The Gris Alves’ Podcast Tales of Recovery

What world are we leaving our children? How can we continue to walk wisely and in reverence to our Earth and our Ancestors ?  Lunita Velasquez  joins me once again in the podcast as we sit in conversation with these and other questions.  She is about to give birth to her third child and is a portal of beauty and love, I am so grateful she is back here to share with us!  Enjoy, and please share!  ...

Podría ser que la depresión, ansiedad , o un ataque de desesperación puedan ser el GRAN punto de entrada para permitir fluir todas las emociones? Eso que le llamamos curación Ancestral? . Las emociones del duelo, amor perdido, resistencia, miedo etc, todo lo que no pudimos sentir de chicos?  O tal ves lo que nuestros ancestros no lograron permitirse sentir por la situación en la que crecieron? Que...

Part 1 of the Befriending Aging Series with my guest and dear friend Golden Drake~ The counterculture revolution of embracing change in a soft, loving manner.    

An introduction to a four part series on befriending aging, cultivating wisdom and the somehow countercultural movement we can participate in in embracing and becoming friends with getting older and if we are lucky and do the work: wiser ~ Which is really quite a gift!    G  

My guest this week is my friend, author, holistic healer and graffiti artist Dr. Robert Ciprian.  Robert is a Doctor in Chiropractic and Holistic Medicine, energy healer and an advocate for humanity.   Robert wrote a book called "Heal Profoundly, A Graffiti Thug's Transformation to Holistic Doctor" (which you can find on amazon) where he talks about his life story.   On this episode we talk about...

A few years ago I decided I wanted to remove my 16 year old saline breast implants. After much arguing with the medical system, doctors and my own lagging timeline.. I did it and I am now 8 days into one of the most powerful  decisions I have ever made . I feel lighter, grateful AF, normal and so empowered to love my body from the inside out more and more each day.     May this episode help make y...

Hace unos años decidi que ya no quería tener estos implantes que decidí ponerme hace mas de 18 años.  Dure entre tres y cuatro años y una seria de síntomas, miedos y las ganas de regresar a lo natural y honrar mi cuerpo para por fin llegar a esta operación.  Fue un camino de estrés, miedo y risas ridículas.  Agradecida a la vida, a mi cuerpo y la resiliencia.     Espero les ayude escuchar esto por...

Sarah is back on the Tales of Recovery Podcast this week to share the beautiful story of her Dad's death and at home funeral for his passing in March.   Sarah supported her Dad through his last ten years of struggling with Alzheimer's.  She shares her father daughter love story, her intense grief work, the collective culture's denial of grief and how it affects us as a society. She reminds us that...

Cuando te das cuenta de tanta Magia que existe, y que a veces tarda un rato el cuerpo y la razón en alcanzar a ver que SIEMPRE has vivido en lo supernatural, ( aunque se nos halla olvidado por un rato) manifestando sueños y siendo testigo de este enorme regalo que es VIVIR.    Regreso de estar una semana con unas grandes mujeres en un encuentro mágico en Punta Monterey (que ya vendrán al podcast e...

Recuperando la Vida ~ Una conversación profunda con mi amiga Rosy Contreras, fundadora del nuevo súper podcast Contraterapy que surge a través vez del camino que Rosy y su familia emprenden al enfrentar un diagnóstico que después de casi 15 doctores negándole lo que ella sospechaba y ya sentía, el destino los llevo a la Fundación Castro Limón al descubrir en diagnóstico en su hijo de 11 años y pod...

Today the mantra, "I Understand"  replaced forever in my heart the usual mantra of "acceptance.'   We are told to accept the things we can not change, which is a way to surrender to that which is out of our hands to control.   I have struggled with that word (acceptance) because it is so strict and in a way triggering to my rebel soul.  My heart has expanded in a capacity to UNDERSTAND - which is...

Nikki Velch is an Earth Intimacy Facilitator, Ayurvedic Educator, Natural Builder and Beautiful Soul.  We met a few summers ago at Elder Farm in Southern California and I have been following Nikki's journey and her inspiring lifestyle of honoring Mother Earth, our bodies and humanity in such a gentle, powerful and beautiful wildness that is absolutely beyond inspiring to me.   Listen in and enjoy...

Que le da sentido a tu vida? Como sabes si lo que estas haciendo es para ti o para complacer a los demás? A tus padres, la sociedad, los abuelos, a la cultura, las mentiras tóxicas de la religión?  Con tantos humanos en depresión , anestesiados y sufriendo de ansiedad estaría bien investigar si se robaron el sentido o en realidad estamos viviendo los que nuestras almas vinieron a experimentar en e...

The changes I have been a part of, witnessed and experienced in these lat 20 plus tears in the solutions and choices people can have for assisting with addictions.  From outgrowing 12 step programs  and trading addictions (from alcohol to religion or food or work or perfectionism etc...) and a constant seeking and doing "the work" of healing; the evolution I see is the really the PERSPECTIVE of ad...

Tales of Recovery this week sprouts from an experience I had at a retreat with my hands as I was led to softly touch and massage them in a guided meditation. Noticing how my hands are looking more and more like my mothers, I felt a sense of grief at first, then such deep pleasure and intense beauty.  The felt sense of beauty is so many times bypassed by the deep struggle that we hold because of st...

Una super interesante y profunda conversación con Yannina Thomassiny, Host del podcast Sabiduría Psicodélica, periodista, músico terapeuta, y facilitadora de la medicina del Sapo ~Bufo Alvarious.   Conocí a Yannina el año pasado en un viaje al centro de México cuando fui a tomar la medicina del Sapo con ella. Su energía, su activismo para la expansión de la consciencia y el amor que lleva en su po...

This week on the Tales of Recovery Podcast, I sit with my friend Danna and listen to her beautiful spirit as she tells us her story of turning pain into power.  Danna lost her son to a culture that allowed men to override the rights of a mother, she sought justice all the while protecting her child's heart, and fought hard for years until she was able to reunite with him.  She then continued to cr...

El querer crecer y ser mejor persona es algo bello y necesario para evolucionar como especie~ Pero.... la ansiedad que cargamos al exigirnos siempre mas y mas y mas se puede cuestionar.  Para QUIEN te exiges tanto? Para tus padres? Para el gobierno? La sociedad? Los vecinos? tus hijos? Como para QUIEN?  Deja tu el para que.. ahi podría haber sentido que hay que trabajara para pagar la renta y come...

I had the gift of sitting in conversation with the powerful Myranda Bennett for this week's episode of Tales of Recovery.   In her words, we continue to bridge communities and dismantle systems of control and oppression.  By sharing our journeys with strong backs and soft hearts, may we continue to heal, REcover and REMEMBER all that we have forgotten that belongs to us~ just as we belong to Her~...

Mimi Young returns to the podcast for a raw and vulnerable conversation on sexism and the disconnect, competition and insecurity (among other issues) this brings among women.  The betrayal that gets handed down by mothers, grandmothers, other women is real and certainly not ill heart intended-- but Hurt people: Hurt people! We dive into our experience with sexism and how this system has affected u...

Recuperando la Vida ~ Tales of Recovery en español.    Que tal si pensáramos bien bien que tanto nos roba de la vida seguir tradiciones que ni al caso… como por ejemplo dejar la autoridad personal de tu cuerpo, voz y alma?   Ya sea con tradiciones culturales de la sociedad, de la religion,  de tu familia etc?      Que tanto escuchas a tu intuición? Porque creo que si no tenemos energía y gozo de n...

The Grief of Beliefs that no longer serve us. This week on Tales of Recovery.  After a long ass time of "holidays and new lockdowns", the GRIEF of Beliefs is a compassionate and helpful conversation about investigating beliefs that have not been helpful in this walk of LIFE, and of course the grief that comes from this realization. The realization that these beliefs, standards, imposed emotions ar...

If you are feeling a bit stressed or are heading into automatic numbing mode due to the recently and upcoming imposed "holidays"..... (like super unnecessary last minute shopping, worried about what you will hear upon entering your family's house (or zoom room) or how the sensations the body remembers from your youth will sneak upon you? Worry not, this is not the scrooge podcast!  Just  few thoug...

Recuperando  la Vida~ Una rica plática con Tamara Ciriza, lectora y maestra de registros Akáshicos.  Este verano tomé  un curso de formación de lectores de registros Akáshicos y me cambió la vida~Recordé una vez más la gran capacidad que tenemos para saber y navegar nuestro  propio camino.   La capacidad y el regalo que es el sernos fieles a nosotros mismos, lograr la gran conexión del espíritu y...

Reflections on Perspective, Life and Love after the death of a loved one~ Or Anyone! What all happened this year? Integrating so many aspects of Life after a Death, with Magic, Therapy, Energy and the POWER of Self Compassion, I figure living in Softness really is healing and makes the intensity of life a bit easier to take...   Thank you for listening, May this be of benefit to anyone struggling...