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In a world craving genuine connection, Meredith Heller's latest book, 'Writing by Heart: A Poetry Path to Healing and Self Discovery,' offers a sanctuary.

Leaving home at 13 to find her own way in the world led Meredith through dangerous and heartbreaking terrain, but she didn't just survive; she thrived.

In our conversation today Meredith delves into the challenges of navigating adolescence, the beauty of becoming through adversity, and shares how her profound trust in the natural world supported her as she learned to use the transformative power of writing to grow and heal.

We explore the importance of creating a sacred space for storytelling and connection,  the use of writing as a tool for self-reflection and empowerment and Meredith offers us a beautiful guided writing exercise on the wisdom of atonement.

Tune in to uncover the therapeutic power of putting pen to paper.
 
 Meredith Heller website
“Firebird” spoken song on Meredith’s “About” page

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• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Show Notes:
 
Pete McLean was doing carpentry work when a scaffolding collapsed and he fell 14 feet onto rocks, breaking several bones in his lower body.
 
Sometimes the falls come for us, and sometimes we choose to leap, but either way, Pete holds that our falls are the moments in our lives when something deeper in us is creating an opening to make itself visible and expressed in this world. 
 
Could it be that the thing that we spend most of our time keeping beneath the surface- because of fear or shame or some idea that it’s not OK- is presenting us with an opening to give it wings?
 
Join us for a conversation about how we might trust the falls in our lives as experiences in which our soul is calling us into greater courage, curiosity and possibility. 

Pete’s Website: Of Earth and Soul
Of Earth and Soul Podcast: 14 Foot Falls on Spotify
Iain McGilchrist - The Master and His Emissary

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Celia McBride is an author, playwright, cinematographer, and artist. She's also a spiritual director who helps others on their own path of seeking. In her work, she draws on her own experience of healing and spirituality, which has been anything but a straight and narrow path.

In our conversation today, we talk about:

• the nature of addiction: what motivates it, what fuels it, and what's essential to become free of it 
• perfectionism: our deep desire to feel connection and belonging
• the path of seeking: trusting our personal path to meaning

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Dr. Brian Stafford is a former pediatrician and psychiatrist who left his position as an endowed chair in academic psychiatry to rewild and ensoul his own life, and to discover his deeper calling. 
 
On today’s show Brian and I delve into the realms of mystery and shadow to explore the magic and possibility that emerges when we’re willing to enter a deeper conversation with the natural world, and leave the safety of the known to uncover and reclaim our wholeness.

Brian shares his extensive understanding of:

• rewilding and ensouling your life—what it is, and why and how to do it
• shifting from a constricted egocentric to an expansive ecocentric orientation to the world
• rediscovering the ancient connection between soul and nature
• building relationship with the natural world as one of our most loving and essential guides
• nurturing the life soul wants for you vs. perpetuating the life culture wants for you

The 4 Windows of Knowing 

• full-presence sensing
• full-bodied feeling 
• heart-centred thinking
• deep imagination

The 3 Realms of Knowing 

• physical
• spiritual
• imaginal

Shadow Work

• projection and transference
• why we don’t see others as they truly are 
• understanding repressed facets of self and why it’s essential to claim them back
• how healing our shadow creates clear perception and greater intimacy with life

Today’s Guest: 

Dr. Brian Stafford is one of the leaders in the rewilding and ensouling movement. 

A former pediatrician and perinatal, infant, child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist, Brian left his position as an endowed chair in academic psychiatry to rewild and ensoul his own life, and to discover his deeper calling. 

After retraining as a wholistic eco-therapist and depth psychiatrist with the Animas Valley institute, Brian has gone on to rewild and ensoul the world as a wilderness and vision fast guide, retreat facilitator, mentor, trainer, international speaker, and writer.  

He is a guide, Board member, trainer, and Director of the Wild Mind Training Program, a nature-based wholistic eco-depth psychotherapy training program, at the Animas Valley Institute. He is also the Founder or Co-founder of several institutions dedicated to the rewilding and ensouling of Education, Medicine, Psychiatry, and Christianity. 

