In this episode, Kara steps in with genius mentor and beautiful soul, Tania Blanco. Tania shares the painful journey of losing her true self through her involvement in a religious organization and through her marriage. Kara and Tania talk about how she was not allowed to have a voice, but rather as a woman had to comply. You will hear how this emotional suffering showed up as physical problems in her body. Tania shares what it took to reclaim her power, create boundaries and dance her way back into loving her life. 

Highlights:

• The motto in our home was to dream, to work for it, and no one is going to stop you.


• The pain of losing yourself and your voice.


• Hiding your genius and dimming your shine to keep people around you happy.


• Your emotional suffering shows up in your physical body.


• What happens when boundaries fall away in our life and what to do when you realize that. Reclaim you own power


• Food is powerful medicine, a very important element of our well-being.


• Using nutrition to help nurture your body.


• It's not about the situations we go through, but how we navigate them…Take responsibility and make decisions and go forward with action.


• Ask for help. Accept Help. Don’t wait to talk about it till you have solved it.


• Tania passionately guides us through ways to tangibly connect with nature, which was an important part of her own healing journey

Quotes:

• “Vulnerability is a gift and a strength.”


• “I started missing my own self. Where is Tania? This person that I look in the mirror is not me.”


• “I wanted to fit. I wanted to be loved. I want to wanted to be part of this ideal of life.”


• “My physical body couldn't handle it.”


• “when you are doing things because you have to conform, you lose…your own personal path”


• “I knew that it was the moment for me to reclaim my own power... No one took it from me. I gave it away.”


• “Then we forget sometimes that we are part of nature.”


• “Seeing me and just being with me in it… It's so important to just listen.”

Episode Resources:

• PINK – Never Gonna Not Dance Again https://open.spotify.com/track/0Uv0h4QmjeR9ew5AjyBR3i?si=1be9950e17cf456b


• Kara Stoltenberg – Restoring Earth (Journal) https://www.karastoltenberg.com/blog/restoring-earth

Connect with Tania:

• Website: https://www.taniablanco.net


• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taniablancoblanco/?locale=en_US


• FacebookFor Spanish: https://www.facebook.com/taniablanco.blog


• Facebook For English: https://www.facebook.com/taniablanco.blog.en

Tania is a Communicator as well as a Genius & Self-Leadership mentor who works with committed individuals, entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurs to be who are eager to live in flow, with joy and fulfillment. On purpose. As a nature's empath, she's constantly learning from Mother’s Nature Wisdom and rhythms (and sharing her findings).

Originally from Mexico and based in Switzerland, she’s passionate about Positive Psychology, the Science of Gratitude and Purpose, as well as everything related to Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence. 

She's on a mission to inspire inner change for personal and collective well-being while guiding committed Souls to Shine their Genius, communicate with purpose, and strengthen their EQ muscle, so they can be fulfilled, and LEAD from the essence of their BEING.

Note: She works in English, Spanish, and sometimes in French.

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