The Making & Mending Rituals Podcast

In this episode I am sharing five sweet & simple things I'll be doing to make the month ahead more beautiful. Think home spa, love letters, self-commitment and flowers. I hope you'll feel inspired! 

This episode is a dream come true for my nerdy heart - I had a chance to talk to Dr. Isabella Rosner, whose podcast Sew What? I've been a fan of for years. We talked about how she got into textile histories, her PhD research and work at the Royal School of Needlework, about what textiles can teach us about what it means to be human and making time to create. 

Dr Isabella Rosner is the Curator of the Royal School of Needlework and Research Associate at Witney Antiques. She recently completed her PhD at King’s College London, researching Quaker women’s needlework, waxwork, and shellwork circa 1650 to 1800. Passionate about schoolgirl samplers and early modern women’s needlework, Isabella hosts the “Sew What?” podcast about historic needlework and those who stitched it. She is a 2023 BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker.

This episode is my first interview with a guest in about eight months and I could not feel more excited & honoured to speak to Chaney Williams. There was so much in this conversation that was a balm to my soul - we talked about life-changing moments and accidents, listening to the whispers of your ancestors and our bodies, quiet spaces to create and dreaming new dreams. I hope you love it as much as I did!

Chaney Williams (she/they) is a full spectrum doula, ritualist, and writer. She lives in Kentucky and has been a southerner since birth. Chaney strongly believes that all people deserve access to trauma informed, intersectional, sex positive, reproductive care. For Chaney, writing specifically their poetry and creative non-fiction essays are confessional in nature because they create what they know and what haunts them because it is the way they make sense of the world they exist in. It is how she finds belonging in the universe and connects to her ancestors, future descendants, and the collective.

In this episode I'm sharing more about an oral history project I'll be running this year - I want to find out how people with disabilities, like myself, used needlework to explore a sense of place and heritage during lockdown. I'm excited to explore topics like resilience in isolation, material and making vs consumption, connection with family stories and more. 

Happy new year!

In this episode I'm talking about how I am centring mental health & wellbeing in my creative practice this year - removing barriers, creating space for accessible participation & dreams, finding the sweet spot of gentle accountability and indulging wildly in flow states! 

If you're like me, having gentle accountability to slow down & be creative makes it much more likely for you to do things that bring you joy. Maybe you too feel that you need it more than ever. 

After a bit of a break I am bringing my Patreon back, because I miss our creative time together and also because I am excited to share my research on radical needlework with you. In this episode I am sharing the new structure for my Patreon/Stitching Together in 2024 - a community space focussed on making, mending, writing & wellbeing. 

In this episode I am talking about what slowness means to me in my practice right now and how I've learned to still appreciate the process when chronic illness and disabilities slow me down. I'm taking a longer view on things, thinking about how slowness makes space for observations and stories to be woven into my work and how stitching and carving supports my wellbeing in so many ways. I'm also asking questions about devotion, the value of time and the beauty of simplicity and simple aesthetics. 

I hope that if you've ever felt too slow you'll find comfort in listening! 

In this episode I am talking about taking a specific question into the darker time of the year, thinking about what spiritual practices I want to commit to this season, trying something new & gathering tools that are meaningful to me.

In the second instalment of my Getting Ready for Winter series I am sharing things that have helped me pay more attention to what I love - making, cooking, wandering and having conversations. As the days grow shorter many of us feel we want more of those things, but it can be so so hard to make time. If you feel the same I hope this episode will offer you some ideas & inspiration. 

