Hi and welcome to the law of positivism podcast. I'm your host Shireen and I'm the creator of Love positivism. I'm here to help you on your spiritual and healing journey. I am a certified yoga and meditation teacher a student of Chinese medicine a doula a Reiki practitioner and a passionate highly sensitive person. I want to use my knowledge to channel information and messages for you to grow on all levels. Hi and welcome to the seventh episode of the podcast. I'm so happy that you're here. And this week. I have an amazing guest and friend of mine on the show. Her name is Leila Andresen, and she is a holistic healer and educator. She's a certified mindfulness instructor a yoga teacher and a motivational coach. and she has done so much in her life from being in the business corporate world, and now being an author of her first book that she's writing and she also guides and coaches groups and clients in emotional and spiritual healing and she also works with Stress Management and creativity and her mission is to connect the collective Body Mind heart disconnect and this week we cover the topic around trauma and we talked about what the trauma is trauma for many of us maybe means something or we can we can interpret it as something big and huge life-changing like a disaster any type of abuse or War and these are traumas as well. We also discuss that traumas can be something that are not. as big as a natural disaster or a war, but it can be traumas that happens to us in childhood or in daily life that even small things can cause trauma in us and that it's really important that we recognize a trauma address it work with it and to heal it so we don't carry carry it in our body. So we talked about that and Layla shares a lot of amazing tips and tools and her ways of dealing with trauma. So this episode is really great and educational. So I hope you like it and if you do listen and like it, please Leave a review on iTunes. I always draw an oracle card for those that do leave a review and the screenshot it so I'm really grateful for all of you who have written reviews. So just enjoy the episode. Hi Leila. Hi. Hi hi and welcome to the podcast. Thank you. It's awesome to be in the podcast. I'm so excited. I'm excited to I'm super happy that you're here and that we're going to have this very important conversation. Yeah, me too and I'm a little nervous and excited and I also think it's an important topic and I just love how You spread these important topics to all of your listeners. So yeah, I'm really excited. Yeah, thank you. And as usual, I just want to start by asking you how you stay Mindful and present, okay. Yeah, I usually start my mornings with a routine I have and it's a meditation routine and I'd it's in a few steps. So the first step is always to take at least five deep breaths to connect with your breath and that step is very important because it sticks with you for the rest of the day. So that's the first step. And the second step is smiling even even if you don't feel like smiling, even if you feel like you don't have anything to smile about smile because it's your face facial expressions Expressions. Send signals to your body and you can choose to yeah, you can choose to feel happy. Even if you're not happy and I don't mean you should ignore feelings of sadness. - or if something happened, it's not what I mean. I just mean that you can choose set the tone for the day. So smiling even if you don't feel like smiling and third step is forgiveness. So I try to forgive myself and others for yesterday's mistakes, and that doesn't mean that whatever happened isn't important. It just means that I don't bring those feelings or thoughts or effects with me during the day. I give myself the opportunity to be in a new day. I don't bring the feelings of the past with me. So yeah, those are the three first steps and then there's a few more steps about yeah different things setting intentions and Affirmations and it sounds like it takes a long time. But this routine just takes a few minutes. Sometimes I do it in bed before I get up. Sometimes I do it before I meditate it's just small steps to remind myself that I am here. And this is a new day and I am in control of the day. So yeah, that's yeah, that's the routine I do in the morning, but then during the day I keep reminding myself of a breathing like breathing softly breathing down to my belly like soft belly breathing because as soon as I'm somewhere else as soon as I lose myself in thoughts or feelings or the past or worrying about the future I can feel my breath up in really I have a really shallow breath up in my throat. So I keep reminding myself. Maybe I put a hand on my Kelly to remind myself of breathing deeply with a soft belly and that takes me to the present moment right away. Yeah, I do a few. Yeah, I do a few of those those things. Yeah. Also. I have like this question if I get caught up in feelings and emotions worry and stuff. I always ask myself. What is this over and over? What is this not to get a direct answer, but just to remind myself of breaking this worrying or examining being curious of my feelings or whatever is happening to just explore it. What is this? What is this? And then something comes down something gets me. Yeah to the present moment and gets me mindful of what is going on and also reminds me. I have a choice there. I have a choice. I have a choice. I can choose to stay in this mode or I can choose differently. So it gives me the choice. of