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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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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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In this insightful conversation with end-of-life counsellor Dr. Martha Jo Atkins, we explore the power of restoring our natural connection with death in a culture that is conditioned to resist it.

We delve into:

• the clarity that happens when we partner with death as an ally
• how to cultivate the presence to support our beloved humans and pets at end of life
• the value of ritual and ceremony in the dying journey 
• channelling creativity as a grounding force in challenging times
• how the medicine of kindness creates safety
• the unique ways that children are equipped to be with death
• the importance of creating spaces to feel deeply so that love can move with us

 
Martha Jo also shares about “D. School”, an initiative she designed to help us shift perceptions around death and offer guidance to those dealing with it.
 
Marked by personal revelations and heart-touching stories, this episode investigates how we can reframe our perspectives on death, making it less about loss and more about the transition of life.
 
* Martha’s next D-School begins in February 16th, 2024
Early Bird registrations ends: December 30th, 2023.

Martha Jo Atkins website
"Signposts of Dying" book

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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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Rich Blundell holds a PhD in Cosmic Evolution and is the founder of OIKA, which explores the 13.8 billion year story of the cosmos and offers immersive practices that bring us back into dynamic, creative relationship with it.
 
In our conversation today, Rich shares his wisdom about the power of beauty to reconnect us with belonging, meaning, and wonder, and how the magic of science reveals to us how inextricably connected we all are.
 
 He offers his scientific understanding of the intelligence of nature and how we can tap into it to generate collaborative responses to the collective challenges we face.

 Today’s Guest:

Dr. Rich Blundell is an ecologist whose work explores the convergence of science, art, nature and culture. As the founder of Oika, his research examines how transformation happens across the scales of person, place and planet. As a communicator, Rich tells a scientific story of the universe that includes art and human creativity as natural phenomena. His goal is to make the continuity of nature palpable. 

Dr. Blundell has received numerous grants and awards including an ongoing TIDES innovators award, The National Science Foundation grant for Science Out There and The Deep Time Values video award for An Earth Story. Blundell’s creative video work has appeared on PBS, National Geographic and numerous social media platforms. He is currently the Scientist in Residence at the Maria Mitchell Association on Nantucket Island.

Rich’s website: oika.com

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How can you find joy amidst even the most profound pain? 

My guest today, Dr. Tanmeet Sethi, a board-certified integrative family medicine physician, author, and esteemed faculty member at the Center for Mind Body Medicine, shares her remarkable insights on cultivating well-being and trust in life, even during times of intense suffering. 

We talk about how negative cultural messaging and trauma can chip away at our trust in life and ourselves, and she shares the science behind the cell danger response and how an extended trauma reaction can hinder our power to thrive.

Tanmeet speaks of her journey of discovering unconditional love through her son's fatal diagnosis and how it sprung open a door to greater joy.

We explore the rejuvenating world of movement as a powerful form of healing. Tanmeet beautifully articulates how emotions can be propelled by movement to help us transcend a narrow experience of our pain and open to let it be held in a larger narrative.

We learn how to break free from the cycle of suffering by understanding where the pain lies and how to sit with it, how gratitude fuels compassion and why grace takes forgiveness to a whole other level.

Our conversation today promises to be a source of strength for anyone seeking to find joy and trust in life amidst the toughest of challenges.

Today’s Guest:

Tanmeet Sethi, MD is an Integrative and Psychedelic Medicine Physician, activist, author, and TEDx speaker who has dedicated her career to care for the most marginalized patients in Seattle’s refugee, uninsured and homeless populations as well as global communities traumatized by manmade and natural disasters as Senior Faculty for the Center for Mind Body Medicine. 

She has been Core Faculty in residency medical education for the last two decades focusing on inpatient and outpatient family medicine, integrative medicine, and anti-racism in medicine. She is one of the primary clinical researchers at the University of Washington on a study of psilocybin for COVID burnout of frontline medical workers. 

She is certified in Functional Medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine and fellowship trained in Integrative Medicine from the University of Arizona. She lives in Seattle, WA with her husband and three children and her first book, Joy Is My Justice, was published on May 2, 2023.

Tanmeet’s Website: https://www.tanmeetsethimd.com

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What if we could break free from the struggles and compulsions that keep us feeling disconnected from life? Join us as we explore the healing power of wonder and the art of showing up for life with Mary O'Malley, a highly regarded leader in the field of awakening and the author of several books, including What's In The Way Is The Way. 

 Mary shares her insights into the healing power of attention in overcoming pain and trauma, and her experiences with Stephen Levine, who opened her heart and taught her to bring curiosity and compassion to her pain. We discuss: 

• why we're addicted to struggle and how trauma fuels our compulsions
• the two core wounds of abandonment and invasion
• the eight core spells that keep us feeling separate from life and how we can free ourselves from them with Mary's guidance

We dive into her book, What's In The Way Is The Way, and Mary teaches us how to use open-ended questions to create a space for transformation. 

Don't miss this opportunity to learn from a master in the field of awakening and reconnect with the joy of being alive!