This episode is such a wonderful note to end on before I am heading into a little break - it was a true joy to talk to Justine & Larisa who wrote the wonderful book called The Grieving Therapist. I hope listening will feel as comforting as it did for me. Here is some of what we talked about: 

• Diving deep into collaborative creative projects
• Processing pandemic grief and making meaning from what happened
• Exploring what change might come from loss

Justine Mastin, LMFT, LADC is a psychotherapist, author, and so much more. Justine runs Blue Box Counseling, a private practice in Minneapolis, MN and is an AAMFT-Approved Supervisor. She literally wrote the book on Therapeutic Fanfiction—Starship Therapise: Using Therapeutic Fanfiction to Rewrite Your Life—and she offered support to healers in The Grieving Therapist: Caring for Yourself and Your Clients When it Feels Like the End of the World. Justine also co-hosts both the Starship Therapise and Dark Side of the Mat podcasts and has presented a TEDx talk.

For this episode I had the honour of talking to Joelle of Butch Yoga again - we had a great first chat for episode #159 and so in this one we got to dive a little bit deeper. Here is some of what we talked about: 

• Finding time for stillness in one's body
• Bringing in joy, self-compassion and playfulness 
• Letting things move through our bodies

Joelle is a non-binary butch lesbian who is really into queering spirituality. Joelle started practicing meditation and yoga in 2007. Then in 2009, they completed an Master of Arts in Cognitive Studies with a focus on Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, and Neuroscience. That means before Joelle was on a yoga mat, they were in lecture halls studying the mind, but their professors didn’t teach how to work with the mind to find happiness—and then Joelle found in most yoga classes they teach practices to work with the mind and body, but don’t usually go in depth with the concepts! And it’s been rare for Joelle to find queer yoga spaces, and even rarer to find other butches in those spaces—so Joelle created Butch Yoga as a space for butches and gender non-conforming friends to study and practice spirituality together. More about Joelle: Joelle is a white Latinx Jewish person who has been living on Mayan land in Guatemala for 7 years with their 3 cats

Hi sweet listeners,

I am delighted to bring you a charming, inspiring and joyful conversation with the wonderful Melissa Word. I have loved her Grief Threads program so much and could listen to her talk about bodies, grief and art forever. Here is some of what we explored:

• Approaching dance & movement in a totally new way
• Listening and learning from our grief
• Opening our arms wide wide wide to what art can be
• Finding secret information inside ourselves

Melissa Word is an artist, dancer, writer and somatic facilitator. Her work takes the form of live performance, workshops, textile collages, drawings and newsletters. She specializes in creating transformative group experiences for people who want to feel more creative and connected to themselves–quilting classes for grief, movement classes for anxiety relief and body image repair, voice work for expanding consciousness. She is a current arts educator with the Alliance Theatre, and formerly with the High Museum of Art and Boys and Girls Club of Atlanta. Her pedagogy is based in somatic inquiry, presence and mindfulness practices, experimental voice work, intersectional discourse, liberatory social movements, and the perennial power of play.

I recorded this episode by the river this morning and talked about the why & how of small ritual quilts. My little waffle includes thoughts on the meaning of ritual and what has changed for me three years after publishing my book Rituals, what I love about working with reclaimed materials and how I use these small ritual quilts in my day to day for beauty & inspiration. 

This is an episode I recorded by the river this morning, I am talking about what might happen when we die - why I think it's an important question, what dreams have to do with it and what I love about not actually knowing. 

I hope it gives you some food for thought! 

Happy spring or autumn to you, dear listener! This episode is a really wonderful one to help us dive into a new season - I spoke to Phelicia of Queen and Crow about such wonderful things like:

• Being called to be tender in all we do 
• Letting flowers hold us through periods of grief 
• Being polyamorous with the plant world
• Finding small everyday rituals and resisting the ways capitalism wants to sell things back to us

I hope you'll enjoy this conversation as much as I did!

Phelicia Okon Magnusson is a queer black herbalist and flower essence practitioner based on the Big Island of Hawai’i. Her work centers folks of color who are affirming their wholeness by healing inter-generational trauma, moving though narratives of shame, reclaiming pleasure practices, exploring sexuality and returning to their intuition and resilience in the face of ongoing oppression. Phelicia's work is open to everyone and is an embodied exploration of building reciprocal relationships with land and plants to tend healing and facilitate transformation and acceptance. 

