Podcasts about Divine light

Step into a deeply joyous, expansive, soul-awakening, and paradigm-shifting conversation with Kurtis Lee Thomas, bestselling author, founder of Breathwork Detox, and one of the world's leading corporate mindfulness trainers, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Known by many as "Man From The Stars," Kurtis bridges science, spirituality, nervous system healing, and consciousness work in a way that is both profoundly grounded and wildly transformative. Kurtis shares the extraordinary journey that awakened him to the multidimensional nature of reality, beginning with the tragic murder of his brother and the shocking experience of connecting with him through a psychic medium. What began as skepticism quickly became a complete unraveling of everything he thought he knew about life, death, spirit, intuition, and human potential. That experience ignited an insatiable curiosity that led him into years of spiritual study, shamanic training, meditation, breathwork, and deep exploration of consciousness. We explore how Kurtis became a bridge between worlds, bringing ancient healing practices like breathwork into highly analytical spaces like NASA, Fortune 500 companies, elite athletics, and corporate leadership. He explains how breathwork creates immediate and undeniable shifts in the nervous system, helping people release trauma stored in the body, regulate anxiety, access clarity, and reconnect with deeper parts of themselves beyond the thinking mind. Kurtis opens up vulnerably about his own years-long health crisis that no doctor could diagnose, and how one powerful breathwork session completely eradicated the energetic and emotional root of what his body had been carrying. Together, we dive into the profound connection between trauma, stored emotion, the subconscious mind, hypervigilance, dissociation, and the body's deep longing for safety, presence, and release. We also talk about: Spirit guides, synchronicity, and multidimensional awareness Healing grief and connecting with loved ones beyond the veil Breathwork as humanity's original medicine Anxiety, nervous system dysregulation, and emotional suppression The difference between intellectual awareness and embodied healing Why breathwork creates rapid emotional and energetic release Flow states, altered consciousness, and accessing the subconscious mind Masculinity, emotional expression, and giving men permission to feel Shadow work, soul embodiment, and learning to love all parts of ourselves Parenting, fatherhood, and raising conscious children Dream recall, intuition, and strengthening the bridge to the subconscious The global awakening currently unfolding on the planet This episode is a reminder that healing is not about becoming someone new. It is about releasing what was never yours to hang onto, softening the armor, and remembering the vast intelligence already living within your body, breath, and soul. Kurtis invites us to stop running from ourselves, trust the wisdom beneath the pain, and reconnect with the deeper truth of who we are. You can learn more about Kurtis, his events, certifications, and transformational work at https://breathworkdetox.com and explore his book latest How to Thrive in the Age of Anxiety. Go deeper with me inside The Intimate World. patreon.com/AllanaPratt #TheIntimateWorld   ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Kurtis:   Kurtis Lee Thomas is a #1 best-selling author and one of the most sought-after Corporate Mindfulness Trainers. He's the founder of Breathwork Detox, a modality voted #1 Corporate Wellness Provider of 2023 by HR Manager Magazine. He's been featured on The Today Show for making a profound impact within the mindfulness and wellbeing of some of the top fortune 500 companies such as Nike and NASA. Kurtis is a committed Mental Health Advocate who published the #1 new release, HOW TO THRIVE IN THE AGE OF ANXIETY. He's currently the Chairman of Just Breathe Foundation and works with top global brands, athletes and celebrities, to help bring awareness and solutions to the mental health epidemic that currently plagues our families, and our employees.   Website: https://breathworkdetox.com Facebook URL https://www.facebook.com/BreathworkDetox/ Instagram URL https://www.instagram.com/manfromthestars Gift or Product Link https://breathworkdetox.com/live-virtual-event 50% off a ticket for my next LIVE Virtual Breathwork Detox Event Use code Podcast50  Book Your Intimacy Breakthrough Experience with Allana https://allanapratt.com/connect Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

Hello, Beautiful...I'm so grateful you're here with me. Relax into a peaceful crown chakra meditation designed to help you feel spiritually connected and deeply rested. Perfect for energy healing, relaxation, and all-night sleep. Love,

Send us Fan MailIn this special episode of the Innergy Healing Podcast, Sonia Aniyah shares the inspiration and spiritual meaning behind her upcoming song, Ocean of Light. Together, we explore the symbolism of Divine Light, the Breath of Spirit, and the soul's journey home to its true essence. The episode concludes with an exclusive preview of the song, offering a moment of reflection, healing, and connection to the infinite presence of Love.Join us as we remember the Light within and awaken to the "Ocean of Light Divine."Support the showThank you for listening to the Innergy Healing podcast, where we explore the mysteries of spirituality, meditation, energy healing, and self-discovery.It is my desire that each episode provide you with fresh ideas and views on your path to inner healing.Respect your individuality, follow your instincts, and approach your spiritual path with an open heart and mind. You are starting to remember your amazing self; be kind to yourself during this process.I extend you an invitation to join us for our next episode, in which we will continue to dive further into the universe's mysteries.Join us in the next episode as we continue exploring spirituality, meditation, energy healing, and the deeper mysteries of the universe.May love, light, and positive healing energy surround you until next time.https://www.innergyhealingpodcast.com/http://innergyhealingarts.com

Some episodes are for you and I alone. They are teachings, transmissions, miracles unfolding in real time I want to share with you.  In this deeply personal solo episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light, I share what happened when a dream I had carried for over six and a half years finally came true... and why receiving it was far more profound than I could have imagined. After years of estrangement from my son, Mother's Day arrived with the familiar ache of longing and uncertainty. As the evening wore on and I still hadn't heard from him, I found myself surrendering in a way I hadn't before. Instead of trying to manifest, heal, fix, or focus on a future breakthrough, I allowed myself to fully accept the heartbreak exactly as it was. And then... he called ;-) I take you behind the scenes of the phone call, the last-minute flight to California, and the sacred reunion that followed. For hours, I simply listened as my son shared his life, his dreams, his disappointments, his relationships, and his heart. Rather than trying to be a coach, a teacher, or even a mother with answers, I discovered the healing power of presence, receiving, and unconditional love. I explore what it means to stop resisting reality, trust in divine timing, and allow life to unfold in ways we could never orchestrate ourselves. I share the lessons this reunion revealed about purpose, parenting, communication, nervous system healing, and the difference between living from competence versus living from genius. I also talk about: -Healing after six and a half years of estrangement -Why dreams coming true are not always what we expect -The power of surrender versus control -Deep listening as an act of love -Parenting adult children with grace and trust -Following your heart even when there are no guarantees -Divine timing and unexpected miracles -Emotional resilience and nervous system healing -Living your genius instead of settling for competence -The beauty of being fully seen, heard, and received -Why suffering grows when we resist what is -Creating intimacy through presence, not fixing -The evolution of The Intimate World and my upcoming Docuseries -Trusting that life is happening for you, not against you This episode is a love letter to every parent carrying a broken heart, every person waiting for a miracle, and every soul learning how to surrender more deeply to life.  It is a reminder that healing often arrives when we stop demanding that it happen, and that sometimes the most extraordinary gifts come wrapped in years of uncertainty, wobbly faith and yet nonetheless… pure devotion. Go deeper with me inside The Intimate World. patreon.com/AllanaPratt #TheIntimateWorld   ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! Book Your Intimacy Breakthrough Experience with Allana https://allanapratt.com/connect Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

Step into a deeply feminine, embodied, and soul-stirring sisterhood conversation with Francesca Barone, co-founder of Anam Kara Healing Retreats, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Francesca is devoted to preserving indigenous shamanic wisdom and guiding people into safe, transformative plant medicine ceremonies rooted in embodiment, ritual, and reverence for the Earth. Francesca shares her journey from survival-based resilience into radical softness, revealing how years of trauma, addiction, and pushing through life shaped her nervous system, leadership, and relationships. She opens up about building her ayahuasca retreat center from a place of endurance rather than ease, and the deep reckoning that came when she realized she had everything she thought she wanted, yet still did not feel safe, held, or at home in her body. We explore the terror and courage of surrender, especially for women who have been rewarded for strength and resilience. Francesca speaks vulnerably about releasing control in love, business, and spirituality. She shares how reconnecting to the Divine Mother, the womb, and the Earth became the doorway to true healing, pleasure, and trust in life. Together, we dive into embodiment as the medicine, the intelligence of the body's ability to disconnect for protection, and the slow, sacred work of returning home. Francesca offers profound insight into why healing does not come from constant effort or expansion, but from creating space for spaciousness, allowing grief, stillness, and the fertile darkness to restore wholeness. We also talk about: -Returning to the Divine Mother and feminine safety -Surrender versus survival-based resilience -The body's wisdom to disconnect and reconnect -Embodiment, pleasure, and grounded aliveness -Grief as the gateway to softness and trust -Plant medicine as ally, not escape -Creating space, stillness, and integration -Healing sexual and developmental trauma -Trusting divine timing in love, motherhood, and life This episode is an invitation to slow down, soften, and descend. It reminds us that creation is born from the fertile darkness, that surrender is an act of profound courage, and that the body holds the memory of safety, pleasure, and belonging when we allow ourselves to listen. You can learn more about Francesca's work and retreats at anamcarahealingretreats.com. Go deeper with me inside The Intimate World. patreon.com/AllanaPratt #TheIntimateWorld   ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Francesca:   Francesca Barone is the co-founder of Anam Cara Retreats, an intimate Shipibo Ayahuasca healing center in Nosara, Costa Rica. Her work is devoted to preserving indigenous shamanic wisdom and creating safe, transformative plant medicine ceremonies. She weaves ancestral medicine with somatic healing, embodiment practices, and ritual, guiding people back into their bodies to restore authentic expression, vitality, intimacy, and wholeness. Her work helps people release trauma, reconnect to their aliveness, and cultivate deeper union — with themselves, their bodies, their relationships, and life itself. Deeply devoted to the earth, its medicines, and the magic channeled through ceremony and ritual, Francesca honors the intelligence of plant allies as a central part of her practice. She invites people to move beyond surface healing into embodied integration, where pleasure, presence, and connection are alive, accessible, and alchemical.   Website https://www.anamcarahealingretreats.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/followyour_bliss_/ https://www.instagram.com/anamcararetreats/ Book Your Intimacy Breakthrough Experience with Allana https://allanapratt.com/connect Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

Hello, Beautiful...I'm so grateful you're here with me. Relax into the peaceful energy of divine light as this 10 hour sleep meditation supports deep rest and spiritual connection. Focused on crown chakra healing and relaxation, this meditation encourages clarity, calm, and emotional renewal. Allow yourself to sleep surrounded by soothing, healing energy. Love,

Step into a raw, powerful, and deeply embodied conversation about what works… with Grant Dziak, human performance and nervous system strategist, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Grant is the founder of The Forged Method, helping high-functioning individuals stop white-knuckling life and start leading from a regulated, embodied, and deeply self-aware state. His work bridges neuroscience, behavioral change, somatics, and emotional integration with a grounded, no-BS approach to healing and transformation. Grant shares the painful experiences that shaped his path, including growing up with an abusive alcoholic father, being surrounded by strong women he longed to protect, and carrying deep childhood wounds around safety, responsibility, and self-worth. He opens up about the moment he discovered his sister had been assaulted as a child only feet away from him, and how that trauma quietly shaped his nervous system, identity, and relationship with masculinity for years. We explore how his journey began through fitness coaching, but quickly evolved into something far deeper. Grant realized that discipline alone could never override nervous system dysregulation. Some clients followed every protocol yet remained stuck in cycles of stress, sabotage, inflammation, and emotional collapse, while others who felt safer and more connected began transforming effortlessly. That realization became the foundation of his life's work. The conversation moves into intuition, emotional intelligence, and the profound ability to hear what people are not saying. Grant shares how years of understanding his own pain opened an extraordinary capacity to feel others deeply, often sensing hidden truths, suppressed emotions, and unconscious patterns before they were ever spoken aloud.  Together, we explore the sacred responsibility of holding space for people to finally tell the truth their body has been carrying. We also dive deeply into nervous system regulation, trauma integration, and the difference between reacting from survival versus responding from presence. Grant explains how regulation is not about suppressing emotion, but about creating enough internal safety to actually feel, process, and integrate what has been stored in the body for years. Together, we unpack how healing requires both self-regulation and safe relationships where the nervous system can finally exhale. We also talk about: -Childhood trauma, hypervigilance, and emotional survival -Masculinity, protection, and learning to feel safe enough to feel  -Nervous system regulation versus emotional suppression -Intuition and hearing what people are not saying -Why discipline alone eventually breaks down -Co-regulation, relational healing, and safe attachment -The body's intelligence and survival-based coping patterns -Self-awareness, identity reconstruction, and embodiment -Why pain can become a portal to truth and transformation -Responding versus reacting in relationships and everyday life -Reconnecting to intuition beneath conditioning and fear This episode is a profound reminder that healing is not about becoming someone new. It is about stripping away the layers of protection, coping, and survival that disconnected us from who we already are. Grant's work invites us to stop performing strength and instead cultivate the kind of nervous system safety that allows truth, intimacy, and real transformation to emerge. You can learn more about Grant and his work through The Forged Method and connect with him on social media on Instagram at @grantdziak for teachings on nervous system regulation, embodiment, and human performance. Go deeper with me inside The Intimate World. patreon.com/AllanaPratt #TheIntimateWorld   ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Grant:   Grant Dziak is a Human Performance and Nervous System Strategist and the founder of The Forged Method, a framework designed to help high-functioning individuals stop white-knuckling life and start leading it from a regulated, embodied state. His work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, behavioral change, and identity reconstruction, helping people understand why discipline alone eventually breaks down and how nervous system dysregulation quietly sabotages performance, relationships, and decision-making. Grant is known for his direct, no-nonsense approach and his core message: you cannot outwork a dysregulated nervous system. Sustainable strength comes from regulation first, not more pressure. Website: https://grantdziak.com Facebook URL https://www.facebook.com/share/1EXwkELPEs/?mibextid=wwXIfr Instagram URL https://www.instagram.com/grantdziak Book Your Intimacy Breakthrough Experience with Allana https://allanapratt.com/connect Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

