SELF-LOVE, SELF COMPASSION, INNER-PEACE leading to JOY! We could all use some more empowerment and healing. In Episode 35, “A CALL FOR LOVE” on the Shining Brightly Podcast Show my guest is Linda Orsini, lifelong teacher, founder of the Global Wellness Education and popular podcast A Call for Love shares how to overcome anxiety, soul fatigue and self-limiting beliefs. Come learn the 3 kinds of COMPASSION that you can apply immediately to your life toward a mindset transformation toward better self-care, peace and joy.

Mentioned Resources –

A Call for Love - Podcast https://a-call-for-love.captivate.fm/listen     

Global Wellness Education

https://www.instagram.com/globalwellnesseducation/

https://www.facebook.com/Global-Wellness-Education-104421351959935

https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-orsini-07102b208/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFN0-hQxN875X1TwZ8sJYBQ

About the guest –  

Linda Orsini is the founder of Global Wellness Education and the host of the A Call for Love podcast. Transitioning from a retired school-teacher with over 30+ years of experience, Linda is a passionate advocate for personal growth and transformation. Her own profound healing journey through anxiety, soul fatigue, fear, and self-limiting beliefs has fueled an unwavering commitment to empowering others on their transformative journeys. With her expertise in body-mind-spirit practices, Linda will skillfully guide you toward a life flowing with love, self-compassion, inner peace, and joy, helping you release the blocks and pains that are preventing you from living your best life.

About the Host:

Howard Brown is a best-selling author, award-winning international speaker, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, interfaith peacemaker, and a two-time stage IV cancer survivor. He is also a sought-after speaker and consultant for corporate businesses, nonprofits, congregations, and community groups. Howard has co-founded two social networks that were the first to connect religious communities around the world. He is a nationally known patient advocate and “cancer whisperer” to many families. Howard, his wife Lisa, and daughter Emily currently reside in Michigan, and his happy place is on the basketball court.

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Hello is this Howard Brown Welcome to the

Shining Brightly Show. So glad to have you. Listen. It's really

important we hear these terms self care equals self love. What

does that all mean? Well, I've got a great guest who's going to

talk us through it today and tell us why this is so important

in building yourself confidence in you, Linda Orsini Welcome.

How are you?

I am fantastic. Thank you, Howard.

WOW. So, this is I always like to learn from all of

our coaches and experts. And I want to tell you a little bit

about Linda. So Linda Orsini is the founder of the global

wellness education, and the host of a call for love power

podcast. So she's a retired school teacher. 30 years

experience. What grade?

All grades all grades in elementary?

All right, well, we gotta love our teachers. They

are role models, and they are heroes. Oh my goodness. 30 years

of teaching. Linda is passionate advocate for personal growth and

transformation. Her own profound healing journey through anxiety,

Soul fatigue, fear, self limiting beliefs has fueled an

unwavering commitment to empowering others on their

transformative journeys, where their expertise and body mind

and spirit practices. lindo will skillfully guide you toward a

life flowing with love, self care, self compassion, inner

peace and joy helping you release the blocks and pains

that are preventing you from living your best life. Oh, wow,

we need Linda. Linda, tell us fill in the blanks. What did I

miss. And also include something that we may not know about you

something that you want to share?

Well, I'm so happy to be here. And I love your

podcast. So what an honour it is to speak with you and your

listeners. I am the youngest of 11 children. So you may not know

that, yeah, I have 10 older brothers and sisters. And so I'm

the youngest and maybe feisty. Like to add feisty there and

really independent. And I get things done. So I am self

motivated. And I just do not wait for things to happen. I

kind of had the mindset to create them myself. So that's

just a different piece of information I like to share.

You had a whole team of people. Oh, love it. Oh,

my goodness, you're the baby. So Oh, my God, you had so many

people taking care of your that's amazing. Did you get

special treatment as being the youngest of 11.

You know, my mom went to the bedroom at the top

of the stairs. And every time somebody came in the house,

she'd say, I made an apple pie just for you. And then the next

person would come in the house and she would say, I made an

apple pie just for you. And we would all hear this, but we

would all be delighted. And then one day I was in a bookstore and

the title said love each child the most. And I think she really

live that both my parents did. There was lots of love to go

around.