This episode feels like it was really touched by the beautiful full moon I saw rising over the Scottish sea yesterday! I was chatting to my friend Rowan Walker earlier today, who was also on episode #126 recorded back in 2021. We caught up on creative practice, building intimacy with the tarot and overcoming road blocks and perfectionism. It was a total delight and I hope you'll enjoy listening too!

i’m rowan. i’m an agender white settler of Irish, Lithuanian, Scottish and Sicilian trancestry born on Turtle Island/North America. i’m the creatrix behind of hawthorn and yew, a sacred cauldron of plant kin relationship, ritual, and education. i facilitate community spaces for queer and trans folks for healing re-connection and collaborative learning. through the pathways of ritual + relationship, i seek to spiral ever closer to holy embodied aliveness, and to help others do the same.

It's been about three years since shit hit the fan, can you believe it? I wanted to record this little reflection waffle to mark this milestone - tune in to hear me chat about how the pandemic has changed my relationship to home, work, creativity, landscape and people.

This conversation was the first interview I did in a while and it was such a beautiful way to drop back into conversation! I spoke to the wonderful fellow Venus in Scorpio Joelle of Butch Yoga. Their practice and way of being in the world is so joyous, I really hope you'll love listening as much as I did. Here is some of what we talked about:

• Sitting with big spiritual questions
• Not finding a home in mainstream yoga spaces
• Embodying butch identities beyond stereotypes
• Integrating spiritual practices into our lives

Joelle is a non-binary butch lesbian who is really into queering spirituality. Joelle started practicing meditation and yoga in 2007. Then in 2009, they completed an Master of Arts in Cognitive Studies with a focus on Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, and Neuroscience. That means before Joelle was on a yoga mat, they were in lecture halls studying the mind, but their professors didn’t teach how to work with the mind to find happiness—and then Joelle found in most yoga classes they teach practices to work with the mind and body, but don’t usually go in depth with the concepts! And it’s been rare for Joelle to find queer yoga spaces, and even rarer to find other butches in those spaces—so Joelle created Butch Yoga as a space for butches and gender non-conforming friends to study and practice spirituality together.

I'm sending this episode from my little winter cave to yours! It's been such a joy to speak to A.J. Bond again, who was also my guest on episode #137. We covered a lot of tender ground and there was so much there that really touched and delighted me. I'm wishing you a gentle transition into 2023 and hope you'll enjoy listening to our reflections on: 

• Earnestly looking for deep meaning in life 
• Shame, belonging and wanting to please 
• Holding messy parts together Self-expression and creativity 

Hey friends, deepest exhale. Winter is here! I am sending this from a snowy Scottish landscape on a sleepy Monday evening. My guest Monique Francis is so dear to me, I love the way she embodies creativity and all the care and intention she brings to community. I hope this conversation will bring some joy you too. Here is some of what we talked about: 

• Creativity as a refuge 
• Exploring different arts & crafts with childlike wonder 
• Building community online and offline 
• DIY monastic life and not being part of transactions 

Monique is a disabled and monastic creatrix who is grateful to be a guest on the unceded ancestral lands of the Coast Salish peoples in so-called Vancouver, Canada. She's the founder of Fully Woven, a crafty care collective and Prioress of Sanctuary of the Arts, a contemplative arts community. She's also in the process of establishing a Free Little Art Gallery (FLAG) in her neighbourhood. Monique's had various roles throughout her life - Anglican sister, grief counsellor, somatic therapist - all of which have the common thread of being collaborative practices. She delights in a pared-down pace for her daily rhythm with her beloved dog and cat companions, and believes quite firmly a day is not complete until a mess has been made at her craft table. 

