Episode 23: Remembering Hurricane Helene – Composting Loss Into Aliveness and Connection with Heather Laine Talley

It has been one year since Hurricane Helene struck Western North Carolina. In this anniversary episode, Kenna Brooke returns to the story of her dear friend, Heather Laine Talley, who first joined Endless WONDR in Rising Waters – A Journey Through the Storm, the Surrender and the Strength Within.

Together, we reflect on what has unfolded since that conversation — not only Heather’s personal journey, but also the grief, resilience, and creativity alive in the Asheville community. Heather shares how the storm became both devastation and initiation, composting loss into fertile soil for grief, creativity and deeper connection.

This episode begins with a new conversation marking the one-year threshold, followed by a replay of the original episode to honor and remember the story in full.

✨ Key Takeaways from the New Conversation

✨ How grief shifts over time — from survival mode into deeper feeling

✨ The role of creative practice (writing, ritual, soup-making) in metabolizing loss

✨ Reclaiming aliveness through joy, play, and everyday ritual

✨ The freedom found in interdependence and community care

✨ The truth that recovery is uneven — privilege shapes who heals more quickly

Resources Mentioned

📚 Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde

📚 Center for Conscious Living and Dying (Asheville, NC)

📚 Whether the Weather: An Evening of Stories on the Anniversary of Hurricane Helene | Sunday, September 28, 2025 | 6-830pm at Story Parlor | RSVP at [email protected]

📚 Support Ongoing Recovery in Western NC: Swannanoa Communities Together - http://SwannanoaCommunitiesTogether.org

💫 Guest Info - Heather Laine Talley is a writer, mother, auntie, strategist, and sacred space holder based in Asheville, North Carolina. Her work centers around storytelling, compassionate systems change, and deep presence. She is currently writing a book about mothering through climate collapse, shaped by her lived experience of surviving Hurricane Helene.

Website: http://www.heatherlainetalley.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heatherlainetalley/

💫 Connect with Kenna Brooke - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kennabrooke.wondr/

💫 Support the Podcast

If this episode moved you, please consider sharing it with a friend, leaving a review, or supporting the work of healing and remembrance through donation or presence. Your presence nourishes the current of WONDR we are weaving together.

Episode 22: A Sacred Pause – Rebirthing Myself at 50 from the Jungle’s Womb

At 50, I find myself at a profound threshold — a midlife awakening that feels less like a crisis and more like a calling. Gaia has summoned me to the jungle’s womb, into deeper rhythms of nature, embodiment and soul. In this episode of Endless WONDR, I share what it means to prepare for a sacred pause: to release the old narratives of who I should be, and to step toward silence, stillness and renewal in Costa Rica.

This is not yet the story of transformation fulfilled — it is the story of listening before leaping, of trusting intention and of midlife as a threshold of rebirth. It is about honoring the body as oracle, the soul as guide and the jungle as sacred womb for what is ready to emerge.

✨ Key Themes:

✨ Midlife awakening as a portal of rebirth

✨ Turning 50 with presence and gratitude

✨ Following the soul’s call to pause and listen

✨ The jungle as womb for rebirth and renewal

✨ Honoring Gaia, the body and the rhythms of nature

✨ Owls as sacred messengers affirming this threshold

🌿 Share the podcast with a Seeker of WONDR. Rate and Review and FOLLOW Endless WONDR, so you know when the sacred pause ends and episodes return.

All episodes on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kennabrooke.wondr/

Episode 21: Living in Alignment – Human Design & Beautiful Fixes with Tracy Hill

What does it mean to truly live in alignment? To pause, to notice and to allow beauty — even in its smallest forms — to guide us back home to ourselves?

In this soulful conversation with Tracy Hill, creator of A Beautiful Fix, we explore her midlife unraveling, the courage to walk away from corporate striving and the magic of Human Design as a blueprint for remembering who we are. Together we wander through the power of ‘beautiful fixes’ — the small moments of awe, gratitude and presence that open the doorway to WONDR.

✨ Key Themes

✨Midlife unraveling and the courage to choose stillness over striving

✨Human Design as a tool for alignment, permission and self-trust

✨The power of everyday ‘beautiful fixes’ to shift state and restore WONDR

✨Gratitude, nature and presence as portals to transformation

✨Trusting your unique design and learning to live in alignment

🌿 Resources

Moonlight Sonata – Ludwig van Beethoven

Ask and It Is Given – Esther & Jerry Hicks

A Beautiful Fix free guide and Human Design chart – available on Tracy’s website

🌿 Guest Info – Tracy Hill

Website: https://www.abeautifulfix.com/

Podcast: A Beautiful Fix on Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/midlife-burnout-human-design-reinvention-a-beautiful-fix/id1778297690

Podcast: A Beautiful Fix on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/0eDzXH0rz5xCelaKZDsfnv?si=a9ecac7c0b7c40f6

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abeautifulfix/

🌀 Connect with Kenna Brooke

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kennabrooke.wondr/

All episodes of Endless WONDR on Apple Podcasts & Spotify.

