“Here is another truth about wintering: you’ll find wisdom in your winter, and once it’s over, it’s your responsibility to pass it on.” ~ Katherine May

Guest Introduction:   

Hey, everyone, welcome to another episode of the podcast. I am so glad that you are here. 

Exploring the Seasons of Life, is a podcast for women with a big heart on a spiritual journey. I'm your host Cindy MacMillan I help midlife women navigate the seasons of their life and stop waiting for permission to live the life they want.

Each week I interview coaches and spiritual explorers, from all walks of life about beginnings, endings and the messy bits in between. Self-love, well-being and mindset are at the heart of our conversations. Because once you change the inside, the outside will begin to change as well.

Before I introduce my guest today, I wanted to let you know I am planning a workshop on December 19, 2021 at 4:00 PM Eastern called Your Next Season Re-Imagined. We will be talking about self-care, crossing the threshold into 2022 and what’s next because in the end the choice is yours.

Go out to my website CynthiaMacMillan.com and sign up for my newsletter Exploring SoL to get all the details.

I am delighted to introduce my guest.

Bobbie Rae Boyer, visionary leader of The Centered Ground, understands the daily shifting emotions of grief, having navigated the loss of her 21-year-old son Anthony. It is with deep compassion that she walks beside others as they move through their grief, co-creating space with her clients to create alignment and balance as they journey through their losses. Bobbie Rae uses a variety of holistic modalities in her practice, namely grief companionship/coaching, incorporating guided movement meditation where it is welcomed, along with on the body vibrational sound healing. Clearing paths and lighting the way forward!

 Here’s a glimpse of our conversation:

Hi, Bobbie Rae. Thanks so much for joining me today.  

6:49 But when we allow for time to ourselves to invite a relationship in with stillness, to reflect on our embodied reactions to change, we're making the choice to ride the waves of transformation, as opposed to just sitting back and watching it evolve without our participation. 

10:41 When I lost my 21-year-old son, Anthony, to a car crash, is when things completely changed. You know, the path that I had foreseen for myself just completely fell apart. 

14:18 It's not a difficult decision to have to make amidst the mixed emotions that we rollercoaster through especially after we experience and loss. But at some point, you do find a point where you can learn to trust what you hear in your body and make a decision to begin to move forward when it feels right for yourself. 

17:50 So trusting your decisions of where you need to be and how you need to get through the holidays. If you need to say no to any invitations, it's okay to say no, surrounding yourself with people that you trust. 

18:56 So just be graceful with yourself and lots of self-care and self-love. 

21:42 I love to cry. To me, it's my body's way of showing that my heart is still working, and that I am still able to release some of the pain and some of the joy that needs to be felt and witnessed. 

25:18 You know, loss is a is a part of our life. And each one of our losses has a different reaction. No matter what, you know whether it's the death of a loved one, a divorce, loss of planned financial settings, grief comes in so many forms. And yeah, just appreciate the here and the now and don't set yourself up for too much heartache. Witness what you've got and take all the new perspectives in.

You can find Bobbie Rae Boyer at:

 Website Instagram Facebook  If you LOVED this conversation with Bobbie Rae Boyer you’ll also love the conversations we had with:

Finding Your Inner Peace with Lydia Knoor

Let’s get Vulnerable with Kayleen Johnson

The Power of Your Emotions with Manisha Tare

Grief and Secondary Losses with Nesreen Ahmed

Conversation with End-of-Life Doula, Hannah Fowler

Redefining Death with Jessica Wertz

Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode and you’d like to help support the podcast, please share it with others, post about it on social media, or head over to iTunes to subscribe, rate, and leave a review. Leaving a rating and review helps to improve rankings in iTunes, it shows engagement which may attract sponsors and is essential for the podcast to be discovered by new listeners + it would mean the world to me. 

“This morning the sound of rain woke me, irregular and delicious on the roof. It seems that the seasons are a gift from the year and wrap us around.” ~ John Tarrant

Guest Introduction:  

Hey, everyone, welcome to another episode of the podcast. I am so glad that you are here. 

Exploring the Seasons of Life, a podcast for women with a big heart on a spiritual journey. I'm your host Cindy MacMillan I help midlife women navigate the seasons of their life and stop waiting for permission to live the life they want.

