High Energy Health Podcast

Shifting Pain and Addictions Using the Body: Bob Gardner and Dawson Church in Conversation

Bob Gardner is author of the book ‘Built for Freedom’ and host of the podcast ‘Alive and Free’. He uses a body-based approach to happiness, health, and well-being incorporating tools like martial arts, breathwork, functional psychology, and deep tissue release. He specializes in helping people through patterns of pain, depression, anxiety, and addiction.

Here Bob and Dawson discuss:

• When the brain has an opinion about what’s going on in the body, how do we change it
• How tension in body can eventually produce pain, and what bodywork can do to help
• The way breath, movement, and voice produce neurotransmitters
• When pain, addictions, posture, all these things that can affect the body’s pH
• Relaxation protocol before bed
• Starting and ending of your day right
• Benefits of pattern interrupts

For more information about Bob, his work, and his incredible book: https://www.thefreedomspecialist.com/

And for more on host Dr. Dawson Church: http://dawsongift.com/

 

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Power of Your Sacred Feminine Self: Rhoda Shapiro and Amanda Wonderland in Conversation

Rhoda Shapiro has worked for a decade as a mindfulness and meditation teacher. She is also a tantric educator, training women to step into their power by way of meditation, movement, dance, expression, and yoga. She has facilitated women’s circles and taught workshops throughout Los Angeles and in the San Francisco Bay Area. Rhoda’s YouTube channel, which has amassed thousands of subscribers, features yogic practices to empower viewers. Rhoda is also the Founder/Editor-in-Chief of The Milpitas Beat, a Silicon Valley-based newspaper. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband, Eric, and their two sons. She is the author of Fierce Woman: Wake up your Badass Self and Magic Within: Womb-Centered Wisdom to Realize the Power of Your Sacred Feminine Self.

Awaken Your Sacred Feminine Self and Reclaim the Fierce, Vibrant Goddess You Are! You hold an awesome power within―the power to heal, transform, love, and live the kind of joyful life that grabs hold of the soul and never lets go. That power has been under your nose, literally, this whole time. Rhoda Jordan Shapiro guides you on an inspiring journey toward knowing, loving, and celebrating your body. Her new book, Magic Within, features rituals, affirmations, meditations, journaling, and breathwork that can help you heal and connect to your womb. These practices can bolster every aspect of your life, from money and career to wellness and spiritual fulfillment. Even if you don't have a womb, this book offers ways to align with its energy and manifest your desires. When you connect to your inner power, you can love and express your own unique magic without any constraints or hesitations.

To learn more about Rhoda: https://rhodajordanshapiro.com/

And to connect with host Amanda Wonderland: https://www.amandawonderland.com/

 

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Chakras and the Vagus Nerve: C.J. Llewelyn and Amanda Wonderland in Conversation

C.J. Llewelyn, M.Ed., is a licensed professional counselor in her own private practice. She works with clients struggling with trauma and addiction. C.J. is a trained Internal Family Systems therapist and certified in EMDR. She uses polyvagal theory as a foundation for her work. She is a Reiki Master and curious observer of the human condition. Her latest book, Chakras and the Vagus Nerve: Tap Into the Healing Combination of Subtle Energy & Your Nervous System, reveals the psychological dimensions each of your chakras hold and explains how your body experiences the pain of trauma. Through more than twenty exercises and journal prompts, you can focus on healing your mind, body, and soul.

The vagus nerve is the great communicator between most systems in your body, including the major organs of the brain, digestive system and heart. With the guidance of your seven chakras, the vagus nerve can be a psychological and spiritual powerhouse for healing. C.J. discusses how to harness this energy to understand your past and heal your body of intense reactions that no longer serve you. This allows you access to the compassionate energy of your inner light. When you understand your wiring, you can identify the signals your nervous system sends and work toward a state of calm.

For more about C.J.: https://cjllewelyn.com/

And for information about guest host Amanda Wonderland: https://www.amandawonderland.com/

 

#eft #eftuniverse #blissbrain #mindtomatter #vagusnerve #nervoussystem #subtleenergy

Family, Connection, and the Crisis in Mental Health: Daniel Bergner and Dawson Church in Conversation

Daniel Bergner is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and the author of six books of nonfiction, including The Mind and the Moon, Sing for Your Life and God of the Rodeo. Daniel’s writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Granta, Harper’s, Mother Jones, Talk, and more.

