Total Health: Sasha Lipskaia On How We Can Optimize Our Mental, Physical, Emotional, & Spiritual Wellbeing
There are many practices, and finding something simple that works for you is significant so that you keep at it to see the benefits. It will take time, but it is so worth it. Meditation is essentially spending time with the truth of who you are!
Often when we refer to wellness, we assume that we are talking about physical wellbeing. But one can be physically very healthy but still be unwell, emotionally or mentally. What are the steps we can take to cultivate optimal wellness in all areas of our life; to develop Mental, Physical, Emotional, & Spiritual Wellbeing?
As a part of our series about “How We Can Cultivate Our Mental, Physical, Emotional, & Spiritual Wellbeing”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Sasha Lipskaia.
Sasha Lipskaia, MA, ICF ACC, is an Intuitive Mindset Coach and Purposeful Leadership Expert to extraordinary people seeking a deeper connection to their truth and creative power. Sasha guides her clients to create their own definition of success with embodied confidence and purpose while helping them reconnect to their authenticity and intuition. You can find Sasha at www.sashalipskaia.com
Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series! Before we dive into the main focus of our interview, our readers would love to “get to know you” a bit better. Can you tell us a bit about your childhood backstory?
Thank you for having me! Of course, it’s a pleasure to share my story with you. I grew up in an entrepreneurial-artistic family, and we moved around a lot!
By age 12, I had lived in Colombia, Russia, Israel, and Canada. I have always dreamt of being an artist and leader while being drawn to philosophy, psychology, and mystical teachings. I was lucky to have been given a lot of freedom to try different things and spent a lot of time exploring on my own, learning to be with myself, meditating through walking in nature and using my intuitive abilities and imagination to make sense of my life, as I felt I didn’t belong anywhere, which led to a powerful spiritual initiation at a young age.
I was always an outsider and lost in my own world, seeking many forms of creative expression and connection with nature while studying different mythological, philosophical, and mystical teachings. Eventually, this led to pursuing a career in the performing arts, communications, psychology, and spiritual development. My childhood was a template for how I experience myself now: a free, wild, playful, and sometimes naive but fearless spirit, always looking to explore the mystery of world, and its people, and find something to love and appreciate about what I see.
What or who inspired you to pursue your career? We’d love to hear the story.
It was a calling, and it has always been this knowing in my bones that I was some form of odd medicine woman or tribal healer.
I was always the “go to person” for life advice and guidance. People would naturally tell me their story and deepest desires, and I always had a 6th sense about what they needed to know, and what the truth of their experience actually guided them to. As well, whenever a crisis arose, I would surprise myself with how I was able to calm others down, and help them feel whole again, without actually “doing” anything. Or so I thought. Now I realize that I was intuitively working with people’s mindset and heart energy from a very young age.
As I was transitioning between my passion for the arts and the theatre and a more “serious” career in media and communications, I found myself very lost and unfulfilled. As chance would have it, I met a healer who told me I needed to take seriously my desire and skill in working with people’s emotional, physiological and spiritual health. I started working in social activism and was led to become a youth worker and a life coach. As I deepened into my work, I realized I wanted to incorporate more of a holistic approach incorporating psychology, philosophy, and holistic spirituality into my practice, so I went to graduate school while learning and applying other energy healing and psycho-spiritual modalities to how I was working with optimizing human potential and healing. I realized that mindset needs to be integrated with intuitive development in a holistic approach to emotional health. I focused on incorporating the body as an instrument for finding one’s purpose, thus creating a life of integrity and joy in alignment with one’s deepest desires and allowing my clients to reconnect to their core self, their natural essence, to finally feel whole, fully expressed, and worthy of love and prosperity.
None of us can achieve success without some help along the way. Was there a particular person who you feel gave you the most help or encouragement to be who you are today? Can you share a story about that?
My mother was and is that person.
