The Cathy Heller Podcast

The Hidden Signs You Have an Unhealed Father Wound

Join the Community https://link.cathyheller.com/ What if the ambition, independence, and ability to “handle everything” that people admire about you are also protecting a much younger part of you that never felt fully safe, seen, or worthy? In this episode of Everything Is Energy, Cathy sits down with psychotherapist and author Terri Cole for a deeply personal conversation about the Father Wound and the invisible ways it can shape our relationships, careers, self-worth, and ability to receive. Terri shares how she spent years believing she was simply ambitious until a therapist asked whether she was running toward something or running away from something. That question helped her see how much of her achievement, overfunctioning, and high-functioning codependency was connected to a deeper belief that her worth depended on what she could accomplish or give to other people. Terri walks through the process of identifying your own Father Wound Blueprint, honoring what happened without vilifying your father, learning to ask for and receive help, and allowing compassion for your parents’ humanity to emerge without using their pain to minimize your own. She also explains why you do not need to confront your father, or even have him alive, in order to do this work. This episode is for you if you are exhausted from always being the capable one, you struggle to ask for help or let people show up for you, you notice yourself repeating painful relationship patterns, or you are ready to understand where your drive to achieve and prove yourself may actually come from. Terri’s book Father Wound explores these patterns and the process of reclaiming worth, boundaries, and relational power. Get Father Wound FatherWoundBook.com Follow Terri @terricole Follow Cathy on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cathy.heller/ Work with Cathy https://cathyheller.com/start-here/

The Part of Longevity Most People Are Missing

Join the Community https://cathyheller.com/cathys-circle/ What if feeling healthier, more alive, and more connected does not require changing your entire life at once, but simply making the next choice that aligns with the highest version of you? In this episode of Everything Is Energy, Cathy sits down with her friend Sanam Ghiyam for a conversation about the intersection of physical health, spirituality, desire, and what it really means to thrive. Sanam has spent years optimizing her own health and sharing what she learns with the people around her, and together she and Cathy explore why taking care of your body and deepening your spiritual life may be more connected than we realize. They talk about the simple foundations Sanam returns to again and again, including sleep, resistance training, and nourishing food, as well as the role that peptides and GLP-1s can play when used thoughtfully with medical guidance. But the conversation goes much deeper than health hacks. Cathy and Sanam explore what it means to live with certainty without needing to control the outcome, why your desires may be pointing you toward the next version of yourself, and how sharing what you receive creates more abundance for everyone around you. They also talk about starting small instead of trying to overhaul your life overnight, why who you surround yourself with matters, and how a few minutes of gratitude can completely change what you notice. Cathy shares a powerful story about asking God and her late father for guidance and receiving an answer in a way she never could have predicted. This episode is for you if you feel overwhelmed by all the conflicting advice about health and longevity, you want to feel stronger and more energized as you get older, you are learning how to trust your desires without becoming attached to the outcome, or you want to become more available to the guidance, synchronicities, and blessings that may already be surrounding you. Follow Cathy on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cathy.heller/ Work with Cathy https://cathyheller.com/work-with-me Explore MedPod LA https://medpodla.com Follow MedPod LA @medpodla

The Real Reason Manifestation Isn’t Working

Join the Community https://cathyheller.com/cathys-circle/ What if the reason your life does not feel like yours is not that you need more, but that you have spent so long becoming who everyone else needed you to be? In this episode of Everything Is Energy Cathy sits down with Rachael Blumberg Chiprut, founder of PLATEFIT, coach, spiritual adviser, and speaker, for an honest conversation about what happens when a life that looks successful on the outside no longer feels true on the inside. At 41, Rachael had the family, the businesses, the friends, and the life she thought she was supposed to want, but she was miserable. She shares the decision that began to change everything: taking alcohol out of her life, sitting with herself, and becoming radically honest about the fear, resentment, and beliefs that had kept her disconnected from who she really was. Cathy and Rachael talk about why meditation needs to feel safe for your nervous system, how changing your inner world begins to reshape your outer one, and why manifestation is less about collecting things and more about deciding how you want to feel. They also explore the courage it takes to become visible, the unexpected gift inside judgment, and what becomes possible when you stop performing and allow yourself to be fully seen. This episode is for you if your life looks good on paper but something still feels missing, you are afraid to use your voice or be seen, you are ready to release a habit or identity that no longer fits, or you want a simple way to begin creating a life that actually feels like yours. Follow Cathy on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cathy.heller/ Work with Cathy https://cathyheller.com/work-with-me Connect with Rachael on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rachaelblumbergchiprut/ Read Rachael’s Substack https://rachaelblumberg.substack.com/ Explore Rachael’s Circles and Coaching https://stan.store/Rachaelblumbergchiprut

