Returning Home With Elise Kindya

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Returning Home: The Podcast28. Exploring Defenses, Self-Compassion, and the Hero's Journey in Therapy with Caitlin Shiflett, LCSWEpisode Summary: Join us for a deep dive into the heart of experiential therapy with Caitlin Shiflett, where we unpack the profound role of defenses in our suffering, how anxiety serves as a biological response to emotions, and the journey of finding our true selves. Caitlin explains the foundations of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), how it targets defenses and anxieties, and the challenges therapists face as learners. We also discuss her upcoming self-compassion group, rooted in mindfulness and self-kindness, and the impact of integrating therapeutic learning with self-compassion. Key Discussion Points: Understanding Defenses...2024-11-1159 min

Returning Home: The Podcast27. Everything Is Already Within Me: An Interview with Susanna Peace LovellMeet Susanna Peace Lovell, who is an Advocate for Disability Families, Speaker, Autism Expert, Author, Certified Professional Life Coach, and Reiki Practitioner. Susanna lives in Los Angeles, CA with her daughter Arizona, who inspired her book Your True Self Is Enough: Lessons Learned on My Journey Parenting a Child with Autism. This episode is filled with wisdom from Susanna's life as a parent and her discovered passion as an advocate and healer in the world. Listen to this episode to get inspiration for how to get through a difficult time and turn it into the stuff of dreams. She e...2024-08-1959 min

Returning Home: The Podcast26. How I Manifested Facilitating a Retreat in Less Than 5 Hours!In this solo episode of Returning Home, hear about how I manifested facilitating a retreat in less than 5 hours! And it's NOT what you think... The term "manifesting" is all the rage right now, and I believe we are manifesting all the time. Whatever you have in your life currently, you "manifested" it, whether intentionally or not. Our words are spells that we use to speak our life into being. With enough belief, our thoughts become things. It has to feel true to you, right? (This isn't a statement about big social issues like racism...2024-06-1932 min

Returning Home: The Podcast25. Being Human With Other Humans: A Conversation With Brittany Deutch, LPC, ATR-BCGet ready to meet Brittany Deutch, LPC, ATR-BC of Creative Source Counseling. On episode 25 of Returning Home: The Podcast, we talk all about Brittany’s work and 10 years of experience in the mental health field, as well as her exciting international travels as a private practice therapist! Brittany is a licensed professional counselor and board-certified art therapist committed to helping women and LGBTQ+ folks navigate the complexities of family, career, and personal identity, and work towards achieving a more balanced and fulfilling life. She is passionate about walking alongside people who are learning to trust themselves, live out loud an...2024-05-301h 01

Returning Home: The Podcast24. Hope, Joy & Mindful Pleasure: an interview with Erin Stanley, LCSWOn episode 24 of Returning Home, I interviewed Erin Stanley, a fellow therapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker. We talk about Erin's journey to becoming licensed and self-employed, the influence of social media and the information age on mental health, and how to cultivate self-care amid all the noise. Erin's work with millenials and elder Gen Z'ers is inspired by her own experiences in this generation, and her identity intersects in other ways, such as race and gender, which makes her very relateable to clients. Erin describes having a shorthand with clients where certain things don't need to be explained...2024-03-291h 03

Returning Home: The Podcast23. Find Your Frequency: An Interview with Tess Palma-Martinez of Completely GoldenThis week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Tess Palma-Martinez. Tess is a sound healer, manifestation expert and founder of Completely Golden, based in Nosara, Costa Rica. She has created a medicinal style of sound healing, and works with clients in her Find Your Frequency mentorship. Her clients have experienced miraculous healing and perspective shifts that lead to greater awareness of who they are and how to express themselves in the world. You can find Tess on Instagram at @completelygolden where she shares a deeper connection with nature, offers daily insights and promotes upcoming events and retreats. 2024-02-231h 32

Returning Home: The Podcast22. How To Follow Your Highest Excitement With Jenny McGurkOn this latest episode of Returning Home: The Podcast, meet my guest Jenny McGurk. Jenny is a Psychic, Spiritual Guide & Resource. She uses Hypnosis, NLP, EFT and her natural intuition to help others heal & develop their own intuition. Her passion & highest excitement is to help guide others to discover their own unique inner intuition and develop a direct connection to spirit & source. Jenny spends her time studying, currently she is a 2nd Degree Freemason working on Master Mason, she loves reading about esoteric knowledge, ancient history, painting Aura readings for clients and having adventures homeschooling her kids. Listen to...2024-02-051h 25

