Self Talk with Rachel Astarte

Send Rachel a text message. Dr. Hailey Steinhauser is a chiropractor and a wellness coach. She helps people get their health back on track using mind-body techniques, specifically. Powering up the nervous system, breaking old patterns that keep us in survival mode, and focusing on living in the present moment. In this episode, we talk about the constant interaction between our minds and bodies. We...

Send Rachel a text message. Anthony Poponi is a self-titled "neuroscience nerd," positive psychology practitioner, and leadership lover. He is a professional speaker, a jokester from birth, and specializes in putting joy in our workplaces and in our communities through workshops and presentations that leave his audiences laughing and buzzing. In this episode, we discuss the neuroscience...

Send Rachel a text message. Nita Sweeney is the award-winning wellness author of the running and mental health memoir, Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink and co-creator of the writing journal, You Should Be Writing: A Journal of Inspiration & Instruction to Keep Your Pen Moving . She is a certified meditation leader, mental health advocate,...

Send Rachel a text message. Anne Poirier is the author of The Body Joyful: My Journey from Self-loathing to Self-acceptance , leader of the Body Joyful Revolution, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Self-Talk Trainer, and Eating Disorder Specialist. In this episode, we talk about body image—specifically moving from self-loathing to self-acceptance—and, of course, the power of supportive self-ta...

Send Rachel a text message. Amber Campion is a trauma-informed yoga teacher, breathwork facilitator, and mindfulness-based life and leadership mentor. For more than a decade, Amber’s work in the field of emotional intelligence , personal leadership, and self-discovery has led her to create embodied trainings, retreats, and online courses supporting wisdom-seekers to bring their Full Selves to the...

Send Rachel a text message. Lauren Fonvielle is an Integrative Energy Practitioner who helps her clients break through obstacles—physical, mental, or emotional—that are keeping them stuck and holding them back from living purposeful and joyful lives. In this episode, we talk about how literally to tap into our physical body to understand how it communicates with us. We also address the importance...

Send Rachel a text message. When Ann Hince was nineteen, she woke one morning to find her mother dead in her bathroom. Twenty years later, and still suffering from that trauma, Ann found a simple technique that helped her release these emotions that she calls Insight, or inward-sight. Now Ann is a spiritual teacher, public speaker, and author. Her book, A Pathway to Insight , details her journey a...

Send Rachel a text message. Leslie Lindsey Davis's passion is to help people who are where she was 100 pounds ago, struggling to fill that "myself-sized" hole in their heart. Her goal is to help us discover that we are enough, just as we are. In this episode, Leslie and I talk about her book, You Can't Eat Love , as well as how stepping into "The No Should Zone, "  he...

Send Rachel a text message. If the universe bestows its gifts upon us for free, how can we as healers and creatives feel comfortable charging for our services? Morgana Rae is a bestselling author, speaker, and mentor coach for 27 years.  Morgana guides entrepreneurs, innovators, healers, and humanitarians to heal the rift between heart, spirit, and money. In this episode. we discuss how to charge...

Send Rachel a text message. Isaya is an artist and a magico-pragmatic mindset coach, goddess teacher, and traveling priestess. She works with the Greek Goddesses Archetypes, in real life and online. In this episode, we discuss the Divine Feminine and how the four feminine archetypes (Maiden, Mother, Enchantress/Queen, and Crone) can help us—regardless of gender—shift our mindsets for deep and last...

Send Rachel a text message. Boundaries are a tricky subject for many of us. We all agree that healthy relationships require healthy boundaries, but what are they, really? How can we create them without feeling guilty? In this episode, I'll answer these questions and give you suggestions about how to create boundaries that work. More importantly, I address the biggest misconception about bound...

Send Rachel a text message. Jeremy Sherman is a longtime researcher, focusing on knowing ourselves better through what he calls cradle-to-grave scientific research. His area of research is broad: the origins of life, humans, and recently, "psychoproctology" in his book, What’s Up with A-holes: Advanced Psychoproctology for Beginners . He researches with top scientists while producing acc...

Send Rachel a text message. Kathy Curtis has worked as a healing artist and writer since 1991. Her programs support the transformation of grief, illness, and emotional barriers through creative expression. She is the author of Invisible Ink , a memoir about her own journey through grief. Its second edition will be released on January 1, 2022. In this episode, we speak about the latest edition of h...

