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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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The Language of Grief with Morgan Wade

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The Language of Grief with Morgan Wade

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I am talking today with Morgan Wade, a somatic therapist and hypnotherapist specializing in intimacy and embodiment. We are in unprecedented times with a global pandemic shifting life as we have known it.  I believe we are on the precipice of dropping deeper into a society based in community instead of currency and for that I am excited.  We are seeing how humanity is rising up to a global crisis and frankly I am proud, but we are also experiencing very real levels of collective grief pertaining to such dramatic change, as well as personal grief and loss from the virus itself.  I wanted to get to some real talk about grief for support and understanding. We will explore the language of grief that comes after the sudden loss of a person and how it can be an access point to raw vulnerability and spirit, how loss is human and moments of enlightenment can sometimes be found on a kitchen or bathroom floor and we also look at how grief can become our teacher.  We touch briefly on the stages of grief, but more so on the process of finding meaning in grief.  In the end, our conversation becomes a beautifully woven exploration of this earth  school ride that we are all on together, in community  in these human bodies and in our hearts.  As someone who had spent many years of my life in grief, this episode means the world to me.  I want to offer some support to the many people out there experiencing loss on any plane and to normalize the gravity of what they may be feeling.  I also want to offer support to the communities of those very same people so they might be able to hold space a little more without fear.  Morgan offers exquisite insights from all sides.

Show Notes:

  • Our history – a kindred spirit connection
  • Morgan’s early relationship with grief
  • Grief is human and universal
  • We are all increasing each other’s bandwidth for holding discomfort
  • Grief as a direct access to raw vulnerability and spirit
  • The current layers of collective grief
  • Moments of enlightenment on the kitchen and bathroom floor
  • The gift of grief as a teacher
  • Our innate medical wisdom to boost immunity
  • The stages of grief
  • Finding meaning in loss
  • The earth school ride
  • Who is your dream guest and why?

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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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Thoughtful Conversations About Whiteness with Good Friends and Cats

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Thoughtful Conversations About Whiteness with Good Friends and Cats

Episode Summary

My guest today is the divine Devi Ward.  She is the Founder of the Institute of Authentic Tantra Education, is the host of the podcast Sex is Medicine, is an author and has been featured as a Tantra and Female Sexuality Expert in countless articles and over 30 different radio and television networks world-wide.  We will be exploring what it means to look at the white race in relation to racism, why it is uncomfortable for white people to talk about race and how we are mostly uninformed and uneducated when it comes to discussions about race, even with the best of intentions.  It is my hope to open up a conversation about this to normalize it so more conversations start happening, which will affect bigger change.  I want to bridge the taboo gap by sharing experiences and truths to help us all discover where we may have been misled or misplaced in our own upbringing or experience.  The cats are there because as Devi has said previously when engaging in these conversations, cats make everything better.

Show Notes:

This episode was the most vulnerable I’ve been and that is exactly what drives me to share it with the world.  We as white people need to push past those feelings of vulnerability in regard to race and seek out the very best ways that we can implement change in a system entrenched in extreme bias and privilege.  My guest shares very deep wounds as a result of racial trauma and I’m so grateful to her for opening up in such a public platform to share her experience with us about the very real impact it has had on her life.  Thank you for holding the space for her to put a voice to these wounds.  Please do check out the very valuable resources listed below.  I will tell you right not that since doing my own research for this interview I have had several conversations that have led to others discovering the importance of becoming educated and talking with their children early on.  I just returned from a powerful retreat experience where I offered my Awakening Your Life Force workshop and surfing lessons as a piece to the whole movement.  What we talked about most is how the reaction we may feel listening to another’s experience can be a very helpful tool as a mirror or reflection of ourselves to explore.  I encourage you to listen with an open mind and heart that is really willing to look past your personal experience and into the much deeper wound racism has inflicted on our entire culture.  

  • Our history, how we met
  • The system is broken
  • Receiving the message that I was defective, “If I would have been born 5 years earlier I would have been illegal”
  • Childhood education, deep-seeded beliefs
  • Exploring the belief that if you talk about race, you are racist
  • Color blindness and the destructive outcome in that school of thought
  • Dominant culture sets the values of that culture
  • Generational trauma of racism
  • Racial trauma, family trauma, growing up bi-racial in an affluent white neighborhood
  • The almost fatal result of the accumulative trauma of being a person of color in America
  • The danger of the binary assumption the a bad person is racist and a good person is not.
  • Racism if the air we breathe, it’s not personal
  • Test your implicit bias
  • Systemic barriers demonstrated in a bird cage analogy
  • The structure is a reflection of the mind, change starts within
  • Who is your dream guest and why?

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