Heartseed Health Podcast

Thad Frye is a delightful and kind person who work in private practice with adults working through grief and loss, past traumas, major life transitions, anxiety, depression, self esteem issues and sports traumas and creative performance enhancement.

In our conversation here we explore:

How and why Thad started working with Brainspotting

What is Brainspotting and how it works

The relationship between Brainspotting and the body

What Brainspotting can treat

How Brainspotting is different from EMDR therapy

Where and how to find a Brainspotting therapist

This episode is vital for anyone looking to understand Brainspotting as a modality or who is seeking a basic understanding of the somatic interfaces of the mind.

We learn:

Why Scott and Amanda chose to get into farming.

“If you're gonna work hard at anything in life, this is work worth doing.” - Brian

The story of how the 63rd st. Farm and CSA came into being.

We talk about permaculture: what it is and why it’s valuable for farming.

Why they chose to be a CSA (Community Support Agriculture).

“I don't really want to put a price tag on what this tomato costs because that's really tough. There's a price that we see in the grocery store, and then there's an actual what it does cost and then there's the ‘I love this tomato so much you couldn't put a price tag on it because it's beautiful.” - Amanda

The Importance of Relationships when it comes to food and farms and farmers.

“You know that there's an imbalance. And one way to get past the imbalance is to really engage with your farmer is to really end for the farmers to engage with their community.” - Brian

How Scott, Amanda, and their team take care of themselves as farmer

Important tips on choosing as CSA

Listen to Amanda’s tips and then check out: Localharvest.org

In this episode we talk with Sara Brody, a doula, a reproductive health coach, and an evolving student of spiritual midwifery and founder of Moon-Lodge a platform for reproductive education and coaching.

Sara attended Birthingway College of Midwifery, where she gained much knowledge of the reproductive sciences, while also mastering important clinical skills and the ways of nonviolent communication. She’s traveled to Ina May Gaskin’s, ‘The Farm’ where she was able to learn how to trust the beauty of the reproductive process from the spiritual midwives themselves. She’s also apprenticed the art of midwifery by several midwives who have continued the tradition of the ancient apprenticeship model, passing down their knowledge to her, so I can continue to teach their lessons to the next people who decides to walk a similar path.

“I think the birth is such a dance between mama and baby, and it's two people trying to figure out how to make this this huge transition and, and opening that threshold the door of the life that's about to breathe their first gasp of air.“

In this episode we cover topics like:

How and why Sara created Moon Lodge, an educational resource about the female reproductive system.

What it means to prepare for parenthood physically, emotionally, and spiritually and why it’s so important.

“I've learned that the families have been my biggest teacher when it comes to my work now. And what I realized is that through pregnancy, for most of the people that I have helped, they are overwhelmed with being pregnant. And that although there might be a consciousness around all the, all the stuff that had that the transition is stirring in them, there isn't a lot of space to address it.”

What is “the new midwife” and what is her role?

“I think getting in touch, touch with your true sense of self before entering into a transition that is extremely life changing is an incredible way to prepare.”

You can learn more and connect with Sara at Moon-Lodge.com and on Instagram.

In this honest conversation, Noah and Hannah Kinderlehrer talk about the path to embodied wholeness and how to cultivate the qualities necessary to stay the course.

They explore the myth of “happily ever after” and how we, in our actual lives, can find ways to muster the strength to continuously face into the unfolding landscapes (and whatever mucky bogs we may have to traverse alongside the floral meadows).

Who is Hannah?

Hannah Kinderlehrer believes with all her heart that we are all whole as we are. She has studied dance for 32 years, graduated from Naropa University, and is a Certified Peacemaker and Certified Hakomi Practitioner. She has been a student of Buddhism for 16 years and is a holistic coach, leads teacher trainings, facilitates therapeutic women’s groups, chronic illness support groups, teaches embodied meditation, and Rites of Passage classes and works at Strength In Motion Wellness Center. Learn more about her work at riseandthrive.care

Topics we Cover:

How and why Hannah embraces the darkness and how she finds the light.

"The Dark is not scary. If I really go and rest in it. It's just dark."

How Hannah accesses the inner strength to dive into pain, discomfort, and resistance.

