Hopenning 2.0
by Fran Caudron
The Hopenning is the place where Hope is Happening. Your host is Fran Caudron. Every week I bring you guests filled with hope with ways of opening our hearts and minds to new beginnings!
Podcast episodes
Season 4
Martin O'Toole & Julia Malcolmson - Psychedelics - Friend or Fiend? The Power of Psychedelics - Hopenning 2.0 - episode #137 in Treating Emotional Trauma
Martin O'Toole & Julia Malcolmson - Psychedelics - Friend or Fiend? The Power of Psychedelics - Hopenning 2.0 - episode #137 in Treating Emotional Trauma
Martin O’Toole is a highly experienced psychedelic guide and integration coach, certified through ICEERS, with a background in transpersonal psychology, breathwork, and trauma-informed coaching. He is the author of the book, "How To Die Happy" and creator of the popular "How To Die Happy" Podcast. Julia Malcolmson is a globetrotting, multidisciplinary Yoga & Mindfulness Instructor, retreat leader, Sound Healer, and bodyworker with over a decade of experience leading retreats, including a role as a senior teacher at the renowned Hari Hara - Center for Awakening in Cambodia. In this episode of “Hopenning 2.0”, Fran, Martin and Julia discuss the use and history of psychedelic and plant medicine in treatment on mental health, and how they were outlawed in the 60’s, which contributed to unsafe practice in the 70’s. Today, there is a resurgence of psychedelic use, in and out of controlled and ceremonial settings, and why we all need to be aware of their potential, and misuse, and to decide for ourselves if psychedelics are the next best way of treating and recovering from emotional trauma. We discuss Martin and Julia's upcoming Peru retreat, and lead our "Hopenning 2.0" listeners through the reasons their retreat, with a combination of eastern spirituality, western psychology, and shamanic ceremonial plant medicine practices, may be the best use of the potential of psychedelics to heal from emotional trauma. Information about the retreat: https://martinotoole.coach/retreats Y You can find Martin here: Podcast: https://martinotoole.coach/podcast FB: Martin O'Toole Insta: martinotoole You can find Julia here: FB: Yoga with Julia Louise Insta: yogawithjulialouise
Pam Grout - God and Fun are Synonyms - Hopenning 2.0 - Episode #134
Pam Grout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 20 books including E-Squared: 9 Do-it-Yourself Energy Experiments that Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality and the Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (and Therefore the World.) She’s a freelance writer who has published with Scientific American Explorations, Outside, Men’s Journal, People magazine, Travel + Leisure, and many other publications. She’s the creator of the TV series Going Rogue, and the wacky proliferator behind two popular blogs. Her current focus is the 222 Foundation she started to honor her magical daughter, Tasman, who has been guiding her from the nonphysical since October 15, 2018. In this episode of Hopenning 2.0, Fran interviews her guest Pam Grout and they discuss: Pam Grout can be reached at www.pamgrout.com and @PamGrout on all the socials. She lives in Lawrence, KS, USA, and continues to travel the world spreading the word that God is found everywhere you choose to look.
