Ep. 33 - Tess Palma-Martinez - Building the Goddess

Treska Stein, Dream Tender, Breathwork teacher & founder of Sheepä hides, shares how she  regulates her nervous system, how to explore your dream world to reveal subconscious guidance, and how important our outer environment is in keeping us connected. We loved hearing about her childhood growing up in the high desert and the simple breathwork techniques we can use to help us return home to ourselves. Treska empowers us to embrace our inner imperfectionist - Amen sister.

Topics We Discuss: 

• Breathwork
• Dream Tending
• Decluttering

In the Episode, We Learn:

• She was born in Germany and moved to Taos, New Mexico when she was four.
• She started to explore breathwork when she couldn’t get relief from her anxiety.
• About nervous system regulation and the vagus nerve.
• Anxiety is often the experience of not feeling a suppressed emotion.
• The different breathwork techniques that she loves to use in her practice.
• Why she’s a big fan of gradualism in breathwork.
• Why she loves sighing and yawning when trying to downregulate your system.
• How she found dream tending.
• During a dream tending session, she gets curious with you around what your unconscious might be communicating to you through a dream.
• How dream tending can bring you an insight into what you need to process emotionally.
• What recurring dreams mean.
• About her program, Decluttering from the Inside Out, which includes a financial wellness coach and a space alchemist.
• How she practices intentional sparseness in her home space.
• About her natural and ethical sheepskin company, Sheepä hides.

Resources:

• Connect with Paige on IG @treska___stein
• Sister Sister website
• The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation by Deb Dana
• Sheepä hides

Affiliates:

• OSEA Malibu non-toxic skincare
• Living Libations organic and wildcrafted

The episode we have all been waiting for is here! Lindsay shares all the incredible and hilarious details of Pfeiffer’s home birth! We love hearing about Lindsay’s transcendent, out of body experience that she likens to Bruce Almighty meeting God for the first time. Hah! We are in awe of Lindsay’s strength as she recounts the moments that challenged her and changed her forever. We are so excited to share Lindsay’s journey of bringing Pfeiffer Earth side.

Topics We Discuss: 

• Labor
• Birth
• Postpartum

In the Episode, Lindsay shares:

• Her experience with her water breaking.
• How her doula got her to start dancing in between contractions.
• That even though she didn’t use hypnobirthing during her labor, it helped prepare her mindset for labor.
• How she felt like Bruce Almighty when he met God.
• She felt completely calm and quiet inside her body.
• That she actually didn’t feel grounded in the tub, which was not what she expected.
• From 2am-6am, she felt like she completely lost any concept of time and had an out of body, transcendent experience.
• As the sun started to rise, that is when everything started to pick up again.
• The mind game that was happening during the pushing process.
• Pfeiffer passed meconium as she came out and had to go to the hospital.
• Her postpartum experience with blood clots and bleeding.
• She has a whole new respect for the strength and intelligence that her body has.
• There is nothing she would do differently and credits vocalizing along the waves of contractions as the greatest tool she had.

Resources:

• Lindsay’s IG
• Australian Birth Stories podcast and IG
• Doing it at Home podcast
• Happy Home Birth podcast
• Dr. Berlin’s Informed Pregnancy podcast
• Evidence Based Birth podcast
• Down to Birth podcast
• The Birth Hour podcast
• Conception and Pregnancy Coach Kate Caddle
• Eva Rose Birth IG
• The Naked Doula IG
• Spirit Babies by Walter Makichen
• Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
• Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin

Affiliates:

• OSEA Malibu non-toxic skincare
• Living Libations organic and wildcrafted

Paige Patterson, actor and postpartum doula, reflects on the highs and lows of her journey navigating an artistic career and how postpartum work has transformed her life. We loved connecting the patterns of how she was showing up in the world when she was met with “success,” and what she has learned from the darker times in her life. Paige’s passionate focus on being in love with all cycles of life and embracing her unique ways of living feels like a message we all needed to hear. 