Returning Home: The Podcast21. Giving and Taking From a Place of Love: A Conversation with Britt StauduharOn episode 21 of Returning Home: The Podcast, meet Britt Stauduhar. They are a multi-passionate entrepreneur leading the way in Richmond's health, fitness, nutrition and lifestyle scene. Britt is a queer athlete & entrepreneur that has been working full time helping others uncover their strengths for the past 3 years. They qualified for IPL World’s in 2021 as a National level powerlifter and less than a year later they co-founded RVA’s first queer owned gym. They’ve since married their wife Kade Stauduhar, a highly credited VFX editor in TV & film and together they raise 6 cats as well as their creative compan...2024-01-221h 28

Returning Home: The Podcast20. Getting Clear On Your Empathic Gifts With Chelsie SkowyraIn this episode of Returning Home: The Podcast, I interview Chelsie Skowyra, Spiritual Mentor. Chelsie is a former mental health therapist until her spiritual awakening sent her on a journey of integrating psychology with spirituality. She now works as a spiritual mentor offering transformational services such as teaching others how to be spiritual mentors, reiki healings, and hosting self-care retreats. In this episode, you will hear Chelsie's path to finding herself in her purpose, tools she offers to her clients in healing sessions, and OF COURSE a Taylor Swift reference (or 2!). I hope this episode is a reminder to...2024-01-181h 29

Returning Home: The PodcastEMDR and Your Spiritual Ecosystem: A Conversation with Sophia HornyakMeet Sophia Hornyak in this interview on Returning Home: The Podcast. Sophia is a mother, writer, akashic teacher, and occult historian. Driven by her own traumatic upbringing, she has a personal practice of researching occult and mystic philosophy to find the bridge between the spiritual and the meaning of self. Her work is grounded, raw, and places the importance of resonance in the hands of her students and clients. In this episode, Sophia shares about the powerful work we did together in EMDR sessions, her views on spiritual bypassing, her upcoming Trance training in the UK, and she discusses...2024-01-061h 10

Returning Home: The PodcastBlood + Guts + Star Stuff: Making Sense of Being HumanIn this latest episode of "Returning Home: The Podcast," Elise returns to discuss the juxtaposition between having a powerful human brain and a very fragile human body. She discusses the difficulties she and her clients face in having to be both an animal and a computer all at once. In this episode, Elise tells some anecdotes about her life, and also poses big questions that feel almost too big to answer. You are invited to participate in this conversation by leaving a comment, or find Elise on social media and pose some questions of your own! Here...2023-12-1322 min

Returning Home: The PodcastSpecial Episode! Receive a Reiki TransmissionWelcome back to Returning Home: The Podcast, hosted by Elise Kindya. This episode is special because you will be receiving a Reiki transmission! Disclaimer: please do not operate heavy machinery such as driving a car when listening to this episode. Please have the following items available: a comfortable place to sit or lay down with pillows, blankets and anything you need to maintain a restful posture journal and pen anything you need to build a special space or altar such as: candle, crystals, feather and a vessel for clean water This episode is...2023-08-0435 min

Returning Home: The PodcastReiki is For Rebels: Finding a Spiritual HomeWelcome back to Returning Home: The Podcast! I have taken a little hiatus while I had some big life events happening: getting married, bringing home a new puppy, and opening an in-person office/healing space! There has been a lot to celebrate in the 3D world. It feels good to be back on the show with you. In this latest episode of Returning Home: The Podcast, I invite you to learn more about Reiki, which is my spiritual home. I explain a bit about the history of Reiki and how it got to the West f...2023-07-1832 min

Returning Home: The PodcastBe The Change: Positivity As a PracticeIn this episode, join me to have a conversation about positivity and how we need this force in our life to combat negativity. I want to use this platform as a ripple to reach more people in order to positively impact my community and the world. Sure, there are moments when negativity takes over, and there are even times when the benefit of negativity can be felt and understood (listen to the episode to hear more about that!). But, making more time for positivity cannot be a bad thing for us. Here are three reasons why you should...2023-02-2243 min

