Journey to Authenticity - Purpose | Spirituality | Relationships | Body-Mind

My guest today is Lotte Schultz. Drawing on more than thirty years of personal experience, professional training and spiritual development Lotte brings many skills to her practice as a Holistic Psychotherapist and Breathwork Facilitator.Lotte has spent much of her adult life recovering from Satanic Ritual Abuse (S.R.A.) and incest, experiencing spiritual emergency, spontaneous kundalini awakening, a battle with cancer, chronic pain, suicide attempts and many other symptoms of complex trauma.Lotte has been a huge inspiration for me in my life personally, and her journey is a shining example to all of us who seek to live an authentic life.To learn more about Lotte’s work, head to lottelife.com.au

A slightly different episode today, a role reversal. This is me being interviewed about authenticity for another podcast called Ensoreal with Marie Dahlgren. We discuss authenticity in leadership, hustle vs flow, burnout/overwhelm, integration of the masculine and feminine, masks, guilt, shame, triggers, boundaries and more. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did ...

Has Hollywood corrupted our consciousness and uncoupled us from our life force? My guest today, Jasun Horsley, discusses the theme of his latest book 16 Maps of Hell: Unraveling Hollywood Superculture and shares his process of societal and cultural de-programming in the quest to reclaim his life force. Jasun is a Socratian podcaster and author of a series of books on cultural programming, hierarchical systems of abuse, the cult-like nature of society, and collective dissociation & alienation. To learn more about his work; books, podcast and blog head to his website, https://auticulture.com

Depression, anxiety, chronic pain, phobias, obsessive thoughts. Could some of the roots of these issues be connected to our family lineage? Today’s guest is Mark Wolynn, author of the book 'IT DIDN’T START WITH YOU’ winner of the 2016 Nautilus Book Award in psychology. We discuss how inherited family trauma shapes who we are and how to end the cycle. Mark Wolynn is the director of the Family Constellation Institute in San Francisco. He's also is a leading expert in the field of inherited family trauma. His articles have appeared in Psychology Today, Mind Body Green, MariaShriver.com, Elephant Journal and Psych Central, and his poetry has been published in The New Yorker. www.markwolynn.com

How can we become a more natural being in an urban environment? In today’s episode, I discuss all things ReWilding with Tony Riddle. Tony devised his Natural Life-stylist philosophy as a way to recharge, reboot and re-educate on the importance of re-aligning ourselves with Nature for emotional, spiritual and physical health. Tony’s talks, workshops and his retreats are based around the premise that if we can recognise where nature is missing from our lives we can reconnect with it and fall back in love with it, and in doing so can shake the angst-inducing monkey off our collective back.https://tonyriddle.com

Byron Katie’s ’The Work’ is a self-inquiry tool that uses 4 questions and turnarounds as a way of challenging our stressful thoughts. In todays episode, I speak to Rosie Stave, a Certified Facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie. She has been facilitating individuals, groups, workshops and retreats in The Work for 24 years. The freedom this inquiry has created in Rosie’s life, and the lives of others, fuels her continual passion for this gift and her sharing of it. She also is a tutor and trainer for the Institute for The Work, offering teleclasses and individual coaching. http://theworkwithrosie.com https://thework.com

Today my guest Dr Julie Lopez and I discuss implicit memory, understanding our brains hidden control panel and the many possibilities of breaking through our unconscious roadblocks. Julie is a trauma specialist who founded a mental health and wellness centre in Washington DC called The Viva Center. Julie also discusses how implicit memory plays a role for adoptees, both from her own personal story, and from her clinical experience. Her recent book “Live Empowered" was named a hot new release in 10 book categories. Follow Dr Julie on Instagram using the handle @DrJulieLopez

Could you be addicted to suffering and the struggle? In this solo episode I discuss some of the reasons why these addictions may have developed and what we can do to stop them. Whether your flavour of suffering is the struggle, complaining, criticising, judging, fear, worry, pain, victimhood, anger or low self esteem, it all comes down to chemistry.

