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When we embark on our healing journey (which is a journey of a lifetime!), it is so important to acknowledge the truths that we are not only healing from our own personal experiences but we are also healing from intergenerational trauma and from collective wounds. Our special guest Vanessa Bennett - LMFT, Author, Facilitator, Podcaster of the Cheaper Than Therapy Podcast, and Mama - offers us professional insights and perspectives that inform us of what it takes to really heal. As we expand on the healing journey, we explore the significance of healing in relationships and allowing ourselves to be seen in our messiness, our imperfection, our not having it all together  - emphasizing that vulnerability is required to experience true intimacy. Other topics that we discuss in this conversation include (but are not limited to): depth psychology, the collective unconscious, collective healing, mind body spirit interconnectedness, radical responsibility, mirroring relationships, healing in a healthy way, and codependency. Explore Vanessa's Work Follow Vanessa on Instagram Join the Cheaper Than Therapy Community *This episode was recorded prior to what is currently happening in the Middle-East, hence why this topic is not discussed. Support the showThank you for bringing this podcast into your present moment and thank you for consciously listening! Your presence is sincerely valued and appreciated. If you you enjoy this podcast, please share a rating and a review! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📧 Subscribe To The Weekly Gratitude Newsletter 👁️ Watch all episodes on YouTube 😊 Follow the podcast on Instagram @StartingwithGratitude 🌻 Follow ya girl, your host on Instagram @withJocelyn ✍🏽 Embark on my 30-Day Gratitude Journaling Journey here ☀️ Visit the website

When we dream to live an unconventional life, we must fully accept that it requires us to walk an unconventional path. And unconventional paths are paths that require us to fully embrace the unknown, practice radical acceptance, and deeply trust along the way that we are being led to where we dream to be. For LaNia Roberts, her unconventional dream life includes being an artist. This unconventional dream life of hers is one that has manifested and in this conversation, she shares with us what walking the unconventional path has looked and felt like. A large part of the journey for her has been the reclamation of her voice, the rewriting of many stories she'd made agreements with that weren't true, and lots of keeping it real with herself. We talk art as a tool for self-expression and liberation, redefining beauty, truly allowing yourself to feel what you feel, healing and the boredom that comes with healing, letting go of unaligned relationships and beliefs, uncovering truths and lies, and so much more. Visit LaNia's website Follow LaNia on Instagram Follow LaNia on TikTok *This episode was recorded prior to what is currently happening in the Middle-East, hence why this topic is not discussed. Support the showThank you for bringing this podcast into your present moment and thank you for consciously listening! Your presence is sincerely valued and appreciated. If you you enjoy this podcast, please share a rating and a review! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📧 Subscribe To The Weekly Gratitude Newsletter 👁️ Watch all episodes on YouTube 😊 Follow the podcast on Instagram @StartingwithGratitude 🌻 Follow ya girl, your host on Instagram @withJocelyn ✍🏽 Embark on my 30-Day Gratitude Journaling Journey here ☀️ Visit the website

Do we need to be fully healed to experience a healthy relationship? What is required of us to experience a healthy relationship? Are our partners at all responsible for our healing? What if we have different attachment styles? How do we know whether or not we should walk away from a relationship? These are all questions (amongst others) that we explore and expand on in this conversation with Trauma-Informed Love Coach, Sabrina Flores.  At a time where we have access to so many varying (and conflicting) words of advice surrounding healing and healthy relationships, it can feel conflicting to know what advice to follow and not to follow. What's beautiful about this conversation and about speaking with Sabrina Flores is that she vulnerably, openly shares with us her own personal stories (past and present) that support her coaching. This is an insightful episode all about the healing journey, healthy relationships, and healing in healthy relationships. Follow Sabrina On Instagram Work with Sabrina 1-on-1 Explore More of Sabrina Support the showThank you for bringing this podcast into your present moment and thank you for consciously listening! Your presence is sincerely valued and appreciated. If you you enjoy this podcast, please share a rating and a review! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📧 Subscribe To The Weekly Gratitude Newsletter 👁️ Watch all episodes on YouTube 😊 Follow the podcast on Instagram @StartingwithGratitude 🌻 Follow ya girl, your host on Instagram @withJocelyn ✍🏽 Embark on my 30-Day Gratitude Journaling Journey here ☀️ Visit the website

