Sally and Sibby discuss their own experiences of relationships and the challenges they have faced - the good, the bad and the ugly! A really open and honest conversation about the different shades of love and how our relationships change and grow.

We also ask the question - do we experience healthier relationships once we have worked on the most important relationship - the one with ourselves? I think the phrase self-love is mentioned which of course it not for everybody! But bear with us!

Sally and Sibby also open up about their experiences of being an Empath. Some of the commonalities seemed to be around setting healthy boundaries and over-giving or investing in someone. Also feeling overwhelmed with a sense of responsibility - trying to help by fixing other people’s problems and getting caught up in how they feel.

This is why getting to know yourself is important - the most powerful work you can do is discover what it means to be you!

Ok so that’s some of the quirks - what about the perks? We talk about how important it is to be completely yourself with someone. It’s so freeing! How healthy relationships don’t make you feel restricted - they encourage you and see the positives. They don’t judge you when you make mistakes.

What about synchronistic meetings with others? When you seem to meet the right people at the right time. Sibby talks about a personal experience she’s had with this…

And lastly - do you have a soul tribe? Are you connecting with more like-minded people? We agree that finding your soul tribe is like finding a sense of community and it’s so important. Find out more about Sally’s Spiritual Development Group - Evolving Souls - a meeting of like-minded souls that meet once a week to discuss an interesting and engaging topic to learn, grow and evolve!

We are incredibly lucky to have the fabulous Prue Nichols join us for this fandazzle of an episode!

Prue shares her insights on all things astrology - we all think that we have that covered knowing our star signs right? Wrong!

Did you know that there are 3 really big influences in our birth charts - your sun sign (star sign), moon sign and rising sign? Knowing your sun/star sign is only a small slice of your natal chart, there’s so much more to it!

We chat about these 3 big influences and also discover from Prue that Sibby and I are both cardinal signs (ideas people - visionaries) - well that’s always nice to know!

We also find out that our communication style is all about Mercury - where is Mercury in your chart Forget men are from mars and women are from venus - find out where your mercury is in your birth chart! Then things become a lot clear in all matters of communication.

So what is our moon sign? Prue explains the moon is how we nurture ourselves and mother ourselves - if we’re not feeding our moon we can’t be the best version of our sun sign.

Prue also talks about milestones we experience in life, for example the saturn return happens every 29/30 years - it happens when it has travelled the whole way around your chart and comes back to where it was when you were born - it’s like an initiation into adulthood, we start to think about what we want to do.

What about the collective experiences we have? We learn that the conjunction between Saturn (helps us to claim our authority and sense of sovereignty) and Pluto - known as Hades (the god of the underworld) happened in January 2020 and we all know what happened then, a global event!

So what’s in store for 2023? Well, Pluto is moving into the sign of Aquarius - the exposure is being ramped up. As we move into Aquarius - it also starts the process of how do we build the new, how do we create our future going forwards? Prue chats about her thoughts on that and reassures us that we must focus on holding our own light - and what we can do and bring during this transition. We are all really important and equally important during this phase.

Prue offers a 3 week course to look at your sun, moon and rising sign - a small group on a Wednesday evening over 3 weeks. To find out more visit THE BIG THREE.

To find out more about Prue, you can visit her website: pruenichols.com. You can sign up to her moon tribe on the website link above.

Does legacy need to be a BIG thing - is it about trying to achieve your dreams? In its basic meaning - a legacy is a gift of money or other personal property that's granted by the terms of a will - does this feel too restrictive as a description?

Is legacy also about the ripple effect? Certain traits or characteristics of passed over loved ones that lives on in you - it might be something small or tiny but could be ever lasting.

Rosa Parks - her action that day on the bus, still lives on now, it’s become her legacy. She didn’t plan anything but she’s remembered because of her choice that she made that day.

Do generations leave behind a legacy? Does that mean there can be a collective and an individual legacy or are they one of the same?

As a parent do you think about legacy in terms of what you’re teaching your children - the examples that you are setting?

Sibby chats about a quiz she’s done - a character strengths survey - these are the sort of strengths people remember you for and they become a part of your legacy. Here’s the link to find out more: www.viacharacter.org. Honing in on your talent and what you’re naturally good at, can be a part of your legacy.