Join us as Flowing River shares his transformative journey into spirituality, the art of tea, meditation practices, and the power of mantras. Discover how these ancient traditions can deepen your self-awareness, calm your mind, and connect you to your higher self. Flowing River is a CEO, leader, dancer, poet, musician, visionary artist, author, ceremonialist, and spiritualist that studies under the tutelage of Bhai Bahadur Singh Ji and the Sangat of the Divine Light. Having traveled to over 30 countries over the past 15 years he has amassed a wealth of knowledge on how to cleanse, clear, and purify the mind, body, and spirit. Flowing River shares this wisdom freely with all who are ready to make a positive change in their lives for the better.  Now he aims to cultivate conscious community through cups of tea that warm the heart and enlighten the soul. Find Flowing River: Website: https://drishti.house/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drishti.house/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us as Flowing River shares his transformative journey into spirituality, the art of tea, meditation practices, and the power of mantras. Discover how these ancient traditions can deepen your self-awareness, calm your mind, and connect you to your higher self. Flowing River is a CEO, leader, dancer, poet, musician, visionary artist, author, ceremonialist, and spiritualist that studies under the tutelage of Bhai Bahadur Singh Ji and the Sangat of the Divine Light. Having traveled to over 30 countries over the past 15 years he has amassed a wealth of knowledge on how to cleanse, clear, and purify the mind, body, and spirit. Flowing River shares this wisdom freely with all who are ready to make a positive change in their lives for the better.  Now he aims to cultivate conscious community through cups of tea that warm the heart and enlighten the soul. Find Flowing River: Website: https://drishti.house/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drishti.house/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Step into a raw, delicious and love-affirming conversation with Jenn Pinkerton, psychotherapist, certified sex therapist, relationship expert, and host of the Red Head Reveal Podcast, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Jenn's work centers around one powerful truth: we are wired for connection, yet so many people are living in profound disconnection from themselves, their relationships, and their deepest desires. I agree! Jenn shares her personal journey through grief, abandonment, and identity after losing her father at a young age. She vulnerably opens up about becoming a "chameleon" in her early life, shaping herself to fit the needs of others while losing connection to her authentic self. That wound eventually became the doorway into her life's work: helping people return to who they truly are beneath the coping strategies, fear, shame, and survival patterns. We explore the four core wounds that shape so many relationships, including abandonment, not feeling good enough, not belonging, and not feeling worthy. Jenn beautifully explains how these wounds influence intimacy, communication, defensiveness, sexuality, perfectionism, avoidance, and even the kinds of relationships we choose. Rather than blaming the past, she invites us into deeper self-awareness, compassion, and responsibility for how these wounds show up in our present-day lives. Jenn also shares her groundbreaking work helping couples heal after infidelity, revealing that affairs are often less about another person and more about the longing to feel alive, connected, desired, and emotionally seen. We discuss how betrayal can either become the ending of a relationship or the catalyst to build an entirely new one rooted in honesty, vulnerability, emotional safety, and genuine connection. We also talk about: -Why connection is our birthright -Emotional safety as the foundation of intimacy and desire -Healing abandonment wounds and relationship insecurity -The difference between physical arousal and true desire -Why vulnerability is essential for intimacy -Infidelity, betrayal, and rebuilding trust -Overcoming defensiveness and learning repair -Desire mismatch, shame, and purity culture -The importance of curiosity, creativity, and novelty in relationships -"Groundhog Day" marriages and how couples lose connection -Empty nesting and rediscovering joy together -How slowing down creates deeper emotional intimacy -Why consideration may be the highest form of love -The power of emotional presence, co-regulation, and nervous system safety This episode is a reminder that relationships are not meant to simply survive. They are meant to change, evolve, deepen, awaken, and expand us. Jenn's wisdom invites us to slow down, soften the armor, and courageously reconnect to ourselves and the people we love most. It is a conversation about the perfectly imperfect journey of intimacy, healing, vulnerability, and the profound beauty that becomes possible when two people are willing to truly see each other authentically again. You can learn more about Jenn and her work at https://jennpinkerton.com/. Go deeper with me inside The Intimate World. patreon.com/AllanaPratt #TheIntimateWorld ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Jenn:   I am a psychotherapist, sexologist, writer, speaker, host of REDHEADREVEAL® podcast, and private practice owner of Pinkerton Psychotherapy. As a change agent, I help people reveal their connectedness within their relationships, understanding root causes of beliefs and behaviors that hold them back from success. I assist them in returning to the person they were born to be so they can step into a life where they truly thrive.   Website: https://jennpinkerton.com Facebook URL https://www.facebook.com/jenniferbpinkerton Instagram URL https://www.instagram.com/jennbpinkerton/ YouTube URL https://youtube.com/@redheadreveal?si=7J80m-waZwuBF0PQ Twitter URL https://x.com/redheadreveal Connection Cards https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPRMBVTH Book Your Intimacy Breakthrough Experience with Allana https://allanapratt.com/connect Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

Step into a blow-me-away, thought-provoking, and deeply illuminating conversation with Dr. Richard Blake, psychologist, researcher, breathwork practitioner, and author of the upcoming book The Anxiety Industry, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Dr. Blake is known for challenging modern therapy culture, questioning the narratives surrounding trauma and mental health, and bringing the conversation back to evidence, physiology, nervous system regulation, and true healing. Richard shares his own journey through severe anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, binge eating disorder, and compulsive behaviors as a young man. While therapy helped him survive rock bottom, he eventually realized that talk-based approaches alone were not creating the deep transformation he longed for.  That turning point led him into conscious connected breathwork, nervous system regulation, and eventually groundbreaking research, including the largest randomized controlled trial on breathwork to date. We explore the uncomfortable but important question at the center of his work: Why are mental illness rates increasing despite more therapy, awareness, and mental health conversations than ever before?  Richard discusses what researchers call the "treatment prevalence paradox," where more people entering therapy has not led to lower rates of anxiety, depression, or mental illness, and how therapy culture may unintentionally reinforce victimhood, blame, helplessness, and identity around suffering! I agree! Richard also shares the fascinating science behind breathwork, psychedelics, and neuroplasticity, explaining how practices like conscious connected breathing can create profound shifts in the brain, increase resilience to stress, and help people break out of deeply conditioned emotional and behavioral patterns.  Rather than endlessly analyzing the past, he emphasizes building tolerance for discomfort, strengthening the nervous system, and learning how to engage with life more directly and courageously. (YES!)  We also talk about: -The rise of therapy culture and "trauma inflation" -Family estrangement and the unintended consequences of therapeutic language -Why nervous system dysregulation is not always trauma -The difference between validating feelings and reinforcing suffering -Breathwork, psychedelics, and how neuroplasticity actually works -Exposure therapy and learning to tolerate discomfort -The connection between stress resilience and mental health -Social media, comfort culture, and the collapse of meaning -Lifestyle habits that fuel anxiety, depression, and emotional fragility -The importance of community, purpose, movement, sleep, and embodiment -Hormesis, resilience, and why "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" matters -How breath holds, meditation, and nervous system training increase emotional capacity -This friggin' fantastic aligned and enlivening episode is an invitation to question the stories we've inherited about healing, trauma, and mental health. It reminds us that growth is not about eliminating all discomfort, but learning how to stay present through it with greater capacity, awareness, and self-responsibility. I could have talked with this great man for hours!  Dr. Blake's work calls us back into the body, back into reality, and back into the profound human ability to adapt, heal, and evolve. Go deeper with me inside The Intimate World. patreon.com/AllanaPratt #TheIntimateWorld ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Richard   Dr. Richard Blake has a PhD in psychology and is known for challenging the way mental health is discussed and treated today. His research focuses on anxiety, breathwork, and nervous system regulation, including the largest randomized controlled trial on conscious connected breathwork to date. He has built a following of over 113,000 on Instagram, where his evidence-based reels critiquing therapy culture, trauma inflation, and mental-health misinformation have gone viral. Alongside his research, his work on family estrangement examines how therapeutic language and ideology can shape relationships, often with unintended consequences. Richard's broader aim is to move mental health away from ideology and moral narratives, and back toward evidence, physiology, and approaches that genuinely help people recover rather than stay stuck.   Website: https://www.RichardLBlake.com Instagram URL https://www.instagram.com/the_breath_geek/ YouTube URL https://www.youtube.com/@The_Breath_Geek Guided breathwork experience. (Downloadable) https://richardlblake.com/products/p/soma-breathwork-experience Book Your Intimacy Breakthrough Experience with Allana https://allanapratt.com/connect Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

Hello, Beautiful...I'm so grateful you're here with me. Feel supported and protected with this spiritual meditation focused on guidance, clarity, and inner wisdom ✨ These affirmations help you trust the light within and around you. Love,

Please join Amanda Kish and me as we talk about Spiritual Mastery & Embodying Your Divine Light Path. During this interview, we'll Explore: HOW True spiritual mastery begins within WHY You are the most powerful being you know WHY Many sensitive souls, empaths, and healers are being called to step into their own remembrance WHY The new paradigm of healing is empowerment, embodiment, and conscious creation Amanda will be facilitating a guided energy clearing process and she will be doing mini-clearings. Amanda's Special Offers: https://www.awakentohappinessnow.com/s41amanda/ #shefaliburns , #awakentohappinessnow, #healing, #energy, #transformation, #consciousness, #love, #consciousliving, #joy, #empowerment, #wellness, #spirituality, #spiritualawakening, #awareness, #podcast #amandakish #spiritualmastery #embodiment #divinelightpath #divine

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, Maya Tiwari reflects on a recent journey through South India, using the experience to discuss humanity's shift away from a restrictive "3D Matrix" toward a higher "5D frequency." She describes a massive cosmic upgrade to the human operating system, facilitated by galactic forces, which allows humanity to shed dualistic thinking, reclaim its sacred design, and step into a unified, enlightened state of consciousness.Key Talking Points & Themes1. Breaking Free from the Matrix and DualismThe "Matrix Weave": Tiwari describes the current societal system as an iron-clad matrix of darkness, rules, and divisionism that keeps the human mind ensnared.The Illusion of Separation: She opens up about her own recent internal struggles, realizing how dualistic thinking ("us vs. them") and the hidden ego can stunt our natural creative gifts, causing disease, decline, and despair.Surviving on "Smithereens": Despite these distortions, humanity has miraculously retained its sanity and created beauty, art, and joy from mere fragments of our original sacred design.2. Cosmic Recalibration via the Central SunSolar Transmissions: The Central Sun is rapidly increasing its solar output, sending heightened energetic frequencies, electromagnetic patterns, and adaptive radiation to Earth.Nervous System Upgrade: This influx of energy is actively altering human biology and emotion, forcing the nervous system to recalibrate, the heart portal to open, and the mind to unlearn false information.3. The Galactic Alliance and the 5D Operating SystemA Universal Effort: Highly advanced, enlightened universal forces—including the Galactic Federation of Light, Arcturians, Pleiadians, Andromedians, Sirians, and Lymans—have aligned to orchestrate this transition.Carbon to Light: At great peril to themselves, these forces are delivering a tech-vibrational upgrade to humanity's internal operating system, transitioning humans from carbon-based matrix prisoners to liberated, 5D Light Beings.4. Reclaiming the Role of the "Sorcerer"Tiwari urges individuals to move beyond being mere scholars of life and instead become sorcerers and magicians.For the first time in 26,000 years, humans are "frequency-armed" and capable of consciously weaving their own magical tapestries of grace, beauty, and compassion.Action Items & Practices for AscensionTiwari notes that this spiritual birthing process is "messy and gory," requiring deep commitment rather than tedium. To successfully anchor this new luminous operating system, she recommends the following daily practices:Vacuum the Mind: Actively clear away 3D mental clutter and detritus.The Violet Flame: Visualize a violet flame cleansing the container of the mind.Mindful Breathing: Maintain conscious awareness of your breath throughout the day.Share Vulnerability: Reach out to those who are lost and share personal struggles and clearing methods to help them feel less isolated.Simplify Meals: Align dietary choices with high-frequency light by practicing compassion and abstaining from eating animals.Contemplate and Bow: Create dedicated daily space for meditation, contemplation, and honoring the Divine Light.Final Takeaway: “We are the magician, the magic and the magical tapestry all woven into the One... Let us invite and embody this higher frequency and together strive to be the light to those struggling to find their way in darkness.”Support the showMay Peace Be Your Journey:Maya's approach transcends modern feminism by advocating for a holistic restoration of balance, moving beyond the fight for basic rights to reclaiming the innate power of the divine feminine, which includes procreation, forgiveness, nourishment, and cosmic creativity. She stresses the importance of kindness, inner stillness, and compassionate self-  tools for healing individuals and society. www.mayatiwari.comwww.facebook.com/mayatiwariahimsa.Buzzsprout.comMothermaya@gmail.comGet Maya's New Book: I Am  Shakti:https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/o-books/our-books/I-am-shaktiAmazon.comBookshop.org

Step into a raw, profoundly inspiring conversation with Ted Ryce, celebrity trainer, health expert, and host of the Legendary Life Podcast, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Ted brings decades of experience working with high achievers, blending fitness, nervous system health, and real-life transformation into a practical and powerful approach to well-being. Take a deep breath as Ted shares the pivotal moment that shaped his entire path. At 19 years old, his 9-year-old brother was kidnapped and murdered, a traumatic event that shattered his world. It forced him to confront grief, stress, and the collapse of everything he thought his life would be. In the aftermath, he struggled to function, eventually dropping out of school and feeling lost in the weight of it all. We explore how his healing didn't begin with mindset work or therapy, but through something deceptively simple… movement. Returning to exercise became the first thread of regulation, helping him feel better emotionally, sleep more deeply, and slowly rebuild a sense of stability in his body. That experience became the foundation of his life's work, showing him that physical health is not separate from emotional healing, but deeply intertwined. I agree! Ted introduces a grounded truth about the nervous system and aging. As we get older, the body naturally shifts toward a more activated, stressed state if we do nothing to counterbalance it. The sympathetic nervous system, our fight-or-flight response, becomes more dominant, which impacts energy, recovery, and overall well-being. The antidote is not extreme effort, but consistent, intentional movement that supports regulation. We also talk about: -Why fitness is the foundation for emotional resilience and long-term healing -The role of exercise in regulating stress, sleep, and mood -The difference between looking fit and being truly healthy -Why aging requires more intention, not less, when it comes to movement -The importance of aerobic exercise for nervous system balance -How strength training protects muscle, bone density, and longevity -The truth about "age is just a number" and where that belief falls short -Why consistency matters more than intensity for sustainable results -How daily habits like walking and step count impact long-term health -The connection between body fat, stress, and metabolic health This conversation is a wake-up call and an invitation. Your body is not separate from your healing. It is the ground beneath it. When you care for your physiology, you create the stability needed to face life's inevitable challenges with more strength, presence, and grace. Ted's work reminds us that even in the face of profound loss, the body can become a doorway back to life, one breath, one step, one rep at a time. Go deeper with me inside The Intimate World. https://www.patreon.com/AllanaPratt #TheIntimateWorld   ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Ted:   Ted Ryce is a celebrity trainer and creator of the Metabolic Reset Sequence™, a proven system that helps high-achieving men in their 40s, 50s, and 60s get fit in just two hours per week. He's coached icons like Richard Branson, Robert Downey Jr., and Ricky Martin, along with hundreds of top CEOs and entrepreneurs. Ted also hosts the Legendary Life Podcast, ranked in the top 5% of health and fitness shows globally with over 12 million downloads. Website: https://www.legendarylifepodcast.com/ Facebook URL https://www.facebook.com/ted.ryce/ Instagram URL https://www.instagram.com/ted_ryce/ YouTube URL https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOOm6ND7Uo-UoFskqKeNVdw Twitter URL https://x.com/ted_ryce Book Your Intimacy Breakthrough Experience with Allana https://allanapratt.com/connect Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