Topics We Discuss: 

• Acting
• Postpartum Doula 
• Receptivity

In the Episode, We Learn:

• She became deeply obsessed with theater in highschool, studied it in undergrad, and then went on to get her MFA at Columbia University.
• About her immersive experience applying and auditioning for the MFA program at Columbia.
• She met her husband and best friends while living in New York.
• She got signed with Paradigm and a great management company right out of college.
• How the casting directors in New York really coached her at the start of her career.
• About her years-long lesson of enjoying her wins in the moment and not focusing on what is next.
• The reckoning she had after coming off of a 14 episode run and not booking for 3 years.
• How she checks in with herself to step into her own power and pleasure.
• About her beautiful mentorship experience with Birdsong Brooklyn.
• How she discovered her unique offer to the world as a human and as a doula.
• About her postpartum doula offering, which includes day shifts, overnight shifts, and planning calls.
• The importance of sacred boundaries.
• After birth you have to give yourself space to heal: “Ideally 2 weeks in bed, 2 weeks by the bed.”
• The importance of giving yourself permission to grieve your old life - give yourself space to have two contradictory feelings like grief and gratitude.
• How she is focusing on being in love with her life as it is now.
• Some tips on how to help your body complete cycles and restore your nervous system.

Resources:

• Connect with Paige on IG @paigeisapeach
• Birdsong Brooklyn mentorship program
• Skyting Yoga
• Davie-Blue (Somatics)
• The Twelfth House podcast from Holisticism
• The first 40 Days by Harry N. Abrams
• Awakening Fertility by Harry N. Abrams

Affiliates:

• OSEA Malibu non-toxic skincare
• Living Libations organic and wildcrafted

Jenni Adishian, Manifestation Advisor and founder of Abundant Collective, reframes this often anxiety-heavy time at the start of new year. In our third interview, we dive deep into the process of manifestation, casting your list from a grounded mental place, and giving yourself grace. We loved hearing about her experience cultivating her intuitive gifts. We are reminded to take a pause and always approach what you are calling from a place of excitement instead of lack. We love this new year ritual catching up with our magical friend, Jenni.

Topics We Discuss: 

• Manifestation
• Beliefs and Emotional Energy
• Intuitive Channeling

In the Episode, We Learn:

• The importance of giving yourself grace to know when you are ready to start calling in a new list.
• How important it is to NOT create your manifestation list from a place of lack.
• How cultivating the feeling of safety and security in your body creates magnetism for your manifestations.
• Her ritual of channeling a word for the year.
• Last year taught her the importance of trusting yourself and letting go. 
• About her experience with letting go of old identities, friendships, relationships and learning to trust herself.
• How she embraces the unknown and finds the magic in it.
• How she plans to focus on the divine feminine flow of receiving and embracing her sexuality.
• How sexual energy and Creator energy is all connected to manifestation.
• How to release the need to know how you're going to get there or when.
• How aligned actions support your manifestations.
• Your aligned actions are whatever make you feel good, confident, lit up, and energized.
• How she has leaned into her spiritual and intuitive gifts.
• How our beliefs and emotions held in our bodies contribute to what we manifest.
• We manifest when we are the vibrational and emotional match with what we are calling in.

Resources:

• Jenni’s IG @jenni.adishian
• Work with Jenni 
• Abundant Collective
• Abundant Collective Retreat: Sedona

Affiliates:

• OSEA Malibu non-toxic skincare
• Living Libations organic and wildcrafted

We start off 2022 with Ava Johanna, International Breathwork and Meditation Coach + Founder of The Academy of Breath, as she shares her incredible journey from being homeless at 16 to discovering her mission to bring breathwork and meditation to everyone. We love her outlook on how the dark times in our lives can actually position us to discover what we are meant to fulfill in this life. Her passion for helping people expand into the human beings they were meant to become lights us up. She’s a literal breath of fresh air! 

