#WisdomWednesdays: Put Yourself First by Practicing Introspection and Connecting with Your Inner Child

Sometimes we get stuck in relationships where we give, give, and give but don't receive anything in return. We lose ourselves in the struggle to feel loved and appreciated. Thus, to find fulfillment in any relationship, sometimes it helps to put yourself first . You need to develop a healthy and understanding relationship with yourself proactively. After all, how you see and treat yourself mirrors how you show up with other people.

In this episode, Rosie and Tessa delve into self-inquiry in different aspects of our lives and relationships. They discuss the importance of introspection in understanding repetitive mistakes and cycles. They also talk about how developing a relationship with yourself is the foundation of any relationship. Furthermore, Rosie and Tessa tackle the power of thought and connecting to your inner child.

Do you find yourself stuck in the same repetitive cycles of relationships and mistakes that do not serve you? This episode will shed some light on the actions and changes you need to make!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

1. Understand the role of self-inquiry in addressing repetitive cycles.
2. Learn why you need to put yourself first before you can show up for others.
3. Discover why you should connect with your inner child.

Resources

• Light on Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar
• The Gift by Hafiz
• The Untethered Soul by Michael Alan Singer
• The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo
• Radically Loved Podcast Episode 362 Building a Successful Health and Wellness Business with MaryRuth Ghiyam
• Create a daily meditation ritual in just seven days! Download BUILD YOUR DAILY MEDITATION RITUAL and other freebies on the Radically Loved website!
• FREE Action Guide! Apply the lessons you learn from this episode as you listen! Sign up at com, and I’ll send it right away!

Episode Highlights

The Difficulty of Applying Acquired Wisdom in Life

• Part of the human experience is to make mistakes. Making mistakes is how we learn.
• We have to reprioritize and change our perspective to give ourselves the space to do things efficiently.
• Repetitive mistakes, experiences, and relationships are invitations to introspect and determine if there is an unconscious pattern operating.

Self-Inquiry

• It’s a matter of spending time reflecting on these repetitive cycles.
• Sometimes repeating the same mistakes over and over may be an operator error.
• Instead of blaming somebody else, it could help to do some self-inquiry.

Spending Your Energy on the Right People

• Relationships with friends are very similar to romantic relationships.
• An asymmetrical relationship takes a lot of energy from the person who keeps giving but not taking.
• It’s a conscious choice to spend your time with the people you can depend on.
• There’s only a finite amount of time in a day. Put yourself first by paying attention to where you’re putting your energy.
• Your relationships should give you energy, not take it away from you.

Put Yourself First

• You don’t have to give up your strength to connect with others; you have to care for yourself to care for others.
• Developing a relationship with yourself is the foundation of any relationship.
• Relationships are the highest form of spiritual practice. Being fully present, investing time and energy to give and receive creates a deep reservoir for our vitality.
• Sometimes, the desire to feel loved and accepted makes us willing to lose ourselves in the process.
• But you need to put yourself first and prioritize what you need before you can give.

Interpreting Poetry

• Poetry is interpretive of you and your experience; there is no right or wrong answer.
• Listen to the full episode as Tessa reads the poem To Build a Swing by Hafiz!
• Your interpretation of the poem depends on where you are in your life and what you are going through.
• To Build a Swing compels you to reminisce on your childhood.

Our Childhood Dreams and How They Evolve

• We go through a process of trying to find the thread of joy and figuring out our purpose.
• Our passion doesn’t necessarily need to become our purpose.
• While it can be, it’s vital to tell the difference.
• Bringing back our inner child is important for finding fulfillment.

Taking Control Over Our Minds

• Our minds are powerful; they’re constantly creating and narrating.
• Everything we want to do is right at our fingertips, yet we create excuses not to do them.
• The things we end up doing and spending our energy on are all a matter of how we redirect our thoughts.

Connecting to Your Inner Child

• Repeatedly performing the same draining activity may be a sign of your inner child needing attention.
• Instead of doing what feeds our soul, what we often do is seek love outside of ourselves.
• Think about the ways you connect with your inner child. This inner child is the part of yourself that still needs love and nourishment.
• Listen to the full episode to hear a guided meditation that helps you connect with your inner child!

5 Powerful Quotes

[16:14] “We utilize all of those resources to share our strength. But it doesn't say that we have to give up our strength in order to connect with others, in order to be the example to help our community, to help our friends, to help the people in our lives.”

[17:03] “You have to understand the relationship that you have with yourself. You have to understand how you talk to yourself. And in that way, like you were saying, by example, you're teaching others, how to treat you, how to be around you, how to treat themselves, and how to treat others as well.”

[18:30] “We're willing to run ourselves into the ground so that we are loved, and appreciated, and feel needed. When that work needs to come within. We need to do that work ourselves.”

[23:56] “The whole idea of bringing back that inner child to have that novelty play in our lives is I think, so important. It's all those little things that accumulate to make us feel fulfilled.”

[29:17] “What we've learned how to do, whether it's like environmental or in society, is seek our love and adoration outside of ourselves, which isn't lasting; it doesn't last forever. So we forget how to fill ourselves up on our own with those things that are creative and soulful to yourself like you were talking about.”

