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Ep. 160 Courage in Facing the Shadow

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This week on the podcast, Kaite chats with licensed psychotherapist and yoga teacher Ashley Turner. They share candidly about the beautiful and ugly parts of their spiritual journeys. Learn how to recognize when your shadow is running the show and how to deeply accept and work with the parts of yourself that you want to hide. By moving beyond spiritual materialism and into a higher level of awareness we can show up in our lives with more confidence and less insecurity!

Join Katie and Ashley as they deep dive into the intersection of Yoga, Buddhism, Tantra, and Jungian psychology in this conversation about how to take our spiritual awareness to the next level.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

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~ What does “to heal” actually mean?

~ Why Katie is a Jungian psychology PhD dropout

~ How to start integrating all the parts of yourself

~ Tools to expand your awareness beyond spiritual materialism

~ What does “shadow work” mean?

~ How to work with your shadow

~ What is a healthy, balanced ego

~ Katie’s new book, Glow-Worthy: Practices for Awakening Your Inner Light and Loving Yourself as You Are—Broken, Beautiful, and Sacred is available now!

Other links mentioned in this episode:

~ Ashley’s online yoga & mental health platform, The Haven

~ Connect with Ashley on Instagram and on her website

~ Ashley’s teacher Mona Miller

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I still struggle with this, but little by little I am learning to see the difference between attention and devotion. Between outer validation and true self-appreciation. ⁠
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Baths are medicine in Ayurveda. When we soak inte Baths are medicine in Ayurveda.

When we soak intentionally, we nourish the nervous system, rebuild ojas, clear stagnant energy and invite pleasure back into the body.

Here are a few simple recipes to indulge in this weekend. 👇🏼

🥛🍯 Ojaslicious Bath (For Deep Nourishment + Love)​​

Milk - builds ojas, replenishes tissues, softens the heart and skin
Raw honey - yogavahi (carrier); pulls nourishment deep into the body and promotes glow
Rose essential oil - cooling, heart-opening, soothing to emotions and hormones

🌹 Love + Clearing Bath (For a Heart + Emotional Reset)

Pink Himalayan salt - gently detoxifies and clears energetic residue
Rose petals - calm the nervous system and open the emotional body to love
Rose or jasmine oil - aphrodisiac, mood-lifting, deeply feminine
Rose quartz - supports self-love, softness and relational healing

🖤 Energy Vamp Clearing Bath (For Boundaries + Protection)

Sea salt - strong cleanser for the aura and nervous system
Sage & rosemary - clarifies the mind and clears stagnation
Fir, eucalyptus, sage or rosemary oil - grounding, protective, circulatory
Black tourmaline - anchors the body and supports energetic boundaries

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Damiana has long been called the herb of love - no Damiana has long been called the herb of love - not because it forces desire, but because it restores the warmth, circulation and nervous system ease that allow pleasure to arise naturally. ⁠
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Through an Ayurvedic lens, damiana supports agni, moves stagnation and gently nourishes reproductive vitality, especially in colder seasons when the body needs more warmth and flow. ⁠
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🌹 Remember: Pleasure is a physiological state tied to hormonal balance, digestion and emotional regulation. ⁠
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Ayurveda has been teaching that your glow starts with digestion for thousands of years. When we tend our agni through simple daily rituals (tongue scraping, warm water, warm and spiced foods and yes… complete elimination 💩), assimilation improves, toxins clear, hormones regulate and vitality improves from the inside out.

Radiant wellbeing emerges when the system is supported.

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