Send us a text My bestie Christina Cecconi and I have been taking you on a journey this year to do a deep dive and explore the energetics of each of the Elements and Seasons. We are finishing the Five Elements Wisdom Series today. In this week’s episode we are going to explore nourishment as seen through the lens of the Late Summer and Earth Element. What You'll Learn in this Episode: How over-serving is a survival strategy and how it actually leaks energy instead of replenishing it Nourishment ...
Sep 03, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 57
Send us a text We are seeing ideological chasms being ripped through families, lifelong friendships and loved ones. Fingers being pointed rather than hands being extended. Words are being flung as bombs instead of being used for inquiry. If you’ve had a difficult, triggering conversation with someone this week, be honest...did you go into that conversation trying to understand them? Or did you go in armed with data and facts and sources to convince them to see things your way? This week, I am se...
Aug 31, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 56
Send us a text My guest on this week’s episode is Andrew Kippen who is a Coach + Hypnotherapist who helps his clients launch their healing business to grow beyond being a side hustle into a successful career. The fundamentals of his work covers how to package, price, market and sell their gifts to generate a steady income stream full of their ideal clients. He comes to this work after spending years working in startups, agencies and embassies launching new companies and products. The startup lif...
Aug 26, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 55
Send us a text One of the core values of The Empowered Curiosity Community is sovereignty over our bodies. We cannot have body sovereignty without understanding what is actually going on with our bodies and I’ve been witnessing the non-consensual culture of how we recommend birth control to women since I became a health care practitioner over a decade ago. This is why I wanted to have a conversation with Rachel Root who is an integrative women’s health coach, acupuncturist and herbalist. We talk...
Aug 19, 2021•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 54
Send us a text This week was really hard. I did a big, brave thing. (I bought a schoolbus to convert into a mini-home) I made a big, hard mistake. (The schoolbus turned out to be a lemon and I lost $10,000) And I learned some big, hard lessons. (Well, you’re just going to have to listen to the episode to hear about that!) I am so grateful that I had this conversation with Hannah and Kelty of Upbringing a few weeks before I had my terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. In this conversation, ...
Aug 12, 2021•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 53
Send us a text Even though I have been deeply entrenched in the study of connection - from both the scientific and spiritual perspective - for YEARS, I am constantly humbled by the new wisdom I continue to stumble upon when I have conversations with other humans who are doing parallel work. I am thrilled to introduce you to Zach Beach. He is an author, poet, yogi, love coach and podcaster and we have a dynamic conversation that covers: How the Body is THE portal to spirituality The difference be...
Jul 28, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 52
Send us a text Intuition is a strangely illusive concept. We can all look back on our lives and see where we may have been pulled away from intuition, but we’re not always in tune with it at the moment. In today’s episode, Kendra Adachi and I will do a deep dive exploration into where Intuition lives, why it gets pulled off track and how to listen to that inner knowing. My dear friend Kendra is the perfect person to have this conversation with because she lives in service of honouring the body’s...
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 51
Send us a text The one word I am going to spend my entire life trying to know and integrate is “Dao”. I am obsessed with understanding Dao even though I know that the closer I get to it, the less I will know. This word is nearly un-nameable because it takes on a unique meaning for each unique person. And I swear, I’m not trying to be obtuse on purpose here. The words we have to translate “Dao” in English is a good try, but it’s hard to capture such an elusive word. We call it Road. Path. Middle ...
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 50
Send us a text If you are on a journey to untangle from people-pleasing or perfectionist tendencies, you’re going to want to tune into this conversation with Courney Koester. This might be stating the obvious to define what “people pleasing” is but I think it’s important to dive into nuanced topics with the same vocabulary. I define “people-pleasing” as a pattern of putting the needs of others before your own When this happens, who you are and what you want is replaced by the needs and happiness...
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 49
Send us a text I often get asked “How do I get over my stress/overwhelm/anxiety/depression?” Folks are looking for me to tell them exactly which protocol or modality to help them get out of their funk. “Is cognitive behavioural therapy the answer?” “Should I try reiki?” “How about a therapist who is trained in internal family system?” “What about acupuncture?” My answer is this: As a healing community, we put too much emphasis on modalities and less on what will actually help relieve suffering. ...
