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Ep. 189 Finding Meaning in Heartbreak and Time to Fall Apart

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Whether you’re going through a breakup, divorce, job loss or grieving a loved one this episode is for you. Sometimes when we think we’re at our breaking point life throws us yet another huge curve ball. In this episode, Katie shares advice gleaned from recent and past heartbreaks to support you in your darkest moments. Learn breathing practices to process your feelings and find the meaning in your heartbreak so you can come out stronger on the other side!

Thank you to our girlfriends PAAVANI Ayurveda for sponsoring this episode! PAAVANI is women-owned and sources organic ingredients to create their mindfully formulated herbal offerings. Use the discount code SpiritSessions for 10% off your order at paavaniayurveda.com!

In this episode, you’ll hear:

~ How to deal with heartbreak

~ The opportunity within heartbreak

~ Letting go of the illusion of control

~ Lessons about heartbreak from Pema Chödrön

~ Opening to uncomfortable feelings without wallowing in them

~ The Buddhist definition of awareness

~ The importance of getting grounded and how to do it

~ Breathing practices to process heartbreak

~ The ancient Buddhist practice of Thong Lyn

~ Early bird pricing for the 2025 class of our year-long Divine Feminine Ayurveda School is ending soon! Register here before October 31, 2024, to get the lowest price of the year!

Try some of our team's favorite PAAVANI products for fall! We love their Hydrate Blend Tea, Shatavari, Vata Spice Blend, Golden Milk, Ashwagandha, Coconut Milk Bath, and Vata Body Oil.

Other links and sources mentioned in this episode:

~ The work of Dr. Robert Svoboda

~ 1st Poem: “Absolutely Clear” by Hafez Shirazi

~ 2nd Poem: “The Sea and the Bells” by Pablo Neruda

~ Sign up for our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda!

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I hope the advice and practices in this episode help sooth your heartbreak.

From my heart to yours,

Katie

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Heart-Opening Winter Elixir

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The holidays can be a season of both feelings of connection and grief. We’ve created this special Shakti School heart opening elixir featuring skullcap, damiana and rose to get you through the waves of beauty, bliss, and pain.⁣
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🌹 Skullcap: Think soothing, stress relief, and relaxation - this nervine is an emotional balance supporter and restores the functioning of the nervous system.⁣
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🌹 Damiana: This aphrodisiac helper pairs well with skullcap for relaxation while also giving a little boost to mood and digestion.⁣
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🌹 Rose: Associated with the heart chakra, rose is said to help heal a broken heart and enhance feelings of self-love and emotional balance.⁣
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Here’s how to make it:⁣

~ 1/4 cup dried skullcap⁣
~ ¼ cup dried damiana⁣
~ 1/4 cup dried rose petal⁣
~ A few cinnamon sticks⁣
~ 1 T gently crushed cardamom pods⁣
~ 1 T gently crushed star anise⁣
~ 1 T gently crushed cloves⁣
~ an orange peel⁣
~ 1/2 c honey⁣
~ Brandy to cover ⁣
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Add all ingredients to a mason jar. Cover completely with brandy (push down everything in the jar so that it’s below the liquid). Place a piece of parchment paper between the lid and the jar to prevent any transfer from the lid or vice versa. Shake daily, storing in a cool place for about a month.⁣
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Enjoy in small servings as a healing tonic for your heart ❤️

