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In this episode, I talk about how we get into negative spirals and share tips to get into an upward spiral. I share my recent experiences with rumination and the difference between rumination and self-reflection. I hope its helpful for you! 💗 I mention: Abraham Hicks Pivoting methodInsight Timer24. How to actually feel your feelings episodeConnect with me! IG: @BrightlySika_www.BrightlySika.comWant advice? Submit a conundrum for an upcoming advice episode Want coaching support? Reach out for a free coaching consult!In the DMV area? Join Cozy Growth Book Club!Leave us a rating & review! Thanks for listening! ❤️

Sharing what's been helping me feeling better lately and how self-compassion and being cognizant of my thoughts have been two key factors. I hope its helpful for you too! 💗 Apologies for the raw episode again as I get my laptop sorted! I mention: TBMKristin Neff, Self-Compassion teacherBridgertonConnect with me! IG: @BrightlySika_www.BrightlySika.comWant advice? Submit a conundrum for an upcoming advice episode Want coaching support? Reach out for a free coaching consult!In the DMV area? Join Cozy Growth Book Club!Leave us a rating & review! Thanks for listening! ❤️

In this episode, I chat with Atim Bassey, LCSW-C, an amazing therapist and my real life cousin, all about perfectionism (something i've been living with my whole life!).  We talk about why we fall into perfectionist thinking, how somatic therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS) work can help us heal, some of my personal experiences and challenges with perfectionism, how mindfulness and meditation has helped me, the importance of working with a therapist, intellectualization, processing our feelings, and so much more! If it was up to me, this could have easily been a 3 hour episode. It's is a juicy one, y'all! If you resonate with the perfectionism struggles of self-critical thoughts and holding yourself to unnecessary high standards, then I hope this episode gives you as much relief as it gave me and helps you see a path forward. Sending so much love! ❤️ We mention: No Bad Parts by Richard C. SchwartzAtim's last podcast episode: Ep 22. Confronting Codependency Handel group coachingHeated RivalryConnect with us: Atim's Psychology Today PageIG: @BrightlySika_www.BrightlySika.comWant advice? Submit a conundrum for an upcoming advice episode In the DMV area? Join Cozy Growth Book Club!Leave us a rating & review!Thanks for listening! ❤️

Wisdom from my inner voice: “There's nothing you need to do, there may be things you want to do but that is different." Sharing about coming from a place of want instead of need and the relief I've felt with this new approach.  Apologies for the raw episode this week as I deal with some tech mishaps! Connect with me! IG: @BrightlySika_www.BrightlySika.comWant advice? Submit a conundrum for an upcoming advice episode In the DMV area? Join Cozy Growth Book Club! Thanks for listening! ❤️

“The only constant in life is change” Sharing about my current surrendered approach to life  for the month of October (and beyond?) after what felt like a year of striving and unforseen change. I mention: Insight timerThe mountain is you by Brianna WiestConnect with me! IG: @BrightlySika_www.BrightlySika.comWant advice? Submit a conundrum for an upcoming advice episode Want coaching support? Reach out for a free coaching consult!In the DMV area? Join Cozy Growth Book Club! Thanks for listening! ❤️

Get back on track with your goals with me and fellow goal-getters on Monday, July 28th at 7pm. It's free! Sign up for Reset to Rise - my free online mid-year reset workshop! ✨ Join the waitlist for Cohort 2 of Momentum Magic Group Coaching this fall! In today's episode, I lovingly call you out on all of your excuses for why you can't make progress on the goals you set for yourself. You know, the ones you set at the top of the year? I identify some common excuses and share why they're not valid reasons to not go after what you once decided was an important priority for you. Tune in for your reality check and a dose of motivation! I mention: Alina AckwonuThe Wizard Liz podcastWe can do Hard things episode with Suleika Jaouad (Jon Batiste's wife)Connect with me! IG: @BrightlySika_www.BrightlySika.comWant advice? Submit a conundrum for an upcoming advice episode Want coaching support? Reach out for a free coaching consult!In the DMV area? Join Cozy Growth Book Club! Thanks for listening! ❤️

Do you suspect you're a people pleaser? It's time to release the need to please! Book a free coaching consult with me to see if coaching is right for you: https://tidycal.com/brightlysika/life-on-purpose-consult or email: [email protected] In today's episode, I deep dive into people pleasing after having a personal reckoning with it myself recently. After watching this new season of Mormon Wives with friends and seeing Jen's people pleasing tendencies, I felt called to do some deeper research into it and help us all break free from the chains!  I go over the four trauma responses including the fawn response, the traits of people pleasing, my personal experience with it as a second generation child, tips to reduce people pleasing and questions to ask yourself to be sure you're not people pleasing. I mention: Episode 25 - Life Catch-upEpisode 22 - Confronting Codependency with Therapist Atim BasseyPsych Central Fawn Response Psych Central - The Psychology Behind People PleasingConnect with me! IG: @BrightlySika_www.BrightlySika.comWant advice? Submit a conundrum for an upcoming advice episode Want coaching support? Reach out for a free coaching consult!In the DMV area? Join Cozy Growth Book Club! Thanks for listening! ❤️

I hit my goal of 5 episodes for the year and now I'm off the the races -- 2 episodes in one month! In this episode I yap about a recent dating experience that helped show me how much my feeling my feelings practice has increased my capacity for discomfort 😀. I share about some books I've been loving, my subconscious fears around dating from the deepest fear inventory exercise in Existential Kink, my new flower remedy I've just started, a fun family realization that came out of the aforementioned dating scenario, and I celebrate some wins! Get cozy for this girly catch up sesh.  Thanks for rocking with me for 25 episodes 🥳 I mention: Existential Kink by Carolyn LovewellWhat Now? with Trevor Noah: Neuro-Spicy: Discussing ADHD with Dr. Kristin CarothersHow To Be Dateable by Julie Krafchick and Yue XuThe Let Them Theory by Mel RobbinsAlexis Smart's Flower Remedy Beauty Formula #9The Life Coach School Podcast with Brook CastilloLymphatic Drainage video on instagramConnect with me! IG: @BrightlySika_www.BrightlySika.comWant advice? Submit a conundrum for an upcoming advice episode Want coaching support? Reach out for a free coaching consult!In the DMV area? Join Cozy Growth Book Club! Thanks for listening! ❤️

In todays solo episode, I go over the practice I've been using to actually feel my feelings over the past couple of months. So often, we think we're feeling our feelings when really we're intellectualizing them. Actually feeling them is a somatic experience that happens in the body, not the mind.  I share the benefits of cultivating a feeling your feelings practice and how growing your capacity for feelings creates courage and leads to us being able to do brave things that get us closer to our dream life! I mentioned: Take Back your Brain by Kara LoewenthileInner Excellence by Jim MurphyExistential Kink by Carolyn LovewellWelcoming the Unwelcome by Pema ChodronBella Lively's Sophia Sessions and Bean Bag releaseAlexis Smart's Whole Hearted Flower RemedyThe Life Coach School Podcast with Brook CastilloArmchair Expert PodcastConnect with me! IG: @BrightlySika_www.BrightlySika.comWant advice? Submit a conundrum for an upcoming advice episode Want coaching support? Reach out for a free coaching consult!In the DMV area? Join Cozy Growth Book Club! Thanks for listening! ❤️

In this episode, I’m joined for the THIRD time by our ~unofficial~ resident astrologer, Camille Michelle Gray. This time to chat about the wild and wacky current astrology we're living in: the Virgo/Pisces Eclipses, Mercury retrograde, Venus Retrograde, Neptune entering Aries, and how we can all care for ourselves in the midst of all of it.  I love Camille's approach to astrology because she never harps on the doom and gloom, she gives us tools and shows us the path to extract whatever lesson the moment is teaching us.  During our chat, we go over what eclipses are and the current eclipses affecting us, we dig into the 8th house (once again), she shares how to make the best use of mercury rx and venus rx, she goes over the upcoming astrology of the next 3 months leading up to summer and she generously goes through each rising sign and shares how each can plan to care for themselves through the themes of the current eclipses (which will be felt for the next 6 months!!). We mentioned: Camille’s first episode: Ep. 4. Astrology 101 with Camille Michelle GrayCamille's second episode: Ep 19. Astrology 201Find your chart on astro.com, astro-charts.com or on Chani NicholasBella Lively - Inner Voice journalingEverything Happens for a Reason by Mira Kirshenbaum Connect with us! camillemichellegray.comIG: @millymichelleG: @BrightlySika_Ease & Grow Website – www.brightlysika.com/ease-and-grow-podcastPod Suggestion Box! – let me know what you want to hear!Write into my advice column in this form!Leave us a rating & review! Thanks for listening! ❤️

In this episode, I chat with Atim Bassey, LCSW-C, an amazing therapist and my real life cousin (lucky me!).  We talk about her journey to becoming a therapist -- from case management to being a functional family therapist and now having her own private practice. How to know if your therapy relationship is working, What inspired her to recommend the book Codependent No More to me, the experience that taught me to be less passive aggressive, how to break a codependent cycle, and how to create healthy boundaries -- especially emotionally. I hope this sheds light on any codependent patterns you may notice in yourself and gives you a first step to help liberate you from the pain it can cause. We mention: Codependent No More by Melody BeattieThe Codependency Recovery Plan: A 5-Step Guide to Understand, Accept, and Break Free from the Codependent Cycle by Krystal Mazzola Wood, LMFTConnect with us: Atim's Psychology Today PageIG: @BrightlySika_Ease & Grow Website – www.brightlysika.com/ease-and-grow-podcastPod Suggestion Box! – let me know what you want to hear!Write into my advice column in this form!Leave us a rating & review!