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 48
Send us a text The inevitability of our human experience is that we will, at some point, lose sight of our purpose. When we are misaligned with purpose, we get pulled into the vortex of addictions, avoidant/anxious attachment strategies and generally feeling disempowered in our own lives. On the flip side, when we can identify and make explicit what our purpose is, have a sense of what drives us, understand what lights us up with bliss, we are able to settle into what our Dao is. In today’s conv...
Jun 16, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 47
Send us a text Did you know that 90-95% of our actions are driven from our subconscious programming? This is exaaaaactly why we tend to find ourselves in the same cycles over and over and over again - choosing the same archetype of a partner, finding yourself in the same rut of feeling devalued at work or having the same arguments over and over again with your loved ones. Part of the journey to unraveling our patterns of suffering is to become conscious, cultivate presence and reclaim your power...
Jun 10, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 46
Send us a text One of the most profound shifts I’ve made in my spiritual practice is understanding that it is a subtractive process, rather than an additive one. The simplest way to explain this is that you can approach spirituality thinking that you are not whole, needing to be fixed and grasping for the next modality, teacher, guru or tool to hold you together OR you can approach spirituality with the intention of remembering who your True Self is. When you do this, you can clearly see the sto...
May 26, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 45
Send us a text I am so excited to introduce my new friend Brian Donahoe to you. He and I will be doing an entire series diving into the different organ systems, how stress affects the different organ systems and what they are physiologically and emotionally holding onto so you can transform your Story. These conversations will go to the root of what I mean when I say “the Body is the storyteller of your life”. Because once we accept this concept, the next logical question is: “What the hell is m...
May 19, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 44
Send us a text I am someone who lives in the world of both/and. Meaning, I find deep value for the scientific research being done to explain the structure, functionality and physiology of our Bodies, BUT I believe we cannot take our finger off the pulse of the Spirit and Dao that courses through these temporary vessels we call our Bodies. Our bodies are the storytellers of our lives. But are we really listening? More and more of us are turning towards traditional cultural lineages of healing for...
May 13, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 43
Send us a text AmarAtma is a Board-Certified Chaplain who has specialized training to create peace and joy amidst the most challenging situations. AmarAtma is also a grief coach helping those who seek relief and peace. Because of his background in the hospital setting, he has a special connection to working with nurses and physicians, leading mind-body resilience presentations and events using his training in TCM & life coaching to create peace of mind amidst the challenges they faced togeth...
Apr 28, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 42
Send us a text Brittany Sharpe is a Vinyasa & Yin yoga teacher, Mama, DJ & Astrology practitioner. She currently resides on Salt Spring Island, BC with her family. I got to see first hand how much care she takes in stewarding the land where she resides and caring for her farm animals. She has been teaching yoga for over seven years and has taught many Yoga & Sound offerings throughout Vancouver. Brittany's latest passion has been leading new & full moon circles for people and sha...
Apr 21, 2021•57 min•Ep. 41
Send us a text A trauma-informed practitioner isn’t a magical unicorn. They’re someone who is deeply committed to integration and have put the work in so they can model and lead other people into their shadows. This is why when I met Patty, I knew I needed to share her voice on this podcast. It's so clear that Patty loves helping people. She loves to empower people to move towards their goals + dreams by showing them how to leverage their unique interests and abilities to foster more connection ...
Apr 14, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 40
Send us a text This month marks the 1 year anniversary of the collective shift of the global pandemic. For many of us, it has been an invitation to examine our relationship to the natural cycles of existence and how it feels to be confronted with literal death in the form of the coronavirus or with the idealogical death of systems that no longer work for us. For both SJ and I, this year has been deeply clarifying for how we approach our businesses, the language that we use, how she parents and h...
Mar 24, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 39
Send us a text As we transition into a new season, regular podcast guest Christina Cecconi joins me once again for a chat about the energetics of Spring and the Wood Element. We are inching closer to Spring Equinox and you’ve likely been feeling the stirrings within your own body and spirit. To move, to be creative, to bring things to life, to plant seeds. But this also comes with the challenges of Spring. When we prioritize progress and movement over alignment, we fall into the trap of creating...
