Not a Widow...But a Goddess!

In this episode, Esha talks about being in love with life and how the grief experience has allowed her to see life with different lenses which has open and expanded a new awareness not just of who she is but of life itself. She shares her wisdom of how uncertainty can guide us into trusting the process of our evolution and unfolding to embrace the new waiting for us to claim with joy.

In this first podcast of 2021, Esha talks about the innocence of our collective grief and how its ancestral roots can help us grow closer together in community to heal and connect. To open ourselves not just to our own suffering but the suffering of others as well. She also talks about how we can navigate and make room for some of the intense emotional energies being felt right now.

In this episode, Amanda recaps what 2020 has meant to her. She shares her three big lessons she's learned during this year and shares a poem and a blessing for all. Thank you all for sharing your time with me, it's been such an honor to hold space for each of you. May you be blessed. 

In this episode, Amanda interviews Pamela Hempstead, a recent breast cancer survivor on her journey of a double mastectomy and a hysterectomy in the midst of a pandemic, and the role faith and trust in God has had for her in the process. Pam opens up on her fears, how unprocessed grief affected her, and how being intentional, fearless, and actionable can save your life.

The grief story can unpack many feelings, old wounds, and traumas. It can also reveal many gifts to grow and encourage our human story towards greater love. In this episode, Amanda guides her listeners to some of the gifts she has received and why giving yourself permission to walk through the process is so important.

Amanda takes you through the journey of how cleaning can extend into the emotional realm of our internal self through her own personal journey. Through journeys like grief we have an opportunity to say yes to the invitation of cleaning the traumas of the past that comes up when we experience life events that rocks our center. Everything she says is an opportunity to clean what has been left undone or unexpressed.

In today's episode guest Licensed Therapist Bill Wilder of Wilder Wellness Center in Mooresville, NC talks about the need for a primitive reset (connection with our ancestral roots) within humanity to bring about greater wholeness to the mind, body, and spirit. 

Grief can be like poetry. It has a cadence that flows up and down and side to side. It is not a linear process. Opening yourself to become available to the fullness of the grief experience perhaps is the key to becoming more human, to feel, express, and honor the inner ache. To feel is to be human. Listen to Amanda as she guides and leads you into an another episode with poetry from the heart.

Now more than ever self-care is of paramount importance. Amanda takes the listener through why self-care is needed now more than ever, her own story of self-care, and the different ways self-care might looks like. There are subtle acts of self care that many may not connect with such as being still, saying no, crying, choosing not to fix other people's problems for them, etc. Join Amanda as she guides you to journey on the topic of how to take loving care of yourself.

Grief can be difficult to process and navigate.  It differs from person to person and there's no magic bullet that's a cure. In this episode Amanda takes the listener on her personal story of grief and also how they can honor their own grief process in a way that is right for them. Through story sharing, she guides the listeners to use the power of sharing their story as medicine for healing. 

She gives listeners affirmations they can use to ground in their experiences and some useful tips on how they can approach grief from a more mindful place. Looking at grief as a transformative experience rather than an experience of suffering can help to change the healing landscape for those on the grief journey. Being gentle, kind, and compassionate during grief can be great allies towards acceptance.