By Kay Eck
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The podcast currently has 48 episodes available.
Please note: This interview contains depictions of violence and sexual abuse. Please listen with care for yourself and others.
This week's guest is BakeR Gendron, whose life took her from a small town in rural Indiana to Chicago, California and Phoenix where she served as a political activist supporting LGBTQ rights, leading a life which transcended labels. That journey took an abrupt turn toward the spiritual while tending to her dying partner as she began experiencing flashbacks of previously buried trauma. Decades of healing gave her the compassionate wisdom to serve others to develop the skills and insight to begin to heal themselves.
Intuitive reader, spiritual healer, coach and teacher, BakeR Gendron is the Director of Gateway Cottage Wellness Center in Sedona, Arizona. She has worked for decades, both privately and with groups, to empower clients to live life fully and joyously! Assisting to remove barriers to success, happiness and wellbeing, she facilitates holistic healing by integrating mind, body, and spirit. Through BakeR’s own healing journey, recovering from childhood trauma and abuse, she is inspired to teach others how to heal themselves, and to facilitate healthy change. She facilitates spiritual retreats and classes for people seeking to make major life changes and to connect with their own higher selves.
Connect with BakeR here:
https://www.gatewaycottagewellness.com/baker-gendron
http://thepsychiccoach.net
An existential crisis can throw the average adult into a state of uncertainty at best and inner turmoil at worst. Kay's next guest, John Schieke, was just six years old when he started to ponder the deepest questions. As a child, he was mentally and emotionally ill-equipped to handle these queries and barely had the vocabulary to describe what he was experiencing to others. The resulting alienation and stress made him vulnerable to the substance abuse that, by the age of 18, very nearly took his life. Now sober, John shares his ongoing journey from confusion to clarity and offers hope to young people struggling with similar challenges.
In episode 41, Sarah Lindgren talks with Kay about how early trauma influenced so many of the decisions she made throughout her life. Until, that is, she became conscious of how healing can soothe the grooved patterns, opening her up to a life of greater freedom, self-compassion and wisdom. Now, she shares all that with others as a guide, teacher and leader.
Sarah is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (200 E-RYT) working to empower students in public classes, workshops, and yoga retreats. She is also a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP) and offers one-on-one apprenticeship programs. She teaches others how to nurture themselves through grounding and embodiment practices so they can begin to truly love the lives they live.
Sarah's path of profound self-realization began while first practicing yoga as an expectant mother. She began to dig deeply into the absence of self-love and empowerment within, to understand the body-mind-spirt connection and to find new routes to healing and wholeness.
She has and continues to study with numerous internationally recognized teachers, completing advanced trainings including Yoga to Transform Trauma, all with the intent of meeting people where they are with greater knowledge and understanding of yoga practices and philosophy.
Learn more and connect with Sarah here:
Website Sarah-Lindgren.com
Instagram: 108.Sarah
Facebook: Sarah.Lindgren.Yoga
Upcoming Retreat: https://truenaturetravels.com/retreats/yoga-iceland-sarah/
Please note: This episode contains descriptions of violence, sexual abuse, alcoholism and drug use.
In this episode of the podcast, Columbia native Catalina Osorio describes how her early life forged in her an "eat or be eaten" ethos that nearly destroyed her. She shares her journey out of the despair caused by a life of extreme violence and into the immediacy that grace grants everyone no matter what their circumstances. Her well-earned wisdom is a miracle beyond resiliency.
Catalina was born in Colombia in 1981 into a violent family, in a dangerous neighborhood in a turbulent time. She lived in continuous, extreme physical and emotional trauma, without noticing she was completely burying her past. Later, while living in Paris, after a night of heavy drinking, she was plunged into a situation that triggered a physical knowing that she had been raped. But because there was no clear evidence, there was no proof that a crime had been committed. Thus, she began to feel the terror of losing her mind. Her chaotic lifestyle continued until the responsibility, drugs, alcohol, sleeplessness and uncontrollably racing mind brought her body to severe illness and her mind to the breaking point. Depressed, suicidal and facing a possible hysterectomy to remove fibroid tumors, she heard a voice encouraging her to take a path of true healing rather than surgery.
Six years later, Catalina is living in peace and no longer allows her past to unconsciously run everything. She does not claim to be a teacher, to be enlightened or to know it all. She only knows that all of her pain has been created by a misunderstanding of what was happening. She believes we are powerful creators having a unique experience that is meant to add something to the divinely perfect tapestry of LIFE.
