Episodes

  • BOOKS OVER BOOZE, with Guest Carol Ann Ferguson

    BOOKS OVER BOOZE, with Guest Carol Ann Ferguson
    Dec 13 2024
    In this episode, we get into an inspiring alternative approach to achieving wellness, stability, and sobriety with special guest Carol Ann Ferguson, #booksoverbooze Founder and Mother in recovery who found a way out of the choking grasp of shame through avid reading of others' recovery stories. After struggling for a dozen years to maintain sobriety, Carol Ann literally went from "Bottles to Bookmarks" by releasing shame-based emotions over lengths of time exposing herself to others' written shared struggles. Today she inspires others to achieve wellness and sobriety by openly sharing about her struggles, lessons learned, as well as life-style tips to overcome alcohol addiction one book, one page, one human connection at a time. This week's episode represents how courageous, honest, open story-telling has the power to break down walls to human connection and quell shame for those suffering alone in the dark. CAROL ANN FERGUSON #booksoverbooze FREE BAN SHAME TIP SHEET EMPOWER YOUR RECOVERY YOGA (FREE for Parents in Recovery) GIVE BACK FOLLOW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 mins
  • Free the Divine Feminine Energy Within with Guest Jessica Falcon

    Free the Divine Feminine Energy Within with Guest Jessica Falcon
    Dec 6 2024
    In this week's episode, Nadia is joined by Jessica Falcon, who brings her inspiring personal journey along with essential answers to our discussion: How can we overcome being the target of another's negative feelings, such as shame, rage, and resentment, projected onto us, while staying committed to our recovery? How do we stay aligned with our truth and true selves while navigating difficult interactions with those who seek to bring us down? This is incredibly relevant in today's environment, where toxic relationships and situations seem commonplace, often pulling us into isolation, and/or further away from healthy connections, support, and community. In this episode, Jessica Falcon and Nadia explore how to free ourselves, and further shift our energy out of the pull of darkness from a toxic person or situation, and into energized alignment with the divine infinite feminine power within us all. Jessica Falcon is a soul healer and embodiment guide who helps women to embody the God/Goddess within, reclaim their sovereignty, and experience ecstatic freedom. The host of the "Soul Sovereignty and Sexuality Podcast" who shares her personal journey and then explains how to reclaim our magnificent feminine power within, to not only heal and empower ourselves, but to be the light that guides others out of unhealthy situations and toxic relationships. JESSICA FALCON - INSTAGRAM THE PATH TO SOVEREIGNTY FREE BAN SHAME TIP SHEET EMPOWER YOUR RECOVERY GIVE BACK YOGA (FREE for Parents in Recovery) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    49 mins
  • Storytime: Silent Gratitude

    Storytime: Silent Gratitude
    Nov 22 2024
    In this episode, Nadia encourages us to generate GRATITUDE by setting aside a few moments of silence to connect with the miracle of every heartbeat. She shares about how her relationship" with SILENCE profoundly changed over years of trauma and addiction recovery. Once completely uncomfortable with silence, and all the thoughts and feelings she had to sit with, today she finds refuge and solace in its grace, guiding us to sit in it during this month of gratitude, using our breath to connect with the rhythm, frequency, and miracle of every heartbeat. FREE TIP SHEET YOGA (FREE for Parents in Recovery) GIVE BACK FOLLOW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    36 mins
  • The Worry Balloon with Monica Mancillas

    The Worry Balloon with Monica Mancillas
    Nov 15 2024
    In this episode, I'm joined by Monica Mancillas, author of The Worry Balloon, inspired by the challenges she and those she loves sometimes face managing anxiety, and the tools, great and small, that have helped them walk through each of them. During these times of angst, contentiousness, and worry in our Nation, this discussion and these suggestions couldn't be more timely. Our children deserve to know that their anxiety is seen, as well as manageable, without fear of being shamed for opening up about all the many ways it can be manifesting within and around them. Let's start by talking about anxiety as families together! Monica's story and book provide a great platform to begin. Order her book today! LINK BELOW (This episode was recorded prior to the 2024 National Election.) MONICA MANCILLAS THE WORRY BALLOON FREE TIP SHEET YOGA (FREE for Parents in Recovery) GIVE BACK FOLLOW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    40 mins
  • Empowered Recovery #1

    Empowered Recovery #1
    Nov 8 2024
    EMPOWERED RECOVERY ("ER") is protecting our sobriety, trauma healing, and spiritual growth from the toxic emotion of shame, or a feeling that our trauma and/or addiction means we are flawed, defective, and unworthy of acceptance and love. In this series, WE empower recovery together by learning how to identify, remove, and shift shame-based thoughts and emotions from being harmful and separating, to being healing and connecting. Let's lower the number of addiction and mental health related emergency room (ER) visits and empower recovery instead by banning all shame related to such struggles both within and around us, manifesting a more healed, compassionate, and supportive world for all! FREE TIP SHEET GIVE BACK FOLLOW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    31 mins
  • Crossing Borders with Award Winning Author Christa Bruhn

    Crossing Borders with Award Winning Author Christa Bruhn
    Nov 1 2024
    Award Winning Author Christa Bruhn joins Nadia for a discussion about finding peace, joy, and dignity in a land two peoples call home, yet attempt to carve up between them. In her award winning memoir, Crossing Borders, The Search for Dignity in Palestine, deeply important and timely thought-provoking questions are asked. And here in this episode, Nadia dives deep into the birth and evolution of Christa's passion for peace and justice, as well as looking for answers to how we can come together in a place increasingly divided in mind and on the ground, all the while each begging for a sense of home within. CHRISTA BRUHN, Crossing Borders, The Search for Dignity in Palestine CURRENT MOMENT by Christa Bruhn on Substack FREE TIP SHEET BUILD A HOME WITHIN YOU - Join Nadia Bi-Weekly NADIA'S MEDIUM BLOG GIVE BACK FOLLOW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    57 mins
  • Freedom from the Blame Game

    Freedom from the Blame Game
    Oct 25 2024
    When one person blames another person for something bad or unfortunate, and never, or rarely, attempts to own their part and find a solution, a "Blame Game" exists. Blame games are confusing, frustrating, painful, and emotionally exhausting experiences. No one wants to be in one, so why are they so common and seemingly drawn out? A blame game will continue "UNLESS and UNTIL BOTH individuals sit with their own discomfort first," Dr. Poulter explains, emphasizing that, by accepting responsibility for our own feelings, acts, and emotions, we are courageously vulnerable, which true intimacy requires. So how can we free ourselves from an existing blame game? How do we prevent one from happening in the first place? Listen into this episode to receive specific steps you can take and never find yourself in one again! FREE TIP SHEET GIVE BACK FOLLOW DR.STEVE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    32 mins
  • Finding CALM in the "Chaos"

    Finding CALM in the "Chaos"
    Oct 18 2024
    STORY TIME for Parents in Recovery, intended to inspire those seeking family reunification and healing. In this episode, Nadia shares how facing our FEARS empowers an ability to notice LOVE and see CALM in chaos. She tells a story about taking her twin boys, mother, and dogs to a local dog park, the beauty of hawks flying above, as well as incredible LOVE bestowed by her young son onto her mother; how in the past, unrecognized fears would've distracted her from noticing such things, yet how today she finds CALM and BEAUTY in chaos much more than she ever did before. She also reads an article from her Medium Blog, giving tips and suggestions for how to transform fear into healing power! TAKE-AWAY TIPS EMPOWERMENT GIVE BACK FOLLOW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    35 mins