Free Spirit Academy Podcast

HEALING ANCESTRAL TRAUMA WITH INHERITED TRAUMA RESOLUTION COACH, LISA NAGEL In today's episode, you'll hear us talk about... ...The symptoms of inherited trauma: anxiety, secondary ptsd, depression, feeling like we can't get where we want to go, feeling trapped in repeating cycles, etc. ...Lisa's story of looking around at her family and seeing the shared patterns and emergency...

EXPLORING HUMAN POTENTIAL - GIL JACOBS UNEDITED! Hi friends. Before some of you get TOO excited (because I'm with you in that group of niche weirdos that thinks an interview with Gil Jacobs on the internet the single most exciting ever) I DID release this interview in the first year of the podcast. However, I was in a place at the time where I was very much catering to clients and an audience...

For all of the seeking we do... ...medical mediums. ...spiritual gurus. ...plant medicines.  We often miss the most powerful medicine: the information our own bodies hold. 2019 was like a massive plant medicine journey for me...sans plant medicine (so y'know, I'm going based on what I've heard). My body took me on the ride of my life - and while it wasn't easy, it was the most...

Friends!! After a bit of a hiatus, the Free Spirit Academy Podcast is back and it feels SO good. I'll update you a bit in the intro to this episode, but here's a bit of what to expect today: I met Jen at my Level 1 Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training and my first thought was 'thank GOD, a real human'. While I met so many lovely humans, Jen didn't feel like she was trying to pr...

I met today's guest in my very first kundalini yoga teacher training and we've continued taking trainings from Guru Singh in Seattle for the last couple of years - and I wanted to have her on as a teacher but also as an example of someone who moved through serious addiction to drugs and alcohol and on the other side - is more real and more uniquely herself than she'd ever been befor...

THE DREAM UNDER THE DREAM BODY. This solo episode is going to be a taster of my most recent program in the Free Spirit Academy membership site. My new 40-day program Liberated is my take on what many call intuitive eating. If you've listened to this podcast for any length of time you'll know that I talk a LOT about eating intuitively, finding freedom around food, and freedom in our bodie...

WHAT IT MEANS TO "BE LOVE" WITH REIKI PRACTITIONER, COLON HYDROTHERAPIST, AND OWNER OF LOVE BEING, ALEC STEURY. A few of the things you'll hear us talk about are...   What it's like to start to shift from a solely logical, linear way of thinking and being to developing intuition and self trust. Putting our attention and letting our journey be lead by what feels interesting and...

DETACHING SELF-WORTH FROM YOUR FOOD CHOICES WITH EMOTIONAL EATING COACH, GEORGINA GORRINGE. In this week's conversation, you'll hear us talk about: ...how the opposite of emotional eating isn't "normal" eating and how that may not necessarily be what we're looking for. ...the journey from mindless eating to more conscious eating with nutrition knowledge, to an EMBODIE...

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A FREE SPIRIT? Today it's a solo episode where I talk about what it does and doesn't mean to be a "free spirit" and to cultivate more freedom in your life and body. Links mentioned: Kundalini warmup Feeling Breath Practice Work with me Free Spirit Academy website Free Spirit Academy courses Free Spirit Academy Facebook group Links: Work with Rande Free S...

FEELING AT HOME IN YOUR BODY WHEREVER YOU ARE WITH CLINICAL NUTRITIONIST AND PRIVATE FLIGHT ATTENDANT, CHRISTINA PISTONE.  Here are some of the gems you can look forward to in this conversation. ...we talk about the dangerous assumption that thinness equals health. ...how sometimes working LESS hard is what's needed to support your health and well being. ...realizing you might be thinking abo...

Before Free Spirit Academy was Free Spirit Academy I was trying to figure out how to transition from food blogging as a hobby to Eating Psychology Coaching as a career. And I'm pretty certain that if I hadn't worked with a coach I would have struggled a LOT longer than I did to create what I wanted to create. Coaching and mentorship is SO important in certain phases and I wanted to bring...

MOTHERHOOD AS A SPIRITUAL PATH.  In today's conversation, we'll talk about motherhood as a spiritual path but even if you're not a parent or even planning on being a parent (and if that's you, I'm right there with you) there's so much great stuff in here for you. Here are a few of the things you're in for: ...Leslie talks about how carrying extra weight may have...

BODY LOVE: FROM RULES TO RELATIONSHIP WITH EXPERIENTIAL EATING EXPERT, BETH SUMMERS. In today's conversation we talked about when health becomes a value - and how that can be a beautiful thing in relationship and a destructive thing if it's disembodied. Beth will tell us the story of how experiential eating became such a prominent part of her work. We chat about the importance of the way...

