Caravan of the Heart

In this episode, we are simply delighted to be with our beloved bliss sister and dear friend, Victoria Bennett (Vik) who is a poet, author, creative activist, and Wild Woman. 

When not juggling writing, full-time care, and genetic illness, she can be found where the wild weeds grow…within ALL MY WILD MOTHERS:  her debut memoir of motherhood, loss and an apothecary garden.

• Hear the mystic tale of a poet in northern England awakened by Troubadours in the middle of the night.
• We dance on tables... and answer the call to free the wild woman in us.
• We find when we are our authentic selves in the world, we can create anything and that’s when the magic starts!
• Find the small thing worth the gift of your hope. And what is courage but hope mixed with love.
• We plant a herb garden and get more than blooms. We are given myths, healing and wise companions on our journey.
• We see what can grow in the broken ground of grief and find that life grows not in spite of the broken places, but because of them.
• Some seeds require disturbance in order to grow. If we try to cut out the things that hurt and that are difficult, then we also cut out all the joy.
• When we garden wild, we are celebrating a connection, a companionship, an honoring of our place in a vital biodiverse environment.
• We blow the dandelion with its seeds of wishes out into the world!
• LIFE arrives, reaching for the light, bathing in tears, reckless and determined to grow wild and lush over what was once barren stone.

Her writing spans non-fiction, memoir, poetry and games-based storytelling. It was long listed for the inaugural Nan Shepherd Prize (2019), and the Penguin WriteNow (2020) programme, and was a winner of a Northern Debut Award (2020) for non-fiction from New Writing North, and an early extract won the Mother’s Milk Writing Award 2017.

Vik founded Wild Women Press in 1999 to support rural women writers in her community and curates the global Wild Woman Web project, an inclusive online space focusing on nature, connection, and creativity. 

Vik shares, “…stone by stone, seed by seed, life grows not in spite of the broken places, but because of them…”

Join us as we look forward to a story of radical hope, to reclaiming our wild spaces and letting the light into those broken places as we transform the rubble into a garden with her!

Personal Website

https://victoriabennett.me

Social Media link

@VikBeeWyld. (twitter)

Social Media link

@BeeWyld. (instagram)

Social Media link

https://linktr.ee/beewyld 

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In this episode, we are honored to be in the radiant presence of Internationally Renowned Psychic Medium and author of SOUL SEARCHING, Bill Philipps.

Bill is the author of Expect the Unexpected, Signs from the Other Side, and most recently Soul Searching : Tune In to Spirit and Awaken Your Inner Wisdom.

His life’s mission is to help people deal with the grief of losing loved ones by bringing through validations, evidential information, and beautiful messages from Spirit, which heal and bring a sense of peace.

• Explore with us as we find how being committed to the light and to service becomes a saving grace
• Discover that our inner child is the essence of who we are...it has access to our higher self...to our intuitive self 
• Our child self is the threshold that connects us to everything else in the universe
•  When we find forgiveness we are unshackling ourselves from suffering
•  PRAY it Forward- we can be of service to others by being an answer to their prayer
• It's part of our DNA to be grateful...when we live in a state of gratitude we are aligned with spirit
• We go on a spiritual scavenger hunt decoding signs and symbols from our loved ones as they are connecting to us from beyond 
• Recall that we are all connected to a spiritual web around us of influence, inspiration  and connectivity
• We're all here to understand what unconditional love feels like for ourselves
• Welcome to the era of deeply empathic people

Bill conducts individual and small- and large-group readings and has appeared on high-profile television programs like Dr. Phil and Access Hollywood. 

Bill says, “connecting with our higher self helps us navigate and flourish in a world that is becoming increasingly complex. Such a connection takes significant work and a lot of soul searching, but we have the power to make it through conscious choice. It is up to us.”

Personal Website

http://www.billphilipps.com

Social Media link

https://www.facebook.com/psychicmediumbill/

Social Media link

https://www.instagram.com/billphilipps/

Social Media link

https://twitter.com/MediumBillPhili

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In this episode, we feel fortunate to be in the presence and companionship of Asia Suler, Author of Mirrors in the Earth: Reflections on Self-Healing from the Living World.

She a healing herbalist and is the founder of One Willow Apothecaries, an Appalachian-grown company.   She is an Earth-intuitive who helps people remember their gifts through educational experiences in herbalism, animism, ancestral healing and earth-centered personal growth.

