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Ep. 127 Holistic Parenting and Childcare with Dr. Nicole Beurkens

Spirit Sessions Podcast Guest

This special episode features a conversation with Holistic Child Psychologist Dr. Nicole Beurkens. Dr. Nicole is a psychologist, nutritionist, educator, and mom who provides parents with super simple, effective research-based strategies to help people get to the root of their children’s anxiety, attention issues, mood, and behavioral challenges. Tune in to hear Katie and Dr. Nicole discuss the many realms of parenting, styles of parenting, and how all systems in a child’s life contribute to their emotional and physical well-being.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ How holistic psychology is about recognizing that what goes on in people's minds and their mental and emotional and behavioral experiences in life are completely connected to everything that is going on in their physical body

~ The importance of children’s roles within family systems and how children are a mirror for what’s going on around them

~ How we can examine what’s happening around the child and the systems in order to better understand their challenges

~ The family system and how it incorporates lineage patterns 

~ How children can reflect to parent the unresolved issues within them that may need to be addressed

~ How the stories we tell ourselves about parenting can have deleterious effects on children and the relationship

~ An overview of the types of parenting attachment styles and the pros and cons of each

~ How to take into account all the systems that could be contributing to undesirable behaviors and ways to address them

~ You can connect with Dr. Nicole Beurkens through her website: www.drbeurkens.com or via Instagram @drnicolebeurkens

~ To learn more about LIVE or VIRTUAL Body and Soul Training, click here: theshaktischool.com/body-soul-event

~ Register for Level 1 Ayurveda School here: theshaktischool.com/ayurveda-school Sign up in the month of May and receive a FREE YEAR of Spirit Sessions Membership to start studying live with Katie now

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Ep. 126 What’s Botox Got To Do With It

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It's natural and healthy to want to be as juicy and nature-plumped for as long as possible. But something may be lurking in the shadows of the beauty industry - Botox and its effects on your emotional and social regulation system. Just how far are we willing to go to keep that eternal plump of youth? What are we willing to sacrifice? Here Katie speaks openly about natural living fundamentalism, embodied cognition, our social nervous system and what all of this has to do with Botox injections. 

P.S. This is a NO-JUDGMENT zone over here at Shakti School. We 100% support a woman’s right to make her own beauty decisions and support our Botoxed Beauties as much as anyone. In fact, thousands of years of history show us that women will go to great lengths to beautify themselves. And while beautification methodology is very much a personal choice, women deserve to be educated on the effects of Botox on their social nervous system. So whether you are a Botox-queen or a natural-only mama, let’s release judgment and dive in deep in this not-to-be-missed pod.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

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The idea of embodied cognition 

~ The importance of our social nervous system and the ventral vagal complex

~ What natural living fundamentalism is and how it relates to wellness culture (p.s. We love a Vitamix ;))

~ The importance of our micro musculatures for regulating mood states

~ How botox can not only affect the way other people perceive your emotions, but also impact the emotional experience of the person who had the injection

~ Studies can be found at the following links: https://academic.oup.com/asj/article/40/4/430/5418602?login=false

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20515231

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3379579

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25694806/

 

SPONSORED: This episode is brought to you by PAAVANI Ayurveda. PAAVANI Ayurveda is a female-owned and family-run health and skincare company based in Northern California.

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Ep. 125 Katie Talks with Smart Dudes Series #2 with Dr. Harry Adelson

Spirit Sessions Podcast Guest (1)

We’re back with another episode of the new series ‘Katie Talks with Smart Dudes’ where Katie sits down with the renegade in the realm of medicine and self-healing, Dr. Harry Adelson. This talk dives into the superhuman powers of stem cells, why all men should get an oxytocin injection, and how everyone, regardless of your financial situation, can benefit from Dr. Harry’s treatment. 

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ What stem cells are and why they are important in our healing

~ Dr. Harry’s experience around the role of doctor and patient in the realm of the heart

~ How cowboys played an integral part in Dr. Harry’s career

~ When it’s important to use conventional medicine vs. using your body’s own ability to heal itself 

~ The magic of projecting love in everything you do

~ Dr. Harry’s top pieces of advice for surviving this crazy world

~ You can find more and connect with Dr. Harry at docereclinics.com

 

SPONSORED: This episode is brought to you by PAAVANI Ayurveda. PAAVANI Ayurveda is a female-owned and family-run health and skincare company based in Northern California.

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Ep. 124 From Negative Self-Talk to TRUE Self

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Join Katie in this tender topic we can all relate to: Self-Talk.

