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A child who “won’t talk” about feelings isn’t being difficult, they might be protecting themselves. I’m joined by meditation teacher and author Mayra Clay, whose work centres on helping children and families find a kinder, clearer way to understand emotions and speak about them without fear. We start with the real-life moments that sparked her children’s book, The Boy and the Pink Light, inspired by what she noticed in nursery settings and by her own experience of loneliness growing up. 

Mayra explains the pink light as a simple, gentle practice that symbolises love and acceptance that begins within. It becomes a shared family language: first surrounding yourself with a bubble of pink light, then extending it towards others. We also dig into why many of us learnt to hide tears or minimise feelings, and how that shows up later as stress, people pleasing, or emotional shutdown. If you’re a parent, carer, or anyone working with children, you’ll hear practical ways to model emotional honesty, from saying “I’m grumpy, I need five minutes” to naming sadness without making it a crisis. 

We then shift into Mayra’s meditation path, the Bright Path Ishayas, a set of techniques grounded in gratitude, compassion, appreciation, acceptance, and praise. Mayra shares how these practices can be done with eyes closed or even in daily life with eyes open, and why a consistent routine can feel like stress relief and a return to inner peace. We also cover the nuts and bolts of self-publishing a children’s book, including learning the Amazon Kindle process and building a wider presence online. 

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Channelling can sound dramatic until someone explains what it feels like in real life. I’m joined by energy healer Freda Maletsky, who shares how her spiritual gifts switched on later in life after years of clearing trauma and limiting beliefs. We get honest about the way people give their power away by chasing the “easy answer”, and why learning to feel what’s actually in your system can change everything from emotional triggers to how you move through the world.

Freda then breaks down what semi-trance voice channel work really is, including how she learned to step back so a specific consciousness can speak through her voice while she stays safe, grounded, and discerning. We talk about energetic hygiene, protection, and why channelling is still filtered through the human nervous system unless you keep doing the inner work. If you’ve ever wondered whether channelling can be learned, or how to avoid fear and fantasy, this will help you think more clearly about the process.

We also explore Elisabeth, the energetic frequency Freda channels, described as a divine feminine presence beyond time and space. The guidance is surprisingly practical: prayers into drinking water, green leafy greens for the heart space, and a steady return to the land. We go deep on nature consciousness, talking to trees, and why modern time pressure and physical tightness can block expanded states. If energy healing, chakra clearing, meditation, light language, and intuitive development are on your path, you’ll leave with grounded ideas to try straight away.

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The moment you stop bracing can feel like the moment you fall apart and that’s exactly why so many capable, high-functioning women panic during a big life transition. When the job ends, the relationship shifts, the body finally says “enough”, or a quiet inner knowing surfaces, the old identity can crack. With embodied integration coach Natasha Ramlall, we talk honestly about that unnerving stretch of time where you do not have a map, you do not feel like yourself, and you are tempted to label it as weakness. We name it for what it often is: a nervous system recalibration and a doorway to a more truthful life. 

We explore embodied integration coaching as a way of bringing the mind, the body, protective ego patterns and a spiritual anchor back into relationship. That means moving beyond living in your head and learning how to “land in the body” so you can hear needs, rebuild intuition, and restore self-trust after years of over-functioning. We also talk about the messy middle, why shutdown can follow decades of fight mode, and how compassion and acceptance can help you stay with uncertainty long enough for real clarity to arrive. 

Natasha shares how an embodied dance practice grew from one deceptively simple question: what did five-year-old you want to do? We unpack why creativity and play are not indulgences, why value cannot only be measured by productivity or money, and how small glimmers of joy can become practical next steps. You’ll also hear about a free guided audio that supports embodiment as a starting point, plus one daily spiritual practice that keeps us centred: committed listening. 

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Website -  Humanist Coaching Home

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A vacant lot sounds like nothing, until you look at it long enough to hear what it’s saying. From Rome, I’m joined by artist, poet, and photographer Steven Seidenberg for a conversation about the places we pass every day and the histories we rarely name, even when they’re right in front of us.

We talk about Steven’s conceptual photography practice and why he works in series, using repetition to build an idea across multiple images. His photo book Kanazawa Vacancy takes us to Kanazawa, Japan, where demographic shifts leave gaps in the city and nature moves back in fast. We dig into why he chose black and white, how negative space can feel heavy, and why “decay” can be understood as transformation rather than pure loss.

