Returning Home: The Podcast
27 episodes - English - Latest episode: 26 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsReturning Home: The Podcast is hosted by trauma-informed and intuitive therapist Elise Kindya, with a mission to raise the consciousness of the planet by teaching you how to return home to yourself. Returning Home is about realizing that the answers you seek, the love you crave, the belonging you want to feel, already exists within you. By listening to these episodes, you will hear inspiring stories, information about how your brain works, and receive healing tools to add to your toolkit. When we stop searching the world for the “right” thing, and realize we have been the right thing all along. When we commit to ourselves, everything else in life will fall into place. You can trust your intuition to guide you to the most aligned life for you. You can return home.
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Episodes
24. Hope, Joy & Mindful Pleasure: an interview with Erin Stanley, LCSW
March 29, 2024 20:22 - 1 hour - 53.6 MBOn episode 24 of Returning Home, I interviewed Erin Stanley, a fellow therapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker. We talk about Erin's journey to becoming licensed and self-employed, the influence of social media and the information age on mental health, and how to cultivate self-care amid all the noise. Erin's work with millenials and elder Gen Z'ers is inspired by her own experiences in this generation, and her identity intersects in other ways, such as race and gender, which makes her ...
23. Find Your Frequency: An Interview with Tess Palma-Martinez of Completely Golden
February 23, 2024 21:57 - 1 hour - 80.5 MBThis week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Tess Palma-Martinez. Tess is a sound healer, manifestation expert and founder of Completely Golden, based in Nosara, Costa Rica. She has created a medicinal style of sound healing, and works with clients in her Find Your Frequency mentorship. Her clients have experienced miraculous healing and perspective shifts that lead to greater awareness of who they are and how to express themselves in the world. You can find Tess on Instagram at @completely...
22. How To Follow Your Highest Excitement With Jenny McGurk
February 05, 2024 21:25 - 1 hour - 74.8 MBOn this latest episode of Returning Home: The Podcast, meet my guest Jenny McGurk. Jenny is a Psychic, Spiritual Guide & Resource. She uses Hypnosis, NLP, EFT and her natural intuition to help others heal & develop their own intuition. Her passion & highest excitement is to help guide others to discover their own unique inner intuition and develop a direct connection to spirit & source. Jenny spends her time studying, currently she is a 2nd Degree Freemason working on Master Mason, she loves...
21. Giving and Taking From a Place of Love: A Conversation with Britt Stauduhar
January 22, 2024 22:54 - 1 hour - 78.8 MBOn episode 21 of Returning Home: The Podcast, meet Britt Stauduhar. They are a multi-passionate entrepreneur leading the way in Richmond's health, fitness, nutrition and lifestyle scene. Britt is a queer athlete & entrepreneur that has been working full time helping others uncover their strengths for the past 3 years. They qualified for IPL World’s in 2021 as a National level powerlifter and less than a year later they co-founded RVA’s first queer owned gym. They’ve since married their wife ...
20. Getting Clear On Your Empathic Gifts With Chelsie Skowyra
January 18, 2024 18:32 - 1 hour - 64.8 MBIn this episode of Returning Home: The Podcast, I interview Chelsie Skowyra, Spiritual Mentor. Chelsie is a former mental health therapist until her spiritual awakening sent her on a journey of integrating psychology with spirituality. She now works as a spiritual mentor offering transformational services such as teaching others how to be spiritual mentors, reiki healings, and hosting self-care retreats. In this episode, you will hear Chelsie's path to finding herself in her purpose, tools s...
EMDR and Your Spiritual Ecosystem: A Conversation with Sophia Hornyak
January 06, 2024 21:33 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBMeet Sophia Hornyak in this interview on Returning Home: The Podcast. Sophia is a mother, writer, akashic teacher, and occult historian. Driven by her own traumatic upbringing, she has a personal practice of researching occult and mystic philosophy to find the bridge between the spiritual and the meaning of self. Her work is grounded, raw, and places the importance of resonance in the hands of her students and clients. In this episode, Sophia shares about the powerful work we did together in...
Blood + Guts + Star Stuff: Making Sense of Being Human
December 13, 2023 21:13 - 22 minutes - 19.6 MBIn this latest episode of "Returning Home: The Podcast," Elise returns to discuss the juxtaposition between having a powerful human brain and a very fragile human body. She discusses the difficulties she and her clients face in having to be both an animal and a computer all at once. In this episode, Elise tells some anecdotes about her life, and also poses big questions that feel almost too big to answer. You are invited to participate in this conversation by leaving a comment, or find Elise...
