Inside Body Confidence with Sophie Cleere

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02/21/21 • 47 min

This episode features an inspirational facilitator whose favourite thing is to empower women to feel good. The soft and strong, wild and free, fragile and fierce Sophie Cleere. Together we take a no-bullshit look at Sophie’s journey from disconnection to body confidence and the pleasures and heightened sexuality of her perimenopause. There is some explicit language so if that’s not your thing, you may prefer to listen to a different episode. We chat about:

How our mums' body image influences our own
How restrictive dieting crushes the spirit
How to stop looking up our arses and be in the 'now'
How conscious sexuality can be transformational
Sex and perimenopause
How the perimenopause gift of discernment helps us to really care for ourselves
Sophie’s self-care non-negotiables for a vibrant life

And of course, a stonking top-tip to develop more body confidence
You can find Sophie on Instagram at @Sophie.Cleere
You can find out more about Sophie's journalling and self-love classes here
In the podcast, we mentioned Institute for shamanic temple Arts, ISHTA
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the topics we discuss, you can message me through Instagram or have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.
You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and many more platforms soon. It would be wonderful if you would pop over to iTunes to rate and subscribe to Life - An Inside Job to encourage more people to nourish their inner lives.
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Music
Trust Me by RYYZN
Artwork
Kate's portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

How our mums' body image influences our own
How restrictive dieting crushes the spirit
How to stop looking up our arses and be in the 'now'
How conscious sexuality can be transformational
Sex and perimenopause
How the perimenopause gift of discernment helps us to really care for ourselves
Sophie’s self-care non-negotiables for a vibrant life

Previous Episode

Inside Consciousness with John Stirk

This episode is a mind-expanding stonker of a conversation with yoga teacher John Stirk. If you've ever meditated (or tried to) if you work with mind-body healing or have been to a yoga class, this is going to be fascinating.
If you’ve not come across him, John has been very influential in the yoga world. He started teaching yoga in 1974, and graduated as an osteopath in 1988, later becoming a fellow of the College of Osteopaths. He ran BodyMind workshops with R.D. Lang. and as well as being influenced by BKS Iyengar and Krishnamurti, also had personal tuition from Vanda Scaravelli. Ceasing osteopathy practice in 2000, John now focusses exclusively on group work. He’s recently published his fourth book ‘Deeper Still’ showing how we can find our inner teacher and all make this journey from sensation into expanded consciousness.
I’m your average, sometime-meditator, constantly distracted and no matter how much I long for peace, it is extremely elusive. Except in John’s classes, where almost nothing happens, with only tiny movements, but by the end, I find myself in an extraordinary, expanded state. I wanted to ask John why this was, how even a crazy-head-maginty like me, can reach a state of quiet bliss through sensing into the body.
We cover:

What consciousness is
The Self and ego
The role of the skin in unifying the ego
How to calm our minds
How space can be our friend and connect and unifies us

Mind. Blown.
You can find out about John’s classes and workshops here

And buy his new book Deeper Still here

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the topics we discuss, you can message me through Instagram or have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.
You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and many more platforms soon. It would be wonderful if you would pop over to iTunes to rate and subscribe to Life - An Inside Job to encourage more people to nourish their inner lives.
Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN https://soundcloud.com/ryyzn
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/trust-me-instrumental
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/KZoaU3rjIZo
Artwork
Portrait by

Next Episode

Inside Identity with Angie Litvinoff

I wanted to have a conversation with Angie Litvinoff because she is an inspired healer. She’s a medicine woman, creator of ceremonies and rites of passage and a mentor who is utterly grounded. Very often people who reach her level of teaching and visibility are full of smoke and mirrors, pretence and ego, but Angie makes finding identity so simple and straight-forward and DO able. This translates into a highly effective transformation program and her Online Calm pack: from anxiety to delivery which helps creatives find their true identity and voice.

There is some explicit language in this podcast, so if that’s not your thing, you may prefer to listen to a different episode.
We talk about:

Finding our own identity by keeping it real and ditching the mysticism.
The difference between what we want and what we need and how to know which is which.
Angie’s simple way to develop a sense of oneness that transcends the ideology, and our longing for approval.
Angie’s journey into wholeness from Chile to Tring via Notting Hill.
Angie demystifies Shamanism and shows how it can support us every day and how she owned and defined her own identity.
How to take back control and be accountable for our actions.
How, by getting addicted to the highs of transformational experiences we avoid taking responsibility for our own process and self-care.
How we don’t need appropriate someone else’s culture to find healing, because the healing power of the land is right here.
The magic of the subtle energy of staying still for long enough.
The impact of racism on Angie and her family.

And of course Angie’s clever practice to identify your own route to finding your creative identity.
You can find Angie's programs, courses and products here
Angie's Instagram is here
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the topics we discuss, you can message me through Instagram or have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.
You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and many more platforms soon. It would be wonderful if you would pop over to iTunes to rate and subscribe to Life - An Inside Job to encourage more people to nourish their inner lives.
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Trust Me (instru