Ep. 66 Overcoming Love Addiction, Ancestral Trauma, & Sacred Sexuality for Healing with Christine Gutierrez
In this episode, we’re talking to Christine Gutierrez, LMHC, a Latina psychotherapist, love addiction expert, life coach and expert in trauma, abuse, & self-esteem, currently residing in Brooklyn. Christine’s mission is to empower as many people as possible to heal their pain and own their worth.
You’ll hear about how Christine lived a double life - having both the light and chaos, and how toxic relationships and love addiction played a role in leading to the work she does today. You’ll hear Christine’s advice for people who are bystanders or witnesses and loved ones of people who are in toxic, love addicted relationships... We talk about honoring rock bottoms, building trust, and Christine’s mission of adding depth & diversity to the soul reclamation conversation, and how the new age spirituality movements lacked representation of different voice especially of marginalized peoples.
Christine shares how she weaves tantra and Shakti-ism into her practice, and the critical work of sacred sexuality in her work for healing trauma. Both of us get really vulnerable in this episode and this is a great one to share with someone you love that might be dealing with similar challenges within their own relationships.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How Christine started off as a mini baby therapist as a child and how her connection with spirit and the abuse and pain she experienced led her to the work she does today
Why Christine wanted to become a “doctor of the soul”
How Christine lived a double life - having both the light and chaos within her life
How love addiction played out in her life and how therapy supported her in looking at and healing her childhood wounds
Why standing up to her father was a huge breakthrough and how she did it
What to do when you feel that you are in a toxic relationship and want to get out of it
Christine breaks down what is love addiction and codependency, and how do you know if you’re in it
Christine describes love addiction as “An abandonment of self into the escape of another”
How to build trust in yourself to rise up from love addiction, chaos and painful patterns
The importance of continuously saying to yourself what you know to be true - There’s some part of you that knows the truth, even if you’re not ready to admit it
Christine’s advice for people who are bystanders or witnesses and loved ones of people who are in toxic, love addicted relationships - and a reminder that you can’t save anybody
The power of going through your soul journey without judgement and honoring the “rock bottoms”
Christine’s mission of adding depth & diversity to the soul reclamation conversation, and how the new age spirituality movements lacked representation of different voice especially of marginalized peoples
How so many of us are breaking intergenerational patterns and traumas, and why it’s critical to connect with others who share similar stories and lineages
The power of seeing others like yourself overcome challenges
I get vulnerable in sharing how the depth of trauma that was being revealed thru my own mom’s journey with breast cancer was healing for the whole family on a cellular level
Why Christine weaves tantra and Shaktism into her work, and the critical work of sacred sexuality in her work
Christine leads us through a beautiful meditation using breath and sensual creative primal energy for healing
What Christine has to say about shame, how to work through feelings of shame around sexuality and how to begin adding divinity to your sensuality
The importance of “Sacred self-pleasuring”
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Free Video Series (on how to break free from negative love patterns and cultivate healthy love): www.fiercelovenow.com
Free Diosa Virtual FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/freediosatribe/
Resources & Links
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Jungian analyst, author and poet Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D
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Ep. 63 The DIRT on Microbes, Toxins, Stress & Spirit with Dr. Maya Shetreat
We’re speaking with Maya Shetreat, MD, a neurologist, herbalist, urban farmer, and author of The Dirt Cure: Healthy Food, Healthy Gut, Happy Child. Dr. Maya is the founder of the Terrain Institute, where she teaches Terrain Medicine™, earth-based programs for transformational healing. She works and studies with indigenous communities and healers in Ecuador, and is a lifelong student of ethnobotany, plant healing, and the sacred.
In this episode, you're going to hear what she believes to be 3 foundational pieces to our health & wellbeing (they all revolve around dirt), how her son’s early health challenge sent her down a rabbit hole, and a path to remembering what she really cared about - food, plants, environment, and spirit.
