The Garden of Belonging Podcast

Episode 39: A Moving Meditation

Join me as I share a brief piece that invites you into a moving meditation.

Episode 38: Write New Stories

Join me for another little story. A story about a place where you can find rest. A place where you can explore all the stories you hold. A place where you can begin to write new stories.

Episode 37: We Are the Storytellers

What does it mean that we are the storytellers? What stories are we telling? What stories aren't we telling?

Today I share a brief poem inviting us into these questions.

Episode 36: Season 5 Introduction

An introduction to Season 5: The Season of Storytelling

 

Why storytelling? Why does it matter to me? What will I be sharing? Listen in to find out.

Episode 35: Blooming Bravely with Kelsey Mech

The Garden of Belonging Podcast Episode 35: Blooming Bravely with Kelsey Mech

Kelsey Mech is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and a mentor to creative humans and business owners. Through her one-on-one work and online programs, Kelsey supports women to connect to their intuition, live in integrity with their most authentic selves, and emotionally heal from old wounds and toxic messaging. Kelsey offers an online membership community, Wellspring, as well as other online courses and programs. She is also deeply committed to speaking about the need to let go of our collective social conditioning and move toward deep self-acceptance through her writing and podcast The Unraveled Life.

We talk about:

• Being honest and generous with yourself
• Leaning into fear
• The ways we abandon ourselves to keep other people comfortable
• Brené Brown, vulnerability, and courage
• How broader systems impact our ability to express ourselves
• Ancestral trauma and unraveling the stories passed down to us
• Creating a supportive environment for us to Bloom Bravely
• Kelsey's community - Wellspring
• The importance of self-compassion 

Mentioned in this episode:
Becca Piastrelli  - https://beccapiastrelli.com/ 
Mara Glatzel - https://www.maraglatzel.com/ 
Varvara Erochina - https://www.bewith.org/ 
Azalea Moen - https://www.azaleamoen.com/ 
Elizabeth Gilbert - https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/ 
Glennon Doyle - https://momastery.com/
Brené Brown - https://brenebrown.com/ 

Find Kelsey at:
www.kelseymech.com 
https://instagram.com/kelseymech 

Episode 34: Blooming Bravely with Louise Warren

Garden of Belonging Episode 34: Blooming Bravely with Louise Warren

Louise Warren (founder of Rare Gem Creatives) is a passionate creative mentor and singer/songwriter. Over the past decade, she has penned songs in the hundreds, performed at venues all over the Southeast, and opened for musicians like Chuck Leavell (of the Rolling Stones), Jimmy Hall, and Edwin McCain. Louise is a certified coach with both the Beautiful You Life Coaching Academy and the Creativity Coaching Association, completing 100 + hours coaching. Her vision with Rare Gem Creatives is to provide community and support for people who long to live more creatively vibrant lives.

We talk about:

• Allowing yourself to unfold
• Blooming through creativity
• Creativity as play and mindfulness
• Our mindset of permanence in an impermanent life
• Building self-trust and courage for a practice
• Her inner mean girl and how she interacts with that voice
• The flow of creativity and the editing process
• Elitism narrative regarding creativity
• What truly makes a creation rare
• Using goals as an anchor 

Mentioned in this Episode:
“And the Day Came When the Risk to Remain Tight In a Bud Was More Painful Than the Risk It Took to Blossom.” – Anais Nin
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/187633.Art_and_Fear 
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4485966-talent-is-overrated 
Katherine MacKenzie Smith (BYCA coach) - https://katherinemackenziesmith.com/ 
Eric Maisel - https://ericmaisel.com/ 
Amy McNee - https://www.instagram.com/inspiredtowrite 

Find Louise at:
http://www.RareGemCreatives.com 
http://www.instagram.com/raregemcreatives 
http://www.facebook.com/raregemcreatives 

Episode 33: Blooming Bravely with Thaís Sky

Garden of Belonging Episode 33: Blooming Bravely with Thaís Sky

Thaís Sky is a truthspeaking, edge-dwelling, trauma informed life coach and teacher whose multifarious approach to healing has transformed the lives of hundreds of women worldwide. She offers her thoughts weekly on a podcast called RECLAIM and for over a decade Thaís has coached visionaries, seekers and cycle breakers who are ready to reclaim their worthiness and take up greater space in the world through her 1-1 work as well as her year-long signature program, Worthy Women Rise. Recently she has started mentoring coaches who want to deepen their work responsibly. She holds a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology and infuses psychoanalytic theories, social justice, family systems and mindfulness practices into her approach to tending what she calls the worthiness wound. You can learn more about her at IamThaisSky.com or find her at just about everywhere on social media at @IamThaisSky.

