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Morning Rituals for a Grounded Start Creating Calm from the Moment You Wake

In this episode, Elizabeth explores the research behind morning rituals and routines and talks about the way even just a simple, brief mindful morning routine in an otherwise busy morning can make a huge difference.

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Voices from this Year of Wisdom, Reflection & Inspiration

The Calming Ground Anniversary Special

It’s hard to believe that an entire year has gone by since The Calming Ground podcast was born!

What an amazing project this has become in my life. I have loved every minute of reflecting, learning, and sharing the insight and wisdom of so many people throughout this year. As part of this celebration, this episode pulled from some of my favorite interviews throughout this year on The Calming Ground podcast, weaving them together around certain central themes that emerged throughout the year.

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The Mind-Gut Connection

An Interview with Naria Le Mire

Have you ever wondered what the mind-gut connection actually means? Your gut and brain are in regular communication through all kinds of signaling within your body - so what impacts one affects the other. Have you ever felt your stomach turn because of a distressing thought? There you go!

In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun speaks with functional gut health registered dietician Naria Le Mire about the different ways that gut health and hormone imbalance can impact us. Naria shares a wealth of information in particular about the importance of considering our gut health for clarity of mind.

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www.narialemirenutrition.com

Facebook: narialemirenutrition

Instagram: narialemirenutrition

Atomic Habits by James Clear

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Breath, Balance, and Release

Aligning with Fall through the Metal Element

Have you ever noticed any correlation between how you feel and the season in nature?

In this episode, Elizabeth uses the framework and foundation of qigong to explore the wisdom of fall and the element of metal, which teaches us the power of refining and letting go. As the season of autumn invites us to slow down and reflect, Elizabeth discusses how the metal element—connected to the lungs, skin, and large intestine—helps us release both emotional clutter and clutter in our physical space. You’ll also learn practical self-care tips for supporting yourself through the wisdom of the fall season.

Whether you’re seeking more emotional clarity or looking to align your self-care with the rhythms of nature, this episode will offer you a reflection on embracing change and finding peace in letting go.

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thecalmingground.com/opt-in

Private FB group Inner GlobeTrotters

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Wellness Within

A Conversation with Aura Martinez on Self-Discovery as the Key to Lasting Vitality

Have you ever noticed how no matter what diet or fitness regimen you might try, it doesn’t necessarily lead to a sense of intrinsic value, inner balance, or sustainable contentment in your life?

In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun speaks with author and self-discovery and empowerment coach Aura Martinez about her journey from being a nutritionist to focusing on self-discovery both within herself and for others. Aura shares how she found that, in working with people (and in her own experience), once people are able to connect with and embrace themselves more deeply within, the other wellness habits like eating and fitness, simply come naturally and easily.

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Website: www.auraemartinez.com

Instagram: AuraElenaMartinez

Facebook: AuraEMartinezCoach

Youtube: AuraEMartinez

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What is Somatic Experiencing?

An Interview with Therapist Caleb Tipple

Isn’t it amazing to consider that memory and impulses stored in our body lead to many decisions we make in our lives and impact our ability to be fully present?

In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun explores the therapeutic modality of Somatic Experiencing (founded by Peter Levine) with psychotherapist Caleb Tipple. Caleb discusses his own journey that led him to get trained in this particular modality, as well as the experience and knowledge he has working with clients who have experienced trauma using this modality.

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The Calming Ground Guided Meditation

Resma's Book: My Grandmother's Hand

www.calebtipple.com

Resma Menakum

Peter Levine’s Books

traumahealing.org

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Wisdom in our Breath and Body

A Conversation with Edie Gudaitis

What if bodies hold an innate wisdom just waiting for us to tap into it? And, what if this wisdom can be particularly potent when we slow down enough to deeply access it?

In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun takes a deep dive with Edie Gudaitis, the CEO & founder of Edie Gudaitis Wellness, into her work and personal experiences with learning to slow down and deeply listen to her body. Edie is certified in yoga and breathwork, she is a best selling author, a meditation facilitator, and a wellness coach. Edie supports clients through retreats, workshops, public speaking, writing, and podcasting on “The Stress DETOX Podcast”.

