In this episode, we're joined by Charly Cox who is the founder of Climate Change Coaches, which teaches coaching skills to people who want to influence and empower others to act in favour of the environment. Climate change is a topic that leaves many of us feeling powerless and stuck. We know that people do consider climate change to be the most urgent issue of our time, however, we also know that people are feeling especially powerless and stuck right now because of coronavirus. Charly covers how she coaches people through climate anxiety and how you can apply that to what you may be feeling now. There are some really helpful insights and please let us know if you have any other tips that you recommend that we can share with the community.

And if you’ve been listening throughout the season and have been enjoying what you hear, we would be honoured if you could rate and leave a review. In addition, we’d love your honest feedback so feel free to get in touch if you have ideas or suggestions of what you’d like to hear more of. 

Annalise has been working as a Healer since 2006.  She works from the perspective that difficult life experiences, cyclical life patterns, and core beliefs will often interfere with our ability to achieve our full potential and reach personal goals.  She approaches healing from a foundation that considers mind-body-spirit connections and the impact they have over our emotions, beliefs and spiritual expression.  Her personal and professional interests, beliefs and experiences moved her towards building her knowledge through the use of modalities that facilitate emotional, physical and spiritual integration.  With a BA in Sociology, a Social Work Diploma and now studying Psychology, she blends her subtle body skills Reiki, Intuitive Healing, and Breathwork practices to guide you towards a deeper more rewarding relationship with yourself.  She has found these approaches to be particularly effective in working through physical, mental and emotional blocks

Ali Hedone is the founder of the Holistic Sex Squad based in Sydney Australia and Bliss School facilitator. In our conversation we talk all things sex, sexuality, pleasure, orgasms, including how our beliefs around sex are formed. Ali offers some practices, exercises and prompts to help us reflect on our relationship to sex.

Ali Hedone 
Instagram: @ali_hedone
Email: [email protected]

Resources mentioned:

BlisSchool by Aida Lucie

https://www.belongtobliss.life/blisschool

The BlisSchool Facilitator Training is for women who want to enjoy a more fulfilled and pleasurable sex life and become beacons for sexual liberation and wholeness for other women.

OMG Yes

https://www.omgyes.com

The Science of Women’s Pleasure. Finally- an honest, informative, research-based approach to women’s pleasure. Explore what feels good and why and make a great thing even better. 

Bonus episode following our original conversation with Christina Disler, the founder of Werklab co-working space in Vancouver which is all about wellness and is also the founder of The Werk which is a digital publication with amazing content about shifting work culture. In this quick chat, we gain insight from Christina on how to use this time in self-isolation and working from home to re-connect and re-evaluate our relationship to work and our purpose. 

In this episode, we're speaking with Christina Disler, the founder of Werklab co-working space in Vancouver which is all about wellness and is also the founder of The Werk which is a digital publication with amazing content about shifting work culture towards wellness and wellbeing. 

Christina has been on a really interesting journey herself and combines her background in HR with her passion and experience in wellness and spirituality to show how interconnected our work lives are with ourselves as people and souls on a planet. 

We speak with Christina about all things work culture, creating workspaces that foster wellness, and how spirituality, sexuality, and sustainability impact and influence our work lives as well as the type of work that we are doing.

This interview is coming out at a really interesting time in the world. With everything that is happening in the world because of the coronavirus, there is a lot of time to reflect on work, our purpose, why we do what we do, how our work makes us feel. So I hope this is a helpful episode for anyone who is feeling a shift in their work at the moment. We are also going to be putting out some bonus content later this week with Christina about working from home and how to ensure we stay well. 

Alexandra Fine is the co-founder of Dame Products. Dame is a sexual wellness brand that has some amazing products such a vibrators or pillow wedges that are designed based on users needs. Alex is originially trained as a sexologist and with her co-founder, Janet, who is an MIT trained engineer, they focus on the tools, the community for people to connect and share, and the education we all need about sex in order to help close the Pleasure Gap. In our chat, we talk about the pleasure gap is, the questions Alex gets most about sex and masturbation and tips she recommends most. Enjoy!

