LL Kirchner, an award-winning screenwriter, author, and creative, is with us today and shares her transformative personal journey which she narrates vividly in her memoirs. Reflecting on her experiences, she discusses her engagement in various therapeutic and healing practices, including meditation, storytelling, and yoga. LL brings to light the importance of understanding one's unique needs when approaching different methodologies for healing and personal transformation. LL also shares the joy of adopting an enquiring, an open-minded attitude in life, especially as a creative. Her new book, 'Blissful Thinking: A Memoir of Overcoming the Wellness Revolution', delves into her unconventional healing journey. Lastly, she discusses her writing process—how she heals + goes public.
You’ll hear all about:
Exploring the Concept of Cults
Discussion on Memoir Writing and Personal Growth
Feminism and Societal Expectations
Exploring the Power of Mind and Storytelling
Questioning Religious Beliefs
The Misconceptions of Meditation
Exploring Alternative Meditation Practices
The Fear of Doing it Wrong
The Challenges of Going Public with Your Story
The Impact of Storytelling on Stage
The Evolution of the Coaching Industry
The Power of Storytelling in Healing
The Future of Creativity
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Joanna Ingram is here on this planet to champion courageous women to express their individuality in business by guiding and inspiring you to join the dots of your unique brilliance so you can be paid for being authentically you. On this episode, Joanna share so much of what it has looked like for her as a powerful, spiritual woman to learn her own brilliance and go public, herself, with her wild and wonderful offering to the world.
We discuss:
Jump into this incredible episode of what it looks like to heal from and through crises by aligning with yourself and going public to offer the world your greatness.
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podcast: Goals with Soul https://open.spotify.com/show/3LmwoUdyHdDr3l9VGHYq8N?si=7b02654bbfc64362
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What does healing feel like in the body? Is it a linear process? How do folx access healing through creating and putting those creations out to the world? Teaching artist, healing artist, and creative entrepreneur, Nkem Chukwumerije is in the studio today sharing their journey of healing and going public. We chat about:
And SO much more. If you’re in the process of becoming, like all of us humans are, but you’re wanting to get more intentioned with it… this episode is for you.
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When you’re a creative or artist, healing and creating are one and the same. Today, my guest, Ann Diment, and I are talking about healing with trauma from childhood and creating in order to access deeper levels of healing. We also chat about EFT and tapping in order to access enough safety to do the work in order to create.
We also discuss:
Thanks for listening!
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Photographer, artist, creator, let alone commercial photographer versus brand photographer. It can be so challenging to label the powerful, creative work that we do. Today, brand photographer KaS Mitchell is sharing so much about her journey as an artist through writing and photography. She talks all things:
We talk all things possibility, motivation, and dedication and how KaS uses her creative business to meet her creative needs, serve her amazing clients, and impact the photography industry to be more sustainable and knowledgeable. Interested in how different kinds of artists make their living or how they got to where they are now? This episode is for you, my friend.
More about KaS:
KaSandra Mitchell is a rural Kentuckian living in Denver, CO and has been working her way around the world for nearly a decade. She turned a hobbyist blog into a sustainable commercial photography business over the course of seven years without a large social media presence. Her goal is to continue to grow in her industry and help other passionate photographers along the way.
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The practical function of the chakra system and how it provides access to safety and healing for young people is Maureen Burford’s passion and work with Creative Lives. Through this episode, Maureen and I wonder at:
Whether you have young people in your family or not, this episode contains some powerful wonderings around the chakra system as described by Ellen Tad’s research and how we can ground within ourselves to have a greater experience of this life and connection with others.
More about Maureen:
Creative Lives Executive Director Maureen Burford has four decades of experience working with students from the early years through college. She has partnered with author Ellen Tadd to bring Tadd's Framework for Wise Education -- based on the chakra system -- to thousands of children and teens. In 2019, Maureen received The Lynn von Trapp Award for excellence in leading youth programming in Vermont. She has worked as a performing artist and director since 1980 - and loves the process of creating and discovering with others.
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w: creativelives.org
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Art is a powerful form of connection not only with others—but a powerful way we can find and know ourselves and how we look at this world. Interdisciplinary artist, Shawna Miller, is in the virtual studio with me today. We chat about art connection mothers and connecting self, creating art to be seen in a really challenging season, wrestling with the artist identity, taking time to experience awe, defining what is sacred, and not getting bogged-down in the details in order to stay true to the ‘why’ for the work.
Shawna Miller is a wife, mother, and figurative oil painter living and working near Aspen, CO. Her current work focuses on the bittersweet beauty and weight of motherhood.
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We have some brand new sounds in the space because this is my announcement that I’m taking a sabbatical from Spiritual Direction.
Jump into the episode to hear more on why I’m making this pivot on my journey and what it means for this space. Get excited with me about what we can create in this space and how you desire to create in your own life. I’m becoming your creative guide… here’s what you can expect in this transformed Heal + Go Public space.
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Intuitive Reiki healing sessions, self-Reiki, and Reiki sharing in community are all options on your healing journey. Tekla and I discuss what Reiki is, what it looks like to see a Reiki healer, and how Reiki in community can change your life and the world. So many of us were told that energy work was off-limits and to spiritually beware, but this practice is a beautiful and healing add to anyone’s healing regimen. If you get anxiety in your body when energy work conversations come up, we’re gentle here. If you’re SO interested and have been wondering about Reiki for a while now, Tekla gives so much information on what it looks like for different folx and the gentle and caring space she provides.