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Why Self-Care Is Important in Attracting the Life You Want with Dawn Aurora Hunt

Do you feel lost and disconnected with yourself? Are feelings of self-doubt prevalent in your life right now? You’re not alone. The pandemic is still ongoing, and things continue to change as we all try to get back up. Getting yourself out of this uncertainty and into the life you want can be tricky. To get off your train of negative patterns, you first have to understand why self-care is important .

In today's episode, Dawn Aurora Hunt joins us to talk about why self-care is important in practicing self-love and gaining confidence. We are who we attract, so it’s crucial to work on ourselves. Dawn also shares the different ways she practices self-love, such as harnessing energy from food.

If you’re struggling with feeling lost and want to know why self-care is important in your journey, this episode is for you!           

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

1. Discover why self-care is important in attracting the things you desire.
2. Understand the ways we can harness the power of food.
3. Learn how to take care of yourself and practice radical forgiveness.

Resources

• The Cucina Aurora Kitchen Witchery Podcast
• Create a daily meditation ritual in just seven days! Download BUILD YOUR DAILY MEDITATION RITUAL and other freebies atcom!
• FREE Podcast Action Guide! Apply the lessons you learn from this episode as you listen! Sign up at com, and I’ll send it right away.

Episode Highlights

[05:19] Accepting Praise

• It’s normal to have discomfort after receiving praise because we’re put in the spotlight.
• However, you have to learn how to hold praise and criticism equally.

[08:20] How to Attract Love and Find Confidence

• The pandemic has caused us to feel disconnected from ourselves and other people.
• Many of us have tied our identities to the way we connect to the outside world, and we are left feeling lost when that is taken away.
• To attract people of a certain type, you need to be that certain type.
• That’s one of the reasons why self-care is important.
• Think about how the world would be if everyone else was just like you. Let this guide the type of person that you should be.

[13:45] Reconcile Relationships

• We all have complex relationships with ourselves.
• At the same time, we have loaded relationships with things like food and money.
• All these relationships affect who you attract.
• For Dawn, the first step to getting out of that hamster wheel of self-doubt is to get clear about these relationships.

[20:03] Start Practicing Radical Forgiveness

• Radical forgiveness involves taking yourself out of the equation whenever someone hurts your feelings or does something terrible.
• Sometimes, we’re not meant to learn from these situations. Instead, we may be the lesson for other people.
• The things that you want in your life may be different from what the universe has planned for you.
• Don’t hesitate to put out there what you’re seeking, but be open to however the universe answers.

[22:53] Harness Energy from Food

• Dawn shares how certain foods have energies. For example, when she feels afraid, she tends to use a lot of garlic, which has protective energy.
• She also shares how masculine and confident energies can be found in foods like zucchini and bananas.
• Meanwhile, nurturing and feminine energies can be harnessed from eggplants and watermelons.
• Dawn also eats with intention. She visualizes what she wants to attract as she draws energy from her food.

[27:46] Go Back to the Basics

• Be in the space of love and acceptance so you can attract the same.
• Anytime you’re feeling stressed or out of balance, go back to the basics.
• Assess what you’re eating and check if you’ve been moving your body.
• Don’t become complacent and put it off for tomorrow. Fix it now.
• Do not reaffirm the same mentality that got you in this state.

[31:55] Don’t Beat Yourself Up

• It’s okay not to be perfect. You can give yourself the grace to seek comfort.
• However, once you promise yourself something, do not go back on your word.
• Breaking your promises reaffirms the negative thought patterns in your head.
• Be honest with what you want and where you want to go.
• Become responsible for these wants and take action.

[35:18] Why Self Care Is Important

• If you keep attracting the same type of person, it’s a clue that maybe you need to look inward at yourself.
• We tend to attract things that make us comfortable, even if that is bad for us.
• Remember that your grass will only be green when you water it. Pay attention to yourself and you will attract the life you want!
• Create a self-care routine to help you calm down. Take breaks and find what helps you become relaxed.
• Self-care sometimes hurts and is uncomfortable, but that is part of the healing process.

[43:24] Take Control of Your Life

• To attract what you want in life, you have to be a person deserving of those things.
• Things don’t happen to you, but for you.
• We can take control of our lives by taking control of our thoughts.
• Nurture yourself with food, water, air, and movement.

5 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

[12:23] “We are what we attract, or we attract what we are. If our thoughts become our reality, then our outer world is a direct reflection of our inner world.”

[21:01] “Sometimes things aren't about what we need to learn. We are facilitators of lessons in other people's lives.”

[26:25] “Attraction isn't just about new relationships, it can be about deepening relationships.”

[39:04] “The grass is greener where you water it. Put your attention in your own damn yard, and your grass will be green too.”

[42:56] “If you want to attract the things in life that you want to have, you have to become the person that deserves those things.”