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Mindful Living Challenge

Connect with Edie on IG: @ediegudaitis.wellness

Connect with Edie on LI: Edie Gudaitis

Edie Gudaitis Self Led Program

Edie Gudaitis Mexico Retreat

Edie Gudaitis Workplace Wellness

Edie Gudatis 1-on-1 Coaching Stress and/ or Grief

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Food as Medicine

An Interview with Christine van Bloem

What if by paying attention to what and how we eat, women could improve their experience of the peri and menopausal stages of life?

In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun talked with chef Christine Van Bloem. Christine shared her journey through professional and personal hardships that led her to shifting her nutrition to improve her wellbeing, and then inspired her to help others on their journeys. Christine particularly talked about her focus on lifestyle and nutrition to help alleviate symptoms for women in perimenopause and menopause.

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Mindful Living Challenge

emptynestkitchen.com

www.facebook.com/emptynestkitchen

www.instagram.com/emptynestkitchen

lindazurak.com/feel-free-in-relationships

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Finding Freedom in Our Bodies to Move, Live, and Love

A Conversation with Linda Zurak

What does it mean to live in a mindfully embodied way?

In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun speaks with guest Linda Zurak, a trauma-informed Somatic Movement Educator, therapist, and embodiment coach. Linda’s primary vision in her work is to inspire others to live beyond their perceived limitations. Linda talks about both actionable steps that you can begin to practice now to increase your connection with your body, as well as her own journey that brought her to this work.

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www.facebook.com/lzurak

www.instagram.com/lindazurak

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What If Our Fears Are Shadow Puppets?

Fear is a natural, protective response, often trying to keep us safe from perceived dangers. But what happens when our fears become blown out of proportion and start guiding our decisions in ways that don’t serve us?

In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun explores a reframe of many fears as shadow puppets - seemingly ominous and large, when so often they are projected from situations or things that are not actually as large or threatening as they seem.

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Unlearning Our Limiting Beliefs

An Interview with Dawn Glasco on the Valuable Role of Spirituality in Self-care

Imagine a life where your potential is no longer confined by limiting beliefs.

In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun speaks with returning guest Dawn Glasco, a community engagement strategist, speaker, author, and consultant. Dawn shares her journey - the empowering path of shedding the restrictions of limiting beliefs and conditioning, trusting the process, and the key role spirituality has played in her journey.

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www.dawnglasco.com

Interested in hearing the first interview with Dawn? Check out episode 27.

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Protecting Our Peace

Why I Created The Calming Ground Membership

Have you ever noticed how easy it is to fall off the bandwagon of prioritizing your self-care when life gets hectic?

In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun reveals her own journey to discovering grounding and centering self-care practices that worked for her and eventually led to her creation of The Calming Ground Membership.

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www.thecalmingground.com

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The Privilege of Being a Fool

An Interview with Margy Davis-Mintun

Is one of your greatest fears not getting things “right” and/or seeming like a fool?

Retired psychotherapist Margy Davis-Mintun suggests that being a fool in life at times is not only inevitable, it’s actually a privilege because it signifies that we have opportunities to learn and grow.

In this week’s episode, Elizabeth Mintun offers a short and powerful interview with Margy revealing her wisdom and insight into the beauty of making mistakes and the power of allowing ourselves the permission and space to be vulnerably human.

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Grief Support 101

Essential Tips to Compassionately Support Someone Who is Grieving

Have you ever had a person you deeply care about go through a terrible loss and you didn’t quite know what to say or how to help?

In our culture here in the United States, grief is so misunderstood. People often are very well-intended, but say things to their friends, co-workers, and family members in an effort to help that ultimately leads to greater isolation for the person in grief.

In this week’s episode, Elizabeth Mintun shares the “do’s” and “don’ts” on how to best support someone experiencing intense grief. She offers details and actionable steps that will hopefully support anyone wanting to be there for someone who is currently grieving.

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refugeingrief.com

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Elizabeth's ARROW Framework for Compassionate Accountability

Have you ever felt trapped in a cycle of self-criticism, struggling to balance your aspirations with kindness towards yourself?

What if you could hold yourself accountable and practice self-compassion at the same time?

In this week’s episode, Elizabeth Mintun shares her ARROW framework to help others practice compassionate accountability. She offers details, actionable steps, and a real-world example of how to practice implementing this framework to support new habits, lifestyle shifts, and a happier life!

