The Plata Life Podcast: Finding the magic of the everyday life

In this episode I share how listening to the universe and letting it guide me has helped me tremendously, especially during more challenging times! 

In this episode I explain how one of my most meaningful relationships has evolved over time and why it's so important as an HSP to focus gratitude during hard times. 

In this episode I give some practical ideas on how to face those fears, like taking everything one step at a time. I share some of the ways in which I work on big picture goals as a highly sensitive person. 

In last week's episode I discussed "the cave" and how we must face our fears in our every day lives. Today I go in a tiny bit deeper (ok, really deep) and how we can turn that fear into excitement and why that is crucial for us to be able to live an authentic life! 

In this episode I talk about a recent experience my son had that helped me understand how facing my “fears” as a highly sensitive person has helped me as a parent of a highly sensitive child. I talk a lot about Brene Brown‘s work and how it continues to impact my life and also mention Andy J Pizza and his podcast The Creative Pep Talk, Marc Brackett and his book “Permission to Feel” and a tiny bit...

In this episode I explore the importance of connection for highly sensitive people and why it's so important for us to feel connected, especially during tricky times like covid19! 

In this episode I interview @theruthcale about why using your sensitivity and intuition is so important in business and in life. I am so grateful to be able to connect and share our conversation with you! You can follow more of her journey on Instagram! Thank you Ruth for your time. 

In this episode I share how to find the "silver linings" during these tough times. I go more into detail about how Brené Brown's work has impacted my life by understanding more about foreboding joy, comparative suffering and building my shame resilience! 

In this episode I share what my journey has been like as a mom from being a full time work mom to being thrown into the stay at home mom during these covid times! I also share some of the steps that have really helped me learn and grow as a mama! 

In this episode I dig a little deeper and explain how anxiety creeps into my daily life! I talk about my journey and going to therapy and why it's been so important for my ability to live with anxiety as a highly sensitive person. 

In this episode I explain how focusing on progress over perfection has really helped me grow and evolve as a highly sensitive person! 

Not knowing what is going to happen during these times is definitely triggering the over-stimulation that happens to highly sensitive people. This episode is all about how to approach these certain times in a way that can help you have some sort of control and take a handle on the over-stimulation. Hope you enjoy it! 

In this episode I share about Ali Edwards and her One Little Word class that has really helped me last year, and how although I'm not really doing the lessons so far this year my word CREATE has been the one thing keeping me going these days. I share part of the process I go through to create a new digital painting every day and why it's been so beneficial! 

As I take more time to read, listen and learn about racism and my role in becoming an anti-racist person, I decided to have a more laid back episode today. Diego (my son) has been asking when he can have his own podcast, haha, so I invited him to do an episode with me. This was obviously just a very candid conversation where we talk about life and what's going on lately. I definitely had moments o...

These episodes seem to be getting longer and longer! Phew! In this episode I share the process that I'm taking for working on being an antiracist ally and how we are having tough conversations at home. Often times, it is in the day to day living that we make the most impact.  I mention the book "How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

I get super honest about racism and how my sensitivity has not helped me own up to what I need to do. We must do better. Listen to part one, I will do a second part next week! I urge you not only to listen to the voices of BIPOC but to really begin examining how racism plays a role in YOUR life. 

We are starting the trickiest part so far in this pandemic and my feelings are all over the place! Arizona has started opening things back up and it's brought up a lot of feelings for me...I'm finding myself feeling extra judgmental and I had to sit down and figure out why! 

As I gear up to "celebrate" my 33rd birthday I share why birthdays can be a challenge for me because of my highly sensitive nature, I obviously overthink and feel all of the feelings! The baby also makes a debut with his baby babbles towards the end ;) 

Hola! In this episode I share how I've learned through my hardships and how to reflect on yours. This is especially important as we continue to deal with this pandemic that covid19 has brought to our lives. I share about how @theruthcale helped me figure out my "why" and how my hardships helped me figure out who I am. Follow me on Instagram @maestraplata to see more of this journey!

In this episode I talk about why rejection is so challenging for me and all of the feelings that it brings up. I also share how I've learned to turn those feelings into a feeling of motivation that helps me push through challenging times. 

In this episode I talk about why "creating" is so important for us, especially right now. I dig a little deeper and also discuss how creating can help us explore our "shadow" self and why that's also really important. 

This is a longer episode in which I discuss feelings! I mention the book "Permission to Feel" by Marc Brackett PhD quite a lot and how it helped me have this epiphany of what I'm here to do.

In this episode I talk about the idea of productivity and why it tends to increase my anxiety, especially during this time! 

In this episode I share how life is getting to be a bit more challenging emotionally with the spread of covid19. I talk through what empathy is, how we can apply it in our lives and why it's so important for us to remember that we are simply doing the best that we can. 

School's been canceled for the rest of the school year and we are only supposed to be going to the store and doctor. Covid19 is really starting to hit Arizona hard and as an HSP (and just human being in general) my feelings are ALL OVER THE PLACE! In this episode I share a bit about how we can turn that fear we feel into hope and how to better manage our feelings during this craziness!