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Unlocking Your Inner Wisdom: A Conversation with Nomi Bachar of White Cedar Institute

• Garfield Bowen & Nomi Bachar

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Feeling like your life is missing essential pieces? In this revealing conversation, psychotherapist Nomi Bachar introduces us to her revolutionary Gates of Power system at White Cedar Institute—a comprehensive approach to healing and self-actualization she's refined over 35 years of practice.

Nomi presents a refreshingly holistic perspective, comparing our lives to a pizza with seven essential slices: body, emotions, dialogue, creative expression, life path, silence, and knowledge. Each slice represents a gate—a portal connecting our inner being to the external world. When these gates are all functioning properly, we experience wholeness and vitality. But when slices are missing or damaged, our lives feel incomplete.

What truly sets Nomi's approach apart is her understanding of our internal dynamics. She identifies three distinct aspects within each person: the emotional self, the defensive/survival self, and the expanded self (what she calls the "God wisdom inside you"). Most people operate from either emotional or survival instincts, but Nomi teaches clients to access and lead from their expanded self—the only aspect truly capable of wisdom and higher vision. This creates harmony in your "inner family" and transforms how you navigate the world.

Unlike quick-fix approaches, Nomi is refreshingly honest about the commitment required. "I'm loving and compassionate, but there's no hiding behind the bush here," she explains. This authenticity has attracted clients who are serious about transformation, not just seeking temporary relief. Ready to become your own healer, coach, and inner parent? Visit gatesofpower.com or find Nomi's book "Gates of Power: Actualize Your True Self" on Amazon to begin your journey toward becoming everything you can be.

Speaker 1:

This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Garfield Bowen.

Speaker 2:

Welcome to Podcast Live. Are you looking for some healing or actualizing your potential? Well, we got a treat for you Today. I'm here to introduce your good neighbor, Nomi Bahar, with White Cedar Institute. Nomi, how are you doing today?

Speaker 3:

I'm doing pretty great.

Speaker 2:

We're excited to learn all about you and your organization. Tell us about White Cedar Institute.

Speaker 3:

White Cedar Institute is a home of an amazing system, healing and self-actualization system that I have created to help people who are serious about their life and want to become everything that they can become. The Institute is the home of Gates of Power, which is the name of the program and the method that we're offering and, if I may say a few words about this, I think fabulous process that we are offering. We are teaching people how to become their own healer, their own coach, their own inner parent and to be the leader of their life, and I'll explain in a minute how we do that. But we also teach people that there are seven areas of life that we call gates, meaning they are portals, portals, avenues from your inner being leading to life and life leading to your inner being. So those portals, gates are the gate of the body. Then we have the gate of emotions your emotions are being either flowing or not flowing in and out of you and so on, and you want a good flow. Then we have the gate of dialogue, which is relationships with self, with others and with the creator. Then you have the gate of creative expression, which is how much fun and creativity and joy and silliness and so on you can put in your life Very important. Then you have the gate of life path, which means what is your purpose, what are your lessons, you know where are you going, what is your contribution in this life, and so on. That's the gate of life path. Then you have the gate of silence, which is prayer, meditation and spiritual understanding, and then there is the gate of knowledge. So you can think about it as a pizza pie with seven slices. All these slices have to be wholesome and good for you to have a wholesome and a strong, vibrant life. You don't want a pizza pie that half of a slice is missing, then a quarter of another slice is missing and maybe one slice is totally missing. You don't want that. So we are taking care of all these areas to strengthen them, to heal them and to have them be absolutely supportive to your soul's journey.

Speaker 3:

Now, when I say you become the leader of your life, I say that because inside of you there are really three people, so to speak. Without you not being schizophrenic or anything, everybody has that. One is your emotional part, your emotional self. The other one is your defensive self, your survival self, and the third one is your expanded self, which is God wisdom inside of you, and I teach people how to use that self, your expanded self, to heal, coach and parent the two other selves.

Speaker 3:

So now you have a nice inner family and you have a good leader to the family, to this inner family. I mean you don't want your survival self to be the leader, you don't want your emotional self to be the leader. You don't want your emotional self to be the leader, you want your expanded self to be the leader. And most people are not leading their life from their expanded self either, from their survival self, and then they're all tensed and worried and whatever, not in a good place. Some of them lead their life from their emotional self, also not a good idea. These two are not leadership material leadership material.

Speaker 2:

Only your expanded self has the wisdom and the higher vision for you. I know you talked about the self-coach self-coaching, yes and who would you say is your target clients and how are you currently attracting them?

Speaker 3:

My target clients are really serious people about being everything that they can be, and that's not. It's not most people, you know. Most people are just kind of living you, living whatever, trying to survive, live, think that they have fun, or whatever. My clients are amazing. They are people that are absolutely dedicated to becoming the best that they can be. And how am I attracting them? They come to me. I'm not doing a lot of marketing. I'm not doing a lot of, but I have been practicing for 35 years. I'm a trained psychotherapist in four different modalities that are, you know, not really you know. They just went into the blender with all my other knowledge and helped me create the Gates of Power system. But for 35 years I never had to. I was never without clients.

Speaker 2:

It's basically word of mouth for the most part. Yes, yes, yes and to be honest.

Speaker 3:

when somebody comes, I say, look, you're going to have to do rigorous work and I am kind of a tough coach. I'm loving and compassionate, but there's no hiding behind the bush here, and they stay and they get working, you know.

Speaker 2:

Have you ever thought about doing your own podcast?

Speaker 3:

Yes, I do, I have it.

Speaker 2:

You have your own podcast.

Speaker 3:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

Okay, excellent. Now, when you're not busy running your business, naomi, what do you like to do for fun? Running your business now, what do you?

Speaker 3:

like to do for fun. You know, as you get older, fun can be very simple things. When I was young, fun was I also was a performer, choreographer, director. I had my own dance company, theater dance company in New York City. I would go to the shows, I would go to see dance, I would be prancing all over town. Now I don't need to do that really. I can take a walk and look at the trees and be absolutely fulfilled. You know so.

Speaker 2:

I see it's nature, nature.

Speaker 3:

It's here and there, listening and reading. I always read all the spiritual books that almost exist and I've done many, many workshops and courses and classes of other masters. But now it's the quiet moments, you know being with the kids, the grandkids, being with friends and laughing. You know doing something creative, traveling and meditating. I've been a meditator for like 40 years of my life, so you know I've come to be in the here and now, really, really, really. So the here and now is very fulfilling.

Speaker 2:

It sounds like you have a wealth of knowledge to share and we're running out of time, but I want to narrow it down to one thing. If it's just one thing that everyone should remember about White Cedar Institute, what would that one thing be?

Speaker 3:

You have the opportunity and the possibility to get tools and coaching and courses and classes to become the best of you, and if you choose to do it and you want to do it in a very practical, spiritual, complete way, come to us. That's all I can say.

Speaker 2:

My listeners now have one word on their lips right now is how? How did they get more information on White Cedar Institute?

Speaker 3:

You do your search online wwwgatesofpowercom. The YouTube is there all the podcasts are there, all the blogs are there and the explanation about the system is there and you can contact me there. And I have a book on Amazon. I have a couple of books, but one of the books is Gates of Power Actualize your True Self, and it's unaudible. If you don't want to read, so grab the book and start listening to it, so at least you'll get a sense of the depth and the width of this beautiful system.

Speaker 2:

Well, naomi, we really appreciate having you on the show. We're showing your business the very best, moving forward.

Speaker 3:

Thank you.

Speaker 1:

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