He lives in Ojai, California, USA and is currently finishing a book entitled “Pathwa

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Show Notes:
Wendy Palmer holds a seventh degree black belt in the non-violent Japanese martial art of Aikido, and has practiced mindfulness for over 45 years. She is the author of 4 books, including her latest: Dragons and Power, which explores the elements of Leadership Embodiment, a practice she founded and has been teaching to high level leaders for over 30 years.
 
Her process draws on principles from Aikido and Mindfulness to offer simple tools and practices to increase the leadership skills of responding to stress and pressure with confidence and integrity.
 
Wendy shares simple, fast and incredibly effective practices to recover to center when triggered, and what it means to embody the Aikido practice of “letting the attack land in the space”.

 She offers her personal wisdom around what it means to be resilient, why
 boundaries don’t work and what actually does.

She also explains the 3 most essential qualities of Leadership:

1. Warmth and inclusiveness
2. Receiving feedback as creative fuel
3. Acting with clarity, integrity and confidence
   
   

Today’s Guest: 
Wendy Palmer is the founder of LEADERSHIP EMBODIMENT, a process that uses principles from the non-violent Japanese martial art of Aikido and mindfulness to offer simple tools and practices to increase leadership capacity and respond to stress and pressure with greater confidence and integrity. Wendy holds a seventh degree black belt in Aikido and has practiced mindfulness for over 45 years. 

She has worked with executive teams and individuals for Twitter, Genentech, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, The Gap, NASA, Gates Foundation, Salesforce.com, McKinsey &Co, Oracle, Google, Unilever, The BBC, Accenture, Blackrock, Capital One, Intel, The George Washington University, Eileen Fisher and The Daimler Chrysler Group. 

She is also an author of four books, Leadership Embodiment, The Intuitive Body, The Practice of Freedom and Dragons and Power. 

Her coaching organization, LEADERSHIP EMBODIMENT offers Coach Training to experienced coaches and facilitators who wish to learn to coach leaders in Leadership Presence. 

Wendy’s website: www.leadershipembodiment.com
7 Guided Practices to Recover to Center

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• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Show Notes:
Philip Shepherd is an international authority on embodiment and author of New Self, New World - Recovering our Senses in the 21st Century and Radical Wholeness - The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being. 
 
This is a specially curated edition of a more extensive interview I had with Philip back in August of 2020. In today's conversation he  shares guidance and tools for shifting from the head driven strategies of control and order to an embodied and deep connection with the present moment. He offers thought-provoking wisdom on these important questions:

• If our essential nature is wholeness then why do we act against the whole in service of our own best interests?
• Rather than striving for answers, how can we formulate meaningful questions in a world of disinformation, divisiveness, polarization and chaos?
• How do we stay in connection as we navigate diverse perspectives and challenging dialogues?
• Why do we lapse back into old patterns, and how do we choose the thing we know is better for us?  
• How do we access our body's inherent wisdom and find creative ways forward in times of crisis and social uprising?
• Does Philip feel we're headed for self-termination and if so, how does he orient to that possible reality?

Listen to our original, full length interview:
Radical Wholeness and Embodied Activism with Philip Sheperd - Part 1
Radical Wholeness and Embodied Activism with Philip Sheperd - Part 2

Today’s Guest: 

Philip Shepherd’s unique techniques have been developed to transform our disconnected experience of self and world. The practices of TEPP help people reunite the thinking of the head with the deep, present and calm intelligence of the body. Philip’s approach helps you listen to the world through the body, and come to know what the body most deeply understands: that it belongs to the world. Philip’s website: PhilipSheperd.com

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Show Notes:
Brian Pearson recently interviewed me on his podcast The Mystic Cave. His questions sparked a fascinating conversation about the philosophy and practice of Tracking Yes, and touched on things I haven’t named before, so  wanted to share it here with you guys.

