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Welcome to our first holiday season special episodes. These episode are guided meditations to help you honour the season you are in with self-care, love and acceptance while making space to celebrate life this holiday season.

This 15 mins guided meditations is meant to help you welcome in joy, release with love what you have lost in this year and make room for the gifts that this holiday season has to offer you. Holidays can sometimes find us not in the most holiday personal seasons, or they may evoke not so jolly emotions. Being able to gently allow ourselves to experience joy amidst our grief, is healing. With this meditation you will be able to visualise how finding joy this season can look like for you, and learn to acknowledge your grief while making room for new life celebration.

Though the past years may have been the toughest years for us in different ways, they sure did bring us a shift we would someday (if not already) recognize the gifts they brought us. I hope in this period you have found something you will keep for yourself forever or use to build a new normal for yourself. Whatever it is you found will be your gifts from this season.

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Music Credit: AShamaluevMusic

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Today’s episode is a guest episode which I am excited for you to listen to.

With my guest today, Busie Sholo we dive into redefining motherhood for yourself, pursuing your dreams beyond motherhood and nurturing self.

I think being a parent makes you realize that life is just as much about learning as it is about unlearning. Understanding that as a parent you are your child first reference of what it means to be a parent by what you model, though so much of what you know is also inherited but you choose what you let be your inheritance. My guest today unpacks more on these topics.

Busie Sholo is a wife, mom, Mom Blogger at busiesholo.com, the founder of and mom coach at On purpose with Busie Sholo. She shares content that inspires, motivates and engages her audiences on topics of motherhood, family life, marriage, and holistic self-care. Her content and coaching also inspires and empowers mom to find themselves again and to pursue their dreams beyond motherhood.

Thank you for spending your time here, do enjoy listening.

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Busie Sholo on Instagram - @busiesholo and on Youtube

On Purpose with Busie Sholo on Instagram - @onpurpose_busiesholo

On Purpose with Busie Sholo website - www.busiesholo.com

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I am so excited to be back and replenished to share with you about The Art of Being retreat in collaboration with Among the Lilies. 

In this episode I share gifts or lessons that I personally derived from the experience. There was a whole lot more but I wanted to share the ones that landed deeply with me. 

The retreat was a 3 day gathering experience but when I zoom out, the retreat was actually a 3 months long experience of soul searching, deep work and self-inquiry. Listen in to hear about it all.

I also have some questions you can use to journal or reflect on.

I hope you do enjoy this episode.

Thank you for deciding to spend your time here.

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A special thank you to Nirmala Juice for being our Juice sponsor at the retreat. Do check their page here and product offering on their website.

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The seats for Retreat have SOLD OUT. We are now counting down and excited to be holding space for black women in this way! This is Divine Timing.

In this episode I unpack The Art of Being Retreat with Mpumi Mayisa from Among the Lilies.

Note that the conversation in this episode was a recording of an IG Live hosted from Among The Lilies.

Thank you for spending your time here, do enjoy listening.

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On this episode with my guest Losego Motshele we talk about the work she used to offer centered around Innerself work - using Affirmations as part of the tools. In this episode she shares ways in which affirmations can be a great tool in our lives, and when it's best to put down the tool and use what works for the season you are in. This conversation was a paradigm shift on the conversation of affirmations. Losego sees affirmations as a way of returning back to self, our inner truth.

Losego describes herself as an ever- evolving soul, a storyteller, a ball of sunshine, and visionary. Grounded by her loved ones and regular spiritual practice, Losego seeks to live life to the fullest and sees every moment as a chance to return home to herself; her truest and highest self.

Thank you for spending your time here, do enjoy listening.

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Losego Motshele on Instagram - @losegomotshele

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In this episode with my guest Lerato we discuss the importance of representation and taking up space in the Wellness spaces, and cultivating self-love and self-care through the yoga practice. Lerato shares her journey coming to the work and the space that she holds now. 

My intentions with these guest episodes is to explore conversations that affirm the intangible things we are innately worthy of. This conversation is to affirm our innate worthiness to occupy space (exist and breath easy) and to heal as black women.

Lerato Malatjie is the founder of Olerato Yoga And Wellness. A Wellness Movement Redefining African Wellness in the face of the pandemic.

Her passions include teaching young people how to cultivate self-love through yoga and how to prioritize self-care so that we can function as leaders of a better tomorrow.

Thank you for spending your time here, do enjoy listening.

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Lerato Malatjie on Instagram - @oleratoyoga

Olerato Yoga And Wellness website www.oleratoyogawellness.com

More information on the event she will be hosting on the 3rd of October click here or check her latest post on her Instagram.