Each week I interview coaches and spiritual explorers, from all walks of life about beginnings, endings and the messy bits in between. Self-love, well-being and mindset are at the heart of our conversations. Because once you change the inside, the outside will begin to change as well.

Before I introduce my guest today, I wanted to let you know I am planning a workshop on December 19, 2021 at 4:00 PM EST called Your Next Season Re-Imagined. We are going to  be talking about self-care and crossing the threshold into 2022 and what’s next because in the end the choice is yours.

Go out to my website CynthiaMacMillan.com and sign up for my newsletter Exploring SoL to get all the details.

I am delighted to introduce my guest.

Telma Sanchez is a bilingual life coach. She mostly works with busy working parents on maximizing time so they can feel productive, and energized vs defeated and tired. She specializes in time management, self-reflection, and accountability in order to help her clients prioritize self-care so they can unleash their full potential and show up as best version in their lives.

Here’s a glimpse of our conversation:

Hi, Telma. Thanks so much for joining me today.  

2:52 Honoring my today means I appreciate the season in which I'm currently living. I try to be fully immersed in it and present. So, I don't miss out on anything by trying to chase the next great thing. 

6:05 I feel like there's always like a tipping point in your life in which if you pay close attention, your mind and body are probably begging you for a change. 

6:50 I define self-care as the realization, I guess the moment, that I realized that in order to show up as my best self, I need to start with me. I mean, I need to fill up my own cup in order to fill up others. And as a woman, we carry so many hats, and we feel so many other people's cups, that we often don't realize that we can pull out of an empty kettle. 

12:38 And I need self-care, which means that you need self-care, which means that our kids need self-care. So, everybody gets to benefit from it. 

13:06 Boundaries, the word boundaries has such a negative connotation to it, I don't get it. To me boundaries are like a beautiful thing. 

20:51 So you have to go in with a mindset of like, I'm here to learn, I want to try something new, because I want to learn if I like it, if I don't, then the worst thing that can happen is just like never again, never again.

You can find Telma Sanchez at:

 Website Instagram Facebook  If you LOVED this conversation with Telma Sanchez you’ll also love the conversations we had with:

Finding Your Inner Peace with Lydia Knoor

Let’s get Vulnerable with Kayleen Johnson

The Power of Your Emotions with Manisha Tare

The Resilient Family with Amy Saloner

A Self-love Mindset with Martine Felton

Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode and you’d like to help support the podcast, please share it with others, post about it on social media, or head over to iTunes to subscribe, rate, and leave a review. Leaving a rating and review helps to improve rankings in iTunes, it shows engagement which may attract sponsors and is essential for the podcast to be discovered by new listeners + it would mean the world to me. 

“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos- the trees, the clouds, everything.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

Guest Introduction: 

Thank you so much for being here, friends.

Do you ever feel like you are waiting on a permission slip to live the life you want? If you answered yes, then you are in the right place. Each week I interview coaches and spiritual explorers, from all walks of life about beginnings, endings and the messy bits in between. Self-love, well-being and mindset are at the heart of our conversations. Because once you change the inside, the outside will begin to change as well.

Welcome to Exploring the Seasons of Life, a podcast for women with a big heart on a spiritual journey. I'm your host Cindy MacMillan I help midlife women navigate the seasons of their life and stop waiting for permission to live the life they want.

Before I introduce my guest today, I wanted to let you know I am planning a workshop in December called Your Next Season Re-Imagined. Go out to my website CynthiaMacMillan.com and sign up for my newsletter Exploring SoL. Be the first to know when it’s announced.

I am delighted to introduce my guest.

Heather Burnett is a 46-year-old mom, friend, Health Coach, and coffee enthusiast who happens to be the author of Rebel Keto, and the founder of the Word to Your Mother Blog.

 Here’s a glimpse of our conversation:

Hi, Heather. Thanks so much for joining me today.  

4:14 My journey to create Word to your Mother Blog, in my research and trying to make it better and myself better. I discovered the world of health coaching. 

