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Long-time nurse, business owner and yoga/Ayurveda educator Aimee Pruitt is back on the pod sharing how to create boundaries and burnout resistance when caring for others as a career or as a parent or partner. Useful tips for anyone in a helping role and some extra advice for up-and-coming health professionals. Healing for Health Care Workers starts on September 10th! US sponsors and health care workers who want to join for free, go to AimeePruitt.com. Canadian sponsors, head here: LisaDumas.com About LisaLisa Dumas is a somatic therapist passionate about educating adults and teens about calming anxiety and compassionately attending to mental health challenges in self and community. Join her each week as she shares stories, skills and conversations to help you soothe an anxious mind and body and remember you’re stronger than you think you are. Ask Lisa a question or share your experience to continue to shatter the stigma of anxiety and panic attacks and keep the conversation going! Send a DM on Instagram:  @lisadumasyogatherapy Or an email to Lisa@lisadumasyoga.com   Become a member of Worrier to Warrior Yoga Therapy to experience the benefits of having your own personal Yoga Therapist (me!) anytime, anywhere. Visit lisadumasyoga.com for details.

Who better to speak about what it’s like to love someone who has struggled with their mental health than Lisa’s long-time partner, Cliff Dumas. Listen to hear how Cliff discovered the truth of Lisa’s disordered panic and the best things he did to support her, plus how facing big fears can prove to us we’re stronger than we think. Healing for Health Care Workers starts on September 10th! US sponsors and health care workers who want to join for free, go to AimeePruitt.com. Canadian sponsors, head here: LisaDumas.com About LisaLisa Dumas is a somatic therapist passionate about educating adults and teens about calming anxiety and compassionately attending to mental health challenges in self and community. Join her each week as she shares stories, skills and conversations to help you soothe an anxious mind and body and remember you’re stronger than you think you are. Ask Lisa a question or share your experience to continue to shatter the stigma of anxiety and panic attacks and keep the conversation going! Send a DM on Instagram:  @lisadumasyogatherapy Or an email to Lisa@lisadumasyoga.com   Become a member of Worrier to Warrior Yoga Therapy to experience the benefits of having your own personal Yoga Therapist (me!) anytime, anywhere. Visit lisadumasyoga.com for details.

After personally encountering nurses sharing stories of their degraded mental health due to the staggering pressure they’ve experienced throughout the last 2.5 years, Lisa talks to her former co-host and longtime RN Aimee about her perspective working in the industry, the toll she has personally paid and what can be done to help the people who we may need to help us one day.    Keep listening to learn how to sponsor the healing of a health care worker.    Find Aimee at https://www.aimeepruitt.com/   and her studio at: http://radiantyogaandwellness.com   Contact your state legislature:  https://www.congress.gov/state-legislature-websites https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1195/text https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3165?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Safe+staffing+nursing%22%2C%22Safe%22%2C%22staffing%22%2C%22nursing%22%5D%7D&s=1&r=5 About LisaLisa Dumas is a somatic therapist passionate about educating adults and teens about calming anxiety and compassionately attending to mental health challenges in self and community. Join her each week as she shares stories, skills and conversations to help you soothe an anxious mind and body and remember you’re stronger than you think you are. Ask Lisa a question or share your experience to continue to shatter the stigma of anxiety and panic attacks and keep the conversation going! Send a DM on Instagram:  @lisadumasyogatherapy Or an email to Lisa@lisadumasyoga.com   Become a member of Worrier to Warrior Yoga Therapy to experience the benefits of having your own personal Yoga Therapist (me!) anytime, anywhere. Visit lisadumasyoga.com for details.

Yessica Avencena is a psychotherapist and the founder and CEO of Aspire Behavioural Health clinics and MindfulYou healing centers in California’s Central Valley. Yessica and Lisa discuss the mental health crisis we are collectively experiencing, how parents can support their struggling teens and how to meet difficult emotions within yourself and others. This episode is full of beautiful and helpful concepts on the path of living a full and mindful life. Resources:Mindful Minute AppMindful You PsychotherapyAspire Counseling Ask Lisa a question or share your experience to continue to shatter the stigma of anxiety and panic attacks and keep the conversation going! Send a DM on Instagram:  @lisadumasyogatherapy Or an email to Lisa@lisadumasyoga.com   Become a member of Worrier to Warrior Yoga Therapy to experience the benefits of having your own personal Yoga Therapist (me!) anytime, anywhere. Visit lisadumasyoga.com for details.

