ALIVE with Jessica Silverman: Heal Your Inner Child + Ancestral Trauma

This is such a good episode and divine reminder from March 2023, I wanted to bring it back. The message is still potent. ____________________________________ For centuries, women and the feminine embodiment have been silenced, and our voices not heard. Society runs on masculine energy, seeking logic and what can be seen as the only proof of existence. But in the Cosmos and conscious reality, both...

If you've felt like there's more to life, but unsure of how to connect to Spirit or trust the signs, this episode will light the way! Destiny Hwang shares her Shamanic wisdom and secrets on how to deepen and trust your connection to Spirit, and your guides. Trusting your inner knowing can be challenging, especially in the world we live in with overwhelming information at your fingertips...

Your inner child longs to come alive in your creative spirit. Yet we live in a world that overemphasizes the power of form and technique over living in the play, or creating just for the sake of the person you become along the way.   In this episode, Sheryl Benjy shares how her art is more than just the tangible piece she creates, but more of a moving meditation and a process that invites play thr...

Your inner child longs to come alive in your creative spirit. Yet we live in a world that overemphasizes the power of form and technique over living in the play, or creating just for the sake of the person you become along the way.   In this episode, Sheryl Benjy shares how her art is more than just the tangible piece she creates, but more of a moving meditation and a process that invites play thr...

The Radiance Sutras is a beautiful book that is a tantra, or manual of practices, that is a conversation between lovers, Shiva and Shakti. Within you is both Shiva, the Divine Masculine and Shakti, the Divine Feminine. This episode honors that in this essay entitled, "Love is a Practice" which I see as an embodiment of self love and cultivating compassionate conversations with yourself s...

Have you been experiencing unusual symptoms that Western medicine has been unable to help you with? I know this feeling wholeheartedly, as I've been sharing my experiences in decoding this mystery throughout the podcast since my initial episode back in August 2022. So many conditions are undiagnosed in Western medicine, often being put into a label called "autoimmune conditions", or...

Do you feel safe to express yourself within your physical body? In today's episode, I had the divine pleasure to speak with Jamie Gavagan about her five- year journey of healing chronic pain to ways of expressing herself as she never could. We speak about the grief and rage that is felt when you can no longer do what you easily could before the condition, and how chronic pain can feel as if i...

There's not always a reason for what you go through, but everything you go through makes you who you are, it's all how you respond to life. These are the beautiful and profound words of Karen Conner, my dear friend, and guest in this episode. In this deeply intimate conversation, Karen shares her journey through healing trauma and her autoimmune condition, known as POTS syndrome. She is...

Triggers can feel emotionally overwhelming, especially when you're a highly sensitive person (HSP). In this beautiful conversation, I had the honor to have Alissa Boyer back on the podcast to share more of what it means to live life as an HSP (highly sensitive person), and how to know if you're even sensitive yourself? I didn't know this until I watched the documentary with Alanis M...

Does your "inner mean girl" creep in when you even think about slowing down? This has been the spirit of my life for SO many years, and it's often right after the New Year that I start to feel the PRESSURE TO SHOW UP, when all I want to do is ease back in after the holidays. I'm questioning the status quo in this solo episode, inviting in the energy of starting slow + somatical...

Happy New Moon in Sagittarius! ( My rising sign)  I felt called to close this year with a special episode calling in the Divine Masters (f rom Kyle Gray's The Divine Masters Oracle deck ) to guide us into 2024.  In fact, I won't reveal much here to invite you to listen, and see what sparks for you. Let's invite in alchemy, and turn the lead of 2023 into 2024's gold.  Maybe ever...

Have you always been spiritually curious, or seeking deeper connection with the Divine? In this episode, I had the devout honor to interview one of the most spiritually influential people on the planet, the goddess + creator of Moonology, Yasmin Boland. Yasmin shares with us how she fell into the Moon's secrets from a career as a former journalist. She started off with writing alternative sto...

