Dr. Kendall Hassemer: How the body deals with chronic stress
She Will Rise Podcast
Dr. Kendall Hassemer, ND is a Nutrition + Wellbeing Expert, Lover of the Outdoors, Craniosacral Therapist, Earth Advocate and Yoga Instructor. Her struggle with stress in her life from a young child turned into chronic debilitating asthma. She thought she would never be able to do all the things she now enjoys in her life. Her own life story is her inspiration for how she helps and supports others. We met 7 years ago in a yoga class and have become great friends and colleagues. Dr. Kendall helps individuals connect to their wild (feminine) selves through Rewild Health...
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Anastasia Hirst: Healing Through Horses
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Anastasia shares her story in healing through horses. She has worked with horses in a therapeutic way for years and is now traveling the world creating a documentary about the power of healing through horses. This conversation was so inspiring for me as I am diving into the world of equine assisted therapy and have been experiencing great healing over the last in relationship with these powerful beings Her documentary, Equus: Healing Through Horses, is all about enlightening the world how horses can facilitate a level of healing that we as humans don't easily have access to...
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Arkady Brown: Body Image and The Vulva Art Project
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Arkady talks with us about the body image and the beauty of our vulvas by sharing her project, The Vulva Art Project, with us. We met through a mutual friend and one day she called me and said she had this project. When she told me about it, I had a full YES! this needs to be done. Arkady realized through her work, as a Fine Art Boudoir Photographer, she kept witnessing the shame that women have around their bodies. She dug deeper and found that a lot of shame is held in your most sacred part of our body, the part of our body that makes us women, our vulvas. Arkady has had her own...
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Melody Walford: Anxiety, Depression and Yoga
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The lovely Melody talks with us about her journey with anxiety and depression and how Yoga Therapy helped her to feel safe in her body. Melody is a Yoga teacher, yoga therapist, massage practitioner, foodie, nature enthusiast, wild dancer, wave rider, integrative medicine student, vocal explorer, Ariel silk acrobat, and bold lover of life. Melody and I met in Tofino, BC playing in the water on our surfboards. We shared common interests and soon realized we were healing similar challenges. We have watched each other grow from our first yoga classes and trainings. Now...
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Sophia Treyger: Go from Pleaser to Pleasure
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Sophia Treyger invites us women to go from a pleaser to pleasure. She has dedicated her life to helping women go from being a pleaser and giving your power away to experiencing pleasure in life. This is such a big topic I hear women talk about, how we take care and give to everyone else before ourselves. We talk about how we start to honor ourselves first, create powerful boundaries to take care of our body, heart, mind and soul and find pleasure by feeling our bodies, emotions and desires. We touched on so many hard to talk about places that women face day to day around our sexuality,...
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Natalie Marnica: Mental Health, Chronic Pain, Huntington's Disease
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Natalie is a Mental Health advocate, she is challenged with chronic pain and cares for a mother with Huntington's Disease. She has chosen to not only face her fears and challenges but to step into them in work as a leader. As a yoga therapist, she open's up a dialogue or space to talk about what ever challenges you are facing and provide tools and techniques that will help your body, mind, heart and soul heal. Her story is full of personal challenges that she approaches with humor, authenticity, vulnerability, and beauty. As we talk we unfold the way we similarly work with our own mental...
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Jainee Dial: Grief and Death
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Grief and death are such a taboo subject and Jainee speaks about it so beautifully. Wow, what a powerful chat this was. There were many moments where I had tears in my eyes and my heart was full of emotion. My heart feels full and warm after connecting with Jainee. Her experience of working with grief and the unique way she embraced it, is a powerful offering for all of us. She speaks of her most used practice of writing as a tool for healing, ceremony as what is sacred to you and a necessary way of honoring who and what has passed. The chapters, as Jainee says, of grief, are a...
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Alice Bracegirdle: How to cultivate positive body image
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Alice Bracegirdle shares so much more than just about body image in the fitness industry. Becoming a single mother after leaving a violent relationship, showed her just how hard life can get. From there BellyFit was born and she has been on a path of helping women heal their idea of what their body should or should not look like. She is an advocate for positive body image in honoring the female body. Alice was able, through her advocacy, get an advertisement changed on the back of a bus in Victoria BC, that was body shaming. Alice is not afraid to shine and be the brightest...
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Emily McBurnie: Near-death experience and spirituality
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Emily shares how her near-death experience as a child ignited her intuition which has guided her on her own unique path of spirituality. She follows her intuition with herself and her students. She has experienced lifetimes of trauma in her life and shares very openly about her journey with it. Emily has so much to share and is full of life. Her big energy is inspiring and I felt like I was experiencing her life as she told it. She is a living example of how you can connect to your purpose, no matter how hard life can get, and in that life will take care of you....
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Hollis Baley: Nutrition for recovery and addiction
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Nutrition is a foundational part of the recovery process, especially with addiction. Hollis shares her own story of how it took her starting to lose her vision after her struggle with addiction, to really dig into her own path of healing. We talk about addiction and how we can be set up for addictive tendencies from when we are a baby, even if addiction does not run in your family, based on the health of your gut. Nutrition was her first access point to living a healthy life that supports healing. Her work is geared towards recovery around addiction, auto-immune disease and gut...
info_outlineArkady talks with us about the body image and the beauty of our vulvas by sharing her project, The Vulva Art Project, with us.
We met through a mutual friend and one day she called me and said she had this project. When she told me about it, I had a full YES! this needs to be done.
Arkady realized through her work, as a Fine Art Boudoir Photographer, she kept witnessing the shame that women have around their bodies. She dug deeper and found that a lot of shame is held in your most sacred part of our body, the part of our body that makes us women, our vulvas.
Arkady has had her own issues with body image shaming, struggled with eating disorders and feels like this is a part of her own healing process.
I have been working with the project and the healing that is happening for the women involved in this project is profound and amazing!
We please check out and donate to this amazing project!!!
https://www.gofundme.com/TheVulvaArtProject
https://www.thevulvaartproject.com/
Here is more info about Arkady!