Episode 037 with Life Coach Rebecca Wyld of Wyld Wellness - Habit Change and Happiness Actualization

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04/24/20 • 140 min

Rebecca Wyld is a Life Coach, Cosmetologist, outdoors advocate, motivator, health seeker, self-love practitioner, client-counselor and - story changer. This episode is a holy grail for anyone in search of a little life advice around habit change. Life Coaching - What is it? How did you get started and what do you do with it now? Who is it for? - Rebecca fills in all the blanks for me, and she shares how a small pain in the neck led to trails, inner healing, habit change, and her position towards life now. The philosophy at her company is pretty straight forward - Getting people back to the simple way of living. Here's a quote from Rebecca: "There are so many avenues to health (mental and physical) that people get paralysis by analysis and ultimately end up doing NOTHING. (No bueno!) - So my practice is about guiding people (women) to take empowered action by slowing down and building a solid foundation of a more primitive way of living. - Literally re-learning health. Eat the whole foods. drink the fucking water. intentionally embracing the silence for a few moments. Put down your phone. Put your feet in the grass. Heal yourself. Do the work. Walk before you run. Depression is real. Action is necessary." We share hiking stories and talk about bears, cougars, coyotes, and elephants - we discuss personal path obstacles, the importance of cosmetologists chats in the chair, when to be flexible and when to be rigid, people-pleasing and boundaries. I found we really dove into the weeds of self-actualization and habit change, with recommendations and mindset swaps up for offer. Holistic health, weight loss, self-love, breaking habit loops - Rebecca really offers introspective sparking perspective on all of these valuable and important human attainments. She believes in taking one step at a time, pushing through instant gratification with ACTION and repetition, not identifying with a story of pain and lack, and avoiding confirmation bias of our ill-served belief systems. There's concurrence between us that Inflammation is a total demon, writing is magic, discomfort is growth, and habits can be changed with awareness and persistence. We talk breaking family cycles, reframing interactions and boundaries with one another, energy vampires, creating ritualistic thresholds, mirror work, creating a 'ta'dah!' list, social anxiety, and the mindset of making better decisions. Rebecca Wyld loves to learn why people do what they do. She's observant, present, intelligent, and professional. Our interaction was enthralling and filled with valuable information. Greatly appreciative of people like Rebecca for what they do. To get ahold of Rebecca, or to find out more about Wyld Wellness - checkout the Instagram @Wyld_Wellness, Facebook @wyldandwell, or Wyldandwell.com (This episode was recorded at the end of February 2020) | Some quotes from our chat - | "Your beliefs are there because of your experiences and then those same experiences confirm your beliefs." "Why am I being a jerk to myself, is there another way?" "What if what you actually want is just a lil' bushwhack away?" "If it's your truth, own it!" "It took a long time for me to be able to look into the mirror and point out the things I loved instead of the things I hate." "Take me to a place where I feel small"

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Episode 036 with Mika Woodruff - Sharpening Your Emotional Toolkit Through Writing, Grit, Gratitude and Resilience

Mika always shows up to me as kind, observant, patient, well-spoken and empathetic. Our conversation leads to in-depth emotional openness, personal growth stories, an exploration of human emotional behavior, and some of Mika's personal journey to now. She shares knowledge from her writing, her life, her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology degree from Central Washington University in 2016, and from her experience working as a School-Based Mental Health Case Manager for a Community Health Organization. A novice in Social, Mental and Behavioral Health studies - this Enneagram 4 and I cover looooads of topics - from mental health to journaling and gratitude, to difficult conversations, coping mechanisms and self-deprecating humor, to choosing unconditional love and change and we even cover masculine/feminine energy in societal norms. We talk mental behavior and unknowingly living in fear, Mika brings us a couple great analogies and tactics to add to our emotional toolkits, and we hold space for thoughts of depression, anxiety, self-worth, suffering, and empathy. We talk about submitting her writings to blogs and getting published on Thought Catalogue, our daily writing practices, gratitude practices and her "10 Things To Be Grateful For" exercise. We get real with nightmare talk, the gross comfort of nothingness, feeling numb, and mental illness. Gut Feelings and intuition get unpacked, and we share some experiences with Psychics and Hypnotherapy. Mika and I are able to offer insight, retrospection, and depth to confusing emotional thoughts and feelings that many of us suffer through alone. I sincerely hope you enjoy this conversation, junkyardlovers. (is that weird to call listeners junkyardlovers? is this how you start a cult? *shrug, whatever) Thanks again Mika. - find a few of her thoughts at https://thoughtcatalog.com/mikalyn-woodruff/ ---- (A couple 'on the fly quotes' I grabbed from the episode) "Going from thinking that suicide or total decline as a plan B, to deciding that it's not an option." "You can choose unconditional love and acceptance, or you can choose change" "You don't know what the fuck you think until you think it." "Decide to laugh, decide to make it easier on yourself, because we don't get to move time, we still have to experience what we are going through. "When the bad things happen it draws your attention to the good things you weren't paying attention to"

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Episode 038 with Spencer Hicks - Mental and Physical Tips To Maintain Health At Home

(5) Spencer and I video chat about some at-home practices and techniques to better suit each of us amidst the current covid retreat. We include some recommendations for walking, stretching, at-home workouts, mindfulness, awareness and general at-home health. Spencer and I discuss concepts that hopefully aide and assist any listeners during this stay-at-home order. The audio is subpar in comparison to our normal episodes here but it's easy to get used to in a minute or two. For more info on Spencer, check out our older conversations and episode descriptions.