How Running and Meditation Saved My Life - Nita Sweeney, Author and Mental Health Advocate

Happy New Year everyone and welcome to 2023.  My quarantine baby, all grown up now with 137 episodes and over 25K downloads.  I am filled with so much appreciation for the opportunity to serve you in your journey. 

The Soul Science Nutrition Podcast has enriched my life on a deep level and I am truly grateful I listened to that cosmic nudge to create it in 2020.  Nonetheless,  my inner guidance is now calling me to take a pause from the podcast in order to make space for the birth of a new creative endeavor.   

Of course, all episodes will continue to live on Apple, Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts as well as on my website:  energeticnourishment.com.   

For this final episode I thought I would wrap up with the top 10 unifying themes and empowering takeaways. 

My Website:  www.energeticnourishment.com 
Instagram:  @energeticnourishment

Ep#136  Today’s guest is Susan Burrell, an intuitive healer and spiritual guide whose own journey toward finding true empowerment has inspired her to do the same for women in the crossroads of life.  She is the author of "Live An Empowered Life" and the host of the podcast, "Empowering Chats With Susan Burrell - Journey to Freedom, Brilliance and Opulence."

I loved this vulnerable conversation with Susan which centers around the shared subject matter of healing from covert narcissistic abuse.  We talk about how this specific experience of suffering catalyzed us to find the courage to make big changes in our life no matter how difficult they might seem.  And as we went through the different stages of healing to process the effects of what happened , it made us go deep within to find ourselves again.  Susan and I discuss how our spiritual tools and wisdom teachings played such a key part in freeing ourselves from trauma and emotional pain.   We talked about how being exposed to narcissistic abuse served as a sacred invitation to reclaim our worth, re-discover the divinity within, learn to nourish and care for ourselves with genuine self love and ultimately find ways to prioritize living a healthy, joy filled  life.   

To learn more visit her website:  https://www.susanburrell.com

Recommended Reading:  "The Covert Passive Aggressive Narcissist" By Debbie Mirza

Ep#135  What does it really mean to take responsibility for our life?  This is the focus of today’s conversation with my guest Krystal Jakoski, self ownership teacher and guide to women who are ready to "own their sh**t" and reclaim their personal power.  

Krystal shares her journey to accept a hard but life changing truth: that we create the lives we are living.  We discuss how taking responsibility for our choices instead of assigning blame opens us up to the truth of how powerful we are to heal and transform our life.  We talk about how owning our reality is about  tuning in to and turning up the volume on our own guiding voice and  how through compassionate self-ownership we can discover inner peace and healing. 

She  works virtually and in person offering 1:1 holistic healing sessions, empowering online courses and personalized retreat experiences guiding people to identify and clear blockages that are holding us back from our most authentic life.  To learn more about Krystal and her offerings, please visit her website: https://krystaljakosky.com where you can also check our her podcast: Breathe In, Breathe Out where each week she shares a new lesson or meditation focused on helping you navigate your life by giving YOU the tools to become your own healer.

Ep#134  So many of us are brought up in the paradigm of work hard, grind, hustle, sacrifice time, health and family and one day because it will all be worth it.  But what if there’s actually another more empowering way to chart a path to the life of your dreams.   

My guest this week was Dr. Vic Manzo,  Mindset Coach, Family Wellness Chiropractor, Neuroscience/ Mindfulness Trainer and Inspirational Speaker.  He is the author of 3 books in the Human Potential field with the most recent one being, "Decoding The Matrix: Powerful Tips for Unleashing Your Potential and Accelerating Your Spiritual Awakening".    He also has a podcast, "The Mindful Experiment."

We spoke about how Dr. Vic stepped out of the all too common cycle of stress and burnout and transformed every aspect of his  life from relationships to health and money.    He did all of this by understanding the power of his mindset, subconscious limiting beliefs, universal laws, by stepping into the quantum world, and utilizing the life changing principles of neuroscience.

Dr. Vic’s passion and expertise is guiding people to reclaim their personal power to live a soul filled life.   To learn more about his services and get his books visit: https://www.empoweryourreality.com

Ep #133  I had the pleasure of speaking with Juni Bucher, Holistic Cancer Care specialist, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and certified meditation teacher.  Recovering from breast cancer and autoimmune thyroiditis using a whole foods and genuinely holistic approach, Juni completely changed her life and founded JuniBWell, a company serving the needs of breast cancer survivors.  Not afraid to talk about taboo subjects within the community, Juni has been an advocate for those who want to look beyond what their doctors are obligated to recommend as standard of care treatments and helps fill in the gaps regarding ways to heal beyond medical treatment.

Juni’s knows that getting a second chance at life is a gift and  we ALL deserve to feel good in our bodies, thrive without limitation and live a life with joy, ease and pleasure.   

Juni is also the host of a wonderful podcast called: :”Tata Cancer”

To listen and learn more about Juni and her services visit her website:  https://www.junibwell.com.  

