Courage Within You with Silvia Turonova

Taking break from podcasting and what is next

February 06, 2024 00:39 - 6 minutes - 6.37 MB

Hello, my brave soul. The time has come when I decided to say goodbye to podcasting for a while and focus on my writing instead. First, let me start by saying that I am beyond grateful for you, my dear listener who found my podcast helpful while always coming back for more. Although the journey of podcasting has been deeply rewarding for me, I decided to direct my attention to something I love the most - writing. Therefore, every Tuesday, I will publish blog posts with tools, tips, ...

The Art Of Detachment, Self-Regulation and Emotional Balance

January 16, 2024 10:00 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MB

A while ago, I watched an interview with Jay Shetty where he talked about detachment as stated in the Bhagavad Gita, a 700-verse Hindu scripture. He says that, “detachment is not that you own nothing. Detachment is that nothing owns you.” I find this one of the most accurate and simply understood definitions of detachment. Also, it is worth noticing things and people we are attached to and then asking ourselves:” What does this person, thing, or achievement represent for me?” It wasn't...

2 Spiritual Tools For More Love And Kindness

December 26, 2023 10:00 - 14 minutes - 14.6 MB

Healing and walking a spiritual path doesn’t mean you don’t face challenges or that this path is linear. Therefore, having spiritual tools in place is important to keep evoking the love within while shedding off anything that doesn’t serve you. Love is your ultimate superpower. It gives you the courage to take the brave step, softens your heart, and shows you what you are worth. I always looked at growth from two different angles. You either grow by life itself when things you don’t...

#1 Mindfulness Tool To Regulate Your Thoughts And Emotions

December 12, 2023 10:00 - 14 minutes - 14.2 MB

When I found myself having Monday blues last week, this was the mindfulness tool I used to snap out of it while reminding myself of the true nature of my mind. There aren’t Monday blues, bad or good days, or happy Sundays (as people call it in America). The quality of our days, regardless of what day it is or what is happening around us depends on how aware we are and how well we manage our thoughts and emotions. This simple mindfulness tool is your internal resource available at al...

Healing Childhood Trauma And 3 Tools To Support You

November 28, 2023 10:00 - 30 minutes - 30.2 MB

Although healing childhood trauma is a challenging path to walk, it is also a path of deep fulfillment and self-love. When we become brave enough to look at our past and address earlier childhood experiences holding us back, we choose our destiny instead of settling for it. I’ve been healing my childhood trauma for a few years now. And although I have made significant progress, I still find myself emotionally relapsing while feeling paralyzed by fear and unease. It is one of the reas...

Rewire Your Brain With This 3-Step Process

November 14, 2023 10:00 - 20 minutes - 19.9 MB

You can rewire your brain, change how you think and perceive life, and become in love with it by consciously choosing how you want to think. The moment you are born, your conscious mind isn’t formed yet, while the subconscious mind is fully open. Therefore, whatever you hear, see, experience, and perceive from that point gets stored in your subconscious. That’s where your mood, attitude, and personality form and then, often unconsciously, direct your life to this point. However, man...

How to Use Positive Affirmations and Visualization to Heal

October 31, 2023 08:30 - 19 minutes - 18.6 MB

Since we tell ourselves affirmations all day, why not make them into positive affirmations that allow us to become who we want to be and attract things we want? There are two types of affirmations: conscious and unconscious. Unconscious affirmations are thoughts and beliefs that run on autopilot. Since we reinforce these statements in our minds many times, they become automatic. Often those are thoughts we don’t want to have but aren’t aware we have them. Conscious affirmations are ...

Healing Inner Child and Reparenting Yourself

October 17, 2023 09:00 - 19 minutes - 18.4 MB

Healing your inner child is about accessing the wounds or suppressed emotions while recognizing what parts of you need to be healed. It’s also about identifying different parts or versions of your little self and then healing them individually. You may have a version of your inner child that’s angry, one that feels unworthy, untrusting, or insecure. Attuning to each of them, giving them attention, validating their feelings, and loving them through it all is where deep healing happens. ...

