Grief In the Body: How to Heal Through Body Wisdom w/ Abby Hildebrand
Release Date: 10/15/2024
How to See Infinite Possibilities Instead of Limited Options
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“I had no choice”, “this is how it has to be”, and “it is what it is” - for some people these aren’t just statements, these are the basis of their entire reality. Rather than seeing themselves as architects with a wealth of choices to shape their lives, they feel resigned to the idea that things are fixed just as they are. No alternatives and no changes. This way of thinking goes back to the same place: the old stories we run in our minds become the cages that limit our own lives. It’s like we’re sitting in a container that shrinks our possibilities, but we...
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Are we mass, energy or space? That’s the question many have pondered time and time again. The answer: we’re all 3 at the same time. We are not just bodies of mass, though we feel the weight of our flesh, the solidity of our bones. Beneath this, there is a huge symphonic panorama inside of us, and when we tap into it, we can experience true healing and freedom. Often we focus on the mass aspect of existence, but the energetic aspect has a lot more power. The ever-shifting flow of energy that rises and falls within us expresses itself as emotion, movement, and sensation. The rush...
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Willingness, Not Willpower: The Secret to Generating Endless Energy
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The energy of connection knows no limitations. It has the ability to shift us from tired to fully engaged in seconds. It creates a magical space of discovery and joy where there was none. It also creates aliveness, and a limitless resource of energy that regenerates constantly. How do we find this energy for ourselves and tap into it? Accessing the energy of connection starts with a willingness, not a will. When we will ourselves to do something we’re forcing the energy, and that won’t create connection or engagement. Willingness, on the other hand, is a soft step into something beautiful,...
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The Age of Aquarius: A Collective Cosmic Shift Toward Unyielding Love w/ Danny Santos
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As we shift from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius, we are living through one of the most significant transitions in our lifetime - a collective rebirth that will define the next 20 years and beyond. This is a time of cosmic realignment, where the old structures of power, control, and perfectionism are being dismantled. On a collective level, we’re being called to yield to love in all its dimensions. The energy sweeping the world is one of devotion, forgiveness, surrender, redemption and the ending of cycles. This is the astrological weather, and we’re all feeling it. All signs of...
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When Yes Becomes No: How to Back Out of An Agreement
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Have you ever said yes to so many things and then realize you’ve overcommitted and now have way too much on your plate? Or maybe you agreed to something and then your circumstances changed and you just don’t have the bandwidth for it anymore? Or perhaps an initial ‘yes’ is now slowly morphing into a ‘no’ now that you have more info… Noticing and voicing a change in agreement is something a lot of people struggle with - something we really have to practice to maintain and increase our aliveness. We might feel guilty about wanting to change things up, or just decide to go through...
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From Dysfunction to Delight: How to Remap Your Relationship Template
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You meet someone, start a relationship thinking “this is something new”...and then it turns out to be the same old pattern repeating itself. What gives? Everyone seeks relationships that nourish them - we want to be with people who love us, see us, make us feel safe, and to be regarded with value and appreciation. But so many of us keep finding ourselves in dysfunctional relationships and end up picking the same type of people over and over again. How do we break this cycle and learn to pick the right people for us? How do we even end up this way in the first place? Well…who we pick will...
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The Upper Limit: How to Embrace Success Without Apology
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Being told “don't be too much”, “don’t be full of yourself”, or “how dare you earn great money doing what you love?” Only looking for what’s wrong in your appearance. Feeling strange and squirmy when we get a compliment. Diminishing the accomplishments we should happily celebrate or even apologizing when we do something well. Achieving something amazing and then sabotaging yourself right after. These are all manifestations of The Upper Limit Problem, and in many ways, it’s the biggest problem almost all people face. At the heart of this issue is our inability to hold more...
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A Season of Wisdom and Wonder: Unwrapping Inspiration from Our Favorite People
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In this wonderful, essence-filled space we’ve created with this podcast, we’ve been joined by some of our favorite people to Be, Play and Love with us! Our guests gave us the gift of their presence and we’re so excited to share that with you as a present of our own this festive season. It has been so delightful to share this space with you and our visitors, and experience first-hand, the powerful wisdom and insights that emerged. An actress brimming with creativity. Business leaders who are choosing to play at work. An author who decided to stand in what she’s good at, and an expert on...