She has always been an example of someone brave to speak her truth, who isn’t afraid to take risks for those she loves, and who lives her life from the heart and as her authentic self.
She was always frank with me and held me accountable to my truth, challenging me to step up when I would go into ego-driven fear. One time, she helped steer me in the right direction was when I was still acting but feeling burned out and off track. I wasn’t sure what to do or how to get myself to a place of harmony, as I was very young and thought I needed to keep pushing my ego-driven plan to “be successful” I was terrified to be a failure or let go of my goals, even when I knew I no longer cared for them.
My mom came to visit me as I was performing in a play in Vancouver, One day, as she watched me run from audition to performance to rehearsal, she pulled me gently aside and asked me straight up,” Why are you pursuing this life? What is it that you want?” The questions I was not asking myself but desperately needed to hear were finally in the open. I was both pissed off and relieved that I could finally sit with reconsidering my life trajectory.
I contemplated these questions for the first time.
And I revealed to myself that I was not aligned with the work I claimed was my purpose, as I was disconnected from myself. My mom inspired me to keep searching and pursuing other interests of mine that seemed a lot less glamorous (like social work, psychology, and mindset coaching) but felt a lot more empowering and inspiring to my sense of what I wanted my life to stand for, who I wanted to embody as my true self, and how I wanted to live it.
She gently pushed me to take a brave step into the unknown. Although she never told me what to do, nor did I ask her for specific support, I knew that I was entirely supported, seen, respected, and loved for my true self. As a result, I felt empowered to turn my life plan around wholly and burn my bridges while building a new path into the professional world of personal and intuitive development and spirituality, which keeps inspiring me every day!
Can you share the funniest or most interesting mistake that occurred to you in the course of your career? What lesson or take away did you learn from that?
Oh, I have got many!!! Ok, let’ see…the most interesting mistake? The most recent one was when I thought I should give up my whole practice to work for an incredible personal development company as a teacher and coach and a business development exec. I was sure it was my calling to build this epic business empire with its founders. I was wrong.
After spending many months living inside my new professional and community roles, and thinking like I had finally found my place, I suddenly recognized how empty and stuck I felt in my heart because my desires and dreams ( to build and create my own body of work within the coaching and healing profession,) were being pushed down by my ego — brain. I had not been walking my own talk, as I was teaching and guiding others to follow their intuition and creative calling, as I was ignoring mine in favor of what seemed like the best of all worlds on paper. So I had a hard, frank, “dark night of the soul,” where I started going deeper into what I preach, meditating, praying, journaling, and getting myself some much-needed guidance from powerful teachers to help me see the truth I had been ignoring.
As a result, I left my position and ended up completely alone, with no idea what was next, excited and scared, and with no support system for a while. I was terrified and even more committed to my own path. So, I recognized the “mistake” for what it was: a much-needed pause to learn more about my craft and hone my coaching and speaking skills while revealing an even deeper call to create a body of work that was unique to me and came out of an urgent need to find the freedom to be who I am in a world full of delusions and distractions to follow someone else’s version of success and prosperity. I dove into my creative drive with my YouTube channel and podcast, writing poetry, and launching my signature mystery-school-inspired spiritual coaching program for incredible people who want to lead with their intuition and embody their wholeness. So this epic mistake I shared above was the thing that brought me back into even more alignment and integrity with my purpose. It was the right mistake to make, but boy, did it sting!!!
Is there a particular book that made a significant impact on you? Can you share a story or explain why it resonated with you so much?
Most recently, “Wild Mercy” by Mirabai Starr has shaken my world as a coach, a spiritual seeker, and a woman on the embodied leadership path.
