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By Amana Mayfield~FaulknerSociety & Culture
The Heart of the Soul with Amana episodes
- 73. Holistic Health, Grief, Death, Healing, Looking inside Yourself & more with Carolyn Jones
Magical Full Moon to you my Beautiful Soul Sisters 🌕
This episode was recorded on December 18th 2023
Watch this Episode on Earthing Nova Youtube
Carolyn Jones is a Holistic Health Educator, bereavement chaplain, author, healer & so much more! We talk about death, grief, talking to Spirit, looking inside ourselves, dressing for success & trying new things. I hope you enjoy this rich dialogue full of stories & wisdom!
Some points we touch on:
~ Being a bereavement chaplain
~ Grief as life and the layers that can be found.
~ The death of her daughter Janelle in the bed next to her.
~ The ways death changed Carolyn’s perspective.
~ Healing through gazing at the clouds & dancing.
~ Learning what grief was years after she experienced it.
~ Looking inside herself.
~ Carolyn’s experience with Eastern Medicine and what she values within it.
~ Emotions get trapped in the blood
~ Why trying something new is an important practice
~ Looking to other cultures to see how they interact with death. The way the Tibetens correlate death & the 4 elements.
~ Practices of speaking to Spirit.
~ Accepting the parts that we play in the unfolding of our lives.
~ Dressing for success & how that led to a new job & education!
~ The power Carolyn found in bibliotherapy & quiet time.
~ Lessons she learned from her Mother.
~ As you grow spiritually you act differently.
~ Asking yourself “What am I doing that attracts certain people into my life & how can i make an adjustment where they will keep going & not see me as someone to latch onto.” Carolyn Jones
~ What inspired her to write the book Pick Up Your Bed and Walk: A Self-Care Guide to Improved Health
Connect with Carolyn Jones:
WEBSITE: www.behealed.info
INSTAGRAM: @thp_the_healing_project
EMAIL: [email protected]
LINKEDIN: Carolyn Jones
Book: Pick up your bed and walk
Connect with me Amana
Sign up for Mother Circle
Listen to a former client share about her experience of Sistership Support
Check out my Sistership Offerings for Women:
www.BirthingNova.Love
Book your Free Connection Call with me
Schedule Your Mediumship Reading with me
Listen to/watch me guesting on other Podcasts: Free Birth Society, Where the Wild Women Grow, Wild Sacred Journey, Healing Birth, The Renegade Mama, Born Wild
Watch this conversation & More on YouTube
Please Support the Podcast by donating through Venmo @AmanaBeLove
or PayPal
Until next time, remember Be brave, be wild, be love, be you & be the change that you seek for yourself & for the generations to come
55 min - 72. Conscious Conception, Birth as a mirror, Honing your Creative Process & Connecting to the Innate Life force in us All with Meghan Persephone Taylor.
Magical New Moon 🌑 Blessings to you Beautiful Soul Sisters!
Today is February 9th 2024
This episode was recorded on December 3rd 2023
Watch this dialogue on Earthing Nova Youtube
Today on the show we have Meghan Persephone Taylor:
Meghan is a wild woman, radical mother, and visionary artist devoted to the exploration and celebration of the transformational power of creative self- expression. She is a multidisciplinary creative with a special love for textile arts of all kinds. She fell in love with weaving over the course of her BFA degree which she began at OCAD University in Toronto, ON, and completed at NSCAD University in Halifax, NS. Her latest project, a conception, is a digital memoir project that retraces her initiatory journey into motherhood, and is compiled of prose, poetry, photography, as well as textile and multimedia collage.
In this episode we chat about the following & more:
~ Being a wild woman.
~ Meghan’s experience with Conscious Conception.
~ Initiations of her life.
~ Creating ceremony & ritual with intention.
~ How she was introduced to Tarot, finding her intuitive practice with them & creating her own textile tarot deck.
~ Channeling her creative projects.
~ Choosing to not take a pregnancy test when she knew she was pregnant.
~ “Becoming the woman she knew she could be” Meghan
~ “Knowing that we are the creators and that we are being created” Meghan
~ How important it is to claim our own power.
~ How to hone your creative process by making a framework.
~ The ways birth can be a mirror.
~ “Reconnecting to the innate life force that lives in us all” Meghan
~ Our creative projects can transform us.
~ Freebirthing her daughters, keeping their placenta’s attached & intuitively creating ceremony.