Episode 20: Attuning to Eclipse Energy - Illumination and Intention with Sharon Cummins

Eclipse season opens a powerful portal. These celestial alignments amplify energy, revealing what has been hidden and inviting us to plant seeds for the path ahead. In this episode of Endless WONDR, Kenna Brooke sits down with astrologer Sharon Cummins of Deeply Woven to explore how to attune to eclipse energy with awareness and intention.

Together, they reflect on the Pisces Full Moon Eclipse and the Virgo New Moon Eclipse, offering insight into how to work with illumination, shadow, and the practices that ground new beginnings into form.

✨ Key Themes:

✨ What eclipses really are and why they matter

✨ Illumination of subconscious patterns at the Full Moon

✨ Seeding intentions at the New Moon for sustainable change

✨ Tending body, emotions, and earth through eclipse season

✨ Ritual as an anchor for awareness and transformation

🌿 Connect with Sharon Cummins:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deeply.woven/

Email: [email protected]

🌸 Share the podcast with a Seeker of WONDR. All episodes of Endless WONDR are available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kennabrooke.wondr/

Episode 19: Freedom Over Fear: Releasing the 401k

What does it mean to choose freedom over fear?

In this vulnerable transmission, Kenna Brooke opens the story of releasing her 401k — a choice that defied logic, financial rules, and outside voices. What appeared reckless to the world became an act of deep alignment, guided by soul and the courage to trust her inner knowing. This episode is both a confession and an invitation: to let go, to lean in, and to discover the true currency of freedom.

Key Themes

✨Fear as the threshold into freedom

✨Honoring money as energy

✨Releasing attachment to false safety

✨The sovereignty of saying yes to soul

✨Choosing inner knowing over outside voices

🌀 Resource Mentioned

Love Money, Money Loves You by Sarah McCrum

🌀 Connect with Me

Follow along on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kennabrooke.wondr/

Share the podcast with a Seeker of WONDR.

All episodes available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Episode 18: Animal Wisdom - Listening to Nature’s Voice

The wild is always speaking — if we slow down enough to hear it.

In this solo episode of Endless WONDR, Kenna Brooke shares four powerful encounters — a snakeskin, a shimmering slug, a rescued baby squirrel, and a watchful owl.

Each carries its own medicine, inviting us into deeper presence, trust, and connection with Gaia.

Through these stories, Kenna reveals how nature communicates guidance, affirmation, and inspiration when we open our hearts to listen.

Key Themes

✨The symbolic meaning behind snake, slug, squirrel, and owl

✨Receiving guidance through everyday animal encounters

✨How slowing down opens the doorway to WONDR

✨Practices to attune to Gaia’s voice in your life

✨Remembering your place within the web of nature

✨ Share this episode with someone who is ready to hear the language of the wild.

Connect with Kenna Brooke

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kennabrooke.wondr/

Find Endless WONDR on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Rate and review to help other seekers discover the WONDR and wisdom of the wild.

Episode 17: Sacred Union – When Masculine Holds, Feminine Flows with Ela Mandalista

✨ In this powerful guest conversation, Kenna Brooke sits down with feminine wisdom educator Ela Mandalista to explore the living dance of the divine masculine and feminine within us all.

Ela shares her journey of surrender — from answering life’s “portals” to creating art and ceremony that awaken the womb, the creative life force, and the union of presence and flow.

Together, they explore the sacred balance: the masculine as the grounded container of presence, the feminine as the movement of life itself. Through story, practice, and embodied wisdom, Ela offers guidance for cultivating inner union so that your creative force can move freely, without chaos or burnout.

If you’ve ever felt the call to live more surrendered, to trust your body’s wisdom, or to allow life to truly live you — this conversation is your invitation.

Key Themes

✨ The portals of life and how to step through them

✨ The masculine as witness and container for the feminine’s flow

✨ Awakening the womb as an oracle and creative source

✨ Why devotion nourishes the feminine more than discipline

✨ The alchemy of presence and erotic aliveness

✨ Structure as freedom in art, life and love

Guest Info

Connect with Ela Mandalista:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ela_mandalista/

Website: https://elamandalista.com/

Contact with Kenna Brooke

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kennabrooke.wondr/

All episodes on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Follow, Rate, Review and Share Endless WONDR!

Episode 16: Dream Courageously - Excavating the Future Through Present-Tense Devotion

There comes a moment when planning is no longer enough.

When your soul aches not for a strategy — but a vision.

A felt sense of what wants to become real.

And the courage… to let it.