You can connect with Catalina at [email protected] and her Facebook Page.
In this episode of Alive & Kicking, Lisa Stokke talks with Kay about being parented, parenting adults and the unique challenges of mothering in the age of awakening.
As founder and Executive Director of Next 7, an organization that advocates for healthy food systems, Lisa has been working to bring awareness to the importance of organic and regenerative agriculture. Previously, inspired by the lack of clean food choices for her four children, she co-founded Food Democracy Now! She works with farmers, scientists and policy leaders around the world to increase nutrient density in food and crops.
A 20-year passion for plant medicine led her to start Temple Tree Aromatics – a company that sources sustainably wildcrafted and organic botanical essential oils and functional blends.
She lives in Boulder, CO.
For more information about Lisa and her work, visit:
Next7.org
TempleTree.co
Bionutrientinstitute.org
Instagram: @Lisa_Stokke
Born in Memphis Tennessee to a navy captain father, Valerie Iron's early life was rich with travel, culture and experience. But despite her joy for that life, a journey into the dark night of the soul brought her to the brink of despair. Throughout, her core wound of unrequited love presented itself again and again leaving her feeling utterly alone in the world. Eventually, Valerie gave herself over to healing through art and sound. But it would be a very long time before she would find the love of her life -- herself.
Valerie Irons is an artist, sound alchemist, breathwork practitioner and kirtan wallah practicing in Sedona, AZ since 2014. She offers group and private sacred sound sessions including “Soundwave Journeys” using her Soundwave Bed™. She offers guidance along the journey of awakening through sound, breath, meditation and creativity. With deep gratitude, she is dedicated to divine healing through the arts.
Connect with Valerie and her work here:
http://www.laughingbluebutterfly.com/
http://www.valerieirons.com/
After achieving the financial goals he set for himself by the time he was in his late 20s, Majid Zafer was looking at very early retirement. But the feeling he was chasing through accomplishment was fleeting, leaving him questioning everything he believed about life and success. Thus began his spiritual journey to live a purpose-filled life.
Despite growing up in the suburbs, Sarah Richelle Starnes describes her formative years as wild, feral and imbued with nature. Her immersive relationship with the natural world expresses itself in myriad ways from her approach to her own education, the wisdom of the body, the power of animals to heal, an all-encompassing curiosity, a compassion for all life and the beat of her own drum.
Sarah has been offering yoga, sound journeys, integrative bodywork, energetic balancing and trauma healing for over twenty years around the world. Some of Sarah’s passions include soaking in hot springs, acro yoga, teaching yoga with animals, slacklining, aerial arts, dancing, training horses, foraging, mushroom hunting, cooking nourishing food, and making plant medicines. She shares alignment-focused practices and transformational experiences in a variety of forms. Sarah’s teaching style embodies her playful nature and deep desire to help humanity heal and connect with the strength and beauty within.
You can find Sarah's work at https://linktr.ee/sarahnatureyoga
In celebration of the release of her second book Dear Human (available now) , Kay invites Ashley Livingston to ask her the questions she's been asking the Alive & Kicking guests.
Kay Eck is the author of Dear Human and Divorce: A Love Story. For more info, please visit kayeck.com
Buy Dear Human here:
https://www.amazon.com/Dear-Human-Kay-Eck/dp/1736583123/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Dear+Human+Kay+Eck&qid=1628125383&sr=8-1
Growing up poor but delightfully untethered, Todd Fink's most memorable educational and spiritual experiences happened in nature. It was there, in nature, that the seeds were planted for his unique approach to inquiry and understanding which views every issue and idea through three lenses -- the artistic, the scientific and the mythological. In his work, including the Kind Mind Podcast and a new book, he draws from a deep well of curiosity in order to explore timeless topics concerning the human condition. Often that exploration takes him straight into the heart of his own tenuous existence.
Connect with Todd below:
[email protected]
www.MichaelToddFink.com
https://www.facebook.com/michaeltoddfink
https://www.instagram.com/michaeltoddfink/
@michaeltoddfink
Host of the Kind Mind podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/684aK4V6c2t0mfzEMgOdEr
Co-founder of The Giving Tree Band: https://www.facebook.com/thegivingtreeband
"Beauty is in the Brain of the Beholder" | TEDx Talk:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLcgAGo-xvQ
The podcast currently has 48 episodes available.