Tend the Flame

🌅☕️Rise and Shine your Sunday Stack is here.

This podcast speaks to your inner spark for a little weekly focus.

Thank you for being here and welcoming the podcast and the long form into one space. I appreciate all of you who have reached out. The simplification feels great, affirming and easy. If you are waiting on your own consolidation or affirmation, consider this your go sign!

This week we are tracking what is working and harnessing our focus. This works for everything. Next week I’ll share a real-life parenting how this translated for me. Business, life and inner-world work is all connected.

So glad you are here. Here is my non-curated, old school checklist that I mention in the podcast & two resource links from the show as well.

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🔗 Links

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Brighid and Imbolc

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Hello Creatives —

It seems many of us are tidying up our desks, moving them to a new corner to get better sun and cracking out the good notebook. About 5 hours after I went and changed the title of the my substack, I got an email from fellow writer, Claudine, and it said: I am changing my substack. I sent a squeal of a voice note back.

I really love a confirmation synchronicity — I share it with you as an introduction to our new space: Tend The Flame. It speaks to the spark inside.

What isn't changing much: written content. We have always toggled between observation, inspiration and creativity.

What is changing: I moved my podcast over here to keep things in one place. The podcast is not new; it is several years old, but last year it went under a new name: Tend the Flame. It was originally called Rebirth, but had nothing to do with birth, reincarnation, or the rebirthing technique. None of which crossed my mind when I named it. Rather, okay it was a little bit about birth, in that I was a new mom and I had lost my center and a good friend, now international coach, reached out and said: I think you should do a podcast. It was perfect medicine.

That podcast became my first book. A lifelong dream came true. A bucket list wish crossed off. Check it out here.

That book gave me so may gifts. Too many to get into here, but a lot of it was a newly earned awareness. I taught writing with a new vigor and purpose and I LOVED it. Still do.

Then the time to reemerge out of my toddler cocoon, and personal rebirth I suppose. It was also time to get back into sharing my greatest offering — helping people believe in what’s possible. It might sound hokey, but I’ve realized that is what I do. I listen to stories, and I find threads. I put the pieces I hear on a metaphorical table, and then the person in front of me says, “oh.” And poof they have more space in their mind and their body, and a new harmony begins.

But, I thought that was too crazy to say.

I mean, who says that?

Who has a lifestyle as a space-maker?

Me. I do. It’s me, but I am not the problem. My sense of too muchness was.

There I was yesterday talking to the same friend, 8 years later, Aligned For Greatness and I realize it’s time to let things be simple and all in one place, inside and might as well include my email thread while I am at it.

That is the backstory to the podcast episode about Pushing the Button. The intangible hesitancy of switching podcast providers, which in itself was nothing, had an inner magnitude. Can you relate? The internal, emotional freedom only revealed itself afterward. I felt wildly lighter. I felt physically lighter when I pushed the button.

This is a night to let something go.

Let it die.

Throw out the old jam jar, sweater, and personal criticism.

Don’t go to the thing that you don’t want to go to.

Normally, I say look for adventure. Live.

Tonight I say prune. Be honest at what needs to fall away, and then protect the spark that remains.

After you listen to the shortie episode, that is really a wish for to do your own little freedom thing, you can check out the harmless text thread below. It slipped in so unaware. Then it hit me: I’m not pressing the button. I just need to PRESS THE BUTTON.

I did and here we are.

Check out Claudine Wolk for all things writing, marketing, and the truth of baring it all. She’ll get you moving and grooving this year.

So here is to a year of shedding; it is the collective year of the snake and I am here to celebrate it.

It is also here the time to celebrate the fox and the flame.

Do you know that story? We’ll have to share it here another day.

Remember, the better it gets…the better it gets,

Kate

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Have you heard of this book? Grab it on bookshop here.

I had it recommended to me by two very different individuals, living very different, successful, value-aligned lives. I am so glad I got it. You take one glance and you could miss how it is talking about everything. It is not merely a business book; it is a total mindset shift. It is NOT about more, it is about better. In a time of too much, living our fullest becomes deceptively harder than when less was available.

☕️I recorded a Sunday morning chat with you above on the idea in this book of living for need vs want and how justification trips up good intentions.

* When you listen, I asked you to comment below if you found it:Inspiring, clarifying, and I think the 3rd word was helpful. Please correct me, and let me know what is one thing you got from this Sunday Stack.

Grab the book, too. If you want it from a local bookstore, you can use the affiliate link I gave above. Otherwise, grab it on Amazon, Thriftbooks or your local library — but grab it.

The better it gets, the better it gets,

Kate

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The 7th Episode, The Crown Energy Center, has arrived. Kate shares the connection of root to crown and the power of concerted discernment. In an era of technology, there is great power to find stillness and establishing a practice of connection to our inner flame. The journey through our energy centers reminds us of our ability to change at a cellular level and chose to establish a life of balance and purpose.