Then we head to southern Italy through The Architecture of Silence, where abandoned post-war housing reveals the long afterlife of policy, power, and displacement. We discuss Matera, the Sassi cave dwellings, and the uneasy reality of gentrification when “culture” becomes a brand that prices locals out. From there, Steven brings us to his book Coda, sharing a writing process that begins in the middle, circles back, and borrows freedom from medieval narrative, alongside a love of language, sound, and the deep roots inside English itself.

If you care about fine art photography, urban change, architecture, creative writing, and the quieter forms of spirituality that live inside everyday experience, you’ll find plenty to sit with here. Subscribe, share this with a friend who loves thoughtful art, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway.

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Perfectionism can look like ambition from the outside, but inside it can feel like a nonstop attempt to stay safe. Natasha Joy Price sits down with therapist, speaker, and Rooted Counselling and Wellness founder Cindy Payne to unpack complex PTSD, the kind of trauma that grows in relationships and disrupted attachment rather than one isolated incident. We talk about why this “relational trauma” can leave you second-guessing yourself, struggling with boundaries, and stuck in patterns like people pleasing and fawning, even when you’re a high achiever who seems to have it all together. 

We also get practical about healing. Cindy explains why many trauma survivors live “neck up”, and how somatic therapy and body-centred practices help reconnect mind and body safely. We discuss micro steps such as noticing constriction versus expansion, tracking breath, doing brief body scans, and learning how emotions like shame show up physically. Along the way, we touch on why naming your experience matters, how shame thrives in secrecy and silence, and how community can loosen the grip of self-blame. 

If you’re exploring complex PTSD recovery, trauma therapy, nervous system regulation, grounding, or the link between yoga and healing, you’ll come away with clearer language and a steadier starting point. Subscribe, share the show with someone who needs it, and leave a review so more listeners can find these conversations.

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A corporate career, an NLP workshop, then a sudden shift into seeing spirit almost overnight. That’s the path Jeanette Wilson shares with us, and it’s as raw as it is fascinating: the fear, the praying, the need for reassurance, and the moment she’s told she’s here to be a healer and a teacher. We talk about what spiritual awakening actually feels like when it happens fast, and why learning to ask for help can be the first real act of strength.

From there, we explore Jeanette’s work in channelled healing and energy therapy, including how she stays conscious while guides work through her, and why “trying to fix” can pull us into ego rather than healing. She shares the principles behind high-vibration healing, the body’s wisdom, and an unforgettable story of a young man walking again after paralysis, raising big questions about consciousness, the nervous system, and what we think is possible.

We also get practical: why fear and anxiety keep the body stuck in fight or flight, how stillness and sensory attention can calm the system, and what Jeanette calls a “scared to sacred reset”. Plus, we talk emotional reprogramming, the Wayne Dyer orange teaching on triggers, and Jeanette’s UK healing tour including events at the Harry Edwards Centre near Guildford, with details on where to find tickets.

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Your brain can understand your trauma and still keep repeating it, because the real switchboard is your nervous system. Natasha Joy Price sits down with transformational coach and It’s Pure Love founder Thayne Martin to unpack “experiential neuroscience” and why lasting emotional regulation comes from training the body through real experiences, not just insight. We get into triggers, anger, anxiety, and the moment your body decides “threat” before your mind can catch up.

Thayne shares his personal story with disarming honesty, from childhood abuse and decades of depression, addiction, and rage, to the turning point that forced him to stop running. From there, we explore the idea that healing is a learned skill: breathing through a surge, choosing a better response, and building a new pattern your body can trust. He also describes a near-death experience after drowning, and the spiritual clarity he believes it brought about purpose, ego, intuition, and what it really means to live with love and light.

We walk through Thayne’s “equation of life and abundant happiness”, using simple maths as an emotional operating system: add what brings joy, subtract what does not serve, multiply intention through action, divide through reflection, and return to gratitude as the equal sign. You will also hear practical, sometimes brave exercises that create change fast, from using strangers’ names to dancing out loud in public, plus how these tools translate into healthier workplace culture, psychological safety, and lower burnout.

