Did you know you can actually rewire your brain and transform your life experience by repeating simple phrases (aka mantras) daily?

I’m joined by Colleen Souza, educator-turned-real estate leader, speaker, and author of Living by the Mantras: Common Sense Wisdom for an Extraordinary Life.

Colleen shares how mantras have shaped her approach to parenting, teaching, and succeeding in business. She believes mantras aren’t just spiritual buzzwords, but practical tools to help you shift your mindset, create positive habits, and handle life’s curveballs with more ease and self-compassion.

"We have to put in front of ourselves the words and ideas that are going to make us a better version of ourselves, a positive version of ourselves. It matters." - Colleen Souza

Episode Highlights

12:22 – How simple affirmations can keep us resilient
19:53 – Turning setbacks and failures into powerful learning moments
26:07 – Using realistic mantras that encourage progress, not perfection
30:17 – Vision boards, manifesting, and creating aligned energy

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Guest Bio

Colleen Souza is a nationally recognized educator turned real estate leader, speaker, podcaster, and author of Living by the Mantras: Common Sense Wisdom for an Extraordinary Life. Her work blends humor and heart to guide others to lead more intentional, value driven lives. Distilling her remarkable journey of success as both a professional and a loving wife and mother into powerful mantras: short, memorable sayings that carry big truths, she offers practical wisdom and inspiration to help readers parent, lead, and live with clarity and courage. Her book, Living by the Mantras, teaches parenting and family success strategies through leadership and parenting and family success strategies.

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Did you know that emotions and unprocessed feelings are held in our bodies and can deeply affect our physical, emotional, and even spiritual health?

This week I’m joined by Maria Toso, somatic healing teacher, yoga trainer, and author of Heal What Hurts: How to Heal Emotional Triggers.

Maria says many of us stuff down and avoid uncomfortable feelings by:

1. Lashing out - scolding, name calling, blaming
2. Numbing out - overeating, drinking, scrolling
3. Checking out - avoiding and becoming disconnected

She shares practical wisdom on how to recognize when we’re being triggered, and how to then gently nurture ourselves back to a place of self-love and shift unhealthy patterns through breath, body awareness, and bringing loving kindness inward.

"The love that you have for everyone else is going to be so much more authentic when it comes from you totally embodying love in and with yourself." - Maria Toso

Highlights Timings:

03:21 Healing Childhood Abandonment Trauma

19:37 Breaking Cycles of Reactivity

25:14 Breaking Unhelpful Behavioral Patterns

31:46 Impact of Feminine Energy

34:57 Heal What Hurts

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Guest Bio

Maria Toso, is a Danish-born author, somatic healing teacher, and yoga teacher. Her debut book, Heal What Hurts: How to Heal Emotional Triggers, offers a transformative path for understanding and dissolving emotional patterns through breath, body awareness, and divine presence. Maria blends somatic work, spiritual practice, and intuitive insight to help people heal deeply, reclaim their power, and live with clarity and purpose. She teaches Yoga Teacher Training at Minneapolis College, leads international retreats, and guides online healing circles for students around the world.

Website: https://www.mariatoso.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariatoso/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maria.toso
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mariatosoofficial/videos

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As we wrap up Season 4 and take a short break before we kick off Season 5 in the New Year, I’ll be taking a short break to get everything ready for what’s coming next.

In the meantime, I’ll be sharing some of my favorite episodes—maybe some you haven’t had a chance to listen to yet or maybe you’ll catch some hidden gems you might’ve missed the first time around.

This is your chance to revisit a few of the most powerful and thought-provoking episodes from the first 4 seasons.

And while I’m on this little break, I’m hard at work behind the scenes, planning even bigger and better things for the next season.

Thank you for being here and I can’t wait to share the incredible guests and inspiring content I have lined up for you next year.

::Trigger Warning::

This episode contains discussions about trauma and emotional eating. If this topic is sensitive or triggering to you, please listen at your discretion.

We tend to think of overeating or eating when we’re not hungry as a lack of willpower or discipline. Feeling intense shame afterward. Vowing to never do it again. Only to keep returning to food and repeating the cycle over and over.

