Lean In 37: Expression; Exploring the depths of personal truth through creativity, art, and relationships with Christina Zipperlen
Release Date: 06/21/2020
Lean In 42: Consciousness Rising; Stepping boldly into the full expression of yourself with Nadine McNeil
Lean In
Welcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling. My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing. If you are going through a change or challenging period in life, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together. “We are all in the same storm, but we are not all in the same boat” this quote struck me from my conversation with todays guest Nadine McNeil as we were talking about the current global climate - pandemic, racial protests, war, refugee’s and everything...
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Your Space Episode 41: Releasing Overwhelm
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Welcome to ‘Your Space,’ an embodied and direct experience that allows you to engage in a restorative moment of calm, to unwind, reflect and be nurtured. We are living in a time of great change. Old power structures throughout the world are changing and dismantling and shaking us up in a huge way. We are currently dealing with increased racial prejudice, natural disasters, climate change, a global pandemic on top of all the pain and suffering that is happening around us and inside of us every single day. It is an uncertain time, a time of great challenge. It is also a time where, for most...
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Lean In 40: Authenticity; Finding your own way and reaching your fullest potential with Chris Dufey
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Welcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling. My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing. If you are going through a change or challenging period in life, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together. Authenticity is a word that gets thrown around the self developing world like a hot potato. But what does it mean to truly live an authentic life? What does it take to live true to your core values, your heart centered intentions and your own personal goals?...
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Lean In 39: Survival. One brave man's unbelievable story of survival with Abdi Aden
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Welcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling. My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing. If you are going through a change or challenging period in life, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together. Today I have the extreme pleasure of introducing you to someone who has experienced the unbelievable and conquered the impossible; Abdi Aden. Abdi’s world completely changed when he was only a very young teenager and Somalia’s vicious civil war hit...
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Lean In 38: Acceptance; It is perfectly ok to not be ok with Clare Boyd
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Welcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling. My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing. If you are going through a change or challenging period in life or just want a deeper level conversation, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together. Acceptance is something we will all have to experience at some point within our own lives. On the healing journey it is an absolute allay that provides so much space and expansion for our minds and souls. Acceptance of...
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Your Space Episode 38: Acceptance
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Welcome to ‘Your Space,’ an embodied and direct experience that allows you to engage in a restorative moment of calm, to unwind, reflect and be nurtured. This session of “Your Space’ is the partner for Lean In 38: Acceptance; It is perfectly ok to not be ok with Clare Boyd. We live in a time where there is little encouragement for paying attention to our body’s needs and natural energy levels. Often when we are really exhausted, we ignore our longing for rest and rejuvenation and instead manipulate our bodies with caffeine, sugar, and other stimulants to create a false sense of...
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Your Space Episode 37: Expression
Lean In
Welcome to ‘Your Space,’ an embodied and direct experience that allows you to engage in a restorative moment of calm, to unwind, reflect and be nurtured. This session of “Your Space’ is the partner for Lean In 37: Expression; Exploring the depths of personal truth through creativity, art, and relationships with Christina Zipperlen. Creative expression can be seen as one of the most potent forces in the world and crucial in all aspects of our lives. It can point us to new paths, new ways of seeing and solving. Creative expression is rooted in the capacities for observation, discovery,...
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Lean In 37: Expression; Exploring the depths of personal truth through creativity, art, and relationships with Christina Zipperlen
Lean In
Welcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling. My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing. If you are going through a change or challenging period in life, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together. In its most expansive definition, Art contains all forms of creative expression. Creative expression can be seen as one of the most potent forces in the world and throughout all aspects of our lives. It can point us to new paths, new ways of seeing and...
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Lean In 36: Your Space Special Edition: Opening our capacity to feel, heal and grow
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Fear is a tricky thing. It shape shifts as many different emotions, experiences, thoughts and even actions. It can get a hold of us and become destructive if we let it, allowing it’s resistance to block us from feeling, seeing and experiencing our own truth. Right now, it feels like the entire world is in a panic, and it’s so hard to see what tomorrow will bring, let alone the future. I know with my whole heart and soul that we were made for these times and I encourage us all to take a collective breath, and let the fear and uncertainty work its way through us. There’s an old saying in...
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Lean In 35: Nourish; Finding nourishment through activism, yoga, internal healing and taking action with Bex Tyrer
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Welcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling. My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing. If you are going through a change or challenging period in life, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together. When we arrive in this world as children our early years are shaped for us. And yet occasionally certain traits of our individual personalities buck the status quo and reveal deep parts of what our soul is here to do in this lifetime. Activism and the desire...
info_outlineWelcome to Lean In, a podcast that explores ordinary people’s extraordinary lives through honest storytelling.
My guests share with me their journey of discovery, laughter, personal experiences and healing.
If you are going through a change or challenging period in life, Lean In is the space where we can surrender to the cycle together.
In its most expansive definition, Art contains all forms of creative expression. Creative expression can be seen as one of the most potent forces in the world and throughout all aspects of our lives. It can point us to new paths, new ways of seeing and solving.
Creative expression is rooted in the capacities for observation, discovery, imagination, and courage. It wakes us up, challenges us, and enriches all of life. It can transform us, heal us and collectively heal the world.
Those who dive deeply into their own personal commitment to creative expression in whichever way they choose show us a part of their hearts, and we are always better for it.
Christina Zipperlen is an artist, writer, yogi and designer of the exquisite brand Ananda Soul. Christina grew up in Germany, and was raised with a good dose of questioning the status quo and the “truths” we are faced with.
Her mother’s passing when Christina was 18 inspired her to travel the world and after years in Hawaii, Spain, and Australia, she has settled in Bali, where she lives with her partner and their dog, Hero.
Her creative life has not only led her to incredible experiences it has, quite honestly, saved her life. Christina experienced anorexia when she was in her teenage years and still to this day it is her creative life that has become an innate part of her healing process and recovery.
In this episode we dive into;
● Growing up in Germany and feeling the energetic cultural imprints that history had left behind
● Being hospitalised for Anorexia during her teenage years
● The depths of eating disorders and Christina’s personal experience
● How the loss of her Mother was a huge catalyst for unlocking her truth
● How Hawaii opened up a deep connection to Mother Earth she had never felt before
● How art has always been her healing modality and connection to self
● What it means to be “highly sensitive” and how to support this part of herself in the day-to-day
● Her deep encounters with her own spirituality and how they influenced her creativity
● Starting a jewellery design company in Bali on her own in 2008
● The layers of healing eating disorders and anxiety
● How writing has allowed her voice to truly be heard in a way it never has before
● Coming to acceptance with her sexuality and accepting herself deeply
● The healing process of understanding our minds, our body’s and our spirits.
● Creativity and Healing; the parallels
● Why her mission is to remind women of their innate beauty, shift negative ideas around body image, and to help inspire conscious consumerism through sustainable fashion.
● What makes telling our stories so healing?
You can find out more about Christina and her incredible work;
And connect with Christina’s latest projects and writings here
And as mentioned in this episode….
Our Natural Instinct Healing upcoming Fasting Detox Health Retreat in Australia will be on August 29th – September 6th, 2020.
Places are super limited.
Stay Safe Friends,
Kate