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What Azita Shares:       Her own experience with trauma and how it shaped her personal and professional path      How she received support to leave her abuser and begin treatment for her trauma      How motherhood uprooted her sense of control      Her fertility and birth journey  What You’ll Hear:       Understanding that relational abuse and trauma can take many different forms   Finding the permission to be kind and compassionate to yourself   Listening to the body’s experience to finally find healing   Becoming an active participant in your healing   Giving grief time and space, without allowing it to take over forever   Navigating recovery while mothering   Softening into self compassion for mothering   The importance of pausing and allowing inner wisdom to speak   Navigating sexual trauma while trying to become pregnant      The difference between processing trauma somatically and intellectually      Finding time and space to process while caring for a child      Allowing your spiritual practice to evolve as life evolves      The community that comes together for you may not be who you expect      Truly embodying the idea that community support during parenting is a necessity, not a luxury      Getting reacquainted with your body after birth      The power of witnessing for healing      Allowing our children to live their experiences 

What Azita Shares: <ul> <li>     Her own experience with trauma and how it shaped her personal and professional path</li> <li>     How she received support to leave her abuser and begin treatment for her trauma</li> <li>     How motherhood uprooted her sense of control</li> <li>     Her fertility and birth journey</li> </ul> What You’ll Hear: <ul> <li>     Understanding that relational abuse and trauma can take many different forms</li> <li>  Finding the permission to be kind and compassionate to yourself</li> <li>  Listening to the body’s experience to finally find healing</li> <li>  Becoming an active participant in your healing</li> <li>  Giving grief time and space, without allowing it to take over forever</li> <li>  Navigating recovery while mothering</li> <li>  Softening into self compassion for mothering</li> <li>  The importance of pausing and allowing inner wisdom to speak</li> <li>  Navigating sexual trauma while trying to become pregnant</li> <li>     The difference between processing trauma somatically and intellectually</li> <li>     Finding time and space to process while caring for a child</li> <li>     Allowing your spiritual practice to evolve as life evolves</li> <li>     The community that comes together for you may not be who you expect</li> <li>     Truly embodying the idea that community support during parenting is a necessity, not a luxury</li> <li>     Getting reacquainted with your body after birth</li> <li>     The power of witnessing for healing</li> <li>     Allowing our children to live their experiences</li> </ul>

EP68: Azita Nahai on Transforming Pain into Purpose, Navigating Spiritual Practice as a Mother, and Healing Trauma Somatically

Dr. Azita Nahai is a Kundalini Yogi, speaker and therapist. She is the founder of Trauma to Dharma™ ~an experiential method that integrates a holistic mind-body-spirit approach to healing trauma and transforming one’s pain into purpose. As a domestic abuse survivor turned thriver Dr. Nahai experienced a piece missing in her own recovery, and so, she created it. Her decades of research support the use of Kundalini yoga and meditation as a valuable therapeutic modality in post-traumatic growth.As a trauma specialist, she is fueled by her passion to awaken and empower others to become conscious and active participants in their own healing. Dr. Nahai’s anticipated Trauma to Dharma™ book launches in Winter 2017.Guiding Principle, Quote or MantraDon’t waste a good trigger. Your partnerships are mine fields of triggers and they are their for a reason.When You Tripped UpAzita lost herself in an abusive relationship for six years in her early 20’s. She was looking for anything and anyone to fill an emptiness that she felt inside. She was struggling with her own pain from childhood and found a bigger pain to focus on in this abusive relationship.Azita started to lose herself in order to accommodate someone else. She would do anything to seek approval even if it meant she went completely unseen.She needed to lose herself in order to find herself.The “DUH” moment that changed your partnerships forever Azita’s ‘DUH” moment happened when she was going through her immigration interview to become a U.S. citizen. The immigration officer called her out on a period of her life where she essentially went missing. This was the time that Azita was away at treatment and completely off the map and in hiding.Her defenses started to come up and she wanted to armor up. But instead she took a breath and told the officer the truth. And the woman said “me too.”This moment has informed Azita’s life. The realization that we’re not meant to go through this life alone was a huge breakthrough for her.What is the best partnership / relationship advice you have ever received? Whenever we come to a place of disagreement, go on a silent meditative walk with your partner. Don’t speak. Go outside. No talking, just walking.This will help you to move the energy/emotions.Best Partnership ResourceGetting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary EditionThe Payoff of PartnershipWith her husband, Ricardo, Azita is learning how to master the highest form of yoga - marriage. Having to hold a hard pose and continuing to hold it and knowing you can do it.Being able to have the soulful partner that Ricardo is, required her to accept and receive what she actually knew she deserved. And by accepting this, she ended up getting a whole lot more.She actually got a twofer, because he is not only her life partner, but also her business partner.Interview Links -Azita's websiteFacebookTwitterInstagram

