I MIGHT CRY

Episode 45: Are you an empath?

One of the most inspiring instagram accounts out there, in my opinion, is August Knox Coaching, so I couldn’t resist inviting her onto the podcast. In this episode we talk about our own healing journeys, modalities that have supported us throughout the journey, and ways that we’ve blocked our own potential. 

Listen in to learn more about what it means to be an empath, and how healing is available to each of us in a quick, simple way if we’ll choose it.

Plus, she’ll even do some energy clearing on me, to give you a glimpse into what a session with someone like herself would be like! 

You don’t want to miss this. 

About Aspen:

I'm Aspen, an Energy Healer & Intuitive Coach who believes that when we show up as our most authentic self, able to own what is so special about us, we become unstoppable in creating a life filled with Abundance, Healing & Wholeness. 

I got started on this journey awhile ago when my son was born 2 months premature & we had an unanticipated NICU stay followed by 8 long years of PTSD & anxiety. I struggled for a really long time to figure out how I could heal myself from the trauma of that experience.

As luck would have it, that's how I ended up finding the Emotion/Body Code. It was like a light in the darkness to be able to let go of so many feelings and fears I had been holding onto.

 

Links:

Healing the Inner Child

Episode 44: You are inherently worthy and deserving

You get to choose how you want to live your life and how good you get to feel doing it.

 

I know how it feels to take so much on — to feel everything, to absorb everything, to absorb all of the energy around you at any given moment. If you’re a highly sensitive person (HSP) like me, or an empath, or basically just human at all, you probably know what I’m referring to.

 

Lately, I’ve been trying to focus on the idea that I don’t have to be a sponge. I don’t have to absorb everything, I don’t have to take in everything, and I don’t have to be everything all the time. I can just feel my feelings — whether it’s grief, or rage, or excitement, or happiness — and I can let those feelings float by.

 

Because, as we move through the world and bring our art, our passions, and our work to life, we don’t have to be tied to the outcomes. Instead, we can stand deeply embodied, realizing that we’re worthy of everything our hearts desire. And when we position ourselves from a place of receiving, of giving, and of allowing things to come and go to wash in and out of our lives without attachment without pressure, we’re able to receive what we’re worthy of.

 

I hope you love today’s episode. But, more importantly, I hope you remember that you’re more than worthy of it all.

Episode 43: A guided meditation to raise rates and stay calm

I recently hosted a live workshop, and began it with a guided meditation on raising your rates. It was such a beautiful time together that I couldn't resist sharing the replay here as well.

 

In this episode you'll get a glimpse of what it's like to work with an intuitive business coach, listen in to some common concerns that bubble up with raising rates, and leave feeling better, having more clarity about what you'd like your future to look like and what you need to do to get there.

 

Listen in when you're ready to uplevel your life, and stay grounded doing so.

Episode 42: Bragging May Just Be Your Most Powerful Mindset Tool

Over the last year or so, I have leaned in powerfully to the practice of bragging. Deliciously, beautifully, playfully bragging. And I know that, for a lot of us, the word “bragging” holds a negative connotation. In fact, it probably sounds like we’re being selfish or out of tune with ourselves.

 

But, let me tell you… bragging can be the biggest mindset shift you ever experience. It holds the power to reset negative thought patterns, can bring you back to center, and can change your entire life.

 

In this episode, I’m sharing a few brags with you — like how I am bragging that I am helping people like YOU lean into yourselves, that I am leading a beautiful mastermind space, and that my life and my business feel GOOD lately. So good, in fact… that I wouldn’t have believed it possible just a few years ago.

 

And then, my friend, I want to ask you: when’s the last time you bragged on yourself so beautifully that your voice started shaking? When’s the last time you bragged about your space, about your business, about your joy? I want to invite you to join me — to brag alongside me, too — and to invest in resources and support, like Finding Peace & Profit, that make bragging a conscious “yes!” kind of choice in your everyday life.

 

Hold space for this, okay? Hold space for you.

 

LINKS:

Finding Peace and Profit

 

Episode 41: Slowing Down to Speed Up

You might be ready to “quantum leap” ahead, towards some big changes in your business. Maybe you even know you want to hire some support, outsource, or create new workflows. Sometimes, we have to slow down a bit before we get to speed up and see exponential shifts that compound. 

 

In this week’s episode I’m bringing in my husband David to dig into this concept that we’ve both been learning and putting into practice — because allowing ourselves to slow down, to hand things off, and to open up more space has started to change everything at Almond Leaf Studios.

