Ramadan is often seen as a sacred month only for Muslims, yet its deeper invitation is profoundly human: a chance to reset your nervous system, release emotional weight, and remember that you are safe to lead.

For twenty years, I navigated a tumultuous, emotionally abusive marriage. The practice of Ramadan—fasting, reflection, and surrender—became the lifeline that helped me regulate my limbic system, reclaim my body, and rebuild my sense of self. That journey is what ultimately shaped my work as a Somatic Holistic Healer and the creation of my Four Mind Alignment™ methodology and my self‑guided course, Feel Safe to Lead.

Beyond food and drink, Ramadan can be a powerful somatic and leadership reset—even if you are not Muslim.

Consider fasting from:

• Self‑sabotage and negative self‑talk
• Low‑vibration people and draining environments
• Refined sugar, processed and GMO foods, caffeine, and heavy proteins that stress your body
• Social media and “energy vampires” that deplete your focus and confidence

When you treat fasting as spiritual, behavioral, and emotional forgiveness, you create space to:

• Hear your own intuition more clearly
• Release survival patterns that keep you small
• Reconnect to a felt sense of safety in your body

This is the inner work most leadership trainings skip—and the work that makes sustainable leadership possible.

My Four Mind Alignment™ methodology is designed to help you regulate and stay centered in your body so you can lead from resonance, not reactivity.

When you feel safe to lead:

• You stop outsourcing your worth to titles, metrics, or other people’s approval
• You can set boundaries without shutting down or exploding
• You access clarity and courage in moments that used to trigger anxiety, people‑pleasing, or freeze

Ramadan gave me a yearly structure to practice this: pausing, observing my patterns, and consciously choosing who I wanted to be on the other side of the fast. That same structure is built into Feel Safe to Lead.

In this week’s episode, “Rise, It’s Ramadan: Benefits and Tips for Non‑Muslims,” I share:

• How fasting can become a portal to emotional regulation and inner safety
• Practical ways non‑Muslims can engage with Ramadan as a 360° reset
• An excerpt on spiritual warfare and how it relates to the Four Mind Alignment™
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Introspect on where you can forgive yourself.

See yourself in your greatest power

Commit to being that version of yourself

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Root. Reveal. Rise. with Embodied Visioning.

Every January for the past four years The Wholeness Center has offered The Visioning Retreat virtually and in person. This year I was one of the facilitators.

This episode is both a recap of this years' event from the perspective of each facilitator/ participant and one participant and an invitation to view visioning differently.

Bemene Piaro, the Founder of Wholeness Center and ICF certified transformational coach, defines "vision board" and the process utilized in her unique embodied visioning.

Madala Machini, a certified Yoga Instructor and Acupuncturist and herbalist in training, share her experience and contribution.

Robyn Shahda, an ICF certified Life Coach, shares her experience as a repeat annual participant as well as quarterly participant and where her vision has come to fruition.

I also share vulnerably about vision boarding and what this event has shifted in my life, my body somatically and world.

Whether you are new to vision boarding or embodiment practices, this episode will be eye opening for you.

Reserve your spot for the 2027 Visioning Retreat https://wholenesscenterva.com/events/

Cordelia Gaffar, known as The Ultimate Joy Goddess, is the CEO of Workout Around My Day Inc., an award-winning podcast host, author, and embodiment guide. She helps professionally successful, socially respected men—especially corporate leaders and founders—who are physically and mentally exhausted regain strength, confidence, and self-respect without shame, judgment, or emotional overwhelm.

This podcast is your sacred space to practice self-nurturing as a radical act, and to remember that you are allowed to choose joy and pleasure, even in seasons of grief, transition, and rage.

Learn more, explore current offerings, and join Cordelia’s joy-centered communities at:

https://www.cordeliagaffar.com

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In this episode, Cordelia Gaffar invites you to stop contorting yourself to fit standards that were never made for your wholeness. Explore the hidden costs of being “palatable,” how those patterns once kept you safe, and how to transcend them through embodiment, presence, and joy. It’s time to move from surviving to savoring — from performance to authentic power.

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