We’re great at blaming ourselves, but have you ever considered that your eating habits might be linked to deeper issues? And that your perceived lack of control is actually a survival mechanism?

Today Diane Petrella, MSW, clinical social worker, and author of Healing Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors, and I discuss the link between childhood trauma and emotional eating.

Highlights Timings:

03:01 - The Link Between Trauma and Emotional Eating

10:01 - Early Trauma and Its Long-Term Effects

15:01 - Coping Mechanisms and Food as Comfort

20:01- Strategies to Manage Emotional Eating

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Guest Bio

Diane Petrella, MSW, is a clinical social worker, certified life coach, and holistic licensed psychotherapist, specializing in the effects of childhood trauma, emotional eating, and body confidence. She’s worked with children, adolescents, and adult survivors. Diane has helped thousands of people overcome early trauma, create a respectful relationship with their body and food, and connect with their inner Wise Self for sustained healing. She is the author of Healing Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors: Trauma-Informed Practices to Nurture a Peaceful Relationship with Your Emotions, Body, and Food.

Website: dianepetrella.com

Instagram: @dianepetrellamsw

Facebook: Diane Petrella MSW

Free eCourse: 5 Trauma-Informed Tips to Heal Emotional Eating

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As we wrap up Season 4 and get ready to kick off Season 5 in the New Year, I’ll be taking a short break to get everything ready for what’s coming next.

In the meantime, I’ll be sharing some of my favorite episodes—maybe some you haven’t had a chance to listen to yet or maybe you’ll catch some hidden gems you might’ve missed the first time around.

This is your chance to revisit a few of the most powerful and thought-provoking episodes from the first 4 seasons.

If you’ve been struggling to stay consistent with your health goals and find yourself losing and gaining the same weight over and over, listen in to this episode from Season 2, where I explain:

• Why your diet isn’t working
• Why it’s not your fault
• What to do instead.

I’ll show you how to find the right plan for you so you can finally release the weight in a healthy, balanced way, so you NEVER HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT AGAIN.

Important Links

Rev Up Your Metabolism Guide

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Thanks so much for listening to my podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.

As we wrap up Season 4 and get ready to kick off Season 5 in the New Year, I’ll be taking a short break to get everything ready for what’s coming next.

In the meantime, I’ll be sharing some of my favorite episodes—maybe some you haven’t had a chance to listen to yet or maybe you’ll catch some hidden gems you might’ve missed the first time around.

This is your chance to revisit a few of the most powerful and thought-provoking episodes from the first 4 seasons.

On this episode from Season 1, I share my “Four Pillars of Health,” the foundations for creating overall wellness–body, mind and spirit. And how to release weight, feel good in your body, age vibrantly, and make healthy living your new normal.

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Rev Up Your Metabolism Guide

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It can be easy to fall into the trap of waiting. Waiting to lose weight, to save enough money, to retire, etc., before finally starting to live the life you want. In this episode, master certified life coach and midlife mentor, Suzy Rosenstein, teaches us how to break free from "waiting mode," get clear on what we really want, and take action toward our dreams now, not someday in the future.

Key Takeaways:

Aging Is a Privilege: Reframing aging as a gift, not a downhill slide

Suzy’s F.U.N. Framework: Find Your Thoughts, Understand What You Want, and Nurture Your Commitment

The Cost of Waiting: Every day you delay is a day lost from living the life you crave

“Most women I work with don’t even know what they want because they’ve spent so many years taking care of everyone else. Find your thoughts, understand your desires, and nurture your commitment—this is how you start living on purpose again.” — Susie Rosenstein

Episode Highlights:

• 00:03:39 – Why waiting for the “right time” keeps us stuck
• 00:03:44 – Living now, not “someday”
• 00:13:22 – Mindfulness and present-moment awareness
• 00:28:56 – F.U.N. Framework for getting unstuck

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About Suzy

Suzy Rosenstein, MA is a master certified life coach, midlife mentor, and host of two popular podcasts for midlife women: Women in the Middle® - Loving Life after 50 and Women in the Middle® Entrepreneurs: The Reality of Running a Business after 50. She helps midlife women go from feeling stuck to being clear about what they want and so they can finally find the joy and purpose they’re searching for.

