Zen(ish) Mommy
by Jessica GershmanA place to educate, empower, connect, and laugh. Host Jessica Gershman, a certified yoga instructor, mindfulness practitioner and a busy mom of 4, invites you to explore your own inner journey and expand on the topics you need to know to become your own best self advocate - health, sex, parenting, marriage, friendship, and everything in between; plus weekly mindfulness tips to invite a little zen into your life. New episodes drop every Tuesday and Thursday so check back often for the latest. Follow us on Instagram@the_zen_mommy
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Healing Through the Mind-Body Connection with Heidi Straub
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The mind and the body are not separate entities, even if they are so often treated as such. Physical health and emotional health are intimately intertwined in what’s known as the mind-body connection. Today’s guest is Heidi Straub, Founder and Chief Insight Officer of Health InSight. Health InSight is about helping others transform their lives and achieve their dreams. Life is a rocky road with many bumps and bruises along the way and, even after overcoming the resulting injuries, it may be surprising to find that the wounds are still there. Unknowingly, they can weigh people down and hold them back. Heidi hopes to help people get “unstuck” by nurturing the mind-body connection, tapping into the subconscious mind, and doing emotional release work and rapid resolution therapy. In this episode, she talks about resolving trauma, using the muscle testing approach, and speaking the language of the subconscious mind. We also dive into creating new neural pathways, how Heidi empowers her clients and introduces them to a new way of thinking about healing. During our conversation, she also shares some incredible testimonials from her clients, asserts the importance of acknowledging the weight of emotional baggage, and how she receives energy from her work without taking on her clients’ pain. So make sure to tune in today!
Key Points From This Episode:
• How Heidi came up with the titles she has given herself, chief insight officer.
• Heidi shares a bit about her background and what she does to help people get unstuck today.
• No one gets through life without experiencing pain – it’s part of the human condition.
• Uppercase-T Traumas are recognized, but lowercase-t traumas aren’t always acknowledged.
• Resolving trauma doesn’t have to be painful – Heidi explains that we don’t have to relive it.
• Heidi’s techniques all revolve around the subconscious mind and helping people tap into it.
• The two approaches Heidi uses – emotional release work and rapid resolution therapy.
• Creating new neural pathways, clearing energy, and shifting our ways of thinking.
• Why guilt doesn’t make us better decision-makers and how we can create a paradigm shift.
• What Heidi’s clients seek her out for and what her clientele demographic looks like.
• What Heidi finds so amazing about the work she does is how it empowers her clients.
• The interconnectedness of our body, mind, spirit, soul, and consciousness.
• A new way of thinking – healing doesn’t have to be a long, painful, difficult process.
• The history of rapid resolution therapy and how Heidi came across it in the first place.
• Some rapid resolution therapy testimonials that stand out to Heidi, both physical and mental.
• The most frequent feedback Heidi gets from clients after a session is that they feel light.
• Just because emotional baggage is invisible doesn’t mean it’s not heavy.
• Being a good mom isn’t being selfish – it’s showing our kids how important self-love is.
• The thoughts we think have such a powerful influence on our lives, says Heidi.
• How Heidi takes care of herself – she doesn’t go into her work with clients as an empath.
• Heidi talks about the importance of maintaining energy in resonance.
• It all goes back to being clear and present so we can have connection, which is the most important thing for human beings.
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What does 2021 have in store? Let’s check in with the universe to see what 2021 has to offer?
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Dating in your 40s can be tricky to navigate but learn how self love can make you a better dater
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Marriage isn’t easy and 2020 was especially tough. Join jessica and her husband of 13 years a
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Jessica interviews Dr. Natalie Marshall, a women’s health expert to talk pelvic floor dysfunction.
