Episode 29: What it Means to Be a “Nasty Woman”

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In this episode Karen shares Something Positive: the story of Israeli and Palestinian women marching together for peace! They stated, “We cannot count on men to create peace. We have to do it ourselves.” Read the story here.

Gia and Karen discuss the term “nasty woman”, which was used against Hillary Clinton in a recent presidential debate, but has been embraced by women across the country. The word nasty derives from a Dutch word that means “dirty, like a bird’s nest.” This is reminiscent of the Divine Feminine energy, which is wild, creative, nurturing and even “dirty.”

This “nasty” comment represents the fact that the Shadow side of humanity is being exposed and is no longer tolerated. Abuse of women and children is being brought to light and abusers are being punished. The comment is helping to galvanize women and bring them together to champion for their rights.

Karen reflects on being rejected for being feminine during her medical training and having to hide her feminine qualities. Early feminism seemed to be masculine in presentation and power-seeking. But the Divine Feminine is totally different and is now finally arising.

Feminine medicine is heart-based with love, compassion, relationship, and deep listening utilized as aspects of healing. Now slowly some doctors of both genders are adopting a more heart-based approach to medicine.

Women need to become empowered in a feminine way such as uniting, building bridges, embracing others, caring, and drumming, singing and dancing together as the women in Israel did on their peace march. Feminine power expresses itself through vulnerability (see Podcast #17 for a further discussion on this.)

Let’s embrace all the negative terms used to describe women and own them as signs of our power! We can help men embrace their own feminine essence through relationship, emotion, unconditional love.

Connect with Gia on her website: www.divinelygia.com

Gia’s YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/user/divinelyalign

Karen’s website: www.karenwyattmd.com

We are sending you tons of love for your journey! Don’t be afraid to be nasty!

Gia and Karen

xoxo

Episode 24: How to Heal Wounds and Break Old Patterns by Changing Your Perspective

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In this episode Gia and Karen talk about some personal experiences with healing their old wounds by taking a new perspective.

Something Positive is a story from Australia of two Aboriginal men who were dining at a restaurant and overheard two older women at a nearby table making racist comments about Aboriginals. Rather than getting angry the two men sent a pot of tea to the women as a gift with a note stating that it was from them. They responded to hatred with kindness, which is what the world needs right now!

Gia shares a personal story about rising above feeling hurt and abandoned by the behavior of another person. She learned how to love and celebrate who she is instead of taking the experience personally.

The discussion includes these points:

  • Neuroscience shows that negative memories are stored 10X more strongly than positive memories because the brain is wired to pay attention to potential threats
  • Neural pathways become stronger each time an old negative emory is revisited or re-enacted
  • Break the pattern of old negative behaviors by creating a new reality to reset the belief system
  • Our difficult relationships are gifts that point out our wounds and give us the opportunity to heal them
  • A powerful healing practice for relationships: write letters to and from the other person (without sending them) to access higher wisdom and create a new perspective
  • Our wounds are areas that are hidden from our self-love so they need to be exposed to enable us to love ourselves more fully
  • No one else has the power to make you happy! That is your responsibility. You create all the positive feelings in your life along with all the negative.
  • Recover from victimhood by recognizing that you are responsible for everything you feel – both positive and negative – and this will attract better partners for you
  • What you heal in present time is healed through all time so do your healing work now and don’t worry about going back to the past
  • Sometimes opportunities to heal our hidden wounds come to us through Grace
  • The stories we have told ourselves over the years are likely not even accurate or true – we cannot know what other people feel or they are thinking
  • View everything as an opportunity to heal – when other people bring pain they are just pointing our wounds so we can love ourselves more!

Share your stories and comments with us! We are sending you endless love for your journey. Go to iTunes and leave reviews for us – it will help spread the word to other people about It’s Just Life!

Gia’s website: www.divinelygia.com

Karen’s websites: www.karenwyattmd.com or www.eoluniversity.com

Gia and Karen

xoxo

Episode 4: Love for All the Mamas on Mother’s Day: How to Take Care of YOURSELF While You Care for Everyone Else

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Mama Karen and her babies!

 

Today Gia and Karen celebrate Mother’s Day and salute all the amazing women who help nourish and nurture life on this planet! Karen shares some thoughts about her own journey being a Mom to Gia and Aaron and the blessings of motherhood. They also talk about:

  • the power of the mother-child bond (the strongest relationship we will experience in life)
  • how Moms may struggle to care for themselves while caring for everyone else
  • keeping exercise in balance by learning to listen to the body and not just the mind
  • what to do when there’s no time for self-nurturing
  • why Karen thinks Green Smoothies are magic (recipes below!)
  • how to take a “mini-vacation” within
  • how the mother-child relationship keeps evolving over time

Take the opportunity to love your Mom right now and to take good care of yourself – the world needs a healthy you!!

Get Karen’s Green Smoothie recipes here.

Gia’s blog: How to Take a Vacation Inside Yourself

Gia’s video: Self-Massage

We love you always!!! Please share the love and leave comments and reviews for us!! 

xxoo