Your Life Practice Sara Eavenson & Leah Carver

This was one of our favorite conversations to date. We honestly kept getting goosebumps throughout.   Lani is a wife, mother, poet, extreme marathon runner and one of our best friends. 
 
She has just taken the big step of leaving the public school system so she can honor the calling of her soul to spend more time writing and to develop her coaching and public speaking practice.  Lani  is incredible at helping kids be heard and seen and helping parents to navigate healthy communication with their kids.  
 
During the conversation we talk about:
 -  listening to the call of the soul. 
  - Showing up authentically and with integrity when life throws you a curve ball. 
 - Being able to stand in the messiness of it all with grace instead of shame. 
 
All the while she shares incredibly vulnerable, real life stories in a way that feels empowering and revolutionary. 
 
I can’t scream it loud enough - listen to this episode.
 
If you liked to talk with Lani about coaching reach her via email at laniscozzari@hotmail.com

In today’s conversation we had a great chat with Kim Burris a licensed Marriage & Family therapist in California. She is a Holistic psychotherapist. Some things we loved about this conversation: 
understanding what holistic psychotherapy is Kim made it really normal for us all to recognize that life is challenging and we will all have have issues that we are facing or going to face.  Spiritual Bypassing - what that is Motherhood and how important it is to do motherhood with community. How challenging it can be and Postpartum depression  What the meaning of life might be… We talk about suffering and how it may bring us further into who we are are why we are here.  
Kim Burris, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in El Dorado Hills, CA (LMFT #98927).
She has been exploring the interweaving of psychology and spirituality for over 20 years and is continually transformed and humbled by the process.
 
 
Kim received her undergraduate education from USC where she studied religion and psychology and discovered the world of transpersonal psychology. It was at this time Kim knew I wanted to pursue my masters degree and become a therapist. She also was introduced to the study and practice of yoga which has been a continuous presence and guiding force in her life ever since.  She also knew she had a lot of life to live and needed time to discover more about herself before serving others. Kim pursued a career in music, living in Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco. She also worked in the corporate world for many years as a business consultant in the technology industry.
After years of living in major cities and exploring many of the nooks and crannies in her own psyche she knew it was time to pursue her dream of being a therapist and began my studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco where she received her Masters’s Degree in Integral Counseling Psychology.
 
You Can find out more about Kim and all her offerings on her website https://www.kimburris.com or find her on Instagram @kim.burris.psychotherapy

In this Conversation we talk with Local Celebrity Suzanne Boyd. Recently, there was an article in our local paper The Palm Beach Post called “I needed to belong to my kids.” https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20190512/mothers-day-suzanne-boyd-on-quitting-channel-12-i-needed-to-belong-to-my-kids
 
Suzanne made the decision after 20 years to retire from her career as news anchor on @CBS12 and move towards having a career that allowed her to be more present for her kids. We had a real conversation about hearing the call of the soul first as a light tap, ignoring that then louder and louder until it gets your attention. Having the courage to listen, even when that means you don’t have it all figured out. 
 
Suzanne now runs Suzanne Boyd Productions https://suzanneboyd.com She is producing her own shows - What Your Friends Won’t Tell You( https://wyfwty.com ) with Shannon Thompson Jones, Licensed Psychotherapist and People of Palm Beach Podcast ( http://floridapodcastnetwork.com/portfolio-posts/people-of-palm-beach/ ) 
 
You can also find Suzanne on Instagram @newswithsuze 
 
More about Suzanne 
 
• TV News Veteran
• Digital Talk Show Creator
• Podcast Host
• Author
Suzanne has been creating content since she was a little girl growing up in the tiny North Florida town of Monticello. She started her own local magazine in her bedroom using a typewriter.
 
Suzanne’s father was hoping she would eventually take an interest in running the family farm, but Suzanne knew at a young age that she was not going to stay in Monticello. After winning the local Watermelon Queen pageant, the 14-year-old was a guest on the Tallahassee CBS affiliate’s morning show and she knew that’s what she wanted to do.
 