Connect with Meghan:
Explore @a.conception_fieldnotes and get the infinite access link to the whole story for just $11.11.
(Direct link: https://thematriarchsreturn.squarespace.com/shop)The Matriarch’s Return website: https://thematriarchsreturn.squarespace.com/
Learn more about The Matriarchs Return (Mighty Networks): https://the-matriarchs-return.mn.co/landing?space_id=12602718
Meghan on Substack: thematriarchstreturn.substack.com
Meghan on Insta: @thematriarchsreturn
Connect with me Amana
Sign up for Mother Circle
Listen to a former client share about her experience of my Sistership Support
Check out my Sistership Offerings for Women: www.BirthingNova.Love
Book your Free Connection Call with me
Schedule Your Mediumship Reading with me
Listen to/watch me guesting on other Podcasts: Free Birth Society, Where the Wild Women Grow, Wild Sacred Journey, Healing Birth, The Renegade Mama, Born Wild Watch this conversation & More on YouTube
Please Support this podcast & me by donating through Venmo @AmanaBeLove
Until next time, remember Be brave, be wild, be love, be you & be the change that you seek for yourself & for the generations to come
1 hr 14 min - 71. Coming out of the Mediumship Closet, Telling the Truth, Following Spirit's Whispers & More with Mary Beth
Magical Wolf Full Moon Blessings to you my Beautiful Soul Sisters 🌕
Today's wolf is in Leo ♌️
This episode was recorded on November 13th 2023
Watch this Episode on Earthing Nova Youtube
Today’s podcast is a beautiful dialogue about mediumship, following whispers from spirit, telling the truth & how to cut spiritual cords.
Mary Beth is an Intuitive Life Coach & Clairvoyant for Comfort & Peace.
“Mary Beth Thomsen's professional background includes healthcare marketing, freelance writing, as well as serving as a speaker & trainer. For as long as she can remember, Mary Beth has held a devout passion for spreading light and help people tell their truth. She is a light worker who uses her intuitive abilities to help people define and align their goals & dreams.”
A few cliff notes of the topics we discussed:
~ Being a closeted medium and the shame she experienced with this knowing. ~ Following the whispers from Universe into Spiritual Intuitive Life coaching. ~ Why she wears purple to job interviews. ~ Why Mary Beth talks about mediumship in terms of an ability rather than a gift. ~ How it was for her to come into awareness of her abilities and realizing she could speak to spirits. ~ The importance of having a community of lightworkers. ~ What you might experience in a mediumship reading with Mary Beth. ~ What mediums mean when they talk about casting a net vs going direct~ Why Mary Beth asks for a sign or symbol from the spirit to share with their loved one?~ What is it like to be a sitter?~ Mary Beth experiencing the presence of her Brother in spirit & how that has influenced her grief. ~ The Book Mary Beth’s wrote about truth telling & how she prioritized it with two young children. Some of the steps to publishing like writing a proposal. ~ Working with the color blue to assist you in truth telling.~ Mary Beth’s offering of intuitive mentoring personalized for you! ~ Get a discount code for 15% off your first session with Mary Beth by subscribing to her newsletter!~ How to cut cords with your intention as part of your spiritual hygiene practice.
Connect with Mary Beth
Website: https://www.soulshinescoaching.com/
Instagram: @soulshinecoaching https://www.instagram.com/soulshinescoaching/
Facebook: soulshinescoaching
Connect with me Amana
Sign up for Mother Circle
Listen to a former client share about her experience of Sistership Support
Check out my Sistership Offerings for Women:
www.BirthingNova.Love
Book your Free Connection Call with me
Schedule Your Mediumship Reading with me
Listen to/watch me guesting on other Podcasts: Free Birth Society, Where the Wild Women Grow, Wild Sacred Journey, Healing Birth, The Renegade Mama, Born Wild
Watch this conversation & More on YouTube
Please support this podcast by donating through Venmo @AmanaBeLove
Until next time, remember Be brave, be wild, be love, be you & be the change that you seek for yourself & for the generations to come
52 min - 70. Celebrating Death, How Joy & Grief are the same, & the Profound with Zenith Virago
Magical first New Moon 🌑 of 2024 to you Beautiful Soul Sisters!
Today is January 11th 2024
This episode was recorded on November 12th 2023
Watch this dialogue on Earthing Nova Youtube
Today on the show we have Zenith Virago
Zenith is a gift. She is a deathwalker & celebrant, an educator. It was truly a dream come true to share this time with her through the cosmos.
