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The Nutrition Translator PodcastMedicine Song: Rhythm of LifeEmbarking on a 10-day dieta with Noya Rao, the "Tree of Light," of the Amazon jungle, was a profound journey into the depths of my being. Known for its luminescent leaves that glow in the darkness, Noya Rao symbolizes illumination and truth. Throughout the dieta, I experienced a profound challenges, confronting and releasing deep-seated emotional blockages of betrayal, lonliness, and abandonment. The spirit of Noya Rao guided me to face my inner shadows, illuminating aspects of myself that had long been hidden. This journey took me to my depths and took me to my heights as I navigated the...2025-02-0502 minThe Nutrition Translator Podcast134 - Sacred Food Journey | Live Online Course & In-Person Sacred Plant Medicine RetreatJoin us for the Sacred Food Journey, a 4-month live online course, including an in-person Sacred Plant Medicine retreat with both Ayahuasca & Huachuma, designed to break free from the confines of diet culture and cultivate a healthier relationship with food and body image. This unique program incorporates trauma-informed practices, shamanic journeying, Sacred Plant Wisdom, and empowering somatic techniques. Learn more: https://www.nutritiontranslator.com/sacredfoodjourney What is included? 4 months/16 weeks, 1 hour of live video lessons each week, 1 hour live Q&A, Group Coaching call every week, Weekly Somatic practices including an Ayahuasca Microdosing Practice, I...2024-03-2248 minThe Nutrition Translator Podcast132 - Ayahuasca Chronicles | A Shamanic Odyssey Explored in Conversation with Colleen & her teacher, Jess GoldMy Ayahuasca teacher, Jess Gold, interviewed me for her podcast, the Cielo Community Podcast! I decided to share the interview here as well. I have been working with Jess the past 4 years and now helping to facilitate ceremony. Jess has been serving the Medicine and leading ceremonies for the last eight years and she is currently continuing her medicine path to become a Tabaquera under the tutelage Maestro Tabaquero Ernesto García de la Torres in Iquitos, Peru. 2023-12-0145 minThe Nutrition Translator PodcastMedicine Song (Icaro): SequoiaAyahuasca forms the foundation of the indigenous plant medicine traditions of the Western Amazonian Shamanism, but the dieta plays a crucial role in building upon that foundation. It could be considered the support beams of the tradition, upon which the rest of the structure is built. So what is a dieta? In simple terms, a dieta is a contract made between a curandero, or student of curanderismo, and a particular plant spirit. For several days the dieter communes with the plant with no other distractions. No salt, sugar, spices, sex, touching others, electronics, or distractions. Food choices are limited...2022-05-2407 minThe Nutrition Translator PodcastMedicine Song (Icaro): Calling in the Trees for ProtectionI would like to share an Icaro, (medicine song) that is sung in Ayahuasca ceremony in the Mestizo tradition. I call in 2 trees in for protection, Ayahuma (the cannonball tree), and Lupuna Blanca. Ayahuma is regarded as an immensely grounding master plant that can help you to gain resilience and wisdom through releasing past trauma and stored emotion. The warming protective qualities of the Ayahuma spirit can help us access previously unchartered levels of vulnerability. For me, Ayahuma created a wall of protection around me and is like my tree boyfriend :) representing the Sacred Masculine. Lupuna is one of...2022-04-1803 minThe Nutrition Translator PodcastMedicine Song (Icaro): Breathe and TrustLife has presented me this past week with an incredible amount of heartache and adversity after a very important partnership ended. I happened to be able to sit with Mother Ayahuasca Sunday evening, ever so synchronistically. After I released the overwhelming grief, I came to a place where I was completely untethered. No ground, no stability, nothing to grasp or hold on to. I have been here before in ceremony, but can tell myself it will pass and soon I will have grounding once the medicine wears off. This time I realized I have nothing to hold on to...2022-03-1105 minThe Nutrition Translator Podcast122 - The Void of Meaninglessness | Ayahuasca & the Dark Night of the SoulMy Ayahuasca path continues and it only reveals itself to be harder and harder with each ceremony and each Shamanic Plant Dieta. In this podcast I discuss the 3 journeys I had last weekend, which were all completed in less than 48 hours. It was an extremely intense weekend & the second ceremony I was thrusted into a void of meaninglessness, haunting loneliness and ultimately denigrated into a pool of nothingness. It was truly the dark night of the soul experience, a deep excavation of shadow parts within me and magnificent truths of the universe. During this podcast riff on realizations that...2022-02-281h 05The Nutrition Translator PodcastShort Story: The Transcendence of MeaningThis short story is about an Ayahuasca ceremony that I had past Friday. This ceremony was one of three in the span of less than 48 hours. On this beautiful medicine path, I have been faced with my shadows, demons and deeply unsettling & freeing truths of the universe. Ayahuasca helps us see & fully feel & experience the shadows parts within that we bury, she also helps us see reality for what it is. My ego doesn't like it, but my soul does. It's an infinite journey and never-ending process of ever expanding. Love you all, Colleen. Music credit: east forest, Passage2022-02-2406 minThe Nutrition Translator Podcast114 - The Groundless Ground | Ayahuasca, Uncertainty & ImpermanenceIn today's episode I talk about a recent Ayahuasca retreat where I got to learn astonishing lessons of impermanence, uncertainty & acceptance in this and also an understanding of the Bodhicitta mind (Bodhicitta, translated as “awakening mind” or “open heart,” is the commitment to embark on a path of awakening, one dedicated to the liberation all beings. Bodhicitta is born of compassion, the desire to free all beings from suffering, even those who wish us harm or consider us enemies). Go on a journey with me as a tell the story and reflections of 2 recent Ayahuasca ceremonies and more about where I...2021-11-0139 minThe Nutrition Translator Podcast113 - Top 12 Nutrition Myths (rebroadcast)The nutrition world is just rife with misinformation, leading to confusion, mistrust of health professionals, and poor dietary decisions. Educating yourself by separating fact from fiction when it comes to nutrition can help you feel more empowered to develop a nutritious and sustainable dietary pattern that works for your individual needs. Today I talk about the top 12 nutrition myths.Connect with Colleen:Colleen's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nutritiontranslator/Colleen's Website https://www.nutritiontranslator.com/Work with Colleen 1:1 https://colleenkuhn.typeform.com/to/Q5xWVJ2021-10-1835 minThe Nutrition Translator Podcast102 - Trauma Bonding With FoodUnhealed emotional trauma forces us to bridge the gap of disconnection by activating internalized shame. Shame gets interwoven in our attachment bonds, making internalized shame the conduit for loving our parent, partner, or with food. Shame then becomes the language of relating in all relationships, including with food. This is known as a shame-bonding or trauma-bonding. Today we talk about how trauma-bonding develops and how trauma bonding can also link with our relationship with foodConnect with Colleen:Colleen's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nutritiontranslator/Colleen's Website https://www.nutritiontranslator.com/Work with Colleen 1:1...2021-06-1440 minThe Nutrition Translator Podcast96 - Are You Attracted To Emotionally Unavailable Foods?Much like we can be attracted to emotionally unavailable people we can be attracted to food. Learn why this may be the case, (hint it has to do with your history)and how to heal this pattern to finally create food freedom. Learn how to relate to food in a completely different way in this podcast.Connect with Colleen:Colleen's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nutritiontranslator/Colleen's Website https://www.nutritiontranslator.com/Work with Colleen 1:1 https://colleenkuhn.typeform.com/to/Q5xWVJ2021-05-0329 minThe Nutrition Translator Podcast95 - How to Balance the Sacred Masculine & Feminine in your Food Relationship & Why it MattersTo find healing in our food relationship we must create balance between these two, the masculine and the feminine. And not only balance but how to tap into the sacred masculine and feminine rather than the trauma responses and the unhealthy masculine and feminine. While in our unhealthy masculine there is too much rigidity with boundaries or not enough flexibility. While in our unhealthy feminine boundaries are too porous or there is too much flexibility. While in our sacred masculine we own the part of us to be assertive, strong, logical & analytical when necessary and while in the...2021-04-2639 minThe Nutrition Translator Podcast94 - How Attachment Style Can Affect Your Relationship with FoodAttachment Theory is a concept that explains the emergence of an emotional bond between an infant & primary caregiver & the way in which this bond affects the child’s behavioral & emotional development into adulthood. It is a theory about danger & how we cope in the face of it. Children’s caregivers need to give the child proper attention allocation, upregulation of positive emotions, downregulation of fear from caregivers communication & needs to be able to convey a felt sense of what the child is experiencing, i.e., attunement. Children whose caregivers respond sensitively to the child’s needs at times of distre...2021-04-1936 minThe Nutrition Translator Podcast88 - How To Build Self-Compassion Through Co-CompassionEver wonder why it is so hard to bring in compassion for yourself? Or why it feels easier to give, than receive? You may never have been taught how to receive and how to tap into your self-compassion. Our receiving and compassion circuits in our brain & body are shaped and built inside our early relationships. If you were not shown this at a young age, chances are this is why it is so hard. You are not alone. We are living in an epidemic of unworthiness. Learn what, and the importance of co-compassion and how it is needed to...2021-03-0833 minThe Nutrition Translator Podcast83 - How To Get Out Of The Extremes & Find your Middle Ground to Create Food FreedomDo you find yourself triggered often? Do you find yourself struggling to manage difficult emotions? Do you notice yourself living in the extremes of life? Either over stimulated and anxious, or shut down and depressed? Do you notice yourself falling into exhausting patterns of restrictive dieting, overeating and then giving up on health goals for months at a time? Most people move between these varying states of arousal from time to time. Trauma and/or extreme stress often make it more likely a person will become either hyper- or hypo-aroused. The hallmark of trauma is living between 2 polarities...2021-02-0155 minThe Nutrition Translator Podcast82 - Q&A Podcast from Sugar Addiction to Healthiest Foods to EatToday I am doing a Q&A podcast answering some of your most