Lisa Dumas is a somatic therapist passionate about educating adults and teens about calming anxiety and compassionately attending to mental health challenges in self and community. Join her each week as she shares stories, skills and conversations to help you soothe an anxious mind and body and remember you’re stronger than you think you are.
Thankful for Fridays and as many things as we can think of in this week’s episode that celebrates the simple yet super powerful practice of gratitude. Aimee and Lisa share how practicing appreciation…
This week’s episode features an incredibly rich and helpful conversation with Jodi Krahn, a mind-body focused psychotherapist who struggled with disordered eating for years before embarking on a heal…
Breath techniques can soothe anxiousness, help us experience present-centred thinking and give us a minute to overcome reactivity and choose how we want to show up in our lives. This episode is full …
Mary Campbell is a woman’s empowerment and intimacy coach, ordained inter-spiritual minister, counselor, and educator. She is the founder and executive director of Walking Our Talk women’s creation c…
This week, Aimee and Lisa share some candid conversation about the role alcohol has played in their lives, how they’ve questioned their relationships with it, and how it has evolved for each of them.…
This week, they offer ideas about staying balanced in this transitional period from a yoga and Ayurvedic perspective and explore some timely contemplations about renewal, seed planting and intention …
This week Aimee and Lisa discuss the many ways our minds cause us to suffer and the yogic model that can help us understand and manage our thoughts. They each share how old stories they once identifi…
So many of us are trying so hard to “be good” all the time. It’s exhausting to constantly try to say the right thing, be the right thing and do all the things. Wholehearted effort feels energizing, i…
What do you have to do in order to feel worthy of resting and really restoring? Aimee and Lisa talk about how the belief of “having to earn it” traps us in the cycle of “busy” and exhausts us. They t…
According to ayurvedic wisdom, those of us in the northern hemisphere are in “kapha” season, a time of year when the elements of earth and water are heightened, which can cause the kapha constitution…
Lisa just got back from a retreat and is inspired to share some of the insights she gathered. The girls talk about why we tend toward wanting to control and how that tendency moves us into overwhelm,…
If you or anyone you know has suffered with an anxious mind and body, this episode is intended to continue to shift the shame surrounding the struggle. Aimee and Lisa share stories about the role fea…
Aimee and Lisa celebrate the new students coming to yoga each January and share the powerful experiences they had when they were “beginners”. They discuss how cultivating the mind of a beginner helps…
At the beginning of the year, there’s a lot of noise around us urging us to go on a “cleanse”. In this episode, Lisa and Aimee talk about how it’s more important for them to cleanse their minds and h…
Aimee shares more about how she arrived at a state of severe burnout and the lessons she learned in childhood that contributed to the beliefs that drove her there. She gets vulnerable because old wou…
Lisa shares her experience with disordered anxiety and how some challenges in her teen years may have contributed to her years of out of control worry and shame. She talks about how her first yoga cl…
In this week’s episode we find out how Aimee found Ayurveda and how it helped her to recover from severe burnout and people-pleasing. We get schooled on some Ayurveda 101 and how to balance a winter …