• Join us as we find revelation in reflection!
• What is the burr in your fur? As invasive as they feel - they are here to help us heal.
• Sensitivity is a Super Power! Acceptance leads to gratitude and gratitude leads to grace.   
• You are so much more brilliant than you realize… You were born into original beauty - you can choose to live there.
• The Earth a benevolent parent mirror that will never forsake us and can help us see ourselves clearly again.
•  We ask the Earth for forgiveness and learn the one thing we need to survive.
• “…the overwhelming emotion that we feel when we witness all the ecological loss in our world today is a measure of how deeply we love this planet, and, how profoundly the earth loves us in return. We think we are too fragile for these times but we are not…’
• The message we need will not ever stop trying to be delivered and that's just a sign of how much the world loves you!

As a teacher, Asia has guided over 20,000 students in 70+ countries through her immersive online programs. With her writings and teachings,  Her heart is to help people embrace their own unique medicine through a joyful engagement with the natural world.

With her book, Mirrors in the Earth: Reflections on Self-Healing from the Living World; through her work, Asia helps people embrace their own unique medicine through a joyful engagement with the natural world.

Asia says, “No matter what we do, or where we go, we are unconditionally loved and held by this planet. No matter how far we stray from the perceived path, the Earth is there, dreaming up honey to sweeten our existence, flowers in the spring, and a soft bed of moss to lay in and refreshing air to breathe. Realizing how deeply we are already loved is powerful. It’s real, it’s humbling, and it is a miracle”

Social Media link

https://www.instagram.com/asiasuler/

Social Media link

https://www.facebook.com/asiasuler/

Social Media link

https://www.youtube.com/c/asiasuler

Book:

https://onewillowapothecaries.com/mirrors-in-the-earth/

Song: “Oh Mother, Oh Earth”, by Sylvia Linsteadt

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In this episode, we are thrilled to be in the company of and in conversation with 
Psychotherapist and Authentic Empowerment Guide, Nicole Sartini.

• We are asked if we ready to flip the light on and see what is stored in our metaphorical closet?
• We build the courage to be able to see ourselves in our fullness
• Learn that a feeling is not a fact - we came here to learn and evolve through our challenges
• Find that when we hit those spots that are so painful and it feels like everything has crumbled - that is the birthplace of creation
• We consider that we can hold both the pain and beauty at once.  Can things be both?
• Some of the hardest moments end up being the most fertile of our evolution
• We are here to evolve through a certain set of challenges...we should take the curriculum
• Love and acceptance is high frequency and brings us peace
• Step inside to find the unique spark within YOUR Sanctuary of Self 

Nicole started in the mental health field 23 years ago at the age of 19 and has
practiced as a professional psychotherapist since 2010.

She is the co-owner and founder of Bridge Counseling and Wellness, an
integrative mental health counseling center with 5 locations in Louisville, KY, and
The Academy of Integrative Mental Health, a continuing education platform for
mental health professionals across the country and beyond.

She carries a unique window into the world by having had the honor of being an
intimate part of thousands of people’s healing journeys and through her own
personal work as a trauma survivor who has found resiliency and peace.

Nicole says, “When it really comes down to what actually brings about true
contentment and makes a meaningful difference in both our personal and shared
world, the only real power a person has is the power to bring clarity, insight and
healing to their inner world. By doing so, they bring about a sense of peace with
what is within themselves and are able to allow the love they find themselves to
be at their core, to overflow and help shape the outer world. That is the kind of
power that allows us to know and connect with ourselves so deeply that we can
then find a way to use our unique makeup and gifts to honor ourselves and the
collective. It’s a power that not only enhances our personal sense of well being,
but allows us to leave this planet a little bit more kind, evolved, loving, peaceful
or beautiful than it was before our time here.”

Personal Website
www.bridgemindbody.com
Social Media link
www.facebook.com/bridgemindbody
Social Media link
www.instagram.com/edensidesanctuary/

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https://bridgemindbody.com/current-events/

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In this episode, our wild hearts get activated and our souls get invited to intiation by Rebecca Wildbear, author of “Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration & Advocacy for the Earth.”

Rebecca is also the creator of a yoga practice called Wild Yoga, which empowers individuals to tune in to the mysteries that live within the earth community, dreams, and their own wild nature so they may live a life of creative service.