3 Spiritual Practices That Healed Me

October 03, 2023 08:30 - 21 minutes - 21.2 MB

Are you stuck on your healing path? Do you feel you’ve tried almost everything, but nothing quite works? Today, I am sharing my 3 most powerful spiritual practices that I used and continue using every day to heal and keep myself in balance. Daily spiritual practices are essential for anyone on a healing path. When we have a practice in place and stay committed to it, what we are saying is “I love me to take care of me.” Developing spiritual practices that work and coming back to them d...

15-Minute Guided Meditation to Reinvent Yourself

September 19, 2023 08:30 - 14 minutes - 17 MB

What if instead of focusing on what you want to accomplish externally, you look within and focus on who you need to become and how you can reinvent yourself to reach the healing, growth, and goals you desire? The external world can fall apart, but how you manage your internal system and the magnitude of your is something no one can take away from you. Inner resilience and self-belief rooted in self-trust are all you need when embarking on a committed spiritual path while transforming th...

4 Mindset Shifts That Fuel Your Growth

September 05, 2023 09:00 - 17 minutes - 18.1 MB

Beyond the tools and techniques we use to better self-regulate, there are 4 mindset shifts that create change on a level of perception. And as Wayne Dyer said, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." So often, women come to me and say, “I tried everything, but I feel stuck.” Often, it is one of these mindset shifts that they haven’t yet established. Although tools and exercises are essential for building a diverse self-care toolkit and raising awa...

Building a strong self-belief and breaking through mental limits

August 22, 2023 08:30 - 19 minutes - 19.3 MB

There is a quote from Swami Vivekananda that empowers me every time I read it. He says, “Tell your body that it is strong. Tell your mind that it is strong and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.” That, to me, represents a deep sense of self-belief. Regardless of the circumstances we are brought up in, every single person can change their life and write their destiny by building a strong self-belief. Every belief you currently have (whether you consider it good or bad) is an accu...

Healing With Grace And Honoring Your Path

August 08, 2023 09:00 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MB

Healing with grace means honoring the stage of your growth while nurturing a sense of respect and meeting yourself where you are. Think about it - the number one reason you turn to emotional healing and spiritual growth is to experience more joy, happiness, and ease in your life. But how often do you end up entangled in this process: judging yourself for the slightest mistakes, striving for perfectionism, or feeling guilty because you aren’t meeting some unrealistic expectations? The...

Feeling Empowered and Trusting Yourself

July 25, 2023 08:36 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MB

When I say “feeling empowered’ - what comes to your mind? Living a life with no fear? Overcoming self-doubt? Setting boundaries? Not letting the opinions of others affect you? Or maybe something else? What if you can live your life in this place? One of the most inspiring things I understood about empowerment is that it comes from within and builds an immense level of self-respect. We feel empowered when we overcome our fears, heal a wound that has been there for a while, take a step...

Negative thoughts: How to observe, detach and change them

July 11, 2023 09:00 - 20 minutes - 15.3 MB

Can you eliminate all your negative thoughts for the rest of your life? Maybe not, but you can certainly manage them effectively. When you try to resent your negative thoughts, they often persist and become louder. Therefore the trick isn’t stopping your thoughts in track or exercising fake positivity (trust me, I tried, and it doesn’t work), but rather, not identifying with everything you think. Let’s say there is a limiting belief you adopted in your childhood which you label a...

Finding the courage within and living fearlessly

June 27, 2023 09:00 - 20 minutes - 19.5 MB

In this episode, we’ll dive into what it means to find the courage within you by confronting your fears and embracing living boundlessly. We both know that fear is real, no doubts about it. However, I refuse to sit here and accept that this is how “things are.” Are you with me? We were programmed to believe that living with anxiety is “normal” or that living with stress is “just’ a part of daily living. Both are a product of our fears about what may go wrong, whether we have what it tak...