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I'm so delighted to welcome my good friend and author, Jessica Waite back to the podcast. Today we're talking about memory - how it isn't a fixed, static thing in our brain  but actually a living, evolving force in our lives, and the love that's possible when you're curious and willing to allow a painful memory to be rewritten in current time.

Learn more about Jessica's soon to be published book:
 "The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards"

Past episodes with Jessica Waite:
"The Power of Love Beyond Death" - April 2020
"The Wisdom of Heartbreak" - November 2021

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Episode Summary:
Rebecca Wildbear is the author of “Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration & Advocacy for the Earth”. 
 
 On today’s show Rebecca and I explore the connection between mind, body and soul, how to recover to wholeness in a fractured culture, and the path of finding our true place of belonging in the Universe. 

Join us as Rebecca shares her wisdom on:
 
 Mystery and Soul:

•  partnering with the mystery deep within your own body
•  listening with all of your senses for messages from your soul
•  perceiving, integrating and living into the infinite wisdom that always supports you
•  why dreams are an invaluable source of guidance and direction

 
 Navigating Culture / Recovering Self:

•  the impact of a patriarchal culture on the relationship between mothers and daughters
•  harnessing the power of the feminine
•  practices for refining our attunement to the wisdom of the natural world
• what drives our self-destructive and harmful practices and why it’s essential to become a love warrior for the earth

 
 Wholeness, Healing and Death:

•  cultivating wholeness on the journey of healing
•  how her near death journey with cancer empowered her life
•  exploring death as a return to innocence

Today's Guest:

Rebecca Wildbear is the author of “Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration & Advocacy for the Earth”. She is also the creator of a yoga practice called Wild Yoga, which empowers individuals to tune in to the mysteries that live within the earth community, dreams, and their own wild nature so they may live a life of creative service. She has been leading Wild Yoga programs since 2007 and also guides other nature and soul programs through Animas Valley Institute.

Rebecca's Website: https://www.rebeccawildbear.com
 

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There is more than meets the eye operating in the background of our day-to-day lives. Today I'm sharing a tale of the threads of connection that weave us intimately into the cosmos and that extend well beyond what the practical, logical mind can imagine.

It's also a real time story of tracking yes, a journey of abandoning the plan and trusting the clues that are appearing rather than seeking certainty to guide the way.

If you struggle with decision making, it almost always comes from the idea that you're the one making the decision, on your own. But when you try on the perspective that every decision you make is a collaboration between you and a multitude of seen and unseen forces, then you begin to tune into your felt perceptions, follow clues  that are revealing themselves, and let the best decision emerge as you go.

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Show Notes: 
Wendy Palmer passed away on December 2nd, 2022. In honour of her passing I’m publishing a recast of the interview we had in March 2022. If you’ve not heard this conversation I know you’ll find it compelling. If you have, I suspect it may land a level deeper on second listen, knowing that her words are now reaching us from the beyond the boundaries of this earthly realm. 
 
In this insightful conversation Wendy offers the wisdom she has spent a lifetime embodying. She held a seventh degree black belt in the non-violent Japanese martial art of Aikido, and was a mindfulness practitioner for over 40 years. 
 
Drawing on the skills honed from both of these practices, she shares deceptively simple, fast and effective practices that support you to recover to center in stressful situations and respond creatively when life throws you off balance.
 
Wendy speaks to: 

•  the essential Aikido practice of “letting the attack land in the space”
•  the 3 most essential qualities of leadership
•  what it means to be truly resilient
•  why boundaries don’t work and what actually does
• the levels of challenge we move through when we are practicing mastery

She also addresses the 3 strategies of personality self: 

• head wants control
• heart wants approval
• gut wants security

And she teaches how we can access the powerful antidotes of perception, compassion and courage.

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

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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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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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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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The story that launched the ethos:

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

• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

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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• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

When Bernard Moss was 22 years old, he was convicted of attempted murder and spent 28 years in San Quentin prison. 23 years into his sentence, he engaged in a year long program called GRIP, which ultimately led to his release from prison and his current career as a facilitator of the GRIP program to men still serving sentences. 

In today’s interview, Bernard shares a compelling account of his life in the culture of guns and drugs, the continuation of his life of crime while in prison and the powerful rehabilitation program that transformed his life.

GRIP is an acronym for Guiding Rage Into Power, a program that was created to support healing and transformation for incarcerated people and their victims/survivors. 

Students embark on an in-depth journey to comprehend the origins of their violence and develop skills to track and manage strong impulses rather than acting out in harmful ways. They transform destructive beliefs and behaviours into an attitude of emotional intelligence that prevents re-victimization.

 The GRIP Program has a 99.7% success rate. It began in 2012 at San Quentin and has since expanded to 5 institutions.

Today’s Guest:

Bernard Moss is a GRIP Facilitator, a peacemaker, and an expert in violence prevention, mindfulness, and emotional Intelligence. Bernard was one of the first to go through and graduate the GRIP program at San Quentin. After he graduated he went on to facilitate three GRIP groups. He was granted parole after 28 years and currently facilitates GRIP at Deuel Vocational Institute, and Mule Creek State Prison.

Links mentioned in today’s show:
GRIP: Guiding Rage into Power WEBSITE
Bernard Moss - GRIP Facilitator

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The story that launched the ethos:

• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic