WHAT WILL THE AUDIENCE LEARN?
EPISODE SUMMARY:
This week, on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam is pleased to welcome Clinical Hypnotherapist, Rapid Transformational Therapist®, Empowerment Coach, and Reiki Master, Christina L. Woods.
Christina Woods leads women to realize their worth, shed old programs, and align with their authentic selves. Combining her three decades in corporate leadership, Christina has turned her personal triumph over adversity into a beacon of hope for hundreds of women worldwide.
As the CEO and Founder of Wise Woods Hypnotherapy, Inc., Christina leads with the heart and has channeled her formidable experience in overcoming complex challenges into fostering the potential within others.
Her combined expertise in hypnotherapy, coaching, and energy healing inspired her to create her signature approach, the Wise Woods Method, which guides clients all over the world on a truly profound journey of self-discovery and change.
Christina has been honing her intuition and spiritual energy practice throughout her entire life, and she brings this experience, knowledge, and wisdom to every client, and audience she connects with.
Christina helps women shatter self-sabotaging patterns and overcome burnout. She empowers them to find the strength and wisdom within, establish healthy boundaries, and create lives filled with purpose and fulfillment. Alongside her deep mindset and healing work, Christina works with the non-profit organization, Lotus Rising International, whose mission is to provide holistic wellness recovery programs for survivors of human trafficking.
Tune in and share your questions and comments about healing in today’s world on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page.
https://www.lotusrisinginternational.org/
00:00:43.730 --> 00:01:08.329 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Good afternoon, my conscious co-creators. Welcome to another edition of the conscious consultant hour awakening humanity. I am very, very pleased that you are all here with me today. We've got another wonderful show in store for you. I've got an amazing guest that I can't wait to bring on. But first, st of course
00:01:08.330 --> 00:01:14.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we have my blog posts again, just taking these in order from a couple of years ago.
00:01:14.410 --> 00:01:16.109 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and today's blog post
00:01:17.270 --> 00:01:21.909 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is entitled, it's probably rather apropos for for what we're going to talk about today.
00:01:22.410 --> 00:01:26.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it is entitled Quiet Vulnerability
00:01:26.450 --> 00:01:28.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is the most powerful of all.
00:01:30.410 --> 00:01:33.200 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What is true vulnerability.
00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:36.949 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We hear a lot about it lately.
00:01:37.230 --> 00:01:40.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: how to be a leader or relate to people.
00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:43.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We have to be vulnerable.
00:01:44.290 --> 00:01:49.800 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yet there is not a lot of talk about how to truly be vulnerable.
00:01:50.390 --> 00:01:56.230 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Does being vulnerable mean? We have to tell all of our deep, dark secrets.
00:01:57.340 --> 00:02:01.999 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Do we have to be vulnerable the same way to everyone.
00:02:02.660 --> 00:02:06.250 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And what does real vulnerability look like
00:02:07.250 --> 00:02:15.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in today's world? We sometimes get the impression that to be vulnerable, we have to shed tears and be emotional.
00:02:15.580 --> 00:02:21.330 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We have to reveal how scared we are, how uncertain we are about what to do.
00:02:21.750 --> 00:02:28.699 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yet all these ideas around vulnerability only deal with one side of the equation.
00:02:29.450 --> 00:02:30.860 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It makes
00:02:31.260 --> 00:02:34.299 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: vulnerability all about us.
00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:37.179 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What about the other person
00:02:37.670 --> 00:02:38.930 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or people?
00:02:39.650 --> 00:02:44.940 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How are we showing up in a way that allows them to be vulnerable
00:02:46.010 --> 00:02:51.500 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: for real vulnerability to exist. There needs to be a certain environment.
00:02:52.060 --> 00:02:55.770 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: one of safety. 1st and foremost.
00:02:57.060 --> 00:03:02.030 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: if there also needs to be space for someone else to be vulnerable.
00:03:03.340 --> 00:03:10.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Instead of the space being completely filled with us, sharing our pain and sorrow.
00:03:10.140 --> 00:03:13.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: there needs to be room for others to share as well.
00:03:14.790 --> 00:03:20.350 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: vulnerability does not have to be loud or overly expressive.
00:03:20.690 --> 00:03:23.729 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it can be quiet and patient.
00:03:24.330 --> 00:03:26.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it can be open and waiting
00:03:27.860 --> 00:03:33.160 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when we are truly present to what is in the air in the moment
00:03:33.490 --> 00:03:34.640 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we can
00:03:34.720 --> 00:03:40.450 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: be open to allowing the other person to express their vulnerability.
00:03:41.590 --> 00:03:44.880 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It is not just about us
00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:52.249 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: for being truly present with others, is actually the most vulnerable place we can be.
00:03:52.940 --> 00:03:58.690 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because it opens us up to feeling their pain and suffering.
00:03:59.470 --> 00:04:04.700 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It allows us to empathize with them on a whole new level.
00:04:05.920 --> 00:04:07.790 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and from that deep.
00:04:07.940 --> 00:04:10.720 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: present, vulnerable place
00:04:10.860 --> 00:04:15.009 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we share something that is not just about our pain.
00:04:15.060 --> 00:04:19.119 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but supports the other person in their process.
00:04:20.170 --> 00:04:24.640 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Vulnerability takes empathy on all sides.
00:04:24.840 --> 00:04:32.070 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It also requires the safety that everyone feels heard and listened to.
00:04:32.910 --> 00:04:37.239 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: which takes much more presence than we realize.
00:04:38.030 --> 00:04:45.009 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That is why quiet vulnerability is the most powerful of all.
00:04:46.390 --> 00:04:51.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So what do you need to do to cultivate quiet vulnerability
00:04:51.640 --> 00:04:53.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in your own life.
00:04:55.080 --> 00:04:59.577 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So this blog post I wrote after
00:05:00.890 --> 00:05:04.450 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: someone actually made an observation about me.
00:05:06.740 --> 00:05:07.819 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and that
00:05:09.450 --> 00:05:11.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know we were talking about
00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:15.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: being vulnerable and vulnerability, and they made the
00:05:15.460 --> 00:05:16.940 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: observation
00:05:19.420 --> 00:05:22.820 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that even though I may not be very expressive at times.
00:05:23.150 --> 00:05:27.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: even though I might not be overly emotional at times.
00:05:29.450 --> 00:05:31.550 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that the space I hold
00:05:33.380 --> 00:05:38.410 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to be open to hear what the other person wants to express
00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:40.870 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is a form of vulnerability.
00:05:42.100 --> 00:05:45.679 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and it really woke me up because I never really thought of that.