About Dawn

Dawn Aurora Hunt is the owner and CEO of Cucina Aurora. She's been teaching and writing about kitchen and spiritual nutrition since 2010. She is incredibly passionate about cooking and starts every recipe with love and positive intentions. All her Cucina Aurora recipes are tested for all kinds of people, including discerning chefs, busy meal makers, and the picky eater.

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#WisdomWednesdays: Reducing Your Cognitive Load and Creating Ripples of Kindness

In a society that gives so much value to material possessions, we tend to get lost in all the clutter. Presented with many options every day, we stress out even on simple things like what to eat or what to wear. We unknowingly get bogged down by these choices, trapped in the mindset that more is better.

In this episode, Rosie and Tessa talk about ways to lighten your cognitive load. They discuss why having a simple routine can help us allocate our energy to the things that truly matter.

They also touch on the ripple effects of kindness. If we uplift one person, they will then pass on the positivity to those around them. Furthermore, Rosie and Tessa tackle the importance of being kind to yourself and how this affects our attitude toward other people.

Do you think you’re spending too much time and energy on making decisions? Do you want to live your life being kind to everyone  and yourself? If you answered yes to these questions, then this episode is for you!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

1. Learn how to lighten your cognitive load.
2. Understand the far-reaching effects of being kind to everyone.
3. Discover ways to be more kind to yourself.

Resources

• Knowing Where to Look: 108 Daily Doses of Inspiration by Light Watkins
• TED Talk: The Paradox of Choice with Barry Schwartz
• Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey
• Succulent Wild Woman by Sark
• Create a daily meditation ritual in just seven days! Download BUILD YOUR DAILY MEDITATION RITUAL and other freebies on the Radically Loved website!
• FREE Action Guide! Apply the lessons you learn from this episode as you listen! Sign up at com, and I’ll send it right away!

Episode Highlights

What Is Cognitive Load?

• The things we carry increase our cognitive load.
• What to wear and what to eat—these decisions exhaust our mental energy.
• It’s overwhelming for us to have so many choices. Instead of making our lives easier, choices make them more difficult.
• We make decisions all day long, but not all of them are equally important.

The Importance of Routine

• Having a strict, simple routine allows writers and artists to preserve their energy for creativity.
• Needing to make many small decisions during the day pulls us away from the work we need to focus on.
• When you want to create something, plan ahead so you can dedicate most of your time and energy to it.
• Once you develop a habit, you expend less energetic output towards doing that task.
• Find the balance between variety and routine.

Being Kind to Everyone

• Light Watkins’ book tells the story of a child who was on the brink of starvation.
• A Nazi soldier snuck him a rotten potato. The child credits this act of kindness as the thing that helped him survive the holocaust.
• The child passed this story on to his son and instilled in him the importance of being kind to everyone.
• To immortalize his father’s lesson on the importance of being kind to everyone, the son created the KIND Bar.

The Ripple Effects of Kindness

• Listen to the full episode to hear about Tessa and Rosie’s incredible stories of a ripple effect that started with one kind gesture.
• Kindness is about allowing the ripple effect to begin.
• The smallest kindness can change the course of someone’s day or even their life.
• Make it a goal to do one random act of kindness every day.

Being Kind to Ourselves

• Being kind to everyone starts with how kind we are with ourselves.
• Start building a relationship with yourself by taking yourself out on a date.
• You can do this by having a long scenic drive, going out to dinner with a book, or planning a solitary retreat.
• Cultivating a relationship with yourself may help diminish your feeling that something is lacking.
• When you enjoy being by yourself, you won’t need to seek as much validation from others.

5 Powerful Quotes

[06:19] “We think that having so much choice is better. But in fact, it's actually a lot more difficult.”

[08:51] “How we (feel) make ourselves feel beautiful, and how we express our confidence and how we express our personality. There's definite value in it.

[11:30] “We are such creatures of habit, and there's comfort in that.”

[21:19] “Just the smallest kindness can change the course of somebody's day, somebody's life.”

[25:01] “One of the reasons we depend on others for entertainment is because we don’t trust ourselves to provide it or maybe we just haven’t practiced it yet.”

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Building a Successful Health and Wellness  Business with MaryRuth Ghiyam

Health and wellness should be a priority for everybody. This also applies to the workplace, where employers should be mindful of their employees’ health and wellness. Running a business is about hard work, but it’s also about valuing your team and your work together. After all, a business cannot succeed without a solid group of employees. The grind is important, but being humble and empathetic toward everyone on your team is a step in the right path.

In today's episode, MaryRuth Ghiyam shares her health and wellness journey that led to her successful business, MaryRuth Organics. She also talks about the importance of empathy in building a successful team and the inspiration behind her new book.

If you want to know more about building a strong company culture and team, this episode is for you!      

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

1. Gain valuable insights from MaryRuth’s health and wellness journey.
2. Learn the importance of self-care and how it can affect your employees and customers.
3. Discover the two key qualities of a good team.

Resources

• Connect with MaryRuth: MaryRuth Organics | Instagram
• Liquids Till Lunch by MaryRuth Ghiyam
• Create a daily meditation ritual in just seven days! Download BUILD YOUR DAILY MEDITATION RITUAL and other freebies at com!
• FREE Podcast Action Guide! Apply the lessons you learn from this episode as you listen! Sign up at com, and I’ll send it right away!