The book reminded me of the power of embodied spirituality and the feminine path: allowing the human experience to be part of our practice and learning to honor the body as a vessel for the soul and an extension of it. I also saw the incredible contributions of so many spiritual and religious traditions to our everyday experience. There’s truth and astonishing depth in any path, and it all leads to the one teaching that we, as a human family, are here to meet one another in wholeness, first by focusing on loving ourselves, fully and unapologetically expressing our truth, and then honoring and loving the truth reflected in others’ hearts. When we are full of love for ourselves, we cannot help but pour it into our work, our families, friends, communities, and the world at large. It starts with your whole self, experiencing your unique path, as it is specifically designed for you to embody your purpose.
Can you share your favorite “Life Lesson Quote”? Why does that resonate with you so much?
“Whatever you feel the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.” This quote by Eckhart Tolle resonates with me deeply because it encapsulates what I teach and embody: You are the world. And whatever you want, need, and seek, is inside you. The more focused and devoted you become on revealing the depths of your heart and hearing your intuitive truth by expressing it fully in everything you do, the more you will witness the world you desire. By nurturing your inner world, you live it into existence and bring others into it with you through your sheer presence. That is leadership. That is an intuitive awakening to your soul’s guidance, that is bliss, and that is what will guide you to live your true destiny with confidence.
What are some of the most interesting or exciting projects you are working on now? How do you think that might help people?
I am working on a purposeful leadership coaching program and workshop series at this time, which I am offering corporate teams and driven individuals in leadership positions who need the extra edge to tap into their intuition and emotional intelligence, and come into greater alignment with their vision and life purpose. In addition, my workshops and teachings are designed to support people who are ready to step into a more influential role in their life and want to focus on building stronger relationships and have a greater sense of impact through their work.
As well I am hosting a Sacred Leadership and intuitive development yoga retreat this winter in Colombia, where my collaborator and I will be guiding an in-person five-day mystery school experience designed to help people awaken to their intuitive powers, and reconnect to a deeper level of purpose, and embodied authenticity in their life.
OK, thank you for all of that. Let’s now shift to the core focus of our interview. In this interview series we’d like to discuss cultivating wellness habits in four areas of our lives: Mental wellness, Physical wellness, Emotional wellness, & Spiritual wellness.
Let’s dive deeper into these together. Based on your research or experience, can you share with our readers three good habits that can lead to optimum mental wellness? Please share a story or example for each.
Of course.
Firstly, mental wellness is tied to your capacity to hold mental space for yourself through mindful awareness and finding your heart center.
And the critical habit for that is to practice meditation. It is never too late, and you cannot do it wrong!
There are many practices, and finding something simple that works for you is significant so that you keep at it to see the benefits. It will take time, but it is so worth it. Meditation is essentially spending time with the truth of who you are!
Meditation can take many forms, it can even be a movement-based or walking meditation, but it is essential to do it to clear out the clutter in your brain and become empty of your “ideas about yourself,” just for 5–10 minutes, so that you can bear witness the truth of your heart, and your experience. This practice is deeply nourishing to the mind, the brain circuitry, and your nervous system. So trust the process, explore different kinds, and know that your mental wellness will dramatically improve as you do.
The second habit is to commit to a contemplative journaling practice. It does not have to be daily, but I have found that having a consistent output of your beliefs, ideas, experiences, perceptions, and dreams in written form is profoundly healing to your mental state and will help you put a lot of your worries and challenges, as well as goals, and ideas into question and see them from a removed, healthy, non- attached perspective,
The third habit is to have a daily practice where you learn and absorb something that inspires, empowers, and moves you to trust your creative/intuitive mind. The more you use your “beginner’s mind” and keep yourself learning, practicing, and experimenting with new, positive ideas, the more you will keep your brain young and healthy, creating new neural pathways that would facilitate the state of content evolution, expansion, and growth.
Do you have a specific type of meditation or Yoga practice that you found helpful? We’d love to hear about it.