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As summer’s fire gives way to autumn’s winds, As summer’s fire gives way to autumn’s winds, Ayurveda reminds us to slow down, ground and nourish ourselves with warmth, ritual and intention. 🍂⁠
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That’s why the foods, spices and practices Ayurveda recommends for this seasonal transition are all about cultivating stability, inviting us to favor warm, moist and gently spiced meals, slow-moving rituals that calm and steady the nervous system and deeply rooting spiritual practices.⁠
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This seasonal transition is less about doing more, and more about tapping into the inner stability, grounding and nourishment.⁠
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Ready to immerse yourself in more timeless seasonal wisdom to support your body, mind and SOUL?⁠
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Our 2026 Level 1 Ayurveda Certification is now open for early bird enrollment. ⁠
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Here’s what I want you to know about this program: this isn’t just another course.⁠
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It’s a living, breathing community of wise women.⁠
And a path to becoming the embodied healer that lives deep inside.⁠
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🪔  Wanna’ start learning now? Comment WISDOM for our free Women’s Wisdom & Ayurveda Mini-Course.⁠
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🌿 Curious about becoming an embodied healer in 2026? Comment AYURVEDASCHOOL (one word) to learn more about our yearlong program.
One of the beautiful gifts of dating apps is that One of the beautiful gifts of dating apps is that they can offer an expansion of the “soulmate field.” ⁠
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But they have shortcomings, too. ⁠
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Dating apps are a neutral tool. Like other forms of technology, we can use them as spiritually as our consciousness allows. ⁠
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In this episode, I’m diving into the wild world of dating apps – we’ll talk about how to approach them with sacred intention and avoid burnout.⁠
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Learn how your dosha shapes the way you move through dating, how to keep your nervous system and self-worth intact and learn some of the energetic and spiritual practices I use to turn dating into a field of growth.⁠
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From reframing rejection to the one-liner I use for breaking off connections—this episode is packed with tools to help you see dating as a transformational, spiritual endeavor. 😉⁠
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🎧 Ready to tune-in? Comment 223 to listen to the full episode now.
🪶 The Sacred is Calling: Ritual as a Way of Liv 🪶 The Sacred is Calling: Ritual as a Way of Living // A Workshop with Sisters Mary McQuate & Katie Silcox⁠
🗓️ September 25th, 10-12PM on Zoom⁠
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In a world that moves too fast, where our calendars overflow but our hearts feel empty, we’ve lost the thread of the sacred.⁠
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Our modern lives are noisy, hurried, and disconnected—yet deep inside, we long for ritual, meaning and magic.⁠
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This workshop is an invitation to step out of the chaos and remember: every moment of life can be touched by the holy.⁠
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In this event we will guide you through the art of creating rituals for life’s most profound passages: birth, death, and the sacred transitions in between. We’ll also explore how the seemingly ordinary moments of daily life can become ritual when met with intention. ⁠
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Together we’ll uncover how ritual and altar-building can hold space for grief and celebration, endings and beginnings, and the quiet moments of becoming that shape who we are. ⁠
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You’ll learn how to weave practices that honor these thresholds into your own life, creating altars that serve as anchors of remembrance, grounding and renewal... reminders of the sacredness at the heart of every transition.⁠
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Mary McQuate, Founder of Living Altars, brings her deep artistry in creating altars and embodied ritual.⁠
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Katie Silcox, renowned Ayurveda teacher, bestselling author, and spiritual guide, brings the feminine-form teachings of spiritual Ayurveda and the wisdom of living a truly enchanted life.⁠
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Together, they will guide you into the ancient, embodied technologies of ritual—made practical, personal and powerful for your daily life.⁠
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🪔 Step into ritual and reclaim the sacred in your life. Comment MEMBERSHIP for more information on joining us.
Sometimes the best investment you can make for you Sometimes the best investment you can make for your nervous system…is a $28 snake plant.⁠
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I know, I know - there’s rent, groceries, spiritual retreats you low-key regret and maybe that ⁠
collagen powder subscription you never canceled.⁠
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But I will never regret spending money on plants.⁠
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Because plants don’t just sit there looking pretty.⁠
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They breathe with us.⁠
They clean our air.⁠
They calm our cortisol.⁠
They remind us—without words—how to be.⁠
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Plants ARE the Buddhas we've been waiting for. ⁠
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In that light - here are a few of my current green goddesses of choice (AKA natural air purifiers ⁠
that do way more than just look cute):⁠
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🌿 Areca Palm – Humidifies the air + purifies formaldehyde. Great for your skin + your lungs. Also vibes like a little Florida vacation in a pot.⁠
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🪴 Snake Plant (a.k.a. Mother-in-Law’s Tongue) – Releases oxygen at night, making it a dreamy bedroom companion.⁠
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🌸 Peace Lily – Absorbs mold spores + brings literal peace to your environment. I keep one on my altar.⁠
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🌵 Aloe Vera – Not just for burns. She also clears benzene from the air (think paint fumes + cleaning supplies). Bonus: she’s juicy and lush AF.⁠
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🌬 Pothos & Spider Plants – Ridiculously easy to care for + workhorses for purifying air toxins. Great for beginner plant moms.⁠
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Plants are more than decor.⁠
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They’re medicine.⁠
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Not just for the body, but for the spirit.⁠
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They teach us that healing is slow, soft and seasonal.⁠
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That purification isn’t something you force—it’s something you allow.⁠
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✨ Want to soak in more plant wisdom and nervous system nourishment?⁠
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Join us for our upcoming Spa Day Webinar—a whole afternoon of Ayurvedic self-care practices designed to restore and renew you.⁠
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👉🏽 Comment SPA DAY to save your spot (and yes, we’ll send the replay if you can’t make it live!).⁠
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With chlorophyll kisses,⁠
Katie 💋
According to Ayurveda, glowing skin + radiant beau According to Ayurveda, glowing skin + radiant beauty don’t begin with the latest serum or mask—they start in the gut. To get an instant window into the current status of your gut-health (both physical and psychospiritual) tune into these questions:

🍋 Are you hydrated? Are you drinking water with lemon in the morning? Or do you drink ice water or cold beverages?

✅ Swap the ice water for warm lemon water in the morning and sip warm water throughout the day to gently cleanse toxins (ama) and support healthy digestion.

🥕 What are you eating?

✅ What you eat becomes both your body and your mind. Highly processed foods do not give us good prana, or energy, while whole, seasonal, freshly prepared meals nourish our tissues.

👄 Are you chewing your food?

✅ Digestion begins in the mouth. Chewing thoroughly signals your digestive system to prepare for breakdown and absorption. Instead of rushing, slow down and savor each bite to support smoother digestion and assimilation.

💐 Are you eating in a beautiful environment, in an unrushed way?

✅ The environment around you becomes part of your food. Ayurveda suggests eating in a calm, pleasant space, without distractions, so your body can digest not just food, but also the subtle energy of your surroundings.

🧘🏼‍♀️ Do you feel nourished or weighed down after meals?

✅ How you feel post-meal is one of Ayurveda’s simplest diagnostic tools. A light, energized feeling indicates strong agni, while heaviness signals undigested ama.

🔥 Are you listening to your body’s cues of hunger and fullness?
 
✅ True hunger is the body’s signal that agni is ready. Eating before you’re hungry dampens digestion, while ignoring fullness creates overload. 

These simple awareness shifts can completely transform not only your digestion, but also your outer glow. 🌹✨

💌 Want more beauty wisdom, goddess-style? Join us for our FREE Virtual Ayurveda Spa Day where you’ll learn ancient rituals for beauty + well-being from the inside out.

✨ Comment SPA DAY for the link to register and receive your free e-book gift!

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