Katherine Martin-Fisher welcomes Yvonne Stoltzfus to discuss her new book, "The Pleasure of Healing." They explore Yvonne's journey, the importance of self-acceptance, sacred spaces, healing through creativity, and the role of nature and self-care in personal well-being. Yvonne shares her excitement for the future.
The Pleasure of Healing creates sacred space through the art of hospitality. A place where you are received with a warm welcome and given soul nourishment.
The Pleasure of Healing creates community through heartfelt conversations, nurturing women in coming home to themselves.
My mother has always played a lead role in my story. It has taken a lifetime to untangle threads. It wasn’t until her death that I felt free to look at it all. Free to not protect her or me. I wanted to be done with my story, bury it beside my mother’s grave. Yet to move beyond it, I had to go through it. Writing it down, forced my hand and my heart to stay with the story to the end and then rewrite it. Take what I want to keep and leave the rest. Staying with the pieces and gathering them, I gathered myself. There is creative power in pain. Crafting a new narrative, our wounds become the womb where we learn to love ourselves.
Yvonne is an author, artist and creative leader. A certified Spiritual Director with nearly three decades of lived experience in home and hospitality. Yvonne’s soulful work infuses wisdom with practical guidance. Through her writings, teachings and workshops, she invites a sense of beauty in the ordinary, seeing the natural world with fresh eyes.
https://www.amazon.ca/Pleasure-Healing-Yvonne-Stoltzfus/dp/B0CV6VJB43
(0:00) Introduction of Yvonne Stoltzfus
(0:42) Welcoming Yvonne Solstice
(0:52) Discussing Yovonne Stoltzfus' new book, "The Pleasure of Healing"
(1:19) Yvonne's journey to writing the book
(3:07) The importance of self-acceptance in healing
(7:15) The concept of sacred spaces
(10:20) Healing through creativity
(16:20) The significance of nature in personal well-being
(25:22) Importance of self-care for women
(32:46) Yvonne Stoltzfus on her excitement for the future