I absolutely love a simple silent meditation that I practice seated right when I wake up, and I am still in that trans-state and subconscious awareness. It is based in mindful breathing and contemplating this one “miracle” question: “What do I need to know right now, to serve the highest good today?” I sit with the framework that I have created for my clients, which I call “Compassionate self-revelation.” It allows you to feel safe looking into your shadow so that you can reveal whatever gift it holds for your specific life challenge at that moment. I also highly recommend yin yoga to help quiet the mind while helping you go deeper into the bodily experience of whatever you might be holding onto and releasing it with love while making space to feel all of the things you may have been suppressing so that you can feel free to receive guidance and find your inner harmony from a place of surrender, peace, and safety in your body, and in the environment around it. Yin yoga has been transformational for me in times of high stress and is very helpful in tandem with emotional healing work and mindset rewiring.
Thank you for that. Can you share three good habits that can lead to optimum physical wellness? Please share a story or example for each.
Oh absolutely! Optimal physical wellness starts with sleep! Creating and practicing good sleep hygiene is critical. Going to bed and waking up around the same time and making sure to have a bedtime routine and a morning ritual that set up your circadian rhythm and body for optimal performance and energy levels during the day, as well as the best recovery it can get at night. Recovery is 70 percent of health for me. And sleep is sacred. Sleep quality matters, so ensuring your sleep environment accommodates a most relaxing (you might be resting and not relaxed!) time in bed is essential! Once I started to take care of my sleep — especially after I burned out last year, my whole experience of my body and my health shifted. It’s as if I feel that I trust my body, and it trusts me more, as I know myself to honour its needs due to the quality of my sleep.
Secondly, the quality of food and water you take in are crucial to your physical well-being, as is the way you eat!
Your energy intake and how you absorb it will influence how your body feels moves, and looks. Everything is energy. And food intake is one of the blocks of your physiological health that you have complete control over!
I have to say the best habit to keep yourself in optimal health when it comes to nutrition and to nurture and to fuel yourself with love and appreciation for what your body does for you is to tune into your awareness of what you need to feel nurtured, and fuelled to perform at your best, is to use your intuition to feel what your body is asking for, by checking in before every meal-time, and placing your hand on your gut, simply checking in: what is my body yearning for, and what does it need? Then let the answer come. So if you find yourself aimlessly scrolling on your phone, or looking for things to snack on, check in with yourself: are you avoiding an emotional experience, and are you trying to feed a deep hunger that is not physical but coming from your subconscious desire for self-expression, and pleasure?
For example, over the last few years, I have gone from diet to diet, searching for the most optimal one, and what I have found is that the more I focus on my intuitive senses, the more I know what I need. I know what food will be most nourishing for me, and I also know when and how much to eat. I am still working on being more kind and present with what my body needs, but the habit of checking in and asking my body what it yearns form and then attuning my nervous system to show me what feels good has allowed me to truly shift particular dogma and rules into a kind, caring and compassionate way of feeding and nourishing my body.
Ultimately the last habit I would invite your readers to try is the habit of intuitive movement.
I know there are a lot of incredible fitness and wellness training programs, and of course, I swear by yoga and weight lifting, as well as pilates and dance. However, the one habit I have been teaching and practicing is creating a habit of getting 10–30 minutes of non-linear movement into my day in the morning and/or at night. I call it embodied self-love movement. This means you plan to do an unscripted, intuitive, and creative movement practice that is founded in self-love and care for your body. This can be a mix of yoga, dance, strength training, and twirling in your living room, and/or while you are walking in nature even, intending to let your body show you what it wants to do and let yourself surrender to its expression while using the skills and techniques you have enjoyed from whatever formal training or practice you love. The point of this is that you will activate your intuitions and tap into your creative force while releasing pent-up, charged energy that becomes trapped when we feel but do not process and let go of the many emotional experiences we have during our lifetime. (E-motion stands for energy in motion.)
So, this daily practice of playing with your body as an instrument of healing and creative, freeing self-expression allows you t support your seller, your nutrition, and your emotional, spiritual, and mental health!