6:07 I've lost a total of over 150 pounds at last count, the healthy way and kept it off. And I did it slowly and gradually. Whereas back in 2000, I did it way too fast, when it was too much of a shock to my system. This time I did it with a healthy mindset. 

11:44 If you go out and you have a meal, and you're enjoying time with your daughter, you're enjoying family at Thanksgiving, there are a lot of indulgences that come with that, strike a balance, don't beat yourself up because you enjoyed a piece of chocolate pie, or cornbread dressing that wasn't specially made to be, quote unquote healthy. Balance it out the next day by eating a healthy amount of vegetables and fruits and hydrating. 

20:51 Give yourself grace. Don't beat yourself up. Move on. Do better the next day. 

26.43 I would have to say almond flour. It's like a miracle ingredient if you're watching carbohydrates, you can make breads and cookies and things. It substitutes for a lot of that good old fashioned southern food using blanched almond flour. And it was a game changer for me.  

30:59 My favorite thing that I did, and you haven't asked me this, but was the Keto Shrimp and Grits. I researched the recipe, I took a bunch of different original recipes that were not healthy, and just played with it until I came up with something that my family asked for. They asked for the healthy version.

 You can find Heather Burnett at:

 Website Instagram Facebook  If you LOVED this conversation with Heather Burnett you’ll also love the conversations we had with:

Your Clutter is a Teacher with Star Hansen

5 Tips to Better Sleep with Kelly Murray

Women’s Brain Health and Neuro-Nutrition with Tonya Keane

Gut and Hormone Nutritionist, Sheradyn Dekker

Self-care and Showing up in our Lives with Gina Bell 

Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode and you’d like to help support the podcast, please share it with others, post about it on social media, or head over to iTunes to subscribe, rate, and leave a review. Leaving a rating and review helps to improve rankings in iTunes, it shows engagement which may attract sponsors and is essential for the podcast to be discovered by new listeners + it would mean the world to me. 

“Your loss is not a test, a lesson, something to handle, a gift, or a blessing. Loss is simply what happens to you in life. Meaning is what you make happen.” ~ David Kessler

Guest Introduction: 

Welcome to Exploring the Seasons of Life, a podcast for women with a big heart on a spiritual journey.

I'm your host Cindy MacMillan I help midlife women navigate the seasons of their life and stop waiting for permission to live the life they want.

Thank you so much for being here, friend.

Do you ever feel like you are waiting on a permission slip to live the life you want? If you answered yes, then you are in the right place. Each week I interview coaches and spiritual explorers, from all walks of life about beginnings, endings and the messy bits in between. Self-love, well-being and mindset are at the heart of our conversations. Because once you change the inside, the outside will begin to change as well.

Before I introduce my guest today, I wanted to let you know I am planning a workshop in December called Your Next Season Re-Imagined. Go out to my website CynthiaMacMillan.com and sign up for my newsletter Exploring SoL. Be the first to know when it’s announced.

I am delighted to introduce my guest.

Nesreen Ahmed is the Founder and CEO, of Harbor Light Coaching and is a Professional Certified Coach, specializing in grief and loss.  She's recently completed two major trainings to become certified as a Positive Intelligence Coach and a Grief Educator. Nesreen’s coaching is focused on helping clients address their mindset, overcome the hurdles of grief, and find stability and peace amidst any major life change.  She lives in New York City with her husband, her beautiful 1 and a half year old daughter and 10-year-old dog.  She loves taking road trips, hiking, going to the beach, boxing and yoga. 

 Here’s a glimpse of our conversation:

Hi, Nesreen. Thanks so much for joining me today.  

3:43 And we forget that there are ups and downs, there are cycles, there are seasons, and to allow for those within our everyday life. 

4:37 But without those seasons, it feels a little jarring, doesn't it? 

14:44 We're not taught on how to hold space for people. We're not taught on how to witness and be there for someone without trying to make them feel better or to fix how they're feeling or, you know, talk about ourselves instead, and maybe something we've gone through, which then takes the attention off them you know, So I think it's so important to have these safe containers, the safe spaces to be able to come and have very frank conversations. 