Hey friends, welcome to Sagittarius season. I can't believe we're here, but what even is time anymore? To celebrate I am sending you an episode with one of the literally dreamiest Sagittariuses your way. We covered a lot of fertile ground and, amongst other things, talked about the following:  

• The intersection of queerness, creativity and spirituality  
• Daydreams as portals 
• Keeping a dream journal 
• Creative community building & healing 

Jess is an expressive eco-arts therapist and facilitator who is passionate about weaving together creativity, queerness, and spirituality. They have been imagining and creating ever since they can recall and have devoted their formal learning to fiber arts, ceramics, printmaking, and “trauma-responsive” art therapy. Informally, Jess has studied herbalism and permaculture, ritual and ceremony, dance and movement, and dreamwork. After years of facilitating creative groups and community spaces in person, Jess is opening "The Sacred Third Creative Well-being" this fall to expand their offerings to a wider, virtual community. 

Hey friends, this episode is not a long waffle - just a little reminder that now is the time to put some nourishing and creative winter wellbeing resources in place. If you're nesting and thinking about time to rest and dream I am right there with you.  Here is the creative retreat I mentioned: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/creative-winter-retreat/ I would love to see you as we bring in the new year

Hey friends, I am thinking of you and am sending you some love from my deep chill Sunday sofa. Also, a wonderful episode with Caroline Scruggs, whose creative energy is nothing less than otherworldly and delightful! Here is some of what we talked about: 

• Crafting a sustainable, inspired creative practice 
• Tuning into the landscape and the seasons 
• The joy of doing things slowly and valuing the process 
• Building confidence and self-trust 

Caroline Scruggs is a professional songbird, thereminist, creativity coach and world traveler. A Virginia native, she has set out to live a life of authentic expression and creativity, and now she helps others do the same. She is the creator behind Uke Camp and Raise Your Voice, programs for humans of all ages, experience levels and walks of life, which help them ignite their creativity, raise their authentic voices, and tell their stories through song. She's a solo music artist as well, using the theremin, banjolele and loop station to create her signature sound of interesting harmonic lines, quirky vocal styling and thought-provoking lyrics. 

https://www.carolinescruggs.com/ 

Hey friends, in this solo episode I am taking you along today's stream of consciousness about just wanting to play - exploring how I relate to responsibility, curiosity and adaptation through deeply uncertain times and wondering why we often make playfulness and responsibility another useless binary. What I've come to feels simple and beautiful, like something tangle to orient towards that can guide me through winter and beyond.  Enjoy!

Hey friends, happy belated full moon! I hope this new episode finds you well, safe and warm. I interviewed the wonderful, generous and wise Daphne Cohn earlier this year and loved listening back to our conversation just now. Daphne weaves community, lives in such devotion to creative practice and has a lot to say about being in the world. Here is some of what we talked about: 

• Exploring what it is to live a life devoted to creativity 
• Deepening through daily practice 
• Being in the world while staying connected to ourselves and our spirit 
• Taking stock after the last few years 

Hey everyone, happy equinox! I hope you're doing okay and welcoming the shift into a new season. For this episode I was delighted to speak to Jamee Pineda again, who was also on episode #106. He is such a generous and kind guests and we covered a lot of ground, for example: 

• Integrating pandemic lessons & centring public health 
• Finding new ways to practice hilot and Chinese medicine in community 
• Creating peaceful daily rhythms  
• Looking to nature when we're thinking about our work and purpose  

https://www.jamee-pineda-lac.com/ 

https://www.patreon.com/JameePinedaHealingArts 

I am a hilot binabaylan, acupuncturist, and Chinese medicine practitioner. My practice is informed by my identity as a queer, trans, non binary, Tagalog person living in the U.S. With the combination of my lived experience and training, my goal is to help individuals and communities live their fullest lives by offering a decolonizing approach to medicine rooted in traditional and ancestral practices.