00:05:48.180 --> 00:05:50.029 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And I realized that
00:05:50.580 --> 00:05:55.280 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: so much of the conversation around vulnerability
00:05:56.020 --> 00:05:58.180 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is all around
00:05:58.730 --> 00:06:01.130 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: sharing what's inside of us
00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:11.269 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: being vulnerable to how we feel if we're hurt, if we're sad, if we're angry, if we're upset, if we're confused, if we don't know what to do, where to go.
00:06:11.980 --> 00:06:13.359 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and that is
00:06:13.710 --> 00:06:16.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: one very major type of vulnerability.
00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:22.090 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But we often forget that there's another side to it
00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:31.489 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that in order for someone to express and be vulnerable. There has to be someone on the other side listening, allowing the person to be vulnerable.
00:06:32.190 --> 00:06:35.039 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: giving them the space to open up
00:06:35.990 --> 00:06:37.460 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: into 2
00:06:37.620 --> 00:06:40.789 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: truly feel like they're being heard.
00:06:44.050 --> 00:06:47.959 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so just that conversation really struck me
00:06:48.460 --> 00:06:49.330 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and
00:06:49.510 --> 00:06:52.640 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and gave me pause to think about that.
00:06:53.340 --> 00:06:56.880 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: There are more types of vulnerability
00:06:57.230 --> 00:06:59.380 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: than we normally think of.
00:07:02.870 --> 00:07:05.370 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and that to be the witness
00:07:05.930 --> 00:07:14.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to be open to hearing. The other person's vulnerability is in itself a state of vulnerability.
00:07:15.400 --> 00:07:18.729 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We make ourselves vulnerable
00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:25.109 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to hear and see and feel what the other person is going through.
00:07:26.870 --> 00:07:30.620 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We receive their vulnerability.
00:07:31.470 --> 00:07:35.930 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and that is a very vulnerable place to be at.
00:07:40.630 --> 00:07:41.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So.
00:07:43.260 --> 00:07:45.680 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So yeah, I I.
00:07:46.200 --> 00:07:54.259 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: A A after this was kind of brought up to me. And I I really forgot about this. I forgot that I wrote this blog post. It's been a while.
00:07:55.860 --> 00:07:59.970 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but when that was brought up to me, I realized, you know, that's really
00:08:00.210 --> 00:08:01.500 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: very true.
00:08:04.130 --> 00:08:05.010 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and that
00:08:05.650 --> 00:08:08.280 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we can all learn something
00:08:10.450 --> 00:08:16.160 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: from witnessing the person who is being the witness to someone else's vulnerability?
00:08:18.960 --> 00:08:23.930 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How are they showing up that allows the other person to feel comfortable enough
00:08:24.810 --> 00:08:28.659 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to share their pain, their sorrow, their anger.
00:08:31.930 --> 00:08:36.269 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: There's always this stance between the giver and the receiver.
00:08:38.740 --> 00:08:43.690 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and in order to give out our vulnerability. There needs to be someone to receive it.
00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:54.270 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So maybe you're like me, and maybe you think oh, I'm not that vulnerable. I don't express my emotions that much I don't share as much.
00:08:54.310 --> 00:08:56.440 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but everyone shares with me.
00:08:57.680 --> 00:09:03.779 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Well, if you're that kind of person where your friends are, the ones who always confide in you
00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:08.690 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when they're having a hard time, when they're going through deep challenges.
00:09:09.420 --> 00:09:10.999 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Good news for you.
00:09:11.450 --> 00:09:13.750 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You're being there to listen to them
00:09:14.470 --> 00:09:16.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is your act of vulnerability.
00:09:17.730 --> 00:09:20.230 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So why don't we celebrate that this week?
00:09:21.140 --> 00:09:23.190 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So I'd love to hear from you
00:09:24.470 --> 00:09:26.179 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: my loyal listeners.
00:09:27.280 --> 00:09:31.749 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Are you the one who receives the vulnerability or gives the vulnerability.
00:09:33.500 --> 00:09:40.339 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Let me know I would love to hear it in the comments. And let's just for the next week. Let's just pay attention to
00:09:41.930 --> 00:09:44.030 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: how are we showing up in the moment?
00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:51.230 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Because we can show up on both sides? We can both be the person being vulnerable, and we can be the person receiving it.
00:09:52.470 --> 00:09:54.230 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Let me know what it is for you.
00:09:55.290 --> 00:09:57.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Alright. So that's my blog post.
00:09:58.430 --> 00:09:59.800 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: The title is
00:10:00.620 --> 00:10:04.429 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: quiet. Vulnerability is the most powerful of all.
00:10:04.570 --> 00:10:25.299 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And of course you can always find my blogs posts on talk radio dot Nyc slash blog. And on my personal website, theconscious consultant.com if you like my blog post. You might like my book that came out in 2,020, called Everyday Awakening. You are more powerful than you know, available at all. The major booksellers
00:10:25.610 --> 00:10:28.890 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you like my blogs. Check out the book. I think you might like it
00:10:29.580 --> 00:10:31.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: all right.
00:10:31.470 --> 00:10:32.340 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So
00:10:33.100 --> 00:10:37.409 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it is now my pleasure to welcome to the show
00:10:37.620 --> 00:10:46.109 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: clinical, hypnotherapist, rapid, transformational therapist, empowerment coach and reiki, Master Christina Woods.
00:10:46.580 --> 00:11:05.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Christina leads women to realize their worth. Shadow old programs and align with their authentic selves, combining her 3 decades of corporate leadership. Christina has turned her personal triumph over adversity into a beacon of hope for hundreds of women worldwide
00:11:05.610 --> 00:11:30.200 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: as the CEO and founder of wisewoods, hypnotherapy Inc. Christina leads with the heart and has channeled her formidable experience into overcoming complex challenges and fostering the potential within others. Her combined expertise in hypnotherapy, coaching and energy healing inspired her to create her signature, approach the wise woods method
00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:52.019 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: which guides clients all over the world on a truly profound journey of self discovery and change. Christina helps women shatter self, sabotaging patterns and overcome burnout. She empowers them to find the strength and wisdom within, establishing healthy boundaries and create lives filled with purpose and fulfillment.
00:11:52.180 --> 00:12:07.849 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Alongside her deep mindset and healing work. Christina also works with a nonprofit organization lotus rising international, whose mission is to provide holistic wellness recovery programs for survivors of human trafficking.
00:12:08.110 --> 00:12:13.249 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: They know this woman has a heart of gold. Welcome to the conscious consultant hour. Christina.
00:12:13.250 --> 00:12:16.179 Christina L. Woods: Well, thank you for having me, Sam. It's great to be here.
00:12:16.180 --> 00:12:19.249 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Oh, it's such a pleasure, it's such a pleasure.