18:14 I'll use the loss of a spouse. I think that's a really easy way to kind of demonstrate. So, when you lose your spouse, not only do you lose your person, right, you might also lose your co parent, you might also lose financial stability, if that person was bringing in most of the income or all the income, you might also lose some of your couple friends that were you know, friends with both of you, right? You might also lose your intimate partner. So, there's so many different losses that you go through when you lose one person. 

24:15 The first is just to be willing to listen, to be there, you know, to be that safe space without trying to fix her without trying to tell her, you know why she shouldn't feel bad or how you're lost when you lost somebody, it was this and that, right, but just really being there for her and willing to listen. 

27:05 You know, I think of the very basic foundation of self-care as getting enough movement or activity, eating well, and sleep, I think those are like the very basic foundational, please try to at least do these, if you're in grief. And sometimes, that's all you can do.

YOU CAN FIND AT:

 Website Instagram Facebook  If you LOVED this conversation with Nesreen Ahmed you’ll also love the conversations we had with:

Redefining Death with Jessica Wertz

Finding Your Inner Peace with Lydia Knoor

Let’s get Vulnerable with Kayleen Johnson

Self-care and Showing up in our Lives with Gina Bell

Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode and you’d like to help support the podcast, please share it with others, post about it on social media, or head over to iTunes to subscribe, rate, and leave a review. Leaving a rating and review helps to improve rankings in iTunes, it shows engagement which may attract sponsors and is essential for the podcast to be discovered by new listeners + it would mean the world to me. 

"Write something you are passionate about. Your passion will carry you through the ups and downs of the process." ~ Bill Higgs

Guest Introduction: 

Thank you for being here, friend and welcome to Exploring the Seasons of Life, a podcast for women with a big heart on a spiritual journey. I'm your host Cindy MacMillan.

Do you ever feel like you are waiting on a permission slip to live the life you want? If you answered yes, then you are in the right place. Each week I interview coaches and spiritual explorers, from all walks of life about beginnings, endings and the messy bits in between. Self-love, well-being and mindset are at the heart of our conversations. Because once you change the inside, the outside will begin to change as well.

Before I introduce my guest today, I wanted to let you know I am planning a workshop in December to focus on Living an Intentional Life and the Possibility of 2022. Go out to my website CynthiaMacMillan.com and sign up for my newsletter Exploring SoL. Be the first to know when it’s announced.

I am delighted to introduce my guest.

Susan Farris is a Mississippi author with a love for local voices and local stories. She firmly believes that most of life's problems can be solved with a hot cup of tea. When she's not writing, she loves to garden, snuggle up with her furbabies, and enjoy her husbands chef-level cooking. 

Here’s a glimpse of our conversation:

Hi, Susan. Thanks so much for joining me today.  

2:49 I really liked this question because I have two answers for it. So, in my business, it means I'm all about learning and growing. And right now, it means learning to focus, which I'm not the best at like I'm very good at procrastinating and putting things off. And when you're an author printer, as it's called, it's very easy to focus on the author side of things and let the entrepreneur side of things slide. 

4:00 And then the other side is just enjoying the journey and allowing myself to grow and discover new facets of my voice as a writer. I mean, I always thought when I was in college, I thought that I was going to write these huge fantasy and sci fi novels. 

5:42 I always knew that I love to write and read, but I didn't know until probably like late high school, early college that I wanted to be an author. And even then, I thought it was gonna be something that I did on the side. So, like, my journey hasn't been anything like I imagined it. 

14:40 I was still trying to tell these like fantasy sci fi stories in grad school, but I realized that all the worlds and characters that I was creating in these fantasy environments were very much southern characters, like these big worlds across the galaxy would be filled with like pine trees or mosquitoes, or, mosquito like creatures to me like that's the worst thing. And people loved it. 

16:18 But yeah, like people in the south are just natural storytellers. They'll tell you their life story. They'll put in the newspapers, they'll take out, you know, articles, their stories, and it’s the best thing ever. You don't have to go far here to find story ideas. 

35:49 Two little bits of advice, find your support system, whether it's friends or family or local writing group. Writing is one of the things that like you have to write by yourself. But having people who support and encourage you is key. 

