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Episode 126 – How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome

Every single creative deals with “imposter syndrome.” In fact, for many, no level of success ever alleviates the fear that people will one day call you a fraud. This week, Judy and Jason break down the causes of “imposter syndrome” and provide strategies in dealing with it and how, in some cases, it can genuinely energize your work and your initiative if appropriately handled.

To learn more about Judy Carter go to: http://judycarter.com/
To learn more about Judy’s programs go to: https://themessageofyou.com/
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How to Deal with an Emotional Healing Crisis -TPS462

In today’s episode, I talk about the emotional healing crisis that happens when you release long-held emotions. I explain how emotions don’t just happen in your mind, but also happen in your physical body and how you can deal with the resulting discomfort.

Highlights

When you don’t express your emotions, there is a buildup of the “molecules of emotion” on the receptors of your cell. Because emotions are a form of energy, this buildup can cause physical symptoms.
I talk about some physical effects of holding in emotions.
When you make significant emotional changes, there is an energetic shift throughout your body and you have to would just to the new configuration.
Because most people don’t understand the idea of healing crises, they will often do things to stop the process.
I talk about the emotional healing crisis I’ve been going through.
As you start shifting to a new way of being, there’s a chance that you’re going to go through a healing crisis.
There is a wide variety of symptoms that you may experience when going through a healing crisis.
It takes time to take care of your body which is an incredible machine that requires maintenance.
If you get in touch with your body and learn how to communicate with your body, you’ll know what action to take when you feel a little off.
It’s important to learn at least a little bit about how your body works and to have people you can talk to about how your body works.
No one can know your body better than you.
The healing crisis is just something that happens – it isn’t bad – and if you can understand it better then you’ll know how to deal with it.

Links
Molecules of Emotion by Candace Pert

The Wisdom of the Receptors: Neuropeptides, the Emotions, and the Bodymind by Candace Pert

161 – Alexa Silvaggio – Chocolate, Pleasure, and Loving Your Whole Self

“It doesn’t matter what your purpose is; it could be a doctor or a dog mom. Doesn’t matter. But you’re not gonna do it wholeheartedly if you’re obsessing about the size of your thighs.” ~Alexa Silvaggio

Chocolate and ketamine. 

Yes, that would be a fantastic title for a double album! Instead, they’re the ingredients for a vibe-altering conversation with wellness entrepreneur and chocolatier Alexa Silvaggio. As CEO of Savage Chocolates, she helps people cultivate an experience of pleasure and presence through chocolate. 

Alexa believes in pleasure done well, pleasure done mindfully. “I don’t have any interest in consuming something that leaves me feeling worse than when I started,” she says. That goes as much for people and experiences as it does food. 

Alexa’s affinity for pleasure – so often treated as a dirty word and frivolous pursuit in Western culture – was born out of the years she spent restricting herself into an eating disorder. Alexa began internalizing both the conspicuous and covert messages about body shape and size at a young age, essentially disappearing in an attempt to become more valuable. The loop of self-hatred played in Alexa’s head nonstop throughout college until her sister finally helped her hit stop. 

There’s a spiritual quality with which Alexa talks about starvation – of the body, of the soul. Likewise, the practices and methods she’s leaned on along her healing journey.

Y’all, I had such a soul-satisfying visit with Alexa that we didn’t even get to the healer/wounded healer questions! And I don’t even care because, instead, we unraveled several threads at once, including my decision to begin ketamine treatments, the death of Alexa’s beloved mother, and the myriad paths that reconnect us to our source. 

Listeners, use promo code PAUSEBREATHESAVOR25 for 25% off Savage Chocolate!

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Alexa Silvaggio is a wellness entrepreneur based in Los Angeles. She is a yoga instructor, writer, podcast host, retreat leader, and CEO of Savage Chocolates, a mindfulness chocolate brand. She encourages you to cultivate a more loving relationship with your body and self through all she teaches. She would love to connect with you! 

For full show notes, resources, and links to connect with our guest, visit: http://www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast

HEY THERAPISTS…

You’re invited to Head/Heart Conversations, our webinar series designed for psychotherapists who want to invite their inner healer to the forefront of both work life and personal life. In this four-part series, we will invite participants to learn about themselves as well as enhance their clinical skills.

Details & Registration: http://tinyurl.com/hhconvos

Promo Code for $20 off: podcast

Friday, May 7, 2021 – Trauma from the Individual to the Collective by Rayell Grayson, LCPC, CADC and Sarah Buino, LCSW, RDDP, CADC, CDWF Friday, September 17, 2021 – Body Language by Joanna Taubeneck, LCPC, R-DMT, GL-CMA, E-RYT Friday, November 19, 2021 – Queering our Conversations by Benji Marton, LCSW

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Conversations with a Wounded Healer is a proud member of @mhnrnetwork.

Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places…

Website:

www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/

https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/

Instagram:

@headhearttherapy

Twitter:

@WoundedHealr

@HeadHeart_Chi

How Feeling Oppressed Affects Your Life – TPS461

In the last episode, I talked a lot about oppression as an underlying emotion with chronic debting. As a result, I then started thinking a lot about the whole idea of oppression and how it affects so many areas of our lives and our culture. In this short episode, I share some of what I was thinking about.

Highlights

Recognizing feelings of oppression that may be buried deep inside of you opens you to many new opportunities and possibilities.
The process of internal change can have physical effects and can be, in some cases, uncomfortable.
Many people want their lives to change but they don’t want to change. If you want your life to change, you have to go through some energetic shifts.
There are many things, on a day-to-day basis, that can lead to feelings of oppression.
You can’t experience real freedom when you feel oppressed.
Get in touch with when you feel oppressed doing your day-to-day activities.
You can ask yourself, “What do I need to do to feel less oppressed?”
When you get in touch with feeling oppressed and learn how to let it go, you’ll be able to give so much more to the world.

Links
To share your experience with getting in touch with feelings of oppression, write to me at Joan@ProsperityPlace.com.

160 – Dr. Funnies – Mental Health One Meme at a Time

“A lot of the things that we have gone through have taught us a lot of lessons — have made us stronger in certain ways.” ~Dr. Funnies

Heads up: This episode with Dr. Funnies features some conversation around still-birth. If such discussions trigger you in any way, please take care should you choose to listen.

From professional gaslighting and personal tragedy to hilarious memes and triumph of the spirit,  this episode covers the entire spectrum of human emotion. If you’ve listened to Conversations With A Wounded Healer for any length of time (say, one episode), you know my love for Instagram is next-level. It’s where I socialize with listeners and where I meet all of my new best friends, including today’s guest, Dr. Funnies. 

Dr. Funnies is the brilliant brain behind Mental Health Funnies, the Instagram account she started in 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 lockdown here in the US. Regardless of which side of the therapist/client relationship you occupy, the memes at Mental Health Funnies will make you snort out loud. 

Dr. Funnies has a knack for distilling everyday absurdities into a single frame while displaying complete empathy for her audience as well as herself. Dr. Funnies’s journey from stellar student at a historically Black college to roadblocked post-grad intern to autonomous practitioner is harrowing at times, made so by the racism and white supremacy embedded in the very marrow of this country. A true wounded healer, she knew that one day, her experiences would serve to help others. Whether one-on-one with clients or by the thousands through her memes, Dr. Funnies is absolutely right about that.

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Dr. Funnies. I am a mental health therapist trying my best to help heal others! I have been in the field for over 17yrs. I believe laughter can sometimes be the best medicine!

For full show notes, resources, and links to connect with our guest, visit: http://www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast

HEY THERAPISTS…

You’re invited to Head/Heart Conversations, our webinar series designed for psychotherapists who want to invite their inner healer to the forefront of both work life and personal life. In this four-part series, we will invite participants to learn about themselves as well as enhance their clinical skills.

Details & Registration: http://tinyurl.com/hhconvos

Promo Code for $20 off: podcast

Friday, May 7, 2021 – Trauma from the Individual to the Collective by Rayell Grayson, LCPC, CADC and Sarah Buino, LCSW, RDDP, CADC, CDWF Friday, September 17, 2021 – Body Language by Joanna Taubeneck, LCPC, R-DMT, GL-CMA, E-RYT Friday, November 19, 2021 – Queering our Conversations by Benji Marton, LCSW

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Conversations with a Wounded Healer is a proud member of @mhnrnetwork.

Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places…

Website:

www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/

https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/

Instagram:

@headhearttherapy

Twitter:

@WoundedHealr

@HeadHeart_Chi

The Emotions Expressed Through Chronic Debting – TPS460

In today’s episode, I take a deep dive into an aspect of the connection between emotions and money – specifically the issue of chronic debting, which is an issue I dealt with for many years.

Highlights

By changing your inner environment, especially your thoughts, beliefs, and emotions, you can alter the outcomes of your life stories.
I talk about my family’s history with debting and how your family history will affect your financial behaviors. I also discuss my history and how I have dealt with debt.
Spending and debting allows us to feel connected to people.
I explained the process I use for discovering the emotions behind my behaviors.
Bodywork can help you release emotions that have been with you for a long time.
Chronic pain often is the result of long-held emotions.
I share an episode I had where I was able to reexperience the emotions I experienced while being abused – feeling oppressed, bullied, powerless.
I focus on the feeling of being oppressed and how that affects us individually and in our culture.
If many of us are carrying the feeling of being oppressed, we will, as a group, create being oppressed. Right now, there are many dramas going on between the oppressed and the oppressors.
Many of our leaders and corporations often act as the oppressors.
Whenever you have been through is what you need to become who you are becoming.
There is a group of emotional Gestalt that affects us on a cultural level.
Your life stories don’t create your feelings, your feelings create your life stories and this is true for groups as well.
When you come to understand and deeply experience your emotions, your life will move forward.
There is no simple answer – it’s a complex process. When you stop trying to be someone else and you are willing to fully accept yourself, you will be led to what you need. You need to follow and accept the things that show up.
When you learn how to recognize and differentiate between your different emotions, there is a simple process you can use to develop new responses to familiar stimuli.
You can learn the process via my course Rewire Your Brain for Prosperity & Financial Freedom