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30 Free and Easy Expressive Art Therapy Prompts

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Connecting with our Inner Compass through Art-Based Mindfulness

A Conversation with Jodi Rose Gonzales

Have you ever felt like words were just too limiting to express what you were experiencing? What if art-based mindfulness could offer a non-judgemental and safe alternative to both release and express emotion?

For this episode, Elizabeth interviewed Jodi Rose Gonzales, ATR, NCC, ERYT, YACEP. Jodi is a nature-based artist, art therapist, author and yoga teacher who empowers creative people using art-based mindfulness, her unique fusion of art therapy, positive psychology, yoga philosophy, and trauma-informed neuroscience. Celebrated as Global Impact Artist of the Year by the International Association of Top Professionals, and Top Artist by Marquis Who's Who in America, Jodi is the author of two Amazon #1 new releases, an art therapy journal prompt card deck, and a suite of online courses.

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www.jodirosestudio.com

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Balancing Fashion, Accountability, and Compassion

A Conversation with Nicole Broesch

Have you ever wondered how you can both feel confident and good about what you wear and make a positive step toward creating a more sustainable earth-friendly lifestyle?

In this episode, following this month’s theme of living with compassionate accountability, Elizabeth Mintun interviews Nicole Riggs Broesch, founder and designer of fern+daisy. Nicole weaves her passion for ethical fashion and community upliftment into every garment. With an eight year career in apparel design as a small town girl from rural Central Appalachia America, she has merged her love for her community, the planet, fashion, and marginalized women. fern+daisy, born in 2020, creates sustainably made pieces that empower both wearers and makers, reviving ethical practices with timeless style. As an artist, mentor, and nature enthusiast, Nicole embodies the spirit of fern+daisy—where style meets purpose.

This information-packed and inspiring interview is definitely worth a listen!

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www.fernanddaisy.com

Instagram: @fernanddaisy

Facebook: fernanddaisy

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The Dark Side of Gratitude

The Gratitude Platitude

Has anyone ever told you: "Look at all you have, you should be grateful!" when you were experiencing an uncomfortable feeling like sadness, anger, grief, or maybe trying to uphold a boundary for yourself?

Some of us may have even expressed this kind of thing to other people too, or even to ourselves!

In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun explores the “dark side” of gratitude. In particular, Elizabeth addresses how gratitude can be used as a way to invalidate or minimize people’s struggles. This “gratitude platitude” is the opposite of the medicine of gratitude, which can uplift, connect us with our abundance, and offer ease.

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The Helper's High

Exploring the Benefits of Kindness

Did you know that when you are kind to someone else, your own brain’s pleasure and reward center activates, as though you were the recipient of the good deed – not just the one offering kindness? This is referred to as the “helper’s high”.

In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun explores the many physical and mental health benefits of practicing random acts of kindness. The research is astounding!

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Kelli Trinoskey Website

The Science of Kindness

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Artful Integration

The Healing Journey of Kelli Trinoskey

Have you ever had an experience that completely transformed your life and offered you tremendous freedom?

In this week’s podcast episode, Elizabeth Mintun interviews Kelli Trinoskey, an award-winning writer and content creator, lives in Columbus, Ohio, where she practices storytelling as the associate director of marketing and communications at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Kelli’s documentary, was the 2022 Toronto Documentary Film Festival winner for Best Long Form Short Film. In this conversation, Kelli talks about her incredible journey of moving from feeling stuck in a trauma-infused narrative, to feeling freedom and fluidity in her life - and how she has used the artform of collage as a way to integrate her experience.

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Parents For Reading Justice: Dyslexia & Beyond Youtube Video

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The Body Keeps The Score Book

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The Medicine of Gratitude

What if you could transform your life – and even change your brain structure, by practicing something as free and simple as gratitude?

In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun explores the many physical and mental health benefits of having a regular gratitude practice. She also explains some of the important ingredients in a gratitude practice to increase those juicy medicinal benefits of vitality, wellbeing, and overall happiness.

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Neuro Science of Gratitude

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Following Our Hope as a Path Back to Inner Peace

Pause for a moment and consider: what are the little or big aspects of your life that nourish your hopefulness?

In this week’s short episode, Elizabeth Mintun offers a reminder of the simple ways that we can return to hope and, ultimately, experience greater ease and inner peace.

