Tricia is joined by guest Roberta Hughes, founder and owner of Peacefull Living. Listen as they discuss creating awareness around emotions.

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Hello. Hello everybody. Welcome to Mastering the Drop, A real view of recovery where myself and my guests talk about all different, um, aspects of a life recovery journey. Um, this week I have to say, I'm, I'm, I feel especially grateful and as you can all see just even with the peaceful background, um, I have a very dear friend of mine, Roberta, here with me from Peacefull Living and, and it's just such a gift that she is here and, and we've been spending quite a bit of time together lately and, um, with the team and, and, and everything and, and she just has so many gifts to give. But I really love how everything that she teaches and, and brings to her practice, um, how it actually supports a lot of the cognitive and emotional work that we do at Turning Leaves.

Because her approach is also, you know, with that, with that thought process of helping you nurture your own self-awareness of, of cultivating that emotional intelligence. And, and, and you know, of course this the stress management that we all need, right? And I am, am. You know, I'm not quite about the fact that I love, you know, Pilates and meditation and my, you know, my spirituality is, is, you know, very, um, very special to me.

And, and I, I just love the, the work that she does and, and the meditations are so healing. Um, anyway, I, I haven't even introduced her yet completely. Roberta Hughes. Is, is the founder of Peacefull Living, where, you know, she does customized, um, classes. There's on demand. Um, you can do yoga, you can do Pilates, you can do meditation, and, and you can, you can do it all, you know, in, in one sitting and, and it's just such a wonderful.

Approach and, and just, uh, just the site itself is, is so peaceful and, and I just love the way that, you know, you've set up your practice, Roberta. So I'm gonna let you like, come in and say hello and introduce yourself Before I start with all of the wonderful questions I, I wanna ask you today, 

So thank you Tricia, for the introduction and for having me here on your show.

We have been working on a few things together lately, and I recently had the opportunity to do a guided meditation for some of your coaches, and that was a true gift for the holidays. Not just for me, but I hope for them and for you as well. Um, as coaches, you guys give so much to helping people on their recovery journey that it's important to nourish and nurture yourselves along the way and not to forget to do that.

So, It's been a joy to be part of that support team for you and your coaches and to be here today to see what I can share to help your audience and your clients and the people who listen to your podcast for inspiration and hope and motivation on their recovery journey. 

Thank you. It is, it's always so amazing to, to spend time with you and, and I'll tell you the feedback from, from our team meeting.

Um, when you came was all about you and, and, and all of the gratitude for, for having you come in and spend some time with them. They all felt so just blessed and, and gifted. When, when, um, when it was over and, and it's, so anyway, it was. It was, it was amazing. But, um, you know, something that, you know, you and I haven't talked about, so I've been dying to ask you this, um, is, you know, to to know really what, what drove you or what brought you to this place that you're in, like the work that you do, because it's such a gift.

You know, I, I always, I'm always really interested to know like what. What drove you to be here and, and then you know,  what, you know, really cultivated that passion to, to, you know, take it even further and create this wonderful thing that you have. 

Yeah. So I first became curious about yoga in college. I took my first yoga class.

As a one credit course in college, and prior to that movement had always been a part of my life, but it was more from the place of gymnastics and cheerleading and the performance of movement rather than, um, mindful movement and figuring out how movement affected your body. Not on the only on a physical level, but on an emotional and spiritual and mental level as well.

And I really felt the transformation right away. After I would finish a yoga class and walk out that door, I just felt different. I felt more at ease. I felt more at peace. I felt more focused and ready to go to my next class, and my friends could see it in me too. So that's really where the curiosity about yoga started and after college, I got married and was moving around every three years because my ex-husband was in the Air Force and. I was able to study at Santa Barbara Yoga Center, which is pretty close to where you live. . Yeah, that's where I did my 200 hour yoga teacher training. Um, when I was four months pregnant with my second son, I drove up and down the coast from Vandenberg Air Force Base to Santa Barbara over the course of two years and completed that 200 hour training.

And as I taught yoga, I could just see how it helped people, um, find that place of peace. And mostly I taught for fitness centers at Air Force Bases and then for big box gyms when we no longer lived on the Air Force base and. Over time, I kind of moved away from the yoga practice because I found that many people were looking more for movement as a way to achieve something, and that wasn't really how I taught yoga.

And during that time, I was introduced to Pilates. And for me, Pilates was more of the the thing that you could do to create movement patterns to. Changes in the physical body, and that felt better for me to teach in the fitness center, um, environment. But fast forward to 2018, I, I started missing my yoga practice again.

And missing that as being a teacher, and I really wanted to bring it back into my teaching. I would kind of weave it in with some of my Pilates clients, but I ended up opening this tiny boutique yoga center within a Pilate studio. It was only big enough for three students at a time, so it was more of a semi-private experience, and it was designed to feel like a relaxation room at the spa.

So it really was the place to come and restore and nourish yourself, not really to do something to yourself. And I opened the doors the October before Covid  and had just started to see people in this little tiny studio and you know, start to offer yoga again. And then of course we know what happened  in March of 2020, so I had to close the door and that's when I started all of my online and virtual content. And I'll kind of pause and let you ask a question because maybe you wanna go in a different direction.

I always have so much swimming through my head, right. Because you know, even when you started talking.

You know, uh, you know, your, your physical fitness, right? Like that, that period of your life before, you know, when you got into yoga and it was gymnastics and it was this, and it was that. And, um, I, I, I relate to that in a lot of ways.

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Connect with Roberta Hughes:

Website: https://www.peacefullliving.com/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/roberta_peacefullliving/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/robertapeacefullliving/

LN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roberta-hughes/

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