Lisa Marie Rankin [00:00:00]:

In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Brianna Rose. She's a somatic business mentor who's guided thousands of visionary women to activate their power, clarify their message and lead businesses that hail. Brianna had developed the body mapping method, an industry shifting approach to somatic leadership that teaches coaches, healers and creatives how to facilitate real transformation without over planning, over giving or overthinking. Every session we dive into the nervous system and its impact on success, whether that be career, money, relationship or health. The magic of somatic work, how to get off the hamster wheel of healing, protecting your consciousness, and so much more. You're not going to want to miss this conversation, so let's dive in. Welcome to the Gotta School podcast, a space for women who want to reclaim their story on, awaken their archetypal power and live mythically. I'm Lisa Marie Rankine, author, teacher and your mythic guide.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:01:03]:

I help women step beyond self help and into soul work by weaving together Jungian psychology, storytelling, ritual and feminine wisdom traditions. In each episode, you'll find personal reflections, mythic frameworks and soul stirring conversations designed to help you re enchant your everyday life and become the heroine of your next chapter. This isn't about fixing yourself. It's about becoming the woman you are meant to be. The veil is parting. The ship is setting sail. Let's begin. Hello beautiful listeners and welcome back to the Goddess School podcast.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:01:47]:

So today I am very excited to introduce you to Brianna Rose. Now, I first came across Brianna just on Instagram because I saw that she was combining like Kundalini with business and I was like, oh my goodness, that's so interesting. So I had reached out to her, I don't know, maybe a couple of years ago, and that's really where we first connected. And it's just been amazing to see how we have both continued to evolve. But I just really love her approach to the somatic business money connection. And we're going to talk a little bit more about that today. So thank you. Thank you for joining us and I would love to hear.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:02:25]:

I know I just gave you a brief introduction, but do you want to just tell us a little bit about about your journey and how you got to be a somatic business coach and embodiment expression coach?

Brianna Rose [00:02:36]:

Yeah, as, as Lisa shared, I am a somatic business coach. I used to call myself a Kundalini business coach. And we all evolve and grow and I just became slightly obsessed with understanding the body, the nervous system and how that relates to business, how that relates to success. When I say success like, yes, I mean money. But to me, success is so much more than just money. It's joy, it's happiness, it's health. And so I originally was a girl boss that lived in Manhattan. I'm from New York.

Brianna Rose [00:03:10]:

Like my dream was just like work my booty off like 80 hours a week and just hustle and grind. And then I had a spiritual awakening a little over, over. Gosh, it's gonna be like 15 years ago now. And that completely shook up the way I not only saw myself and saw the world, but also business. So I've been on this journey for the last 14, 15 years or so, really studying how the body relates to success. How the nervous system is like the true key to unlocking our capacity. I know this through my own lived experience, but also studying it and then seeing it in my clients lives. And so my main mission and purpose is to the people in the world that have that mission, that have that calling to raise the vibration of the planet, to use their gifts for good.

Brianna Rose [00:03:57]:

And I help you turn that purpose into helping people heal, into a business that is lighting up the world. Because most of the time, healers, coaches, intuitives, visionaries, we are doing things that have never been done before. And it feels really scary, which triggers our nervous system to see it as a threat, to see our intuitive ideas and capacity to make more impact as scary and dangerous. And I help to rewire that so that way your work can get out into the world and you can hold more impact, more visibility, more income.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:04:30]:

Yeah. Oh, I love that. Thank you. So let's just dive right in now. Now I feel like, you know, a lot of people in my community, you know, have an understanding of the nervous system and you know, I feel like you just at least on, when I scroll on social media or Instagram, you know, there's many nervous system posts that come up. So I feel like people have like maybe a foundational level, but I would love to hear like from you. Why does the nervous system really impact your capability for success? And again, it doesn't necessarily mean money, but it could, but it could be your business, it could be relationships. Can you just share like why, why is that nervous system kind of that foundation for what it is that you can achieve for sure.

Brianna Rose [00:05:11]:

And so our nervous system, I don't, I feel like it gets a bad rap. Like it's like nervous system have to regulate it. And the thing is, our nervous system is really great. It's what protects us and it keeps us safe. It's how we have survived as humans for all of these. But there are parts of our nervous system that haven't evolved with us. And basically the good parts of our nervous system is that it is checking for perceived threats, for things that are dangerous. And so this was really great when we were cavemen and women and a tiger was coming and we were vigilant and we could see that something bad was gonna happen and we had to run, we had to fight back.

