Welcome to this instalment in the A WHOLE Convo Podcast series where we open a conversation on why our wellbeing is significant in the creation of a life well lived.

In a modern age where the conversation about wellbeing is being had more openly we are becoming more aware of the value of taking care of our internal experience as human beings. Talk of mental health for example has a wider platform than it ever has in the past, and yet we may not give the level of attention to the broader impact of consistently modelling commitment to wellbeing.

Inspiration and a desire to tend to our wellbeing often comes when we reach crisis point, and once crisis is averted it is tempting to let our attention to wellbeing fall to the wayside. The health of our internal world will however show up in the way we navigate life and our communication with others.

Join us in this WHOLE Convo (- it is jam packed!) as we consider:

• Cleaning up generational wellbeing
• The feedback conscious wellbeing creates
• Unhealed parts of us
• Children as the very best teachers
• Wellbeing as the responsibility of our lifetime
• Choices in addressing or overlooking personal shortcomings
• The framework parents create for wellbeing
• Our responsibility to do ‘the work’
• Cultural influence on our wellbeing legacy
• Taking on individual responsibility for our wellbeing legacy
• Inner responsibility for elevating our wellbeing for better vitality and DNA patterning
• The luxury of wellness
• Blueprints of belief
• Deserving wellbeing
• Good girl programming
• Imprints and expectations
• A world based on wellbeing first

We’d love to hear from you in the comments below, and if you would like to get in touch with us you can reach us on our socials:

Ymane Lakhlif https://www.instagram.com/mindbodyveda?igsh=MWFuZWk1aTBkM21ocw==

Ella L. Oliver https://www.instagram.com/domusspiritus?igsh=cnhkdjhia25nM2xt&utm_source=qr

There was a time when being suspected of being a witch was the worst thing that could happen to you. Yet here we are celebrating the possibilities of our witchy gifts.

Join us in A WHOLE Convo as we explore the power and potential of using words consciously to affect who we are, and the creation of the world we live in.

Claiming back our power to cast spells means we can put to use the significance of the thoughts we think on repeat and the effectiveness of our communication to support and uplift us through our words.

In this Convo this week we look at:

• The creative power of words
• Energy in words and communication
• Ymane’s memories of witchy fun
• Magic in possibility
• Owning personal responsibility with words and thoughts
• Empowerment v.s suppression with our words
• Reclaiming the words we speak and carry as spells
• Presence with the thoughts we place on repeat
• Catching ourselves in the act
• Cheat codes to our experience and results
• Simple, continual creation with words
• Modelling care with words for younger people

Journal Prompts

As promised in the episode here are some journal prompts for you to ponder on how the ways you may be casting spells without realising it:

• How much attention do I usually pay to my words?
• Which words have had the most lasting impact on me?
• How have these words affected me?
• What have I made them mean about who I am and what I can do with my life?
• What are the words of limitation I repeat to myself?
• Which words lift me up and make me feel excited about who I am and what I can do?
• What would be different for me if I took more care with the words I think on repeat, and the words I used to communicate?
• Which steps will I take to help make this change in my day to day use of words and language?

We’d love to hear from you in the comments below, and if you would like to get in touch with us you can reach us on our socials:

Ymane Lakhlif https://www.instagram.com/mindbodyveda?igsh=MWFuZWk1aTBkM21ocw==

Ella L. Oliver https://www.instagram.com/domusspiritus?igsh=cnhkdjhia25nM2xt&utm_source=qr

We’re back with a cheeky little fun Convo for you this week as we ponder on whether we would date ourselves….

In a world where dating is available in the palms of our hands🤳 and we can gather matches in the blink of an eye we get into how we feel we would match up for potential suitors. Are we the most attractive version of ourselves? Would we put the time into dating ourselves?

In this lighthearted WHOLE Convo we touch on:

• Doing the work to evolve and be appreciated
• Relationships as a great playground for self development
• Meeting people in a “modern era”
• Making self study a priority - giving to ourselves BEFORE giving to another
• Instant culture v sacred union

The conclusion is - one of us would… and the other one would not date ourselves…can you guess who is who👻?

We’d love to hear from you in the comments below, and if you would like to get in touch with us you can reach us on our socials:

Ymane Lakhlif https://www.instagram.com/mindbodyveda?igsh=MWFuZWk1aTBkM21ocw==

Ella L. Oliver https://www.instagram.com/domusspiritus?igsh=cnhkdjhia25nM2xt&utm_source=qr

We are back with Part 2 of the Meet Your Hosts Convo.

This episode will help you get to know us as we share some of our personal stories so that you can connect with us a little more and learn about what has contributed to us becoming the formidable women we are!

In this convo I (Ella) am voicing some of the contributing factors that have shaped me as a woman, mother and Conspire Breath-work Coach. It’s international in flavour sprinkled with a little drama and intrigue.

I share from my world from the heart with a particular nod to what it feels like to experience domestic violence/abuse. If this is a subject that you are experiencing yourself, please see below for some resources that may help you navigate your situation.

