The Gris Alves’ Podcast Tales of Recovery

Tales of Recovery a Four Part Series on Befriending Aging~

An introduction to a four part series on befriending aging, cultivating wisdom and the somehow countercultural movement we can participate in in embracing and becoming friends with getting older and if we are lucky and do the work: wiser ~ Which is really quite a gift! 

 

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Tales of Recovery with guest Dr. Robert Ciprian

My guest this week is my friend, author, holistic healer and graffiti artist Dr. Robert Ciprian.  Robert is a Doctor in Chiropractic and Holistic Medicine, energy healer and an advocate for humanity.  

Robert wrote a book called "Heal Profoundly, A Graffiti Thug's Transformation to Holistic Doctor" (which you can find on amazon) where he talks about his life story.   On this episode we talk about his journey from the streets of New York gangs all the way to his choice of heading back to medical school  after noticing the change in his own body with his own chiropractor.  He explains to us the journey it has been to also   grow and development very powerful energy healing, both in person and long distance.   He has some amazing healing stories!

If you have ever been curious as to how this works, listen in and enjoy our conversation. Robert also gives us a few tips on how to stay healthy both emotionally and physically during these crazy times.  

 

You can find and follow Roberto on IG @muscletestingdoctor @drgreedy and on his web page www.healprofoundly.com

 

Enjoy!

 

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Tales of Recovery ~ My Breast Implant Illness (or not) Story

A few years ago I decided I wanted to remove my 16 year old saline breast implants. After much arguing with the medical system, doctors and my own lagging timeline.. I did it and I am now 8 days into one of the most powerful  decisions I have ever made .

I feel lighter, grateful AF, normal and so empowered to love my body from the inside out more and more each day.  

 

May this episode help make you laugh, feel and reflect on how we treat ourselves and how we can maybe learn to love our bodies more and more each day just as they are...

 

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Recuperando la Vida "Tales of Recovery" en Español~ Sentir el Miedo

Hace unos años decidi que ya no quería tener estos implantes que decidí ponerme hace mas de 18 años.  Dure entre tres y cuatro años y una seria de síntomas, miedos y las ganas de regresar a lo natural y honrar mi cuerpo para por fin llegar a esta operación. 

Fue un camino de estrés, miedo y risas ridículas.  Agradecida a la vida, a mi cuerpo y la resiliencia.  

 

Espero les ayude escuchar esto por aquí.  

 

Gris, la Surfa 

 

Tales of Recovery with guest Sarah Knapp~

Sarah is back on the Tales of Recovery Podcast this week to share the beautiful story of her Dad's death and at home funeral for his passing in March.  

Sarah supported her Dad through his last ten years of struggling with Alzheimer's.  She shares her father daughter love story, her intense grief work, the collective culture's denial of grief and how it affects us as a society. She reminds us that we know how to take care of our own and nudges all of us to remember this important birthright and love gift.  Sarah is part of an important movement to embrace grief in community and ritual.  

We are co-hosting Death Cafe this August 14th @reunifyyoga in Ocean Beach. This is an opportunity for people to gather, share tea and acknowledge our mortality.  A heart felt community circle and opportunity to "cozy up" to grief and explore both personal and cultural/collective relationships to death and dying.  You can register at www.reuniyyoga.com  and please follow Sarah on IG @griefisariver, and on her webpage  www.griefisariver.com   

www.integratedmdcare.com is the link for the advocates in palliative care Sarah mentions in this episode. 

May this conversation heal our hearts~

 

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Recuperando la Vida~ Con toda su Magia

Cuando te das cuenta de tanta Magia que existe, y que a veces tarda un rato el cuerpo y la razón en alcanzar a ver que SIEMPRE has vivido en lo supernatural, ( aunque se nos halla olvidado por un rato) manifestando sueños y siendo testigo de este enorme regalo que es VIVIR.   

Regreso de estar una semana con unas grandes mujeres en un encuentro mágico en Punta Monterey (que ya vendrán al podcast en unos días a compartirles también) y aquí sale una reflection de el tiempo o los años que a veces tienen que pasar para darse un@ cuenta de como la consciencia/el alma ya saben hacia donde quieren ir- lo que a veces llega un poquito más tarde al juego es el cuerpo y la razón.  