How to Trust Life When Nothing Is Going According to Plan

Join Our Community: https://app.cathyheller.com/ What if rejection isn’t proof that something went wrong, but the Divine Navigation System rerouting you toward what your soul is actually here to receive? In this episode of Everything Is Energy, Cathy sits down with Yehuda Ashkenazi, senior teacher at The Kabbalah Centre, musician, composer, and creator of Sacred Sounds. Yehuda explains what it means to be a vessel for the Light: like the moon, we receive light not only for ourselves, but so we can reflect and reveal it to others. They explore the difference between a partner who makes you comfortable and one who makes you better, and how relationships can support our transformation. This episode is for you if life isn’t going according to plan, you’re making sense of a rejection or ending, or you’re ready to stop searching outside yourself for the wisdom and certainty already within you. Join Cathy’s Circle: https://www.cathyheller.com/cathys-circle/ Follow Cathy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cathy.heller/ Work with Cathy: https://cathyheller.com/work-with-me Connect with Yehuda: https://linktr.ee/Ashke72

You're Not Becoming Someone New, You're Remembering Who You Are

In this episode, you'll learn: Why the greatest chronic stress isn't work or money, it's being inauthentic, saying yes when your whole body means no How to take the most important meeting of your day, the five minutes with yourself and God before the day hijacks you and you lose agency over it The exact morning prayer Cathy uses, asking God to open her eyes and send the receipts, the divine wink, within the next 24 hours The light bulb principle for hard seasons, why darkness isn't less light, it's a 45 watt vessel being asked to hold 1000 watts The out loud practice of saying "this is the best thing that ever happened" and then hunting for the evidence that proves it Why the Torah says every single person is a whole world, so impacting one person a day can quietly change everything The Hebrew word ratzon, desire, and why gaslighting yourself out of what you actually want lands you in someone else's destiny Why when God wants to make you David, he sends you a Goliath, and the lesson of the spies who couldn't see what they were a match for This is for you if you have been taking care of everyone but yourself and can't remember what you prefer anymore. This is for you if you can't tell your own voice from the voice of what other people expect you to want. This is for you if you're facing a hard set of cards, illness, loss, a season that makes no sense, and you need a bigger frame to stand inside. This is for you if you want your intuition to get louder and you're finally ready to trust it, even when it's inconvenient. Join Cathy's membership This Abundant Life http://cathyheller.com/life Listen to Everything is Energy on Apple Podcasts https://apple.co/2JjyyM1 or Spotify https://spoti.fi/3bKK13W Follow Cathy on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cathy.heller/ Want to work with Cathy? cathyheller.com/work-with-me Guest links: Read LA Mom Magazine https://www.lamommagazine.com/ Follow Shirin on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lamommagazine/ Watch the Moms Matter talk show with Shirin Yadegar: https://www.youtube.com/@momsmattertv/videosMore of Shirin's Link: https://linktr.ee/lamommagazine?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPOTM2NjE5NzQzMzkyNDU5AAGn-7hovJDF7HHKQtLCTVBLKwxe5WKeIa8XlI-OoXDn77b7AS09eCHLiAI7wUY_aem_mya_0oSZ_J-nHrrc_sVc0g Timestamps 00:00 Why Cathy is replaying this conversation 02:46 The cost of taking care of everyone but yourself 04:50 You're not becoming someone new, you're remembering who you are 05:30 What your chart reveals about your soul assignment 06:15 Hidden in plain sight, your authentic design 07:20 The number one cause of chronic stress 07:41 The hairstylist story that will give you chills 09:58 Make the main thing the main thing 10:23 Why every single person is a whole world 12:16 The most important meeting of your day 13:08 Want what you actually want 14:16 The morning prayer that opens your eyes 15:18 The sign at the store 15:48 How to face cancer, loss, and adversity 16:10 The light bulb and the vessel for the light 17:03 This is the best thing that ever happened 18:10 Amy Purdy chose to come back 19:13 You can't see the whole painting up close 19:49 When God wants to make you David, he sends Goliath 20:16 Fix your eyes, the lesson of the spies 22:15 What to do today if you doubt yourself 23:13 Divine Download live in LA, August 2 and 3 #Authenticity #Manifestation #Intuition #SpiritualGrowth #RememberingWhoYouAre #DivineTiming #FaithAndHealing #EverythingIsEnergy - Join Cathy's membership This Abundant Life http://cathyheller.com/life - Listen to Everything is Energy on Apple Podcasts https://apple.co/2JjyyM1 or Spotify https://spoti.fi/3bKK13W - Follow Cathy on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cathy.heller/ - Want to work with Cathy? cathyheller.com/work-with-me