Free Spirit Academy Podcast

Healing doesn't happen in a hurry. The hurry to be healed, integrated, enlightened, free, arrived...it's not as neat and tidy as a lot of self-help books or before-and-after photos might suggest. 

It's more like, the harder we try to fix things, the harder our nervous systems work to keep us where things are familiar. Whereas, if we can slow down with ourselves, right  in the behavior or with the part of us we ha...

THE TOP 10 MISTAKES I’VE MADE ON MY HEALING JOURNEY:

Honestly, I cringe a bit using the words "healing" OR "journey" because the internet is so oversaturated with wellness or spiritual teachers. I'm not interested in making "healing" my whole personality, but simultaneously I have always had this deep interest in why things hurt. What any kind of pain, emotional, mental, or physical, is saying. and...

I love a project. I love working towards something. I think that's pretty human. But for a long time my body was my project. I grew up in a holistic, Seventh-Day Adventist, vegetarian home. we used homeopathy and natural remedies and drank carrot juice and ate homemade bread. To this day I LOVE the taste of barley green powder because I have early memories of drinking it as something that would support my health. I wanted to k...

 So many folks I see, and this was me too, attach goodness and morality to their health. If something is wrong, they feel wrong. They will spin into stories about how they're creating their own disease or this is going to turn into something far worse. Can you make some space for the fact that not all of the contributing factors were in your hands? Your genetics,  adverse childhood experiences, your environment and day to day ...

For a huge chunk of my life, trauma had left me flat, numb, and unable to feel what was going on in my body. 

In today's episode I talk about the seemingly "normal" experiences that can lead to an overwhelmed nervous system, the symptoms or carrying stored survival energy, impulses, and emotions with us over a long period of time, and the symptoms that can occur as a result.

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Today I'm speaking with Holistic Health and Root Cause Practitioner Sarah Hook. Sarah and I have been connected online since our early wellness blogging days when we were certain we had it all figured out. Some years ago Sarah was bit by a tick and developed severe Lyme disease, causing her to question what she knew about wellness.

We talk about what it's like to need food restrictions after healing from an eati...

Is it possible to take on a healing diet or a supportive protocol with a history of disordered eating?

Is there a way to have a healthy, alive relationship with food that's also intentional? 

Is restriction 100% bad news in all cases?

Today I'm sharing my personal experiences with chronic illness, having a background of disordered eating from a young age. I'm excited to share this with you ...

On today's episode I'm talking a bit about the autoimmune diagnoses I got earlier this year. This is a shorty ep but includes:

...why it took me so long to see medical professionals and get tested.

...the wide range of feelings post-diagnosis.

...the pre-self-love I had to do before I had any answers.

...the promises I made myself once I had something concrete to work with.

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Hello friends, today I'm talking to my friend Lena, an eating disorder recovery coach who also understands firsthand months of juice fasting, pure raw food diets, and even using diet to heal illness - complicated by her many years of disordered eating that didn't stop once she got into raw foods. Throughout this conversation, we make some simple connections about how and why her eating disorder developed but there could c...

After well over a year, the Free Spirit Academy Podcast is BACK!

I begin this episode with a health update of my own - and talk about the balance between maintaining a peaceful relationship with food and my body, while also supporting my body's very specific needs.

That will lead us into a conversation with colon hydrotherapist and trauma-informed coach, Theresa Piela. Theresa is exceedingly familia...

Here's what you can expect from today's episode:

...how the anxiety of our current circumstances can trigger any anxiety already living within us.

...the question of whether or not we'll ever be going back to 'normal'. 

...we'll talk about the pressure to always be growing, creating, being productive, and going to our max. 

...the idea that the universe is saying one...

HEALING ANCESTRAL TRAUMA WITH INHERITED TRAUMA RESOLUTION COACH, LISA NAGEL

In today's episode, you'll hear us talk about...

...The symptoms of inherited trauma: anxiety, secondary ptsd, depression, feeling like we can't get where we want to go, feeling trapped in repeating cycles, etc.

...Lisa's story of looking around at her family and seeing the shared patterns and emergency responses that we...

EXPLORING HUMAN POTENTIAL - GIL JACOBS UNEDITED!

Hi friends. Before some of you get TOO excited (because I'm with you in that group of niche weirdos that thinks an interview with Gil Jacobs on the internet the single most exciting ever) I DID release this interview in the first year of the podcast.

However, I was in a place at the time where I was very much catering to clients and an audience with a traditio...

For all of the seeking we do...

...medical mediums.

...spiritual gurus.

...plant medicines. 

We often miss the most powerful medicine: the information our own bodies hold.

2019 was like a massive plant medicine journey for me...sans plant medicine (so y'know, I'm going based on what I've heard).

My body took me on the ride of my life - and while it wasn't easy, it was the most liberating ...

Friends!! After a bit of a hiatus, the Free Spirit Academy Podcast is back and it feels SO good. I'll update you a bit in the intro to this episode, but here's a bit of what to expect today:


I met Jen at my Level 1 Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training and my first thought was 'thank GOD, a real human'. While I met so many lovely humans, Jen didn't feel like she was trying to prove anything or sound...

I met today's guest in my very first kundalini yoga teacher training and we've continued taking trainings from Guru Singh in Seattle for the last couple of years - and I wanted to have her on as a teacher but also as an example of someone who moved through serious addiction to drugs and alcohol and on the other side - is more real and more uniquely herself than she'd ever been before.

In this conversation we talk...

THE DREAM UNDER THE DREAM BODY.

This solo episode is going to be a taster of my most recent program in the Free Spirit Academy membership site. My new 40-day program Liberated is my take on what many call intuitive eating. If you've listened to this podcast for any length of time you'll know that I talk a LOT about eating intuitively, finding freedom around food, and freedom in our bodies...AND I've just nev...

WHAT IT MEANS TO "BE LOVE" WITH REIKI PRACTITIONER, COLON HYDROTHERAPIST, AND OWNER OF LOVE BEING, ALEC STEURY.

A few of the things you'll hear us talk about are...

• What it's like to start to shift from a solely logical, linear way of thinking and being to developing intuition and self trust.
• Putting our attention and letting our journey be lead by what feels interesting and inspiring to us.
• The healt...