031: Anuschka Alborzian - Healing your mind, body, spirit (and a brain tumor)
Life Coach Opens Up About Beating Cancer and How You Can Heal Yourself
Anuschka Alborzian is a Healer, an Empowerment Health Coach, and an Inspirational Speaker that focuses on balancing the Mind, Body and Spirit. She is no stranger to overcoming challenging obstacles in her life, including having had an avocado-sized brain tumor and undergoing brain surgery to remove it all. Upon hearing a diagnosis and prognosis that would change her life forever, she empowered herself with a new perspective on healing, health, and life. Anuschka healed her Mind, Body, and Spirit and is now extremely passionate about empowering other people to heal themselves.
Anuschka's Promise to those that work with her, who COMMIT to the WORK and to THEMSELVES, is that they will have a TRUE ideal Healthy Lifestyle, BE 4 Ever Healed, and Live Life to the Fullest in the face of any circumstance. Anuschka is committed to making a difference one HUMAN being at a time through Mind Body Spirit Healing with Anuschka!
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the inspiring story of being diagnosed with a brain tumor and a prognosis of 3-5 years to live, only to then overcome it, and how she now uses her knowledge, experience, and personal story to support others
the work she’s been doing to grow as a coach and healer that she is implementing in her programs
her morning and evening rituals and how they can serve you in your life
how reiki played a part in her healing and she shares a fascinating story from a session she had one day
her support group, called High Vibe Support Tribe and what you can expect as a member
her FREE worksheet with 3 different exercises to balance your mind, body, and spirit that you can download and start doing today
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3 Different Exercises to Balance your Mind, Body, & Spirit (FREE worksheet)
TRANSCRIPT
Anuschka A: 00:00:00 It's, you know, doing what I do. I work with people that deal with some tough things. A lot of like, people that I work with are like stage four, you know, and this one lady, she's like struggling actually she's struggling with like payments and whatnot. So I'm actually offering her like a discount on a much lower hourly rate. But for the first time in her entire like years of living, like she's, you know, close to my age and has stage four and whatnot and has like, she's married and has a kid and everything. And for the first time ever she opened up to me and told me things about her childhood that she's like never said before to anyone ever. And for me that's like, like, I was like so happy to hear her, like releasing a lot of stuff because that's cancer. That's tumor.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:00:53 You're listening to The Artful Entrepreneur podcast, a show about living an inspired life filled with vitality, creativity and fulfillment. My name is Gabe Ratliff and I'll be your host as I interview fellow creative entrepreneurs from around the globe to hear their stories and learn more about their work so that you can tap into your creative purpose and live a life that's drawn, not traced on the show. We talk about things like the creative process, personal development, community equity and contribution as well as the lessons learned along the way. All right, let's get to it.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:01:34 Hey, Artfuls. How's it going out there today? So good to be in your ears. I hope you're having an awesome day, whether it's morning, evening, or night, and I have to ask, what if you found out you only had three to five years to live? How would you react? What would you do? What would your thoughts be? Well, my guest today, Anuschka Alborzian had to deal with that. She got a diagnosis with an avocado-sized brain tumor and had a prognosis of three to five years to live. One of the things I love about how anouchka reacted when she heard this news was she said, watch me. She's going to share that story with us today. I'm so excited to have you here. I'm so excited to share her story. I'm so excited for her to be here to share this story because she's an amazing human.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:02:22 She's doing some amazing work and she's just sharing a lot of love and light with the world, so I'm glad that you're here and I'm glad that she was able to share her story with us today. So let me tell you a little bit about anouchka. She's a healer and empowerment health coach and an inspirational speaker. She focuses on balancing the mind, body, and spirit, and is no stranger to overcoming challenging obstacles in her life, including having an avocado size, brain tumor and undergoing brain surgery to remove it all upon hearing a diagnosis and prognosis that would change her life forever. She empowered herself with a new on healing health and life. Anouchka healed her mind, body and spirit, and is now extremely passionate about empowering other people to heal themselves. I knew she gives promise to those that work with her who commit to the work and to themselves is that they will have a true ideal, healthy lifestyle and be forever healed and live life to the fullest in the face of any circumstance.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:03:22 She's committed to making a difference one human at a time through mind, body, spirit healing with anouchka. In this episode we talk about the inspiring story of being diagnosed with a brain tumor only to then overcome it and how she's using her knowledge, experience and personal story to support others. The work she's been doing to grow as a coach and healer that she's implementing in her programs every day, her morning and evening rituals and how they can serve you and your life and how Reiki played a part in her healing and she shares a fascinating story from a session that she had one day. She also shares her support group called high vibe support tribe and what you can expect as a member. And then finally, she also shares a free worksheet with three different exercises to balance your mind, body, and spirit that you can download and start doing today. And that's at healing with the new [inaudible] dot com slash free and that's a N, U S C H, K, a, a new Shika healing with the new [inaudible] dot com slash free. All right, well I don't know about you, but I'm ready to get into this and have a new she share her story, so let's get to it. [inaudible]
Gabe Ratliff: 00:04:41 Hi anouchka. Thanks so much for being here. I'm so excited to have you on the show.
Anuschka A: 00:04:45 Hi Dave. Oh my gosh. I'm so excited too. I really look forward to it.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:04:50 Okay. You have a story, pretty phenomenal story in all kinds of ways and I was wondering, my question is, where's the best place to begin your story?
Anuschka A: 00:05:03 Yeah, I mean really, I like to begin with just saying I had a brain tumor journey that I consider a rebirths journey. And really for me it was just like a gift more than anything else. And a gift of life and appreciation for life that really like just changed the projectory of my life. I mean, I can definitely get into more details of that, but yeah, so it's been a little over two years now. So what happened is I started having these like gradual headaches, you know, that were bad. Like they were like little minor headaches that were graduating, increasing. And I didn't, I just kept ignoring it. I didn't really think anything of it. And then next thing you know, I, all of a sudden I'm like getting worse and worse. And then I specifically remember April of 2017 I went to Hawaii and once on the last day I couldn't leave the room because the headache was so bad.
Anuschka A: 00:06:01 I started vomiting. So of course I come back and you know, I'm like Googling it and everything on dr Google was like, Oh, it's a migraine. And they were random. So I just had to ignoring it, you know? So of course these headaches kept getting worse and worse and I kept trying to think, I was like, Oh maybe it's, you know, I'm allergic to wine, maybe I'm allergic to this. And I kept cutting things out until I got to a point in August that I was like I need to go see a doctor. And that's when I went in. She had a hunch she was an integrative doctor so she just had this feeling of like you know what, let's just get you an MRI because again everything seemed like it was a migraine. So thankfully I'm so grateful for her that she, I, I told her she saved my life for having done so.
Anuschka A: 00:06:44 Cause when I did go in for the MRI that was supposed to be 15 minutes long and it turned into like this hour long MRI and next thing I know I'm being escorted to the emergency room and then to the ICU. And they slowly went from like, Oh you have a swelling to amass to tumor. And next thing I know I'm looking at as avocado sized brain tumor MRI. And then I had surgery five days later and thankfully they removed the whole thing. And then of course based on the diagnosis and prognosis and all that fun stuff, I had to go through radiation and chemo and all that. And then I completed that this last December.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:07:23 And speaking of that prognosis, yeah. Yeah. And speaking of that prognosis, I, this was something that I loved about your story because they essentially said you had like, what, three to five years?
Anuschka A: 00:07:39 So they, I went in, you know, first of all, it took six, seven weeks for the diagnosis to come back because of, I don't know how big it was or just, it was very complicated. They had two pathology experts on there trying to determine what it was. And then when it came back and actually even got escalated. And so when I went in for my prognosis, it was a glioblastoma stage four brain tumors would have gotten escalated to. So then we'd go into this prognosis, you know, to really get what is next. And the doctors tell us, Oh yeah, you have three to five years to live. And I just looked at him and I was like, ah, no, I don't think so. Watch me. That's not going to be the case. I'm like, wait, you remove the little thing. You got the margins out.
Anuschka A: 00:08:24 I'm about to go through radiation and chemo like this makes no sense to me. Why would you say that? You know? Of course I was scared in the moment and then I, you know, created a vision and I did a lot of like venting and policing my fears around it and I came to the conclusion of like we just say prognosis. All that is, is a forecast of the future. It's predicting the future. So how can that even be possible? We can't even predict the weather with the forecast. It's like, to me, I was just like, that's not even possible to be able to predict my future. An individual. I have unique DNA, I have unique fingerprints, so why am I being lumped into a statistic, you know, which is what got me passionate. And so really empowering. Other people that hear these prognosis because as strong minded as I was, it scared the crap out of me. So I can just imagine what it does to others. And so now it's like me just spreading the word that, Hey, diagnosis is a fact. Prognosis is just a predictable future. You know that you have a choice of really like buy into or choose differently. And I chose differently
Gabe Ratliff: 00:09:32 Here, here, sister. I fucking love it, man. I love hearing you say wash me. I in my head I hear this like comma bitches, you know, just like watch me bitches.
Anuschka A: 00:09:46 I literally really, I looked at him, I was like, Nope, not me. Watch me and my husband the same thing he said he missed me. He's like not her watch. Watch us. It's not going to be us like the percentage that you know, but no meaning I'm going to write it. You know, what's the five years that doctor's going to get an email from me.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:10:05 I know, right? Well, so what was next? What happened after that? You were talking about the deep work, like where, what happened when you left and your [inaudible]
Anuschka A: 00:10:15 Yeah, so when I left, I mean it, it really like really, of course we cried our eyes out probably for the rest of the night. It's not something you want to hear, you know, we were just engaged. We were ready to get married. We literally got married. He, we got married as soon as I got out the hospital just so he can like show me that he's in this with me. And I remember even saying like, dude, I get it if you don't want to continue. We were engaged on the, if you don't want to continue in, this is a huge thing to take on. And so that was like his way of like proving his love to me and just like saying no, I'm going to, even though we had a destination wedding planned and everything, but we went to the court, I mean you all swollen up on steroids, literally could barely walk.