 

For David, this has meant hiring someone to provide editing support with our videos — which has been a big change, and hasn’t necessarily been fun or easy the whole way through (but is so worth it). It’s all about the small steps to make the big changes, and sometimes those small steps are slower ones… and they’re just as sweet. 

Episode 40: Coaching and Human Design Featuring Alicia Nicole

As one of the most intuitive coaches I know, Alicia Nicole gives a beautiful introduction to the modality of Human Design as one of the many tools she uses in her holistic coaching practice. 

 

On this episode we joke about starting a group for post “bro marketing” experiences with coaches, discuss some common tendencies we see in online marketing, and dive into her many years of experience working behind the scenes with some of the top coaches and experts in the industry. 

 

Alicia is showing us what human design is and how you use it to build a life and a business that’s truly in alignment.. We also chat about the lessons she learned from leaving religion, the experiences that led her to the success she has today, and how following intuition is the key to building a more aligned life.

 

Listen in for an episode sure to bring you back to yourself.

Episode 39: The Duality of Grief

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been feeling this collective grief pulsing through our nation as of late. It’s so easy to get caught up in staying busy as a subconscious way to avoid the feelings. The fear of the grief, the sadness, the anger taking over, as if a sea at storm, ready to take out anyone and anything in its path is so real.

 

I have been allowing the waves of grief to pulse, move through my body, and to be present with them. To welcome and honor them. To invite them to move in and through me to be released.After a session of grieving, I found myself thinking about the dichotomy of what it looks like to be so present with your deepest feelings and yet also hold extreme excitement, joy, and gratitude for the work that you are doing in the world. This is my reality, and the reality of so many of my coaching clients.And so, I sat down and recorded this bonus episode.
Just for you.

To remind you that you are uniquely you and this world needs what you have to offer. Just as you.

With all your grief and anger present, too.Listen in. Pass it along to your friends.

 

It's a good one.

Episode 38: The Energetics of Arrival (and of the Journey)

What if, my friend, you stopped thinking so much about the arrival?

 

And more about the journey that gets you there?

 

I know how it feels to focus on the arrival — but I also know how much better it feels to reframe the journey and revel in that instead. And, while it feels good — way better, in fact — it’s also so transformative and freeing and joyful, too.

 

On today’s episode, I’m talking about how you can find that joy in the journey on the way to arrival. We’re going to dive into how you can reframe your experiences, how you can lean into your journey, and how you can celebrate each moment… not just the seemingly massive ones. Because, guess what? When you can reframe that journey, you can unfold magic and joy like you never even realized.

Episode 37: The Rub: Grief and Gratitude

Have you ever found yourself drowning in grief, or wondering how to wrestle with the strangeness of the human experience as heartbreaking news continues to unfold in the world?

I couldn’t think of a better person to interview than my own doula, who helped me welcome my first baby into the world, and has seen, experienced and participated in countless life and death moments during her own lifetime. 

Her perspective on grief and the rub of gratitude that’s found in the midst of deep grief is such an inspiration.

Listen in if you’re ready for her inspiring, beautiful perspective.

 

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Chama has been attending births as a birth doula in Asheville since 1999 and teaching childbirth education classes since 2002. She is a full spectrum birth, death and postpartum and abortion doula, a Lamaze childbirth educator, a DONA International Birth Doula trainer, a Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss Instructor and the Strategic Doula Advisor for Sistas Caring 4 Sistas, a community-based doula program located at MAHEC. Chama is the owner of Homegrown Families a perinatal health center and doula agency, is a mother of two daughters and lives on a farm outside of Asheville NC.

Links:

Instagram: @homegrown_families or @chamawoydak

Facebook: Chama Woydak and Asheville Homegrown Families

Website: ashevillehomegrownfamilies.com

Episode 36: For When You Need a Little Extra Affirmation

If you’ve been in need of a little extra encouragement, love, and nourishment for that soul and mind and heart of yours, you’re in the right place. Today, I’m taking you through some affirmations to remind you of how incredible, worthy, and wonderful you are. 

 

Tune in for one of those episodes that just fills you up from the inside out, reminds you how to enjoy the present with gratitude, and makes space for slow, beautiful breath.

LINKS:

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Joe Dispenza

Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day by Jay Shetty

The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

Apothékary - The Littles, Chill Out  (these are *the* best!)

An Invitation to Check in With Yourself 

The Mindfulness Practice I’ve Been Loving Lately