yeah, it gives me it gives me choice. And that's what I'm not and that's what mindfulness does. I think it gives you it gives you first space. And in that space you find Choice. Yeah, that's very beautiful. Thank you for sharing you do different things. So it's easy. Yeah. These are the things I do. It's great tools, I think and yeah everything that you mentioned are so important. To observe ourselves and to observe the body and the breath and it can like it's good to have that routine and then the routine becomes habit and you just do it out of habit. So exactly and if you start that way in the morning, if you start with being with yourself before you let the rest of the world in just start with grounding yourself before you let the rest of the world in before you check your emails or your phone or even Talk to your spouse or partner or children or whatever. If you do that before you let everyone else into your world. It's so much easier to stay Mindful and present the rest of the day. If you if like the first step is reminding yourself of your breath. It's so much easier to remember being with your bed the rest of the day so and it doesn't have to take long just a few minutes and you set for the rest of the day. Yeah. It's like programming your so yeah, it's so important That's so exciting. You can tell by the things that you mentioned that you have a wide background in different modalities and we've known each other for a while and have worked together and I think it would be interesting for you to share like your background what you do and also how it led you like. What was the Past that you took to come to where you are right now. Yeah, of course, where do I start? Yeah, I work with spiritual emotional healing. I work with mindfulness that work with yoga. I work with clients. I have classes. I do workshops. I do different things like that and I didn't always do that. I come from a background where I worked in corporate and big Companies. I work with marketing project management. I did a bunch of different things very corporate. and I used to it's like I never really decided that was what I was going to do, but I used to think that I had to have a successful job. I had to have I had to be successful I had to do like the things that were expected of me. So that's what I say. It's kind of that's what I started doing and I never really had an intention of doing those things. But one thing led to another and all of a sudden that's what I was doing for years and it stressed me out. I didn't really I always knew I wasn't right place on some level. I always knew I wasn't in the right place because I turned 40 this year. So I started working with these kind of things when I was 19 and even back then I always knew I wasn't in the right place. I always knew I wasn't meant for other things, but I just couldn't I just didn't know what I had I wasn't really in contact with With who I was and what I was supposed to be doing or so I kind of just went with whatever I went. Maybe you could say I went with with what was easy, but it wasn't easy but I went with the choices that was that were presented to me. I did what everyone else did I went to school? I pick the jobs that that seemed. Yeah, that maybe I could do to be successful. I chose things it was expected of me. But as I said, I always knew this wasn't for me. So as the years passed I felt more and more stressed. I felt more and more out of my out of place. I felt more and more sad sometimes depressed. I had a lot of anxiety. I felt like life was really. Stressful and I felt very pressed. I felt like I was out of touch with myself. I was never really happy and I know now that was because I had like blocked. Pushed away who I really was So eventually I just realized long story short. I just realized this doesn't work anymore. I have to find another way of living because I don't feel good. It started to manifest. Physically. I all I had like a belly aches headaches. I always I was always What how do you call it? Not nauseated but I was always I was always very feeling very low. So I realized I just have to do something about this but I didn't know where to start. I didn't know what to do. I didn't even know if it was okay to do something else because everyone else was living this kind of Life. Everyone else was doing the nine-to-five everyone else was Happy being it seemed to me anyway, everyone else was happy being distressed overworked overwhelmed always being on call always answering emails always living this kind of pressed and stress life and I felt I was the only one who couldn't deal with it. Eventually. I had my daughter and I for her sake I just felt like this has to stop because I'm not a present mom. I see. her well one and a half hour a day. I didn't I didn't this is wasn't what I had in mind when I had children that I would see her one and a half hour and every day I wanted to be with her more. So yeah, I just decided that I had enough in with the support of my husband. I quit my job and I started to I had already before then started to Find my way back to myself through different modality modalities. I went to my first Yoga Retreat when I was 35, and that's when I started doing yoga. And that was a yoga retreat for highly sensitive people and I had just started reading about highly sensitive people that personality traits. So I was very interested in that because I felt that that was absolutely Me so I went to a yoga retreat and I really something happened during that