Topics We Discuss: 

• Breathwork
• Nervous System
• Sacred Activation

In the Episode, We Learn:

• The limiting beliefs she picked up from her rocky childhood.
• About her story from going from an upper middle class family to being homeless at the age of 16 and having to drop out of school to support herself.
• About her experience with numbing herself.
• What led her to discover breathwork and meditation.
• How she went from feeling hopeless to empowered.
• About her experience with stress and weekly migraines that lasted for 72 hours.
• About the turning point in her life where she realized there was no amount of money that was going to make her happy and that she wasn’t happy…
• How we can start to feel safe in our bodies.
• How our bodies are affected by stress and fear.
• How the breath works with the nervous system and with the part of the brain that perceives danger and stress.
• How to activate your parasympathetic nervous system.
• How we can use breathwork to arouse our nervous system when we need energy.
• How she built her business The Academy of Breath where she certifies teachers in breathwork and meditation.
• About her mission to bring breathwork and meditation into every single household on this planet.

Resources:

• Ava’s IG @avajohanna
• The Academy of Breath 
• AvaJohanna.com 
• Breath by James Nestor 
• The Radiant Sutras

Affiliates:

• OSEA Malibu non-toxic skincare
• Living Libations organic and wildcrafted

Dr. Janiel Henry, psychologist and founder of Women Rise, shares her passion for women’s mental health and holistic wellness. We pick her brain on the commonalities and patterns she notices contributing to anxiety in women specifically and how we can support ourselves and others. We loved hearing about her dreams for the future where women take the space they need to care for themselves and thrive. Let’s rise together.

Topics We Discuss: 

• Psychology
• Holistic Wellness
• Mental Health

In the Episode, We Learn:

• She knew she wanted to be a psychologist in high school.
• The differences between men and women experiencing anxiety.
• The internal and external pressures that create anxiety and depression in women.
• How feeling safe as women correlates to anxiety.
• Why she started Women Rise, a boutique women’s mental health and holistic wellness center.
• Support through Women Rise includes yoga, massage, therapy, nutrition support, doula support, postpartum midwife support, and more.
• About Janiel’s dreams for the future generations of women regarding their mental health and taking up space in the world.
• The importance of being mindful of when we are in the process of achieving our dreams instead of only focusing on the end product.
• The major differences in women’s mental health and support across the world.

Resources:

• Janiel’s IG @dr.janielhenry
• Women Rise IG @womenrisepsyc_wellness
• Women Rise
• Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon
• The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman

Affiliates:

• OSEA Malibu non-toxic skincare
• Living Libations organic and wildcrafted

Friends, we’re back! Over the last few months, the three of us have been busy creating some things really close to our hearts, including growing babies and producing films. Small stuff! Hah! In this ep, Lindsay fills us in on how she’s been preparing herself for giving birth and all that she has learned. She’s about to pop and our hearts are about to burst!

Topics We Discuss: 

• Pregnancy
• Birth

In the Episode, Lindsay shares:

• How she plans to switch gears from working to nesting.
• How she’s staying true to who she is as she prepares for giving birth and what that means for her.
• What she has learned about the different phases of labor.
• How she’s been mentally and spiritually preparing for birth.
• Her experience with hypnobirthing techniques thus far.
• All the incredible birthing podcasts she’s been tuning into.

Resources:

• Lindsay’s IG
• Australian Birth Stories podcast and IG
• Doing it at Home podcast
• Happy Home Birth podcast
• Dr. Berlin’s Informed Pregnancy podcast
• Evidence Based Birth podcast
• Down to Birth podcast
• The Birth Hour podcast
• Conception and Pregnancy Coach Kate Caddle
• Eva Rose Birth IG
• The Naked Doula IG
• Spirit Babies by Walter Makichen
• Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
• Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin

Affiliates:

• OSEA Malibu non-toxic skincare
• Living Libations organic and wildcrafted

The three of us sit down to share all that we have been expanding into the last few weeks. We have experienced some major milestones that have definitely come with some challenges and opportunities for us to grow and heal. As we are all being called to expand our containers so that we withstand more responsibility, we are making sure to connect with the lessons we will be taking with us and to blissfully reflect on how far we have all come. Well done friends.

