Have you ever felt like you are only participating in a movement practice because you ‘should’ be doing so? Creating a movement practice is critical to honoring your physical vessel and nourishing your body, but it can come with its fair share of obstacles. Steph Ondrusek is a strength coach who believes in the importance of creating an intuitive movement practice unique to your body and your needs so that you can start relishing in your body’s potential. Because if you aren’t enjoying what you are doing, what’s the point?
Stop Beating Yourself Up & Find Where You Are Now
Don’t just move for the sake of doing it or because someone told you too, the challenge and feeling of accomplishment you can gain from intuitive movement can help you enjoy what your body is capable of in a whole new way. By pursuing your strength or fitness goals with a new attitude, you can stop beating yourself up and find where you are now.
Steph is all about looking at the big picture and self-exploration so that you can love yourself and your body wherever you’re currently at. Instinct, emotion, and rational thinking are the basis of your intuition, and through intuitive movement, you can tune in, listen to your body and embrace that you are so much more than just what you do.
How do you use intuitive movement to nurture and nourish your daily routine? Share your experience and thoughts on Steph’s expertise with us in the comment section on the episode page.
In This Episode
- Why diet culture interrupts your trust in yourself when it comes to movement (6:40)
- Ways to help yourself clue into your actual goals and avoid the ‘shoulds’ (10:35)
- How to set performance metrics while avoiding obsessing about aesthetic (18:53)
- Tips for embracing movement without viewing it as a competition or comparison (20:12)
- What to do when you feel disoriented and have to modify your movement routine (26:27)
- The top helpful ways to become more intuitive with your movement practice (32:15)
Quotes
“If actually the goal is not the goal, if the goal is different from what I thought it was, which is actually to feel connected and strong and accomplished, and it’s not going to come necessarily just because I hit some fitness goal, what do I do?” (9:49)
“I’ve had several people in the past week be like ‘when does it end? When does this end?’ and I’m like, well some of this can end whenever you want it too.” (12:00)
“Really asking the question, backing up a lot and saying ‘what am I chasing? What am I getting out of this and what do I hope to get out of this? And is the method that I am using, so fitness or movement or strength, is that going to lead to that?” (20:27)
“You don’t have to do it just like the one way that someone told you too. You can find your way through it and as you are finding your way, your goal might change. It might not, you might find a whole bunch of different things that you didn’t know were there, and I think that’s the really valuable part.” (23:25)
“Know that you still deserve to enjoy your movement, you still deserve to enjoy food, you still deserve to enjoy whatever you want and whatever you can, even if your body has changed.” (29:17)
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Today we welcome the first astrologer to grace the airwaves at Listen To Your Body, Colin Bedell. A gay Gemini Twin, author, and creator of Queer Cosmos, Colin is here to shed new light on the power of astrology and provide you with ways that you can use astrology to better understand yourself and your relationships.
Tools To Help You Live In Faith & Walk With Resilience
Colin is on a mission to dismiss the qualms you may have heard about astrology, and bring a fresh perspective to the typical heteronormative landscape. Passionate about providing you tools to help you live in faith and walk with resilience and comfort into the unknown, Colin is here to disrupt everything you thought you knew about getting to know yourself.
If you want to live a life informed by the clarification of values, and the safety that is given when you know that you are the person you claim to be, astrology can help you identify your values and live the life you have always imagined for yourself. Colin believes that astrology is a choice revealer, not a choice maker, and wants to help you harness the power of being aware of your choices to make the best decisions you can.
Colin not only talks the talk but he also walks the walk and is here to help you discover the truth in a way that is spoken for you. By being vulnerable you can choose your own power, and given this crazy period that we are all living in, who doesn’t want a bit more of that? Let us know what you loved most about Colin’s perspective, knowledge and advice with us in the comments section of the episode page.
In This Episode
- Learn why self-love and self-identity is a necessary relational experience (9:01)
- Dismissing the misunderstandings about what astrology can do for you (15:54)
- How to hold grace for yourself to handle things outside of your control (21:30)
- Tips for opening yourself up to new possibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic (28:44)
- What to expect with the upcoming Taurus astrological season and beyond (37:02)
Quotes
“We are now all living through the same experience across the world. Through different spaces and nuances and details absolutely, but we are all confronted with the same experience at once. And I think that really accelerated the me-to-we maturation process.” (7:19)
“Let’s make sure that each and every one of us arrives at the occasion within our astrological charts and that way we can know that we are doing the part that we were assigned here to do.” (16:52)
“Were all going through this together, you and everybody else, so let’s not get precious here. And let’s really rise to the occasion within our personhood, because history is asking us to do so. And who do you want to be in the space of what is happening?” (25:33)
“Now every lane of my life is in beautiful integrity, and I put my head on my pillow every night knowing that I am the fucking bitch I claim to be! So no one can touch me. And that’s where I want [you] to be.” (37:28)
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Intuition has many different aspects, including the things you just know, or your gut feelings. Many of us struggle to identify our gut feelings, explain our intuition or have doubts about what we truly know deep down. If this sounds like you, Tamara Ross wants to show you how you can start to trust your intuition and foster it regardless of what other people think. Tamara has manifested magic in her life since opening her world to the power of intuition over five years ago and is here today to show you how you can do the same.
