I'm Awake! Now What?

This week I sit down with mixed-media artist, wellness consultant and creator of MosaicEye Chetna Mehta. She shares a significant experience that changed the direction of her professional and personal life. She discusses the similarities between spirituality and creativity, noting the first being--getting out of ones own way. She shares the intention of her artwork is to normalize vulnerability and create resonance in the eye of the observer. To find out more about Chetna, head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @mosaiceye and subscribe to her Moon Times Digest here.  Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from your Andriod and iPhoneApp stores. Follow Saged on Instagram @sagedapp Podcast Production: Post-Production and editing by Krista Xiomara Audio engineering by Tom Hanson at knvpstudios.com  Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follo

This week I am joined by Art Activist, Transformative Facilitator, Spiritual Coach and Healer Jasmine Renae Hayden. Jasmine opens up about her multicultural upbringing and early religious influences. She shines a light on the work she does to help liberate others from trans-generational trauma reminding the audience the purpose is to know the difference between the trauma we pick up along our own journey and the trauma that is absorbed through our lineage--so we can work to release and heal our ancestors, our descendants, and ourselves. We unpack her work as an art activist and highlight how art can be vehicle of social change and a permanent record and reflection of how we respond to society, conflict, injustice, and joy. To learn more about Jasmine and the work she does, head over to her website. Follow her on Instagram @jasminehaydenn and @here.wegrow Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spirit

This week I am joined by Coach and Author of "Angry as F*** But No Idea Why?: Transform Anger into Inner Peace" Justin Lodge. Justin opens up about his religious upbringing and straddling two paths of Christianity and Catholicism later in life. Justin tells the audience how his passion for the transforming anger into peace came from the desire to heal his own lineage from anger. To find out more about Justin or work with him head over to  Instagram @justin671 You can pick up his book here. Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from your Andriod and iPhoneApp stores. Follow Saged on Instagram @sagedapp Podcast Production: Post-Production and editing by Krista Xiomara Audio engineering by Tom Hanson at knvpstudios.com  Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast

This week I am joined by Coach and Podcaster Brandon Handley. Brandon walks us through his interesting life journey having experienced homelessness at a young age and how this shaped his sense of resiliency. Brandon explains careening into awakening and unraveling universal lessons and truths that ultimately brought him back to the teachings of his childhood. To find out more about Brandon head over to his website, find his podcast here and follow him on instagram @spiritualdope Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from your Andriod and iPhoneApp stores. Follow Saged on Instagram @sagedapp Podcast Production: Post-Production and editing by Krista Xiomara Audio engineering by Tom Hanson at knvpstudios.com  Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast

This week I am joined by Author Dr. Julie Von. Dr. Von wrote "Spiritual Fertility: Integration Practices for the Journey to Motherhood." Dr. Von is a holistic doctor specializing in fertility, she also holds a doctoral degree in Chinese Medicine. Focusing on Dr. Von's book for our interview, we take an in-depth look at the impact trans-generational trauma can have on fertility. Dr. Von shares how one of the most important things we can do in addressing trauma is to identify and name it. Dr. Von discusses her compassionate approach to fertility and the unique way she treats patients leaning on both her Eastern and Western medical practices. To find out more about Dr. Von and to work with her, head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @drjulievon Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from your Andriod and iPhoneApp stores. Follow Saged

This week I am joined by Author Dr. Emily Sigalow. Dr. Sigalow wrote "American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists and Religious Change." We touch on the influences Buddhism had on the American Jewish community and what was birthed by these two communities blending. We highlight the life of Julius Goldwater who had a significant role in helping Japanese Buddhist who were sent to internment camps in the 1940's in the US. Dr. Sigalow leaves the audience with some words of encouragement for anyone who is interested in creating their own meaning-making system through the hybridity of different religions or ideas. To find out more about Dr. Sigalow head over to her website and pick up her book here.  Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from your Andriod and iPhoneApp stores. Follow Saged on Instagram @sagedapp Podcast Production: Post-Production and editing

This week I am joined by Wealth Embodiment Guide and Leader Tori Washington. Tori talks about growing up both in a multiracial and multi-religious home and how oscillating between two religions and races formed her as an adult. She shares her work around embodiment practices that get to the root of spiritual, emotional, psychological blocks and wounding that help the individual align and return to their fullness. We end by discussing the inequities and lack of representation for people of color in the spiritual community and what each one of us can do to change this. To find out more about Tori or work with her head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @iamtoriwashington Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from your Andriod and iPhoneApp stores. Follow Saged on Instagram @sagedapp Podcast Production: Post-Production and editing b