Step into a fiery, embodied, and deeply human conversation with Danielle Gertner, speaker, MC, and embodiment-based leadership coach, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Known for her raw truth, infectious presence, and unapologetic devotion to ownering one's sh*t, Danielle helps high-performing leaders stop outsourcing their power and start leading their lives from the body, not just the mind. Danielle shares her journey of stepping off the "conveyor belt" of doing what was expected, blowing up a life that looked good on paper, and choosing radical self-responsibility instead of blame. What began as fitness coaching evolved into deep self-mastery work when she realized that confidence built on appearance alone never touches the soul. We explore how true embodiment became the foundation of her leadership, relationships, and work. Danielle speaks vulnerably about anger, shame, inherited family patterns, and learning to trust her body's signals, especially in love. She shares how listening to a felt pull or push, even when logic disagreed, taught her a new level of self-trust and integrity. The conversation moves into love, boundaries, and conscious uncoupling. Danielle reflects on ending a long-term partnership with honesty and reverence, allowing love to evolve rather than die, and redefining boundaries as the distance where she can love herself and another unconditionally. Her devotion to truth over performance is palpable. We also talk about: -Radical self-ownership as the gateway to freedom -Embodiment as the root of real confidence -Listening to the body over logic or conditioning -Mirror work, self-forgiveness, and self-trust rituals -Grief, loss, and allowing joy to coexist with pain -Outrageous joy and rapturous glory as lived practices -Leading crowds through presence rather than hype -Feminine leadership, slowing down, and letting yourself be supported The episode comes full circle weaving in the painful yet beautiful lessons of losing her brother. Danielle gifts us with a powerful conversation and reminder that confidence is not something you perform. It is something you inhabit. Danielle's story invites us to slow down, feel what is alive, trust the body's wisdom, and choose a life led from truth, courage, and devotion to self. You can connect with Danielle, explore her work, and find Warrior Women ATX at daniellegertner.com, or follow her on Instagram for movement, embodiment, and truth-telling in real time.   Go deeper with me inside The Intimate World. patreon.com/AllanaPratt #TheIntimateWorld About Danielle:   Danielle Gertner is a speaker, emcee, and embodiment-based leadership coach known for delivering raw truth that moves people from motivation into embodied confidence and real-world ownership. She helps high-performing leaders stop outsourcing their power and start leading their lives, businesses, and communities with self-trust, clarity, and emotional resilience. Danielle's core philosophy is simple and uncompromising: Ownership is the new leadership, and your life was not meant to be rented, it was meant to be owned. Her work lives at the intersection of mindset, embodiment, and leadership, blending tools from NLP, somatic practices, habit transformation, and nervous system regulation to create transformation that lasts beyond inspiration. Danielle doesn't teach people how to perform confidence, she teaches them how to build it from the inside out. Danielle is the founder of Warrior Women ATX, Austin's most empowering community for women, and the creator of multiple transformational programs including the Own Your Shit Self Mastery Program and the Radical Confidence Blueprint. She is also THE Queen of Hype and emcee for HYROX North America, where she has energized and inspired hundreds of thousands of athletes across the country. Whether she's on stage, behind a mic, or leading a room through movement and conversation, Danielle creates spaces where people feel safe to tell the truth, brave enough to choose themselves, and supported enough to take radical responsibility for the lives they are building.   Website: https://daniellegertner.com Instagram URL https://www.instagram.com/daniellegertner/ Book Your Intimacy Breakthrough Experience with Allana https://allanapratt.com/connect Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

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Step into a deeply honest, embodied, and paradigm-shifting conversation with Luis Mojica, somatic practitioner, trauma-informed nutritionist, and founder of Holistic Life Navigation, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Luis brings a rare integration of nervous system work, food health, and trauma healing, inviting us to understand the body not as a problem to fix, but as a language to listen to. Luis shares his personal journey of growing up in an intersex body, navigating confusion, bullying, shame, and deep isolation. Without an empathic witness, he internalized his pain, leading to anxiety, panic, insomnia, and PTSD symptoms that he coped with through food.  We explore how his path into healing began with picking up a guitar, learning to be 'held' through the guitar against his torso, allowing sounds, then singing to begin healing his trauma. Then through nutrition, witnessing firsthand how food could radically shift mental health, over time, his work evolved beyond "what to eat" into a much deeper question: Why does the body reach for certain foods in the first place? How are those patterns rooted in nervous system regulation, not lack of discipline? Luis introduces a powerful reframe of trauma and stress through the lens of resonance with the body. Stress can resolve, but trauma keeps the system braced, locked in chronic fight-or-flight. He explains how certain foods can either stimulate, depress, or balance the nervous system, sometimes triggering the same physiological responses as emotional shock or danger. We also talk about: -Trauma as the absence of an empathic witness -The connection between food habits and nervous system states -Chronic adrenaline and living in a braced body -Why coping mechanisms are intelligent, not wrong -Food as a regulator of anxiety, panic, and overwhelm -Moving beyond "healthy vs unhealthy" into body awareness -Somatic experiencing and self-inquiry as healing tools -Shame, secrecy, and the body's protective adaptations -Relearning safety and compassion from the inside out -Creating a relationship with the body rooted in curiosity and kindness In real time, Luis' capacity as a trauma facilitator was revealed as I had an insight into my desire for a glass of wine at the end of the day. He was elegant in holding space for my tears, guiding my somatic awareness, being with my emotions that transmuted into insights, awareness and integration right before our eyes… How amazing to meet a facilitator who can provide for me what I provide for my clients- no one can see our own blindspots. How nourishing to experience a brother whose soul lives for supporting others in integrating trauma in real time. This episode is an invitation to soften your judgment and deepen your listening. It reminds us that the body is not working against us, it is working for us, always seeking safety, regulation, and connection. Healing begins when we stop forcing change and start understanding the intelligence beneath our patterns. You can explore Luis's extensive work, courses, podcast, memberships and upcoming book Food Therapy at holisticlifenavigation.com.   ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Luis:   Luis Mojica is a somatic practitioner, trauma nutritionist, and founder of Holistic Life Navigation, where he teaches thousands of people around the world how to recover from stress and trauma. He uses whole foods, self-inquiry, and Somatic Experiencing as tools to find safety within yourself. Through Holistic Life Navigation, Luis offers online courses and webinars, in-person workshops and retreats, trauma-informed support groups, a monthly membership and newsletter, a weekly podcast, and a popular YouTube channel filled with insights and interviews. Luis' upcoming book, Food Therapy, will be released in April. Website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/ Facebook URL https://www.facebook.com/holisticlifenavigation Instagram URL https://www.instagram.com/holistic.life.navigation/ YouTube URL https://www.youtube.com/@holisticlifenavigation Book Your Intimacy Breakthrough Experience with Allana https://allanapratt.com/connect Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

In this episode, I'm back with emotional intimacy expert Allana Pratt for Part 2 of a conversation that went places I never expected. We pick up where we left off — moving through self-forgiveness, the grip of self-loathing, and why judgment from others is actually an invitation to look inward. Allana shares a raw piece of her own story — six years estranged from her son, and the horrendous self-hatred she had to sit with and fully feel to finally reach wisdom. We get into soul embodiment, what it really means to be an anxious attacher, and why trauma is finite — not a life sentence. And because this is Taboo to Truth, we close it out with my three questions: her definition of sex, her best orgasm ever, and a fantasy she's never checked off the list. Buckle up — this one goes deep in every direction.In this episode: 00:00 - Welcome Back & Intro00:30 - Part 1 Recap: The Three Relationship Mistakes02:10 - Why Forgiveness Is Harder Than Acceptance04:30 - Self-Hatred Is the Last Thing to Go in Healing07:45 - Real Client Story: Stop Blaming Yourself for How Others React11:00 - The Teflon Method: Receiving Judgment Without Taking It On14:15 - How to Actually Sit With Self-Loathing Until It Transforms17:30 - Allana Opens Up: Six Years Without Her Son20:00 - Soul Embodiment & Body Wisdom21:45 - Can You Have a Real Relationship While Still Doing the Work?23:00 - Anxious Attachment, Rejection & Why Trauma Is Finite24:20 - The Three Questions: Sex, Orgasms & Unfulfilled Fantasies25:10 - Where to Find Allana & Scholarship CodeWant a deeper look? Watch the full episode on YouTube for a more visual experience of today's discussion. This episode is best enjoyed on video—don't miss out!Karen Bigman, a Sexual Health Alliance Certified Sex Educator, Life, and Menopause Coach, tackles the often-taboo subject of sexuality with a straightforward and candid approach. We explore the intricacies of sex during perimenopause, post-menopause, and andropause, offering insights and support for all those experiencing these transformative phases.This podcast is not intended to give medical advice. Karen Bigman is not a medical professional. For any medical questions or issues, please visit your licensed medical provider.Looking for some fresh perspective on sex in midlife? You can find me here:Email: karen@taboototruth.comWebsite: https://www.taboototruth.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taboototruthYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@taboototruthpodcastAbout the Guest:Intimacy Expert, Allana Pratt is a global media personality and go-to authority for those ready to transcend heartbreak, live unapologetically and cultivate a soul-shaking relationship. This Ivy League grad is the Author of 6 books, has interviewed Actress Whoopi Goldberg, Musician Alanis Morissette and Physicist Nassim Haramein. She Hosts the edgy Podcast Intimate Conversations: Season 14- Dark Night to Divine Light, where listeners learn that intimacy is an inside job.A Certified Master Coach with over 7M viewers on YouTube, Allana was asked by Leeza Gibbons to coach her during Dancing with the Stars. Interviewed over 850 times, she's been chosen as an Icon of Influence and featured on Huffington Post, People Magazine, Forbes, CBS, ABC, FOX, TLC, iHeartRadio and more.Connect with Allana Pratt:Website: https://allanapratt.com/connect (Allana is offering a scholarship for listeners to connect with her one-on-one at a reduced rate — ask her about it!)Podcast: Intimate ConversationsYouTube: /AllanaPrattPatreon: Allana PrattInstagram: @allanaprattAbout the Host: Karen Bigman, a Sexual Health Alliance Certified Sex Educator, Life, and Menopause Coach, tackles the often-taboo subject of sexuality with a straightforward and candid approach. We explore the intricacies of sex during perimenopause, post-menopause, and andropause, offering insights and support for all those experiencing these transformative phases.This podcast is not intended to give medical advice. Karen Bigman is not a medical professional. For any medical questions or issues, please visit your licensed medical provider.Looking for some fresh perspective on sex in midlife? You can find me here:Email: karen@taboototruth.comWebsite: https://www.taboototruth.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taboototruthYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@taboototruthpodcastSubstack: https://karenbigman.substack.comTake control of your pleasure with my Pleasure Playbook, filled with tips to help you connect with your body and enhance intimacy. Download it now at www.taboototruth.com/pleasureplaybook.LINKS, EXCLUSIVE VIP DISCOUNTS, COURSES & FREEBIES

Join Jane Mountrose in this illuminating meditation, opening to a waterfall of radiant light infused with joy, love, and wisdom to bless you in opening to a deeper sense of connectedness with the Divine. ❤️Jane Mountrose. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077406729108Jane and Phillip Mountrose: https://gettingthru.org/awakenings​https://www.facebook.com/phillipmountroseCheck out this Free E-Book www.getthesolution.orgDr. Jane Mountrose, and her husband Phillip, are EFT and energy healing experts, published authors, spiritual coaches, trainers, and founding directors of the Awakenings Institute, a non-profit organization devoted to helping to create a more loving world where everyone and everything is honored and nurtured.In her role as a Minister of Holistic Healing with Awakenings Institute, Jane has devoted more than three decades to exploring the fields of personal and spiritual development. This includes helping her students and clients to access the love and wisdom in their hearts and souls.Please set the intention to receive then relax and enjoy!Discover Enlightened World Network: a safe space for spiritual growth. Explore archangels, Divine Mother, the Christ Consciousness, light codes, energy healing, and guided meditations all with the purpose of strengthening one's understanding and oneness with Source. Learn about spiritually transformative authors, musicians and healers. From motivational learning to inner guidance, you will find the best program for you.Check out our website featuring over 200 spirit-inspired lightworkers specializing in meditation, energy work and angel channelingwww.enlightenedworld.onlineEnjoy inspirational and educational shows at http://www.youtube.com/c/EnlightenedWorldNetworkTo sign up for a newsletter to stay up on EWN programs and events, sign up here: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/2TRBaeGEnlightened World Network is now available on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Podbean, Spotify, and Amazon Music.Link to EWN's disclaimer: https://enlightenedworld.online/disclaimer/#BringInTheLight #LightWorker #DivinLight #RaiseYourVibration #LightAndLove #InfuseTheLight

