Meditation Podcast

In this episode, Roy sits down with Elke Scholz, a registered psychotherapist, internationally registered expressive art consultant and educator, and internationally certified EMDR therapist, to talk about anxiety, trauma, expressive art therapy, and what it actually takes to love your life. Elke shares her own journey with undiagnosed anxiety, how EMDR therapy helps the brain release the energy trapped in traumatic memories, and why slowing down and getting present in the body matters more than any technique. She speaks candidly about how expressive art can help both children and adults process grief, trauma, and bullying, and walks through her own daily gratitude and grounding practice that has kept her grounded for over twenty years.

Timestamps

0:02 – Welcome and guest introduction
1:37 – Elke's journey into writing and expressive art
3:25 – Growing up with undiagnosed anxiety
7:36 – Different learning styles and being told "something is wrong with you"
11:45 – What EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) actually is
17:05 – Healing frequencies, sound, and censorship of alternative health content
18:42 – Brainwaves, slowing down, and learning to notice your body
23:17 – Near-death awareness and reversing cognitive decline
25:18 – Focusing on what you want and training the brain
27:54 – Why what you watch and read shapes your subconscious
30:53 – The news cycle, fear, and why our brains are wired for it
32:58 – Inside the Loving Your Life book, 40 intermodal exercises
37:02 – Drawing as meditation and seeing the world differently
38:40 – Choosing quality art materials and finding the right teacher
44:22 – Talking to children honestly about death and grief
47:19 – Bullying, trauma, and why art changes how people treat each other
51:27 – Elke's daily routine: meditation, gratitude, movement
57:29 – What's covered in the Anxiety Warrior books (Vols 1 & 2)
1:01:53 – Where to find Elke and her books

About Elke Scholz

Elke Scholz, MA, RP, REACE, is a registered Psychotherapist, an internationally registered Expressive Art Consultant/Educator, and internationally certified EMDR Therapist. She is the well-known author of the 3rd edition of Loving Your Life, internationally available and teen friendly. Elke has also launched Anxiety Warrior Vol 1 & 2, both with powerful tools for the journey to emotional freedom. Elke manages her own anxiety and believes strategies to lower anxiety levels can be accessible and easy for people. As an Energy Rich Vitality Specialist living with passion and abounding energy, Elke is excited to announce her new webinar "Energy Rich: Overcome Exhaustion, Win with Vitality" and her audio meditation series based on her book, Loving Your Life.

Connect with Elke:
🌐 Website: https://www.lovingyourlifebook.com
🌐 Website: https://www.elkescholz.com
📧 Email: ESCHOLZ@VIANET.CA
🐦 X: https://x.com/AnxietyWarrior1
▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYf99EPFC3m01ft5ugIIC-g
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elke-scholz-a2aa6b17/
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elke.scholz.71
📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lovingyourlife1

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Flames of the Heart Meditation by Paul Boulton

 

I interviewed Paul on Episode #317

 

About Paul Boulton

Paul Boulton is a professional psychic reader, psychic therapist, author, and mentor, and the creator of Targeted Energy Focused Tapping (Targeted EFT), with over 20 years of experience helping people and children worldwide reduce stress, heal trauma, and navigate life's challenges. He uncovers the origin of stress related to a person's issues, blending intuitive and practical insight to help clients create lasting positive change. His clients have included CEOs, doctors, psychologists, nurses, military personnel, police and paramedics, teachers, actors, parents, and former nuns and priests.

 

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🌐 Website: https://paulboulton.com.au

 

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In this episode, Roy sits down with Paul Boulton, a professional psychic and therapist from Australia with over two decades of experience, whose client list has included CEOs, doctors, psychologists, and even former nuns and priests. Paul traces his story from an intuitively attuned childhood, through a difficult schooling experience, to firewalking at 1,100 degrees and studying under influential figures in the consciousness field. He introduces his concept of the "pre-incarnation contract" — a framework he uses in his therapeutic work to help clients understand the challenges they carry — and speaks candidly about the categories of trauma and violation he works with most often in his practice, and why he developed his own therapeutic tapping method, Targeted EFT, after finding tarot and palmistry alone weren't enough to help clients move forward. Roy volunteers for a live reading on air, and Paul walks through tarot spreads and palmistry in real time, connecting what he sees to Roy's recent recovery from a spinal injury and his approach to relationships. The conversation closes with Paul's home energy-shielding practice and where to find his work.

