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Teal Swan

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A podcast for everyone who wants to get inspired towards authenticity, freedom and joy. Featuring the "AskTeal" episodes, meditations and inspiration by author and public speaker Teal Swan.
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Episodes

Is Teal Swan an Online Cult or Not?

There are claims making their way through various media outlets stating that Teal Swan and Teal Tribe are part of an onslaught of Online Cults that are cropping up across the internet. In this video Teal addresses these cult accusations and explains the widely accepted criteria that defines cult behavior so as to put these fears in their proper place.

Oct 04, 201928 min

How to Breakup and Stay Friends

Breaking up with someone is one of the worst things we can experience in this life. The reason is the foreseen loss and connection with the person who at one time, was perhaps the most important person in our lives. What if a breakup could be seen merely as a transformation in your relationship? Teal Swan helps you on this path to do this.

Sep 28, 201933 min

How to Open Your Root Chakra

How to open your root chakra begins with understanding what the root chakra represents. This is the chakra most related to grounding, earth, balance and our deep need for personal power and human relationships. The Root Chakra is also the chakra most attached to our primal instincts and instinct for survival. Learning to open your Root Chakra comes with a host of benefits but also opens doors to issues that we currently have with our own power and personal relationships.

Sep 21, 201923 min

Teal Swan's Stance on Suicide

Many media outlets (as well as the people who read and watch them) have come under the false perception that Teal Swan is encouraging people to commit suicide. This failure to look deeper into Teal Swan's actual message, methodology, processes and content is ironically the very same reason suicidal individuals feel so isolated and emotionally starved by their families and by society at large today. In this episode, Teal Swan clarifies her stance on suicide.

Sep 15, 201914 min

How To Win at Lose-Lose Scenarios

We have all been in a Los Lose Scenario, also known as a catch 22, damned if you do damned if you don’t or no win situation. Teal helps us look at understanding and assessing these situations in order to get the lesson out of them and resolve them with awareness and less pain. Also how to avoid the lose lose scenario in the future.

Sep 14, 201925 min

The Zero Sum Game (What is A Zero Sum Game and How To End One)

The Zero Sum Game is a Win Lose scenario that we are often playing in our relationships. For whatever reason, conscious or subconscious we often find ourselves in zero sum games. Telling a partner that if they act in one way we break up with them, telling a boss that if we don’t get paid more we quite. These are scenarios where only 1 side is fought for rather than finding a win win or compatibility rather than compromise.

Sep 13, 201916 min

Alcoholism and How to Quit Alcohol

Alcoholism or Alcohol Use Disorder is the current term to describe the abuse of Alcohol or being addicted to Alcohol. However even naming addiction to alcohol a disorder conveys a fundamental misunderstanding of this addiction. Alcoholism is a symptom of deeper wounds originating from being out of control and feeling unsafe if your relationships. Once we understand this deeper root, can we really get a handle on this “disorder” afflicting so many people in the world today.

Aug 31, 201944 min

Addiction and How to Overcome Addiction

Understanding addiction and the factors that lead us to addiction is the key to how to overcome and heal from Addiction. There is a grand misunderstanding that addiction is the root cause in itself and that people who suffer from addiction contain some sort of character flaw or moral deficiency. This couldn’t be further from the truth and getting to the core of what addiction is what Teal does Masterfully in this Ask Teal Episode on Addiction.

Aug 24, 201926 min

How To Stop Being A Scapegoat and Being Scapegoated

Are you the scapegoat in your family or considered the problem child? Are you constantly blamed for family problems? Blame and Shame are the primary aspects of the scapegoat or scapegoating. It is often a deflection of problems and onto one family member. What most people don't see however is how the scapegoated child often perpetuates the blame in order to stay safe in social situations

Aug 17, 201931 min

Spirit Plants (What is a Spirit Plant and How To Find Your Spirit Plant)

Spirit Plants, Totem Plants and Shadow Plants are something that all people have. By discovering and connecting with your Spirit Plant you can gain awareness about yourself and the special "medicine" that you came to the world to share. By connecting with your Totem Plant you can gain help for your journey here, and by connecting with your shadow plant, you can gain awareness of what you have suppressed

Aug 10, 201913 min

Hierarchy, Should We Accept It?

Hierarchy is a highly debated system of structure in our world, especially given the amount of protests on equality that we have these days. Are we really fighting for equality in the world of Hierarchy or are we fighting for our best interests to be considered. And whats the difference between Hierarchy and Equality. In this episode, Teal Swan tackles this most controversial subject.

Aug 07, 201931 min

Spirituality in The Information Age

How has Spirituality been affected by the Information Age? With anything we could want to know at our fingertips the information age has changed every aspect of our lives and Spirituality isn’t an exception. In this episode, Teal Swan discusses how this change has been positive and how it has been negative.

Jul 20, 201925 min

Reality

Reality is a subject of deep controversy. Who is to say what is real and what is not? Who’s reality is truth, and whose is false? Teal Swan's explanation of subjective versus objective reality delves deep and requires us to hold contradictory realities as well as explore the philosophical concept of Reality.

Jul 19, 201920 min

React Positively OR ELSE!

Expecting people to react positively when you have shared a truth about your life that is going to have a negative impact on another person isn’t just unrealistic, it can even be cruel! In this episode, Teal Swan exposes a shadow that we need to be aware of on the path of authenticity when it comes to sharing your authenticity with others.

Jul 18, 201913 min

The Mandela Effect

The Mandela Effect is a theory that a timeline or glitch in our reality has caused events in the past to change. Events like Nelson Mandela’s Death, Martin Luther Kings Death and the spelling of The Berenstain Bears. The easiest explanation is a collective false memory but is it as simple as this?