How do you give yourself grace + space in the overwhelm? In today's episode, I share with you the secrets of what has been serving me in these challenging and dark times.  If you're a trauma survivor who has already been through SO much, adding even the simplest of things to your list can feel surmounting - I get that! Let me lighten your load in this episode with 3 ways to give yourself...

In a time when so many of us are struggling, I wanted to offer you solace from the storm with a minisode on how to find the light in the darkness. In this episode, I share 3 powerful concepts: 1. How to begin again , a Japanese concept called " Mushin " or beginner's mind 2. Connecting to a community where you feel safe to be yourself, whether that's here on this podcast, my In...

Happy 100 Episodes!! Thank you so much for your support in listening + sharing in my collective mission which was birthed with Ep 1: Come ALIVE with Me in  September of 2020. Join me in celebrating this milestone with a very special episode with my first guest on the podcast, my husband, Ryan Silverman. We last spoke on Ep 6: Faith, Finances, and Stigmas of Starting (or Pivoting) an Online Biz wit...

In a time of collective chaos, how do we stay grounded, let alone work on raising our frequency that we emit to the world? It seems like such a tall order, but today's guest, JJ DiGeronimo has a beautifully enlightening perspective on frequency alignment, and how to learn the lessons of our collective and individual "tower" moments. The tower card in Tarot symbolizes the castle crum...

In a time when the world feels incredibly broken, amidst my own internal traumas coming alive day to day, I am finding it incredibly healing to hold space for fellow healers, and in doing so, to REMIND YOU OF WHO YOU ARE. In this beautiful conversation, I had the honor to connect with the creative force behind the Cosmic Collage brand, @cosmiccollage, that I have followed and embodied in my spirit...

In a time when I am finding it so hard to put how I feel in words, I was blessed to have my first guest interview since the October 7th attacks on Israel with a woman I met in a trauma healing community, Jill Pagano. Jill is the host of The Power of Expression pod and this conversation felt so fitting for the times we are living through as to how important the "power of expression" is RI...

In light of the recent tragic events in Israel, I am taking a moment to honor World Mental Health Day and share with you my listeners what is on my heart. Mental health affects all of us. 1 in 4 suffer everyday. I vow to say this stat is probably an understatement.  I myself am doing the best I can to show up + spread truth while honoring my own mental health. However, I am finding myself at a los...

Continuing with the conversation of how to deal with uncertainty  from the last episode, today I speak on how to find emotional freedom and liberate yourself from the need to know. From a spiritual perspective, unknowing is where you free yourself from the constant connection to logic and the physical world of societal expectations and surrender to the feminine flow of the Divine Mother and let Sp...

Uncertainty is very unsettling. It is human nature to want to know what lies ahead, and how to best protect yourself in situations that arise as anxiety. If you have experienced trauma in your life, there's an added layer to uncertainty in the form of hypervigilance, which is when you're constantly on high alert for potential threats around you, even if it's not a physical threat. T...

Are you tired of staying small just to fit in, and feel like you belong? If so, this episode will evoke inside of you the feeling that "you are safe to take up space" and MAKE SOME NOISE! Today's guest, DeAhn Robbins, is a mindset + empowerment coach who after years of living the labels, has learned what it means to BEGIN LIVING BOLD, to live out loud unapologetically and hang her f...

Living in today's world can be incredibly overwhelming, on top of what you already carry in your own personal life + past traumas. There are some days I feel so consumed by it all, especially being a highly sensitive soul and empath, that I have to completely disconnect to hear my own voice and Soul's needs and desires. But what if I told you that all of this can be transmuted for you to...

There are so many things you don't know until you know. As a sensitive child, no one taught you how to navigate life and deal with the emotions you are feeling, the same way we learn the ABC's.  As we grow older, this translates into carrying these emotions within the physical body, but again - often not knowing what's happening inside of you, other than feeling "something is a...

Do you feel like you never have enough time, or become easily overwhelmed and stressed? If your answer is yes, this episode is solid GOLD for you to understand WHY and how your brain is wired! If you have experienced trauma, this may affect your cognition even more, which is empowering as we learn how to rewire these trauma patterns so you can find freedom from your traumas + see life through a ne...