Tessa Talks: Purposeful Lifestyle Development

This season we are expanding our focus and diving into FUNCTIONAL HEALTH and functional medicine as part of our holistic approach to our health! Listen in as Tessa, a Board Certified Holistic Practitioner and Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner, explores her ground-floor foundation for starting a functional healing practice within personal holistic care. As a reminder: Holistic Health...

"To change your life, you have to change your actions. But to change your actions, you first have to change your thoughts."  In this session, we discuss one of the most powerful perspectives you can take when making changes in your life. Whether you are trying to address a single habit or are looking for a major overhaul in one area of your life, make sure you listen to THIS episode! Cli...

This episode will teach you how to make your brain work WITH you, instead of against you. Anyone interested in personal development or creating their ideal lifestyle has heard time and time again about the importance of visualization .  But diving deeper to understand both HOW and WHY our brains respond to visualization so strongly can give us the tools to become masterful at creative manifestatio...

One thing is certain: your perception of reality IS your reality. However, many of the perspectives we have held all our lives aren't even our own! This has left so many of us spending WAY more energy than necessary just to get it all done, simply because we believe we need to. This can lead to burnout, anxiety, and keep us feeling completely out of alignment with becoming the person we are m...

There is a fallacy within our minds that can hold us back from creating the reality that we want and becoming the person we have the potential to be, UNLESS we know how to flip the script. This fallacy communicates that if we are experiencing discomfort or certain pain points on our journey, we are either doing it wrong or on the wrong path completely. But you have so much more control than that -...

Put simply, living as your authentic self means you're true to your own personality, values, and spirit, regardless of the pressure you may be under to act otherwise. However, doing so takes a lot of self-awareness, self-insight, mindfulness, and most importantly, self-acceptance. In this session, we cover WHY your brain has been conditioned to shy away from your most honest wants and desires...

Our lives are full of so many possibilities; why not act accordingly to the ones that you want? If you want to seamlessly step into your highest vibrational, most aligned, and most invigoratingly purposeful month, this conversation is for you. Tessa outlines step-by-step how to plan your month (or any period of time) in a holistic way. In this session, you will learn how to: - understand and use y...

Let's talk about that dreaded "STUCK" feeling. For most, that ' stuck ' feeling that feeling is one of the most frustrating experiences when we are feeling forced to fight against our own brain. It is especially confusing when you are attempting to create, build up your lifestyle, or work on your passion project. Why does it come up when we know you want to do something -...

In this inspiring session, we discuss how to move away from the traditional and less sustainable methods of goal-setting, and instead dive into developing SYSTEMS within our lifestyle, that not only allow for better flow in our day-to-day lives, but also bring our desired results in line with our current reality. “Success is a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a...

This slight shift can change your life in the most profound ways, and all you have to believe is "this could be". It is human nature to attach rules, limits, conditions, and absolutes to how we see and perceive our reality. While these survival techniques are hardwired into us to keep us safe, a limited mindset can and will lead to a limited lifestyle in today's society. In this epi...

Here's the topic at hand today:  intentional creation. Bringing something into your energetic reality. If you want something and you want it very clearly, even if you don’t know how you could get it or have some missing pieces of the puzzle...I am here to tell you this: If you live your life in such a way and act in such a way - as if it’s going to happen and you’re READY for it to happen - y...

Let's talk about The Power of Now, which is a concept that can and will change your life, as long as you apply it. In this session, I am explaining some of the most important ideas presented in Eckhart Tolle's book, The Power of Now , in a way in an easy-to-understand, as well as walking you through some actionable tips from the book and from my own practice that you can start immediatel...

If you feel 'stuck in a rut', or you are trying to find your way out of a creativity dry spell, or maybe you just need a new source of inspiration to keep your game up, this session is for you. As you know, this season on the podcast we are diving deep into some of the most frequent questions I get asked in 1-on-1 coaching or my group sessions, and this one has been coming up A LOT latel...

This session explores another area where The Science meets The Spiritual. Did you know that you have an Internal Guidance System that can literally alert you to something esisting out of alignment for you within your current reality? Here's a spoiler: it can show up for you as burnout, as anxiousness, as that feeling of being "stuck", gloominess... And what do we tend to do when we...

The first ingredient in the formula for feeling stuck, burnt out, and anxious... is the sensation of loss of control.  No matter how much we aim to stay positive and hold it all together for ourselves and those around us, the simple fact of the matter is -- the world is full of things we simply can not control.  And sometimes, like the reality of recent events, these things begin to weigh heavy on...

On today’s session of Lifestyle Development Coaching, we are diving into a HUGE factor within the human experience and something I spend a LOT of time coaching on.  And it all centers around…. self-confidence. How we feel as we show up in this world. Confidence is defined as the feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something; a firm trust. So self-confidence is the feeling or belief t...

Most things and instances in our lives can be separated into two categories: 1. Those that charge your batteries, that fill you up and energize you 2. Those that drain or negatively affect your energy When was the last time you stepped back to take a bird's eye view of where you were directing your energy - directing your focus? It is so important to realize that every single thing that we ex...

One thing that I do not shy away from saying is that change is really dang hard... and making the decision to change can often be harder. In today's episode, I am going to teach you a practice that I regularly use in 1:1 coaching sessions. This process allows you to move away from limiting or conditional thoughts that have been tacked on by the world, and allows you to see the issue or decisi...

If you do not have a strong grasp on your identity, you risk getting molded by the world. "In psychology, identity is a person's self-image — identity refers to one's beliefs about the sort of person one is and how one differs from others." To develop and create the reality you want - you MUST have a solid foundation of exactly who you are and how you plan to show up in this wo...

 “Momentum begets momentum, and the best way to start is to start.”- Gil Penchina. The truth about momentum and your brain is this; there are physiological components that make it either easier or harder for you to follow through with your goals and be find success in what you want… and the best thing to know is — those physiological components can be directly influenced by YOU. Psychological mome...

Today we are talking about 'Inspired Action'!  I am going to be covering: - What is the difference between action and inspired action? - How does it relate to our intuition, and what do we need to know, scientifically, about our intuitive processes of the brain? - How we can differentiate, in the moment, if we are being moved by inspired action or some other force? - How is this informat...

You become the creator of your own life by becoming the decision-maker of what you focus on. Welcome to the first episode of Season 2 of the Purposeful Lifestyle Development Podcast! This season I am highlighting some questions I get most frequently, and topics that our community really wants a deeper dive into. You can let me know your questions, thoughts, or comments on social media, by messagin...

This episode is my FAVORITE topic.  Today we are exploring where the ‘woo woo’ meets the neuroscience. And spoiler alert -  the main focus is to FINE-TUNE OUR FOCUS. Everything we do is based on how we see the world.  How our brain picks up on information and WHAT information it even picks up. Our information processing.  Our Decision making.  Our impulses and impulse control.  Even down to our em...

Becoming a master of human interaction is one of the most complex and arguably one of the most important skills to master. In this session, we are covering not only how to improve your interactions with others, but also speak in such a way that you are able to influence the actions of others in a way that serves you both to the highest level. If you want to be regarded as a high-quality communicat...

This is probably one of the most IMPORTANT concepts that you need to hear if you are ready to uplevel your life! We are exploring WHY - instinctually, we care so much about what other people think of us, and HOW we can stop letting it get in our way. Plus, I am ending our session today with some step-by-step coaching tips on you can break these questions down for yourself! ** This is a special epi...