00:12:19.610 --> 00:12:36.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: so I'm I'm curious just to give our audience a little background. I mean, if you spent over 3 decades in corporate America, how? How did you go from from being in corporate America to like being an energy healer and a Reiki master, and all that good stuff.
00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:41.429 Christina L. Woods: Yeah, that's a good question. And one, sometimes I think, wow, this is like a different life.
00:12:41.430 --> 00:12:41.900 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah.
00:12:41.900 --> 00:12:56.490 Christina L. Woods: You know, I like many people, I had my own transformation to go through, so I'll back up a little bit. So I was, I was raised by a single mom. I was the oldest of 4, and I had
00:12:56.510 --> 00:13:19.810 Christina L. Woods: just a lot of responsibility growing up, and I I grew up, really believing that the good girl was the way to really navigate life. And I did have some trauma in my life. And just what came out of that was, gosh! If you get good grades and you do the right thing, and you help and stay very quiet, and
00:13:19.810 --> 00:13:43.679 Christina L. Woods: just do what you're supposed to do and check all these boxes. Then, you know, life is, gonna be really good. So that's what I did. I I did the corporate world. I climbed the ladder I became super mom. I got married. I was married 25 years and 2 beautiful kids, and was really hustling. Very, in my masculine energy did it very well, and then it all just came
00:13:43.680 --> 00:13:57.209 Christina L. Woods: crashing down. I was very intuitive as a child. I even remember now Astral traveling into my neighbors backyards and seeing things, and just really shut a lot of those things down. And
00:13:57.210 --> 00:14:19.199 Christina L. Woods: I had a moment. I was approaching 50, and my marriage at that time was falling apart. I was feeling like, Gosh, I'm I'm why is there so much money in the bank account? I have all the things that you're supposed to be happy. That are to make you happy. My health is not in a good place right now. Everything came crashing down, and
00:14:19.400 --> 00:14:48.789 Christina L. Woods: frankly, I had a moment pulling weeds in my backyard. I was in my pajamas pulling weeds. There's, you know, dog Poop. The kids didn't pick up. It was not a glamorous moment, and I I heard a voice over here. I mean, it was not my, it wasn't just an intuition. I actually heard a voice. I believe it was a higher power and a guide and it basically said, When are you gonna stop trying to make everyone else happy. And really, just listen to what you need and make yourself happy.
00:14:48.790 --> 00:15:01.070 Christina L. Woods: And it was an undeniable voice that it really stopped me in my tracks. I was already going through things. I already realized I needed to make some big shifts. But I mean, this was a stop
00:15:01.070 --> 00:15:12.029 Christina L. Woods: stop and say, Okay, what was that and I really need to make some shifts. So at that point there was a big layoff in corporate, and I looked at it as a blessing. I had done enough
00:15:12.030 --> 00:15:34.390 Christina L. Woods: healing work to know things happen for me and not to me. It was still very difficult, because that was my entire identity. I was very good at it, and when you have your identity wrapped up in outside out validation, boy, you don't even know who you are. So I took a moment, and some time I went through a divorce. It was very, very obviously traumatic. And
00:15:34.700 --> 00:16:00.200 Christina L. Woods: my kids started going off to college, and then here I am with the dog saying, Okay, now, what am I gonna do? And I really felt like through that moment I did a lot of healing and realized, you know I I have an inner voice that I've been quieting, and through that I found my authentic voice, my power. I shed so much trauma. And I realized, wow, a lot of these limiting beliefs that I had about myself.
00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:13.199 Christina L. Woods: They're not even true. And as I started to shed those things and and really empower myself and get more into energy healing. I realized there's so many people walking around
00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:38.110 Christina L. Woods: that also have limiting beliefs that are there to protect them, and let's honor and have compassion for them. But, boy, wouldn't it be great if they realized those weren't the truth? They don't need those things, and there's some really beautiful ways. And when I came across hypnotherapy it was actually just listening to a meditation on Mindvalley, and it helped me tremendously with my own health issues.
00:16:38.110 --> 00:17:02.900 Christina L. Woods: And I thought, What is this? I never anticipated doing it? But when I, when it really changed my life. I wrote in a journal, this is gonna change my life. I'm gonna do this. And I think it was a few years later I kind of weaned myself out of corporate and found myself in school during Covid, after, you know, on the weekends. And here I am started doing Reiki advanced data healing. And
00:17:02.920 --> 00:17:08.179 Christina L. Woods: really this is, this is, can't imagine doing anything else. Now.
00:17:08.369 --> 00:17:13.839 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I know that feeling. I know that feeling well, so so just real quick, before we go to break.
00:17:13.979 --> 00:17:23.409 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when you're in corporate. And you had that moment like, how did you come across energy healing? What like? How did you find it, or how did it find you? I like to say.
00:17:23.410 --> 00:17:44.170 Christina L. Woods: Yeah, it found me in college, actually. And and and I'd always dabbled and been interested in would pull books off the bookshelf and say, What is this, and and do energy healing, and then put it away for a few years, and I was raised Catholic. So there was some conflict there and and and it found me early on about 1718. Yeah.
00:17:44.170 --> 00:17:52.380 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Oh, okay, okay. So this was something that was already in your consciousness already around there. And it was just like, I think I need to dip back into that.
00:17:52.380 --> 00:17:54.860 Christina L. Woods: Yes, yes, yes.
00:17:55.000 --> 00:18:00.700 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Got it. Okay, we we're gonna take a quick break. And when we come back
00:18:01.140 --> 00:18:03.579 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: let's talk about how
00:18:03.690 --> 00:18:08.850 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that hypnotherapy like helped to really shift you? And how the energy
00:18:09.020 --> 00:18:10.669 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: healing like helped
00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:14.619 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and and where did that lead to like like? What
00:18:14.740 --> 00:18:25.310 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: sort of shifts in your real day to day. Practical life. Because, you know, you're you're my favorite kind of guest, because you have a foot in both the very practical real day to day corporate.
00:18:25.310 --> 00:18:26.320 Christina L. Woods: Yeah.
00:18:26.320 --> 00:18:28.950 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and you you also
00:18:29.390 --> 00:18:46.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: have your foot in in the spiritual world like myself. And so I I really want to kind of dive into how we maintain that balance and and like, what are the real practical ways in which things like hypnotherapy, energy healing? And it practically, how did it really help you? Okay.
00:18:46.390 --> 00:18:48.120 Christina L. Woods: Sure sounds good.
00:18:48.290 --> 00:19:14.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Awesome. Alright, everyone, please stay tuned. You're listening to the conscious consultant hour awakening humanity. We do this every Thursday 12 noon to one pm, Eastern time right here on talk radio, Nyc, and all over social media. And if you're listening on the live streams, please post your comments. Your questions. I promise we'll we'll get to them throughout the show, and we'll be right back with our guest, Christina L. Woods, in just a moment.
