Chasing Carrots With Zazil Pereira

In this episode I’m joined by Dr. Deniz Ahmadinia, a trauma informed and anxiety psychologist who integrates holistic modalities, mindfulness, and body-based therapies to help empaths and highly sensitive people embody healing.

We discuss:

• What is self-awareness and mindfulness?
• How to use self-awareness and mindfulness to navigate trauma.
• Big T and Small T trauma and how it affects your nervous system.
• Attachment wounds a...

In this episode I’m joined by Dr. Michael Smith an energy healer and “professional out of the box thinker” whose background as a doctoral trained counselor and therapist helps empaths and highly sensitive people embrace their gifts and connect with their divine potential.

Trigger Warning: 
Mental health, trauma, addiction, suicide, substance abuse, eating disorders.

We discuss:

• The connection between depression and being sensi...

In this episode I’m joined by Fraya Mortensen, a transformational mindset coach, who helps empaths and highly sensitive people increase self-compassion and teaches them how to set healthy boundaries.

We discuss

• The connection between compassion, empathy, and boundaries.
• The bridge between being empathic and highly sensitive, and spirituality and psychology.
• Burn out as a common sign of not having healthy boundaries.
• Being over compa...

In this episode I’m joined by Savannah Bohlin, an empath mentor and medicine woman, who teaches intuitive empaths how to master their gifts and guides them to become effective and grounded healers.

We discuss:

• The connection between empaths and neurodivergence
• Physical illness as an initiation into the shamanic path
• Self-healing as a tool to step into your power
• Breaking the barriers of religious indoctrination
• Physical, mental,...

In this episode I’m joined by Tricia Pickren, an energetic mentor and reiki master, who guides empaths and highly sensitive people to identify patterns and peel back the layers of who they think they are, and ultimately guides them back to their authentic self. 

We discuss:

• How a life-changing event transforms the way you see yourself
• Using your empathic + sensitive gift to strengthen yourself
• Grounding practices to allow feel...

In this episode I’m joined by Marisol Rascon, the founder of Sol Integrative Coaching. Her holistic approach to healing mind, body, and spirit has helped empaths and highly sensitive people break the cycle of overgiving and learn to fill up their cup by standing in their truth.

We discuss:

• What is Jungian Life Coaching
• Being an Empath + HSP while navigating life altering events
• Trauma response and survival mechanisms
• Physi...

In this episode I’m joined by Jennifer Lauren Parker, the author behind the book - "Secrets of the Resilient Empath" and together we dive deep into what it means to be an empath and a highly sensitive person in a world that underestimates the power of sensitivity.

We discuss:

• What is an empath and a highly sensitive person
• Why sensitivity is a gift and a superpower
• Burnout and chronic disease as common symptoms ...

Empaths and highly sensitive peeps, I hear you. 

I know what it's like to be misunderstood and have your boundaries constantly trampled on. 

I know the frustration of being told to "just get over it" when you're in a bad mood, or being told that your sensitivity is just a personality trait and not something you should be treated for. 

But I also know that there's hope. 

I know that if you're ready to take ...

Welcome to Chasing Carrots The Podcast! This episode was inspired by taking a walk through an old growth forest. I open up about my journey of tapping into joy while healing my trauma wounds.

In this episode I talk about:

• Letting go and surrendering as a first step to tapping into joy.
• Struggling to feel the “good vibes”.
• The connection between co-creation and manifestation.
• Channeling the energy of anxiety/depression into...

Welcome to Chasing Carrots The Podcast! In this episode I'm joined by special guest Tam Hernandez and we talk about what our journey has been like when it comes to ending toxic patterns and replacing them with habits that support the life we are calling in. 

Letting go of what doesn’t serve us any more is a phrase we hear quite often, but how do we know that something or someone no longer serves us or our highest good...

Welcome to Chasing Carrots The Podcast! In this episode I’m joined by special guest Monica Maria Aparicio and together we dive deep into a  conversation about stepping into 5D consciousness while navigating the 3D world that we live in. 

Monica Maria Aparicio is the founder of the Lifestyle Lounge and Sustainable Success Live events in New York City, focused on wellness, healing, and conscious entrepreneurship that started in 2012.

S...

Today’s episode is about healing our energetic body through the understanding of our emotions. Just like our physical body is tied to the health of our human vessel, our energetic body is tied to our mental and emotional health.

Our special guest, Missy Cross, is an award nominated actor, director and producer based out of Vancouver, BC, Canada and She also sings in the blues rock band, Wooden Horsemen  In 2012 Missy began teac...

Welcome to Chasing Carrots The Podcast! In this episode I share a personal reflection based on wisdom I’ve come to understand as I am processing and healing from a recent traumatic event. 

There are moments in life that leave a deep mark in our psyche. These moments are often referred to as trauma. The result of a traumatic event is an emotional response that is born within our nervous system. 

Because we have innately oper...

Welcome to Chasing Carrots The Podcast, on this week’s episode we welcome our 2nd special guest - Kat Ho! 

Kat is an energy healer and a wilderness expedition leader who describes herself as a freelance guide for inner and outer landscapes. Her work includes guiding people through the most iconic National Parks in the US in the role of wilderness guide, and she also guides and supports those who are on the journey of self-embodiment...

Welcome to Chasing Carrots The Podcast! On this week’s episode we welcome our first special guest - Dyonisio! 

He is an artist through and through with an immense appreciation for the light and the shadows that surround our world. He is an architect, a songwriter, a musician, a recording artist, a yogi, and a forever student of life. 

In this episode, Dyonisio shares about his journey from acknowledging his depres...

Welcome to Chasing Carrots The Podcast! Today’s episode is a personal reflection on navigating life’s challenges and adapting to them.

We live in a world that is changing faster than most of us can keep up with, and most of the time we’re not giving ourselves enough time to process and adapt, heck many of us have grown up with the idea that there is too much to do and accomplish that there isn’t enough time to slow down and take a b...

Welcome to Chasing Carrots The Podcast! I am your host Zazil Pereira - an energy worker and healer, and a facilitator of deep transformational conversations.
 
As I was navigating a cycle of depression back in 2019, I received a visual metaphor of a rabbit chasing a dangling carrot. This visual made me see that there were areas in my life that needed to change if I was to come out of the depressive cycle I was in.
 

Welcome to Chasing Carrots - The Podcast, a space where spirituality and self development come together to show you what is possible when you are ready to transform your life. A place that encourages you to explore, discover and dig deeper into who you are, the you who is ready to break out of the illusion, the you who is ready to stop playing small and the you that is ready to take ownership of your life.

Are you an Empath? Take th...