Tara Reitz: Let Us Reconnect

When it comes to your health, do you create boundaries? Or do you do as you please in hopes of living a long and prosperous life? We need boundaries when it comes to our health or else we're just living our health to please others. In my late 20s I didn't know I was living a pattern of people pleasing with my health until I became ill and had to give up meat (specifically beef & pork). It was during this time that I took the initiative to start observing my life and why I was doing/eating/consuming in the same way as the people I surrounded myself with. Surely enough, it dawned on me that I was never taught how to NOT people please with food, let alone my health. I have never been taught how to set boundaries with my health, just like my community. Granted, I don't live in an obese community and my family is quite healthy. Nonetheless, we have difficulty saying 'no' to food. What have I learned by setting boundaries for myself and for my health? Press play and have a listen. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tara-reitz/support

My interview with Ed Tick could have lasted for hours. But, for your sake we kept it under an hour. Interviewing Ed didn't feel like an interview, but rather it felt like I was learning from an ancient universal wisdom keeper. His experience and understandings of ancient Greek history and Viet Nam are just the tip of the iceberg. We discuss PTSD in the military, death, the art of initiation, and ancient healing practices. This is a two-part interview. If you are interested in the works of Ed Tick, his information and books are listed below. Enjoy! BOOKS BY EDWARD TICK Nonfiction: Soul Medicine: Healing Through Dream Incubation, Oracles, Visions, and Pilgrimage, Inner Traditions, 2023 Warrior’s Return: Restoring the Soul After War, Sounds True, 2014 Italian Edition, 2022 Russian Edition, in press Ukrainian Edition, in press War and the Soul: Healing Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Our Nation’s Veterans, Quest Books, 2005 Bulgarian Edition, 2007 The Practice of Dream Healing: Bringing Ancient Greek Mysteries into Modern Medicine,Quest Books, 2001 Greek Edition, 2003 Sacred Mountain: Encounters with the Vietnam Beast, Moon Bear Press, 1989 Poetry: Coming Home In Viet Nam, Tia Chucha Press, 2022 The Bull Awakening: Poetry of Crete and Santorini, Elik Press, 2016 The Golden Tortoise: Viet Nam Journeys, Red Hen Press, 2005 Monograph: Wild Beasts and Wandering Souls: Shamanism and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Elik Press, 2007 Audio: Restoring the Warrior’s Soul: An Essential Guide to Coming Home, Sounds True, 2016 Where you can find him: Instagram @mentorthesoul.guide Facebook @Edward Tick www.edwardtick.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tara-reitz/support

Where you can find him: Instagram @mentorthesoul.guide Facebook @Edward Tick --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tara-reitz/support

As a child, I wish somebody taught how to decondition what I thought athletics is supposed to be like. Here are the three beliefs I had to decondition to live a healthier and happier life as former athlete. 1) The culture of "quick results" 2) Laziness 3) You are what you eat (you also eat what you are) How did I come to terms with these conditions? Press play and have a listen. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tara-reitz/support

What does your pain, pleasure, and creativity have in common? As a child I experienced first hand the painful cramps of PMS. Not knowing what would happen many years later, I wish I would have loved my monthly flow that much more. I wish I would have been taught to love my PMS the same way I love chocolate- to be present and patient and indulge in the emotions I was feeling. Years later I learned how suppressing my emotions related to the painful experiences of PMS would also compromise my pleasure and creativity in adulthood and in life. What do I do now?? Press play and have a listen. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tara-reitz/support

'Freedom' as a child meant something we all could enjoy. Now, as an adult 'Freedom' means something completely different. And, are we truly 'Free' at all?!?! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tara-reitz/support

Not just your mindset becomes your reality, so does your emotions, and your beliefs. Listen here to change your mindset! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tara-reitz/support

There are often times two types of people in relationships, the escape artist and the dweller. Which are you? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tara-reitz2/support

In this guided meditation I teach you the importance of pausing. Enjoy! :)

In this episode we talk about the gaslight effect of "pain-free", the physical and non-physical pains, and how are bodies respond to them.

Today's young athletes are suffering to try and keep up with the expectations of what it means to be a student-athlete. Take a listen and let me know what you think.

If you have children in sports or you're debating on placing them into sports, you may want to listen to listen to this.

What is leadership? What about in student athletes? What about off the field? Leadership is a multi-purpose tool we utilize in all aspects of our life, all in different ways. Take a listen to me speaking of young student athletes and the changes that need to take place to reshape our Mother Earth in sports.

What is pain and what we need to understand it.

We don't talk about our periods enough in a way that we can actually heal our own period and its' flow. Today, I'm talking about just that and what I did to heal my period.

How does trauma create disconnection in our World? What can we do to reconnect with our body and others? Listen to how trauma creates a disconnection and what we can do today to reconnect.

What does 'Awareness' mean to you? Are you fully aware of your answer and how you're responding within your body language? Let's take a deeper look at awareness and society's need for attention.

We are all interconnected, even to our ancestors long before us. Let's talk about just how closely connected we are through gardening.

What is Shamanism and Shamanic healing? How can this practice assist in our self-healing for a better health?

Let's talk about our body image. How do you feel? What do you say to your body? Do you truly love your body unconditionally? Let's talk.