Journey to Well
We are not created to do this healing journey or life alone. In fact, it was Bessle Van Der Kolk who expertly shared “healing happens in the presence of an empathic witness”. That is the heart of this podcast & my business : to witness. You can expect a plethora of conversations on nervous system regulation, breathwork, human design & astrology, cycle alignment, energy & spirituality work and so much more. We are all on a journey back home to ourselves, rediscovering our innate power within & I am thrilled to take this journey to well with you. be well xx
Journey to Well
Embracing the Journey from Darkness to Light | Solo Pod
What if the physical pain you're experiencing is more than just a bodily ailment?
Today we unravel the complex web of physical and emotional pain, drawing from my own battle with prolonged back issues—a struggle that mirrors the emotional turmoil simmering beneath the surface. This episode is a heartfelt call to those who feel trapped in the shadows of life's challenges.
Together, we'll confront the emotional darkness that often accompanies physical & emotional pain, embracing the transformative power of fully experiencing our emotions. I share insights into shifting our mindset, reframing life's challenges as opportunities for growth rather than burdens. With a focus on community and support, I extend an open invitation to connect, offering a safe space to explore tools like human design and cycle alignment. This episode is a reminder that amid adversity, there's always hope and resilience. Whether you're facing sickness, loss, or significant life changes, remember that there's a light at the end of the tunnel waiting to guide you forward.
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Hello, my loves. So lately I feel like I have been just kind of moving around my day and I have this intuitive hit of you have to record a podcast episode right now. So this is another unplanned and unprompted solo pod, but I've been having something come up a lot lately within my personal life and noticing patterns that have been coming up in my client's life, in my friend's lives, et cetera, et cetera. And one thing that I have realized is or I'm sorry well, one thing that I realized, but also one of the things that I appreciate so much about my coaching business, is seeing clients one-on-one and in my group coaching platform, sync, being able to witness and hold space for others. I'm gifted that big picture perspective of seeing commonalities, seeing patterns that we might all be, or a lot of us might be, walking through in one season or another. And, to be honest, I feel this very strong pull to illuminate and cast light on these commonalities, on these patterns, and publicly and publicly share it in a podcast or on my Instagram story, because I know personally it helps me feel seen when I see someone else walking through XYZ and sharing about it. It makes me feel validated and that my experience is not abnormal and that I'm not the only one going through something, because oftentimes, when we're going through the struggle, when we're going through the darkness, when we're going through pain or a hard time or just a stressful situation, we feel so alone and that is grief, that's anxiety, that's fear, it's very isolating and there's a lot of power in learning. You are not alone and so if you feel like you are just thriving in life right now, you have absolutely zero complaints. Life is Gucci. Maybe this podcast episode is not for you. Maybe you still want to listen to it. I'm definitely not going to tell you not to listen to.
Speaker 1:My intention for this podcast is it's for the woman or human or soul that feels stuck and that feels alone and maybe that feels a little bit lost. And here's the thing let me share what's going on in my life, because the only thing that I can do this is the way that I approach my business. This is just my mindset is I can only share what I'm going through, what I'm experiencing. I want to share what I'm experiencing because I have firsthand knowledge of it. I don't know exactly what you're experiencing. I don't know exactly what you're walking through. I can sympathize and I can empathize with pieces of what you might be walking through, but I can only truly empathize, I can only truly alchemize what I am walking through because it's my experience, it's my body, it's my life, it's my journey, it's my season.
Speaker 1:So this past month oh my gosh, I think it's been a month or maybe a little bit more than a month my last solo podcast episode, I think I shared it was like a week or two into when I really hurt my back and this has probably been the longest that I've been in pain in my life. That I recall. I have videos on this and I've shared this part of my story before. But when I was in college, I really hurt my back doing back squats at the gym and I was out for like out of work, out of school, out of everything for weeks I don't know how long, I can't remember how long and every once in a while it creeps up on me and my back wigs out and it is what it is, um, and I finally feel like I am taking steps to actually heal it.
Speaker 1:Heal the root problem, um, but a lot of my pain, I've realized, and I would argue that a lot of every, every soul's pain. Every human's pain is also tied into an emotional pain. So we need to look at what's going on in our lives that maybe we are running away from, that we're not addressing that. It could be good stuff, like in my case, it's all good stuff. I think it's finally that my nervous system has finally found good stuff. I think it's finally that my nervous system has finally found its home. I physically moved and I feel very, very settled with where I am right now. And the funny thing is and I was talking about this in the last pod episode, solo pod is everything else in my life is good, like my relationship is good, I love the house that I'm living in, I'm close to my family, business is going really well, I'm gaining new, very aligned clients and my group coaching container is growing.