How To Retrain Your Mind And Overcome Negative Thoughts and Beliefs

June 13, 2023 09:00 - 19 minutes - 19.9 MB

What if I tell you there is a simple way to retrain your mind while going about your day as usual? And what if I tell you that you can use my 3-step process to accomplish just that? If I ask you, “Who are you?” Would you be able to answer that? (spoiler alert: If you are not sure, that’s okay. Neither am I. But that’s beside the point). You may not know who you are, at least not just yet, but we both can agree you are NOT your mind - you HAVE a mind. Even better, we can think about yo...

Self-Validation vs. Self-Responsibility

May 23, 2023 09:00 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MB

Self-validation allows us to acknowledge, feel and process our emotions, while self-responsibility is where we step out of victimhood and into our power. When you begin to look at any area of your life that is asking for healing, acknowledging what you feel is the first step. So often, we carry our pains silently because, as adults, aware only of our logical brain, we ridicule what our emotions try to tell us. Self-validation or validating our emotions means honoring what is there, wit...

Guided meditation to ease anxiety and create a safe space within

May 16, 2023 09:00 - 14 minutes - 16.3 MB

Tune into this guided meditation to ease anxiety while embracing a safe space within you. Here is the thing, my friend. At what point in our lives have we accepted that living with this fearful feeling lingering in the back of our mind is normal? Whether it is because of the negative information we mindlessly consume or the dysregulated nervous system, is this the only way to "do life?" Learning to self-regulate while managing your thoughts and emotions is a useful skill to acquire du...

5 Coaching Questions To Empower Your Healing and Growth

May 02, 2023 09:00 - 22 minutes - 19.5 MB

In today’s episode, I will be sharing five powerful coaching questions that transformed not only my life but also the lives of my clients, and I hope they will do the same for you. We all have what I call blind spots. These are things others may see, but we are blind to them. It often happens when we are in the arena, dealing with the rawness of life while trying to figure out and handle things in the best way possible. The power of coaching questions is to uncover these blind spots, g...

Cultivating Heartfelt Emotions and Healing Power of The Heart

April 04, 2023 09:30 - 25 minutes - 22.8 MB

How can we cultivate heartfelt emotions and use them to heal ourselves and build more resilience? When we live in a state of fear, our hearts are closed, and our nervous system spends most of the time in a fight or flight mode. We feel less energy, and although we wake up every morning and do the things we have to, it may feel as if we are not living. When we begin opening our hearts to life and embracing heartfelt emotions like joy, compassion, forgiveness, gratitude, or even deep sad...

10-Minute Guided Forgiveness Meditation

March 21, 2023 08:56 - 10 minutes - 10.2 MB

About three years ago, I was a member of a coaching group with Jay Shetty, and we were covering a forgiveness month. One of the things he did with us was a mindfulness exercise on self-forgiveness. I remember closing my eyes and saying, “I forgive myself.” The moment I spoke these words out loud, I started crying and couldn’t participate anymore. Therefore, I had to finish the session on replay. This experience was a profound moment of realizing how much guilt and self-judgment we hold...

Mindfulness Exercise: 10-Minute Guided Meditation for Empowered Mind

March 07, 2023 10:00 - 10 minutes - 11.9 MB

During my yoga studies in India, I learned techniques for better mind management to regulate my emotional state with more calm and consideration. Today, I want to share a mindfulness exercise to help you do the same. Although I don’t want to go too philosophical on you here, I believe our mind often runs on old “software” - a program full of limiting beliefs or habits we acquired. Therefore if we identify with what we think, it becomes quite difficult to heal ourselves, especially when th...

Mindfulness Exercise: You Are Not Your Mind

March 07, 2023 10:00

During my yoga studies in India, I learned techniques for better mind management to regulate my emotional state with more calm and consideration. Today, I want to share a mindfulness exercise to help you do the same. Although I don’t want to go too philosophical on you here, I believe our mind often runs on old “software” - a program full of limiting beliefs or habits we acquired. Therefore if we identify with what we think, it becomes quite difficult to heal ourselves, especially when th...

How to Manage Your Thoughts and Build Resilient Mind

February 06, 2023 19:33 - 20 minutes - 19.8 MB

If you want to change your life, whether to heal your past or transform your current situation, do it by training yourself to manage your thoughts effectively. Since your thoughts create your feelings and your feelings drive your actions, your life is a result of what you think all day long. Therefore, to make sustainable changes and live life on your terms, you must go back and address the source - your MIND. To take the overwhelm out of the picture by trying everything while seeing...