Anuschka A: 00:10:59 We went to the courthouse and got married. But like in the process of that, I really just worked on creating this vision of two 90 and beyond. Once I realized that I was scared to be scared having done so much transformation work, it's like, you know your words and your words are powerful and your thoughts are powerful and all that creates your reality. So I was like, Oh my God, if I'm sitting here and thinking that she was going to come back and I'm having all these wooded thoughts, we'll then I'm going to be creating the tumor and hence I'm going to die, you know? So I really thought I was going to kill myself if I was allowing myself to when [inaudible] by resisting it, it was persisting and it was growing, you know? And I kept just trying to pretend like it's not there until I finally realized like, Oh my gosh, I'm actually like avoiding the fear rather than just, you know, releasing it.
Anuschka A: 00:11:54 And once I saw that I was able to serve venting are all my fear and actually talking about it. And that's when I created my vision of two 90 and beyond. And that in itself is what had me and mean. It took me a few weeks to really get to that place of like envisioning my husband and I with our kids, raising kids, you know, their families, you know, just friends and family of our own and everybody on the beach at sunset just at 90 years old and just enjoying each other and laughing, singing, dancing. And so that's the vision I created. My still to this day have that vision in my head cause I had the vision board and all that fun stuff. Like literally all over my house. Everywhere I would see like this, you know, this silhouette of like people at the beach. And that was my vision where, and I posted on social media and I asked everybody to envision that for me because we're all connected, right?
Anuschka A: 00:12:49 So being all that, being that we're all connected, having that vibration of everybody else, all the loves that I was receiving, which is what I believe that had me just magically and miraculously go through the surgery as fast as I did. I was out of surgery. I don't know if I told you that, like I was out of surgery in one hour, I think it was like less than one hour and they said it was gonna take four to six hours. Like it was insane, you know, and all of that. I believe it was just all that high vibe, the love and all of that amazing, you know, high frequency that was being sent my way
Gabe Ratliff: 00:13:24 Here. Here. Well, and yeah, I was thinking about the vision boarding all over your house and I'm like, yeah, of course you'd have to do that, right? Like that's not just in your office or a post it note up on the bathroom mirror.
Anuschka A: 00:13:37 Yeah, no, it definitely was everywhere. My phone, the screen, my computer screen.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:13:45 Wow. And I, and an hour compared to four to six.
Anuschka A: 00:13:49 Yeah, it was, I was out of the ICU in less than 24 hours. Like it was, I was like scared to leave. I say, I'm like, are you sure? Are you sure? Okay. Believe you know. But I was just recovering so fast, even like they were all shy. I was in the hospital for a total of 10 days from like, you know, cause I was there for five days to the, to reduce the swelling first before I even had surgery and I was out five days later and they're like, Oh you're going to be here for like a month, you know. And so even that, I was just like, I was scared to leave the hospital. I can I take a nurse home with me. You know, cause you just don't know. Right.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:14:27 Yeah. I'm just hearing you again say watch me a month. What? I don't know why I sound like Dave Chappelle has said one of the other things that I was curious about is, you know, some of the things you were talking about like what your, what the input you're getting, right? And like the things that are coming at you and how you're ingesting that and working through it. I imagine there's boundaries, right, that you have to set up for yourself. What was that like?
Anuschka A: 00:15:00 Oh man. It's funny cause you know how we have the memories on Facebook, right? You got the memories of like years ago. And so I was looking at one just like not that long ago. And every member on there I actually had been, I'm like, please stop, ask cause I hadn't gotten my pathology for it. Right. And so people are, and I'm already like dealing with trying to heal and all that stuff. And so I remember people constantly messaging me like, so did you get the results? Did you get the results? You know? And I'm just like, I finally remember I said, okay, stop asking me please. I said in a nice way, but I'm like, please stop asking me. You know, I will let you know. Like at this point I was very, very social and open. Like everything was like very open. My journey was very open.
Anuschka A: 00:15:44 I was like, I will let everybody know as soon as I get it. Like people asking me on regular basis is not gonna make it any faster. I'm like, if anything is just causing me to have to respond and I'm not going to be able to respond like to every single person. Right. And then other people would, you know, give their all, like I was posting again a lot and some people are more secretive about these things and I get it. Everybody's got their own way. For me, I wanted to be very open because I wanted to have people see, Hey, you can get two things powerfully, but then I would have people that would make, you know, give me their 2 cents. Like, I don't think you should be talking about this. I think you should be taking this more seriously. Oh yeah, yeah. All that stuff.
Anuschka A: 00:16:22 Like keep it quiet. Like why are you talking about it? And I'm just like, I'm like, okay, from your perspective, you're thinking that people are gonna think you know, like they're going to jinx your, I don't know what was there, you know, like what was in their back of their mind. For me, I'm like, I feel like I'm actually getting more, you know, so I would just set the boundaries. I would just say, thank you so much for, you know, your concern or worry and this is how I'm going to proceed. If it bothers you, you're more than welcome to unfollow me on Facebook. Yeah. That's pretty much how I said it because I'm like, you know what? This is what I'm doing. I know that it's making a difference for me. You know? That was like my way of, I was journaling, so I'm like, I just want to journal publicly, you know, and make a difference for other people. And then I started seeing what the difference that I was meeting and how people were just like, Oh my God, I just went and got my MRI after three years of being scared to get an MRI because of the way you need it, so money can, you know? So things like that will come to me and I'm like, okay, this is my purpose.
Anuschka A: 00:17:19 So
Gabe Ratliff: 00:17:20 That's so cool. That's so cool. I love hearing stories like that, right? Where you've got these people that they can't handle for a lack of better example, you know, they can't handle the truth, right? Like they can't handle hearing that for whatever reason that they're dealing with. And then are of course compelled to tell you or say to you, maybe you shouldn't do that, you know, and you're like, how about I handle my own shit? Thanks.
Anuschka A: 00:17:49 Yeah. And it's, it's so interesting. And it's like, I, I remember I was like, I would think back to it and I'm just like, I don't know what gives them the feeling or like the, the right to let me know how to do this. You know, it's not like they've, we've gone through it or I remember some people would need comments like, cause I, you know, I know a lot of holistic, you know, people like holistic healers and all that. And it's so interesting. Most people are always like pushing their family to do, you know, like when their family members are going through stuff, I hear like with my clients, like they're getting pushed to do chemo, they don't want to do chemo. For me it was the opposite. Like, everybody's like, don't do chemo. Oh my God, it's poison, you know? But like for me, I'm like, my intuition is like a big yes.
Anuschka A: 00:18:32 You know? And I'm like, my inner guides know that this is something I need to do, even though I'm a very anti prescription person, anti-drug person, everything inside of me was a yes, you know? And so for me, I was like, I'm not gonna say no to my intuition. And so I went forward with the radiation. I went forward with the chemo and throughout the whole thing, I looked at it as a partnership. You know, I would meditate during writing radiation. I would lay there and I would literally like meditate and just envision, you know, there's lights coming down from the radiation, you know, partnering up with light from the universe and just like really just focusing on that area of my brain and really just talking to my body, talking to all the cells within my body and really requesting my, you know, body to heal itself and envisioning all these soldiers, you know, like my wife was, you know, pretty much attacking what does it belong, right?
Anuschka A: 00:19:29 Yeah. And even with chemo, I, they were all, so I had to take them at night time once, you know, five times a month. So yeah, it was like pretty much like a week, a month. And I remember I was like, I would hold them and I would literally let just like thank them, thank them for being a partner and thank them for helping me in my healing journey, knowing that I'm going to detox once, you know? So that allowed my body to look at it as a partnership. Whereas if you look at something like poison, well then of course your body's going to reject it, right? And so for me, I never looked at it as pleased and I looked at it as actually something that is going to be helping me, knowing that it is chewing off the good bacteria and all that other stuff. And I was like, who cares? Like I'll get back to being healthy and now I'm the healthiest I've ever been in my entire life. So I know like in was not even a year look like it's not even a year later, you know? So to me it's all about like our words, our mindset, the thoughts we have, you know, and the way we look at things. Really.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:20:30 Yeah. There's a couple of things in there that I definitely want to touch on because I know even for me journaling has become, it was such a struggle for me for so long trying to, I have, I have so many mole skins or some form of notebook where I have attempted this journaling. I've done it when I, so I used to, when I was growing up, I backpacked the Appalachian trail a lot. I grew up in the Southeast and so I used to back, I did it like over 500 miles of the 80 and you know, just really love the outdoors and, and I loved when I was outdoors and you know, you've, you're a quiet right. It's just you and the trees and the waterfall nearby and you know,
Anuschka A: 00:21:13 Heart, all the high vibes, like the high frequency nature. Yeah. It's amazing. Yeah.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:21:20 Maybe a buddy or two with you, but you know, your, your, we'd all kind of toddle off and do our writing and that was one thing. But trying to do it regularly as I've gotten older has just been a struggle. But recently over the last, I'd say few months now I've been getting up in the morning and I just, I break out my iPad and get on my notes app and I just do a new note for each day. And it also keeps me accountable, right? Cause I can see like, Oh I skipped today or or whatever in the list, but it's been because I'm doing, I'm doing a gratitude journal. I was trying like five minute journals and all these different types of journals that other people would come up with. And I was like, you know what, I'm just going to do it my own way.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:22:06 And so I started doing it through gratitude. And so to circle back to what you're talking about, like I found two things cause I kept hearing people talk about like gratitude, an episode that just came out recently. I wrote a Johnson, she and I are talking about gratitude walks and she actually turned me on to that. And that's been something I've added onto the journal. But it's one of the things I found is having that start to your day and not being, not being so prescriptive about it, like the five day, five minute journal and all that stuff. I just felt it was like too much stuff and it was like too prescriptive. But when then I got into just doing, I'm just going to write stream of consciousness. I'm a creative so I just want to do this my way. So I started doing it my way and I found that a couple of things happened.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:22:51 I stuck with it. And the other thing was I started writing outside myself, right? Like I started thanking for things outside of myself and being like really thoughtful about other people. And it started to be beyond my gratitude for myself, but gratitude for others and to look out for them and to thank, you know, thank them for what they do and help them with what they're doing. And I was like, it's like shifting. It wasn't just about me, it was gratitude for others and beyond and like loving light to them. And I was like, this is a really interesting experiment because it was starting to kind of grow into this whole new thing.