This week Lisa shares tools for feeling grounded and how important it is to ground ourselves while supporting others. She offers more information about holding space for loved ones struggling with anxiety and guides a simple practice to quickly get out of stressful thoughts and into a centered, connected space.  Ask Lisa a question or share your experience to continue to shatter the stigma of anxiety and panic attacks and keep the conversation going! Send a DM on Instagram:  @lisadumasyogatherapy Or an email to Lisa@lisadumasyoga.com   Become a member of Worrier to Warrior Yoga Therapy to experience the benefits of having your own personal Yoga Therapist (me!) anytime, anywhere. Visit lisadumasyoga.com for details 

For us “worriers”, a lot of energy can be directed toward navigating our anxious inner dialogues and attempting to protect ourselves from the uncomfortable symptoms of anxiety. Cultivating a more peaceful inner landscape is not a luxury, it’s essential so that life can expand beyond worry.    This week, Lisa shares that constructive rest, self-compassion and purpose can amplify our energy while making ourselves wrong for our feelings can further deplete it.    Ask Lisa a question or share your experience to continue to shatter the stigma of anxiety and panic attacks and keep the conversation going! Send a DM on Instagram:  @lisadumasyogatherapy Or an email to Lisa@lisadumasyoga.com   Become a member of Worrier to Warrior Yoga Therapy to experience the benefits of having your own personal Yoga Therapist (me!) anytime, anywhere. Visit lisadumasyoga.com for details 

Lisa has been treating herself as she would a yoga therapy client by prescribing herself some tools to support bouts of lower mood and exhaustion related to big life transitions. Time in nature is a simple, but meaningful way to support the body’s need for movement which in turn uplifts the mind and inspires us to remember to honour the cycles of life. This episode offers some easy ways to relate with nature therapeutically without needing hiking boots. Find out more about Lisa and her offerings: lisadumasyoga.com

Lisa is in her third week living in an empty nest and shares how she and her husband are working with acceptance to find peace as parents. She offers some inspirations on the art of letting go and discusses the concept of non-attachment and how it can lead to more love for ourselves and those we are in a relationship with. Find out more about Lisa and her offerings: lisadumasyoga.com

This week Lisa shares about the reality of saying goodbye to her daughter as she launches to college in Scotland and how to relate with more than one emotion at a time. She offers some inspiration and concepts to flow through emotions rather than becoming stuck in them and challenges herself (and you) to choose a consistent rejuvenation practice after a depleting summer of stressful world and personal events. The podcast is back, with a new look and a new name. As a health care worker and yoga studio owner, Aimee isn’t able to continue to co-host the show on a regular basis, but she’ll be back as a frequent guest! With her blessings, Lisa takes over the podcast and as Worrier to Warrior to reflect the work she does with those struggling with anxiety and mental health challenges. For more about Lisa or to reach out: lisadumasyoga.com

Yoga Therapy for Anxiety and Autoimmune Conditions with Susan Frankovich    This week features an interview with one of Lisa’s colleagues, Yoga Therapist Susan Frankovich. Lisa and Susan explain the difference between yoga therapy and a yoga class and how it can offer relief from anxiety, autoimmune conditions and much more as a helpful adjunct to western medicine and physical therapy.    Susan Frankovich is a Yoga Therapist, a PSYCH-K® & Women's Circle facilitator, and a Holy Fire® III Reiki Master. The transformation she witnesses through the one-on-one and group work she does inspires her to no end. Her ultimate goal is to assist people in finding balance and empowerment in all aspects of their lives. She sees clients both in person and virtually.    You can find Susan on Instagram @SusanFrankovich, on Facebook at Embodied Balance with Susan Frankovich, or contact her through her website at susanfrankovich.com Follow Susan here:  https://www.instagram.com/susanfrankovich/  https://www.facebook.com/EmbodiedBalance11 Find out more about us and our offerings: aimeepruitt.com lisadumasyoga.com Be part of the conversation and ask to join the private FB page- “The Radiant Warrior Community!" Each week Aimee and Lisa post inspirations, tools and practices here to help you reclaim your courageous heart. Plus, they’ll be asking for your stories relating to upcoming shows. Radiant Warrior Facebook group. Join us on Instagram @theradiantwarriorpodcast.