00:21:30.700 --> 00:21:38.040 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And welcome back to the conscious consultant, our awakening humanity. We're speaking with Christina Woods
00:21:38.773 --> 00:21:42.636 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: rapid transformational therapies. All right. So
00:21:44.510 --> 00:21:52.520 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you, you went through. Obviously some very challenging times. I mean having a marriage of 25 years and then having it kind of crumble.
00:21:52.710 --> 00:21:55.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That's not easy for anybody.
00:21:57.480 --> 00:22:00.919 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You dipped your toe back in the water of energy healing.
00:22:02.900 --> 00:22:07.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and you started to discover the hypnotherapy and and these other things.
00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:23.330 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How what changes. Did you notice, like what practical sort of day to day changes? Did you notice, as you started to discover hypnotherapy and and started to use the energy medicine to really support you through this process.
00:22:24.120 --> 00:22:27.150 Christina L. Woods: You know, the the biggest changes, I think 1st are
00:22:28.220 --> 00:22:46.980 Christina L. Woods: seeing and understanding a different perspective of what were the limiting beliefs and accepting and realizing that they weren't, they aren't the truth. And so for me, I had always, you know, you can logically understand. I'm a good person. I do good things, but I always had a voice inside that said, I'm bad.
00:22:46.980 --> 00:23:14.569 Christina L. Woods: and I never understood where that came from, and that voice always created sabotage in my life, so whether it be through spending money, I would the credit cards would go up. I'd pay them off. Why would they keep going up until one day I said, Okay, I really need to find out why this keeps happening. At food. Okay, arguments. Things will be going well. And I always would say, Okay, yeah. But I'm gonna I'm gonna stir it up again. So what happened was
00:23:15.120 --> 00:23:38.470 Christina L. Woods: I? I really started to see these beliefs from a different perspective, and when you can see them from a different perspective in hypnotherapy, in deep, any kind of deep, subconscious work, you're able to see them through different eyes, whether that through the eyes of an inner child or your universal intelligence, your intuitive higher self, you can really have compassion and see.
00:23:38.640 --> 00:24:00.599 Christina L. Woods: Wow! I do. I do have those beliefs. But this is why. And wow! I really have compassion now, and I understand, and I see. But I also see those things aren't the truth. I understand why I had to have them. And what happened was my entire life. I was really conditioned. And this is a generational issue of women in my
00:24:00.800 --> 00:24:24.299 Christina L. Woods: boy on both sides, I believe, but definitely on my mother's side of you know, women must sacrifice. This is just what you do, I was told my whole life you're the oldest family first.st This is just what you do. You suffer, you struggle. That's the way it goes. You're tired, and there you go. You're Italian, and this is what we do, and
00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:47.599 Christina L. Woods: And so, you know, I I would think I would kind of shake my head and go. Okay, I'm I'm the oldest. I'm Italian. This is what we do. We get. We're tired, we cook and we feed everybody, and it doesn't matter what I feel like until so so it created a lot of people pleasing self care. It did not exist in my life. So making sure everybody else was okay.
00:24:47.600 --> 00:24:54.399 Christina L. Woods: accepting a lot of toxicity in my corporate life. So if you look at my 30 decades of corporate life.
00:24:54.570 --> 00:25:18.759 Christina L. Woods: you know. Yes, some corporate cultures are toxic. Not all corporate cultures are toxic. Did I find the ones that were toxic. You bet I found the ones that were toxic. Could they call me at midnight and say, we want this report? Would I do it? Oh, yeah, I would do it. I would be your girl. Call me so, you know it created a lot of people pleasing, and when I saw the shift
00:25:18.760 --> 00:25:29.799 Christina L. Woods: I am not bad. I am good. And I really remember that pivotal moment going. Wait! I'm not bad. I'm actually good, and the energy shift in that.
00:25:29.800 --> 00:25:51.729 Christina L. Woods: I I can take a bath when I'm tired I can pause. I can have my morning routine where I know my nervous system has been through trauma, so I know I need. Every morning I go out and I meditate, and I believe you know the tree gives me energy, and I call in the fairies and the angels, and I do what I need to do to ground. And so
00:25:51.730 --> 00:26:16.620 Christina L. Woods: it created a lot of lack of balance. But the shift has created so much awareness now that I am worthy of balance, and the balance has created harmony in my family, my kids, I mean everything. The energy has rippled out. But I you know I created a chaotic life, create chaotic people, create energy around me. That was just that's just one area.
00:26:16.790 --> 00:26:19.740 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Right? Right? I mean, it's so funny how we
00:26:19.900 --> 00:26:25.460 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we don't realize how we attract certain situations to us because of our energy.
00:26:25.460 --> 00:26:26.050 Christina L. Woods: Oh, yeah.
00:26:26.050 --> 00:26:53.019 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Wonder like, why do I always end up dating the same person? Why do I always end up with a boss who's like this? Why do I always end up with that? And and we always make it something external instead of looking at? Well, what's our energy? What's our piece of the puzzle. That's like you said, creating it and attracting it and bringing it and allowing it into our lives. And when we finally learn to have boundaries, when we finally learn to take care of ourselves and say, You know what
00:26:53.390 --> 00:27:02.519 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: this thing this doesn't work for me anymore, like, there may be some little tests like it still may come to us a little bit, but over time
00:27:02.580 --> 00:27:06.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we hold that energy. Those things stop coming to us, don't they?
00:27:07.290 --> 00:27:27.699 Christina L. Woods: Yeah, they really do. And you know, even even with my marriage, you know, you look back and you can point fingers. And and in any relationship, right? But I really look at so many things now as as and I, you know, talk about this with all clients like, okay, I know this is challenging, but this is also a gift, and and I see it as a gift, and that's.