Here are some short show notes filled with quotes!
~ “Each death has an equation” Zenith
~ What happens when someone dies with grace?
~ “we are part of something bigger, the great mystery” Zenith
~ What is Post traumatic growth?
~ “death is a great teacher, a great gifter” Zenith
~ Why Zenith focuses on “Entering a person’s space of grief in a neutral way.”
~ “Joy and grief are the same thing, they are both our love transformed” Zenith
~ “death takes us into the profound” Zenith
~ How a good death ceremony can be better than 12 months of therapy.
~ Elements of a Death Ceremony and why she finishes with an uplifting song.
~ Why Zenith arrives to the ceremony intentionally buoyant as a death celebrant.
~ What is the main thing that obstructs people from having a physiological death?
~ Watching her young friends with HIV die.
~ Meditating about death: how would I feel if this was going to be my last day?
~ “The better you live, the better you are going to die, full stop.” Zenith
~ Zenith suggests that you “find the person that sings to you”
~Deathwalker training in Olympia, Washington State, get more info by subscribing to Zenith's mailing list.
~ The quality of a transmission
Connect with Zenith ViragoTRAINING: zenithvirago.com
NDCC: naturaldeathcarecentre.org
BOOK:naturaldeathcarecentre.org/publication
FILM:zenandtheartofdying.com FILM:tenderdocumentary.com.au
TEDX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23I5xWQ2O_4
Connect with me Amana
Sign up for Mother Circle
Listen to a former client share about her experience of Sistership Support
Check out my Sistership Offerings for Women: www.BirthingNova.Love
Book your Free Connection Call with me
Schedule Your Mediumship Reading with me
Listen to/watch me guesting on other Podcasts: Free Birth Society, Where the Wild Women Grow, Wild Sacred Journey, Healing Birth, The Renegade Mama, Born Wild
Watch this conversation & More on YouTube
Please support this podcast by donating through Venmo @AmanaBeLove
Until next time, remember Be brave, be wild, be love, be you & be the change that you seek for yourself & for the generations to come
50 min - 69. Welcome to 2024! Solo Sacred Spirit Messages from my heart plus some stories & an invitation
Happy 2024 Beloved Soul Sisters!
May this be a year of abundance, wealth & nurturing for us all!This episode was recorded on January 1st 2024Watch this Episode on Earthing Nova YoutubeDecks I use in this 2024 card pull:https://schoolishness.com/market/rfp-a-practice-deck/https://animamundiherbals.com/products/herbal-astrology-oracle-deckWomen mentors I mention:Danielle Searancke: https://www.squamishmedium.com/Emilee Saldaya: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/Kimberly Ann Johnson: https://kimberlyannjohnson.com/Rachel Brathen: https://www.yogagirl.com/Mother Night by Clarissa Pinkola Estès: https://www.clarissapinkolaestes.com/new_audio_spoken_word_release__mother_night__myths__stories__and_teachings_for_le_101252.htmConnect with me AmanaSign up for Mother Circle
Listen to a former client share about her experience of Sistership Support
Check out my Sistership Offerings for Women: www.BirthingNova.Love
Book your Free Connection Call with me
Schedule Your Mediumship Reading with me
Listen to/watch me guesting on other Podcasts: Free Birth Society, Where the Wild Women Grow, Wild Sacred Journey, Healing Birth, The Renegade Mama, Born Wild Watch this conversation & More on YouTube
I am committed to keeping this podcast Uninterrupted & Ad free Please Support me by donating through Venmo @AmanaBeLove
Until next time, remember Be brave, be wild, be love, be you & be the change that you seek for yourself & for the generations to come
1 hr 6 min - 68. Motherhood Disenchanted, Free Birth, How Intimacy changed in Motherhood & writing Poetry with Alexa
Beloved last Full Moon of 2023 to you my Beautiful Soul Sisters 🌕
This episode was recorded on November 12th 2023
Watch this Episode on Earthing Nova YoutubeIn the episode Alexa Ericson author of Motherhood Disenchanted: a collection of poems shares her personal stories of home birth, free birth & mothering. In this meandering dialogue Alexa reads beautiful poems from her book, shares how writing can be a pathway to feel all the feels & much much more!
~ We speak about the often unspoken, sharing stories of how intimacy with our husbands shifted after giving birth to our children.
~ Alexa shares candidly about her experience birthing first with a midwife & then without, finding her freedom & power in the simplicity of her freebirth.