Yoga Retreat. That was like I can't describe it in any different way. It was magical because I finally allowed myself to be myself to be what I thought was different. Now. I know that many many many many people feel the way I do but back then I still thought I was different. I thought that I was weak because I couldn't handle life the way I was supposed to handle life. But as I said, I know now they are many many people who feel the same way men and women, but I work so much with women and women are feeling so much stress and anxiety and Yeah overwhelmed although Wellness is a really big thing. Yes. I want that to that Yoga Retreat and it changed changed my life. I started to studying and reading up on highly sensitive this trait this personality trait and I think you've had an episode about that on the podcast. Yeah. So yeah exactly. An important topic to be aware of and spread. So yeah, I started reading up on that. I learned so much more about myself. I had it I had an Awakening I've had moments of Awakening before in my life. But this was like a major one. I started yoga. I started doing mindfulness meditating. I did yoga teacher trainings. I went to meditation Retreats I did. Did so many things I still do and I started studying shamanism. I started to train psyche to Mexico. I started to train to become a therapist in Psycho synthesis. So I've done a bunch of different things many many things over the years. Yeah, that's amazing. I think it's not that short. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know. Yeah and like now being I mean you have different modalities and you do here in Stockholm. You have the yoga and you have the circles the moon circles and you are working with different things. And yeah, today's topic will also be around trauma, which you are passionate about it that ye are writing about so maybe you can like maybe explain first maybe maybe people think trauma. Is something like super extreme? Yeah that what what could trauma be in our lives like simply there are like yeah trauma is usually people usually because I usually say that everyone has trauma and people get confused when I say that because usually what we think about when we think about trauma are these big things like natural disasters War. War really severe abuse like these big things that happen accidents someone dies like these big things but there's also sometimes you can call it like these big things are trauma with Big T and the other there's trauma with a small T, but they're really not smaller. It's just a way of differentiating. But trauma can also be like if you go through a very long abusive relationship and it doesn't have to be physical abuse. It can be psychological views a difficult divorce. It can be when your little it can be just not being able to attach to your caregivers or your parents. It's like anything that threatens connection and And with parents it's like it can be critique yelling. It can be taking care of a sick parent parent that is maybe alcoholic or have different addictions. It can be so many things and it can also be like trauma is not only the bad things that happen. It can also be the good things that should have happened but didn't happen. Like when your little as a child you want like hugs and you want Of and you don't get that it can be so many things. So like if you talk about trauma with a big T. It's like the disastrous things those like real things that activate your survival response. Like that's those are the big things but then there's the smaller things trauma with the little T. They are the ones that we don't associate with trauma so it can be Many things yeah, I just mentioned many things but it can be so much more. And as you said I work with I've come to be so interested in trauma because I realized how it has affected me in my life. And I was one of those who used to think. Well, I don't have much trauma and and I'm writing a book and I have a long chapter about trauma and the book starts with me talking. About realizing I have trauma and how surprised I am having trauma and like going through my life and trying to figure out well, why do I have traumatic stress responses? Why do I have emotional trauma? And the thing is when I was 10 years old. I was in a huge train accident and still I didn't think I had trauma because I thought well it was when I was ten ten years old. How can it still effect? Me I'm as I said, I'm almost 40. How can it still affect me? Well because it wasn't taken care of the way it was supposed to be taking care of. It was a threat to my life and my nervous system reacts with react to that threat with activating all of my survival responses, and those responses haven't been deactivated correctly. I haven't been able to integrate. That experience to to my to my body mostly trauma and traumatic stress is a biological response. So and and usually Retreat drama psychologically, but it's a biological response. It's something that happens in your nervous system. So if you don't regulate and integrate your nervous system back to normal it will always be in survival mode and so you have to do Things to regulate your nervous system back to normal and you need skills to self-regulate and most people don't have that because if you first you don't know you have trauma because you think trauma is something huge and you can find anything huge in your life. You've been through and secondly, You don't know how to even if you knew you had trauma. You don't know how to how to