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Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreThe Unexpected Completion Of My Life's PurposeSince My Summer As A MILF was published I have been engaged in deep medicine and accompanying inner work and life has surprised me with a deep experience of intimacy that is both everything I have longed for and has also stirred some of my deepest pain. In this episode I talk about the recent experience that felt like the completion of all that has driven me forward and how it has changed how I relate to my work and my life and the ongoing challenge of opening to love without making another person responsible for my unfolding and...2024-02-1425 min
Brian J MatosEp. 26 - Alison Crosthwait: Former Psychotherapist Discusses Alternative Medicine, Treatments and Therapies Brian is joined by Alison Crosthwait, a former Wall Street professional, who shares her journey from traditional psychotherapy to alternative medicine. The conversation explores the emerging topic of alternative health care options, espeically related to mental health disorders. Alison talks about the importance of happiness and the challenges and obstacles people face in finding it. Traditional approaches to mental health care are discussed, along with the limitations and benefits of psychotherapy. Brian and Alison then explore the concept of alternative medicine, and various tools used in this field, such as breath work, physical movement, active imagination, hypnosis, affirmations, and psychedelics. Key...2024-01-031h 16Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreMy Summer As A MILF: Sexual Liberation For Collective ChangeI dated younger men this summer and my experience was life-changing. Join me for a spicy and expansive conversation abut what happens when we follow desire and how important it is that each of us does this in our own way.Read the article. Read more about sexual healing. Join my email list.—JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO RECEIVE NON-OBVIOUS THINKING ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTH Sign Up for Alison's Email List —HOW TO MICRODOSE FOR TRANSFORMATION GUIDEReceive the Transformational Microdosing Guide —APPLY F...2023-12-0745 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreMy Sexual Healing Journey Part IIThis is an update to Episode 29 - life has evolved and here we are! A personal context for my current work on sexuality. —JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO RECEIVE NON-OBVIOUS THINKING ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTH Sign Up for Alison's Email List —HOW TO MICRODOSE FOR TRANSFORMATION GUIDEReceive the Transformational Microdosing Guide —APPLY FOR EXPAND TO STEP FULLY INTO THE LIFE YOU DESIREExpand is a three month alchemical program to transform your current experience into a new chapter in your life. In Expa...2023-10-3118 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreThe Importance Of SexualityMy recent Ayahuasca ceremonies prompted me to think and write more deeply about sexuality. Here is the result. More to come.Questions for reflection:What would your life look like if you were sexually free?What do you most desire?What does satisfaction mean to you?What enlivens your body?What are you creating? What do you want to create?What do you long for?What does it look like for you to let go into the orgasmic nature of life?—2023-10-1716 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreI have lost sight of the shore"In order to discover a new land we have to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." - André GideI sound much more composed in this episode than I feel. Thanks for being along for the ride.—JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO RECEIVE NON-OBVIOUS THINKING ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTH Sign Up for Alison's Email List —HOW TO MICRODOSE FOR TRANSFORMATION GUIDEReceive the Transformational Microdosing Guide —APPLY FOR EXPAND TO STEP FULLY INTO THE LIFE YOU DESIREExpand...2023-10-0310 min
Microdosing For HealingPsychotherapy, Plant Medicine, and Spiritual Transformation: A Holistic Healing Approach with Alison CrosthwaitAlison Crosthwait, CFA, embarked on a remarkable journey from a successful career in capital markets to becoming a full-time psychotherapist and spiritual explorer. In this episode, we delve deep into her transformative path and the profound insights she's gained along the way. Alison shares her unique perspective on the significance of self-exploration as a foundation for plant medicine journeys and the essential elements needed before embarking on such a profound experience.You can find show notes, resources and more at: https://tinyurl.com/5ecpw3s8 Are you called to serve the healing of our world? J...2023-09-2257 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreSex Has the Potential to Solve All the World's Problemsaka Increasing Life Force Sexual Energy Through Targeted Inner WorkThis is a version of the talk I gave at the High Desert Human Design Conference in September 2023.—JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO RECEIVE NON-OBVIOUS THINKING ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTH Sign Up for Alison's Email List —HOW TO MICRODOSE FOR TRANSFORMATION GUIDEReceive the Transformational Microdosing Guide —APPLY FOR EXPAND TO STEP FULLY INTO THE LIFE YOU DESIREExpand is a three month alchemical program to transform your current experience into a new...2023-09-1933 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreThe Wounded Healer with Alison JamesHave you every wanted to hear how therapists talk behind the scenes? In this conversation two therapists talk about attachment styles, burn out, how much we care about our clients and so much more.Alison is a dear colleague, friend and former client and she brings her unique medicine to this conversation - she has a way of articulating inner work that is sensitive, nuanced and at the same time crystal clear.Alison James Bio:I hold a BAH from Queen’s University and an MA from Dalhousie University, completing the bulk of my...2023-09-1253 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreWorking With that One Sticky ProblemOften we have one area - a trigger, a relationship, money, purpose - and we put a lot of energy into figuring it out and fixing it. In this episode I outline how moment to moment tracking with another person (trained practitioners are great for this) allows you to titrate your nervous system experience and change the pattern in real time. The solution to all problems lies in our connection to ourselves - our bodies, emotions, minds and spirits - what it is to be us.Medicine work supports and amplifies these moment by moment changes.2023-09-0511 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreThe Alchemy Of Inner Work with Lorie DecharLorie Dechar is an Acupuncturist, Author, Alchemical Healer, Mentor and Artisan of Transformation. Lorie and I talk about "the myth, the math and... something else...." - it's one of the best descriptions of inner work I've heard and Lorie drops it in the first few minutes.Join her Inner Sensing Intensive September 30/October 1 Read her book with Benjamin Fox, The Alchemy of Inner Work Join her community - A New Possibility - and learn more about her work on her website: Follow her on Instagram Listen to...2023-08-2945 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We Are"We are all problematic." Talking about Barbie with Lisa BrannanLisa and I talk about collective change and what the release of Barbie may or may not represent. It's a fun and fiery conversation!!Follow Lisa on Instagram at @brnnlisaListen to Juicy Stories: 16 women have joined together to share their stories about spirituality in all its forms.https://alison-crosthwait.lpages.co/juicy-stories-series/—JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO RECEIVE NON-OBVIOUS THINKING ABOUT PERSONAL GROWTH Sign Up for Alison's Email List —HOW TO MICRODOSE FOR TRANSFORMATION GUIDEReceive the Trans...2023-08-2239 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreExploring the Map of Your Uniqueness Using Human Design with John ColeJohn Cole, a human design guide, joins Alison to discuss their personal experiences with Human Design, highlighting its ability to unveil our own individual uniqueness, the interplay between nature and nurture, the significance of initiations and transitions, and the transformative process of deconditioning in aligning with one's true self.“There's a transformative process going on as a society, and it's leading to a world where, I think, there will be lot more individual emphasis, meaning that there we're not going to rely on organizations, institutions, experts and other people outside of ourselves to save us, to support us...2023-08-151h 05Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreHow Can the Mind Evolve?“That’s not how to do it.” This is a recurring theme in our society. We absorb these ideas about “right” and “wrong” and how things should be from childhood through adulthood. The mind can still hold onto these narratives even when we’ve unraveled them again and again. This is why we have four other aspects of our self — physical, emotional, spiritual and sexual — that we can tap into to support our mind in evolving, even when it’s wound so tightly. “The way that we construct our lives is a reflection of the deepest assumptions...2023-08-0810 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreShifting into New Perspectives and Possibilities with Tamara KemperWhen Tamara began working with Alison, she had tight expectations for herself. She raveled herself in how things are, how they should be, and the roles she held, like mom and professional. Her experience opened her perspective and possibilities to life and how it can be different than the way she was living. That gave her permission to put down some of the judgments and expectations she held and cultivated deeper empathy for herself and others. “All of these experiences, all of these different things that I'm doing, they are just different ways to pr...2023-08-0132 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreConnecting with Your Dharma and Opening Your Heart in Difficult Times with Stephen CopeTrue freedom comes from letting go of grasping and opening our hearts. But those two things can be so challenging for us to embody in our modern world. Alison and guest, Stephen Cope, best-selling author and