Mother Circle is an 8 Week arc of classes where you will learn somatic skills to help you deepen your connection to your body & nervous system, teach you about healthy aggression & give you a framework to Mother within.
Join me and the women that have already said yes! The next round is starting January 8th 2024 & you don't want to miss it! Join here
Connect with Alexa Ericson
WEBSITE: www.mamafreebirth.com
INSTAGRAM: @mama.freebirth
Buy her book Motherhood Disenchanted
Download her FREE Birth Affirmations Here
Free Nourishing Postpartum Checklist
Connect with me Amana
Sign up for Mother Circle
Listen to a former client share about her experience of Sistership Support
Check out my Sistership Offerings for Women:
www.BirthingNova.Love
Book your Free Connection Call with me
Schedule Your Mediumship Reading with me
Listen to/watch me guesting on other Podcasts: Free Birth Society, Where the Wild Women Grow, Wild Sacred Journey, Healing Birth, The Renegade Mama, Born Wild
Watch this conversation & More on YouTube
Please Support the Podcast by donating through Venmo @AmanaBeLove
Until next time, remember Be brave, be wild, be love, be you & be the change that you seek for yourself & for the generations to come
1 hr 33 min - 67. Learning the art of facilitation through participation, creating sacred moments in every day life & having the courage to create change with Jessica Connolly
Magical New Moon 🌑 Blessings to you Beautiful Soul Sisters!
This episode was recorded on November 6th 2023Watch this dialogue on Earthing Nova YoutubeToday on the show I have Jessica Connolly~ Jessica is a birthworker, holistic coach, and a circle leader committed to the practice and sharing of wisdom. She is the mother of 4 daughters ages 6-16, and has extensive experience in leadership, group worship, academic settings and the sharing and exchange of information in non-traditional ways.~ She leads circles, retreats and online classes at the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern science. She is the co- creator of the MotherCircle Facilitator Training along with Kimberly Ann Johnson.
~ She serves women who want to discover the pathway of feminine wisdom and intentional community, for themselves and for their children.
Jessica lives in a San Diego urban beach town on a property with 9 kids, 3 families, 4 adults, 3 dogs and 2 chickens.~ In this episode Jessica & I talk about the art of facilitation, learning through participating in circle & finding your voice along with the courage to lead.Jessica is passionate about democratizing the practice wisdom of how to facilitate and lead womens circles.~ We discuss the importance of marking rites of passage, how there isn’t one right way to do so & how this transforms our experience.
~ Jessica shares how she creates sacred moments in everyday life, around the dinner table and within her community.
To sign up to be a part of Jessica and Kimberly’s next Mother Circle Facilitator training check out the link below.
If you would like to join me and the women who have said yes to my Mother Circle that starts in January sign up on BirthingNova. LoveConnect with Jessica Connolly
@mother.circle@moon.daughtershttps://www.moondaughters.com/Free Guide on How to Lead a MotherBlessing:https://mothercircle.com/free-checklist/MotherCircle Facilitator Training webpage:https://mothercircle.com/mothercircle-facilitator-training/Connect with me Amana
Sign up for Mother Circle
Listen to a former client share about her experience of Sistership Support
Check out my Sistership Offerings for Women: www.BirthingNova.LoveBook your Free Connection Call with me
Schedule Your Mediumship Reading with me
Listen to/watch me guesting on other Podcasts: Free Birth Society, Where the Wild Women Grow, Wild Sacred Journey, Healing Birth, The Renegade Mama, Born WildWatch this conversation & More on YouTubePlease Support this podcast by donating through Venmo @AmanaBeLoveUntil next time, remember
Be brave, be wild, be love, be you& be the change that you seek for yourself & for the generations to come57 min - 66. Wholistic Woman Tamy: Herbs, Vaginal Steaming, Building Community & Coaching
Magical Full Moon Blessings to you Beautiful Soul Sisters! 🌕
This episode was recorded in person on October 5th 2023Watch this dialogue on Earthing Nova YoutubeTamy & I have known each other for almost a decade. She has been present at the birth of one of my children as my midwife. She was my neighbor for several years & continues to be a dear friend. I have attended births with her as a birth assistant. I am so grateful for her presence in my life.In this intentional dialogue Tamy shares stories of her businesses across the years. Herbs & the ways they can heal body & soul. We talk about vaginal steaming & trusting women to learn & know their own bodies. Tamy teaches the difference between coaching & mentoring & the ways she is working with women in this "final phase" of her life. Tamy is a leader, a midwife, a builder of culture & an Elder to her community.Listen to the last episode with Tamy
Connect with Tamy
http://www.wholisticwomantea.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholisticw/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WholisticWomanSpokane/Connect with me Amana
Sign up for Mother Circle
Listen to a former client share about her experience of Sistership Support
Check out my Sistership Offerings for Women: www.BirthingNova.Love
Book your Free Connection Call with me
Schedule Your Mediumship Reading with me
Listen to/watch me guesting on other Podcasts: Free Birth Society, Where the Wild Women Grow, Wild Sacred Journey, Healing Birth, The Renegade Mama, Born Wild Watch this conversation & More on YouTube I am committed to keeping this podcast Uninterrupted & Ad free Please Support me by donating through Venmo @AmanaBeLove
Until next time, remember Be brave, be wild, be love, be you & be the change that you seek for yourself & for the generations to come
1 hr 1 min - 65. Intimate Stories of Death, Birth & Grief with my husband Owyn.
