ways when you notice the patterns, you can stop and choose differently, right? And start making those changes. And what was it the part of the question that you asked me? It was about the inner voice about really being able to really tap into that inner voice when you start doing this work, right? You really start looking at yourself from that perspective and really start bringing awareness as how you are moving through life in the way that you have in the past, and then in the way that you’re doing it in the present, so that then you can create what you want in the future, you start knowing yourself better, you start really grounding in your truth, you start getting to a place of unwavering knowingness within the self and so that is what supports the voice.

I’m just going to give myself as an example, you know, if you met me when I was in my teens, I was really quiet, meek shy, I didn’t really speak up much, I was very fearful of what other people thought and that was the result of the conditioning of the criticism, right? As I evolved and as I did the work, I stepped into a totally different person, you know, when you meet me now, I’m not shy, I totally speak my truth, I’m totally different, I’m open, I’m very social, right? I’m not closed up, like I used to be right, because I found I really found myself in this work, I found myself and I found my truth. And so when one does that there’s this unwavering stance that you take in your life, so it doesn’t matter what sally or bob or whoever out there say about you because it’s their interpretation, it’s their idea, it’s there thought process based on their conditioning.

I know who I am, I know what I’m about and yes, if I’m making a mistake, if I’m wrong, I’ll admit it all of that. But if not I’ve got this unwavering stance of internationally and so from there then I’m able to use my voice to create. So I’m able to use my voice to create things in my business, create transformation, create understanding, create connection, create communication, but I’m also able to use my voice to stand up for myself. I use my voice to communicate. Maybe an idea that could support a community, right? So I’m not holding back anymore because of this unwavering stance. And so then my voice becomes a tool that’s the beauty of the process actually, and that’s really what my objective is in doing the work that I do is I want people to have that same unwavering truth about themselves and that inner confidence so that when they go out in their life they’re creating a life of their own choosing.

They’re creating a life that they want and they they’re not punching in and punching out everyday feeling that life is being done to them, that life is happening to them. They are a copilot with source spirit, God, universe, whoever is your higher power in having this beautiful experience as this spiritual being in a physical body, right? And if we understand that, then it’s much easier to go with the flow and to navigate life because we have we know that the what I like to refer to as the universe has our back, basically, the universe has your back and you know that there is no such thing as failure, whatever we learn along the way is there for us for our own good and we’re learning and growing and we need to take the opportunity to step outside of what the society’s norms and rules and that old conditioning that has been ingrained in us to move our lives forward and sort of like putting a stake in the ground Yeah, everything, everything in life for everybody, it doesn’t just choose some people and not others, everything is feedback.

So if you go about your life, understanding that what is happening in your life is just feedback for you to understand how you’re attracting things in your life, how you’re co creating in your life, then you can take a step back with awareness and say, okay, this doesn’t feel good, this that’s that’s been happening in my life doesn’t feel good, What can I do? What are the decisions and the steps that I need to make So that this isn’t present in my life. And so it’s just looking at the feedback and shifting and making different choices, right? Do you have an example of a client success story that you’re most proud of? Most proud of? And just in terms of the progress and the breakthroughs that the individual made through as a result of putting the work in to do the inner work. Yeah, I mean there are many but I think the one that always comes to mind when I’m asked this question is one of my clients, she was in a sales position, kind of like direct sales type of position and she had been at it for a while.

She had achieved a certain level of success, but she had arrived to a point where she felt capped and she hadn’t noticed. So, so she had become aware that she was experiencing certain emotions, certain negative emotions when she was going out into the world when she was going places networking. And she couldn’t understand why these emotions were coming up. She felt that they were stifling her that they were holding her back and when we worked together and we identified the connection of why those emotions were coming up from her in her past, she totally exploded and in this specific instance and obviously not everybody is going to have this type of event but for her she was finding that anxiety and fear and stress were coming up when she was out talking to people and she had needed networking, going to events and she had to do that to sell right?

