EMPOWERED HUMAN with Nina Garcia

Send us Fan Mail CULTURE ISN'T JUST FOR LARGE GROUPS. Learning about Individual Culture is a huge part of empowerment, yet it can be incredibly triggering for some people to look at their own truths. In this episode, you'll play with some spaces where you or others may be avoiding ownership of personal truth or avoiding acknowledging the truths of others. Explore your relationship to ide...

Send us Fan Mail "OMG - THEY GHOSTED ME!" You asked, and I delivered in this four part mini-series with MINI HALLOWEEN STORIES, because showing up as yourself can be SCARY y'all. In this episode, you'll play with moments where YOU may be ghosting others, or may have been ghosted yourself, due to avoiding Confrontation. Explore your relationship to post date fears, coming away w...

Send us Fan Mail "I'M JUST NOT SURE WHAT I/SHE/THEY/HE WANT..." You asked, and I delivered in this four part mini-series with MINI HALLOWEEN STORIES, because showing up as yourself can be SCARY y'all. In this episode, you'll play with moments where we invalidate ourselves and others with Patterns that take over and hold you back during the date (or other personal conversat...

Send us Fan Mail "I DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH SILENCE, CONFRONTATION...NO AWKWARD MOMENTS PLEASE!" You asked, and I delivered in this four part mini-series with MINI HALLOWEEN STORIES, because showing up as yourself can be SCARY y'all. In this episode, you'll play with moments where Fear takes over and holds you back during the date (or other personal conversation). Expl...

Send us Fan Mail "I'M WORRIED THAT I WON'T BE ABLE TO BE MYSELF." You asked, and I delivered in this four part mini-series with MINI HALLOWEEN STORIES, because dating can be SCARY y'all. In this episode, you'll play with moments where Fear takes over and holds you back before the date has even begun. Explore your relationship to pre-date fears, coming away with:   Cla...

Send us Fan Mail "I CAN'T BELIEVE I JUST SAID THAT." This is the last thing anyone wants to hear themselves say in the middle of a date - much less over and over again, yet here I was thinking it to myself as Fear hijacked me. Let's play with moments where Fear takes over and holds you back: instead of pushing it away as "wrong" or "a problem", let's in...

Send us Fan Mail "THEY JUST DON'T GET IT!" This statement is a trigger for so many of us, regardless of where we stand on the abortion debate. This episode invites you to consider two potential values, and which one you value over the other: instead of seeking "right" or "wrong", we're being curious about diversifying perspectives. Join me as we explore clar...

Send us Fan Mail "I'LL NEVER GET OUT OF DEBT." This statement is a trigger for so many of us, hugely affecting our mental health.  Nickolas Natali of nickolasnatali.com shares what he's learned on the journey toward financial freedom which - in case you missed the title - involved choosing to move into his car. Join Nick & Nina to explore debt & mental health, coming aw...

Send us Fan Mail "I shouldn't HAVE to deal with this kind of thing!" This is a common enough statement when it comes to people's experience with the homeless. But what if "this kind of thing" isn't really about the people who are homeless...what if it's really about the fear and disgust you can't help feeling, and haven't been taught how to deal wi...

Send us Fan Mail You know those moments when the universe seems to mirror exactly what you're going through? Almost as if it's saying "Well if you didn't see it before - get ready, cuz we're throwing it at you!" This is one of those moments all around. Join LPC and fellow podcast host Mari Reisberg @sustainingcreativity to explore breakups, avoidance, and big feelings...

Send us Fan Mail Ask yourself: "Are my beliefs around divorce worth more than someone else's beliefs around divorce?" While this is a two way street, we often get so caught up in our own beliefs, that we fail to see the human experience of someone else right in front of us. Join Drama Therapist Nina to explore divorce & vulnerability, coming away with:   Clarity RE your relation...

Send us Fan Mail Ask yourself: "Do I know how to keep myself from being emotionally hijacked...and do I know why that might be valuable to me at all?" The body holds stories folks - patterned ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Join Houston Realtor Amanda Chavez to explore road rage & vulnerability, coming away with a funny-scary road rage story AND:   The tool HALTS: Hungry, An...

