Julie In Conversation

Join me for some space to breathe...together..however deeply or not. No instructions, no curriculum, no advice, suggestions, recommendations or prescriptions for developing inner or peace or how to build solidarity and unity (though we all know that is great). Just a place and a few moments to be, with yourself and what is present, rising, moving, needing your attention before you get on with your day, the work, the hoping and healing and building together.www.JulieinConversation.com

Could you use a good time out, a few moments to pause, to check in, to be with nautre and yourself? Have a listen, nature included. www.JulieinConversation.comWild Sounds of Canadahttps://www.audible.ca/ep/wild-sounds-of-canada

A brief invitation into this question.An invitation to join Nicole Schiener and I at our upcoming program Caring Without Carrying It All- A unique virtual program for A Special Virtual Group Program For Sensitive Helping Professionals, Caregivers, Creatives and Changemakers.www.CaringWithoutCarryingItAll.Com

A short audio experience to quiet the noise and return to the wisdom of yourself.www.JulieinConversation.com

What's needing to be refreshed, remembered, rekindled inside you? Take a few minutes to be curious and listen to what's emerging, even if it's not ready to surface (yet).

Discover some of the ways in which you think that are unhelpful and that when examined and surface into your awareness have the chance to alter your mood and well-being for the better.Join us to hear Rebecca Ashery, coach and psychotherapist unpack some of the 15 unhelpful thinking styles, such as polarized thinking, mind reading, catastrophizing, to name just a few.You will gain practical tips and find ways to enhance your self-awareness and overcome negative thinking as Dr. Rebecca Ashery examines and explains the unhelpful ways in which we think (based on the work of Dr. David Burns).15 unhelpful thinking styles (Cognitive distortions as outlined in the work of Dr. David Burns). Polarized thinking, overgeneralization, personalization, catastrophizing, mind reading (jumping to conclusions), emotional reasoning, labeling, filtering, control fallacies, blaming, always being right, fallacy of change, fallacy of fairness, heaven's reward fallacy. And there are more unhelpful thinking styles such as all-or-nothi

Because just one epsiode speaking to Deborah MacNamara about her book, 'Nourished: Connection, Food And Caring For Our Kids (and everyone else we love), wasn't nearly enough, I followed up with this episode. In this hour I savour some of the insight received and more content, highlights from my convesation with Deborah, content from the book and reflections on topics covered such as comfort food, how mazlow went wrong, love and caretaking, being the good provider, food as addiction, vulnerable feelings and more. By the end of the podcast, I was connected to my own memories of food and my own vulnerable feelings as I asked Deborah's poignant question, out loud and for all of us to curiously explore our own answer to. "If one person could cook for you, who would it be?"Enjoy.www.JulieinConversation.comwww.MacNamara.ca- subscribe to Deborah's newsletter.

"Just because you eat food doesn't mean you're nourished." Deborah MacNamara returns to the podcast with podcast host Julie Cusmariu to discuss her groundbreaking new book, 'Nourished: Connection, Food, And Caring For Our Kids (and everyone else we love). Deborah MacNamara takes us on a deep and insightful journey through storytelling, a fantastic riddle (the answer to which is revealed in this podcast at the end), provocative questions, developmental science and robust research to help us make sense of our relationship to food and to reclaim nourishment. I couldn't agree more with what Dr. Gordon Neufeld declared “After reading this groundbreaking work, it will be impossible for you to ever view food as just food again.” And I just loved this question posed by Deborah on page 74 of the book and to those she interviewed for Nourished "If you could choose one person to cook for you, who would it be?” What a great and poignant question to ask each other and our kids. There is so much to gain from reading this

When the opportunity arises and you can take a moment to tune ‘it’ all out, if you so choose, maybe this brief meditation (almost four minutes) might resonate for you; a ‘time out’ to slow down, to let ‘it’ go, to momentarily put down the overwhelm. I acknowledge and honor where you may be, the experience you may be living, what you may be navigating, who you may be caring for in addition to yourself. May you feel ease, some relief and care for yourself and each other (those who you know and those who you do not yet know).If we honor and care for your own capacity, would you agree that we make more room to care for and honor and ‘see’ others❓May you find benefit. Wishing you the best.Wishing you more peace inside. Praying for peace for all beings. ❤️

And be sure to sprinkle in some curiousity, humor and always movement when you can. Thought not a prescription, I would say an antidote to swirling emotions and times.Thanks for taking care of you and tuning in to you, first.Enjoy this meditation on carying without carrying it all.Show noteswww.CaringWithoutCarryingItAll.comwww.JulieCusmariu.comhttps://scottshigeoka.com/ SEEK: HOW CURIOSITY CAN TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE AND CHANGE THE WORLD.

Which best describes you?A. Are you a highly sensitive person?B. Are you an introvert?C. Are you a highly sensitive introvert?Alane Freund and Julie Cusmariu help unpack what it means to be an introvert, how it does and does not relate to being highly sensitive and what you can do, and value about being one or the other, or both! Alane always provides such great practical tips and strategies that will benefit you at home and at work and in the world creating change."We always say if a person who is highly sensitive can get in a position of power, then they can change the culture." Alane Freund.Let us know in the comments about you and your experience with this topic.Show notes:Join me and Nicole Schiener in February 2024: Caring Without Carrying It All February 2024 with Nicole Schiener and Julie Cusmariu http://caringwithoutcarryingitall.comDiscovering Joy retreat. A daylong retreat for HSPS Check it out and sign up herehttps://alane-freund.mykajabi.com/a/2147718237/znfkopwAHere is Alane Freund, Introvert ht

a meditation. a moment to pause, to make room for what's moving inside you.in the wake of the most recent tragedy and tragedies continuing to unfold in Israel and Palestine.here is a meditation as a space for connection, internally whenever you may listen and however it may speak to you for where you are, what is going on for you and moving through you emotionally.www.JulieinConversation.com