Dame Products:
https://www.dameproducts.com
Use promo code CCC2020 at checkout for 15% off

Content and Education:
https://swell.damewellness.co

Articles mentioned by Alex on Swell

• Prostate Stimulation: https://swell.damewellness.co/the-p-spot-guide-that-everyone-needs/
• Feeling Shame After Watching Porn: https://swell.damewellness.co/why-do-people-feel-so-bad-about-watching-porn/
• Medical Grade Silicon: https://www.dameproducts.com/blogs/news/what-does-medical-grade-really-mean?_pos=2&_sid=e8ce55c1c&_ss=r

Follow Dame

Instagram: @dameproducts
Twitter: @DameProducts

Chantal Russell is an international yogini, best selling author, holistic nutritionist, and ayurvedic wellness consultant. She is passionate about awakening and reclaiming the sacred feminine, creative Shakti power within us all.  Whether through yoga and meditation, simple daily ritual, moon gatherings, conscious lifestyle design, curiosity or conversation, her desire is to empower women with practical wisdom. Chantal shares her insights from her personal journey and her experience with cancer and motherhood. We go into her thoughts on eastern and western medicines, we talk about the impact that the climate crisis has on our bodies and our spirits and loads more.

More about Chantal:

• Entrepreneur, Tantric Yogini, Mother, Cancer Thriver, Lover of all things Wellness. https://www.chantalrussell.com
  https://www.instagram.com/chantalrussell/
  https://www.instagram.com/thewell_women/
• Chantal’s Yoga and Wellness Studio on Bowen Island
  http://thewellonbowen.com
  https://www.instagram.com/thewellonbowen/

Resources mentioned in the episode:

• Joseph Campbell (The Hero’s Journey)
  Campbell’s book on the subject is a massive work of comparative myth called The Hero With A Thousand Faces.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces
• As Chantal says, there are a few additional steps (beyond the Hero’s…) to the Heroine’s Journey. Some additional resources on this are:
  The Heroine’s Journey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroine%27s_journey
  https://heroinejourneys.com/heroines-journey/
• Clarissa Pinkola Estés fantastic book: Women Who Run With The Wolves
  The last chapter is a beautiful culmination of the myths and stories she’s been collecting and recounting here of the Wild Woman Archetype, that is her version of the Heroine’s Journey.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Who_Run_with_the_Wolves
• Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
  The book that led Chantal to begin her reclamation journey of her priestess-ness.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mists_of_Avalon
• Robert Augustus Masters:
  Author of the book Chantal recommended regarding Spiritual Bypassing
  https://www.robertmasters.com/book/spiritual-bypassing/
• The reclamation of Mary Magdalene— as one of Jesus’s most influential apostles. ‘Not a prostitute, or public sinner, but a primary witness’
  https://reclaimmagdalene.org
• Priestess of Avalon Trainings with Glastonbury Goddess Temple. 
  “Train in Glastonbury, the Gateway to the Sacred Isle of Avalon:
  https://goddesstempleteachings.co.uk/priestessofavalon/
  
  
  
  
  
  

Zachi Brewster is a miscarriage and abortion doula as well as a pleasure advocate. In this episode, we cover the basics of what a miscarriage and an abortion are and how she supports people who are going through that experience. We talk about how they are incredibly common but people feel like it’s something that they can’t talk about or need to keep a secret and the impact that has on those who have gone through it. Zachi shares some tips and advice for those who have gone through and those who haven’t but how we can support our friends and family who have. And in addition to all that, we discuss pleasure and what it means to be a pleasure advocate. 

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In this episode of the Crystals, Clits and Climate podcast, we’re speaking with Courtney Chew who is the founder of OCIN. OCIN is a lifestyle brand and eco-conscious swim label based in Vancouver, Canada. OCIN exists to connect human beings to our most open, free and conscious selves, to motivate awareness, break barriers, and inspire positive actions for our communities, our earth, and our oceans. 

We speak about how OCIN helps people reconnect to their relationship to nature and become mindful of how swimwear and sizing makes people feel. 

Resources from this episode:

• https://www.ocin.co
• EcoNyl regenerated nylon: https://www.econyl.com

Lisa Matzi is the lead product designer of Ferly, which is an audio guide to mindful sex delivered through a beautiful app. As the lead product designer, Lisa carried out extensive user research, speaking with hundreds of women about their relationships to themselves, to others and their relationship to sex. From the insights gained from that research, Lisa developed prototypes and eventually the final app. In our conversation we find out what mindful sex actually is, the main questions and commonalities that Lisa heard across the hundreds of interviews she did, how shame influences our relationship to pleasure, and so much more. No matter what your relationship to sex is, whether it’s something that makes you uncomfortable or something that you love to explore, there’s something in Ferly and in this episode for you. Have a listen, download the app and let us know what you think!

Resources:

• Ferly app: https://weareferly.com/
• Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Come-You-Are-surprising-transform/dp/1925228010