The Gris Alves’ Podcast Tales of Recovery

This week on Tales of Recovery: Lisa Lunsford, Holistic Life Coach and Writer, sits with us and shares her powerful journey of healing. She shares some of the difficulties, struggles, tools and experiences in crafting her powerful transformation.  From healing childhood trauma, to therapy, breaking up with family, deconstruction of Christian belief systems that contained her in 'safety' for a long...

Aquí va; Tales en Recovery en español. Recuperando la Vida cada vez mas~ See nos ha olvidado nuestro estado natural, al grado que no sabemos como conectarnos con nosotros mismos, con la madre tierra ni con aquellos que nos rodean.   Hay tanta programación de miedos que nos alejan del estado natural y sagrado de la vida, muerte y renacimiento~ Y todo por creernos el cuento de que el mas produce, ma...

Some of us have been driven so far away from our natural state that we struggle to connect. With ourselves, with the earth, with others around us.   The deep programing of fear based alienation from the natural state and sacred process of life, death and rebirth fed to humans by this hustle culture, government and religious institutions to REMOVE our power has been so long that we sometimes don't...

Lunita Velasquez and I have a conversation about what we did, didn't do, realized and are working through... in these intense times of covid fear and shelter in place.   It was a healing and vulnerable conversation for me,  I always feel so seen by Lunita and her wisdom and love are tangible in person and in this recording.   We touched on some heavy topics with light hearts and hope that listenin...

Recuperando la Vida, una introducción en espanol de lo que se trata este espacio~ compartiendo experiencias de cómo vamos recuperando la vida, siéndonos fieles a nosotros mismos con el corazón abierto y hablando las netas sin esconder ni pretender ya más.  Les platico mi historia y la razón de este podcast.    G 

Only after revealing her deepest dark secret, Robin Clare was able to become her most authentic spiritual self. Struggling with food addiction and bulimia, for decades, she finally dug deep into current and past lives to heal wounds that had blocked success and fed her active addiction.  Now in recovery, Robin is living her Soul Mission as a speaker and life / writing coach. As an author, she docu...

Recuperando la Vida~ Tales of Recovery en Español!    Una platica rica y llena de amor con mi prima y Terapeuta Holistica Karin Astiazaran-Santillan.  Hace varios años me salvo la vida en una reunión en Casa Plena en Tijuana.  Con sus cuencos maravillosos, su paciencia y comprensión de la des-construcción que vivía yo en ese momento.  Maestra y guía de meditación, Karin ha tocado miles de corazone...

My dear friend Golden messaged me a few weeks ago and told me about her friend Leanne, whom she surfs with wanted to share her Re-covery story.  Leanne and I connected right away and here is this week's Tales of Recovery podcast for you, a GIFT to the world.  Thank you Leanne for speaking your truth and encouraging others to pursue healing.    Leanne transformed trauma into clarity, inner peace, a...

This week on Tales of Recovery we go Bi-lingual again!  Recuperando la Vida. Una conversación profunda con mis amigas del alma las hermanas Paola y Carla Ruiz de Chávez.    Platicamos de lo que es el camino de serte fiel a ti misma, cómo llegar a lograr tomar esta decisión aunque eso pueda a veces incluir un divorcio.  Lo difícil que es y el tiempo que toma llegar a esta decisión que al final del...

Once again I am on here letting my voice speak of this intense habit humans have of returning to the addiction of certainty via the naming of a specific idol.  I wonder why even after a deep awakening, a process of religious deconstruction and a time go healing- the addiction to certainty and returning to worship the idol of our childhood returns?  Could it be.....superstition?    Who knows.  Tale...

 Practicing calm, entering into Presence~   22 Minute Meditation led by Gris Alves

On Tales of Recovery this week, I share some highlights of my experience with meditation throughout the years.   As a little girl, in recovery, dancing, playing or out of a desperate desire to heal and find answers to my reality. There are many ways we enter into this space of PRESENCE without always being aware of it.  When we are little looking out the window on a road trip, sitting on the beach...