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Getting real with fitness trainer and beauty guru Michael Hoess and YouTube creator, Mykul Labs
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Get the dirty details and love advice from veteran hairstylist, Corey Sleet
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Yoga can be a path to a more peaceful motherhood
36m · PublishedThe Yoga Journey with Jessica Nicole and Christine Lolay.Episode 05: Show Notes.Today on the podcast, we talk about all things yoga: From the strength and flexibility benefits toits ability to reduce stress and combat insomnia in the craziest time ever. Yet, for some reason,many people are still resistant to and skeptical about yoga, and so was Jessica before she hadher first session, which radically changed her point of view. For her, one of the biggest benefitsof yoga is its ability to quiet down the seemingly endless mind chatter most of us struggle with –the negative self-talk; the voice that makes you question your worth as a human being. But yogais not just about yourself and connecting with your body and spirituality. This practice connectsyou to other human beings and the earth in surprising ways, creating an atmosphere ofempathy, community, and love. Later in the episode, Jessica talks to guest, Christine Lolay,about the advantages of yoga and meditation for new and long-time moms. As listeners willhear, babies’ nap times are great opportunities to sit down and become still – even just for fiveor ten minutes. Christine shares how she brings nature into her meditation practice through atea ritual and how it has made her a more grounded, calm parent. If you have are still sitting onthe fence about yoga or meditation, this episode is sure to change your mind for good!Key Points From This Episode:• Jessica talks about her initial beliefs that yoga was too slow, boring, and not “hard” enough.• Why Jessica describes her first-ever yoga class as a transformative experience.• How yoga helped Jessica gain a better perspective and calm the relentless mental chatter.• Find out how yoga serves your self-esteem, connection to people, and spirituality.• How the practice connects you to your body and its relationship in space in new ways.• Why coming onto your mat is like looking in the mirror and exploring yourself.• A story about the importance of self-awareness and being mindful of others in your space.• The power of the breath to keep us present and mindful and activate the body’s recovery.• Employing meditation and systematic body relaxation techniques to treat insomnia.• How yoga supports the respiratory and immune systems and a healthy lifestyle overall.• The physical and mental flexibility that doing yoga can give you.• Our guest shares how meditation helped her to cope with being a new mom in the pandemic.• Christine’s ever-changing yoga practice and settling on one that involves bowls of tea.• Big emotions are okay and the healing experience of expressing them in your practice.• How yoga and meditation have made Christine a more grounded, calm parent.MSD 05 Show Notes© Mom, Slow Down! 2020 1--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jessica-gershman/support
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The importance of girls trips...getting away is a crucial component to re-charging as a mom!
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Getting your body back after baby with prenatal pilates expert Elizabeth Heidari
39m · PublishedFind more about Elizabeth and her online class schedule at www.ehfitness.com Show Notes.Today on Mom, Slow Down!, we talk to seasoned pilates expert Elizabeth Heidari who is aNASM and CES (corrective exercise specialty) personal trainer with PROnatal Fitness, TRXSuspension, and Pilates Mat certifications. The former professional dancer and choreographerhas worked with crazy big names like Madonna and Nicki Minaj, and she joins us on the showtoday to talk about how pregnancy and motherhood have changed her perspective on healthand fitness. A self-proclaimed Type A personality, Elizabeth has always been a go-getter whobattled to say no in her twenties. But now, as a mom of one, she has learned to be more gentlewith herself and embrace those off days, guilt-free. She talks about her passion for helpingespecially postpartum women who tend to suffer in silence, getting fired up about the need todismantle the myth that we women simply have to accept the hands we are dealt after childbirth.Regardless of how old your youngest baby is, you can always address the difficulties, whether itis getting your abs or your energy back. Our guest also shares her personal experience ofpregnancy, what she would do differently with subsequent ones, and why it is important to enjoythe process instead of wishing it over. We also talk about all-things-good like self-love, sayingno, and making those gut-based decisions. So be sure to tune in!Key Points From This Episode:• Hear why Elizabeth is a deserving badass who has worked with Madonna and Nikki Minaj.• How motherhood changed her perspective on health and fitness for herself and her clients.• Get a sense of the types of classes she teaches and the time slots she is looking at.• Finding the balance between pushing your body and knowing when to listen and slow down.• The types of clients she focuses on and the massive need for especially postpartum support.• Dismantling the myth that women have to live with the problems they experience as mothers.• The most common pre and postnatal issues that Elizabeth can help women with.• Dealing with the overwhelming societal pressure to get back into shape after childbirth.• Elizabeth talks about her experience of pregnancy, including getting on a train during labor!• Hear what our guest would do differently if she was to have a second little one …• The importance of enjoying the process of pregnancy and permitting yourself some time off.• Finding ways to relax away from your digital devices, from reading to arranging flowers.• Learning to say no to the non-essential and doing the gut-check before committing yourself.• Advice to 25-year-old Elizabeth about hustling, being kind to yourself, and toxic relationships.Tweetables:“I am very partial to women who are experiencing pregnancy or have experienced pregnancybecause I think there is a deficit in care postpartum. I feel like as trainers with prenatal andM--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jessica-gershman/support
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Zen(ish) Mommy has 392 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 167:41:03. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 25th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 24th, 2024 04:41.