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

How do you transmute your trauma? In a powerful testimony, this week’s episode with Danielle Matthews reveals the power of mind control, quantum healing, and defying her diagnosis from a brain injury that doctors said she would never fully recover in her “new normal”.  She says “anything is possible with mind control” and she shares with us the tools, techniques and her journey to recovery to defy...

Power is knowing you have a choice. Power is feeling safe.  Power is standing in your own energy unapologetically. Power is using your VOICE.  Power is Prana, your life force energy flowing through, around and inside of you keeping you ALIVE.  Connecting to the element of AIR.  So how do you harness this power, this Prana, and what does podcasting have to do with it? Listen to this episode to conn...

The collective is calling us to remember our roots. The spiritual path can sometimes feel lonely and unsettling as your Spirit elevates to an expanded state of consciousness. The ego presents itself as resistance, and the activation itself is a divine dance of Shiva and Shakti, or the masculine and feminine weaving to bring yourself back to a state of equanimity.  In the most memorable conversatio...

Do you ever feel so overwhelmed by life, that all you desire is to silence the noise? To find a place of stillness where you aren’t distracted by shiny object syndrome and the world 🌎 trying to convince you what you NEED, instead of what you KNOW? In a solo series inspired by my own self discovery and practice to silence the noise and truly tune inward to blossom as my Higher Self, I will be unra...

What does anxiety really look like, and how quick are we to judge someone without knowing what truly goes on inside the psyche?   In this episode, I had the divine honor to interview the Netflix star of Love is Blind, Season 2, Danielle Ruhl, where she uncovers more of the truth of her story and gives us a peek behind the curtain in her openness about living with mental health and her lifelong com...

To invite the fresh energy of 2023, I begin this brand-new season and year with a solo confessional to reflect back on the lessons learned in 2022 to harness in this year peering through life from a different lens. For so many of us, 2022 was an energetically exhausting,  yet incredibly healing to finally move through the traumas stored within our bodies, or feeling this grand RELEASE of what we c...

Are you easily picking up on other people’s energy, almost porous? Do you you find it challenging to be around certain people or places, and want to know how to protect and love yourself while in those spaces?  I felt compelled to release this talk from my Insight Timer live as so many of us highly sensitives + empaths struggle with setting and maintaining healthy boundaries in our lives. Especial...

Are you easily picking up on other people’s energy, almost porous? Do you you find it challenging to be around certain people or places, and want to know how to protect and love yourself while in those spaces?  I felt compelled to release this talk from my Insight Timer live as so many of us highly sensitives + empaths struggle with setting and maintaining healthy boundaries in our lives. Especial...

Do you desire to make money doing what you love, but feel there's no abundance in being an artist? In my conversation with Lara, you will hear a fresh perspective on the creative life, and how the "starving artist" stories of yesterday are simply a myth. It is a mission close to my own heart, and this conversation speaks volumes as to how you can leave your legacy as a creative, and...

Do you find yourself craving solitude, or do you fear what will appear when you silence the noise within and around you?  In this incredibly powerful episode, I had the divine pleasure to speak with Britt Johnson,  @venus_rising_ on Instagram. I have been following her for years, and her content moves your Soul in a way words cannot even express for what she evokes inside you. She truly embodies t...

If you’ve been feeling stuck and seeking the motivation to “wake up and show up”, this conversation will give you a kickstart to evaluating what needs to shift in your life + wellness practice.  I had the pleasure of meeting Marci at PodFest this past May when she attended my talk on podcasting and mental health and felt the resonance of being part logical, part hippie brain!  In this episode, Mar...

In the episode and conversation with Jen Gaita Siciliano of the Not As Crazy As You Think Podcast, I open up about my work in consulting,  personal path of mental health, and the state of the Western medical approach to mental illness, and how we can be more vigilant in our healing.  Through a trauma-informed approach, I explore the landscape behind all forms of trauma, including collective and an...

The whole concept of "leadership" and what it means to truly be a leader in your life isn't something that has to involve a specific title or role you play, but an inherent feeling within you to take back your power and know you have all the answers already inside of you.  If you've been waiting for permission or a sign to take your power back, know it starts with YOU!  Maya Ro...

