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Vanlife, The Adventure Allens Create Life Their Own Way

On By Lori ReisingIn Relationships, The Podcast, VanlifeLeave a comment
Vanlife, The Adventure Allens Create Life Their Own Way

Episode Summary

Chris and Taylor Allen are an absolute delight!  They totally radiate love, joy and positivity, even after experiencing some devastating tragedies very early on in their relationship.  We dive into the pillar of their strength together, how they navigated life-threatening hospitalizations, the ways that vanlife has supported them throughout those experiences, vanlife community and diversity and how they leaned into the learning curve of living small and mobile.  We also get to hear their perspective on diversity and representation for people of color in vanlife and how it has evolved and progressed.  They share exciting ideas for supporting others through caravans for representation, an inclusive Ebook about how they’ve done vanlife on their own terms and a developing tour guide business in the works for them.  Seriously, we have such a ball in this episode!  As my inaugural vanlifers for the podcast, I feel immense gratitude we made this connection.  They have such love, openness and beautiful wisdom, there are many areas to draw from in this conversation!

Chris and Taylor also gave us some fantastic vanlife tips and tricks.  Click on the link in the show notes below to receive this free download!

Show Notes

  • The beautiful couple energy emanating from The Allens
  • How The Allens met and what made it align so quickly
  • Online dating mishaps and persistence
  • Going old school and what made them jump all in
  • Partners as part of a whole, two halves working together
  • Learning experiences in the beginning created their groove
  • Tragedy early on in vanlife
  • From boatlife to vanlife
  • How Chris used his recovery to learn about vanlife
  • Community was a key to Chris’s recovery
  • Chris keeps calm as an EMT
  • Humor as medicine
  • Taylor goes through a medical trauma
  • Chris held it down through Taylor’s recovery
  • The van’s supportive role in both recoveries
  • What the vanlife community means to Chris and Taylor
  • The philosophy of adapt and overcome
  • Vanlife encourages creativity and innate human skills
  • The evolution of diversity in vanlife
  • The evolution of representation
  • New podcast called Nomads at the Intersection
  • Another called Black Nomads Meet featuring People of Color
  • Making uncomfortable conversations more comfortable
  • Covert vs overt racism
  • “If the vanlife community can transform in the celebration of diversity, that’s representation that the whole world can do it.”
  • Developing caravans for representation
  • An E-book in the works from a couple that started vanlife in a different way
  • The benefits of being in a caravan
  • There’s no book to how to live in the van correctly
  • Vanlife tour guides
  • Baha caravan!
  • Who are your dream guests and why?
  • The Adventure Allens are a safe space for your questions
  • Vanlife can look any way you want it to look

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Everything is an Opportunity!

On By Lori ReisingIn SpiritualityLeave a comment

A guarantee in this new heart-centered and raw way of living.  Every single thing that happens, especially the gut-wrenching, sudden emotional upheavals and changes, is an open invitation to soul growth and revelations.  Of course it would be much easier to recognize if it was only those free energy flowing everything is on track and high soul vibing situations, but this is where the good, I mean the REAL good ground-breaking growth comes.  In the uncomfortable moments of sudden energetic assaults and the very real reaction and integration work you do with it.  And quite honestly the work you are willing to do to choose yourself.  Something we have not been conditioned with in a wounded culture.  This is where the true shifts happen as we ascend in our personal evolution and divinity.  And let’s be real, that automatic fear-filled reaction has been playing in a loop for WAY too long.  Here we are y’all.  We are in the deep multi-dimensional shifts and the veil to our very real magic is more accessible than ever.  So if you choose to be conscious, if you choose to drop in, know that ascension does not mean we will cease having these heart-breaking human experiences.  BUT…  it does mean that you will break that old pattern from an unconscious conditioning.  And it does mean that you will have supreme support in creating the reality that you are ready to live in.  Yes, you might need to release some stagnant energies that are not changing with you.  And you may be re-acquainting with those energies down the line when you are all in more alignment.  There are endless possibilities when you allow for growth in yourself and your community.  What I can say is when you release the old paradigm of living from scarcity, competition and fear, you will never lose anything.  You might release some things that will free you up to grow at a greater rate.  And making that choice will come from a deep knowing in your heart.  It will come from love and not reaction.  And when you adopt this belief truly in your being, you will move more into your soul’s calling, you will deepen relationships even when you release them, you will re-member that everything is infinite and you are connected to a much bigger universe that holds you and gives you constant opportunities to create a new energy for everything.  And that is when you will truly awaken to the very real truth that every interaction, every connection, every decision and everything is an opportunity to go deeper in this precious and short life. 

