Courage Within You with Silvia Turonova
by Silvia Turonova
Courage Within You podcast is a safe space for women to embrace their emotional healing while walking their spiritual paths. Raw talks about trauma, the messiness of healing, self-love, growth, and what it means to heal with courage. Silvia is a women's mindset coach and a yoga teacher. She loves combining the knowledge of brain wiring and mind management with yoga, meditation, and spirituality. She is sharing practical wisdom from neuroscience to better understand our minds and how to redesign our internal system for more joy, peace, and happiness. Every episode is packed with practical tips on how to heal yourself through brain wiring, mindfulness, meditation, and different spiritual practices.
Episodes
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Taking break from podcasting and what is next
Hello, my brave soul. The time has come when I decided to say goodbye to podcasting for a while and focus on my writing instead. First, let me start by saying that I am beyond grateful for you, my dear listener who found my podcast helpful while always coming back for more. Although the journey…
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The Art Of Detachment, Self-Regulation and Emotional Balance
A while ago, I watched an interview with Jay Shetty where he talked about detachment as stated in the Bhagavad Gita, a 700-verse Hindu scripture. He says that, "detachment is not that you own nothing. Detachment is that nothing owns you." I find this one of the most accurate and simply understood...
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2 Spiritual Tools For More Love And Kindness
Healing and walking a spiritual path doesn't mean you don't face challenges or that this path is linear. Therefore, having spiritual tools in place is important to keep evoking the love within while shedding off anything that doesn't serve you. Love is your ultimate superpower. It gives you the...
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#1 Mindfulness Tool To Regulate Your Thoughts And Emotions
When I found myself having Monday blues last week, this was the mindfulness tool I used to snap out of it while reminding myself of the true nature of my mind. There aren't Monday blues, bad or good days, or happy Sundays (as people call it in America). The quality of our days, regardless of what...
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Healing Childhood Trauma And 3 Tools To Support You
Although healing childhood trauma is a challenging path to walk, it is also a path of deep fulfillment and self-love. When we become brave enough to look at our past and address earlier childhood experiences holding us back, we choose our destiny instead of settling for it. I've been healing my...
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Rewire Your Brain With This 3-Step Process
You can rewire your brain, change how you think and perceive life, and become in love with it by consciously choosing how you want to think. The moment you are born, your conscious mind isn't formed yet, while the subconscious mind is fully open. Therefore, whatever you hear, see, experience, and...
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How to Use Positive Affirmations and Visualization to Heal
Since we tell ourselves affirmations all day, why not make them into positive affirmations that allow us to become who we want to be and attract things we want? There are two types of affirmations: conscious and unconscious. Unconscious affirmations are thoughts and beliefs that run on autopilot....
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Healing Inner Child and Reparenting Yourself
Healing your inner child is about accessing the wounds or suppressed emotions while recognizing what parts of you need to be healed. It's also about identifying different parts or versions of your little self and then healing them individually. You may have a version of your inner child that's...
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3 Spiritual Practices That Healed Me
Are you stuck on your healing path? Do you feel you've tried almost everything, but nothing quite works? Today, I am sharing my 3 most powerful spiritual practices that I used and continue using every day to heal and keep myself in balance. Daily spiritual practices are essential for anyone on a...
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15-Minute Guided Meditation to Reinvent Yourself
What if instead of focusing on what you want to accomplish externally, you look within and focus on who you need to become and how you can reinvent yourself to reach the healing, growth, and goals you desire? The external world can fall apart, but how you manage your internal system and the...
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4 Mindset Shifts That Fuel Your Growth
Beyond the tools and techniques we use to better self-regulate, there are 4 mindset shifts that create change on a level of perception. And as Wayne Dyer said, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." So often, women come to me and say, "I tried everything, but…
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Building a strong self-belief and breaking through mental limits
There is a quote from Swami Vivekananda that empowers me every time I read it. He says, "Tell your body that it is strong. Tell your mind that it is strong and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself." That, to me, represents a deep sense of self-belief. Regardless of the circumstances we are...
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Healing With Grace And Honoring Your Path
Healing with grace means honoring the stage of your growth while nurturing a sense of respect and meeting yourself where you are. Think about it - the number one reason you turn to emotional healing and spiritual growth is to experience more joy, happiness, and ease in your life. But how often do...
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Feeling Empowered and Trusting Yourself
When I say "feeling empowered' - what comes to your mind? Living a life with no fear? Overcoming self-doubt? Setting boundaries? Not letting the opinions of others affect you? Or maybe something else? What if you can live your life in this place? One of the most inspiring things I understood…
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Negative thoughts: How to observe, detach and change them
Can you eliminate all your negative thoughts for the rest of your life? Maybe not, but you can certainly manage them effectively. When you try to resent your negative thoughts, they often persist and become louder. Therefore the trick isn't stopping your thoughts in track or exercising fake...