Here Daniel and Dawson discuss:

• Daniels’s journey
• Daniel’s brother who was diagnosed with psychoses
• How fear locks into managing risk using medication
• Danie’s brother today: 40 years and he’s living a fruitful non medicated life
• The under researched phenomena of how we do often get better as we get older
• The premise that brains are organs; they just need the right chemical to correct
• The case history of Caroline who heard voices; some urging her to harm
• Caroline’s story and how now she works with the Hearing Voices Network and a suicide prevention hotline
• The third case history of David, wrestling with depression and anxiety
• David’s story and how he is a civil rights litigator who has argued in front of the Supreme Court
• Why the US is one of only 2 countries that allows drug companies to advertise to patients
• The use of medication in regard to mental health
• What about if rather than getting rid of the symptoms; we have more modest aims
• Why service is part of connecting, bringing people out of their darkest times
• Being rescued by rescuing someone else

For more information about Daniel and his books: http://www.danielbergner.com/

And more about host, Dr. Dawson Church: https://www.dawsongift.com/

 

#eft #eftuniverse #blissbrain #mindtomatter #mentalhealth #themindandthemoon

 

Say It Out Loud: Vasavi Kumar and Amanda Wonderland in Conversation

Vasavi Kumar is often described as the “Queen of Saying It Out Loud.” A first-generation Indian immigrant raised on Long Island NY, Vasavi has relentlessly searched to find her own voice, access the freedom of her creative spirit, and help others along the way …out loud.

When she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the age of 19, she made it her mission to understand how her mind works, starting with making room to hear herself think.

Her mission is to share everything — the good, bad, and ugly — in order to teach a more mindful, practical, and simple way of running every aspect of your life.

Through her Say It Out Loud podcast, keynote talks, group programs, social media, and weekly email newsletters, Vasavi has taught thousands of entrepreneurs, creatives, and artists from all walks of life how to work through any situation ...by saying it out loud.

Vasavi is a Former TV host, Licensed Therapist, Voiceover Artist, and Creator of the Say It Out Loud Safe Haven, an online support community. She holds dual master's degrees in special education from Hofstra University and Social Work from Columbia University.

Most recently she was on the May cover of Austin Woman Magazine, and has been featured on VH1, NBC, FOX, Good Day Austin, CW, WSJ, and many more!

Her book, Say It Out Loud, was published by New World Library in May 2023.

For more about Vasavi: http://vasavikumar.com/

And to find guest host, Amanda Wonderland: https://www.amandawonderland.com/

 

#eft #eftuniverse #sayitoutloud #mindtomatter #blissbrain #highenergyhealth #thepowerofyourvoice

EFT for Children’s Social Emotional Development: Katie Michaelson and Amanda Wonderland in Conversation

Katie Michaelson is a Clinical EFT Practitioner, has a MA in Special Education, 15 years teaching experience, and is an in-home support to personal friends and their children with deployed Military Service Members.

Katie’s journey with EFT began as a tool she used personally to help reduce the stress and anxiety of daily life. As she continued to benefit from EFT and learn more, she knew she wanted to be a part of the larger EFT community and share this tool to help and support others on their personal healing journeys as well. While working with adults and children, she has seen stress and anxiety levels lowered, physical pain symptoms decrease and received client feedback towards making progress in overcoming their fears. In addition to this, many have shared an increased sense of peace and wellbeing. Katie enjoys working with people, both adults and children, using EFT Tapping techniques to help decrease the intensity of emotional triggers related to stress and anxiety, overcome past trauma and reduce symptoms of chronic physical pain.

Katie and Amanda focus their discussion on using EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) for the social emotional development of children. Supporting children who are experiencing stress, worry and anxiety related to home, school and community activities as well as supporting their parents and siblings is life changing for all involved.

For more information about Katie, you can find her at: https://www.eftwithkatie.com/

And for more about guest host, Amanda Wonderland: https://www.amandawonderland.com/

 

#eft #eftuniverse #children #mindtomatter #blissbrain #specialeducation #specialneeds

The 10 Components of Healing Childhood Trauma: Tracy Peng and Dawson Church in Conversation

Dr. Tracy Peng is an integrative psychiatrist and depth healer in the San Francisco Bay Area, combining conventional and complementary therapies. Her special interests include mindfulness approaches to psychotherapy, treating anxiety and depression, and providing spiritually focused psychotherapy to people with cancer. She is also focused on supporting healers in reimagining the current medical systems.

Here she and Dawson talk about:

• Tracy’s fifth grade fair drawing as herself as a psychologist with a patient on a couch
• Her Taiwanese ancestry
• How does Tracy’s own being matches with the patient?
• Identifying trauma
• A list of components of healing childhood trauma
• Tracy’s personal pain journey
• How your body and heart can tell you where you need to go next

Tracy can be found online at: www.tracypengmd.com

And Dawson at: www.DawsonGift.com

 

#eft #eftuniverse #blissbrain #mindtomatter #highenergyhealth #healingchildhoodtrauma

Turn Your Stumbling Blocks into Stepping Stones: Dravon James and Dawson Church in Conversation

Dravon James holds a doctorate in pharmacology and is also an inspirational speaker, radio host, life coach, and author of Freedom is Your Birthright. She is the founder of the Next Step Leadership Academy and Every Day Peace, a platform for her to help and inspire others to build the life of their dreams. She also hosts a weekly radio show “Every Day Peace” on MindyBodySpirit.fm.

