MEDITATION: Triggers are Teachers
SOUL SCHOOL with Audrey
In this month's SOUL CIRCLE MEMBERSHIP, we explore being with our triggers and our activated emotions in order to learn their lessons and gifts.
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How to Connect during a Pandemic
SOUL SCHOOL with Audrey
This week's INTENTION is to give Small acts of appreciation to strengthen your relationships.
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Whatever You're Not Changing, You Are Choosing
SOUL SCHOOL with Audrey
Your intention this week is to remember: whatever you're not changing, you are choosing .
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Tame the Inner Critic and Connect to Your True Self
SOUL SCHOOL with Audrey
Your invitation this week is to choose which voice you listen to: your itty-bitty-shitty-committee or your true self.
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Let go of the rope and take ownership of your emotions to empower you
SOUL SCHOOL with Audrey
Once you’re aware of your inner critic and emotions and have named them, now your work is to choose how you want to respond to them.
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Awareness is the Shovel to Dig yourself Out of the Darkness to your Light
SOUL SCHOOL with Audrey
In today's episode, I'll show you how to break your habits and really create change by consciously digging yourself out from your imprisoned mind and habits.
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Appreciation Meditation
SOUL SCHOOL with Audrey
Enjoy this 19 min meditation. The first 6 minutes are talking about how appreciation and gratitude shifts your perspective to pull you out from the nitty-gritty of daily life, heavy emotions, resentment or comparison and elevate your energy to a higher vibration so you can align with what you want to attract and desire in your life.
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Embody How you Want to Feel Every Day
SOUL SCHOOL with Audrey
When you’re feeling stuck, it’s time to get out of the mind and connect to the stillness and softness of your heart and soul that always speaks the truth.
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Discover Your Purpose by Asking Better Questions
SOUL SCHOOL with Audrey
Finding your purpose is a huge question.
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Stop Abandoning Yourself
SOUL SCHOOL with Audrey
This practice of Ahimsa "non harming" applies to not harming others, as well as stopping our own cycle of suffering that we inflict on ourselves.
info_outlineI thought this was perfect timing to have Andrea on the show because we are all experiencing collective trauma with this pandemic, which can trigger past feelings and experiences of loss and grief.
Andrea Wetterau is a licensed therapist and certified yoga teacher in Seattle, WA, specializing in treating eating disorders, trauma, and perinatal mental health.
On the podcast today, she shares her traumatic birth story and postpartum where she thought she would die from 3 different times of hemorrhaging.
Andrea explains Trauma does not just have to be something big, like a death, or having an illness or experiencing a disaster.
Trauma is anything that creates a negative response in your body and mind. It happens when we feel we don’t have control or agency in our lives.
Andrea shares that trauma is like a linen closet. Each piece of beautifully folded linen represents a memory. When you experience trauma, you ball up that piece of linen and shove it in the closet, but every time you open it, it falls on you. Using EMDR therapy, you basically take out that wadded linen/your trauma memory, open it, let it breathe and then fold it so it fits back into your closet. Trauma doesn’t go away, but can be processed and healed.
Through EMDR therapy, awareness and giving yourself a ton of compassion, you too can heal. I hope you find a bit of comfort in today’s podcast.
Please let me know in the show notes, and as always thank you for sharing with anyone who could benefit and reviewing this podcast.
You can connect with Andrea at https://www.wetterauwellness.com