Brianna Rose [00:05:50]:

Like that's what helped us survive. But we live in a modern world now. We don't typically have tigers chasing us. And our version of the tiger now, or at least the way that our body is perceiving the tiger is our next level or our dreams or our manifestations. And I know a lot of people might be like brannon, what? But I want those things. Those things aren't bad. They're not a tiger. Yeah, your mind consciously knows that, knows that the six figure business or the soulmate love, you know, you want that.

Brianna Rose [00:06:22]:

But your body is perceiving it as a threat, as something that's dangerous, not because it's actually dangerous, but because you haven't experienced it yet. And so it's something that is new. And so our bodies, our nervous systems, they crave stability, they crave safety. And so even though the six figure business, the seven figure business, whatever it might be, even though that is going to create such maybe joy and freedom in your life, you haven't experienced it yet. And so your body doesn't know what's going to happen from that seven figure business or that six figure business. And so to keep you safe in air quotes, you self sabotage, your body contracts, your nervous system becomes disregulated, be become overwhelmed. If you think about the first of the year, everyone's got their vision boards out, their manifestation boards, right? Like we're all ready to do it. And then by the end of the year following maybe only a couple of those things have been achieved.

Brianna Rose [00:07:19]:

And you can say I got overwhelmed. Life happened, I didn't have the time. But reality is, those things were as much as you wanted them, your body saw them as threats, them as dangerous, and you got distracted. And so what's really important is recognizing when you are seeing a vision or seeing a manifestation as a threat. And we have the capacity and the ability, which is what I teach and do, to rewire it and to retrain your body to see these things that you want as actually things that are safe.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:07:51]:

Oh, I love that. That's such a great explanation. And I want to maybe just Even like share maybe like another example and ask you one if this is sort of what it is meaning in the business sense. But I think it will help listeners understand too. Where I remember for a while in my life, you know, I always would seem to be attracted to more of the bad boys and stuff, and it wasn't the relationship that I wanted, but yet I felt comfortable there. So then if a nice guy came along and be like, oh, it's boring. And is that kind of an example? It's like, it's not the relationship I want, but yet it's a rodeo I've done so many times. So there's also.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:08:27]:

Even though of course there could be like the anxiety and the ups and downs, it was still just something that I was used to. And when we talk about maybe starting a business or money or even I think sometimes getting in shape, you know, prioritizing your healthcare, there's almost this sense of our body seeking homeostasis, even if it's not what our prefrontal cortex wants that we go back to. Is that kind of what, what you're talking about as well?

Brianna Rose [00:08:51]:

Yeah, we all run on patterns. We all have patterns that we've either that's been passed down to us ancestrally and like, it's in our genetic, it's in our DNA makeup, or we've picked up from child and we run those patterns and we don't even realize oftentimes that we're stuck in a pattern because it's something that is so natural to us or we do know we're stuck in a pattern. Like, you just shared, like, attracting the bad boys. Like, oh, like I've heard that so many times from friends that are like, why do I keep attracting in the same type of person? It's because that's what feels safe to you. Also, there's a part of us that can be. When we are in a dysregulated state, we can be attracted to the drama because it keeps us busy, it keeps us distracted. Um, I had a mentor once that. It took me some time to really understand this, but they had said, you know, success is actually really boring because, like, things are working, bills are paid, you have more than enough money.

Brianna Rose [00:09:47]:

Like, the ego mind doesn't have something to obsess over or stress over, because when you're stressed out about money now you have something to think about to stress. It's a lower vibration, it's a lower frequency to be in. And a lot of times those lower frequencies of fear, of scarcity, of stress, of Anxiety, as much as we don't want to be in them, they're almost easier to be end because it's easy to be angry, it's easy to be frustrated and distracted. It's actually harder to be in alignment, it's harder to be happy, it's harder to choose compassion. And so I find that that's like, yes, we have these patterns that we stay stuck in, but there's also this like ego subconscious part of us that wants us to stay distracted, that wants us to be caught up in the, in the drama of it all. Because if we had everything we wanted that like baseline, that ease actually feels really scary because we haven't experienced it yet. So then it goes back to that same part of the nervous system of actually feeling safe doesn't feel safe because you've never experienced it. Actually receiving lots of money that you've been wanting and manifesting doesn't feel safe.

Brianna Rose [00:10:52]:

And that's why I'm sure you've seen this in like the online marketing world. There's so much messaging of like how to make six figures with ease or like how to just, you know, have an orgasmic manifestation. And like those things are great and fine. But the thing is you are not going to allow ease in your life if your body does not feel safe with ease. You're always going to self sabotage, you're always going to fuck it up somehow because that doesn't feel safe to actually have ease in your life. And so the nervous system works on those two ways of it keeps you distracted, but then also it's going to sabotage the thing that you want if it doesn't feel safe too. Even though you actually want the ease, even though you actually want the abundance, the joy, the happiness that doesn't seem safe to your body because you haven't experienced it yet. And also when things are calm and things are chill, stuff can also come up because now you're not distracted on the drama, now you're not scrolling on Instagram.