Links
My course, Rewire Your Brain for Prosperity & Financial Freedom

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159 – Brian Thompson – Socially Responsible Investing as a Healing Art

“It has to be your flag […]. So, being able to do that internal work and say, ‘Oh, what is it that I want to be? What is it that I want to look like? And how do I want to present myself?’ and letting that be okay, keeping your flag the one that’s flying rather than trying to be somebody else, no matter what it is.” ~Brian Thompson

In the right hands, financial planning is a healing art. Wait, don’t tune out! I go cross-eyed, too, thinking about indexes and funds and allocations! Just hang with me a sec. I promise you’ll fall in love with my amazing guest Brian Thompson, tax attorney, certified financial planner™, registered life planner™, Forbes features writer, and podcaster. He’s also a super friend and my Al-Anon pal. 

Brian occupies many intersections and all of them inform his approach to socially responsible investing (or ESG). You’ll leave here wiser and psyched about putting your values before your returns.

I anticipate some whining. ‘But Sarah, if I put my values before my returns, I won’t have anything to live on!’

Y’all, that’s just capitalism’s vice-like grip. It’s time to integrate conversations about what we want to do with our money into our healing practices. 

And I’m over here just trying to imagine a world where all financial planners show up the way Brian does. What a wonderful world that would be.

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Brian E. Thompson. As both a tax attorney and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, Brian provides comprehensive financial planning to LGBTQ entrepreneurs who run mission-driven businesses. Entrepreneurs hold a special place in his heart. He spent a decade defending them against the IRS as a tax attorney and has become one himself as an advisor.

 

For full show notes, resources, and links to connect with our guest, visit: http://www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast

 

HEY THERAPISTS…

You’re invited to Head/Heart Conversations, our webinar series designed for psychotherapists who want to invite their inner healer to the forefront of both work life and personal life. In this four-part series, we will invite participants to learn about themselves as well as enhance their clinical skills.

Details & Registration: http://tinyurl.com/hhconvos

Promo Code for $20 off: podcast

Friday, May 7, 2021 – Trauma from the Individual to the Collective by Rayell Grayson, LCPC, CADC and Sarah Buino, LCSW, RDDP, CADC, CDWF Friday, September 17, 2021 – Body Language by Joanna Taubeneck, LCPC, R-DMT, GL-CMA, E-RYT Friday, November 19, 2021 – Queering our Conversations by Benji Marton, LCSW

 

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Conversations with a Wounded Healer is a proud member of @mhnrnetwork.

Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places…

Website:

www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/

https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/

Instagram:

@headhearttherapy

Twitter:

@WoundedHealr

@HeadHeart_Chi

How Aloneness Affects Your Business & Financial Outcomes – TPS459

In this episode, I explore how our fear of being alone often leads us to make decisions that don’t serve us well or meet our needs. This includes business and financial decisions as well as relationship decisions.

Highlights

We are wired to need other people and to fear being alone. This is a survival technique.
Money doesn’t come flying in the window: it comes from other people.
We have to understand what our needs are so we can satisfy ourselves.
You need whatever it is you’re getting today. Even the discomforts are part of your learning process.
Many people are afraid of wealth and power because it can be separating.
If you’re considering getting into a business or personal relationship, are you doing it because of your fear of being alone?
You have the option of creating an inner environment that allows you to feel satisfied with who you are today.
There are different qualities of a relationship and some people will click with us better than others. Some are just there to pass by and then move on.
If you are afraid of people and afraid of trusting life, you’re going to feel alone.
The feeling of being alone starts in early childhood – or before. If your mother felt alone when she was pregnant with you, then you will inherit that feeling.
The way to feel more connected is to recognize your feelings of aloneness and to not try to push the feeling away and to work through the emotion rather than trying to cover it up.
If you criticize yourself a lot, then you’re not connected to yourself.
Examine what it is you’re afraid of. Understand that financial fear is often the same as the fear of dying.
The fear of being alone often is the result of childhood abuse or neglect or your relationship with your parents.
Money can be the perfect mechanism for understanding the emotions that are holding you back.
Covid has brought ‘feeling alone’ into many people’s consciousness.
If you can let yourself feel the aloneness, then you’re one step closer to moving your life forward.
If the solutions are within you, why would you want to work with a coach or someone like that? I discuss.
If you have created a life that separates you from other people, that’s going to keep you from feeling fulfilled.