Jul 18, 201911 min

Own Your Own Best Interests!

This Ask Teal episode involves a relationship dynamic of suppression that leads to resentment and irresponsibility. Are these issues that you struggle with and is everyone around you the bad guy? You may be unknowingly placing the care of your best interests in other people’s hands. Teal Swan explains that it’s time to become aware of these dynamics.

Jul 17, 201918 min

I Love You "Even Though” - The Guise of Unconditional Love

Have you ever heard someone tell you that they love you even though “X” is wrong with you, or that they love you even though you had "X" tendency? Do you think about others in this way and consider it Unconditional Love? Teal Swan explains that this common way of loving, is the opposite of unconditional love.

Jul 16, 201913 min

Are You a Friend or a Foe Under the Guise of a Friend?

Sometimes we may see it as a duty to keep our friends in check. This arises especially when our friends have power. When power is involved and we fear power, we may feel the need to play devils advocate. This episode explains how we may be in a negative power dynamic ourselves and seeking to take our friend down, rather than assisting them to become aware.

Jul 15, 201920 min

Your Parents Aren't The Problem... The Parents Within You Are!

Teal Swan teaches about the root of the problems you are facing in your life. Most of the time, the root of those problems is your relationship to your parents/adult caregivers as a child. In this episode, she throws a curveball by teaching that once you are grown up, your Parents are not the source of your problems anymore, the parents that you have internalized however are. In our childhoods we develop a plethora of coping strategies to deal with perceived threats from our circumstances, paren...

Jul 14, 201917 min

One Way to Ruin a Relationship (The Love Doesn't Exist Story)

One way to ruin a relationship is by harboring the belief that Love Doesn’t Exist. Love doesn’t exist? What if I told you that the belief that 'love doesn’t exist' is a coping strategy and a way to protect yourself. Perhaps you weren’t truly seen as a child, or you had to develop a personality that wasn’t truly yours in order to protect yourself from scrutinizing parents. Teal Swan not only dives into this paradigm but how to fix it.

Jul 14, 201915 min

The Biggest Barrier to Awareness

The biggest barrier to Awareness is our unwillingness to see and accept a truth that causes us to feel pain or that would imply we need to make a change that is painful to make. Denial is a coping mechanism when dealing with a reality that you cannot change and this is often learned in childhood, as we are often unable to change our childhood situations. Teal Swan explains that now that we can change, we are often left with this coping mechanism when seeing something is painful or when seeing so...

Jul 13, 201912 min

Objective Truth (Do We Create Our Own Reality?)

In this episode, Teal Swan challenges your mind. Objective truth is difficult to grasp because inherently all of us view life from a subjective truth or reality. Objective truth can be seen as the culmination of all individual and subjective truths and perspectives.

Jul 13, 201919 min

You Can't Heal Yourself Out of a Desire!

Is it wrong to desire? Can you heal yourself out of a desire through meditation, personal work or Shadow Work? We often have desires within ourselves that we feel are wrong to have or that will cause us pain. Perhaps the question is not whether the desire is good or bad but WHY we have it. Following this line of thinking, Teal Swan explains how you can find your true desire and begin to meet this need directly instead of through unconscious manipulation.

Jul 13, 201919 min

How To Find Your Excellence (The Recognition of Excellence is 100% Dependent Upon Desire)

Excellence is inherent within every human being. We have traits that make unique things easy for us to do and we all have innate gifts that ensure we will be excellent at something. However, often this excellence is squelched by those who cannot see it within us, or who have different desires and therefore ideas of what excellence is. In this episode, Teal Swan helps us understand where and why we may have lost touch with our own excellence and how to find it again.

Apr 29, 201925 min

Karma (Does Karma Exist or Doesn’t It?)

In this 'graduate understanding of Karma' video, Teal explains how we have had a flawed understanding of Karma for a long long time. Teal Swan explains that Karma is essentially the observation of the law of attraction. Teal Swan explains how karma pertains to re-incarnation and past lives.

Apr 29, 201916 min

DEPRESSION (The Truth about Depression that No One Sees or Understands)

Depression can be an unrelenting force in your life. Understanding Depression begins with seeking and accepting the ways that you feel futility within your life. Many people know they feel futile but still subconsciously resist this futility. The key to understanding, overcoming, and eventually healing depression may lie in accepting the aspects and resolving the aspects of your life that you feel Futile about. Teal explains depression in detail in this episode.

Apr 29, 201931 min

Touch Deprived! (Touch…The Need You Are Suppressing)

Physical Touch is something that doesn’t necessarily make sense to modern day science. But the mind and body are inextricably connected. With every physical ailment we have, there is a corresponding mental or emotional cause at the root of it. Touch is also a way to communicate without words. But touch can be corrupted, especially with physical or sexual abuse. Our relationship to touch may be destroyed or confused. So Teal Swan explains that it is vital that we improve our relationship to touch...

Apr 09, 201918 min

What Every Man Needs To Know About Women

In this episode, Teal Swan reveals what every man should know about every woman... Her inherent biology of fear. This advice on Relationships is crucial because women live with fear constantly and men do not know this fear. As a result, men do not understand women are living with fear constantly. Relationships are difficult when men do not understand this, it causes them to prioritize the wrong thing in any given moment to create security in their relationships with women. And women are so used ...

Apr 09, 201914 min

The Lesson of Christ + Lucifer (Integrate Your Ego)

What is the true lesson of Christ, Lucifer? Teal breaks down the understanding of both the consciousness of Christ and the channel that was Jesus Christ and the lesson that we can learn from Christ and Lucifer.

Apr 09, 201912 min
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