This week Lisa shares the many ways her life changed over quarantine and the inspirations that supported her through a cross-border move, disenchantment with the wellness industry and a newfound purpose to work with young people struggling with their mental health. Find out more about us and our offerings: aimeepruitt.com lisadumasyoga.com Be part of the conversation and ask to join the private FB page- “The Radiant Warrior Community”! Each week Aimee and Lisa post inspirations, tools and practices here to help you reclaim your courageous heart. Plus, they’ll be asking for your stories relating to upcoming shows. Radiant Warrior Facebook group. Join us on Instagram @theradiantwarriorpodcast.

Our first brand new episode in a year chronicles Aimee’s experience as a new business owner and a nurse navigating the pandemic and the practices that helped her along the way.    Join us for a Radiant Summer! Our robust course is back and includes seven thoughtfully crafted master classes and supportive material featuring wisdom from the paths of yoga and system of ayurveda. A Radiant Summer is intended to offer skills to tend to possible imbalances that can be heightened in the warmer months like emotional reactivity, intrusive thoughts, addictive tendencies and burnout. On your own time, enjoy each 120-minute experience featuring specific meditations, breath techniques, movements, philosophy, lifestyle skills, recipes and more to help you feel calm, cool and inspired during the summer of 2021. Find out more by visiting www.aradiantyear.com  Find out more about us and our offerings: aimeepruitt.com lisadumasyoga.com Be part of the conversation and ask to join the private FB page- “The Radiant Warrior Community”! Each week Aimee and Lisa post inspirations, tools and practices here to help you reclaim your courageous heart. Plus, they’ll be asking for your stories relating to upcoming shows. Radiant Warrior Facebook group. Join us on Instagram @theradiantwarriorpodcast.

On this episode:One year ago, Aimee and Lisa stepped away from the podcast, not knowing when they would return, because who could make a plan in 2020? Aimee had to prioritize her work as an experienced Registered Nurse in a global pandemic and Lisa was in the middle of a Covid pivot which included big changes for her whole family.    In this bonus episode, we come back for an update and a re-listen to last year’s solstice episode, because it’s brimming with what you need to know about harmonizing with the summer season from an Ayurvedic and yoga therapy perspective. We share a bit about what’s changed in a year, but we’ll save our major catch-up for our first official new episode coming out on Tuesday, June 29th!   Today also marks the release of our signature digital program- A Radiant Summer! This robust course includes seven thoughtfully crafted master classes and supportive material featuring wisdom from the paths of yoga and system of ayurveda. A Radiant Summer is intended to offer skills to tend to possible imbalances that can be heightened in the warmer months like emotional reactivity, intrusive thoughts, addictive tendencies and burnout. On your own time, enjoy each 120-minute experience featuring specific meditations, breath techniques, movements, philosophy, lifestyle skills, recipes and more to help you feel calm, cool and inspired during the summer of 2021. Find out more by visiting www.aradiantyear.com  Go deeper into the tools that can help to harmonize you with the summer season in our signature series “A Radiant Summer”   Find out more about us and our offerings: aimeepruitt.com lisadumasyoga.com Be part of the conversation and ask to join the private FB page- “The Radiant Warrior Community”! Each week Aimee and Lisa post inspirations, tools and practices here to help you reclaim your courageous heart. Plus, they’ll be asking for your stories relating to upcoming shows. Radiant Warrior Facebook group. Join us on Instagram @theradiantwarriorpodcast.