Episode Highlights

MaryRuth’s Journey to Health and Wellness

• MaryRuth’s father and brother suddenly passed away. Her mother developed two brain tumors, which people believed were connected to her losses.
• In the process of her mother getting better, MaryRuth became excited to learn about health and wellness to help her mother thrive.
• MaryRuth believes that each person has an entrepreneurial spirit.
• MaryRuth used to be an athlete. The competitive spirit of doing difficult things merged into her business.

How MaryRuth Kept Her Positive Mindset

• MaryRuth enjoyed being with her team and is passionate about being a team builder.
• Take care of yourself first, then your employees. Eventually, extend that to your customers.
• Build a strong company culture.
• A healthy and mission-driven company has authentic customer interactions.
• MaryRuth decided to get herself out of debt first before hiring an employee.

What Prompted Her to Write Her Book

• MaryRuth has been teaching the contents of the book for quite a while. She finally started writing it during COVID.
• MaryRuth is passionate about the book because she believes that health and wellness should be free and accessible to everyone.
• She noticed that very successful people have the money but are always too busy working to take care of themselves.
• On the other hand, there are people with no money that need to be mindful of their health and
• The book is composed of 12 free and accessible actions that anyone can do, regardless if they have money or not.

Dealing with the Pandemic

• It made MaryRuth feel even more empathy for every single person.
• The pandemic created so much loss, like the loss of going out or meeting your friends.
• Collectively, everyone is more interested in health and wellness now.
• MaryRuth went through pregnancy and gave birth to twins during COVID.

The Key to Building a Good Team

• There are two qualities that MaryRuth values in a team: hard work and empathy.
• MaryRuth also wants her team to be humble.
• Beyond this, she makes sure to get direct feedback from her employees.
• MaryRuth conducted an anonymous culture survey among her employees.
• The results serve as a metric for MaryRuth to measure what’s working and what needs to be improved on.

On Self-Esteem

• Self-esteem comes from having a relationship with yourself.
• Asking people about their self-esteem allows you to reflect on your self-esteem.

On Travelling and the Pandemic

• The first couple of months of the pandemic was great because people were able to rest.
• After a few months, we began to miss what was.
• Everything that was going on in the world added to the anxiety and stress of life.

How MaryRuth Feels Radically Loved

• MaryRuth believes that the universe is pushing her forward and everything that is happening is for her ultimate good.
• She and her family believe that the universe only wants the best for them.

5 Powerful Quotes

[8:15] “Once you give yourself a lot of energy through self-care, through wellness, then you can give that energy to your employees.”

[13:10] “Sometimes the pain point in people's lives has so much to do with their gifts, and their purpose, and the things that will make them happy in the end.”

[34:14] “If you want to be on the team, you got to be hard working but you got to have human dignity and empathy.”

[38:01] “Our bodies are a direct feedback to what we're putting in and how we're treating it, and the things that we're doing.”

[46:55] “Part of our ability to be present and to be mindful is to just appreciate what is.”

About MaryRuth

MaryRuth Ghiyam is the founder of MaryRuth Organics. She is a certified health educator, nutritional consultant, and culinary chef. She graduated from Fairfield University in Connecticut in 2006, and received certification as a health educator and nutritional consultant from Hippocrates Health Institute. She also attended and graduated from the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE) chef school, as well as the Institute for Professional Excellence (iPEC) as a Certified Professional Coach (CPC).

MaryRuth has a passion for helping others take control of their health, and thinks that by doing so, everyone can move forward every day with their own health and wellness goals.

Know more about MaryRuth and what she does! Connect with her through her website and Instagram.

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#WisdomWednesdays: Achieving Self-Mastery  and Learning How to Slow Down

Modern society thrives on productivity. From the moment we wake up, we’re already on our phones, preparing for our daily routines and ticking off a long list of tasks to accomplish.

This busy lifestyle can steal time for people to contemplate and figure out what they truly want in their lives. While it's easy to give in to the demands of the world, we should always take time to pause and reconnect with our inner selves.

In this episode, Rosie and Tessa talk about the importance of achieving self-mastery. They discuss how to deal with distractions and resist the pressure of becoming hyper-aware all the time. They also talk about how the pandemic is the perfect time to slow down and practice mindfulness.

How can we use this opportunity to practice self-mastery? How do we keep reminding ourselves that we do not have to be busy all the time? What should we do to avoid feeling overwhelmed? If you want to know more, then this episode is for you!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

1. Know the importance of slowing down and taking time to connect with your inner self.
2. Learn why going through the pain of boredom is a rite of passage in learning.
3. Avoid giving in to the demands of a hyper-productive society.