Send Rachel a text message. Molly Mandelberg is the Founder of Wild Hearts Rise Up, Creator of “Magnetic Influencer Collective” and the writer and illustrator of "The Wild Hearts Rise Up Oracle Deck.”  She is the host of two podcasts: “Tactical Magic” and “Reveal the Game of Life."  Molly is a certified NLP Coach, an Access Consciousness Bars Facilitator, a Transformational Leadership Co...

Send Rachel a text message. Nate Rifkin dropped out of college, felt suicidal, went broke, bankrupt, and even worked on the street corner waving around a sign. Now he’s successful, fulfilled, and happily married. His journey into Daoism made the difference. In this episode, we talk about his book, The Standing Meditation,  and his journey out of darkness. Nate also shares with us how to shift unhe...

Send Rachel a text message. Shelley Buck and Kathy Curtis are life-long friends who came together to write Leave Your Light On: The Musical Mantra Left Behind by an Illuminating Spirit, a book about the loss of Shelley's young musician son, Ryder.  In this important and poignant episode, we talk deeply and honestly about grief and grieving:  How can we move through such a painful experience w...

Send Rachel a text message. Kirk Nurmi rose to international prominence as the lead counsel for the infamous Jodi Arias. The stress of that case brought cancer into his life. And with cancer came big changes—a whole new life wherein happiness is his beacon.  With this beacon in view, Kirk has written for the New York Daily News, authored eight books, has spoken all around the country, and in Octob...

Send Rachel a text message. Gloria Battini is on a mission to empower survivors of abusive relationships to free themselves from mental and emotional wounds by finding their authentic self. A survivor herself, Gloria is now a Relationship and Self-Love Coach. In this episode, we talk frankly about how to recognize that you are in a relationship with a narcissist. Once you are aware, how do you rec...

Send Rachel a text message. Erin McCullough calls herself "The Joy Slinger” because she teaches people how to create Impenetrable Joy so that they can be calm, have peace of mind and meaning in their life—now.  In this episode, we discuss the anxiety disorder that had her holed up in her home, inspiring her to develop strategies to overcome and prevent anxiety. She now teaches those strategie...

Send Rachel a text message. Zack Rutledge is an ACE Certified Personal Trainer, and Fitness Nutrition Specialist. He’s also a Certified Brain Health Trainer through the Functional Aging Institute. He has a black belt in karate and has practiced yoga for almost a decade. He is the author of The Official Depression Relief Playbook: Real-life Life Strategies From a Guy Who Has Lived It. In this episo...

Send Rachel a text message. John Davis has been a professional fight director and stuntman, artistic director, sword-fighting comedian. After breaking his spine in two (you read that right), he harnessed his life experiences and became a motivational speaker, author, and coach. In this episode, we talk about limiting beliefs and how to overcome them using what he calls the "Five F Formula.&qu...

Send Rachel a text message. Murielle Fellous is an intuitive life coach helping single moms with teenagers avoid constant arguments that often happen as a result of both parties spiraling into negative emotions. In this episode we talk about "co-parenting with the universe"—our true selves—to guide us through the oftentimes tumultuous path of parenting. Also, join us in a mutual EFT (tap...

Send Rachel a text message. Dr. Roseann is a mental health trailblazer, founder of The Global Institute of Children’s Mental Health and Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge, LLC. In this episode, we talk about her mission to change the way we view and treat children’s mental health using drug-free and natural methods. We also discuss the  COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on children and teens. Watch the full...

Send Rachel a text message. Sonia Frontera is a divorce lawyer and survivor of a toxic marriage who's been happily remarried for 14 years. Sonia is a domestic violence advocate,  empowerment trainer, and bestselling author. In this episode, we discuss her new book, Relationship Solutions: Effective Strategies to Heal Your Heart and Create the Happiness You Deserve , and how resisting societal...

Send Rachel a text message. Described by music icon Gloria Estefan as “a balm for the soul," award-winning author and TEDx speaker Christian de la Huerta is a sought-after spiritual teacher, personal transformation coach, and leading voice in the breathwork community. His book, Awakening the Soul of Power , the first of a three-part series, Calling All Heroes , was released in October 2020. I...