• Join us as we learn how a soul becomes initiated
• Discover who Rebecca calls "masters of love"
• Find out how movements become a prayer to the universe
• Listen to the mystery in the body...as a doorway to the sacred
• Open to the wild, holy presence in Nature and in our Nature
• Learn that when we are in tune with the living world and tap into our deep imagination, mysterious things arise and surprise and we are given essential instructions for our life
• Find out how following what we love opens us to a romance with the world
• Ask "Where is my love right now in this moment flowing”?
• We call up Love Warriors for the Earth and call in ferocity for the wellbeing of the planet
• Remember the wild world needs our embodied love prayers and we need the wild world

Rebecca says, “May these teachings, stories and practices offer a path to open your heart to what is most sacred. May they ground you in love and strength. May they restore your relationship with the Earth so that you and your dreams, mystery and muse may live in co-creative reciprocity with life on the planet.”

Personal Website

https://www.rebeccawildbear.com/

Social Media link

https://www.facebook.com/rebecca.wildbear/

Social Media link

https://www.instagram.com/wildbearyoga

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In this episode, our hearts are rejoicing and reverent to be in the enlightening and awakening presence of mystic wisdom teacher and guide, Mary Reed, who is ushering in the Way of Love, the Truth of Love, and the Luminous Light of Love.

We welcome her back to Caravan of the Heart to celebrate and cherish the release of her new book and big, beautiful, inspiring love letter, Humanity’s Epic Awakening A Mystical Odyssey Beyond Belief.

• We become fully aware of the light of the divine here through us and as us. 
• We make our Love visible. No scripture or sermon is necessary to live according to love...every heart knows the way.
• We ask, If love is all we need - then why hasn't there ever been enough love to make our suffering go away? We find out the answer.
• Expand to hold the wisdom that the origin of our pain is our belief that we are separate from everything, separate from love.
• See how when we reject what we label “bad” we are stuck in a cycle of pain- what we resist...persists. 
• Invite whatever comes into my awareness...I will love unconditionally as an equal part of all that I am. 
• "There is a great love coming....like a great tidal wave...like the force of a thousand winds...it is unstoppable... and you should welcome it when it comes!"
• We look forward to Mary helping us remember that how we are in each moment IS our contribution to the collective. She offers to us… “You see how powerful you are? Throughout the cosmos you are being celebrated!” We celebrate HER and all of her contributions in service to Divine Love!

Mary was a staunchly agnostic healthcare executive living in Washington, DC when she began venturing uncontrollably into mystical experiences in the company of Jesus, Buddha and angels. 

She finally surrendered her “normal” life and spent several years in a tiny nunnery in the Himalayas coming to terms with her unexpected abilities. Her profound experiences are both a road map and an invitation into the Divine wisdom we all hold within. 

Mary’s work is a palpable transmission of Divine Love as evidenced in her three books — Unwitting Mystic Evolution of the Message of Love, Divine New Being A Sublime Guided Passage to the End of Hell, and Humanity’s Epic Awakening A Mystical Odyssey Beyond Belief.

Mary says, “However we are reacting to others is our contribution to others. However we are reacting to the world is our contribution to the world. What is it YOU want to contribute?”

Personal Website:
https://www.lovemaryreed.com/

ENJOY Mary's 1st episode on Caravan of the Heart here:   https://www.caravanoftheheart.com/podcast-episodes/episode/4e04eec0/mary-reed-mystic-wisdom-guideteacher

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(Our laptop completely failed.  We offer to you an inspirational talk by Renee given at a Unity service a few years ago.  We are in the process of getting things replaced and should have a new guest episode next week.  In the meantime, here’s an invitation to love…)

In this episode, you are invited to consider that it is impossible that there is anything but love!   Why not explore this?  We encourage you to activate your spiritual GPS to find out where you are (love) and where you are destined (love)…all paths meet at the crossroads of love.

Marianne Williamson says, “Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces chaos, and the chaos produces fear. There is only one way out of this, and that is to see every moment and every situation as an invitation to love.”

”There is only one way out of this, and that is to see every moment and every situation as an invitation to love.” ...find out what "this" is... 