self-regulate or how to get your nervous system back to normal because we usually treat trauma as only something psychological. So there's many things we need to trauma is very misunderstood and Trauma has to do with if you want to explain it very simply and very basic trauma is anything That makes you feel unsafe. So taking care of trauma and healing trauma is anything that make you feel safe again, and we need to remember it's a biological response. So we need to work with it in our bodies with our we need to learn how to regulate our nervous system and you can do that in many many different ways mindfulness is a great way meditation. Like when you're stuck in trauma, you're stuck in the past you're stuck in what happened to you and meditation and mindfulness is about being in the present moment. Like we were talking about so mindfulness is like that time machine you need to get yourself from the past to the present moment. So it's a great tool for some people with drama mindfulness can be difficult because some people have flashbacks and and really difficult memories so Most people benefit from mindfulness most traumatic people with trauma benefit from mindfulness, but you also have to be a little bit careful because it's some people have difficulty being still because of flashbacks and difficult memories. So those people you have to treat me different ways all you have to do other things but like your body gets stuck in this fight and flight response. Alms because when something threatening happens to you your body reacts with fight and flight. And so sorry, you need to you need to deactivate the fighting fly and meditation and mindfulness helps you to calm down deep belly breathing helps you to calm down and regulate your nervous system. I'm sorry about that. I have something in my throat I talk too much. and then other things you can do is like dancing shaking not dancing like ballroom dancing like free dancing and shaking and just close your eyes and shake your body and dance because that deactivates the freeze response you can you nervous system reacts with either fight flight or freeze and fight is when you want to fight back fly is when you want to hide run and hide and freeze in is when your Body freezes so dancing and shaking and moving your body helps with getting you out of the freeze response. Yeah, so there's many different things. You can do all of the modalities I use like yoga is a great tool. Yoga is a really really good tool especially if you're aware that you have trauma and maybe the teachers or the courses or classes you take they have some kind of they don't have to be trauma trained, but they Some kind of like some kind of knowledge that maybe a few people if you have like 25 people in the yoga class at least five or six or maybe seven of them will have trauma responses in their body. So it's good if teachers know that because then they can help hold space for them. So yoga is a great tool. Yeah, just now that you spoke about it. That would be such an interesting course or class to have to like just yoga mindfulness for trauma and then explaining that trauma is is probably something that many of us have been through and it is it is a tool for growth because it does I mean there is some in everything there's a duality in this world and I mentioned and there can be a light and dark side of everything and maybe we can learn how to harness that trauma the first of all like Is standing it and yeah, understanding their reactions and like the physical reactions and the emotional and psychological and then like how how does that strengthen us? And teach us and exactly. Yeah, if we just knew that trauma is any overwhelming event. That is too much too fast too soon for our nervous system. If we only knew that then we would understand that it it happens to all of us. It's like like I said before it can be losing your job. It can be like taking care of someone who's sick. Someone close to you is sick. It can be I mean for a person who is traumatized positive things can also be trauma like for for example, if you you have like this big dream of a clock accomplishing something and all of a sudden you accomplish that That can be too much for your system to handle if you have a history of being overwhelmed and when I was talking about my history the I have a long history of being overwhelmed. And so I think that if I if I had more knowledge about my nervous system my emotional system and if I hadn't more knowledge about how to regulate myself I probably would have done much much better at work. I probably wouldn't have have felt as a stressed and overwhelmed as I always did if I knew more about how the diff different things that happen to me over the years had affected me and how dysregulated I was if I knew more about that and and then I would have been able to handle it much much better. I would have could have put up boundaries and I would maybe have talked to more people about it. I would have done. So much more and I would have handled it much better and I would have been happier and felt much much better. But first step is to know and understand trauma. So yeah, that would have been a great class or course to have and I have some thoughts about doing something about it. But there's a I know there's many people do your their success. For example yoga therapy. There's this modality called Called yoga therapy and they do a lot of things around trauma and all over the world and here in Sweden. There's a woman