Posts by Cianna Reider

President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team on Thursday announced New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland as his nominee for interior secretary, a powerful federal position that oversees natural resources, public lands, and Indian affairs. If confirmed by the Senate, Haaland, from the Pueblo of Laguna, would be the first Native American Cabinet secretary. Haaland was re-elected to her second term representing New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District in November and is currently the vice-chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources. She’s been working to organize rural and tribal communities for years, including in her role as Democratic Party chair of New Mexico.

As the world learns more about Congresswoman Deb Haaland who is President-elect Biden’s pick for Department of the Interior, I went into the archives of this show to replay my interview with Deb in 2016, when she was the first Native American state party chair as chair of the Democratic Party of New Mexico.

In a statement, the Biden-Harris transition team called Haaland a “barrier-breaking public servant who has spent her career fighting for families, including in Tribal Nations, rural communities, and communities of color,” who will be “ready on day one to protect our environment and fight for a clean energy future.”

In this interview from 2016, Cong. Haaland talks about:

• The most powerful moment she experienced with Michelle Obama
• How she felt the night she nominated Hilary Clinton at the democratic convention in 2016
• Her commitment to advocating for women, need for strong families and equal pay
• The importance of diversity in politics and women’s participation in
• politics
• The three key things Congresswomen Haaland does to stay healthy and
• be successful

All the information shared today can be found at the show notes at wellwomanlife.com/232show

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On the Well Woman Show this week, we are discussing the importance of getting our needs met. As women, getting our needs met has been something society has taught us is secondary. First and foremost we should be concerned with nurturing others, whether that’s raising children, taking care of parents, or just simply playing the nurturer role at work, in the community, or with friends. Second, we should be concerned with how we look, being sure to be pleasing to others, particularly men. If we are women AND carry other identities based on race, ability, or sexual orientation then the requirement that we put our needs on the back burner multiplies. So it’s not surprising that so many of us have ongoing unmet needs, which show up as thoughts and feelings, which ultimately guide our actions in life.

On the show this week, we’ll talk about:

• Create awareness around your needs
• Intuitively reveal the steps for you to take to get your needs met
• Create a strategy or action plan
• Integrate the plan with your life as it is

All the information shared today can be found at the show notes at wellwomanlife.com/207show

You can find the Need Inventory at https://www.cnvc.org/training/resource/needs-inventory

You can find the Feelings Inventory at https://www.cnvc.org/training/resource/feelings-inventory

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The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from Natural Awakenings Magazine in New Mexico and High Desert Yoga in Albuquerque.

This week Giovanna finds commonalities in three popular models, shows how they compliment the Well Woman Life® Framework (wellwomanlife.com/movement) and shows us that we are all talking about the same things: observe your thoughts, tune into your wisdom, take aligned action and integrate all of this to live in flow.

The first one is Tara Brach, Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, her teachings blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful attention to our inner life, and full, compassionate engagement with our world.

• RAIN: a practice of radical compassion
• Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture
• RAIN Guided meditation: https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-practice-rain/

The second model is Byron Katie, author of Loving What Is, A Mind At Home With Itself, and the creator of the work. The Work is a simple yet powerful process of inquiry that teaches how to identify and question the thoughts that cause all of our stress. It is a method of inquiry born directly out of Byron Katie’s experience. This practice allows you to access the wisdom that always exists within you.

• The Work – the four questions:
• Is it true?
• Can you absolutely know that it’s true?
• How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?
• Who or what would you be without that thought?

Byron Katie’s Website: thework.com

Giovanna’s Interview with Byron Katie. https://wellwomanlife.com/captivate-podcast/075show/

The final model is Brene Brown, research professor at the University of Houston, who spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. She’s the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers: The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness, and Dare to Lead.

• Rising Strong: living a wholehearted life
• Reckoning – awareness
• Rumble – Intuition
• Revolution – Aligned Action

Brene Brown’s Website: https://brenebrown.com/

Also, don’t miss it…coming up on the show in a couple of weeks:

Laurie Santos, Professor of Psychology and the Head of Silliman College at Yale University, as well as the host of the podcast THE HAPPINESS LAB. After observing a disturbing level of unhappiness and anxiety among her students, she began teaching a course entitled “Psychology and the Good Life”.