When we talk about living in the present moment, we also have to talk about embracing the unknown because the present moment is the unknown. This is one major reason why most people don't live in the present moment.  Rather than living in the present moment, most people live in the past (is this you?) because the past is familiar, and therefore, feels easier to control. When life feels "controllable," life feels safer and easier and comfortable. Living in the present moment takes a lot of courage because it requires us to surrender the illusion of control and surrender to the unknown. This conversation intends to clarify why the present moment is the unknown, how embracing the unknown is powerful, and intends to comfort you in the discomfort of expecting the unexpected.  Support the showThank you for bringing this podcast into your present moment and thank you for consciously listening! Your presence is sincerely valued and appreciated. If you you enjoy this podcast, please share a rating and a review! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📧 Subscribe To The Weekly Gratitude Newsletter 👁️ Watch all episodes on YouTube 😊 Follow the podcast on Instagram @StartingwithGratitude 🌻 Follow ya girl, your host on Instagram @withJocelyn ✍🏽 Embark on my 30-Day Gratitude Journaling Journey here ☀️ Visit the website

Living in a society that encourages unhealthy masculinity creates a society that suppresses feminine energy, which is the energy of surrender, of trust, of nourishment, of intuitive knowing. We are living in a time now where the masculine and feminine energies that exist within us individually and collectively are being awakened and balanced. Especially over the last few years, we've grown aware of the unhealthy, wounded, toxic masculine traits that have driven us towards disconnection and depletion. We've begun to experience the rise of feminine energy, as we grow called to let go of the need to control, of the need to know it all, and rest in the present moment. This conversation, with our special guest Justin Tristao, gifts us clarity revolving healthy and unhealthy masculinity. We expand on the healing and awakening journey of both the masculine and feminine, and the responsibilities we have as individuals in this journey of healing and awakening. Topics we touch on include:  The gratitude of healthy masculines & femininesThe masculine-favored society we live inBlockages that manifest in the unhealthy masculineLife changes that we experience as we begin to healThe importance of safe spacesTaking responsibility for our healingPerpetuating generational cyclesHow children are great teachersRegulating your nervous system/emotions Follow Justin On Instagram Private Mentorship with Justin Subscribe To Justin's Mailing List Support the showThank you for bringing this podcast into your present moment and thank you for consciously listening! Your presence is sincerely valued and appreciated. If you you enjoy this podcast, please share a rating and a review! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📧 Subscribe To The Weekly Gratitude Newsletter 👁️ Watch all episodes on YouTube 😊 Follow the podcast on Instagram @StartingwithGratitude 🌻 Follow ya girl, your host on Instagram @withJocelyn ✍🏽 Embark on my 30-Day Gratitude Journaling Journey here ☀️ Visit the website

What if all of life is a journey of unfolding into your true Self? And what if there were phases to this unfolding? Our guest, Arielle Estoria, shares with us the five phases of our life unfoldment, which she expands on in her latest book, The Unfolding: An Invitation to Coming Home To Your True Self. Actor, Poet, and Author, Arielle, observed her becoming and unbecoming in the last few years and noticed that coming home to your true Self is a process. To Arielle, we awaken to the changes that need to happen, we grieve who we once were while we create space for who we're becoming, we healingly piece our Self and our life back together, we open our Self up to embrace the Light within and without, and we ultimately end up home - as our true Self. In this conversation, Arielle and I explore the parts of her story that revealed and clarified these phases leading her back home. We talk about how there is a lot of unbecoming in becoming, how dismantling takes place when new foundations are built, how what others may be envisioning for us may not actually be for us, and beyond. Follow Arielle on Instagram Explore more of Arielle's work Purchase Arielle's book Support the showThank you for bringing this podcast into your present moment and thank you for consciously listening! Your presence is sincerely valued and appreciated. If you you enjoy this podcast, please share a rating and a review! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📧 Subscribe To The Weekly Gratitude Newsletter 👁️ Watch all episodes on YouTube 😊 Follow the podcast on Instagram @StartingwithGratitude 🌻 Follow ya girl, your host on Instagram @withJocelyn ✍🏽 Embark on my 30-Day Gratitude Journaling Journey here ☀️ Visit the website

