From Your Center
Ideas, inspiration, and guidance to take courageous action towards a life well-lived. Combining our expertise in art and science, we help you integrate body, mind, and spirit to empower your personal and professional growth. Join us for weekly conversations, cutting-edge research, personal stories, and a solid dose of laughter. Hosted by: Lea Durante, NP & Adriana Baer, MFA
Episodes
This week, we have some news from FromYour Center 🎙️
We’re excited to share new offerings for 2024 🎉
Lea is launching her Integration Experience to help women optimize their mental health and step into vibrant energy with her innovative & simple 4-step process for brain change to finally ditch stress, anxiety, burnout and exhaustion from being spread so thin.
Adriana is offering public speaking coaching both 1:1 an...
Some of the most cliched, tossed around words today are: “Personal Growth" and "Professional Development.”
In becoming buzzwords, they lose their ability to help us or effectively elicit change.
Our brains need a refresh and rebrand.
Tune in learn why it’s time to:
- Ditch the butterfly analogy and embrace the DRAGONFLY metamorphosis of emergence
- Welcome the un-becoming and...
Have you heard of Human Design?
Are you using your chart to understand and work with your energy for greater impact and alignment? Do you know your type and response strategy?
Join our conversation with Amy Clemente, Human Design Expert to understand more about this unique framework and lens to discover the mechanics of your nature and find out what really works for you –in relationships, communication, your professio...
90% of New Year’s resolutions fail.
Even 90% of patients fail to implement doctor’s recommendations.
The good news: it’s not our fault.
The popular model for change we’re all operating from is broken and doesn’t work. BUT there’s a new model.
Listen in to learn the EFFECTIVE model for change that you can use to find success in any life, health, fitness, work, or relationship goal. Fee...
Do you struggle with anxiety, stress, anger or fear?
We’re sharing a super easy and effective way to melt away challenging emotions in a minute. Kids, teens, or adults, we can all use tapping to move energies and emotions through and out of the body.
With her clients, Lea has seen this technique help:
- Children when frightened to get a flu shot.
- Children (and adults) take away fear from ...
How can we enter challenging times and the unknown without being swallowed up?
On this longest night of the year, we explore darkness:
- How to find your way through
- How to find the deep, powerful lessons it holds
- How to stay tethered so the hard places don’t derail your life
We chat about nervous system states on this episode. For definitions and further explanations, check out Lea’s blog article. You ...
"I'm afraid of public speaking. Help! What do I do about it?"
We've got you. Listen in for some quick and concrete tools.
Body Scan Tool!
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Take Lea’s nervous system quiz: What's your Nervous System Type? 7 quick questions to discover your typical nervous system state and how to shift it.
Click here for 15 attention-grabbing openers to Hook Y...
Does the subconscious really control 90% of what we think, feel and do? 🤯
And can it prevent a blind man who lost his cane from falling while walking in a cluttered hall?
Answering this audience question today on the pod!
Check out what your retina sees vs. the picture your subconscious presents to your conscious awareness HERE.
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Take Lea’s nervous system...
Can you think of a worse criticism than being called "passive" or "weak"?
In our society of doers, producers, and achievers the concept of acceptance feels foreign and a bit like giving up or backing down.
But what if acceptance is actually the doorway to a powerful, honest engagement with life and the most effective place to move from both personally & professionally?
...
What is the science of gratitude?
Can it really improve your physical health, longevity and mood?
How can you practice the art of noticing and appreciating?
Headed into the Thanksgiving holiday, we explore the incredible mental, emotional, and physical health benefits of gratitude and HOW we actually incorporate this practice into daily life.
A gigantic expression of gratitude for YOU fo...
What is Neuroplasticity? We're hearing about it everywhere. Our brains can change! We can rewire our brains! Lea explains it all.
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Take Lea’s nervous system quiz: What's your Nervous System Type? 7 quick questions to discover your typical nervous system state and how to shift it.
Click here for 15 attention-grabbing openers to Hook Your Audience.
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The Life-Work tug of war is constant.
You are never just one title, identity or role; personal or professional.
So how the heck do you actually create a life that honors and holds all the hyphens, titles, passion projects and hats you love wearing?
This week we engage that tension. We brainstorm and troubleshoot the particular stress of all the balancing and planning that goes into the hol...
What’s the secret to change?
Lea pops in with a quick reflection on our new title and how finding, expanding and operating from your integrated center: body-mind and spirit is the key to change personally and professionally. Evolution and growth toward a full, vibrant, expansive, joyful and impactful life is rooted in your wisdom within.
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Take Lea’s nervous system quiz: What's your...
Let’s be honest… we’ve ALL tried to change and failed.
But what if the problem isn’t you?
We’ve all attempted the new year’s resolution or shot for a professional goal at work and… the vast majority of us missed the mark.
We feel trapped by circumstances, obligations, and beliefs that we can’t actually do more or be more. We’ve learned change is hard and it has led to the often unconscious, un...
When Adriana was young, she discovered that through theater, she could communicate inner emotions outwardly and move an audience. She then became fascinated with the art movement Expressionism which externalizes internal ideas to evoke change. As a director and coach, she helps people reveal authentic self-expression by starting from their core center.
Listen in as Adriana shares about breaking down silos between wor...
Did you see that? New name, new season!
Welcome to From Your Center!
We’re celebrating 50 episodes, downloads on every continent, and so much gratitude for YOU, our listeners! We’re sharing:
- why the name changed
- what we’ve learned this past year and
- the surprising, unifying truth from our different perspectives in art and science
Can’t stop, won’t stop and so looking forward to this ne...
Are you ready for real change? We've got you!
Welcome to From Your Center: Ideas, inspiration, and guidance to take courageous action towards a life well-lived. Combining our expertise in art and science, we help you integrate body, mind, and spirit to empower your personal and professional growth. Join us for weekly conversations, cutting-edge research, personal stories, and a solid dose of laughter.
Ho...
We know the things we need to do to feel good like eating healthy and moving our bodies... and yet we struggle to actually do them.
In today’s episode we reveal of how to close this gap from knowing to doing by:
- understanding the power of the subconscious mind
- naming the “great lie” of the health & wellness industry
- discovering hidden resistance
Q&A Time! How does dopamine affect our habits?
Lea gives us an updated definition of dopamine and how it impacts our brains, moods, motivations and our habits. We began this conversation in our two part series about how the algorithm of social media affects our brain chemistry.
Catch -up or re-listen to those full episodes here:
Is Social Media Bad for Us?
And Social Media & AI….can we ...
Feeling drained by the never ending “to-do” list and all the giving you do?
Of course you are. We are ALL feeling depleted after these last few wild years.
Burnout remains a constant conversation topic, so we’re sharing how to shift and expand so you can show up to this life from a place of fullness, aliveness, and vibrant energy.
Join to hear:
- why that “filling up your cup” analogy j...
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