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Find out more about the retreat by clicking here or type out on your browser https://livingcontentshop.com/pages/the-art-of-being-wellness-retreat

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In my exploration and unpacking of the different healing instruments or modalities that are at our disposal I had a conversation with Boledi Tladito talk about healing through ease and connecting back to nature, therefore connecting back to our heritage and ancestral wisdom.

In today’s episode I sat with Boledi to explore this conversation.

Boledi is a Community-based Counselling Psychologist, lecturer and Social Entrepreneur, proficient in both therapeutic and community-based interventions, with a specific interest in community building & African-contextualized models of healing.

In her capacity as a therapist, her areas of work include but are not limited to grief & bereavement, life adjustment & racial trauma. In her capacity as a social entrepreneur, she has founded an NPO named The Green Bag Project, as well as co-founded a mental health workshop and consultancy business, called Re Basadi Mental Health Associates. Both projects were founded in 2019, and focus on highlighting & integrating mental health into the fabric of the South African social development project.

At the heart of her healing practice, she approach individuals and communities as capable, historied, resilient and creative contributors towards designing sustainable solutions.

Thank you for spending your time here, do enjoy listening.

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Boledi Tladi on instagram - @bagladygreens

Meditate_Chalice on instagram - @meditatechalice

The Green Bag Project on instagram - @tgbp_community

Rebasadi Mental Health Associates on instagram- @rebasadimha

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Find out more about the retreat by clicking here or type out on your browser https://livingcontentshop.com/pages/the-art-of-being-wellness-retreat

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In today's episode I have Zu. as our guest. She is someone that I have followed their work for years since my varsity days. So I was very honored to have them as my guest today. Her story enlightening, but I love how it also shares the human in the story in ways in which one can relate which I always find beautiful. So I am excited for you to listen to the episode.

In today’s episode with Zu., We had a conversation on music as a healing instrument, mental health and her motherhood journey with her sons.

Zu., was born in Soweto, she is a songwriter, composer and vocalist. She specializes in what she calls an eclectic fusion of afro pop, afro soul and funk.

In 2013 Zu. founded Zuko Collective (ZuCo.) and in June of that year the band played the MTN Bushfire Festival and later opened for Yasiin Bey as part of iRocke Festival. Over the years the band has gone on to wow audiences at festivals such as Smoking Dragon, Basha Uhuru ,Fete de la Musique,CTNWF and many more.

In 2015 Zu. produced ZuCo.’s debut album, Relationtrips featuring ReasonHD, Stilo Magolide and Mastermind.

Four years later, Zu. gave us Ndim, a trilogy about love, rebellion, self, God and music. Part 2 of her trilogy was nominated for a SAMA in the Best Alternative album category

In 2021 Zu. has given us Ndim Netshomi Zam, a 6 track amapiano EP wich she calls the soundtrack to her inner groover!

In this podcast episode Zu. Shares her story and journey with us. Do enjoy listening.

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Zu on instagram - @zumakesmusic

Zu's Music on Apple music

Zu's music in other spaces

Zu's Mechandise click here

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Today’s episode is a guest episode, I sat down with Rina to uncover her healing journey. This conversation was recorded a few months back.

Rina is a healer, artist, teacher, creative entrepreneur, a vibe curator, storyteller, and a fairy godmother. She’s a passionate autodidact whose dharma lays in sharing knowledge with her community. She has healed her way through an autoimmune disease as well as some painful childhood trauma and limiting beliefs. She’s built a very successful fashion business which she started in her bedroom and eventually made it onto the Forbes 30 under 30 list.

In this episode with Rina, she shares about identity, authenticity, inner child healing, and becoming a mother.

I found myself listening and soaking in the life story of my guest today as she shares.

Do enjoy listening.

You can follow Rina Kutama on Instagram: @theres_a_guru_on_my_stoep and her work with Umfwa

Thank you for being here.

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In today’s episode, I transition from last week’s episode on our innate worthiness to be seen to now talk about our innate worthiness to receive. I want these next episodes to affirm our innate worthiness and be a remembrance for all the things we’ve lost touch with that we deserve simply by being and without the need to labor for it.

In this episode, I share why I often find it very hard to receive and how does one learns to increase their capacity to receive because receiving is such a beautiful gift - something we all deserve. Cultivating a good balance in our lives to receive as we give, would not only prevent burnout in areas in which we only give too much of ourselves but helps us refuel the love back.

Let me know what do you most struggle to receive in your life and what has made you believe you aren’t deserving.

I hope you do enjoy this episode

Thank you for deciding to spend your time here.

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