My guest today is a specialist in human behaviour and transformation. Dr Larry Goodman helps people go from stuck to unstoppable with his signature programs Your Goodest Life and The Goodman Factor. We discuss bridging the gap between falling victim to the disempowering stories we tell ourselves and living our ‘Goodest' life. Find out more about how you can work with Larry at www.GoodmanFactor.com

What does taking personal responsibility really mean? In this episode I describe what I believe personal responsibility is, and what it isn’t, and distinguish between personal responsibility, victimhood and self punishment. I explore the stories we tell ourself and how we can begin to create change in any and all areas of our life.

Wim Hof Method Instructor Emma Estrela (Corrie) shares her journey of breakdown to breakthrough using the Wim Hof Method of cold exposure, breath-work and going into nature. She describes her complete paradigm shift of what is possible; that we have the ability to go way beyond our conditioning, consciously connect to our physiology, control stress, survive in extreme conditions, heal unconscious trauma and unlock our inner athlete. There are so many lessons in this conversation. Emma is also an adoptee and distance athlete, both of which play a large part in her work. Emma lives in the Lake district and hosts workshops teaching the Wim Hof method across the country. To find out more, head to her website www.emmaestrela.com or her WHM page www.wimhofmethod.com/instructors/emmacorrie

A year ago I took the leap into the unknown and launched the podcast that would document my journey to discovering more of who I am.Watch the video here or listen to some of the lessons I have learned in the past year.I want to thank ALL of you who have tuned in! To all of those who have taken the time to send me your feedback, your support and your take aways…I always love hearing from you. Even to the haters…I still love them…it’s all part of the journey.Thank you for tuning in!Thank you for supporting the show!Thank you for being you!Love and GratitudeSarah

Have you wanted to take the next step to expand in your career, your relationships or your health? But that little voice in your head starts telling you ‘I’m not good enough’ or ‘I’m not worthy'? In this episode Dr Nima Rahmany and I discuss the inner critic or the known phenomenon of imposter syndrome.Dr. Nima Rahmany, DC, CCWP is both a Chiropractor and an educator, specialising in helping individuals and professionals get to the ROOT CAUSE of their physical and emotional challenges, from stressed, depressed, and anxious to living Powerfully Aligned and on Purpose. Dr. Nima has integrated all the mind-body tools in his quest for healing stress-related disorders into one, simple to follow method called “The Overview Method”, which he teaches one-on-one and in groups all over the world in his engaging and “edu-taining" lectures filled with inspired authenticity and edu-tainment. To learn more head to www.drnima.com

As children, we learn how to respond to our environment, creating a sub conscious road map of how to navigate the world, in particular, how to survive stressful situations.Unfortunately these programs continue to run through to our adult life and we create repeating patterns as a result. The programs that were designed to once keep us safe, now can hinder us.In this episode, I share how I re-visited a moment of my subconscious programming at the age of 7, and provided my inner child with her unmet need in that moment.These parts of our subconscious are real and by re-connecting and re-parenting our inner child with love and compassion we have the opportunity to heal and make peace with the past.This frees up creative energy and allows us to move forward freely through life.

What is emotional intelligence? Is it important? If so, why? Should we be putting greater emphasis on it? How can we develop our EQ? Let’s explore...

Approaching the end of the year I find this a great time to reflect on the year that has just been and begin planning and setting new intentions for the upcoming year. This is not about setting new years resolutions that you forget about in a couple of weeks and never achieve. I share with you the process I use, some of the questions I reflect upon and how this year I have chosen a mantra or motto to anchor to. This is about how you can be, do and have more in 2019.

In this week's episode I sit down with my mum, Carolyn Hart, and discuss my adoption, and the impact on a child separated from their biological mother at birth. My mum talks from both a personal and professional point of view as a child and adolescent Psychotherapist. She describes parenting from her perspective as both an adoptive, and a biological mother. We discuss the different aspects of ourselves, the roles we play, masks we wear and the inner wounded child in all of us.

