This week on our special Anxiety series podcasts we have Michael Trotta from the Sagefire Institute. Michael speaks to us this week of our 4 Natural Gifts and how being in tune with these gifts relate to the anxiety he's seen in his clients. 

This week you'll learn:

What the 4 Natural Gifts are
How embracing them can help with anxiety
To see your 'gifts' in a new way
About finding the frequency where we thrive
How to recalibrate to get back to your frequency
And more!

I learned a lot during this conversation. I hope you do too.

Listen in.

The Sit Spot Journey we talked about is here: https://www.sagefireinstitute.com/resources.html

About Michael:
(His words were great, so I thought I'd quote him directly)

Who am I?  I'm an artist, storyteller, natural learning specialist, certified master coach, fly-fishing junkie, wilderness skills instructor, student of native traditions and the Hero’s Journey, proud dyslexic, facilitator of rites of passage programs, community builder, and a coffee lover. Did I forget anything? Oh, yeah...

After 10 frustrating years as a public school educator, I left in hopes that I could create something better for myself and the people I served.  So, in 2005, along with the support of my wife Lynn, I took the leap and co-founded Sagefire Institute (originally called Four Feathers Wilderness Programs). In the almost 15 years we've been in business I've been able to do my thing, share message and serve others in ways I couldn't have imagined on that day I packed up my classroom for good. Back then I wouldn't have believed you if you told me I would have lead corporate leadership retreats, been flown to faraway lands to tell stories, trained, mentored and coached hundreds of individuals, been paid to help people find their life's rhythm by taking them fly-fishing or tracking lions. But I did and I have and now, well, I can imagine a whole lot more to come. For myself. And for you.

Finally, it's a well known fact that I was raised by coyotes and I'm now happily raising one of my own; along with two cats, the occasional goldfish, and a small flock of chickens, somewhere streamside in Westchester County, NY.

Connect with Michael:
Head over to the Sagefire Institute website to connect with Michael. 
Website:  https://www.sagefireinstitute.com/
Free Sit Spot Course we spoke about: https://www.sagefireinstitute.com/resources.html

Anxiety & Our 4 Natural Gifts

This week we talk about Spirituality's role in both creating and healing our anxieties. Even if you do not consider yourself religious or spiritual, I think this will be a talk you want to listen to. In this conversation we talk about:

What spirituality is versus religion
The impacts of spirituality on anxiety
How being in connection can shift our anxiety
How to start a spirituality practice to support your growth and trust

Listen in.

Learn more at InvitingShift.com

About Rebecca Rockwood:
Rebecca Rockwood is a spiritual counselor and teacher based in Chicago. She helps spiritual people struggling with depression, anxiety, energy overwhelm, spiritual disconnection and resonation changes in life. Her expertise lies in teaching individuals how to strengthen their connection and collaboration with Spirit to get effective results in their material-world circumstances. Rebecca provides practical, gentle guidance from a Soul level that doesn’t require rehashing things from people’s past but starts where they are now and builds from there. Her techniques can be easily applied to every day life to ease emotional turbulence and to help reconnect with Spirit. She’s also releasing her first book “If I’m So Spiritual, Why Do I Feel So Crappy?: A Short Compilation on How to Partner with the Divine to Upbuild Your Life From Nothing” which will be released on Amazon this summer – preorder on her website.

Connect with Rebecca: You can reach Rebecca and learn more about her coaching on her website.

Spirituality And Anxiety

Experience anxious moments?
This week's podcast guest is Christel Libiot who talks about the relation of anxiety to the nervous system and ways we can calm our nervous system down. You'll learn more about:

How the mind and the body impact each other
What bio-dynamic cranial sacral therapy does
How to get back into our bodies to release your stress and anxiety
One way to instantly bring your energy back to center

Listen in.

About Christel:
Christel is a Modern Day Priestess with the Institute of Modern Wisdom, which is based on Oneness, Right Relationships, a life lived in Consciousness and Love Absolute. She believes everyone is born whole and the purpose of this life is to remember our truth, our light, our bliss, our connection to the Divine and to be Love.

Since experiencing breast cancer and Lyme disease 20 years ago, Christel has looked at life differently. She’s found more natural ways to heal both the physical and emotional scars she was left with. She is a Certified Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist as well as a Sekhem Sechim Reiki Master. She’s also a certified life coach.

She and her husband also lead Cacao Ceremonies along the East Coast. 

Learn more on Invitingshift.com

The Nervous System and Anxiety

Ever wonder what kinds of tricks that coaches have for dealing with anxiety? Even as coaches, we still have moments when we are overwhelmed or anxious. It's about having the tools to move past the anxious thoughts and take care of ourselves so it doesn't spiral out of control.

Today we have fellow coach and friend, Jenn Danielson who talks about preventing stress and anxiety and also what to do in the moment when you experience it. Listen in to hear more about:

How we can nip anxiety before it becomes a problem
How the body and the mind impact each other
What to do when you are experiencing anxiety
How to ground yourself instantly
Witnessing our stress and anxiety

Listen in.

Can't play it here? Listen to it on Soundcloud.

About Jenn:
Jenn Danielson is a Reiki Master and coach who blends science & spreadsheets with incense & energy so you can generate connected change..

Learn more at InvitingShift.com

Coaches Tools for Anxiety

In this Inviting Shift Actionable, Christel Libiot walks you through resourcing your energy. If you feel like you don't have the energy or even the desire to carry out your everyday, listen in for a tool to help.

Learn more on Inviting Shift.com.

Fragile Heart

Experiencing Your Resources - Christel Libiot

Growth, transition, shift, transformation.
Sounds magical, feels less so. Yet, in order to feed our human spirit, growth is always happening for us, whether we drag our feet or invite it in to have a cuppa.
Inviting Shift is a book written by Christina Smith about the cycle of S.H.I.F.T. and how we embrace transitions and make shift while standing in our power. We talk about ways to do that on the Weekly Podcast release on SoundCloud and InvitingShift.com.
Come check us out or even join our group and create conversation. https://facebook.com/groupsinvitingshift