Brianna Rose [00:11:46]:

And when there is that quietness and there is that presence, there's the presence, there's the breath, there's the opportunity for the stuff that you've been avoiding to come up as well.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:11:56]:

Yeah. Oh, it's so. This is all so interesting to me. So you said something that I want to talk a little bit more about and I don't have, I don't have my questions question like that clearly articulated. But you know, you talk about ego consciousness and within my community we do a lot of work with like archetypes and the work of Carl Jung and shadow work. And you know, we always talk about like, yes, like your ego mind might want a seven figure or six figure business, but you keep doing things to sabotage it to some extent, to your point, probably because it doesn't feel safe. You never had it before.

Brianna Rose [00:12:29]:

Sure.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:12:29]:

How do you see the nervous system relate to the shadow? Because often when we talk about the shadow, we're talking about, you know, elements of our psyche that are not aligned with the ego, who we think we are, how we present to the world. And yet to me there's so much. They seem to be very intertwined to some extent because we also don't have conscious control over our nervous system. Trust me, I've tried. I put myself in like, just calm down, Lisa. And like, you know, I'm feeling very activated. And so do you see, like, what do you see as the relationship from like the psychic shadow when we talk about the shadow work and the nervous system?

Brianna Rose [00:13:03]:

Yeah, I mean, I think that they're very intertwined. I think that one feeds the other and they work together. And that's why, like the work that I love to do, it's not so much that we have to focus on the shadow of the psyche. What I tend to see happen is when we are able to work on the nervous system intentionally. Because there's something that I created called body mapping. And you can actually pinpoint where your blocks live in the body. And then we curate somatic sequences to target that area of the body to a, essentially restructure both like your fascia and your muscle memory, but also your energetic memory too. And what I've found is, is when we do that and we target the area of the body, the body wants to heal.

Brianna Rose [00:13:45]:

Like, the body is so intelligent. The body knows, knows how to function. I mean, gosh, it keeps us alive, it pumps our heart, we can breathe. Right. That has all this amazingness to it. But these blocks are there preventing it from doing what it does best. And so when we use these curated somatic tools and we can target the areas of the body that have restriction, that have tens, the body essentially releases like the, the muscle lets go, the energy lets go. And then the energy can flow.

Brianna Rose [00:14:12]:

And so in that it's like in a roundabout way, the shadow, the psyche comes along on that ride with it. Because what's been held probably is a limiting belief, probably is a, a trauma of some sort. And what I say to my clients is like, we don't have to get caught up on like, what is the belief, what Was the belief. Because again, that's the mind, like wanting to get focused on something. Distrust and body knows what it needs to do. We don't need to get caught up in trying to pinpoint exactly what the story is because we can get easily sucked in this like spiral of healing and healing and healing and healing and healing and never coming out of it. But the body's amazing. And when it starts to heal itself, yes, you might think of a situation, you might think of a memory, but it's just kind of passing through.

Brianna Rose [00:14:58]:

It's like the body releases whatever was stored there. Like it just, it comes up and then it lets go. Depending on the trauma, of course. If it's something like a big T trauma, I always recommend having some sort of support, whether that's coaching or therapy along with it, because it can be a lot to reprocess those things or the body can relive an experience as it's healing itself. And so a lot of the work I do is both the body mapping piece I just shared with you and then we also certify our students in coaching because how do we coach the energy as it's coming up? It's not so much having to go down, the depth of the healing, the depth of the story, I don't feel like that's necessary. But sometimes you forgot a memory, sometimes you didn't even really like it happened when you were so young and you're like, you know, you, you remember something. And so then we add in the somatics with the coaching, which just creates a long lasting transformation because now you're not stuck in the mind and the story of it, we're able to help it kind of fully pass through both the body, the nervous system and the mind as well.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:15:59]:

Yeah. Oh, I love that. That's such a beautiful approach. And, you know, it's something that I've been talking a lot about just in my community and, you know, written some on it, is that I'm seeing so many people get stuck in that cycle of healing where they're like, I need to quiet my inner critic. I need to heal my inner child. I need to resolve my anxious attachment. And yet if we just keep thinking it through, the more focus we put on it, we're just amplifying it. And it seems like there needs to be another way that we need to start looking at where we want to go as opposed to all of these things that we think were broken.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:16:31]:

And it's. I really like your approach where it's like, you know, come Back to the body. And I think that that's prob. Always, you know, the first thing to do is come back to the body.

