Ep #146 - In this episode of The Awakened Heart Podcast, I sit down with Thayne Martin for a powerful conversation about emotional healing, gratitude, neuroscience, unconditional love, and the journey from surviving trauma to creating a life of greater peace, connection, and purpose.

Thayne’s life story is extraordinary. After experiencing profound childhood trauma, living with Dissociative Identity Disorder, struggling with addiction, and surviving multiple near-death experiences, he began a deeply personal journey of healing and self-discovery. 

Through that process, he developed a new understanding of how our subconscious beliefs, emotional patterns, and life experiences shape the way we see ourselves and the world around us.

Together, we explore how gratitude can become much more than a positive thought or daily checklist. 

Thayne shares the neuroscience behind gratitude, love, emotional balance, and human connection - and explains how intentional experiences may help us shift deeply rooted beliefs and create meaningful change from within.

We also talk about the neurochemicals connected to love and bonding, including oxytocin, dopamine, and vasopressin; the influence of media and subconscious programming; healing generational and ancestral patterns; heart-brain coherence; shadow work; spiritual awakening; and the importance of becoming aware of the emotional energy we bring into our everyday lives.

Thayne also shares practical tools, including his “gratitude cocktail,” gratitude bracelet, gratitude sandwich protocol, and simple ways we can create meaningful moments of connection, even with complete strangers.

One of the messages that stayed with me most from this conversation is that love and connection are what truly matter. When we begin changing what is happening within us, those changes naturally ripple outward into our relationships, communities, and the world around us.

If you’ve been feeling emotionally stuck, disconnected, overwhelmed, or ready to create a deeper sense of inner peace, I hope this conversation reminds you that healing is possible, and that small, intentional moments of gratitude, kindness, awareness, and genuine connection can have a much greater impact than we realize.

In this episode, we explore:

• Thayne’s journey through childhood trauma, DID, addiction, and healing
• How his near-death experiences changed his understanding of life and connection
• The relationship between neuroscience, gratitude, love, and emotional healing
• How subconscious beliefs influence our emotions and behavior
• The “gratitude cocktail” and the brain chemistry connected to gratitude
• Practical ways to create authentic moments of connection with strangers
• Oxytocin, dopamine, vasopressin, and emotional balance
• How experiential learning may help shift deeply rooted patterns
• Heart-brain coherence and awareness
• Shadow work, epigenetics, and ancestral trauma
• The influence of media and subconscious programming
• Spiritual awakening, consciousness, abundance, and inner peace
• What it truly means to live with an awakened heart

 Sound bites

"We could add a podcast before the podcast."

"Love and connection are what truly matter"

"Before was heavy, now I feel weightless"

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Ep #145 - What can ancient plant traditions teach us about healing, consciousness, and living in harmony with nature?

In this episode of The Awakened Heart Podcast, I sit down with Jason Grechanik, a tabaquero, podcast host, and guide who has spent more than 25 years studying plants as medicine and over 15 years immersed in Amazonian traditions.

Jason shares his journey into the world of plant medicine, his work guiding plant dietas in Peru and around the world, and the unique ways he weaves Amazonian tobacco traditions with Celtic tree wisdom. Together, we explore the relationship between humans and nature, the role of plants as teachers, the importance of direct experience, and how ancient wisdom traditions can help us navigate modern life.

Whether you're curious about Amazonian traditions, consciousness, personal growth, or deepening your connection to the natural world, this conversation offers a thoughtful and grounded perspective on the human experience.

Topics discussed include:

• Jason's journey into Amazonian plant medicine
• What it means to be a tabaquero
• Plant dietas and working with plant teachers
• Amazonian tobacco traditions
• Celtic tree wisdom and nature connection
• Consciousness and personal transformation
• Living in greater harmony with nature
• Ancient wisdom in a modern world

 key  topics

• Amazonian plant medicine
• Tobacco as a sacred gateway
• The spiritual role of trees in indigenous cultures
• Integration of plant medicine experiences
• The importance of relationship and harmony with nature

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"To the Awakened Heart Podcast."

