S1 Ep203: You Are Not Your Beliefs: Reclaiming the Wild Woman Within

So I started off after doing my master's as a Wim Hof method instructor, which you've never heard of.

Mm-hmm.

Um, uh, the Wim Hof method is, it's a powerful method.

Um, it involves ice bathing-

[laughs]

... breathwork, and-

I, I keep laughing at that because that's just... [laughs]

It's the perfect response because, to be honest, I used to hate the cold.

I mean, like, my family, we, we like the sun.

We like the warmth.

I like lying on the beach, and yeah, the cold is interesting what it does with people.

When you say, "Let's take an ice bath," people are like, "Ooh, that doesn't sound so nice."

[laughs]

Um, but yeah, I started with that because the first ice bath I took with Michael, it so quickly brought me into a state that I longed for, a very calm, a very grounded state.

Within one minute of being in the ice bath, your body really calms down.

Your nervous system calms down.

It sounds counterintuitive because going into an ice bath, you'd think your body would freak out, which it does for a moment, but then it really regulates.

So yeah, I, I s- I am a Wim Hof method instructor, so I use these external tools of ice bathing, of breathwork, and I've also now incorporated many other techniques as a coach, as a, as a women's coach.

So I also use, yeah, somatic-based therapy, working with the body, um, and many, many different techniques to really get to the old belief systems because I realized the Wim Hof method, going into the cold, breathing, it really slows us down, and it also makes us much more resilient.

I mean, taking an ice bath is not easy.

It's always a challenge.

Like, do I really want to do this? But it grows your capacity, and what lies under that is the fact that you can deal with your inner world.

You can deal with the challenges that come up in life because you learn how to deal with stress because ice bath is a huge stressor on the body.

And so it really brought me more into this inner world and working with our inner beliefs and our inner patterns.

And they're the things that either work for us or work against us, aren't they? I, I have to go back to the ice bath.

So I started off after doing my master's as a Wim Hof method instructor, which you've never heard of.

Mm-hmm.

Um, uh, the Wim Hof method is, it's a powerful method.

Um, it involves ice bathing-

[laughs]

... breathwork, and-

I, I keep laughing at that because that's just... [laughs]

It's the perfect response because, to be honest, I used to hate the cold.

I mean, like, my family, we, we like the sun.

We like the warmth.

I like lying on the beach, and yeah, the cold is interesting what it does with people.

When you say, "Let's take an ice bath," people are like, "Ooh, that doesn't sound so nice."

[laughs]

Um, but yeah, I started with that because the first ice bath I took with Michael, it so quickly brought me into a state that I longed for, a very calm, a very grounded state.

Within one minute of being in the ice bath, your body really calms down.

Your nervous system calms down.

It sounds counterintuitive because going into an ice bath, you'd think your body would freak out, which it does for a moment, but then it really regulates.

So yeah, I, I s- I am a Wim Hof method instructor, so I use these external tools of ice bathing, of breathwork, and I've also now incorporated many other techniques as a coach, as a, as a women's coach.

So I also use, yeah, somatic-based therapy, working with the body, um, and many, many different techniques to really get to the old belief systems because I realized the Wim Hof method, going into the cold, breathing, it really slows us down, and it also makes us much more resilient.

I mean, taking an ice bath is not easy.

It's always a challenge.

Like, do I really want to do this? But it grows your capacity, and what lies under that is the fact that you can deal with your inner world.

You can deal with the challenges that come up in life because you learn how to deal with stress because ice bath is a huge stressor on the body.

And so it really brought me more into this inner world and working with our inner beliefs and our inner patterns.

And they're the things that either work for us or work against us, aren't they? I, I have to go back to the ice bath.