00:27:27.700 --> 00:27:44.699 Christina L. Woods: you know, when I say at 1718, and so on. Energy has always been part of my life. I've always been interested in it. I might have put it down for a while. For whatever reason, but it's always been there. And now it's you know it's it's who I am and the work that I do, and
00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:59.100 Christina L. Woods: part of the method that I I teach is, you know, in hypnotherapy, and what I learn we don't really talk about a lot of energy work, but I can't see any separation. When I do. Hypnotherapy, this is to me a window into
00:27:59.220 --> 00:28:13.419 Christina L. Woods: you know it's your soul, your journey past life, regression, I mean it's all one. I I can't separate it if I wanted to. So, including energy work and energy clearing, and all of that to me was
00:28:13.660 --> 00:28:32.879 Christina L. Woods: very obvious that this needed to be included. In fact, when I became a Reiki master and started doing that work, it was because when I started doing hypnotherapy, I actually started to become really sick every time I did a session I started getting really nauseous, and
00:28:33.040 --> 00:28:47.320 Christina L. Woods: I mean to the point where I had to pause and run out and come back, and you know I always knew I was empathic. And you, you know, the 1st time you hear it, you think oh, I guess I am that you know, the 1st time you have that awakening. And and but you really
00:28:47.430 --> 00:29:04.029 Christina L. Woods: understand the power of energy when you're doing this work. And I remember thinking, wow, I just left my corporate life. And now I'm doing this. And now I'm getting sick. I can't. What am I going to do? And of course, I realized, Oh, wow! This is so powerful. I need to really understand how to work with this
00:29:04.150 --> 00:29:09.630 Christina L. Woods: incredible energy. And and that is why I originally did. Reiki was to help protect
00:29:09.790 --> 00:29:34.389 Christina L. Woods: my own myself from the energy to honor and respect the energy, and as soon as I learned that, of course everything changed, and and I can help myself, protect my energy and others, and help move and honor the energy, and realize how powerful and what an honor it is to to call in energy and help us move where it's blocked. And I don't run out getting sick anymore. So that's nice.
00:29:34.754 --> 00:29:42.409 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That's good. Yeah. A lot of people who who start to dip their toe into these waters. They don't realize that.
00:29:42.460 --> 00:29:57.439 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know. Yeah, everything's energy. But but like, if we have porous boundaries and we're picking up other people's energy like that's gonna have some real consequences. That's gonna have some real effects on us, and learning how to have good
00:29:57.460 --> 00:29:59.430 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: energetic boundaries.
00:29:59.710 --> 00:30:13.789 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: The foundation of that is having good emotional boundaries, and that's just to have good boundaries in our life in general, and that really helps us to understand like, oh, like even asking the question like, Is this mine, or is this someone else.
00:30:13.790 --> 00:30:14.620 Christina L. Woods: Oh, yeah.
00:30:14.620 --> 00:30:15.100 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: When I thought.
00:30:15.100 --> 00:30:16.070 Christina L. Woods: Love, that.
00:30:16.070 --> 00:30:18.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Question. It totally shifted things for me.
00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:39.760 Christina L. Woods: It sure does. I love that you bring that up, because that's that's definitely something I talk a lot about with clients, but has been a a dominant question. I ask myself in my life, and I recently went to a big mastermind meeting, and I remember being in the hotel that night, I'm like, why am I freaking out about money right now?
00:30:39.760 --> 00:30:49.530 Christina L. Woods: And I was so like I shouldn't have come here. I spent too much on the airplane, I'm thinking. Hold on! And I I had a quiet moment. I'm like this isn't even mine.
00:30:49.530 --> 00:30:59.659 Christina L. Woods: This is everyone in the room and everything that's going on, and it quickly left me, and I was able to ground and clear. And you know you pick up so much, so.
00:30:59.660 --> 00:31:01.530 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I remember I was at one
00:31:01.750 --> 00:31:11.680 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: healing circle, and I was sitting at the table talking to to some of the other people. And and this this guy walks by, and
00:31:11.690 --> 00:31:13.480 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I start to get a stomachache.
00:31:13.800 --> 00:31:14.340 Christina L. Woods: Home.
00:31:14.340 --> 00:31:18.860 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Going on. I didn't need anything, and then and then he he walks away
00:31:19.120 --> 00:31:20.739 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and it goes away.
00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:25.499 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And then later that night he comes over, and I feel it again.
00:31:26.390 --> 00:31:28.090 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And I'm like looking at him. I go
00:31:28.920 --> 00:31:35.419 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: stomachache, he goes. Oh, yeah, I've had a stomachache all night long, like ha! That's what I've been feeling. I've been feeling your stomachache.
00:31:36.070 --> 00:31:37.369 Christina L. Woods: Yeah. Yeah.
00:31:37.370 --> 00:31:42.219 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So physical. It was literally a physical reaction like that to me was like, Whoa.
00:31:43.270 --> 00:31:43.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: okay.
00:31:43.990 --> 00:31:45.320 Christina L. Woods: Yeah, yeah.
00:31:45.320 --> 00:32:00.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Ask that question, is this mine, or is this someone else's? And and when you realize it's someone else, it's like, okay, I can give this back to you. I don't need to experience this right now. Thank you. Thank you for the awareness, but you can have it back now.
00:32:01.060 --> 00:32:09.590 Christina L. Woods: Yeah. And I I think you know the the overarching theme of what I try to always think about. And I learned this in
00:32:09.740 --> 00:32:22.179 Christina L. Woods: from Skylar Achemesis, my medical, intuitive healer and teacher. She's amazing. But she she keeps all this energy healing so simple, and she always says everything comes down to us.
00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:26.439 Christina L. Woods: moving back to wholeness and
00:32:26.450 --> 00:32:51.170 Christina L. Woods: a connection to we're either disconnected or connected to ourselves and God or not, and all you know, dis ease is just when we're disconnected from self and disconnected from whatever our higher power is. And you know, when I'm when I'm thinking about my own problems, or what I feel is a problem, or I feel disconnected, discombobulated, or with the client. And I feel I'm in my head. It's like, hold on.
00:32:51.170 --> 00:33:10.469 Christina L. Woods: just you know. It's as simple as that. It's a disconnection from self, a disconnection from wholeness, because we are whole already. And where? Where did we become disconnected? And it's so easy to do that our energy, but it's so also easy to be in our power and reconnect.
00:33:10.780 --> 00:33:14.459 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah, yeah, it's 1 thing that I remember Esther Hicks saying
00:33:14.600 --> 00:33:16.179 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: decades ago
00:33:16.620 --> 00:33:19.140 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that our natural state
00:33:19.230 --> 00:33:22.250 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is feeling good and healthy and well.
00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:30.330 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and that when we don't it's an active. It's an active process of resistance.
00:33:30.860 --> 00:33:31.530 Christina L. Woods: Yeah.
00:33:31.530 --> 00:33:39.729 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That we have to resist it in some way, that for some reason there's something within us that's resisting feeling. Well, and that's when we feel unwell.
00:33:40.660 --> 00:33:41.270 Christina L. Woods: Yeah.
00:33:41.270 --> 00:33:44.599 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Anyway, we gotta take a quick break when we come back.
00:33:45.150 --> 00:33:53.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I want to ask you a little bit about sort of the the your your spiritual practice, and how that evolved through all of this.
00:33:54.000 --> 00:34:10.629 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And I do want to get back and ask you a question about that voice that you heard? Because I've I've heard that, too. Everyone. Please stay tuned. You're listening to the conscious, consultant hour awakening humanity. We're speaking this hour with with a wonderful guest, Christina Woods, and we'll be right back in just a moment.
