Inner Journey with Dr. Saliha Afridi
Supporting your inner journey to mental health and emotional wellbeing
About the show
Speaking about topics that include mental health, emotional wellbeing, how to be productive, how to not procrastinate… But, also having content that is deeper, such as, ‘How do I heal my childhood traumas or my inner child?’ And, ‘How do I figure out who I am and what my core values are?...and that are not the values that society gave me?’
Episodes
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Episode 19: Intuition and lessons from my journey
April 26th, 2023 | 1 hr 31 secs
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Episode 18: Shadow Work Part 2
April 19th, 2023 | 1 hr 3 mins
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Episode 17: Complexes and Shadow Work
April 12th, 2023 | 1 hr 5 mins
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Episode 12: What does it mean to have generosity of spirit and having greatness of spirit?
April 5th, 2023 | 1 hr 4 mins
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Episode 11: Self-forgiveness
March 29th, 2023 | 1 hr 2 mins
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Episode 16: How to heal a broken heart and do the work of grief
March 22nd, 2023 | 46 mins 46 secs
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Episode 10: How to psychologically and spiritually approach difficulties that life brings forth for you
March 15th, 2023 | 1 hr 6 mins
How to psychologically and spiritually approach difficulties that life brings forth for you.
- change the situation
- change the other
- change/understand/ deepen/ expand/ the self (and only through this way does true and meaningful change happen in the outside world)
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Episode 9: The Hero’s Journey and the alchemical transformation in the ‘Special world’ -
March 8th, 2023 | 1 hr 1 min
I talk about the hero’s journey (from my earlier post) and how we all go through many cycles of this in our life.
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Episode 8: About Forgiveness
March 1st, 2023 | 57 mins 48 secs
If ‘forgiveness’ is hard for you, try saying the word ‘compassion’ or try saying ‘I want to heal’
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Episode 7: What is love?
February 22nd, 2023 | 1 hr 4 mins
What is love…
I am not saying I have figured out the answer, but in this live I share what I know about love. -
Episode 6: Trauma And The Brain
January 18th, 2023 | 46 mins 58 secs
What is trauma, what are the different types of trauma, what happens in childhood when we experience traumatic events, and what can we do as parents to protect our kids from intergenerational trauma?
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Episode 5: Caregiver Burnout
January 11th, 2023 | 59 mins 8 secs
Burnout is far more serious than being stressed… it is a total shutdown if your nervous system and it can last for many weeks, and months.
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Episode 4: How to feel feelings
December 8th, 2022 | 58 mins 27 secs
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Episode 3: Befriending your nervous system part 2
November 25th, 2022 | 59 mins 19 secs
health, mental health, nervous system, psychology, wellbeing
Listen to part 1 to know why it’s important
3 pathways to creating safety for your nervous system
- Embodied (through the body)
- Environmental (what is around you)
- Relational (to activate the social engagement system)
Body practices
- Breath (nasal, 4 in and 4 out for 11 mins)- 4-7-8 breathing
- Touch- hand on heart, hand on knees, hand on back of head/forehead, fingers on ear lobes, hand on abdomen/heart
- Movement- shaking or dancing
- Stretching- assisted stretching or yoga (hold stretches for 60 seconds or longer)
- Other body healing practices - horse riding, massage, endurance training, interval training, cold baths, cupping, needling, LED beds
Environmental
- Sounds
- Nature - blue mind, green mind not red mind
- Fractals
Relational
1 eyelids open and looking at the person- Facial muscles relaxed 3, middle ear muscles activated (human voice)
- Chewing / swallowing
- Head turning muscles, social gestures
- Humming and singing / larynx pharynx muscles vocalization
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Episode 2: Befriending your nervous system part 1
October 19th, 2022 | 1 hr 30 secs
emotional health, health, mental health, psychology
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Episode 1: When do you know that a relationship is actually very unhealthy...?
April 25th, 2021 | 6 mins
divorce, family, marriage, relationships, unhealthy
Anything that is one-sided is unhealthy. A relationship is about 2 people – listening to each other, supporting each other, caring for each other. These are just some things to think about - I explain more in the episode. Do let me know if you have any questions. #InnerJourney