How to Consciously Heal With Love

December 27, 2022 14:44 - 20 minutes - 20.4 MB

We don’t heal through judgment while inflicting more guilt on ourselves for the choices we make. We do it by understanding what happened to us and taking responsibility for our healing by consciously changing our self-sabotaging habits. For most of us, the results of our survival mechanism won’t make lots of sense to our adult logical selves. Self-betrayal or self-sabotage is, in fact, the protective mechanism our brain developed to ensure our survival. Pondering the question, “what happ...

Discipline Your Mind For More Healing and Growth

November 29, 2022 09:00 - 22 minutes - 18.9 MB

Is there such a thing as knowing too much? Can we miss out on profound moments of healing and growth because we try to crack the complex code of our mental and emotional recovery while overlooking the simplicity of this process? In today’s episode, I will take you back to the basics of what it means to transform your life and heal your past one thought at a time. Although disciplining your mind may not be easy at first, cultivating this practice can lead to less anxiety, a healthier an...

How to Feel Good

October 24, 2022 21:00 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MB

How do you make yourself feel good when facing challenging times, and do you even allow yourself to feel good in the first place? Today’s podcast episode was inspired by my past 2 weeks when I felt like I was on an emotional rollercoaster while struggling to find any inner balance or peace. I realized how my spiritual practice allowed me to get through these weeks with more calm and ease and reminded me how important it is to have habits, tools, and techniques in place when facing those ...

Soothing Meditation for More Joy and Inner Peace

October 03, 2022 23:42 - 16 minutes - 18.9 MB

A couple of weeks ago, I published my first self-love meditation to heal your inner child. Since many of you enjoyed it, I decided to create a little bit longer meditation for self-soothing and bringing more joy and inner peace into your life. This is a great meditation if you need a little more care and a little more nurturing. “It’s not through healing that you will love yourself. It’s through loving yourself that you will heal.” Finding comfort in meditation Although there are man...

3 Ways How to Nurture a relationship with Your Inner Child

September 26, 2022 20:27 - 18 minutes - 18.1 MB

You come into this world as a super cute, adorable, perfect, playful, lovable, and carefree baby. Your soul is pure and your heart wide open. But then… Life happens. Suddenly you find yourself in your adulthood, considering whether you should get a therapist, move to California, go to one of the anonymous meetings or lie to yourself and pretend that everything is fine. Since you are here, I assume you want to change your life and how you feel. If that is the case, I encourage you, with a...

Self-love Meditation for Healing Your Inner Child

September 21, 2022 22:00 - 9 minutes - 9.93 MB

I am thrilled to share the 10-minute meditation on self-love and connecting with your inner child. Healing Through Meditation During the years of my healing, I tried many tools and techniques to learn how to heal my past while developing a more loving relationship with myself. I am honored to be able to share these tools with you and help you on your healing journey. I’ve tried many ways to heal my soul through yoga, meditation, traditional talk therapy, plant medicine, spiritual re...

3 Ways How to Begin Your Healing Journey and Love Yourself

September 12, 2022 15:49 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MB

I am sure you tried many ways, read tons of books, and listened to podcasts and videos on how to love yourself, how to see your worth, and how, at the same time, to heal yourself. Or, perhaps, you stumbled here by accident (or by choice) and want to learn how to overcome the never-ending spiral of self-sabotage, people-pleasing, and self-punishment. No matter where you are on your journey, one of the most loving and caring things you can do for yourself is to have the courage to look with...

The Power of Self-Coaching

August 10, 2021 09:00 - 18 minutes - 18.5 MB

Previously, I mentioned to you that I created a free self-coaching worksheet as a way to teach you how to develop this life-altering skill, and I am also providing you with nine questions to coach yourself. Click HERE to get the worksheet. In today's episode, I want to talk more on this topic since coaching has exponentially transformed my life, and I have seen many people who created significant changes by utilizing this skill. Learning how to coach yourself leads to inner exploration, ...