Happy New Moon 🌑 & New Beginnings
this November my beloved Soul Sisters!This episode was recorded on November 4th 2023Watch this dialogue on Earthing Nova YoutubeIn this episode my husband Owyn & I offer an intimate story sharing about the first two sparks of life we created together. Our first little babe who I birthed early at 6 weeks & our next Heartly. When I was 6 months pregnant with Heartly we discovered that she didn’t have any kidneys & would not survive life outside of my body.In this episode we laugh, cry and remember the early days of grief & how our experiences were different.In those early days of grieving the death of Heartly I found refuge in reading stories of other women that were mothering babies who were no longer earthside, like me. I wasn't alone.You are not alone.Links to mentioned episodes:Heartly’s Story told by me in a solo episodeThe story of how Owyn & I metConnect with me Amana
Check out my Sistership Offerings for Women: www.BirthingNova.Love
Sign up for Mother Circle
Book your Free Connection Call with me
Schedule Your Mediumship Reading with me
Listen to/watch me guesting on other Podcasts: Free Birth Society, Where the Wild Women Grow, Wild Sacred Journey, Healing Birth, The Renegade Mama, Born Wild Watch this conversation & More on YouTube I am committed to keeping this podcast Uninterrupted & Ad free Please Support me by donating through Venmo @AmanaBeLove
Until next time, remember Be brave, be wild, be love, be you & be the change that you seek for yourself & for the generations to come
1 hr 43 min - 64. Solo Share of my Summer adventures across the country with my 2 wildlings
Hello Beautiful Soul Sisters!
I am back with some new episodes for you, included 2 bonus episodes before the New Moon on the 13thThis episode was recorded on November 5th 2023Watch this dialogue on Earthing Nova YoutubeIn this solo episode I share stories:~ Of my solo adventure across the country~ Why I took a pause from podcasting this summer~ How hard it was for me to take a pause & how good it felt when I did!~ Shout out to Akilah S Richards and her Pause Series~ Attending my 20 year high school reunion~ Choosing to prioritize time away from screens & being in the flesh with Jessie, Ashleigh, Kimberly and others~ Traveling solo with two young children~ Spending time outside and in the places of my childhoodI hope you all enjoy! I am excited to podcasting with you again!Connect with me Amana
Check out my Sistership Offerings for Women: www.BirthingNova.Love
Sign up for Mother Circle
Book your Free Connection Call with me
Schedule Your Mediumship Reading with me
Listen to/watch me guesting on other Podcasts: Free Birth Society, Where the Wild Women Grow, Wild Sacred Journey, Healing Birth, The Renegade Mama, Born Wild Watch this conversation & More on YouTube I am committed to keeping this podcast Uninterrupted & Ad free Please Support me by donating through Venmo @AmanaBeLove
Until next time, remember Be brave, be wild, be love, be you & be the change that you seek for yourself & for the generations to come
56 min
About The Heart of the Soul with Amana
From the publisher's feed
Welcome Beautiful Soul Sisters, I am so happy you are here!
This is a space where we explore what it means to be wild women walking upon this earth, unearthing that which is often unseen & unspoken.
Together we practice using our voices & the ancient ritual of storytelling, connecting about all that unites us as we share our stories of Birth, Life, Death, Grief & Joy.
Work with me 1:1 or in circle
Enjoy new Episodes most Full & New Moons (I am a mother, a creative entrepreneur & practicing intentional savoring of my life)