“It actually is impermanence, that has kept me sane, knowing that can I stay with us in the most surrendered receptive way possible, knowing it will change versus clamping down on it”

What it means to reclaim the birthright of embodiment

How to find the spark of strength within.

Hannah and Noah share some of the techniques they use to help people develop the skills involved in living from their strength.

“So it's a it's been a process it certainly has not been a overnight lightning bolt Eureka, I'm not sure if I've ever had one of those. Everything has come from building building building, working working working, and then opening opening opening, and surrendering and seeing what's there. And being able to recognize who I really am, which is a being that deserves love the same way this being gives love. “

The Importance of Community and How to cultivate it.

“We underestimate how much having community within our lives comes back and serves the people we are closest to.“

Please Enjoy! And if you find it worthwhile, please share it with a friend or family family member.

Melissa Michaels, Ed.D., is the Founder and Director of SomaSource® Educational Programs, Surfing The Creative® International Rites Of Passage Programs, and Golden Bridge, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving and empowering the lives of young people through rites of passage, mentoring, and community support based in Boulder, CO.

She creates movement based cross-cultural educational opportunities focusing on the potential that is available at major life thresholds. Mapping the journey from trauma to dynamic well-being, her work utilizes the expressive and social arts to establish body and heart as resources authentic expression. Rooted in rhythm and fueled by breath, this work inspires the sacred union between Spirit, flesh, psyche, and deed.

Melissa is a social artist, dancing and dedicated to our collective renewal through the liberation of the creative spirit.

In this conversation we explore:

How Melissa came to dance and movement as a healing practice.

“I really had many opportunities for experiencing something bigger than myself, but the dance also gave me a place to really go into the depths of my own suffering, and eventually wake into the majesty of my own being”

Why dance is such a powerful practice for healing.

“I finally found a way to stay present with the depths of my angst, and the ever expanding landscape of my own creativity.”

The importance of embodiment, and how to use the body as a resource for regulation and sequencing emotions and experiences.

“The dance has been a place where we've been able to move out of the reptilian conversations and move into really love infused, but psycho spiritually sound interactions.”

Dance as a tool for turning towards the discomfort and pain, which is an essential part of the healing process.

Melissa Experiences with Cancer and how her experiences dancing served her.

“Let's be kind to ourselves and anybody navigating through [cancer] or any kind of crisis, needs and deserves, extraordinary kindness, extraordinary protection, and nourishment and space and respect and agency.”

Where do we go from here? The collective movement forward.

“It's all about how do we build bridges between us and moving as collective forces for change for good. And so, to me, it's like, where is their soul resonance? And what are we trying to do together? And let's get to it.”

Golden Girls Global

Other Resources Mentioned:

Peter Levine & Somatic Experience (I highly recommend his book In an Unspoken Voice)

Bill Plotkin and his work. (I highly recommend his books: Nature and Human Soul, Wild Mind, and Soulcraft.

In this conversation we explore:

-How and Why Lopa started Rasa….(with a newborn?!)

- How Lopa defines Emotional Resilience .

- The difference between resilience and bypassing.

- How Lopa stays committed to Integrity.

- Connection between mental health and physical health.

- Adaptogens: What they are and how the affect the nervous system.

- How Rasa was formulated as a balancing herbal formula

- Lopa’s relationship to Earth and our responsibilities to take care of her.

“I never feel more myself than when I’m in Nature”

- Lopa’s practices and rituals for emotional resilience.

Visit: https://wearerasa.com/ to learn more about Rasa and check them out on instagram @wearerasa

and Visit: https://www.heartseedhealth.com to get your free guide to Emotional Resilience or to connect with Noah.

“I define health as happiness, I think that they ride in tandem. And for me, happiness and health is being embodied. I'm really living in my body if I'm really here and present. That's when I find health and happiness.”

In this episode we explore Sara’s personal healing journey and how she discovered and fell in love with Ayurvedic medicine.

“I was terrified of my own voice, and was wading in these deep waters of trying to find myself and terrified of who I was who I am. And My voice is such a huge part of who I am. So for so long, I pushed it away out of fear. Until finally I I got so sick that I couldn't deny it anymore. I actually had tumors form in my, at the base of my neck, this perfectly beautiful place That is the channel from my heart to my mouth, where my voice comes from. And this block shows up there and it's like, Oh, perfect, Thanks for, for really showing me what's going on here. And the greatest medicine to healing myself from this and it ended up being a pretty aggressive type of cancer was to sing. I literally sang myself into wellness. “

The darkness and confusion of the post-adolescent pre-adulthood period where one is a “Wanderer in the Cocoon.”

