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Stop Trying to Fix Yourself; Your Body Has a Better Path

This week on the It’s All Me podcast, Gervase addresses the impact of going beyond the mind when it comes to healing. Listen in as she discusses the patterns that have led to a wave of traumatized nervous systems in modern society, and the risks we take when we focus on the problem rather than resourcing, regulation, and repair. Keep listening as G shares the power of somatic and subconscious healing when it comes to addressing trauma and breaking generational patterns, and the importance of approaching our healing journeys with compassion and curiosity.

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Challenge vs Suffering: Rewiring our Brains for Curiosity and Pleasure

This week on the IAM podcast, Gervase is dropping in with a solo episode on the difference between experiencing life’s challenges and allowing ourselves to sit in a state of suffering. Sharing her thoughts on the internalized systems that make suffering and martyrdom mindsets normal, Gervase also shares her own personal experience of addressing the blueprint of suffering within her own body and nervous system. Listen in as she shares how her training in Focalizing has helped her approach suffering in a more trauma-informed way, how we can make the shift to acknowledge challenges while not overidentifying with them, and the role that pleasure plays in the face of challenging times. Keep listening for an invitation to join G in her upcoming free masterclass on July 17th (link below!)

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How to Access More Pleasure as a High-Performing Woman

On this week’s solo episode of the I AM podcast, Gervase reminds high performing women - like you - of the transformative power of taking time to smell the metaphorical roses, and how it could actually be the most productive move you make in your entire life. Listen in as she shares what healing looks like when we pause and pendulate between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system, discusses the challenges of slowing down in our speed-incentivized modern world, and how the practice of prioritizing your wellbeing and accessing pleasure can help you feel safe in your body, leading to a more resourced and productive life. If you’re ready to start embracing pleasure and self-discovery, while learning to regulate and resource your nervous system, listen in now! (and check out the upcoming masterclass below!)

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Partnerships the Phoenix Way: How to Cultivate Compassion, Agency, and Pleasure

On this solo episode of the It’s All Me podcast, Gervase shares her personal insights on partnership, co-creating safety and trust within your relationship to ask for what you need, and the importance of resourcing and living a life you love as individuals as well as a couple. She shares her personal journey of navigating a 14-year marriage through smooth sailing and rough waters, how she and her husband practice recognizing and letting go of victim-mentality behavior and taking radical self-responsibility, and how these practices cultivate more passion and pleasure in their relationship. If you’re feeling like you need support in your own relationship journey, keep listening for an invitation to walk the Phoenix path with Gervase, creating resources and safety within your own nervous system and within your relationships.

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The Path to Secure Attachment (Even If You're Anxious) with Carly Turner

This week on the IAM podcast, Gervase sits down with Carly Turner, certified CBT & Somatic Attachment Therapist, as they discuss anxious attachment, how it impacts all areas of life, and Carly’s personal path toward secure attachment. They dive into the possible roots of anxious attachment, and the importance of self-reflection, curiosity, and compassion along the journey to secure attachment. If you’re ready to stop being hijacked by your emotions and lost in the chaotic behavior that follows, listen for practices you can implement outside of triggered moments to cultivate more peace and trust within your system and relationships, as well as ways to ground and resource yourself in moments of triggering uncertainty.

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Joy is a Really Good Reason (Replay)

What is your relationship to joy? For a lot of modern women wearing multiple hats and feeling responsible for all sorts of projects and people, joy is the first thing they take off their list when life starts to feel too chaotic. On this episode of the It’s All Me podcast, Gervase talks about reconnecting to joy without the ‘shoulds’ and shame, why doing the work to get to joy is worth having tough conversations, and how joy can be a great motivator to lead the lives we desire. After all, joy is a really good reason to create and live a life we love.

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The Black Sheep's Journey: Understanding Generational Trauma with Nick Werber

This week on the podcast, Gervase introduces us to her mentor Nick Werber from the Focalizing Institute, as they discuss generational trauma patterns and how they can shape our childhood, adulthood, and even influence parenting practices. Nick shares specifically how family dynamics create outsider roles like the scapegoat and black sheep of the family and why we need these nonconformists. Listen in as Gervase and Nick share their personal experiences with these outsider roles, and how they and others who have been handed these (at times) trauma-fueled titles can utilize the practice of Focalizing to begin move the needle forward, redefine themselves from an internal place without needing external validation, and even make cycle-breaking a bit easier for the next generation.

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How to Ask For What You Want (at Home) Pt 2

In this second half of a two-part series, Gervase shines a light on how to get what you want at home. Using two highly common archetypes of women who aren’t currently getting their wants or needs met in the home, Gervase shares why this isn’t “just the way it is” and how you can take back your agency and embrace your power to evolve your life into a reflection of who you are on the inside. Listen in for the sneaky beliefs that are keeping you small, how accepting a life of not getting what you want can manifest into other symptoms in your life, why being needless and wantless is actually hurting your family, and so many more valuable insights (Seriously grab a pen). Keep listening for real-time practices of having grace for your current self and the shifts you can make to start getting what you want out of your home life.

