187. Discovering Your Soul's Purpose with Brenda Winkle
Breathwork helps us connect with ourselves on a much deeper level. My guest, Brenda Winkle, is a breathwork coach, empath, and intuitive – and she’s someone I’ve worked with personally. In this episode, we talk about the power of breathwork, the body’s energetic fields, how empaths can protect their energy, and how to raise your vibration. The Body’s Energetic Fields Mental Field: For most of us, this is where we’re thinking, and our thoughts live. We’re fast and reactionary. Always doing. Emotional Body: For everyone, this lives inside of our chest. This is where our emotions live. Intuitive Body: For some of us, this is all around us. Everyone has access to their intuition. About Brenda Winkle Brenda is the host and creator of the Yes Filled Life Podcast, a podcast globally rated in the top 5% of all podcasts. Her mission is simple: to help people feel better; she has been doing so for the past 8 years. She says, "You have something special that the world needs. The best way to heal the world is to help one person at a time find their purpose, their passion, and peace. Healed people, heal people." Brenda is an advanced trauma-informed breathwork facilitator and trauma-informed Reiki Master. She is certified and highly trained in multiple energy healing modalities that she offers in her "Heal to the Yes" method. Brenda is an empath, a highly sensitive person, and an intuitive. She was a music educator for 26 years and has a Master's Degree in Educational Leadership. Brenda has been featured in Authority Magazine/Medium.com multiple times, guested on KCAA Radio, been a podcast guest on upwards of 30 podcasts, and has spoken on stages in Washington, Oregon, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri. She has upcoming features in The Daily Telegraph and The Metro. Brenda is the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Chair for the Northwestern Region of the American Choral Directors Association and is committed to social justice and antiracist work. Breathwork is a Powerful Tool Breathwork helps us reach a deeper place inside of us. It helps us release judgment and the fear of what others think about us and gives us permission to follow our soul’s mission. When I started working with Brenda, I felt an amalgamation between the two very distinct parts of myself – it brought me together as a whole. One of the reasons for this is that breathwork allows us to access the emotional and intuitive fields of our body. If we only access the mental field, we’re cutting everything off below the neck. The breathwork allows us to access the deeper knowing within us. Breathwork and Your Energy When it comes to making shifts to your life, your energy, your career (anything, really), the universe will provide, but it’s up to you to take the first step. Breathwork can help you learn to trust your intuition and the signs the universe gives you. Brenda gives some practical advice on how to raise your vibration. She asks you to question what energy you are tuning into. Are you stuck in negative energy? How are you experiencing joy? It’s a choice and a commitment to be high vibe. Finally, we talk about some of the tools empaths can use to protect their energy. Make sure that your energy can stay in your field. We have the ability to merge our energy with other people, and when we do, we’re taking on and in some of their emotional states. This isn’t good for the empath or the person. Do you practice breathwork? If so, I’d love to hear some of the ways you benefit from it, let me know in the comments on the episode page. If you haven’t tried it yet, I really encourage you to check out Brenda’s gift. In This Episode How breathwork can help us get to a deeper place within ourselves [7:00] How breathwork allows you to access your own soul’s mission [8:30] How using your breath can help you combine the different aspects of yourself [11:45] What you need to know about the different fields of your body [12:30] Why you have to be willing to take the first step [19:30] How to raise your vibrational energy [21:30] Top tools empaths can use to protect their energy [26:00] An exercise for empaths to reclaim their energy [27:30] Quotes “When we activate the breath by taking intentional control over something that’s usually an autonomic system, it changes the way everything functions in our body. We can actually release some of the stuck emotionality and access parts of ourselves that feel like we’ve never accessed before. And all we’re doing is adding breath.” [7:29] “I had to get over my fear of what other people would think, embracing ‘the woo’ that I am because I believe in energy. I believe in spirituality. I believe that energy is everything and energy has no walls. In order to lean into that gift, I had to get out of my own way.” [9:04] “When we drop from the mental field into the emotional body, we have access to our emotions in a different way.” [13:37] “We all have these three fields. The mental body, the emotional body, and the intuitive body. We all have them. The breathwork allows us access to the emotional and intuitive bodies. Otherwise, we’re stuck in the mental field.” [14:17] “We have to choose our hard. Is it hard to think about leaving a stable career with a really structured retirement and benefits? Yeah! It’s hard. Is it hard to do work that you don’t feel completely lit up by anymore? Yeah, that’s also hard. You have to choose your hard.” [20:15] “If you’re feeling low vibe, what are you tuning to?” [22:27] “As empaths, if we can recall our own energy, come back into our own central channels, reclaim our essence, then we have so much more to serve with other people.” [28:32] Resources Mentioned Breathwork to Strengthen and Trust Your Intuition Listen to Your Yes Filled Life Find Brenda Winkle Online Follow Brenda Winkle on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | TikTok 31 Days of FIT. Learn more HERE. Muscle Maintenance During Fat Loss. Waitlist HERE. Fit Woman Collective™. Learn more HERE. Transform® 8.0 deposit link is now open. Sign up HERE. Follow Dr. Ali Novitsky on TikTok | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube Subscribe to The Muscles and Mindset Podcast on Apple Podcasts *** Ali Novitsky MD, this podcast, and podcast write-up are NOT providing medical advice *** Related Episodes Episode 180: Energetic Health Episode 172: When In Doubt, Create Space Episode 185: Emotionally Regulated Parenting