Anuschka A: 00:23:27 So I actually recently got an article actually yeah, somebody posted on my Facebook where they are showing scientific proof how gratitude rewires your brain. It's absolutely amazing. So just as an FYI, it's that to me like sometimes when I would feel that gratitude even for other people and just cause so many people were so there, I would literally be so overwhelmed, I would just start crying out of just that appreciation of people you know. And of course that would rewiring your brain. It makes perfect sense when you think about it. But now there's actual scientific proof. So once we get off of this, I'll definitely send you that article. It's really cool.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:24:10 Please. Yeah, and I, I've been, I've been hearing and reading and watching, you know, videos and stuff about this same thing and I'm a big fan of creative live. I'm also an affiliate for them. I just, I loved them. I'm a huge fan of online education and where that's taking us with the current school system being so broken. And I love chase Jarvis, huge fan fellow photographer, and he did on Thanksgiving about a year or so ago, he did a gratitude practice and it was like coming from gratitude. It was around a meditative practice, but through gratitude. And that was actually kind of where it started to spawn that idea for me of like, Oh, I dig this, this is interesting. And so I was trying it that way, but I found that the actual typing it out or writing it out was helping me kind of get it out of my head instead of trying to focus in my brain. And so it helped me with kind of the monkey mind issue that I have. At the same time, it also helped me to kind of get to that place like we were just talking about of like you're, you're getting beyond yourself even. And it's almost like you're getting deeper into yourself because you're thinking, you're thinking of others. And it's been a fascinating experiment as I've been hearing more and more about this.
Anuschka A: 00:25:18 Yeah, gratitude is huge. Huge. It's something that I always, always highly recommend. Everyone's starting their day out with it. Or even at nighttime it actually helps me go to sleep when I can't go to sleep and start thinking about things I'm grateful for.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:25:31 Similarly with intuition, that's been a tougher thing for me to really connect with and like hear sometimes is my intuition and S and that seems like something that you're really tapped into. So I was wondering if you could maybe speak to that and like maybe maybe talk through some ways that for those of us that have issues connecting to that, like how we can begin that journey of getting more connected to our intuition.
Anuschka A: 00:26:00 Yeah, absolutely. So for me it's been a few years of just practicing it really. And that's how I've gotten really clear on like where I received my intuition. Now there's all different types of ways that people receive intuition. Every single person has it. It's just a matter of really tuning in and noticing how you receive it. Right. So for me, for instance, like, and I don't even, I'm like actually learning the different ones. I'm actually in a program currently and I'm in the middle of the intuition module to really learn about the different types of intuitions there are. Like clairvoyance, claircognizance clarity essentially. Like I said, I don't remember all of them. And so some of them it just depends. Some of them you feel right for me, like of course we always hear my gut feeling or you know, like that's I think a very common one where people are like, Oh, I just knew.
Anuschka A: 00:26:51 Like I just knew my gut just feels like, you know, I don't know Clint, like petty, right. And that's mine. Like I feel mine straight in my gut. I can totally feel the difference of if my gut feels light. For instance, like if I ask a question, so if I'm going to like drink something like this and like, okay, is this going to serve my healthy lifestyle? And then I just tune into my gut to see does it feel expanded? Does it feel light or does it feel heavy? Does it feel contracted? So that's where I feel my intuition for the most part. That's like the number one for me now. There's people that have just the knowing they'd like my husband, he just knows sometimes you just melt. She's like, I just know I sometimes have that to where I just know. But yeah, I see words like I'll see like, like even when I said is this, you know, like will this serve my healthy lifestyle?
Anuschka A: 00:27:42 Like I see the word yes or other questions that actually like, you know, come up for me is like whatever the answer is. Like patients all of a sudden will pop up, you know, more freedom will pop up like different words just pop up for me. I have a friend that she sees things in cartoons, like that's her intuition. She gets images of cartoons. There is those that they hear, they actually will hear things smell like. That's another one. People actually can smell all different, you know, like a yes or a no. So for really, it really comes down to just like noticing where you like, have you ever had something happen and you're like, dang, I knew it. I knew I shouldn't have done this.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:28:21 Yeah. I'm just trying to think. I was just trying to think through that when you're talking about like, like where I feel that when those times have come up and it's something I want to continue to look at cause that's really awesome. I wanted to ask you about that. Do you ask yourself out loud those questions? Like if your, or just in your brain?
Anuschka A: 00:28:39 In my head, yeah. Yeah. What did we say out loud in our head? No difference in words. I always say the words we speak out loud, the words we say in our head, it's just no, no matter what it is, it literally will create our reality. So gonna let her not,
Gabe Ratliff: 00:28:55 Okay. I was just curious if like, if that's a factor in it. If it's something that you, I mean obviously you're not going to be like standing in a whole foods and be like, is this good for me? So people are like, sir,
Anuschka A: 00:29:14 Freaking everybody out. The power of questions is also crucial, you know? So like you just said friends with, is this different? Well I dunno, is it like in what sense is it good or is it serving your healthy lifestyle? Is it benefiting your healthy lifestyle? So you see the difference in those questions. So a lot of people are like, should I eat this? And it's like, well I know it should you. Right? Like what, you know what, that's not a question you want to add. Right? You want to say like, why are you even asking that question? Because anything you can really eat your body can for the most part handle things, you know? And you can be more specific and say, well this or my healthy lifestyle, you know, or is this something that I can take, you know, can my body handle digesting this? Or you know, different things where it's more specific. So like, you know, it's funny cause I, I don't drink alcohol anymore. And it's interesting because literally I had a sip of my cousins margarita over the weekend and I felt it in my stomach for like half an hour. And I'm like, okay, there's a reason, like hard liquor is just such a no for me. And every time I like I do it as a test and it's like immediate contraction, immediate like, no, like I'm just like, okay, there you go. Like, it's like the body's intelligence, you know,
Gabe Ratliff: 00:30:32 That was the same for me with smoking. I used to smoke years ago and it's actually coming up on seven years and
Anuschka A: 00:30:40 Nice. That's awesome.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:30:42 Thanks. Yeah, and, and it's, and it's funny because I, I, that was the time where I was in Guatemala for buck tune when the Mayan calendar reset, which was obviously, it's like a 5,000 year calendar. So that was like a once in a several lifetimes opportunity. And that was sort of like, you know, okay, cool. I'm done. And then it was right at the, you know, it's in December, so it's right at the end of 2012. So beginning of 2013 was when I started. And or stopped I should say that was the time where I knew in my body wholeheartedly that I need to not do this. I'm also not everybody's into the woo but this is a Wu show. So we're going to go here,
Gabe Ratliff: 00:31:28 But I, I'm an air sign and one of the things that I kept, whenever I would read something that was relevant to that, it would pop up and say, Hey there air sign, you need to, you need to hold out on this stuff. Cause like you're all about air and breathing is a really important factor in that. And just around your, your body and the, you know, the biological makeup if you ere is a really important factor in that obviously, but for you specifically, you should keep an eye on this and like let that go. And so it just was kind of like this other thing reinforcing that outside of my body.
Anuschka A: 00:32:06 Yeah. Yeah. Then there's signs everywhere, you know, like I, it's so crazy, like when I'm like in the middle of something, for instance, like all of a sudden, one time I'll never forget this, I was, this was before like the whole range and everything, but this is when I started getting into the Wu and I remember I was walking, I used to work at Qualcomm and I remember walking out of the, I was about to walk out the building and there's glass doors and I know jokes. He three maximum walking by the door like, and each one would like turn and look at me and I was like, where's my phone? I'm like, no one's going to believe me with this. You know? And I remember I was on a phone conversation and then I look up and it was like the exact sign for me from the universe regarding my conversation.
Anuschka A: 00:32:50 And that type of stuff happens to me all the time where it's like just seeing the signs around you and like, well what is this all about? You know, what is the universe trends? So I always look things up if it's like random, you know, like if I don't normally see, you know, like a possum or something or bad knowing this snake. And I'm like, what does this mean? You know, every time it was just been like right on, like exactly what that you know, what that symbolism means. You know? It's really interesting intuition wise, one of the things I also show people is using their body as a pendulum. So you can also do that. That's something of, for those, especially that orange able to sense their intuition at first. And it really just being in tune with your body and then also using your bodies as a pendulum when you ask the questions. And that in itself will allow you to not only like get the answer from your body, but also notice where you're feeling the lightness in your body. I go through an exercise usually with people to be able to see where they get their intuition. So I mean that's something that we can definitely talk about. I don't know. I'm like, I don't think there'll be enough time to do that here, but
Gabe Ratliff: 00:34:02 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well this is a great segue because what I wanted to kind of move into now is around we're now caught up to your story and what you went through and how amazingly you have, how you persevered through that. You know, in the UK you've, you've healed yourself and that injected itself into what you're now doing for your livelihood and, and coaching people. So I wanted to talk about like where that triggered for you to, to become a life coach and how that transition looked.
Anuschka A: 00:34:34 Yeah, absolutely. So I am, I came from a computer science and engineering background. I've been doing like it computers stuff pretty much since I graduated from college. Was a consultant and then, you know, pretty much was working at Qualcomm here was one of the biggest companies out in San Diego. And then this happened. And so in the midst of it, I was already going through transformation. I had already been doing landmark rolled lion and had really been transforming a lot of the, you know, limiting beliefs conscious and whatnot. And so thankfully, there you go. So you are you graduate?