Mar 23, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 38
Send us a text You are catching me at the start of a transition. For the past 4 years I’ve been nesting with my romantic BFF Andre Lagace, but this week I’ll be packing up the Subaru and moving from Vancouver, BC down to Henderson, NV. Even before this move was on the horizon, Andre and I had been planning on releasing an episode about attachments and how we’ve worked to co-create a secure relationship from a highly unstable one. But having a conversation about attachments in the midst of my pac...
Mar 10, 2021•50 min•Ep. 37
Send us a text This episode is going to be valuable for you if you were not exposed to healthy modeling of how to work through challenges in relationships. The thing is that our parents were trying their best with the tools that they had. Many of us had parents that didn’t have very good tools. Today, I’ve invited Jeremy Goldberg, coach, author, and podcast host. I wanted to have a conversation with him because as he put it, he’s someone who has “met rock bottom, planted a seed, grew a tree and ...
Mar 02, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 36
Send us a text One of the pillars of our conversations in this community is Embodiment Medicine. I wanted to have an entire episode about what this actually means. When I thought about who I wanted to have on as a guest for this topic, there was only one name that came to mind: Mara Branscombe. Mara is a mother, writer, yogi, dancer, mindfulness leader, ceremonialist and spirit coach. She has an amazing ability to guide others along the path of self-transformation. She is grounded. She is in tun...
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 35
Send us a text This week, I’m showing you my tender bits. I tried to interview my boyfriend Shawn but in reality what ended up happening is that we just had a conversation. A conversation that feels deeply personal to me because in it, we reflected on a lot of what we’ve been challenged by in our relationship and what we’ve intentionally done to right the ship. I wanted to share this with you because I want to acknowledge that these tools we talk about in this community are often easier said tha...
Feb 16, 2021•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 34
Send us a text I’ve said over and over again that there’s something magical that happens when a community of aligned women come together. Gathering in Circles is something that our feminine ancestors knew how to do, but in our modern world, these opportunities to gather and truly open up and reveal ourselves is rare. When we gather in a container rooted in the power of our femininity, it is not to create a hierarchy or competition, it is simply to witness, to hold and to nurture one another so w...
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 33
Send us a text One of my favourite humans to follow on Insta is my dear friend Jessica Benstock. Not just because she is my buddy, but because she has a way of looking at assumed notions and flipping them upside down to look at them from multiple perspectives. Currently, the conversation about narcissistic and empathetic personality traits is “narcissists bad” and “empaths good”. So Jess and I decided to look at this dynamic from a different perspective. In reality, both narcissistic and empathi...
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 32
Send us a text This conversation with Holly Toronto felt so clarifying. While speaking with her, I felt like my soul was distilling down and discerning my swirling thoughts about the fractured relationship we have with our body image and how we move and nourish ourselves. This is the time of year that many of us set goals for ourselves and that process often begins with an assessment of what we don’t like about our current lives so we can improve it. We make resolutions to eat better, exercise m...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 31
Send us a text This is the very first episode of 2021 and I wanted to start out with a little somethin' special for you. We start this episode with a realignment. I share a bit of my story so you can see WHY I am so passionate about conscious relationships, emotional alchemy and embodiment medicine. I also share the values that everything I do sits upon. If you resonate with these beliefs, we are going to be gooooooood friends. When I started this podcast last year, my North Star was aligned wit...
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 30
Send us a text I spent the majority of my life doing all the things, forcing things to happen, running to and running away from all the things before I discovered that there is another way. No wonder I was burnt out. I had completely lost sight of who I was and what I wanted. Christina Cecconi is one of the loudest voices in my life who reminds me of the other way. She reminds me that rest is not just for the weary, that there is space in my life to slow down, that something magical happens when...
Dec 16, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 29
Send us a text This is not your everyday conversation about intimacy. So cozy up, brew some tea and join us with your journal. I, like many, grew up in a household where mixed messages were sent about intimacy. Love felt like it needed to be earned. Showing up as myself felt like I would be too much or not enough. I was told not to be so needy so I disconnect myself from the part of me that has wants and needs. My deepest desire was to be seen and loved fully as myself. And yet, I was braced for...
Dec 09, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 28