Timestamps

0:02 – Introducing Paul Boulton
1:02 – How Roy and Paul first connected through a private business group
1:32 – Paul's story: discovering his intuitive gift as a child, and how it developed as a survival trait
5:01 – Do all children have this gift? Reflections on kids sensing who to trust
6:25 – Paul's early schooling experience and how it shaped his relationship with religion versus spirituality
11:31 – Trusting intuition: a story about winning at roulette to buy a pair of boots
11:35 – Firewalking at 1,100 degrees, four times
11:35 – Discovering Robert Monroe, astral travel, and the idea of a "pre-incarnation contract"
24:02 – A lighter take on the soul's contract-signing choices
24:32 – Shared stories of attending Christian Brothers schools, and how children sensed which adults to avoid
29:08 – Confessional-style stories from clients who were former nuns and priests
34:39 – Introducing the tarot deck and how a reading actually works
34:52 – A live reading for Roy: his current mental and physical state
42:05 – A second spread: Roy's health, and connecting it to a real recent spinal injury
53:09 – Reading Roy's palm: lifeline, headline, heart line, and what they reveal
1:01:09 – Roy opens up about past loss and past relationships, and how the reading landed for him
1:02:42 – Why Paul moved from tarot and palmistry into tapping therapy
1:05:44 – On relationships, energetic compatibility, and the "perfect partner wishlist" exercise
1:16:25 – Paul's home energy-shielding practice, to be shared as a follow-on resource
1:19:42 – Where to find Paul and his work

About Paul Boulton

Paul Boulton is a professional psychic reader, psychic therapist, author, and mentor, and the creator of Targeted Energy Focused Tapping (Targeted EFT), with over 20 years of experience helping people and children worldwide reduce stress, heal trauma, and navigate life's challenges. He uncovers the origin of stress related to a person's issues, blending intuitive and practical insight to help clients create lasting positive change. His clients have included CEOs, doctors, psychologists, nurses, military personnel, police and paramedics, teachers, actors, parents, and former nuns and priests.

Connect with Paul:
🌐 Website: https://paulboulton.com.au

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In this episode, Roy sits down with Brian D. Ridgway, "The Spellbreaker" and founder of Level 5 Mentoring, alongside Abigail Morgan, CEO of Level 5 Mentoring and a 27-year veteran of the coaching world. Brian shares the extraordinary story of January 3rd, 2011 — the day he hit total rock bottom, about to be homeless with his pregnant wife and two kids, and experienced an awakening that instantly transformed his relationship with his own mind. He unpacks where the "Spellbreaker" name actually came from, walks through his Five Paradigms that he says govern how every person on the planet experiences their inner world, and lays out his "Five Spells from Hell" framework — the mental patterns he believes quietly run beneath most people's stress and stuckness. Abigail shares her own turning point — 27 years deep in the coaching industry, including 8 years running Martha Beck's practitioner training program, and how a decades-long physical pain vanished in a single 10-minute session with Brian after years of other practices hadn't touched it. For anyone drawn to stillness and inner work, this conversation offers a different lens on what actually releases tension held in the body and mind. They close with how this applies to parenting, to animals, and where to start if a four-day retreat in Hawaii isn't realistic right now.

Timestamps

0:02 – Introducing Brian D. Ridgway and Abigail Morgan
2:38 – Abigail's story: decades of chronic physical pain and the session that changed everything in 10 minutes
5:09 – What actually happened on January 3rd, 2011
9:07 – Brian's childhood gift, and how his parents tried to suppress it
12:17 – Where the name "Spellbreaker" came from
15:19 – Do spell breaks last, or can people fall back into old patterns?
19:51 – How Brian, Abigail, and business partner Keith found each other
20:22 – Is a four-day trip to Hawaii the only way in? Books, courses, and other entry points
23:56 – Applying this work to parenting and children
28:21 – Applying this work to trauma in animals — Brian's own rescue dog
29:47 – Testimonials, including Dr. Erica Yates' story
33:00 – How it feels for Brian to witness a life-changing transformation
39:23 – The Five Paradigms that Brian says govern everyone on the planet
40:09 – The Five Spells from Hell, explained in full
54:16 – On self-help, therapy, and why Brian doesn't regret the $300,000 he spent finding this
57:11 – The advantage of Brian's own hard journey in connecting with clients
57:21 – The crystals in Brian's office
57:48 – Where to find the book and get started