In this episode, Kenna Brooke opens the pages of her personal 30-day dream journaling practice — a sacred container born from intuition, synchronicity, and a word that chose her: Dream.

But not just dream.

Dream courageously.

What began as a practice in present-tense writing became something far deeper — a ritual of remembering, an excavation of soul desires, and a reawakening of the body as oracle. Kenna shares the textures of this journey: the daily devotion, the dreams that unearthed old constructs, the insights from her human design, and the sacred nudge to begin each day with gratitude for what already is.

You’ll hear how synchronicities guided this path — including a chance encounter with the book Love Money, Money Loves You by Sarah McCrum — and how this journey bridged her soul’s longing with the mysterious unfolding of real life.

This is an invitation back to your own dreamstate.

To let the future rise through the cracks in your conditioning.

To remember what it feels like… to believe again.

✨ Key Themes

Dream journaling as devotional daily practice.

How a single word can become a year-long portal.

Excavating the subconscious through ritual and symbolism.

Why present-tense writing shifts the vibrational field.

Human Design and the dance between specificity + surrender.

What to do when the dream feels far away.

Gratitude as the bridge between now and next.

Letting the soul guide instead of the mind.

Living your life as ceremony — now.

Rewilding imagination to remember your essence.

✨ Resources Mentioned

📖 Love Money, Money Loves You by Sarah McCrum — https://sarahmccrum.com/

✨ Connect + Follow

Follow the daily unfolding at @kennabrooke.wondr (https://www.instagram.com/kennabrooke.wondr)

All episodes on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Share the podcast with a Seeker of WONDR.

Episode 15: The Soul Will Miss This - A Love Letter to the Body’s Ache, WONDR and Becoming

We spend so much time trying to escape the ache.

Trying to fix, solve, rush, or rise above it.

But what if the ache is the miracle?

In this tender, soul-baring episode of Endless WONDR, Kenna Brooke speaks from the sacred threshold of midlife, menopause, and becoming. From within the discomfort of not knowing — of being in the womb-space between what was and what is not yet — she offers a powerful reflection on what it means to live as a soul in a human body.

This episode is a call to presence.

To reverence.

To slowness.

To the holy ache of being here.

Because maybe — just maybe — the soul will grieve the very things we resist in life:

The rage. The waiting. The gray hair. The bruise.

Kenna closes with a reading of Tincture by beloved poet Andrea Gibson, whose recent passing leaves a sacred silence in the world of art and activism. Their words in Tincture mirror this truth so intimately: that even the discomfort, even the body’s imperfection and fragility, is part of the WONDR we came here to feel.

Key Themes

✨The sacredness of the in-between

✨Midlife, menopause, and soul-birthing

✨Honoring discomfort as a portal to becoming

✨Undoing urgency, embracing gestation

✨The beauty of embodiment in all its textures

✨The soul’s longing for what the body holds

✨Tribute to Andrea Gibson and Tincture

All episodes on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Connect with Kenna on Instagram: @kennabrooke.wondr (https://www.instagram.com/kennabrooke.wondr/ )

This episode is offered in honor of Andrea Gibson (they/them) —

poet, truth-teller, and soul-shaker — whose recent transition from this plane

leaves an indelible imprint of tenderness and truth.

Their poem Tincture, read in full at the end of this episode,

is a mirror of what it means to be fully, achingly, beautifully human.

May their words continue to awaken WONDR in all who listen.

IG: @andreagibson (https://www.instagram.com/andreagibson/ )

Episode 14 : Return to the Inner Temple - Integration as Embodied Alchemy

What if the greatest transformation doesn’t come from the peaks, but from the pauses?

This episode is a sacred reflection born from stillness — a meditation-led message on what it means to truly integrate the initiations of life. Kenna Brooke opens the doorway to her inner world and invites us to listen beyond the noise — into the quiet terrain where the soul begins to speak.

Whether you've just crossed a threshold, returned from pilgrimage, or are simply living through the invisible initiations of daily life… this episode is a reminder that the body already knows. The wisdom is already here. And the temple was never far away — it lives within you.

This is a conversation about slowing down enough to receive what’s already becoming you.

Not through understanding. But through embodied alchemy.

Key Themes

✨Integration as a sacred and embodied process

✨The aftermath of Egypt and the medicine of stillness

✨Thresholds as holy portals (grief, joy, endings, beginnings)

✨Listening to the intuition over the ego mind

✨Trusting life’s unfolding without needing to know

✨Peace as a felt frequency, not an external achievement

🌀 Connect & Explore

Share the podcast with a Seeker of WONDR.

Rate, review or follow to support the unfolding.

And stay tuned… new offerings are rising.

Connect with Kenna Brooke on Instagram @kennabrooke.wondr https://www.instagram.com/kennabrooke.wondr/

🎧 All episodes on Apple and Spotify