In todays episode, my guest and I discuss healthy vs unhealthy attachments within relationships, childhood experience, co-dependency and love addiction. We explore what it means to show up authentically within relationship, boundaries and the dance between two people.Christine Calvert is a licensed chemical dependency counselor and Holotropic Breathwork facilitator in austin, Texas. She is the founder of Tribe, a sober living home for men combining the ancient wisdom of spiritual practice and contemporary psychology as a path toward recovery. She has a passion for bringing the Holotropic and transpersonal perspective to the field of addiction recovery and mental health in an attempt to expand our understanding and treatment of addiction in its many forms.During this episode, Christine also shares some of the challenges that she faced during her own addiction recovery.

Are we all addicts? Today I explore the Buddhist concept of the hungry ghost. Living in our shadow side, the hungry ghost is a reflection of a part of us that is seeking wholeness. I discuss the hungry ghost energy, looking at addiction as a spiritual quest, my own addictive behaviour cycle and how I broke the pattern.

This is a fantastic introduction into Holotropic breathwork from certified facilitator and Director of Grof Transpersonal training, Holly Harman. We discuss the healing power of the breath in drawing material from the subconscious and giving it full expression of emotion within a safe space. We cover the 4 stages of birth and the perinatal archetypes that can be expressed in a holotropic setting. We also talk about the relationship between our own birth process experience and patterns that have shown up throughout our life.If you are interested in attending one of the UK Holotropic breathwork workshops, or wish to find out more about this powerful healing method, visit www.holotropicuk.co.uk

Are you more of a Human Doing than a Human Being?Have the scales tipped too far in our society?What is the role of the Doing mode and what is the role of the Being mode?How do we learn to dance between the two?I explore this within the episode and talk about ways in which we can switch modes and how it can help you live a more fulfilling life.

Today I share how I use the 'Wheel of Life' as a life assessment tool to measure and reflect where we are at in each area of our life. Once completed, it allows us to decide in which area of life we want to drive more energy and where we may want to step back a little. Remember…what get’s measured get’s managed. So if you want to avoid coasting and are looking to transform certain areas of your life… this can be a useful tool! To see a completed example, click HERE...or head to www.journeytoauthenticity.co.uk This is the last episode of Season 1… thank you to all those who have joined me for the ride up up until this point… I look forward to seeing you back in Season 2. In the meantime, come and join the Journey to Authenticity in our closed FB group HERE.

Holotropic meets Shamanic healing. I take you through my transformative plant medicine journey during a week away on a Shamanic healing retreat. It involved Holotropic breathwork followed by Shamanic ceremonies and taking a series of amazonian master plants. These plants are traditionally used to facilitate healing and spiritual transformation. They raise the consciousness level and cleanse out dense, lower vibrational energy; fears, negative emotions, deep rooted blocks and cellular entropy. Unbelievably powerful work. I describe the process and the insights I took from it.

John Craig, (a.k.a. Echan Deravy), born in Scotland, has lived multiple lives as an expat in Japan. He has written and translated over 40 books on new paradigm science, spirituality, travel, ancient civilisation, consciousness, health and ecology. As a documentary film maker he has recently produced ‘Why on Earth’ about a barefoot walk across Iceland as well as ‘Earth Pilgrims’ filmed in six different countries. He introduced Earthing to Japan and has been involved in some of the research measuring the health benefits.To learn more about John, listen to his podcast 'Real Rover’ and to learn more about Earthing watch this 15 minute YouTube video called ‘Down to Earth' featuring Dr Mercola… HERE.