On this episode:From an Ayurvedic perspective, the beginning of summer signals the start of “pitta” season, a time of year related to the element of fire. For those of us with already “fiery” natures, this is an opportunity to be mindful of the effects of increased heat in our bodies and minds. You might be surprised at what can flare up right now, including addictive tendencies, especially with the collective upheaval and transformation so many of us are experiencing. Listen in on this conversation that is intended to remind us we are more connected than we are separate and each of us is battling our own fire within.    Go deeper into the tools that can help to harmonize you with the summer season in our signature series “A Radiant Summer”   This episode is sponsored by Better Help  With BetterHelp you can get help with facing life's challenges from a licensed therapist in a convenient, discreet and affordable way. BetterHelp makes professional counseling available anytime, anywhere, through a computer, tablet or smartphone.   When you sign up, you’ll answer some questions about the kind of help you need and you’ll be matched with an available counselor who fits your objectives, preferences, and the type of issues you are dealing with. Different counselors have different approaches and areas of focus, so it's important to find the right person who can achieve the best results for you. If you start the process and you feel your counselor isn't a good fit for you, you can be matched to someone new.   Counselors on BetterHelp are licensed, trained, experienced, and accredited and all of them have a Masters Degree or a Doctorate Degree in their field. They all have at least 3 years and 1,000 hours of hands-on experience. The cost to join is a low monthly fee and you can cancel when you have gotten the support you need.   Use our special link and receive 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/radiantwarrior Find out more about us and our offerings: aimeepruitt.com lisadumasyoga.com Be part of the conversation and ask to join the private FB page- “The Radiant Warrior Community”! Each week Aimee and Lisa post inspirations, tools and practices here to help you reclaim your courageous heart. Plus, they’ll be asking for your stories relating to upcoming shows. Radiant Warrior Facebook group. Join us on Instagram @theradiantwarriorpodcast.

On this episode:In the midst of worldwide protests to end systemic racism, white people are being called to acknowledge and dismantle our biases and take actions that can sustain change toward equality. This week Aimee and Lisa offer resources for continued education and share how our spiritual practices can help us to be in the discomfort of our roles in racial injustice while doing what we can to create a society where black lives matter.    Resources: Tracee Stanley https://traceeyoga.com/ Michelle Johnson: https://www.michellecjohnson.com/about   Books: Skill in Action: Michelle C. Johnson Me and White Supremacy  Documentary:  13TH. This piercing, Oscar-nominated film won Best Documentary at the Emmys, the BAFTAs and the NAACP Image Awards. It combines archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America. Find out more about us and our offerings: aimeepruitt.com lisadumasyoga.com Be part of the conversation and ask to join the private FB page- “The Radiant Warrior Community”! Each week Aimee and Lisa post inspirations, tools and practices here to help you reclaim your courageous heart. Plus, they’ll be asking for your stories relating to upcoming shows. Radiant Warrior Facebook group. Join us on Instagram @theradiantwarriorpodcast.  

After a pause from the podcast, Aimee and Lisa are back with a conversation about processing the collective challenges we’ve been facing. They share how celebration and joy can exist alongside worry and difficult emotions and some examples from their lives. They also talk about what they want to remember about these months apart and announce an opportunity to come together to be intentional about making our way back out into the world.    Join us for our free community offering: 21 Intentional Days June 1st- June 21st We envision spending 21 days being thoughtful about how we spend our energy and what we bring into our spaces, our minds and our hearts. Read more and join us here: 21 Days Singer-Songwriter mentioned on the show: Jim Witter, Spotify   Find out more about us and our offerings: aimeepruitt.com lisadumasyoga.com Be part of the conversation and ask to join the private FB page- “The Radiant Warrior Community”! Each week Aimee and Lisa post inspirations, tools and practices here to help you reclaim your courageous heart. Plus, they’ll be asking for your stories relating to upcoming shows. Radiant Warrior Facebook group. Join us on Instagram @theradiantwarriorpodcast.

This week Aimee and Lisa acknowledge the challenge to remain steady amidst the ever-changing news and regulations announced to battle the spread of COVID-19. They share what’s coming up for them, what wisdom traditions offer about handling troubling times and a few simple tools and concepts to stay with ourselves when overwhelm arises. The Worrier to Warrior Digital Workshop This almost 2-hour accessible yoga, meditation and personal development workshop includes accessible breath techniques, movements and grounding skills to relax the nervous system and promote the healing of excess worry. It intends to re-educate an overly fearful mind and relax a depleted, nervous body. It offers inspirations to cultivate a kinder inner dialogue, uncover and tend to unhelpful thought patterns and build a boundary of self-worth to help build resilience to self-consciousness and shame. Purchase the course here for $39.00. Find out more about us and our offerings: aimeepruitt.com lisadumasyoga.com Be part of the conversation and ask to join the private FB page- “The Radiant Warrior Community”! Each week Aimee and Lisa post inspirations, tools and practices here to help you reclaim your courageous heart. Plus, they’ll be asking for your stories relating to upcoming shows. Radiant Warrior Facebook group. Join us on Instagram @theradiantwarriorpodcast.

