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We’re back again with stories, questions, comments and insights from the Enlightened Empaths community of listeners!

If you’d ever like to share a story, comment or have a question you’d like us to answer, please send us an email : [email protected] or leave us a message on our Facebook page, Enlightened Empaths.

In this episode we are very grateful to welcome Ben LeVine! Ben is the Co-Founder and Chief Herbalist of RASA, a company focused on ethically sourced, adaptogen-infused herbal coffee alternative. Please join us as we explore the deep connection between the science and spirituality of plant medicine!

Ben’s lifelong profound connection with plants harkens back to his earliest memories of exploring the wonderment of the family orchard. As a young man he traveled the globe, working on farms from India to Alaska and learning traditional plant ceremonies from Ethiopia to Ecuador. Ben earned an MSc in Clinical Herbalism with a focus on adaptogens.

This led to the coveted position of Senior Botanical Buyer for the Celestial Seasonings company. He was responsible for sourcing and buying over 10 million pounds of herbs each year. But with this also came the realization of the dark underbelly of this industry. Watching the world’s precious botanical resources being ravaged and uncontrolled harvesting and over-exploitation led Ben following his moral compass and call of the plants to become an integral part of RASA which is built on a foundation of plant
stewardship and radical sustainability.

For more information please visit: https://wearerasa.com/

For our listeners: use the code ENLIGHTENED15 @ checkout for 15% off your purchase. Thank you Ben and RASA team for this very generous gift and offering!

In this episode we welcome back Kute Blackson! Kute is a renowned inspirational speaker who is the author of the national bestseller You.Are.The.One and The Magic of Surrender.

Kute is greatly respected and seen as a powerful generation leader in personal development. He offers down to Earth, open and thought provoking insights about spiritual awareness, how to break down barriers and truly unlock your true gifts and greatness.

Kute Blackson has been inspiring audiences around the world for decades. He has a passion for helping organizations develop authentic leadership and achieve extraordinary performance. Kute’s energy and wisdom offer suggestions that are practical and empowering.

He recently received the 2019 Walden Award in the New Thought Wisdom category that Unity Organization honors once a year to recognize socially conscious leaders who are making the world a better place. One of the previous year’s winners in this same category was Oprah Winfrey.

His mission is simple: To awaken and inspire people across the planet to access inner freedom, live authentically and fulfill their true life’s purpose.

For more information, please visit: http://kuteblackson.com

To preorder Kute’s book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Surrender-Finding-Courage-Let/dp/B08MWVKQ4M/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2AX28D6YZ9WN7&keywords=the+magic+of+surrender+by+kute+blackson&qid=1649681268&sprefix=kute+blackson%2Caps%2C96&sr=8-1

To join Kute for his upcoming webinar and get access to the free gifts from pre-purchasing: http://kuteblackson.com/reinventseminar

Please join us in welcoming back our resident astrologer Jenifer Edwards! She shares a plentitude of information and insights about the upcoming times for manifesting, indicators of potential shifts personally and globally as well as some great tips on how to make the most of these energies!

You can find Jen at http://thankgoddess.org . If you’re interested in her Patreon site: http://patreon.com/moonlodge . Jen is also on instagram @ thank_goddess

Please join Samantha and Denise as they share your stories, comments and questions! This show has a very unexpected theme of many listeners sharing stories of dreams and the dream world., very interesting!

If you’d like to submit a question or comment, please email us: [email protected] or send us a message on our Facebook page: Enlightened Empaths.

In this bonus episode, we are so excited to welcome Brenda Safford! In addition to Brenda’s amazing bio, her work to empower women is a true testament of how she shares her light.