We will dive into defining "self-talk," and learning how to differentiate from it. Katie discusses easy methods you can use to neutralize, transmute and work with these inner voices. We will explore neurobiology, cognitive shifts, mythology and awakening the inner spiritual parent.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ What is self-talk and when do we hear it?

~ How this negative self-talk correlates with shame

~ Difference between Samskara and Vasana

~ Our parts and how they have their own self-talk and how it helps to personify them

~ Helpful ways to differentiate these parts

~ How we take on external voices and appropriate them as our own

~ Ways we can neutralize negative self-talk

~ How not identifying with these thoughts can help with inner peace and overall well being

~ Connect with us on Instagram and let us know what you thought of the episode

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Ep. 123 Katie Talks with Smart Dudes Series #1 with Sean McCormick

Spirit Sessions Podcast Guest

Join Katie for her kick-off episode of the new series ‘Katie Talks with Smart Dudes’ where she dishes openly and honestly with Sean about his shift from feeling unfulfilled into helping people feel safe within their own bodies and his work as a biohacking life coach.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~  How we can get started on the road to our soul's calling job by listening to the inner voice of our own healing journey 

~ What biohacking is and some of Sean's favorite technologies for deeper alignment with health and soul

~ Sean's "most important" lifestyle alterations that upleved his life 

~ Katie and Sean get real on what men can do to come into deeper alignment with their true self ~ Open and vulnerable conversation on men and emotions, alcohol, pot and porn addictions

~ Sean's advice on how a man can return to his most powerful self

~ You can find more and connect with Sean at SeanMcCormick.com and on Instagram at @realseanmccormick

~ Schedule a free 45 min coaching strategy session: calendly.com/seanmccormickcoaching

About Sean McCormick:

Sean McCormick is the host of the Optimal Performnce Podcast and a certified life and performance coach with clients like NFL and MLS players, CEOs and Television stars.

Sean is an expert in performance biohacking. Having tested, studied and applied hundreds of health and performance approaches for himself and his clients - Sean knows how to get the most from the least. More productive thinking, faster recovery techniques, sleep hacking, lifestyle hacking, habit and routine creation - Sean helps people improve rapidly, with the least amount of work. Sean is also a father, husband and explorer of consciousness.

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Ep. 122 Ayurveda’s Favorite Kates Talk About Drinking Their Own Pee (Yep!)

Spirit Sessions Podcast Guest (2)

Keep an open mind for this one! Cate Stillman of Yogahealer and Katie discuss innovation and the friction that tends to arise when we break the rules. Cate outlines Shivambu as it’s connected to the Vedas and the potential benefits of urine therapy and how to DIY.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ Cate and Katie discuss being Ayurveda renegades and futurists

~ Culture and the creation of disgust as an emotion vs biological disgust

~ Cate dives into the history of urine therapy - globally and from the Vedic Tantras

~ Amazing possible health indications of auto-urine therapy

~ DIY urine therapy - enemas, skin creams, urine ferments, Neti potting, oh my!

~ You can find Cate and her offerings spoken about in the episode at yogahealer.com

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Ep. 121 Starting a Spirit-Infused New Year

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This episode is from a workshop hosted by Katie and The Shakti School on exploring the 7 key steps towards creating a sacred spiritual practice that may radically alter your life. Learn how to cultivate an inner reservoir that could nurture us in ways we only dreamed possible and deeply BREATHE the belief of our dreams into our body in 2022.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ Begin the episode with a talk on Up-leveling your 2022 with Level 1 Ayurveda School

~ Sign up for The Shakti School Newsletter list

~ Story of Shakti and Shiva and balance

~ What happens when we over-identify with one polarity

~ The 7 sacred steps and how to implement them

~ Orientation meditation practice

~ Outline of the practice available for download by clicking here

~ Ayurveda School experience shares and Q+A

~ Book a call with the Shakti School team here

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Ep. 120 I’m A (Recovering) Intensity Addict

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Katie dishes on being an intensity addict and her journey to recovery and signs you may also be an intensity addict. The great news is that there are ways to come out of this and to help uncover the psycho emotional and energetic addictions that may be the driving force.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ Begin the episode with a talk on Up-leveling your 2022 with Level 1 Ayurveda School

~ Sign up for The Shakti School Newsletter list

~ Brahmana and Langhana

~ Katie’s journey being an ‘intensity addict’

~ Signs YOU might be one

~ How to honor our drama and intensity without becoming addicted

~ How to come out of it: first step is noticing, second is cultivating a neutral base

~ Being okay with neutral and even “boring” as a pathway to reawakening our simple pleasure power

~ Free webinar with Katie on January 2nd 

~ Book a call with the Shakti School team here

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We don’t do dogma. No one-size-fits-all food lists. We teach you how to listen to your own body’s wisdom.

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