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The "You Might Want to Sit Down for This" podcast, hosted by Laila Elbanna, dives into the mind, body, heart, and ultimately soul of our human experiences, unraveling pain, confusion, and fear, to reveal love, truth, and oneness. Whether it's elevated spiritual concepts, various healing modalities, or personal accounts of alchemy, as you listen, you will be activated into deeper loving awareness, feeling inspired, empowered, and connected. Through cultivating community and practical guidance, we serve the collective through heart-based consciousness, accessing our multidimensionality, and letting the content live up to the name.
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Send us a text In this episode we uncover a consistent shadow within the masculine experience and the themes that arise in patriarchal systems as a result of the masculine’s unresolved wounding. We recognize how disowning experiences of “disempowerment” creates a disconnect between men and women, as well as redefine patriarchal perceptions of power, strength, and weakness. We discuss how this affects the way the masculine shows up for the feminine. Through seeing, validating, and loving these...
Send us a text This episode features a special guest, Carolina Sotomayor who is a Fertility Reiki Womb Healer serving women who are trying to conceive. She is the founder of Make A Baby Membership, a monthly membership providing monthly live Reiki healing Zoom calls, Reiki guided meditations, pre-recorded healing modules and masterclasses. Carolina has personally coached and helped women all over the world with over 100 Reiki babies into the world. She is attuned to four different lineages of...
Send us a text In this episode we discuss the beauty of surrender as a foundational point of spiritual practice and how it cultivates love, ease, and empowerment in our lives. We discuss how the journey of surrender unfolds, as well as its common pitfalls and blind spots, shining a light on humanity’s deepest shadow, which ironically reveals its most powerful portal to healing.
Send us a text In this episode we recognize the role our bodies play in our expansion and how the body can unconsciously hinder our growth. We dive into understanding the nervous system, and the interconnection of our mind, body, and heart. We also learn how to cultivate a mind-body connection, as well as some powerful practices to heal our nervous systems so that our bodies are on board with our healing, allowing expansion to flow effortlessly.
Send us a text In this episode we uncover the key differences between patriarchal and matriarchal societies. Through ancient wisdom and critical analysis, we highlight the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual misalignments of current patriarchal structures. Through the excavation of matriarchal knowledge and models, we can envision harmonious and heart conscious systems within our businesses, economies, societies, communities, education, and more. Through practical applications, we can ...
Send us a text This episode is a raw, unfiltered channeled update on the collective energies, as well as a guide to how to navigate and surrender to these changes and work with them. We also dive into the remembrance and necessity of reclaiming our youth so as to create a reality that aligns with our spirit.
Send us a text In this episode we discuss how socialization practices misalign our spirit and how to recognize and undo them in our day-to-day lives. We also discuss the necessity of unconditional love as the basis for new systems within relationships and community, allowing spaces for authentic expression and true intimate connection to flourish.
Send us a text In this episode we discuss the patriarchal structures and beliefs that have disconnected us from our feminine qualities and how they have resulted in a lack of balance and harmony within our lives and world today. We also dissect the wound around receptivity and how to heal these blockages, opening ourselves back to our true divine nature, allowing love, freedom, and joy into our lives.
Send us a text In this episode we will discuss the mechanics of consciousness and how our psyche fragments into different parts, as well as how these splits can show up in our lives. We will also discuss how our energy can become stuck, keeping us in unwanted situations, as well as how to integrate these parts using parts work, creating harmony within self.
Send us a text In this episode we discuss the differences between narcissism and codependency, as well as the fallacy of western ideologies such as hyper-individualism and the pitfalls of common spiritual teachings. We also take a look at humanity as a social species who is interdependent, discussing the necessity of connection and cultivating community as well as how to foster that on an individual level so that we can master our relationships with ourselves and each other.
Send us a text Our emotional guidance system is our natural navigation tool that allows us to further understand our spirit, purpose, and expansion. In this episode we will be discussing the power of our emotions and how they are highly misunderstood in our modern society. We will discuss the purpose of our emotions, as well as how to process, release, and listen to our emotions in order to gain the wisdom, clarity, and personal truths that they carry.
Send us a text In this episode we discuss the common shadows with people pleasers, as well as fallacies associated with authentic expression and boundary setting. We also discuss the power in maintaining boundaries in relationships and how they allow us to form the tightest bonds.
Send us a text In this episode, we discuss how to recognize our power and autonomy in the face of systems or relationships that may benefit from our powerlessness. We also discuss the fallacies associated with our power and how to practice and feel safe in our inherent freedom and sovereignty.
Send us a text In this episode we discuss the value in body neutrality and viewing ourselves from a neutral standpoint. We also discuss how much we miss out on when we don’t acknowledge this innocent and playful way of viewing the world and ourselves.
Send us a text In this episode, we dive into how the self abandonment wound interacts with our psyche, and how it seeps into various aspects of our lives. We will also go into how to come back into the body and reconnect with our true selves, discerning between our internalized critics and abusers versus our true inner voice.
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