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Finding the courage within and living fearlessly
In this episode, we'll dive into what it means to find the courage within you by confronting your fears and embracing living boundlessly. We both know that fear is real, no doubts about it. However, I refuse to sit here and accept that this is how "things are." Are you with me? We were programmed...
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How To Retrain Your Mind And Overcome Negative Thoughts and Beliefs
What if I tell you there is a simple way to retrain your mind while going about your day as usual? And what if I tell you that you can use my 3-step process to accomplish just that? If I ask you, "Who are you?" Would you be able to answer that? (spoiler alert: If you are not sure, that's okay....
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Self-Validation vs. Self-Responsibility
Self-validation allows us to acknowledge, feel and process our emotions, while self-responsibility is where we step out of victimhood and into our power. When you begin to look at any area of your life that is asking for healing, acknowledging what you feel is the first step. So often, we carry…
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Guided meditation to ease anxiety and create a safe space within
Tune into this guided meditation to ease anxiety while embracing a safe space within you. Here is the thing, my friend. At what point in our lives have we accepted that living with this fearful feeling lingering in the back of our mind is normal? Whether it is because of the negative information…
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5 Coaching Questions To Empower Your Healing and Growth
In today's episode, I will be sharing five powerful coaching questions that transformed not only my life but also the lives of my clients, and I hope they will do the same for you. We all have what I call blind spots. These are things others may see, but we are blind to them. It often happens…
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Cultivating Heartfelt Emotions and Healing Power of The Heart
How can we cultivate heartfelt emotions and use them to heal ourselves and build more resilience? When we live in a state of fear, our hearts are closed, and our nervous system spends most of the time in a fight or flight mode. We feel less energy, and although we wake up every morning and do the...
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10-Minute Guided Forgiveness Meditation
About three years ago, I was a member of a coaching group with Jay Shetty, and we were covering a forgiveness month. One of the things he did with us was a mindfulness exercise on self-forgiveness. I remember closing my eyes and saying, "I forgive myself." The moment I spoke these words out loud…
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Mindfulness Exercise: You Are Not Your Mind
During my yoga studies in India, I learned techniques for better mind management to regulate my emotional state with more calm and consideration. Today, I want to share a mindfulness exercise to help you do the same. Although I don't want to go too philosophical on you here, I believe our mind...
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Mindfulness Exercise: 10-Minute Guided Meditation for Empowered Mind
During my yoga studies in India, I learned techniques for better mind management to regulate my emotional state with more calm and consideration. Today, I want to share a mindfulness exercise to help you do the same. Although I don't want to go too philosophical on you here, I believe our mind...
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How to Manage Your Thoughts and Build Resilient Mind
If you want to change your life, whether to heal your past or transform your current situation, do it by training yourself to manage your thoughts effectively. Since your thoughts create your feelings and your feelings drive your actions, your life is a result of what you think all day long....
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How to Consciously Heal With Love
We don't heal through judgment while inflicting more guilt on ourselves for the choices we make. We do it by understanding what happened to us and taking responsibility for our healing by consciously changing our self-sabotaging habits. For most of us, the results of our survival mechanism won't...
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Discipline Your Mind For More Healing and Growth
Is there such a thing as knowing too much? Can we miss out on profound moments of healing and growth because we try to crack the complex code of our mental and emotional recovery while overlooking the simplicity of this process? In today's episode, I will take you back to the basics of what it...
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How to Feel Good
How do you make yourself feel good when facing challenging times, and do you even allow yourself to feel good in the first place? Today's podcast episode was inspired by my past 2 weeks when I felt like I was on an emotional rollercoaster while struggling to find any inner balance or peace. I...
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Soothing Meditation for More Joy and Inner Peace
A couple of weeks ago, I published my first self-love meditation to heal your inner child. Since many of you enjoyed it, I decided to create a little bit longer meditation for self-soothing and bringing more joy and inner peace into your life. This is a great meditation if you need a little more...
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3 Ways How to Nurture a relationship with Your Inner Child
You come into this world as a super cute, adorable, perfect, playful, lovable, and carefree baby. Your soul is pure and your heart wide open. But then… Life happens. Suddenly you find yourself in your adulthood, considering whether you should get a therapist, move to California, go to one of the...
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Self-love Meditation for Healing Your Inner Child
I am thrilled to share the 10-minute meditation on self-love and connecting with your inner child. Healing Through Meditation During the years of my healing, I tried many tools and techniques to learn how to heal my past while developing a more loving relationship with myself. I am honored to be...
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3 Ways How to Begin Your Healing Journey and Love Yourself
I am sure you tried many ways, read tons of books, and listened to podcasts and videos on how to love yourself, how to see your worth, and how, at the same time, to heal yourself. Or, perhaps, you stumbled here by accident (or by choice) and want to learn how to overcome the never-ending spiral…
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The Power of Self-Coaching
Previously, I mentioned to you that I created a free self-coaching worksheet as a way to teach you how to develop this life-altering skill, and I am also providing you with nine questions to coach yourself. Click HERE to get the worksheet. In today's episode, I want to talk more on this topic…
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Forgiving Yourself while Growing and Healing
One of the most common patterns I observed during my growth and the growth of my friends and my clients is that once we start healing and growing, we are overly harsh on ourselves. We believe we shouldn't be feeling the way we feel, we shouldn't be acting in old ways, and we should be better than...
