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Open To Happiness

Nicoleta Porojanu

178 episodes

2 months ago

In this episode Nicoleta explores trauma and happiness with Alsu Kashapova, holistic transformational coach from Barcelona Trauma as the suppression of own self Impact of growing up with addictive parents From tech to the healing world Touched by self-awareness, meditation and yoga The return back to wholeness Between personality and the true self Consciousness vs unconsciousness Ordinary and non-ordinary states of consciousness The inner intelligence and our healing Restoration of core belie...

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In this episode Nicoleta explores trauma and happiness with Alsu Kashapova, holistic transformational coach from Barcelona Trauma as the suppression of own self Impact of growing up with addictive parents From tech to the healing world Touched by self-awareness, meditation and yoga The return back to wholeness Between personality and the true self Consciousness vs unconsciousness Ordinary and non-ordinary states of consciousness The inner intelligence and our healing Restoration of core belie...

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Self-Improvement,

Health & Fitness

Episodes (20/178)

Open To Happiness

178 - The return back to wholeness

In this episode Nicoleta explores trauma and happiness with Alsu Kashapova, holistic transformational coach from Barcelona Trauma as the suppression of own self Impact of growing up with addictive parents From tech to the healing world Touched by self-awareness, meditation and yoga The return back to wholeness Between personality and the true self Consciousness vs unconsciousness Ordinary and non-ordinary states of consciousness The inner intelligence and our healing Restoration of core belie...

6 months ago

44 minutes

Open To Happiness

177 - Open to inter-racial dialogues

In this episode Nicoleta explores the link between inter-racial struggles and happiness with Urmi Hossain, finance professional, blogger and author from Montreal, Canada. Happiness in the peace within you The impermanent nature of happiness Finding joy in the little actions Happiness in high school and university Identity trapped in between cultures When you belong to two different nationalities Displacement through migration and struggling to fit in Attuned to the diversity of an adoptive co...

7 months ago

38 minutes

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176 - Here's the essence of happiness

In this episode Nicoleta explores trauma and happiness with Matt O’Neil, Happiness Coach and Best-Selling Author from South Carolina, USA. Growing up with a tyrant father The impact of parental abandonment In therapy at 6 year old Life in poverty and struggle Finding joy in family connection Between success and addiction Resilience that follows trauma Why hardship happen for us The eternal soul as the essence of happiness You choose how much you like the reality How to heal the 8...

8 months ago

43 minutes

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175 - Tapping into the magic of yoga

In this episode Nicoleta explores yoga and happiness with Chloe Markham, award winning yoga teacher, writer and joyful living coach from York, England. When life challenges wire our brain Feeling life is short in childhood When the parent goes through stroke rehabilitation The joy following loss and trauma From practicing to teaching yoga Living more joyfully through you yoga About the toll and magic of yoga Yoga as the reminder of our aliveness How to engage with str...

9 months ago

39 minutes

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174 - Mid-life career choices

In this episode Nicoleta explores trauma and happiness with Wendy Alexander, mid-life career coach, author and entrepreneur from Melbourne, Australia. Life as a mixed race in the segregated South Africa Trapped in protests and social unrest Laughter and connection in the family home The experience of migration to Australia Domestic abuse throughout pregnancy Losing the house after divorce Embraced by the multicultural Melbourne Growing resilience and cultivating gratitude Inspire...

10 months ago

41 minutes

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173 – Exploring the relational privilege

In this episode Nicoleta is talking about trauma and happiness with Akilah Riley-Richardson, clinical trauma therapist from Trinidad and Tobaggo. Happiness in living aligned with own values Trauma and the relationship with happiness Understanding own value in the world How to erect proper psychological boundaries Moving through rough patches in life From true pain to authenticity Receiving validation for our internal experiences The relationships we choose and choose not When trauma and...

11 months ago

46 minutes

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172 - How yoga helps you surrender

In this episode Nicoleta talks about healing and happiness with Marie Young, Stress Management Coach from Texas, USA. From childhood neglect to depression The impact of the absent parents Coming from divorced families Lacking role modelling and support Between the compare and despair modes About the hardening of the heart Starting healing in the 20s The emergence of the post-traumatic growth Takings from the corporate world Happiness in human connection Wisdom of the divine...

11 months ago

50 minutes

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171 - Recovering from PTSD

In this episode Nicoleta talks about PTSD and happiness with Garret Biss, retired marine pilot, addiction recovery coach, and TEDx Speaker from North Carolina, USA. Happiness as the peace in your heart Joining the Marines in search for connection Travelling around the world and learning about the human condition In touch with the pain and suffering of people Between hedonic happiness and eudaimonic happiness The profile of a Marines pilot and the need for compartmentalisation PTSD for m...

11 months ago

48 minutes

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170 - Watch out your emotional overdraft

In this episode Nicoleta explores emotions and happiness with Andy Brown, author and leadership coach from England. Happiness in balance and equity Jumping with joy growing up in Brighton Curiosity is key to create happiness Attending the inner child Feeling chosen as an adopted child Living with a strong desire to serve About the emotional overdraft Investing in work at the cost of your mental health The factors that create emotional overdraft Why your thinking created your emot...