Gabe Ratliff: 00:35:12 I I did the first program. Yeah,
Anuschka A: 00:35:15 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we did talk. Yeah. So the form, that's the one that I'm always like do that one at least. You know, cause I feel like it makes a huge difference in your life. Right. A lot of blind spots got uncovered for me. I ended up doing that for two and a half years. Thankfully. That's what had me be so powerful during the whole MRI. It's what had me be able to just be present and not be like, why is this 15 minute MRI and taking like an hour long and they're putting something called contrast. I mean, you know, I was super present, super calm. It was like very, even during the whole like, you know, six, seven weeks of waiting for the pathology report. I was totally fine. And I was like, tell people just chill out.
Anuschka A: 00:35:58 So then I started, like I was saying, posting on social media and then I, I've always been one of those, I wanted to help people. Like it's just been in me since as long as I remember. And then I realized that help is actually disempowering. So I don't use the word help anymore. I use support, I use empower for the most part. For me, when you say helping someone, it's almost like saying, Oh, they don't have the ability to do something themselves. Rather than being like, Oh, how can I support you? How can I empower you? So that's pretty much where like, you know, I started making those shifts in work usage and whatnot. And so, yeah, so like once I started noticing that people are being impacted by me just sharing my journey, I was like, Oh my gosh. Like it just felt like it was my calling.
Anuschka A: 00:36:41 And of course, you know, because things just are, you know, synchronize and whatnot. And I believe in that magical lifestyle. I had somebody that I used to work with in my computer world, like 10 plus years ago in Colorado actually. And he reached out to me and he had just finished his coast training program to accomplish the coaching and he's like, I just saw one of your posts. I had just reviewed the landmark forum again, which is when I realized I was scared to be scared by the way, that's when I really got that I'm scared to be scared. And so after that he's like, why don't you just check it out? And I'm like, okay, sure, why not? And I went and saw I wanted did they have these things called observations where you go there, sit and see how they, you know, pretty much, excuse me, do the training and I decided to hire a coach, a life coach for myself. Cause I was like, I want to see how this goes first before I actually do the program. And by the way, I was doing chemo throughout this whole thing. So of course you were married through the whole thing.
Anuschka A: 00:37:46 I'm like, I am not allowing this to change my life. I remember my husband's like, well maybe we should do the designation or I was like, Nope, we're doing it anyhow. That's a good sidetrack. So anyhow, I went and got the life coach, which was awesome. You know, it made a huge difference for me. I started being able to vent out the things that I wasn't able to vent out to my own family because the thing is is like there's only so much you can say to your own family where it doesn't cause them to worry. So for me, I did not want them to worry. I wanted to like have this strong like upfronts. Like I'm totally fine. Like on the surface level I would express some things. But for the most part I didn't want to like really get too deep with them with like some of the things that I was dealing with.
Anuschka A: 00:38:30 Cause I didn't want them to, you know, just the way I am. So it was very, very amazing for me to having life coach. Now that in itself, I was like, well how powerful would it be for somebody like me that has gone through something like this to be that for others? So, and then six months later, like pretty much. Yeah, so that was January of 2018 is when I got the, the coach and then the next program started that July. So July of 2018? Yeah, July of 2018 is when I signed up for my coach training program and it was a year long and that's when I come and I completed just this last June actually. Yeah. So that's pretty much how I got into the whole thing. And then, and then slowly I was like, you know what, I'm actually a healer and I've been told that many times and it was like hard for me to own it because I just felt like, I don't know, I'm like, you might really like it. It's like
Anuschka A: 00:39:28 It's, it's almost like I didn't want to have that type of like power over myself, you know? Cause I'm like, I did heal myself, you know, and said I finally came to the police twice, started honing and I'm like, no, I am a healer. I healed myself. Yes, I use Western medicine. Yes, I use Eastern medicine, holistic, healthy lifestyle, mind, body, spirit. I did all of it and I did it. So then that's when I said, okay, now I want to evolve my business. I'm not only an empowerment health coach and really focus on you know, people's lives and creating that healthy lifestyle and I do mind body, spirit healing, you know, with people as well. So yeah, that's pretty much how it all came around.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:40:09 Yeah, I love it. I love it. Congratulations by the way, on getting to that in June, you know that's something that [inaudible] I connect with very much is the not owning your power. I was just having a conversation with a friend of mine and she is a Philippina and is absolutely effing amazing. Just love her and she
Gabe Ratliff: 00:40:38 Is coming into her power and has been recently and is like really starting to further and further embrace it. And I just, it's, it's so, so exciting for me to see because that's one of the things in their culture that she was sharing with me is that in the, the Filipino culture, kind of the same thing that's in a lot of cultures, right? Where like the, the, the men are the dominant gender and the women are not, and they, they kind of have to shrink literally and physically and figuratively in the face of their society. And it's very different here in the States where they can embrace that power that they have. And that's something that she's just continuing to feed and nurture and to, to grow that empowerment, you know? And it was a conversation we had in this same way of, of just like not embracing that power is our ourselves, you know, that we get in our own way. Would you say that's true?
Anuschka A: 00:41:39 Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think it took, it took me a year and then some from people being like, so are you a healer? You know, intuitive, psychic people. They would say, you're like, say you're a healer. You know? And I literally could feel myself shrinking. I'm like, yeah, I do. I didn't understand why I would be that way other than the fact that, yeah, I just didn't, I wouldn't, you know, I mean, it's a commitment to, to stay on the healer, right? Yeah. No, I'm not saying I'm going to be like, Oh, and then like, you know, healing you magically, that's not, you know, I have what I say like, although I do hear that when people are around me from like numerologist and now they're like, no, people need to be in your presence because just being in your presence is healing. I was like, Oh, that's cool to know.
Anuschka A: 00:42:28 You know. But again, it always makes me feel a little like, Oh, you know, I don't know what it is. It's, I'm still working through that. It's almost like that whole thing is like, cause you know, we all have our little limiting beliefs. I'm like, I don't, my, one of my thing is I don't want people to think I'm like arrogant or conceited. So that's like something that I have. Right. And so it's like, no, it's not about that. It's me wanting to really serve other people and make a difference for them. And I see it as like really like being forever healed and having them master self healing. Right. So it's not like me saying I'm gonna heal you. No, I'm gonna show you how you can heal yourself.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:43:07 Right? Like you said earlier, it's not helping them. You're supporting them or you're empowering them.
Anuschka A: 00:43:13 Absolutely. Yeah. Cause otherwise they'd be dependent on me for their entire life. And that's not what I'm committed to. You know, I'm committed to having people have their own empowerment and their own inner power shine,
Gabe Ratliff: 00:43:25 Which is the thing I love about women. You guys are bad asses and because you come from that place. So I do a weekly film and TV series recommendation called critical fandom. And one of the things that's been coming up on my show that I've also been feeding into my recommendations is shows like Fleabag that just won several Emmys and it's because it's amazing. I mean it's absolutely brilliant and Fleabag Fleabag yeah. Fleabag is the character. And a Phoebe Waller-Bridge is her name. She actually just won an Emmy herself and the show won. And it's just, it's, it's, it's hysterical and it's brilliant. And it's, so it was actually a one woman show that has now grown and they made it a series and then it was only going to be one one season and then they ended up doing a second. But the second one was just as amazing. And Elaine Marina was on the show and she and I got in this conversation about the women's voice and how it's now starting to come out in shows and it's one of the things I absolutely love seeing is that now we've got these female writers, female directors. One of the shows I just recommended was unbelievable. That just came out on Netflix. That gets into the conversation around rape, but it does it through the woman. Yeah,
Anuschka A: 00:44:46 I saw, yeah, I saw that come up and I wanted to watch the last night, but I don't watch things like that at nighttime and it's on day one of these days. I'll watch it.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:44:56 Yeah, it's hard. It's really difficult. And the thing that was so powerful about it was in the first two episodes, you see the juxtaposition between how women who have been sexually assaulted are treated by male police officers or authorities versus women. And it was a, it was so perfect. It was like painful to watch because you could see how purposeful they were about really showcasing what it's like and, and the repercussions. And this is just another opportunity for me to like sing my praises to you and what you do, but also to your gender and how much I absolutely adore what you all out there doing and what you're showing up bringing to the world because that's why you're here. That's why I want to showcase your work and bring you to this platform because that's what we need is more this, you know, it's what keeps the world going, right? There's a lot of darkness out there and we need the light. So yeah.
Anuschka A: 00:45:56 Yeah. That's how like I was like one of the things I always say, I'm like, I don't really follow politics. I don't follow any of that stuff because for me, I'm like, that's just going to bring me down. You know? And I want to make a difference in this world, in raise frequency and by being high frequency and you know, being there for others and raising other people's frequency, that in itself is what's gonna create the higher consciousness around the world. Right. So that's one of the things I'm like, I am so clueless about politics. I don't know anything. You know? And I'm like, it's just, it keeps my mind saying, cause I'm not willing to make a difference in that part of the world, you know? So I put my focus there, you know, so I put my focus on the things that I can make a difference in, which is raising, you know, people's frequencies and whatnot. Having them really see that people can heal themselves. Every person has an ability to heal themselves, you know?
Gabe Ratliff: 00:46:53 Yeah. I mean that was why I started the show. I wanted to put love and light out into the world and have a platform for people that I think deserve it, you know? And, and put out good news and good information and the really good impactful work people are doing. It's funny you mentioned that about the consciousness cause I'm actually working towards that. I wanted to ask you first though, I was wondering if you could maybe share a favorite story of someone that you've supported and empowered.
Anuschka A: 00:47:19 Oh, I'm sure. Let's see if you can, I know I feel like, I'm just trying to think of, Oh yeah, I have. So I might even get really emotional about it because you know, doing what I do, I work with people that deal with some tough things. A lot of like, people that I work with are like stage four, you know, and this one lady, she's like struggling actually, she's struggling with like payments and whatnot. And so I'm actually offering her like a discount on a much lower hourly rate. But for the first time in her entire like years of living, like she's, you know, close to my age and has stage four and whatnot and has like, she's married and has a kid and everything. And for the first time ever, she opened up to me and told me things about her childhood that she's like never said before to anyone ever.