scholar, delve into the relationship between the Eastern contemplative traditions and Western depth psychology and how connecting the two can support you in navigating the modern world.Stephen shares the experiences and insights that he’s gained studying these ideas that have shaped his books, including his most recent, “The Dharma in Difficult Times: Finding Your Calling in Tim...2023-07-2559 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreHow to Build Capacity to SurrenderSurrender is a daily devotion.It unlocks our energy and creates a ripple effect of a positive change in ourselves.But surrender can be one of the most challenging things we can do because it requires that we face our pain. In this episode, Alison shares her recent work with a local medicine man in a ceremony to show how we have to build our capacity to surrender, and how often times, it’s by looking directly at our pain that we’re able to transform. “We need to feel what we...2023-07-1812 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreMoving Our Minds and Bodies into an Unraveled State of BeingSociety ravels us all so tightly.We’re raveled in the “shoulds” and what’s “right.” We are raveled in the judgments of others, the definition of success, and the expectations others put on us. This raveling puts us into patterns that keep us stuck — out of alignment with our life force energy. To allow life to flow, we must unravel. “Often our intentions are about business, money, health, life, love. They're raveled intentions, but the answer and satisfaction are in the unraveling.”—Listen to Juicy Stories: 16 women ha...2023-07-1112 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We ArePracticing Surrender Empowers Others to Heal in Their Own TimingWe live in such a “fix me” culture, often looking outside ourselves for the answers — or offering our answers to our friends and family members when they’re experiencing pain. But to truly support our own healing and the healing of others, we have to surrender to these painful moments and move through the process in our own time in our own way. Here, Alison shares the complexities of practicing surrender as a way to empower others and yourself and the importance of having support and healing containers that allow you to look inward and move throu...2023-07-0412 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreSubmission vs. SurrenderWhat's the difference between submission and surrender?Both of these terms hold the essence of letting go, but there’s a fine line between the two of them.Surrender can be an embodied state that supports our ability to create our desires and experience life as it is, while submission can be where we fall into the false idea that “it is what it is.” In this episode, Alison shares the nuances between these two energies to support you in spotting where you might be surrendering versus where you might be submitting so you can...2023-06-2711 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreNavigating Betrayal Without Losing Your TruthAlison delves into the painful experience of betrayal in love and how we can step into our own healing and move past the betrayal. Drawing from her own experience, she explores the shame, anger, and upset that arises when our beliefs about love and trust are shattered, and how it feels like everything we thought was true has been taken away. She offers perspectives for how we can navigate and accept betrayal without attaching it to our self-worth or harboring resentment toward the person who betrayed us. “There is no shame in trusting. There...2023-06-2010 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreMidwifing Each Other to Presence: The Breakthrough with Alyssa and FrancescaIn April, Alison created an experimental offering in which she invited a few of her existing clients to participate in, called Elevate. During this experience, Alison facilitated the group through Toad medicine work, which is a psychedelic, paired with intense breathwork. Two of the participants, Alyssa and Francesca, share their experience working with the medicine and the container. They share the transformation they’ve received that’s still very much unfolding for them, including relieving anxiety, experiencing a deep flow in their lives, and the development of their spirituality.They also share incredibly valuable insights aroun...2023-06-1341 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreTrusting Yourself and Unearthing Your Wildness as a Service with Julie McIntyreJulie McIntyre, author and Earth Ceremonialist, shares how by developing a personal relationship with our bodies and trusting their wisdom, we can navigate life with more authenticity — which she describes as a wildness that embraces the sacredness of all life forms. Julie takes us on a personal journey, at the age of 10 when she discovered a magical place in a corner of her family’s farm where a massive old cottonwood tree stood. This became her refuge, a space to escape the chaos and connect with something beyond herself. She experienced an energy exchange with the tree, a pro...2023-06-0645 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreHow to Build a Sacred Sexuality Practice to Cultivate Aliveness in Your Daily LifeSacred sexuality