Mindful eating is a process of connecting to your body more and letting your body be the guide of how you should be eating.

For many people, January represents the chance to start afresh. Health plans often top the list with people choosing new diets and setting resolutions around their food habits.

If you’re someone who’s struggled to create long-term results from dieting, or you find it difficult to take control over food, this powerful episode is for you.

Most of us haven’t been trained to be mindful eaters. Instead of using food as a vehicle to connect deeply with our bodies, we get lost in emotional or comfort eating.

As unlikely as it sounds, there is a way to change your eating habits without the need for calorie counting, meal plans, or regimented diets. Each of us has innate wisdom coursing through our body. We can use this wisdom to guide our dietary choices – and create more health and fulfillment in the process.

This episode will show you how.

This week’s guest is Gina Worful; a registered dietitian and master of human nutrition.

Gina became passionate about behavior re-patterning after seeing so many people frustrated with their self-sabotaging habits and repeatedly failing to stick to their nutrition program. This led to the development of her published book, Mastering Mindfulness, and her method that has been presented at conferences nationwide.

In this episode, Gina and I explore:

1. What is mindful eating?
2. How to use food as a way to reconnect with your body.
3. What kids can teach us about intuitively eating.
4. The psychology of comfort food and emotional eating.
5. Why willpower alone won’t help you stick to a diet.
6. The power of starting with a breath.
7. How you can learn to trust yourself with food.
8. How to start a mindful eating plan.
9. Why your body already knows what it wants to eat.
10. The power of playing with colors in food.
11. The role of intuition in eating.
12. And more…

If you’re ready to ditch the diets and create a guilt-free, empowering relationship with food, this episode is packed with insights, ideas, and inspiration that will help you make 2021 the year you kick dieting for good.

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https://youtu.be/aFeG4hC8LxY

Gina Worful

The reaction to the trauma doesn’t necessarily stop with the people who experienced it.

Do you have symptoms that you can’t explain? For example, are you overly anxious for no obvious reason? Do you instinctively push people away or intentionally disassociate from difficult feelings in your body? Do you have irrational fears or thoughts about what could happen that don’t make logical sense?

If so, there’s a chance you may be experiencing inherited trauma; that’s trauma, which started with your parents or your grandparents – not you. 

Generational trauma can impact our lives in profound ways. Fortunately, there is something you can do to transform the fears and soothe the feelings. There is a way to break the pattern so that the ancestral trauma stops with you.

Mark Wolynn – author of It Didn’t Start With You and the director of The Family Constellation Institute in San Francisco has devoted his life to understanding and healing inherited family trauma. In this must-hear episode, Mark reveals how his work holds the potential to wildly transform your life as well as the life of your children and grandchildren [even if they’ve not yet been born].

The concept of inherited trauma is backed by science. As Mark explains in the episode, as we learn more about epigenetics, our clarity about the way trauma is passed on increases.

Ancestral trauma is often behind the curtain. Logic can convince us that certain things are best left unsaid. But just because we don’t hear things doesn’t mean we can’t feel things.

Mark’s work empowers people to dig deeper into their familial setting so they can understand the reactions and feelings locked in their body. As a result, his clients get to experience unimaginable feelings of freedom, closure, and clarity.

You can get a taste of the potential that healing ancestral trauma could have for you when you tune into this episode.

1. What is inherited trauma?
2. What’s a healthy way to experience a healing event if you can’t tap back into the original trauma?
3. How can you learn to be present with what is?
4. How to differentiate between attachment and generational trauma.
5. Why traumas affect fathering and mothering.
6. The profound difference between forgiveness and understanding.
7. What is inner child healing and why is it powerful healing work?
8. How healing generational trauma impacts your children [and your children’s children].
9. Changing how our genes express to protect our kids [and grandchildren].
10. Why Mark is passionate about this work [and how it healed his sight].
11. The significance of Mark crying into his mother’s clothes.
12. And more…

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https://youtu.be/BgoVXYRCpTo

Mark Wolynn

I’m trusting my own spirit over my mind and over what anybody else thinks.

Is there a part of you that knows your true path follows a different track to the one you’re walking currently?

Do you have an inner knowing that your life could be different – if only you had the courage to follow the beat of your own drum?

If so, you’re not alone. In this age of transformation and chaos, more and more people are questioning the conventional path through life. More and more people are looking to explore the truth of who they are and authentically express their inner being.

Makhosi Candiss Pitts is an Abundance Activator & Authentic African Shaman who helps seekers create an extraordinary business and life using mindset, mindfulness and metaphysics mastery.

She guides people to develop their intuition and cultivate the courage to trust their personal truth – so they can create limitless abundance, unparalleled freedom and exceptional impact.

And in this powerful episode, she’ll help you do the same…

Makhosi has had an indelible impact on my own spiritual path. If you’re a spiritual seeker who’s ready to go deeper, you’ll love her energy as well as resonate with her own story of transformation and insane personal growth.

In the past, Makhosi walked the traditional path too – until she reached a point where she was no longer willing to compromise her soul desires. In this powerful interview, we explore how you can take the leap and develop the trust you need to be your authentic self.

Here’s a taste of what we explore:

1. Why do humans crave a sense of sovereignty?
2. What does it feel like to be a sovereign being?
3. How do you know when you’re experiencing oneness?
4. How do you learn to trust your intuition?
5. How do you know what to trust in the present moment?
6. What is freedom?
7. Was there a time when you were afraid of making a big decision?
8. Makhosi’s journey to becoming a shaman.
9. And more…

Makhosi Candiss Pitts

EP. 122 Crisis is something that we create for ourselves in order to return to authenticity.