Join us as we explore what it’s like to:

• open to the wisdom of your imagination
• hone your intuition and perceive the clues life is always sending you 
• replace your fear-based survival strategies with deep presence
• bring curiosity and the spirit of play to problem solving
• trust yourself to walk away from “success” when adventure calls
• claim the courage to live an authentic life

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A little more magic and enchantment is exactly what we need in the world right now. How do we stop waiting for it to appear from outside of us, and bring our own willingness to be enchanted to the very moments we’re currently in?

Today’s show explores how we’ve disconnected from our capacity for wonder, and how to get it back. We’re surrounded by opportunities for enchantment in everyday moments but we’re often too busy, too anxious or too lost in our stories to perceive it.

In turning toward wonder, we can reconnect with the spark of magic that’s always alive within us ~ and remember how to trust enchantment more than the strategies of protection and control that keep us from it.

*This is a recast of an episode published in January of 2021.  Wanted to offer it again in the heart of Christmas.

A Blessing for Presence by John O’Donohue

May you awaken to the mystery of being here
And enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.
May you have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.
May you receive great encouragement when new frontiers beckon.
May you respond to the call of your gift
And find the courage to follow its path.
May the flame of anger free you from falsity.
May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame and anxiety never linger about you. 
May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul.
May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.
May you be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul.
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.

Source: O’Donohue, J., (1998). Eternal Echoes. Exploring our hunger to belong. London, Bantam Books. p.139

Links to things mentioned:
John O'Donohue
Short video of “In Search of Christmas Spirit”
The talented creators of “In Search of Christmas Spirit”
Mark Nepo interview on Good Life Project

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Show Notes:
Pippa Evans is an award winning comedian, improviser and the author of "Improv Your Life: An Improviser's Guide To Embracing Whatever Life Throws At You".
 
Join us as she shares the wisdom she's gained about bringing the spirit, spontaneity and skill of improv to your everyday life.

On today’s show we talk about how the magic of improv can help you to:

• let go of perfectionism 
• meet life with flexibility and creativity
• trust the adventure of the unknown
• lean into community and tap into the collective imagination 
• honour our “no’s” - or as Pippa puts it: trust yourself to know when it's time to leave the stage

Today’s guest:
Pippa Evans is an award winning comedian, improviser and the author of "Improv Your Life: An Improviser's Guide To Embracing Whatever Life Throws At You", a book she wrote during lockdown to share what she’s learned about how to bring the spirit, spontaneity and skill of Improv to our everyday moments.

Pippa is a core member of the Olivier award winning “Showstopper: The Improvised Musical”, and recently had her own show on Radio 4, Pippa Evans Grows Up, and often pops up in other recordings and podcasts. Pippa is the co-founder of Sunday Assembly and is a trustee of the Realisation Festival.

Links from today’s show:
Pippa Evans website - Check out her online Improv Courses!

Pippa's BOOK:
“Improv Your Life: An Improvisers Guide to Embracing Whatever Life Throws at You”

Performances mentioned:
Showstopper: The Improvised Musical
The Showstopper Facebook Live performance from March 2020 West End Lockdown
Pippa’s 5 minute piece at the London Palladium
Middleditch and Schwartz improv on Netflix:  Episode 3 - Dream Job

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• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Go to show website: TRACKING YES podcast

Show Notes:

My guest today is Doug Van Houten, Nature-based Soul Guide. Join us for a fascinating exploration into the ways we've lost touch with our innate, wild relationship with the natural world, and how coming back into that relationship brings us home to our deepest sense of meaning and purpose. 

