004 - Healing Yourself Through Self Care, Self Love, And Empowerment with Samantha Lotus
01/22/18 • 44 min
Having grown up following the standard North American lifestyle of eating junk food, taking medications, stressing out over everything, and repressing her emotions, Samantha became sick. At 26, she was diagnosed with a form of blood cancer and told that she needed to start chemotherapy and radiation.
Not wanting to accept that as her first option of treatment, Samantha opted for a different approach and began to heal herself in a multi-faceted natural approach which you will learn about during this interview.
Now Samantha is a Lifestyle Alchemist, Yin Yoga Instructor & Certified Nutritional Practitioner specializing in Psychoneuroendoimmunology.
She is also the founder of Real Life But Better, a Holistic Nutrition and Wellness Wonderland where she educates about the power of self-healing and mentors her clients in achieving optimal mind/body/soul alignment.
Samantha has made it her mission to facilitate the practice of naturopathic self-healing through self care, self love, empowerment, and much much more...
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Why she decided to opt out of chemo (5:07)
Why you need to pay attention to what your prescribed and diagnosed with (6:28)
Why so many doctors aren't taught about the natural healing path (8:54)
How her belief system was keeping her sick (13:48)
The reason why people are afraid to be happy (18:39)
Why each of us are perfect (19:44)
How to handle negative self talk (23:38)
The common denominator between diseases (26:22)
Why life is just a video game (34:30)
How to stay committed in the midst of distractions (39:21)
Having grown up following the standard North American lifestyle of eating junk food, taking medications, stressing out over everything, and repressing her emotions, Samantha became sick. At 26, she was diagnosed with a form of blood cancer and told that she needed to start chemotherapy and radiation.
Not wanting to accept that as her first option of treatment, Samantha opted for a different approach and began to heal herself in a multi-faceted natural approach which you will learn about during this interview.
Now Samantha is a Lifestyle Alchemist, Yin Yoga Instructor & Certified Nutritional Practitioner specializing in Psychoneuroendoimmunology.
She is also the founder of Real Life But Better, a Holistic Nutrition and Wellness Wonderland where she educates about the power of self-healing and mentors her clients in achieving optimal mind/body/soul alignment.
Samantha has made it her mission to facilitate the practice of naturopathic self-healing through self care, self love, empowerment, and much much more...
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Why she decided to opt out of chemo (5:07)
Why you need to pay attention to what your prescribed and diagnosed with (6:28)
Why so many doctors aren't taught about the natural healing path (8:54)
How her belief system was keeping her sick (13:48)
The reason why people are afraid to be happy (18:39)
Why each of us are perfect (19:44)
How to handle negative self talk (23:38)
The common denominator between diseases (26:22)
Why life is just a video game (34:30)
How to stay committed in the midst of distractions (39:21)
Previous Episode
003 - Creating Space And Building Emotional Resilience with Cyndi Roberts
A misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder and countless addictions pushed Cyndi's health to the limit in 2008. Overweight, overwhelmed, pre-diabetic, suicidally depressed, fearful, hopeless and discovering that she had 6 months to live before reaching liver failure, Cyndi decided it was time to take matters into her own hands.
How?
Through mindfulness, movement, and meditation. Nearly 7 years later, Cyndi has completely transformed her life through the tools she now teaches others. Having lost 80 pounds and now living without medication, she is no longer pre-diabetic or facing liver failure, and has successfully transitioned from victim to victor mode.
At her private West Hartford, CT Yoga Studio, you’ll find one-on-one therapeutic, gentle, restorative and prenatal yoga sessions as well as reiki, meditation, physical therapy, myofascial release, and much much more.
Cyndi is so passionate about teaching others how to create more space, healing, and love in their lives and relationships through the use mindfulness, yoga (and other movement) and meditation.
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
The important questions that no one ever asked her (5:08)
How spending 12 years on long term prescriptions impacted her mental and physical health(9:10)
How she was able to restore her quality of life (12:50)
Why committing to small daily practices changed her life (17:25)
Why she hated meditation (19:30)
Simple meditation tips for beginners (21:40)
Why we need to befriend our anxiety instead of pushing it away (25:21)
Why the pursuit of happiness system is broken (30:30)
How improving emotional resilience has impacted her life and helped her bounce back quicker (33:20)
Why loving ourselves more allows us to love others more too (37:18)
Why adversity is an opportunity to rise up and take our power back (44:51)
Next Episode
005 - How To Run Through Your Challenges with Tofe Evans
Tofe's story is an interesting one. After facing multiple set backs in 2014, Tofe was facing severe depression and resorting to self infliction, hard drugs and alcohol, and prescription medication as coping mechanisms for his pain.
Somehow Tofe was able to find an escape route and turned to running as his new addiction. Now known as an endurance athlete and resilience thought leader, he's managed to change his life through endurance events and gratitude.
Although, these endurance events and gratitude have saved his life, he's been doing these events for a greater purpose than himself: to help raise money for charities and increase the awareness around mental health.
Some of Tofe's crazy accomplishments are:
Ran 40 endurance events in 1 year to raise awareness and money for cancer research
60km Ultramarathon on Mt Everest for Cystic Fibrosis
100km run for Blind + Amputee
12hr & 24hr Treadmill Challenges (Yes, that says 24 hr!)
100km War Trail for Youth Military - PTSD
And much much more
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Why no one wants to talk about mental health (9:50)
Why we're social creatures and built for connection and story (11:00)
Why it's so common to find people in the running community who are running from their demons (13:00)
Tofe's light bulb moment during a 24 hour treadmill challenge (16:00)
Why adversity is a blessing in disguise (17:46)
Why it's impossible for last domino to be hit by the first one (28:55)
How Tofe has been able to make fear his best friend (48:00)
Tofe's scariest moment of his endurance career (52:12)
Why we need to be more vulnerable (1:06:20)
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