Hey everyone, it's that time of the year again. My favorite time. Leafs turning, waves growing, candles lighting but also the sense of returning home to practice and learning and ritualised coziness. As part of that I am offering 50% off all my courses as well as longer payment plans for the Livelihood Community and pay what you can access to the Creative Community I faciliate. This year I am raising funds for my studies and I would so appreciate your support!  

https://pinkwellstudio.com/courses/ 

https://pinkwellstudio.com/livelihood-community/ 

https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/creative-portal/ 

The sale runs till September 25th and you can find all the links below. In this episode I am sharing some life updates and details around what you can expect.

Hey everyone, if like me you have been thinking about self-trust, belonging and landscape this year this episode Loraine Van Tuyl will have a lot to offer to you. I loved hearing her perspectives and ideas and am excited to hear hear what you think. Here is some of what we talked about:  

• Working with inner and outer elements 
• Understanding the ways in which our bodies mirror the creativity and abundance of the earth 
• Cultivating relationship with our landscapes  
• Making a home in the world in periods of change and transition  

Loraine Van Tuyl, PhD, CHT, is a shamanic ecopsychologist and licensed clinical psychologist. She empowers sensitive and intuitive empaths, experts, and transformation leaders with unique holistic and nature-guided methods that help them to Re-TREE-t© in an inner sanctuary, ReNature© their denatured minds, and become the soul authority of their lives and spiritual missions. Loraine is the author of Amazon Wisdom Keeper: a Psychologist’s Memoir of Spiritual Awakening and Soul Authority: Liberatory Tools to Heal from Oppressive Patterns and Restore Trust in your Heart Compass (April 2022), which complements her online course, HEAL LOVE LEAD with SOUL AUTHORITY™. 

Hey everyone, this episode is just a short & sweet invitation to my upcoming virtual retreat weekend in September. It’s free, packed with workshops & co-working time and a great chance to meet like minded people. You can sign up here: https://pinkwellstudio.com/free/ Hopefully see you there!

Hey friends, I'm so glad to be back here reconnecting with you via podcast magic. This episode features the wonderful Lara Veleda Vesta, who was also a guest on episode #81. There is so much about Lara I appreciate - her wisdom around chronic illness and disability, her incredible story telling skills, her kindness and generosity and her willingness to be in awe of life.  Here is some of what we talked about:  

• Building spiritual sovereignty, community and self-trust 
• Relating to myths and archetypes through difficult times 
• Expanding what ancestral practice can be 
• Adapting our practices to changing needs and abilities  

Lara Veleda Vesta, MFA, is an artist, author, storyteller and educator transforming chronic illness into a path of healing and reclaiming. She is the author and illustrator of The Moon Divas Guidebook, The Moon Divas Oracle and the newly released Wild Soul Runes: Reawakening the Ancestral Feminine. Her research interests include ancestral connection, mythtelling and disability as initiation, and she is currently creating a mythic book on death transitions. 

Hey friends, it's an honour to bring another episode with Nancy Antenucci to you - she was also on episode #56, way back in the before times, and it was so cool to reconnect and see what Nancy has been up to. We covered a lot of beautiful ground and I love how generous and creative Nancy is in the ways she practices with the tarot and is creative in the world. Here is some of what we talked about:  

• Finding rituals for uncertain times 
• Embodying tarot archetypes for a deeper understanding of life, creativity & ourselves  
• Letting go of workaholism  
• Deeply appreciating slowness  

Hey friends,

happy almost summer solstice! This episode with Tara Leaver is inspiring and uplifting, so I hope it adds to all the light around us

Here is some of what we talked about:

• Finding inspiration in the landscape
• “Making it” as an artist and re-defining what that means
• Finding the courage to share your work
• Committing deeply to your practice without being a perfectionist

Tara is an artist and teacher based in Cornwall in the south west of England, where she lives in a clifftop barn and works from a studio at the bottom of the garden with a view of the sea. She started teaching art courses online in 2013, with a focus on helping artists uncover and develop their unique self expression more freely, beyond the influence and inspiration of others. Her courses have helped hundreds of artists around the world gain confidence, find clarity in their process and practice, and make art that reflects their individuality, whether for the pleasure of it or professionally {or both!}. A couple of years ago she gathered all her courses together in a membership called The Happy Artist Studio, which helps artists focus on their unique path supported by a wealth of material, guidance, and connection. Her own art has always been about expressing what freedom feels like, and over the past several years has been focused on her passion for sea swimming. She makes mixed media abstract landscape paintings, mostly on raw wood panel, and sells them in various galleries in the UK as well as online.