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Holidays and family gatherings are the ultimate test of our ability to be with ourselves, and how well we’ve healed from our personal difficulties. When people come together, it triggers all sorts of challenges - unspoken tensions and tribal rules, old behavioral patterns, and people acting out because they can’t express their own wants. In these environments, it’s really easy to get outside of ourselves and get swept up by the drama of the dynamic, and stay there until it depletes us…but it doesn’t have to be that way. There’s a way for us to stay in equilibrium and circulate our...
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How to Stop Saying Yes When You Mean No
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The word “no” is two simple letters, but it’s one of the hardest things to say, especially for women. We’re taught to always be agreeable, accommodating and automatically say yes to anything we’re asked to do. That’s why people can go their whole lives without actually knowing how to say ‘no’. So our default answer is “oh sure” or “yes, of course” even if it’s to our own detriment. Our place of ‘no’ is already inside us, we just have to find it and vocalize it in order to release our genuine power. It might feel unfamiliar, and we may have to practice at first,...
info_outlineAs mothers, we truly get to experience the magic and miracle of the female body as we carry our babies. Growing another human being makes us bring attention to our bodies in a profound way.
But at the same time, that beautiful experience gets interrupted in the birthing process, especially when it’s a traumatic one. Because the process of having a baby is governed so heavily by the mechanics and medicine of it, we can lose that connection with our bodies and struggle to reignite it. Perhaps you stop feeling safe in your body.
Or you escape into your brain to make sense of it all. Or you start feeling like you didn’t deliver (pun intended) on what’s expected of you as a woman.
Bringing attention to our body wisdom allows us to reclaim our bodies, but first, we have to grieve. We have to move through the sadness and feelings of loss in order to heal. If we learn to be with grief, our internal landscape expands and creates room for more joy, love, connection and self-love.
How do we heal ourselves through giving our bodies attention? How do we work through the aftermath of a difficult birthing process? In this episode, we’re joined by our good friend and collaborator Abby Hildebrand. She shares her journey into motherhood and how she’s reconnected with her own body.
Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
-Reignite the conversation with your body
As women, society gives us so many reasons to not feel safe in our bodies. How do we reclaim the connection and find the safety in ourselves?
-Birth and rebirth
Having a baby is a beautiful experience but a traumatic birthing process can leave us feeling like strangers to our own inner landscape. How does this emerge and show up?
-The friendliest way to be with grief
There’s a huge difference between riding the wave of grief and picking at a scab to continue the suffering. How do we let the grief move through us?
Guest Bio
Abby Hildebrand is a trauma-informed Breathwork Facilitator, Perinatal Mental Health Advocate, Emotional Transformation Guide, speaker, author and CEO of Wellness Creek Consulting. As an experienced human connection and development leader at a successful engineering firm, Abby thought motherhood would be a breeze in comparison. After navigating the ups and downs of postpartum anxiety and depression, she has dug deep into what creates massive emotional transformation and is on a mission to empower mothers everywhere to take control of their own health and wellness, one breath at a time.
About Your Hosts
Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT*, is an evolutionary catalyst and freelance mentor who has been a pioneer in the field of body intelligence and conscious loving for over forty years. Katie has an international reputation as a presenter and seminar leader, bodifying the core skills of conscious living–authenticity, response-ability and appreciation–with conscious enthusiasts from many fields. She is the co-author of twelve books, including the best-selling Conscious Loving, At The Speed of Life and Conscious Loving Ever After: How to Create Thriving Relationship at Midlife and Beyond. Katie has been a successful entrepreneur for over forty years. She specializes in turning concepts such as commitment into felt experience and igniting new actions that emerge from the inside out. Her unique coaching and leadership programs have generated hundreds of body intelligence and relationship coaches in the U.S. and Europe. She co-founded the Spiritual Cinema Circle and the virtual Body Intelligence Summit. Katie has appeared on over 500 radio and television programs and traveled well over one million air miles as the ambassador for the work that she and her husband Gay Hendricks have developed.
Sophie Chiche is a seasoned coach and consultant who has traveled the world working with thousands of people and dozens of teams. With a passion for fully expressed living, Sophie coaches, and facilitates group sessions to help people and teams remove what gets in the way of them living their most meaningful lives.Not only does she work with clients to design the life they want, but she's also developed methods, mindsets shifts, and healing modalities to create it elegantly. Born in Paris, raised in Barcelona, and lived in LA for 30 years, Sophie now lives in the middle of nowhere Arizona, where she rides her Harley with her boo, Wall. And plays a lot of pickleball.
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