is the difference between getting your steps in and enjoying a walk in nature.It's broadening our experience of sexuality to include all of us, giving ourselves permission to be truly and deeply who we are in all our forms, in all areas, cultivating a deeper connection to ourselves, others, and the world. Tune in to hear Alison’s personal experience with sacred sexuality and tips for how you might consider approaching this type of practice in your life to stoke your life force, and how this energy influences how you engage with life...2023-05-3018 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreHow Self-Expression Can Unlock the Energy Needed to Create Our Big and Small DesiresWhen our sexual energy is blocked, it can be challenging to create what we want in the world — whether that’s to create a thriving business or simply how we want to engage with our family in a healthy way. Freedom of expression is a practice that can unlock this energy that’s needed to create the life you desire in all aspects of your life. Here Alison shares how she needed to reclaim her self-expression and how you can find ways to express your own as a way of connecting with your sexual energy. “It’...2023-05-2313 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreMy Sexual Healing Journey and How It Became the Portal to Everything I Long ForAlison shares her sexual healing journey and personal stories of sexuality, intimacy, and love that highlight just how interconnected our sexual energy is to all aspects of our lives. Tune in to this vulnerable and heartfelt episode to discover the power of being present, embracing your sexuality, and the importance of inner marriage, where we hold and love ourselves fully, before seeking a partnership with others. “Sexuality and love is so much a part of everything that happens in our lives. If we can't receive the love, desire, and gifts of people that we also love...2023-05-1638 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreWhy You Have a Lack of Desire in Your RelationshipChallenges in the area of desire tend to call us towards interpersonal dynamics. We think it is a relationship problem. I believe this is a misdirection of attention. Experiencing a lack of desire in your relationship isn’t necessarily a sign that there’s something “wrong” with your relationship. All sexual desire starts with you, even when you’re in a partnership. Feeling a lack of desire towards your partner is a sign that your own sexual energy needs tending to, and in this episode, Alison shares the very first step to take to do just that. ...2023-05-0913 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreExpanding the Definition of Orgasm Beyond The GenitalsIn our society, we tend to conflate genital sex and orgasm with sexuality in general. But genital orgasm is only part of the definition of orgasm. We all get to have orgasms all the time. Every breath is a reach toward satisfaction, a peak, and a release.This episode encourages you to expand your definition of orgasm to see how embodying sexual energy in your life can support you in cultivating your desires and creating in the world. “Of course, we want genital orgasm, but let's start with orgasm everywhere and then allow more a...2023-05-0216 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreConnecting to the Love that Creates Inner Richness with Heather VeseyHow can we not only become okay with suffering but welcome it, love it, and appreciate it? That’s the question that unfolds in this episode with Heather Vesey, a Wisdom Mentor. Through this emotional and profound conversation, you’ll receive a beautiful call to cultivate your relationship with the Divine and with love itself. Alison has been supported through Heather’s Wisdom Mentorship since the summer of 2022 and invited Heather to share this wisdom with you in this episode. “What is your way of relating to the divine inside...2023-04-2540 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreWhat Type of Healing or Therapy is Right for You?There are so many healing practices and therapy modalities that can support you with on your healing journey, so how do you choose what type of healing and therapy is right for you? In this episode, Alison shares both her perspective from her personal experience as well as research that highlights the most important consideration when choosing who to work with and why it matters so much on your healing journey.This insight will help you tune into your own intuition to guide you toward who and what will be most supportive for you right...2023-04-1810 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreThe Third Stage of HealingThis is a follow-up to episode 16, “The Two Stages of Healing.” If you haven’t already tuned into that episode, start there and then come back to this episode.This episode is filled with insight that will shape your understanding and open your mind on the deep work that needs to happen to change our state of being in the world. Here, Alison explores what the third stage of healing is, how you can identify where you’re at in different areas of your life as a way to expand your awareness of what’s possible, a...2023-04-1129 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreWhat Does It