Highly Sensitive Women: Healing Childhood Wounds
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Highly sensitive women may feel childhood wounds deeply. In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Elizabeth Cush talks about how your parts help protect you and how you can heal. “We're learning to build a compassionate, kind loving relationship with ourself. Through that process, all parts of us learn to trust us.” — Biz Cush Not all childhood wounds are physical. If we didn’t get our emotional needs met when we were young, we can carry those hurts with us well into adulthood. We can feel the impact of those childhood traumas on both our physical and mental...
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Featured guest on the Autoimmune Campfire podcast
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In this bonus episode, Elizabeth Cush joins Nona Jordan, and Helen Mullen to talk about autoimmune disease, stress, inflammation, and our parts that get activated aropund illness and healing. You can find more episode of the , or wherever you listen to podcasts. .
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AWW Andrea Nakayama
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If you’re struggling with a chronic health issue, the answer may be closer than you realize. Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes Andrea Nakayama, a functional medicine nutritionist, for a talk about the healthcare journey for highly sensitive women. “Functional nutrition is a place for those addressing chronic health challenges to settle into a different way of approaching them.” — Andrea Nakayama Listen and learn: Two of the most glaring gaps in our medical system and how functional medicine helps address them The three...
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Reclaim Your Femininity and Find Satisfaction
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Lately it seems like women’s equality is farther away than ever? Don’t despair! Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes author Alanna Kaivalya for an inspiring discussion about finding your feminine power. “For feminine women, we want inclusion, we want community, we want collaboration.” — Alanna Kaivalya You’ve probably heard the saying, “It’s a man’s world.” It’s true that our culture is still dominated by traditional masculine values, which can shape our views of what success is and how to achieve it. But what if we want...
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Let's Meet Up!
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I'm joining with other highly sensitive women to build a community where we can grow and shine! When highly sensitive women gather, it’s magical We bloom in community We’re able to show up authentically and are held with kindness Our sensitive nature is honored with compassion and care I hope you’ll join me on March 14th when we come together with other highly sensitive women. To find and share support, to create community, to hold the space for us in the world right now I hope to see you then! See below to register and save you spot! I'd love to have you hang-out with me!
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Nurturing Your Highly Sensitive Energy
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If recent headlines are giving you headaches, listen in on this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, as host Elizabeth Cush talks about finding balance in an uncertain world. “Bringing your body, your energetic body, into the work, is so important.” — Biz Cush How are you doing? With so much going on in the world right now, it’s easy to feel for highly sensitive women to feel overwhelmed. In a political climate that feels so threatening to so many, it’s easy for the highly sensitive—especially the helpers, the healers, the empaths—to focus on caring for others and to...
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How to Have Challenging Conversations: When You're a Highly Sensitive Person
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As a highly sensitive person, do you avoid conflict? Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host welcomes executive coach and consultant Michelle Gladieux for conversation about communication challenges, conflict management and emotional intelligence. “The more interested or passionate we are about a topic, sometimes the more dangerous our words and tone can become.” — Michelle Gladieux When a work situation doesn’t sit right with you, do you speak up or hold your peace? What about when the boss wants to have a word with you? How do you handle disagreements with...
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Aligning Your Energy
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How’s your energy? Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes energy expert Prune Harris for a talk about energy, community and connecting with hope. “When we realize that we are continually co-creating our human experience, then, wow, there's a lot that we can do energetically.” — Prune Harris What kind of energy are you absorbing? What kind of energy are you reflecting back out into the world? Are the choices that you make in each moment aligned with how you want to show up in this world? If not, how can you bring your energy into better...
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What Do You Want More of in Your Life?
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Happy New Year! In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast host Elizabeth Cush shares her take on New Year’s resolutions and offers listeners a guided meditation. “How I can bring more of the good and the positive into my life from last year to this year, and what I can either eliminate or set boundaries around in the past year that didn't sit right with me.” — Biz Cush Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Set intentions? Or dive into the new year figuring it out as you go? No matter how you approach it, the new year can be a good time to reflect on what’s...
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The Gifts of Sensitivity
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Do you put others’ needs before your own? In this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, host Elizabeth Cush welcomes back April Snow, host of the Sensitive Stories podcast, for a talk about finding your hidden strengths and the gifts of sensitivity. “Would I change the fact that I'm sensitive? No way.” — April Snow When your environment sounds too loud, or the fabrics you’re wearing don’t feel right or you’re exhausted from trying to keep everyone around you happy, you might find yourself wishing that you weren’t highly sensitive. But if you weren’t highly sensitive, you...
info_outlineIf you’re struggling with a chronic health issue, the answer may be closer than you realize. Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes Andrea Nakayama, a functional medicine nutritionist, for a talk about the healthcare journey for highly sensitive women.
“Functional nutrition is a place for those addressing chronic health challenges to settle into a different way of approaching them.”
— Andrea Nakayama
Listen and learn:
- Two of the most glaring gaps in our medical system and how functional medicine helps address them
- The three primary tenets of functional medicine and their implications for highly sensitive women
- The three elements of the functional nutrition matrix and how they can help you understand and manage your health
- How antecedents, triggers and mediators shape our health story—and help us shape it going forward
- The benefits of making decisions in terms of risk and reward
- Why looking for the one thing that will “fix it” is counterproductive
- How to detoxify from a functional nutrition perspective—and it’s not what we’re hearing about in the media
- How to tap into the pharmacy inside us
- How our sensitivity and our health might be connected
Find the full show notes and resources for all the episodes here.