We’re covering the microbiome, toxins, stress, and Dr. Maya gets really honest about being a pioneer in her field and the resistance she encountered from colleagues. She shares her top non-negotiables and what she believes the one thing we must cultivate for our soul’s wellbeing.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How Dr. Maya got into dirt, her childhood playing with nature
3 foundational pieces to our health & wellbeing - all around dirt; the pillars of health:
Being exposed to germs and microbes
Eating fresh food from healthy soil
Being immersed in nature
How Dr. Maya started putting the puzzle pieces together and recover her son’s health, beginning with late nights looking at the scientific literature
The connections between pesticides, farming practices and allergic disease
How Roundup was first patented as an antibiotic
How families share a microbiome, and how diversity is important for health
How Dr. Maya got her family on board with food and lifestyle changes using incremental changes, phases, rotations, and “crowding out” techniques
Top things to avoid: bleach and harsh chemical cleaners, instead, use natural cleaners
Why we really want to be around germs, and promote diversity in our microbiome
Eliminate antimicrobial soaps and toxic hygenic products
Expand microbial exposures - good news: you don’t have to clean as much! “It’s ok to not be squeaky clean all the time”
Incorporate as much time outside and out in nature as possible
Have a pet - you share microbiome with your pets!, the benefits of having pets in the prevention of immune disorders
How stressors can be good for us, and how they result in more powerful nutrition and medicine in plants
Dr. Maya breaks down the immune process and system, and how a less diverse exposure to microbes will lead to more allergic response and overactivity
The concept of hormesis and the importance of small stressors in regular doses
How emotional stressful situations can be apart of an initiation and support our growth
The importance of coming together to protect our health from massive stressors and toxins, and how Dr. Maya sees it happening already
How Dr. Maya weaves in the spiritual into her medical practice, and why there is no way to avoid connection to the ancient entities and spirit when working with Mother Earth
What working with an ethnobotanist, shaman, and other teachers in Equador taught her
As a pioneer in her field bridging mind body spirit in conventional neurology, the resistance she encountered from colleagues when she began incorporating holistic tools and modalities
Some common emotional-spiritual-physical body connections and challenges Dr. Maya sees and how she supports her patients through self discovery
The importance of learning how to listen, and incorporating practices to listen such as keeping a dream journal
Dr. Maya’s top non-negotiables for supporting your health, and how being in a state of receiving can be game-changing, plus her tips on how to get into that receptive mode and learn to listen to unspoken language
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Free gift: Earth Medicine Transformational bundle at https://go.shetreat.me/free-gift
The Dirt Cure: Healthy Food, Healthy Gut, Happy Child by Dr. Maya Shetreat
An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases by Moises Velasquez-Manoff
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Ep. 58 Awakening the Healer Within :: Intuitive Healing & Plant Medicine with Asia Suler
Asia Suler is an amazing teacher, concoctress, word weaver and founder of One Willow Apothecaries who has a beautiful way of weaving the sacredness of the seen AND unseen worlds and intuition into earth-based and plant medicine. Her knowledge is heart-centered and comes from a deep ancient wisdom as well as her experience with health challenges.
In this episode, Asia talks about how a chronic painful condition called vulvodynia initiated Asia into the plant path and opened her up to the luminous in the world…
Asia Suler is an amazing teacher, concoctress, word weaver and founder of One Willow Apothecaries who has a beautiful way of weaving the sacredness of the seen AND unseen worlds and intuition into earth-based and plant medicine. Her knowledge is heart-centered and comes from a deep ancient wisdom as well as her experience with health challenges.
In this episode, Asia talks about how a chronic painful condition called vulvodynia initiated Asia into the plant path and opened her up to the luminous in the world.
Asia talks about using her intuition to uncover aspects of her condition and how we can connect back to our own intuition and the natural world, and what to do about sensory overload. Lots of recommendation for highly sensitive people and empaths! We talk about trees as teachers, the power of silliness, dreamtime, and how to open our hearts for greater access to collective wisdom that’s available to us, including plant allies that support us in this deep work.
Asia’s work includes private consultations as well as in-person retreats and online programs, including Intuitive Plant Medicine, a yearly program that guides people into coming into connection with the natural world.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How a chronic painful condition called vulvodynia initiated Asia into the plant path and pushed her to the brink, and ultimately recognizing the luminous in the world
How teachers and Native American studies program affirmed her sense of being a living being in a living world
Trees as gatekeepers and how Asia learned that we could be welcomed in by the natural living world
How a Willow tree was the first being that connected Asia to the living world growing up
The concept of the world tree - the ability of the tree to traverse the lower and upper unseen worlds
How Asia learned that we are all our own healers, and how we give a lot of our power away
How Asia began listening to her own intuition and believes that tapping into our wild selves brings us closer to our intuition
How Asia used her intuition to uncover aspects of her condition, such as her gluten sensitivity (before gluten free was a thing)
How to build trust and open yourself back up to intuition - spending time in the “more than human” world
Learning how to be a witness
Asia offers up practices to connect back to your intuition and the natural world, and what to do about sensory overload
Asia’s recommendation for those highly sensitive people (HSP) and empaths, and why sensory deprivation can be game-changing
The power of silliness to expand our perspective and how shame is the ultimate “disconnect” emotion
How shame what drew Asia powerfully to plants - the lack of judgement, and shame as a gremlin in the closet
Asia’s perspective on how she believes we are meant to operate in this world and the work we need to do to get back to it
The main challenge that HSPs deal with, and how to address it - and why reframing self-care
Asia’s take on dreams, where we go in dreamtime and her belief that dreams are of the most potent and spontaneous sources of intuitive information that we can receive
Asia’s struggle with insomnia and her insight about the root cause related to being overwhelmed, and how she’s had to shape her bedtime routine to support her sleep in the best way
Words of wisdom for people who are living busy lives and feel challenged to bring in self-care, silence, or alone time
Why being in our heart space is incredibly important for making good decisions, noticing and what can open in our awareness when we open our hearts
How to open our hearts through gratitude and how are hearts are taking in collective wisdom for an expanded perspective and awareness of possibilities
How her experience healing from lyme brought her into a deeper sense of compassion and gratitude, and how she learned that gratitude
Hawthorn as the gatekeeper of the heart and a doorway to enter and access the otherworld including elementals such as fairy realm, and how physiologically hawthorn is one of the most used heart tonics and plant medicine for the cardiovascular system
How opening our heart changes our perception of time and possibilities
How the doctrine of signatures of Hawthorn shows us its essential gifts and Asia’s own Hawthorn flower essence with a dash of thorniness
How all-weather walks is feeding Asia’s wild right now
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Ep. 51 What You Didn’t Know About Cancer :: A Metabolic Approach, Mitochondrial Health, & Soul Wisdom with Dr. Nasha Winters
1 in 2 men and 1/3 of women will have cancer in their lifetime.