Forgiving Yourself while Growing and Healing

August 03, 2021 09:00 - 22 minutes - 22.3 MB

One of the most common patterns I observed during my growth and the growth of my friends and my clients is that once we start healing and growing, we are overly harsh on ourselves. We believe we shouldn't be feeling the way we feel, we shouldn't be acting in old ways, and we should be better than we are. As I always say, growth is an imperfect process, and occasional emotional relapse or stagnation is part of it. We work on ourselves because we want to be better and because we want to ...

Courage to Face the Hard Stuff

July 27, 2021 09:00 - 19 minutes - 19.4 MB

One of the most common struggles people share with me is the fear of healing or growing. At first, it may sound counterintuitive since we all want to be happy, positive, and peaceful since that's what growing and healing provide. However, if we bottled up too much for too long, looking at the truth of who we are or the truth of our situation terrifies us. Although the fear of healing and growth is natural, we can't let it stop us from the transformation we need to go through. In the end...

Qutting Perfectionism

July 13, 2021 09:00 - 21 minutes - 21.1 MB

Perfectionism is a desire not to be seen for who we are but to hide and pretend that we are someone we are not. Perfectionism is based on fear. Often, we strive for it since we don't want to fail or be seen who we are - with our failures, shortcomings, weaknesses AKA imperfections. The most common fear is the fear of failure. But there is also fear of rejection, unworthiness or not being good enough for others because of our flaws. Perfectionism doesn't let us take a risk because we fe...

Walking Your Talk

July 06, 2021 09:00 - 19 minutes - 18.9 MB

For many of us, it's uncomfortable to admit that we are "playing around," not doing the work we know we have to do while being stuck at the same place in life. Once we admit that we are the ones standing in our way, what's left? There isn't anyone to blame or point fingers at, and we are challenged to take responsibility. So if you feel that you are struggling right now, that the same situations keep repeating, the same people keep showing up, the same drama keeps happening, and the same...

Are You Honest with Yourself?

June 29, 2021 09:00 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MB

When we choose to lie to ourselves and stay in denial, it's because we don't want to see the truth about ourselves or others. These lies give us instant gratification, take away responsibility, allow blame while at the same time, we are betraying ourselves. We do that because the truth seems to be too much to handle. But without being 100% honest with yourself, you can't grow. Growth is confronting, uncomfortable, self-responsibility-driven, and at times intimidating. But growth is a...

The Opportunity in Hardship

June 22, 2021 09:00 - 22 minutes - 22 MB

There is so much wisdom, teaching, and opportunities in pain or hardships we are going through. But since we are such emotional beings often driven by what we feel, we overlook the lesson and look for the nearest exit or instant gratification instead. Then we wonder why some of the lessons keep repeating themselves over and over. In todays' episode, I will share with you a 4-step process on how to find the opportunity in hardships, recognize them and use them to support your growth and...

The Power of Self-Responsibility

June 15, 2021 09:00 - 19 minutes - 18.6 MB

Hello, my beautiful soul. When we blame, we give our power to someone or something else, and our emotional and mental state depends on external circumstances. But when we choose to take responsibility for our life, it's like saying, "I am in charge, and I am taking my power back." There are two types of self-responsibility. One is what I call "artificial responsibility and then there is what I call "true responsibility." I will explain the difference between both. Last but not least, ...

Standing Up For Yourself

June 01, 2021 09:00 - 20 minutes - 20.5 MB

People who experience traumas, fight the feeling of abandonment, struggle to see their worth or their value will often settle for less without recognizing it. You may find yourself in toxic relationships, constantly wrapped up in the drama, tolerating things you don't feel comfortable with, or taking abuse while never questioning it since it feels like home. But when someone who has healed or have grown up in a loving home point it out for you, you begin to realize that not everything yo...