Returning Home: The PodcastThe Birth of The Art of Us - An Interview with Kat McCrory and Katie Bosch of TAOU StudioIf you live in Richmond, VA, you need to check out TAOU Studio in Carytown. TAOU stands for "The Art of Us" and has been birthed by Katie Bosch and Kat McCrory. In this podcast episode, you will hear about their inspiration for opening the studio, the type of yoga they practice and teach, opportunities to learn alongside them, and lots of fun stories about their lives that brought them to this place in time together. Here are three reasons why you should listen to this episode: Get to know Katie Bosch and Kat McCrory from TAOU Studio. L...2023-02-1752 min

Returning Home: The PodcastThe Power of EMDRHealing from trauma sometimes seems impossible, but with new developments in neuroscience over the last 15 years, it is more possible than ever. Join me on this episode all about one of my favorite therapy modalities, EMDR. EMDR stands for “Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing” and it’s a revolutionary technique that can help you to finally feel relief from trauma. In this episode, I explain a bit about how it works and why it works, as well as share some stories about my experiences both administering EMDR and receiving EMDR. You will learn so much about how trauma is stored...2023-02-0927 min

Returning Home: The PodcastStaying Sober: What It Means To MeWhat does sobriety mean to you? We each get to choose what our relationship to the substances we consume is. In this latest episode of Returning Home: The Podcast, Elise talks more in depth about consuming substances- alcohol and others- and what this means for her life. She shares stories from her days of drinking and how it’s been easy for her to make a new choice in her life. She also shares stories about her new perspective as a sober person. Elise will encourage you to reflect on your own identity, your values, the balance you have st...2023-01-2827 min

Returning Home: The PodcastThe Sacred PauseSometimes, winter can last a whole year. In this episode, Elise returns to Returning Home: The Podcast after an almost year-long hiatus. In it, she discusses where she went in 2022 and what lessons she learned along the way. If you’re looking for insight into why it’s ok to take a sacred pause, what to do when you’re feeling burned out or how to be present in your life, you will want to listen to this episode. Here are three reasons why you should listen to this episode: Learn how you can align your identity with your a...2023-01-1931 min

Returning Home: The PodcastTaking A Step Back From Pressure And A Step Forward To YourselfSociety hampers us with loads of pressure on what we should be and should have accomplished at a certain age. We glorify a culture of nonstop grinding, thinking that there’s no other way to reach our goals. However, we still wonder why so many of us feel unfulfilled and burnt out despite pursuing our dreams. We do so much to please others without leaving anything for ourselves. But at the end of the day, is all the grind still worth it? In the tenth episode of Returning Home, Elise shares a personal story on resentment, burnout, and quitting. She sh...2022-02-2433 min

Returning Home: The PodcastThe Compound Effect: Turning Small Habits Into Big ChangesGoal setting is the navigator toward significant achievements in life. As we organize our goals, the urge to accomplish them quickly and easily could be tempting. Impatience and restlessness become the inner nemesis that blinds us from discerning our present accomplishments. But think about where you were five years ago: would you be able to be where you are now without your "little" and "trivial" accumulated effort? In the ninth episode of Returning Home, Elise delves into the concept of compound effect and how it manifests in life. She guides you through exercises that will help you...2022-02-1031 min

Returning Home: The PodcastChoosing to be Child-Free: What it Means to Me to be Childless by ChoiceThe insistent pressure of settling down and starting a family can be crippling to many of us. People, especially women, are often expected to become parents and are criticized when they choose not to be. But raising kids takes a lot of responsibility, time, energy, effort — and not everyone is ready to commit to the sacrifices that parenthood demands. In the eighth episode of Returning Home, Elise shares the reasons behind her decision to remain childless. Here, she highlights the importance of “freedom” and “living life on her own terms.” She hopes her journey will help you reflect on...2022-01-2730 min

Returning Home: The PodcastFinding Your Truth: The Healing of Your Inner ChildEveryone has a child within them. It represents the innocence, awe, and joy reminiscent of our youth. However, our inner child also carries the accumulated baggage of hurt, trauma, and fears from our early years. As we grow into adults, we carry this inner child with us, and from time to time, it resurfaces to remind us of our childhood scars. Some choose to look the other way and continue living their lives. While this coping mechanism might work for a while, it may lead to destructive habits. Indeed, it’s uncomfortable to deal with childhood trauma, but...2022-01-2032 min