Doug shares the essence of nature based spirituality, and specifically the healing and wholing work he does in his role guiding life-altering wilderness intensive retreats with Animas Valley Institute. He answers questions about:

• how dialoguing with nature can help us navigate our planetary crisis
• healing the pathological adolescence of our culture
• embodying wholeness: reclaiming our archetypal aspects of self
• the essential role of elders in re-establishing healthy earth societies
• vision fasting: the practice, purpose and power of soul encounter
• Bill Plotkin’s model of The Nature Based Map of the Psyche

Links mentioned in today’s show:
Doug Van Houten website
Animas Valley Institute (and Bill Plotkin)
The Chalice and the Blade - Riane Eisler
Nature and the Human Soul - Bill Plotkin (Soul Centeric Development Wheel)
Trusting the Disruptive Energy of Change: Part 3

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• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Show Notes:

Today’s show is a story of magic, and what's possible when you stay in an expansive, curious  orientation to the curve balls life’s pitching your way. 

Resonance is our most powerful tool for navigating the creative field. It's amplified by what you’re thinking and believing, which impacts how you're feeling and responding to each moment, which influences the attitude you're moving in the world with. 

The magic happens when you choose to create  it with intention.

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Show Notes:

On today’s show I’m sharing a practice that’s focused on getting out in nature and having a creative dialogue with it, and how that practice helps you cultivate and nurture an empowered relationship between your ego and your soul, including:

• guideposts for engaging in a dialogue with the mystery of nature
• reverse creativity - letting the unknown guide your path forward
• the longing for a romance between your ego and your soul, and how cultivating that relationship creates purpose and meaning

I share the challenges, rabbit holes and curious mysteries that have come with a commitment to making Mandalas from things gathered on walks, and how this undertaking is aligned with a powerful teaching on soul and ego by author, wilderness soul guide and agent for cultural change, Bill Plotkin.

The Mandalas live here:
Liz Wiltzen.com

Links to awesome humans mentioned:
Bill Plotkin Website
Schuyler Brown on her process of Mandala Making

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Episode Summary:
Opening to change and following its urge creates a momentum that takes on a life of its own and leads us beyond what our current perspective can imagine. 

The conclusion of this 3 part series on initiatory experience explores how to navigate transition with curiosity and trust that there are always bigger forces at work and magic afoot.

Show Notes:
Today’s show tracks the final phase of the arc of transition, including:

• leaping into the mystery and landing on your feet
• releasing “first adulthood” achievements to pursue the soul’s calling
• Bill Plotkin’s 3 stages of spiritual development 
• the invitation and challenge of Vision Quest
• perceiving the emergent possibilities revealed through soul encounter

Links to things mentioned:
Animas Valley Institute
Bill Plotkin books
Sarah Kerr Soul Passages Website

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Disruptive energy is woven into the fabric of our lives. It alerts us that we’re being called away from life as we know it in order to discover something new about ourselves and about this experience of human-ing.

Most of us avoid, resist and try to control change, and in doing so we miss the deeper and truer aspect of self that is trying to emerge. Choosing to ride the waves of the unexpected with genuine curiosity--and trusting change as an ally not an enemy--takes us on an adventure of our own becoming.

Today’s show is Part 1 of a story of choosing change, and leaning into a framework that served as a steady handrail and a powerful torch to light the dark passages of doubt and hesitation. 

The Map of the Archetypal Cycles of Initiation is a brilliant structure created by Sarah Kerr, PhD. It’s designed to support you in navigating the chaos of change, and serves as a guide as you leave the comfort zone on a quest toward your authentic self.

Links to things mentioned:

Sarah Kerr’s on demand online class:
Grief and Loss as Initiation

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For the last 8 years, Nicole Huguenin has stepped away from the structures and systems that favour money as the primary currency of exchange, and chosen to live by the tenants of the circular and gift economies. 

Moving in a world of alternate currencies such as connection, generosity, trust and co-creation she’s discovered that:

• healing our personal trauma and helping others navigate theirs are inextricably connected
  
  
• taking better care of each other isn’t limited to the realms of fundraising, policy making and institutional structures
  
  
• bringing our natural kindness to the world and making relationships the most important thing is essential medicine for the social issues of disconnection, homelessness, addiction and suicide.