Are our beliefs true?…or like in the Matrix, are we plugged into a program? Has the program influenced my relationships, my career, my finances, the decisions I make…EVERYTHING?!!? The answer is YES!I just got punched in the face with my own journey to authenticity as I question everything I’ve known to be true. In this weeks episode I share insights, thoughts and feelings that have opened up since doing Holotropic Breathwork a few weeks ago.Confusion/clarity, awareness/ignorance, certainty/uncertainty….I am experiencing all the dualities at once.The foundation of who I am has been shaken…but this is the burden to bear for the sake of my higher self.

In this episode I speak to Alex da Silva about his addiction story in all forms. From Food, to alcohol, sex and drugs Alex was born in Brazil and came to the UK at the age of 11 without speaking the language. Alex has faced a lot of challenges over the years, including abuse, bullying and anxiety throughout childhood always feeling like he was not good enough, and in adult life has experienced mental health and addiction problems. Today, recovered he is the founder of the Happy As Larry Group, the happiness company specialising in emotional recovery, who’s mission is help change the world, one person at a time.In the uk suicide is currently the biggest killer in men under the age of 45. In a society that has always taught men not to appear weak, we now are seeing a pivotal cultural shift and a lot of discussion around redefining masculinity. Men such as Lewis Howes, Robert Webb and Justin Baldoni are just some of the big names in the public eye that are at the forefront of this conversation.The biggest thing I took away was that we ALL need to look at ways we can take care of our emotional health and emotional recovery and having an open conversation is a great way to start. So I hope you enjoy the episode.

Lauren Burton is the co-owner of a london based leadership company called Lea_p. She is passionate about personal development and how this can be used to change the way we work and live; Lauren truly believes that leadership starts with the self. In today’s episode she discusses her philosophy around leadership and how our behavioural patterns, value systems and personality types influence our leadership style. She explains how three levels of listening determines our effectiveness as leaders and how altering our perspective on life can change the way we show up. To find out more about the coaching services and courses Lea_p has to offer, and to take advantage of their additional free resources section…head to https://www.lea-p.com

I flew out to Austria last week to do what’s called a Holotrpoic breathwork workshop. This technique was developed by a Czech psychiatrist called Stanislav Grof. He now has over 60 years experience in researching non ordinary states of consciousness as well as the therapeutic potentials of psychedelic substances. He’s also one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology. Holotropic broken down means: a journey to wholeness, in ancient Greek.Holotropic breathwork is a type of self exploration and healing that uses a combination of the breath with evocative load music, while lying on a mat wearing an eye mask. This enables you to go into your body more readily, by removing external visual stimulus. This method he developed is designed to allow you to enter this expanded state of consciousness. The session lasts 3 hours and you pair up with someone who sits for you while you breathe, to make sure you are safe, to give you water when you need it, to take you to the toilet, give you tissues etc. The sessions are supported by a group of trained facilitators. Each session evokes a completely unique to the individual. It has been a very powerful experience for me and I wanted to share some of the realisations I’ve had through the process.For more information on Holotropic Breathwork visit... http://www.holotropic-association.euhttp://www.holotropic-association.eu

Do we all suffer from a fear of abandonment? This is common amongst adoptees.I am the eldest of four girls. My sister Emma was also adopted, but we have different biological parents and have never really spoken about our individual thoughts or experiences of adoption. We then have two half sisters who are biological children of our mum, from a second marriage. In this episode, I explore my sister’s story, her experience of adoption, how this has impacted her growing up and whether both Emma & I run an abandonment story.

Today I have on the show Tatiana Kassessinoff PhD, a classically trained scientist who left the lab to work as a consultant for biotechs and academic institutions in Germany. Her true passion however has always been the mind-body connection and a desire to further integrative and personalised medicine. In 2017, she retrained as a rapid transformational therapist and recently launched a podcast, London Heal to help spread the message of living healthy for longer in the UK. In today’s episode we explore the role of the mind in health. Tatiana speaks on the relationship between the unconscious mind and our personality, and how we can re-program our subconscious mind. You can follow Tatiana and subscribe to her podcast at www.londonheal.com. If you'd like to learn more about Rapid Transformational therapy then head to https://www.rapidtransformationaltherapy.com

