Can children access their own inner knowing — and can we teach them to trust it? In this episode of Therapy is Dope with Alicia and Laura, Alicia sits down with Veronica Moya, internationally recognized children's wellness & mindfulness expert, author, and founder of Mindful V™, for a conversation on mindfulness, consciousness, and helping kids develop intuition and self-trust from an early age.

Veronica has spent over a decade redefining mindfulness for the next generation — not as sitting still, but as an energizing, intuitive practice. Through her Mindful V™ Method, she uses visualization, storytelling, affirmations, gratitude, singing, and emotional-awareness tools to help children move through anxiety, overstimulation, rejection, and self-doubt with more resilience and clarity. Together, we explore what "inner knowing" really means, how consciousness and awareness show up in kids long before adults think to nurture them, and why teaching intuition early may be one of the most protective mental-health gifts we can give a child.

In this episode:

• What childhood intuition looks like — and how adults accidentally teach kids to ignore it
• Practical tools parents and educators can use with children today
• How consciousness and self-awareness connect to confidence
• Reframing mindfulness as essential mental hygiene for the next generation

Learn more about Veronica's work at veronicamoya.com or @VeronicaMoyaMindfulness on YouTube.

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In this episode of Therapy is Dope with Alicia and Laura, Alicia sits down with Thayne Martin, founder of Itspurelove.com and creator of the Equation of Life and Abundant Happiness (ELAH). Thayne shares his story with striking candor — surviving childhood sexual trauma, the psychological aftermath thatfollowed him into adulthood, and the near-death experience that ultimately became the turning point of his life.

Thayne opens up about what that experience showed him, and how it reshaped the way he understands healing, identity, and human connection. From there, the conversation turns to the framework he built in its wake: a programgrounded in love and gratitude, designed not just to inspire but to create measurable, lasting behavioral change.

Alicia and Thayne dig into what actually makes change stick — why insight alone often isn't enough, how the nervous system learns through experience rather than information, and what it looks like to rebuild a life on a foundation of gratitude after profound trauma. This is a raw, hopeful conversation about pain, purpose, and the possibility of transformation on theother side of survival.

Topics Covered:

● Thayne's story of childhood sexual trauma and its lasting psychological impact

● His near-death experience and what it revealed to him

● Turning survival into purpose: the origin of the ELAH framework

● Why lasting change requires more than information or motivation

● Gratitude and love as the foundation of sustainable healing

● How experiential learning creates measurable, lasting behavioral change

Guest Links

Website: itspurelove.com

Instagram: @thaynemartin

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We're shifting focus. After spending Season 3 in the weeds of relationships and healing, Alicia and Laura are opening up a new direction within the season — consciousness, awareness, and what it actually means to understand your own mind.

In this episode, we introduce the shift: what is consciousness, why we're pointing the podcast here now, and what it means for how we think about healing, growth, and being present in our own lives. This isn't a new season — it's a new chapter of the conversation we've been having all along, just aimed at bigger questions.

Same direct, no-BS approach you know from the podcast. New territory. Let's get into it.