In this episode, I talk with Jess Wood, emerging coach with Body Trust, who faced her own struggles with diet culture and disordered eating. Jess is currently working on certification through Body Trust to help others unlearn the rules of diet culture, reawaken connection with their bodies, to embrace empowerment and body liberation. In our conversation we defined what is meant by diet culture, how diet culture limits and restricts our potential, how to embrace body liberation, and what unlearning diet culture means and what it can yield.

Some highlights (with timestamps) from our conversation:

5:30--What do we mean by diet culture?

9:50--What does body liberation mean?

20:09--What is the importance of community in unlearning diet culture?

20:48--What does unlearning look like?

23:40--What are the costs of diet culture?

If you want to learn more about Jess' work, you can follow her on Instagram at jessicawood.1

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In this episode, I interviewed coach and consultant, Sarah Poet M.Ed, to talk about her work on "Sacred Remembering". In our conversation, Sarah unpacks the power and importance of the masculine and feminine energy (innate in all of us) and what it means to remember and honor this energy to be our fullest selves.

Sarah brings insights into leadership, relationship, and sustainability, and how the remembering the sacred masculine and feminine allows us to find balance, energy, and flow in our personal relationships and professional experiences.

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In this podcast, somatic coach Caitlin Clarke and I talk about her journey into somatics, how somatics invites us into a new way of experiencing and knowing, and what the somatic opportunites of the new year offer us.
Caitlin was my original somatic coach and through this interview we both share how our own somatic journeys shaped our coaching development, and how our continued somatic practices and understanding support us. We also explore the roots of somatic practice, and honor both the indigenous cultures and natural teachers that have anchored the field of somatics.
Beyond Caitlin's extensive training and certification as a somatic coach, she brings over two decades of healing experience, ten years of daily meditation practice, and multiple spiritual awakenings to her work with clients. She has taught mindfulness and meditation for individuals and organizations. And she's studied with leaders in the fields of somatics, Buddhism, and trauma to develop my unique, holistic approach. To learn more about Caitlin's work and some of the resources she mentioned in the podcast, check out https://www.caitlinclarke.com/

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My previous work on the podcast was about cognitive processing and intellectual reflection during moments of transition. But when I went through my latest life transition, losing my mom, I realized that there were just some journeys that my brain wasn't my best guide. By getting curious about the world of somatics, I found a way to bring my full self--head, heart, and hara (or gut intuition) into my process. Along the way I learned some essential practices, found some long sought after answers, and found truly embodied transformation that led to long-lasting change in my life. Join me in the new season of My Innermission to investigate the power of somatics and somatic practices in our transitions and transformations.

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This episode of My Innermission focuses on the amazing work of Gwen Gordon, whose work encompasses the power of play and unlocking the power of dreams. Gwen's work on helping to unlock the messages and magic of our unconscious lives, helps us make sense individually and collectively of transitions in our lives and our world. In our conversation we discuss:

• How does dreamwork work?
• Why are dream groups more helpful in helping us unlock the messages of our dreams?
• How can dreams help us make sense of the trauma and grief of this moment as we look forward?

You can learn more about Gwen's work at gwengordonplay.com
Click here for Gwen's book The Wonderful W

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In this episode, I invited Anna Switzer, author of License to Learn, to return to the podcast and share thoughts on transition one year into the pandemic. I interviewed Anna a year ago when the pandemic first caused shutdowns. Now, a year later, we talk about how the pandemic and the learning from this past year has led us all to a transition opportunity. We revisit Anna's book and think more about how our known zones, learning zones, and panic zones have changed, and how to look to building resilience and recovery in order to unlock the Gift Zone and figure out what's next for us in the coming year. We discuss:

• How does transition change our zones?
• How has the past year led to collective transition?
• How can we unlock the Gift Zone from the lessons learned in the past year?

If you want to learn more about Anna's work, you can find more information at her website annaswitzer.com

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Big changes in life often make us focus on what we are giving up or gaining and then we want to jump right into what is next--but what lies in between? This week I highlight the transition process from William Bridges in his book Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes and focus on the neutral zone. In this episode I discuss:

• What is the neutral zone and why is it a necessary part of transitions?
• How do we step into the neutral zone with intention and not rush the process?
• Why is the neutral zone particularly important in this moment for ALL of us?

If you want a tool to help process the transitions of the past year, check out the My Innermission journal here.

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What do want to be when you grow up? It's a question we ask kids all the time, but for many of us, we might have several different jobs or careers in our lifetime. In this episode, April Hattori from Yes2Next joins me to talk about her career transition which took her from New York to Las Vegas and from the field of communications into personal training and fitness. In this interview we discuss:

• What guides you in making a career transition?
• How can you begin the process of changing careers without making it an all or nothing approach?
• How can people take calculated risks when they shift careers?

If you want to know more about Yes2Next, you can follow April and her mom on Youtube, Instagram, or through yes2next.com