Self Talk with Rachel Astarte

Send Rachel a text message. Kent Weishaus had a 25-year career in television production, working on talk shows, game shows, tabloids, sitcoms, and other programming, before making a switch in 2006, going back to graduate school and becoming a licensed clinical social worker. Since then he has worked in mental hospitals, community clinics, schools, and is now semi-retired, continuing a part-time pr...

Send Rachel a text message. •• IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT •• As of this month, Self Talk has entered its sixth year of production! 🎉🥂 A heartfelt thank-you to all the listeners. You have made Self Talk an absolute pleasure for me to create.  As you may be aware, I began this podcast as a way for my therapy and coaching clients to have support between our sessions. To my surprise, its audience has gr...

Send Rachel a text message. Andra Dediu supports individuals to integrate the highs and lows experienced as a result of big moments of psychospiritual change like spiritual awakenings, mystical experiences, and insights from altered states of consciousness. Some aspects of this work are— ➾ Reconstructing a sense of self Our sense of self & world are reconstructed on the foundation of a new awa...

Send Rachel a text message. Kimberly Braun, impelled from earliest childhood mystical experiences, has spent over a decade as a monastic nun exploring the path of Presence. With a master's in theology with special focus on the adult spiritual journey, she lives to inspire others to connect to, and live from, Divine Love at their center. She is an ordained Minister, Reiki master, TEDx speaker...

Send Rachel a text message. Navigating a ferociously challenging upbringing while bravely moving forward as an adult to face ingrained, outdated, and patriarchal programming head-on, Susan now shares a unique perspective in viewing life challenges as occasions for transformation. Through her book, Toxic Family: Transforming Childhood Trauma into Adult Freedom , Susan turns the standard paradigm on...

Send Rachel a text message. When does impostor syndrome really show up? When we’re trying to make a change. —Denise Miceli Denise Miceli is an inspiring, empathic guide and mentor in creating space for change and growth. She is known for her talent in energy healing, intuitive hot-seat coaching, and teaching new ways of accessing authenticity. After enduring a difficult, dark-night journey, Denise...

Send Rachel a text message. No matter what the question, Love is the answer. Love with a capital L. —Abdi Assadi Abdi Assadi is a spiritual counselor and healer with four decades of clinical experience in acupuncture, body-centered psychotherapy, indigenous shamanic practices, and diverse meditative techniques. He is the author of Shadows on the Path: Revelations and Pitfalls on the Spiritual Jour...

Send Rachel a text message. Lauren Leduc is a visionary, yoga teacher, intuitive, mentor, and mama. With the special gift of cultivating community and creating accessible experiences, Lauren has taught thousands of students with her approachable and intelligent methodology.  Lauren’s greatest current spiritual passion is harnessing the Sacred Feminine and guiding women and femmes to love themselve...

Send Rachel a text message. Ann Bell has been a love and sex coach since 2012, fostering deep connections, and empowering individuals to embrace their authentic selves. She creates a safe, judgment-free space, along with guiding transformative journeys for her clients, exploring uncharted territories, and unlocking infinite possibilities within. As we age—20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and onward—our sexuali...

Send Rachel a text message. Noëlle Janka, PCC (she/her) is a politicized coach for social change leaders and author of Rebel Healing: Transforming Ourselves and the Systems That Make Us Sick . She has lived with health challenges for more than twenty years and has supported clients with their healing and career development for more than a decade via transformational workshops, writing salons, coac...

Send Rachel a text message. As a change catalyst, Michael McGinnis has dedicated his life to the awakening of humanity on a global level. Through extensive self-study and first-hand experience, he has been gifted to serve as a channel for the words the world needs to hear at the most crucial moment in history. He is the author of The Essential Revolution series. In this episode Mike and I discuss...

Send Rachel a text message. Heather Claus has lived an atypical life. She’s traveled across the country, exploring (and teaching about) alternative lifestyles and communing with diverse people. All of her experiences thus far have led her to the belief that boundaries are the key to not only saving ourselves, but our relationships. Her new book, Take No Sh*t! Build Better Relationships Through Dis...

