Overview of Reiki - The who, what, when, where, how and why. I discuss how Reiki works, how it can help you calm yourself, relax naturally and reduce stress. I also discuss my own experience with Reiki. I share a simple energy awareness exercise and an invitation to an upcoming online seminar in August 2021.

Link for webinar: https://bit.ly/ReikiSeminarCB

This is a guided visualization exercise that includes conscious breathing and body awareness. It is important to be in a safe, quiet and distraction free environment when doing this exercise. It should not be attempted while driving, operating equipment, or in a location where you attention is divided. This is a great exercise to do in combination with 4-Fold Breathing, the Body Scan and other exercises in this series.

In this episode I talk about my personal experience with persistent chronic illness and pain. The challenges and frustrations of playing a never ending game of whack-a-mole with my health and feeling like I was on a merry-go-round of symptom, diagnosis, medication, repeat.

This is my origin story of how I was living in denial of my stress and how it ultimately broke down my health to the point where I had to take drastic action and change my life.

After I changed course, I was able to eliminate all prescription and over the counter medications within 6 months and have been medication free for nearly 2 decades.

If you feel frustrated that symptom suppression is a dead-end, if you're tired of the medication merry-go-round, please listen.

We've all been there. Can't get to sleep, or restless sleep because we can't shut off our minds. The result is poor quality sleep, and waking feeling less than fully refreshed. In this podcast we talk about disrupting the stress response using relaxation rituals to prepare the body and mind for sleep. We also discuss how to set up the room environment to optimize sleep.

Professional women are often hampered by the Inner Critic, perfectionism, or lack of confidence in speaking in a bold and authentic voice. Kim Boudreau Smith is an accomplished coach and trainer who has helped women overcome their self-doubts to create confident messaging and establish effective professional visibility.

Stress isn't the problem - how we think about stress is the problem.

This discussion covers a bit of physiology to understand the body's stress response and how it works. We explore changing our state at cause (thoughts and feelings) and changing our state at effect (the body). By recognizing stress as data we can objectively evaluate the context to determine locus of control, observe our chronic thought patterns, core beliefs and assumptions to determine their validity, relevance and usefulness in improving our quality of life. When we curate our thoughts we are able to effect change at cause. We also discuss three hacks to immediately disrupt the stress response in our bodies. When we are able to change our state at the effect (our body) we can create effective strategies and techniques for managing stress and improving our quality of life.

Stress isn't the problem - it's how we handle stress. We need to understand stress as data, as information. The podcast provides an overview of stress response, how our bodies are hardwired to provide feedback so that we can act on it. Understanding the function of the stress response and how it works is fundamental to understanding how to collaborate with our bodies instead of fighting against their normal functions.

Brief discussion of stress and 3 quick hacks to interrupt the stress response in the body.
Movement/play, Laughter, and Conscious Breathing are featured. Refers to the 4 Fold Breathing Exercise Podcast in this series.