Do you have any particular thoughts about healthy eating? We all know that it’s important to eat more vegetables, eat less sugar, etc. But while we know it intellectually, it’s often difficult to put it into practice and make it a part of our daily habits. In your opinion what are the main blockages that prevent us from taking the information that we all know, and integrating it into our lives?
To me, the main obstacles to integration is the overwhelm that people feel in their daily lives, as it is, and the fact that most want to fix the problem, or symptoms, such as a health condition, weight issues, or brain fog, and low energy, without addressing the root cause.
I feel that our culture has become so focused on making people feel like they do not know how to take care of their bodies intuitively that we have increasingly become more disconnected from our truth and the emotional needs and pain that must be addressed.
Everyone is doing the best that they can, so I want people to know that they have valid reasons for not sticking to the things they know they need to do.
The solution in my work and life has always been to go to the core of the pain, the need, the trauma, and the desire to find a space for radical self-compassion and introspection, so that the person who is trying to change their lifestyle for better health, reconnects to their inner wisdom, their capacity to discern what they need, and their sense of sovereignty in choosing what they need to do, seeking the guidance of the professionals that can hold space for them, and guide them in their journey, as well as develop their capacity to thrive, often by actually removing all of the things that are distracting them from the inner work of reconnecting to their sense of self, and inner peace.
I have always felt that when we focus on our intuitive development creating healthy habits, especially around self-care and sticking to them becomes a lot easier.
To sum up, I believe and have seen this with my clients and myself that when we come from a cultivated sense and experience of how loved and worthy we are, we want to take action and choose to adopt healthy and empowering habits to take care of ourselves, because we feel we deserve it and want to feel good about ourselves and our lives, as we forgive ourselves, indeed come into feeling whole without any external validation for it, and learn how to fulfill our needs and desires to consciously create a life that we enjoy living!
Can you share three good habits that can lead to optimum emotional wellness? Please share a story or example for each.
Oh, this is my favorite topic! I believe that emotional wellness is the basis of every other area in our lives. Your emotions drive your experience and, most importantly your sense of who you are in the world.
The first habit that I have developed and swear by when it comes to coming into emotional harmony is a daily practice of appreciating yourself and your experience.
When I was younger, I would spend a lot of time alone, and often felt lonely and insignificant, which led to depressive states and a lot of self-sabotage!
Then as I deleted deeper into positive psychology and emotional healing, I realized that whenever I would focus on appreciating myself, my body, my mind, my room, my relationships, anything that I could think of as positive, eventually led me to discover how to learn appreciating the things I did not enjoy or considered problematic or even shameful about myself.
This was powerful. I was not convincing myself of anything else; I simply allowed mewl to get deeply curious about how I could appreciate everything I could see, feel, think of and do. Allowing and acetone my experience as if I am the one who chose every part of it to help myself thrive.
The second habit for optimal emotional wellness would be a self-soothing practice, especially if you are someone who holds a lot of feelings and takes care of others before yourself. I like to do this check-in with myself and offer this to my clients as well: put a reminder on your phone to pop up a question on your screen: “How do I feel right now, and what do I need to fill myself up with loving power?” This practice allows you to position your day from the perspective of constantly filling up yourself as you go through your day and checking in with what state you are in so that you can self-regulate and learn your own needs. This becomes increasingly intuitive, and the practice will allow you to self-coach and realign your emotional state to how you want to feel. As well this will reveal just how connected or disconnected you are from your feelings, which then will allow out to retrain your nervous system and cultivate more emotional coherence and intuitive wisdom.
Finally, I would offer people the habit I developed while going through a very painful grieving process, which is establishing a consistent creative practice where you let your imagination run wild! We hold on to so many feelings, and so much of our inner self is shut down. This can often result in poor boundaries, unfulfilled desires, unsatisfying work, and relationships that feel draining and stale. The answer is always in tuning into your inner state and allowing yourself to reveal what is hiding below the surface. The good, the bad, the awesome, the ugly: seeing it all like a canvas for your o explore, you discover more of who you indeed are.