Hey friends, this episode is an invitation to join me for the Summer Creative Portal - a sweet group with weekly creative co-working sessions on Sundays. If you're are an existing Patreon you're already IN and if you're not you can join us for the season ahead, no ongoing commitment. See if it works for you, come practice with us & meet some new folks.  The theme for summer is pleasure - I'll read to you about it, offer journaling prompts and hold space for an expansive exploration that trickles down into the most simple daily things.  In addition to the weekly sessions we have a space on Mighty Networks you'll be invited to as well

Hey friends, ah, I am so proud to bring this conversation your way, I truly loved talking to Laura Mae Northrup, whose worked has been important on my journey in lots of different ways. We covered a lot of ground and I hope you'll feel inspired to check her book and podcast out after listening to this. Here is some of what we talked about:  

• Psychedelic preparation & integration 
• Looking at trauma through a spiritual lens 
• Embodying integrity as a healing practitioner within capitalism 
• Listening to survivors and witnessing each other heal 

Hi friends,  I'm sending a beautiful follow up episode with Darcy Leigh (who was also on #105) and Harry Josephine Giles your way. These two dreams so generously shared about their lives, visions, creative practice and their trans healthcare fundraiser. It's been a joy of a conversation covering much ground and I hope that you'll love it as much as I did! Here is some of what we talked about:  

• Running Easter Road Press and self-publishing practices 
• Activist burn out, riding pandemic waves & rebuilding queer lives 
• Funding trans health and dreaming radical care 
• Finding sources of power and magic 

Harry Josephine Giles is from Orkney and lives in Leith. Her verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia was published by Picador in October 2021. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Stirling. Her show Drone debuted in the Made in Scotland Showcase at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe and toured internationally. www.harryjosephine.com Darcy Leigh lives half in Edinburgh, half in Brighton (it's complicated). She is very Jewish, very butch, and deep in DIY culture as well as queer history. Darcy also works as a university lecturer where she researches British colonialism and tries to make universities more accessible while also burning them down. https://butcharchive.com/ Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/butchfemmebodyhack More info about the starter website I'm offering for the fundraiser auction: https://pinkwellstudio.com/webdesign/

Hey friends, it seems like this was a week of many solo episodes (I also talked about embracing upper and lower limits around money over on my business podcast: https://pinkwellstudio.com/2022/05/19/77-embracing-upper-and-lower-limits-around-money/). - in this one I wanted to talk about the darker parts of the last few years and how loss can really become a portal to other, better, sometimes insightful things. 

I find this hard to talk about because I don't want to stray into victim blaming or spiritual bypassing, yet there are these things about pain and shock that I think are important to say out loud and that I wish I had known sooner.  Overall, and I know I've been talking about this a lot, I wish we'd do more good grieving, because that is where the magic is. That is where we grow and avoid making the same mistakes over and over again. That is also where we really get to know ourselves and each other.  This episode comes with a content note for suicide, death, hospitalisation, break ups, sexual assault and disability. I am not talking much about graphic details, but I am naming those things in the hope we can feel less alone in the experience of them. I trust you'll know if now is the time to listen or not.  

Thank you for listening to my waffles!