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So many of us have become disconnected from our bodies–pushing through exhaustion; ignoring our physical cues for hunger, thirst, or rest; and numbing emotions with food, work, or social media.

This week, I sit down with Toni Bergins, M.Ed., founder and director of JourneyDance®, to explore how body movement through dance can be a pathway to reconnect with your body, express emotions, release old trauma, and step into to your joy, authenticity, sensuality, and power.

Key Takeaways:

Dance as Deep Healing: Movement isn’t just physical, it’s a pathway to emotional release, spiritual awakening, and self-connection.

Safe Containers for Vulnerability: Through a guided process like JourneyDance®, you can safely explore and release your emotions–joy, anger, and even rage–and start to heal old patterns.

Empowerment Through Expression: The act of honoring your feelings is the key to inhabiting your body and living authentically.

“We’ve been told to be smaller, quieter, and less emotional. Dance gives us permission to be big, bold, and beautifully alive. Movement is the medicine that allows emotions to move through us instead of staying stuck in us. Every emotion has a place–rage, grief, joy, sensuality” – Toni Burgins


Highlights

00:00 – The importance of reconnecting with your body

03:10 – Toni’s story

10:29 – Spiritual awakening and JourneyDance®

13:31 – Why it’s important to express and release your emotions

18:46 – How dance supports self-connection, healing, and spiritual awakening

Important Links

Walking for Weight Release 6-Week Beginner Program

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About Toni

Toni Bergins, M.Ed., author of EMBODY: Feel, Heal & Transform Your Life Through Movement, is the founder and director of JourneyDance® where she leads an international team of over 1500 JourneyDance® Facilitators. She has a popular instructional JourneyDance® video, a series of online courses, and a private practice in her Embodied Transformations Method. Over the past 27 years, she has helped thousands of people get into their bodies, express their authentic uniqueness, and find a new sense of self-esteem, inner wisdom, emotional health, spiritual practice, and total well-being.

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Order the Book: EMBODY: Feel, Heal & Transform Your Life Through Movement

Website: https://www.journeydance.com

Instagram: instagram.com/tonibergins & instagram.com/journeydanceofficial

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If you’ve ever struggled with self-love or battled your harsh inner critic, join me for this conversation with relationship expert Dr. Margaret Paul.

Dr. Paul explains her powerful Inner Bonding® self-healing process, a six-step pathway to heal self-judgment,reconnect with your true self, break free from old patterns and heal your relationship with yourself.

Key Takeaways:

Self-Healing Begins Within: External achievements, relationships, or validation can't heal old wounds. Genuine healing starts by building a loving relationship with yourself and uncovering the false beliefs you've absorbed over time.

Recognizing Self-Abandonment: Many of us unknowingly repeat patterns from our upbringing, including self-judgment, staying stuck in our heads, numbing emotions, or making others responsible for our feelings. Noticing these behaviors is the first step to real change.

The Power of Intentional Self-Love: Shifting your intention from controlling outcomes to learning how to love yourself is transformative. When you are filled with love from within, you naturally improve your relationships and well-being.

Highlights

05:49 Healing Beyond Trauma

08:38 Self-Abandonment

16:24 Self-Care and Inner Bonding

29:04 Elevating Your Life

Important Links

👉 NOURISHED WOMAN EXPERIENCE: Feed Your Body, Mind & Spirit
Free Online Retreat: nourishedwomanexperience.com


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About Margaret

Dr. Margaret Paul is a bestselling author of 15 published books, a relationship expert, and co-creator of the powerful Inner Bonding® self-healing process. She has appeared on numerous radio and television shows, including Oprah, and has successfully worked with hundreds of thousands and taught classes and seminars around the world for over 56 years. Her most recent book is “Lonely No More: The Astonishing Power of Inner Bonding.” Margaret is also a member of the Transformational Leadership Council.

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