Speaker 1:And it's just the physical. But I've truly come to realize that there's a lot underneath that physical pain and why it's surfaced now of all times. But what I have also been walking through recently is seeing the pattern of there's a lot happening for a lot of people and this is a very trying time for a lot of people, not just, oh, I've been a little bit stressed at work or I've been a little financially stressed or my relationship has been tried recently. There's a lot of sickness in my client's lives and in my internal, in my inner circle, there's a lot of sickness. There's a lot of death, there's a lot of loss, there's a lot of grief. There's a lot of inner turmoil, of grappling with. Am I making the right decision? What is the right decision for my next step, like what's the right next step for me to take?
Speaker 1:There's a lot of heaviness, like right now, even as I'm recording this, it's a really cloudy day in the fall. Every time the wind blows there's more and more leaves falling down onto the earth and onto my car and onto my porch, and I'm really feeling today, I'm deeply feeling that inner fall that we talk about a lot on this platform of our luteal phase, the inner fall, the waning moon of our luteal phase, the inner fall, the waning moon I've talked about it on other solo podcast episodes this fall season. It just seems like a very, it feels like a very heavy fall, but not in the aspect of life is terrible, but not in the aspect of life is terrible and and I want to, you know, I want, I want to like, rush out of this season and I want to run away. Um, it's just feels heavy. It just feels heavy and in in a in a light ish way, if that makes sense, if that aligns with you at all ish way, if that makes sense, if that aligns with you at all. And what I truly wanted to come on here and say and bring to light is normalizing that.
Speaker 1:A lot of us are going through a lot right now. A lot of us are going through a lot, and it's possible that you're going through a lot of us are going through a lot, and it's possible that you're going through a lot and there's still good things happening in your life. Right, we talk about this often, but it's that duality of there can be good things happening in my life. At the same time, there's a lot of heaviness, or there's a lot of grief, or there's a lot of me grappling with what the next step is, what the right quote, unquote right decision is, and so I want to give you some tools. I want to give you some tools that may support you, that may benefit you, but I also want to strongly preface this with give yourself grace, give yourself the space to feel, the space to explore the space to cry it out, the time to sit in the sadness or the grief or the heaviness.
Speaker 1:We spend so much of our energy, whether we realize it or not. We spend so much of our energy running away from and avoiding feeling our feelings, and that was something that really came up with the retreat that I just co-hosted. We spend a lot of time talking about that, a lot of time holding space for us to feel our feelings, and so one of the biggest tools that I can gift you, that I can share with you, is find that safe place to land, whether it's a retreat, whether it's a therapist, whether it's a coach or a mentor or this is, I'm hesitating to say or a friend, like a safe friend only, because that, we know, can get a little bit tricky, and especially, maybe, if it's a friend that's also going through a lot like, maybe they don't have the space to hold for you at that exact moment. So, mindfully, mindfully, walk into that one, but find a safe place to land and check in with yourself. Are you someone that really benefits from externally not be our highest priority, uh, but those of us that don't externally process at least? Again, all I can share is my, my experience.
Speaker 1:I always said growing up, like I remember in college and shortly after college, like I remember in college and shortly after college, I would say I'm very much an internal processor. I just I. I need to go through my own process. I don't really like to talk about things, but what I realized was that was a cover for me not wanting to address the issues, especially at that time, the issues in my relationship, the barriers in my relationship. If I talked to them with someone else, it became very real. If I just wrote about it in my journal, it was just this quick way for me to express and get out my frustration. And then I never read that journal entry again until years later and I realized that that was a band-aid for me and I used language like oh, I'm just an internal processor, because I was afraid I was avoiding talking to someone because then it would become real. I was avoiding talking to someone because then it would become real. And once I began externally processing, there was a lot of shit that came up. So anyway, I would encourage you.
Speaker 1:My biggest tool, my biggest invitation, is to find a safe place to land. Safe place to land, preferably non-biased opinion, someone that is, you know, has a good foundation and someone that you feel safe with, to unravel. Because we all need to feel. We spend a lot, a lot, a lot of time running away from our feelings. Because we all need to feel. We spend a lot, a lot, a lot of time running away from our feelings and running away from our emotions, whether consciously or unconsciously. And if we created let's just ask a question, just take a moment, take a deep breath in, close your eyes, maybe, and ask yourself what would it feel like to create a container for me to explore these emotions or this heaviness or this weight? It doesn't have to be all bad, it doesn't Grief.
Speaker 1:Experiencing grief or sadness or pain or anger or frustration. They're not bad things to experience. It's not a bad emotion to allow yourself to feel. Again, in my experience, I was so afraid that if I allowed myself to feel it that I would feel that way forever. I would feel sad forever, I would feel frustrated forever, I would feel angry or I'd feel this pain forever. But there's this truth, and I will say it until I'm blue in the face when we surrender, when we allow that emotion to bubble up and bubble through, then it's no longer stuck with inside of us and we don't have to run away from feeling it and expand, expel all of that energy, extend all of that energy into avoiding that emotion. I hope that makes sense. I hope that resonates. That resonates. So find a safe space, another tool, another supportive piece of this, after we acknowledge that this might just be a shit time.