Friends!  Hello from the other side of this epic eclipse magic. While the dust is settling I wanted to share this beautiful, beautiful conversation I've had with Madeleine Keller, who is such a skilled and thoughtful folk herbalist. I really loved listening to them and I hope you will too. Here is some of what we talked about:  

• Finding our way back to relationships with plants 
• Reconnecting with ancestral practices 
• Building health and resilience in community 
• Being a village witch 

Madeleine is a queer white non-binary zinester and folk herbalist residing on un-ceded Awaswas-speaking Ohlone territory, known to some as California’s Central Coast. They guide folks to connect to the plant world, demystify their bodies, and re-enchant their relationships to land and community. They regularly offer a variety of paid and free workshops intended to support community healing and assist in a couple community health/herbalism projects. They also love to write zines! - 

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/madeleinelkeller - 

Newsletter: https://gmail.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=f6532effa674f0a25e3886d2d&id=c6e0d880e0 - 

Hey friends, how has this new moon eclipse magic weekend been treating you?  I'm bringing a conversation with my friend Jade Mars your way - you might remember that they've been on episode #10 and so it's been really cool to catch up and see what has changed in our thoughts and ideas over the years. Here is some of what we talked about:  

• Zine writing, DIY publishing & sharing our voices 
• Valuing all kinds of intimacy beyond heteronormative norms 
• Care, affections & closeness with the non-human world 
• The beauty of neurodivergent perspectives 

Jade Mars is a writer, zinester, poet and witch based in Brighton, UK. They are the author of the Scorpio Moon perzine series, editor of Aspects of Uranus: a queer astrology zine, and co-author of the Queering Intimacy workbook zine. Jade is the author of three collections of ecopoetry, and their writing has been published in Zarf #13, A Queer Anthology of Wilderness (Pilot Press, 2020), and Fermenting Feminism (Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, 2017), amongst others. Jade is an experienced workshop facilitator and speaker, and has worked with community groups, universities, and queer & feminist projects throughout the UK.

Jade’s writing explores the magic and ritual of the everyday; the complexities of gender and sexuality; intimacies with the natural world; grief, loss, and growing older; building community in a world of capitalist alienation; and autistic experience in a neurotypical society. They are inspired by science fiction and utopianism, anarcha-feminist thought and praxis, DIY cultures, druidry, folklore and the liminal. Jade co-runs Brighton Feminist Science Fiction Bookclub and is a member of Brighton Zinesters.

Hey everyone, ah I am so happy to share this conversation, truly. Ever since speaking to A.J. Bond I've been thinking about the ways in which shame shows up in my life and it's been really helpful and potential-gifting to find new ways to un-shame. This is an emotion I think we should all talk about more and I hope you'll love listening as much as I did. Here is some of what we talked about:  

• The wild power of healing shame 
• Honest communication, boundaries & navigating needs 
• Developing relational skills with ourselves and each other 
• Getting uncomfortable for the sake of growth  

Hey friends, I am getting into a bit of a spring podcasting groove and it's an honour to tell you a bit more about my beautiful guest Chase McMurren. Talking to him gave me so much to think and giggle about as well as a wave of comfort and inspiration. I hope you'll love this conversation as much as I did! Here is some of what we talked about:  

• Meeting grief and heart ache with gentleness 
• Supporting our artist hearts 
• Caring for our elders  
• Hot beverage as everyday rituals 
• Slowing down to real delight   

Chase Everett McMurren [he & him & his] is of Michif, Celtic, French and Ukrainian descent. Originally from Southern Alberta on traditional Blackfoot Confederacy territory, he’s been living in Tkarón:to | GichiKiiwenging for years | Toronto. His clan is the Turtle and his spirit name is Water Song Medicine Keeper. Chase is a harp-playing, home-visiting physician for long-living elders, and an integrative psychotherapist for artists. He is the Theme Lead for Indigenous Health in the MD Program and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine within the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Chase is a certified practitioner of Deirdre Fay’s Becoming Safely Embodied (BSE) approach. He serves as an Assessor and Clinical Supervisor for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and also provides supervision in the Psychotherapy Training Program offered through the Medical Psychotherapy Association Canada (MDPAC). Chase is training as a Nâtawihôwêw* [not-a-way-who-ee-oo], or Medicine Man (*in Michif) and is a senior student of the Hakomi Method.   drchase.ca  chase@drchase.ca    Here’s the Megan Devine grief support video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2zLCCRT-nE   Here’s a link to Angela Lansbury singing “Everthing’s Coming Up Roses”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1znyr0QQGE    

