Unsaid Conversations

In 2019 Charley Zheng went on a trip of a lifetime, an expedition to the Afghanistan’s Big Pamir. This was a very planned trip, led by a user experiences studio called Studio D. In this episode she talks about finding her sense of self among a foreign landscape. She describes her role as the expedition documentarian and how she grew her confidence as a photographer and expedition member. Read more about her experience in this beautifully written essay: https://medium.com/studio-d/a-short-walk-76ae06942c76

I spoke with Sloane, a food freedom coach and wellness expert. Sloane helps women drop restrictions & diets to find food freedom and eat intuitively. She teaches woman how to drop all restrictions to eating and learn how to trust themselves to make very conscious aligned choices around eating through blending teachings in nutrition, mindset and spirituality. We spoke at length about what it means to have food freedom including what it means to listen to your body and intuition when choosing what and when to eat. In the conversation, we discuss: ✨ what does Food Freedom mean ✨ the connection between struggling with food/eating and your beliefs about yourself ✨ the importance of accepting where you are NOW so that you can use that as a starting point to learn how to eat without restrictions ✨ a discussion of the meaning of the word ‘balance’ and the concept of the ‘grey zone’ Contact Sloane: https://www.instagram.com/sloaneelizabeth

I spoke with David, a therapist based on Portland Oregon. David works with clients to understand what is going on that is causing them pain and helping them find tools within themselves to work through the pain and trauma to emerge on the other side stronger and more informed. We spoke at length about attachment theory and how different attachment styles show up in our personal lives and especially within relationships. In the conversation, we discuss: ✨ what is an ‘attachment style’ ✨ how different attachment styles show up for individuals within relationships ✨ how to work through childhood conditioning that would have created specific attachments in order to live more supportive and healthy lives as adults ✨ how to approach issues within a relationship through the lens of attachment theory Contact David: https://www.naturalmindcounseling.com/

The first episode of the year is a solo episode by me! In case you haven’t ‘met’ me yet, my name is Anna and I host this podcast. I also recently started offering mindset coaching. This solo episode is an expanded talk on the topic of routine & intentions, which is often the kind of topics I like to speak about. This episode is all about how to use your time with intention through creating a variety of routines that support your greater intention for the kind of lifestyle you want. I discuss: ✨ creating a workday routine that is fits your personal needs ✨ a reframe how you think about the resource of ‘time’ ✨ how to reframe the idea of productivity ✨ how to introduce greater intention into the way you spend your personal time If you’d like to hear more about these topics, follow me on insta  @create_newpaths.

I spoke with Eryn, a practitioner of a variety of healing arts. She is a tarot reader, breathwork facilitator, and Reiki Master, as well as the host of the Living Open podcast. Eryn works with people to help them embody their authentic selves. Through breathwork, rituals, reiki and other methods, she guides clients towards reclaiming their sense of wholeness and feeling worthy of love. We spoke at length about the use of rituals for self-care, and about specific practices that support the feeling if being seen. Contact Eryn: https://www.living-open.com/

I spoke with Maria, a clinical herbalist, who works with plants to support and heal the body and spirit. Maria creates personalized blend of herbs to address a variety of health concerns. She works closely with every client to understand what is happening with them and only then does she create a recommendation that best suits them. In her clinical practice, Maria combines elements of Western Herbalism, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Ayurveda for a wide variety of healing plants. She finds joy in formulating herbal tea blends from her personal apothecary with organic herbs from a variety of small-owned farms in the U.S. and Greece. We spoke at length about her passion for plants, the mythology around healing in ancient Greece and how the same plants used thousands of years ago are still around and supporting us today. Contact Maria: www.thegreekherbalist.com

I spoke with Adam, a meditation practitioner and teacher. He regularly practices different forms of meditation including breathwork, visualization and Qi Gong. Adam teaches both contemporary and ancient meditation techniques. His meditation workshops ensure that participants will actually "feel something" and leave with expanded awareness for when and how to meditate. The meditation techniques he works with create on-the-spot stress relief and long-lasting energy boosts. We spoke at length about the ‘energy cleaning’ that is directly connected with the various organ systems in our body. Especially moving meditations such as Qi Gong, serves to balance and clean our energies by moving our body in specific choreography. During the conversation, we practiced a few techniques to deeper understand the effects of meditation. Watch the episode on Youtube for a more interactive experience. For this episode, Adam led a few practices during the conversation to show the powers of meditation through breathwork, visualization and Qi Gong. Contact Adam: www.relaxwithadam.com/in-the-garden