Pro tip:  DO create the habit of clearing energy, moving energy and working with energy to get the most of what is happening in your life at any given time. 

Let’s do this.

From Childhood Abuse to Living Unbroken with Michael Anthony

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From Childhood Abuse to Living Unbroken with Michael Anthony

Episode Summary

Michael Anthony is the author of the best-selling book Think Unbroken and is a coach, mentor, and advocate for adult survivors of child abuse.. Michael spends his time helping other survivors get out of “The Vortex” to become the hero of their own story and take their lives back. Michael hosts The Michael Unbroken podcast and blogs weekly at www.ThinkUnbroken.com  We take a deep dive into his life story of surviving childhood abuse and trauma into eventually thriving in adulthood with accountability and intention.  His story and mission are so compelling, I am so honored to share it with all of you.  He is now talking about his experience and mentoring survivors of child abuse to create profound change in this world.  We learn about what ‘Think Unbroken’ means to him and how he began a very deep healing process through accountability, as well as what he was willing to do to create the life that he now has.  We also touch on the profound invitation that COVID and “quarantine” has given us to drop into our personal abilities and on his open letters to America about racism in the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement where he highlights our society in relation to being proactive vs. reactive.  In the end, Michael leaves us with some wonderful words of wisdom about how to empower yourself in trauma work with a declaration of health and so much more!

Show Notes:

  • A history of abuse and trauma
  • “These 10 Aces” – “Think Unbroken” inception
  • A mirror moment
  • The science and understanding of mindset and trauma
  • “I am a product of my product.”
  • A childhood promise broken
  • Becoming accountable
  • “What was I willing to do to create the life that I have today?”
  • Environmental triggers
  • The layers of cultural masculinity in healing work as a man
  • Men’s group therapy
  • Creating an identity from a personal value system
  • ‘Radical Acceptance’ by Tara Brach
  • The COVID gift
  • Meditation shifts from uncomfortable to a pre-curser
  • Quick fix vs. root cause
  • A parental declaration as self-preservation
  • Breaking trust with physical discipline
  • An open letter to America regarding racism and the Black Lives Matter movement
  • Systemic racism is built for a purpose
  • Being proactive vs. reactive
  • A declaration of health
  • How long would you carry a brick?
  • Who would be your dream guest and why?

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Quarantine Real Talk

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Quarantine Real Talk

Episode Summary

Today I decided to have candid conversations with several colleagues about their thoughts on the Coronavirus and Quarantine.  This comes in the fourth week of physical distancing.  I wanted to get a feel for how people were moving through their process, personally and professionally.  I just thought it might be good to be a little more informal and vulnerable and raw.  We get into the mental process of the changes, financial fears, explorations of types of grief we may encounter, the environmental impact of a worldwide shut down, acknowledging the need for change in a system that is not supporting it’s citizens, listening to mother nature and so much more.  I want to be clear, though, that these conversations are opinion-based.  Although we are all healthcare professionals, we are not siting studies or data.  We are expressing human experience and thoughts.  I invite you to be curious in your reactions so that you can continue to uncover your own truths in your process and thank you for joining in ours.