LeeAnn Starovasnik - Awareness through Movement - Feldenkrais Somatic Healing - Hopenning 2.0 #133
A special discount for Hopenning viewers! For a limited time, LeeAnn is offering her A-F series of movement meditations for a discounted price of $25 for the package. To receive your discount, please use the code: Hopenning I In this episode, Fran talks with LeeAnn Starovasnik about the Awareness through Movement, Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Healing. 0:00 - Introduction 1:15 - LeeAnn teaches the "Ankle" lesson of Feldenkrais 9:45 - LeeAnn's journey from her own chest pains after the early death of her father from a heart attack, to leaving corporate America to work on her own healing. 11:40 - LeeAnn describes how a set of Feldenkrais awareness sessions with a practicioner in the art of Feldenkrais disolved her chest pains, and made her aware that decades of emotional scarring and body image created the physical symptoms of her chest pain. 13:30 - "Finding our Way home" back into our bodies 14:50 - Why we hide our emotional selves and how it ends up in physical pain 15:30 - LeeAnn's traumatic childhood brain injury 18:30 - How Moshe Feldenkrais developed the program from his inability to walk after knee injuries because of mindful energy, playfulness, and intentional movement. 20:40 - The mechanics of movement and why pain is the key to understanding 23:00 - "No pain, more brain" - how to train the brain in a neuroplastic way 24:59 - LeeAnn's 106 year old client 25:50 - Fran's half marathon run after taking LeeAnn's on-line class 28:00 - Feldenkrais educators such as LeeAnn require 800 hours of training over 3-4 years 29:45 - Using Feldenkrais with other strength and work out regimes 31:15 - LeeAnn shares a story of how using intention helped a client injured in a horseback riding accident regain her career as though "it had never happened" 33:20 - Intentions and why they are important in healing 36:39 - Somatic education 38:20 - LeeAnn shares her practice, and courses that are currently available 44:12 - NextStepConsultingInc.com for discounted rate with code: hopenning 44:59 - "Movement is life. Change the quality of the movement and change the quality of your life". LeeAnn Starovasnik has over 25 years of dedicated practice as a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner®. LeeAnn teaches classes, workshops and private sessions online and in her North Seattle studio. She loves applying her well-honed observation, intuition and problem-solving skills to creatively help clients discover, or recover, how to move efficiently and comfortably through life with a "no pain, more brain" philosophy. With certifications and licenses in body, mind and spiritual studies, LeeAnn provides support and builds hope. Currently she is launching a new series - Everyday Ease in Taking A Stand. LeeAnn is at home in Seattle, WA with her sweetheart, Chris and their dog, Della and on the following sites: NextStepConsultingInc.com LeeAnn@NextStepConsultinginc.com FB - Next Step Consulting, Inc Feldenkrais and Wellness Coaching fb - Everyday Ease
Ran Anbar - The Life Guide for Teens - Hopenning 2.0 - Episode #132
Fran interviews Dr. Ran D. Anbar, MD, FAAP, a pediatric physician, who is board certified in both pediatric pulmonology and general pediatrics. Dr. Anbar offers counseling and hypnosis services at Center Point Medicine in La Jolla, California, and in Syracuse, New York. Dr. Anbar is the author of a new book called The Life Guide for Teens: Harnessing Your Inner Power to be Healthy, Happy, and Confident. This acclaimed author of Changing Children’s Lives with Hypnosis: A Journey to the Center (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), is also a regular columnist for Psychology Today Online. Dr. Anbar is the founder of Center Point Medicine, serving the mission of making mental health care more accessible for children. He lives in La Jolla, California. Dr. Anbar can be found on LinkedIn. In this interview, we discuss: 3:39 - Why he wrote the new book 5:19 - How his pre-readers and contributors to the book were patients of his 5:55 - Why Dr. Anbar began using visualization techniques with his patients 0:45 - How to use visualization to help ourselves 15:21 - Dr. Anbar's advice to Fran in 2023 regarding her upcoming surgery 18:26 - Fran describes using Dr. Anbar's techniques during her surgery 29:30 - Using visualization to control emotions 31:45 - the STOP technique 40:00 - The Principles of Utilization 42:49 - Why anxious parents hinder growth in their children 47:02 - The power of spirituality in healing 53:00 - Why dreams are important to healing 55:30 - Using Internal Exposure Response Prevention therapy for OCD 57:20 - How to teach children how to deal with difficult situations Dr. Anbar can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ran-anbar-246b1829/
Troy Hadeed - My Name is Love - Hopennning 2.0 - Episode #131
Troy Hadeed - Teacher, Author, Human. Troy is an internationally recognized yoga teacher born and living in Trinadad & Tobago and has lived there for the majority of his life, and has immersed himself in the study and practice of Yoga. Troy currently lives on the forested North Coast of Trinidad among the majestic hills of Paramin, continues to share the practice of yoga, and spends his mornings writing on the wings of hummingbirds and coffee. In this interview, Troy fully delivers his personal understandings of God and his life is a testimony to love: "“I have always said that if I did not believe the practice of Yoga increased our capacity to love, and reconnected us to the God of our own understanding, that I would walk away from it immediately.”