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Courage to Face the Hard Stuff
One of the most common struggles people share with me is the fear of healing or growing. At first, it may sound counterintuitive since we all want to be happy, positive, and peaceful since that's what growing and healing provide. However, if we bottled up too much for too long, looking at the…
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Qutting Perfectionism
Perfectionism is a desire not to be seen for who we are but to hide and pretend that we are someone we are not. Perfectionism is based on fear. Often, we strive for it since we don't want to fail or be seen who we are - with our failures, shortcomings, weaknesses AKA imperfections. The most…
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Walking Your Talk
For many of us, it's uncomfortable to admit that we are "playing around," not doing the work we know we have to do while being stuck at the same place in life. Once we admit that we are the ones standing in our way, what's left? There isn't anyone to blame or point fingers at, and we are…
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Are You Honest with Yourself?
When we choose to lie to ourselves and stay in denial, it's because we don't want to see the truth about ourselves or others. These lies give us instant gratification, take away responsibility, allow blame while at the same time, we are betraying ourselves. We do that because the truth seems to…
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The Opportunity in Hardship
There is so much wisdom, teaching, and opportunities in pain or hardships we are going through. But since we are such emotional beings often driven by what we feel, we overlook the lesson and look for the nearest exit or instant gratification instead. Then we wonder why some of the lessons keep...
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The Power of Self-Responsibility
Hello, my beautiful soul. When we blame, we give our power to someone or something else, and our emotional and mental state depends on external circumstances. But when we choose to take responsibility for our life, it's like saying, "I am in charge, and I am taking my power back." There are two...
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Standing Up For Yourself
People who experience traumas, fight the feeling of abandonment, struggle to see their worth or their value will often settle for less without recognizing it. You may find yourself in toxic relationships, constantly wrapped up in the drama, tolerating things you don't feel comfortable with, or...
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Emotional Armor (Part 2)
In the previous episode, I talked about what emotional armor is and the reasons many of us carry this guard to protect ourselves from hurt, pain, or disappointment. But as we already learned, emotional armor is a product of our fear - fear to get hurt or fear to feel pain. We develop this coping...
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Emotional Armor (Part 1)
In today's episode, I want to talk to all of my tough cookies, who are carrying this illusionary shield, or as I call it, the "emotional guard" for protection. We guard up because we got hurt. Since we don't want to feel this way again, we armor up, hoping it will protect us from experiencing…
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Emotional Resilience
Well, hello there, my beautiful soul. In today's episode, I will teach you how to build emotional resilience but before I dive deeper, let me give you a simple definition of what it means. Emotional resilience is the ability to adapt to stressful situations and cope with life's ups and downs....
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Self-Awareness
Any transformation or growth requires one essential skill, and that's self-awareness. Self-awareness is the willingness to see and acknowledge who you are, with all your imperfections, toxic traits, wounds, strengths, and weaknesses. Being aware is about being responsible for your life, thoughts,...
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Permission to Feel
One of the most common questions or concerns people share with me is how to properly deal with what we call the "hard stuff." Since our desire to feel good, to feel happy and excited about life is strong, our desire to stop feeling sad, depressed, or betrayed is even greater. But when we push…
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Loving and Respecting Yourself
For many of us, the idea of "How do I love myself?" is a million-dollar question. I will answer it in today's episode since there has been a lot I learned in these past months. Look at self-love as a skill you want to learn and develop. Like any skill, it takes a little bit of time and practice…
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Things We Tolerate
Have you ever left a relationship, a job, or a situation and couldn't understand why you stayed in it for so long even though it wasn't good for you? You may be asked yourself "Why did I tolerate it?" As human beings, we are flexible. We adapt, we blend in, we change and we adjust to whatever...
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Developing Self-Trust
How often do you find yourself in constant doubt when it comes to your decisions? You are going back and forth between multiple options, then consult your problems with numerous people, gather seven different opinions while feeling even more confused and unsure than at the beginning. So often,...
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Your Support System
Developing a support system for yourself is one of the fundamental ways on how to work towards transformation and overcome personal challenges. When we talk about the support system, we often refer to our family or friends, our therapist, coach, or a mentor. Although the support of your…
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About this show
Courage Within You podcast is a safe space for women to embrace their emotional healing while walking their spiritual paths. Raw talks about trauma, the messiness of healing, self-love, growth, and what it means to heal with courage. Silvia is a women's mindset coach and a yoga teacher. She loves combining the knowledge of brain wiring and mind management with yoga, meditation, and spirituality. She is sharing practical wisdom from neuroscience to better understand our minds and how to redesign our internal system for more joy, peace, and happiness. Every episode is packed with practical tips on how to heal yourself through brain wiring, mindfulness, meditation, and different spiritual practices.
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