called Joseph didn't dijkstra my think, you know don't you know her she's called me earlier. Yeah, she works a lot with with trauma and she actually has teacher trainings yoga teacher trainings that incorporate trauma awareness and Trauma information that I See, I haven't been I haven't done them myself, but I'm seriously thinking of it. So there are a few places as a yoga teacher or as a person just interested in this can go to learn more and one thing that was really important for me to realize was this like this realizing that I'm highly sensitive because for highly sensitive people, you know about this but Twenty percent of everyone in this world including animals are highly sensitive and people who are highly sensitive have an extra sensitive a more sensitive nervous system. That means that we process events more deeply and we also notice things more things in our environment. But the main thing is that we everything we noticed we process so much more deeply And that's why we might internalized and event as traumatic when non when known HSB wouldn't do that. So it's you are more as an a highly sensitive person. And sometimes they're called a chess piece. When you are H is p you have your more prone to internalizing a traumatic event as traumatic stress. Because your nervous system is like it's it's set up that way. So if you're one of those who see yourself as highly sensitive this thing about trauma might be extra interesting for you. And that's one of the ways I found out about I started because I first started reading about HSP and that's where I read about trauma. And that's one of the first times I I started to realize the magnitude of of trauma. So that's one of the ways in which I found out all these things about trauma to with that's one of the ways that led me to trauma I should say. Yeah, it's like when you open one door you there's so many more doors to be opened. And yeah, and they're any less the doors are endless. Yeah. What is that? That's that's that's the point with why we are here. So if we weird rarely like reaching one height and plateau and then we stayed there we have no and I don't think we're meant to know exactly we're supposed to like peel off all the layers. So we have to find new things that and the more we do it the more we can do it with ease and understanding but in the beginning like the It can be really tough. And yeah, and that there is so much learning and so much blessings and all obstacles and challenges definitely and after a while when you've been through the process of the process. Of healing almost looks almost always looks the same. It's like so when you something either something happens that make you realize okay. I need to heal this war like there's been small things happening or your you've been feeling these small nudges and you realize okay. I need to heal this but you realize either way realize you need to heal something and you need to Like people to be uncomfortable because it's uncomfortable to heal and when you start it might hit you really hard and it might be difficult. It might be uncomfortable and you go through a time where you really don't know if it's going to get better because sometimes it feels like everything just gets worse and you're like in a you you're in a rough spot, but under all that chaos and all that difficulty that healing can be That's where all the magic happens. So you need to be in that spot because if you're not the magic won't happen and eventually you get out of that spot and that's when you you start creating wisdom. You get all the insights and you start having all this wisdom, but you need to be in the difficult period of it before the wisdom and the insights and the magic happens and once you've been through that process. Us enough times, you know, it's really I find it really comforting that when I'm in that difficult like that difficult. What you call it? Yeah, exactly when I'm in that difficult space healing space. It's comforting for me to know that okay now is the time when all the wisdom is baking underneath all the magic is happening underneath all of this. So I just need to allow myself to be in this space because if I'm not doing it, I won't get the wisdom. I won't get the insights and I won't get the Bliss in the magic that will And afterwards and that is really once you've been through that process enough times it that's the way it gets easier for me because I get that Comfort. I don't know if you recognize that feeling but I mean so you are going to be in that process many many times but it gets easier because you know, you know, what comes after yeah. Does that make sense? Yeah, and and it makes sense. If you if you look at it as a birth as well like when it ended Birthing process. It's like you go through this really challenging and also exciting moments and hours. But yeah, what comes out of it is is like so incredible so we can see all like when we are done there you can see it as a birthing process to birth something new and to experience something on a higher level. Yeah, that's exactly it and I think once Is really important to know like the more you experience. We wrote the post about this yesterday that sometimes we get caught up on evaluating things as being good or bad or positive or negative and but when we see that everything has two sides we learn to see we can logically see that this is something that will benefit. It me in the greater good even how tough it is that and we can like I think one step of