00:36:18.300 --> 00:36:27.220 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So so, Christina, you you mentioned before, you know, pulling out weeds in the backyard and cleaning up the back. And then and you heard that voice
00:36:27.300 --> 00:36:34.929 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that you know like was outside of you wasn't your own voice. I I've had that experience, too, once in my life.
00:36:35.640 --> 00:36:38.349 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Haven't had it since. So I'm just curious.
00:36:38.790 --> 00:36:40.649 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Have you been able to
00:36:40.980 --> 00:36:49.340 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: hear that voice again? Have you been able to cultivate it, or is that just sort of like a 1 time thing that that nudged your life in a certain direction.
00:36:50.380 --> 00:36:52.530 Christina L. Woods: The voice. I've had it twice.
00:36:52.530 --> 00:36:52.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Right and.
00:36:52.920 --> 00:37:16.470 Christina L. Woods: And you know what's funny is they were never. When I was trying. They weren't in my deep, meditative states. One was sitting in in on a couch actually in a therapy session. And it was one of these, like, what was that? And yeah, pulling weeds. But you know. And and I think you know, since you've heard it, it's different than
00:37:16.840 --> 00:37:19.010 Christina L. Woods: that intuitive
00:37:19.530 --> 00:37:36.759 Christina L. Woods: internal voice. It's literally a voice. And so you know. It's it not to say, you know, I guess the the vain part of us that really like wow! That was incredible, not to say, I haven't tried.
00:37:37.704 --> 00:38:02.170 Christina L. Woods: So yeah, the other time. I it was very interesting. Actually, I was having a a moment when I was moving through my divorce. Speaking with my therapist, and she had asked me a question, and I heard very loudly, You are not alone, you are never alone, and it just had tears start coming down my eyes, and so I shared it with my therapist. She turned white.
00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:10.149 Christina L. Woods: and she said, You're never going to believe this. The woman that was sitting in that exact seat this morning.
00:38:10.720 --> 00:38:25.839 Christina L. Woods: said the exact same thing, and had tears coming down her eyes as she told me. She's like I've been doing this 25 years. What are the odds like? I don't. I don't think there's very many, so that always sticks with me.
00:38:26.130 --> 00:38:29.309 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Wow, wow! That's amazing. That's amazing.
00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:30.870 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and
00:38:31.650 --> 00:38:39.979 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know, healing work is one thing, but sort of developing a a spiritual practice and sort of a spiritual
00:38:40.598 --> 00:38:44.760 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: aspect to our lives is is something more than just healing.
00:38:44.950 --> 00:38:50.460 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so I'm curious how that sort of came about for you. And how does that
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:54.120 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: support you with with what you're doing now?
00:38:55.970 --> 00:38:57.252 Christina L. Woods: You know, it's
00:38:57.770 --> 00:39:06.189 Christina L. Woods: you know, when we're going through a hard time, I think sometimes it's harder to be to have a routine. It's like anything. But I think once I I
00:39:06.610 --> 00:39:14.669 Christina L. Woods: I respect the being an energy being as well as this, a physical being and a spiritual being is when
00:39:14.710 --> 00:39:21.269 Christina L. Woods: it became a non-negotiable for me to spend time to ground. And
00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:25.120 Christina L. Woods: you know, speaking to anyone that has had
00:39:25.220 --> 00:39:27.409 Christina L. Woods: trauma or anything in their life
00:39:27.560 --> 00:39:31.969 Christina L. Woods: in my body. It's important for me to ground and connect.
00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:39.129 Christina L. Woods: so I do. I every day honor that and just, and and take the time, and know that I feel
00:39:39.200 --> 00:39:57.889 Christina L. Woods: calm and grounded and centered and authentically me when I take time to ground in my energy. So yeah, every every morning, and if I need to throughout the day. I I'm very I journal often. I chant
00:39:58.292 --> 00:40:26.630 Christina L. Woods: chanting is using my voice, chanting, drumming. Has is big in my life right now. I have to shut the blinds, because sometimes I wonder if the neighbors think I'm crazy. But I'll go out like, what is she doing? I live in Huntington Beach, and there's not probably not a lot of chanting, drumming going on in the in the suburbs. But at my house there is so but that feels really good to me, and makes makes me feel good. So. But
00:40:26.670 --> 00:40:51.480 Christina L. Woods: meditating, chanting, praying, journaling, I wake up, I do that. But if I feel off, you know I do it before every session, after every session, clearing my energy. Before big crowds after crowds, it's just sort of who I am now, but you know, if I get off I get off sometimes, and you know, if I notice, boy, you haven't done that for a couple of days. I'll feel it. I'll feel scattered and rushed.
00:40:51.921 --> 00:41:04.129 Christina L. Woods: Maybe snappy. My energy. I can feel it feels frazzled. So that's that's important to me to take the time to clear it. Taking a bath, using water
00:41:04.580 --> 00:41:06.039 Christina L. Woods: to neutralize my energy.
00:41:06.040 --> 00:41:09.599 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know you you've mentioned several times about being grounded.
00:41:09.850 --> 00:41:14.230 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and it's so interesting because I often say to people
00:41:14.370 --> 00:41:16.460 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the old phrase that
00:41:16.980 --> 00:41:21.619 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the branches of a tree can only grow as high as the roots grow deep.
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:25.330 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: so that meaning that we can only
00:41:25.950 --> 00:41:35.800 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: advance in our spiritual practice or life as much as we're really grounded and present in the day to day in the here and now.
00:41:36.140 --> 00:41:44.940 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and it's interesting because you can really see when people are are into their spiritual practice, but not grounded right. They like.
00:41:44.940 --> 00:41:45.520 Christina L. Woods: Yeah.
00:41:45.520 --> 00:41:53.400 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Late all the time. They forget details. They don't pay their bills on time. I mean it just you can really see the difference. And
00:41:53.700 --> 00:41:55.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm I'm curious, like
00:41:56.120 --> 00:41:57.190 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: how
00:41:57.770 --> 00:41:59.769 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you've learned to
00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:03.460 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: be grounded so that you can.
00:42:03.930 --> 00:42:09.679 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I guess, achieve higher. And do you find that? Do you find that the more you ground, the higher you can go.
00:42:09.680 --> 00:42:24.460 Christina L. Woods: Yeah. And I'll say that grounding is something I resist because I don't. I want to just go. I want to float around and feel it up there, and leave my body.
00:42:24.765 --> 00:42:25.070 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Driving.
00:42:25.070 --> 00:42:43.989 Christina L. Woods: Yeah, it feels so good like when I sleep. I used to get excited like, Oh, I get to leave. And so I make a conscious effort to be in my body. Because I know that's what I need. And so the 1st half of my life was like, I said that the chaotic, frantic.