Resources

• The W.I.S.E. Podcast — Women Inspiring Success and Empowerment
  • Episode 4: Honoring Women's Journey to Self-Empowerment with Tererai Trent
  • Episode 9: Living Life on Life's Terms with Elizabeth Gilbert (Part 1)
  • Episode 10: Living Life on Life's Terms with Elizabeth Gilbert (Part 2)
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Little Book of Sloth Philosophy by Jennifer McCartney
• Create a daily meditation ritual in just seven days! Download BUILD YOUR DAILY MEDITATION RITUAL and other freebies on the Radically Loved website!
• FREE Action Guide! Apply the lessons you learn from this episode as you listen! Sign up at com, and I’ll send it right away!
• Do you want to become a yoga teacher or just want to learn more about yoga? Sign up for the free info session on 200hr YTT Teacher Training Program on Saturday, June 19th at 12pm via Zoom!

Episode Highlights

The Process of Self-Mastery

• Wisdom has something to do with experience or knowledge. Part of this is the quality of being wise or exercising good judgment.
• Like mastery, earning wisdom takes time. Learning a lesson involves the people and the experiences you had with them.
• The more familiar you are with the process, the easier it is for you to find alignment within yourself.
• Choose self-mastery in a society that values instant gratification.

The Pain of Boredom as a Rite of Passage

• When you are learning something new, it can be painful and agonizing.
• But it’s through this pain that you recognize your ability to be resilient.
• How can you focus on the parts of yourself that need attention? How can you focus on creating openness to feed the part of you that needs filling?
• Avoid feeding the pleasure zone in your brain tempts you to distract yourself.
• Remember, you need focus, dedication, and time to learn something new.

The Cardinal Sin of Appearing Lazy

• Being lazy is viewed negatively in our modern world. We always need to appear productive.
• We now live in a time where apps tell people when to breathe and take a rest. We live in a world where we need to track everything.
• Gone are the days when we ask ourselves, “What do I want to be doing with my life?”
• And so we need to slow down and take stock.
• We can learn from the sloths who are relaxed, contemplative, and focused.

Knowing When to Slow Down

• Working from our homes allows us to have the chance to pause and recognize our autonomy.
• Unless we use our discernment, we will fall prey to the demands of life.
• Practices are important because they need us to pay full attention and be present.
• The greatest challenge would be carrying this practice even as the world reopens.

S.L.O.W.: Four Tips from the Little Book of Sloth Philosophy

• S: Sleep in. This can be hard for most people because we feel rewarded when we wake up early and get everything done.
• L: Leave your phone at home. Find a weekend where you can choose to let go of your phone.
• O: Opt-out. Change your attitude by thinking that you do not have to constantly be busy or engaged.
• W: What’s the rush? When you feel overwhelmed, take time to pause and check-in with yourself.

Falling Back on the Same Demands

• Regardless of all the mindfulness tools we have, we all still fall into the same demands of the world.
• A hyper-aware state can keep you busy, but at the end of the day, you will still feel depleted.
• It's important to take things more slowly, easily, and do them one step at a time.
• Give yourself space. Make sure that you're free from distractions to connect deeper with yourself.

5 Powerful Quotes

[04:23] “So wisdom... Has to do so much with experience or knowledge. And I believe part of the definition is exercising good judgment. Or it's the quality of being wise.”

[09:08] “If you're constantly feeding that pleasure zone within your brain– the circuits that are making you feel good– then you're going to become really good at that you're going to become really good at getting distracted.”

[14:26] “There's the wisdom in knowing when to slow down and take a day off. And so the reason behind the sloths is their mindfulness and action. They're contemplating, they're deliberate, they're relaxed, and they're focused.”

[17:18] “I feel that unless we can make friends with the time that we have, and if we can utilize it in a way that's going to serve our highest good, we're going to continue to fall prey to the busyness, the ungrounded frenetic energy that life can sometimes bring us.”

[23:43] “For me, it's easier to take things one step at a time, to do things little by little, to incorporate one thing at a time so that I feel like I'm still doing something for myself, doing something for my highest good. But at the same time not overwhelming myself in the process.”

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Finding Healing Through Spiritual Practices and Community with Millana Snow

The global health situation today makes it challenging for us to establish a sense of community and connectivity. Our guest this week has personally struggled with this ever since she was a child. How did she survive? The answer is through spiritual practices  and healing.

Joining us on this week’s episode is Millana Snow, a healer and wellness expert, to tell us how spiritual practices helped her survive and get through life. She shares how she got into healing and her journey to overcome her childhood traumas, sense of self-victimization, and difficulties in life. Millana also imparts ways we can cultivate self-compassion for us to create change. In addition, we also discuss generational trauma and toxic positivity.

If you want to get started on the road to healing, then tune in to this episode!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

1. Learn how having integrity and being honest with yourself will help you get through the hard times.
2. Find out what the usual hindrances to healing and spiritual practices are and how to overcome them.
3. Discover how we can spark change in ourselves and be transformed.

