How can you awaken your superpowers and heal? The lovely Ananta Ripa Ajmera, acclaimed writer and teacher of Yoga, Ayurveda and the author of the excellent new book The Way of the Goddess: Daily Rituals to Awaken Your Inner Warrior and Discover Your True Self shares how she tapped into the powerful Goddess traditions from the Indian subcontinent to self-actualize and overcome a disordered relationship with food and nourishment and the trauma she suffered from earlier in life. This episode is the latest in a series of podcasts that explore the notion of what a spiritually-informed, "5D" approach to weight release---body, mind and Soul---looks like from a variety of perspectives.   *** SHOW NOTES 00:00 Introduction 02:30 What Inspired THE WAY OF THE GODDESS 03:30 Overcoming anorexia 04:45 Discovering Aruveda within the Goddess tradition 05:15 Processing childhood trauma 06:00 Diet and lifestyle changes not enough 07:10 Solar plexus as center of power for digesting food and human experience 08:45 Addressing the “empath” audience, spiritually sensitive people 10:45 Drawn toward spirituality, Ayurveda, Yoga and Vedanta 12:15 Connection between being an empath and eating disorders 13:30 Archetype of the goddess with weapons 15:30 Turning healing inwards 16:45 Introduction to Ayurveda, the “sister science” of Yoga 17:30 Health equals balance; disease equals imbalance 18:10 Dietary recommendations from Aryuveda 19:00 Eating seasonally 21:00 Reestablishing a healthy relationship to food/nutrition through Aryuveda 21:30 The body as a temple for the divine within 22:45 Avoiding incompatible food combinations 23:45 Eliminating the worst 30% of food choices 24:40 Farmers markets as sources of “real” food 25:30 Vegetarianism and veganism 27:00 Bhagavad Gita: the story of Arjuna as every man and every woman 28:45 The fire and transformation of spiritual surrendering 30:45 Awakening the guru within 32:00 Significance of the friend and “charioteer” 34:00 Identifying and aiming for spiritual wealth 35:10 Membership community, self-publishing course, “conscious conversations” webinar series   *** Get Connected with Elizabeth McGann:   Coaching Website: http://www.ElizabethMcGann.com Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/elizabethmcgann Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethMcGannWellness LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethmcgann Twitter: https://twitter.com/ElizabethMcGann   *** You can learn more about Ananta Ripa Ajmera here: Ananta’s Website: https://www.theancientway.co/ Ananta’s True to Yourself Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-to-yourself/id1578935830