Topics We Discuss: 

• Pregnancy
• Filmmaking
• Self-doubt

In the Episode, We Share:

• Lindsay’s big 20-week scan and her experience seeing her baby girl’s face!
• How Lindsay’s been dealing with her exhaustion during pregnancy.
• Jess and Giana’s experience producing and filming their short film last week.
• What Giana and Jess have learned from producing their short film.
• How Jess and Giana maintained self-care throughout production.
• Jess’ revelations around why saying goodbye to this project affected her so deeply.
• Our struggles with self-doubt over the last week and how we are releasing it.
• Giana’s shamanic energy healing session with Laury Naron.

Resources:

• Alexis Smart Flower Remedies - Safe and Sound and Unblocked
• Laury Naron’s RGS podcast episode
• What Happened to You by Oprah and Bruce D. Perry

Affiliates:

• OSEA Malibu non-toxic skincare
• Living Libations organic and wildcrafted

Rachel D’Amico, mama to Dakota and Anakin + SVP at Shadow PR, joins us to share the very different birth stories of her first and second child, having a cesarean versus a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), and how differently she felt postpartum after both. She goes into how she prepared herself mentally, spiritually and physically to have a natural birth the second time around, and how supportive her doctor was, which all led to her having a fairytale birthing experience with her second baby.

Topics We Discuss: 

• Birth
• Pregnancy
• Vaginal Birth After Cesarean

In the Episode, We Learn:

• Her intuition got so much stronger with her second pregnancy.
• About her experience being pregnant and giving birth during lockdown.
• She was in labor for two days with Dakota and ended up needing a C-section.
• She has a blood condition when she’s pregnant where you can potentially lose a lot of blood.
• About Anakin’s birth story and the preparation she did to ensure a successful VBAC.
• The techniques, including hypnobirthing, that helped her deliver naturally.
• How hypnobirthing helped Rachel get in tune with your body and prepare for birth.
• How her doctor advocated for her natural birth plan.
• How she felt postpartum after both births.
• How becoming a mother has changed her.
• How she balances being a mom of two, a wife, and a Senior Vice President.

Resources:

• Rachel’s IG @rachdamico
• Rachel’s Hypnobirthing playlist
• @TakingCaraBabies IG
• How to Release Pain

Affiliates:

• OSEA Malibu non-toxic skincare
• Living Libations organic and wildcrafted

Molly Lowe-white, mama to Beau, joins us to talk all the mama things! We get into her conception, pregnancy, and birth story of her first baby, Beau. She shares her experience with pregnancy loss and what helped her get through that time. Molly also takes us through the incredible health journey she had postpartum and how that led her to trust the power of her intuition. The Mama Knowing is strong with this one! 

Topics We Discuss: 

• Birth
• Pregnancy
• Healing

In the Episode, We Learn:

• Grew up in Rancho Palos Verdes in a slow, mellow lifestyle.
• Has raised her son similarly keeping him close to nature and the beach everyday.
• How she fell pregnant with her first son, Beau, after quitting her job to travel with her husband.
• About her birth story with her first son.
• How she prepared for birth the first time.
• She had to monitor her blood pressure at home during her first pregnancy.
• She was induced at 9pm and gave birth at 5am after pushing for 2 hours.
• She almost had to have an emergency C-section, but got him on the very next push.
• Her postpartum rash popped up the same weekend her period returned.
• Her intuition told her that her rash started because of hormonal changes, but her doctor’s disagreed and put her on topical steroids.
• While taking the steroids, her rash would improve briefly, but then worsen.
• She ended up experiencing topical steroid withdrawal.
• She healed herself by taking an eastern medicine approach and changing her diet.
• Her experience with pregnancy loss.
• The differences in conceiving the first time versus the third time.

Resources:

• Molly’s IG @m.lowewhite
• Molly’s company Obvious Child Company
• Nurture by Erica Chidi and Jillian Ditner 
• Dr. Becky - Good Inside

Affiliates:

• OSEA Malibu non-toxic skincare
• Living Libations organic and wildcrafted