**There are a few sound glitches throughout this episode, thank you again for your patience, we are working on this issue!**

Brenda is currently a Tenured Professor at Quinsigamond Community College.  Before accepting this appointment, she served as a Coordinator of Admissions and was an Adjunct Faculty at the college for more than nine years.  Previously, Brenda worked at YWCA of Central Massachusetts as the agency’s first Director of Women’s Economic Empowerment where she oversaw programing that empowered women to achieve economic independence.  Previously she served as the Director of Multicultural Affairs at Assumption College.  Brenda is active volunteer having served on the board of directors YWCA, Worcester Youth Center, Board of Trustees at QCC, President, League of Women Voters Worcester and serves on the League of Women Voters state board of directors.  She also recipient of numerous awards for her community service and leadership including the National Institute for Staff & Organizational Development (NISOD) for Teaching Excellence, Commonwealth Citation for Outstanding Performance, YWCA’s Katharine F. Erskine Award, Community Build Youth Institute Volunteer Award, Girl Scouts of Central/Western Mass Women of Distinction Award, YMCA Minority Achiever, City of Worcester Advisory Board for Affirmative Action, the Greater Worcester Community Foundation Scholarship Committee and the Regional ACE Inaugural Award. Brenda received her Associate Degree from Quinsigamond Community College and her Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Human Services and Rehabilitation Counseling from Assumption University.

Please join us today as we delve a little bit deeper into the topic of trauma. (**There are a few audio glitches in this episode, we’re sorry for the inconvenience and we appreciate your patience**)

Samantha and Denise discuss the implications of honor thy parents, some techniques that may help you release trauma from your body, and much more.

If you would like to share your own story, ask a question or have a comment, please reach out at: [email protected] or on our Facebook page, Enlightened Empaths.

In today’s episode, Samantha and Denise discuss the physical, emotional, and spiritual impacts of trauma. As empaths we tend to feel things on such a deep and visceral level, the short and long term effects of trauma are no exception.

According to Dr. Rochelle Suri, in an article found on Strengthtoheal.org, all causes of trauma have three aspects in common:

• An external cause: It is believed trauma is inflicted from someone or something else, not self generated. There is often a suddenness and unpredictability of the situation or experience.
• Violation: This refers to a feeling of being invaded, physically, emotionally or psychologically with an unwelcomed and unexpected person or situation that causes major distress.
• Loss of control: Because the traumatic experience is unexpected and sudden, individuals, more often than not, are unprepared for the situation potentially resulting in a sense of feeling overwhelmed and helpless, leaving someone feeling extremely vulnerable and exposed.

Physical effects of trauma include exhaustion, confusion, sadness, anxiety, agitation, numbness, and dissociation. After experiencing trauma, the muscles can often restrict and become fatigued. Trauma stimulates the central nervous system which can cause all sorts of problems. For starters, it makes us create more cortisol which releases more sugar and impacts inflammation creating a domino of negative side effects of the body. 

Though trauma and it’s effects are unique and individual to the person, it is important to recognize the impact it may have had or be having on your life in order to be able to start to heal and move forward.

Books mentioned in this episode:

The Body Never Lies by Alice Miller

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker

Healing the Shame that Binds by John Bradshaw

Emotional Child Abuse: The Family Curse by Joel Covitz

What Happened to You by Oprah

If you have a story or comment you’d like to share with us, please send us an email: [email protected] or message us on our Facebook page: Enlightened Empaths. Thank you for listening and being a part of our community!

In this exciting episode we get to talk with Robert Moss the best-selling novelist and writer of famous books such as The Dreamer’s Book of the Dead, Dream Gates, Conscious Dreaming and most recently Growing Big Dreams. He’s developed a practice called Active Dreaming which combines dreamwork and shamanic methods of healing and journeying. Robert’s work teaches us that dreaming doesn’t only happen when we sleep. His work teaches us how to wake up to sources of guidance, healing and creativity beyond the reach of the everyday mind.
We explore parallel lives, the dead dreaming of us and how to overcome dream droughts. For more information, please check out mossdreams.com
Robert teaches many classes online and will be presenting in person at Omega in Rhinebeck, NY this July. Or you can join him with the Shift Network for online training here. https://theshiftnetwork.com/course/01RMoss22_21
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In our latest Share Your Light episode, we are excited to introduce you to Julie Embleton!

Julie Embleton is an intuitive tarot reader and paranormal fantasy author. Her mission is to empower creatives with enhanced decision making and a deeper sense of self to restore and strengthen creative flow. As an author, she has used tarot for many years to guide both her creative and personal processes, so when faced with redundancy in 2021, Julie made the leap to leave behind her 25-year corporate career to follow her soul’s calling as an intuitive reader. She is currently writing her ninth book and working with clients through her Creative Soul Tarot business.

You can find Julie on www.creativesoultarot.com and www.julieembleton.com