What have we really achieved over multiple decades of this “war on cancer” and what can we walk away with so that we feel empowered?
I’m thrilled to have Dr. Nasha Winters on to bring us powerful wisdom and practical tips for navigating the cancer terrain. I recommend her book to everyone looking to prevent cancer or support with a cancer diagnosis. She's worked with thousands of patients and has an incredible story of recovering from stage 4 cancer herself!
1 in 2 men and 1/3 of women will have cancer in their lifetime.
What have we really achieved over multiple decades of this “war on cancer” and what can we walk away with so that we feel empowered?
I’m thrilled to have Dr. Nasha Winters on to bring us powerful wisdom and practical tips for navigating the cancer terrain. I recommend her book to everyone looking to prevent cancer or support with a cancer diagnosis. She's worked with thousands of patients and has an incredible story of recovering from stage 4 cancer herself!
We discuss what the metabolic approach to cancer is compared to the convention lens and how this approach gives you a roadmap to better understand how the body’s terrain influences cancer risk and outcomes. Dr. Nasha shares how she overcame cancer naturally and the fundamental components we need to be paying attention to when it comes to minimizing our cancer risk or reversing a cancer diagnosis - including what she considers to be our top 3 blind spots going into the next decade.
This is an episode you’ll want to listen and share with loved ones for sure!
Dr. Nasha’s first experience with cancer was at the age of 19. She was diagnosed with stage IV ovarian cancer and given only a few months to live. The metabolic approach to cancer stems from her nearly three decades of personal and professional experience in the field of integrative oncology.
Dr. Nasha is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor (ND) and a Fellow of the American Board of Naturopathic Oncology (FABNO). She is a global healthcare authority in integrative cancer research. Dr. Nasha is a sought-after speaker and consults with physicians worldwide.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
Dr. Nasha’s personal story of healing that led to becoming an oncologist
How doctors kept telling her she was crazy and brushing off her symptoms, which eventually led her to end stage organ failure with stage 4 ovarian cancer at 19 years old!
How her past experience of significant trauma and abuse contributed to her illness
How a pilot light lit up within Nasha when she was told she was going to die, and how this inner fire
How facing death “evoked her wild” - connected her to self, source, and the world around her
The difference between conventional cancer approach (cancer as “other” that must be destroyed) vs the metabolic approach to cancer
How cancer has become an industry and the perspective of cancer as simply “bad luck”
Why the “F Cancer” perspective is problematic and self-harming
Otto Warburg’s work 100 years ago highlighting the significance of the mitochondria related to cancer
Why perception and the story you choose is important in the path to healing
How Dr. Nasha created her own “psychoneuroimmunology” tract when she was in medical school at a time when it was not well known
Why Dr. Nasha chose to go to naturopathic school and study TCM, acupuncture, and Ayurveda
The importance of nature, patterns, energetics in addressing cancer
The 10 patterns: epigenetics, metabolic and glycemic load, gut health, hormonal balance, emotional health, stress response, circadian rhythm, immune system, inflammation, blood flow
The critical dietary components we need to observe when it comes to an anti-cancer diet
What is “metabolic flexibility” and why it is so critical to have it
The power of herbs and their efficacy (how they work just as good and sometimes better than some cancer drugs)
Why our thoughts matter esp when eating
The top signs that you lack metabolic flexibility and stuck in sugar burner mode
The dire numbers of chronic illness today
The ways you can build metabolic flexibility and discussions of the ketogenic diet
Longevity, Blue Zones, and characteristics of societies that live healthier and longer
Dr. Nasha’s take on food dogma and food wars, and how she can tell which diet would be good for individuals
The tests and blood panels that Dr. Nasha looks at and optimal levels including fasted insulin, hA1C, IGF1, epigenetic SNPs
How the health of your microbiome will inform how effective medicine and cancer treatments will be and the health of your immune system overall
How Tylenol is one of the worst poisons for your mitochondria and gut microbiome
Her perspective on how vaccines impact our health
The glyphosate problem and how to test for levels, which 2 foods have the highest levels, and how to clear it out from your body
What Dr. Nasha sees as our top 3 blind spots when it comes to our health and what will come up in the research in the next decade: Circadian rhythm biology, toxicant exposure accumulation, bluelight exposure + 5G EMF exposures
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Cronometer or MyFitnessPal - To take a look at your macros & count for awareness
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