Who were you as as a child, and how does this energy transmute itself into the way you are in world today as an adult? No matter your age! Over 90% of our trauma was created up till the age of 7. Come rewild this inner child inside of you in this powerful special 50th episode with Cendie Stanford of the grassroots organization, ACEs Matter on healing childhood trauma, and Adverse Childhood Experie...

At the age of 20 years old, Sam Mitchell is a true Pioneer fighting to end the stigmatism around mental health, and more specifically, from the perspective of Autism Awareness. I had the honor of meeting Sam in person at Podfest Expo 2022 when he attended my talk on podcasting in the mental health space to stop the stigma. Sam has such a carefree and light spirit despite all his challenges in his...

Her philosophy is simple, create bliss. In this heartwarming and dynamic conversation with the design genius, Taniya Nayak,  we go behind the curtain of not just her success ( Hello, Restaurant Impossible ,The Great Christmas Light Fight, and HGTV fans! ) but the blissful beauty behind it all.  She's a trailblazer in the design business, but bares all in speaking on everything from facing you...

Just know that whatever you are going through in life right now, you don’t have to do this anymore. You have a life worth living. In this episode, Jason Carter explains why and how he moved through his struggles with anxiety, depression, and alcoholism to beginning his path to not only recovery, but dedicating his life to helping others who feel limited by life.  To learn how to choose a different...

Your word is your wand, as the great Florence Scovel Shinn said. Words are energy, and have such immense power that is exercised through your voice. The feminine voice has historically been suppressed, and so many women have been called to the cause to rise, speak up, and elevate the feminine collective.  One such femme force is my guest on this episode, Sarah Haefling, who has impressively starte...

What would it feel like to be the conscious creator of every choice in your life?  To feel empowered in every decision, standing in your power with complete confidence, unapologetically doing what feels RIGHT for you?  In this episode, you will feel this resonance in the wisdom of Katie Krimitsos, Founder of the Women's Meditation Network which has over 55 million downloads (as of this episod...

Spirituality at times can seem heavy and burdensome, but what if for a moment, you visualized how to find the humor in it all to fully step into your superpower? To see the lotus flower as an embodiment of rising from the mud unapologetically with a lightness of spirit that is laughter.  Here, the spirit of today’s guest, Jennifer Zenz-Olson of Laughing Lotus Wellness, is born. I met Jennifer over...

Mental health is at the core of all our suffering. The stigma stops with YOU.  It is such a taboo topic in our society that is attached to such shame and suppression, which exacerbates the issue.  In my talk at @podfestexpo last Friday, I shared how 1 in 5 people suffer from mental illness globally.  Among our youth, ages 18-25 this number increases to 1 in 3.  Yes, 1 in 3 people ages 18-25 suffer...

As Holistic Hilda teaches, everything in life is a map or a mirror. Something to guide you, or show you the place where healing happens. In this episode, Hilda will reveal the ancient health hacks to heal yourself, and take your POWER back to have health autonomy and freedom. The post-pandemic reality has been so challenging for many as we navigate a time when so much weight is placed on trusting...

If you've been feeling neglected in your relationship and desiring more emotional and/or physical intimacy with your Partner or Spouse, I invite you to join me and Dr. Viviana for a deeply intimate conversation today. Dr. Viviana is a Licensed Marriage + Family Therapist, a Doctor of Marriage + Family Therapy, and a Certified Sex Therapist, where she practices with her Team at Houston Relatio...

Have you been intrigued by spirituality, and longed to dabble in the Divine...but for fear of being ostracized, you stayed silent? Or feared the wild unknown that arises from a deeper connection to Spirit? Do you have callings or feelings within you, but you don't know why or what is the deeper meaning behind these sensations within?  If so, this episode will be a breath of fresh air to know...

In times of loss, grief, and wearing life's many layers, it may feel as if the weight will never be lifted, stuck wading through the fog, wondering when the LIGHT will come. If you have been feeling this, today's episode will be a healing medicine to bring light to the darkness within and in your lived experience. Sarah Davis is the host of the Breathing Wind podcast, which gives LIFE an...