"Thank you, thank you Nancy, thank you for having me."

"Tobacco traditionally is a very strong antiviral."

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Ep #144 - In this episode of The Awakened Heart Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Diana Driscoll - optometrist, inventor, and leading expert in the autonomic nervous system and “invisible illnesses” such as POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome), vagus nerve dysfunction, chronic inflammation, and post-viral conditions. 

After her own battle with POTS, Dr. Driscoll spent over a decade researching the root causes behind symptoms that are often dismissed or misunderstood, becoming known as “the patient’s researcher.”

Together, we explore how the nervous system impacts everything from fatigue and brain fog to digestion and emotional regulation, and why so many people feel something is off in their body but can’t find clear answers. 

This conversation also dives into the concept of “inflammaging,” the connection between chronic inflammation and long-term health, and what you can begin doing today to support your nervous system and stay sharp, resilient, and energized as you age.

If you’re on a path of healing, self-discovery, or navigating symptoms that don’t quite fit into a traditional diagnosis, this episode offers both insight and practical guidance to help you better understand your body and take your health into your own hands.

Episode Highlights

• Why so many people feel “off” in their body but can’t get clear answers
• The hidden role of the autonomic nervous system in fatigue, brain fog, and chronic symptoms

• What POTS is and why it’s often misunderstood or misdiagnosed
• The connection between inflammation, aging, and long-term health (“inflammaging”)
• How the vagus nerve impacts digestion, mood, and overall regulation

• Why traditional approaches often miss the root cause of chronic illness
• Simple ways to start supporting your nervous system in everyday life
• The link between brain health, resilience, and staying sharp as you age

• What “invisible illness” really looks like and why patients feel dismissed
• How to begin listening to your body and advocating for your own health

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"My symptoms kept shifting and changing over time"

"The vagus nerve plays a crucial role in symptoms"

"True wellness is beyond just being symptom free"

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Episode #143 - What if healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken—but remembering how the body is designed to function?

In this episode of The Awakened Heart Podcast, I sit down with Axay Shah, founder of RawFoodiest and author of In Nature We Trust, for a conversation that bridges physical health, energy, and spiritual awareness.

He shares his journey of living over 16 years on a fully raw, plant-based lifestyle, backed by more than two decades of documented health data. But what I loved about this conversation is that it goes far beyond nutrition.

We talk about how food carries frequency, how our energy systems influence the body, and why true healing may require a shift in consciousness—not just behavior.

If you’ve ever questioned mainstream narratives around health, or felt pulled toward a more natural, intuitive way of living, this conversation really opens that door.

 In this episode, we explore:

• The connection between food, energy, and consciousness
• Why symptoms may be signals—not problems to suppress
• How aligning with nature can transform physical and emotional health
• The idea that life is energy, and energy is life
• Moving from dependency on systems to personal responsibility in healing
• What happens when we begin to trust the body instead of override it

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"Food is a fuel, not just taste"

"Food carries cosmic information and energy"

"Listen to your body, it guides your health"

🌿 About Axay 

Axay is the founder of RawFoodiest.com and a wellness educator who has spent over two decades exploring the connection between energy systems and human health. 

At 66, he continues to train for marathons with no medications and no chronic illness, guided by a philosophy rooted in nature, frequency, and self-responsibility.

His latest book, In Nature We Trust, expands on the idea that reconnecting with nature is key to restoring vitality, clarity, and long-term health.

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Episode #142- What if the key to healing, clarity, and deeper awareness isn’t outside of you - but already within your brain and body… waiting to be accessed?

In this fascinating episode of The Awakened Heart Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Amy Albright to explore the powerful intersection of neuroscience, consciousness, and spiritual awakening. We dive into how emerging technologies like neurofeedback and biofeedback are helping us understand the brain in real time - and what that means for breaking old patterns, rewiring conditioning, and unlocking human potential.