39:50 So, if I was talking to my 18-year-old self I would be like get thee to a doctor. Get those migraines treated and get on some insomnia meds. Sleep meds are not scary, not for you anyway. And then stand up for yourself and what you want to do with your life don't always feel like, don't always feel like you have to be racing after other people. And, you know, trying to do these big bold things, like you're going to do your own big bold things in your own way. And just realize that your plans can change and grow. And that's a good thing. It doesn't mean that you're being untrue to yourself.

YOU CAN FIND SUSAN FARRIS AT:

 Website Instagram Facebook  If you LOVED this conversation with Susan Farris you’ll also love the conversations we had with:

The Power of Your Emotions with Manisha Tare

Rediscover Your Brilliance with Jamie Martin

Your Clutter is a Teacher with Star Hansen

Finding Your Inner Peace with Lydia Knoor

Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode and you’d like to help support the podcast, please share it with others, post about it on social media, or

head over to iTunes to subscribe, rate, and leave a review. Leaving a rating and review helps to improve rankings in iTunes, it shows engagement which may

attract sponsors and is essential for the podcast to be discovered by new listeners + it would mean the world to me. 

“All emotions, even those that are suppressed and unexpressed, have physical effects. Unexpressed emotions tend to stay in the body like small ticking time bombs—they are illnesses in incubation.” ~  Marilyn Van M. Derbur, Miss America by Day

Guest Introduction: 

Welcome to Exploring the Seasons of Life, a podcast for women with a big heart on a spiritual journey. I’m your host Cindy MacMillan and I’m joined today by Manisha Tare.

Each week, I interview coaches and spiritual explorers from all walks of life about beginnings, endings and the messy bits in-between. Self-love, well-being, and mindset are at the heart of our conversations because once you change the inside, the outside will begin to change as well. 

This is the last episode in the self-care series called Life in Full Bloom: Living From the Inside Out and I am delighted to introduce my guest today, Manisha Tare.

 Manisha Tare is a somatic healing practitioner and mentor who works with ambitious women to help them transform their personal relationships by helping them understand how they operate as highly sensitive beings, put the right self-care practices into place and feel more confident setting boundaries through healing past experiences and rewiring their nervous systems.  

She has 20+ years of experience working with clients & students as an occupational therapist, yoga & meditation teacher, craniosacral therapist, energy healer & mentor. Combining her formal training and education, life experience & natural intuition, she's created a unique method of processing and letting go of the past through somatic healing practices that she gently guides her clients through - enabling them to find clarity, take courageous action and confidently set boundaries to create balanced, healthy relationships. 

Here’s a glimpse of our conversation: 

Hi, Manisha. Thanks so much for joining me today. 

2:10 My first business name was actually called Falling Leaf Yoga and I was mainly a yoga instructor at the time. And so, I love the idea of the seasons and especially the Fall because it's such a time of shedding.  

4:14 In my personal journey, the reason I got into occupational therapy and studied that is because I really wanted to work with children. And I had done some different observations of different like allied medical professionals, and I really loved you know, how the therapist was working with the kids and just bringing so much joy to that.  

9:19 I really went on that journey personally of like trying to understand that and then realizing like, oh, this is connected to much more than my body. And you know, although while I did go to physical therapy and acupuncture and all of those like modalities helped, I also started digging more into the emotional and the energetics.  

13:41 Yeah, so my number one tip is if you can get out into nature, that is ideal, like connecting with any energy of nature. Even just feeling the air on your skin or watching the trees in a breeze, there's just something in that energetic - the connecting with the natural harmony of the earth that's so clearing and so healing. 

24:51 I would invite her to think about what she personally connects with. I think that so many times when we do healing work it's like in some way connected to or brought on by our own personal experience. 

31:29 I would just say kind of on the note of the wonderful questions you asked you know really look at this season, like the actual season that we're in of moving into winter. Take the time to check in with your body really ask your body every single morning like what your body needs. And listen and give that and like really develop that relationship that reciprocal relationship and you know things will your you'll connect more to your intuition, you'll feel better, you'll feel lighter because like you're building an internal connection.