In this episode, I sit down with emotional intimacy expert and certified master coach Allana Pratt to expose the relationship mistakes most of us are making — quietly, repeatedly, and often without realizing it. Allana breaks down three major patterns that keep love from going deep: withholding the full truth out of fear of rejection, abandoning ourselves and our communities the moment things get hard, and mistaking cognitive awareness of anger for actually processing it. Through raw client stories, her signature "Little You" practice, and the powerful Theater of Redemption process, Allana reveals what it really takes to show up vulnerably, keep your heart open even when you're furious, and finally break the cycles that have been running your love life. This is Part 1 — and you won't want to miss what's coming next week.In this episode:00:00 - Introduction & Welcome00:45 - Meet Allana Pratt: Emotional Intimacy Expert02:45 - Relationship Mistake #1: Only Telling 85% of the Truth07:00 - The Couple Who Almost Lost It All (And the Real Problem Behind It)11:15 - Core Wounds & Why We Attract the Same Pain14:30 - Relationship Mistake #2: Quitting When It Gets Hard17:50 - The "Little You" Practice: Building an Inner Foundation21:00 - Relationship Mistake #3: Unprocessed Anger Coming Out Sideways23:15 - The Theater of Redemption Process24:40 - Subscribe & See You Next Week Want a deeper look? Watch the full episode on YouTube for a more visual experience of today's discussion. This episode is best enjoyed on video—don't miss out!Karen Bigman, a Sexual Health Alliance Certified Sex Educator, Life, and Menopause Coach, tackles the often-taboo subject of sexuality with a straightforward and candid approach. We explore the intricacies of sex during perimenopause, post-menopause, and andropause, offering insights and support for all those experiencing these transformative phases.This podcast is not intended to give medical advice. Karen Bigman is not a medical professional. For any medical questions or issues, please visit your licensed medical provider.Looking for some fresh perspective on sex in midlife? You can find me here:Email: karen@taboototruth.comWebsite: https://www.taboototruth.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taboototruthYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@taboototruthpodcastAbout the Guest:Intimacy Expert, Allana Pratt is a global media personality and go-to authority for those ready to transcend heartbreak, live unapologetically and cultivate a soul-shaking relationship. This Ivy League grad is the Author of 6 books, has interviewed Actress Whoopi Goldberg, Musician Alanis Morissette and Physicist Nassim Haramein. She Hosts the edgy Podcast Intimate Conversations: Season 14- Dark Night to Divine Light, where listeners learn that intimacy is an inside job.A Certified Master Coach with over 7M viewers on YouTube, Allana was asked by Leeza Gibbons to coach her during Dancing with the Stars. Interviewed over 850 times, she's been chosen as an Icon of Influence and featured on Huffington Post, People Magazine, Forbes, CBS, ABC, FOX, TLC, iHeartRadio and more.Connect with Allana Pratt:Website: https://allanapratt.com/connect Use code READYNOW for a scholarship to connect with Allana one-on-onePodcast: Intimate Conversations YouTube: /AllanaPratt Patreon: Allana Pratt Instagram: @allanaprattAbout the Host: Karen Bigman, a Sexual Health Alliance Certified Sex Educator, Life, and Menopause Coach, tackles the often-taboo subject of sexuality with a straightforward and candid approach. We explore the intricacies of sex during perimenopause, post-menopause, and andropause, offering insights and support for all those experiencing these transformative phases.This podcast is not intended to give medical advice. Karen Bigman is not a medical professional. For any medical questions or issues, please visit your licensed medical provider.Looking for some fresh perspective on sex in midlife? You can find me here:Email: karen@taboototruth.comWebsite: https://www.taboototruth.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taboototruthYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@taboototruthpodcastSubstack: https://karenbigman.substack.comTake control of your pleasure with my Pleasure Playbook, filled with tips to help you connect with your body and enhance intimacy. Download it now at www.taboototruth.com/pleasureplaybook.LINKS, EXCLUSIVE VIP DISCOUNTS, COURSES & FREEBIES

Step into a raw, courageous, and heart-opening conversation with Sean Clayton and Sophia Powe, partners in life, love, and deep inner work, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Together, they share a lived journey of trauma, healing, accountability, and the sacred devotion required to move from soulmates shaped by wounds into a wholemate partnership rooted in truth. Sophia, an award-winning Storyteller and former CMO, and Sean, a Miracle Code Abundance Architect, open the conversation vulnerably about their nonlinear love story, including betrayal, separation, profound personal reckoning, and the choice to stop bypassing pain and finally feel what had been avoided for decades. Their relationship became the crucible that forced each of them to confront inner child wounds, people-pleasing, shame, guilt, and the survival strategies that once kept them safe, but no longer served. We explore how real intimacy is built not through chemistry or spiritual language, but through nervous system regulation, embodied presence, and the willingness to stay with discomfort rather than manipulate outcomes. Sean shares how learning to feel sadness, anger, and fear in his body freed him from performance and strategy. Sophia reflects on reclaiming self-worth, being willing to be seen, and choosing herself without abandoning love. We also talk about: -Moving from rolemate and soulmate patterns into wholemate partnership -Trauma bonding versus conscious, embodied intimacy -Inner child healing and staying present with difficult emotions -Ending spiritual bypassing and integrating shadows -Boundaries, self-responsibility, and asking for help -Nervous system regulation in relationship conflict -Choosing love without abandoning the self -Marriage as a sacred container for growth, not avoidance This episode is an extraordinarily powerful reminder that the work works. That love deepens when we stop running from ourselves. And that wholeness within is what makes true intimacy possible with another. You can learn more about Sean's work at https://www.themiracleacademy.com/ and explore Sophia's storytelling and creative work at https://depuis.org/ ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Sean and Sophia:   Sean Clayton is a "Miracle Code" Abundance Architect who helps leaders build 6–7 figure success without relying on hustle or disconnection. A Black man who forged his own path, he overcame adversity including trauma, incarceration, and homelessness, transforming those experiences through resilience and spiritual awakening. Today, Sean lives in alignment with the principles he teaches, enjoying a life of freedom, purpose, and abundance grounded in deep inner work and a strong marriage that fuels his growth. Professionally, he has founded and advised multiple companies, working with Fortune 500 leaders, entrepreneurs, and creatives to integrate purpose, strategy, and impact. His approach has driven significant growth across industries. At the core of his work is the "Miracle Code," a framework blending spirituality, psychology, and universal principles to help leaders create "coherent abundance"—success across wealth, relationships, and well-being. His mission is to guide influential individuals to embody a more authentic, love-driven form of power that elevates both their lives and the world. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sophia Powe is an award-winning storyteller, former CMO, and serial entrepreneur who is currently in a season of transition—shifting from day-to-day execution into advisory leadership, creative exploration, and deeper self-inquiry. Over the past two decades, Sophia has built and scaled multiple eight-figure businesses, helped take a global travel company public, and led brand and storytelling initiatives for Fortune 500 brands and executives. Her work has lived at the intersection of strategy and soul – using story as a catalyst for connection, impact, and transformation. Today, Sophia's focus has softened and deepened. At her core, she is a storyteller devoted to creating spaces where truth can be spoken and healing can occur. She is the founder of Rabbit Hole Media Lab, a creative sanctuary in Austin, Texas, designed for conscious creators to record podcasts, video, and voice work in a deeply intentional, heart-centered environment that fosters collaboration, creativity, and meaningful dialogue. She is also the founder of Depuis.org, a women-centered storytelling platform and movement dedicated to helping women reclaim their voices, release shame, blame, and guilt, and take their power back through vulnerability and shared lived experience. As an advisor, investor, and philanthropist, Sophia continues to support purpose-driven founders and initiatives while intentionally creating space for her own becoming. Her work now is less about building at all costs, and more about building what's true – inside and out.   Website: https://www.themiracleacademy.com https://depuis.org Facebook URL https://www.instagram.com/abundance10000 Instagram URL https://www.instagram.com/abundance10000/  https://www.instagram.com/voicesofdepuis/  https://www.instagram.com/sophiapowe/  YouTube URL https://www.youtube.com/@Abundance10000 Heart Opener Meditation https://courses.themiracleacademy.com/heart-opener   Book Your Intimacy Breakthrough Experience with Allana https://allanapratt.com/connect Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. 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Underneath every arrogant person is a frightened one. That's the insight Desmond Tutu — Nobel Peace Prize winner and moral architect of post-apartheid South Africa — pointed us toward: arrogance doesn't come from too much self-love. It comes from too little self-knowledge. It's the mask we wear when we can't bear to feel small. And the pendulum swings — from "I am the greatest" to "I am worthless" — and back again. Neither is true. In this episode Raghunath returns from a week working with a recovery community in Dayton, Ohio, where men coming off the streets were asked one simple question: who are you? The answers stopped him cold. "I am a divine light covered in a fleshy body." "I am a pure soul struggling in this flesh machine." That clarity — born not from comfort but from hitting bottom — is exactly what the Srimad Bhagavatam points toward. And when you can see the scared person underneath someone's arrogance, something shifts — you stop being offended and start feeling sympathy. That may be the most practical thing this episode offers. ******************************************************************** LOVE THE PODCAST? WE ARE COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AND WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO JOIN! Go to https://www.wisdomofthesages.com WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/@WisdomoftheSages LISTEN ON ITUNES: https://podcasts/apple.com/us/podcast/wisdom-of-the-sages/id1493055485 CONNECT ON FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/wisdomofthesages108 *********************************************************************

Underneath every arrogant person is a frightened one. That's the insight Desmond Tutu — Nobel Peace Prize winner and moral architect of post-apartheid South Africa — pointed us toward: arrogance doesn't come from too much self-love. It comes from too little self-knowledge. It's the mask we wear when we can't bear to feel small. And the pendulum swings — from "I am the greatest" to "I am worthless" — and back again. Neither is true. In this episode Raghunath returns from a week working with a recovery community in Dayton, Ohio, where men coming off the streets were asked one simple question: who are you? The answers stopped him cold. "I am a divine light covered in a fleshy body." "I am a pure soul struggling in this flesh machine." That clarity — born not from comfort but from hitting bottom — is exactly what the Srimad Bhagavatam points toward. And when you can see the scared person underneath someone's arrogance, something shifts — you stop being offended and start feeling sympathy. That may be the most practical thing this episode offers. ******************************************************************** LOVE THE PODCAST? WE ARE COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AND WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO JOIN! Go to https://www.wisdomofthesages.com WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/@WisdomoftheSages LISTEN ON ITUNES: https://podcasts/apple.com/us/podcast/wisdom-of-the-sages/id1493055485 CONNECT ON FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/wisdomofthesages108 *********************************************************************

Step into a deeply expansive, soul-stirring & OMG My Mom Came Through conversation with Barbra Banner, certified psychic, evidential, and trance medium, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. With warmth, humor, and undeniable clarity, Barbra shares her unexpected journey from a successful career in marketing and advertising to fully stepping into her intuitive gifts later in life, guided by spirit in ways she could no longer ignore. Barbra opens up about how her awakening accelerated during the pandemic through physical phenomena, intuitive knowing, and undeniable signs from beyond. What once felt mysterious became a calling, revealing that her life experiences, including years of volunteering in crisis response and supporting those in trauma, were all preparing her to help others heal through connection with the unseen. We explore the nature of intuition and mediumship, and Barbra's belief that this capacity lives within all of us when we are willing to listen, trust, and develop it. Through powerful client stories, she shares how evidential readings bring comfort, validation, and healing to those navigating grief, offering undeniable moments that loved ones are still present, guiding, and connected. She shares the deeper layers of spirit communication, including signs, visitations, energetic sensitivity, and the importance of surrendering control. Barbra emphasizes that spirit does not come to impress, but to heal, guiding us back into life, joy, and connection rather than keeping us stuck in loss. We also talk about: -Awakening intuitive and psychic abilities later in life -The role of lineage and soul history in spiritual gifts -How grief can transform through connection with spirit -The difference between seeking proof and receiving healing -Signs, symbols, and communication from loved ones beyond -Letting go of control and trusting unseen guidance -Navigating fear, skepticism, and resistance -Supporting others through compassion, humor, and truth -The power of simple validation to shift someone's entire life -AND WE TALKED TO MY MOM!!!!! This episode was literally a catalyst for me to get back in touch with my son after 6 yrs. I'm so glad I trusted MY intuition booking her on the show. She reminds us that love does not end when the body does. She invites us to soften, to listen, and to trust that connection is always available when we are willing to open to it. Healing does not come from certainty, but from allowing the mystery to meet us with grace.  You can learn more about Barbra and her work at bannermedium.com. ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Barbra:   Barbra Banner's story started with 35 years as a marketing and advertising maven in Los Angeles. Then with the Pandemic came flying objects, mysterious orbs, and a push from Spirit that was impossible to ignore . She had no idea that her decades of volunteering for a woman's crisis hotline, the LA Crisis Response Team (with the police and a body on site), and the busiest ER in the city had been divinely guided stepping stones to finding her true purpose in life. And that her gifts ran in the family. Fast forward, she is now a Certified Medium with Helping Parents Heal, Find a Certified Medium with Mark Ireland and VerySoul. She supports grieving families with a mix of compassion, startling evidence and a touch of humor. She loves when mental health, Psychic/Evidential and Trance Mediumship, and the science of how laughter heals, all come together to raise everyone's spirit.   Website: https://www.BannerMedium.com Facebook URL https://www.facebook.com/barbra.banner Instagram URL https://www.instagram.com/bannermedium13 YouTube URL https://www.youtube.com/@bannermedium Book Your Intimacy Breakthrough Experience with Allana https://allanapratt.com/connect Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

