Anxiety & Mental Health – DENtalks Podcast

We are thrilled to welcome a long time DEN teacher, speaker, and author of the new book "Kindness Now: A 28-Day Guide to Living with Authenticity, Intention, and Compassion," Amanda Gilbert, to DENtalks! We loved sitting down with Amanda to hear how her book took shape during the pandemic, how she finds these practices will impact our society, and so much more. We dive into the importance of self compassion, cultivating kindness to ourselves and others, and how to work with the heart practices. The post Cultivating Kindness appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.

This week we are thrilled to invite Terri Cole on DENtalks, just in time for the release of her new book “Boundary Boss”! Terri is a New York-based psychotherapist and transformation coach, and she joins us to talk about self-love, boundaries, and high functioning codependency. Terri explains what it means to be a high-functioning codependent, how it creates self-abandonment, and how each of us can identify our own unique boundary blueprint based on our own needs and belief systems. The post How to Become a Boundary Boss appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.

Nia Ostrand is an innate healer who has trained in a variety of healing arts over the years and leads our Akashic Records and Reiki classes, workshops, and certifications at The DEN. We get to know Nia on a deeper level in this episode as she openly shares about her experience with sexual abuse, depression, medication use, and health issues. Through sharing her own story, she takes us on a journey from rock bottom to finding the healing energies of Reiki and the unconditional love of the Akashic Records. The post Healing With The Akashic Records appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.

We are honored to have the effortlessly brilliant, Tracee Stanley, with us again on DENtalks Podcast to discuss her new book "Radiant Rest!" Tracee is a lineaged teacher with twenty years of study and practice in the Himalayan Tradition, Tantra, and Sri Vidya. She is a former Hollywood filmmaker who was seeking more balance in the demanding world of movie making and after being introduced to Yoga Nidra in 2001, Tracee immediately recognized it as a healing salve for the world. The post Time for Radiant Rest appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.

This week we are thrilled to welcome Juliet Obodo, master hypnotherapist, neurolinguistic practitioner and founder of FWRD Institute. In this episode we’ll focus on how Juliet works to help treat, transform and heal trauma to lead her clients to success. But how does she do it?! The great news is, we can also reprogram those neural pathways and create news ones at a much higher success rate using hypnosis. The post Out With The Old, In With The New appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.

We are SO excited to have sex therapist and host of Sex With Emily, Emily Morse, back on DENtalks Podcast to talk to us all about sex during the pandemic. We cover it all in this episode from discussing the vulva as a spiritual presence, societal shame around sex, how Emily encourages women to be in charge of their orgasms, how to understand pleasure, her advice for healing sexual trauma, and the importance of getting to know your body. The post Pandemic Sexy Time appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.

Who says holidays HAVE to be stressful? In this short Holiday Survival Guide BONUS episode - we are joined by DEN Senior Mindfulness Teacher, who you all know and love, Heather Prete. We were lucky enough to have so many of you send in questions and topics you’d like us to discuss, so the beauty of this episode is that it is all about YOU and we cover pretty much everything! Be sure to stay until the end as Heather shares a Self Compassion Body Scan which you can practice anytime. The post Mindful Holiday Survival Guide appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.

Today we are so happy to welcome Julie Piatt, aka SriMati, to DENtalks Podcast! Piatt is known not only for being a spiritual guide and teacher, but also from her many creative endeavors as an author, chef, musician and creator of the vegan artisional cheese SriMu. Is there anything she can’t do?! In this episode, we talk about all the paths she has gone down and what she learned from them. The post Living with Divinity appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.

Originally posted in 2019, this was such a powerful episode on gratitude that we felt it was fitting to bring it back again for Thanksgiving week this year. We welcome back the highly skilled life coach, motivational speaker, and yoga/meditation teacher, Shannon Algeo, to talk to us about the practice of gratitude just in time for the holiday season. Shannon talks to us about using gratitude as both a spiritual and mental health practice. The post Finding Gratitude appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.

This week we have model, mother, creator, and author of the Shift Stirrer Method, Tinamarie Clark! The Shift Stirrer Method is a 5 step mindfulness method that helps you turn negative thought patterns into more empowering ones which Tinamarie created to help her shift old patterns. However, it has since exploded into a widely known method in which Tinamarie helps others shift their perspective. This conversation gets candid very quickly as Tinamarie opens up about her recent depression. The post My Strength Came From My Surrender appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.

Sah D’Simone joins us for an in-depth conversation on embracing our authentic selves. Sah is a spiritual guide, meditation teacher, transformational speaker and the international best-selling author of Spiritually Sassy: 8 Radical Steps to Activate Your Innate Superpowers. In this episode, we really get into why it’s important to find a spiritual path with both the heart and mind so that we are able to help others and cultivate compassion. The post How to Embody Your True Self appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.