00:42:44.020 --> 00:42:50.670 Christina L. Woods: and and I've learned over time to respect the fact that being grounded in this body right now
00:42:50.680 --> 00:42:58.555 Christina L. Woods: does so much for my health and my peace and the people around me. So
00:42:59.100 --> 00:43:16.090 Christina L. Woods: So back back to your question. You know it's a it's a mindful practice to be grounded, and I make an effort and remind myself how important it is, and so I do. I go outside. I happen to live by the beach.
00:43:16.427 --> 00:43:29.859 Christina L. Woods: I I you know, if I don't have time I'll go to the park. I'll walk on the grass. I'll eat foods that ground and root me. I'll use oils, you know. I'll I'll do all the actual things that
00:43:29.880 --> 00:43:38.379 Christina L. Woods: re help me ground, because if I don't, it's so easy for me to notice immediately that I'm
00:43:38.420 --> 00:43:42.140 Christina L. Woods: frantic and and don't feel well, and just
00:43:42.828 --> 00:43:45.820 Christina L. Woods: you know, scattered, super, scattered.
00:43:45.820 --> 00:43:46.250 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah.
00:43:46.250 --> 00:43:46.850 Christina L. Woods: Yeah.
00:43:46.850 --> 00:43:55.780 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Do you find that in your clients a lot like when they come to see you, that they're often ungrounded, and you have to ground them. In order to do the work you need to do with them.
00:43:55.780 --> 00:44:00.000 Christina L. Woods: Oh, yeah, I work with high achieving women, and
00:44:00.460 --> 00:44:27.810 Christina L. Woods: most of them are in their masculine energy, like chop chop. Let's do 2 hypnotherapy sessions and make my income improve and help me find the love of my life. I'm like, Okay, hold on. Let's slow down. And they'll say I don't like journaling. I don't like meditating. I only want to do it for 10 min. It's like, Hold on so. Yes, and and you know, I know there's a reason, because I have compassion and understanding for that. And and I get that. So
00:44:28.160 --> 00:44:42.550 Christina L. Woods: but yeah, and and even my very spiritual clients just kind of want to float around and not ground and be in their body, and it can be very uncomfortable for some of us to just be present in our body.
00:44:42.550 --> 00:44:48.760 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Absolutely, absolutely and especially with the world, the way it is today. There's so much
00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:56.210 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to make us that that can cause us to feel uncomfortable that being present sometimes is not so pleasant.
00:44:56.210 --> 00:44:56.980 Christina L. Woods: Yeah.
00:44:57.770 --> 00:45:04.820 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's time for us to take our last break when we come back. I do want to talk about lotus rising international and the work you do with them.
00:45:04.820 --> 00:45:05.390 Christina L. Woods: Yes.
00:45:05.390 --> 00:45:08.660 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Cause. I feel it's such an important topic, and one that that
00:45:08.740 --> 00:45:14.209 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: deserves at least some time. So so let's focus on that when we come back. Okay.
00:45:14.210 --> 00:45:15.220 Christina L. Woods: Wonderful.
00:45:15.220 --> 00:45:31.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Awesome. So everyone, please stay tuned. You're listening to the conscious, consultant hour awakening humanity. Our guest this hour has been Christina Woods, amazing hypnotherapist, and we will be right back to finish it all up and talk about lotus rising international in just a moment.
00:47:40.290 --> 00:47:46.730 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So, Christina, how did you get involved with lotus rising international? And and what do you do with them?
00:47:47.020 --> 00:48:04.740 Christina L. Woods: So the founder, Maria Paris, actually her and I went to junior high and high school together, and we stayed connected, and she is a healer as well. So we've just reconnected over the years. And so I got lucky there, and she thought of me, and
00:48:04.770 --> 00:48:10.570 Christina L. Woods: they provide holistic wellness to survivors of human trafficking
00:48:11.040 --> 00:48:26.279 Christina L. Woods: teens and children. Of the ages to about 2021. And when they're 1st rescued before they actually are, are, you know, taken into facilities and homes. They're provided with backpacks that have
00:48:26.450 --> 00:48:55.850 Christina L. Woods: oils, essential oils and aromatherapy and things with texture and just different holistic holistic techniques that they're not provided with just to help calm their nervous system and all sorts of different methods. And recently, this year, we put together a self care summit. The tickets were very inexpensive and incredible instructors. It's a virtual self. Care. Summit
00:48:56.449 --> 00:49:08.430 Christina L. Woods: and all the proceeds go to the nonprofit lotus rising and everything from energy healing to Yoga to breath work.
00:49:08.430 --> 00:49:25.999 Christina L. Woods: Just I do a whole hypnotherapy course on self care and hypnotherapy. Audio is provided. I mean, I could go on and on. I think there's now maybe 40 50 courses in that summit available all about self care.
00:49:26.360 --> 00:49:37.120 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Wonderful, wonderful. Yeah, human trafficking is such a big issue these days. And a lot of people don't realize that it happens in very subtle ways, right here in our own backyard.
00:49:37.120 --> 00:50:00.240 Christina L. Woods: It really does. It really does. And you know, and and she's constantly creating she actually has a a film and background. So she's able to have different fundraisers. And I'm it's really honored for me to be a a part of it, and and contribute in in any way that I can, and I know she has some exciting new things coming up, too.
00:50:00.240 --> 00:50:07.799 Christina L. Woods: Generate. You know, everything's around holistic and wellness and new ways that can help.
00:50:08.090 --> 00:50:27.849 Christina L. Woods: you know, provide care and in ways that you know are different for them, too, because when they're brought in and and they're brought into a police station or a facility, and it's cold, and it's you know, their bodies are in shock and they're in shock. It's so nice to be able to provide these, you know.
00:50:27.850 --> 00:50:28.480 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Wonderful.
00:50:28.480 --> 00:50:29.740 Christina L. Woods: These services? Yeah.
00:50:30.560 --> 00:50:33.189 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah. Well, I really honor you for doing that work.
00:50:33.260 --> 00:50:34.860 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That's beautiful.
00:50:36.240 --> 00:50:43.769 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm I'm curious, like, with your practice and working with professional women over the last few years. Have you noticed any changes in
00:50:43.870 --> 00:50:49.090 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the kinds of challenges women are showing up with, and what they're dealing with.
00:50:50.258 --> 00:50:58.159 Christina L. Woods: Yeah, I have. I'd say, in the last year or so I have found more women really
00:50:58.670 --> 00:50:59.920 Christina L. Woods: feeling
00:51:00.710 --> 00:51:04.660 Christina L. Woods: just unfulfilled and really wanting a very deep
00:51:05.060 --> 00:51:12.813 Christina L. Woods: purpose. So you know most of the women that I I found in the beginning. It was
00:51:13.530 --> 00:51:24.599 Christina L. Woods: you know. Of course, a lot of people don't feel good enough for self esteem, or they want maybe more of something, a love or money or something. But now it's I have all those things.