God bless her 11 children. That's amazing. And

it's great sage advice from your mom. So I thank you for sharing

that. Well, let's dig in and we're going to chop it up a

little bit. So school teacher for 30 years. And you you

actually in your bio, I read that you have an anxiety you had

soul fatigue, Soul fatigue, what is that you have to explain self

limiting beliefs. Tell us what happened to you. What's your

story?

Well, I was a school teacher and I loved it.

Like I seriously loved it. But I would wake up every morning

almost in tears, didn't know how I was going to make it through

each day. I was completely exhausted. And this is where

it's just not exhausted in your body, but your energy. So I am a

yoga meditation guide, sound healer and Reiki master so I do

know what it feels like to be in your spirit so depleted. And I

would wake up each morning almost in tears not knowing how

I was going to manage to the day and I decided to find my own

path to healing my energy body and my mind because I was very

anxious and anxiety as we know is worrying about the future. So

I decided to really empower myself by first di diving into

somatic healing practices and when I say somatic which I'm

sure your your listeners will be interested to hear. We carry

trauma, pain, worry suffering in our body in our physical body.

And in order to relieve that is very helpful and actually

detrimental to relieve it to our energy body through nature

through restorative yoga, through breath, work, all these

different modalities, sorry, different modalities that really

guide you to self healing. Wow,

I resonate with it, but I am not a yoga guy or a

meditation guy, I get it all out on the basketball court through

extreme exercise, hiking, biking, basketball, but there's

a lot of my audience here that needs to be able to process

that, especially folks that have been dealt with cancer or

caregivers. And I, I heard something that resonated with me

with you is that you are, you're waking up every day with fear

before you went to work. And that can lead to bad things, and

burnout. And I hear that in the nursing profession, we're

hearing that in the teaching profession now. And that's not a

good way to wake up every day. I mean, you want to wake up every

day and try to be as positive as you can and be blessed. Be

grateful, seize the day, but you had to overcome that. And now

you help others to do so. So that's really, really important.

Now, I listened to your podcast to where mutual fans were very

aligned, about motivate, educate, and inspire our

listeners. And I want you to tell us how your podcast came

about. And it's called the call for love. And what inspired you

to choose that name? And what does that really mean to you?

Well, it's so interesting, because I knew I

wanted to start a podcast and I didn't know what what I was

going to name it. And it came to me one day, because if you think

of your day, Howard, and if the listeners think of their day,

how many different emotions have you felt up to this point of

listening? You could have had joy, exhaustion, fear, stress,

anxiety, anger, you could have had resentment, you could have

had a whole range of emotions. And in one day, you can

experience so many emotions. And instead of calling them in some

spiritual texts, because I am a student of A Course in Miracles,

they say there's two emotions, there's fear. And then there's

love. And the first episode of my podcast series, a talk about

the difference between the two, and and how on these rocks, I

was painting, fear on one side and love on the other. And fear

means stress, anxiety, resentment, anger, sadness, all

those negative emotions. And that's the What fear kind of

represents. And I realised I don't want to think of my life

as love and fear, because fear is so negative, and I'm in it a

lot. And so, through A Course in Miracles, and the tax, there is

another term that you can call fear. And that's a call for

love. So you can be in two places, you can be either in a

place of love, or there's a call for love. And I think it's

really empowering for us to notice, where we are standing.

Are we standing in the light? Are we starting in the shadow in

the darkness? And noticing it, just noticing it? And that's the

first peace? Are you in a place of love? Or is there a call for

love. And then when you notice that and you give yourself some

time and space. And when you offer yourself Self Compassion,

because to notice it requires some courage to say, Oh, I'm

feeling really angry and to hold space for that, then you can

invite love in. And that's a call for love.

