Long-time nurse, business owner and yoga/Ayurveda educator Aimee Pruitt is back on the pod sharing how to create boundaries and burnout resistance when caring for others as a career or as a parent or partner. Useful tips for anyone in a helping role and some extra advice for up-and-coming health professionals.

Who better to speak about what it’s like to love someone who has struggled with their mental health than Lisa’s long time partner, Cliff Dumas! Listen to hear how Cliff discovered the truth of Lisa’s disordered panic and the best things he did to support her, plus how facing big fears can prove to us we’re stronger than we think.

After personally encountering nurses sharing stories of their degraded mental health due to the staggering pressure they’ve experienced throughout the last 2.5 years, Lisa talks to her former co-host and longtime RN Aimee about her perspective working in the industry, the toll she has personally paid and what can be done to help the people who we may need to help us one day.

Yessica Avencena is a psychotherapist and the founder and CEO of Aspire Behavioural Health clinics and MindfulYou healing centers in California’s Central Valley. Yessica and Lisa discuss the mental health crisis we are collectively experiencing, how parents can support their struggling teens and how to meet difficult emotions within yourself and others. This episode is full of beautiful and helpful concepts on the path of living a full and mindful life.

This week Lisa shares tools for feeling grounded and how important it is to ground ourselves while supporting others. She offers more information about holding space for loved ones struggling with anxiety and guides a simple practice to quickly get out of stressful thoughts and into a centred, connected space.

For us “worriers”, a lot of energy can be directed toward navigating our anxious inner dialogues and attempting to protect ourselves from the uncomfortable symptoms of anxiety. Cultivating a more peaceful inner landscape is not a luxury, it’s essential so that life can expand beyond worry. This week, Lisa shares that constructive rest, self-compassion and purpose can amplify our energy while making ourselves wrong for our feelings can further deplete it.

Lisa has been treating herself as she would a yoga therapy client by prescribing herself some tools to support bouts of lower mood and exhaustion related to big life transitions. This episode offers some easy ways to relate with nature therapeutically without needing hiking boots.

Lisa is in her third week living in an empty nest and shares how she and her husband are working with acceptance to find peace as parents. She offers some inspirations on the art of letting go and discusses the concept of non-attachment and how it can lead to more love for ourselves and those we are in a relationship with.

This week Lisa shares about the reality of saying goodbye to her daughter as she launches to college in Scotland and how to relate with more than one emotion at a time. She offers some inspiration and concepts to flow through emotions rather than becoming stuck in them and challenges herself (and you) to choose a consistent rejuvenation practice after a depleting summer of stressful world and personal events.

This week features an interview with one of Lisa’s colleagues, Yoga Therapist Susan Frankovich. Lisa and Susan explain the difference between yoga therapy and a yoga class and how it can offer relief from anxiety, autoimmune conditions and much more as a helpful adjunct to western medicine and physical therapy.

This week Lisa shares the many ways her life changed over quarantine and the inspirations that supported her through a cross-border move, disenchantment with the wellness industry and a newfound purpose to work with young people struggling with their mental health.

Our first brand new episode in a year chronicles Aimee’s experience as a new business owner and a nurse navigating the pandemic and the practices that helped her along the way. Join us for a Radiant Summer! Our robust course is back and includes seven thoughtfully crafted master classes and supportive material featuring wisdom from the paths of yoga and system of ayurveda. A Radiant Summer is intended to offer skills to tend to possible imbalances that can be heightened in the warmer months...

Aimee and Lisa stepped away from the podcast one year ago, not knowing when they would return, because who could make a plan in 2020? Aimee had to prioritize her work as an experienced Registered Nurse in a global pandemic and Lisa was in the middle of a Covid pivot which included big changes for her whole family. In this bonus episode, we come back for an update and a re-listen to last year’s solstice episode, because it’s brimming with what you need to know about harmonizing with the summer...

From an Ayurvedic perspective, the beginning of summer signals the start of “pitta” season, a time of year related to the element of fire. For those of us with already “fiery” natures, this is an opportunity to be mindful of the effects of increased heat in our bodies and minds. You might be surprised at what can flare up right now, including addictive tendencies, especially with the collective upheaval and transformation so many of us are experiencing. Listen in on this conversation that is...

In the midst of worldwide protests to end systemic racism, white people are being called to acknowledge and dismantle our biases and take actions that can sustain change toward equality. This week Aimee and Lisa offer resources for continued education and share how our spiritual practices can help us to be in the discomfort of our roles in racial injustice while doing what we can to create a society where black lives matter.

After a pause from the podcast, Aimee and Lisa are back with a conversation about processing the collective challenges we’ve been facing. They share how celebration and joy can exist alongside worry and difficult emotions and some examples from their lives. They also talk about what they want to remember about these months apart and announce an opportunity to come together to be intentional about making our way back out into the world.

This week Aimee and Lisa acknowledge the challenge to remain steady amidst the ever-changing news and regulations announced to battle the spread of COVID-19. They share what’s coming up for them, what wisdom traditions offer about handling troubling times and a few simple tools and concepts to stay with ourselves when overwhelm arises.

While Aimee is called to use her skills as a registered nurse in Columbus, Ohio, Lisa hosts solo and offers a practice she hopes will be helpful. There’s a lot of information out there about the benefits of meditation. If you haven’t had a regular practice, it’s a hard time to start something new. Even for experienced meditators, it’s a challenge to sit quietly for an extended amount of time right now. So we hope you enjoy this version of the guided practice of yoga Nidra (yogic sleep)...

As a registered nurse for the last 25 years, host Aimee Pruitt is on the front lines of our current health crisis in her home state of Ohio. She’s feeling strongly about the actions that we are taking as a global community right now and tells us why it’s time to stay the f@!k home. Lisa and Aimee share what it’s been like in their cities and how they’ve been processing all that has been canceled and lost and how they’ve been dealing with these unprecedented times. They talk about the...

The underpinnings of yoga include lifetimes worth of wisdom, symbolism and mythology to inspire and enrich the experience of the practitioner. In our contemporary practice, it’s easy to be unaware of how postures got their names, the reasons for chanting and the beauty of the epic tales that are an integral part of yoga philosophy and history. This week we are so lucky to learn from Sarah Cutfield, a yoga teacher and forever student who has dedicated her life to keeping the traditions of yoga...

When old pain is released through energetic movement and consciousness is brought to our habitual patterns, we can move toward freeing ourselves and make lasting changes. We can achieve this freedom and change through a holistic process involving body, emotion, mind, and spirit. Nicolai Grosell is a body-based therapist trained in the Core Energetics method. What you’ll learn in the episode: -trauma is a moment in time when we experienced hopelessness -expressing emotions is necessary...

Did you know there are massive benefits to being inspired? On this episode, Aimee and Lisa talk about the importance of inspiration and how they keep themselves inspired. They refer to a quote Lisa read years ago that suggests offering gratitude upon waking each morning and asking for just one thing- inspiration. Being open and present paves the way for inspiration to enter- maybe in the form of a new idea or perspective for solving a dilemma, improving a relationship or creating a deeper...

Lisa just got back from a couples retreat with her partner and brought back some insights to share. Our opportunity in any relationship is to learn more about ourselves. When we’re frustrated or annoyed with someone else, what aspect of our past is being triggered? Lisa shares a realization that came from some of the work she did, Aimee offers a relatable dynamic in her domestic life and the two talk love languages in this episode about how our relationships can be our greatest teacher on the...