00:51:24.660 --> 00:51:47.819 Christina L. Woods: Why do I still feel unfulfilled? There must be a higher, there must be more, a deeper, deeper sense of something is missing. And so it's it's they can't even pinpoint it because it's finding their higher self. It's finding that intuitive sense of self inside that inner voice they've just. I'm finding they they know they've lost
00:51:48.020 --> 00:51:50.259 Christina L. Woods: listening to their intuition
00:51:50.340 --> 00:51:58.970 Christina L. Woods: and that North Star inside. And so it's just dusting all the stuff off all the programs, the energy off so that they can.
00:51:59.070 --> 00:52:07.100 Christina L. Woods: And once you find that I think finding fulfillment is a lot easier because it isn't in the outside. It's it's already in the inside. We already have it.
00:52:07.100 --> 00:52:12.249 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Right? Right? Exactly. Exactly. You know. It's that sense of
00:52:13.010 --> 00:52:15.449 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: connected to a higher purpose, of no.
00:52:15.450 --> 00:52:16.090 Christina L. Woods: Yeah.
00:52:16.090 --> 00:52:26.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know, what are you here to really do on this planet that you know we're we're we're much more powerful. And we're not meant to just come here and make money and
00:52:26.970 --> 00:52:34.799 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: retire, and, you know, sit around a pool and play shuffle board, you know there's more to life, and there's so much more
00:52:34.980 --> 00:52:38.359 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to create, to do, to have in the process.
00:52:38.690 --> 00:52:58.139 Christina L. Woods: Yeah. And so, whether you, whether you have a career or you don't, for the women I work with sometimes have had their career. Now they're raising their children, and they're not going to go back in the workforce, but so regardless, you know, they they they want to do more. Maybe now they're doing nonprofit work regardless.
00:52:58.170 --> 00:53:14.049 Christina L. Woods: They know they already know it's not going to be out there. There's something deep inside, because they'll often even apologize. The 1st thing they they often do when they call me is, say, I don't know why I'm calling you. I have everything, but something's missing, and I feel guilty about that.
00:53:14.080 --> 00:53:18.509 Christina L. Woods: I have wonderful this and that, but I'm not happy inside.
00:53:18.590 --> 00:53:20.809 Christina L. Woods: and I'm embarrassed to say that
00:53:21.110 --> 00:53:25.460 Christina L. Woods: because it's a deep yearning inside to just connect with themselves. So.
00:53:28.080 --> 00:53:33.799 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm I'm curious with all you've been through, with all you've done, and and with
00:53:33.930 --> 00:53:36.560 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the way you've evolved over the years.
00:53:37.080 --> 00:53:38.630 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: what challenges
00:53:38.760 --> 00:53:49.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: do you still face like what? What still gives you pause and and makes you be like you know th, this. This still isn't easy.
00:53:49.950 --> 00:54:19.549 Christina L. Woods: You know, I think for me it's still a sense of safety, and that's still a deep rooted and that's why grounding is is a constant for me. So I I think that is is a generational lifetime. Issue. And it's funny, right? My voice, even even my my throat. Chakra there. But yeah, safety is still one that will come up for me, and I'll see it in my work. I'll see it in my personal relationships.
00:54:19.875 --> 00:54:35.799 Christina L. Woods: I'll I'll see it reflected back. And wow! I still don't feel safe. In that part of my life that's interesting. So, working on one of the affirmations, I say every morning is, I am safe in my body and my mind in my soul, in my life.
00:54:35.840 --> 00:54:37.669 Christina L. Woods: Every morning when I wake up.
00:54:38.850 --> 00:54:40.560 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Nice. Nice.
00:54:40.570 --> 00:54:42.439 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah. Safety is a big one.
00:54:43.640 --> 00:54:44.310 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But
00:54:45.190 --> 00:54:48.640 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: if if there was a a message, something
00:54:48.670 --> 00:54:56.729 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you wanted to get out to the professional women listening to this program just the women in general listening.
00:54:56.990 --> 00:55:02.559 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What? What would you want them to know? What would you want them to take away from this this interview.
00:55:03.690 --> 00:55:05.800 Christina L. Woods: Your power is within you.
00:55:07.016 --> 00:55:28.260 Christina L. Woods: Signing up for another course, another another something out there. I get it. I've done all those things as well, and and we get great value from those things, but we have the power to heal within us, and you might need to be guided to do that and have some tips to do that. But getting quiet
00:55:28.260 --> 00:55:53.809 Christina L. Woods: is is one of the biggest tips. Because and you don't need any any money to do that. So, getting quiet and keeping things simple, we have the power to heal ourselves. We have the wisdom. And it's really just about remembering how to do that, and there's just so much wisdom already all around us, and and the powers within us already to heal ourselves and reconnect ourselves with
00:55:53.860 --> 00:55:57.560 Christina L. Woods: our authentic selves, and and who we are, and why we're here.
00:55:57.800 --> 00:56:03.330 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah, I I believe it's a Buddhist precept that everything we need is within us.
00:56:03.330 --> 00:56:04.080 Christina L. Woods: Yes.
00:56:04.080 --> 00:56:20.970 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah, absolutely beautiful, beautiful. Well, Christina, thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy schedule to come on the show today. It was a pleasure to have you. If if people want to learn more about your work, get in touch with you, where would they find you online, how'd they? How would they reach out to you.
00:56:21.140 --> 00:56:28.980 Christina L. Woods: So my website is Christina L. woods.com, and that's with a CH. Christina L. Woods.
00:56:29.870 --> 00:56:42.460 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Wonderful, wonderful. Well, thank you, Christine, it's a pleasure to have you. I I appreciate you and the beautiful work that you're doing, and and I wish you all the success. And and I'm I'm really
00:56:42.770 --> 00:56:49.609 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: grateful for organizations like Lotus Rising international and the work that they do. So thank you for being involved with that.
00:56:49.790 --> 00:56:51.789 Christina L. Woods: Thank you for having me, Sam. I appreciate it.
00:56:51.790 --> 00:56:52.890 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So welcome.
00:56:53.290 --> 00:57:17.689 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and of course, thank you, my loyal listeners, for tuning in each week. Without you there is no show. I'm so grateful for all of you, and don't forget if you did miss any part of today's show. If you want to catch the replay you can always find the replay on talk, radio dot, Nyc, and on all the major podcasting platforms, apple, Google spotify Pandora, I art radio wherever you listen to podcast you can find
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