Brianna Rose [00:16:41]:

For sure. Yeah. Because the thing is, like, you can do all of these other tools, and I'm certified in other tools. I'm not saying that they don't work, but the thing is, like, if the body isn't on board, first and foremost, like, those other tools aren't going to work to their full effectiveness. I've seen it in myself where it's like, yes, the Reiki can work, yes, the akashic work can work, yes, the shadow work can work. But if my body is still having a lived experience in it, it's going to keep. Keep me stuck. And so I found that, like, the body, once, we can reprogram it and it can be reprogrammed, which is so amazing and such a gift.

Brianna Rose [00:17:14]:

All of those other tools, I mean, they work really well and they're super potent. And I love what you shared there about, like, we can get stuck. I think it's really important to just like, highlight that because I think there's a lot of messaging and marketing about, like, your pain and your healing. And it does keep you stuck because if you keep looking for it, you're going to keep finding something. Whatever we bring it an energy to, we're going to keep manifesting and finding more of it. And so my whole thought process and methodology is like, yes, be aware of where you're currently at your current state. But what I certify, my students is, is how do we identify where your client wants to be or where you want to be? Like, what is the true desire? And we can actually reprogram the body to match that desire. And so the body then starts to heal itself.

Brianna Rose [00:18:00]:

It kind of clears what's in its way from getting to your desire or getting to your manifestation. And all of that stuff that you thought you needed to heal, it just heals naturally. Your body is just basically recoding itself to match your desire. And we didn't have to spend all those years going down, like, the rabbit hole of healing. The body will just come online and come on board when you start to go towards the other direction of who you actually are becoming. And I think that that's really important to share because some people will be like, oh, I have 20 years of healing to go through. And I'm like, yeah, maybe. But also, like, there's this opportunity here where we can focus on who do you want to become and how do we become that version Us and trust to know that the body will do what it needs to do.

Brianna Rose [00:18:40]:

It'll heal what it needs to heal in order for you to become her or become them.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:18:45]:

Yeah. Oh, I, I, I love that. And that's also, you know, a lot of what we're, we focus on in my community is like thinking about, like, yes, we are perfect, we're divine the way we are, and yet we are always becoming as well. We are always, you know, coming into that next best iteration of ourselves. You know, like, my daughter's going off to college this, this summer. I do have my son, I have two years left with him before he goes off. But, you know, I'm starting to move from that mother archetype, like the day to day, like, oversight is starting to end and it's like, okay, like, how do you show up next? And you know, when we work with archetypes, even though it can be a very like, cerebral experience, you know, you can learn about the myths of the goddesses, the qualities, the characteristics. What I always tell my, my clients and my students is that but they live in the body.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:19:32]:

We have to act, feel it too. Like, it's not just, we can't just like, I'm going to be Aphrodite today. It's like, really, like, how, like, what would the lover feel like? You know, like, yeah, what would be the ease in her body? Or like, you know, how would she move through the world? And I think it's an important thing that when we do think of kind of identity, yes, it's nice to have that vision of what that is going to be like, but we also have to remember it's really an embodied experience.

Brianna Rose [00:19:57]:

Yes, yes, for sure. And I use different archetypes than you, but essentially the somatic tools are all structured within archetypes. We use the, the elements, the five elements of Chinese medicine, and we have them as like the wisdom keeper, the visionary, the enchantress, the matriarch, the light leader. And like you said, like, yes, we can learn about these. But I, same, same, same. I agree. We have to feel them in our bodies because they all live within us. We just have to learn how to activate them and truly embody and connect with them too.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:20:28]:

I mean, I think most people can start to identify their block, especially if they're listening to the podcast. They've probably like, have done some work there. They're somewhat interested in, in spiritual growth, personal development. What would you say the signs are of somebody needing to do some somatic work for there to be an Opportunity for expansion.

Brianna Rose [00:20:49]:

Great question. I was actually just asked this by one of my students last week, so I have an answer queued up for you. Cause it's so, so alive. I think the biggest, biggest thing is we all can do somatic work. Like it's available to all of us, it's available for, for everybody. But for the people that you're going to, it's, it's ready for you right now is if you're someone that is having those things on that mission and that vision board is having those dreams and desires and you're just not hitting them over and over again. Like if you're not happy with your current state, and that doesn't mean you have to be like in victim, but if you're just like, you know, there's stuff in my life that I want and I'm not achieving it, then somatic work is going to be helpful for you. I think of it as like a true collapse of a timeline.