YOU CAN FIND MANISHA TARE AT:

 Website Instagram If you LOVED this conversation with Manisha Tare you’ll also love the conversations we had with:

Let’s get Vulnerable with Kayleen Johnson

What is Feng Shui with Jillian Rothschild-Scholar

Redefining Death with Jessica Wertz

Your Clutter is a Teacher with Star Hansen

Finding Your Inner Peace with Lydia Knoor

Knowing and Believing you are Worth the Time with Justine Hwang

 

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“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make who would you call and what would you say?  And why are you waiting?” ~ Stephen Levine

Guest Introduction: 

Thank you for being here, friend and welcome to Exploring the Seasons of Life, a podcast for women with a big heart on a spiritual journey. I'm your host Cindy MacMillan.

Do you ever feel like you are waiting on a permission slip to live the life you want? If you answered yes, then you are in the right place. Each week I interview coaches and spiritual explorers, from all walks of life about beginnings, endings and the messy bits in between. Self-love well-being and mindset are at the heart of our conversations. Because once you change the inside, the outside will begin to change as well.

Hannah Fowler is joining me today, and you are truly in for something magical.

Through her work as a hospice nurse, Hannah found that planning for death and becoming aware of our mortality can actually allow us to experience more meaning, fulfillment and presence. This is what drew her to become an end of life doula and conscious dying educator. She is also faculty for the Conscious Dying Institute and brings end of life doula training to healthcare systems.

Here’s a glimpse of our conversation:

Hannah, thanks so much for joining me today.

3:28 So in many ways, Exploring the Seasons of Life to me means using what's happening in life as medicine and as a means to appreciating where we are and to sort of trust from that larger vantage point, to see life and change and seasons and death as teachers and as sacred forces.

4:53 But what happened was while I was working as a nurse in a hospital in Vermont before going on to be an NP, I was diving deep into meditation and metaphysics and energy healing, transpersonal and epigenetic studies, and I just found myself becoming more drawn to the healing that occurs at the level of the soul more than anything.

6:34 And most of all, as I mentioned earlier, what's always sort of enlivened me is talking with people about who we really are, beyond these bodies, beyond these roles and these personalities that will inevitably dissolve and getting in touch with our essence as that which is beyond form and beyond the physical and how to be present in life and appreciate it instead of taking it for granted and becoming an end-of-life doula allowed me to integrate all of that.  

14:04 And yet, because we live in this death phobic society that we're talking about, that looks away from death and away from discomfort and from grief, we're not really skilled in navigating these natural and sacred parts of life. 

16:08 So rituals are really important for maintaining meaning and connection. 

23:17 Death can come at any time to anyone anywhere. 

26:16 And that's why I love this awareness because it reminds us that as much as we'd like to think of ourselves as Masters of the world and special and separate from nature and from one another, actually, we are very much a part of nature and inextricably connected to everything, and we can't cheat death no matter how much money is in our wallets or how intelligent we are.

YOU CAN FIND HANNAH FOWLER AT:

 Website Instagram Facebook  If you LOVED this conversation with Hannah Fowler you’ll also love the conversations we had with:

Redefining Death with Jessica Wertz

Rediscover Your Brilliance with Jamie Martin

Your Clutter is a Teacher with Star Hansen

Finding Your Inner Peace with Lydia Knoor

What is Feng Shui with Jillian Rothschild-Scholar

Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode and you’d like to help support the podcast, please share it with others, post about it on social media, or

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“All you have to do is pay attention: lessons always arrive when you are ready.” ~ Paulo Coelho

Guest Introduction: 

Thank you for being here, friend, and welcome to Exploring the Seasons of Life, a podcast for women with a big heart on a spiritual journey. I'm your host Cindy MacMillan.

Do you ever feel like you're waiting on a permission slip to live the life you want? If you answered yes, then you're in the right place. Each week I interview coaches and spiritual explorers, from all walks of life about beginnings, endings and the messy bits in between. Self-love well-being and mindset are at the heart of our conversations. Because once you change the inside, the outside will begin to change as well.

It's really a gift to sit down and talk with people who are willing to share their wisdom.

Corbie Mitleid knows the value of the Examined Life. Through divorce, abuse, poverty and life-threatening illness, she found meeting challenges and asking the next question meant facing each situation with strength, courage and humor. Today, she’s an intuitive consultant and teacher, with a career spanning the globe and clients worldwide.