This conversation opened my mind in so many ways. We talk about brain coherence, intuitive development, and how science is beginning to meet what many spiritual traditions have known for centuries. Dr. Amy shares how these tools can support not only personal growth and emotional healing, but also leadership, clarity, and even cognitive health.

If you’ve ever felt like there’s more available to you - more awareness, more alignment, more potential - this episode will meet you right there.

In this episode, we explore:

• How neurofeedback and biofeedback work to retrain the brain
• The connection between brain coherence and emotional regulation
• Breaking unconscious patterns and conditioning through neuroplasticity
• The intersection of neuroscience and spiritual awakening
• Intuition, consciousness, and expanded states of awareness
• How technology is helping us better understand the mind-body connection
• Potential applications for cognitive health, including Alzheimer’s support
• Leadership, clarity, and accessing higher levels of human potential

Sound bites

"There is a God."

"Science is created by people."

"We are underusing our brain."

Key  topics

Neuroscience and consciousness connection

Neurofeedback therapy and brain coherence

Spiritual awakening and intuitive development

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Episode #141 - In this deeply grounding and expansive conversation, I sit down with author and embodiment teacher Cynthia Abulafia, creator of Embodying the Goddess, to explore what’s often missing from modern spirituality: the return to the body.

For centuries, spiritual traditions have emphasized transcendence — rising above the body, the mind, or the human experience itself. Cynthia names this pattern the “transcendence bias”: when a tradition teaches us to go up and out, but forgets to teach us how to come back in.

Drawing from over two decades of Shakta Tantra study and trauma-aware yoga therapy, Cynthia introduces a radically inclusive spiritual map rooted in divine feminine principles of curiosity and reverence. Together, we explore what it means to integrate spiritual awakening into everyday life — limitations and all.

Cynthia shares her personal journey through a Kundalini awakening and the profound lessons that followed, including the role of motherhood, breathwork as a bridge between mystical experience and grounded presence, and the importance of safe, supportive relationships during spiritual transformation particularly in the context of the Crone energy/.

This conversation also addresses:

• The dangers of spiritual bypassing
• How to recognize dissociation disguised as awakening
• The power of curiosity in healing trauma
• Why embodiment becomes especially important in midlife
• The wisdom of Crone energy as integration, not decline
• How Shakta Tantra reframes the Goddess as lived experience

If you’ve ever felt destabilized by a spiritual awakening, disconnected from your body, or confused by teachings that seem to prioritize escape over integration, this episode offers a grounded and compassionate reframe.

Awakening is not about leaving the body.

It is about remembering that the body was never separate from the sacred.

Takeaways

• Awakening means coming home to the body, not transcending it.
• Curiosity is essential for integrating spiritual experiences.
• Motherhood embodies the goddess through creation and nurturing.
• Spiritual bypassing can lead to disassociation from the present.
• The breath serves as a bridge between mystical states and grounded presence.
• Every life phase offers unique opportunities for growth.
• Tantric relationships involve mutual reflection and kindness.
• The goddess is not just a concept; she is the world.
• Listening to the body is crucial for spiritual integration.
• Choosing supportive relationships enhances personal growth.

sound bites

"We are always birthing something new."

"Every phase of life is different."

"Notice what you notice."

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Episode #140 - Exploring spirit teachers, intuition, and communication beyond the physical world.

In this episode of The Awakened Heart Podcast, I sit down with spiritual seeker and author Michael McAdams to explore the mysterious and often misunderstood world of spiritual communication.

Michael is the co-author of An Angel Told Me So, a book documenting more than two decades of messages received by his late mother, Wilma Jean Jones. Through her experiences receiving teachings from what she described as spirit teachers, the book offers a unique perspective on the possibility of guidance beyond the physical world.

Together, we explore the nature of spiritual connection, the role of discernment, and the ways individuals might begin to recognize intuitive signals or guidance in their own lives. They discuss the difference between angels and spirit teachers, the challenges people face when opening to spiritual awareness, and how to remain grounded while exploring unseen dimensions of consciousness.