Nicole shares an inspiring story of a painful adolescent trauma that was re-activated and transformed through the sovereignty she’s gained on this path.

She’s an advocate for building the freedom in our lives to move to where care is needed, because she believes it’s what enables us to perceive where our unique gifts, strengths and talents are best directed and shared.

*Note: Nicole briefly speaks to personal experiences of rape and a street attack in this conversation.

Links mentioned in today’s show:

Under1000Skies: A website that connects homeless creatives to each other and to the world through showcasing their photography, artwork and poetry.

Nicole’s Patreon page

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Show Notes:

A little more magic and enchantment is exactly what we need in the world right now. How do we stop waiting for it to appear from outside of us, and bring our own willingness to be enchanted to the very moments we’re currently in?

Today’s show explores how we’ve disconnected from our capacity for wonder, and how to get it back. We’re surrounded by opportunities for enchantment in everyday moments but we’re often too busy, too anxious or too lost in our stories to perceive it.

In turning toward wonder, we can reconnect with the spark of magic that’s always alive within us ~ and remember how to trust enchantment more than the strategies of protection and control that keep us from it.

Links to things mentioned:

Short video of “In Search of Christmas Spirit”
The talented creators of “In Search of Christmas Spirit”
Mark Nepo interview on Good Life Project

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• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

One of the best things I’ve learned is that you can’t hear the answer unless you have the question within you.

I did a major declutter of my world a while back, and several insights emerged in the process. Not long after, I had a major cycling crash and concussion that presented a new perspective on my relationship with possessions.

What if insights aren't answers, they're ignitors of questions? The magic lies in trusting the deeper answers will be revealed not in our brains, but through our lived experience.

Links mentioned in today's episode:
Jill Carver - Fine Artist
Declutter Your Soul with Peggy Fitzsimmons, Ph.D. - Part 1
Declutter Your Soul with Peggy Fitzsimmons, Ph.D. - Part 2

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Episode Summary:
The most potent activism doesn't come from the head, it comes from what the body knows and feels. It comes from some 'wrong' that your specific sensitivity feels deeply, and that’s the call. That is the world—activating you to move forward.

Show Notes:
Join us today for Part 1 of my conversation with Philip Shepherd.

Philip is an international authority on embodiment and author of New Self, New World - Recovering our Senses in the 21st Century and Radical Wholeness - The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being. 

On today's show Philip speaks to a return to wholeness, and how activism is most effective when it's coming from a place of deep embodiment. He shares his thoughts on the intersection between embodiment and social activism and responds to these thoughtful questions from listeners:
 

•  If our essential nature is wholeness then how does it happen that an entity pits itself against the whole in service of its own best interests? (15:00)
  
  
• What does activism look like through the lens of wholeness? (23:55)
  
  
•  Can you scale a business and stay in integrity, and if so, what does that look like? (32:15)
   
•  There seems to be a movement characterizing tyranny and violence as a product of ”whiteness” - do you see this as an accurate perspective? (34:35)
  
  
•  Ostracization and vilification of contrary points of view are common place in public discourse. How do we stay in wholeness and connection as we navigate diverse perspectives and challenging dialogues? (40:32)
  
  
• How does one formulate personally meaningful questions as we live in a world of disinformation, divisiveness, polarization and chaos? (46:00)

Listen to Part 2 of our discussion here:
Radical Wholeness and Embodied Activism with Philip Shepherd: Part 2

Awesome humans mentioned in today’s show:

Today’s Guest: Philip Shepherd is the author of two books, Radical Wholeness and New Self, New World, and co-author of Deep Fitness, released October, 2021.

He also originated The Embodied Present Process (TEPP), which is taught in workshops, retreats and Facilitators Trainings worldwide.
Philip’s website: PhilipShepherd.

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Did this episode spark questions for you?
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Thanks so much for listening!
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Connect with me online:

• Liz Wiltzen Coaching Website
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The story that launched the ethos:

• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic