#101 Elaine Martini on finding your intuition in a head-centric world
“I find that everything goes down to connecting back to your inner wisdom, because that’s when you get the balance between things. This is with everything - you’re always going to hear different opinions and it doesn’t mean that one is right or one is wrong. It’s really about feeling which one is true for you right now. What direction is the best direction for you in this moment? It could be that five minutes from now it’s actually the other direction. That’s why I find you always have to be connected to it because then you’re going to navigate life in the way that is more true for you. ”
In a world that moulds us into “socially acceptable” identities, labels and personas, what does it mean to truly show up in community as your authentic self? How can tuning into your intuition help us re-learn the art of being strong in your truth, regardless of social conditioning?
In this episode, we welcome to the show Elaine Martini, a writer, speaker, and storyteller whose work explores what it means to live a life that is truly our own.
Elaine is the bestselling author of Truly Connected: Create a Life and Work Guided by Your Inner Wisdom, Authenticity and Soul and founder of the Connected Life Path, a community exploring authenticity, intuition, inherited patterns and the deeper layers that shape how we live.
Born in Brazil, her journey has taken her through Rome, Barcelona, London and now the Algarve, with each place shaping the way she understands identity, belonging and the stories we carry. After a career that moved through architecture, entrepreneurship and writing, her own path of questioning, unlearning and trusting her inner knowing became the foundation of the work she shares today.
What will be covered:
Ensuring embodiment practices are embedded in day-to-day life to sustain mind-body-spirit connection
Being true to yourself by creating trusted relationship with intuition that is unique to you
Intuition as inner wisdom - reminiscing over a time where intuition would have guided you to best outcome but we put this aside and keeping this memory as reference to how to tune into intuition
Intuition as pathway to push outside “comfort zone” by inviting discomfort and pushing your limits
Practicing intuition in day-to-day to take more heart-driven decisions
Intuition and creativity as deeply connected
Imagination as not separate from intuition - entering flow state with creative practices to tap into intuition
How Elaine’s journey as an author helped her “re-write” herself
Focusing on the process of creating rather than end result by setting intention of finding yourself
Finding your voice and being comfortable in it - getting used to enjoying hearing your own voice as a way to reclaim your truth
Giving permission to follow your dreams to tap into limitless possibilities as well as accepting when a creative project has come to an end
Ways to finding community where you can show up true to yourself - amplifying impact of healing work by doing it in the collective
Episode resources:
Connect with Elaine on Instagram @elainemartinicreate
Join the Connected Life Path community here
Receive Elaine’s offering of the first chapter of her book Truly Connected here!
Explore Elaine’s work on her website here
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Mind Full of Everything is a podcast calling for the radical healing of the self and community to outgrow the broken dominant culture of radical individualism and disconnection from our place as interdependent beings, so that we can collectively re-envision a safer, healthier and equitable world. Each episode takes a healing-centric approach to explore the embodied ways in which we can collectively restore and transform our journeys as stewards of community and earth through conversations with writers, researchers, coaches and educators, as well as reflection episodes with the host Agrita Dandriyal on her journey navigating the world as a deeply conscious, culturally-rooted and relational being. Learn more here.