Brianna Rose [00:21:34]:

Yes, you can do other work, but as we just shared, like you can do those other tools and you can see a little bit of relief and a little bit of relief and a little bit of relief and then you backtrack a little bit and then you go back to another tool and you see some shifts, but then it's like a rubber band. If the body doesn't come online, you're gonna keep rebounding. And so once you use the somatic tools and the somatic work, you're essentially preparing the body for your up level, for your manifestation, for your dream. So you get there a lot f faster. So if you are someone that is like, hey, I want this thing in my life and I haven't achieved it yet, Somatic workers may be able to not only just help you, but help you get there faster and help you to hold it as well. And I think that's really important too because I work with primarily just entrepreneurs, people that want to be entrepreneurs. And there's many people that will have a success, whatever that might look like for them, let's say it's a six figure launch and then they contract like they couldn't hold it, they burnt out, they freaked out. The level of visibility fried their nervous system.

Brianna Rose [00:22:34]:

Boom. Like they contract and they go within. And so having that nervous system, having that body helps you to hold more of a tolerance to visibility, to success as well. So that way you don't contract or you don't contract as deeply as you might have done six months ago, a year ago, and you're able to sustain the success, the visibility, and the impact as well.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:22:56]:

Well, yeah. Oh, I love that. And I just. Just wanted to also just remind folks that, like, you know, you. You use that beautiful example of the launch and then contracting, but we do that in all areas of our life. We finally get the relationship we want. We contract. You know, we're starting to make really good progress on our health, and we contract.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:23:14]:

And it's because, yeah, we're not really ready for that next level. I think there was a book, I think was a gay Hendrix called the Upper Limit. And it's almost like that where we're like, no, things can't get that good. Let me. Let me move back.

Brianna Rose [00:23:28]:

For sure. Yeah, we all. We all have inherent tolerances and thresholds, and when we hit them, we rebound back. And so the whole goal of the somatic work is to move that threshold higher and higher and higher and higher, and to expand more of your capacity to hold more whatever that is for you. Whether that's love, that's abundance, that's visibility, that's health. We have the capacity, which I think is just so amazing, to rewire ourselves for this. This. Why not do it? Why not help ourselves out? We do all this work to try to get the manifestation, and then the manifestation comes and we.

Brianna Rose [00:24:03]:

We ghost, we contract, we run away from it. We ditch the diet plan and head to Burger King, right? It's like we do these things that totally throw our energy off it. We're throwing our energy because it felt too much in our bodies and our nervous systems. It felt unsafe. And so through these tools, we can not only help ourselves get there, but help ourselves actually hold it as well and continue to hold it and continue to rise and continue to expand.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:24:28]:

As you were saying. Actually, there's a few things that had come to mind. One is, I feel like in our culture, social media, you know, there's always like this, like, happiness hacks, how to be happier. You should be joyful all the time. And I'm always like, it's kind of a pet peeve of mine, because I don't think that's really the point. I'm not sure that's why we're here. It's really. Can we build resilience and can we hold difficult things? So I think it's important to remember, like, that we do this work not because everything is going to turn out perfect, but so we can also hold it when things.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:25:06]:

When the. Hits the fan, which it will, because here we are on this earthly realm. And I want to know, like, do you have any thoughts about that? Because I feel like in all of this, we're always like, like the promotion is always promising, like kind of this Garden of Eden, land of bliss. But it's like we live in the real world, and that's where it's almost like warrior training as well too. So we can handle the inevitable ups and downs.

Brianna Rose [00:25:29]:

Yeah. Yeah. I'm so happy that you brought this up and we get to have this conversation because I. I do think it's important. It is warrior training. I mean, you're doing somatic work. You're doing Kundalini. Like, it feels like you are training for a fight.

Brianna Rose [00:25:42]:

You are training for to, to go on the battle lines. I mean, if, if any of practice Kundalini, it is intense. It is like the Navy Seals version of, of yoga because you're holding these postures for extended periods of time. Like, I'm talking an hour. You're holding your arms up over your head. And it's not even so much that you physically hurt, but it's what the mind does. The mind starts to unravel because you're putting this pressure on your psyche. But in that you're establishing a higher threshold, a higher tolerance to discomfort.

Brianna Rose [00:26:14]:

You're finding your edge and going beyond it. And I think it is important to say that and share that because there are people that come and do somatic work and they think they're gonna do like one meditation or one movement and the million dollars is just gonna land in their lap or they're just gonna feel so great. And like, I. I'm not saying that that won't happen because I'm a big believer that anything, anything can happen. There's any manifestation. Maybe you'll be the lucky one that that happens to. But the reality is you're not where you want to be because there's something that needs to heal. And somatic work, especially doing it the way we do it, where it's like we're literally the body.

Brianna Rose [00:26:51]:

You can't hide from it because we've found it. We found where it lives in the body. And when we start to release it, it releases. And there's opportunities to heal, to grow, to transform. And it's not about bypassing these feelings. It's not about, like, you shared like, hacks to happiness. Like, yeah, of course I want everyone to feel happy. I want everyone to feel joy.

Brianna Rose [00:27:13]:

But is it realistic to feel that 24, 7? Hell no. We are going to be rocked. We are going to have life situations. And so to me, nervous system Tools. It's not just about feeling good, but it's like, how can I regulate myself and feel the emotions? How can I sit with this discomfort? How can I sit with this, this thing that's happening and not blow up, not lose my shit? How can I allow myself to feel it and then come back to myself, come back to truth, come back to compassion and move forward? Because a lot of people will feel it, it'll rock them. And they will get into a fight with their partner. They will ghost their own business for weeks on end. They will do X, Y and Z because they don't know how to handle it.

Brianna Rose [00:27:54]:

Or there's some people that pretend like it didn't even happen and they shove it down somewhere and then it's going to come out in 30 years. Or they do a nice hip opener stretch because hips hold so much trauma and wisdom. And they go into a yoga class and they have an entire experience because something released. And so I think it's important to share that, that, yes, the end goal is to be happy, to be joyful. But. But we are humans. We are not ascended masters. We are not, you know, Mother Mary.

Brianna Rose [00:28:23]:

Like, it would be really great if maybe, maybe someone that's listening is. But most of us, we're humans and we're here to have this human experience. And these tools help you to come back to center faster, to deal with these experiences in the highest way through compassion, through love for both yourself and whoever else is involved, but also how to feel it too. Like, there's definitely some somatic practices where we're yelling, we are screaming, we are hitting the floor, we're getting it out of the body so that way it doesn't come out in other areas because it will always come out. No matter how much you try to push down, it is going to come out. It's going to come out through a skin condition, it's going to come out through an outburst. It's going to come out in some way, shape or form. And these tools help you to allow it to come out in a safe way and for you to choose again, come back to center and then rise higher and higher, establishing a higher tolerance for discomfort comfort.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:29:18]:

Oh, thank you for that. When we talk about the nervous system and I want you, I'm just sharing my understanding, but I'm not an expert, so I want you to correct me and then I want your, your ideas. I know that a lot of times we're talking about the way that we were wired at a pretty early age to keep us safe. So it really has like, you know, whether it was our early caregivers or early parents and like you know we have this, we almost have this operating system that starts to work, work so there is, there's that to consider and we also live in an environment where we can be over activated. Are there things that you think that people, women should just be doing on a day to day basis as far as like avoiding just to keep their body tuned, their nervous system regulated. Like sometimes we put ourselves in activating situations unnecessarily whether we're having like the fourth iced coffee of the day or we're doom scrolling. So are there things that you would say like just, just don't do this too?

Brianna Rose [00:30:23]:

Yeah, yeah, great question. I mean we definitely, I mean the time that we're living right now, there's so much that can activate us think about like how people can text us, email us, go and like there's so many ways to be contacted that you know, our ancestors just, they didn't have that. And so we are living in a very different time. And I also feel like that's why these tools are because we can be reachable, we can hear news, we can hear these things like that. And so I think it's not so much maybe not doing stuff but again it goes back to like building up that resilience, building up that tolerance to hold more because technology is not going anywhere. Social media, I don't know if it's going to go anywhere but we're probably always going to have, especially if you're an entrepreneur, there's going to be something online that you're going to have for your business. And so it's not so much, much running away from it, but how can I make peace with it? How can I do it in a way that serves me and feels good for me and how can I use it in a way where it is supportive versus destructive? And so like you shared having that fourth cup of iced coffee or doom scrolling it's, it's about disrupting the pattern. And so it's like just taking a pause and you're going for that fourth cup of coffee saying to yourself, hey, why am I doing this? What is serving me? What am I hoping to get from this? And then, then making a decision from that place or when you're doom scrolling saying to yourself why am I doing this? Because I know when I go to doom scrolls because I don't want to deal with something or I'm stressed out about something and it's something that I'M trying to run away from.

Brianna Rose [00:31:51]:

And so just having those checks and saying, hey, why am I doing this? Or what is the intention behind this can be really supportive for me with social media. Like, I don't use it like a, like a normal person. I hop on, I support my clients, I create content. That for me, when I'm creating content, I'm like, how can I bring more art into the world? How can I make people feel something? How can I support someone today? And then I leave and I'm like, I try my best. Most of the time I'm not on there scrolling. And if I am scrolling, it's because I'm looking for some sort of creativity because I, I've curated like my feed of who I see in it. And I think that's important too. Put people in your feed that inspire you, that don't trigger you or don't hold the vibration of who you want to become.