I spoke with Yarrow, a creative coach, artist , writer and podcast host. Yarrow finds daily rituals to be important elements in self-care. In our conversation we discuss how ritual can be employed at any stage in life, to mark the bringing and end of life events, the end of a day or to celebrate or mourn a life transition. Published this year, Yarrow’s book Rituals is an approachable, inclusive guidebook that will help you create meaningful rituals for everything from heartbreak to transitions and creative projects. Contact Yarrow: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com

I spoke with Lunna, a dancer and dance teacher who combined various movement games and methods to help build body awareness. Lunna trained as a professional dancer and worked in a dance company before leaving that world and transitioning to focusing on her unique method of learning movement. She sees movement and touch as an important part of the human experience. Through dance, one can begin to see into their behavioral and emotional patterns. Lunna is passionate about exploring all that our body has to offer in movement and expression. Her classes include movement games and the freedom to try various dance practices that help anyone get more in touch with the movements of their body. For this conversation, we spoke about what it means to have body awareness, how to start building awareness of our movements and how isolation can become a creative outlet for crafting a unique expression of yourself. Contact Lunna: @lunnagg on instagram

I spoke with Natalie, an energy healer who employs a blend of different modalities in order to hold space and provide a safe container for healing and transformation. Natalie trained as a psychologist yet life introduced her to other forms of healing through connecting with energy work and techniques such as Emotion Code. She sees healing as a way for all of us to clear out the density that trauma creates in our bodies and rediscover the true essence of our beings by reconnecting with our hearts and bravely living from that space.  She believes in the power of healing both individually and in community.  For this conversation, we spoke about the topic of conflict. Conflict is a multi-layered topic which we approached from various frames of reference. We discussed what makes conflict feel so difficult to navigate and how you can practice self-care by noticing tiggers and working on breaking behavioral patterns that lead to conflict. Contact Natalie: https://tendingyourspirit.com

I spoke with Sarah Speers, a wellness coach that uses reiki and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) to support healing in food, eating & body issues. Working for years as a licensed therapist, she started to feel there was a missing link to the healing process. She started learning about energy healing (EFT, Reiki, Emotion Code), which opened up a new way to access and heal trauma. Now she offers coaching and support to women on their journey to healing from food, eating and body issues. Sarah offers coaching and energy healing that shifts a client’s control over food and eating, towards a more relaxed mindset towards food that promotes self-love, health and self-confidence. Through energy healing modalities, Sarah guides clients to release trauma and move through difficult wounds. For this conversation, we spoke about the process of finding food freedom after years of experiencing food and body issues.  Many of the woman Sarah works with have some form of eating disorder. Due to messaging from the society and /or family, certain wounds and trauma form, which sometimes exhibit themselves through food and body issues. Sarah walks through some of the work she does and how to address food/body issues through energy work. Contact Sarah: https://www.sarahspeers.com

I spoke with Jess, a dancer, coach and author, on how to navigate the creative process. Her love of dancing is a thread throughout the journey of becoming a coach and an author.  She speaks about her process on becoming a creativity coach, creating Dance With This book, and supporting others access their creativity through Creative Club.  Growing up, Jess trained as a professional dancer and saw dance as her path in life. Yet a few things didn’t feel right and she moved away from dance in order to focus on healing her own body and learning more about herself. After having worked as a wellness coach, she came full circle as her coaching work shifted to focus on creativity and dance. She found her unique voice by infusing her love of dance into creativity coaching in a way no one else could. Even creating a book called ‘Dance with this book’ , all about dancing alone in your room. Now, Jess continues to produce dance videos of herself dancing alone in her room while also providing guidance and support to creative individuals. Contact Jess: https://www.jessgrippo.com

I spoke with Jarrod Mayer, a sound and kundalini practitioner and teacher. It was interesting to learn about his journey into using sound as a therapeutic tool. Jarrod creates unique sound experiences such as sound baths, to take people on a journey within themselves in order to heal and restore balance to their physical and emotional well-being. He started his journey into sound through experiencing the power of Kundalini and then diving deeper into the kinds of sounds that can produce therapeutic effects. Having always enjoyed playing music, he explored a number of instruments and sounds as he started to learn more about the use of sound for healing. We discussed how certain sounds can produce very powerful effects on the mind and body, as well as how certain sounds be very uncomfortable to listen to for some people, but still provide a profound therapeutic effect. Contact Jarrod: http://www.brooklynhealingarts.com