Here’s a glimpse of our conversation:

 Hi, Corbie. Thanks so much for joining me today. 

1:37 There's an old saying, “What doesn't change, dies”. I am now 66 and to me, who I have grown to be, because I've experienced the three bouts of breast cancer, the two divorces, the crazy changing career, it means that at this point, I have more to pass on. I'm actually in the middle of writing a book with the person that I consider the most incandescent student I've ever known. She's going to be a brilliant consultant when she's in her 20s. But the book is Elder and Apprentice. She's my apprentice, but I am the elder and it's time for me to pass on my knowledge. 

5:00 All right, intuitive consultant is the cocktail dress version of psychic medium. 

8:57 But when you sit down with me, the first thing I'm going to say to you is what is the most important thing you want to get out of here knowing today because I have a huge number of talents and you have a massive life. And no matter how fast I go in a half an hour if what you really want is how to handle your youngest child and I didn't get there you're gonna go she was terrible. She didn't know anything. So, you tell me where you want to go, and that's where I direct myself first. 

23:17 You have to be ready to hear what we're going to say. Don't ask what you don't want to hear about. 

28:25 It's based on clarity. You need to get clear on the most important stuff in your life. That means clarity on your purpose, “What are you doing here”? What are you gonna tell God you got to do when you get back upstairs? Clarity in your relationships, and clarity with spirit. Because that's really life. It's the everyday practicalities; it's the people in our lives and it's the numinous that created all of us. 

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Rediscover Your Brilliance with Jamie Martin

Redefining Death with Jessica Wertz

Your Clutter is a Teacher with Star Hansen

Finding Your Inner Peace with Lydia Knoor

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Putting More Love Into The World With Zita Christian 

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“The Sacred Feminine expressed is love, and this love is both active and passive, dynamic and receptive, stillness and movement, and spiritual and material.”                             ~Miranda Gray, Female Energy Awakening

Guest Introduction: 

Welcome to Exploring the Seasons of Life, a podcast for women with a big heart on a spiritual journey. I'm your host Cindy MacMillan.

Do you ever feel like you are waiting on a permission slip to live the life you want? If you answered yes, then you are in the right spot. Each week I interview coaches and spiritual explorers, from all walks of life about beginnings, endings and the messy bits in between. Self-love well-being and mindset are at the heart of our conversations. Because once you change the inside, the outside will begin to change as well.

Today’s interview is part of a self-care series called Life in Full Bloom: Living From the Inside Out and I am delighted to introduce my guest today. 

Isaya Belle Gabriel is a mixed media spiritual artist and a magico-pragmatic mindset coach, goddess teacher and traveling priestess. She has been working with the Divine Feminine and the Greek Goddesses archetypes for over 20 years, in real life and online, and has facilitated women’s circles, red tents, artist workshops and sacred retreats all over the world, to attune her clients with the Divine Feminine so they feel supported, live their best life and raise the vibration of the planet as a whole! 

Here’s a glimpse of our conversation:

Hi, Isaya. Thanks so much for joining me today.

4:37 It means connecting with the cycle that is ingrained in my body and feeling it and seeing how magic it is, how much power there is, how much energy and how much I can also rest in it or on it, you know, it can support me, and instead of, maybe while I was ignoring it, which I was. And that meant me going against the flow of life, basically. And so for now, the exploring of the seasons is literally learning how each season, whether it's a weekly one in the monthly cycle, or a bigger one has got so many gifts. 

7:56 Absolutely. And it's like, again, if we don't spend some time getting to know this cycle and getting to know these four archetypes that take it’s turn to dance in our life every month, we kind of feel lost. 

9:12 But in the Western world, there's a lot of emphasis on youth and on not aging, but that means making two of the of the archetypes kind of disappear, you know, and that obviously cannot be healthy. 

9:46 There are four archetypes, and we usually start and these are part the teachings of an admirable woman called Miranda Gray, a British woman, who's wrote and taught about the menstrual cycle for over 40 years now. 

14:40 So the next one is the Enchantress. She is sometimes also called the Queen but I prefer the Enchantress. She is connected with the post ovulation phase, with the autumn, so this season, we're now in Enchantress season. She is connected with the waning moon and with the tide, but I don't know how to say that with the ebb, basically, the ebb. 