Speaker 1:Oh man, there's been so many seasons in my life where I have just been going through the darkness, dark night of the soul. I actually remember journal entries where I wrote I feel like I. The imagery that comes to mind is I'm just walking through this dense, dark forest and there's no light and I don't know where I'm going and I don't know which way I'm supposed to be heading and I feel like I'm just wandering and I feel so lost and so alone. And those lanterns come in little glimmers of people. For me, it was my mentors that came and it came through learning, through knowledge, through learning about specifically. For me it was learning about my menstrual phases. Why do I feel so dense and heavy and why do I feel all of these extra emotions, these heavy emotions, during my luteal phase and maybe the beginning of my menstrual phase. Why do I feel so critical of myself? Why do I feel sometimes a little bit extra anxious during the full moon? Why do I feel so much easier? Why is it so much easier for me to meditate and connect with myself and connect with God and inspiration during my menstrual phase?
Speaker 1:So my second tool, especially if you're a woman, whether you are menstruating or not, we as women go through cycles, go through phases, and it can be very confusing when we don't understand why we're going through, why we're experiencing what we're going through, especially learning about the luteal phase. That one's a tricky one. She's a tricky mistress sometimes. So learning about the luteal phase, reach out to me. Let's have a conversation. That's literally one of the things that I do, working one-on-one with clients is we talk about our cycle, we learn, we do a really deep dive into our cycle and the different phases and the different shadow sides of each cycle and the superpowers of each cycle, the yin and the yang. Always there's a duality in all of life, including our cycles. There's a duality in all of life, including our cycles learning about your human design, learning about how your energy is actually created to flow.
Speaker 1:If you're feeling in your life like I don't feel like a ton of shit is happening right now. I'm just feeling kind of stuck, I'm feeling kind of stagnant and I'm looking for that next level up. I'm I'm I'm feeling kind of stagnant and I'm looking for that next level up. I'm craving that up level. I just I cannot find the stair, hannah. I just don't know where the stair is to step up. Explore your human design. That was a stair for me. That was a glimmer, that was a lantern.
Speaker 1:In one of the darkest periods of my life was understanding how I was, how I am uniquely created. So those are some tools, honestly, and take them or leave them. And truly, the answers don't always have to be as complicated as we make them in our heads, like maybe it's not right now, maybe it's not hiring a coach right now or hiring a mentor. Hiring a mentor, maybe it's just Googling or searching on podcasts like human design, or searching on Instagram human design, or cycle alignment or cycle syncing, and seeing which people, which accounts that you feel called towards. The universe constantly leaves breadcrumbs and sometimes it takes those moments of hardship, it takes those dark, painful, heavy periods of our lives for us to actually look down and see the breadcrumbs that the universe is leading us. We spend so much time looking up and out. We spend so much time looking up and out. Maybe this tough time is an invitation to look down and to recalibrate, and that's not taking away from the uniqueness of your situation.
Speaker 1:A lot of times when we're going through a hard time, we are so hyper fixated on how to get out of it and I am speaking to myself, especially with my back Like it's been incredibly frustrating having to lay in bed and work. Have you ever tried to lay down and create a piece of content on Canva, lay on your back with your laptop on your belly? Or have you ever tried to lay down and type and hold your laptop with one hand and then type with the other hand? It slows you down, it's near impossible and it can be very frustrating. So please know that this is not coming from a place of oh, it's all going to be great, and just just learn your human design and learn your cycles and you're going to have the answer and you're going to get out of it.
Speaker 1:I truly believe that we go through shit seasons in our life and I don't wish them on anyone and I don't want you to go through a shit season right now. I don't want you to feel stuck, but it truly is those moments of feeling stuck where we stop, where we're forced to stop and maybe look down, or maybe look in Inside of ourselves, ask ourselves what's working, what's not working, why is it not working? What could work better? How do I want my life to actually look? Where are the blessings in the sadness? Where's the blessing in the loss? That's a tough place to be, especially when we're talking about grief, not just the back issue or being stuck at work. Again, I don't know who I'm talking to. I truly believe that if you're listening to this podcast, you've found it for a reason and I am talking to you.
Speaker 1:I don't know exactly what you're going through in this moment, in this exact season of your life, but I do know that you'll get through it, because we get through all of our days, change our mindset, shift our mindset 10% towards how is this happening for me? And away from why is this happening to me? Then you have more than half of it figured out, my friend. Why is this happening for me? How is this happening for me? What am I learning? I'm sending you so much love. Please know that my DMs are always open If you would like any recommendations on how to begin aligning to cycle or where to start learning my human design.
Speaker 1:I'm not ready to invest in a coach or a mentor or invest a lot of time and energy into this. I'm still here for you. Please know that. If you want that safe place to land, if you're craving a safe place to land, I can possibly point you towards a couple of places. I don't know. I don't claim to have all of the answers, but I do. I am willing to witness and hold space and maybe give you a few arrows of where to turn to. I'm sending you so much love. If you are someone that's walking through this dark time, there's always light at the end of the tunnel. Be well, my friend. Talk soon.