22: Alchemize Trauma & Shadow in Your Business w/ Ishta Devi

Shadow work is hot in the health and wellness space, and we're not going to lie, it has so much value. In this illuminating episode with Ishta Devi (Clinical Counsellor & Hypnotherapist, Life Coach, Yoga Teacher, Artist and Dawn's friend of many moons) we explored the entrepreneurial truth: that when you do all of the light work, you are also lighting up the shadow. So the truth is: light work is shadow work and shadow work is light work. Ultimately, when you can give your shadow a seat at the table and integrate it, your shadow & challenging experiences can become wisdom that you can share with others. We seriously LOVED this uplifting chat with Ishta and know you will too. Ishta's story is super inspiring: she started as a young yogini mama with an organic tea shop and now guides beautiful humans to release their trauma and claim their most aligned lives as a clinical hypnotherapist. Ishta lets us in on her path as a multiple decades-long artist and entrepreneur... and her words are sooo nourishing to the soul. Leave feeling fired up to embrace your journeys, recognize and integrate your patterns, and take ownership of your healing process in order to manifest both the things you dream about and living as your higher self.

We explore:

• The beautiful wisdom that when we integrate our shadow, it becomes wisdom
• What is trauma? How does it show up in the body? How can it impact your entrepreneurial journey and how can you alchemize it?
• Ishta’s daily rituals that include yoga, meditation, and hypnotherapy
• The transformative power of hypnotherapy in accessing the subconscious mind and its role in personal growth and manifestation
• The unique challenges women in business face, and how to move through them in order to uplevel all aspects of your life
• How the journey of entrepreneurship is also a journey of self-discovery

Ishta Devi is a trauma focused coach, therapeutic counsellor, yoga teacher, clinical hypnotherapist, artist and entrepreneur. When she felt the call, she decided to dive deep into the topic of trauma recovery in her own life and to share her discoveries with the world as part of her life's work. Ishta is obsessed with wellness and is devoted to her values of health, autonomy, freedom, beauty and creativity. She is the creator of The Trauma Cleanse Method, a guide to healing trauma in the BODY MIND SPIRIT.

Timestamps:

[04:21] Ishta's morning spiritual practice

[05:47] Using hypnotherapy recordings for self-improvement

[07:50] Shadow work and its role in personal growth

[10:48] Integrating spiritual practices into daily entrepreneurial tasks

[18:06] Resistance to manifesting a new experience and overcoming it

[20:54] The importance of celebrating small wins in entrepreneurship

[25:14] Challenges faced by young women entrepreneurs

[28:22] Realizing burnout and its signs during an entrepreneurial journey

[32:07] Gabor Maté’s definition of trauma and its bodily impacts

[33:40] The spectrum of trauma and its compounding effects over time

[38:08] Trauma responses and resistance to personal growth

[39:14] Confronting internal resistance to success and abundance

[41:10] Balancing light and shadow work for holistic healing

[43:30] Integrating shadow work as a source of wisdom

[48:02] Benefits of somatic work over revisiting trauma stories

Explore Ishta's work on her website, and her incredible artistry on Instagram. And then dive into a free Somatic Breath practice... 15 minutes with Ishta is all it takes to feel grounded, clear, safe and protected.

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Resources Mentioned:

Chaibaba Tea | Website

Gabor Maté | Website

Dr. Joe Dispenza | Website

Louise Hay | Website

Dr. Wayne Dyer | Website

Amanda Frances | Website

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Music:

Pleiades 432 by Kenta Hayashi