Look Like to Thrive in all 5 Aspects of Your Health?What does it look like to thrive in all five aspects of your health — physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and sexual? This episode is intended to serve as a North Star on your healing journey. Alison shares a few of the most important qualities we’re working toward embodying in order to thrive in each of these aspects. Sharing what a healthy state of each of these five aspects might look and feel like gives you an understanding of where you are currently with each and where you may desire to focus in your healing and growth...2023-04-0423 minAliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreAnxiety is the Tension Between Our True and False SelfAnxiety is a multi-layered phenomenon. It’s also overdetermined — many different experiences and combinations of experiences can be labeled anxiety.One aspect of anxiety is the relationship between how we are living our life and our true feelings. This could look like trying to keep a parent or employer happy or being in a relationship that isn't working for you.Living in this state of nonalignment in one or more areas of your life can provoke anxiety. The anxiety sits on top of the true feelings which, if felt fully, would demand massive action o...2023-03-2822 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreWorking with Triggers to Heal Trauma and Shift into PresenceLast year, I flew to Hawaii to attend a retreat with Eckhart Tolle.The entire time, I kept getting these signs that I was out of the zone of tolerance. I was triggered again and again in major ways that I hadn’t experienced in years, despite turning to my tools and practices to bring myself back to presence.I’m sharing my experience with you here so you can witness the value of recognizing your triggers and facing them head-on, even when it can be incredibly uncomfortable.I share how my practices gave...2023-03-2129 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreLeaning Into What’s “Juicy” to Make Life EasierBuilding our capacity for juice and pleasure is a central part of healing.It breaks apart the conditioning that life is hard, that we have to push, and that we have to obey.None of those things are juicy.When we’re leaning into what’s juicy, we’re ultimately moving towards a life of overflow that comes from touching the heart of love and life force energy.In this episode, I’m sharing what juicy is, why it’s such a prominent aspect of my work and how we change, and how yo...2023-03-1414 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreHow Somatic Healing Works With PsilocybinSomatic healing supports you in releasing imprints, patterns, and memories that have been stored in your body.Oftentimes, these are memories that we may not even be aware of but are influencing how we’re showing up in the world.Here I’m sharing how somatic healing works with psilocybin so you can better understand how you can meet the medicine to accelerate the healing process of this stored trauma in our bodies in service of your intention.“This is how somatic healing works. It's allowing ourselves to have experiences that require us to relax...2023-03-0714 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We Are18: The Breakthrough with Alyssa: I'm Safe. I'm Thriving.When Alyssa started working with me, she had been on anxiety medication for a year and knew that while it was a supportive tool to get her through a challenging year, it was a bandaid and she wanted a solution.She described it like she was in a tsunami of emotion that she couldn’t swim away from any long: “Who am I? Where am I? Why is life like this? I can't manage.”Throughout her year of intentional work with herself and the medicine, she stepped into a grounded, whole, and in safer physical, mental...2023-02-2840 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We Are17: Working with Psychedelics to Heal Your TraumaWhat keeps us from being present is the inability to experience the present fully. We experience the present when we feel emotions, experience physical sensations and are aware of what is happening.When we are unable to be present we are in a traumatic reaction — a separation from our life force energy.When we’re holding trauma, we can’t see that within ourselves.Sacred medicine, along with other healing practices, supports us to see, feel, and embody what we weren’t able to before and thus to heal the traumatic reaction and come into...2023-02-2117 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We Are16: 2 Stages of Healing TraumaThere are two different stages we go through when we are healing trauma.If you’ve done a lot of inner work — therapy, meditation, journaling, etc. — but feel as if you’ve hit a healing plateau where you have awareness of your patterns, but can’t quite step into the power of who you are by doing the things you know you have to do to get there, you’re likely coming to the end of the first stage of healing.Understanding stage one and stage two will support you in seeing what’s possible and what more t...2023-02-1417 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We Are15: Trauma Blocks Everything You DesireTrauma is the only thing that separates us from everything we desire.Trauma is separation