Do you have any particular thoughts about the power of smiling to improve emotional wellness? We’d love to hear it.
I feel that smiling is one of the most powerful physiological expressions of love and joy, so it is very effective in helping our bodies feel trusting, relaxed and kind.
Your body informs the emotional state of your nervous system, and your energy will lift as your mindset will have to make sense of why you’re smiling, and it will! Smiling also creates a feeling of peace in your body as it opens up and your breath regulates. Smiling is like a massage for your heart!
However, there is a way of taking this deeper.
I invite people to practice loving kindness through a “smiling” practice when they feel in a funk, or emotionally overwhelmed, or down begins with setting an intron to feel happy and sending that feeling of happiness to someone you love. So the connection to gifting someone else with your smile, and the fact that it is your way of signaling your affection and connection to them, make your body feel primed to receive love and feel confident in yourself so that your smile is an extension, a natural expression of your positive feeling. What this practice does is it reverses the process of” faking it till you make it” and offers you an experience of “being it” so that you can feel it.” And that is empowering and shows you, the practitioner, a way to see everything you do to improve your emotional state as a ritual rather than just a tool.
Finally, can you share three good habits that can lead to optimum spiritual wellness? Please share a story or example for each.
Yes! This is such an important topic. And to me, spiritual wellness includes emotional coherence, mental health, and an embodied experience of wholeness and harmony.
When it comes to habits, I will start with the practice of daily “positive energy” setting before your day of “work/life” officially begins by establishing a conscious morning routine.
I recommend experimenting with a few things to include! For example, my morning ritual usually consists of some form of free-flow movement, breath-work, reading a book that inspires me, setting an empowering intention for the day, as well as some journaling and a meditation/devotional practice where I ask for guidance for being my best self that day.
I invite you and your readers to create your own ritual and adjust as you feel!
For instance, I would always pull an oracle card in the morning for a whole year. It was great. And then, one day, I no longer felt I needed it. Instead, I was inspired to practice more of my signature “Compassionate Self-Revelation Method” because I felt a need to go deeper into my intuitive wisdom.
So, your ritual can and will change according to where you find yourself in your life, be free, creative, and fluid with it!
However, starting the day with some form of connecting to your spiritual body, however that looks to you, is very powerful. It is like going to the inner temple of your heart and becoming full of your intuitive power and higher guidance.
The second thing I would highly advise as a powerful spiritual practice is having a daily or weekly creative practice!
This can be so powerful — in all aspects of your life!
So I invite you to take it seriously, especially if you are not “the artistic type.”
Tapping into your capacity to create something out of nothing- is empowering and healing. It allows you to hear more of your intuitive self, as well as activate your imagination, without any pressure to perform or achieve anything other than experiencing the joy, and empowerment in witnessing yourself bring something to life that did not exist before.
By the way, this creative expression can be cooking, baking, gardening, drawing, dancing, singing, writing poetry, sculpting, photography, making videos, or anything you feel inspired by! Do whatever makes your wild, creative soul voice feel expressed and alive!
You cannot do this wrong!
The third habit I recommend to people who want optimal spiritual health is closing off the day with a self-reflection and gratitude ritual.
It includes a simple breath practice to get more grounded and connected to your body and your inner world in the present moment, setting the intention to witness yourself from a place of deep compassion, curiosity and appreciation for who you are.
This is a powerful practice that, if done daily, will often create an experience of embodied wholeness and self-love throughout the evening and the next day.
It also allows you to witness where you might be out of alignment and choose to readjust so that you can come into more resources with how you want to feel and how you are.
Visualize yourself sitting inside your heart, and let yourself melt into it as it holds you fully.
Take seven deep breaths.
The contemplation script below invites you to be with the questions and then integrate and journal about whatever comes up for you.