the healing is also like looking back and see what what's happened to you or through you or whatever process you went through and then like truly accepting it the I went through processes where I think I've accepted it, but then I realized later on it. I wasn't fully. Thing it and that's the Alchemy and the transformation that we have to learn to do and I think that takes a lot of practice but when you do that, then you become so grateful and content in what has been and also just feeling that that has been the fuel it's like if you want to work with people. And you want to work with healing and you want to work with all of these things. It's your experiences that that gives you the greatest tools. It's not only the trainings that you do. So if when you have went through things or traumas or yeah anything in your past that has been difficult that brings your more empathy and brings you more understanding and then more healing powers. So I was I was listening to this beautiful podcast where they spoke about Jesus Journeys and and how how after many years of wandering and visiting different places. His feet was constantly hurting and burning and and they said but you heal everyone why don't you heal yourself? And he said I had this pain is reminding me also how important it is for me to heal others. It's a reminder that this how this experience feels others are feeling and and that's why He kept this as a sacred like reminder to himself. Yeah, that's empathy. Yeah, it's empathy. So yeah, I think seeing it as that it can heal a lot and I'm really interested in because you have also started working with a shamanic healing. Do you do that with trauma as well? Yeah a little bit. I just I just started so so a little bit most people because the shamanic healing is tools are very much about the body and the energetic body. So we find things that are stuck in the body and they are mostly stuck there because of trauma. So what we do is we work with releasing the things that are stuck in the energetic body. So yeah, I do I do that, but it's a different kind of Healing modality, it's different to the things like when I do more talk therapy because this is more we are just working with the body and the energetic body like really breathing and working with visualisations and stuff like that to get this the thing the energy heavy dense stuck energy out of the body, so it's really effective. yeah, and it's mostly mostly about trauma about things that happen that are stuck and I just most of the clients I have or women and it doesn't matter if it's shamanic healing or if it's whatever other modality I work with most of the women. Most of the clients are women. And of course men are also feeling overwhelmed and stressed absolutely and they work with their stress and overwhelm, maybe in different ways I have male clients to I do but it's just I don't know. It's just so sad. And so There's something about the modern Western woman. She's feeling so stressed and overworked and overwhelmed and she she's so disconnected from who she is. And so I work a lot especially in the shamanic healing a lot with helping women reconnecting with themselves. And one of the ways we do that is through Seeing whatever stands in their way of reconnecting with themselves. And yeah, I would say 99% of the time. It's about trauma. Yeah. And yeah, so it's interests me the fact that so many women need healing and I'm not saying man don't I know I work a lot with my husband and we started working together. We have our company our business together and he's a holistic health coach and he works with nutrition and many things and he does a lot of work with men. So no men need healing too but there's something with this with women and with this overwhelm and stress women are very stressed and burnt out and like Yeah, just overwhelmed. It's like they they burn themselves out in this quest for success or becoming something that they think they need to become or becoming someone. They think they need to become like haunting women today and haunting is a strong word. But sometimes I feel it's the right word because I need so many women that feel that way. And the symbolic hearing I've noticed this a great tool for that because it helps them relax it relax the nervous system. It makes them like maybe for the first time ever relaxing way they Have never relaxed before. So yeah, it's really powerful. Yeah. But I just started with it. So I have a lot more to learn when it comes to those tools. Yeah. Yeah, it's really to go deep. I think yelling needs to go that deep as well and because everything that manifests in our physical body and kind of in our thoughts like everything that is tied to this world comes also from the energy so The Energy's obstructed in any way is is Tainted or dense with something. It has to be addressed also. Yeah, so I think that's really good. And yeah, so all the sorry no, no continue. Not so all the modalities I work with whether it be yoga or Shamanism or mindfulness or even psycho synthesis are all holistic. They work with physical body the channel body the mental body body the spiritual body because I think that's the only way we can hear if we have a whole person approach. It needs to be like a holistic approach because what what traditional medicine does traditional medicine is great for many many things. So there's nothing wrong with traditional medicine but traditional medicine and psychology is not holistic. It divides the body it divides us. To