After graduating with a broadcast journalism degree from the University of Florida in 1995, Suzanne immediately went to work for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune’s 24-hour news channel, writing for both the newspaper and television station. She anchored there for 2 ½ years before landing the job in South Florida.
 
Suzanne was first hired in 1998 as the weekend reporter for CBS 12 and FOX 29 in West Palm Beach and within 6 months, was anchoring the weekend shows. She eventually went on to launch the CBS 12 I-Team and won 3 Associated Press awards for her reporting. Suzanne spent 20 years at CBS12 – most recently as the morning anchor – before she retired from the news business in 2018.
 
Suzanne is now producing her own shows through her company Suzanne Boyd Productions. She created a digital live stream show with psychotherapist Shannon Thompson Jones called “What Your Friends Won’t Tell You”. It is a weekly show they broadcast on Facebook Live, YouTube and on their WYFWTY podcast. Suzanne and Shannon tackle challenging issues like divorce, addiction, co-dependency and give their viewers insight and tools to deal with those challenges.
Suzanne created and hosts the “People of Palm Beach” podcast where she interviews inspiring locals.
Suzanne is also the co-author of The Dream Pillow storybook, which she wrote with her friend whose daughter created the Dream Pillow to help children sleep.
Suzanne has strong skills in branding, social media, digital marketing, communication and public relations. When she’s not working, you can find Suzanne at the yoga studio. She has been practicing for several years now and lives in Delray Beach with her two children.

On today’s show we had an inspiring conversation with Allyson Whipple all about creativity and how to reignite your spark if you are feeling blocked. We met Allyson through her being a fan of the podcast. She is a student of our teacher YogaRupa Rod Stryker and has been wonderfully engaged with us since first listening to our show. When we found out what she does we couldn’t wait to have her share her brilliance with all of you. Through her experience of feeling disconnected and writers block Allyson used her practice to remember and reclaim her own creativity. She has now brought it all together in the ultimate 40 day program for others who are struggling to find or reclaim their innate spark - Connect to Your Creativity, Which you can find at
https://www.lunanidra.com
 
In this conversation we talk all things creativity - 
What it means to be creative? 
Are we all creative? 
How do we begin to tap into that? 
How to recognize if you are feeling disconnected and how to use practice to reconnect and build sustainable creativity.
 
 
 Allyson is a ParaYogi and is studying currently for her Level 1 certification. She is a writer and author of two poetry books Come Into the World Like That and We’re Smaller Than We Think We Are. She has a M.A in English and an M.F.A in Creative Writing from the University of Texas, currently Allyson is teaching technical communications at Austin Community College. She serves as Coeditor of The Texas Poetry Calendar and director of Borderlands Texas Poetry review  
 
Be in touch with Allyson through her website https://www.lunanidra.com
or via email allyson@lunanidra.com. Follow her on Instagram @lunanidra or Facebook Luna Nidra 

Settle in for a this fabulous conversation we had with best selling author of Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms. Whether you are a mom or simply a busy woman, today’s chat was rich with information about how women like you can better know and support yourself in order to step in to your most powerful, creative, soft, intuitive, connected and gratifying life.

On today’s episode we explore the common idea that very often in life we make choices for ourselves out of habitual thought patterns that dictate what we think we “should” do in any given situation. Rather than making decisions about what feels right for us or giving ourselves free reign to explore what it is that we actually want or need to do, instead we come up with all the excuses as to why we couldn’t shouldn’t or can’t do something - like go on a retreat, or have a truthful conversation, or ask for help or whatever the thing is for you.....
During today’s conversation Leah brings an example from her own life where she recently had an opportunity to take a week of downtime on retreat, away from her family and responsibilities. Although she was fully supported by all the family - her children included, she still had a really hard time committing due to her sense of duty to others and to her “to do” list. What we began to unpack as we chatted, is that Leah is not alone in having these self limiting beliefs. In fact we all have them and if we aren’t careful these can become the default place from which we make important decisions.