Self-Care For The Soul

When you put away your problem and don’t talk about it, silencing of truth would make your problem go away. Or so that’s what yoga instructor and intuitive coach Lilian Warman thought. When she started training for yoga and went through meditation, that’s when she realized she had to confront the core of her problem when her soul was shaking her to heal and kept bringing her back to when she was t...

Do you ever feel like daily life is an adverse experience? We often discuss childhood trauma and the ACE study that was done to track the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences. The study showed a higher rate of substance abuse, depression, suicide, high-risk sexual behaviors, disease and early death rate in people who had experienced childhood trauma. But what about the stresses of everyday lif...

When we encounter a trauma or a shock, the fight, flight or freeze is very common. That is where trauma can get locked in the body and holds everything tight in place. Unless we’re willing to go back in the body and feel it, we can’t unlock that frozen energy. Psychospiritual healer and creative coach Marta Luzim grew up in a home that, in her words, looked pretty from the outside, but...

A quote from Virginia Satir goes, “Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is, but how you cope with it is what makes the difference.” ALANI struggled with abuse at home at a young age and with divorce from her best friend after 22 years of courtship and marriage. Her healing from both of these very tragic events in her life and her life work came through a strong spir...

Watching the news about the children detained separately from their parents has been difficult. One cannot begin to feel how painful and terrifying that must be. What would be the effects of experiencing that kind of trauma? A study called the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Study shows the long-term effects on health and social problems in people who experienced childhood trauma. It showed a...

Seeking her own healing from past traumas as well as issues of abandonment made Joan Brooks realize she wanted to get into the healing arts. Joan is a training director of the Rubenfeld Synergy Training Program of Philadelphia, a practitioner of Rubenfeld Synergy, and a body wisdom and trauma healing master. She’s an amazing woman with an incredible heart and an incredible passion for helpin...

Lisa’s story of abuse began when she was ten years old as a family friend gained her trust. At fourteen, when the situation was discovered, she ended up in court. Lisa expresses beautifully what a child goes through. She said, “All I knew of court was Perry Mason from TV. I just knew they were going to make me look like a liar. I really thought I was going to go to jail.” She is now a psychologist...

While our practices usually focus on heart-centered healing practices, it’s also very important to bring the physical and physiological body into the healing process. The body holds the subconscious patterning which controls 97% of our beliefs, thoughts, habits and behavior patterns. The patterning we take on which forms the subconscious is purposed in keeping us as safe and as close to love and c...

We all have different lenses we use to look at the world. For survivors of abuse, however, still to this day there’s places where that victim dynamic can resurface. Robyn McTague, Master Holistic Healer and a survivor of abuse herself, opens up about how despite her training, she herself can sometimes wander into that helplessness. Robyn says that it has been so ingrained in us, that we can’...

Today’s interview features Svava Brooks. Having suffered sexual abuse, Svava’s early response to childhood sexual abuse was to become “Little Miss Perfect,” feeling responsible for everything happening in her environment, and attempting to hide any evidence that something could be wrong. She struggled as a young person to make sense of becoming a grown up while feeling so m...

Every Sunday morning, our Community for Conscious Living come together virtually for Prayer and Healing Circle. As an intro for our new podcast listeners, this meditation covers the basics of heart-centered healing meditation – what it is, how it works, why we do it, and why it is a fundamental practice in Self-Care for the Soul. It’s an experiential practice that helps us align the mind wit...

As a child of an African immigrant married to a Jewish Holocaust survivor, it has been a survival of two streams of very oppressed people for Nkem Ndefo. Nkem shares that her whole life has been fertile soil for transgenerational trauma, survival and resilience. Nkem Ndefo is the founder of Lumos Transforms and creator of The Resilience Toolkit. She is working with organizations and social service...

In the wake of the events that fueled the Me Too movement, a lot of questions have been coming up. Why would someone stay silent about abuse and then speak up twenty years after the event happened? What we may not know is that silence is actually the norm, not the exception. Licia Berry, known as the Guide to the Frontier Inside, experienced abuse in her childhood home. She remained silent for man...

We are all connected. There is no separation. If you’re ever confused about what’s best for you, then look at what’s best for the planet because be assured it’s the same thing. The intelligence of the universal oneness would have it no other way. This is Self-Care For the Soul and we’ll be sharing with you a passion for exploring how our belief systems and our daily habits...