In this WHOLE Convo we get into:

• The essence of being
• Connecting to the soul of who we are - the power about sharing our stories
• International amalgamations of Ella’s lifepath - what it takes to make an Ella:
• European migration
• Resisting apartheid
• International aid work
• A WHOLE Convo monthly celebrations
• Remembering a Rite of Passage - overcoming challenges with resilience
• Celebrating escaping to South Africa
• Violence against women
• Unpacking the ‘Coming Home to Me Moments’ in a violent relationship
• Women who stay…have no choice
• It’s NOT You
• Look to your resources
• You are not alone
• There is always light - always breath…. Journey into breathwork
• Therapy
• Growing up with breath
• Pregnancy yoga
• Something weird
• Connecting through hard experiences

Resources for Domestic Violence/Abuse

Here are some suggestions for organisations that specialise in supporting women who have experienced domestic violence/abuse in the UK and US.

Please also do searches for organisations in your local area who can offer solutions based on your locality.

UK Resources for Domestic Violence/Abuse

National Domestic Abuse Helpline: 0808 2000 247 Website: https://www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk/

Women’s Aid Email: helpline@womensaid.org.uk Women’s Aid Website: https://www.womensaid.org.uk/

Refuge Website: https://refuge.org.uk/

US Resources for Domestic Violence/Abuse

National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or TTY 1-800-787-3224

OVW Website has a list of national and local resources which includes phone numbers and website links: https://www.justice.gov/ovw/resources-for-survivors

We’d love to hear from you in the comments below, and if you would like to get in touch with us you can reach us on our socials:

Ymane Lakhlif https://www.instagram.com/mindbodyveda?igsh=MWFuZWk1aTBkM21ocw==

Ella L. Oliver https://www.instagram.com/domusspiritus?igsh=cnhkdjhia25nM2xt&utm_source=qr

We are back with Episode 2, Part 1! Episode 2 will help you get to know us as your hosts of A WHOLE Convo. We share some of our personal stories so that you can connect with us a little more and learn about what has contributed to us becoming the formidable women we are!

In this convo I (Ella) am thrilled to be asking Ymane some questions that bring out the details 😉 of what has shaped her life experience and what inspires her in her work as an Ayurveda Practitioner.

You are going to LOVE hearing more about her take on her life and how that inspires the work she shares with the world. You might even see yourself in what she shares…

In this WHOLE Convo we get into:

• Ymane’s OBSESSION with details, exploring, knowing and unravelling things at detective level!
• Passion, commitment and giving
• The experiences that have shaped Ymane the woman
• Family
• Moroccan roots
• Language
• Perfection & divinity

• Unique family dynamics, the impact of religion and trauma on becoming authentic
• Healing and doing the “inner work” on the path to Ayurveda
• Growing up in a health focused household
• Mind - body connection - the missing gap
• Suppressed emotion and trauma surfacing
• The roots of creating change and deeper authenticity
• WHOLENESS of personal experience in her work
• Therapy and healing resources
• The gift of hitting rock bottom - the ‘Come Back Home to Me Moment’
• Defining moments - ungraduating college
• Forgetting how amazing we are
• Introducing A WHOLE Convo Celebration Parties!

We’d love to hear from you in the comments below, and if you would like to get in touch with us you can reach us on our socials:

Ymane Lakhlif https://www.instagram.com/mindbodyveda?igsh=MWFuZWk1aTBkM21ocw==

Ella L. Oliver https://www.instagram.com/domusspiritus?igsh=cnhkdjhia25nM2xt&utm_source=qr

We are back with part 2 of our introductory conversation and we’re so happy to have you join us.

In this convo we bring you into what got us both started in our respective areas of wellness and how that influenced us to create WHOLENESS through what we share in our work.

We talk about:

• How health challenges opened the door to discovering Ayurveda (Ymane)
• Ayurveda and WHOLENESS going hand in hand
• Panic attacks helped breath work find Ella
• Conspire Breath work - differentiating conscious breathing and breathwork
• Practitioner/Coach to Client Consciousness
• Shared humanity
• The power of different voices and consciousness
• The validity of our individual journeys on the WHOLE

We’d love to hear from you in the comments below, and if you would like to get in touch with us you can reach us on our socials:

Ymane Lakhlif https://www.instagram.com/mindbodyveda?igsh=MWFuZWk1aTBkM21ocw==

Ella L. Oliver https://www.instagram.com/domusspiritus?igsh=cnhkdjhia25nM2xt&utm_source=qr

We're your hosts, Ella L. Oliver and Ymane Lakhlif and we invite you into A WHOLE Convo about how this all started...

In this first episode we introduce you to the space we are creating in this podcast for you to explore your inner wellness and how that impacts your outer world.

We’d love to bring you in on how we decided on the name for our podcast, the happenstance of our meeting and why WHOLENESS means so much to us.

In this Convo we touch on:

What’s in the name of A WHOLE Convo

What inspired us to get podcasting

A WHOLE Convo is born

Miracles of meeting online

The WHOLENESS of our desires in this podcast

Showing up and timing

Feeling WHOLE versus feeling ‘well’

Life isn’t always rainbows and lollipops

Taking the pressure of perfection - the realties of being human

Wellness in the spectrum of human experiences

Experimenting and self referral

The WHOLENESS of individuals

Trusting and reconnecting to our individual differences for our wellness

Stay close for Part 2 coming later this week where we bring you a little deeper into our worlds as an Ayurvedic Practitioner and Conspire Breathwork Coach.

We’d love to hear from you in the comments below, and if you would like to get in touch with us you can reach us on our socials:

Ymane Lakhlif https://www.instagram.com/mindbodyveda?igsh=MWFuZWk1aTBkM21ocw==

Ella L. Oliver https://www.instagram.com/domusspiritus?igsh=cnhkdjhia25nM2xt&utm_source=qr