I believe this is the most important episode of Stay Grounded I’ve ever recorded. We’re living in unprecedented times and a new world is unfolding with each new day. Every single one of us are facing new choices and challenges as we adjust to the far-reaching impact of this global pandemic.

Now more than ever it’s important to stay grounded in the things we love and the moments that matter. It’s true that the things, which brought us certainty in the past have been turned upside down. But maybe this crisis offers us a chance to unlock a new sense of meaning. Maybe this crisis will empower us to turn our attention to our inner world so we can find lasting peace and finally realize that we are enough. This is Panache Desai’s empowering perspective on crisis. He believes crisis is something we create for ourselves so we can return to authenticity – and in this beautiful episode, Panache explores how we can walk the path to enoughness with grace, surrender, and divinity.

Panache Desai is a visionary thought leader and a life catalyst in the area of human development. This incredible human has appeared on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday, he’s collaborated with Depak Chopra and has worked with everyone from Neale Donald Walsh to Joe Dispenza, Brian Weiss, Ram Dass, James Redfield, and other luminaries in the fields of spiritual and personal development. Panache is also an international bestselling author and at this pivotal point in human history, he’s published a new book – You Are Enough – Revealing the Soul to Discover Your Power, Potential, and Possibility. 

There’s no question for me that Panache is a source of divine light. I had the privilege of recording this episode in person and the way his energy made me feel was like nothing I’ve experienced before. I guarantee this episode will inspire a new way of thinking; leaving you empowered to approach today’s world with a sense of hope, faith, and peace.

Here’s a taste of what Panache and I discuss:

1. Why Panache’s daughter forced him to surrender to the uncertainty of life – and the beautiful healing journey that happened as a result.
2. The priceless gift of struggle and suffering.
3. What does peace and surrender feel like?
4. What is the essential self?
5. Does ego ever help us play at our highest level?
6. How can you get to the point where you feel enough?
7. What we have to learn about enoughness from squirrels.
8. What role does the mind play in helping us live our higher self?
9. Tools to make your mind the poster child of the heart.
10. The power of the breath.
11. The five commitments of enoughness.
12. What is presence?

Panache Desai

The better our boundaries are, the more powerful our presence will be in the world.

What does it take to live in your truth and create a container that empowers you to thrive?

This episode’s incredible guest believes we’ve not been taught to speak up and share our truth. Instead, we’ve been trained to distrust the messages of our body and override our inner wisdom.

Karlee Fain is a celebrity business and health coach who shows career-driven women how to upgrade their boundaries so they can tap into their deepest wisdom and stop people-pleasing. As a sought-after live-in coach to A-List celebrities [including Grammy-award winners], Karlee empowers people to get back their precious time and energy.

In this thought-provoking episode, you’ll discover how you can lean into the richness of life and connect with your inner being through the magic of boundaries.

Check out this beautiful episode to hear Karlee and I discuss:

1. How to differentiate between self-love when you need to take time and self-love when you need to do the work.
2. The teacup and saucer analogy of boundaries and self-love.
3. Why creating boundaries isn’t easy.
4. How to know that our boundaries are appropriate.
5. How our body tells us that it’s time to set boundaries.
6. What are boundaries actually protecting?
7. How to determine which values are worth creating boundaries around.
8. Why starting with the low-risk scenarios is a great way to practice boundary setting.
9. How to start being radically honest with yourself.
10. How to make friends as adults.
11. And more!

If you feel you need a bigger container in which to thrive and you need some help giving yourself the freedom and permission to prioritize your needs, this is one episode you don’t want to miss.

Karlee Fain

Our grief is sacred and it’s a rite of passage.

2020 has forced us all to explore our relationship with grief. At some level, we’re all grieving – for unexplored plans, for the old way of living, and for loved ones who are no longer with us.

You may know I lost my grandmother and aunt recently to COVID-19. As my family moves through our grief, I’m experiencing the pain and beauty of dancing with a rich spectrum of emotions. At times, I’m overwhelmed with pain, hurt, and confusion. Then without warning, my emotions flip to deep gratitude for the memories and the opportunity to deepen the connection I feel with my family.

Turns out there is no playbook for grief.

Instead, death is a rite of passage and grief is a personal process that we will all experience at some point during our lives.

So to help break down the taboos and myths around grief, I wanted to bring Death Doula, Jessica Reis onto the show.

Jessica is an incredible human who’s doing incredible work. She specializes in Grief, Loss, Shadow work and Death Guidance, and nourishes with love, guidance and support while helping people to navigate the loss of a loved one.

In this powerful conversation, Jessica and I explore:

1. Why do we struggle to navigate grief?
2. How do you dance through grief so you can feel the full spectrum of emotions?
3. The importance of meeting a grieving person where they are.
4. How you can change the story about grief to make it a more beautiful experience.
5. Why grief is sacred and a rite of passage.
6. How the presence of death can become life-affirming.
7. Death-nesting and the power of supporting someone to move into the portal of death.
8. How I connected energetically with my grandmother in the last moments of her life.
9. The power of moving through grief with ceremonies.
10. Why inauthenticity repels.
11. And more…

Whether you’re grieving for a loved one or the loss of your pre-COVID plans and dreams, this beautiful conversation will help you dance with your emotions – wherever they want to take you.

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https://youtu.be/wM3q5hrilo4

Jessica Reis