Hello beautiful human being.  in this week's podcast episode you get to meet the passionate Debora who is a vegan chef, psychologist and holistic health & nutrition counsellor. I had the pleasure to co-create several retreats with Debora and love how she inspires people to start on their plant-based journey by showing that vegan food can be tasty, easy to prepare and does not equal missing out on taste. In our conversation we touch on:  Debora's life journey and what contributed to where she is today how she got diagnosed with thrombocytopenia (platelat deficiency) as a child and the impact this has on her journey how you can take your health into your own hands tips on how to start eating a more healthy diet and what could help you eat more plant-based what you can expect when coming to one of our retreats and what makes them special our experiences in our first year of business and what we would recommend business starters our common challenge of navigating perfectionism and what helps us through it  Let us know what you could take away from this conversation! Join us for our upcoming 4-day self-care retreat in Ticino: https://happyhabitswithselin.com/4-day-self-care-retreat Lots of light to you! Selin

Do you often find yourself mindlessly scrolling or grabbing your phone when you don't want to sit in your discomfort or with boredom? In this episode I share my experience with Social Media, the positive effects on my mental health and focus during my Social Media detox and 3 steps how you can reflect with me to engage more consciously with Social Media: 1) Take an inventory of your Social Media use: How often do you go on Social Media? How much time do you spend on it? What do you use it for? Why do you use it in that moment in time? 2) Assess the impact on your life: What emotions are you feeling when you engage on Social Media or after having been on it? How does Social Media shape your world-view? Are you putting pressure on yourself with Social Media? 3) As you have created space and awareness - now it's time to re-evaluate your use of these apps and consciously decide how much time you want to spend on them. You get to find methods that work for you to train your mind and focus on these platforms.  Let me know what you could take from this episode. I would also love to know your strategies for limiting your phone / Social Media time.  Have a beautiful day, Selin

Have you ever doubted yourself and had the following thoughts cross your mind - Who am I to teach others? Who am I to charge this price? Or have you ever felt like you don't know enough and should get more certifications before you are ready? In this interview with Ines Padar (@inespadar) you get to question these beliefs and allow yourself to step into your full power.  Learn more from Ines about:  what impostore syndrome is and how you can identify the typical symptoms her 3 pillar model to help you turn around these negative beliefs that hold you back her own journey with impostore syndrome and depression and what helped her work through it how fear can drive your money mindset and success the difference between money blocks and receiving money blocks why receiving money might be very unfamiliar to you how you can shift your money mindset You can find Ines on IG @inespadar and on her webpage: https://inespadar.ch/ Thanks for listening and sharing with people around you! 

Have you ever had the feeling that something was completely wrong with you and your life? Did you then think you should do a 180 degree turn and from the next day on you would do everything differently and take care of yourself?  Did it work? My guess is no.  This interview with Randy Kay (@naturallyrandikay) invites you to take a different perspective on self-care. She shares her professional wisdom and her personal experience about: how she defines self-care and how you can integrate self-care sprinkles instead of trying to turn your whole life around how you can listen to yourself and find out what you really want and need how her model of the cycle of self-care can help you implement lasting practices how you can re-program your brain to see stillness as a safe place and not something you want to run away from how slowing down and breathing properly can make a huge difference her story with depression and what helped her befriend the depression and her sensitivity Check out Randi's podcast "Simple Self Care Podcast" and find out more about her on her webpage: https://www.naturallyrandikay.com/about Thanks for listening & sharing and finding self-care practices that work for you.  Selin

Join in on this short reflection on self-love asking yourself: When do you deem yourself worthy of self-love? Are you tying self-love to achievement?  Do you only love and accept yourself when you are upbeat, inspired and happy? Are you waiting for a day to finally be able to love yourself? The first step to moving towards more self-love is always asking yourself questions to take a snapshot of your current situation and questioning the rules that you impose on yourself. By imposing these rules you might create a lot of internal pressure of "never enough" to love and accept yourself. Maybe it's time to set yourself free from this pressure and allow yourself to fly high - not on achievement, but on life satisfaction. At the end of this short episode we will do a short meditation helping you to lovingly embrace your emotions and whatever is present in your internal world.  I would love to hear from you! Selin