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Facebook: holisticlifecoachingwithlisamarie

www.wordwoman.com

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Moving Through Grief by Deeply Listening

An interview with Lisa Heacock

Every single one of us has had an experience of either losing someone or something we love or knowing someone else who has, right?

Even though this is a painful truth about the experience of living, oftentimes we do not have the tools or the support we need to navigate through grief in healing ways.

On this week’s podcast episode, Lisa Heacock, an international best-selling author, inspirational speaker, and international certified life coach, grief coach, and grief educator, offers her perspective on grief. She speaks both from her professional background as well as from her personal story, after losing twelve loved ones through death in twenty-two-months. Lisa offers wisdom and bite-size tools and steps that can easily be digested and implemented when and if needed.

Resources:

www.holisticlifecoaching.org.uk

Instagram: holistic_coach_lisa

https://linktr.ee/CoachLisaMarie

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Unmasking For Healing

An interview with Mariett Ramm

Have you ever heard of medical astrology? I hadn’t until this interview with functional medicine practitioner, astrologer, UN Peace Ambassador, and best-selling author Mariett Ramm.

On this week’s podcast episode, Mariett talks about the importance of unmasking; that health issues often have an emotional/spiritual underpinning which, if uncovered, can lead to a deeper healing process.

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mariettspeaks.com

Mariett Ramm, Author Amazon Books

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Getting into the Creative Flow

An interview with Gregory Halpen

Are you one of the many people who struggle from a creative block at times?

In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun interviews Gregory Halpen, who has 30+ years’ experience as a creative practice coach, solo theater artist, stage & TV actor, and singer. Gregory teaches creatives how to cultivate a creative practice for staying on their creative journey. In this interview, Gregory talks about how creativity, even beyond self-expression, can lead to self-discovery and transformation.

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Instagram: @gregoryhalpen

Facebook: greghalpen

www.gregoryhalpen.com

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Honoring Ourselves

Freeing Ourselves from People-Pleasing

Do you ever struggle with people-pleasing?

In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun explores her experience with people-pleasing and the freedom that comes when we respect our own boundaries and those of others. Elizabeth also dives into the importance of connecting with ourselves as a way to be more fully present and aware of the boundaries that we need to honor.

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Kelly Younglove Free Mini-Guide For Anxiety Relief

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Growing our Boundary Muscles

An Exploration of Inner & Outer Boundaries with Kelli Younglove

What does it mean to grow our “boundary muscles”?

In this episode, Kelli Younglove, a Self-Awareness and Mindset Coach, dives into exploring boundaries on several levels, and offers actionable advice on how to notice and honor our boundaries.

Resources:

Kelli Younglove Creating the Container of YOU Course

www.youtube.com/channel/UCzzA2XnfAS_p7ASow6K0q5g

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Setting the Limits that Align with You

An Interview with Dr. Elizabeth Ssesmanda

Have you ever felt that your life choices just don’t quite align with who you feel you are inside?

In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun speaks with Dr. Elizabeth Ssemanda, a holistic psychiatrist, medical intuitive, and life coach. In this conversation, Dr. Ssemanda talks about the importance of reconnecting with ourselves in order to live more authentically aligned lives and make choices that more deeply reflect who we are.

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www.soulinyou.com

Community Engagement Leadership: Unleashing the Power Within Paperback – June 27, 2023

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The Gift of Boundaries for Compassionate Presence

An Interview with Dawn Glasco

How are you living your life that brings about fulfillment for yourself and others? Dawn Glasco reflects on this important question in her interview on The Calming Ground podcast.

In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun speaks with Dawn Glasco, a community engagement strategist, speaker, author, and consultant. Dawn reflects on creating and maintaining boundaries as a way of choosing what we allow into our hearts and minds and what we judiciously select to protect ourselves from in order to preserve our own integrity and alignment with what truly matters to us.

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www.dawnglasco.com

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Seven Pathways of Rest to Prevent Burnout

Did you know that rest can take many forms?

Often when we think about resting we think about sleeping or being otherwise inactive. But, rest can actually come in many different forms! In this episode, Elizabeth Mintun explores seven different pathways to rest and replenishment and examples within these to help us regain our balance and feel renewed.

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