Special Episode! Receive a Reiki Transmission
August 04, 2023 19:57 - 35 minutes - 38.1 MBWelcome back to Returning Home: The Podcast, hosted by Elise Kindya. This episode is special because you will be receiving a Reiki transmission! Disclaimer: please do not operate heavy machinery such as driving a car when listening to this episode. Please have the following items available: a comfortable place to sit or lay down with pillows, blankets and anything you need to maintain a restful posture journal and pen anything you need to build a special space or altar such as: cand...
Reiki is For Rebels: Finding a Spiritual Home
July 18, 2023 18:14 - 32 minutes - 22.8 MBWelcome back to Returning Home: The Podcast! I have taken a little hiatus while I had some big life events happening: getting married, bringing home a new puppy, and opening an in-person office/healing space! There has been a lot to celebrate in the 3D world. It feels good to be back on the show with you. In this latest episode of Returning Home: The Podcast, I invite you to learn more about Reiki, which is my spiritual home. I explain a bit about the history of Reiki and how it got to...
Be The Change: Positivity As a Practice
February 22, 2023 21:47 - 43 minutes - 39 MBIn this episode, join me to have a conversation about positivity and how we need this force in our life to combat negativity. I want to use this platform as a ripple to reach more people in order to positively impact my community and the world. Sure, there are moments when negativity takes over, and there are even times when the benefit of negativity can be felt and understood (listen to the episode to hear more about that!). But, making more time for positivity cannot be a bad thing for us....
The Birth of The Art of Us - An Interview with Kat McCrory and Katie Bosch of TAOU Studio
February 17, 2023 18:20 - 52 minutes - 47.3 MBIf you live in Richmond, VA, you need to check out TAOU Studio in Carytown. TAOU stands for "The Art of Us" and has been birthed by Katie Bosch and Kat McCrory. In this podcast episode, you will hear about their inspiration for opening the studio, the type of yoga they practice and teach, opportunities to learn alongside them, and lots of fun stories about their lives that brought them to this place in time together. Here are three reasons why you should listen to this episode: Get to kno...
The Power of EMDR
February 09, 2023 15:56 - 27 minutes - 23.7 MBHealing from trauma sometimes seems impossible, but with new developments in neuroscience over the last 15 years, it is more possible than ever. Join me on this episode all about one of my favorite therapy modalities, EMDR. EMDR stands for “Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing” and it’s a revolutionary technique that can help you to finally feel relief from trauma. In this episode, I explain a bit about how it works and why it works, as well as share some stories about my experience...
Staying Sober: What It Means To Me
January 28, 2023 15:18 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBWhat does sobriety mean to you? We each get to choose what our relationship to the substances we consume is. In this latest episode of Returning Home: The Podcast, Elise talks more in depth about consuming substances- alcohol and others- and what this means for her life. She shares stories from her days of drinking and how it’s been easy for her to make a new choice in her life. She also shares stories about her new perspective as a sober person. Elise will encourage you to reflect on your o...
The Sacred Pause
January 19, 2023 20:01 - 31 minutes - 22.4 MBSometimes, winter can last a whole year. In this episode, Elise returns to Returning Home: The Podcast after an almost year-long hiatus. In it, she discusses where she went in 2022 and what lessons she learned along the way. If you’re looking for insight into why it’s ok to take a sacred pause, what to do when you’re feeling burned out or how to be present in your life, you will want to listen to this episode. Here are three reasons why you should listen to this episode: Learn how you can...
Taking A Step Back From Pressure And A Step Forward To Yourself
February 24, 2022 11:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBSociety hampers us with loads of pressure on what we should be and should have accomplished at a certain age. We glorify a culture of nonstop grinding, thinking that there’s no other way to reach our goals. However, we still wonder why so many of us feel unfulfilled and burnt out despite pursuing our dreams. We do so much to please others without leaving anything for ourselves. But at the end of the day, is all the grind still worth it? In the tenth episode of Returning Home, Elise shares ...
Taking A Step Back From Pressure And A Step Forward To Yourself
February 24, 2022 11:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBSociety hampers us with loads of pressure on what we should be and should have accomplished at a certain age. We glorify a culture of nonstop grinding, thinking that there’s no other way to reach our goals. However, we still wonder why so many of us feel unfulfilled and burnt out despite pursuing our dreams. We do so much to please others without leaving anything for ourselves. But at the end of the day, is all the grind still worth it? In the tenth episode of Returning Home, Elise shares a p...
The Compound Effect: Turning Small Habits Into Big Changes
February 10, 2022 11:00 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBGoal setting is the navigator toward significant achievements in life. As we organize our goals, the urge to accomplish them quickly and easily could be tempting. Impatience and restlessness become the inner nemesis that blinds us from discerning our present accomplishments. But think about where you were five years ago: would you be able to be where you are now without your "little" and "trivial" accumulated effort? In the ninth episode of Returning Home, Elise delves into the concept of ...
