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Listen in as Anna Willard shares how to mourn the Past, Present and Future during these times of COVID-19.  She also shares the importance of how to mourn well by living a life with passion.  The root word for passion is to endure well, to suffer well.  As times of change sparks an aspect of mourning, Anna shares how to endure well with these three concepts: Having a Gratitude Practice  Understanding your Soul's Desires  Being Present in preparation for the future   CLICK HERE TO JOIN IRONWILLTRAIN_STRENGTHSPIRIT PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube

The psoas, (the muscle of the soul in Eastern Medicine) is the most intimately connected muscle to our nervous system.  ~ Drew Ragan   In this episode you will learn the interconnection between our mind and body and how this one muscle plays a big role with this connection.   How strength training can be used a guarding mechanism How physical pain can be a direction for a lessons into blessings  How developing a better proprioception helps understand internal state How yoga is a place of worship, a place for the soul to breathe How the psoas (aka the hip flexor) is more of hip stabilizer, sensorial  and emotional processor Muscle of the Soul: Anger, Will,Action, and Fire  are the emotions live with this muscle  How it is hard to be in flow when the psoas is tight  How breathe work will help soften the psoas and release the fear it may be holding How our SIT culture creates a tight psoas and it not always our emotions Next WorkShop is  April 18 1-3 pm at Kirkland Bala Andrew's Strength Training biz www.soulcenterredstrength.com Andrew's teachers: Greta Hill - http://gretahillwellness.com,  Leah Adams - https://leahadams.co,  Liz Koch - https://coreawareness.com,  Anodea Judith - https://anodeajudith.com CLICK HERE TO JOIN IRONWILLTRAIN_STRENGTHSPIRIT PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube  

  Celebrate this Divine unfolding with Me.   Breathe here with Me.   Revel in the witnessing, As I lead the way.   Let go the striving and efforting.   Janine Miller-DeLany, MA, LPCC-S Author/Spiritual Guidance/Clinical Counselor Owner of Upper Sandusky Counseling & Life Coaching   In this episode you will learn from Janine   How to face and heal trauma vs getting stuck in “woe is me” When in the exercise zone, it frees your mind and physical blocks  Training with joy from the childlike spirit  Self - Judgement creates less energy and restriction  in body  How to have self-love without the other person and the importance of community  How to balance the craziness from news along with self healing, self-care  How to stay open to messages of love within the body Course of Miracles and the Bible text correlations Body work from exercise, to tears, somatics to releasing trauma  How to manage burnout in a career of service    To connect with Janine you can reach her by clicking the links below https://www.janinemillerdelany.com  Mention the podcast get a sampled chapter from her book “Your Incredible Worth”    WATCH THE INTERVIEW LIFE    CLICK HERE TO JOIN IRONWILLTRAIN_STRENGTHSPIRIT PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube

Trauma brings transformation. It is a choice how it will change you. It can destroy you, or it can create strength to love and live in the midst of hope.   Liz Mullinar the CEO at Heal for life Foundation shares her wisdom and experience as a healer and psychologist. She is an internationally renowned speaker and has delivered many papers at international conferences on the Heal For Life Model of healing. She is the author of two books published by Hodder Headline: Breaking The Silence and The Liz Mullinar Story. Liz concentrates most of her time on the training and supervision of therapists in the Heal For life treatment model and training teams in other countries to run the program.  She is a member of the order of Australia for services to the Arts and survivors of childhood trauma. In 2000 she was awarded the inaugural Australian Humanitarian of the Year award.   In this episode you will learn: Scientific definition of trauma How our senses may trigger unknown trauma How trauma affect our development our mind and body How to truly empower yourself by embracing fear The importance of love when diving into the depths of fears  Denial is a natural reaction to trauma as an adult  Healing trauma is not a blame game  How facing fears springs the strongest joys How somatics activates the right side of the brain Mental illness is really physically illness Only verbalizing trauma retraumatised the person The importance of telling the story once and release it Self-Love is acceptance of worth and loving the fear and pain of our trauma Learn more with her book Heal for Life: How to Heal Yourself the Pain of Childhood trauma GET HER NEW BOOK HERE:  https://healforlife-book.com.au/ https://www.facebook.com/healforlifefoundation/ https://www.instagram.com/healforlifefoundation/ https://twitter.com/healforlife1 https://www.linkedin.com/in/heal-for-life-foundation-27683a36/?originalSubdomain=au   CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE INTERVIEW    CLICK HERE TO JOIN IRONWILLTRAIN_STRENGTHSPIRIT PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube

Listen to this short solo episode as Anna’s is in complete flow with her thoughts giving you insight and wisdom to this new year and new decade.  Here are three simple things she talks about to help you accomplish things beyond your wildest adventures.    Be Present  - easier said than done but being present has everything you need for those things you may be possibly creating worry or anxiety about the future.  Learning from the Past - Failures can haunt us when we don’t understand the negative lesson from them.  We have to have positive and negative situations in life.  Future - remember all you wanted to accomplish when a child and see how these things are still possible today knowing you don’t need to have a “title” to be able to accomplish your childhood fantasies.    Listen in to hear more about these three topics and how they can help you a life beyond your imagination.    Songs in the background from Spotify Playlist Peaceful Indie Ambient  Song 1 - Alps, Novo Armor, Ed Tullett Song 2 - Funeral Singers, Sylvan Esso, Collections of Colonies Of the Bees  Song 3 - Wash. Bon Iver Song 4 - Cold (feat. Lizzy Land), Mating Ritual, Lizzy Land  CLICK HERE TO JOIN IRONWILLTRAIN_STRENGTHSPIRIT PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube  

Letting go is an expression of grief, grieving is a process of forgiving. ~ Anna Willard    A new year, a new decade brings change and invites transformation and transitions within our life. For us to embrace the fullness of any type of change there is a grieving process of letting go of the past, good and bad, joyous and hurtful moments.  In this short solo episode, Anna invites you to express your grief. She continues to share the benefits of how deep and courageous it is to express grief and how it gives you the strength for the present moment and the unknown future.   CLICK HERE TO JOIN IRONWILLTRAIN_STRENGTHSPIRIT PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube

Silence and Solitude brings us to the wisdom of our oceanic cells and the deep desires of our heart's soul.  ~ Anna Willard    When we bring ourselves to a place of silence and solitude we are invited to listen to our soul's cry.  Listen in as Anna explain what this cry is, how we can listen to it, and how we can change it to the joy of our lives! She gives you steps to honor your wounds both physically and emotionally and how the pain of healing you can develop a language of listening to the wisdom of your soul.  BIBLE VERSE: Psalms Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.  For the first time Anna Share her recording a Solo Episode WATCH HERE!  CLICK HERE TO JOIN IRONWILLTRAIN_STRENGTHSPIRIT PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube

"Self-Forgiveness is accepting the reality truth of our failures, flaws, and imperfections" ~ Anna Willard  Todays Short Sweet Solo Episode Anna Willard talks about three simple steps to follow when practicing self-forgiveness. Acceptance, Daily Doing, and Positive Understanding.  Listen in as she shares how she too struggles with this practice of forgiveness. During this short solo episode you will learn:  The importance of a balance within forgiveness  Change is the greatest form of forgiveness  How silence and solitude to create room for forgiveness.    CLICK HERE TO JOIN IRONWILLTRAIN_STRENGTHSPIRIT PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube  

From modeling, to stunt driver, to becoming a Hypnotherapist Belinda brings us to a entire new perspective within this practice of forgiveness.  During this episode you will learn  how you talk to your body is a reflection of your belief how to practice forgiveness with a combination of gratitude  can't change the event or past event only your perspective  how to have awareness to your soul's cry through the tension of you body the spirituality of dolphins and their breath  the healing energy of joyful children living in the present moment how 21 days creates change within the subconscious  Make sure you listen to the entire episode as Belinda chants for us giving us light the dark  Click here to learn more about her chants.    To learn more about Belinda visit her website here http://www.hunahealing.com/   CLICK HERE TO JOIN IRONWILLTRAIN_STRENGTHSPIRIT PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube

All three of these women bring a broad and deep perspective to forgiveness and the intersection to mind and body within this practice.    In this episode you will learn different aspects of forgiveness like  . . .  How to have grace and faith  Develope a level of self-trust  How letting go is a step by step process Its ok to start small  Mindfulness within forgiving self  How to manage strong and weak days  Sometimes forgiveness can be harmful  Anger is an important emotion to acknowledge  Different types of anger and how to recognize the difference  Expectations within forgiveness can negate the process  How to allow curiosity to do deeper within your soul How we hold pain in the body and ways to release it WATCH LIVE VIDEO HERE  To listen to Listen to the individual interviews Click on the Links below   Besty Shilling  Reita Johnston Stacey Sorgen   For the yoga therapy ball Click Here  Use code ironwilltrain and save $10    Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube

Anger is an empowering emotion, nothing is wrong with it. The danger with Anger is when it goes on for too long. ~ Marina Catacuzino  Marina started the Forgiveness Project out of anger during the time of the Iraq War.  Her passion to bring peace through this practice of forgiveness is compelling and transformational.    In this episode you will learn how forgiveness  . . . .  Is being at peace with your past  Reconciling with your pain  Creates compassion towards other  Causes curiosity respect and empathy  Is done through our actions vs words  Unconditional and conditional  Loving the failing aspects of humanity How we relate to the world on a deep level  At the very beginning of this episode, Marina share two inspiring quotes:  Anger is a catalyst. Holding on to it will make us exhausted and sick. Internalizing anger will take away our joy and spirit; externalizing anger will make us less effective in our attempts to create change and forge connections.  Brene Brown.  Pain that is not transformed is transmitted - Richard Rohr    To find out more about her and the Forgiveness Project  https://www.theforgivenessproject.com/   You can find her two books on Amazon Forgiveness is Really Strange  The Forgiveness Project: Stories for a Vengeful Age  Want to join Anna Willard with this practice of Forgiveness?  Click here to learn more about #mindmobility a free 7 day guide eliminating tensive muscle and tensive thoughts    Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube

Jill Colman shares her story of forgiving her ex-husband who cheated for two years of their marriage.    In this episode she walks us through how she  was able to forgive herself during this chapter of her life.    Listen in and  learn  . . . .  Its ok to forgive without letting them off the hook  Forgiving self without repeating the same pattern Shoulding and blaming creates self shaming Self acceptance is the key of forgiveness  How to ride the waves of emotions through forgiveness  Letting go while holding onto self trust  Control and trust are complete opposites  Control is crippling and very fragile  Body acceptance is key within the practice of forgiveness    Books Mentioned: Lying: Sam Harris     WATCH THE INTERVIEW    CLICK HERE TO JOIN IRONWILLTRAIN_STRENGTHSPIRIT PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP   Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube  

Enjoy this short sweet episode with your Host Anna Willard as she reads part of her book: Spark Your Youth: A 21-Day Fitspirational to give you hope and the power to believe.   She continues this theme of FEAR from the last two episodes and gives insight to what we may truly fear and the importance of living out our dreams.   As she is reading a section of the book about fear, she is sitting and soaking up the holiness of nature at one of her favorite locations Edmonds WA.      CLICK HERE TO JOIN IRONWILLTRAIN_STRENGTHSPIRIT PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP   Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube      

"We fear the pain within our weakness" ~ Anna Willard  Todays Short Sweet Solo Episode Anna Willard talks about how to overcome our fear, how to deal with the pain it brings and the difference when we face our fears and weaknesses vs when we continually train our strengths.  When continually train our strengths, we develop rigidity, limitations, and boxed perspective.  When we face fears and train weakness we develop resilience, openness, and true strength. Side Note this Pain is usually the pain of a healthy transformation - listen to understand what Anna Willard is referring to   CLICK HERE TO JOIN IRONWILLTRAIN_STRENGTHSPIRIT PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP   Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube

Is Love over Fear a spiritual bypass of our fears?  Listen to Anna Willard as she shares from an athletic point of view how fear is very healthy.  She list when it is good to fear and it is not good to fear Good to fear . . .  Life threatening event = Living  Loneliness = friendships  illness = health poverty = wealth lost of a love one = deep love    Bad thing to fear because it limits us from ourselves Other people's opinions  Missing out  Judgment Failure    Having a healthy respect to fear is know our environment and gives us a sense of self.     KNOWING FEAR IS KNOWING SELF.    "Panic is deadly Fear is healthy." - Chasing Mavericks movie     CLICK HERE TO JOIN IRONWILLTRAIN_STRENGTHSPIRIT PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP   Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube

Slow is the New Strong    To build a stable foundation of strength, it requires a slow approach.  Listen to another short sweet solo episode with Anna Willard as she shares the benefits of going slow when learning the kettlebells.    She list three simple benefits by taking things slow    Self Awareness  Ability to self correct   Stay true to yourself    Anna encourages everyone to not only slow strength training down but  all areas in life so that you will be able to stay true to you!    CLICK HERE TO JOIN IRONWILLTRAIN_STRENGTHSPIRIT PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP   Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube  

Death brings life, it is a transition stepping into the unknown to become open for a newness within life.    Listen in as Anna Willard gives insight to how she has recently been dealing with a death within her life.     How easy it is to bypass emotions,  How scary it is to lean into our emotions How healing our emotions can be.  Anna encourages everyone to allow the “death” of an unhealthy habit, to be a new opportunity for improving your health, living into this concept of Death Brings Life.  CLICK HERE TO JOIN IRONWILLTRAIN_STRENGTHSPIRIT PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP   Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube   PS Here is the episode when referring to me being a pitta

When we live from a place of force, we are working against the flow of life.  Letting go is not completely in flow, there are times in life you need to hold on!    Listen in as Anna Willard shares three things to be aware of when forcing things in life versus being in the flow of the rhythm of life.   Force: Wanting the future to be in the current now  Overworking wasting time and energy negating the joy within the process Running back to the past for comfort of this idea of the known   Flow: Still and calm body of water creating room for rest and reflection Rapid force of a waterfall, a wave or the white waters from a river is work within the forceful flow Gentle stream invited work and play to dance together creating a joyful experience    Anna continues how important it is to honor our oceanic being by being in rhythm with these different waves of emotions with different types of exercise.  Listen to the very end as she has a special announcement for YOU!   PS. The episode with Janae Fletcher is Episode 12 Listen here   CLICK HERE TO JOIN IRONWILLTRAIN_STRENGTHSPIRIT PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP   Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube

Dance is a form of expression and connection    Dive in with Hayley Shannon a healing dance practitioner as she shares many gold nuggets of truth from her experience as a dancer and now a healing dancer facilitator.     Here are some of the things you will learn:  How to have connection instead of perfection How to stay grounded in your body when in a crowd of people  How to hold the space for the tears to fall for self and others  How to allow movement without the should’s but what feels good  How to repattern the mental muscle through the chaos of vibrations How to create space for the unknown The importance of drawing during healing movement dance  How the community body of people expedites the healing process    Enjoy this episode for alternative healing.  Make sure to listen to the end as Anna’s shares a story about how she was able to apply what she learned by attending Hayley’s classes.    For more information about Hayley’s work check out her website for new events https://www.hayleyshannon.com/   Also follow her on Facebook and Instagram  https://www.facebook.com/DanceHealingSeattle/   https://www.instagram.com/hay_shannon/   CLICK HERE TO JOIN IRONWILLTRAIN_STRENGTHSPIRIT PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP   Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube  

  ENJOY THIS SHORT SWEET SOLO EPISODE WITH ANNA WILLARD!    Have an open mind a willing heart to learn to love through our differences - Anna Willard    In less than ten minutes Anna shares from her experience how we can create a neutral ground within fitness and religion. She uses the analogy how different types of fitness can be beneficial at different times in life to how we can also benefit from different forms of regions and spiritual practices. Her main goal with this episode is to help us see how loving is learning through our differences.     Give it a listen and then make sure to click the link below to join her in person to continue the conversation and learn more all things of health and movement.    CLICK HERE TO JOIN IRONWILLTRAIN_STRENGTHSPIRIT PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP   Thank you for joining! Anna Willard is excited to take this journey with you! If you enjoyed what you heard, subscribe to receive future episodes and share your love with a great review and 5 Stars.   To train with Anna Willard with Kettlebells head to www.annawillard.com Let's Get Social Instagram Facebook LinkedIn YouTube