Get inspired to move from criticism to self-love through this raw, funny & dynamic conversation with Cait (@why_cait). She is a South-African - English human being who is into self-love, yoga & body acceptance and is on a mission to inspire other humans on their body-acceptance journey by sharing authentically on Social Media. In this episode she is taking you into her journey from dieting, over-exercising and an eating disorder to being able to sit with herself and her emotions. She very energetically shares her insights on: how to start on your self-love and body-acceptance journey the benefits of being kind to yourself how to sit with your emotions instead of numbing the benefits of questioning beauty standards and diet culture how talking about taboos can help you set yourself free how you can build up your self-care toolkit her mission to show people that they are normal and that they can show themselves to the world - without filters! how acceptance can help you step into your potential and create space to create what you want and much more! Follow her on IG @why_cait and @bearbuttock to stay up-to-date about her upcoming retreat experiences!  Thanks for listening and being on your individual self-love journey!

Get inspired to follow your joy & live your dream despite the fears through this conversation with Celia Petrig. She is a professional snowboarder, snowboard instructor, loves sports in general and is just a very chilled and sweet human being who follows her passions. She vulnerably shares:  what habits help her to connect to herself  how the pressure she puts on herself can lead to overwhelm and how she deals with that how she learned to take responsibility for her thoughts and perceptions and not to be a victim of the world what snowboarding means to her and what her vision for women in snowboarding is how her parents supported her to go after what she wants and not what society tell you how mountains & the ocean help her to be patient and set everything into perspective You can follow Celia on Instagram: @celia.petrig - to learn more about her adventures and snowboarding projects.  Thanks for listening & sharing!

Join this interesting conversation with Ruta Mikulenaite and dive deeper into the practice of forest bathing, the beauty and wisdom of nature as well as neuro-coaching. She shares her insights on: how nature healed her and brought her back to herself the practice of forest bathing and how slowing down and re-connecting to nature can have incredible positive impacts on your life how zooming into the beauty of nature with all of your senses helps you zoom into the beauty of yourself her journey from a corporate job to becoming fully independent and the self-doubts she is encountering along the way how Neuro-Coaching can help you understand how our brain is wired to put more focus on threat than reward Find Ruta on instagram: @beoutside_coaching or on her webpage: https://www.beoutsidecoaching.com/ and join one of the beautiful experiences she is offering.  Thank you for listening!  Nature and you are amazing. :)

This vulnerable conversation with Kate Ballard inspires you to connect with the healing powers of nature, the mountains and yoga. Kate is a mountaineer, snowboarder, paraglider, yoga teacher and adventurer of life and the mountains. Having recently lost her brother in the mountains and as a young girl her mother, she is sharing what helps her on her physical & emotional healing journey and how she wants to inspire other people who experienced major trauma in their lives. She shares her inspiring wisdom on: the power of stillness and coming back to the present moment  how to sit with your demons and give space to your pain how to silence the inner chatter and get un-stuck through nature how to find joy in the outdoors & follow your path through perseverance how embracing the polarity of everything can help you set your challenges into perspective how to respect mountains, nature and yourself and much more... Follow Kate on Instagram - @kate.enlightenyouressence and contact her if you would like to know more about her amazing Pakistan healing adventure journey she is planning.  Thank you for listening - and thank you for walking your life path - with whatever challenges it might come. Selin

Welcome to this episode on how to learn to work with your own energy and the energy of other people. If you often take on negative energy and try to bring more harmony to a situation - this episode is for you. You will learn more about the following tips that can help you to stay more connected to yourself and not suck in negative energy: Start seeing the world as a network of energy. Every person is constantly sending and receiving energy and signals from others.  Take time to check in with yourself, to get to know your internal world more and take responsibility for the energy that you send out. Get curious about WHY other people are sending this energy - what is behind it?  Develop more compassion for others by seeing their life wounds and the hurt little child within them. Create space to create boundaries between your energy and the energy of others. Drop the need to create harmony at all times. It is ok to stay in discomfort.  Let me know what helps you work with people and situations that are filled with negative energy. I would love to hear from you: [email protected] or on IG @selinleuch