The Light In My Shadow
Where Medical Insight Meets Yogic Wisdom on the Path to Healing
My Story: Living with BPD, Bipolar, Manic Depression, Complex Trauma & Suicidal Ideation
In this raw and vulnerable episode, I open up about my journey living with multiple mental health diagnoses—how they’ve sabotaged my relationships, fed my addiction to emotional pain, and kept me spinning on a merry-go-round of trauma and shame. I explore how these shadows became constant companions—sometimes seductive, sometimes suffocating—and how I’ve slowly, painfully, but purposefully learned to face them.
Through the healing lenses of yoga and Ayurveda, I’ve begun to untangle the web. It hasn’t been easy. It’s been messy, teary, and filled with setbacks—but also breakthroughs. If you’ve ever felt like your mind was working against you or that your pain had its own personality, this episode is for you.
“Unless we heal the wounds that shame creates, especially wounds from childhood, we carry this crippling shame into our adulthood…” This is the work. And this is my truth.
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Ep:22 Ayurveda, A Natural Way to Restore Health and Well-Being. Natural Methods to Boost Immunity based on the Dosha Constitutions.
All diets are welcome as everyone has their unique compositions and needs different methods to support their immunity. In this episode, I share information and resources, along with a Diet and Nutrition Ayurvedic Workbook for you to sustain optimal health during a season of illness and disease. The tools, insights, and methods I provide will help you establish remedies to support you along your healing journey. Visit the Jbyfnola.org website to download your own workbook and toolkit.
Ep:21 Ayurveda Remedies to Fight COVID-19. Overcoming COVID -19 Naturally
Tips, tricks, and techniques along with resources and remedies to help you combat the COVID-19 and Flu seasons. I had COVID-19 and used the remedies I share in this podcast to heal myself. Be sure to visit the jbyfnola.org website for the DIet and Nutrition Ayurveda workbook I created when you join the email list and take your dosha quiz. The Jai Bhakti Blog also has the workbook accessible so you can begin your wellness journey straight away.
Ep:20 How to Read the 20 Gunas of Ayurveda. A Quick Guide to understanding the qualities of the Doshas and the imbalances they bring.
The 20 gunas are the 20 coupled qualities that balance each other out. They utilize the practice of Samana and Vishesh (the principles of Like increases like and opposite my increase or decrease the other). This is a best practice for all constitutions to understand as you are on your journey through Ayurveda, and possibly Nadi Vigyan also known as Reading the Pulse. Let's start small and grow into our greatness.
Ep:19 Understanding Ayurvedic Doshic Constitutions and their Imbalances. How to Restore Balance when your Doshas are Imbalanced.
Now let’s nurture the understanding of the imbalances of the doshas, and how to re-establish balance and self-awareness through a consciousness-based approach through Ayurveda. Understanding the imbalances provides insight into the areas of our lives that are seeking attention to nurture and develop. If you have taken the Dosha Quiz and assessment on our website (jbyfnola.org), then you are a step ahead of the game and have an understanding of how the doshas function, operate, and where you stand. Keep in mind, this is purely superficial, as there are many layers to reveal within yourself. Let's discuss restoring balance in your life.