She’s in a direct sales position and we uncovered that and obviously now mind you, she knows her past, she knows her history, she knows her life experience. But she had never connected the two. She had never connected that, You know, 50 years later, 40 years later this event in her childhood, he was still affecting her in her life today. Right? That’s right. So for her, what had happened was that when she misbehaved, her father would lock her under the stairs in this little cubby and so she would stay in the dark for hours until her father would come pick her up. So she had developed this semi claustrophobic response to tight spaces, too crowded spaces and things like that and she never really understood that she never knew that. So when we uncovered that there were trapped emotions that surged and were created because of that experience and that those were the emotions that were still coming up today and that were hindering and holding her back from doing the work that she wanted to do and from creating the success that she wanted once she connected and she emoted whatever still needed to come out from that experience that was it, it was gone.

It was she just was on fire. That’s a powerful, powerful process. That’s a great example. Yeah. And and that can be very traumatic, you know, being locked in a closet or under the stairs for whatever reason. And amazing how that can affect us later in life, in real life situations, kudos to you for helping her to work through that. Thank you. If you could go back and ask any of your or even just yourself, if you could just go back and ask your younger self anything, what would you say? Oh, that’s a that’s a very interesting question. So if I were to ask my younger self anything, what would I ask or let’s turn it around to share something with your younger self about what you know today, what would you share? Well if I were to if I had the opportunity to share my wisdom with my younger self, the one thing that I would say to her would be you, you know, you have value, you are amazing, you know, you are smart, you’re capable, I would really build her up because thinking of myself in the past, I didn’t feel any of that.

I didn’t feel pretty, I didn’t feel smart, I didn’t feel capable. So I would go back and say you are all these things and what you’re experiencing right now is to make you stronger to learn so that you can really step into these things that right now you might not believe you are but that you are. So it’s really just give her that pumping up that she needed. What are you most grateful for in your life today? You know, I’m grateful for all of the trials and tribulations. I’m grateful for all of the lessons that I’ve learned. Whether they stemmed from pain or not, I’m grateful for all of the expenses because they’ve taught me and they’ve molded me into the woman that I am today. Without those experiences, I’ve I wouldn’t be who I am today so well, it’s so important to be grateful for the adversity in our lives because those are the most, I think most important teachable moments, particularly if we’re having breakthroughs and recognizing that they are teachable moments and how they can shape and cultivate new ways of thinking, being and seeing and feeling in the world.

One of the things I wanted to ask you is that you were doing a lot of experiential retreats at one point and I would imagine with the pandemic, those retreats have maybe not been as frequent. Tell us a little bit about your experiential retreats because I was really intrigued by taking people out of their environment and into this beautiful. I could just envision it Tuscany and I’ve been to Tuscany. I have been to well maybe I have been to Florence, but I took a trip years ago with my good friend and Siri to Tuscany and we stayed in Radda in Chianti at the time, I think we did go into Florence I’m trying to remember for you know maybe a half a day or so, but I would love to find out more about your just share a little bit more about your retreats and what differentiates them from other retreats. Yeah. Yes, absolutely. Before I go into that I just wanted to say my family used to own Radda in Chianti until my grandfather lost it at poker.

Oh my gosh, grand. My paternal grandfather gambled rather in County away. Oh my goodness, that is a story for another conversation about ancestral. But anyway, so I just thought that was that was interesting. I have been doing these transformational retreats since 2009, obviously didn’t do any in 2020, however, Started back up in 2021. So I just did one of retreat in October and the retreat is really a heart opening experience. I take people through the seven aspects of the sacred heart and we each aspect of the sacred heart that we delve into. Their our experiential exercises, processes, conversations that we do and then I combine every afternoon an experience in and around Tuscany in or italy because sometimes we also go outside of Tuscany to kind of in permeate the don’t even know if that’s a word, I’m thinking an italian now that’s okay to lock in the learning of the morning right?

