Creativity, Movement, and Reiki: Reconnecting with Intuition with Brigitta Dau

Host Tricia Rose Stone welcomes life coach, Reiki master, Pilates instructor, author, and creativity guide Brigitta Dau to discuss how creativity and movement can help women reconnect with intuition and self-trust. Brigitta describes creativity—through doodling, coloring, simple art prompts, or noticing color palettes—as a daily practice for becoming more comfortable with uncertainty and quieting the inner critic. She explains how movement practices like Pilates, walking without earbuds, yoga, or Tai Chi ground people in the present and can help them access inner wisdom, using imagery-based cues to engage the body differently. Brigitta also shares how Reiki and guided visualization strengthen awareness of sensations and inner knowing, offering a practical example of a “river” visualization as a tool for navigating different emotional days. She suggests honoring younger parts of oneself (inspired by IFS) to move through transitions such as loneliness or relationship blocks, and shares her offerings, including Synergistic Saturdays and Sundays on Zoom and her book, "Landing on Your North Star."

00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro

01:10 Creativity as Intuition

02:20 Getting Comfortable Unknown

05:26 Aging and Inner Parts

07:32 Creativity Heals Brain

09:37 Pilates Imagery Cues

10:42 Movement for Intuition

14:00 Reiki Meets Creativity

16:45 River Visualization Wisdom

19:23 Advice for Relationship Blocks

23:08 Easy At Home Creativity

26:01 Find Brigitta and Book

29:33 Closing Takeaways

On Her New Lens, host Dr. Tricia Rose Stone interviews author and traveler Chanoa Inez about losing her 41-year-old boyfriend, Boro, who died unexpectedly in his sleep from a clot the morning after what she called the most perfect day of her life in Montenegro.

Chanoa describes the shock, choosing to stay in Europe for Orthodox grieving traditions, and years of unprocessed grief that coincided with chronic health issues, food sensitivities, and tendonitis.

Through modalities including yoga, retreats, EFT tapping, and especially Dr. Joe Dispenza meditations and a 2023 Denver retreat, she recognized long-standing victim mindset patterns, low self-love reflected in toxic relationships, and how “shoulds” and martyrdom kept her stuck.

She shares tips such as recognizing exhausting situations, advocating for one’s inner child, and reframing self-love as refusing to give away power. Listeners can find her book Dream On at ChanoaInez.com.

00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro

01:17 Perfect Day Turns Tragic

03:14 Shock and Calling for Help

04:38 Staying in Europe to Grieve

05:36 Health Crashes and Healing Quest

07:47 Victim Mindset Revealed

11:29 Breaking Toxic Relationship Patterns

15:27 Self Love and Deep Meditation Tools

19:29 Healing Results and Body Signals

20:57 Self Love vs Victim Identity

25:10 Practical Tips and Inner Child Work

28:17 Where to Find the Book

28:57 Final Takeaways and Call to Share

In episode eight of Her New Lens: Empowered Vision, Tricia Stone explains that vision and self-image don’t sustain themselves without a consistent daily practice to counter the ego’s loud narrative, sharing a recent moment in which a small disappointment triggered an old story about being behind. Using ideas from James Clear’s Atomic Habits—especially that “every action is a vote for the person you want to become,” plus habit stacking and the two-minute rule—she outlines three simple touchpoints to keep vision alive: morning visualization, a small creative art practice (plus taking an inspiring photo during the day), and printing images to add to a collage/vision board or digital board. She emphasizes scheduling these practices in Google Calendar for accountability and closes by recapping the season’s earlier episodes and inviting listeners to design three touchpoints, stack them onto existing habits, and add them to the calendar.

00:00 Season Recap Setup

00:28 Why Vision Slips

01:00 Ego Story Spiral

02:48 Atomic Habits Framework

05:31 Three Daily Touchpoints

06:00 Morning Visualization

06:48 Creative Art And Photos

08:35 Vision Board Collage

11:34 Habit Stacking Two Minutes

12:32 Calendar Accountability

16:34 Your Weekly Challenge

18:03 Season Wrap And Goodbye

Stop Waiting and Move Anyway: From Measurement to Possibility

In episode eight of the Empowered Vision season, host Tricia Rose Stone confesses she began Her New Lens with no audio experience, audience, or plan, and nearly listened to an inner voice urging her to wait until she was ready. Drawing on Rosamund and Benjamin Zander’s The Art of Possibility and Ben Zander’s nursing-home story, she argues that clarity and frameworks often appear only after taking action. She contrasts the “world of measurement” (comparison, scarcity, fear, and waiting for proof) with the “universe of possibility” (openness, contribution, and willingness). Tricia shares personal examples—starting the podcast, envisioning a relationship after an eight-month dating pause, and building a Boston practice—showing how committing to a vision and moving step by step creates momentum and invites outcomes that couldn’t be measured in advance.