Send Rachel a text message. I want to inspire women to say: I wanna be that broad! and see fearmongering about age become a thing of the past in my lifetime. Let roaring into age prevail! —Maryjane Fahey   Maryjane Fahey is on her fifth reinvention (but who’s counting?) as founder of Glorious Broads—the epicenter of confident, unconventional women over 50. She cut her teeth in print, art directing...

Send Rachel a text message. Ben Oofana began his training at the age of 20 with one of the last surviving traditional doctors/medicine men among the Kiowa Indian tribe. Ben helps people to heal their bodies, minds, broken hearts, and other deep emotional wounds while helping them to increase their capacity to love and be loved, realize their true potential, and fulfill their life's purpose. I...

Send Rachel a text message. Satya Lila, the founder of the Sexual Communion program, has taught and guided people in the area of sacred sexuality since 1993. She has had around 15,000 hours of client sessions and led hundreds of workshops, all over the US and in Japan. Satya specializes in helping women and couples enhance their intimate connection, allow the erotic divine energies to move through...

Send Rachel a text message. Esther Kalaba is an art therapist, somatic psychotherapist, known by many as the "breathwork lady." Her signature therapeutic offerings combine movement, art, breathing, and meditation and teach us basic skills in how to be human. She’s the founder of the People of the Prana, an organization that specializes in teaching breathing practices to support emotional...

Send Rachel a text message. Nan Krueger is a designer who's passionate about the power of interior design. She never really fit in at school, but her sanctuary during those painful times was the home that her parents lovingly designed. Now her mission is three-fold: to create a sanctuary for every client, make interior design available to more people, and help our planet through sustainable d...

Send Rachel a text message. Nyk Danu is an IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists) certified Yoga therapist. Her therapeutic specialty is back pain and anxiety relief. She works with Yoga Misfits, Gen Xers (and sometimes y) who don’t feel at home in mainstream Yoga circles, alternative folks, rebels, underdogs, punx, introverts, geeks, and bookworms. In this episode, Nyk and I talk abo...

Send Rachel a text message. Maria Verdicchio is an End-of-Life Designer and Nature & Forest Therapy Guide, providing heart-centered and pragmatic advance-care planning, end-of-life education, and life transition ceremonies. Maria helps people live fully, now . Gaining clarity about what matters at the end of our life illuminates who and what matters now and helps us be more present and compass...

Send Rachel a text message. Susan Bratton, "Intimacy Expert to Millions" is a champion and advocate for all those who desire intimacy and passion their whole life long. She’s created hundreds of techniques that transform “having sex” into making love and is the world’s most well-respected sexual biohacker. In this episode, we cover a subject many of us deal with in midlife—desire and sex...

Send Rachel a text message. Shameless Plug Episode: Annual Social Connections Summit 2023 Coach Lee Hopkins is a transgender man who helps people create lasting friendships. After struggling with loneliness most of his life, he's developed various ways to discover himself in it. Coach Lee returns to Self Talk to update us on the virtual Annual Socal Connections Summit , coming up on August 5...

Send Rachel a text message. Timothy Stuetz has written more children’s stories than anyone currently alive—88 to date with more on the way. Using fairy tales, ancient arts, sacred sciences, and “everything in between,” he empowers people of all ages to develop and use their infinite soul powers to achieve their full potential. In today's episode, Timothy and I delve into the topic of generati...

Send Rachel a text message. PTSD comes free with narcissism. —Nisanka Wickramarachchi Nisanka Wickramarachi is a trauma-informed life coach and an NLP and EFT practitioner who helps parents co-parent with narcissistic partners or ex-partners so their children are supported and their sanity is preserved. In this episode, we look at another angle of narcissism within families—being the adult child o...

Send Rachel a text message. ✨ 100th EPISODE SPECIAL ✨ Join me in this special, one-hour interview with Abdi Assadi, a remarkable healer and counselor I've had the privilege to know and work with for over a decade. ____________________________ The whole woke movement is an extension of this culture's narcissism on steroids... Woke is a fortification of the head. Awake is a softening of...

Send Rachel a text message. For the first 20 years of his life, Greg Weiting was in debilitating and insufferable chronic pain, anxiety, and depression. He decided that a life of pain was unacceptable and that he had to do whatever it took to heal. After traveling across the United States in search of a cure, his travels took him to India and Asia, and eventually down to South America to study wit...