In this episode I share a recent experience, personal diary style, that brought me face to face with a personal pattern that I recognized was holding me back in 2024. I share my intention for 2025 and the words guiding me this year and breakdown of what key elements lead to a fulfilling life (in my humble opinion). Enjoy the show! I mention: Self-Love in Full Bloom Girly Galentines Event in Alexandria VA on Feb 23Failing Forward by John MaxwellSecrets of Six-figure Women by Barbara StannyLibby appMomentum Magic Group Coaching - feel free to sign up for the next cohort!Connect with us! IG: @BrightlySika_Ease & Grow Website – www.brightlysika.com/ease-and-grow-podcastPod Suggestion Box! – let me know what you want to hear!Write into my advice column in this form!Leave us a rating & review!Thanks for listening! ❤️

In this solo warm up episode, I share where I've been for the past couple of years. I'm excited to be back after some curveballs during my own Saturn Return! I mentioned: Ep 19: Astrology 201 with Camille Michelle Gray 💫: Surviving your Saturn Return and the 12 HousesThe Pattern AppMomentum Magic Group Coaching Sign Up form - We start January 27th!New Instagram: @BrightlySika_Write into my advice column in this form!Get semi-monthly love notes in your inbox - Sign up for Bright Musings Connect with us! IG: @BrightlySika_Ease & Grow Website – www.brightlysika.com/ease-and-grow-podcastPod Suggestion Box! – let me know what you want to hear!Leave us a rating & review!Thanks for listening! ❤️

In this episode, I’m joined again by our ~unofficial~ resident astrologer, Camille Gray, to chat about Saturn Returns and the 12 houses of astrology. Saturn Returns are times in our lives where we typically face significant change and transformation.  During our chat, we cover the gamut of what a Saturn return is, how Saturn behaves in different kinds of charts, how to figure out the theme of your specific Saturn return, the themes of each of the 12 houses, what it means to have an empty house, and we answer listener questions! (Join the fun over on IG (@easeandgrowpod) if you ever want to submit questions for an upcoming episode) Full shownotes: https://rb.gy/vv5m1d Camille also generously shares the details of her Saturn return in Capricorn which was highly transformational. With my Saturn in Aquarius, mine started in March of this year and goes direct in December. I’ll be sure to keep you posted on my transformations as they come! We mentioned: Black Widow movieEpisode 15: Balancing it all as a Multi-Passionate Creative with Yuan Q.Listen to Camille’s first episode: Ep. 4. Astrology 101 with Camille Michelle GrayTarot meanings website: Psychic Revelationswww.Saturnreturnstories.comCamille’s blog in Zora: Fortune Favors the Bold: Mars in Leo Predictionswww.Zora.medium.comConnect with us! camillemichellegray.comIG: @millymichelleTwitter: @millymichelleIG: @EaseandgrowpodEase & Grow Website – www.brightlysika.com/ease-and-grow-podcastPod Suggestion Box! – let me know what you want to hear!Leave us a rating & review!Thanks for listening! ❤️ Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched!Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.

In this episode, I chat with Joyful Living Coach, Intuitive, Ayurvedic practitioner, and Capricorn sun, Pitta-Kapha dosha, Christine Miura. After having a wonderful Ayurvedic reading with her in May, I knew I had to have her on the show to share her wisdom. Full shownotes: https://rb.gy/jt2xv4 We discuss her background, how she learned about her intuitive gifts and discovered Ayurveda, and we run through the Dosha types and how they present themselves. We also discuss the importance of self-acceptance as a way to heal the collective, parenting styles and allowing children to express all of their emotions, the societal shift from masculine to the divine feminine, how to use food as medicine, the importance of connecting to our breath, and so much more!  I hope this teaches you something new about yourself and how to better relate to the people in your life! We mention:  Ayurveda (Idiot’s Guides) by Sahara RoseEpisode 13: Call a Friend with Eliza RodrigsFind out your Ayurvedic Dosha type (Banyan Botanical quiz)Man's Eternal Quest by Parmahansa Yogananda Metaphysical meditations by Parmahansa YoganandaConnect with us: [email protected]  Facebook: Christine MiuraInstagram: @miurachristine@EaseandgrowpodEase & Grow WebsitePod Suggestion Box! – let me know what you want to hear!Leave us a rating & review!Thanks for listening! ❤️   Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched!Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.