Emotional Armor (Part 2)

May 25, 2021 09:00 - 19 minutes - 19.3 MB

In the previous episode, I talked about what emotional armor is and the reasons many of us carry this guard to protect ourselves from hurt, pain, or disappointment. But as we already learned, emotional armor is a product of our fear - fear to get hurt or fear to feel pain. We develop this coping mechanism since we haven't healed certain parts of ourselves, haven't overcome our traumas, or haven't felt through emotions we need to heal. Since the last week, we talked about the definition...

Emotional Armor (Part 1)

May 18, 2021 09:00 - 18 minutes - 17.8 MB

In today's episode, I want to talk to all of my tough cookies, who are carrying this illusionary shield, or as I call it, the "emotional guard" for protection. We guard up because we got hurt. Since we don't want to feel this way again, we armor up, hoping it will protect us from experiencing this pain again. Do you know what I found out, my friend? This guard is nothing but an illusion, and it's based on fear. It took me a long time to understand that guarding myself is a waste of my ti...

Emotional Resilience

May 11, 2021 09:00 - 16 minutes - 16.5 MB

Well, hello there, my beautiful soul. In today's episode, I will teach you how to build emotional resilience but before I dive deeper, let me give you a simple definition of what it means. Emotional resilience is the ability to adapt to stressful situations and cope with life's ups and downs. Resilience does not eliminate stress or erases life's difficulties but allows you to tackle or accept problems and live through adversity. Resilience is also about accepting what is, letting go of...

Self-Awareness

April 27, 2021 09:00 - 16 minutes - 16.3 MB

Any transformation or growth requires one essential skill, and that's self-awareness. Self-awareness is the willingness to see and acknowledge who you are, with all your imperfections, toxic traits, wounds, strengths, and weaknesses. Being aware is about being responsible for your life, thoughts, emotions, and actions. To me, my friend, that's power. Many of us fear acknowledging the truth about who we are. We are afraid that we won't like it, or we feel worse about ourselves. But th...

Permission to Feel

April 20, 2021 09:00 - 21 minutes - 21.1 MB

One of the most common questions or concerns people share with me is how to properly deal with what we call the "hard stuff." Since our desire to feel good, to feel happy and excited about life is strong, our desire to stop feeling sad, depressed, or betrayed is even greater. But when we push those uncomfortable emotions away and try to drink away, binge away, or work away from our pain, what we are doing is pushing this pain even deeper into our subconscious. The goal of healing and d...

Loving and Respecting Yourself

April 06, 2021 09:00 - 19 minutes - 18.4 MB

For many of us, the idea of "How do I love myself?" is a million-dollar question. I will answer it in today's episode since there has been a lot I learned in these past months. Look at self-love as a skill you want to learn and develop. Like any skill, it takes a little bit of time and practice to get it "right" or become more familiar with it. For me, self-love requires three things - awareness, strength, and action. You become aware of your triggers and what makes you question or hus...

Things We Tolerate

March 30, 2021 09:00 - 18 minutes - 17.7 MB

Have you ever left a relationship, a job, or a situation and couldn't understand why you stayed in it for so long even though it wasn't good for you? You may be asked yourself "Why did I tolerate it?" As human beings, we are flexible. We adapt, we blend in, we change and we adjust to whatever situation we are in if we are in it long enough. And whatever seemed once unacceptable, becomes insignificant because we get used to it. The question is "Do we tolerate certain things because th...

Developing Self-Trust

March 16, 2021 09:00 - 17 minutes - 17.4 MB

How often do you find yourself in constant doubt when it comes to your decisions? You are going back and forth between multiple options, then consult your problems with numerous people, gather seven different opinions while feeling even more confused and unsure than at the beginning. So often, people come to me and ask me; "What should I do? What is the best thing I can do?" And I always tell them that they already know the answer. The problem isn't in not knowing what you need or wa...

Your Support System

March 09, 2021 10:00 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MB

Developing a support system for yourself is one of the fundamental ways on how to work towards transformation and overcome personal challenges. When we talk about the support system, we often refer to our family or friends, our therapist, coach, or a mentor. Although the support of your environment is essential for effective growth, what can you do, personally, to support yourself? Your support system is a set of rules, tools, or personal commitments and boundaries you develop with you...

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