Resources

• Connect with Millana: Website | Instagram
• Head over to Wellness Official to know more about Millana’s training sessions and courses.
• Radically Loved Radio Episode 222: Connection with Ashley Turner
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Episode Highlights

The Catalyst That Brought Millana Where She Is Today

• When Millana was growing up, she had to move almost every year of her life until she was 14. She wasn’t able to keep in touch with a lot of her friends.
• Because of that, she formed a deep relationship with her inner spiritual connection to God, the universe, and other different spiritual practices.
• Most of her childhood was spent looking for a connection to something real and wanting to have fun.
• Spirituality helped Millana survive her youth.
• Healing her childhood traumas helped Millana realize that other people also enjoy an authentic community to heal.

To Those Intimidated by Spiritual Practices and Healing

• Millana believes that every person is a healer. It’s just that we all have different ways of healing.
• Often, we aren’t aware of the gifts inside of us that can heal us.
• By healing ourselves, we then heal others.
• If you think you don’t have the personality to be a healer, remember that it’s not about being like other healers. It’s simply about being the healer you came to be.
• Only you can cultivate, discover, and allow that to be the impact within your own life first, and that then becomes the overflow for other people to benefit from.

Millana’s Most Important Teacher Growing Up

• Millana’s grandmother taught her how to meditate and astral project at the age of four.
• These spiritual practices taught Millana to find what was possible outside of her body.
• In learning to see more than just her body, she explored other realms.
• Her mom was the breadwinner of the family.
• From her, Millana got to see what hard work looks like and how it’s like to start from absolutely nothing and build a strong career.

Experience with Ancestral and Generational Trauma

• From an earthly perspective, you have two parents who brought you into the physical realm.
• At the same time, there is parenthood greater than that: Mother Earth and the universal God force.
• When Millana started getting deeper into her healing path, she had to have a lot of compassion for her family. She had a very mixed family and didn’t get to meet her dad until she was 25.
• If we’re open to go beyond the constraints of what culture says parents should be, we can look at them as humans, not parents we have to obey.

Cultivating Self-Compassion to Create Change

• When Millana experienced one of the hardest years of her life, she realized no one ever wants to look inside themselves because it hurts.
• The first thing we need to do is have the integrity and honesty with ourselves about how we are creating our lives.
• We’re usually in denial about ourselves, and we go easy on ourselves.
• Instead of blaming others or circumstances, we need to see how our actions and decisions affect our lives.
• Love can come in once we sit down with ourselves and come face-to-face with our ugly parts.

Toxic Positivity

• Denial is one of the biggest hindrances to our healing.
• When you allow yourself to see where you are at with yourself, you can unlock the healing potential of the godliness within that.
• But when we bypass it because we don’t want to feel bad, we miss out on all the wisdom found in the pain we try to avoid.
• If you can get into the depths of what your bad experiences do to you as a human being, you overcome it and start to see it as a gift.
• However, if we just tell ourselves to get over it, we cannot be transformed.

What Millana Is Currently Working On

• Millana is looking forward to their first in-person healing of 2021.
• She enjoys seeing the transformation that happens to people after a healing session.
• Millana believes that we have everything we need within us. She wants the world to know that you heal yourself.

5 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

[6:39] “I truly, truly believe that every single person is a healer. Every single person. And I think the way that we heal is different; it’s as unique as we each are individually.”

[8:00] “Whatever your gift is, whether you’re a singer or you’re a writer or you just love to cook, that gift was actually meant for you to enjoy. And then from that overflow, then that’s the gift for the world to enjoy and to be healed by.”

[15:25] “For the first time, possibly in at least a few thousand years, we have actually had the consciousness and awareness that the way that things have been doesn’t mean that they need to continue, that we can change them, that traditions are actually meant to be broken.”

[20:38] “We got to really, really have the integrity and the honesty with ourselves about how we are creating our lives and why we have the kind of relationships we have, the jobs we have, the money ,or lack of money, or whatever that is.”

 [22:47] “Real self-compassion [and] real self-love can only come out of that darker place.”

About Millana

Practicing and studying all things holistic health and spirituality for over 20 years, Millana Snow has built an energy healing business that serves thousands of clients worldwide.

Millana is the CEO and founder of Wellness Official, an online marketplace of practitioners and brands for the global wellness community. She is also the host and executive producer of The Wellness Official Radio show on Dash Radio. This weekly show pushes the boundaries of wellness with 10 million listeners a month.

To learn more about Millana and connect with her, you may visit her website. You may also reach out to her on her Instagram. To know more about her events and courses, head over to Wellness Official!

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Introducing #WisdomWednesdays with Rosie Acosta and Tessa Tovar

Welcome to the first episode of Wisdom Wednesdays!!! Wisdom Wednesdays is about sharing our experience, growth and transformation. How do you feel you experience wisdom in your life? How do you define wisdom in your life? How do you know when to go deep into shadow work and when you are ready to emerge into the light?

In today's episode, Rosie introduces us to Wisdom Wednesdays! In this series Rosie and Tessa will each share a passage, poem or reading that inspires a deeper awareness or inquiry.  They will each pose questions for you to think about and respond to as well!

If you want to know more about emotions and the full breadth of your ability to express them, this episode is for you!           

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

1. Inquire about what is valuable in the shadow and lightness of our emotions.
2. Learn the importance of experiencing sorrow and joy, and how to balance the two opposing energies.
3. Discover the cycles of emotion and how to express them without depressing them.

