A storytelling podcast, largely about overcoming adversity and trauma, and developing mental health resilience.
Here, I chat with folks who have really been through it. They have experienced trauma, adversity, or the plain old societal projection that is telling us who and what we should be in this life. This has led them to ask the existential question, but who do I want to be? It is my hope that you will find these stories inspiring and that they will broaden the lens through which you see what may be possible for your very own life.
Stay tuned for season 2.
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A storytelling podcast, largely about overcoming adversity and trauma, and developing mental health resilience.
Here, I chat with folks who have really been through it. They have experienced trauma, adversity, or the plain old societal projection that is telling us who and what we should be in this life. This has led them to ask the existential question, but who do I want to be? It is my hope that you will find these stories inspiring and that they will broaden the lens through which you see what may be possible for your very own life.
Stay tuned for season 2.
S01 E011 Natalie Rousseau on Healing Being Non-Linear and Finding Her Way Home
The Journeys We Take Podcast with Jen Craig-Evans
4 years ago
S01 E011 Natalie Rousseau on Healing Being Non-Linear and Finding Her Way Home
If you're part of the wellness world, including communities that practice things like yoga, meditation, and breath work, then you likely have come across your fair share of 'spiritual bypass.' This being the idea that if you just 'think positive,' you will transform your life and heal all of your inner shadow stuff. In this conversation with Natalie, we call bullshit. As Natalie shares her story of a difficult upbringing, including parental mental health challenges and serious addiction, alongside separation from her extended family, she speaks candidly about her healing process. She connects with the idea of life being a long journey home; a non linear process of insight and integration that is never ending. She shares how she certainly would never think that all the challenges of her life are behind her or that she is somehow "healed" of her pain, but that she is deeply invested in the process of learning how to live with a sense of connected ease and joy. This has informed her work as an educator and storyteller. Her career began with teaching yoga, a source from which she was able to find many tools for her own healing journey. She speaks to the reasons she has stepped back from teaching yoga full time, and into a role of greater community facilitation through programs like her upcoming 13 Moons Circle. And the part I enjoyed nodding along with the most was that we certainly cannot bypass past pain and trauma with positive thinking, or even rely per se on the tools that have worked in the past. It takes an on-going commitment to show up with humility and willingness to dive deep. All the better if you have a good community to have the real, gritty conversations with. You can connect with Natalie via the links below: https://www.natalierousseau.com/ https://www.instagram.com/natalierousseau108/ Or join her upcoming year long course 13 Moons: https://courses.natalierousseau.com/p/thirteen-moons-circle (this one starts on March 21st) Resources for Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Training https://www.yogaoutreach.com/training-2 http://ajnayoga.ca/advancedprogram/
The Journeys We Take Podcast with Jen Craig-Evans
A storytelling podcast, largely about overcoming adversity and trauma, and developing mental health resilience.
Here, I chat with folks who have really been through it. They have experienced trauma, adversity, or the plain old societal projection that is telling us who and what we should be in this life. This has led them to ask the existential question, but who do I want to be? It is my hope that you will find these stories inspiring and that they will broaden the lens through which you see what may be possible for your very own life.
Stay tuned for season 2.
