28. | Dr. Alexandra Solomon | What It Really Takes To Love Bravely | Just Be You Podcast with Amber Hawken
Release Date: 04/02/2018
Ep 57. Adam Kavanagh: The Primal Switch
Deep Currents
Do you know who you are in the face of danger? Adam Kavanagh is an Australian survivalist who has dedicated much of the last decade to getting back to basics and living off the land in the remote areas of northern Australia. Initially triggered by a health crisis and then evolving into a way he chose to live, his deep connection to nature has profoundly shaped his understanding of bushcraft and survival skills. Adam was invited to learn and hang out with the Indigenous communities of Doomagee, where he spent nearly five years living solo, aside from the times he spent with the locals....
info_outline
Ep. 56 Deep Currents | Reviving Sacred Birth w. Michelle Palasia
Deep Currents
Michelle Palasia is the first guest on Deep Currents for a very good reason. Deep Currents is all about the stories that connect us and the wisdom that helps us remember who we are and what we are. From my 12 years immersed in Rites of Passage work, I know how babies are born—including the mother’s state, the birth itself, and the care of both mother and baby in the early years—shapes the rest of their lives. In the creation of life, the connection to the core of our Spirit is either nurtured or fractured. This connection is key to our capacity for wholeness, intimacy, relationships,...
info_outline
Ep. 55 Deep Currents with Amber Hawken
Deep Currents
After a three-year break from this podcast, it's back. It has a different name, a more refined intention, and is still connected to the art of storytelling. I touch on how currents, vibrations, and resonance are the cause and effect of life itself, taking you on a short journey from the beginning of time. I speak to the power of story and how it has shaped history and our culture. I also discuss how currents, connections, and stories can support us in returning to a deep place of belonging. I share a little about my journey of being smashed into a million pieces by Motherhood and what...
info_outline
54 | Adam Kavanagh | The Primal Approach | The Amber Hawken Podcast
Deep Currents
Adam Kavanagh lives like a caveman in outback Australia. He shares how he healed hyperthyroidism, depression and panic attacks when he began living paleo, stipping things back and striping back to the basics. He shares his experience of being on Naked and Afraid (the US reality show) where he was dropped in the middle of Africa with a woman he had never met and had to survive for three weeks.
info_outline
53 | Laura Corcoran | Contradictions of Psychology and Giving The Power Back To The Person
Deep Currents
This episode is vast in its topic and while it begins with the contradictions around some of the principles of psychology, we weave in and out of rabbit holes that most people can relate to including repressed trauma emerging in the *stressful* now of life and toxic bonds in passion relationships.
info_outline
52 | Amber Hawken | Is It Worth It? The Ceremony of Life | The Amber Hawken Podcast
Deep Currents
This is a solo session with a four-step self-assessment of your entire life. How often are we sacrificing happiness, joy, spaciousness, peace, love and orgasms for a cost we will pay 10 x time, at least, sometime in the future? Let's see.
info_outline
51 | Sammi Jane | Awakening Womb Wisdom | The Amber Hawken Podcast
Deep Currents
Sammi Jane is a deliciously wise woman who brings light to the consciousness of the womb and its wisdom. And no, you don't need a physical womb in order for this to make sense, matter or tap into the flow of life's infinite energy.
info_outline
50 | Dr Jeremy Goldberg | Creative Integrity And How To Have Hard And Life Changing Conversations | The Amber Hawken Podcast
Deep Currents
Creative integrity is all about being self-aware, knowing that intention is far more important than productivity and how it is possible to have hard conversations that better your relationships and change your life.
info_outline
49 | Jamie Rea | The Power Of Vulgar Expression & Healing The Over/Under Functioner Within | The Amber Hawken Podcast
Deep Currents
One of the most misunderstood types of expressive writing is that of the vulgar kind.
info_outline
48 | Scott Reardon | Why Presence Trumps Skill | The Amber Hawken Podcast
Deep Currents
From an amputee to a 4-time Paralympic gold medalist; Mindfulness Techniques for gold medals, finding fulfillment beyond achievement.
info_outlineDr. Alexandra Solomon is a licensed clinical psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University. She's the author of the book Loving Bravely: Twenty Lessons of Self-Discovery to Help You Get the Love You Want and maintains a psychotherapy practice for individual adults and couples, so can you guess what we chat about?
Yup, l-o-v-e.
If you are a human you will get so much out of this conversation.
Warning: we go deep real quick! I’m attracting these BIG conversations about relationships, the masculine and feminine and love lately as it seems many of us are leaning in to love.
Alexandra shares her own core wounds with such self compassion and vulnerability, it felt like having an intimate D & M with a friend.
She brings up some hugely valuable points about the shame people can carry from moving through infidelity (and when they let that shame stop the relationship transforming in to the 2.0 version), how curiosity within our relationships creates self-awareness, and the side affects of infidelity on our sense of self. Alexandra also shares her personal experience (backed by research) about how to keep the spark alive in her own 20 year marriage which could literally change the way we approach long-term romance. We unpack relationships through these topics and so much more:
- How to know when to leave a relationship
- How to come back to yourself
- Why originally she resisted studying love because she was a feminist (and why that was an illusion)
- Why reclamation of our inner child/younger selves is the most powerful place to go to heal
- How active spiritual practices helped her move through the loss of her father
- The beauty of what can come from trauma
- Unpacking infidelity
- Dr Alexandra’s favourite questions to ask clients in therapy
- The bravest question to ask within a relationship
- The silver lining of cheating
- The top 3 ways to get the love you want
- How to keep intimacy alive in long term committed relationships
And so. much. more. You’re gonna want to listen to this one, folks, as it could change the way you approach your intimate relationships forever.
Stand in the truth of your story
I love that she describes the space between the stimulus and the response as the place where we can consciously choose how we are going to handle any situation - this is ultimately the power of mindfulness, which allows us to live with more vulnerability and open-heartedness.
What a pleasure to converse about bringing science and soul together for successful relationships. Be sure to drop me a comment on Instagram about your biggest takeaway from this episode and what you’re going to explore or apply to your own life for the sake of deepening your relationship to love.