The Creative Soul Podcast

In this special solo episode, Leya shares about how she found out she was 6 months pregnant.

We talk about:

• What it was like finding out at 6 months
• Leya's journey with hormonal birth control & cycles
• The physical experience of finding out you're pregnant in your third trimester
• The spiritual and emotional work that led to this
• The healing retreat Leya attended earlier this year
• Healing mind, body, spirit

Connect with Leya:

@leyavandoren

TW: Leya mentions her personal experience with CSA. Please visit Saprea for more info.

Rebecca Akat is a menstrual cycle coach and the founder and owner of Blume Womb where she guides women to have a deeper relationship to the cycles and seasons of their menstrual cycle.

In this episode, we talk about:

• How to build a relationship with your womb and menstrual cycle
• What cycle and/or hormonal imbalances might mean
• The four feminine archetypes
• The four phases of the menstrual cycle
• The shadow and light of each feminine archetype
• Why the wounded maiden is so prevalent in society
• The transition from maiden to mother

Creative Resources Mentioned:

• Maiden to Mother by Sarah Durham Wilson
• Wise Power and Wild Power by Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer

Connect with Rebecca:

@blumewomb

In this episode, Leya invites one of the retreat participants from The Creative Soul Retreat, Najma Treadwell to share more about her experience, what she got from the retreat, and what it opened up for her in her life.

Najma homeschools her 6 children, is a birth doula, and community service advocate.

We talk about:

• The importance of investing in yourself
• The fears that come up when we invest in ourselves
• How to take care of ourselves so we can take care of others
• Why self care is the opposite of selfish!
• Connecting to your creative soul
• Najma's retreat experience and what she learned

If you're interested in coming on retreat, our next retreat is The Soul Radiance Retreat, January 17th-20th, 2025 in San Diego, CA.

Find more info here.

Connect with Leya:

@leyavandoren

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In this solo episode, Leya shares 5 tips on how to start and finish your creative projects.

We talk about:

• How to show up consistently to your creative projects
• Honoring your creative projects
• Finding inspiration when feeling stuck
• How to find the motivation to finish your creative project even if you haven't touched it in years!
• Playing and having fun to think of your project in new ways!

Connect with Leya:

@leyavandoren

The Soul Radiance Retreat

January 17th-20th, San Diego, CA

Find more info here

Varsha Mathur, J.D, PCC, a certified dating and relationship coach with over seven years of experience, guides clients worldwide to effortlessly find and sustain lasting love with their ideal partners. Through her tailored coaching approach, Varsha empowers both singles and couples to cultivate confidence, ignite attraction, and build partnerships that withstand the test of time.

We talk about:

• What to do if you’re feeling hopeless in the dating process
• Finding clarity on what you want in a relationship/partner
• The importance of knowing yourself both in and out of dating
• The common misconceptions and pitfalls of modern dating
• How to intentionally date
• How to use or not use the dating apps to your advantage
• The difference between therapy and coaching
• Key ingredients for a long lasting relationship

Creative Resources Mentioned:

• The Power of Now by Eckhard Tolle
• If The Buddha Dated by Charlotte Kasl
• Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus by John Gray
• The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman

Connect with Varsha:

Website: coachingbyvarsha.com

THE SOUL RADIANCE RETREAT,

JANUARY 17TH-20TH, 2025

SAN DIEGO, CA

Find more info here.

Anthony Meindl is an award winning writer/director, best selling author, and founder of international Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop. He's worked with 2-time Golden Globe Nominee Shailene Woodley, BAFTA Nominee Daryl McCormack, Grammy Winner Camilla Cabello, Bridgerton’s Phoebe Dynevor and Simone Ashley, Pop Star Suki Waterhouse and hundreds of others, and is known as the Tony Robbins of Acting Coaches. He has also written 5 best-selling books on creativity and silencing your inner critic, including the groundbreaking, At Left Brain Turn Right, and his newest book UNSTUCK. And is currently in post-production on his second feature film (about the climate crisis), after selling his first film to Hulu.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Protest as a form of art
• The feeling path and how to feel your feelings as an artist
• The risk of sharing your art
• Social media & artists
• The relationship between artist & audience
• How to keep making things and keep the hope alive

Connect with Anthony:

https://www.anthonymeindl.com/

@anthonymeindl

In this solo episode, Leya shares her personal experience with her first creative love - the theater, and how she navigated heartbreak, rejection, and letting go of her dreams.

We talk about:

• Why she fell in love with theater at 3 years old
• Why theater represented family, home, and belonging
• Keeping your heart open in the face of rejection
• What happens when something you love becomes toxic
• The shame of letting go of a dream
• Going to college to study musical theater
• What theater taught her about the creative process
• Where she's at with her relationship to theater now

This is a beautiful heart warming episode for any creative who has ever loved the arts, has faced rejection, and still keeps going!

Resources Mentioned:

https://www.csssa.ca.gov/

Ep 57: On Identity, Home, and Creativity as a Practice of Presence

Connect with Leya:

@leyavandoren

Emma Andrews is an Intuitive, Medium and Intuition Teacher. She specializes in clairvoyance, energy healing and somatic therapy. She offers virtual and in-person Intuitive and Mediumship Sessions and leads intuition workshops and wellness retreats around the world.

In this episode, we talk about:

• The story of how her intuitive gifts opened up
• The difference between intuition and mediumship
• The five intuitive senses
• Learning to trust your intuition
• Intuition & creativity
• Discerning the difference between intuition & the mind

Connect with Emma:

Website: https://www.emma-andrews.com/

Instagram: @emmarews

Anat Peri is an Inner-Child Healing Expert in the coaching and wellness space whose background blends traditional healing arts and modern psychology, with somatic and inner-child reparenting techniques that have enabled her to guide hundreds of practitioners, business owners, and their teams, through her TCS Method.

In this episode we talk about:

• The importance of feeling your feelings
• Why feeling your feelings feels so "taboo"
• The Five Personality Patterns or safety strategies
• Giving your inner child permission to grieve
• The five stages of healing
• How to reparent yourself
• Why reparenting is an act of self-love

Connect with Anat:

Website: https://trainingcampforthesoul.com/

Instagram: @anat.peri

Elyse Welles is a Greek-Egyptian American earth intuitive witch, podcaster, & author based in Artemis, Greece. A practicing witch for over twelve years on three continents, she is a Priestess of the eclectic Faery Tradition. She writes regularly for Witchology, Witch Way Magazine, and the Wild Hunt, cohosts the Magick Kitchen Podcast, and runs Seeking Numina, giving tours to Greece's sacred sites and teaching magical living in nature through connection to land spirits and spirits of place.

In this episode we talk about:

• The Witch Wound
• Connecting to Nature
• How to Connect to Land Spirits
• Why Travel Can Be a Sacred Pilgrimage
• Sacred Sites
• Mythology & History of Greece

Creative Resources Mentioned:

• The Witch by Ron Hutton

Connect with Elyse

@seekingnumina

seekingnumina.com