from our life force energy. It’s what happens when we have experiences that we don’t have the capacity to be present for.There are obvious traumas — the things we all know are difficult.And then there is the moment-by-moment way that life nudges us out of our own power, our own authenticity.Ultimately, we are all traumatized to greater and lesser extents through fear and insecurity into living lives that are not our own."It...2023-02-0725 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We Are14: Riding the Waves to Create FlowWhen you're doing deep transformational healing work, big emotions can come up like sadness and anger, and our first instinct is to want to feel better.Riding the waves refers to a relationship to our emotions where we accept and even welcome our feelings as they come and go.Alison sees riding the waves as offering an opportunity to open and to hold more.Riding the waves allows us to flow through life without fighting, which frees up energy to respond to life as it actually is.In this episode, Alison...2023-01-3123 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We Are13: How to Get Transformative Psychedelic ResultsIt’s possible to experience a big and lasting shift as a result of simply taking the medicine — there are miracles all of the time.But most of the time, it is up to us to create the impact of our psychedelic journey on our lives.Most of the people that Alison facilitates have life-changing journeys because it’s what they put into practice in their life to continue to run that energy.There are some very specific things that make a huge difference in whether or not you experience long-lasting transformation after workin...2023-01-2414 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreConnecting With Your Sexual Energy Fuels Your Creation in The WorldWe tend to compartmentalize our sexual energy.Some of us see it as strictly physical.Some of us see it as dirty or bad.Some of us see it as mostly emotional.Many of us don't think about it at all.In this episode, Alison is going to show how connecting with your sexual energy can support you in creating the life you desire.You’ll discover:How sexual energy goes beyond the physical act of sex and why this expanded definition is key to healing th...2023-01-1719 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreFostering Spirituality Changes How You Relate to Yourself, Others, and All of LifeFostering spirituality in our life fosters our connection to life, aliveness, and all that we desire.As we develop and nurture this connection, we have the passion to move forward, to take deeper and broader steps into the fullness of the life that we want to create.In this episode, you’ll discover:Why a lack of spirituality can hinder your ability to create the life you wantHow fostering spirituality can support you in relating to yourself, others, and all of life in a new way that creates more peace in your lifeHow psychedelics ca...2023-01-1016 min
The Art of Living Well Podcast®E155: Top health & wellness trends for 2023Happy New Year! As we kick-off 2023, we want to let you know how grateful we are for our listeners and we wish each of you a happy, healthy and wonderful year. In today's episode we discuss one of our favorite topics, the new year's health trends. See our exciting list below, and listen to this episode where we dive deeper into each of these trends and provide tips and resources on how to implement them into your life. 1) Sleep hygiene - This is nothing new, but we dive into a few devices to help you improve your...2023-01-0431 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreChange the Way You Breathe, Change The Way You Live with Jenn MansellOur life is defined by our breath — our first breath and our last breath.Yet so many of us are going through the world barely breathing.Today’s guest on Aliveness, Jenn Mansell, a certified breathwork facilitator and somatic coach, believes if you change the way you breathe, you change the way you live.In this episode, she shares how you can heal by getting out of your head and into your body using the power of breath, and she’s shared a free 20-minute breathwork practice for you to support you after the ep...2023-01-0337 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We Are9: Emotional Healing Allows You to Step Into the Fullness of Who You AreWe often think of certain emotions as negative, and thus we're taught early to repress them.Usually, it's sadness, rage, and jealousy.It's exactly this imbalance that makes it challenging for us to change our behavior.When we have traumatic experiences— experiences that are too much for us to emotionally withstand at the moment— because we can't feel our emotions because they get locked away.This disturbs our flow and our ability to be present, which makes it difficult for us to create the lives we want to create in all area...2022-12-2724 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We Are8: How to Change Your Mind When Microdosing with PsychedelicsFor most of us, our minds have too much power over the rest of usWhen we work with plant medicine, it can make our minds more open and flexible to change, but we have to direct that energy to create the results we’re after.Here, I’ll