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Podcast, Winter

Ep. 198 Family Archetypes: Understanding the Thanksgiving Dinner Table Dynamics

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You’ve done the inner work and matured spiritually, yet as soon as your family gathers for the holidays you feel like a little kid again and revert to the same old, dysfunctional family dynamics! Just in time for Thanksgiving, Katie shares how family archetypes affect our relationships and how you can start creating more healthy family dynamics this holiday season.

Learn how to approach your next family gathering with the mind of a yogini so you can unravel generational karma and have more compassion toward yourself and others.

Want to dive even deeper into family archetypes? You’re invited to join Katie LIVE on Friday, December 13th for our FREE Liberating Yourself from Family Archetypes webinar! Click here to register. Everyone registered will also receive the recording!

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In this episode about family archetypes, you’ll hear:

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~ What is an archetype?

~ The Ayurvedic and Jungian perspectives of family archetypes

~ How to approach your family like a yogini

~ Family frameworks as coping mechanisms

~ The ego's role in family archetypes

~ How to identify the role you play in your family

~ Common family archetypes including the Caretaker, Whipping Boy, Black Sheep, Hero and Clown

~ Shifting out of the victim mindset

~ Why understanding creates compassion

~ Book a free call with one of our coaches to learn more about Ayurveda School!

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

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~ Read Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy!

Related episodes:

~ Ep. 174 Explore Your Inner Child with Nicole Frolick

~ Ep. 160 Courage in Facing the Shadow

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Kapha season is that late winter to early spring t Kapha season is that late winter to early spring transition when things start to melt… and sometimes we do too.💦 If you’re feeling a little heavier or slower, or feeling an urge to get things moving and flowing, you’re right on time! We can balance kapha heaviness with foods that lighten, warm and gently stimulate the system. 🌿⁠
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Here are some of our favorite Kapha-balancing foods for spring:⁠
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🧅 Onions + garlic → pungent, heating and help break up stagnation⁠
🫘 Split peas, mung beans, red lentils → light, drying and easy to digest⁠
🫒 Olive oil → a lighter fat that supports without weighing you down⁠
🌿 Fresh herbs → help brighten digestion and adds fresh, spring zest!⁠
🐟 Freshwater fish + wild salmon → clean protein that’s easier to metabolize than heavy meats⁠
🍯 Raw honey → naturally scraping (lekhana), helps reduce excess Kapha⁠
🌾 Amaranth + quinoa + barley + basmati → light, protein-rich grains that don’t create heaviness⁠
🥬 Cabbage + asparagus → bitter, astringent spring veggies that detox + de-bloat (all the greens this season!)⁠
🍇 Dried fruit → provides light sweetness when used in moderation⁠
🍗 Chicken → a lean, grounding protein without excess heaviness⁠
🍎 Apples or seasonal fruit → light, cleansing and supportive for digestion⁠
🥛 Goat milk (or lighter dairy) → easier to digest for kapha than heavier dairy options⁠
🌶️ Heating spices → ginger, turmeric, cumin & black pepper to stoke agni 🔥⁠
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This is the season to eat a little lighter and support your digestion so your energy can come back online.⁠
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🌎 Note: This guidance is for those in the Northern Hemisphere moving into spring. If you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, you’ll want to follow a more Vata-balancing, warming and grounding approach as you move into fall.⁠
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✨ Want to learn how to work with your body through every season? Comment WISDOM and we’ll send you our free Divine Feminine Ayurveda mini-course.
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I have a really good friend who once told me somet I have a really good friend who once told me something I will never forget. It pops into my head precisely during those moments when I feel like I am overwhelmed or have too many goals, dreams or just endless mundane items on my to-do list. 

It was this: The goal is to keep the goal the goal.

Seems simple, right? But it is profound precisely because in our day and age, we are BOMBARDED with info, and starving for wisdom. We are, as the youngsters say, suffering from “brain rot.” We tap into our deepest intuitions and then they fly out the door like a toddler on espresso at a birthday party. We get clarity and then we forget. 

Just pause. What are your 5 major life goals right now? Let me give you an example of mine. 

1. Eat clean and right daily. 
2. Meditate for 30 min. And pray to God through my intention to awaken in this life from anything that would keep me from my truest nature. 
3. Do my self-care recovery practices
4. Exercise. 
5. Serve others in an intentional way daily (a.k.a. Not just my selfish desires) 

What are yours?

I recommend writing them on a sticky note and plastering it to your bathroom mirror. Or put it on a card on your altar. 

🌷 See you in class? Level 2 Ayurvedic Health Counselor Online Certification Training begins in just a month and we’re inviting you in. 

With love,
Katie and Team Shakti
Have you ever felt like something going on in your Have you ever felt like something going on in your life was just, “too much to digest?” 

Our bodies respond not only to physical signals, but also to psychoemotional ones.

In Ayurveda, Agni - our metabolic fire and capacity to digest and assimilate food - is more than just physical. 🔥

Agni is the sacred fire that transforms what we take in. Yes that includes food, but it also speaks to our relationships, experiences, creative projects, and even the thoughts and ideas we take in.

When our agni is strong, we don’t just digest our food more smoothly… we metabolize our experiences, emotions, life challenges and the whole messy beautiful ride of being human with more grace and power.

When agni is thriving, the stuck places in our psyches (and yes, also our digestive systems!) begin to move again.

Healing isn’t just about what we eat. It’s about what we’re able to digest in life.

If you’re curious to learn more about tending this inner transformative fire, comment WISDOM and we’ll send you our free Divine Feminine Ayurveda mini-course. 🪔✨

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