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One radio interview, a lost celebrity review, and a cheeky line that basically dares the BBC to give you a chance can change the direction of your whole life. I’m Natasha Joy Price, and I’m joined by author and publisher Lynette Allen, founder of Gather the Women Publishing, to unpack how she went from first-time nerves on BBC Radio 2 to creating collaborative books that bring women’s voices to the page.

We talk about Sister Circles and why women often find it easier to speak their truth when they’re witnessed by other women. Lynette shares how an online circle during Covid turned into a book almost overnight when 34 women volunteered to write chapters, and why that hunger to write is not about being “a writer” but about having something real to say. We also dig into the craft side: how a good editor helps you find the gem in your story, move it forward, and let the meaning land without losing your voice.

From there, we zoom out into storytelling across generations: the family memories we never think to ask about, the power of writing someone’s words down while we still can, and the beautiful idea of a grimoire as a living book of wisdom, recipes, remedies and lived experience. Lynette also speaks candidly about reinvention, menopause, HRT, and what it means to have a whole second lifetime to create, travel, retrain, and start again at 50, 60, or even 70.

We finish with what’s next, including When Women Need Space and Unfiltered, a bold project about women’s relationships with their bodies as they age, plus Lynette’s simple daily practices for staying centred. If you care about women’s publishing, creative writing, self-expression, and honest conversations about ageing, press play, then subscribe, share, and leave a review so more people can find us.

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Fifteen minutes can be enough to shake your sense of self and that is exactly why people are paying attention to 5-MeO-DMT. I’m joined by Stephan Kirby, co-founder of the Mindscape Psychedelic Institute, to unpack what this psychedelic actually is, why many people call it Bufo, and why the ethical conversation matters just as much as the mystical one.

We talk about the “god molecule” effect people report at a full-release dose: ego dissolution, a sudden drop-out of identity and story, and a return that can feel like waking up with fresh space around old habits. Stephan shares why the experience is often described as less visual than traditional DMT and more like pure consciousness, and how that can shift depression, anxiety, trauma patterns, and fear of death. We also explore why some people compare it to near-death experiences, and what it means to come back holding life a little more lightly.

Safety is the thread running through everything. We get into trauma-informed psychedelic facilitation, proper screening, informed consent, medication considerations, and why a person should never be left unsupported when they are not aware of their surroundings. Stephan also explains why integration is the real work: bringing the insight into daily life through presence, breathwork, and practices that help the nervous system regulate, rather than chasing repeated peak experiences.

If you’re curious about psychedelic therapy, nervous system reset, somatic release, and the move from underground use towards research and clinical access, this conversation will give you a grounded place to start. Subscribe, share the podcast with someone who’s curious, and leave a review with the question you want us to explore next.

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Your life can look fine on paper and still feel frantic on the inside. We sit down with Oliveyah Fisch, coach and author behind the Spiritual Heartbeat movement, to talk about the missing ingredient many high-functioning people never learned to train: spiritual intelligence. Not as a lofty concept, but as a practical way to make decisions, lead yourself, and feel steady when everything around you speeds up.

We explore how spiritual intelligence fits alongside body intelligence, emotional intelligence and intellect, and why relying on intellect alone can leave you exhausted and stuck in overthinking. Oliveyah breaks down two below-the-line patterns many of us live in without noticing: the “rush zone” where urgency, striving and anxiety take over, and the “danger zone” where we feel triggered, overwhelmed and reactive. From there, we move into the shift that changes everything: treating life as happening for you, not to you, and learning to clean up the language that quietly reinforces stress.

The heart of the conversation is intuition. Oliveyah explains why intuition is not always comfortable, how to tell the difference between fear and guidance, and why real wisdom often arrives as just the next step, like a GPS. We also dig into the simplest practice we can all start today: eight minutes of stillness, daily, to meet yourself, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect to what you already know. Oliveyah also shares accessible ways to go deeper, including a free Spiritual Heartbeat assessment on her website and community-based support.

If you want calmer confidence, better boundaries, and a more grounded kind of success, press play. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs a reset, and leave us a review, what would you do differently if you trusted your intuition this week?

Oliveyah Fisch

Spiritual Heartbeat: Ultimate Requirement for Success.

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