I spoke with Kelly, a reiki healer and teacher, as well as so much more. She works with clients and students to share the power and beauty of energy work through the practice of reiki for healing, balance and general well-being. In the conversation we discuss what is reiki, how energy can be balanced within the body, and how to be focus the minds through daily wellness practices. We also talk about the ways reiki is practiced and how it can be learned to use for yourself for healing and release. Follow along for new episodes on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unsaidconvos Learn more about Kelly here: https://www.heartspace.co

I spoke with Andrea, a business coach that provides tools on creating a business that connects to your soul and allow you to create the kind of life that best suits you. She helps people create a business that's a reflection of who they are and what they are called to do.  Her coaching creates a roadmap towards creating fulfillment in work and life. Especially important is guiding her clients to think about and create the kind of life-style that is relevant and true for them. Andrea brings a broader perspective on the ways you can create abundance while always supporting her clients where ever they are coming from and how they are feeling in the moment.  Learn more about Andrea and her coaching process here: https://soulflowco.com

I spoke with Samantha Wallen, a writer and writing coach. She supports people on their journey to express themselves through writing and coaches individuals on finding their own voice to write that which wants to be written and commit to a regular writing practice. Samantha always loved writing and after a life-altering event started to create a business that allowed her the space and time to focus on writing through being a coach to others on their journey through writing. Whether it's a story you want to write about your own life or a book you want to create, Samantha offers the tools to deeply commit to writing your own story. Lear more about Samantha here: https://samanthawallen.com

I spoke with Zita Harkarn who is a Kundalini practitioner and teacher. She teaches her students and listeners about powerful breathing and movement techniques that stem from the practice of Kundalini Yoga. Kundalini Yoga is a different kind of yoga, that is comprised of a set of repetitive motions with a focus on breath and also uses sound through chanting and a gong. Zita discovered Kundalini as she was looking for ways to connect with her body through movement. Soon after trying her first class, she found a teacher in NYC and took a teacher's training and has been teaching Kundalini Yoga ever since. She shares her views on what makes Kundalini Yoga unique, how she found her voice and started developing a deeper connection to her own intuition. Contact Zita and learn more here: https://www.happyfreespirit.com

I spoke with Luisa Muhr, who offers Family and Systemic Constellations Workshops.  She empowers people who want to get a deeper understanding of their own patterns, are curious about their family background, and who currently feel stuck in life, by offering them guidance through ancestral healing movements. In the conversation we discuss how this work is a unique way to examine our relationships with other people and concepts, while also creating a sense of community as each person hold space for each other. Contact Luisa and learn more about Family & Systemic Constellation work: https://www.familyconstellationsnyc.com

Avi created SoundRx to provide sound therapy through  sound baths. Sound can be a very healing modality and when combined with personal coaching and breathwork, can support deep healing  and restoration with our bodies. In the conversation we discuss how sound has been a tool of healing for a long time, how we can ‘tune’ our bodies to a healing frequency and how sound can be a gateway to healing on the unconscious level. SoundRx offers an accessible and curated solution for therapeutic healing through the use of sound, breathwork and coaching. Avi’s unique soundbaths focus on relaxing the body and mind, while releasing any trauma and pain. Follow along for new episodes on Instagram: www.instagram.com/unsaidconvos Contact Avi and learn more about SoundRx: https://www.getsoundrx.com

A conversation with Melanie Monaco about self-love and what it means to live a self-love lifestyle.   Melanie is the founder of The Self-Love Lifestyle and a Master Self-Love Coach. She created The Self-Love Lifestyle to offer woman a way to start living in self-love through examining and reframing our relationship with our thought patterns, the way we eat and how we view our bodies. In the conversation we discuss the importance of learning to shift our thought patterns, developing an intuitive relationship with food, among other topics related to mindfulness. Follow along for new episodes on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unsaidconvos You can contact Melanie and learn about The Self-Love Lifestyle:  https://www.melaniemonaco.com