Lovin Coven

Join Carlos, Wendy & I into sometimes uncharted territories - grief and loss. In this episode we talk about:

- Remembering CJ, his family's own personal superhero.

- Lessons learned through grief.

- Evolving as a human through parenting.

- Expectations around grief.

Stay tuned for the next parts! Carlos and Wendy also have their own podcast with this episode title, you can listen to Grief Unfiltered with Carlos & Wendy here.

Here is what you can expect:

Welcome to “Grief Unfiltered with Wendy and Carlos.” On October 21st, 2023, a phone call delivered devastating news  that forever changed our lives. Our vibrant 23-year-old first born son was lost to Asthma- a disease often manageable but tragically fatal for him. This podcast is our raw exploration of emotions, recounting the day our world flipped and the challenging days that followed. This is our unfiltered journey through grief, and we welcome you to walk alongside us.

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IG: ⁠@alovincoven

Tiktok: @lovincoven

⁠www.lovincoven.com⁠

YT: Lovin Coven Youtube

Intro & Outro music: ⁠Me Siento Como el Sol⁠ by ⁠Sharisse Francisco

Join Yaffa (they/she) and I for a conversation around the Free Palestine movement. In this episode, we touch on:

- The root causes of the Palestinian occupation.

- Questions & concepts to pose when engaging in this movement.

- Different ways to get involved for immigrants and the general public.

- On rest, pause, prayer & taking action.

- The power of resistance art & creating.

Preorder "Blood Orange" ebook Now

Virtual Book Launch 11/13

Yaffa’s Instagram: @yaffasutopia

Yaffa’s Tiktok: @yaffasutopia

Yaffa’s Linktree

"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She), a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. Their writings probe the yearning for home, belonging, mental health, queerness, transness, and other dimensions of marginalization while nurturing dreams of utopia against the background of ongoing displacement and genocide of indigenous Palestinians.

Mx. Yaffa is an acclaimed disabled, autistic, trans, queer, Muslim, and indigenous Palestinian individual who has received multiple awards for their transformative work around displacement, decolonization, equity, and centering the lived experiences of individuals most impacted by injustice.

All proceeds of Blood Orange will be going towards queer, trans Palestinian work and on the ground work in Gaza and occupied Palestine.

Connect with Andrea:

IG: ⁠@alovincoven

Tiktok: @lovincoven

⁠www.lovincoven.com⁠

YT: Lovin Coven Youtube

Intro & Outro music: ⁠Me Siento Como el Sol⁠ by ⁠Sharisse Francisco

Happy Full Moon in Aries!

This one is for all my astrological babes. Join me and Midori as we chat art alchemy, astrology, romanticizing our lives, interconnectedness and more. I hope you enjoy listening in on this convo as much as we enjoyed having it.

MIDORI (she/her) is a multidimensional artist-alchemist, mystic, and co-founder of Soft Power, a cosmic playground for liberated artists of the diaspora. She practices the art of intentional living, and is here to explore every sort of creative modality and expression throughout her lifetime. She has practiced ceremonial photography, intuitive dance, astrology, divination through oracle cards + tarot, and is currently exploring the art of bodywork, herbalism, vocal + musical alchemy, ASMR, and filmmaking.  

Connect with Midori:

Book a 1:1 Art Alchemy Reading

Join the Soft Power Choir

Subscribe to Soft Power TV

Join the Soft Power Substack

Connect with Andrea:

IG: ⁠@alovincoven

⁠www.lovincoven.com⁠

YT: Lovin Coven Youtube

Intro & Outro music: ⁠Me Siento Como el Sol⁠ by ⁠Sharisse Francisco

Tune in to hear about the idea of creating utopia, a beautiful combination of visioning and justice. "I’m not going to wait for systems of oppression to be dismantled for me to live as close of a utopic lifestyle as I can" - Mx. Yaffa

Mx. Yaffa (they/she) is an acclaimed disabled, autistic, mad, trans, queer, Muslim, and indigenous Palestinian individual who has received multiple awards for their transformative work around displacement, decolonization, equity, and centering the lived experiences of individuals most impacted by injustice.

Mx. Yaffa is the inaugural Executive Director of Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD), as well as the founder of several non-profits and community projects, such as CT Mutual Aid, and Life in My Days, an international non-profit that supports individuals and their communities on their journeys for self-actualization through mutual aid, transformative justice, and disability justice. Mx. Yaffa is an engineer, death and birthing doula, peer support specialist, consultant, and artist. 

Mx. Yaffa is a storyteller and an equity and transformation consultant, having shared their story with over 150,000 audience members at speaking events globally.

Connect with Yaffa:

IG: @yaffasutopia

MASGD: @themasgd / MASG Website

Consulting Website: Meraj Consulting

Connect with Andrea:

IG: ⁠@alovincoven

⁠www.lovincoven.com⁠

YT: Lovin Coven Youtube

Intro & Outro music: ⁠Me Siento Como el Sol⁠ by ⁠Sharisse Francisco

Shereen Sun (they/she) is an artist, author, and acclaimed mentor who specializes in creativity and self-actualization. They have spent their life living on the margins, inviting the creative spirits of others to come out and play. Shereen teaches people how to express themselves with confidence and authenticity, and they help people live their Creative Missions by guiding them to build thriving platforms that are as impactful as they are unique.

As an art educator since they were 18 years old, Shereen's love for creativity and desire to help the most marginalized youth led them to earn a master’s in urban education with advanced specializations in the visual arts. Their passion for awakening the creative spirit of others (or what they like to call remembering their Creative Mission) led them to become an art teacher in inner city schools and paint murals with communities all around the world. After quitting their job as a teacher to start a nonprofit, Shereen realized that they still weren’t living their own Creative Mission. While they loved the impact that they could have on their students, they knew that their Creative Mission was bigger than that.