And so the experiences in the afternoon are really just two seal the learning. So what I’m doing is I’m taking people out of their life, I’m putting them in this beautiful setting in the countryside of Tuscany. We are living literally living there as Italians, right? We were living in this medieval farmhouse, biodynamic winery and we are experiencing all of the amazing contribution that Italy is, right? So the culture, the food, the scenery, the experiences of like centuries of history, right? All of those things and using Florence and Tuscany as the backdrop for for inner and personal transformation. So obviously every person has their own experience. It’s designed to create this to deepen your inner awareness of who you are by looking at your heart space and what’s there that you haven’t acknowledged what’s there, that needs to be healed, what’s there that you just maybe get to take a look at and use more of, right?

So it really just supports inner transformation. I’m intrigued by the term that you were using the sacred heart. Can you share a little bit more about that? Yeah, so I use that terminology because I really believe that the heart is a sacred space. Indeed, the heart is really, it’s where we live, you know, that’s where we feel, we can think, but thinking doesn’t give us a full, a full experience of something the heart does. And so I really believe it’s a sacred space and it’s a space that we get to learn more about dive deeper into protect, used to empower ourselves. And we’re not taught, we’re not taught to do this. We’re not taught to look at ourselves in that way. To me. It’s a sacred, it’s a sacred part of ourselves. Thank you for sharing that. Well, I’ll have one last question. What advice do you have for others to rise to their heart centered higher self.

And actually to be there’s heart centered, confident, loving and joyful self, because I know that is one of the things that you’re known for is to bring that out for each individual. I would say the way that people can start doing that is start looking at all of the amazing things that one has created naturally. We are animals, right? Were intelligent animals, but we’re animals nonetheless. And our instinctive response is to go to the negative is to go to lack limitation. And so what I would challenge the listeners to do is to bring awareness two More of the Positiveness in Your Life. That’s how you’re going to rise is to really start focusing on what have you created from the smallest minute little thing to the big accomplishment. What have you created in your life? What have you contributed? What have you experienced and focus on those things and the mistakes and the errors and the bad things.

You know, that’s just part of life were imperfect. We’re not perfect beings. So bring compassion to that part of ourselves that has made mistakes that has done wrong and all of that. But then focus only on that part of herself that that that’s resilient. It’s been resilient, that’s been strong, that’s been in power, that’s created. We’re creative beings, we are. That’s what it’s all about. It’s what we’ve been brought here to do is to create and that’s beautiful. Yeah, that’s a beautiful insight. And I think that if more of us were to really make a conscious effort to do that each and every day, I think all of us would elevate more abundance, more joy, more peace, more love, more compassion. Everything you can imagine in our life by focusing on that. So, thank you for sharing that. I think that’s a great insight where can people learn more about you because I know you have a number of websites and you also have some social media site just share a little bit and we’ll be sure also to put links into the show notes, but just briefly where can people find out more about you.

My general website is Love You revolution dot com and that’s really it’s kind of like a fancy business card, right? They can just kind of people can just find out a little bit more about my work there. But if one wants to take a look at, let’s say the retreat page that is at the money breakthrough dot com forward slash retreat and then if one is really interested in delving deeper and taking a look at their subconscious. There is an EQ test, an emotional intelligence test that I take people through and there to do that. You can go to the money breakthrough dot com forward slash e Q. Test and there is a way to just really understand where one is on the emotional intelligence scale because that’s really the work that I do is I help people raise their emotional intelligence by uncovering what’s stuck in the subconscious mind.

Beautiful. That the test really opens people up to understanding and awareness so well we’ll be sure to include that because I think more of us could use that and I may even take the test myself and I know you have some social media sites and we’ll be sure to include those as well. I just want to thank you so much Michaela for coming on the show. Thank you. You have such a richness of experience and certainly having lived and being born and raised in another country and coming to the US, even that in and of itself takes a lot of guts and just perseverance to do that. And it’s just wonderful to hear your story and to share what you have learned and how it can help others and we’ll be sure we share as much as we can in our show notes so that others can tap into your, your inner wisdom. Thank you. Thank you. Well, that’s it for today’s episode. I’m so glad that you joined us.

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