Episode 28: Solo—My Plant Dieta, Inner Child Work & Trusting Love
On my latest solo episode, I share my recent experience of a week-long plant dieta and what it actually is, and what I uncovered in my week of isolation, connecting with plants and myself. The lessons I learned were profound, but have been very challenged since coming back home in almost every way. I dive into my fear of trusting love, trusting myself and how surrendering to these aspects is the real path to healing. Meeting my inner child, Michael, was a very powerful experience and learning more about my own fear, pain and anger through this relationship was awakening, yet deeply hard to grapple with. Moving forward, I feel at the cusp of an ego-death and feel I need to redefine my values and what it is I'm being a warrior for, even while I try to stunt this growth through attachment, food and distraction. As Joseph Campbell says, "the cave which you fear to enter, holds the treasure you seek." I am very much in the cave, learning to trust each step into the darkness.
“We don’t heal our body, we heal the mind and the body follows.”
SHOW NOTES
• 4:00 A month since my plant dieta, working with ayahausca
• 6:00 What is a plant dieta?
• 12:00 My recent experience
• 15:30 Meeting my inner child, Michael
• 22:00 I don’t feel safe being myself, as Dr. Glover shares
• 27:00 Learning to regulate love because I don’t trust it
• 33:05 How do we change these deep core subconscious beliefs once we become conscious of them?
• 37:30 The beginning of my relationship with my pipe and mapacho tobacco for prayer and grounding
• 42:00 Where do I go from here? What are my values, what is my purpose and dream?
• 45:00 All the wisdom I need is already within me, need to re-learn how to trust it
• 50:00 Facing up to the fact that I am the one who has done the most harm to myself
• 52:00 Our consciousness creates our experiences, via Bruce Lipton and Joe Dispenza'
• 56:45 The Yoga of Eating
• 58:00 A poem from the forest
*Link: Sacral Chakra Mantra
Ryan Willms is a holistic life coach and creative director, based in Los Angeles. He works with clients world-wide to help them find a sense of balance, harmony and purpose in life through foundational pieces like nutrition, movement and mindfulness.