Join a Q+A for Tekla’s Training Program, Be Rooted:
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Carin's mic selection was NOT right on this recording. Thanks for your patience in listening. The quality of this recording does NOT reflect the typical quality of this show. But alas, presence over perfection. :)
CW: Sexual Violence, Racism, Church Split, Evangelical Drama
Author + Activist, Liz Charlotte Grant, Is on the pod today updating us on the church drama that the snippet of Joshua Ryan Butler’s book, Beautiful Union, The Gospel Coalition released has created. More importantly, we discuss how unvetted and unchecked male bias is extraordinarily harmful to communities and ask for more from leadership and humans in general.
Liz Charlotte Grant is an award-winning writer. Her newsletter, the Empathy List, is a smart and kind word from the Christian left, and for two years running, it’s been nominated for a “best of the web” Webby award. Her first book comes out with Eerdmans in 2024.
We’ve got to have an episode that calls out modern, American, Christian culture in the United States sometimes… I’m sorry, but we just have to. Ha.
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Using consistent creative space to create a constant in chaotic seasons—this week I’m chatting with poet, illustrator, and designer, Barnabas Smith. We chat about the role of limitation within creation, being used for talent and not for message in religious community, the grief of releasing past works, and making for different reasons after and during religious deconstruction. Get your ears in it.
This is the first episode in the Artist Series!
Barnabas Smith is a poet, illustrator, and designer born and raised in Southern California. He has released four collections of poetry. His most recent collection, Serenade the Fire, documents the early days of the pandemic. He currently resides in Colorado with his two sons.
Get in touch with Barnabas Smith
w: barnabassmith.com
i: @barnabasprime
In the episode, we mention Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Big Magic and when she talks about American Poet, Ruth Stone’s, description of her creative process. I couldn’t remember Ruth Stone’s name during the episode. ;)
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Today we’re talking healing and sensory modalities for our brains and bodies to experience healing in and around trauma. Dr. Meg Hodges shares some of her knowledge and wisdom on different healing rituals and practices for our brains, bodies, and spirits for life and performance generally, but also for those that experience Religious Trauma.
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TODAY, I have a wonderful interview for us with my friend, colleague, and fellow creative, Megan Febuary. Megan is an Author, Trauma-Informed Book Coach, and leading expert in creative recovery. Megan and I get into a lot of things as creatives ourselves and folx that facilitate space for others to connect with their more true, more connected, more repaired selves. We talk about wearing multiple hats as creatives, rewriting the narratives of who and how we are and how we have to work or produce as creatives, what trauma informed care is, healing our stories by hearing others’ stories (fighting isolation), and how we’re all in a constant state of uncovering and some shares around what that looks like for us personally.
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Kacey Hayes, podcast guest pitching machine, all around amazing human, and dear friend of mine, talks with me today about what it takes to go and stay public on podcasts, what it looks like to be a good guest and host, how we can all be a little more human through the whole process, how to look at ROI with podcasting and guesting, and a bit of audio etiquette. If you are in the podcasting world or want to be… get your ears in here—we’re talking all things pods and going public.
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On this episode, we have Kendra Hill, a therapist with Unraveling Free, in the virtual studio. We chat all things religious trauma, spiritual abuse, deconstruction, and deconditioning. Kendra gives us her definition of religious trauma and the themes that she sees with her clients specializing in deconstruction as a therapist. DIVE IN.
Check out the work that Unraveling Free does and schedule your 15 minute consult with Kendra here: www.unravelingfree.com
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Have you ever lashed out at someone because you were mad at someone else? Maybe transferred some anger from one person to another? We’re talking all things transference today and how I’m contextualizing transference within beliefs and belief systems. I’m inviting listeners to look at how they may be judging themselves from some outdated beliefs and break down all the different buckets of belief I work with as a Spiritual Director every day!
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Mental Health professional and Social Worker, Alie Bernard Garza, is chatting all things OCD umbrella, high anxiety, and what that can look like combined with a religious trauma and spiritual abuse background. We discuss all things OCD, religious compulsions, and when intrusive thoughts are outside of a normative experience. Alie Bernard Garza is a Mental Health Professional specifically interested in OCD and those that experience OCD. Alie also shares with us her personal experience with OCD and being kicked out of a religious community because of it. JUMP IN.
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Today I’m wondering at intuition and self trust, and how feeling our feelings is what creates access to getting the work we want to create out into the world. So many of us have been conditioned to moralize our feelings or simply not to feel at all, but experiencing our feelings and letting them flood in the appropriate times is what gives us access to our greater creative offerings. Through the episode, I walk you through some tips and tricks of how to get safe, get in your feelings, and still maintain your life.
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Counselor, coach, and trainer Amy Morrison is in the virtual studio today telling us all about the wisdom that’s in all of our bodies. She talks about the healing that is possible through growing in embodiment, especially when we’ve experienced being severed from our bodies. Amy gives us tools and methodologies for connecting with our bodies and accessing safety through them that we can use in the current moment AND other tools like breath work, contrast therapy, and movement that she offers her clients.
From today’s episode:
Connect with Amy through her:
Instagram: @truecorehealth
Website: https://truecorehealth.com
Amy is also a couch through XPT Life. You can find her on the app!
Things mentioned in the episode for your further research:
Internal Family Systems by Richard Schwartz
Polyvagal Theory and the autonomic nervous system
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Through the lens of my little fig bush that needed a little more care, a little more attention, we can wonder at the ways that we are surviving and if there’s a little more we could ask for and receive that would allow us to continue to survive or, even, thrive. I’m inviting you to join the HEAL membership—it could be the little more support, care, and attention that you need.
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