This week I am joined by Author, Podcast Host, Meditation Teacher, Mastering Engineer and Composer Cory Allen. We dive into Cory's book Now is the Way: An Unconventional Approach to Modern Mindfulness and the act of finding space between the space to practice mindfulness. Cory breaks down what existential paralysis is and what each one of use can do to break out of this and create unique meaning in our lives. To find out more about Cory head over to his website, check out his podcast The Astral Hustle, pick up his book here and follow him on Instagram @heycoryallen Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from your Andriod and iPhoneApp stores. Follow Saged on Instagram @sagedapp Podcast Production: Post-Production and editing by Krista Xiomara Audio engineering by Tom Hanson at knvpstudios.com  Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast

This week I am joined by Savannah Bohlin, she is a Intuitive, Light Worker, Sound Healer and CEO of Blissful Bohemian. Savannah discusses growing up in a fundamental Christian family and community, and later attending a secular college that allowed her to explore spirituality. Savannah shares her passion for helping people heal their anxiety and transmute it. To find out more about Savannah and work with her, head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @blissfulxbohemian Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from your Andriod and iPhoneApp stores. Follow Saged on Instagram @sagedapp Podcast Production: Post-Production and editing by Krista Xiomara Audio engineering by Tom Hanson at knvpstudios.com  Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast  

This week I am joined by Lori Reising, she is a Hypnotherapist, trauma body worker, child birth Educator, and Podcaster. Lori discusses her winding journey through awakening, spirituality and the literary influences that opened her eyes to a new way of being. Lori shares a personal story about grief, loss, and alchemy that turned into a life calling. To find out more about Lori, head over to her website. To listen to her podcast click here and follow her on Instagram @therawandwildhearts   Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from your Andriod and iPhoneApp stores. Follow Saged on Instagram @sagedapp Podcast Production: Post-Production and editing by Krista Xiomara Audio engineering by Tom Hanson at knvpstudios.com  Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast        

This week I am joined by Dr. Polly Young-Eisendrath, she is a Jungian analyst, psychologist, teacher, author, Buddhist, and podcaster. Dr. Young-Eisendrath shares an early childhood experience of being an elective mute and learning the meaning of "war," which had a significant impact on her life journey. She shares leaving her religion of origin and why it was important to her to not give her intellect away when it came to cultivating a religious and spiritual life. We highlight her book "Love Between Equals: Relationships as a Spiritual Path" which offers her version of personal love as a spiritual path. To find out more about Dr. Young-Eisendrath, head over to her website Follow her on Instagram @pollyyoungeisendrath and to listen to her podcast "Enemies: From War to Wisdom" by clicking here.    Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from you

This week I am joined by intuitive luminary, author, alchemist and artist Christian Bradley West. Christian describes his spiritual journey that began in his early twenties and the teachers who had significant influence on his awakening. He shares the importance of continuous spiritual maintenance where one comes back to the tools they've acquired on their path towards healing, creativity and enlightenment. To find out more about Christian or work with him, head over to his website and follow him on Instagram @thecountryclairvoyant Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from your Andriod and iPhoneApp stores. Follow Saged on Instagram @sagedapp Podcast Production: Post-Production and editing by Krista Xiomara Audio engineering by Tom Hanson at knvpstudios.com  Original Music by Mr. Pixie

This week I am joined by Amy White International Best-Selling Author, speaker, Intuitive Coach and Medium. We talk about how she transitioned out of her corporate job listening to a pull from her soul, guiding her in a new direction. Amy discusses accepting her gifts and using her them to help her clients. Amy shares the story behind her book Closer to Paradise: A Mother's Journey through Crisis and Healing that centers around her journey navigating through her sons mental health crisis, fighting stigmas, and becoming a support and light for others in similar circumstances. To find out more about Amy, head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @mzamywhite Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from your Andriod and iPhoneApp stores. Follow Saged on Instagram @sagedapp Podcast Production: Post-Production and editing by Krista Xiomara

Hello Sweet Souls and welcome back to Week 8 of the podcast Summer Series with your host Krista Xiomara who has created a free 8 week course called "Releasing Religion, Inner Healing, and Coming Home to Yourself." This week, we review everything we have covered in the past 7 weeks and we discuss how to come home to yourself, over and over again in this process. Outlined in Week 8 is:   Loving yourself unconditionally Trusting yourself Having faith in yourself Having confidence and clarity in your decisions Never turning away from yourself or disappointing yourself Empowered thoughts and actions Integration of Self   Please head over to the Podcast YouTube channel for a video production of this podcast episode and follow along with Krista Xiomara's powerpoint presentation.  Podcast Listeners and YouTube Subscribers are encouraged to participate in the weekly journal entries and prompts. To share your participation and reflections you can send your messages to the podcast at ianwpodcast@gmail.com or DM your h

