Tressa Vasquez, a holographic sound healer, plays crystal singing bowls live in studio for Alex Perry. She explains what a sound bath does to the body, from a lower heart rate to the drowsy theta state just before sleep. What does a first sound bath feel like? Alex describes the purple, green and yellow he saw and the tension that let go, and Tressa says what she sensed in each energy center.

(00:00) What is a sound bath?

(05:13) How Tressa Vasquez found sound healing

(06:43) Breaking a pattern in one session

(09:12) Hearing crickets in the noise

(11:46) Fear of opening up again

(14:39) What is hapé?

(16:04) Why plants are she or he

(17:12) Alex takes the hapé

(18:46) What came up: love and trust

(21:33) Listening to your body

(24:46) The sound journey

(28:22) Trust kept coming up

(30:51) Colors and chakras

(34:17) Finding a sound practitioner

(38:17) Why plant medicine opens us

(41:11) Leaving corporate work

(42:27) A type A disguised as a hippie

(44:19) A breath practice to try today

About Our Featured Charity:

This season, Alex Perry On Fire is making a monetary contribution to each guest’s charity of choice. Tressa’s charity is Amazon Watch. Amazon Watch is a nonprofit founded in 1996 to protect the Amazon rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. It partners with Indigenous and environmental organizations on campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the preservation of the forest's ecological systems, helping the nearly 400 Indigenous peoples who depend on the rainforest. Learn more at https://amazonwatch.org/about

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Aelicia "Chocolate" Watson has stage 4 breast cancer and was told she had five years. She returns to talk about her first cruise, a five-day trip from Miami she took despite a lifelong fear of water. She also explains why she is tired, and what she wants to do with the time she has left.

About Our Featured Charity:

This season, Alex Perry On Fire is making a monetary contribution to each guest’s charity of choice. Aelicia’s charity is Redeemed Women. Redeemed Women is a Dallas nonprofit that works to help women lead independent lives by building relationships and meeting their spiritual, physical and vocational needs. It serves women in South Dallas facing generational poverty, with support such as a Closet of Hope for household and personal items and monthly life skills training, and it is raising funds to build new affordable housing in the area. Learn more at https://www.redeemedwomen.org/vision/

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Neal Williams, a life coach, says it plainly: “I should be dead.” At 19 he tried to end his life, and days into treatment his heart stopped. Years of addiction followed, ending with a year and a half in prison. Neal sits down with Alex Perry to tell all of it, including the lost young man he wishes he could go back and hug.

About Neal:

Neal Williams is a life coach, author and the founder of Elevated Lifestyle Academy, which offers life coaching, case management and consulting for young men and families facing addiction and mental health struggles. The academy brings families into the recovery process, with the goal of giving everyone the knowledge, tools and confidence to succeed in recovery and in life. Learn more at elevatedlifestyleacademy.com.

About Our Featured Charity:

This season, Alex Perry On Fire is making a monetary contribution to each guest’s charity of choice. Neal Williams’s charity is Prison Entrepreneurship Program. The program brings business leaders into prisons to teach inmates entrepreneurship, character development and servant leadership. After release, it supports graduates with housing, jobs, mentoring and business loans. Neal has volunteered with the program and says it also teaches men to be present fathers and husbands.

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