Brianna Rose [00:32:39]:

I think it's important because our body's always there. Like our body doesn't leave us. So everything that you're experiencing, your body is experiencing. Even down to the TV shows that you watch. Like, I put something on Netflix a couple weeks ago. Me and my husband watched the first episode and it was like a very like action driven, a lot of like fighting and just, you know. Oh, like a lot of, you know, where you're just like in your seat and you're like, you're so tense. Your nervous system is bracing.

Brianna Rose [00:33:05]:

And both of us after it were like, well, that was, that wasn't a good, it was a good show. But like, don't think it's supporting us right now for like what we're stepping into. That's not where we want to be. That's not the energy that we want to hold. Because now your body's going to hold that energy, especially if you're not doing nervous system work. Now your body's just contracted and it's going to keep contracting because you watch that TV show or you were watching Real Housewives and there was some drama happening or what have you, right? So it's like it is being important. It is important to look and say, well, what am I feeding myself? What am I feeding my body? What am I surrounding myself by and why am I doing it right? And I think that's important. It's just that catch of yourself.

Brianna Rose [00:33:44]:

It's not making yourself, you know, a bad guy if you're watching these things or doom scrolling, but just getting curious and saying, why am I here? What is the intention of Being here, what am I hoping to get from this? And is there a higher opportunity that I can choose? Is there something else that I can do right now? Instead of the fourth iced coffee, instead of the TV show, instead of the doom scrolling can I choose again and choose something else? And that takes time as again we all run on patterns and also the society that we live in, our friends, families are watching shows or they something on reels and they're sending us memes. So there is like a, a culture to it. But I think that that's where we can all start is just getting curious with ourselves and saying why am I doing this? What is the intention behind this? And is there something else that I can be doing that will bring me closer to who I want to become?

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:34:35]:

And I very much have had similar experiences with, with television shows. That reminds me, because I'm also a student and teacher of Ayurveda and really one of the tenants there is to protect your consciousness. And you know, in Ayurveda food is very important. Food is medicine, digestion. But they would also say like we digest everything. So everything we watch on tv, the conversations we have, the social media feeds. And I do think that that's really important to think. Like if I'm going to protect my consciousness, like what am I allowing in there? Like what am I watching, what am I doing? And can I treat all of that media or infotainment as I might treat my food? And I remember watching like Handless Maiden and like I liked it.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:35:18]:

But then like I'd be going to bed at night, my heart would be racing, I'd be replaying scenes, dialogue. I'm like, this is, doesn't really work for me. This is not protecting my consciousness for sure.

Brianna Rose [00:35:28]:

And I love that you said that, that we are digesting everything. And so I love Ayurveda, I'm huge. Like it's so amazing. And I also like I shared, I weave in Chinese medicine principles. So there's similarities between the two. But what's interesting is when you mentioned digestion, what came up for me is a lot of the women that I work with, they tend to have earth imbalances and earth governs our stomach. And when I notice that or when I share that with them, I'm like, it's the food you're eating, but also it's the emotions that aren't being digested. It's what you're reading, it's what you're seeing on tv.

Brianna Rose [00:36:02]:

It's not just literal food. Like I'm sure Many of us can be choosing better and doing better with our foods for sure, of course. But a lot of the times it's the emotional processing or it's what, where they're surrounded and what they're watching, what they are reading that gets stuck in that Meridian channel. And nine times out of 10, that's the core block for many of the people that I work with. And I think it's because of the world that we live in, our modern day world and living in a western world and everything we're exposed to, we haven't been taught how to digest it. We're taught to sit and meditate. But again, if that feels scary to your nervous system, sitting with yourself, you're not gonna do it, you're gonna do scroll instead. Cause that's gonna be your way of, of checking out.

Brianna Rose [00:36:43]:

So I think it is important to be aware of that. We are constantly picking everything up, but are we able to digest all of it? Are we supporting ourselves with being able to digest all of it? Do we have the tools to digest all of it? Because if we don't, it just sits, lingers, stagnates, and then turns into some sort of block.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:37:02]:

One other thing too, and I that you know, I would love to get your take on is in my community we have been talking about kind of this hamster wheel of healing and fixing and what I love about the conversation that we've had today and like the work that you do with Somatic is one that it's just taking radical responsibility. It's not like, oh, I'm this way because this happened then, or you know, it's just like, oh, this is just the way it is and what would your thought be? But like, how can we approach some of this is not like, oh my God, my nervous system has to be fixed or this, I can't hold this where it's not like there's no, there's no brokenness, right? Like there's, it's just, it's just the way it is and we're just kind of like working to expand. So do you have any thoughts and regarding like kind of the mentality that we might go into something like I need to fix it, I need to heal it, I need to like, you know, this part's broken and a more empowering perspective that we can take as we move forward?

