The Biz Bruja Podcast

Boundaries and Our Sacred No with Shirley Johnson

I had the honor and great pleasure of having Shirley Johnson of Soulistic Wellness on my Bruja Rising Instagram Lives May 8th 2020 and after the lives we jumped on a recording session. My apologies for taking so long for me to share this conversation with this beautiful and generous soul. 

Shirley Johnson, Psychotherapist + Energy Healer and Yoga teacher shares her journey from being a daughter of musicians, working in corporate, how the traditional study of psychology gave her more boundaries in her sacred work and why she calls herself an empath in recovery. 

Some of the points that came up during our conversation: 

• Everyone is a healer.
• What we are trying to do out there needs to be done in here ( within ourselves.)
• We already have it all, we’ve had it since we are born. 
• How boundaries are KEY to being a healthy EMPATH.
• The medicine in traditional psychology training that connected Shirley with her sacred no.
• How being a therapist has taught her to observe and honor her boundaries. 
• Why being self-FULL is needed.
• How business can also create boundaries.

 

shirley johnson | siri pritam kaur + soulistic wellness

“I’d rather be whole than good.” - Carl Jung

I am interested in wholeness and authenticity in all the work I do. I believe that radical authenticity and acceptance heal. I believe that acknowledging every emotion and desire will set us free. I have been committed to self studying and diving deep into all things healing for the last 15 years. My life is grounded in building consciousness. Outside of my practice, I love Cuban Salsa dance, hip hop music from the 90’s, watercolor painting, hot yoga, and laughing out loud.

 

Find Shirley on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulisticwellness/

 

And her website: http://www.soulisticwellness.com

 

 

Zero F's Given with Anita Kopacz

Join us for this real talk with OG brujas, Vanessa and Anita! We begin with a gentle meditation and flow into Anita’s journey with her intuition, sexual healing and Orisha energy showing up to guide her on her life's journey. Anita shares the re-imagined inspirational story of Yemaya set in a historical period that will be published later this year in 2020 under the title Shallow Waters. We get real about alchemizing healing, intuitive business, sexual trauma and healing, her documentary and growing her beautiful family. We laugh, we tear up and as OG healers we knew changes were coming and that we are READY!

Some conversation points:

* How Orishas and guiding energies have shown up in our lives

* Multi-tasking and focus as we manage our lives and business.

* Alchemizing and clients doing their sacred work.

* How our wounds bring us to our soul purpose and Anita shares about her sexual abuse and her sexual healing.

* Ancestral trauma and how it can affect our children.

* Following Spirit and finding ways to do the work you feel called to do no matter the obstacles.

* Showing our wounds and the act of being seen heals us.

* Tending our seeds of creation and having patience.

* Sexual trauma and ways of protecting ourselves.

* Falling in love with shadow, sadness and the deep waters.

Anita Kopacz is a Pleasure Alchemist, Spiritual Psychologist, award-winning writer & Activist. She was Editor-in-Chief of Heart & Soul Magazine for five years. Before that, Anita was the Managing Editor of BeautyCents Magazine. Anita received her Bachelor's in Interdisciplinary Studies at UC Berkeley and MA in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. She is also a certified Tantra Coach, the author of the book FINDING YOUR WAY and the creator of the Zero F’s Given Campaign.

Find Anita on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anitakopacz/

Find Vanessa on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebizbruja/

Find Margie the Healing Artist that Anita speaks about on the podcast: https://www.instagram.com/margienugent/

You can also view this interview on YOUtube 

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The New Moon in Leo: I'm Gonna Let It Shine

This NEW MOON in Leo creates a potent + rare GRAND FIRE with MOON + SUN in Fixed Leo trine Mars in Cardinal Aries + the South Node in mutable Fire Sagittarius. Riffing on the New Moon in Leo, our Light, the Grand Fire Trine, trusting ourselves and the deep invitation to recharge through play, joy and celebration!

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Everything Is Working In Your Favor with Angie Rojo

Angie’s philosophy is that “everything is working in your favor” and her life truly reflects that deep knowing. Angie shares her early passion to Spirit and all things flow and love. Angie came to Santeria at a young age and became a Priestess of Oshun and left with many lessons, awareness and self-love. 

One of my questions I came to this interview was, “ how do we reclaim our inner healing abilities and show up in life to create a business? When did you realize you were a healer and how did you start sharing your work?"

Angie then experienced a disappointing experience with a church that made her realize, “ I can’t ignore what I know.”

As she explored and became a practitioner of Quantum Healing Hypnosis. 

• How putting a price on your services can change the energy in a way that serves you.
•  Developing a loving relationship with money in order to thrive in life and business.

Angie Rojo is a Certified Past Life Regression Hypnotist & Self-Love Mentor. She is trained in Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) developed by the late Dolores Cannon. Angie has been an active leader and facilitator in the spiritual space since 2002. Her experience and insights ranging from the Catholic Church, Nichiren Buddhism, being anointed a Priestess in the Yoruba religion in 2006. Angie studied Transcendental Meditation with Emily Flecther of Ziva Meditation & Mindvalley in 2013. Angie is an Intentional Living & Self-Love Mentor, a Speaker, facilitating live workshops and group meditations. Her mission in life is to guide people to live intentionally, joyfully, and with purpose...