share how I support my clients with cleaning up their minds when microdosing so they can move past the thoughts and beliefs that have kept them stuck.You’ll learn:How microdosing gives us the ability to come into a relationship with our thinki...2022-12-2021 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We Are7: What’s Blocking You Is in Your Body, Not Your HeadWe tend to think that our blocks are in our heads, but often they're actually in our bodies.As we start to do personal work, we can see this because we know that logically we shouldn't be scared of this, there's nothing to worry about, we want to be a certain way, or we want to speak up for ourselves, because we know that's how we're going to step into the next level, and yet we can't do it because we’re are afraid.That fear lives in our bodies, so what's in our bodies ha...2022-12-1322 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We Are6: How to Set Intentions for Microdosing to Support Your ResultsWithout an intention for microdosing, working with psychedelics is simply an experience.Having experiences can be interesting — they can be pleasurable (or sometimes not) — but experience without intention is just experience. It’s unlikely you’ll achieve the transformation you’re after.Intentions provide foundation and meaning to things that we do in life, particularly practices intended to support us in healing, growing, and changing.Setting an intention is an important first step when microdosing for transformation to achieve the results you’re seeking.In this episode, you’ll discover:How to set a pow...2022-12-0609 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We Are5: Microdosing Psilocybin 101: What is Psilocybin? Is It Safe? Is It Legal? Is it Right for Me?There tends to be a bit of fear and some misconceptions around microdosing psilocybin, so this episode is a Microdosing Psilocybin 101 overview that addresses the most common questions people have when they are curious about working with this type of plant medicine.In this episode, I’ll answer the most common questions I get asked about microdosing psilocybin, including:What is it?Is it safe?Is it legal?Can I drive, work, and parent?Can I have a bad trip?How quickly does it help you make a change?RESOURCES MENTIONEDThe War On...2022-11-2921 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We Are4: The Breakthrough with Joy Asibey-Gabriel: The Queen Will Be PaidIn January 2021, Joy Asibey-Gabriel, a successful feminine adornment coach, joined my Empower program with the intention of stepping forward in her career.She felt like she needed to focus all of her attention to be more visible and bolder with her work and assumed other areas of her life were less important, like her relationship.When she started working with the t medicine, she realized that there were places that she just didn't want to look at and those were the exact places where she needed to focus her healing and growth to break through.2022-11-2229 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We Are3: How to Microdose for TransformationMicrodosing for transformation is the opposite of how we are trained to approach Western medicine.When we go to the allopathic doctor and they give us a prescription, we’re taking medicine either for some kind of healing or for symptom relief.This is the opposite of microdosing — microdosing is not a magic pill.When we microdose for transformation, we’re looking for a connection to a deeper part of ourselves so that we can get to the root cause of what ails us.When you’re working with plant medicine to break...2022-11-1514 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreWhy I Was Called to Plant Medicine & Became a Psychedelic GuideI approached Ayahuasca with the intention of having a baby.But when I drank the brew, I saw tie dye and candy.At the time I said to myself, “This is ayahuasca? This is just one more disappointment. Like, really?”I left feeling great, but apparently having received nothing — that was my impression.And then the next day, the most amazing thing happened.Tune into this episode to hear how I was called to plant medicine and how my healing through this process led me to become a psychedelic guide...2022-11-0811 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We Are4 Overlooked Elements Needed to Make Change That LastsAre you doing all the things and perhaps not seeing the change that you're looking for?Maybe you've been in therapy for a while, or you have an on-and-off meditation practice, and you've done some mindset work.You know your patterns, you know your triggers, and you know what you want.Yet somehow you're not quite showing up as who you want to be in the world.There are four aspects of change that are so often missed, and this is going to help you adjust how you relate to your...2022-11-0119 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We Are5: Microdosing Psilocybin 101: What is Psilocybin? Is It Safe? Is It Legal? Is it Right for Me?There tends to be a bit of fear and some misconceptions around microdosing psilocybin, so this episode is a Microdosing Psilocybin 101 overview that addresses the most common questions people have when they are curious about working with this type of plant medicine.
