Journey To Authenticity - Purpose | Spirituality | Relationships | Body-mind

Holotropic meets Shamanic healing. I take you through my transformative plant medicine journey during a week away on a Shamanic healing retreat. It involved Holotropic breathwork followed by Shamanic ceremonies and taking a series of amazonian master plants. These plants are traditionally used to facilitate healing and spiritual transformation. They raise the consciousness level and cleanse out dense, lower vibrational energy; fears, negative emotions, deep rooted blocks and cellular entropy. Unbelievably powerful work. I describe the process and the insights I took from it.

John Craig, (a.k.a. Echan Deravy), born in Scotland, has lived multiple lives as an expat in Japan. He has written and translated over 40 books on new paradigm science, spirituality, travel, ancient civilisation, consciousness, health and ecology. As a documentary film maker he has recently produced 'Why on Earth' about a barefoot walk across Iceland as well as 'Earth Pilgrims' filmed in six different countries. He introduced Earthing to Japan and has been involved in some of the research measuring the health benefits. To learn more about John, listen to his podcast 'Real Rover' and to learn more about Earthing watch this 15 minute YouTube video called 'Down to Earth' featuring Dr Mercola... HERE.

Are our beliefs true?...or like in the Matrix, are we plugged into a program? Has the program influenced my relationships, my career, my finances, the decisions I make...EVERYTHING?!!? The answer is YES! I just got punched in the face with my own journey to authenticity as I question everything I've known to be true. In this weeks episode I share insights, thoughts and feelings that have opened up since doing Holotropic Breathwork a few weeks ago. Confusion/clarity, awareness/ignorance, certainty/uncertainty....I am experiencing all the dualities at once. The foundation of who I am has been shaken...but this is the burden to bear for the sake of my higher self.

In this episode I speak to Alex da Silva about his addiction story in all forms. From Food, to alcohol, sex and drugs Alex was born in Brazil and came to the UK at the age of 11 without speaking the language. Alex has faced a lot of challenges over the years, including abuse, bullying and anxiety throughout childhood always feeling like he was not good enough, and in adult life has experienced mental health and addiction problems. Today, recovered he is the founder of the Happy As Larry Group, the happiness company specialising in emotional recovery, who's mission is help change the world, one person at a time. In the uk suicide is currently the biggest killer in men under the age of 45. In a society that has always taught men not to appear weak, we now are seeing a pivotal cultural shift and a lot of discussion around redefining masculinity. Men such as Lewis Howes, Robert Webb and Justin Baldoni are just some of the big names in the public eye that are at the forefront of this conversation. The biggest thin

Lauren Burton is the co-owner of a london based leadership company called Lea_p. She is passionate about personal development and how this can be used to change the way we work and live; Lauren truly believes that leadership starts with the self. In today's episode she discusses her philosophy around leadership and how our behavioural patterns, value systems and personality types influence our leadership style. She explains how three levels of listening determines our effectiveness as leaders and how altering our perspective on life can change the way we show up. To find out more about the coaching services and courses Lea_p has to offer, and to take advantage of their additional free resources section...head to https://www.lea-p.com

I flew out to Austria last week to do what's called a Holotrpoic breathwork workshop. This technique was developed by a Czech psychiatrist called Stanislav Grof. He now has over 60 years experience in researching non ordinary states of consciousness as well as the therapeutic potentials of psychedelic substances. He's also one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology. Holotropic broken down means: a journey to wholeness, in ancient Greek. Holotropic breathwork is a type of self exploration and healing that uses a combination of the breath with evocative load music, while lying on a mat wearing an eye mask. This enables you to go into your body more readily, by removing external visual stimulus. This method he developed is designed to allow you to enter this expanded state of consciousness. The session lasts 3 hours and you pair up with someone who sits for you while you breathe, to make sure you are safe, to give you water when you need it, to take you to the toilet, give you tissues etc. The

Do we all suffer from a fear of abandonment? This is common amongst adoptees. I am the eldest of four girls. My sister Emma was also adopted, but we have different biological parents and have never really spoken about our individual thoughts or experiences of adoption. We then have two half sisters who are biological children of our mum, from a second marriage. In this episode, I explore my sister's story, her experience of adoption, how this has impacted her growing up and whether both Emma & I run an abandonment story.