Called by the desire to engage in their own creative work, they started Radiant Wildheart in 2016. It was then that they discovered that community-building actually was their creative work. By helping people to identify their passions and create a life around them, they soon found themselves immersed in a community with thousands of people, with more joining every day. Their global following of loyal creatives, whom they call Wildhearts, are longing to make a positive and creative impact on the world. They believe that everyone deserves access to the revolutionary healing power of the arts.

Connect with Shereen:

www.radiantwildheart.com/quiz

www.radiantwildheart.com/book

IG: @radiantwildheart

Connect with Andrea:

IG: ⁠@alovincoven ⁠

⁠www.lovincoven.com⁠

YT: ⁠Videos Coming Soon!⁠

Intro & Outro music:

Me Siento Como el Sol⁠ by ⁠Sharisse Francisco

Alice is a longtime activist and facilitator who provides support for progressives and changemakers to find hope and keep their sanity in the face of rising fascism and other global crises. Alice transformed her own paralysis into inspired action by getting present to her unique contribution. Her coaching and facilitation firm, Conversations Against Fascism, provides love, power, creativity, and focus in response to the question, “How are we going to do what it takes to meet this moment in history?”

In this episode we talk about:

- Alice's activism & what led to her work.

- What is fascism and how is it a national threat?

- Christian Nationalism & the idolization of Trump.

- Having these conversations & taking care of ourselves.

Connect with Alice:

[email protected]

IG: @conversationsagainstfascism

Facebook Group

Summit - Solid Ground Spiraling World

Connect with Andrea:

IG: ⁠@alovincoven ⁠

⁠www.lovincoven.com⁠

YT: ⁠Videos Coming Soon!⁠

Intro & Outro music:

⁠Me Siento Como el Sol⁠ by ⁠Sharisse Francisco

Sonya Mehta is the founder of Metamorphosis Consulting LLC, and is dedicated to guiding mission-driven organizations toward transformational change and deeper impact. She is also the creator of the Chrysalis™ coaching program, focused on helping aspiring solopreneurs build the businesses of their dreams, and the co-founder of The Embrace Impact Incubator, an accelerator focused on elevating projects committed to equity and belonging. Sonya loves working with powerful leaders to identify their key goals and what is getting in the way of their ongoing success, then using coaching and strategic thought partnership to help advance them on their journey. She consults with and coaches organizational change makers across a variety of sectors, always with a focus for healing and transformation. Connect with Sonya at https://www.metamorphosisconsulting.org/

In this episode we talk about Sonya's story, decolonizing self care and community care as well as the differences between the two, turning routine to rituals and preventing burnout.

Please let me know what resonates with you by connecting below :)

Connect with Andrea:

IG: ⁠@alovincoven ⁠

⁠www.lovincoven.com⁠

YT: ⁠Videos Coming Soon!⁠

Intro & Outro music: ⁠Me Siento Como el Sol⁠ by ⁠Sharisse Francisco

Gabes Torres was born and raised in the countryside of the Philippines. She is a psychotherapist, writer, and artist. Her work focuses on the interplay of mental health, the arts, spirituality, and justice-oriented practice. She has an MA in Theology & Culture (a focus on postcolonial theology), and Counseling Psychology. Both graduate degrees were accomplished in Seattle, the city where she organized with abolitionist and anti-imperialist groups at a local, grassroots level. In her clinical practice, Gabes pays attention to healing from racial and migration trauma, while decolonizing the therapeutic space from white Western modalities. Gabes writes for Yes! Magazine, an independent publisher of solutions journalism with stories that uncover environmental, economic, and social justice intersections. She is also a poet and singer-songwriter. She independently produced 3 albums of original music, and her first one was launched when she was 17. She has toured in Southeast Asia, Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle.

IG: @gabestorres

Twitter: @gabestorres

⁠Website⁠

Substack⁠

Pages/People mentioned in episode:

Willa from Highly Human

The Cevichote in Miami

Connect with Andrea:

IG: @alovincoven

www.lovincoven.com

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Intro & Outro music: Me Siento Como el Sol by Sharisse Francisco

Susan Lopez is a psychotherapist, energy healer, and mindfulness teacher, who focuses on the intersections of healing, spirituality, and social change. She comes from a long line of medicine women, santeros, and curanderos and is a carrier of sacred medicine songs. Her work centers on supporting people in transforming personal and systemic traumas and reconnecting to their authentic selves for deep, transformative healing. Using a variety of modalities, including psychotherapy, plant spirit medicine, and various shamanic energy healing practices, Susan supports individuals in returning to the truth, wholeness, and power of their fully expressed hearts. She believes that our liberation is multidimensional and bound up in each other and our recognition of our shared dignity, wisdom, and interconnectedness. Supporting people while they examine and untangle the great tangle of what it means to be human is her sacred passion and joy.

I hope you enjoy this inspiring conversation with Susan where we uncover the Witch Wound.

You can connect with her at @fire.and.salt or her website at www.fireandsalt.net

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Lindsay Melnick aka Florida Witch is a full time tarot reader, witch & all around spiritual adviser. I came to Lindsay for guidance and got way more than that. It's a joy to have her as both a guide and a friend. Lindsay channels messages with realness & authenticity. Tune in to hear about:

- Finding her way to tarot

- Connecting to our ancestors

- Protecting our energy

- A reading for the collective

- Discernment as a spiritual gift

Stay tuned until the end to hear a collective reading from Lindsay!

You can catch Lindsay on IG at @floridawitch 

(recorded July 2022)

Book recommendation I made - The Altar Within by Juliet Diaz

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