The conversation also touches on fear surrounding death, the continuity of consciousness, and why many spiritual traditions throughout history suggest that life extends beyond the physical body.

Whether you’re deeply spiritual, quietly curious, or approaching the topic with healthy skepticism, this episode invites listeners into an open-minded conversation about intuition, spiritual awareness, and humanity’s long-standing search to understand what may exist beyond this life.

Key  Topics

• The nature of the spiritual realm and communication
• Channeling and verifying high-source information
• Reincarnation and the purpose of life
• The universe's vastness and intelligent life
• Grounding, protection, and recognizing spiritual messages

 Sound bites

"Reincarnation is just graduation, not an end."

"Heaven and hell are the ultimate carrot and stick."

"Karma ripples out like a pebble in a pond."

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Episode #139 - this episode of The Awakened Heart Podcast, I sit down with Steven Kubacki, a clinical psychologist, applied philosopher, and author whose life and work explore the intersection of psychology, consciousness, and lived experience.This episode unfolds in three movements — beginning with Steven’s disappearance and non-ordinary experience, expanding into consciousness and the multiverse, and returning to what it all means for authentic connection, community and being human in the world today.Steven shares reflections from his disappearance in 1978—and the decades of silence and integration that followed—offering insight into what it means to live meaningfully after one’s understanding of reality has been profoundly altered. Rather than focusing on mystery or spectacle, our conversation centers on integration, responsibility, and the embodiment of insight through praxis.We explore themes of expanded consciousness, identity, and the challenge of navigating certainty in a complex world. Steven also discusses the idea of the multiverse as a lens for understanding interconnectedness, diversity of experience, and the importance of community and care for others.This episode invites listeners into a grounded conversation about spiritual awakening, psychological integration, and what it means to live with an awakened heart—staying human, connected, and compassionate while honoring mystery without losing clarity.Takeaways* Steve Kubacki emphasizes the importance of lived action over mere thought.* His disappearance was a conscious choice to protect others and explore deeper truths.* The multiverse concept suggests infinite possibilities and dimensions of existence.* Kubacki's experiences on the ice led to profound interdimensional insights.* He reflects on the challenges of individualism in a disconnected society.* Listening and caring for others are essential for personal growth and community.* The journey of understanding the multiverse is ongoing and personal.* Certainty can be a delusion that limits our understanding of reality.* Community and connection are vital for overcoming societal challenges.* Living with an awakened heart means embracing flaws and fostering acceptance. Sound bites"We are social creatures.""I think certainty is a delusion.""Caring for others is essential."CONNECT WITH STEVEN:Website:  stevenkubacki.comBook: https://amzn.to/4kdXcwZCHECK OUT MY PODCAST: "The Awakened Heart Podcast" available on all podcast players:Rumblehttps://rumble.com/c/c-2225362Website: https://contactradiantlydi.wixsite.com/awakenedheartLinktreehttps://linktr.ee/awakenedheartcollectiveFOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/awakenedheartcollective/TIK TOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@awakenedheartcollective?Linkedinwww.linkedin.com/in/nancy-walters48307FREE MEDIATION GUIDE https://theawakenedheartcollective.com/awakened-heart-meditationRelocation Mastery Program: https://www.getreadysetmove.com/

Episode #138 - In this episode of The Awakened Heart Podcast, I’m joined by Elizabeth Webb — The Practical Priestess™ — a transformation coach with over twenty years of experience helping women, leaders, and creatives move out of survival mode and back into lives that actually feel good. Elizabeth is the author of the upcoming book Made for Magic: A Practical Guide from Survival Mode to Soul-Satisfying Joy, which distills two decades of coaching into a practical, accessible framework for restoring energy, strengthening intuition, setting clean boundaries, and reclaiming joy.

Elizabeth and I explore the idea of hidden relationship contracts - the unspoken agreements, roles, and expectations that quietly shape our relationships over time. Many of these contracts once made sense, but when left unexamined, they can create resentment, burnout, or a loss of intimacy.