1 year ago

56 minutes

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169 - Experience life beyond the mind

In this episode Nicoleta explores healing and happiness with Holly Copeland, scientist, coach and healing practitioner from California, USA The youth and the false idea of happiness Missing the feeling of wholeness within Happiness as the inside out job Aligning with the love within When you naturally connect with the joy in life Life near a sibling with mental health struggles From conservation work to Buddhist teachings Finding purpose and helping others When you stop expecting...

1 year ago

51 minutes

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168 - Devices with healing frequencies

In this episode Nicoleta explores health and happiness with Mark L Fox, entrepreneur, scientist, and former Space Shuttle Chief Engineer, from Coco Beach, USA. Looking forward to waking up in the morning Happiness in helping others When you see the half full glass From love of chemistry to rocket science Why NASA is not progressive in its production 16 years in the space shuttle industry What inspired the interest in energy work How everything in the universe involves an energy e...

1 year ago

51 minutes

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167 - Connect with your soul statements

In this episode Nicoleta explores relationships and happiness with Corey Lyon Folsom, relationship coach from Venice Beach, USA. Happiness in improving the self Joyfulness in helping others Childhood contentment exploring forest and wildlife Joy in the connection with the self Three divorces revealed the need for personal development Increasing awareness for relational attunement Sibling relational trauma Coaching women and couples Slowing down to dissolve conflict A...

1 year ago

46 minutes

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166 - Between monogamy and polyamory

In this episode Nicoleta explores relationships and happiness with Jessica Fern, psychotherapist from North Carolina, USA. How we grow up with the unconscious expectations of fun, pleasure and excitement When the happiness is more the byproduct than the goal itself Presence, contentment and gratitude as the source of happiness The neglect surrounding an “easy child” perceived as not-needy Understanding transgenerational trauma Why our nervous system is key in happiness Connected with p...

1 year ago

40 minutes

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165 - Exploring whole-person health

In this episode Nicoleta talks about wellness and happiness with Heather Heynen, counsellor and weight loss coach from South Dakota, USA. Love for rock climbing and psychology The impact of divorce on teenagers Insight into binge eating and exercise addiction Sitting with emotions and self-regulating Inspired to heal by our own children The power of mindfulness in healing Integrating therapeutic tools and interventions Spirituality and the connection with the outside world Psych...

1 year ago

38 minutes

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164 - The madness of our culture

In this episode Nicoleta explores culture and happiness with Philosopher and Professor Jason Lee from Leicester, UK Is it good to define happiness? Is happiness the opposite of unhappiness? Seeing happiness as a mental illness Drawing joy and happiness from creativity and relationships Going into teaching to share knowledge and help others How is culture promoting both madness and wellbeing Group collective madness and modern social trends How doubt can make you a better thinker and le...

1 year ago

59 minutes

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163 - Exploring gender without identity

In this episode Nicoleta is talking about gender and happiness with Ann Pellegrini, psychoanalysts, author and Professor at New York University. How happiness is shaped by the social and cultural norms Personal questioning around struggle and flourishing When early life experiences drive our career choices Happiness despite sexism, misogyny and homophobia How a tomboy learns to live in gender Why all gender arises out of a relationship with normative trauma Trauma and its i...

1 year ago

51 minutes

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162 - How to grow a love abundance mindset

In this episode Nicoleta explores dating and happiness with Mat Boggs, dating expert, speaker, best-selling author, from California USA Happiness as the differential between your expectation and reality Joy in what is happening in the present moment Peacefulness when you give up the resistance to what is Living in an infinite field of goodness Challenge as the seed of an equal and greater opportunity Helping thousands of women manifest their love The greater the challenge, the greater ...

1 year ago

58 minutes

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161 – See "today" in 20 years from now

In this episode Nicoleta talks about mindset and happiness with Juan Campoo, mindset & behavior expert, author, TEDx speaker from Argentina, living in Netherlands. Happiness, as contentment and wellbeing When health struggles lead to coaching training Doctors prescribing yoga for life Using intuition to work with people for people Happiness has nothing to do with circumstances The impact of epigenetics in happiness Trauma coming to the surface at 40 Autoimmune dis...

1 year ago

46 minutes

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160 - When you open to the divine

In this episode Nicoleta explores relationship and happiness with Lisa Tahir, licensed therapist from New Orleans, USA. When we measure happiness in units of hertz From peace and joy to happiness in the little things of life The old and the new therapy and compassion fatigue When we integrate spirituality in our therapy practice 20 years in therapy focused on the past Hope as a precursor to change Empathy and self-forgiveness key in healing Follow your intuition, open to the divi...

1 year ago

33 minutes

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159 - Tantra and hours of soulgasm

In this episode Nicoleta explores sex, intimacy and happiness with Dominique D’Vita, Registered Nurse and Trauma-Informed Master Coach from Texas, USA. Childhood trauma around alcoholic parents Happiness in peace and in moments of joyful human connection Survivor of trauma afraid to go to therapy Searching for a career to bring purpose and meaning When you immerse yourself into work rather than healing Discovering the path of tantra after three decades of nursing Healin...

1 year ago

1 hour 6 minutes