How Ayurvedic medicine treats illness.

This beautiful medicine has been passed down through through the vocal cords and through this heart resonance. And the sutras all basically tell us the different angles in which to heal ourselves through Earth medicine. It's just incredible. I'm so grateful that I found it. It's perfect.

What a typical Ayurvedic consultation looks like.

So the three main doshes are Vata, Pitta and Kapha. And each of these doshas basically create us, and they do this beautiful dance within our body and every single person has their own unique combination of the doshas, even though there's three of them, there's no single person in the whole entire world who express their doses the same way as someone else. We're snowflakes.

Some practical tips for treating insomnia and constipation from an Ayurvedic and Chinese Medical Perspective

Why Oil and Ghee are amazing and why you should rub oil all over your body before you take a shower! (And how it can help you if your arthritis).

Sara’s Music “Moon Over Mountains” on Spotify and iTunes.

To Get In Touch with Sara: [email protected]

Summary:

- Katie explains in depth what trauma is and how it impacts the brain, and why and how trauma causes us to see the world as a threat.

- We talk about how and why trauma “disorients us from health.”

- We explore the parallels of the Eastern and Western models of trauma.

- Katie explains what EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is and how it helps with the process of healing trauma.

- We look at how trauma can cause us to shut off parts of ourselves and make our lives more limited.

- We see how sometimes traumas can serve as an opportunity for growth.

- Katie explains the “Rite of Passage” that can follow a traumatic experience and the possibilities it creates for post-traumatic growth.

- Noah and Katie draw parallels to the process of becoming a parent as a Rite of Passage.

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Full Show Notes and Transcript available at heartseedhealth.com/podcast

Tracy Shulsinger is a Holistic Nurse Practitioner and Shamanic Healer practicing at The Healing Collective in Boulder, CO.  After exploring how and why Tracy came to practice medicine, we dive into what  Functional Medicine, the evolution of traditional Western medicine, is. Then we pivot and explore her practices as a Shamanic Healer and discuss how Western medicine and Shamanic healing  can coexist and even work together.

THIS EPISODE IS ABOUT OUR INFINITE POTENTIAL FOR WELLNESS - LEARNING HOW TO TAP INTO THE PART OF YOURSELF THAT IS WELL.

Tracy shares why she focuses on the now, rather than on the the things that need to fixed, and teaches us about the paradox of finding health amidst the dis-ease.

She explains why labelling a person as their disease is missing who they are and advocates for seeing the whole person. “We’re so much bigger than all of our aches and pains and challenges.”

Tracy shares 7 practical tips around how we can take care of our whole selves and we learn about how she gets to the root of an illness.

She recommends this TED Talk about the 30 day challenge (it’s only 3.5 minutes and worth listening to).

Finally, we discuss how investing your in health now saves you significantly in the long run.

To connect with Tracy:

[email protected]

www.thehealingcollective.us

To Connect with Noah:

[email protected]

In this interview with Reuvain Bacal, a transformational coach who helps highly motivated men and couples, we explore what it means to live from who we truly are. Reuvain helps people become more aware of how their showing up and what habitual patterns may be holding them back. He also facilitates the practice of letting go these conditioned behaviors and embracing the authentic self. I've worked with him personally and I believe this is an inspiring conversation full of rich moments that can help all of us on the path of life.

Some of the topics we cover include:

The role of Anger in relationship and healthy ways of relating to it - how anger can serve as a teacher and opportunity for growth and learning.

How challenges show us where we're stuck.

The importance of taking responsibility and ownership for our experience.

Why it's important to get comfortable with discomfort.

Why intimacy is sometimes scary and uncomfortable for people.

What some of the unique challenges around intimacy and authenticity are for men (hint: it has to do with fear).

We discuss the process that leads us to living in ways that are not in alignment with who we really are (hint it has to do with childhood).

We explore a paradigm from Chinese medicine that is useful in understanding the dynamics of authentic self and conditioned behaviors.

We also explore why Reuvain chooses to work primarily in groups as opposed to one-on-one.