Ep#132 A traumatic breakup transformed this week’s guest from skeptical engineer to passionate explorer of the world of energy healing.  She’s Gail Behrend, a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and co-author of the book, “Energy Is Real! — A Practical Guide for Managing Personal Energy in Daily Life”, a highly informative and very practical book will teach you how to manage your energy so you can have the life you truly want for yourself. 

As an energy practitioner for over 25 years, Gail has been teaching people  how to tap into one of our most valuable resources to promote health and well-being, their personal energy system.  Her expertise is demystifying the world of the subtle human energy system offering a practical skills based approach.  On this show Gail shares why energy awareness is so essential for pur physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being and why it really is the first step to achieving health and balance.  

To learn more about Gail and her services  visit her website: https://energyisreal.com

There you’ll find everything you need to get started from links to an abundance of scientific research to practical exercises that you can use immediately to begin to explore how to sense and manage your personal energy.

Recommended Resources:

https://lightinstitute.com

https://www.sethlearningcenter.org

Ep#131  This week’s special guest is all the way from Melbourne.  Amanda Kate is a highly trained Kinesiologist.   She is also an Archetypal, Transformational Intuitive Life Coach and the author of two books, “Divine Messy Human” A Spiritual Guide to Prioritizing Internal Truth Over External Influence,  and “ The Anxiety Relief Handbook, Complementary Therapies To Let Go Of Anxiety.” 

Amanda shares her passion for finding the root cause of our health issues by investigating the physical, mental and emotional imbalances in our bio-energetic field that impede the body’s innate healing intelligence.   

She understands every life experience from the people  who cross our path to how we respond under pressure is stored deep in our cellular memory and shapes our well being.  Oftentimes, we can’t see  those ingrained stress responses, patterns of conditioning and internalized traumas until they rise to the surface as a divine invitation to go deep within ourselves.   Amanda shares how she used her personal challenges as opportunities to learn, grow and evolve and now facilitates a range of personal healing experiences for her clients to bring about greater health and wellness. 

You can learn more about Amanda at her website:  www.amandakate.com.au. 

Ep#130  Learning and growing through her own struggles with addiction, alcoholism, disordered eating and postpartum depression, Lane Kennedy now guides women with a deep range of wellness tools to achieve a renewed sense of inner peace and wellbeing.   Lane is the author of the guidebook, Grace Happens: A Guide to Living Fearlessly and the podcast, “Calm Connected Life”.

She is a Hypnotherapist,  Human Potential Coach, Hormone Cure Practitioner and DNA Coach.  Lane is also a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher, Graduate of the Neuroscience Academy,  Yoga Nidra Facilitator, a Revelation Breathwork Practitioner, and a Peer Certified Recovery Coach.   

In this heartfelt conversation, we unpack the priceless gifts of learning to go within and rediscover that regardless of what may be happening on the outside we can heal when we remember that living a calm connected joyful life is our birthright.

Website:  https://lanekennedy.com

Ep #129  Over the course of her 20 year career, Keri Cooper observed how children and teens continued to suffer day in and day out despite following conventional mental health protocols.  As a result, she began to question if it was possible that mental health is more than just in the brain and became passionate about the need for a more integrative approach based on the belief that one needs to prioritize their physical and emotional wellbeing to build a foundation for mental health. 

Last year, Keri published her book, “Mental Health Uncensored: 10 Foundations Every Parent Needs to Know, where she shares the proven, real-life strategies that she has used in her own practice.  She addresses the importance of teaching young people the positive impact that healthy lifestyle changes can have on their mental health.   And she highlights to parents the critical importance of learning to let children become independent, letting go of guilt, overdoing and over worrying.  Keri emphasizes  modeling basic mental health habits such as being able to say “no” and setting up good boundaries in relationships.

Visit Her Website:  ​​https://kericooperholistictherapy.com/about/

Buy the Book:  “Mental Health Uncensored: 10 Foundations Every Parent Needs to Know”

Ep#128  My guest today is Catherine Scherwenka,  the author of two highly acclaimed books on the art of healing and holding space for trauma, “PTSD and And a Drug Free Me” and “Inner Peace - Learn the Craft of Meditation and Use It As Medication” . 

Catherine is a  certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher, Oneness Meditator and Advanced Oneness Trainer.  She serves as a coach, spiritual guide and mentor for women on the path of deep self discovery bringing to light the power of contemplative practices, sacred ritual and wisdom teachings to heal our modern challenges. 

Catherine offers several online group programs, classes, 1:1 sessions and destination retreats.  Her passion and expertise is inviting her clients and students to explore the transformative powers of healing the body through movement with yoga, the mind by cultivating awareness with  meditation + breath-work, and expanding their experience of life by having stronger connections with both the seen and the unseen. 

You can learn more by visiting her website:  https://maythegracebewithyou.com.   

Both of Catherine’s books are available on Amazon: https://maythegracebewithyou.com/read.