Kate shares about her experience as a Trailwalker for the ANASAZI Foundation as a college student. She relates lessons she learned about Mother Nature and how they might enhance our understanding of Heavenly Mother. Looking back, she sees how the Mother was with her and the other walkers in the Arizona wilderness during their hardest times, from being caught in monsoons to struggling to make fire.

Kate can be found on Instagram as @daughterofmother_earth, where she shares ways of recognizing the Divine Feminine in nature and our bodies, along with tips on sustainable living and affirming our cycles and birth giving. 

Rachel Hunt Steenblik's Mother's Milk, along with Kevin L. Barney's article from Dialogue and a blog post by Whitney Call, former member of Studio C,  were influential in Kate's early seeking. Each of these works is linked below. Kate also references the books The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World and The Anatomy of Peace during the interview. These can be found on Amazon or at many bookstores. 

Mother's Milk: https://qnoor.com/products/mothers-milk

Kevin L. Barney's article: https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/how-to-worship-our-mother-in-heaven-without-getting-excommunicated/

Whitney Call's blog post: http://callmewhit.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-clumsy-pondering-on-asherah-wisdom-mom.html

This week, Sara and Jess interview artist Emily Shay about her work, "Rest in Me," an artistic depiction of Heavenly Mother with one of Her daughters, who rests her head in Her Mother's lap. Emily tells how she was inspired to create this work by the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic and the intense need for rest. She finds a unique sense of simultaneous gentleness and strength from Heavenly Mother and offers that feeling to viewers of this piece of artwork.  She also teaches about how the doctrine of Heavenly Mother isn't new, but is a restoration of the ancient worship of the Heavenly Family. We discuss how knowing our Heavenly Mother fills in gaps in our worship and invites wholeness.

Becky shares six ways she has connected with Heavenly Mother personally and gives examples within each. Her approach is accessible, simple, and sweet. Using the litmus test of trying the fruits of each category to see how it feels, Becky suggests:

1. Using Her name

2. Creating and enjoying art

3. Communing with nature

4. Imagination and visualization

5. Nurturing 

6. Personal revelation & writing a heaven letter 

Becky's love for Heavenly Mother and relationship with Her are inspiring. Pick a method she shares and put it to the test yourself, and see your own relationship with your divine Mother grow!

Becky Edwards can be found on Instagram as @purposedrivenmentoring and on her blog at purposedrivenmotherhood.blogspot.com

Sara interviews her friend Carly Beesley about her evolving relationship with Heavenly Mother. Starting from a book club discussion with friends, Carly dug deeper into her relationship with Heavenly Mother. Carly loves seeing Heavenly Mother in nature and connecting with Her in a variety of ways, and acts on President Nelson's invitation to seek personal revelation by learning about Heavenly Mother. We discuss how our doctrine of Heavenly Mother isn't a fringe doctrine, but mainstream and critical to our theology. Carly rejoices in the healing doctrine of Heavenly Mother that honors the divinity of femininity and how the doctrine of a Mother God makes her so excited to share the gospel!

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In this episode, Jess interviews Meagan Bigger about her experiences connecting with and sharing Heavenly Mother with her daughters and at church. Meagan's enthusiasm for speaking about Heavenly Mother is infectious. She inspires us to discuss more freely our divine feminine deity, and to continue shouldering the "beautiful burden" of bringing Her more into the light. 

Sara asks Katie Garner about her painting, "Mother to Mother." Katie tells about what inspired her to create the painting and describes the process of staging the photograph on which she based the painting. She discusses how creating "Mother to Mother" has influenced how she sees the world and others, and how it has shaped her view of herself in her motherhood. She also shares details about an exciting art show coming up this fall in Salt Lake City, with the theme, "Reflections on a Mother in Heaven."

Jess asks Amy how she accesses the power of God in her life as a woman, and what that looks like in her home and family. Amy shares tools for shifting our mindset to believe we have access to God's power, and how to go about tapping into it. She emphasizes having a personal relationship with God and shares how she came to rely on her Heavenly Parents more fully through an unexpected trial in her marriage. Amy can be found on Instagram at @amy.elysse, where she helps women overcome betrayal trauma and find healing. 

In this episode, Sara and Jess discuss how worshipping and adoring our Heavenly Mother enhances our relationship with both of our Heavenly Parents and our spiritual siblings.

Kathryn enlightens Jess on what led her to study landscape design and writing, and how a growing awareness of the feminine divine merged those two passions inspiring her poetry collection, The Tree at the Center. She describes some of the fruits of taking a more feminine path, and bestows words of wisdom for others just beginning, or anywhere along that path. Kathryn shares a few of her poems, and gives a glimpse into what her forthcoming book will be about.

Emily Baker talks with Sara about her journey of being found by Heavenly Mother. She tells her story of following God's plan for her life, even though it was very different than what she'd intended, and coming to better know her Heavenly Parents and Savior along the way.