like if I have something going on with my emotions or with my mental States I go see a psychologist if I have something going on with my physical body I go see a doctor Etc, but you need to work with all of these levels simultaneously because we are a whole person so you can't heal if you don't look at yourself as a whole person. So it's really important especially for trauma trauma is holistic. It's physical psychological and spiritual so you need to work with it on all those levels because it manifests in the body. It manifests in the soul. It manifests in the heart. It manifests in the mind. So yeah. Yeah, that's very true. And it would be interesting. If you could talk about your your work that you do in holistic Rebels with your husband and the training that you will also have an and Just explain a little bit more about it. Yeah, of course, so we have ad if we have a business and we have a company called holistic Rebels and we started it. Well, it's not that long ago few years back. I started this path before him. So I started working with these things before him and then eventually he started to train as a health coach holistic health coach coach and Mission assist and then we just decided to start working together. And what we do is we have we do different things. We have a program where we help clients individually with its we see it more as a lifestyle transformation program because as I said, we need to heal on all levels, so and that's why we want to work together because together we have all these Different we all of our expertise is when we combine it it gets like we we have so much more to learn but when we combine our expertise, we have all these levels to work with like nutrition the body physical emotional. We have all these levels to work with. So whatever our clients come to us with we maybe they come to us with something that is psychological or let's say they want to start eating differently then maybe that's what they come to us with but eventually we will see that we need to work on all these different levels anyway, because how you eat is just a symptom of your lifestyle or how you how the thoughts you think about yourself is just a symptom of your lifestyle. So we work like in this hole Person approach holistic and lifestyle approach and so we work with clients individually, we have a program for that and we also have this training that we in April of 2020. We have a training called Rebel Health practitioner where you will learn all everything that we know we will try to teach you. It's we will have we will I will lead mindfulness workshops and emotional healing work. Shops and we will talk we will do things that will intention work inner work inner spiritual work. We will heal our wounds our inner child's we will do all of these different things and then we will also do yoga and we will do have a meditation practice and we will teach teach you how you the how your gut because got Health. We know now that everything that goes on in your gut goes on in your head and vice versa. So we will have a workshop all about God help. We will have Workshop about plant-based eating and healthy plant-based eating because we are all we are plant-based we eat plant-based, but we will have a workshop so many people come to us. Ask I want to eat more plants. I want to eat more like Whole Foods and so I want to lower inflammation in my body. How do I do that? And so we have Workshop about that in this training? Yeah, so it will be really maxed with everything we know just to teach anyone who wants to come to this training to become self lead in a holistic lifestyle and to also Inspire others to live more holistically to live more healthy and to live more fulfilled because it's it's about health, but it's also about living more fulfilled and more happy and less stressed and have more meaning So it's it's really a whole person approach all levels of your life. You will have knowledge about how to heal all levels of your life and yourself and then tools to inspire others to do the same and that's why it's called Global Health practitioner because you will become a practitioner of it for yourself. And for others. Yeah. Those are the two main things we do together. We do different things. We have Moon circles. We lead Moon circles because I think that we have forgotten as modern people we have forgotten that we are life is moves in cycles and in phases and the moon phase is a great opportunity to remember that all of life moves in phases. And so the new moon is the phase where we work with intention setting where we work with. Where are we in life? And where do we want to go and at the full moon? We work with releasing old patterns anything that stands in our way of becoming who we want to be of doing what they want to do. So, it's a great it's a great face to follow because it's so regular it's 12 times a year. It's like you have two weeks in between New Moon and full moon. So you Space to work with with yourself. It's a very the pace of the moon is very it's a very good Pace to work with yourself in this in these different concepts. So we do that we have those circles at a yoga studio here in Stockholm. We do different different things, but it's all holistic and it's all aim to give you tools to To live a happier more fulfilled and healthier life and it's also not so much. It's maybe not so conventional as I said, we love traditional medicine and psychology because it's very important to use those tools. But it's those