The Emotional Alchemy Podcast

6. Connecting with Your Essential Nature, Mourning Ego-Death and Stepping Into Your True Self with Acupuncturist Christina Cecconi

May 30, 2020 Kat Lee + Christina Cecconi Episode 6
6. Connecting with Your Essential Nature, Mourning Ego-Death and Stepping Into Your True Self with Acupuncturist Christina Cecconi
The Emotional Alchemy Podcast
Chapters
2:36
My experience of coming home to my True Self
3:25
Overview of the episode
4:15
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4:32
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6:00
Introduction to Christina
8:50
The wisdom of asking questions
9:29
Christina asks the audience: “Who am I?”
9:38
Invitation to write down 3-5 words that first pops into your head to the question "Who am I?"
12:09
Identification of labels, careers, roles
15:07
Kat ask Christina: Why do folks attach to particular narratives?
15:35
Christina talks about the question that we are asked as children “What are you going to be when you grow up?”
19:56
Kat asks “Who are you when you are sitting in a room by yourself?”
20:27
Ego is the mental construct that we make for ourselves about our identity
23:30
Ego is a survival mechanism
26:58
Identity politics
28:25
Yin/Yang + Duality
30:30
Christina: “Who is the who who can ask you who you are”
31:48
Disneyland as a practice in narrative construct
34:00
Playing as children is testing empathy
36:10
If your mental construct dissolves, you don’t die.
39:05
Christina’s Ego Death + career change
46:05
Separating out the projection of others
48:06
Kat to Christina: “What was happening on the body level?”
54:08
Every role that we take on, we learn things so none of the roles are mistakes
55:22
Kat’s Ego Death + Relationship Change
1:01:10
Mourning your Ego Death
1:02:39
Self Confidence and Self Worth are 2 different things
1:04:28
Reflection of the difference between Guilt and Shame
1:05:20
You don’t need to blow up your life
1:09:00
Invitation to go back to your list
1:09:46
Eckhart Tolle: “What a liberation to realize that I am not the voice in my head.”
1:11:55
How does language shape our experience of identity?
1:13:55
Christina’s Left Foot Guided Visualization
1:17:34
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The Emotional Alchemy Podcast
6. Connecting with Your Essential Nature, Mourning Ego-Death and Stepping Into Your True Self with Acupuncturist Christina Cecconi
May 30, 2020 Episode 6
Kat Lee + Christina Cecconi

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Have you gone through life ticking off all the right boxes?

Your life is as you believed it should be. 

Career, relationship, home, kids...you invested in all that external structure that you believed would make life feel stable and secure. But somehow all the right boxes don’t add up to you feeling connected and whole. You’re starting to wake up. 

Meaning...you are finally starting to pay attention to your body. You are ready to stop apologizing for taking up space in your own life. You are realizing that you are holding the pencil and that you have a choice in how you write your story.

Coming home to yourself, to your True Self, is not a process of going *out there* to find her. It’s also not about rearranging the circumstances of your life to entice her in. It’s about recognizing that she’s been there all along. 

Bringing all your parts back together - from hollow to whole - means forgiving, celebrating, admitting, accepting and loving who you are.  

Coming home to your True Self is not a sunshine and rainbows experience. In fact, it will require you to attend a thousand funerals of the person you used to be. But doing so means that you will finally feel whole and complete exactly as you are no matter how the external circumstances shift. 


Here’s a glance of what you’ll learn from this episode: 

  • The adaptive role of the Ego 
  • The attachment we have about particular roles and narratives in our lives
  • How career and relationships transitions are a form of Ego Death
  • The liberation in knowing who our True Selves are


Christina Cecconi's Website // Instagram
Kat Lee's Website // Instagram

Resources Christina Talks About:
Eckhart Tolle's Books - 

And just for funsies, here are some pics of Christina role-playing in Disneyland 

Kat HoSoo Lee is a trauma-informed Spiritual Business Mentor and host of The Rooted Business Podcast. She uses the tools of somatic and emotional alchemy to guide soulful entrepreneurs to approach their business as a spiritual practice. This allows them to cultivate businesses that are rooted in conscious values, ethical marketing and purposeful service.

Connect with Kat:



This podcast is made possible with sound production by Andre Lagace.

Show Notes Chapter Markers

Send us a Text Message.

Have you gone through life ticking off all the right boxes?

Your life is as you believed it should be. 

Career, relationship, home, kids...you invested in all that external structure that you believed would make life feel stable and secure. But somehow all the right boxes don’t add up to you feeling connected and whole. You’re starting to wake up. 

Meaning...you are finally starting to pay attention to your body. You are ready to stop apologizing for taking up space in your own life. You are realizing that you are holding the pencil and that you have a choice in how you write your story.

Coming home to yourself, to your True Self, is not a process of going *out there* to find her. It’s also not about rearranging the circumstances of your life to entice her in. It’s about recognizing that she’s been there all along. 

Bringing all your parts back together - from hollow to whole - means forgiving, celebrating, admitting, accepting and loving who you are.  

Coming home to your True Self is not a sunshine and rainbows experience. In fact, it will require you to attend a thousand funerals of the person you used to be. But doing so means that you will finally feel whole and complete exactly as you are no matter how the external circumstances shift. 


Here’s a glance of what you’ll learn from this episode: 

  • The adaptive role of the Ego 
  • The attachment we have about particular roles and narratives in our lives
  • How career and relationships transitions are a form of Ego Death
  • The liberation in knowing who our True Selves are


Christina Cecconi's Website // Instagram
Kat Lee's Website // Instagram

Resources Christina Talks About:
Eckhart Tolle's Books - 

And just for funsies, here are some pics of Christina role-playing in Disneyland 

Kat HoSoo Lee is a trauma-informed Spiritual Business Mentor and host of The Rooted Business Podcast. She uses the tools of somatic and emotional alchemy to guide soulful entrepreneurs to approach their business as a spiritual practice. This allows them to cultivate businesses that are rooted in conscious values, ethical marketing and purposeful service.

Connect with Kat:



This podcast is made possible with sound production by Andre Lagace.

My experience of coming home to my True Self
Overview of the episode
The wisdom of asking questions
Christina asks the audience: “Who am I?”
Invitation to write down 3-5 words that first pops into your head to the question "Who am I?"
Identification of labels, careers, roles
Kat ask Christina: Why do folks attach to particular narratives?
Christina talks about the question that we are asked as children “What are you going to be when you grow up?”
Kat asks “Who are you when you are sitting in a room by yourself?”
Ego is the mental construct that we make for ourselves about our identity
Ego is a survival mechanism
Identity politics
Yin/Yang + Duality
Christina: “Who is the who who can ask you who you are”
Disneyland as a practice in narrative construct
Playing as children is testing empathy
If your mental construct dissolves, you don’t die.
Christina’s Ego Death + career change
Separating out the projection of others
Kat to Christina: “What was happening on the body level?”
Every role that we take on, we learn things so none of the roles are mistakes
Kat’s Ego Death + Relationship Change
Mourning your Ego Death
Self Confidence and Self Worth are 2 different things
Reflection of the difference between Guilt and Shame
You don’t need to blow up your life
Invitation to go back to your list
Eckhart Tolle: “What a liberation to realize that I am not the voice in my head.”
How does language shape our experience of identity?
Christina’s Left Foot Guided Visualization