Resources

• The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo | Rosie read from page 52 dated February 13
• The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran | Tessa read from page 29
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5 Powerful Quotes

[02:09] “It’s the opposition of being reactive. Wisdom is coming from a place of knowing and a place of deep knowledge.”

[06:32] “How everything is in constant motion, and if you’re not moving towards transformation it’s only going to inwardly grow, you know, what is not being brought to light is going to dwell in the darkness.”

[13:43] “When do we ever give ourselves the opportunity to find that spaciousness where we can then process those things, or we can then be bored and allow new ideas to come in.”

[14:57] “Anger is a tool, just like every emotion is a tool, that is useful in times when it is needed.”

[32:48] “The best way for me to understand emotion and cycles and even phases in life are like the ocean. They have a building, they have a climax and then they have a moving downward, a slowing down, a building of energy so it’s like a building of energy, an expression and then a lull.”

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Getting to the Heart of Meditation and Yoga Practice with Linda Sparrowe

Meditation and yoga  can help you connect deeply with yourself. However, some people doubt how their practice helps them at first because it’s unfamiliar and new. You may think you’re doing it the wrong way, so you bury that voice at the back of your mind. But if you don't let go of your doubts, you won't be able to get to the heart-centered healing place that you seek.

In this episode, special host Tessa Tovar joins Radically Loved Radio to interview yoga teacher and author Linda Sparrowe. Linda talks about her journey toward discovering meditation and yoga and merging her yoga path and writing career. She also shares her daily rituals and some eye-opening spiritual practice wisdom.

If you want to get to the heart of meditation and yoga practice, this episode is for you!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

1. Learn about the marriage of writing and spiritual practice.

1. Discover what it means to be radically loved.

1. Understand the importance of our agency and the practice of letting go of attachments.

Resources

• The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
• Radiant Rest by Tracee Stanley
• Yoga At Home by Linda Sparrowe
• Read Linda’s articles on Yoga Journal
• Connect with Linda: Website | Email
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Episode Highlights

Linda’s Meditation and Yoga Journey

• Linda’s yoga path started with meditation.
• She previously had many body image issues and had a worsening disconnect between herself and her body.
• Linda met a professor who told her stories about Indian mythology and the Vedas. Because of this encounter, she ended up going through transcendental meditation.
• What spoke to her, in particular, was mantra meditation.
• After her divorce and ending up in Berkeley, she met a Tibetan teacher who told her to stop with the mantra. She eventually came back to her breath and furthered her path.

How the Writing and Yoga Path Intersected for Linda

• Linda went to Yoga Journal and got a job as a managing editor. She was already writing before this.
• She started doing asana because of an offer, but she hated it.
• She then met a teacher who was so soulful. Her body instantly responded when she trusted her teacher's touch, presence, and wisdom—it became a lifelong practice.
• In the midst of that, her writing started to connect more with her heart, wisdom, and what spoke to her.
• She started writing books and left Yoga Journal to write more. Linda became known as the “book doula.”

The Marriage of Writing and Spiritual Practice

• Linda loves helping people move their passion, ideas, and wonderment and what they want to amplify out into the world.
• We all have a story, and we're the only ones who know how to tell it. But sometimes, we get in our own way when we try to say it.
• There’s a deep connection between moving inward in our spiritual practice and emerging from the inner wisdom onto the page.
• It’s a process of listening to what wants to be known and bringing forth what needs to be told.

Linda’s Practices and Daily Ritual

• Linda went on to study with many teachers whose teachings she has absorbed into her being along the way.
• Her yoga practice begins in the morning when she wakes up. Her inquiry is “How am I doing?” and “What do I need?”
• She tries to separate her life from her work. Between those two things, she does at least one thing for herself in yoga.
• Part of the yogic practice is to be fully present and finish one thing before beginning another.
• She tries to do a short Yoga Nidra practice before going to bed to remind her body what it means to prepare for sleep.

Setting Boundaries Around Work

• Setting boundaries is hard to do for Linda because of two things.
• One is because opportunities don't always come to a freelancer.
• Second is there are a lot of exciting things that she wants to be a part of.

What Being Radically Loved Means for Linda

• The concept of radical self-love is fundamental. It's part of the trio of Tapas, Svadhyaya, and Ishvara Pranidhana.
• Tapas refers to the willpower and engagement to show up and commit to our work. It also means simplicity and releasing things to look at the essence of who we are.
• Svadhyaya refers to self-reflection and self-awareness.
• Being radically loved means that connecting to something bigger than yourself. It helps you understand you're worthy of love and connect with yourself.
• We are sometimes not aware of how our voices can potentially cause harm.

Controlling Our Thoughts

• We can’t control how we feel, but we can control our actions, speech, and emotion.
• People can sin not just through actions and speech but also through thoughts.
• We can control our thoughts, but we can't predict them.
• Our minds do what our minds do; they carry on, move things around, and bring them up.
• Without agency around your thoughts, it can end up as a speech or action that causes irreparable harm.