Show Notes:

  • Mental process through the quarantine changes
  •  Impending financial doom
  •  Trying to keep perspective
  •  Offering self-care tips and tools for sudden big computer use
  •  Being of service is big work, hard work
  •  The Great Surrender – In community more now in isolation
  •  It’s not social distancing, it’s physical distancing
  •  The generosity and connection of people in a crisis
  •  What financial security could do for the health of humanity
  •  Healers have to be out of survival mode in order to help people heal
  •  Important to Look at how all care has been directed to the hospitals
  •  Understanding the grief of fast change
  •  It’s up to the human race if we can save ourselves
  •  Sharing resources -the bigger picture you get, the less fear you have
  •  Technology keep people alive longer than ever – underlying medical conditions
  •  Newfound appreciation for nature and the earth
  •  “Mom, Covid sucks”
  •  There’s Covid and then there’s the American response to Covid
  •  A beneficial environmental perspective, especially for our kids
  •  Let’s listen to mother nature
  •  Viruses are opportunistic
  •  The thing we all need here is faith – How do you know you’re ok?
  •  Closing the generational gap and learning from each other
  • Albert Einstein – Is the universe good or is the universe bad?

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Awakening Your Life Force, A Look at my Pelvic Floor Workshop, Surf Lessons and the Power of Retreat.

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Awakening Your Life Force. A Look at my Pelvic Floor Workshop, Surf Lessons and the Power of Retreat.

Episode Summary

My guests today are four beautiful goddesses I had the pleasure of sharing retreat space with in Oahu, Hawaii in February 2020. We will begin with the retreat inspiration and organizer, Nancy Bell.  After we chat with her, we will talk with the other workshop leader, Deb Gleason, where she shares her workshop inspirations.  And then, Liv Ensign, a surprise last minute guest and my long time friend.  As you can imagine we get pretty lively in our convo as travel buddies and lovers of laughter.  Lastly we will hear from Ange Arbuckle, the host of the retreat in her beautiful space in Hawaii.  Every guest shares their transformations through this sacred time together, what retreat means to them and also how they experienced my retreat offerings of pelvic floor awakening, along with learning to surf for the first time ever!

Show Notes:

I am fresh off of participating in the expansive Exposure Retreat 2020 on the beautiful island of Oahu.  I brought my Awakening Your Life Force pelvic floor workshop that I couple with surf lessons, which support re-igniting to your supreme essence and divinity.  The workshop piece was a full day of meditations, visualizations, recalling your power, emotional cellular memory education and techniques and pelvic floor education and self-care techniques.  At the end of the day we all participated in a fun dynamic motion exercise class and then eventually got our surf lessons on.  We will be hearing from four of the seven women about their transformations through my workshop and surf lessons, but also about the sacred shifts they received throughout our time together.  We will find out how profound these shifts can be when women come together in full transparency, vulnerability and support of each other.  Let me tell you, it was one of the most profound experiences I’ve had in a retreat space.  

  • Nancy Bell – The reason for the season
  • It starts with seven sisters
  • The magic happens when women come together
  • Starting at the root
  • Why am I who I am?
  • Ancestral trauma
  • Surfing! Pop up pop up!
  • Say It Out Loud – what do you want?  I want to be heard
  • Deb Gleason – Healing within and standing shoulder to shoulder with others
  • The fire as a facilitator in this retreat
  • Vegan lifestyle coaching with personal expansion
  • Food choice as a metaphor for who you choose to be in the world
  • Taking leaps for change
  • Food as a celebration and a spiritual practice
  • An invitation for pelvic floor transformation
  • Surfing joy!
  • Liv Ensign – I want to talk about our friendship!
  • The long lost fireside chats with Liv and Lori
  • Divine timing in relationships
  • The deep language of grief
  • Retreat newbie
  • Am I going to be good enough, smart enough and will people like me?
  • I’m only sad I didn’t start pelvic floor exploration earlier
  • Surfing a wave and maybe having a snack
  • I got this, I have all the things that I need
  • Ange Arbuckle – retreat space, a sanctuary
  • When the outside matches the inside of ourselves
  • Island magic
  • The vibration of the surfing cheerleading squad
  • What happens when we open up to retreat

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