Follow Angie on instagram: InspiredbyAngie

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I am Diosa with Christine Gutierrez

Excited to share this conversation with Christine! I've watched her grow over the last decade and create a beautiful life, powerful healing spaces and now this transformative book! We riff about the spiritual old ways, how we've translated our medicine into a modern day form that serves, Christine's social justice work and how she journeyed from an empathic and curious little girl to a woman of action and healing. Her book,

I Am Diosa: A Journey to Healing Deep, Loving Yourself, And Coming Back Home to Soul is on pre-order and all details are below! 

BIO: Christine Gutierrez, MA, LMHC is a Latina licensed psychothera­pist, life coach and expert in love addiction, trauma, abuse, and self- esteem. She has a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University in human behavior and development, and a master’s degree from City College of New York in mental health counseling with a focus on community and prevention. Through her work, Christine offers private coaching, group coaching, and transformational retreats such as her annual Diosa Retreat in Puerto Rico, as well as the Diosa Tribe, a global community where like- hearted women come to heal, rise, and lead. She has been featured in Time Out NY, Latina Magazine, Yahoo Health, Ebony, Cosmo for Latinas, Huffington Post, and others. Christine currently resides in Puerto Rico with her husband, Fernando Samalot, and their pup, Bo­dhi. For more on her work, visit christineg.tv and follow her on Instagram @CosmicChristine.

 

Link to: www.christineg.tv/iamdiosabook and main website is www.christineg.tv 

Doing The Work: Coming Home in both Resilience and Dysfunction with Dr. Dee

 

As we continue to exist under the realities of COVID 19 we have also faced personally and collectively the reality of racism and it's horrifying impact on our black brothers and sisters. With this on my heart, I reached out to Dr. Dee to talk about her work and how she sees us finding a way forwards. 

Excited to connect with this powerful mujer, Dr. Dee #thetravelinghealer, doesn't hold back and shares her journey as a young Latina becoming pregnant, stepping into her power and claiming her path as a leader, healer and social justice wayshower. When asked what we need to be doing right now Dr. Dee says," Go Home. Go home and speak with your living ancestors. Talk about what's been said and not said. Go home in all it's resiliency and dysfunction because we've got work to do and it starts at home." We apologize for the sound quality but we really wanted to connect and share her wisdom and even though it's not perfect- we're here and she's sharing some insights that I took on as homework and that you may feel inspired to do as well. 

Dr. Dayanara Marte is a first-generation Dominican immigrant dedicated to healing, trauma and social justice and upcoming author of her transformational Every Little Girl Has a Story. Dr. Marte works globally as a trusted advisor, consultant and coach with a wide array of philanthropy, community based cultural and social justice organizations and social service institutions executive directors, essential workers and first responders. With over 25 years of experience, she is renowned for her extraordinary ability to identify the social, spiritual, mental and emotional impact that trauma, oppression and violence have on women’s ability to love, live and lead. Dayanara is creating a movement that places self-healing and healing justice at the core of social justice.Dr. Marte envisions a world where young and adult women powerfully exist, are living into their future, birthing sustainable families and organizations and leading a new world.

Dr. Dayanara Marte, MPH, DSW

CEO/Founder of the World Healing Lab and the People of Color Healing Justice Consortium

For more information go to www.dayanaramarte.com 

Instagram @dayanaramarte  

New Moon in Gemini Musings & Meditation

Was heading to bed and realized that the New Moon in Gemini was upon us and you know, I had to do it! Ever since I met Walter Mercado on my television as a six-year old, I have been fascinated with the stars and what motivates, inspires and heals people. The new moon is a time for new beginnings and in airy-Gemini it brings a breath of fresh air that we definitely need since we've been under the weight of three retrogrades, shifts in the nodes and the Capricorn induced structural shifts that ushered us into 2020. This new moon invites us to hold the duality of loss, grief and the unknown as we also explore possibilities, communication and more play. Sounds like opposites and the Gemini twin energy of air and versatility can help us feel it all, explore it and learn to communicate in a more loving manner with ourselves and others. 

If you're interested in exploring your natal chart or astrology for your business or your star inspired daily routine for wellness, let's connect!

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Mothering Our Grief and Humanizing Healing with Angie Yingst

 One of  my fav local bicultural Latinx wise women, Angie Yingst  and I riff about her experiences and journey about waking up, getting sober  and surviving the pre-conceived ideals of what a “spiritual healer” should look like, ie young, thin, blond and white and embracing her own mind, body and spirit as she’s deepened in indigenous shamanic work to heal her own trauma and support her community.

Angie shares her profoundly spiritual experience of giving birth to her child who was stillborn at 38 weeks and how it shifted her awareness that there was a hidden grief that everyone is carrying and how mothering her grief lead her to expressing grief through art work. She began painting little bodissatva Japanese mitsuko giso (that were invented by women in the 50s to express grief around stillbirth/miscarriage and abortion.) She created over 1000 of them and sent them to women who were grieving all over the world. Realizing she was channeling this energy, she began to explore psychic development and healing.

"I don’t care about love and light, I care about shadow and how are you going to make meaning of that. The healing doesn’t look like you’re forever a twenty-year old, the healing looks like you did the work," says Angie Yingst. 

@UberAngie   Instagram

 

www.AngieYingst.com

Angie Yingst is an Earth Medicine Practitioner specializing in crystal healing and shamanic healing techniques. She is certified as a Certified Crystal Healer, an Advanced Crystal Master, Usui Reiki Master Teacher, and Earth Medicine Practitioner.