We talk about how to recognize when a relational contract has expired, why so many women stay stuck tolerating old dynamics, and how empowered communication can actually deepen connection rather than create conflict.

We also dive into Elizabeth’s tools for navigating difficult conversations with clarity and self-respect, including how to sort out needs, desires, and preferences before making a request, how to set boundaries that truly hold, and how to approach confrontation in a way that supports intimacy instead of eroding it.

Elizabeth shares practical language, frameworks, and decision-making tools that help women determine whether it’s time to rewrite a relationship contract — or lovingly untether and move forward.

Throughout our conversation, Elizabeth brings her signature blend of grounded wisdom and real-world application, offering guidance on building self-worth, trusting your inner knowing, and reclaiming your time, energy, and choices.

This episode is for anyone who knows something in a relationship feels “off,” but isn’t sure how to name it or what to do next.

Elizabeth has coached executives, artists, and couples across the globe, with client work spanning New York, Spain, Sweden, and the Dominican Republic. Her work has been featured in the New York Times best-selling book Live It, Love It, Earn It, and she is known for her widely shared Love Beams notes on intuition, joy, and empowered living.

This is a practical, heart-centered conversation filled with tools you can start using immediately to bring your relationships — and your life — back into alignment.

Takeaways

• Elizabeth Webb has over 20 years of experience in self-development and coaching.
• Her book, 'Made for Magic,' offers practical paths out of survival mode.
• Coaching was in its infancy when Elizabeth started, making her a trailblazer.
• Understanding relational dynamics is crucial for personal growth.
• Hidden contracts in relationships can drain energy and need to be addressed.
• Setting boundaries is essential for healthy relationships.
• Confrontation can deepen intimacy if approached correctly.
• Recognizing expired relational contracts can prevent resentment.
• Empowered conversations require clarity on needs, desires, and preferences.
• Building self-worth is vital before making significant relationship decisions.

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"I want to wake up in the morning."

"Get your finances right."

"Fast to hire, fast to fire."

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Episode #137 - In this powerful episode of The Awakened Heart Podcast, Nancy Walters speaks with Coach Kev Ramon, a holistic health coach and fruitarian who has spent over 30 years reclaiming his health—and his sovereignty—through intuitive living, clean nutrition, and radical truth-seeking. 

Kev shares his personal transformation journey, including his healing from obesity, drug and sex addiction, depression, anxiety, and low self-worth, all without pharmaceuticals or conventional interventions. By reconnecting with nature, aligning with a fruit-based lifestyle, and trusting his intuition, he found clarity and freedom on every level—mind, body, and soul.

This conversation explores the connection between food and frequency, the emotional shifts that occur through detox and discipline, and the courage it takes to speak out in a censored wellness landscape.

Kev shares his experience being banned from both Amazon and TikTok, and unpacks the deeper agendas behind modern health narratives, including how media and government institutions shape public perception. 

At the heart of his message is the belief that awakening to truth is the foundation of true healing—and that the more we take responsibility for our own health, the more we ignite change on a collective level. 

Whether you’re just beginning to question the mainstream model or are deep in your own awakening journey, this episode is a grounding and empowering listen.

Disclaimer: This episode is for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult a qualified health provider regarding any health-related decisions.

Takeaways

• Awakening to truth can be a challenging journey.
• Diet significantly impacts mental, emotional, and physical health.
• Censorship exists for those who challenge mainstream narratives.
• The media often serves the interests of powerful corporations.
• Personal responsibility is crucial for health and wellness.
• Spiritual awakening is a collective process that is ongoing.
• Living as frugivores aligns with our natural state as humans.
• Ignorance may seem blissful, but knowledge is empowering.
• The truth can set you free, even if it’s hard to accept.
• Shining your light can inspire others to do the same.

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"Eating was the new drug."

"All disease is diet related."

"You are a child of God."

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