Every Single Person Has The Power Of Intuition Inside Of Them
A mom, wife, entrepreneur, self-professed ‘recovering type A personality’, and Energetic Master, Tamara is passionate about helping others build on their intuitive sensations. By getting rid of whatever is getting in the way of your ability to know and feel, you can learn how to identify, honor and surrender into the third-dimensional reality of your intuition.
Every single person has the power of intuition inside of them. It is only by identifying and honoring the specific combination of intuitive principles unique to you that you can start to trust your inner intuition. By tuning in to what is happening in reality, you can get a better grip of your intuitive powers and learn how to identify the sensations within your brain and body.
During this time of crisis in our world, it can be extra important to understand your willingness to give and receive contributions through higher consciousness and collective energy, and Tamara is passionate about opening you up to those intuitive contributions. Are you ready to explore the power of your intuition and tap into your universal consciousness? Share your relationship with intuition with us in the comments on the episode page.
In This Episode
- How to receive your own intuition and listen when it shows up (7:37)
- Tips for developing your intuition when living in a proof-based world (11:45)
- Understanding the difference and similarities between feelers and knowers (14:48)
- Ways to train yourself to identify energy fields of your own and others (22:12)
- How to let go of judgment, points of view and conclusions when it comes to intuition (25:45)
- Specific ways that you can cultivate, strengthen and tune into your intuition (31:10)
Quotes
“I have only been using my intuition for about five years, and magic has happened all over the place. You too can use your intuition and you have it.” (8:41)
“If you are really going to take on the journey of following your intuition and honoring it, it’s a little bit like it doesn’t really matter what anybody else has to say.” (12:58)
“I was taken out very early in the pandemic before the pandemic even hit, I was completely taken out and I was in the bed for about 2 weeks. And so that’s the psychic-ness, the tuning into the conscious, being in tune with what is about to happen where I was already giving contributions.” (23:16)
“Right now as a collective, the consciousness is saying slow down. And I have been tuned into that.” (26:48)
“If you can consistently bring yourself back to what is only happening right now, it has a way of calming and centering yourself. And from that place, you will be more connected to your higher self, that universal consciousness, that source energy and everything else around us. And that is where your intuition comes from.” (33:23)
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The current state of the world right now is anxiety-inducing for the majority of us, but especially those of us who are empaths or highly sensitive. Now more than ever we need to stick together and use the tools available to us so that we can deal with what is going on while limiting our panic and anxiety.
Learn The Similarities & Differences Between Highly Sensitivity & Empathy
Today I want to share with you some of my top tools and strategies to take care of yourself as a highly sensitive or empathic person and help you cope with our current environment. If you are unsure if you are a highly sensitive person, want to learn the similarities and differences between high sensitivity and empathy, or are looking for ways to overcome your anxiety during this time, the information shared on this episode is what you have been searching for.
Everything from getting enough sleep to limiting the amount of time you spend on your phone or social media can have a huge impact on both your physical and mental ability to handle stress. By understanding what makes you tick on the inside, you can advocate for yourself and your needs in a way that feels good for you.
You can use your skills, talents, abilities, and creativity to help others, and in turn, will give you a greater sense of a bigger impact and ability to become energetically bigger. Are you ready to explore some of my suggestions so that you can find what supports you? Share your favorite tip or recommendation for highly sensitive people or empaths with us in the comments on the episode page.
In This Episode
- Strategies to help you deal with what is going on in the world today (3:10)
- Why you should view your high sensitivity or empathy as a gift not a curse (9:04)
- Learn the difference between feeling empathy and being a highly sensitive person (10:34)
- How to take care of yourself if you are a highly sensitive or empathic person (14:56)
- Practices to clear your space and help you feel more grounded and grateful (25:20)
Quotes
“I know empaths and highly sensitive people are just struggling to deal with what is happening in the world, and yes I am feeling this as well. But I wanted to share some of the strategies I have learned along the way.” (2:55)
“One of my goals in this world and one of the things I feel called to do… is helping other empaths and other highly sensitive people learn this about themselves. And not only that but learning how to thrive because these are truly gifts that we have.” (8:33)
“It becomes part of the background, the things that are piling up and we don’t notice them. But it does create space. It creates mental space, ti creates energetic space and it creates physical space for us to really just get around our environment.” (24:45)
“Sometimes as an empath and a highly sensitive person, it is easy to get overwhelmed by what is happening to you. What energy you are taking in, what you are absorbing, and sometimes that can feel very constrictive and closed off… it almost energetically causes you to shrink. So right now be mindful and respectful of yourself.” (29:33)
Links
Take The Highly Sensitive Person Quiz Here
Facebook Live with Rachel Dash-Dougherty
HTK 206: Energy Tips for Empaths
HTK 188: What Is Nutritional Therapy?
LTYB 276: Dr. Sara DeFrancesco
LTYB 277: Self-Compassion in Uncertain Times
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Nutritional Therapy Association
Listen To Your Body Podcast is sponsored by the Nutritional Therapy Association. Registration is now open for the NTA’s April class. You can learn more and save your seat by clicking here (and don’t forget to mention my name on your application!)
You can also try out their free 7-day course, Nutritional Therapy 101 by clicking here.
Check out the full show notes here!
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