Step into a grounded, masculine embodiment, soul-led conversation with Aleks Rybchinskiy, co-founder of Primal Fusion Health and founder of Berski, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Aleks is the walking embodiment of his message… deep presence, conscious masculinity, ancestral wisdom, and ethical entrepreneurship in a way that feels both ancient and urgently relevant. Aleks shares his journey from immigrating to the United States as a Ukrainian refugee to navigating insecurity, weight struggles, and identity through sport, movement, and eventually holistic health. His curiosity led him to question authority, follow what made sense in his body, and ultimately study under Paul Chek, where decades of neurosomatic, nutritional, and spiritual training shaped his life's work. We explore how embodiment, integrity, and nervous system regulation show up not just in health, but in marriage, fatherhood, leadership, and business. Aleks opens up about meeting his wife Sarah, stepping into instant fatherhood, earning trust through consistency, and becoming a man who does the right thing even when no one is watching.  The conversation moves into conscious business through the creation of Berski, a nutrient-dense, grass-fed, pasture-raised meat snack born from practicality, ethics, and a devotion to supporting farmers, land stewardship, and real nourishment. Aleks explains why sourcing matters, how food impacts mood, hormones, and regulation, and why business must be a win for people, planet, and future generations. We also talk about: -Growing up as a refugee and reclaiming trust in the body -Questioning authority and following embodied truth -Mentorship under Paul Chek and living "Say what you mean" integrity -Masculine presence, energetic leadership, and taking up space -Marriage, shadow vows and conscious communication -Nervous system regulation through food, movement and honesty -Ethical sourcing, regenerative farming and supporting local farmers -Liver, heart, and ancestral nutrition as real medicine -Teaching clients to heal so they no longer need a healer -Protecting personal space and communicating needs with reliability Honestly, Aleks is one of the most grounded, kind, integrous, generous and humble men I've met in a long time, deeply inspired by his mission and his down to earth life, marriage and family.  This episode is a glorious reminder that true health, love, and success are built from the inside out. It is an invitation to live from the soul, steward the body wisely, lead with integrity, and create businesses and relationships that uplift the whole. His living proof its possible.  ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Aleks:   Aleks Rybchinskiy is the co-founder of Primal Fusion Health, specializing in wellness education and primal integration to live well and founder of Berski a lifestyle company hosting the best quality snacks to aid you on your journey As a Master CHEK Practitioner, Neurosomatic & Holistic Therapist with over 15 years of clinical experience working with celebrities, pro athletes, and all walks of life, Aleks guides clients and students globally to live in harmony with themselves and others - mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually.   Website: https://eatberski.com Facebook URL https://facebook.com/eatberski Instagram URL https://instagram.com/health.performance.engineer YouTube URL https://youtube.com/eatberski   Try Berski today at eatberski.com/allana and use the code ALLANA for 20% off your delicious order! Learn more about Aleks's clinical work at primalfusionhealth.com, and connect with him on Instagram at @health.performance.engineer. Book Your Intimacy Breakthrough Experience with Allana https://allanapratt.com/connect Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

In this captivating episode of the Meditative Prayers podcast, guided by the insightful Zach Clinton and available on Pray.com, we immerse ourselves in the profound theme of embracing the light—an aspiration deeply cherished within our Christian community. Along our spiritual journey, there arise pivotal moments when the radiance of the Divine Light becomes crucial. These moments not only deepen our faith but also illuminate our relationships, guiding us toward our individual aspirations. The comforting and unwavering truth remains: with the Lord as our constant guide, we have the innate ability to bask in and share this Divine Light, leading to the discovery of renewed hope and purpose. Drawing profound inspiration from sacred scriptures, we embark on an exploration of the transformative human experience of embracing the light. For those who seek guidance in embracing and radiating the Divine Light along their spiritual path, we extend a heartfelt invitation to explore the Pray.com app. By simply downloading it today, you can embark on a transformative journey of faith and resilience, deeply rooted in the unwavering presence of the Divine Light. Together, let us wholeheartedly embrace the incredible illumination that resides within our souls, finding boundless inspiration and radiance during our shared spiritual pilgrimage. We invite you to join us in this enlightening episode as we venture toward a profound understanding of embracing the Light, rediscovering the extraordinary radiance that emanates from the very core of our being. Embracing the practice of praying before slumber is more than just a routine; it's an avenue to recenter your heart, aligning it with God's purpose. Let Pray.com's Meditative Prayer be a nightly companion, deepening your bond with the Almighty and settling your spirit for a serene night's rest.Zach Clinton is from the American Association of Christian Counselors, for more information please visit: https://aacc.net/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Step into an empowering, at times saucy, sacredly sassy and heart-centered conversation with Deb Drummond, accomplished entrepreneur, media strategist, and mother, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Deb brings decades of lived wisdom around leadership, visibility, creativity, and conscious success, all grounded in honesty, humor, and self-trust. Deb shares her journey of building multiple global businesses while raising two children as a single mother, and how transparency, inclusion, and resilience shaped both her family and her success. She reflects on dissolving guilt, teaching her children real-life skills, and allowing entrepreneurship to be something they grew up inside, rather than something that took her away. We explore what it truly means to be visible without burning out, including why so many leaders struggle to be seen, how accountability supports confidence, and how intentional media strategy creates alignment rather than pressure. Deb reveals why presence speaks louder than self-promotion, and how planning with clarity creates freedom. She walks her talk! We also talk about: -Integrating ambition with intimacy and family -Raising resilient, entrepreneurial children -Releasing guilt and redefining success -Visibility, media, and showing up authentically -Creativity as a leadership superpower -Nervous system care, laughter, and self-care rituals -Choosing fulfillment without apology This episode is a reminder that success does not have to cost you your soul. It is an invitation to lead with integrity, trust yourself deeply, and build a life and business that feel true, making you deeply grateful to be alive.  You can learn more about this amazing woman, Deb Drummond and her powerful work at debdrummond.com. ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Deb:   Deborah Drummond is an acclaimed entrepreneur, media coach, speaker, and podcast host recognized for her ability to launch successful ventures and empower others to amplify their voices. With a background that includes starting seven companies, launching a global women's media channel, and undertaking a world book tour, she specializes in guiding creators and professionals to build strong personal brands and media presence.   Website: https://debdrummond.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deborahldrummond FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/DeborahLDrummond LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debdrummond/ I've done three 2 week Aryaa Detoxes and keep feeling lighter, clearer and my best self. When you join the Aryaa 14-Day Detox Experience, you will be gifted with their curated Aryaa Sensory Ritual Kit — featuring our rose-infused Aryaa Paan, a rejuvenating face mask, and sacred incense — designed to transform your reset into a full-body, full-sensory experience. This is an AMAZING gift for those of us committed to healthy thriving intimacy with Self, Body, Soul & Beloved.  Use the code ALLANA at checkout to receive the Sensory Ritual Kit as part of your experience. Explore Aryaa Organic, their detox programs, and ancestral offerings at https://aryaaorganic.com/pages/allana Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

Step into a deeply inspiring conversation of what it is to live as human evolving and embodying the divine masculine with Allan McGrath-Isbell, master guide in polarity, intimacy, and conscious relationship, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Allan's presence alone is a transmission. His work supports men and women in breaking unconscious relational patterns and rediscovering devotion, trust, and authentic connection. We spent the first half hour talking about his wife! We explore Allan's life path into embodiment, beginning with early meditation practices, men's work, and decades of inner training that shaped his grounded, spacious way of being. Allan shares how his devotion to truth not strategy, became the foundation of both his relationships and his work in the world. For anyone committed to manifesting conscious partnership, you'll be inspired by the powerful thread of the conversation centering on meeting his beloved and how something awakened somatically and energetically in both of them. Allan describes how true partnership can activate dormant life force, strengthen the body, clarify purpose, and catalyze personal and professional growth. Through their relationship, both partners became more themselves, not less. YES! We dive into the sacred dance of polarity, including how masculine provision, responsibility, and presence create safety for feminine surrender, and how feminine trust and devotion awaken deeper leadership in men. Allan speaks candidly about navigating financial disparity, ego death, fear, conditioning around equality, and how choosing truth over comfort transformed both his relationship and his business 10x. We also explore how couples heal not by fixing each other, but by releasing blame, shame, and unconscious morality, and learning to relate from awareness instead. Allan shares stories from his retreats and client work, illustrating how subtle shifts in breath, touch, and presence can completely change relational dynamics. We also explore: -Polarity as a lived practice, not a concept -Awakening life force through conscious partnership -Masculine provision, leadership, and responsibility -Feminine surrender without self-abandonment -Releasing shame, blame, and unconscious "right and wrong" -Healing past relationships through ownership and compassion -Why deep embodiment creates effortless magnetism -Transmission over strategy in leadership and business -Men's work, co-ed polarity work, and relational artistry -Relationship as a sacred path of awakening This episode is epic! Allan's life and relationship is an inspiration. This conversation is an invitation to slow down, feel, and listen to what's true in your life and relationships. It reveals what becomes possible when two people meet from wholeness, trust truth over fear, and allow relationship to be a living initiation into more life, more love, and more soul-self. You can learn more about Allan's work, apply for one-on-one coaching, and explore his men's and co-ed polarity immersions at allanmcgrathisbell.com.   ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Allan:   Allan McGrath Isbell is an embodied intimacy mentor who works with men and women to truly live the teachings of sacred intimacy. He is a masterful guide in the realm of love, relationships, and deep intimacy. His work is a transformational journey for both men and women, helping them break free from the unconscious patterns that have kept them from experiencing true connection, trust, and devotion. At the core of Allan's work is the sacred dance of polarity - the magnetic force that draws men and women together in their most natural and powerful expression. He works with couples and individuals, guiding them through the challenges and helping them rediscover the passion, connection, and trust that may have been lost. His presence and insight open a pathway for couples to experience love at a level that feels not only healing but deeply aligned with their souls. Allan is the founder of Thirteen Pines and host of in-person Polarity and Intimacy Immersions in Boulder, CO.   Website: https://www.allanmcgrathisbell.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allanmcgrathisbell/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamallanmcgrath/   I've done three 2 week Aryaa Detoxes and keep feeling lighter, clearer and my best self. When you join the Aryaa 14-Day Detox Experience, you will be gifted with their curated Aryaa Sensory Ritual Kit — featuring our rose-infused Aryaa Paan, a rejuvenating face mask, and sacred incense — designed to transform your reset into a full-body, full-sensory experience. This is an AMAZING gift for those of us committed to healthy thriving intimacy with Self, Body, Soul & Beloved.  Use the code ALLANA at checkout to receive the Sensory Ritual Kit as part of your experience. Explore Aryaa Organic, their detox programs, and ancestral offerings at https://aryaaorganic.com/pages/allana Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

 ਆਸਾ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਕਬੀਰ ਜੀਉ ਕੇ ਦੁਪਦੇੴ ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ ॥ਹੀਰੈ ਹੀਰਾ ਬੇਧਿ ਪਵਨ ਮਨੁ ਸਹਜੇ ਰਹਿਆ ਸਮਾਈ ॥ ਸਗਲ ਜੋਤਿ ਇਨਿ ਹੀਰੈ ਬੇਧੀ ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਬਚਨੀ ਮੈ ਪਾਈ ॥੧॥ ਹਰਿ ਕੀ ਕਥਾ ਅਨਾਹਦਬਾਨੀ ॥ ਹੰਸੁ ਹੁਇ ਹੀਰਾ ਲੇਇ ਪਛਾਨੀ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥ ਕਹਿ ਕਬੀਰ ਹੀਰਾ ਅਸ ਦੇਖਿਓ ਜਗ ਮਹ ਰਹਾ ਸਮਾਈ ॥ ਗੁਪਤਾ ਹੀਰਾ ਪ੍ਰਗਟ ਭਇਓ ਜਬਗੁਰ ਗਮ ਦੀਆ ਦਿਖਾਈ ॥੨॥੧॥੩੧॥ਆਸਾ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਕਬੀਰ ਜੀਉ ਕੇ ਦੁਪਦੇੴ ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ ॥ਜਦੋਂ (ਜੀਵ-) ਹੀਰਾ (ਪ੍ਰਭੂ-) ਹੀਰੇ ਨੂੰ ਵਿੰਨ੍ਹ ਲੈਂਦਾ ਹੈ (ਭਾਵ, ਜਦੋਂ ਜੀਵ ਪਰਮਾਤਮਾ ਦੇ ਚਰਨਾਂ ਵਿਚ ਸੁਰਤ ਜੋੜ ਲੈਂਦਾ ਹੈ) ਤਾਂ ਇਸ ਦਾ ਚੰਚਲ ਮਨ ਅਡੋਲਅਵਸਥਾ ਵਿਚ ਸਦਾ ਟਿਕਿਆ ਰਹਿੰਦਾ ਹੈ । ਇਹ ਪ੍ਰਭੂ-ਹੀਰਾ ਐਸਾ ਹੈ ਜੋ ਸਾਰੇ ਜੀਆ-ਜੰਤਾਂ ਵਿਚ ਮੌਜੂਦ ਹੈ�ਇਹ ਗੱਲ ਮੈਂ ਸਤਿਗੁਰੂ ਦੇ ਉਪਦੇਸ਼ ਦੀਬਰਕਤ ਨਾਲ ਸਮਝੀ ਹੈ ।੧।ਪ੍ਰਭੂ ਦੀ ਸਿਫ਼ਤਿ-ਸਾਲਾਹ ਨਾਲ ਤੇ ਇੱਕ-ਰਸ ਗੁਰੂ ਦੀ ਬਾਣੀ ਵਿਚ ਜੁੜ ਕੇ ਜੋ ਜੀਵ ਹੰਸ ਬਣ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ ਉਹ (ਪ੍ਰਭੂ-) ਹੀਰੇ ਨੂੰਪਛਾਣ ਲੈਂਦਾ ਹੈ (ਜਿਵੇਂ ਹੰਸ ਮੋਤੀ ਪਛਾਣ ਲੈਂਦਾ ਹੈ) ।੧।ਰਹਾਉ।ਕਬੀਰ ਆਖਦਾ ਹੈ�ਜੋ ਪ੍ਰਭੂ-ਹੀਰਾ ਸਾਰੇ ਜਗਤ ਵਿਚ ਵਿਆਪਕ ਹੈ, ਜਦੋਂ ਉਸ ਤਕ ਪਹੁੰਚਵਾਲੇ ਸਤਿਗੁਰੂ ਨੇ ਮੈਨੂੰ ਉਸ ਦਾ ਦੀਦਾਰ ਕਰਾਇਆ, ਤਾਂ ਮੈਂ ਉਹ ਹੀਰਾ (ਆਪਣੇ ਅੰਦਰ ਹੀ) ਵੇਖ ਲਿਆ, ਉਹ ਲੁਕਿਆ ਹੋਇਆ ਹੀਰਾ (ਮੇਰੇ ਅੰਦਰ ਹੀ) ਪ੍ਰਤੱਖਹੋ ਗਿਆ ।੨।੧।੩੧।AASAA OF KABEER JEE, DU-PADAS:ONE UNIVERSAL CREATOR GOD. BY THE GRACE OF THE TRUE GURU:When the Diamond of the Lord pierces the diamond of my mind, the fickle mind waving in the wind is easily absorbed into Him. This Diamond fills all with Divine Light; through the True Guru�s Teachings, I have found Him. || 1 || The sermon of the Lord is the unstruck, endless song. Becoming a swan, one recognizes the Diamond of the Lord. || 1 || Pause || Says Kabeer, I have seen such a Diamond, permeating and pervading the world. The hidden diamond became visible, when the Guru revealed it to me. || 2 || 1 || 31 ||

What if illness, loss, and hardship are actually signals guiding you toward awakening?Jason Shurka is an author, entrepreneur, executive producer, and truth-seeker devoted to helping people expand awareness and reconnect with their innate human potential. Through media, education, and emerging wellness technologies, his work focuses on advancing consciousness and encouraging people to live with greater sovereignty and purpose.Jason's life changed dramatically during what he describes as a profound dark night of the soul. Between the ages of 14 and 18, he experienced 23 shoulder dislocations, multiple surgeries, and a severe infection that nearly cost him his leg. Instead of breaking him, those experiences pushed him into a period of deep reflection and transformation that ultimately redirected the course of his life.Jason shares his perspective on death and dying, consciousness, and the idea that we are far more than the physical body we inhabit. His experience witnessing his father's passing reshaped how he understands life, loss, and the nature of the soul.If you're interested in spiritual awakening, holistic health, and the deeper meaning behind life's hardest challenges, this conversation offers a thought-provoking perspective.You'll learn:[00:00] Introduction[08:21] The real reason you get sick when everyone around you is sick[17:11] The injuries that almost killed Jason, and the one question that changed everything[36:46] Why treating physical problems without addressing the spiritual root never works[50:57] The law of oneness, and the subconscious programs running your reality[59:20] Time is the movement of light, and why your past lives are happening right now[01:23:40] The past life session that finally explained Jason's 23 shoulder dislocations[01:39:13] How the CIA uses remote viewers, and what that tells us about mass mind control today[01:48:36] Why a small number of high-vibration people can counterbalance millions[01:56:03] How a programmer trying to hack meditation accidentally built a healing deviceLearn more at thelightsystems.shop/lukestorey. Use code LUKESTOREY to save $100 off your system.Related The Life Stylist Episodes:Biohacking Built for You: Using DNA to Optimize Supplements, Diet, and Training with Kashif Khan | PodcastTLS Episode 655 w/ Doyle Bramhall II | PodcastResources Mentioned:Read: Energy Medicine by Donna Eden | BookRead: The One-Minute Cure by Madison Cavanaugh | BookRead: A Horse Named Lonesome by Luke Storey | BookRead: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle | BookRead: Forming the Formless by Jason Shurka | BookRead: Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss | BookUnifyd Healing | WebsiteTHE INVENTOR SPEAKS OUT | Robert Reglia Shares the Truth | SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE!!! | YouTubeRead: Rays of Light by Anonymous | BookRead: The Master Key System by Charles Haanel | BookFull show notes at lukestorey.com/thelightsystemGet Jason's book, Accessing Awareness: A Simple Guide to Accessing the Divine Light, here.Find more from Jason:Jason Shurka | Website | Instagram | Facebook | X | TikTok | YouTubeThe Light System | Website | Instagram | FacebookUNIFYD Healing | WebsiteFind more from Luke:Luke Storey | Instagram | Facebook | X | YouTube | LinkedInTHE LIFE STYLIST IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY:PIQUE LIFE | Get 20% off sitewide at piquelife.com/lukeLEELA QUANTUM TECH | Go to lukestorey.com/leelaq and use code LUKE10 for 10% off.BIOPTIMIZERS | Visit bioptimizers.com/luke and use code LUKE15 to save 15% off sitewide.LOTUS WEI | Visit lotuswei.com/luke. Take the Master Flower Quiz and use code LUKE to save 10%.

Father Thomas Naval proclaims the Gospel (John 9:1-41) and breaks open the word on Laetare Sunday. Words for your Way from Santiago de Compostela Catholic Church in Lake Forest, California.

We live in a world that is loud. It is becoming increasingly hollow. From the moment we wake up and scroll through our phones, we are bombarded by a barrage of empty words.When we choose to step into that light of Christ, the empty words of the world fade and give ways to Divine Light.God bless,Rev LeonEphesians 5:6-14

Step into a riveting, entertaining and unexpectedly tender conversation with Larry Namer, co-founder of E! Entertainment Television, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. From growing up in Coney Island to helping build one of the most influential media networks in the world, Larry shares the unlikely path that shaped his life, leadership, and legacy. Larry reflects on his early years as a scrappy Brooklyn kid, rising through the ranks of the cable industry by curiosity, confidence, and a refusal to follow the expected path. What began as a temporary summer job underground splicing cables turned into a meteoric rise, eventually leading him to Los Angeles and the bold vision that became E! Entertainment. We explore how E! was built not with massive funding or prestige, but with creativity, interns, borrowed equipment, and a willingness to ignore the rules of Hollywood. Larry shares the stories behind groundbreaking moments, sneaking onto red carpets, launching shows like Talk Soup, and recognizing that people wanted entertainment that felt real, playful, and unscripted. The conversation deepens as Larry opens up about the most transformative moment of his life– when his teenage son was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and given months to live, everything shifted. Against all odds, his son survived and has now been cancer-free for over twenty years. That experience redefined Larry's priorities, teaching him that success means presence, perspective, and finding joy in the moment beyond achievement. We also talk about: -Growing up resilient and self-confident despite humble beginnings -Building E! Entertainment outside traditional media power structures -Creativity born from limitation and necessity -Leadership through intuition, humor, and risk-taking -Fatherhood, regret, and the cost of ambition -A near-miraculous healing that changed everything -Finding peace,  regulation and joy through cooking and creativity This episode is a reminder that the recipe for success does not come from perfection, prestige or permission, but from trusting yourself, staying curious, not being attached and keeping life in perspective. Larry's story shows that the greatest achievements mean little without love, presence, and the courage to live and love fully. ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Larry:   While I've interviewed actresses like Whoopi Goldberg, Musicians like Alan's Morissette, Quantum Physicists like Nassim Haramein, Coached Leeza Gibbons through Dancing with the Stars, and even met Joe Torres when I interned at Macy's Herald Square… never in a million years would I think I would meet let alone interview the founder of a huge TV network, one of my first internships in NYC after living in Japan, Larry Namer…  Today we have this industry veteran with over 50 years of entertainment experience on our show. He is best known as the founder of E! Entertainment Network, a network that continues to shape pop culture today and has launched the careers of many of today's pop culture superstars from Howard Stern to The Kardashians. While creating more shows that include a social conscious and enjoying cooking for his family including a new grandson, Larry has published Off Script- Recipes for Success. This memoire and cookbook can be found at Amazon.    Offscript: Recipes for Success https://www.amazon.com/Offscript-Recipes-Success-Larry-Namer/dp/B0DVNY8KH6 I've done three 2 week Aryaa Detoxes and keep feeling lighter, clearer and my best self. When you join the Aryaa 14-Day Detox Experience, you will be gifted with their curated Aryaa Sensory Ritual Kit — featuring our rose-infused Aryaa Paan, a rejuvenating face mask, and sacred incense — designed to transform your reset into a full-body, full-sensory experience. This is an AMAZING gift for those of us committed to healthy thriving intimacy with Self, Body, Soul & Beloved.  Use the code ALLANA at checkout to receive the Sensory Ritual Kit as part of your experience. Explore Aryaa Organic, their detox programs, and ancestral offerings at https://aryaaorganic.com/pages/allana Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

Barbara Gail, LIVE Friday, March 13th, 2026 3:10 PM ET Topic: NDE Proved That Consciousness Survives Physical Death BIO Barbara Gail offers transformative spiritual services, including mediumship, direct channeling, healing, and life guidance from the Divine Light. With expertise in connecting you to your departed loved ones, comatose patients, pets, and in offering insights into your life purpose, she helps you gain peace and clarity. Personal Zoom appointments ensure accessibility for all who seek answers. Her Near-Death Experiences provide you with an insightful focus for answering your questions. Barbara's direct encounters with Extraterrestrials were life-saving and have proven we are not alone! Barbara's book, "The Immense Release," is available on Amazon and packed with verified proof of the Afterlife. You can reach Barbara through her website: www.answersfromthelight.com Visit her anytime on her Facebook page: Barbara Gail

Step into a deeply nourishing conversation about feminine awakening, soul truth, deeper embodiment, and self-first devotion with Ann Marie Ziegler, co-founder of Aryaa Organic, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Ann Marie shares her journey from being the "good woman" who did everything right on the outside, while feeling disconnected and suffocated within, to bravely listening to her body's wisdom when it began speaking through illness, inflammation, and exhaustion. What followed was a profound dark night of the soul that initiated her spiritual awakening, reclamation of her voice, and devotion to living in alignment with truth. She opens up about the courage it took to speak honestly to her family, end a decades-long marriage with love, and model self-honoring for her children. We explore how opening her fifth chakra and releasing shame, guilt, and people-pleasing allowed her to step fully into her power, creativity, and feminine expression. Together, we dive into how ancient wisdom, Ayurveda, and ancestral foods became medicine not only for her body, but for her nervous system, clarity, and intuition. Ann Marie shares how the Aryaa detox supports emotional, mental, and physical release, and why healing happens when we stop controlling the process and allow the body to lead. We also talk about: -Disconnection from the body as a root cause of illness -The difference between Self-first and the selfish/selfless cycle  -Speaking truth with love and without apology -Releasing shame, guilt, and perfectionism -Healing through ancestral foods and ancient wisdom -Emotional and mental detox as pathways to clarity and peace -Conscious partnership, service, and giving back as a business devotion I love this woman. I love growing and evolving with her, the CEO Kamal Hans and their company Aryaa Organic. This episode is a powerful reminder that healing begins when we listen to the body, honor the soul's timing, and choose Soul alignment over approval. It's about letting go of the mind asking WHY? and instead listening to the quieter inner heart-nudges. It is an invitation to reclaim your voice, your intuition, and your right to live your best life guided from within.   ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Ann Marie:   Ann Marie Ziegler, co-founder of Aryaa, is guided by a deep commitment to self-realization and holistic healing. Her journey began with a desire to reconnect with ancestral wisdom and ancient traditions, leading her to explore integrative wellness practices from around the world. As Aryaa's Head and Architect of Wellness Products, Ann Marie blends her expertise in nutrition, design, and spirituality to create offerings that support healing, inspire transformation, and reconnect people to forgotten cultures, and to their own inner wisdom. Website: https://aryaaorganic.com Facebook URL https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086688168369 Instagram URL https://www.instagram.com/aryaaorganic/ YouTube URL https://www.youtube.com/@AryaaOrganic I've done three 2 week Aryaa Detoxes and keep feeling lighter, clearer and my best self. When you join the Aryaa 14-Day Detox Experience, you will be gifted with their curated Aryaa Sensory Ritual Kit — featuring our rose-infused Aryaa Paan, a rejuvenating face mask, and sacred incense — designed to transform your reset into a full-body, full-sensory experience. This is an AMAZING gift for those of us committed to healthy thriving intimacy with Self, Body, Soul & Beloved.  Use the code ALLANA at checkout to receive the Sensory Ritual Kit as part of your experience. Explore Aryaa Organic, their detox programs, and ancestral offerings at https://aryaaorganic.com/pages/allana Schedule your Intimacy Breakthrough Experience with me today https://allanapratt.com/connect Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

March 3rd marks a powerful energy shift with the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse—the Blood Moon.

Step into a breathtaking story of redemption, devotion, and soul-level partnership in this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light with Frank and Kat Parisi. Married for over thirty years, parents to their son Sonny, Frank and Kat share what it truly means to navigate addiction, trauma, near death, and profound awakening together, without ever abandoning true love. Frank opens up about growing up in extreme juxtaposition of familial wealth and unspeakable trauma, then decades of addiction, and finally a moment of pristine clarity that led him into recovery in 2011. He shares how sobriety became a doorway into service, faith, and purpose, and how a life-saving heart transplant in 2023, receiving the heart of a nineteen-year-old young woman, deepened his devotion to healing generational trauma and living for something greater than himself. Kat shares with remarkable honesty what it was like to love and stay with Frank through addiction, chaos, and recovery. She speaks about loyalty, exhaustion, faith, and the quiet strength it took to rebuild trust, communicate honestly, and do her own healing alongside his. Together, they reflect on how recovery is not just about getting sober, but about repairing intimacy, rebuilding respect, and learning how to truly see and hear one another's deepest Truth. We explore how trauma lives in the nervous system, how faith and spirituality became anchors during Frank's hospital stay, and how their son Sunny became the living "why" that called Frank back to life. From hospital prayers and divine interventions to rebuilding their marriage with transparency, affection, and daily communication, their story is a living testament to resilience and grace. We also talk about: -Addiction, shame, and the cycle of trauma -Recovery as nervous system healing and spiritual practice -Staying committed through chaos and rebuilding trust -Heart transplant as awakening and generational healing -Marriage as devotion, communication, and accountability -Parenting through trauma and modeling resilience -Love that deepens through vulnerability rather than perfection This episode is a reminder that healing is possible, marriages can be reborn, and love can become stronger after everything falls apart. Frank and Kat embody what it looks like when the divine masculine and feminine rise together, transforming pain into purpose and family into sanctuary. Their son Sonny is literally writing Raps praising the journey of his amazing family!  You can learn more about Frank's work, courses, and memoir Embrace Abundance at frank-parisi.com, explore Emotion Wellness Center in San Antonio, and follow Frank on Instagram at @frankparisi2011. ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Frank and Kat:   The story of Frank Parisi is one out of a Hollywood movie. Growing up on the tough streets of New York City dealing with incredible adversity and challenges, Frank resorted to using drugs, alcohol and violence to survive. After decades of abusing his mind, body and soul Frank had a spiritual awakening on July 31, 2011 and found recovery as a new way of life. His mission since has been to inspire others to make better choices in life and not live the life he did prior to getting sober. Sobriety hasn't come without challenges. In 2023, Frank received a life saving heart transplant—the heart of a 19-year-old girl—which further deepened his commitment to living a purpose-driven, faith-fueled life. Today, he shares his story with raw honesty and uplifting clarity, helping others shift from scarcity to abundance in every area of life. The surgery has taken his belief of abundance, being kind and of service to others to another level. His mission now is to spread that message around the world. Parisi published his memoir Embrace Abundance on August 1, 2024 and became a best selling author. He's a partner and spokesperson for E-motion Wellness Center in San Antonio, a keynote speaker and offers private consulting to others as a successful self-made entrepreneur. Frank resides in Austin, Texas with his wife and son and committed to his own wellness and fitness routine on a daily basis. Katherine Parisi is a native New Yorker who has escaped the cold and now happily resides in Austin, Texas. An attorney by trade, Katherine has practiced law in both New York and Austin for the last 20 years, handling all aspects of civil litigation and primarily insurance defense. She married her high school sweetheart, Frank, and navigated the last 30 years of life with him, walking hand in hand as he overcame drug addiction, a life saving heart transplant, and in his newfound role as a social media phenom, bringing light and hope to all he encounters. Her pride and joy is her 9 year old son, Sonny, and she has found endless joy in being a soccer mom. In her free time, she enjoys travel, reading, and enthusiastically cheering her son on from the sidelines for whatever sport is in season. Website: https://frank-parisi.com/ Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/frankparisi2011   We are proud of our February sponsor, Jenette Skin Care. Explore and experience her high-vibrational, plant-based formulations at www.jenetteskincare.com. Use the code INTIMATE15 for special February savings. Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