You’ll be delighted by the fun and laughter Dawson and Dravon share as they talk about: 

• Whatever you’re going through is real because you’re feeling it
• If you knew the solution, you’d be doing it
• Just telling your story makes you the victor
• We say we’re grateful for our challenges, but we’d rather not have them
• “Can I learn this lesson without the pain?”
• People get fixated on a problem and you keep telling a painful story over and over
• Send your mind out on a mission, close your eyes and look for light
• The mind can be like a 2 year old, you have to give it a task
• How to turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones
• Keep a smile journal, record what has made you smile today
• We often have more awareness of stories on the news that we have of ourselves
• End every day as a superhero
• In the morning, write down 3 things you’re grateful for from yesterday
• Then 3 things that have not yet happened but you’re nonetheless grateful for

To find Dravon James, her website is: http://www.drdravonjames.com/

And Dawson can be found at: www.dawsongift.com

 

#eft #eftuniverse #everydaypeace #blissbrain #mindtomatter #gratitude #freedomisyourbirthright

 

Money Is an Energy Game: Peg Donahue, Madeline Gerwick, and Dawson Church in Conversation

Peg Donahue is a feng shui consultant, personal empowerment coach, teacher, speaker, and author. She has an MBA from Boston University, along with three professional feng shui, and several coaching certifications. After a successful database marketing career, she founded Feng Shui Connections in 2001 out of a strong desire to help people succeed and easily achieve their life desires and dreams. She co-authored Money is an Energy Game with Madeline C. Gerwick. Madeline is an internationally recognized business, economic, and personal astrologer, speaker and author. She has a degree in economics, and annually writes The Good Timing Guide: Time Codes for Success, and the quarterly Good Timing Newsletter. She's a contributing author to the business anthology, Einstein's Business: Engaging Soul, Imagination and Excellence in the Workplace, and co-authored The Complete Idiot's Guide to Astrology.

There’s a lot of great energy and laughter as they and Dawson share about:

• How we spiral down when we spiral into fear
• All day every day you’re either attracting prosperity or repelling it
• Our stories are attracting into our life, regardless of whether it’s true
• You’re always getting back what you’re giving out
• When you start thinking differently gradually, you have to believe it
• How money can come in in many unexpected ways
• An energy tool: thank the universe in advance for providing
• As you increase your energy you increase your money
• Foods that increase your intuition
• What lowers your energy, what increases it?

Find Peg and Madeline at: https://moneyisanenergygame.com/

And Dawson can be found at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

#eft #eftuniverse #moneyisanenergygame #mindtomatter #blissbrain #fengshui #abundance

The Language of Emotions: Karla McLaren and Amanda Wonderland in Conversation

Karla McLaren, M.Ed. is an award-winning author, social science researcher, workplace consultant, and empathy expert. Her lifelong work focuses on her grand unified theory of emotions, which revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy. She is the founder and CEO of Emotion Dynamics Inc. and the developer of the Empathy Academy online learning site.

Her applied work, Dynamic Emotional Integration® (also known as DEI) is a trailblazing approach to emotions and empathy that reveals the genius and healing power within the emotional realm. Licensed DEI Trainers and Consultants are available across the globe. You can learn more about DEI licensing here.

Karla has also developed the groundbreaking Six Essential Aspects of Empathy model that highlights all of the processes in healthy empathy and makes them easily understandable, accessible, and attainable. This fully realized model teaches people how to access, develop, and manage their empathy intentionally. It also explicitly welcomes people who have been exiled from earlier models of empathy (such as men, boys, autistic people, and people dealing with narcissistic or psychopathic tendencies).

Karla is the author of The Power of Emotions at Work: Accessing the Vital Intelligence in Your Workplace (2021), Embracing Anxiety: How to Access the Genius of this Vital Emotion (2020), The Dynamic Emotional Integration® Workbook (2018), The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life’s Most Essential Skill (2013), The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings are Trying to Tell You (2010), and many online courses now available at Empathy Academy.

Karla is also the coauthor (with cult expert Dr. Janja Lalich) of Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over, which focuses on Dr. Lalich’s groundbreaking study of seventy people who were born in or grew up in forty different cults spanning twelve countries (Routledge, 2017).

Currently she is working on an emotions game/card deck for children, and a newly updated and revised edition of The Language of Emotions, which was released in May of this year, 2023.

This interview with Karla is hosted by Dr. Dawson Church’s colleague Amanda Wonderland.

For more about Karla, her work, and books: https://karlamclaren.com/

To connect with Amanda: https://www.amandawonderland.com/

 

#eft #eftuniverse #trauma #blissbrain #mindtomatter #highenergyhealth #languageofemotions #powerofemotions