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“A great way to process any difficult time in life is to always ask, what am I learning?” — Sensei Victoria Whitfield Sensei Victoria Whitfield is a Reiki Master who shared with us a very fascinating story of her capabilities being an empath and energy healer. Her story starts with her mom dropping to the ground with her ankle swollen but instead of her mom asking her to get help, she was asked to heal her mom herself. She illustrates it like she felt a slash in her mind, a bolt of clear energy come down through the top of her head which hit her with force, come down into her spine and out of her hands and the next thing she knew the ankle is healed. It was at that moment that everything else changed for her.

“We don't always see the value in what we do and that makes it really difficult sometimes for us to move forward, so we just have to know that we are making a difference. ” — Kelly Falardeau Topics ranging from having tragedies in life like being burned when she was two years old, losing a baby, being diagnosed with precancer, witnessing and having a divorce to her many successes in life. Kelly Falardeau created a path to go from a near-death experience to her huge success in life.

“There are times when I did not think I could... Like how are we going to take another step forward? But we did and it kind of feels amazing. ” — Becca MacLean Before her various careers, Becca MacLean is a mother first to her four amazing children. She considers her children's mental health to be one of her greatest concerns as a mom. Becca is one of our Heal Volume 4 authors and she shares in greater detail her journey through mental illness with a child.

“Wellness really means for me a complete mindset; having this mindset that you’re able to come to life.” — Brooke Kekos From a limited environment and belief system for 35 years of life, Brooke Kekos finally managed to come out of her shell and start from the ground up. Her first step to breaking free was not an ideal one as she did not want to feel nor acknowledge her feelings so she resorted to distractions. Eventually, she realized that she needed to do some inner work for herself like Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EDMR) to surpass her extreme and complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Moreover, she also tapped into other modalities like energy healing and even hypnotherapy.

“Don’t be afraid to decide to make a change in your life; especially when there’s something in your life that’s not working for you. ” — Pi Venus Winslow In this episode, Pi Venus Winslow thoroughly explained what it means to be narcissistic. Narcissism is a term that is becoming more popular these days and it is important to raise awareness as to how it should be properly used. We do not want to go around inappropriately diagnosing people as narcissists. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is an actual medical disorder and condition that needs to be diagnosed by a professional that exhibits narcissistic behaviours at a certain extent of frequency and severity.

“What I believe is the freedom from anxiety is to outgrow it and grow with it into your more authentic and empowered self. ” — Dr. Friedemann Dr. Friedemann, a physician, researcher, and a personal development coach, found the huge relation between how we are dealing with our physical state and our mental state. He shares that he noticed when he worked in cardiology that people had stress, high blood pressure, and heart attacks that were a result of anxiety.

“Wellness is really what's happening in your heart, what's happening in your energy. ” — Katie Hess Every flower does something for us. Katie Hess’ journey into becoming a flower alchemist started when she found the potential of flowers to transform lives in a very short period of time, through appearance, body language, and stories — describing it as an inside out process, not trying to force any changes in their lives, just organic, like a flower blooming.

“You are standing on the firmament of earth, the bed from which our principles arrive — familiar with the wisdom and creativity that lies within mother earth.” — Pearl Gregor Pearl Gregor perfectly starts off this episode by letting us experience a short guided meditation with her and explore our creativity. As she opens up to us, she reveals that she battled clinical depression and meditation helped her get over it. In this episode, we also discussed our weird dreams and how we describe our dreams as weird because they are the language of the soul. With that, her advice to people who want to analyze their dreams is to first write them down. Take note of what you remember from the dream until how it ends even if it's abrupt because chances are the things that show up in your dream symbolize a deeper meaning in your life.

“Wellness has really come about being in balance and creating a container to be imbalanced and it always comes back to feeling balanced.” — Mia Moran During episode 54, Mia Moran talked about how she took her first step into wellness by changing her diet and how she realized how important it was to her wellness journey. Being invested with all things food, she was able to write a book and have a book tour with her family where she had the opportunity to meet other people who she describes to be in the lifestyle longer than her. It was through these people and experiences she realized that adjusting food wasn’t the only solution. That is when she recognized other aspects of wellness like spirituality and time.

“If you’re not getting what you want, you're not getting it because you don't know what you want. You don't know what you want probably because you're so in the service of others that you haven't taken that time to really decide what it is that you want.” — Christine Clifton Christine Clifton blends both traditional corporate career and entrepreneurship which helped her to become who she is today. Christine relates wellness to wholeness and abundance, not just in the financial sense, but also to understanding abundance and the expansiveness it brings, thereby allowing us to live life to the fullest.

“You may not be able to control the thoughts the ego thinks, but you can certainly control the thoughts that the ego speaks.” — Alan Carroll A lot of the time, we get lost in our train of thought because it's a continuous stream of consciousness. Therefore, your ego gets in the way because your thoughts are your ego. Alan Carroll, a Transpersonal Psychologist, focuses on the 5th Greek element which is space to be utilized in becoming more mindful and present as we speak our minds.

“When you give your power away to something, it'll hit you a lot harder.” — Justin Frandson For this episode, we are touching on a different area of wellness which is related to the physics of gadgets which is actually a huge part of our lives, especially in this 21st century. Justin Frandson is an Athleticism Performance Coach that has worked with amateur and professional athletes for over the past two decades and he observed how gadgets have an effect on the athletes' overall performance. Electromagnetic fields or frequencies (EMFs) can be cosmic or manmade. We live in an electric universe, thus, we are also electric. Our air is plasma, waves form and travel through plasma. So whether it's a cosmic shift in the atmosphere or shift from introducing 5G or radio waves or electrification in some way, shape, or form, that's going to travel through the plasma and affect our bodies.