Links
My previous episode on Conscious Synchronicity

The audio Let Go of the Aloneness Blocking Your Prosperity

158 – Nellie D – Wicca, Buddhism, and Healing Ancestral Wounds

“I recognize within myself that there were huge cycles that needed to be broken. And, with having two girls, it was so important for me for those cycles to be broken.” ~Nellie D.

This show, like life itself, is an exercise in connect-the-dots. From listeners linked around the globe (shout out, Saudi Arabia!), to friends met over on IG, to acquaintances made through other guests, we Wounded Healers vibe on levels that run deep. 

Today’s guest is no exception. I met Nellie D. through Jim Martin of Unusual Buddha. She’s a self-described Mother extraordinaire and lifelong learner whose spiritual journey has led her about as far from her traditional evangelical Christian upbringing as one can venture: to a point where Buddhism and Wiccan philosophy intersect. Now let’s get witchy!

I say that with complete respect and admiration. Of her hybrid Wiccan practice, Nellie says it’s all about education and healing. 

As the mother of two daughters, she knows firsthand the “unlearning” that women require to maintain healthy mental wellbeing. In healing her wounds, Nellie’s healing her daughters’ futures as well as her ancestral past, tattooing over the scars and making them beautiful. “It is a connection with the energies around you and exploring those energies,” explains Nellie, “and also honoring those energies.” 

Witches truly are our better angels. 

Nellie D is a Mother extraordinaire with an Earth-loving flair, always seeking new adventures, and excited for lifelong learning! 

For full show notes, resources, and links to connect with our guest, visit: http://www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast

HEY THERAPISTS…

You’re invited to Head/Heart Conversations, our webinar series designed for psychotherapists who want to invite their inner healer to the forefront of both work life and personal life. In this four-part series, we will invite participants to learn about themselves as well as enhance their clinical skills.

Details & Registration: http://tinyurl.com/hhconvos

Promo Code for $20 off: podcast

Friday, May 7, 2021 – Trauma from the Individual to the Collective by Rayell Grayson, LCPC, CADC and Sarah Buino, LCSW, RDDP, CADC, CDWF Friday, September 17, 2021 – Body Language by Joanna Taubeneck, LCPC, R-DMT, GL-CMA, E-RYT Friday, November 19, 2021 – Queering our Conversations by Benji Marton, LCSW

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Conversations with a Wounded Healer is a proud member of @mhnrnetwork.

Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places…

Website:

www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/

https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/

Instagram:

@headhearttherapy

Twitter:

@WoundedHealr

@HeadHeart_Chi

How to Stop Feeling Stuck Financially -TPS458

During the past few weeks, I have talked to a number of young people who have complained that even though they are doing EFT or BSFF and they’re trying to change their thoughts, they are still having trouble generating the income that they need to pay their basic expenses. In this episode, I talk about the inner work that will help you get unstuck financially.

Highlights

It’s important to manage your cash flow, especially when income is low.
Everyone has a different path, so it doesn’t work to say, “If I did it, you can do it too.”
Getting in touch with your inner guidance will help you find the best life that is right for you.
If you’re only focusing on income, you aren’t opening yourself to possibilities.
If you haven’t dealt with your money feelings by the time you’re in your mid-50s, those emotions will probably comment to the surface and you’ll have to deal with them.
Choose one thing that you want to work on and focus on that for whatever time it takes for a release.
When you only focus on the money, you aren’t getting to the real force behind your life stories.
I talk about ways you can shift negative self-talk.
If you don’t like what’s going on in your life, then you have the power to change it by changing what’s going on inside of you.
The more you understand about your inner world, the better you will be able to create the life you want.
It can take a year or more to change habitual responses to familiar stimuli.
Often, in the early part of our lives, what we’re going through is helping us realize what we’re not.
There is often an arc in our lives so that what we do as a young person comes back again in later years.
When you are feeling stuck financially, there isn’t just one thing that has to be done. But if you choose one thing to focus on, like changing yourself talk, you’ll see small gradual changes in your life.
I talk about how you can recognize, release, and replace the feelings that you are acting out through your money.
It’s really important to pay attention to your inner world in a non-judgmental way.
No one else can tell you what’s right for you. You have to get in touch with your inner guidance.
You get to choose – and every point – who you want to be and what you want to do.
Sometimes you have to be different from what you’ve been before.
There is no one thing that is going to change your financial situation.
You have the power to change your life. You don’t have the power to become someone else.

Links
Build Your Money Muscles: Nine Simple Exercises for Improving Your Relationship with Money

Rewire Your Brain for Prosperity & Financial Freedom

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