In this episode of Sacred Being, host Erin Colette Madden Reed sits in conversation with Rachel Crowther — Rockford, Michigan yoga studio owner, Cortland Township Trustee, and candidate for Michigan State Representative in District 90. Rachel opens up about the winding path that shaped her: childhood road trips across the American West with her teacher-and-firefighter parents, bagging groceries and learning to truly see people, and a Buddhist-rooted spiritual practice built on presence, inner wisdom, and witnessing.

Rachel shares what she's hearing from voters on issues like transparent government, local data center concerns, mental health access, and protecting Michigan's natural resources, and how she leads not as a "politician" but as a servant-leader rooted in curiosity, compassion, and community care.

An honest conversation about what it looks like to bring your whole spiritual self into public service — and why hope, connection, and showing up for one another might be the most radical political act of all.

Where to find Rachel:
https://www.rachelcrowthermi.com/

https://www.aptituderock.com/

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In this debut episode, host Erin Colette Madden Reed is joined by therapist and dance alchemy facilitator Andrea Sulak and parts work practitioner Dr. Gina Heath to introduce their upcoming Sovereign Spirit Pilgrimage to the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland. The three co-facilitators share deeply personal journeys — from surviving suicide attempts and dyslexia-related barriers, to leaving abusive marriages and navigating grief — and how transforming that pain into wisdom has shaped the healing work each of them now offers. Together they explore the mother wound and sister wound, unpacking how patriarchy, capitalism, and generational trauma have isolated women from themselves and each other. The conversation moves into the sacred power of women's rage as a clarifying, boundary-setting force, and closes with a luminous vision of what the Ireland pilgrimage will hold: somatic healing, ancestral grief work, collective rage release, and a return to authentic sovereignty — held by the land, the ocean, and the wind of the Irish coast.

Links:

Erin Madden Reed

https://www.sacredbeingyoga.com/

Andrea Sulak

https://ie3bodywellness.com/our-team/practitioners/

Dr. Gia Heath: https://www.facebook.com/gina.mashburn.heath.8

Sovereign Spirit: Pilgrimage to the Cliffs of Moher Ireland - https://www.sacredbeingyoga.com/retreats