This is more of a nighttime ritual, if you like, a simple one where you sit with yourself (or lie down in silence, undisturbed) and contemplate your day with these four self-revelation questions:
- Was I present?
- Was I honest?
- Was I kind?
- Where can I be in more integrity with the truth of my heart?
- How do I want to show up in my truth tomorrow?
Then, visualize your day tomorrow as you embody the person you feel proud of, inspired by, compassionate, and loving towards. The result will be that you will be training your intuitive awareness, your nervous system, and your mindset as you also go deeper into some parts of you that may have been in the shadow and reveal the guidance they hold as you integrate more of who you are into your life.
This practice takes time and getting used to, and it is so worth it, as I will evoke that purposeful inner leader that you already are and will help you feel inspired to keep focusing on your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being because the health of your inner world determines the world you see,
I invite you to try it!
Do you have any particular thoughts about how being “in nature” can help us to cultivate spiritual wellness?
Oh yes. Walking and being in the presence of nature in general is profoundly healing to our nervous system and creates a powerful space for us to tap into our higher self and intuitive knowing.
Nature does not lie, and it is full of grace and abundance. To witness that is empowering and relaxing, especially if you live in a city or feel triggered and pushed by the high-achieving, high-pressure, and often cold, superficial culture we live in. Our inner nature thrives when we immerse ourselves in the energy of the nature around us.
I encourage you to create pockets of time where you can be with nature, without any distraction, maybe bringing a specific spiritual practice (for example, I like to do walking meditations/contemplations and creative journeys in the forest!)
Anything you do in nature has the power to help you answer some deep questions about your role in the world, and will reveal more of your potential so that when you get back to the “real world,” you are coming from a more authentic, and inspiring expression of your power.
Ok, we are nearly done. You are a person of great influence. If you could inspire a movement that would bring the most amount of good for the greatest number of people, what would that be? You never know what your idea can trigger.
I would start a movement to teach kids and teenagers intuitive development and embodied mindfulness practices.
Helping young people learn and integrate loving-kindness practices while guiding them to a deeper awareness of their emotional states, and giving them the tools to experience the power they hold within themselves, will inspire an entirely new world to emerge for all of us- as their parents, their teachers, and those that they will connect with will also feel the energetic pull to focus on our hearts.
I want to offer online and in-person training for these young people and their caretakers and to propose a mindfulness/intuitive development class to include in our schools and extracurricular activity curriculums!
For kids to be a part of the movement to achieve a more significant state of consciousness, harmony, and wellness by cultivating their inner experience of wholeness and worthiness will actively transform our culture as more people will feel be immersed in the energy of peace.
We are very blessed that some of the biggest names in Business, VC funding, Sports, and Entertainment read this column. Is there a person in the world, or in the US, whom you would love to have a private breakfast or lunch with, and why? He or she might just see this, especially if we both tag them :-)
It would be an incredible honor to connect and speak with Dr. Gabor Maté. I have been a huge fan and student of his work, and I am humbled and profoundly moved to go deeper into his teachings insofar as my coaching practice and activist work.
His work on identifying the toxic influence of our culture on our suffering, and the pain of detachment from our true selves through trauma, is revolutionary.
Dr. Maté’s work speaks to everything I shared above about finding optimal wellness. It is not one thing, and it is critical for us to integrate all of our parts, to experience the wholeness and harmony with who we are to create a life that feels authentic and meaningful in our hearts. That is total wellness.
How can our readers further follow your work online?
They can find me on my website, www.sashalipskaia.com, where they can learn more about my work as a coach, facilitator, speaker, and creator, as well as links to my podcast, social media, and YouTube channel!
Thank you for these really excellent insights, and we greatly appreciate the time you spent with this. We wish you continued success.
Thank you so much for having me. It was a gift to speak with you.
I intend to keep supporting your audience and the vital mission you are on, empowering so many people to live their own definition of success!