Step into a powerful, soul-opening conversation with Paul Hutchison and Hada Vanessa on this heart centered episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Partners in life, love, and service, Paul and Vanessa share a devotion to healing humanity from the inside out through their work with the Child Liberation Foundation and Santuario retreats rooted in sacred medicine, embodiment, and truth. Paul opens up about his journey from extreme wealth and ego-driven success to a humbling reckoning through years of undercover work rescuing trafficked children. Witnessing the darkest expressions of unhealed humanity forced him to confront his own shadows and led him into deep psychedelic somatic healing that transformed how he lives, loves, and leads. Vanessa shares her path as an empath and mother, navigating disconnection, numbing, and the search for safety before sacred medicine brought her home to her body, presence, and love without armor. Together, they tell the extraordinary story of finding each other through inner alignment rather than fantasy, a reminder that love responds to frequency, not force. We explore what conscious partnership truly requires. Presence. Playfulness. The willingness to sit still together without distraction. Paul and Vanessa reveal how slowing down, feeling fully, and choosing devotion over performance creates intimacy that can withstand the darkest nights. We also talk about: -Transforming trauma without bypassing it -"Hell" as lack of awareness vs radical self responsibility -Psychedelic somatic healing and nervous system safety -Conscious partnership rooted in presence and devotion -Love as frequency rather than pursuit -Humor, joy, and play as spiritual practices -Healing the heart as a path to healing the world We had a good laugh that one of my 6 books is called Finding The One is BS, Becoming the One is Brilliant and Beautiful… they are walking emanations of this teaching! AND ironically, it's the key to finding the depth of love they share.  This episode is an invitation to stop outsourcing love, worth, and salvation to the outside world, and to go all the way in. It reminds us that intimacy begins within, that presence is the doorway to everything, and that healed hearts truly do heal the world. ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Paul and Hada Vanessa:   Paul Hutchinson and Hada Vanessa Hutchinson are partners in life and purpose, united by a deep commitment to service, conscious partnership, and human healing. Together, they lead the Child Liberation Foundation, supporting work that has contributed to more than 70 undercover rescue missions across 15 countries in the fight against human trafficking. Paul is an executive producer of the film Sound of Freedom,  which helped bring global awareness to the realities of child exploitation. They are also founders of Santuario, a sanctuary dedicated to deep personal transformation through sacred plant medicines, experiential training, and holistic healing. Through Santuario, they host monthly relationship retreats and rebirth retreats that integrate somatic healing, biohacking therapies, and trauma-informed workshops to support emotional release, embodied healing, and deeper connection, both individually and as partners.   Website https://liberating-humanity.com/ https://santuarioretreats.org/ https://childliberation.org/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/liberating.humanity Instagram https://www.instagram.com/liberating.humanity YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Liberatinghumanity Free Course https://liberating-humanity.com/prefense-online-course/   We are proud of our February sponsor, Jenette Skin Care. Explore and experience her high-vibrational, plant-based formulations at www.jenetteskincare.com. Use the code INTIMATE15 for special February savings. Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

Welcome to a deeply moving love story of redemption, faith, and partnership in this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light with Dylan Gemelli and his wife, Queenie. A God-first couple united by humility, devotion, and teamwork, they join me for an honest conversation about healing the past, choosing integrity, and building a marriage rooted in truth… and humor.  Dylan shares his journey from prison, addiction, and self-destruction to faith, service, and purpose, and how meeting Queenie during the lowest chapter of his life became a turning point. Queenie reflects on seeing his heart beyond his past, receiving his truth with compassion, and choosing love without judgment. Together, they open up about what it means to place God first in marriage, not as religion, but as daily practice. Prayer, honesty, forgiveness, and humility became the foundation that allowed trust, safety, and joy to grow. Their relationship is a living example of how two imperfect people can evolve together when pride softens, responsibility leads and hearts open.  We also explore how complementary differences strengthen a relationship, how playfulness and laughter coexist with devotion, and how a healthy partnership fuels purpose, leadership, and service in the world. We also talk about: -Redemption, responsibility, and owning your past without shame -Choosing honesty early and letting truth build trust -God-first marriage as daily practice, not performance -Forgiveness, humility, and resolving conflict quickly -Complementary differences as gifts for growth -Play, laughter, and joy as spiritual practices -How love and partnership fuel purpose and leadership This episode is a reminder that your past does not disqualify you, ever. And that faith can be lived through love, and that when two people choose truth, humility, and God first, something deeply beautiful becomes possible.  Be sure to watch Dylan's Podcast, #1 in health and fitness and alternative health, The Dylan Gemelli Podcast, where I will also be featured as a Guest this year!  https://dylangemelli.com/ ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Dylan and Queennie:   Dylan Gemelli is a recognized figure in the fitness and biohacking community. He is known by the monikers "The Wellness Revolutionary," "The Mind Body Connector" and "The Aging Optimizer." Dylan hosts the Dylan Gemelli Podcast where he engages with experts to explore ALL ASPECTS of health and wellness, biohacking along with motivation discussions around overcoming adversity to help become the best person you can be. His efforts focus on obtaining FULL health alignment through the MIND-BODY connection, piecing the neurological and physical sides together along with spirituality, culminating in maximum health and longevity. Dylan is currently pursuing another degree, adding neuroscience to wide array of degrees and certifications. As a leading voice in the biohacking, health and wellness space, Dylan has grown his Instagram to over 1.5 million followers and runs successful YouTube channels, including his channel "Dylan Gemelli Biohacking" that is closing in on 100k subscribers. He launched "The Dylan Gemelli Podcast" at the start of 2025 and has already made a huge impact, reaching #1 in health and fitness and alternative health and as a mainstay in the top 50 in ALL CATEGORIES on Apple. He has hosted notable guests such as Dr. Eric Berg, Dave Asprey, Ben Greenfield, Dr. Steven Gundry, Miesha Tate, Ben Azadi, J.J. Virgin, Adam Sosnick, Dr. David Jockers, Cynthia Thurlow and many more! Dylan also made his mark as a speaker at the 60th anniversary of Mr.Olympia in 2024 and made a major impact, speaking again in 2025. Dylan is touring throughout the world appearing on major podcasts sharing his story, inspiring everyone to not only achieve their highest quality of life, but to overcome adversity, and to be a beacon of light, hope and inspiration to everyone! Dylan is a God first family man that is set on doing God's work, which for him, is helping everyone to not just add years to their lives, but life to their years!   Dylan and Queennie just celebrated their 10 year wedding anniversary and stand united by God.  Their marriage is a God first marriage and serves as an inspiration and motivation to others on how to work together for the most successful marriage possible.  They thrive on teamwork and feeding off each others strengths as well as weaknesses to formulate God's plan on what He intended bringing together and man and woman as one!   Website https://dylangemelli.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@DylanGemelliBiohacking Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dylangemelli/   We are proud of our February sponsor, Jenette Skin Care. Explore and experience her high-vibrational, plant-based formulations at www.jenetteskincare.com. Use the code INTIMATE15 for special February savings. Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

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"I am the Violet Flame of Transmutation."

"I am the Violet Flame of Transmutation."

We are proud of our February sponsor, Jenette Skin Care. Explore and experience her high-vibrational, plant-based formulations at https://www.jenetteskincare.com/. Use the code INTIMATE15 for special February savings. Step into a radiant, heart-centered conversation about beauty, healing, and soulful entrepreneurship with Jenette Serrins, a dear friend and founder of Jenette Skin Care and pioneering green beauty innovator, on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Jenette joins me for a deeply personal dialogue about our twenty-plus-year friendship, resilience through single motherhood and loss, and the devotion that led her to create a skincare line rooted in integrity, sustainability, and real results. She shares how her passion for botanical alchemy and endocrine-safe ingredients was born from a refusal to compromise her values, and a desire to heal skin at the root cause: inflammation. We explore how true beauty is not about perfection, but presence. Jenette opens up about the emotional and spiritual rituals behind her formulations, why she refuses to create products when her or her staff's energy feels off, and how skincare can become a sacred act of self-love, regulation, and embodiment. She also shares the science and soul behind some of her most beloved creations, including her cacao mask, calming serums, probiotic potions, and nourishing moisturizers, revealing how each product is designed to detox, heal, lift, protect, and restore both skin and nervous system. We also talk about: -Inflammation as the root of most skin issues -Clean beauty without endocrine disruptors or microplastics -Ritual skincare as a form of self-love and regulation -Resilience through loss, single motherhood, and rebuilding -Energy, intention, and spiritual alignment in product creation -The emotional connection between skin, stress, and self-worth -Why beauty must honor both the body and the planet This episode is an invitation to slow down, treat your skin with reverence, and remember that how you care for your body reflects how you care for your soul.   ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Jenette:   Jenette is a pioneering green beauty innovator and sought-after celebrity esthetician who has devoted over two decades to the art and science of botanical skincare. She is a true botanical alchemist, blending ancient wisdom with modern science to create sophisticated, plant-powered formulations that deliver real, visible results while honoring the body and the Earth. Based in Los Angeles, Jenette is the founder of Being in LA, where her skin boutique and in-house laboratory live side by side. Her work is deeply rooted in sustainability, ethical sourcing, and small-batch integrity, and her philosophy reminds us that radiant skin is a reflection of both personal wellbeing and planetary care. Trusted by many well-known faces and featured in outlets like Vogue, Forbes, CNN, and People, Jenette brings a grounded, soulful devotion to beauty that feels as nurturing as it is effective. I cannot wait for you to experience her wisdom, her heart, and the depth of her knowing. About the brand and mission: Jenette Skin Care crafts high vibrational, plant-based formulas with the upmost integrity. Using nothing but pure all natural ingredients, with sustainability at the core of everything we do. Our products deliver real results without compromise, focusing on healing damaged skin cells and preventing our live cells from being killed off by inflammation and aging.   Website https://www.jenetteskincare.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jenetteskin/ Facebook                 https://www.facebook.com/jenetteskincare       YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@jenetteskincare   We are proud of our February sponsor, Jenette Skin Care. Explore and experience her high-vibrational, plant-based formulations at www.jenetteskincare.com. Use the code INTIMATE15 for special February savings. Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

Walk with me into a powerful story of loss, rebirth, and fierce integrity in this unforgettable episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light with Lopa van der Mersch, Founder and returning CEO of RASA, mother, and devoted student of Tibetan wisdom traditions. Lopa returns to the podcast for her first public conversation after years of deep initiation. She opens up about the season that dismantled everything she thought she was. Divorce, single motherhood, stepping away from leadership, and the sudden loss of her home in a devastating fire that erased nearly every external marker of identity. What followed was not collapse, but a profound rebirth. We explore how this identity death reshaped her leadership, her spirituality, and her relationship with compassion. Lopa shares how people pleasing and subtle compromise once shaped her path, and why returning as CEO required an uncompromising devotion to integrity, even when it did not make financial sense. Together, we dive into Tibetan wisdom, nervous system healing, and the difference between compassion that depletes and compassion that nourishes. Lopa reveals the daily rituals that now anchor her life, from unplugging at night and beginning mornings in practice, to allowing devotion to pulse between motherhood and leadership. We also talk about embodiment, pleasure, and beauty as necessities, not luxuries, and how RASA was born not as a product, but as a devotion to creating businesses that heal rather than harm, that nourish both people and the planet. We also talk about: -Identity death and rebuilding a life after everything falls away -Leading with integrity when compromise no longer feels possible -Tibetan wisdom as a refuge in grief, betrayal, and loss -Compassion that includes the self, not just others -Nervous system rituals that support sustainable leadership -Embodiment, sensual grounding, and pleasure as medicine -Conscious business as a path of healing and service This episode is a living transmission of what it means to lead from truth, trust yourself again, and build a life that is sane, humane, and deeply soul-led. We are honored for RASA to be our January Podcast Sponsor. Explore RASA and receive a special savings at www.AllanaPratt.com/RASA with the code ALLANA15 and experience adaptogenic nourishment crafted with integrity, intention, and soulful care. ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Lopa:   Lopa van der Mersch is the founder and returning CEO of Rasa, a beloved adaptogenic beverage company that has served over 20 million cups worldwide. She's a mother, a truth-seeker, and a woman who has walked through profound initiations—burnout, loss, betrayal, rebuilding, and ultimately a return to leadership with far more wisdom, compassion, and clarity than before. Guided by years of deep spiritual study—and rare Tibetan masters who helped reshape her understanding of energy, purpose, and resilience—Lopa brings a powerful blend of grounded business strategy and embodied intuition to everything she does. Her mission now is simple and radical: to build companies that nourish rather than deplete, that consciously cultivate the human virtues that make life worth living and business worth doing, and to show that commerce can be a force for real good without sacrificing our health or our humanity.   Website: https://wearerasa.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lopalovesyou/ https://www.instagram.com/wearerasa/   This delicious moment of Intimate Conversations is brought to you by RASA. If your sweet body is craving energy that does not fry your nervous system, RASA is a gorgeous, herbal, adaptogenic alternative to coffee. No crash. No jitters. Just grounded, sustainable nourishment. Explore their blends at allanapratt.com/RASA and use code ALLANA15 for a loving little discount. Schedule your Intimacy Breakthrough Experience with me today https://allanapratt.com/connect Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