DIET BEYOND WEIGHT LOSS.    Episode 9 is here with bestselling author and Clinical Nutritionist, Natalia Rose.    While it's true that you'll find most of Natalia's books on the diet shelf, they are truly more than just weight loss books. After finding her first book over 10 years ago, my perspective on food, body, and LIFE was forever shifted.     TODAY WE TALK ABOUT: How Natalia&a...

Welcome to episode 41 of the Free Spirit Academy Podcast with Artist and Intuitive, Lindsay King. Sometimes people's worlds are so unfathomable to me that it feels like magic. Lindsay is a beautiful intuitive human being and artist. In her words, she "paints the relationship between the subconscious and what is seen.  In this conversation, we talk about... ...our shared history and Linds...

Welcome to episode 40 of the Free Spirit Academy podcast with Holistic Health Coach and Wellness Lifestyle Consultant Meredith Wadsworth. I discovered Meredith's work while I was going down a  rabbit hole with  exercise. You'll hear more about this as we dive in but one slice of what Meredith does is fitness training for the method we'll talk about. But that really is just one piece...

For more background on Mel, check out episode 27, Your Inner Binge Eater is on Your Side where we dove deep on Mel's history and how to address a struggle with binge eating. Today we dive into something I once shrugged off and that's inner child work. This idea that so much of what I struggled with was rooted in childhood. And the reason I shrugged it off was because I looked at my child...

BREAKING THE SPELL OF WHO WE THINK WE "SHOULD" BE.    "The idea of perfection in a body is a lie. It’s a lie that’s been sold to us since we were little, through magazines and television shows. We fell under the spell. We never had a chance. The spell is made more potent the more perceptive you are as a kid, noticing the hypocrisy and feeling the meaninglessness behind so many of th...

HOLISTIC WELLNESS AFTER HEALING AN EATING DISORDER WITH MEGAN GILMORE, THE DETOXINISTA. At the top of this episode, Megan and I talk about the varying reactions people have when they hear "detoxinista". They either get really excited that this might be a specific guide to a rigid detox protocol. OR they turn they other way because they hear "detox" and it turns them off. Howeve...

 GETTING UNSTUCK AND FINDING NEW PERSPECTIVES WITH KUNDALINI YOGA TEACHER, KATIE SEDGWICK.  So today we're talking to my friend Katie who we originally spoke with in episode 24 entitled The Eat to Feel Good Diet. She told us her story about cultivating self-love and the accidental weight loss that followed. We got a lot of great feedback and actually started this episode with a question from...

YOUR BODY ON YOUR SIDE (PART 2) WITH ALIYAH WASHINGTON.    Hello friends, just a heads up if you didn't catch last week's episode, this is part two and I definitely suggest listening to part one first. We'll be diving in right where we left off and these are some of the topics we go into:    ...The power of admitting when what we are believing might not be true, and how not having a...

YOUR BODY IS ON YOUR SIDE WITH ALIYAH WASHINGTON.    If you've been listening since early on this year, you'll have heard Aliyah on episode 2, sharing her journey through anorexia and today we go much, much deeper. I actually split this episode into two parts as it got long but I didn't want to cut any of it.    As I've merged topics like eating disorder recovery with potential...

VEGANISM, RE-WILDING, & BIOHACKING, OH MY! VITALITY THROUGH EASE AND CONSISTENCY WITH MICHAEL PERRINE.     Mike Perrine is more than just one of the many colon hydrotherapists I've spoken with on this podcast, he's also a detox and health counselor (in the most real, least fluffy sense of that title), founder of Vitality New York City which offers gravity colon hydrotherapy, cryother...

BE MORE YOU, GIVE LESS F*CKS WITH SPIRITUAL LIFE AND BRAND COACH, JESS BLANCHE. Something that I often see is that all good coaching is kinda the same. Whether we start out talking about binge eating or business, it's all going to come down to self-understanding, self-acceptance, self-love, and self-expression. And obviously we all have different histories and there will be different tools bu...

CREATING A SENSE OF SAFETY IN OUR BODIES WITH TRACY BROWN, RD    Hello friends, welcome back! This is part two of season 1, episode 25 featuring Tracy that had so many cliffhangers I had to bring her back. I definitely suggest you go back and listen to that episode first to get filled in on Tracy's eating disorder and education background as well as to get caught up on all the amazing informa...