Returning Home: The PodcastUncovering the Hidden Strength of Self CompassionFalling into the trap of self-criticism becomes our usual pattern when setbacks occur. It confines us in this dark pit within ourselves that surrounds us with harsh judgments whenever we encounter failures. Be that as it may, we are not alone. Everyone is bound to commit mistakes. Even the greatest personalities have done something they’re not proud of. To embrace our flaws, we need to practice self-compassion and understand that we are still a work in progress. In this episode, Elise talks about mindful self-compassion and its relevance to our daily journey of finding ours...2021-12-3044 min

Returning Home: The PodcastTrusting Yourself Means Taking ResponsibilityHave you ever experienced moments in your life where you feel like you’ve lost control, as if it’s all messed up, and there’s no way for you to get back on track? In moments like these, some people tend to blame or hold it against others. However, you need to take responsibility for yourself so that you can live the life you desire on your terms. In this episode of Returning Home: The Podcast, you will learn to understand the importance of trusting yourself and taking responsibility for your life and everything in between. If you...2021-12-1640 min

Returning Home: The PodcastHarness the Power of Your Mind: How to Visualize SuccessIf you're suffering from anxiety, you know well how it can severely impact your sense of self and security. Fears and worries hinder us from becoming the self that we want to be. But there is a way to take those anxieties and turn them into positive thoughts and concrete plans. If you learn how to visualize the future, you can live in your zone of genius to your fullest expression. In the fourth episode of Returning Home, Elise guides you through a visualization practice that you can use to ease your anxieties and reconnect w...2021-12-0233 min

Returning Home: The Podcast8 Healing Resources to Return Home to YourselfIt's very easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of life. Relationships, work, personal problems — life can throw us off balance and knock us out of alignment with ourselves. However, with the right healing resources, you can return home to yourself. In the third episode of Returning Home, Elise addresses the different ways you can heal yourself through body, mind, community, and spirit. She shares eight healing resources that she has used to better herself. Some of them are personal actions you can do on your own, while other methods need you to be wit...2021-11-2636 min

Returning Home: The PodcastHow Sobriety Changed My LifeWe all have a purpose in life, and we’re all perfectly capable of fulfilling that purpose. But there might be some hindrances that keep us from tapping into our potential. When you ignore these barriers and believe you'll never be able to conquer them, you're robbing yourself of the chance to grow and live the life you deserve. In the second episode of Returning Home, Elise talks about her journey in becoming sober and the lessons she learned from it. She shares the effects of alcohol on her body, mind, relationships, and spirituality. She also reveals ho...2021-11-1827 min

Returning Home: The PodcastReturning Home to Yourself From Childhood TraumaHave you observed negative patterns in your behavior for reasons you can't seem to pinpoint? Often, these stem from childhood traumas we think we have already buried or forgotten. That's why sometimes, we can't explain why we respond and behave to circumstances the way we do. Living our purpose as our authentic self requires healing from traumas we don't talk about. And more than anything, it starts with self-knowledge. In the first episode of Returning Home, Elise talks about how she became a therapist and LCSW. She shares her own experiences of trauma and how it has...2021-11-1129 min

Returning Home: The PodcastA Sneak Peak of Returning HomeHi there, I am so happy you are here! If you're curious about things like healing your emotional and mental health, therapy, childhood trauma and learning how to love yourself unconditionally -- you're in the right place. This trailer will give you a sneak peek into what this podcast is all about. 2021-11-0803 min

The Rising Summit PodcastFill Your Cup - For Yourself & The Community with Elise KindyaElise Kindya is a licensed clinical social worker that combines intuitive therapy with trauma-informed therapy. She uses techniques like mindfulness, meditation, mindful breathing, and visualization to help her clients heal within themselves. In this conversation, we discuss mental health, the stigma around it, why you should fill your own cup first, and she even gives great advice on how to navigate the current social climate. Elise's Website -https://www.elisekindya.com Elise's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/elisekindya/ Mentioned in this episode - Ruth King - https://ruthking.net/ Racial Affinity Groups - https://ruthking.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/AffinityGroupGuidelinesRevDec2016...2020-06-1000 min