About Brian D. Ridgway

Brian D. Ridgway, known as "The Spellbreaker," is the founder of Level 5 Mentoring and author of the #1 international bestseller Break Your Self-Help Addiction. After 17 years of childhood abuse and decades of financial disaster, relationship trauma, and a suicide attempt, Brian experienced a life-changing awakening on January 3rd, 2011. Since then, his method — called Spellbreaking — has helped over 265,000 people across 84 countries.

About Abigail Morgan

Abigail Morgan is CEO of Level 5 Mentoring and a 27-year veteran of the self-help and coaching world. After investing over $750,000 in her own healing journey, training extensively under Martha Beck (Oprah's coach), and running Martha Beck's practitioner training program for over 8 years, Abigail found that even the most advanced coaching modalities left her deepest issues untouched. She discovered Brian's work a year and a half ago, closed her own company to take over Level 5's practitioner program, and became CEO nine months ago.

Connect with Brian, Abigail & Level 5 Mentoring:
🌐 Website: https://yournewbeginningbook.com

 

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In this episode of The Meditation Podcast, Roy sits down with Jon Paul Crimi — Breathwork pioneer, celebrity trainer, and sobriety coach based in Bend, Oregon. Jon Paul shares how his late friend Matthew Perry first introduced him to Breathwork, how a single session sent him "down the rabbit hole," and how he transformed a niche, mystical practice into a grounded, results-driven method that's now certified over 3,000 instructors worldwide.

The conversation covers the science behind "tetany" (the hand-cramping sensation common in circular breathwork), why Jon Paul's mouth-breathing technique differs from nose-breathing methods like Wim Hof, how trauma stored in the nervous system gets released through the breath, and why he believes breathwork produces results comparable to psychedelics — without the logistical downsides. He also opens up about his own sobriety (26 years), his father's Alzheimer's diagnosis, his experience bringing breathwork into corporations like Nike and LinkedIn, and how to spot unqualified instructors in an unregulated industry.

 
What we Discussed

0:02 – Introduction and welcome

0:53 – How Jon Paul got into breathwork through Matthew Perry

2:08 – What "breathwork" actually means (it's an umbrella term)

2:48 – Jon Paul's mouth-breathing technique vs. nose-breathing methods

7:41 – Full-circle moment: teaching at a Tony Robbins Life Mastery Seminar

8:16 – Leading the largest in-person circular breathwork class (900 people, Switzerland)

10:20 – What causes "tetany" (the hand-cramping) — and how to stop it

14:25 – Why trauma surfaces during breathwork (and why that's a good thing)

17:13 – How long sessions should last, and why headphones matter

19:03 – Transient hypofrontality — quieting the inner critic

20:43 – Breathwork vs. psychedelics (ayahuasca, microdosing)

24:18 – Recommended frequency of practice

25:13 – Age recommendations for breathwork with children

26:21 – Alzheimer's, PTSD research, and where the science currently stands

28:05 – How to spot underqualified or unsafe instructors

31:02 – Inside his certification process (in-person vs. online, pricing)

43:57 – Bringing breathwork into corporations (Nike, LinkedIn)

51:03 – Breathwork's pop culture moment — the show Flaked with Will Arnett

54:24 – Where to find Jon Paul and closing thoughts

Contact Details
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Guest — Jon Paul Crimi:

Website: https://breathewithjp.com/

Email: Breathewithjp@gmail.com

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3k0ZY41nn82JA5clxgqMP1

YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCk5CEEWZ2KgUTYJOTXNL8lQ

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonpaulcrimi/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/breathewithjp/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jonpaulcrimi

#Breathwork #MeditationPodcast #BreathworkHealing #TraumaHealing #NervousSystemRegulation #SomaticHealing #Sobriety #EmotionalResilience #StressRelief #AnxietyRelief #GriefSupport #MindBodyConnection #ConsciousBreathing #SelfLove #HealingJourney #Mindfulness #WellnessPodcast #MentalHealthAwareness