While Aimee is called to use her skills as a registered nurse in Columbus, Ohio, Lisa hosts solo and offers a practice she hopes will be helpful.    There’s a lot of information out there about the benefits of meditation. If you haven’t had a regular practice, it’s a hard time to start something new. Even for experienced meditators, it’s a challenge to sit quietly for an extended amount of time right now.    So we hope you enjoy this version of the guided practice of yoga Nidra (yogic sleep) with the intention of cultivating an inner resource of peace and safety. This method might feel more easeful because you will be invited to lie down while your mind is guided to focal points around the body and visualizations intended to relax the body completely, while the mind stays awake. This kind of rest is called “productive rest” because you enter a state of healing akin to deep sleep.    Yoga Nidra has been shown to reduce stress, anxiety, emotional reactivity and chronic pain while supporting focus and sleep.    You will need about 25 minutes of free, quiet time for this practice. Please practice anytime you need a break, a rejuvenation or some emotional support.    Here are some other resources to help you tend to anxiety from Lisa:   Online classes (live and recorded): Take a class   The Worrier to Warrior Digital Workshop- Therapeutic Skills to Soothe and Anxious Mind and Body   

This week we talk to Masters Level Counselor and EMDR Facilitator Susan Guttridge about how to process our own varied emotions and reactions to social distancing while being in close proximity to those we live with for an unknown amount of time.  Susan also shares wisdom and advice for those living alone, for those who are in relationships experiencing conflict, for parents dealing with small kids or teenagers and how this time might be an opportunity for greater connection and personal growth...or to watch Tiger King....   Susan’s new book about regulating emotion is titled Calm in the Storm: A collection of simple strategies you can use right now to shift out of anxiety is available here: amazon.com/author/susanguttridge   Contact Susan here:250-938-5580 livehappycounselling.com susanguttridge.wordpress.com   Resources: Ana Gomez book for children about coronavirus: The Story of the Oyster and the Butterfly  The Worrier to Warrior Digital Workshop This almost 2-hour accessible yoga, meditation and personal development workshop includes accessible breath techniques, movements and grounding skills to relax the nervous system and promote the healing of excess worry. It intends to re-educate an overly fearful mind and relax a depleted, nervous body. It offers inspirations to cultivate a kinder inner dialogue, uncover and tend to unhelpful thought patterns and build a boundary of self-worth to help build resilience to self-consciousness and shame. Purchase the course here for $39.00. Find out more about us and our offerings: aimeepruitt.com lisadumasyoga.com Be part of the conversation and ask to join the private FB page- “The Radiant Warrior Community”! Each week Aimee and Lisa post inspirations, tools and practices here to help you reclaim your courageous heart. Plus, they’ll be asking for your stories relating to upcoming shows. Radiant Warrior Facebook group. Join us on Instagram @theradiantwarriorpodcast.

As a registered nurse for the last 25 years, host Aimee Pruitt is on the front lines of our current health crisis in her home state of Ohio. She’s feeling strongly about the actions that we are taking as a global community right now and tells us why it’s time to stay the f@!k home.  Lisa and Aimee share what it’s been like in their cities and how they’ve been processing all that has been canceled and lost and how they’ve been dealing with these unprecedented times. They talk about the importance of feeling the feelings and being there for each other even while it’s prudent to physically be apart. The Worrier to Warrior Digital Workshop This almost 2-hour accessible yoga, meditation and personal development workshop includes accessible breath techniques, movements and grounding skills to relax the nervous system and promote the healing of excess worry. It intends to re-educate an overly fearful mind and relax a depleted, nervous body. It offers inspirations to cultivate a kinder inner dialogue, uncover and tend to unhelpful thought patterns and build a boundary of self-worth to help build resilience to self-consciousness and shame. Purchase the course here for $39.00. Find out more about us and our offerings: aimeepruitt.com lisadumasyoga.com Be part of the conversation and ask to join the private FB page- “The Radiant Warrior Community”! Each week Aimee and Lisa post inspirations, tools and practices here to help you reclaim your courageous heart. Plus, they’ll be asking for your stories relating to upcoming shows. Radiant Warrior Facebook group. Join us on Instagram @theradiantwarriorpodcast.