Join Kamal, Mark and me for the Aryaa 2-Week Detox beginning January 26, 2026 at www.aryaaorganic.com. Mark and I will be sharing masterclass videos and recorded teachings, and I'll be doing the detox right alongside you for my third time! Step into a conversation that feels like a sacred masculine council with Kamal Hans and Mark Jenkins on this episode of Intimate Conversations: Dark Night to Divine Light. Two men from very different worlds, united by devotion, integrity, and embodied conscious leadership, join me for a powerful dialogue about purpose, alignment and what it truly means to live and lead from the heart. Kamal shares his courageous journey of walking away from massive financial success in the tobacco industry when his body and soul could no longer tolerate misalignment. That awakening led him to donate everything he had built and devote his life to creating Aryaa Organic, blending ancient Ayurvedic wisdom with modern science, intention, and frequency to create food as medicine. Mark opens up about his extraordinary rise from growing up in Brooklyn during the crack era to joining the Navy at 17yrs, and how physical transformation became the doorway to confidence, leadership and service. His path from training people for free while living in the projects to training celebrities like Beyonce and the late D'Angelo, is a living example of humility, grit and embodiment. Together, we explore why true wellness must be sustainable, why detoxing is about far more than food or weight loss, and how intimacy, vitality and aligned relationships are created from the inside out. We also talk about: -Walking away from success when it costs your soul -Turning money, status and achievement into service and purpose -Food as medicine through frequency, intention and sacred design -Embodiment as the foundation of confidence and leadership -Growing up in survival yet choosing a new path forward -Why fitness alone is not wellness without nervous system regulation -Detoxing emotional suppression, numbing behaviors and old coping patterns -Intimacy as an inside job and the power of embodied generosity -Conscious business, wellness and intimacy as one unified devotion This episode is an invitation to stop outsourcing worth to external success and invest in the inner architecture that creates meaning, vitality, and love. You can also explore Mark's work at www.markjenkinsmethod.com and receive a complimentary month of his online training when you begin the detox with us. ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Mark and Kamal:   Kamal Hans is a visionary entrepreneur and spiritual leader who merges ancient wisdom with modern innovation. As the co-founder and CEO of Aryaa Organic, Kamal is dedicated to building a coherent health and wellness system that seamlessly integrates the wisdom of Ayurveda and other ancient traditions into modern wellness practices. With a background in various energy modalities and over three decades of experience, Kamal has successfully scaled businesses that serve thousands of healthcare entities worldwide and has consulted for major firms like Oracle and Accenture. Under his leadership, Aryaa Organic isn't just a business—it's a beacon of holistic living that aims to positively impact 100 million lives. Kamal is currently authoring I AM Aryaa, a spiritual epic in the works, which will further explore these themes. He embodies values of truth, courage, and compassion as he bridges the gap between ancient traditions and contemporary wellness. Mark Jenkins is a renowned celebrity fitness trainer and life coach, celebrated for sculpting the physiques of top-tier artists like Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, D'Angelo, and LL Cool J.  His expertise lies not only in physical transformation but also in fostering mental resilience and holistic well-being. Growing up in Brooklyn, Mark faced challenges with weight and self-esteem, leading him to enlist in the U.S. Navy.  There, he discovered the profound connection between physical fitness and mental fortitude. His dedication led to a role training fellow service members, laying the foundation for his future in personal training. Upon returning to New York, Mark's passion and unique approach caught the attention of the music industry's elite. He became the go-to trainer for artists preparing for tours, music videos, and major events, known for delivering rapid and sustainable results.  Beyond training, Mark is the author of The Jump Off: 60 Days to a Hip-Hop Hard Body and has developed fitness DVDs and nutritional supplements. His holistic approach integrates martial arts, Pilates, calisthenics, and high-intensity cardio, tailored to each individual's needs.   Website: https://aryaaorganic.com/ www.markjenkinsmethod.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themarkjenkins/ https://www.instagram.com/kamaljosephhans/ This delicious moment of Intimate Conversations is brought to you by RASA. If your sweet body is craving energy that does not fry your nervous system, RASA is a gorgeous, herbal, adaptogenic alternative to coffee. No crash. No jitters. Just grounded, sustainable nourishment. Explore their blends at allanapratt.com/RASA and use code ALLANA15 for a loving little discount. Schedule your Intimacy Breakthrough Experience with me today https://allanapratt.com/connect Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

Holly Swenson's presence instantly softens a room. An award-winning author, registered nurse, wellness advocate, and mother of four boys, she carries a rare blend of grounded wisdom, calm authority, and deep maternal devotion. Her life and work are rooted in presence, intentionality, and the belief that how we live and parent today shapes generations to come. Welcoming Holly to this episode of Intimate Conversations, opening Season 14, Dark Night to Divine Light, there was a felt sense of steadiness, elegance, and emotional safety as we explored what it truly means to parent and live from a regulated nervous system, a full heart, and a conscious yes to life. In this nourishing and deeply practical conversation we explored: How Holly cultivated her calm not because life was easy, but because adversity taught her how to become the calm in the storm, supported by daily rituals of quiet, meditation, and intentional presence. What it actually looks like to create non-negotiable space for oneself as a parent, including waking before the household, lighting a candle, making tea, and tending her inner world before tending to everyone else. Why boundaries are acts of love, not control, and how consistency, kindness, and clarity help children feel safe, respected, and empowered to develop their own sense of self. The importance of co-regulation in partnership and parenting, and how choosing to remain grounded instead of reactive can de-escalate emotional storms and restore connection in moments of overwhelm. How Holly and her husband stay aligned as parents through open communication, mutual respect, and shared values, creating a stable emotional foundation for their family. Why screen boundaries matter deeply for mental health, including no phones at the dinner table, no phones in bedrooms, and intentional unplugging during family time and vacations to restore true connection. Holly's powerful STOP, DROP, GROW & GLOW framework, beginning with slowing down and self-reflection, releasing old patterns and trauma, cultivating supportive habits, and finally embodying a life of aligned self-care and presence. Her reflections on motherhood as a sacred initiation, including releasing guilt around staying home, honoring caregiving as meaningful work, and trusting the seasons of life as they unfold. The truth that children are some of our greatest teachers, offering wisdom, presence, and reminders to slow down, notice, and live with wonder. Why softness is not weakness, and how strong, loving leadership in families comes from being both firm and tender, embodied and emotionally available. This conversation is an invitation to pause, breathe, and remember what truly nourishes a family and a soul. It reminds us that presence is medicine, that boundaries create safety, and that when parents tend their own inner world, they give their children a lifelong gift of emotional resilience and love. You can connect with Holly, explore her book Stop, Drop, Grow & Glow, receive her complimentary Peace in the Pause challenge, and learn more about her Glow Forward parenting course at www.liveyourglow.live.    ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content! About Holly:   Holly Swenson is an award-winning and best-selling author on the rise and on a mission to bring more wellness, joy, and intentionality to parenting and beyond. In addition to being an author, she is also a BSN, RN, wellness blogger, wellness & culture commentator, the mother of four incredible sons, and a perpetual student of life. She has had the pleasure of connecting with some of the top thought leaders in the world, has been featured in magazines, USA Today, and has been featured on the news and radio. Writing her first book Stop, Drop, Grow, & Glow, which launched in fall of 23', was a deep calling and a way she could be of service to parents everywhere. She also has a transformative online course launching in January of 2026, called Glow Forward: Parenting with Presence and Purpose she is SO excited to unveil. Holly's ultimate aim is that her work and impact truly will help re-invigorate your journey as a mother or father and raise the bar for generations to come. Website: https://liveyourglow.live Instagram URL https://www.instagram.com/hollyswenson_liveyourglow/ Find Peace in the Pause- 7-Day Pause Challenge Guide https://holly-swenson.mykajabi.com/opt-in-d5f43182-78af-474b-8230-6e4c55274d0e   This delicious moment of Intimate Conversations is brought to you by RASA. If your sweet body is craving energy that does not fry your nervous system, RASA is a gorgeous, herbal, adaptogenic alternative to coffee. No crash. No jitters. Just grounded, sustainable nourishment. Explore their blends at allanapratt.com/RASA and use code ALLANA15 for a loving little discount. Schedule your Intimacy Breakthrough Experience with me today https://allanapratt.com/connect Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

There are some moments when my life gently asks me to sit down, soften, feel and tell the truth. This solo episode of Season 14 marks a moment, recorded at sunset in Santa Fe, opening under the theme Dark Night to Divine Light.  This episode is a quiet, powerful homecoming and nourishing personal reflection of why I have returned to solo episodes and why I coach. Not from theory. Not from branding. But from lived experience, grief, integration, and devotion to Truth. In this tender and revealing episode, I explore what happens when we stop suppressing our feelings and stop performing to keep others happy. I speak about how every time we abandon a part of ourselves, that separation echoes outward into our relationships. And how, when we bring those parts home, something in us finally rests. Our nervous system softens. Our presence deepens. Our intimacy becomes real. This is what it means to meet ourselves, so we can be truly met by another.  I share about moving into my new home in Santa Fe after seven years of living nomadically, and the grief that arose when I let go of a dream that did not unfold the way I once imagined. The grief associated with accepting life as it is, rather than how I hoped it would be, made me melancholy. And yet that acceptance became a doorway to peace, power and deeper alignment. This episode explores why living in the "why?" keeps us stuck in our heads, spinning in analysis, while avoiding the feelings that actually want our presence. I speak about the alchemy that happens when we allow ourselves to feel fully. Pain does not just pass. It transforms. Shame becomes wisdom. Betrayal becomes clarity. Fear becomes embodied knowing. We are MORE from feeling.  I share client stories that illustrate this truth, from individuals learning to come home to their bodies after years of over-intellectualizing, to couples transforming their relationships through radical honesty, presence, and community witnessing. From a young man whose nervous system finally found safety, to couples renewing vows not from obligation but from Soul Truth. Throughout the episode, I return again and again to the heart of my work. Coaching is not about fixing or saving. It is about walking with someone into the places they thought were unfeelable, staying present, and bowing to their courage as they reclaim themselves. It is about integrity, ownership and humility. I cannot ask someone to do what I am unwilling to do myself. This solo is also a meditation on the mystery and the beauty of NOT knowing. I reflect on how the question "What if?" does not have to lead to worse case scenario fear. It can lead to wonder. What if it turns out better than you ever imagined? What if love finds you? What if your presence becomes the answer to someone else's prayer?  This episode is an invitation to live with your heart splayed wide open. To welcome your darkness and your light, to be with it all. To remember that intimacy begins within, and that when we come home to ourselves, we discover we were never separate from the Divine at all. Thank you for being here. I love you with all my heart. ➡️ Go check out patreon.com/allanapratt for Exclusive content!   This delicious moment of Intimate Conversations is brought to you by RASA. If your sweet body is craving energy that does not fry your nervous system, RASA is a gorgeous, herbal, adaptogenic alternative to coffee. No crash. No jitters. Just grounded, sustainable nourishment. Explore their blends at allanapratt.com/RASA and use code ALLANA15 for a loving little discount. Schedule your Intimacy Breakthrough Experience with me today https://allanapratt.com/connect Scholarship Code: READYNOW Finding the One is Bullsh*t. Becoming the One is brilliant and beautiful, and ironically the key to attracting your ideal partner. Move beyond the fear of getting hurt again. Register for Become the One Introductory Program. http://allanapratt.com/becomeintro Use Code: BTO22 to get over 40% off. Let's stay connected: Exclusive Video Newsletter: http://allanapratt.com/newsletter Instagram - @allanapratt [ / allanapratt ] Facebook - @coachallanapratt [ / coachallanapratt ]

Upon graduation from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture with a BFA in glass, Gemma Hollister was awarded the Windgate-Lamar fellowship from the Center for Craft, which allowed her and her partner to start a small studio in Philadelphia, Antolini Glass Co. While balancing her personal artistic practice and work as a production glassblower, the artist recently appeared on Netflix's Blown Away: Extreme Heat. The show inspired new work, which she made both in her own studio and during a residency at Monterey Glassworks. States Hollister: "Blown Away gave me a chance to challenge myself and level up my skills in glassmaking. It isn't very often that you are given such specific parameters and a time crunch to make your work. I gained so much confidence in myself as a gaffer and an artist. Looking back, it was also very special to me to be able to represent a younger generation of glassblowers, especially female glassblowers, on such a big stage." A 2023 Saxe Emerging Artist nominee, Hollister developed a practice that involves creating fantastical objects, sculptures, and installations that center around themes of imagination and control, manifesting as both literal and abstract sculpture. For her, working with glass is an exercise in the belief that her own actions directly affect change. She works to further understand the material so that she can control its outcomes by working with direction and intention.  She says: "The act of creating glass, as in many crafts, is a protest against an unresolved and rapidly evolving technological world. Glass historically has proven the power to educate, inspire, and call to action those who observe it. In my practice, I manipulate traditional associations with both blown and stained glass — its narrative structure and divine light — by addressing contemporary issues that I want viewers to reflect upon." Hollister has traveled the country as a student and teaching assistant at institutions such as the Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) and Pilchuck Glass School. She received a partial workshop scholarship from CMoG in 2024 and a Pilchuck Glass School Summer Staff Scholarship in 2023. She has been a teaching assistant to both hot glass and stained glass greats such as Martin Janecký, Jason McDonald, Bill Gudenrath, Aya Oki and Judith Schaechter. Hollister participated in Blown Away Season 4 Group Exhibition at CMoG in 2024, an exhibition with Karen Willenbrink Johnsen and Morgan Peterson at Traver Gallery, and a solo exhibition titled Heaven Is Full Of Junk in 2022. She will teach in 2026 at CMoG August 9 through 22 with her partner Tate Newfield.  

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