{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F6d04d69e-9e9f-4660-a9de-43692dd6222a","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Living a Regret-Free Life with Erica Mather","description":"Joining Yuliana today is Erica Mather, author of Your Body, Your Best Friend. Hand-selected by Ana Forrest to become a lineage-holder (called \u201ca Guardian\u201d) in the Forrest Yoga system, Erica is also the founder of \u2018The Adore Your Body Transformational Program\u2019, a 7-step system for getting a handle on body image challenges, as well as \u2018The Yoga Clinic of NYC\u2019. In today\u2019s episode, Erica shares with listeners the story of how losing her dad at a young age propelled her into making certain life decisions and taking responsibilities for herself.\r\n\nShe begins by delving into the tragic event of losing her father and how that became a point of inflection that reshaped the direction of her life to be the \u2018captain of her own ship\u2019. She discusses what led her to Yoga - a result of chronic migraines - and how Yoga has helped her in the battle with her illness. She also details how she switched careers from being a professional musician to becoming a Yoga teacher, and reveals the inspiration behind her book, Your Body, Your Best Friend . The episode comes to a close with Erica sharing the song that describes her life, a song about humanity. Filled with wisdom borne out of life experiences, Erica Mather has so many valuable lessons to teach us all about living life without regrets. Listening in today will definitely be time well spent.\r\n\n\r\n\r\n\nEpisode Highlights:\r\n\n- Erica recounts the challenging event that reshaped the direction of her life\r\n\n- When parental expectation disappears.\r\n\n- The various points of inflection that changed Erica\u2019s life.\r\n\n- The battle with adult onset migraines - the path to Yoga.\r\n\n- How Yoga makes you take a long look at your body and spirit\r\n\n- How to resolve that feeling about being viewed with a desire to teach?\r\n\n- Lessons from the book, Your Body, Your Best Friend.\r\n\n- The impetus that inspired the writing of her book\r\n\n- The one song that describes Erica\u2019s life\r\n\n\r\n\r\n\nQuotes:\r\n\n\u201c I just decided I'm going to be my own person, I'm going to be the captain of my own ship, and I am not going to work for people who don't care about me.\u201d\r\n\n\u201cIt's made me have ultimate responsibility for the direction of my life.\u201d\r\n\n\u201cYou know, if I'm unhappy with anything about my work life, or my relationship life, or my friendship life, or my family life, or my spiritual life, I\u2019ve got one person to truly point a finger at.\u201d\r\n\n\u201cHe valued my creativity, my intelligence, and it set me on a path of writing some music and really doubling down on being a professional musician.\u201d\r\n\n\u201cIf you don't have a relationship with your body, it'll be hard to monitor signs that it's giving you.\u201d\r\n\n\u201cPart of our maturity around body image is coming to understand how people might react to you, and then managing your own response to that reaction.\u201d\r\n\n\u201cThe main message of the book is to not waste more time on things that don't produce real outcomes in your life.\u201d\r\n\n\u201cWe have a very finite amount of time, we have a finite amount of energy, and time wasted hating the way you look, disliking the way you look, is time wasted.\u201d\r\n\nLinks:\r\n\nhttps://www.yulianakimgrant.com/phoenix-tales (Phoenix Tales Homepage)\r\n\nhttps://www.instagram.com/yulianakimgrantofficial/ (Phoenix Tales on Instagram)\r\n\nhttps://open.spotify.com/show/1heIpPMsG6HbXXIDLmAnEe (Phoenix Tales on Spotify)\r\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=322043276201679 (Phoenix Tales on Facebook)\r\n\nhttps://ericamather.com/ (Erica Mather Homepage)\r\n\nhttps://www.instagram.com/erica_mather/ (Erica Mather) Instagram\r\n\n\n--- \n\nSend in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yuliana-kim-grant/message","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/99fccde7-877a-4630-a4ea-9790ccb24311/12951280-1625748878674-aa5fe876124fb.jpg"}