Thaís and I speak about:

• Caterpillar metamorphosis as a metaphor for the internal process
• The role of relationships in our growth
• The relationship between trust and control and how that effects our sense of safety
• The worthiness wound and some of the ways it manifests
• How systems and cultures perpetuate the worthiness wound
• Why healthy relationships require bravery
• Coaching and Psychotherapy
• The responsibility for ethics in coaching

Warning: some mild adult language

Mentioned in this episode:
Mara Glatzel - https://www.maraglatzel.com/ 

Find Thaís at:
https://thaissky.com
https://instagram.com/iamthaissky 
https://facebook.com/iamthaissky 
https://www.thaissky.com/reclaim-podcast 

Episode 32: Blooming Bravely with Nicola Humber

Garden of Belonging Episode 32: Blooming Bravely with Nicola Humber

Nicola Humber is the author of Heal Your Inner Good Girl, UNBOUND and Unbound Writing. She's also the founder of The Unbound Press, a soul-led publishing imprint for unbound women. After playing the archetypal good girl up until her mid-thirties, Nicola left her 'proper' job in finance to retrain as a coach and hypnotherapist and this leap of faith led her to what she does now: activating recovering good girls to embrace their so-called imperfections and shake off the tyranny of 'shoulds', so they can be their fullest, freest, most magnificent selves. Nicola helps women to write the book their Unbound Self is calling them to write, whilst growing a community of soul-family readers and clients. She currently lives in Southampton in the UK with her husband, Mark. She’s the host of The Unbound Writer’s Club Podcast.

Nicola and I speak about:

• Blooming as the idea of opening to be seen
• The ongoing journey of evolution that has no end
• All about the word Unbound
• Shadow integration & welcoming back parts of ourselves
• Books as a way to express ourselves deeply
• Book writing as a process of radical self-trust and a transformational journey
• Writing in an unbound way
• The importance of rest

Mentioned in this episode:
Kelly Diels - https://www.kellydiels.com/ 

Find Nicola at:
https://nicolahumber.com 
https://instagram.com/nicolahumber 
https://www.facebook.com/nicolahumber 

Episode 31: Blooming Bravely with Elizabeth Russell

Garden of Belonging Episode 31: Blooming Bravely with Elizabeth Russell

Elizabeth Russell is a social artist, dedicated witch, and joyful Earthling. For over 25 years, she has been generating creative processes to inspire radical engagement with the living cosmos. For many years she owned and operated the Be Space expressive arts & community space, and produced the annual Life Art Being Integrative Arts Festival in Portland Oregon. She now lives in Eugene Oregon and is the creator of the Dreamfruit interactive almanac for radical belonging.

TW: mention of suicide

Elizabeth and I speak about:

• Showing up in truth and purpose
• The tension between perceived expectations and personal integrity in work
• Yearning to belong
• Reframing Failure
• Dreamfruit, Radical Belonging, and Imagination
• Our need for enchantment
• Reciprocity
• Deep imagination and connection to the more than human world
• Vulnerability and risk in blooming bravely

Also mentioned in this episode:
Joanna Macy - the work that reconnects - https://www.joannamacy.net/main 

Find Elizabeth at:
https://elizabethrussell.space 
https://www.instagram.com/dreamfruit.maven/ 
https://www.facebook.com/be.space.now 

Also enjoy her curated playlist for 2021, on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0jVLepixcCn0Obpp3wr8ZQ?si=g6rWa3PmQ4qNd5uZqSm1cw 

Episode 30:Season 4 Intro

Garden of Belonging Episode 30

 

Welcome to Season 4 of the Garden of Belonging

 

This is a brief solo episode outlining where we've been and what's ahead for season 4.