Anuschka A: 00:48:16 And for me that's like, I think I was like so happy to hear her, like releasing a lot of stuff because that's cancer, that's tumor, that's, you know, like cancer and tumor is anger and resentment just built up for years and years and years and going through the the, you know, the shopper balancing exercises with her. I do like this muscle testing and I realize that something was like off with her throat chakra. And I asked her, I'm like, what are you not saying? You know, and that's when she like opened up and it was just like my intuition that had me really like touch with, you know, touch that. And she just, I mean I literally went over with her for like two hours because I didn't want her, even though I like canceled another appointment because I was still like, I didn't want her to stop like venting all the things that she had been holding onto for 30 plus years, you know? And then I'm just like, this is why I do what I do. You know, I see those lies and it just touched me. And then I started crying with her as I am now. Cause it just, it moves me that much, you know? Like it makes me happy to see people releasing and venting. Cause I think that is the biggest, biggest thing that we got to do in order to not create the diseases within our bodies.
Speaker 5: 00:49:38 Yeah.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:49:38 Yeah. And thank you for sharing that. I know that's tough and I know that, you know, there's like only so much you can share, but I just feel like that really gets the point across about why you do this. You know, cause you've had your own journey but then sharing these other journeys that people are going through and like how it's helping them get this out. Like you were talking about like just this, the venting and the letting go of these things that we hold on to and the power of that, you know, it's, it's, it's really, I think, important to not only your story but like the work you're doing and the journey that we're going on with you. Right now.
Anuschka A: 00:50:17 Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. I yeah, it's amazing cause it's, people don't realize by not allowing the tears to release and not, you know, releasing the anger is I have anger and sadness list that I have my clients and by not releasing it and pouring it out August, you know, all disease is triggered by the subconscious. All of it is like somehow like there was like a trigger that happens and then it will shows in different parts of our bodies, you know? And you know, I have a book that I usually go to and then somebody tells me like, you know, like what you said, I mean, I'm probably gonna look it up later and be like, well, let's see what your subconscious belief. And so it's like things like that. And then really just clearing that kind of like my brain tumor. It was, I worked with a subconscious healer and one of the things he said was like, you stop thinking, you started believing the universe is a hostile place.
Anuschka A: 00:51:17 And he actually pinpointed exactly when, when I believe that I was like, of course I then it was like the worst relationship of my life. I'm so not surprised, you know? And, and it, it totally, it took something for me to really get that. Like, no, now I do believe that university has a friendly place and I believe that's actually the affirmation I had under my vision board that I created. I said that university is a friendly place and a magical and so for me it was like constantly like, okay, this is going to get reprogrammed in my subconscious. Cause I do not believe that the universe is a hostile places. And I did. I wasn't very clear that I did throughout my entire twenties.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:51:54 Yeah, yeah. I remember, I remember when I was doing that death meditation the first time I was like home alone going through the process. And some of those things you were just touching on came up, you know, where it was like, cause it was guided and it was just, I was being asked, you know, like what did I really regret? And you know, just like these really, really deep things. And there was nobody around for me to look good or like put the sugar coating on. It just was me. And just having that moment to do that. I mean, I lost it. I just lost it, you know? And just was like writing all this stuff down. I was like, this is what I regret. This is what I regret, you know? And I was like, screw it. Like I don't have any, I don't have, I can't lie to myself. I know what it really is. And there's, it's interesting how you can lie to yourself, you know, and think like, Oh no, I don't regret that. I'm cool. You know? And you're, you're like, think you're being tough and empowered and you realize you're really just in denial and you're not letting yourself vent that and you're, you're harboring something that you might not even realize. So I definitely connect with that.
Anuschka A: 00:53:08 Yeah. Yeah. And people that's like beyond denial and people just numb it out, you know, like it's so numb and so deep that, and that's why like when, I remember when I was in the landmark flora, like you see some people had like amazing breakthroughs because they were so numbed out to what was really there. You know, for me, I feel like I'd always been doing a little bit of work so I never had that like, Ooh, Oh, hi moment. You know? But it was cool to watch other people that all of a sudden were like, you know, like this huge blind spot opens up for them and then they're just like a completely different person. Yeah. Crazy town. And I won't even see a different person. It's like their true self comes out, their authentic self comes out, you know?
Gabe Ratliff: 00:53:53 Yeah, yeah. It's definitely interesting to see cause like, it's like a physical change, not just what they're saying, but you can like see them going through this thing and you're just going, Whoa.
Anuschka A: 00:54:05 Yeah. And their eyes start to get like it's not as intense their eyes. Even me. I remember when I first met my husband, he used to tell me, he's like, your eyes were so intense like ever since like would have gone through and the transformation work that I've done and he's just like, your eyes are so much more like calm and relaxed. And he was like, I used to get told that all the time. It's be like Anya 10 size. I'm like, I do think, I guess I had anger in me. That's awesome.
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Gabe Ratliff: 00:56:05 I wanted to ask you about, just to get a little bit of hindsight, where you into health and wellness when you were younger, like before this all happened. Were you already in that? I, you're in San Diego and that's pretty popular in San Diego as much as it is here. Yeah,
Anuschka A: 00:56:18 They call it. Yeah. So I grew up in Colorado and I was actually born in Germany and they're pretty health conscious there. My parents were Persian and my mom has always raised me to look at you know, food as biomedicine. It's always been that case for me. Now of course, you know, being in my twenties and having a definitely, you know, done my partying and junk food and all that fun stuff in my twenties I'm, I'm really not surprised that I created the brain. I'm very clear that I was the creator of it. Totally get that, which is awesome because that gives me the power to heal it. Right. I started to, when I moved out to San Diego, I started with Isogenics about couple of years before this whole brain tumor. So 2015 is when I started, you know, using Isogenics to really supplement my body gives me more than nutrition that I need.
Anuschka A: 00:57:11 And I finally got into like the best shape that I had been in before. I mean now I'm probably in like much better, you know, more tone and fit and healthier than ever yet. That's when it started. Right. And so from then I started to actually start getting more curious about healthy living. So I started, you know, changing on my ID over, you know, little things like that. So thankfully it wasn't like a huge shock when all of a sudden, you know, this happened. And then I had my holistic healer say, okay, you need to go organic vegan. That was hard.
Anuschka A: 00:57:46 I cried for a couple months at times because I was a big time meat eater and cheese. Oh my gosh. Like that was probably harder than me for me to put it aside. And now I'm totally fine if I do create me, I'll go and have lamb at times, you know? But it's just very seldom that that happens anyway. Thankfully it was almost like a step. I always use the analogy of a zipper, right? So it was kind of like a zipper that just kept like the next level was coming like you know what I mean? It was just like next level, next level, next level, and then boom, like it's like okay now time to get to like the full blown out healthy lifestyle. And so that's when for the whole year of chemo I did do 90% oriented, which was tough. And you know, I made it happen. So now it's easier now like I do the 80 20 rule, so I still treat myself not cheat. Treat. Right.
Gabe Ratliff: 00:58:45 He's actually a vegetarian for 17 years. So I'm familiar. The struggle was real. Yeah, I definitely understand. So I'm also curious because part of your healing is mind, body and spirit. And so I'm curious about the body part. How, how did nutrition and fitness play a part in your healing as you're working on the trifecta?
Anuschka A: 00:59:09 Yeah, so nutrition, like I was saying on, thankfully the isogenic system really made a difference for me during chemo. There was times that I couldn't have anything else to eat cause I would just be too nauseous, whatnot. So that's like pretty much all I was having and I knew I was getting the nutrition I needed. Right. And then the body piece, I started seeing a natural path doctor who prescribed me three to five vigorous workouts a week. And of course during chemo that was very tough. I've always been into working out. I was a tomboy growing up, loved volleyball since I was a kid, you know, and always been into like sports and working out gym, you know all that. So thankfully it wasn't tough to, you know, continue that. Although being on chemo sometimes you've gotta just get like it's low energy and I had to accept the fact that I can't work out the way I used to and so I would still work out.
Anuschka A: 01:00:04 It just happened to be less or it happened to be not as often, like throughout the month. I would have to wait until I'm really feeling better cause there were times that I wasn't fully healed and I would go work out and then I would be crashed in bed again for like a few days again. So there was that fine line between, you know, just pushing myself and overdoing it and it was really just listening to my body and just seeing, okay, is it going to serve me to go workout right now? Is it going to serve my body? You know, and just a lot of it is that higher consciousness really just having that awareness of your body and just really what's going to serve it most in that moment. And so for me, that's really what it came down to is really just that. And then sleeping, like that was the other thing I remember.
Anuschka A: 01:00:48 I would make myself wrong if I was, you know, in bed or sleeping too much or taking naps because I thought I was like, Oh, not being productive. And really I just learned that no one's sleeping is so crucial, especially going through what I was going to for repairing the body, you know, during sleep is when our body repairs. So really just like, you know, you're learning a lot of these things that I was like, you know, like super woman style when I was in college and always was go, go, go. And then they just sitting back and learning to be more, you know? And yeah. So that, that was like a big piece of it is just like the balance of being and doing and not overly,
Gabe Ratliff: 01:01:30 Yeah. Yeah. I think that's, that's definitely a message that I hear coming through loud and clear these days in a lot of different places where people are talking about balance or harmony. Some people use that word, but just that, you know, being able to address action and doing and like some people call it productive product productive or productivity, but I think you know, the doing as opposed to just overthinking. And that's something that's very akin to creatives and entrepreneurs that we can like overthink things. And it's all about that. Going out and doing it. But then there's also the getting quiet and being present and letting your body do what it needs to do. Whether that's relax, sleep, rest, recharge, repair or have a killer workout. Get out of your brain, you know, and like do something that your body feel good again and get those endorphins going and get, you know, get excitable and energetic. Yeah.
Anuschka A: 01:02:27 Yeah. Like I love orange theory. I know we've talked about that too. Like I went this morning, I'm actually so like for me, like that was one of the things is like, I still would go to orange theory of times even in between chemo cycles. Wow. Crazy. Yeah. But like, how are you doing this? I'm like, well, I'm making sure my body can handle it and then I will come home and take a power nap. You know, I wouldn't sit here. And then there's actually a lot of research around it where they're actually starting to have these different sleep on the job solutions at different companies here. Cause it really, they're showing how much of a difference power naps really make. And you know, like in a person's daily routine, you know, they can create alertness, it can actually improve creativity if you have a certain amount of, so there's interesting, I talked about that at my event cause I was like, Oh this is interesting stuff. You know, power napping is actually really great. I take that on sometimes if I feel it still,
Gabe Ratliff: 01:03:26 You know, especially with what a lot of people do is go get more coffee. Right. They go and just like put in more stimulants and it's late afternoon and you're just setting yourself up to Jack up your circadian rhythms in the evening. So I've essentially cut that out. I actually work out in the afternoon, evening instead of coffee. Yeah. I watched the video. Thomas Frank did on his YouTube channel and he talks, he's a big productivity guy and he talked about how that was. His big problem was he would work out in the morning. Then he was, you know, having coffee in the afternoon and he switched it. I'm going to try that. Nice. Tried it, loved it. I was like, man, this is awesome. Because I kept feeling like I had to do it in the morning cause everybody's like, yeah, get it done the morning, get the hardest thing done, otherwise you won't get to it and life will get in the way. And I was like, or it doesn't and you just do it with intention and you say no, I'm going to like do what I'm going to do in the morning. I'm going to do my thing and I'm fresh and alert and I get my, you know, really mindful thinking, business work, whatever I need to get done in the morning. And then I just know in the afternoon and I blocked it out cause I'm going to go work out.
Anuschka A: 01:04:35 Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's awesome. And it promoted, I mean even when you do that, cause I used to do, I was like the evening working out, they got out with, that's how I used to do it too. And I remember it would help me actually sleep. It promotes sleep. When you do that now, it actually helps you get good night's sleep. Now, I don't know if you go at 10 o'clock at night, I don't know about that. But you know, I remember I used to go around six o'clock, I want to say maybe seven when I used to go. Yeah.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:05:05 I usually do. It's a, there's a four 15 that I did, I have been kind of sticking with it seems to, were working great cause then I can come back to dinner, you know. And the other thing that's been really, it's, it's got a trigger because the other thing is I have to shower, right. So I, I, it's helping me wind down in the evening because I have to, you know, I've got dinner and like showering and hanging out with TIFF and it gives me that opportunity to also, you know, take a nice hot shower and like get, you know, more comfortable. Yeah. More relaxed and help wind down. And I'm also disconnecting from screens. Yeah. For that time period, which is awesome. We'll get that little like chop, get away from it and like, okay, cool. So you don't have to get in front of screens anymore. You've kind of had a break to your day. And so that's been an interesting, which sets me up for my segue here. Daily routines and rituals. What are those?
Anuschka A: 01:06:03 Ideally I like to wake up and managing, cause it's still, you're still in that like data almost like you know, the waves, the wavelength and whatnot. It's like still no data. And so it's for me the easiest and fastest way to meditate because in that moment it's like as if I can go into my highest self, the passes as opposed to needing to like get back to, you know, calming down like all this other stuff. So typically meditate first thing in the morning and then I'm, I actually need and then, yeah. And then after that I do, with this, it's called this a release negative energy and rebalancing of your shock is exercise that I learned from a gentleman that I worked with throughout my chemo journey and everything. So I love doing that. It's like this exercise that he's me, it's called exercise. It's not an actual exercise.
Anuschka A: 01:06:51 It's not like your heartbeat anyhow. So it's really cool because you really feel a lot lighter afterwards. So I'll do that and then if I'm up for it, most of the time I'll journal something if something pops. Cause a lot of times when you are meditating my most amazing like posts and messages and you know a lot of my, my book content that I'm going to be writing in the future usually comes to me right after meditation and in what I consider to be automatic writing. So then I just allow myself to sit down and really just started writing it. And typically I do to my phone because let's face it, it's like everywhere, you know at that point it's in the cloud and then you get to it however I want. So for me that's what works best for me. A lot of people prefer the journal and actually writing it out. I'm more of like the type of way type of person. Yeah
Gabe Ratliff: 01:07:43 Me too. Cause I don't have to find it in a journal later.
Anuschka A: 01:07:47 Great. I can just do control F and then find it, you know. However, you'd rather you can do control F in a notebook.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:07:54 No. Which notebook? [inaudible]
Anuschka A: 01:07:57 I know. So for me that's my preference. And I always say to people, it's like whatever works best for you. And then, you know, I just, I usually look at my calendar from that point forward and see. But typically I'll do a workout, I'll clean around those. Cause my first usual thing to do is a workout in the morning after that. Yeah. And that's, yeah. And I mean I just do gratitude throughout the day. I used to sit down and write gratitude, you know, do the gratitude journal and write 10 things I'm grateful for. And now it's just become almost like it's an automatic for me now. You know, I was just like, I just look at something like, God, I'm so grateful I live here. Like it's just, it's very automatic. And so that's something that I'll recommend to people that aren't used to doing gratitude. Like, you know, what you're doing is awesome, you know, with the walks and just journaling about it.
Anuschka A: 01:08:48 So I think all that is amazing. I've just gotten to a point where it's an automatic thing for me to do throughout the day. And so I feel like that consistently keeps my brain ration. And then if I do feel like a low vibration, if I feel like I'm not in the best mood when I wake up, cause you know sometimes you have dreams and you wake up, start older or whatnot, then I look at, I have this list that's like how to rate, you know, like the different ways that I can raise my frequency and I actually work on that with clients. We have to raise your frequency. So I'll look on there and I'll say, well what can I take on from this list to raise my frequency? And I don't know, sometimes I'll just throw on some loud music and dance my, you know, butt off for like five, 10 minutes. And that goes my frequency. Fully res, right?
Gabe Ratliff: 01:09:32 Yes. What do you play?
Anuschka A: 01:09:35 I love Persian music more than anything. But overall for me it's just like dance music. So whether it's hip hop, you know, like EGM. I'd love like the Spanish, like you know, like this, this us Ceto and like all is fun. Yeah. I just love dance music. For me it's like the rhythm is key.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:09:55 Yeah. I'm a DJ. So you had [inaudible].
Anuschka A: 01:09:57 Oh, okay.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:10:01 You had me at hip hop, EDM, a Spanish music, you name it. I'm all about it person. I'm all about it. Do you have evening rituals to kind of help blind down?
Anuschka A: 01:10:15 Yeah, I mean I personally liked to Netflix and chill. That's how I just, that's just like what I do at the end of the night. I'm like, alright, it's time for me to chill out most of the time. My husband and I are scheduled a little bit different. He wakes up at 4:00 AM and like starts his day pretty early. I'm usually more of like the six o'clock, depending on what time I, cause I like to get my 70 hours of sleep, you know, sometimes of course we're together, but if when he does go to sleep, then that's like my me time where I just like to relax and just watch either a movie or series and whatnot. And then some, if I feel the low energy, and I do that, that balancing again that, you know, energy, it's like, I forget what the name of it is.
Anuschka A: 01:10:58 Anyhow. It releases negative energy. We take on energy wherever we go. So when we're out and about, no matter who we're around, you know, even devices that were on, we're taking on energy from everywhere. And so therefore it's really great rituals to do first thing in the morning. Cause we also taken off from our dreams. Right? I mean sometimes you just wake up super startled, you know, or whatever that may be. And so you take on energy from your dreams. So it's like start that morning of by releasing that energy and it balances your shotguns, which I love. And then at night time before you go to bed, doing it again, which again is a great way to just like release all that negative energy from, from your body in shock Rez. Yeah. But yeah, that's pretty much it. I mean, otherwise, yeah, we'll go to dinner nights and things like that, but we're talking about typical then he had, it's usually it. Yeah.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:11:52 So I also wanted to ask you about, this is something that I was only partially familiar with, but that's Reiki cause I know that that played a part in your healing as well. And yeah, I studied martial arts so I was familiar with ki and I wasn't actually familiar with Reiki, so I was wondering if you could talk about that and like what part that played and what, maybe a little information behind what that is. And it's, cause I know it's re and key and they're two different things, but they are very relevant to each other.
Anuschka A: 01:12:22 Yeah. It's like cheating. I'm not like I'm still learning. I got attuned to Ray CUNY level two which is just, you know, being able to heal different parts and have like the, you know, energy that comes down. It's like life force energy that comes down. And I really don't want to butcher this too much. I'll tell you more about like how I took it on the Lake when I worked with somebody that did it. The really is just like healing is what it comes down to. And I have like a friend that she's like a master rate can usually like a Reiki master. And she had like a whole like group of people just constantly sending me Reiki and like sending me all the like high and energies and everything like that. I worked with a couple of different people with the Reiki one particularly, I will never forget.
Anuschka A: 01:13:09 I she so it just, it's with hands, right? So like the hands, like energy comes through their hands and then it comes like through them, through their body, through their crown, I believe. And then through the hands and it can heal different parts of your body and based on how intuitive the person who has, like the waking master that's doing it, how intuitive they are, they can actually start to feel what part of your body needs the healing. So it will feel either warm or cold or whatnot. And so she just immediately went to my head, right. And it was super interesting because she had her head like her hands. She had her hands like around my head area right here. This is where the tumor was, was only like the right side, like of my frontal lobe. And so she had her hands like here and I am not joking you like for about five or 10 minutes, I could just feel just on this right side where the tumor was.
Anuschka A: 01:14:05 I could feel like electric static type of like sensation. And it was something indescribable cause it's something you don't normally feel. Right. And then after as I was just like, I was very drained afterwards and then I found out that the next day she was completely wiped out and she had it pretty much take the entire day off because of how much energy it took. So and yeah, until like my Headspace, you know, wherever the cavity was pretty much. So it was really powerful stuff. Yeah. I mean I've done a lot of different types of like energy or so that Reiki was fun. Bars. The second other one bars running bars was another one. That's actually something I'm certified in doing myself. And that's like just 36 different points in your head that hold onto stagnant energy. Anyhow, there's so much different things like that EFT tapping, that's like another one. Have you heard of that? Yeah, they did quite a bit of that. So
Gabe Ratliff: 01:15:05 I had heard of Reiki but I just wasn't familiar with it. And after I was, I knew that that was part of your healing process. And so I was like, I want to learn more about this cause it's fascinating. And I was like, I wonder if this is really related to QI. And then as I started I was like, Oh yeah, okay, cool. And so I then started to like understand what it, where it came from and I, like I said, I had heard of it but I just hadn't, you know, investigated for myself what that actually looked like. So I was just curious what that process was like. Yeah. Thank you so much for sharing cause
Anuschka A: 01:15:35 Oh yeah, absolutely. And they have different, like I like I remember like they have like different things that they do, you know, the symbol symbols that they need to do with their hands. Like it's been a while since I've done it. So that's the way, I'm probably not the best person, but it's like the best that I can describe it.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:15:53 Yeah. Yeah. I just, yeah, it was just fascinating to me. I was just curious what that was like going through that, you know, and especially like that story about the sensation in your head and that that was where she went and how it zapped her and it's just fascinating to me.
Anuschka A: 01:16:10 Yeah, it felt like zapping, literally. It felt like just zapping and just going like that's the best way I can describe it. It felt like just lightening almost goofing around in my head. Yeah. That's what I really want to get. I'd want to get actually to the master level because I'm, because of that, because of how powerful that was for me. That's something that I do see myself doing in the future.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:16:34 Sure. So you referenced earlier about consciousness and I know that's something that I also agree and believe in that as well. I wonder if you could talk about that and how that plays a part in your healing and, and how that's relevant to the world around us.
Anuschka A: 01:16:50 Yeah. So higher consciousness is a term that's been thrown around a lot and I, the more I'm learning about it in the more I'm like, Oh let me, higher consciousness is really comes down to higher awareness and being present. Right? So it's like the more conscious we are, the more awareness we have, the more we're able to be present and the more we're able to have like the, the levels of our consciousness, which then those are actual like the frequencies that you know we can raise. So it's, it's almost like the higher consciousness, the higher frequency pretty much ends up creating that for other people. So they say like if somebody had resident vibrates at a love frequency, they are able to impact, I don't know, like a few hundred people. Right. And then like somebody that's at like the enlightenment frequency, like mother Teresa or Gandhi, people that are around them, they're pretty much like thousands of people can get their frequencies raised as well. So all of that plays in my personal opinion is like what creates that higher consciousness, that higher frequency amongst people. And really to do it for me is like just having more of that constant awareness because we, we live 90% on autopilot's 90% we're on subconscious unless we have the awareness. So when you're conscious and you're increasing that on a regular basis, then you're increasing your consciousness, your higher consciousness, which then can actually reprogram your subconscious as well.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:18:29 Yeah, well it's impact the world. Yeah. Well and I, I'm an empath, so I definitely get that energy transference cause I grew up with it and I didn't know when I was growing up I was, and so I didn't know that was what was happening. And then when I got older and learned about it and got more understanding around it, I was like, Oh, okay. That's why I'm taking all this like negative energy on and not knowing what to do with it or if I'm putting out positive energy, why people are accepting it and things like that. So I'm curious, when you're, when you're engaging with someone who is not open, is open to the woo, how do you, how do you, how do you get through to them? Or, or how do you deal with that or do you,
Anuschka A: 01:19:16 Yeah, it's actually interesting you say that. I, I actually had someone referred to me who was dealing with so she had stomach cancer. I'm like, I'm not going to get into too much details, but she had stomach cancer that got, you know, pretty much turned into liver cancer and what not. And very much like anti any of this stuff doesn't believe the body can heal itself. Doesn't believe anything other than science. So I actually started talking about it all based on the science. So I started talking about like the scientific research around it and how there actually is science proving that love, the love frequency can heal DNA. It really like, there's actually tons of articles out there, the proves that's proving. They have done studies where they've taken a person's DNA out and the over, like they have like their, you know, whatever some, so I don't, I'm not a science person, but they have like a cell that's out and they do some kind of stimulation to the person's body.
Anuschka A: 01:20:17 And they notice that like at the exact same moment, the DNA in both of the, whether it's out of the body or in the body, they act at the exact same moment and they've done it uptight, I believe 50 miles where they like, you know, stimulate the body and they see the exact same movement in both the DNA that's like 50 miles away versus the one within the body, you know? And so now that there's like more science, you know, around it, I feel like some of these skeptics are starting to see that. Oh, okay. There's actual scientific proof around these things. Like the one that I was telling you about with the, you know, like even just negative thoughts. There's sewn in see that Oh, negative thoughts actually do impact, not just create stress, but they actually impact your health. It creates disease, creates cancer and all these other things.
Anuschka A: 01:21:03 So now, so that's usually what I'll do is like, I'll talk about that aspect of it as opposed to, you know, like getting too low. Because even with her it was very much like it, it ended up not working out very well and I was totally fine with it, you know? And I'm like that unfortunately, like that's just going to happen at times, you know? And some people just have very strong beliefs and I just have to be okay with it that, you know, like they're unwilling to heal themselves, you know, they have whatever story they have going on about it and that's just more important to them to hold onto the story. Then, you know, really see the possibility that Hey, you can heal yourself. It's just about really doing the work, you know, and doing like the subconscious we're doing all the different things and having the belief, right. I mean it's like Henry Ford said whether you think you can and if you think you can't get right. So, you know, so it really is about belief before all else. And, you know, I'm glad that there's more science stuff around it.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:22:06 Yeah. Well you're also living belief, right? Like you're, the living example of belief can happen and can make a difference
Anuschka A: 01:22:16 And that doesn't make a difference. [inaudible] Not like with that, that you know, a person like it didn't make a difference for her. My story made zero difference for her and she's, she's just holding on to whatever she's holding onto. And I mean, I just, I just can wish her the best from my perspective. Right. There's nothing more I can say just bums me out when people are that strong about their belief system and not seeing other possibilities that could see their life, you know?
Gabe Ratliff: 01:22:44 Sure. So who is the perfect candidate for your programs?
Anuschka A: 01:22:49 I have two different ideal clients. I would say one are those that are dealing with health struggles and are committed to doing the work because that's, again, that's like the biggest thing. You can't just say, yes, I want to heal and they're not doing any of the work because it's like me just trying to drag somebody along and you know, it just doesn't work. You know, it's draining for them. It's draining for me, like really have you wasted their money. So somebody that's really committed to like have, they have these health struggles and they really are like, Oh yes, I do want to get through this. I will, I do want to like be where you're at. So that to me is one of my ideal clients. And then I also have like, you know, people that let's say are dealing with something small or they've had like some kind of struggles like with a little bit of like health issues or not, not really housing issues.
Anuschka A: 01:23:38 People that haven't had the healthy lifestyle that they've been looking for and more so on a preventative side. So somebody that's like, you know what, I really do want to have a healthy lifestyle. There's just something that's been not balance or something's been missing. And so it's more like somebody that is preventative where you don't have to hit rock bottom, you don't have to go through what I did in order to get to this healthy lifestyle, this ideal healthy lifestyle that I currently live. So really it's those two different types of clients that I work with.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:24:11 Nice. Yeah, I totally connect with that. I did a Tibetan death meditation when I was laid off. That was part of the deep work I did around deciding to become an entrepreneur and, and leave corporate and do inevitably what I'm doing now. And one of the things I got out of doing that work is that you don't have to hit rock bottom right? Like you, you can do these exercises, you can be in these programs where you can work with someone like yourself and actually be guided through this process to understand without having to actually go through what you went through, that there's an inevitable inevitability to our passing and that we can make a change in the life that we actually want to live and have that lifestyle that we want to have without having to get to that point. And that it's really just about the door's there, but you have to open it and you have to want to walk through it. Otherwise, like you said, it's a waste of time and your money and, and their money and you know, like just that process because they're not actually gonna own it and they're not gonna have that, that N that need for belief that's going to get them over that hump of actually seeing progress and change.
Anuschka A: 01:25:34 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Commitment to me is huge. Like it took something from me to create my promise because you know, it's something so, cause my promise is for those that work with me is to be forever healed. Now that comes with committing to the work, committing to themselves and committing to really having that ideal healthy lifestyle. Cause that's the thing is without those commitments, without the dedication, then I can't make that promise. Right. So if you do have all the dedication, commitment and everything and willing to do those, the work itself, then yeah, you're going to master self healing for yourself. And that's really where I get passionate about that because I see what I created, you know? And I mean, I spent, Oh my gosh, like I can't even, I mean it's been two plus years at this point, like hundreds of thousands of dollars in holistics and all kinds of things to be able to get to where I'm at.
Anuschka A: 01:26:34 Because for me, price didn't matter. My health didn't. My being alive is what mattered, you know? And sometimes people just don't unfortunately see the value of that. And for me, he was like, no, my life is priceless. And I wasn't willing to allow money to be the reason why I didn't do like one of the holistic approaches that, you know, somebody recommended or that I felt like my intuition was because that's, again, that was my biggest thing. My intuition is a yes to it. Then I'm a yes to it. You know? Even with chemo and radiation, like I said, it was my intuition that said yes, you know, it was like [inaudible] otherwise I would not have done, you know? So that for me is huge is really just having people wanting that commitment more than anything. Yeah. What types of services do you offer? So for people that are interested?