Hey friends, ah, what a joy this conversation has been! I know I am always gushing about my guests, but I just really am so lucky. Listening back to my chat with Samantha Zipporah gave me full body giggles and a renewed sense of hope. We covered so many topics that feel more alive and important than ever and I really hope you'll feel some of the radical love listening in too. Here is some of what we talked about:  

• Reclaiming embodied sovereignty  
• The relationship between oxytocin & anarchism 
• Being IN love and creative flow Saying no as a commitment to yes 
• The magic of fertility, cycles, birth & death 

Samantha Zipporah is a fertility, sex, & cycle educator, author, & activist with over 20 years of experience. She is devoted to breaking the spells of oppression in reproductive & sexual health through collective healing, liberation, & education. A former birth doula, she provides radical love for navigating the womb continuum & reclaiming ancestral wisdom. Sam’s unique praxis weaves a balance of scientific data & spiritual presence to offer knowledge & embodied wisdom for claiming inner authority in fertility, sex, & cycles. Sam provides vital education for everyone from professionals to preteens and inspires individuals to claim their power through body literacy & sovereignty. To learn more about her books, writing, courses, & mentorships, please visit www.samanthazipporah.com 

Hey friends, what a week! I am sending another solo episode your way, this time exploring making as a spiritual practice. I talk about seeking transcendence, developing an embodied understanding of rhythm & seasons, soothing nervous systems and spiritual sovereignty. You know, the casual stuff!  Enjoy

Hey friends, I'm having a lot of thoughts these days, as I am sure we all do. I wanted to start a little series of solo episodes to share what's up for me and dive deeper into things we often don't talk about enough - grief, deepest fears, feeling alive regardless and wondering what's next.  This first one is about my month long retreat in the Highlands, which I am midway through at the moment. I'm sharing about solitude, integrating trauma and loss, making sense of things, what I find comfort in and what I am observing in the landscape.  Enjoy

Hey friends, my heart is bursting with excitement to share this conversation with you - I spoke to the wonderful Stevie Leigh, a chat that was just what I needed to listen back to today. I hope it will feel as nourishing and grounding to you as it did for me. Here is some of what we talked about:  

• Being connected to a web of ancestry, magic & community 
• Finding, feeling and expanding the edges of our capacity 
• Staying connected to our bodies through difficulty, discomfort and joy 
• Holding grief with integrity  

Hey friends, I'm delighted to bring you a beautiful conversation with Emma Freeman - her creative practice has inspired mine so much and I love what she shared about her experience of the pandemic and what's important to her now. A balm to listen to! Here is some of what we talked about:  

• Poetry as a healing practice 
• Weaving with nature 
• Deepening our relationship with the natural world 
• Showing up for our creative practice and leaning into slow stitching  

Hey friends, wishing you a gentle and restorative new year if you are celebrating!  This episode is a little catch up and I am also sharing my favorite new year ritual - it's sweet & simple practice all about the Star card. I have also talked about the Compass sessions, which I am hosting starting this Saturday for three weeks as part of the Creative Nature Coven. You can join us if you feel like you'd benefit from a creative space to land in the new year and want to be with others. It's $13 per month, sliding scale options available: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/creative-nature-coven/ Here is more info about the Making app I mentioned: https://themakingapp.com/ and here is the Dreaming into 2022 class I'll teach over there: https://themakingapp.com/classes/dreaming-into-2022-with-your-journal--the-tarot/Y599 (you'll only be able to see this once you are logged in).  

Sending love, Yarrow