PTSD symptoms don't always show up right after a traumatic experience. Sometimes the symptoms arrive years later when you least expect. For our special guest, Madeline Popelka - who is the Founder of one of the largest healing communities on Instagram and Author of the recently published book, You're Going To Be Okay - she didn't experience her PTSD symptoms that stemmed from childhood and generational trauma until her late twenties. In this conversation, Madeline and I talk about the healing journey and what that has looked (and felt) like for her. We expand on one of her most important lessons she learned on her journey - to hold onto the goodness and allow yourself to experience good feeling feelings, such as joy.  We acknowledge the truth that even positive change can feel triggering for those healing from trauma and other truths as well. This is an honest and encouraging conversation between two women who have experienced trauma and have actively chosen (and continue to choose) to heal.  Other topics we touch on include: Asking for help and support"Small" traumaThe myth that PTSD is a choiceTrauma anniversariesCreating safe space for trauma survivorsBecoming a truer version of youVisit Madeline's website Follow Madeline on Instagram Support the showThank you for bringing this podcast into your present moment and thank you for consciously listening! Your presence is sincerely valued and appreciated. If you you enjoy this podcast, please share a rating and a review! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📧 Subscribe To The Weekly Gratitude Newsletter 👁️ Watch all episodes on YouTube 😊 Follow the podcast on Instagram @StartingwithGratitude 🌻 Follow ya girl, your host on Instagram @withJocelyn ✍🏽 Embark on my 30-Day Gratitude Journaling Journey here ☀️ Visit the website

Imagine being able to look back at your life and say, “I was present for all of it.” I don’t know about you but I desire to be able to genuinely say that.  Being present has been my main mental, physical and spiritual practice for the past year now and, as time passes, I continue to expand my conscious awareness as to why being present is so powerful. I have truly come to fully believe that being present is the best thing we can be.  It is in the present moment where we are our most powerful - not just because when we are present we take our power back from the past and familiar future but also because when we are present, we are in a state of flow and in a state of receptivity. We become open and receptive to divine intelligence, divine guidance and divine inspiration.  Being present is a practice. And it is so worth the practice. In this episode, I share with you some of my reflections and realizations that have come from my practice of being present. My intention is to have you walk away from listening to this episode feeling greater clarity, confidence, and comfort regarding being here, now.  Other topics I touch on include: one of my most sobering, awakening realizationswhat "familiar future" meansbeing in survival modewhat "giving our power away" meanswhy being present is a practicewhy we already know how to be presentSupport the showThank you for bringing this podcast into your present moment and thank you for consciously listening! Your presence is sincerely valued and appreciated. If you you enjoy this podcast, please share a rating and a review! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📧 Subscribe To The Weekly Gratitude Newsletter 👁️ Watch all episodes on YouTube 😊 Follow the podcast on Instagram @StartingwithGratitude 🌻 Follow ya girl, your host on Instagram @withJocelyn ✍🏽 Embark on my 30-Day Gratitude Journaling Journey here ☀️ Visit the website

"I can really trust I am fulfilling my purpose, as long as I am Being present," shares Shamanic Healer, Spiritual Teacher, & Author, Shaman Nabeel Redwood, as he expands on finding your purpose. For Shaman Redwood, "finding your purpose" is less about pursuing and fulfilling a destination and more about Being fully in the present moment. Inspired by his book, "Inner Peace, Outer Power: A Shamanic Guide To Living Your Purpose," this conversation is full of Shamanic perspectives, insights, and teachings on approaching and responding to life differently. At a time where he was battling with depression, aligning with Shamanism changed Shaman Redwood's life. We touch on his Shamanic healing and awakening journey, shifting his relationship with depression, as well as purpose, and expand on practicing acceptance, inner-peace, and presence. This is a beautiful conversation on, essentially, receiving the journey as the gift, rather than the destination. Purchase Shaman Redwood's Book Follow Shaman Redwood on Instagram Explore More of Shaman Redwood Support the showThank you for bringing this podcast into your present moment and thank you for consciously listening! Your presence is sincerely valued and appreciated. If you you enjoy this podcast, please share a rating and a review! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📧 Subscribe To The Weekly Gratitude Newsletter 👁️ Watch all episodes on YouTube 😊 Follow the podcast on Instagram @StartingwithGratitude 🌻 Follow ya girl, your host on Instagram @withJocelyn ✍🏽 Embark on my 30-Day Gratitude Journaling Journey here ☀️ Visit the website