Well, we're shining brightly as you know,

with the sun coming off those that are listening on video, I'm

staring at a sign behind you and I want to read it because you

just said about the two places have a call for love or it's

amazing. So behind you, I'm reading and for those listening

and watching you'll be able to see it but for those listening,

it says every day, laugh, celebrate love, dream, hope,

learn and brace wish, share, enjoy, give live and smile. And

it's it's I'm just staring at it going. That's amazing and you're

trying to live in that embodiment or you're trying to

get there and that's it's cool. So I I really appreciate you

having that sign behind you. It's a great reminder to where

we can get to or if we're already there to just really be

thankful and grateful that we were there in some parts of it.

or day or life and things like that. So on your path to self

love, you give me some stories of how this, how this

transformed you, I'm sure people look at some tangible examples.

So share some stories with us.

Okay, I will, I am so happy you mentioned this

because I had guided a retreat for some woman, just the other

week. And on my way home, I had an experience that was not very

pleasant, you know, I have a super great marriage, like

divorced and remarried. And I hadn't been with my husband for

almost three weeks, because I had been travelling, yada, yada,

yada. And I was listening to all the things he was doing without

me and I have some jealousy, I had some jealousy. And so this

is noticing. And then I got a little cranky. And, you know,

all these feelings were coming up that were not very pleasant.

So because of my practice of a love, or a call for love, I

noticed I was not in a place of love. And I could say things

that were just unnecessary and, and nasty. And mean, and I

didn't want to this is marriage, you know, we're all if you're in

a marriage or a partnership, you know, these things come up. And

so I was thinking to myself, Okay, I noticed that I'm not in

a place of love. I'm not in a good space. So what am I going

to do, I'm going to step back, and I can say anything, I'm

going to feel all my emotions, hold space for all my emotions,

and then offer self compassion. And there's three components to

self compassion. There's the first one is self kindness, oh,

I'm feeling these feelings, and they're not comfortable.

What am I going to do? So I offer myself

some soothing, that maybe placed my hand on my heart, or maybe

you know, I rub my forehead, or I roll my shoulders and release

it from my body. And then I say, you know, this is not unusual,

that, you know, I've been away for about three weeks. And you

know, we've led our separate lives for a couple of weeks, and

these emotions could come up. This is part of the human

experience. Just noticing that and appreciating that. And then

I gave myself some space, I breathed into it, I went for a

little walk, I put my feet in the in the grass and the ground,

it gave me some space I, I took some deep breaths, and

pranayama, which is breathing techniques in yoga. And then I

let it go. And then I can and then when I finally got home, I

could greet him with love and kindness, because I was very

happy and excited to see him. But it was a journey. It was a

journey to notice that we get triggers in our life, that are

painful or uncomfortable. We notice them, we create space for

them. We offer ourselves self compassion. And then we switch

we flip the switch from those unhealthy emotions that hold us

back from living our true light from shining brightly into a

place of love. And that's what I want to be. And that's what I

advocate for is that it's through our mindset, and through

practices that we can flip into a place of love. And then when

you are self compassionate and loving. What does that do? It

ripples outward. It makes the whole world a brighter place.

And everything all love comes from self love. All love comes

from ourselves. So that is an example of how I practice how I

walk the talk.

I appreciate that. So it's fear of missing out

because you he was maybe golfing or doing something with his

friends and I get it. And then so you said there were three

things in self compassion I got one was self kindness. The

second one was with creating space.

So self kindness, yes. common humanity, which is

really knowing that this is part of the human experience. Okay,

and number three, and and they're in no particular order,

and mindfulness. That means holding space noticing. So

you're going to notice maybe offer yourself some kindness and

then know that this is not unusual and they could come that

you can have some more of one than the other and they can come

in different order, but always usually It really starts with

the mindfulness piece is just noticing. And I like to say

where you're standing, are you standing in love? Or is there a

call for love? So noticing first the sensations of uncomfortable.

I appreciate that. And I, the reason I wanted to

get that down was because it's easy to hear it, but I missed

it. Because I was really listening to your examples, and

then putting it into practice. So I want to actually then now,

you're an advocate for self compassion, and you have this

wisdom, when someone is going through struggles, okay, I live

in the cancer world, and the patients and their caregivers

and their families are struggling. But you know,

whether it's addiction or loss of job or divorce, or

relationships, we all get knocked down. And it's you have

to get back up again. And I always say that we lift

ourselves up. And that's what you do. So when someone comes to

you, what advice do you offer them? When they're in the

struggle? Well, how do you get started? And where do you take

them through?