So what if I told you there is a way to have a productive morning every single day & actually be excited to wake up? Well there is.. its called a morning ritual... We all have morning rituals we just don't know it. Yours could be waking up, hitting the snooze button, then going straight on to your phone & checking Facebook, Instagram or any of those other social media sites...and saying to yourself...'UGHHH I don't want to get up.' In today's eposide you will learn how to create a life-changing morning routine adapted from Hal Elrod's best selling book 'The Miracle Morning,' https://www.miraclemorning.com which is going to set you up for the best possible day ahead. Will you feel like it at first? NO! But if we waited to feel like doing anything....we would never get out of bed. What it comes down to is this.....how we start our day dictates how are day goes! Head to https://www.journeytoauthenticity.co.uk to pick up my version of a morning 'Daily Tuning Guide,' to help start your new routine.Try the 30 day challenge and see for yourself. Warning!: Expect to feel more energised, calmer and get more done!

Bianca Downey discusses how she navigates an open relationship. What is an ideal relationship to you? In this modern day, are we meant to only be with one person for the rest of our life? Can we make open relationships work? Almost 1 in 2 marriages end in divorce. Have we just been socially and culturally conditioned to believe that this is 'the way'. Our life span has lengthened, we live more separated than ever....can one person fulfill all our needs that previously we would have got from an entire community? We talk sexuality, desire, labels, boundaries and jealousy. Open your mind for this one and be honest with yourself.

On today's episode I discuss how to find your purpose by identifying your values and living a fulfilled life by applying them everyday. Many people can tell you want they don't want, but very few can tell you what they do want. What's crazy is that our everyday demonstrates what our values are and there is a very simple way of discovering yours, which I touch on in the episode. Identifying what both you and your partners values are can help to understand each others needs and how you can make them compliment. If you are constantly looking for outside approval from others, the this is the episode for you. If you want to read more and take an online questionnaire to determine your values, then head to https://drdemartini.com/values/login.

Trying to balance multiple hats and feeling overwhelmed? Then listen up. In today's episode, I speak to Natalie Robertson, who after years of pushing, pushing, pushing, overtraining, eating disorders, setting super human expectations, and nearly losing her life last year during childbirth, has now made BALANCE her number one focus! She shares her insights, perspectives and tools for taking care of yourself in her journey to overcoming health and relationship challenges. She discusses the importance of self care....diet, meditation, inner work, spinal adjustments and prioritising based on your values. Natalie is passionate about helping new mum's who have lost their confidence and their body. She will be holding a free 30 minute webinar on 17th May at 7.30pm, London time. Tune in to learn practical tools you can apply today in order to create more balance in your life. Follow Natalie at https://www.facebook.com/Spirohealth/

Today I speak to elite athlete Cherrelle Brown. Three time England boxing champion 2015, 16 & 17. Cherrelle talks about her difficult upbringing, not knowing her path and getting so low that she tried to take her own life. She talks about how she got into boxing and how the sport has change her life. Now at the age of 31 has just launched her professional boxing career as 'The Hummingbird'. Cherrelle is an inspiration to so many, teaching us all that no matter what we have been through and what obstacles stand in our way, we can always become a better version of ourselves.

Artist, business owner and author. The multi-talented Jasminka Hansson, shares the inspiration behind her soon to be released book 'The Unseen Journey Within You' an out-of-the-box approach to unleashing the true you. She shares her wisdom and passion for astrology and how are unique personality and life experiences form the life tools we can use to navigate the world. She explores the seven year cycles and how this influences the stages of growth we are in at different times in our life. Are you taking on the negative traits of your family and want to understand why and how to break them? This episode explores ways we can begin to break the cycle.

Welcome to the first episode of 'Journey to Authenticity' - my journey to meaning and fulfilment. Today I will cover a bit about my story, what led me to creating this podcast, my intention and what to expect from future episodes.