tools are mostly about taking care of you when you are already very sick. So what we do is to teach you how to not become very Live a lifestyle where you're healthy so you don't have to become sick. So it's like two different things preventing. Yeah, and for the training can anyone join or do you have to be a yoga teacher? What is the criteria want anyone who is interested of Shifting to this kind of lifestyle is welcome to join. It's also good for yoga teachers who wants to add maybe add to have a more whole like like to have to add this nutritional aspect to add like these different aspects to have a more whole approach in no, it's good for coaches or therapists who maybe want to know more about the body because they work a lot with the mind and emotions and maybe they want to learn more about the body. So it's for everyone who really want to not just be stuck in one level because most people when they think oh, I need to get more healthy. They start maybe with looking at how they eat and how they work out and that's important. That's really important. But anything it doesn't matter how much you work out or how much you Eat well if you have toxicity in your body from toxic emotion emotional waste in your body. If or if you think these toxic thoughts all day or if you have heavy metals that are toxic in your body. Working out or eating healthy will only get you so far you need to do look at all these different things. So really the training is for anyone who wants to understand how it all. How it how healing really works and how health really works on all levels. So yeah, it's so beautiful. I was scared the links to the website and to the training in the show notes, let's go and is there any last thing that you want to share with the listeners? Yeah, I want to say that when I compile everything in a conversation like this. It might seem like a lot it might seem like so much to think about and so much too. It might feel overwhelming. We've been talking a lot about overwhelmed. But this type of Lifestyle should definitely not be overwhelming but it might sound like it's a lot and shifting lifestyle and starting to heal like all levels spiritually emotionally physically. It's a lot it's a lot but the important thing is that you only need to do one thing at a time. You don't need it. Process we have to remember it's a process. It's been a process for us. We have been doing this for years. So it's not like it needs to happen overnight. It's not like it needs to happen in a week or in a month a few things might happen quickly, but it's a process. So it's important to remember when you start on your path for whatever reason you start here on your healing path. You need to be have compassion with yourself and you need to be loving to yourself and kind to yourself and like one good thing at a time one thing that feels good at a time. And when I say feel good, I mean that feels right it might feel very uncomfortable. But as long as it feels right just one small step at a time. That's the way to do it. It might it's much better. The fastest way to grow is to go slow the fastest way to grow and to heal is to go slow because if it Comes overwhelming you're not going to do it and it's very easy in a conversation like this because I also talked so much so my feel like too much but it shouldn't feel like too much. I think it's been amazing everything that you've shared and so insightful and really like very good tools for us to use and to think about and if anyone wants to work with you one to one they can connect with you through your website. And your your Instagram which I will share. Yeah. So yeah, thank you. Yeah, we're on Instagram and Facebook. Yeah and our website. So yeah, it's just at holistic Rebels and you will find us everywhere great. Thank you so much. I'm so grateful for your talk. It was amazing and time flies is it really does five minutes? Yes. It's really amazing when When that happens, yeah, I'm super grateful. Thank you so much. Thank you, and I'll talk to you soon again. Yes. Thank you. Thank you so much for listening this week as well. I'm really really grateful for your time your energy and I hope that this can help you on your journey on healing understanding yourself better. And I hope you can use the tools that Layla has shared in your own life to come closer to a more balanced and harmonious life and emotional life. So I really Hope you love this. And if you did, please also leave a review on iTunes. It means so much to me and you can help others to find the podcast and if you have any questions connect with me on Instagram love positivism. So let's take a deep breath in together in through the nose. And exhale through the mouth. And take whatever resonates with you and leave the rest.
In this week’s episode my guest is Leila Andersson who is a holistic healer and educator. She’s a certified mindfulness instructor, yoga teacher and motivational coach. For years her official story was 9 to 5 and corporate. Now she inspires through writing, speaking and leading. She intuitively coaches groups and clients in emotional and spiritual healing, stress management and creativity. Her mission is reconnecting the collective body-mind-heart disconnect. This a beautiful episode that helps you find tools and ways to observe yourself and your trauma and we speak about how can experience different types of traumas. They are not always big and extreme cases, they can happen in our daily lives, we just have to identify them. 