Design Your Life or Live by Default | Conscious Relationships, Healing & Growth with Amara Samata

In this episode of Willow Healing Matters, Catherine Crestani is joined by Amara Samata — transformational guide, communication strategist, and founder of the Inner Guidance Institute — for a deep conversation about conscious growth, relationships, healing, and choosing to live by design rather than default.

Amara shares her personal journey through breakdown, divorce, and spiritual study, including her time training in Tibetan Buddhist practices and somatic healing. From this lived experience, she developed powerful frameworks that help individuals and couples build trust, resolve conflict, and evolve consciously.

Together, we explore:

The difference between living by default vs by design

The pain of growth versus the pain of staying stuck

Why avoiding difficult conversations creates more suffering

Conscious relationships and the Relationship Squared framework

Conflict resolution, communication, and mutual respect

Knowing when relationships are meant to grow together — or apart

Trusting the process of growth without digging up the seeds

Why real healing requires courage, honesty, and self-responsibility

This episode is for anyone navigating relationship challenges, personal growth, spiritual evolution, or standing at a crossroads between comfort and change.

Guest: Amara Samata ‪@Amara_Samata‬
Founder of Inner Guidance Institute
Creator of the Inner Guidance Method & Relationship Squared
Website: amarasamata.com

Host: Catherine Crestani
Podcast: Willow Healing Matters

🎧 Listen, reflect, and explore what it means to consciously evolve — in your relationships, your healing, and your life.

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