Well, that's an excellent question. And I have

coaching clients, and although I have not particularly dealt with

cancer patients, per se, I have dealt with people who are really

struggling with death of a partner or a friend or breakups,

life traumatic events. And what I say is, what are you feeling?

What are you feeling? What, what emotions are going through? And

no doubtedly fear will come up? Where do you feel it in your

body? Where is this sorrow? Where is this fear? Where is

this anger? Where are you feeling it in your body, your

emotional body, and they can sometimes place their hands on

their heart, you know, they can feel it in their digestion. And

you know, when your body when you're holding these thoughts in

your mind, it becomes dis ease. And ease in the mind is not

helping the body. So knowing what you're feeling, noticing

where it is in your body. And then the instinct is no one

likes uncomfortable. We always are trying to push away, what is

not pleasant. And the key here is to hold space for what is

unpleasant, in order to move through it. Because if we push

it aside, we're ignoring it. But when we hold space for it, it

can move through us. And we can leave it behind. And it doesn't

become a burden and it doesn't become a weight.

I appreciate that. One of the things that where you

and I have just really, really well aligned is that so I carry

my stress on my shoulders, and then you carry it obviously in

your head, what I do is, at times, go help somebody else, it

actually takes my mind off of that and going being a mentor,

or listening ear or a hug for somebody else. And that actually

helps a little bit in rejuvenating me, and then I can

focus back on me. Because I say, you know, you got to lift

yourself up first. And but I find that helping others, the

endorphins, just kind of then allow me to come back to me all

that. But the world is stressful. And again, it's how

you actually take it on is what I'm hearing from you. But

focusing back and giving people the right tools, whether that's

breathing, I call it finding your happy place, the stress

free zone. So we're talking about the same thing. You use

the mindfulness techniques and things like that as well, which

are certainly important. And when people see these things

working for them, I think you'll agree that the practice of

gratitude, self gratitude, and gratitude really helps carry you

forward. And so can you speak to that a little bit?

Yes, well, I would like to go back a little bit and

say that, first of all, we need to know what our body needs to

release that cortisol that that springs up and you said you play

basketball. You know, sometimes that's what you need, you know,

you need to release that that energy and then you can come

into a place of more calm, but when you practice self

compassion, it automatically creates a more empathetic

person. And that's what we want because when we become self

compassionate and self compassion is not selfish. It's

tapping into what we need. Only then can we bought being more

empathetic to others. And that's what I say a call for love. What

are we living if we're just loving ourselves, and we're not

spreading that out to others, so that you first reach out to

others, it's an act of love. An act of love grows, right? It's

not limited, is full abundance. So you're spreading that love

and energetically, that's a higher vibration. And when you

are sharing that light, and that love with others, it can't, it

can't not stop. At just them, it permeates everyone. And that's a

sense of gratitude. We knew, fill, fill and live your life

from a place of love, without resentment without fear all

those places, your vibration changes, your health changes,

your skin changes, I swear your whole physical body changes, you

have this glow and this light around you shining brightly. How

can you shine brightly? If you're living in a place of

fear, anxiety, stress? No, is. But I say that it's it's not

automatic. For a lot of people, a lot of people need some

guidance to work through it. Because we stick we stick to

those negative emotions. And that's where meditation is so so

important, because it teaches us that we are not going to die

from an unhealthy emotion, that it's like the wave of the ocean

is going to come to us and guess what is going to roll away?

So yeah, that meditation is one of the tools

and practices that that helps. I'm assuming you. Are there

others, you speak of a couple others on your podcast, I

noticed.