Today I have on the show Tatiana Kassessinoff PhD, a classically trained scientist who left the lab to work as a consultant for biotechs and academic institutions in Germany. Her true passion however has always been the mind-body connection and a desire to further integrative and personalised medicine. In 2017, she retrained as a rapid transformational therapist and recently launched a podcast, London Heal to help spread the message of living healthy for longer in the UK. In today's episode we explore the role of the mind in health. Tatiana speaks on the relationship between the unconscious mind and our personality, and how we can re-program our subconscious mind. You can follow Tatiana and subscribe to her podcast at www.londonheal.com. If you'd like to learn more about Rapid Transformational therapy then head to https://www.rapidtransformationaltherapy.com

So what if I told you there is a way to have a productive morning every single day & actually be excited to wake up? Well there is.. its called a morning ritual... We all have morning rituals we just don't know it. Yours could be waking up, hitting the snooze button, then going straight on to your phone & checking Facebook, Instagram or any of those other social media sites...and saying to yourself...'UGHHH I don't want to get up.' In today's eposide you will learn how to create a life-changing morning routine adapted from Hal Elrod's best selling book 'The Miracle Morning,' https://www.miraclemorning.com which is going to set you up for the best possible day ahead. Will you feel like it at first? NO! But if we waited to feel like doing anything....we would never get out of bed. What it comes down to is this.....how we start our day dictates how are day goes! Head to https://www.journeytoauthenticity.co.uk to pick up my version of a morning 'Daily Tuning Guide,' to help start your new routine. Try the

Bianca Downey discusses how she navigates an open relationship. What is an ideal relationship to you? In this modern day, are we meant to only be with one person for the rest of our life? Can we make open relationships work? Almost 1 in 2 marriages end in divorce. Have we just been socially and culturally conditioned to believe that this is 'the way'. Our life span has lengthened, we live more separated than ever....can one person fulfill all our needs that previously we would have got from an entire community? We talk sexuality, desire, labels, boundaries and jealousy. Open your mind for this one and be honest with yourself.

On today's episode I discuss how to find your purpose by identifying your values and living a fulfilled life by applying them everyday. Many people can tell you want they don't want, but very few can tell you what they do want. What's crazy is that our everyday demonstrates what our values are and there is a very simple way of discovering yours, which I touch on in the episode. Identifying what both you and your partners values are can help to understand each others needs and how you can make them compliment. If you are constantly looking for outside approval from others, the this is the episode for you. If you want to read more and take an online questionnaire to determine your values, then head to https://drdemartini.com/values/login.

Trying to balance multiple hats and feeling overwhelmed? Then listen up. In today's episode, I speak to Natalie Robertson, who after years of pushing, pushing, pushing, overtraining, eating disorders, setting super human expectations, and nearly losing her life last year during childbirth, has now made BALANCE her number one focus! She shares her insights, perspectives and tools for taking care of yourself in her journey to overcoming health and relationship challenges. She discusses the importance of self care....diet, meditation, inner work, spinal adjustments and prioritising based on your values. Natalie is passionate about helping new mum's who have lost their confidence and their body. She will be holding a free 30 minute webinar on 17th May at 7.30pm, London time. Tune in to learn practical tools you can apply today in order to create more balance in your life. Follow Natalie at https://www.facebook.com/Spirohealth/

Today I speak to elite athlete Cherrelle Brown. Three time England boxing champion 2015, 16 & 17. Cherrelle talks about her difficult upbringing, not knowing her path and getting so low that she tried to take her own life. She talks about how she got into boxing and how the sport has change her life. Now at the age of 31 has just launched her professional boxing career as 'The Hummingbird'. Cherrelle is an inspiration to so many, teaching us all that no matter what we have been through and what obstacles stand in our way, we can always become a better version of ourselves.

Artist, business owner and author. The multi-talented Jasminka Hansson, shares the inspiration behind her soon to be released book 'The Unseen Journey Within You' an out-of-the-box approach to unleashing the true you. She shares her wisdom and passion for astrology and how are unique personality and life experiences form the life tools we can use to navigate the world. She explores the seven year cycles and how this influences the stages of growth we are in at different times in our life. Are you taking on the negative traits of your family and want to understand why and how to break them? This episode explores ways we can begin to break the cycle.

Welcome to the first episode of 'Journey to Authenticity' - my journey to meaning and fulfilment. Today I will cover a bit about my story, what led me to creating this podcast, my intention and what to expect from future episodes.