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Understanding Childhood Trauma that Doesn’t Feel Like Trauma with Chelsea Green (Replay)

In this replay from 2021, Gervase is getting publicly therapized with soulmate and licensed professional counselor Chelsea Green. Chelsea speaks such wisdom about how the systems that we are surrounded by as children, translate into our adult life. The conversation is sprinkled with mic drop moment after mic drop moment from the choices that we face everyday to how we can calibrate our roles in the patriarchal society.

Chelsea is a Licensed Professional Counselor providing integrative mental health therapy in Charleston, SC. Her therapy practice specializes in working with adults, couples, and families in the midst of life transitions, relationship stress, trauma recovery, family systems, anxiety, depression, and stress. She is also a family constellation group facilitator and a visual artist who merges her many talents to curate transformative experiences.

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Co-Creating Safety and Harmony in Partnership with Josh Trent

Join Gervase and her guest Josh Trent as they discuss the impact of spiritual growth, the balancing of masculine and feminine energies, and the power of commitment to co-regulation within our intimate partner relationships. Listen in for insights on how to create safety within relationships, the difference between real and pseudo safety, and for a rally cry to both men and women to address our wounds and continue forward with both respect and ownership with our partners.

Dedicated to supporting humanity in coming together as one, Josh has spent the past 19+ years as a trainer, researcher, and facilitator discovering the physical and emotional intelligence for humans to thrive in our modern world. He is the Founder of Wellness Force Media, which exists to help humans heal mental, emotional and physical health through podcasts, programs, and a global community that believes in optimizing our potential to live life well.

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Asking Hard Questions (Are NYC Schools Still Segregated?) with Brandon Triola

Brandon Triola is a teacher, actor and creator who loves to stir the pot in the schools where he’s taught. This episode, he and G navigate the inconvenient truths and conversations we’ve been conditioned to sidestep, like pseudo-liberalism, the real impact of institutionalized racism, and the white savior complex. Keep listening to hear Brandon’s story of being a Brooklyn school teacher and how Brooklyn Start is his hope to build up the communities of Brooklyn while shedding light on some dark truths.

Brandon Triola is a veteran actor, writer, and director of 20 years. A proud member of the Screen Actors Guild and the Actor's Equity Association, he is the creator of the TikTok short format show sensation, BrooklynStart "a show about a conversation that no one wants to have".

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Health, Balance, and Legacy with Jason Burke of The New Primal

On this episode of the It’s All Me podcast, Gervase sits down with Jason Burke, founder and CEO of The New Primal and Noble Made, to discuss Jason’s journey into entrepreneurship, the correlation between our ailments and our food, and the importance of balance in life, business, and health. Keep listening to hear the legacy Jason hopes to leave through his company and his life as a man, husband, and father.

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An Introduction to CBD and How It’s Supporting My Family’s Needs with Nan Fox

On this episode of the It’s All Me podcast, Gervase sits down with Nan Fox, a registered nurse of 17 years and advocate for the organic hemp wellness company Green Compass. They discuss Nan’s journey from RN to CBD advocate and Gervase’s introduction to CBD as she looks for ways to naturally support her family’s needs. Keep listening to hear how CBD interacts with our bodies, the difference between CBD, hemp, and marjiuana, and how CBD could shift our perspectives on dealing with the pain we’ve been brainwashed to normalize.

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When Moms Talk Money and Mental Health with Amy Schultz

Ready to talk about money and mental health with mothers who get it? In this episode, Gervase introduces Amy Schultz, mom, co-founder and head coach at Bolder Money, a company on a mission to close the gender wealth gap through money coaching for women. Join Gervase and Amy as they talk about how financial stability affects advocacy for women in the workplace, their journeys with postpartum depression, BPD, depression and anxiety, and how they are navigating it all with an It’s All Me mindset.

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WTF is Up With Over-Giving to Our Kids

In this third episode of the newest, uncut series of the podcast, G is coming to you from wherever the F she finds herself to share an aspect of mother-ing that has her saying, “What in the actual . . .?!” Because it’s always nice to feel less alone in the clusterfuck that is life. Gervase is dropping in from the parking lot of a hair salon to share ways to navigate the hard, the human, and the straight up WTFs of over-giving to our children.

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The Spiritual Psychology Side of Self-Work with Anita Kopacz

Get ready for some serious sparkly magnetism - our guest this week is bringing the power.

On this episode of the It’s All Me podcast, Gervase has a deep conversation with Anita Kopacz, delighted mother of 3, spiritual psychologist, and author of the novel Shallow Waters. Anita and Gervase discuss what it’s like to choose you and your gifts over the world’s convenience, why self-work is vital no matter what stage of life you’re in, and Anita’s vision for her work in the world with women of color.

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I AM a soul having a human experience

On this solo episode, Gervase is officially coming out of the spiritual closet and sharing her beliefs around her spirituality with you. Hear how her upbringing by a Roman Catholic mother and atheist father shaped so much of her current day cocktail of beliefs.

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