She Rises

Founder of the S.W.A.T Institute and author of The Emotional Edge talks about all things self love and acceptance   Summary: In this episode, Giovanna Capozza interviews Crystal Andrus Morissette, a communication expert, women’s advocate and the author of four best-selling books including her latest release, The Emotional Edge. Listen as Giovanna and Crystal talk about self-love and appreciation, how to play with your archetype, and why you have to heal your broken pieces and not just bury them in your subconscious.   Show Notes: Introducing Crystal to the show Giovanna interviewed Crystal before in another radio show Crystal shares about her latest book The Emotional Edge Crystal never thought a project could bring her to her edge “I was pushed beyond my mental capacity” Crystal needed to unplug from the world and went offline for 6 weeks Crystal never knew she was carrying a tremendous amount of guilt and shame Crystal realized that she needed to write a book about everything she was going through and it gave her access to her archetypes Crystal shares how she plays with her archetypes and the idea of a mother and a woman It is amazing when you think that you’re the original inventor of an idea The idea of yang just came to Crystal Yang’s 3 aspects to one’s personality – the ego, the shadow, and the collective unconscious Freud’s Id, ego and superego Id is the most childish and selfish part of you The superego is constantly trying to make you feel better; like a mother archetype within us Ego balances the id and superego Crystal had spent years to see these three elements of the psyche working “We each have a child within us” The woman energy discussed When you come into your human energy, you can come to the greatest expression of who you are Giovanna is constantly repeating to her clients that our most important job is to learn to be parents ourselves There are pieces of ourselves that we judge We break that piece off of ourselves and bury it in our subconscious When you became an adult, you heal the ones you bury, but we usually just forget them By the time that we are old, we can’t recognize ourselves anymore because we buried so many pieces Healing or repairing ourselves is the gentle process of regaining the broken pieces to become whole again Healing is fun We choose our dominant persona to show up and take control of us The reason that we created the dominant persona Our submissive takes so much energy to keep buried Your dominant persona becomes exhausted Crystal shares how she felt when she was 40 Crystal didn’t realize that she didn’t want people to know about her past Crystal needed to let out the shame and sorrow and tell her story “I have forgotten to heal me” “I didn’t realize how I mattered” It was Crystal’s big, mystic moment Crystal feels the need to constantly check herself Crystal tends to get caught up on things “You can’t give what you don’t have” Giovanna admires how Crystal is a great communicator We work to give ourselves a better life The ultimate outcome of your work When you communicate better with yourself, it opens you up to become communicative, vulnerable, honest and transparent with everybody Be more compassionate with your relationships It is easier when you become your best self Don’t seek only for the physical things to make you happy People go after something they think can do good to them Crystal was Miss Galaxy when she decided she wanted to have babies Crystal had all the things she wanted, but still ended up feeling empty inside We’ve all had the same experience as Crystal Crystal watched pregnant Beyonce at the Grammys and she adored Beyonce Beyonce was THE mother, daughter, woman at the Grammys Watching Beyonce made Crystal feel like a queen Beyonce is an archetype “When I share what I share, I hope I touch women in a way that can make them cry” We are teaching women how to rise into their greatness and stand into their power “I’m all things” We can’t keep on pointing fingers Cryst