• If we don’t choose love – what are we choosing instead?
• We cannot be in the world of connection and the world of estrangement at the same time…when we are feeling joy, we cannot feel fear; when we are feeling tranquil we cannot feel resentful; when we are feeling love we cannot feel critical…
• We can choose our destination but we need to know exactly where we are and where we wish to go.
• Love is the only way and when it feels like it is not love it is only just a lack of love.
• The perfect you is accessed through the love within you.  Choose love over fear and find your shine!
• Free your heart from hatred.
• Free your mind from worries.
• Live Simply.
• Give More.
• Expect Goodness.
• DECIDE to love it!  That’s the way of love!

Remember, YOU are love and YOU are loved!

Let's Connect!  Schedule your personal or couples retreat and let us nurture you and your love!
https://www.wayoftheheartwoods.org/soul-guidance-sessions

Podcast Website:  caravanoftheheart.com

Music Website: troubadoursofdivinebliss.com

Social Media Link:
https://www.facebook.com/Troubadours-of-Divine-Bliss-70820080497/

Social Media Link:
https://www.youtube.com/divinebliss

Social Media Link:
https://www.instagram.com/troubadoursofdivinebliss/

Dr Martin Luther King Jr once said, "We must discover the power of love, the redemptive power of love. And when we do that, we will make of this old world a new world, for love is the only way."

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In this episode, we travel through the countryside north of Stockholm deep into the heart and soul and high vibration of Fia Forsström (known mononymously as Fia) .

Fia is a spiritual singer-songwriter who with her inspirational lyrics and catchy melodies has a unique way of weaving music that empowers the listener to drop deeper into themselves and find their own medicine. 

• Find out how this songbird finds an opening and gets freed from her cage.
• Fall into Worship as we recognize ourselves as part of the whole - as coming home.
•  We see worship as swimming out and broadening our perspective to connect with the lifeforce saying, “I love you and you love me....thank you for being with me on this journey”.
• We ask what if we didn't run away from the demons in our heads and instead we chose to love them?
•  Step into the knowledge that by actively choosing love we feel empowered.
•  Discover the key turned in the lock that opened up the love of self and the knowing of our worth.
• You are invited to, please, be yourself...it is the most beautiful thing you can do!
•  We trust that who we are is enough.
•  We are with the Divine Feminine as she invites us to slow down...Her Love is tender...it is fierce...it is deep listening...it is clear communication...it is intuitive dreaming...it is powerful prayer...it is everything!

Since the release of her debut album “Made of Stars” (2016), Fia has been touring worldwide and continues to touch hearts wherever she goes. She has fast become one of the leading voices on the spiritual music scene after the release of her two albums ”Legacy of Light” (2017) and ”Waterfall of Wisdom”(2019).  Since then, several EPs, singles and various collaborations have taken place, and winter 22/23 she enters the studio to create her fourth album with spirit inspired music.

 It i said  that she has a “unique way of weaving music that empowers the listener to drop deeper into themselves and find their own medicine…"  Expect to be healed!

Fia says,

“The life that I live

I feel honored to give

In humble service to the Divine

I am grateful for every single breath that I may breathe

For the expansion

For the gift of being me

I’ve got another page in my book

And I will use it well, I will use it well

Cause when I go

I want to know

That I left it all on the table

That I gave it all I’ve got

I wanna be remembered as Love

Leaving behind

A legacy of Light

Of Light”

Personal Website

https://fiasmusicofficial.com/

Social Media link

https://www.instagram.com/thisisfiamusic/

Social Media link

https://www.facebook.com/thisisfiamusic

Social Media link

https://www.youtube.com/c/FiaMusic

Social Media link

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0MqfYdygGLnHjhmXc9yDeH?si=aUtu3V2hQ9mJt

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 In this episode, it is our immense privilege to have as our guest a powerful poetic voice, author, singer/songwriter, avid nature-woman, and educator, Meredith Heller.

A California Poet in the Schools, Meredith leads Writing By Heart workshops at public & private schools, women’s prisons, The Institute for Poetic Medicine, The Kennedy Center for the Arts, wellness retreats, and online for adults and teens.