On death and dying (part one) begins from a conversation on the difficulty of goodbyes, illness and end of life situations.  Which are inevitable.  Why are we so scared of the "D" word?   Can we begin to realize that it is not a superstitious omen to talk about our transcendence - but talking about death can be an awareness of the actual full and meaningful LIFE that we are gifted to experience he...

In a world with so much available information, healing modalities, science based evidence on the power of meditation and connection....WHY are we still drinking the Kool-aid LIES of patriarchal religious belief systems and the toxic contracts on negative self-worth that these systems create? WHY?    What if we can imagine for a few minutes a day that we were born in a different setting, with no pr...

A Mindfulness Practice of Emotions, led by Gris Alves

Any Corella, a beautiful yogi soul, tells us her experience on walking her sister Blanca home. After an aggressive cancer diagnosis, all the love and alternative healing circles, the breath of yoga and how her sister and family danced the journey of goodbyes all the while staying serene~  This is our first time recording in SPANISH... si, para tod@s  aquellos que les llega mas en nuestro rico idio...

After January's episode of Walking my Mother Home...I find myself a few months later with a new widow (my dad) living in our granny flat.  The plan to care for our elders and the opportunity to heal and love our parents as they age is set in place. The longing for wisdom keepers is real, but times have changed and when the 'wisdom keepers' don't realize this; they are robbed of their opportunity....

Speaking heals, being heard heals even more.  This feeling of Breathing Under Water is near, it is REAL and as tangible as ever. - I explore grief, anger and being alive and awake during this time.  Tales of Recovery thanks you deeply for listening....as we Recover together may we know we can always always ask for help.   May you know you are not alone in this. May we become better humans through...

My friend Luis Illades and I were neighbors in Tijuana when we were kids and were both finding our way in our early twenties in the music and arts as well as working at Cafe 101 with other Tijuana greats, a wakeful fork in the road which we talk about during this podcast as we were all working on moving on to liberation from 'general' Tijuana societal structures.  Luis is currently a New York City...

This week on the TOR podcast my guest is a Mental Health Essential worker~  An in depth, real and raw conversation with San Diego based Marriage and Family Therapist Matt Bishop. Matt is one of the coolest guys in the therapy world that I know.  He has a therapy wolf dog, a great story, is funny, he helps so many people in recovery, meditates and really just GETS it. He shares his own personal jou...

The love we allow to flow into healing is not always made of soft and gentle caresses.   It takes courage and deep work, boundaries AF, dreams, traveling into the subconscious to RE-member and then allow our true worth and intuition’s guide into breaking free from ancestral trauma and codependency.    A few words on my reflections on breaking ancestral patterns of disfunction and how my mother’s l...

Kirti Srivastava, my fierce friend from diLSe Movement Medicine and Spirit School and I have a conversation about all the feels, but especially about what Safety can mean during this season of Fear.  What is happening in the planet and also WHO we need to quarantine with and does that feel safe?  We talk about the work and time it takes to DE-program from social conditioning and coding, especially...

WTF is happening with this pandemic? Life is at a BIG PAUSE right now; and as we are faced with the reality of the fact that this life can end ... (and one day it will) who have we been up to now and how can we choose to live in gratitude and in the present moment?   How difficult is it for us to stay still at home in enclosed quarters either by ourselves, a few roommates or our families? This cou...

My friend and guest RommelRomo had a recent and unexpected diagnosis with Stage 4 Cancer last month.  I drove up to his home in Northern California we sat together as he shared with us his experience in a real and unedited conversation.  He asked that we record this because he wants to raise awareness and continues to be generous with his life. Thank you Rommel~ May our life experience be of a ben...

Rommel Romo, my Tijuana friend, and brother from another mother sit and reflect on 30+ (yes 30+) years of friendship and his journey of recovery through the process of creation, painting, music and art.  We chat about our perspective on societal constructs, good times and hard times growing up and the TJ 90's music and drug cartel scene that set off the intuition compass to get the heck out of tow...