Send us Fan Mail How on earth do you "play" with trauma, identity, language, skin color...how do you play with potential triggers?! By leaning in, and engaging. Finding ways to build bridges, and share teachable moments. Approaching the scary - and recognizing it's not dangerous. In this episode, explore playing with language and skin color in Spicewood, TX. How would you respond -...

Send us Fan Mail Ever had someone assume something about you that was based on what they "heard"? Or realized you believed in something that wasn't true about yourself or someone else, based on how you were "raised"?  Explore this concept with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's TED Talk "The Danger of a Single Story" , and a personal story from @dramatherapistnina w...

Send us Fan Mail "We need more diversity" can mean a lot of things - what does it mean to you? Explore Pamela Hays "ADDRESSING Model" of diversity, and how humans from all backgrounds can struggle with the same shame problem around "skin color" due to stories that are bigger and older than us all. Whether it's you who struggles with these moments as a trigger or...

Send us Fan Mail For the Humanist in you - can we talk about anti-supremacy? Whether it's you who struggles with these moments as a trigger or someone you know - we can all use tools to recondition cultural beliefs that aren't realistic or helpful to our personal experience as a human being. It starts with you, so have a journal on hand or a good friend to dialogue with what comes up for...

Send us Fan Mail "Coming out" stories can look like a lot of things. But hearing someone choose aliens over human beings? Get ready to LoVe and LaUgH with Trace Pool (IG @TracePool) as he shares his personal experience of sitting his family down for A Family Talk...after The Talk...and how years later he's been able to find humor and empathy in what was once the most alien of spaces...

Send us Fan Mail As human beings, we lose people - it's a part of life. But what happens when you can't handle the feelings of grief, anger, and more - what happens if you take your pain and project it onto another human being, as if they were an object? Zach Budd of www.consentwarrior.com and on Twitter @black_sexgeek shares his own struggle in standing by as a gay man grieves the loss...

Send us Fan Mail Everyone has a relationship between their Self and the LGBTQI+ community: but what if your relationship isn't intentional - and what if it's not healthy? Listen in to hear how you can lean in to a more Empowered relationship with your fellow humans in the LGBTQI+ community (whether you identify as within or without!) Whether it's you who struggles with this as a tri...

Send us Fan Mail We are all conditioned to believe a variety of things while growing up: but what if we don't want to feel or believe that way any more as adults? Listen in to hear the true story of how one self described "straight man" shared his transition to "gay pride". Whether it's you who struggles with this as a trigger or someone you know - we can all use tool...

Send us Fan Mail Relationships are not without drama - but when the drama in the present is actually triggering things from the past, we're in trouble. Listen in to learn about the five natural responses to survive that sometimes happen so often, they become habit. Whether it's your relational trauma or the trauma of someone you know and love - we can all use tools to recognize trauma re...

Send us Fan Mail Recognize trauma immediately - without getting sucked in to the emotional vortex. Come away with a creative intervention to help you recognize and process the trauma in your life, as well as resources for dealing with trauma and PTSD professionally. Whether it's your trauma or the trauma of someone you know and love - we can all use tools to recognize the hardest things in li...

Send us Fan Mail What if there was a way to control our emotions more when it mattered? Get ready to hold your own as you 1) Notice 2) Channel, and 3) Express your emotions as energy BEFORE they hijack your world. Whether you're the person that implodes or explodes - we all need tools for balancing our emotions. It starts with you, so have a journal on hand or a good friend to dialogue with w...

Send us Fan Mail What if there was a way to control our emotions more when it mattered? Get ready to use the force as you 1) Notice 2) Check In and 3) Align when your emotions are about to hijack your world. Whether you're the person that implodes or explodes - we all need tools for balancing our emotions. It starts with you, so have a journal on hand or a good friend to dialogue with what co...

Send us Fan Mail What if we told you there's no such thing as "not racist"? Listen in to hear one way to empower people to gauge themselves on the Racial Disorder spectrum: from 1 (Least Racist) to 5 (Most Racist). We invite you to flip the script on your understanding of Racism, empowering you to open to the idea that we're all affected - and we all need tools for symptom main...