Episode Remedies:

Mantra: I am connected and I am ensouled

Stillness & Quiet is a preferred remedy to establish connection

https://katebrentoninspires.notion.site/The-Everyday-Meditation-Method-62cd49dbd8254dd796b85ab1a21f91c0.

Flower Essence recommendation: https://www.treefrogfarm.com/store/7th-chakra-crown-chakra-blend-flower-essence.html

Essential Oil: https://wisdomoftheearth.com/product/frankincense-olibanum-essential-oil/?srsltid=AfmBOop20owZu2-xTCGF51NRxg4RuDGiTN9rKdL4y2djG3enkXATph3Y

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We can want to make the greatest leaps, yet the way we cross the river is hopping from rock to rock. We can get caught up in the flame of inspiration, and we best have kindling so the spark catches to a steady flame. Welcome to the space in the internet where we know that action clears doubt, and wisdom illuminates.

This episode talks about: kindling, multi-tasking, planning, achievement and living a life stacked for success, the kind that warms your heart.

#mindset #innerworld #spiritualgrowth #wisdomofone #slowliving

https://katebrenton.substack.com/p/singing-in-grocery-store

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The 6th Episode, The Inner Vision (3rd Eye) Energy Center, is here. Kate talks about the pituitary gland, how our mindset effects what we see, and the power of asking to see what we have looked over. Often we hear: Seeing is believing, but isn't it the other way around for pattern changes? Kate talks about the 3rd eye wisdom, the power of vision on the path of understanding, establishing a spiritual inner world with a life of balance and purpose. New horizons ahead.

Episode Remedies:

Flower Essences: https://www.fesflowers.com/calendula-flower-essence-excellent-balm-cultivating-receptivity-empathy/

https://www.fesflowers.com/become-more-active-and-purposeful-hornbeam1/

Essential Oils: https://wisdomoftheearth.com/?s=violet&post_type=product

Mantra: Show me what I need to see.

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Conversations with Kate take a turn into the power of pause, befriending the dark, and moving back into right relationship with nature and seasonal living. This episode talks about:

- The importance of creating and pausing

- Why we need to urgently befriend the dark and gift lie there

- Why seasonal living is beneficial

- Where and how you can contribute to this podcast

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Books Mentioned:

https://bookshop.org/a/84615/9781948626729

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The 5th Episode, The Throat Energy Center, episode is here. After a seasonal break (discussed in the Power of the Pause, upcoming episode) Kate talks about the throat center, and the power of our words as influenced between what we see an how we feel. Often we hear: If you have nothing nice to say don't say anything at all. Do we include self-talk in that? Kate talks about the throat and the power of voice on the path of understanding, or attempting to speak our own true desires and establish a life of balance and purpose.

Episode Remedies:

Flower Essences: https://www.fesflowers.com/radiant-snapdragon/

Essential Oils: https://animamundiherbals.com/products/tulsi-holy-basil-essential-oil?srsltid=AfmBOoqS0q2KmUi6gV5isbrlQnUY09hb5JSbKwicIbm_pxB04D5qjypASxs

Mantra: I AM in Harmony with my Best Life.

Want to read more on words and focus? https://katebrenton.substack.com/p/when-you-take-your-own-advice

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🔗📚Grab your own Friend

Thanks for being here & letting me pop into your sphere with a poem.

Do you have a favorite poem to share?

XO

Kate

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In the 4th episode of the series on our energy centers, Kate talks about the heart as it spaces and translates between the will and the word. Often we hear: listen to your heart, but have we been taught how to hear the voice, clear confusion and balance the valid opinions that live inside? Kate talks about the heart center and its very deliberate placement in the path of understanding, or attempting to hear our own true desires.

IMPORTANT:

In this episode, I mentioned that the bija sound for the heart center is Hmmm/Ham. It’s wrong. It’s Yam. I know this, and there is more. When I started sharing about the heart center I began swirling between the throat and the heart, blending even in my lesson planning the two centers and the herbal recommendation (mullein) is one that addresses the mucus of the throat, yet has a connection to the heart through grief (the release of) and I mention in the podcast how I came to learn of this connection. 

I was thinking of the heart center and how it sits between the belly of our will and the center of our words, balancing for us how we move and what we say, and how delightful life is when we “walk our talk.”

Kate talks about the heart center and its very deliberate placement in the path of understanding, or attempting to hear our own true desires.

Recommendations:

Mugwort Essential Oil

⁠Mullein Tincture⁠

Check out Mothercraft Herbal on precious Tend the Flame episodes:

• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tend-the-flame/id1451833998?i=1000644395350


• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tend-the-flame/id1451833998?i=1000490339295

Spontaneous song recommendation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCC_b5WHLX0

Mentorship summer 2024 is open.

possibilities that are ready for you to see and act on them.

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