In this episode, I’ll answer the most common questions I get asked about microdosing psilocybin, including:
What is it?
Is it safe?
Is it legal?
Can I drive, work, and parent?
Can I have a bad trip?
How quickly does it help you make a change?
There is a lot of misinformation ou...2022-11-0120 min
Aliveness: Earth Medicine and Deep Inner Work to Connect us With Who We AreThis is AlivenessAliveness is living and loving the fullest expression of yourself, with nothing left out, and in doing so finding the pathway to what you long for.What would aliveness look like in your life?This podcast is for those who are ready to stop running through the motions, change old patterns you can’t seem to shake, and break through healing plateaus to create a full, juicy life filled with aliveness.A life where you are living and loving the fullest expression of yourself, with nothing left out, and in doing so finding th...2022-10-2203 min
The Elixir. Curing Common Ideas about Self CareThe Elixir Episode 7: The Power of Transformational Microdosing with Alison Crosthwait.As we continue to explore new, and innovative ideas in the world of self care, we are excited to share with you our next episode of the Elixir. In this episode we sit down with Alison Crosthwait - expert speaker, teacher and healer. We dive into the concept of microdosing and how a medicinal mushroom can become an integral part of your healing journey with Alison Crosthwait.
Guest Bio:
Alison is a Registered Psychotherapist in private practice in Toronto, ON. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst and spent fifteen years in trading and research in ca...2022-10-0432 min
Social Media Love Podcast ShowEP 60 | The Real Story Behind Her Business with Allison CrosthWaitA former statistical arbitrage trader at Goldman Sachs and a fifteen year capital markets graduate Alison knows high performance, excitement, achievement and stress.
A former psychotherapist of almost a decade Alison understands attachment, trauma, emotions and the uniqueness of every individual.
Alison is here to help you expand. She is intuitive, tender, and challenging.
Her own healing journey has and continues to be humbling and expansive and informs her continually growing mastery of supporting her clients in their transformations.
She draws on diverse modalities and works with a powerful team to m...2022-10-0129 min
The Art of Living Well Podcast®E135: What is microdosing and how a medicinal mushroom can become an integral part of your healing journey with Alison CrosthwaitWe are thrilled to bring you today’s amazing guest, Alison Crosthwait. Alison spent 15 years as a trader and researcher in capital markets followed by a decade as a psychotherapist in private practice. Her own healing journey called her beyond psychotherapy and in 2020 she stepped away from her practice to become a guide. Now she holds space for full-being transformation. She is an advocate for psychedelic healing facilitated with preparation, integration and integrity. In today’s episode you will learn: Alison’s journey and why she stepped away from her professional licensing as a psycho ther...2022-08-1056 min
Call IT In with DarEmbody Your Worth with Plant Medicine with Alison CrosthwaitOur ancestors have used plant medicine for 1000s of years. Greek physician Hippocrates used mushrooms as an anti-inflammatory and for cauterizing wounds… later the first people in North America used puff bomb mushrooms as wound treatments. Although mushrooms have long been used by various cultures throughout the world, modern science has only recently created studies on their healing capacities. Plant medicines, specifically mushrooms, are something I absolutely knew nothing about until chatting with our special guest Allison Crosthwait. We discussed micro dosing, psychedelics for self-care, benefits, legality and overall safety in our stimulating time together on “Call IT in With...2022-07-0622 min