We are excited to welcome DEN Founding Teacher and our favorite crystal guru, Mariah K. Lyons to today's podcast. Mariah is an Author, Crystal Healer, Reiki Master, Meditation Guide, Western Herbalist, and Founder of ASTARA, a luxury crystalline grounding footwear company. Mariah’s work bridges the world of spirit and matter as she is deeply dedicated to supporting the awakening of higher consciousness upon the planet - which we get into in this episode. The post Crystal Healing for Today’s World appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.

World renowned yoga Instructor, activist, author and public speaker Seane Corn discusses where the wellness industry fits into today’s world of conspiracy theories. We discuss everything from the intersection of yoga and activism, racism in America, how we must change internally and face our ancestral racism in order to make change in the world, the gifts Seane believes we are being given during this time, how our world is in a deep state of trauma, how we can heal our nation of these deep divides, the manipulation of Qanon, and so much more. The post DENtalks LIVE: Conspiracy Theories & Spirituality appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.

This week Brooke Geahan joins us to talk about bee venom therapy! If you’ve never heard of BVT, here’s your chance to hear all about it from the founder of The Heal Hive, the very first online bee venom therapy education platform. If you or someone you know suffers from an autoimmune disease or other chronic illness and has been unsuccessful with many medical and holistic treatments, you’ll definitely be interested in this episode! The post Stinging My Way Back to Life – The Power of Bee Venom Therapy appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.

This week we’re sitting down with Boye Fajinmi who is the Co-Founder & President of TheFutureParty, a community-based media brand that NVE Experience Agency acquired in 2018. This is a great conversation about being an entrepreneur, starting a business, learning how to pivot, and how to best serve your community. Boye who was born in Nigeria, has always had big ambitions, so he moved from Minnesota to Los Angeles to live the “American Dream.” The post News From The Future appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.

This week we are so excited to chat with Angalia Bianca, co-author and subject of “In Deep: How I Survived Gangs, Heroin, and Prison to Become a Chicago Violence Interrupter.” Bianca is one of Chicago’s most prominent outreach worker/violence interrupters and has a really fascinating and incredible story. For 36 years she was stuck in a cycle of homelessness and addiction, working as a con artist and career criminal. After serving 12 years in prison, her father’s death served as a wake up call and she decided to start using her personal experiences to help inner city youth and prevent gang violence. The post From Gangs, Heroin, Prison to Chicago Violence Interrupter appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.

This week we are sitting down with one of our very own DEN teachers, Jamie Wozny, for a candid conversation about her journey. If you’re in the DEN community, you know Jamie is one of the most loved teachers - she truly is a beam of light. In this episode, we get to know Jamie on a deeper level. From growing up in an ungrounded environment as a kid, to struggling with a lot of fear in her early years, to how she was able to get off anxiety meditation after 14 years of taking it, to living with Lyme’s Disease and so much more. Jamie teaches us the importance of zooming out to see the lessons underneath the pain and how we are all born with resilience. We also dive into her work with animals! The post Road to Happiness appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.

In this week’s DENtalks episode, we are thrilled for the opportunity to chat with author, speaker and musician Justin Michael Williams about his new book Stay Woke: A Meditation Guide for the Rest of Us. This is not your typical meditation book, and that’s what we love about it. Justin calls it a guide for creating your favorite recipe - a recipe for meditation practice, that is! He gives you the ingredients and you choose what to use and how much, to create a recipe you can adjust as your preferences of meditation change. The post It’s Time to Wake Up! appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.

We’re so excited to have Yoga and Meditation teacher DeAndre Sinette with us this week on DENtalks Podcast! We get to know all sides of DeAndre in this episode as he vulnerably shares with us about his abusive upbringing and his lifelong struggle with suicidal depression. We discuss what it was like to live in a conscious co-living space in Venice, CA, the perceived expectations of what moving to LA would be like, how being a creative kid shaped him, how he has turned to music and mushrooms to help him heal his depression, how meditation and yoga have turned into a safe haven for him, and how for a long time he was rejecting his DNA as a black man and instead tried to fit in with the white community he was raised in. The post Healing My Depression appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.

This week we have a good friend of the DEN on the podcast, Chris Pan! Chris is a Harvard grad who began consulting for Fortune 100 CEO’s, then found himself working at Facebook, taught Mark Zuckerberg mandarin and retired at 35. After a traumatic breakup, Chris started a deep dive into inner work and is now the Founder and CEO of MyIntent, a company whose mission is to be a catalyst for meaningful conversations by helping people find their WORD. MyIntent has served everyone from Jay-Z, Beyonce, Rihanna, Melania Trump, Elon Musk, Justin Bieber and has been featured on the cover of Time magazine and a 4 minute segment on the Today Show. The post MyIntent Founder Finds Intention Through Chaos appeared first on DENtalks Podcast.