Yeah. So well, I in my podcasts I am including

meditations and I am on Insight Timer. Now. I'm an advocate for

meditation, because of the benefits are really mind

boggling. It's 1000s upon, probably since humankind has

come on this earth, meditation has been a practice. Meditation

is paramount to living healthy in our mind and body, and to be

best stewards of this earth. So meditation, I do believe that,

you know, energy can't be created or destroyed. It's not

even my belief. It's a fact, right? It's a scientific fact

that energy cannot be created or destroyed. So your energy, how

are you living in it? How are you moving through it, and it

can get stuck in our body. And then once again, that's where it

dis ease can come in. And so as a Reiki Master, and transfer,

formative life coach and I am trained in hypnotherapy, all

these modalities, I think I've studied almost everything there

is it's a strength, but it's a weakness. Because I am more of a

student than a teacher, I love learning. The thing, the reason

why I've learned all these modalities is because

something's going to resonate with one person. And when I have

my clients, I have a whole toolbox that I can pull from

that resonates with them. Especially if there's certain

personalities, you know, some people are not going to want to

sit still through a meditation, but I can guide them through a

very gentle movement practice, which helps them get closer to

that somatic healing.

Well, you spoke of, you know, fear and anxiety

and stress and I in my book, I refer to that as darkness. And

that's where people are trying to get out of, I just read a

fact that coming out of the pandemic, and COVID, where we

were very much restricted on what we could and cannot do. The

number one thing coming out now is the emotion of loneliness.

It's really interesting in a world, you know, people have

really missed getting out and being amongst people, the

embrace of a hug and things like that. And how can how can get

into the place of love, help that help you. Because

loneliness is something that people are dealing with now. And

you need to be able to look inward and be able to then share

yourself once you're, you know, ready to ready to, you know, on

a solid foundation. So did you know that about loneliness is

one of the big emotional malaise coming out of the pandemic?

Well,

I would say loneliness could be all the

time, but it was just more emphasised in COVID. You know,

you know, in the jail, what did they do? The worst torture is

putting you in solitary confinement, right? Yeah. So

being alone is is often terrifying. And it's funny that

you should mention this because I just came off of a five day

silent retreat, and being alone with oneself is no walk in the

park. It's not a picnic. And I, once again, if we're feeling

lonely, notice the feeling off for years noticing is

mindfulness than offering yourself loving kindness. And

then knowing that it's not unusual to feel lonely, it's

part of being this human experience. And then shining

brightly taking that love and taking it outward. My father

always used to say, Go serve. My parents were big, volunteer

people, my brothers and sisters were really advocates for living

and loving and moving outside of ourselves. So if you're lonely,

give what you want. You want more love, give love. You want

more time, give time, you want more attention, give attention,

and then it will come back to you like a boomerang.

It's great advice. While this is this, my show is

only a teaser, because people got to go watch your show and

get in touch with you. So this is the moment we are going to

shine. We have shined all show. But now the shining brightly the

spotlight is on you, Linda, I'd love for you to tell people how

they can get in touch with you. And then give us some final

thoughts and then kick it back over me for the show wrap.

Well, I would love to offer your listeners journal.

It's a seven day guide to self love, which I will keep

available for your listeners. And of course, I'm on all the

platforms. A call for love is my my podcast name, and also my

social media. But my Business is Global wellness education,

because I'm a speaker, a coach, mine mindfulness guide,

meditation guide so many modalities. So I decided as an

educator, and global, I advocate for wellness. So my my business

name is Global Wellness Education.

And well thank you. And also I want to add that

you're also a teacher and a student, as well, because you

mentioned so so we'll definitely include all that information in

the show notes and on all the socials and definitely the link

to the PDF that journal will will definitely include that.

Give me some final thoughts and we're going to wrap the show.

My final thoughts is that we are so lucky to be

alive, to be breathing. And when we find the love deep love

within us, it is our duty as humans part of this spiritual

experience to give it outwards. So shine the light to shine the

love. And if you're not in a place of love, then there's a

call for love. But you can always decide

Wow, powerful Thank you. Well, it's so nice to

have you Linda and sharing your your teaching your wisdom and

your passion with with my audience. Thanks for being here

today. So this is Howard Brown, you've been on the shining

brightly show. You can reach me at shining brightly.com I've got

the book my speaking also the podcast. There's also things

about my cancer journey, lots of video and also other podcasts.

So come seek me out there. There's also discussion guides

that are free downloadables on survivorship. Mentorship is

leadership and interfaith meeting the other so lots of

good resources there and get interactive with me. Again,

Linda Orsini thank you a call for love. Really a pleasure to

have you on the show today. Thank you.