Natasja with Angela Ruiz on Generational Trauma, Healing and the Beauty of Speaking Out

05/13/21 • 44 min

Meet Angela Ruiz
Angela was born in Southern California, but her soul accompanies her roots in Mexico. She is 1st generation in the U.S on her dad’s side and 2nd generation on her mom’s side. At nine years old, she began to write and never really stopped. she aims to write beautiful stories that will open up minds and expand worlds, including her own. She is the author of her newly published non-fiction memoir: WHERE SILENCE ENDS. Stories from a Mexican-American, mother-daughter duo, take you on their chillingly beautiful, family journey of generational trauma and healing.

In this episode, Angela Ruiz discusses:

What is generational trauma and what steps are needed to heal
Storytelling as a form of healing trauma
The taboo around anger and emotional expression
Marianismo being the opposite of Machismo
The expectation of how women should be in Latin cultures
What process do you encounter when family secrets and trauma gets exposed?
What emotions do enablers and predators experience once trauma gets exposed?
What modalities support the healing of generational trauma?
The influence of plant medicines and psychedelics in a healing journey
How forgiveness has become your biggest gift
How our ancestors show up in sacred plant ceremonies when undergoing generational healing
How to positively impact the next generations

WhereSilenceEnds.com

Social Media handles:
https://www.instagram.com/letterevolution/https://www.facebook.com/LETTEREVOLUTION/https://twitter.com/LetteRevolution

Awaken The Medicine Within Retreats
http://awakenthemedicinewithin.com/

In this episode, Angela Ruiz discusses:

What is generational trauma and what steps are needed to heal
Storytelling as a form of healing trauma
The taboo around anger and emotional expression
Marianismo being the opposite of Machismo
The expectation of how women should be in Latin cultures
What process do you encounter when family secrets and trauma gets exposed?
What emotions do enablers and predators experience once trauma gets exposed?
What modalities support the healing of generational trauma?
The influence of plant medicines and psychedelics in a healing journey
How forgiveness has become your biggest gift
How our ancestors show up in sacred plant ceremonies when undergoing generational healing
How to positively impact the next generations

WhereSilenceEnds.com

Social Media handles:
https://www.instagram.com/letterevolution/https://www.facebook.com/LETTEREVOLUTION/https://twitter.com/LetteRevolution

Awaken The Medicine Within Retreats
http://awakenthemedicinewithin.com/

Previous Episode

Natasja with Stacey Griffin on the Art, Science, and Spiritual sides to Sound Therapy

Meet Stacey Griffin
Stacey is the founder of Shift, and is a certified sound therapist and meditation teacher based in Amsterdam but originally from Canada. An innovator in the field of sound healing, she’s brought her integrative approach to thousands around the world. From leading conferences and festivals such as SXSW and Wanderlust to corporations such as Calvin Klein & Mercedes to museums and nightclubs; she believes in the power of sound to heal and transform. She’s also an artist and advocate for bringing sound as medicine into the mainstream.

Her journey with sound started as a young child in Canada, playing guitar and saxophone, and later fully immersing herself in the underground techno scene of Detroit. Along the way, she explored various energy healing modalities (Reik, Theta Healing) and learned to harness her high sensitivity and intuitive abilities.

After more than 15 years working predominantly in the fashion industry, from Toronto to Tokyo, LA to NYC, Stacey was forced to slow down and find balance after suffering from burnout. Introduced to meditation in the late '90s while living in Japan, Stacey returned to the practice to earn her teaching certification in MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction). Stacey now calls Amsterdam home where she lives with her partner and two young children.

For the past 6 years, she’s been creating immersive sound experiences for healing and meditation in inspiring spaces. Her work has been featured in Happinez, Elle & Vogue.

It's her belief in the power of sound, combined with her own personal transformation using sound and meditation that drives her to help others turn inward to improve their lives.

In this episode, Stacey Griffin discusses:

How working in fashion and entertainment created her burnout
Being an Empath and not being able to contribute to a life that she wanted
How to cope as an empath in the fashion industry
How trauma can make you not feel safe to be in the body, and what practices she used to heal herself
How does modern science look at sound and vibration
What is 4D and 8D multidimensional sound space
What does a Sound Therapy set & setting look like
How can binaural beat, toning, humming, and our voice be used to balance and heal your body
Balancing self-care, entrepreneurial endeavors, and family life
The challenges of Self-care and day-to-day tasks.
How can you become a sound therapist yourself?

You can find Stacey here:
www.shiftmeditation.comInstagram Facebook

Other:
http://awakenthemedicinewithin.com/

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Natasja with Belinda Gore on Ancient Practices and Rituals of Ecstatic Postures

Meet Belinda Gore Ph.D.
Teacher, Psychologist, Coach, Artist, Author, And Speaker

As a psychologist with graduate degrees in counseling psychology and in public administration, Belinda’s career has covered a private practice in psychotherapy, working as a leadership consultant, and teaching executive and life coaching. When she met anthropologist Felicitas Goodman in 1984, she was introduced to the artwork and religious worldview of indigenous people around the world. Through Dr. Felicitas Goodman’s student, friend, and colleague; she learned to use ritual ancient postures from that art to restore a fundamental human capacity for experiencing the invisible world of spirit. For many years she served as Vice-President, then President, of the Cuyamungue Institute, founded by Dr. Goodman.
Her books, Ancient Ritual Postures (2FriendsPress, 2020), The Ecstatic Experience: Healing Postures for Spirit Journeys (Bear & Company, 2009), and Ecstatic Body Postures: An Alternate Reality Workbook (Bear & Company, 1995) are essential materials for learning the practice of ritual postures. They are the foundation for the workshops she has been teaching internationally for the past 30 years. The books have been translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Polish.

Her study of Jungian psychology began in college and she became a member of the Jung Association of Central Ohio from its inception in 1990. For decades she taught dreamwork, as professional education for psychotherapists and general techniques for the general public. Dreamwork was the basis for early exploration in expressive arts with an emphasis on collage as well as mask-making and dance.

Currently, she teaches coaching based on the Enneagram system of personality typology and spiritual development while continuing to explore various process media as an artist and write about ritual postures, the Enneagram, and the spiritual journey.
In this episode, Belinda Gore discusses:

Her teacher Dr. Felicita’s Goodman was an American linguist, an anthropologist who researched and explored ritual body postures for many years.
The evolution of the sacred healing postures
The different states of consciousness
Howe to perceive the non-ordinary states of consciousness naturally
What is dreamwork and how to expand pathways in the brain to perceive the invisible world?
The ancient practices of ecstatic postures
Belinda’s first experience with the ecstatic healing postures
The ritual aspect of preparation for an expanded awareness
Divination with healing postures oracle cards
The difference in the posture types, ritual, healing, and initiation
What is healing and how can we use the postures to bring balance in the mind, body, and spirit?
Is the current use of the ancient healing postures co-opting the traditions?
Ancestor work, spirit connection, and the ongoing learning relationship
Belinda’s learning through Jung, dreamwork, and Enneagram coaching

Belinda's Handles:
https://belindagore.comAncient Ritual Postures Oracle Cards & Book
Instagram: @belinda_gore_ritual_posturesInspiration:
1. Awaken The Medicine Within Retreats
2. Peter Russell Writer
3. Micheal Harner, Founder of the Foundation for Shamanic&n