53:55 It's gonna be so much fun you know because I think when I was an 18-year-old I maybe not 18 but 19 or 20 I believe that this was the best face and that after that was all downwards basically. And I've changed my mind really drastically I think that there's so much to be lived at all ages I feel like I've been gifted or I created for myself when I was alive that each episode each energy I've lived fully so I was a mother with so much joy it was a maiden with so much joy. And I am now experiencing an Enchantress with so much joy. So yeah, I think I would have told her. Just get going. 

58:22 Don't forget you're creating your life. So do it wisely.

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Redefining Death with Jessica Wertz

Rediscover Your Brilliance with Jamie Martin

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“In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.” ~ Victoria Pratt

Guest Introduction: 

Welcome to Exploring the Seasons of Life, a podcast for women with a big heart on a spiritual journey. I'm your host Cindy MacMillan and I'm joined today by Kayleen Johnson.

Each week I interview coaches and spiritual explorers, from all walks of life about beginnings, endings and the messy bits in between. Self-love well-being and mindset are at the heart of our conversations. Because once you change the inside, the outside will begin to change as well.

Hey, beautiful friends welcome back to another episode of Exploring the seasons of life podcast.  

I've had the honor and privilege to interview numerous truly amazing women during this self-care series called Life in Full Bloom: Living From the Inside Out.  

And I'm thrilled to share today's guest.

Kayleen Johnson has a passion for people. She loves quickly and whole-heartedly. She has a BA in Theatre Arts Studies from Brigham Young University. People and their stories have always been important to her, which is part of the reason she started the podcast, Scars We Share. True connection happens through vulnerability.

Here’s a glimpse of our conversation:

Kayleen, welcome to the podcast. 

5:52 We don't have to like every season of our life that we go through. But everything that we go through is a part of who we are and makes up who we are. And we wouldn't be who we are now without everything that we've gone through. 

11:01 The first question I always ask people is, what physical scars do you have, and this has multiple port presses, you know, it is like connecting physical to internal scars. But it's also to help people get comfortable, because I'm about to ask them very vulnerable things. 

14:04 . Everyone has been through different things. Everyone has experienced things differently. And so, I don't know I just think there's such a beauty into really jumping into those internal scars to let other people know that they're not alone. 

16:51 I seriously love that you said that, give permission. Because as ridiculous as it is, you sometimes, have this inability to give yourself permission to do something. And it's, this really ridiculous thing that I think we all need to retrain ourselves out of, but, but sometimes hearing someone else, it just gives you that permission. It's like, Oh, you gave me permission to do this. I think I can do this now. Love that. 

22:36 So that stood out to me just so much because I just had no I had no clue what he'd been through. And it was just pretty intense. Like we both cried during the episode and had a wonderful, wonderful talk. 

30:24 I know that is preached and talked about so many times, but there's a reason it's preached and talked about so many times, when you can train your mind to focus on gratitude, the more you have to be grateful for. 

35:00 Oh, yeah, well, and one of the other reasons I think it's really important to know all of those things is it can kind of change. What brought me joy as a teenager, is not the same thing that brings me joy now as a 32 year old. 

47:04 I think that all I would really be able to tell my 18-year-old self would be you are strong. And you're going to go through a lot of stuff. And you were always going to come back out on the other side even better than you were before.

YOU CAN FIND KAYLEEN JOHNSON AT:  Website Instagram Facebook  If you LOVED this conversation with Kayleen Johnson you’ll also love the conversations we had with:

Rediscover Your Brilliance with Jamie Martin

Your Clutter is a Teacher with Star Hansen

Finding Your Inner Peace with Lydia Knoor

Knowing and Believing you are Worth the Time with Justine Hwang

Putting More Love Into The World With Zita Christian

Thanks for listening! If you want to come along on this journey with me and you are ready and you are brave enough and excited about new possibilities or as I like to call it an Inner Revolution; you are in the right spot. This is your life – Reclaim it.

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Are you ready to make a choice, take action, and stand fully in your power? Friend, This is your life – Reclaim it.