Reflections on slowing down, tuning into our soma, creating space and building capacity with Flavia Jimenez.This week features a conversation between Julie Cusmariu and Flavia Jimenez about the Embodied Social Justice certificate program; take aways, insights gained and what remains to unpack and integrate into life, personally and professionally for them both.We each sought out collaboration on the project and found a connection point through our work as coaches interested in embodiment and somatic awareness for ourselves and the individuals we work with daily. 00:28:30- Flavia shares Insights on ’slowing down’ (as evoked by Resma Menakem in the ESJ Certificate Program), creating space and building capacity as well as her work experience as a lawyer and advocate. 00:38: 00 - On building capacity and the art of holding space 00:30:59- How do we gift ourselves space?00:54:00- Stumbling upon the title of the podcast offered by Flavia. What if your practice is the interruption? 00:55:00- Flavia walked Julie thro

It is I. Julie. Returning to the podcast after being away from the mic for 3 months. Inviting me, inviting you, as I return, to wonder, to welcome, to notice what and to whom you are returning. What and who did I leave? What is here now that wasn't previously?www.JulieinConversation.comJoin the waitlist before doors open to 'Carying Without Carrying It All'- a 4 week online program with Julie Cusmariu and Nicole Scheiner. We look very forward to welcoming you and offering you a soft place to land to honor your sensitivity and capacity. www.PeaceandPossibility.comwww.Kripalu.orghttps://tererai.org/www.ElizabethGilbert.com

What happens when you create a distance between yourself and that thing or that person? What happens when you take time to self-orient? Take a listen for some space and practice into letting go of the stronghold, loosening the grip, surrendering, even. What can then take space, breathe, emerge, be expressed?www.JulieinConversation.com

Alane Freund is a cherished guest on the podcast and we have had many conversations, always with a unique focus through the lens of High Sensitivity. In this episode, as Alane put it best, we have come together around “ the theme of Mental Health Awareness Month. We weave in and around many topics, including ADHD and Anxiety as overlays to HSP.”Let us know what you gain from this conversation. It’s been so nice hearing from listeners already around this topic as I have begun to share it in my stories and on social networks. We are here for you. May you feel support around normalizing these topics and gain your own insight to whatever you may be curious about, wondering about and navigating for yourself, the children and youth you are raising, and for your clients, family members and friends.Here are links from my previous conversations with Alane.https://juliecusmariu.com/2023/01/highly-sensitive-person/highly-sensitive-parents-a-conversation-with-alane-freund-and-julie-cusmariu/https://juliecusmariu.com/2020

Nicole Schiener on 'Caring without Carrying it All' in conversation with Julie Cusmariu on the Julie in Conversation podcast.More of what we talked about in Part 2 of our conversation.-Women are socialized to devalue their time. @17:45 minsand we explored one the rules described in Eve Rodsky's book, FAIR PLAY ( A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have To Much To Do): Rule #1-ALL TIME IS CREATED EQUAL and how we have existed inside a construct in which men's time is treated as finite but women's as infinite. -What might equity in relationship look like.-Tips and insights on raising our kids to honor time and responsibility. Including at what age we may expect kids to start making their own lunches and cleaning their rooms.We spoke to the invisible work, the mental load, the emotional labour and all that shows up in a day's work (and that's outside of the work we get paid for). And much more with some levity and warmth."We expect women to work like they don't have children and raise children like they don't

This podcast inspired by the experiences of the Ice Storm April 2023 in Montreal. Take this time for you to listen and notice what's rising up, for you? To awakening and feeling all of your senses, alive, awake, on purpose.Between airing Part 1 of my meaningful conversation with @peaceandpossibility , Nicole Schiener, on “Caring without Carrying It All” and airing Part 2 of our conversation that was scheduled for the following week, we had an ice storm. It brought many things and people to a halt and many trees and branches to the ground. I took time this week on the podcast to pause and move through some feelings knowing the trees I run toand am surrounded by throughout my week and all throughout the year took a hit by the storm.In this episode I share what that was like and move through some emotions along the way.Whether it’s a storm caused by the weather or another life experience that feels stormy and disorienting, maybe you will find something for yourself in this episode.#julieinconversation #voicestha

Nicole Schiener is passionate about fostering healthy relationships at home and work and is on a mission to liberate mothers from perfectionism and the pressure to do it all. Part 1 of my conversation with Nicole Schiener included the following:-Topics connected to Eve Rodsky’s book, FAIRPLAY- A Game Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live).i.e. the misconception that women have infinite time and men have finite time. As Eve Rodsky says in her book--Recovering from the pandemic-Burnout and Compassion Fatigue and the difference between the two.-How therapy can support you-In Nicole’s words, the importance of "Caring without carrying the responsibilities."Nicole SchienerNicole Schiener is an Award Winning Registered Psychotherapist in Ontario Canada. She's a Certified Gottman Bringing Baby Home Educator and regular contributor to the Gottman Blog. As part of her recovery from burn out, Nicole became a Certified Compassion Fatigue Professional facilitating wellness workshops to

Take this time to remember who you are, and what it feels like when you connect to yourself in this way.Thanks to for tuning in to yourself today.www.JulieCusmariu.com