Relationships + Rewilding with Mallika Bush
Relationships | Enneagram Type 4 Interview
In this episode, Mallika Bush, founder of Rooted Relationships, and I explore strategies that help us relate well to ourselves, our friends and families, and the earth.
In probably my favorite bit we talk about how we need relationships with people who can hold our power and potential AND our vulnerabilities. Mallika also shares her experiences as a professional actor that schooled her in the deep listening skills she now uses as a licensed marriage and family therapist coaching women and couples. As someone who leads with Enneagram Type 4, Mallika brings depth and nuance to our conversation about the intersection between healing our inner lives and helping to revitalize ecosystems.
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Courtney
00:00 Introduction and Overview
00:59 Meet Mallika Bush: Relationship Specialist
03:01 A Bear Encounter in Nature
07:45 Exploring the Enneagram
13:01 Mallika's Journey from Acting to Relationship Focus
15:13 Integrating Personal Healing with Professional Growth
23:59 Nature as a Mirror for Acceptance
25:37 The Power and Gentleness of Water
26:26 Navigating Feelings and Emotions
29:56 Practical Strategies for Relationships
35:01 Inner Healing and Planetary Healing
47:23 Boundaries and Self-Compassion
51:35 Concluding Thoughts and Inspirations
Meet Mallika Bush
Mallika is a licensed marriage and family therapist who offers coaching for women and couples. For over 20 years, Mallika has followed her own drive to heal which has led her to develop deep roots in yoga philosophy, clinical psychology, expressive arts, ancestral healing, nature as medicine and somatic wisdom. All of these rivers of knowledge feed the space she holds for others, creating a deeply rooted, experiential container for growth and healing. You can read more about Mallika and her relationship coaching options at https://www.rootedrelationships.com/about
About Your Host
Courtney Pinkerton (she/her) combines nature and coaching resources to help clients boost resiliency, avoid burnout and create their legacy work and lives. She is a certified Wayfinder coach with over a dozen years of life + career coaching experience, trained by the Narrative Enneagram and a member of the Climate Coaching Alliance. Courtney holds Masters of Divinity and Public Policy from Harvard and is the author of The Flourish Formula: An Overachiever's Guide to Slowing Down and Accomplishing More. She lives with her husband and three teenagers on Apple Balm Tiny Farm near Asheville, North Carolina.
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