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How to Shift Chaos into Order this Virgo Season with Jana Roemer

How to Shift Chaos into Order this Virgo Season with Jana Roemer

Virgo sun season is the last of the “me” focused zodiac signs. It invites you to optimize your daily habits to support your best self and your best life, and turn inward to discover your natural rhythms to build a life that flows with your natural rhythms. This and more in this conversation with astrologer and yoga nidra expert Jana Roemer and host Kristine Madera

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The Journey of Wholeness with Alex Boianghu

The Journey of Wholeness with Alex Boianghu

All humans take the mythical heroes journey from the core trauma of separation to the enduring experience of wholeness. This Journey of Wholeness series starts with Therapist Alex Boianghu exploring how the core trauma emerges in all of us, and how to heal it.

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Open to Your Hearts Desire this Leo Season with Jana Roemer

Open to Your Hearts Desire this Leo Season with Jana Roemer

Leo sun season is the most fun, playful and romantic zodiac sign! Not only do we go a little wild, but that wildness with this months transits, helps to open the heart, heal childhood wounds, and even travel through time to align old patterns to support new desires. This and more in this conversation with astrologer and yoga nidra expert Jana Roemer and host Kristine Madera

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About Kristine

Kristine Madera is an Amazon #1 bestselling author who writes fiction and nonfiction shaped by travel, culture, and lived cross-cultural experience.

Inspired while volunteering at Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying in Calcutta, her novel God in Drag examines what happens when spiritual faith fractures in the sacred city of Varanasi. Read the first chapter of God in Drag HERE 

She birthed her upcoming novel, The Snakeman’s Wife, as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Papua New Guinea.

Be on the lookout for her Etiquette Express Guides, a series of short, practical travel guides that help readers understand the customs, social expectations, and everyday dos and don’ts that make travel smoother and more connected.

Her travels have taken her across India, Asia, Europe, Australia, and Papua New Guinea as both a backpacker and Peace Corps Volunteer. A portion of her book proceeds supports cross-cultural education scholarships.

You don’t need to “master” a culture to move through it well.

You just need a few steady skills:

  • How to stay curious,
  • How to adjust without performing
  • How to recover gracefully when you miss a cue—because we all do.

This free PDF guide gives you 12 simple, human skills you can use anywhere: whether traveling abroad, navigating a new city, joining a host family, starting a new job, or even re-entering your own life after a trip.