• We ask the question…Do you write the poem or does the poem write you? 
• What does it mean to Be 1000% percent present and get 1000% out of the way so the creative muse can come through?
• When we really show up and learn something new about ourselves...this is what is alive!
• We befriend ourselves...hold ourselves with the deepest love and respect and listen for the whisper in our ears.
• Discover how to find your own natural, creative voice.
• Offer the monster of your inner critic tea and dark chocolate with almonds.
• Realize that we need both the darkness and the light to grow. 
• Melt the armor, put the sword down and learn to trust.
• Stay with it until you break open...then you will break through.
• Realize that you can write yourself back to life and give a voice to your pain.
• Turn your tears into temples. 
• Midwife and reweave the world.
• Learn to feel wildly alive.
• We allow ourselves to make some wonderful new mistakes.
• We trust that there is a benevolent energy that wants the best FOR us and wants the best FROM us.

Her passion is empowering people to believe in themselves, trust their creative instincts, tap their wild wisdom, express their truth, and ignite their hearts.

She is the author of Write a Poem, Save Your Life, and three poetry collections, Songlines, Yuba Witch, & River Spells. Meredith was selected as a teaching-artist for an online education program through The Kennedy Center for the Arts. She was made a Poetry Partner by the Institute of Poetic Medicine, and she receives a grant from them each year to teach in the women's prisons.

Meredith says, “If writing has claimed you as its own, as it has me, you will know that writing is how we breathe, how we bloom from darkness into love. Dig deep into the caverns of your memories, thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Dig up all the bright delicious juicy ones, the bubbling lava angry ones, the lonely soggy miserable ones, the broken self-hating demeaning ones, the dark monstrous secretive ones; dig in, because this is where your poetry lives.”

Personal Website

www.meredithheller.com

Social Media link

https://www.facebook.com/meredith.heller.5

Social Media link

Writing by Heart Workshops:  https://www.meredithheller.com/women

Poetry Books:
https://www.finishinglinepress.com/?s=meredith+heller&post_type=product

Write a Poem, Save Your Life:
https://www.newworldlibrary.com/Writing-and-Literature/WRITE-A-POEM-SAVE-YOUR-LIFE

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In this episode, we are in the presence of a Champion…Our Shero…a revolutionary advocate for this planet and its people, Julia Butterfly Hill!

For 738 days Julia Butterfly Hill lived in the canopy of an ancient redwood tree, called Luna, to help make the world aware of the plight of ancient forests. Her courageous act of civil disobedience gained international attention for the redwoods as well as other environmental and social justice issues, which is chronicled in her bestselling book The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods.

• Our souls are transformed by a Super-Shero of Resilience!
•  Bear it all...push at edges even when it's uncomfortable because that's where growth happens.
• We find a conscious "No" to one thing is a conscious "Yes" to something else!
• We don't have to hold it all... just allow it to flow through.
• Discover a pufferfish transform into a butterfly!
• With waste, there is no "away". Indigenous cultures don't even have a word for "trash".
• We don't need more stuff, we need to find more courage, more love. more           connectivity!
• We dispel the idea of "We the People" and expand to "We the Planet"!
• Today we strive to do our best to live love in action in every moment. 
• Today we ask  "what kind of world do I want to leave behind with the life that I have led?"

Julia, with the great help of steelworkers and environmentalists, successfully negotiated to permanently protect the 1,000 year-old tree and a nearly three – acre buffer zone.

On December 18, 1999 Julia Butterfly Hill, then 26, came down to a world that recognized her as a heroine and powerful voice for the environment.

Her courage, commitment and profound clarity in articulating a message of hope, empowerment, and love & respect for all life, has inspired millions of people worldwide. After she returned to the ground, Julia toured the world speaking about her experience, and about the many lessons she learned, to the media and audiences large and small.

The recipient of numerous prestigious awards and distinctive honors, Julia Butterfly Hill is one of the most internationally recognizable figures in environmental activism.

Julia founded the non-profit organization, Circle of Life and was the visionary of We The Planet, setting the standards for green festivals, events, and tours in the US.  She co-founded the Engage Network and is the inspiration behind What’s Your Tree. 

She has addressed the United Nations, lobbied congress, and has continued to stand on the front lines of environmental and social justice issues all over the world. 

   JULIA SAYS, “When I entered the majestic cathedral of the redwood forest for the first time, my spirit knew it had found what it was searching for. I dropped to my knees and began to cry because I was so overwhelmed by the wisdom, energy and spirituality housed in this holiest of temples”

Julia Butterfly Hill is most known for living in a tree, but she has had a wild and full life before and after. She “cusses like a sailor and prays to trees.”

Personal Website

www.juliabutterfly.com

Social Media link

https://www.facebook.com/JuliaButterflyHillOfficial

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