Join me as I share a brief piece that invites you into a moving meditation.

Join me for another little story. A story about a place where you can find rest. A place where you can explore all the stories you hold. A place where you can begin to write new stories.

What does it mean that we are the storytellers? What stories are we telling? What stories aren't we telling?

Today I share a brief poem inviting us into these questions.

An introduction to Season 5: The Season of Storytelling

Why storytelling? Why does it matter to me? What will I be sharing? Listen in to find out.

The Garden of Belonging Podcast Episode 35: Blooming Bravely with Kelsey Mech

Kelsey Mech is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and a mentor to creative humans and business owners. Through her one-on-one work and online programs, Kelsey supports women to connect to their intuition, live in integrity with their most authentic selves, and emotionally heal from old wounds and toxic messaging. Kelsey offers an online membership community, Wellspring, as well as other online courses and programs. She is also deeply committed to speaking about the need to let go of our collective social conditioning and move toward deep self-acceptance through her writing and podcast The Unraveled Life.

We talk about:

• Being honest and generous with yourself

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Garden of Belonging Episode 34: Blooming Bravely with Louise Warren

Louise Warren (founder of Rare Gem Creatives) is a passionate creative mentor and singer/songwriter. Over the past decade, she has penned songs in the hundreds, performed at venues all over the Southeast, and opened for musicians like Chuck Leavell (of the Rolling Stones), Jimmy Hall, and Edwin McCain. Louise is a certified coach with both the Beautiful You Life Coaching Academy and the Creativity Coaching Association, completing 100 + hours coaching. Her vision with Rare Gem Creatives is to provide community and support for people who long to live more creatively vibrant lives.

• Allowing yourself to unfold

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Garden of Belonging Episode 33: Blooming Bravely with Thaís Sky

Thaís Sky is a truthspeaking, edge-dwelling, trauma informed life coach and teacher whose multifarious approach to healing has transformed the lives of hundreds of women worldwide. She offers her thoughts weekly on a podcast called RECLAIM and for over a decade Thaís has coached visionaries, seekers and cycle breakers who are ready to reclaim their worthiness and take up greater space in the world through her 1-1 work as well as her year-long signature program, Worthy Women Rise. Recently she has started mentoring coaches who want to deepen their work responsibly. She holds a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology and infuses psychoanalytic theories, social justice, family systems and mindfulness practices into her approach to tending what she calls the worthiness wound. You can learn more about her at IamThaisSky.com or find her at just about everywhere on social media at @IamThaisSky.

Thaís and I speak about:

• Caterpillar metamorphosis as a metaphor for the internal process

Warning: some mild adult language

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Garden of Belonging Episode 32: Blooming Bravely with Nicola Humber

Nicola Humber is the author of Heal Your Inner Good Girl, UNBOUND and Unbound Writing. She's also the founder of The Unbound Press, a soul-led publishing imprint for unbound women. After playing the archetypal good girl up until her mid-thirties, Nicola left her 'proper' job in finance to retrain as a coach and hypnotherapist and this leap of faith led her to what she does now: activating recovering good girls to embrace their so-called imperfections and shake off the tyranny of 'shoulds', so they can be their fullest, freest, most magnificent selves. Nicola helps women to write the book their Unbound Self is calling them to write, whilst growing a community of soul-family readers and clients. She currently lives in Southampton in the UK with her husband, Mark. She’s the host of The Unbound Writer’s Club Podcast.

Nicola and I speak about:

• Blooming as the idea of opening to be seen

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Garden of Belonging Episode 31: Blooming Bravely with Elizabeth Russell

Elizabeth Russell is a social artist, dedicated witch, and joyful Earthling. For over 25 years, she has been generating creative processes to inspire radical engagement with the living cosmos. For many years she owned and operated the Be Space expressive arts & community space, and produced the annual Life Art Being Integrative Arts Festival in Portland Oregon. She now lives in Eugene Oregon and is the creator of the Dreamfruit interactive almanac for radical belonging.

TW: mention of suicide

Elizabeth and I speak about:

• Showing up in truth and purpose

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Also enjoy her curated playlist for 2021, on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0jVLepixcCn0Obpp3wr8ZQ?si=g6rWa3PmQ4qNd5uZqSm1cw 

Garden of Belonging Episode 30

Welcome to Season 4 of the Garden of Belonging

This is a brief solo episode outlining where we've been and what's ahead for season 4.