Dr. Azita Nahai is a Kundalini Yogi, speaker and therapist. She is the founder of Trauma to Dharma™ ~an experiential method that integrates a holistic mind-body-spirit approach to healing trauma and transforming one’s pain into purpose. As a domestic abuse survivor turned thriver Dr. Nahai experienced a piece missing in her own recovery, and so, she created it. Her decades of research support the use of Kundalini yoga and meditation as a valuable therapeutic modality in post-traumatic growth.As a trauma specialist, she is fueled by her passion to awaken and empower others to become conscious and active participants in their own healing. Dr. Nahai’s anticipated Trauma to Dharma™ book launches in Winter 2017.Guiding Principle, Quote or MantraDon’t waste a good trigger. Your partnerships are mine fields of triggers and they are their for a reason.When You Tripped UpAzita lost herself in an abusive relationship for six years in her early 20’s. She was looking for anything and anyone to fill an emptiness that she felt inside. She was struggling with her own pain from childhood and found a bigger pain to focus on in this abusive relationship.Azita started to lose herself in order to accommodate someone else. She would do anything to seek approval even if it meant she went completely unseen.She needed to lose herself in order to find herself.The “DUH” moment that changed your partnerships forever Azita’s ‘DUH” moment happened when she was going through her immigration interview to become a U.S. citizen. The immigration officer called her out on a period of her life where she essentially went missing. This was the time that Azita was away at treatment and completely off the map and in hiding.Her defenses started to come up and she wanted to armor up. But instead she took a breath and told the officer the truth. And the woman said “me too.”This moment has informed Azita’s life. The realization that we’re not meant to go through this life alone was a huge breakthrough for her.What is the best partnership / relationship advice you have ever received? Whenever we come to a place of disagreement, go on a silent meditative walk with your partner. Don’t speak. Go outside. No talking, just walking.This will help you to move the energy/emotions.Best Partnership Resource <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805087001/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0805087001&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=speakofpartn-20&amp;linkId=1378baab4c63643614af603f0cd55d24" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805087001/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0805087001&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=speakofpartn-20&amp;linkId=eae3a5cac056f57533b0f445052b8636" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary Edition</a>The Payoff of PartnershipWith her husband, Ricardo, Azita is learning how to master the highest form of yoga - marriage. Having to hold a hard pose and continuing to hold it and knowing you can do it.Being able to have the soulful partner that Ricardo is, required her to accept and receive what she actually knew she deserved. And by accepting this, she ended up getting a whole lot more.She actually got a twofer, because he is not only her life partner, but also her business partner.Interview Links -<a href="http://azitanahai.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Azita's website</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/AzitaNahaiPhd/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a><a href="http://twitter.com/AzitaNahai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/azitanahai/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a>

Dr. Azita Nahai – Don’t waste a good trigger

This week, the girls talk to Dr. Azita Nahai, a Kundalini Yogi, scholar, speaker and therapist. She is the founder of Trauma to Dharma™ ~ an experiential methodology that integrates a mind, body, spirit approach to healing trauma and transforming one’s pain into purpose. Azita walks the girls through the abusive relationship in her 20's that led her to seek recovery, and ultimately find her life's work.www.azitanahai.com

This week, the girls talk to Dr. Azita Nahai, a Kundalini Yogi, scholar, speaker and therapist. She is the founder of Trauma to Dharma™ ~ an experiential methodology that integrates a mind, body, spirit approach to healing trauma and transforming one’s pain into purpose. Azita walks the girls through the abusive relationship in her 20's that led her to seek recovery, and ultimately find her life's work. <a href="http://www.azitanahai.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.azitanahai.com</a>

Episode 75: Azita Nahai