Hating on our exes honestly makes no sense to me. I wouldn’t have the healthy relationships I have now without my exes. I wouldn’t be who I am today without my exes. The acknowledgement of these two truths alone is like… why wouldn’t I be grateful for my exes? And I'm not just referring to past lovers and partners. I'm referring to all my exes - ex friends included. In my opinion, being grateful for our exes is a really healing, healthy and mature thing to do (when it's genuine of course). My intention in sharing this conversation with you is to inspire you to be grateful for your exes (and your past in general) in such a way where you take your power back and move on with your life as a wiser version of you. I expand on why we need to evolve from hating on our exes, why being grateful for our past is powerful, why I personally am grateful for my exes, and why you can be grateful for your exes, too. I also offer you some shifts in perspective regarding break ups.  Cheers to being grateful for relationships that began and ended. Support the showThank you for bringing this podcast into your present moment and thank you for consciously listening! Your presence is sincerely valued and appreciated. If you you enjoy this podcast, please share a rating and a review! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📧 Subscribe To The Weekly Gratitude Newsletter 👁️ Watch all episodes on YouTube 😊 Follow the podcast on Instagram @StartingwithGratitude 🌻 Follow ya girl, your host on Instagram @withJocelyn ✍🏽 Embark on my 30-Day Gratitude Journaling Journey here ☀️ Visit the website

"Human design helps us get back to our energy," explains our special guest, Human Design Expert, Leah McCloud. What is human design? Who is human design for? What are the essentials when reading a human design chart? How does it help us manifest our dreams? And why does it return us to our (true) energy? These are all questions we answer in this episode and more! For Leah, human design found her and when it did, she found her true Self. In addition to expanding on human design, we also expand on finding your true Self through human design as human design shows you your energetic blueprint. We expand on what happens when you begin to explore and discover your true Self and the way life will tend to simultaneously fall apart as it falls together. This is a clear, concise conversation on human design and inspiring conversation on returning back home to your Self (which leads to dreams coming true).  Get your free human design chart here Book a reading with Leah McCloud here Follow Leah McCloud on Instagram here Support the showThank you for bringing this podcast into your present moment and thank you for consciously listening! Your presence is sincerely valued and appreciated. If you you enjoy this podcast, please share a rating and a review! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📧 Subscribe To The Weekly Gratitude Newsletter 👁️ Watch all episodes on YouTube 😊 Follow the podcast on Instagram @StartingwithGratitude 🌻 Follow ya girl, your host on Instagram @withJocelyn ✍🏽 Embark on my 30-Day Gratitude Journaling Journey here ☀️ Visit the website

This episode is everything you need to know about Saturn Return, which is a deeply transformative experience we all grow through. While our returning guest, Afro-Indigenous Medicine Woman and Spiritual Teacher, Réyel Byrd, is commencing her Saturn Return on March 07, 2023 - ya girl, your host, is ending her Saturn Return. In this conversation, Réyel shares her wisdom through her knowledge and insights, and I share my wisdom through my recent experience in my Saturn Return. We define what Saturn Return is, as well as expand on the overall energy of Saturn. We also expand on the many life-changing themes that our Saturn Return brings, such as initiating into adulthood/womanhood, developing a spiritual foundation, aligning with your purpose, having integrity, trusting your intuition, and more. Whether you're entering or exiting your Saturn Return (or are simply curious about it), this episode is especially for you. (I honestly wish I had this episode to listen to before I entered my Saturn Return!) Learn more about Réyel and her services here Support the showThank you for bringing this podcast into your present moment and thank you for consciously listening! Your presence is sincerely valued and appreciated. If you you enjoy this podcast, please share a rating and a review! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📧 Subscribe To The Weekly Gratitude Newsletter 👁️ Watch all episodes on YouTube 😊 Follow the podcast on Instagram @StartingwithGratitude 🌻 Follow ya girl, your host on Instagram @withJocelyn ✍🏽 Embark on my 30-Day Gratitude Journaling Journey here ☀️ Visit the website