pressing questions!Questions asked:Is Keto Healthy?Should I try Intermittent Fasting?I struggle with not being able to trust myself around sugar. I think I have a sugar addiction. How do I stop?What would you recommend is best to do in terms a plant based diet transitionWhat is the best app to track food?What are the best sugar alternatives?What are the healthiest foods to eat?Connect with Colleen:Colleen's Instagram https://www.instagram...2021-01-2534 minThe Nutrition Translator Podcast81 - Top 10 Low Sugar, Plant Based Products to Try This WeekI am not endorsed by any of these companies. I just found them and love them! :)1) Dr Praeger's Turkey burger and Chick'n Tenders2) Soca Protein Crackers3) Just egg4) Beyond Breakfast Sausage Links5) Miyoko's Cheese Slices6) Catalina Crunch Cereal7) Rebll Protein Shakes8) Watermelon seeds and Pili Nuts9) BHU vegan Keto bars10) Siete Foods almond flour wraps11) opps! I gave an extra one! Four Sigmatic repair protein powderConnect with Colleen:Colleen's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nutritiontranslator/Colleen's Website https://www.nutritiontranslator...2021-01-1834 minThe Nutrition Translator Podcast81 - Attention Men: Vulnerability is Sexy | Alex KuhnAlex Kuhn is a certified yoga instructor and men's life coach. Originally from Switzerland, he learned that while Switzerland is a safe place to keep money, money & status are not the end all be all for our happiness, human connection is. On his path of personal development he discovered that vulnerability, authenticity and truth are the remedies for loneliness, disconnection & depression. He now helps men learn how to have next level relationships & a next level life. Oh ya, he is also my partner of 12 years! :)Topics Discussed:Bluebird Poem by Charles BukowshiAlex's path of pers...2021-01-1152 minThe Nutrition Translator Podcast80 - Plant Medicine Integration & Embodiment for Spiritual Maintenance & TranscendenceAs a human, you are vulnerable to your habits and thought patterns. Often those pulls can be stronger than your desire to transcend. So even though you may have journeyed to a realm where you felt limitless possibilities, you need support, guidance & strategies to transform your breakthroughs into lasting change & continuing transcendence.What can integration help with? First, integrating the shadow. Second, personal development & improving relationships and third, lasting changes to your mental health. I will go into each of these 3 categories with poetic readings of personal ayahuasca experiences, and how I am integrating it into my...2021-01-0451 minThe Nutrition Translator Podcast73 - Heal the Root Cause Behind the Emotional Pain of PMDD | Natalie Ryan HebertNatalie Ryan Hebert is a Rapid Transformational Therapy™ (RTT™) practitioner and Certified Stress Coach who specializes in helping women overcome premenstrual mood issues. Originally from Australia, she now lives in Copenhagen with her husband and four children and works with clients all over the world via Zoom.Natalie shares her remarkable experience of how RTT helped her overcome the debilitating condition of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder or PMDD, which affects 1 in 20 women and how she is now helping hundreds of women do the same with RTT.Topics Covered:Colleen's personal experience with PMDDWhat is PMDD...2020-11-1651 minThe Nutrition Translator Podcast70 - Your Demons are Misunderstood: Shadow Work to Improve your Relationship with FoodThis shadow self represents the parts of us we no longer claim to be our own, including inherent positive qualities. Although we deny them in our attempt to cast them out, we don’t get rid of them. We repress them; they are part of our unconscious. We can’t eliminate the shadow. Remaining unconscious of the shadow impacts your relationships with others, yourself and also with food. It has serious consequences to your physical & mental health & well-being if you keep it hidden. You can't heal what is hidden. Shadow work is the active work of finding those scared part...2020-10-2644 minThe Nutrition Translator Podcast65 - Should You Go Keto?On today's show I give some information of what keto nutrition is, what ketosis is, the benefits, risks, and an alternative way to do keto that is better for your health.Should you go keto? Is it possible to be plant based and be keto? Learn the answers to these questions & all about ketogenic nutrition on this short episode!2020-09-2125 minThe Nutrition Translator Podcast64 - How to Create True Healing & Peace with Food: IFS for Food FreedomHow often have you found yourself saying, “Part of me knows I should do ‘X’, but another part of me wants to do ‘Y’,” or, “Intellectually, I understand ’Y,’ but emotionally, I feel ‘Z’.” Yes, we contradict ourselves, and have multiple personalities. Believe it or not this is normal! Where it can become problematic is when parts of us become extremely over-protective.IFS focuses on the naturally protective function of parts of ourselves, and what those parts are trying to protect us from. There is no such thing as a bad part. People are self-protective, not self-destructive. Even when we do things that a...2020-09-1437 minThe Nutrition Translator PodcastPoem: Metallic WavesWe are called to adventure in relationship. To explore the deep oceans of vulnerability and love. To ride the confusing & stormy waves. To bask in the magnificence and beauty. We are born in relationship, hurt in relationship and healed in relationship. When we learn how to connect beneath the surface in relationship, incredible healing can happen. This poem is about my healing journey in relationship.2020-09-1001 min