Brianna Rose [00:37:54]:

Forward for sure. I think the biggest thing is like you're not broken, you don't need to be fixed. You're already whole. And these tools just help you hold more, receive More, become more. There's nothing wrong with any. Any of you. Anyone that's listening. There's nothing wrong with you right now.

Brianna Rose [00:38:11]:

You are perfect. You're amazing. You are beautiful. You are vital. And also, we have an opportunity to be even more of who we are. How amazing that we have access to these tools. We have opportunities to choose again that we can. I think it's a universal human truth that I think every single one of us wants to just be more happy or experience more love.

Brianna Rose [00:38:32]:

Like, that's like a natural state for us. And we just get to do that with these tools. Doesn't mean there's anything wrong with who you are or where you are right now. I know there's a lot of messaging because nervous system. Gosh. Like, it's like the big buzzword right now in the industry. Like, the industry goes through these trends, and so it's a big buzzword, but with anything. There's also sometimes a lot of fear around it, too, where it's like your nervous system's dysregulated.

Brianna Rose [00:38:55]:

Guess what? All of our nervous systems are probably dysregulated. It's all good. Like, it's fine. It's actually good sometimes when it's dysregulated, because when it's dysregulated, it propels us forward to taking action when we are calm and at peace. That's not good for launch mode. We want to have a little bit of dysregulation for launch mode to get out there and go after that fire. So their nervous system is beautiful. It's amazing.

Brianna Rose [00:39:18]:

And you are beautiful and amazing. All of us are. And what I love about the work that I feel like that you do, Lisa, and the work that we do is these archetypes. It kind of depersonalizes it a little bit. It's not so much that it's like, I had trauma, and I'm like, there's something wrong with me. It's like, no, there's just. There's something that's a little imbalance, and if you want to fix it, if you want to heal it, then we get to do this thing. It's not you.

Brianna Rose [00:39:42]:

It's just this energy that is being currently carried in you, and you have an opportunity to transmute it if you'd like. If not, that's your. That's your prerogative. That's your sovereignty. You don't have to do it. But I feel like with the work of the archetypes, for me, what I've seen in my Own self and also with my, my clients is again, it depersonalizes it. It's a little bit more empowering. Instead of thinking that something's wrong with you, it's just seeing that there's an opportunity to hold more love, joy, abundance, et cetera.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:40:11]:

Yeah, yeah. I think that is like such a more empowering perspective to really go into anything. That's what I've been saying to people, like plot twist. Actually, there's nothing wrong, like, yes, you.

Brianna Rose [00:40:23]:

Know, so I know we're going to make a lot of people go out of business. Lisa saying this. Yeah.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:40:33]:

Well, I did have one student, she was like, oh my God, that's such a relief. I don't have to keep buying self help books, but. No, you don't. It's all okay.

Brianna Rose [00:40:41]:

Yeah, all good.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:40:43]:

Great. Well, thank you so much for joining me. So I will have all of your links in the show notes, but I would love to hear, is there anything else you would like to share with the audience or how can people connect with you or get in touch with you? And I'll have all that information for easy access for folks as well.

Brianna Rose [00:41:00]:

Yeah. Well, first of all, thank you so much for having me. This is such a beautiful conversation that we got to have. And for anyone that's listening, if there's anything that you have questions on or share, I love connecting with everyone over on Instagram at I am Brianna Rose. It's really me there and not an assistant or robot. So if you send me a message, I will see it. And I would love to connect with anyone that wants to dive deeper into this work or has questions. And I will also just say, like, if there's anything, any, like, intuitive nudges that anyone received as they were listening through this, I just lovingly challenge you to take action on it.

Brianna Rose [00:41:37]:

Because when we are listening to conversations like this, they hold a frequency. They're a portal. And so whatever you thought about, whatever came to you, came to you for a reason. And I just would lovingly challenge you to follow through on it.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:41:49]:

Beautiful wisdom. Thank you so much. It has been such a pleasure. I love this conversation and thank you for joining me.

Brianna Rose [00:41:56]:

Thank you.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:42:01]:

Thank you for joining me for this episode of the Goddess School podcast. I hope it sparked your imagination and expanded your vision for what's possible. If you're ready to explore these concepts more deeply, reclaim your personal myth and live with greater creativity and enchantment, I invite you to join me. Inside Enlivened my divine Feminine Mystery school and sacred community where we bring these teachings to life through ritual, story coaching and of course real world action. You can find the link to learn more in the show notes. And remember, the Goddess isn't a deity outside of yourself. She's an aspect of your highest self. You are the Goddess.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:42:43]:

Until next time. Sam.