Anuschka A: 01:27:30 Yeah, so I offer 'em six months, nine months or 12 months packages just depending on, you know, what people are going through. Sometimes there'll be even less like especially for those that are dealing with health struggles, I always say minimum of six months. Now for others that are wanting to create the healthy lifestyle, I would say probably three months just because you know, it's easier to take on habits when you're not, when you're not like dealing with something like a diagnosis. Right. and then what I do is I work with each of the clients one hour a week and within and then we create practice areas during that hour. We really see, okay well what does he want to get out of this session? And then we will create practice areas to take on. Cause that's the whole point of coaching is to take you from where you want to like where you're at currently to where you desire to be.
Anuschka A: 01:28:16 And then taking actions towards that. That's where we vary from, you know, when it comes to like counseling and therapy and whatnot. And then in between those calls, let's say a client is stuck, then they have, you know, I'm pretty much like unlimited. Like if you want to text me or you know, do any spot coaching in between based on my availability, I'm available during those times as well. So that's pretty much what I offer. And then I typically say for anybody that does sign up with me within 48 hours of any of, you know, like whether it's like a podcast or my talks or anything like that, they offer a discount for them. Nice. And I was wondering about high vibe support tribe. Oh yeah. So I have this high vibe support tribe that's a free support group that I created. I personally went to one support group while I was dealing with my, you know, being scared to be scared of at the very beginning.
Anuschka A: 01:29:14 And honestly I left that support group feeling something worse than when I walked in. I noticed, I mean there's a lot of people there and I really just wanted to go there just to kind of get an idea of what it's like. I am going to end up going back there at some point because I'm to shit, I want to shift the way people are at these, at least create something where they can raise their frequency when they leave or something like that. For me, I left there feeling worse and I've heard from many other people a very similar type of experience and for me I just, it made me sad that people would go to these support groups leaving worse and so I created a high vibe support tribe, which is really a similar, you know like a zoom call like this where I have it one hour a month on the 23rd of every month a must.
Anuschka A: 01:30:04 It falls on a weekend and then it would be on a Monday and people can register for free and get on there. And I go through a couple of different exercises. Typically I do a release your fear as exercise to shake it off. And then from there, depending on time, I mean you talk about raising your frequency or whatnot. You know, like different types of tools and distinctions that people can use to really just like get in a much happier place. Getting to joy, getting to love, getting to gratitude rather than feeling those like, you know, shame or guilt or sad moments that a lot of people have due to like their diagnosis and whatnot. Yeah. So, yeah, so it's been great and I see it expanding. It's just, you know, beginning. Yeah,
Gabe Ratliff: 01:30:49 Sure. Yeah. Yeah. We, I mean, we all start somewhere. Such a fascinating story. Thank you so much for sharing that. I just, I really appreciate the work you're doing. I appreciate that the, the journey that you're on and how this is now, this, I mean, it's this amazing trajectory that you've gone on not only beating a brain tumor, but also now shifting it to this place of like you've healed yourself, continuing to do that work with yourself, but now putting that out into the world with others. I mean, I just, I love it. I love it. Love you.
Anuschka A: 01:31:24 Thank you so much for having me. This has been a really awesome conversation and getting to know you more as well as this isn't, this isn't a great, I love what you're doing. This is amazing. Just bringing these types of people, you know, that are making a difference in the world and having more of that out there. I think I really want to acknowledge you for taking this on and creating that in this role. And it's amazing.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:31:48 Thank you. Thank you very much. It means a lot. I mean it's, I love these breakthrough conversations where, you know, you can, I love the, I love the fun stuff. I love the getting through the hard stuff. I love the, the stories. I love hearing about the work and you know, we're all growing, right? Like the, I mean it's, it's, I'm also a new coach myself. That was one of the things that I was really connected with you about is that we're both growing in this space of being a newly, actually out there doing the work coaches. And it's a process, you know, and it's the same thing with podcasting. You know, I even knew production, I'd been doing it for years, but this is a, it's a very different thing and you still have to grow in it. You still get better. There's still things that you've learned as you do it.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:32:36 And it's an evolution just as life is right. But it's all, it's all part of the journey and it's all part of what I think is what gets people connected to the work you're doing is because it's not just like, it's not just the marketing, it's not just the like fancy words we come up with to talk to each other or to talk to our clients or prospective clients. It's about the stories behind it. And I think that's really what I think sings to people an a couple episodes before this one I have a conversation with Paul Hunter and he does work that is just amazing, very social activist type person and is not just that as a person but is also in the work he does. And that's one of the conversations we have is around that societaly because of social media and the way that millennials have, one of the best things that they've done is to show like really make this, we were talking about consciousness that shift in consciousness around being like socially active and really devout to socially active businesses and that's just as much a business as it is a brand like yourself.
Anuschka A: 01:33:49 Yeah, yeah.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:33:51 That's, that's part of the point of this, right? It's like being behind someone who's actually like doing something with a purpose and has it wants to have an impact in the world as opposed to just like out there trying to make some loot.
Anuschka A: 01:34:03 Yeah. Yeah, totally. That's why I love having these conversations with you and people like, like minded people, you know, cause it's just these conversations in self, raise a frequency and create that higher consciousness throughout. You know? And that's what I'm always like, I don't even have those non deep conversations really anymore. And it's funny, sometimes my mom calls me like, how's it going? I'm like, I don't like, I have a weather app. You have a weather app. I don't need to talk about weather with you. Leave. And when she like laughed at me cause she knows like I'm just like, why are we talking about the weather? Well can we go a little deeper? A little deeper? Yeah. And I mean thankfully, you know, and she's so open, she's amazing. I always tell him I wouldn't be who I am had it not been for her, you know, same for both of my parents. You know, who they were and who they were not is what has me, me who I am today, you know? So I wouldn't have it any other way.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:35:02 So as we're wrapping up now, I always like to do a few fun questions. All right. Just to, you know, have it on a lighter note and it's always just fun for me to hear what people think about these things. First question, favorite movie,
Anuschka A: 01:35:18 What pops up is avatar nice. You're not the first, so many, so many levels though. You know, like, I loved it that then for the graphics because I'm, you know, a graphic designer and now it's like the deeper meaning of it, you know, just like what we really are in like how we're all connected and the tree and, yeah. So,
Gabe Ratliff: 01:35:42 So, you know what's interesting, huh? That was the same movie that Paul said.
Anuschka A: 01:35:47 Oh, no way. Oh, funny. Yeah. I look forward to the next, there's like three coming out in the next few years apparently.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:35:56 Yeah. Very excited to see where these go. Next question. Is there a quote that you live by or, or you know, speak to often?
Anuschka A: 01:36:05 Like I guess the quote I use is more like a tagline. I've lived life to the fullest in the face of any circumstance.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:36:14 Hmm. Comma, bitches
Anuschka A: 01:36:19 Watch me. Yeah, exactly. Watch me.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:36:23 The question of these is a, is there any advice that you would give to someone who's kind of thinking about this is like maybe scratching a little nerve or itch people are starting to think after listening to this episode. Is there like some advice you could give them to like how they could maybe make that first step forward or anything like that?
Anuschka A: 01:36:45 If anyone is ever thinking of like maybe this is something for me, I always say just put, you know, jumping two feet forward. Like with both your Fianna all that saying, but you know what I mean, like just going in and discover why is it that it is something that is like sparking your interest, you know, cause typically to me when that happens then it's something within your intuition that's got the curiosity and most likely it's the logic mind that's having, you'd be like starting to question it and analyze it. So for me, even if it's like a little bit of like, cause you know, you know, if something's a yes, you know when it's a no, if it's a maybe a lot of times for me or maybe is a yes, it's logic, there's logical stuff that's behind it, you know? So for me that's usually what I say.
Anuschka A: 01:37:33 And then I typically, you know, we'll say if you do have, you know, a way to listen to your intuition, see what your intuition says, don't have the logical mind, don't have the analytical mind be what decides for you. See what is what's going to serve you and your life. And if they need any help around the or support, I should see, I still use the word helps them. If they need any support around, you know, following their intuition, then I do have discovery sessions for free and people can of course, you know, schedule that with me too.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:38:09 Nice. Fantastic. Any last parting words to the audience, to the, to the art fools out there?
Anuschka A: 01:38:16 The Artfuls. Just live your life like today's the last day. Every day. You present in the current moment, be present with everything you do and live as if tomorrow doesn't exist.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:38:34 Nice. Last question, where can people find you on the inner webs?
Anuschka A: 01:38:38 Yeah, absolutely. So my website is healing with anuschka dot com so healing with is all spelled out. And then my name is A N U S like sunshine, C H K A. So healingwithanuschka.com and I do actually offer three free exercises for each of the mind, body, spirit healer if you know the Trinity, if anybody's interested and that's seen healing with anuschka dot com forward slash free. So somebody goes on there, you can actually, you know, take a look and see, give them that, get an idea of some of the different methods that are used. Otherwise I'm all over social media as well. And that's again anouchka a N U S C H K a or Instagram dealing with the new show. So healing with anuschka, you'll find me.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:39:31 Nice. Well I knew you should get. Thanks you. Thank you so much. Oh my gosh, you're amazing. I love it. Keep it up. You're just watch me hashtag watched me. I love it. That's your word, plural. Well, thank you again, right? Thank you again for this conversation. Thank you for your work and just keep it up and I'll talk to you soon, sister, huh?
Anuschka A: 01:40:00 Yes. Thank you so much behind me in cannon queue. It was amazing.
Gabe Ratliff: 01:40:06 Well, that's it for this episode. If this is your first time listening, thank you so much for being here. I really hope you enjoyed the show. The Artful Entrepreneur podcast comes out bi-weekly and is available every other Thursday for your enjoyment and all links and show notes for this episode can be found at the artful dot co. If you haven't yet, please subscribe to the show and leave a rating or review on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. If you'd like to be a guest or know someone that would be a great fit, please go to the artful.co/guest and thanks again for listening. Until next time.