Pero el día que estos se juntan, logramos entender hasta en los huesos que tan Mágico es en realidad este camino de la vida~ 

Que todos los seres vivan en Paz~ 

Asé! 

Con Tantísimo Amor,

Gris

Recuperando la Vida con Rosy Contreras

Recuperando la Vida ~ Una conversación profunda con mi amiga Rosy Contreras, fundadora del nuevo súper podcast Contraterapy que surge a través vez del camino que Rosy y su familia emprenden al enfrentar un diagnóstico que después de casi 15 doctores negándole lo que ella sospechaba y ya sentía, el destino los llevo a la Fundación Castro Limón al descubrir en diagnóstico en su hijo de 11 años y poder lograr empezar su tratamiento~ 

La preciosa vulnerabilidad, fuerza y amor que Rosy nos regala en este podcast (y en el de Contraterapy también) es algo que admiro tanto porque se que solo así se llega a un lugar de entender que el dolor del ser humano se comparte y es parte de la vida.  Cómo le hacemos para lograr ESTAR en estas situaciones tan difíciles? Tan dolorosas? 

Sintiéndolo todo, acompañad@s del amor, la realidad y con corazón de guerreras~

Escuchen a la magia de Rosy, su gran intuición como madre, la experince con la fundación Castro Limón que también necesitan de nuestra ayuda. 
Les agregó un link para la campaña de recabar fondos para este gran trabajo de ayudar a nuestros niños Mexicanos. 

Sigan a Rosy en IG @rosy_contrerapy y escuchen y compartan su podcast también! 

Gracias Rosy por estar con Tales of Recovery ~ Recuperando la Vida~ Es un gran regalo y te lo agradezco de todo corazón.  Estamos contigo!! 

Aho! 

Gris 

Tales of Recovery~To Understand

Today the mantra, "I Understand"  replaced forever in my heart the usual mantra of "acceptance.'  

We are told to accept the things we can not change, which is a way to surrender to that which is out of our hands to control.   I have struggled with that word (acceptance) because it is so strict and in a way triggering to my rebel soul.  My heart has expanded in a capacity to UNDERSTAND - which is for me a deeper way of acknowledging the difficulties, struggles, and sufferings of life.   Yes, obviously there is an acceptance or surrender to this...but different words land more profoundly on each one of us.

"I understand" is an expansive way of embracing the Mystery of Life, a different perspective.  A sweeter acceptance even in gratitude of all that life brings.  This amazing gift that sometimes is so intense and difficult, but with UNDERSTANDING of the greater purpose is softer to navigate. 

 

Asé

 

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Tales of Recovery with guest Nikki Velch

Nikki Velch is an Earth Intimacy Facilitator, Ayurvedic Educator, Natural Builder and Beautiful Soul.  We met a few summers ago at Elder Farm in Southern California and I have been following Nikki's journey and her inspiring lifestyle of honoring Mother Earth, our bodies and humanity in such a gentle, powerful and beautiful wildness that is absolutely beyond inspiring to me.   Listen in and enjoy her stories of living both the dream as well as the hardships of what it takes to create a life living off the grid, tuned into nature and exploring the void we all come to this earth to explore, love and if we are lucky, fulfill.  

I am so grateful and honored to have Nikki as a guest this week! You can follow her on IG @earth.as.healing and catch her workshop Sensory Doors of Perception a the Origins Gathering Waning Season July 9 -12th 2021.  www.originsgathering.com   www.aboutandforsustainability.com 

The Magic is in the Earth. If we listen, She will guide Us~ 

 

May our stories soothe our hearts and continue in healing our community ~ 

Asé!! 

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Recuperando la Vida "Tales of Recovery"' en Español Por si te Robaron el Sentido de tu Vida

Que le da sentido a tu vida? Como sabes si lo que estas haciendo es para ti o para complacer a los demás? A tus padres, la sociedad, los abuelos, a la cultura, las mentiras tóxicas de la religión?  Con tantos humanos en depresión , anestesiados y sufriendo de ansiedad estaría bien investigar si se robaron el sentido o en realidad estamos viviendo los que nuestras almas vinieron a experimentar en esta vida.

 

Pensamientos en domingo. 

 

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