Aparigraha

• It is the practice of letting go of attachments.
• Staying in svadhyaya can become self-absorption. We don’t understand how we cause pain or bring joy.
• It's the idea of surrendering and letting go of the judgment you hold on too tightly.
• Linda’s mantra: “Isn’t that interesting?”
• One of the things meditation teaches about grasping is that you can cut ties to a thought.

The Meditation Practice

• Don’t ever think that you’ve failed at your practice. The moment you notice something within yourself, it’s already a meditation practice.
• Just sit down. It’s what meditation practice is about.
• There’s no judgment in meditation; it’s just practice.

Being Kind

• The kinder we can be to ourselves, the more freedom we have to be kind, gentle, and generous to others. It also works vice versa.
• Tonglen is the ancient practice of taking in others' suffering and outwardly expanding the gift you have to give. We have an infinite capacity to do this.
• Yoga Nidra allows us to dive deeply and help us realize our capacity to love and receive love.

Getting to a Heart-Centered Healing Place

• It's an individual matter. One thing that yoga allows us to do is to experiment and freely come in and come out.
• When someone is deeply in trauma, there is no relationship with the body, or the relationship is triggered. Thus, even the slightest sense of agency can be empowering.
• Yoga allows us to test our relationship with our body both on a physical and emotional level.
• Yoga is not yoga until it’s personal, and it’s never personal until you take it home.
• Within a safe community, yoga can help you connect and create a deeper, loving relationship with your body, mind, and heart.

Final Words

• We can’t separate our practice from our life.
• Our practice allows us to accept and allow things that we’ve never thought about before.
• Return to the idea of love.

5 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

[06:51] “We all have a story to tell, and we're the only ones that know how to tell it. And sometimes we get stuck in our, ‘Am I worthy? Do I have anything to say?’ And sometimes we get in our own way, when we try to say it.”

[14:34] “Tapas means not just the willpower to show up and the work that we have to do in the engagement that we commit to, but it also means simplicity. It means paring down, pulling apart, releasing things so that we're looking at the essence of who we are.”

[18:27] What it is truly is that I can imagine the pain and suffering of others. I don't have their same experience, and I will never have that experience as a cis, white, privileged, elder woman. I won't, but in my practice, I have the space and the capacity of infinite love.

[24:19] “Everybody who works with me, or who studied with me, know that I have this mantra. That is, ‘Isn't that interesting?’ I know, because then I don't judge myself so much. So I can let things come up and go, ‘Oh, here you are, again. Me and you. Wow. Isn't that interesting?’”

[32:06] “If you take in the suffering of someone, and then you exhale, a sense of joy, or connection, or groundedness, or love, or whatever it is that you have in that moment to give. That's a beautiful exchange, isn't it? And we have an infinite capacity to do that.”

About Linda

Linda Sparrow is a yoga teacher, author, editor, mentor, and speaker on women's health and holistic healing. She is the former managing editor of Yoga Journal and the former editor-in-chief of Yoga International Magazine. She has been highly instrumental in introducing and bringing out yoga's authentic voice to practitioners through her works.

Linda has authored numerous books on yoga, including Yoga At Home: Inspiration for Creating Your Own Personal Practice. She also wrote the highly-acclaimed Yoga: A Yoga Journal Book.

If you want to connect with Linda, you may visit her website. You may also send her an email at linda@lindasparrowe.com.

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Be the Catalyst for Change with Gina Stryker

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Gina Stryker is the founder of Gina Cucina, a renowned Chef and a champion of the real food movement. Gina Cucina is committed to solving one of the largest problems in the world, ending human trafficking. She has been featured in Parayoga, Lead With Love, Trust Women, USA Today, and more.

In this episode, Gina talks about her program “Kids Are Not For Sale” and how we can be a part of ending this global problem.

Radically Vibrant Gina

• It was a personal experience where I was able to potentially dodge a bad situation that connected me to the human trafficking problem
• There is no trace of trafficking in our products and we ensure this through every part of our product process
• You don’t have to fail for me to succeed, and I don’t have to fail for you to succeed—we can succeed together

Radically Inspired Clarity

• We all have a voice and we can leverage it to raise awareness for causes that must be solved
• We live in a society that hides the worst of us—we don’t want to believe that people are selling children, so we have to talk about these problems
• The more you give, the more you live

Gina Answers…

• How did your passion to solve the human trafficking problem come about?
• Why don’t we know more about human trafficking? Why isn’t it all over the news?
• What advice would you give to people who think their voice doesn’t make a difference?

Radically Loved Quotes

“I believe it’s all about giving it your best always because even if you fail, you’re always moving forward.”

“People are afraid to discuss human trafficking because it’s an ugly truth. Last year 250,000-300,000 American children were trafficked.”

“Find what you love and speak to it. Every single voice matters.”

More About Our Guest

Gina Stryker is a recipe artists and the founder of Gina Cucina, a soup and stew kitchen that doesn’t use preservatives, gluten, added sugars, GMOs, or excessive sodium. You can learn more about Gina and her fight against human trafficking at ginacucina.com.

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