Choosing to be Child-Free: What it Means to Me to be Childless by Choice
January 27, 2022 11:00 - 30 minutes - 31.1 MBThe insistent pressure of settling down and starting a family can be crippling to many of us. People, especially women, are often expected to become parents and are criticized when they choose not to be. But raising kids takes a lot of responsibility, time, energy, effort — and not everyone is ready to commit to the sacrifices that parenthood demands. In the eighth episode of Returning Home, Elise shares the reasons behind her decision to remain childless. Here, she highlights the importan...
Finding Your Truth: The Healing of Your Inner Child
January 20, 2022 14:32 - 32 minutes - 33.1 MBEveryone has a child within them. It represents the innocence, awe, and joy reminiscent of our youth. However, our inner child also carries the accumulated baggage of hurt, trauma, and fears from our early years. As we grow into adults, we carry this inner child with us, and from time to time, it resurfaces to remind us of our childhood scars. Some choose to look the other way and continue living their lives. While this coping mechanism might work for a while, it may lead to destructive h...
Uncovering the Hidden Strength of Self Compassion
December 30, 2021 11:00 - 44 minutes - 44 MBFalling into the trap of self-criticism becomes our usual pattern when setbacks occur. It confines us in this dark pit within ourselves that surrounds us with harsh judgments whenever we encounter failures. Be that as it may, we are not alone. Everyone is bound to commit mistakes. Even the greatest personalities have done something they’re not proud of. To embrace our flaws, we need to practice self-compassion and understand that we are still a work in progress. In this episode, Elise...
Trusting Yourself Means Taking Responsibility
December 16, 2021 11:00 - 40 minutes - 40.2 MBHave you ever experienced moments in your life where you feel like you’ve lost control, as if it’s all messed up, and there’s no way for you to get back on track? In moments like these, some people tend to blame or hold it against others. However, you need to take responsibility for yourself so that you can live the life you desire on your terms. In this episode of Returning Home: The Podcast, you will learn to understand the importance of trusting yourself and taking responsibility for yo...
Harness the Power of Your Mind: How to Visualize Success
December 02, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 33.7 MBIf you're suffering from anxiety, you know well how it can severely impact your sense of self and security. Fears and worries hinder us from becoming the self that we want to be. But there is a way to take those anxieties and turn them into positive thoughts and concrete plans. If you learn how to visualize the future, you can live in your zone of genius to your fullest expression. In the fourth episode of Returning Home, Elise guides you through a visualization practice that you can u...
8 Healing Resources to Return Home to Yourself
November 26, 2021 11:00 - 36 minutes - 36.6 MBIt's very easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of life. Relationships, work, personal problems — life can throw us off balance and knock us out of alignment with ourselves. However, with the right healing resources, you can return home to yourself. In the third episode of Returning Home, Elise addresses the different ways you can heal yourself through body, mind, community, and spirit. She shares eight healing resources that she has used to better herself. Some of them are personal a...
How Sobriety Changed My Life
November 18, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 28.5 MBWe all have a purpose in life, and we’re all perfectly capable of fulfilling that purpose. But there might be some hindrances that keep us from tapping into our potential. When you ignore these barriers and believe you'll never be able to conquer them, you're robbing yourself of the chance to grow and live the life you deserve. In the second episode of Returning Home, Elise talks about her journey in becoming sober and the lessons she learned from it. She shares the effects of alcohol on h...
Returning Home to Yourself From Childhood Trauma
November 11, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 30.3 MBHave you observed negative patterns in your behavior for reasons you can't seem to pinpoint? Often, these stem from childhood traumas we think we have already buried or forgotten. That's why sometimes, we can't explain why we respond and behave to circumstances the way we do. Living our purpose as our authentic self requires healing from traumas we don't talk about. And more than anything, it starts with self-knowledge. In the first episode of Returning Home, Elise talks about how she beca...
A Sneak Peak of Returning Home
November 08, 2021 17:26 - 3 minutes - 6.47 MBHi there, I am so happy you are here! If you're curious about things like healing your emotional and mental health, therapy, childhood trauma and learning how to love yourself unconditionally -- you're in the right place. This trailer will give you a sneak peek into what this podcast is all about.
S1, E1: Why I Became A Therapist
October 30, 2021 20:06 - 29 minutes - 30.3 MBHave you observed negative patterns in your behavior for reasons you can't seem to pinpoint? Often, these stem from childhood traumas we think we have already buried or forgotten. That's why sometimes, we can't explain why we respond and behave to circumstances the way we do. Living our purpose as our authentic self requires healing from traumas we don't talk about. And more than anything, it starts with self-knowledge. In the first episode of Returning Home, Elise talks about how she beca...