00:00 Confession And Vision

02:08 Book That Shifts Thinking

02:52 Nursing Home Lesson

04:21 Invented Limitations

06:01 Move Before Clarity

08:01 Two Worlds Explained

09:41 Rock Bottom To Vision

12:49 Be A Contribution

14:12 You Are The Board

16:41 Frameworks Through Movement

17:35 Personal Proof And Practice

19:28 Final Call To Move

Build the Vision for Love: Naming the Old Pattern and Creating a New Felt Sense

In episode six of the Empowered Vision season of Her New Lens, Tricia Rose Stone shares how she once feared love after repeated dysfunctional relationships that left her feeling unvalued, and how a rock-bottom relationship forced her to confront the “vision” of love she had unconsciously been recreating. She explains that relationship lenses are inherited from early family dynamics and cultural narratives, shaping a self-image that repeats patterns like abandonment, drama, or unworthiness. Tricia describes her own childhood imprint with an alcoholic, unavailable father, and a later emotional breakdown that led her to stop dating and focus on healing, nervous system awareness, and deliberate creation. She outlines building a new relationship vision from the inside out—prioritizing desired feelings like safety, security, and being valued—using journaling, reminders, gratitude, creative visioning, and identity work, then letting go with trust; eight months later, she met her husband, whom she has been with for nine years.

00:00 Fear of Love

01:53 Inherited Relationship Lenses

04:26 Patterns and Self Image

06:54 My Father and Abandonment

08:27 Name the Old Vision

09:38 Rock Bottom Clarity

11:45 My Rock Bottom Story

17:09 Building a New Vision

22:23 Daily Practices to Align

26:40 Letting Go and Trust

28:48 Weekly Takeaways and Close

This episode of Her New Lens focuses on “empowered vision,” defined as seeing truthfully when old identities no longer fit, and features guest Kim Korven, who shares her recent decision to end her second marriage after 15 years due to boundarylessness and feeling like her husband’s emotional support person. Kim describes recognizing patterns rooted in childhood programming around earning love, choosing to end relationships without making the other person the enemy, and recalling earlier reinventions, including peacefully divorcing her first husband, raising children, and returning to law school with unexpected support and scholarships after “jumping off the cliff” in faith. She discusses how tension in a home harms kids, practices that build self-love (breathwork, Miracle Morning SAVERS, and alphabet-based gratitude), and her work helping families navigate divorce peacefully and strategically with resources like journal prompts, scripts, and educational modules.

00:00 Empowered Vision Intro

01:29 Meet Kim Korven

02:28 Choosing Yourself Again

04:07 Peaceful Divorce Mindset

06:27 Law School Leap of Faith

09:25 Reframing and Being Caught

11:47 Seeing Your Growth Clearly

14:14 The Guitar Boundary Wakeup

18:40 Ending Without Making Enemies

19:44 April Fourth Reveal

20:01 Trusting The Leap

20:53 Proof From Past

23:06 Morning Practices

26:27 Alphabet Gratitude

28:33 Advice For Mothers

34:13 Courage To Stay Or Go

35:42 Helping Families Divorce

38:38 New Lens Closing

In episode four of the Empowered Vision season of Her New Lens, Tricia Rose Stone explores self-sabotage through Gay Hendricks’ “upper limit problem” from The Big Leap: an unconscious “internal thermostat” that pulls us back when success, love, joy, or abundance exceed what we believe we can allow. She shares two personal upper limits—fear that visible success will lead to isolation and fear she can’t balance success with wellness, relationships, travel, and interests—then describes common upper-limit behaviors like picking fights, worrying, blame and criticism, procrastination, and mindless scrolling, often appearing right after breakthroughs. She outlines Hendricks’ four underlying barriers (feeling fundamentally flawed; disloyalty/abandonment; burden; capacity) and connects the pattern to staying in the “zone of excellence” instead of the “zone of genius.” She offers steps to dismantle it: name the barrier, catch the pattern in real time, complete the vision (especially for capacity fears), and question isolation fears, including learning from “expanders,” and closes with a weekly challenge and a teaser for next week’s guest episode.

00:00 Season Recap Setup

01:05 Personal Upper Limits

02:21 Inner Thermostat Explained

06:21 Upper Limit Behaviors

13:04 Four Hidden Barriers

17:25 Zone of Genius

21:46 Dismantle The Ceiling

24:52 Weekly Challenge Wrap

25:43 Closing Next Week

Tricia Rose Stone presents episode three of the Empowered Vision Series, focusing on visualization as a deliberate, trainable, science-backed skill rather than wishful thinking.

Inspired by Maya Raichoora’s book Visualize and supported by ideas she cites from Joe Dispenza, she explains that the predictive brain can’t easily distinguish vividly imagined experiences from real ones, making anxiety a form of unconscious negative visualization, and that deliberate visualization can create new mental patterns.

She shares personal examples of manifesting her husband after 7 months of focused visualization, and of manifesting an optometry practice in Boston after recognizing the city and finding a practice one block from a park she’d stayed near. She outlines outcome, process, and creative visualization, recommends a daily “ideal day” rehearsal, emphasizes small, consistent practice, self-belief, and writing down bold visions.

00:00 Series Setup

01:06 Why Visualization Works

02:42 Brain Prediction Patterns

05:32 Anxiety as Visualization

07:30 Athletes Proven Rehearsal

08:32 Manifesting True Love

13:25 Three Visualization Types

18:56 Boston Practice Manifestation

24:09 Daily Ideal Day Routine

27:34 Self-Belief Matters

29:53 Weekly Takeaways Outro