Hello Sweet Souls and welcome back to Week 7 of the podcast Summer Series with your host Krista Xiomara who has created a free 8 Week course called "Releasing Religion, Inner Healing, and Coming Home to Yourself."   The focal point for Week 7 is building support systems that are in alignment with your departure from your religion of origin and help you grow into your new life vision. Topics covered this week: Cultivating a strong internal support system through self reliance, self-security, self-trust, unconditional positive regard and self-love. Discerning the types of external support systems you need and creating healthy boundaries, relationships and connections. Finding creative support systems that supplement internal and external support.   Please head over to the Podcast YouTube channel for a video production of this podcast episode and follow along with Krista Xiomara's powerpoint presentation. Podcast Listeners and YouTube Subscribers are encouraged to participate in the weekly journal entries and

Hello Sweet Souls and welcome back to Week 6 of the podcast Summer Series with your host Krista Xiomara, who has created a free 8-Week learning course called "Releasing Religion, Inner Healing, and Coming Home to Yourself." Week 6 is about Finding Your Truth. When we are birthed into our religion of origin we are not given the opportunity or space to connect with ourselves and decipher what is true about us and the world around us. Often times, we are told that we are born inherently flawed through original sin. We are taught from an early age what to think, what to feel, what to believe, how to act, what to fear, and what to love. Finding your Truth, is an unbecoming and unraveling of yourself to uncover the truth about yourself so that you can connect more deeply with yourself and your connection to all that there is.   This week my focus is to help you: Determine for yourself what your truth is Determine what your belief systems and core values are outside of religious or societal influence Nurture you in

Hello Sweet Souls and welcome back to Week 5 of the podcast Summer Series with your host Krista Xiomara, who has created a free 8-Week learning course called "Releasing Religion, Inner Healing, and Coming Home to Yourself." Week 5 is about the process of Awakening. As you shed old beliefs and practices from your past; new ideas, new knowledge and wisdom starts to emerge from within. This is an exhilarating time on the path of spirituality, personal development and long term healing.   This week my focus is to help explain to you the many modalities of awakening, how it changes us, how we experience it as a continuous process and how to support others in their awakening. Quick review on "Questioning" & "Becoming" Softening as you Awaken Creating Inner and Outer Tolerance & Acceptance Finding Oneness with all Discovering deep knowing within   Please head over to the podcast YouTube channel for a video production of this podcast episode and follow along with Krista Xiomara's powerpoint presentation. Po

Hello Sweet Souls and welcome back to Week 4 of the podcast Summer Series with your host Krista Xiomara, who has created a free 8-Week learning course called "Releasing Religion, Inner Healing, and Coming Home to Yourself." Week 4 centers around the process of Inner Healing, by way of facilitating self-healing and finding healing from external sources if available to you. We require healing both from the trauma and wounding of our religious experiences and the trauma and wounding we incur by leaving.     This week my focus is to help you experience inner healing and to ask for what you need from those who have wounded you. Healing sometimes is a singular process and cannot be a shared experience. I also help you address how to find healing, when you are doing it alone.   Self-Healing Familial Healing Religious Healing Forgiveness & Inner Healing Transmuting & Transforming Healing   Please head over to the podcast YouTube Channel for a video production of this podcast episode and follo

Welcome back sweet souls to Week 3 of the Summer Series: "Releasing Religion, Inner Healing, and Coming Home to Yourself."  Week 3 is centered around Embracing Uncertainty. Growing up in a strict Catholic home and community; my religious experience indoctrinated within me a strong sense of certainty, about everything. In religious experiences you are given a lot of absolutes and a lot of certainty. You know what your life is supposed to be, who you are supposed to love, what you are supposed to believe (and not believe), who you are supposed to marry, you know "right and wrong" and you know (usually without a shadow of doubt) what will happen to you when you die if you lived a "good" life. This week my focus is to help you embrace the uncertainty of: Not knowing Figuring out what you believe in Trusting yourself Being unafraid to face fear Unlearning  Creating practices and space for you to find happiness and stability in your new life. Please head over to the podcast YouTube channel for a video production

Hello Sweet Souls!! This week marks the 100th episode of I'm Awake! Now What? Podcast in which case where ever this episode finds you join us in celebrating this important milestone in the history of the podcast!!!   Welcome back to Week 2 of the Summer Series: "Releasing Religion, Inner Healing, and Coming Home to Yourself" with your host Krista Xiomara Week 2 is all about Doubt and Walking Away from your religion of origin. Krista Xiomara discusses the process of beginning to doubt what you are taught and how questioning is a healthy step in the process of walking away. She navigates the listeners through examples of how doubt began to arise in her religious experience. She shares a wounding story that took her away from herself and how this particular moment in her church community taught her to be dishonest in the face of a community that was preaching honesty in parallel. This is one of many contradictions she would confront in her life with Catholicism. She provides practical steps to walk away, ideas f