Generational influences - DNA - in a tiny drop we can store up to 700 terabytes of data/information/knowledge. The earth and people are record keepers - it’s still present even if we can’t access it or we’re not aware of it. The legacy of human kind is already within us all.

You are creating your legacy now! Sometimes it’s simply about being you and others recognising that.

We are joined by Ben Stopford who explains the importance of building a connection with your garden, for example growing food in your garden, creating a space to sit in peace and connect to nature.

Ben talks about how the average person on earth is not flourishing. One of his approaches to help is to become more actively engaged in bioregionalism - reducing your focus down to a geographical region called a bioregion. The idea is you become familiar with what is around you within a 10 mile radius, to help break down the feeling of ‘overwhelm’ or ‘where can I start’ when it comes to ecological matters.

We talk about how we can re-educate ourselves by asking the basic questions such as what is nature, what does it mean to be in the world, what is the self in relation to the world - exploring the ecological Self.

Ben talks about how environmentalism can sometimes be viewed at sacrifice - in the quest to become more ecological. However he gives some examples of it actually being the opposite and how it can create a deeper richer connection.

We ask the question are we ascending (shifting our consciousness) and does this mean that as a collective we may start to start to move away from commercialism and consumerism?

Ben discusses the work of Ecophilosopher Joanna Macy PhD. She talks about 3 stories that we connect to - the ‘business as usual’ narrative being the first. Ben also mentions her work on what she refers to as ‘active hope’ - and how the masses may feel hopeless over our planet crisis, but by narrowing down the things you can participate in and actually taking action - you can turn this into feeling more empowered. To find out more about her work, go to: www.activehope.info

You can join Ben on his online platform - all about the ecological Self. Helping you to lean into your bio-region, explore it more fully, explore your connection to the area and your own connection to it. Developing and expanding your sense of self - where do I begin and end? What do you value?

You can find out more about Ben by visiting his website: www.consciousroots.co.uk

In this episode we are joined by the incredible Liz Underwood who has featured in many magazines and exhibitions across the country, spreading the word about Somatics!

Liz explains Somatics is a movement method - the creator is Thomas Hanna, he was a philosopher and really interested in people being free - having the choice to help themselves out of pain and move with freedom.

Liz talks about Somatics being a neuromuscular movement practice and how over time we can habituate muscular tension, the sub-cortex of the brain holds onto the muscle tension, therefore it is banked and can be doing it without your conscious knowledge i.e. while you sleep, in your posture, how you walk etc. Sibby has a few ‘aha’ moments during this section.

We also chat about the importance of re-educating ourselves, our brain-body connection to create a new possibility, a new neural pathway for pain free movement. Our nervous system responds to stress in certain ways and patterns - Liz talks about the 3 main reflex patterns that we might have or experience.

I share my own experiences of working with Liz after discovering I have one hip higher than the other and I have several of the reflex patterns. If you have the same problem or any pain or tension within your body, then this podcast really is an eye-opener!

At the end of our episode, Liz tells her story about how she got into somatics after spending some time beforehand as a yoga teacher. Her website is intelligent-movement.co.uk.

Do you make New Year’s Resolutions? In this episode we talk about alternatives you can do, for example working through intention so it’s heart and soul led and becoming more grateful and mindful about what went right the year before.

We also touch on starting diets and if January is really the best time to start one or are we succumbing to pressures around weight and body shape, meaning the goal is coming from and external place as opposed to an internal one?

Would it be more helpful to think about new beginnings at the start of each day instead? This practice could help you to be more present and able to ‘start over’ should you feel the day before wasn’t a good one!

Could you think about a word as a theme for the New Year? Could this be more helpful instead of specific goals that come from the feeling of what you ‘should’ do? We discuss 2023 as being the Year of the Brave and Sibby shares her poem.

We also discuss - when it comes to creating new experiences or projects or goals - do we find ourselves spending our energies on fighting old ones? Therefore leaving us too tired to start anything new.

Are we missing the real magic that is revealed to us through the cyclic energies and spirals? Is anything completely new or just cyclic? Our bodies regenerate, our skin and organs, our monthly cycles, the moon’s cycles, the seasons, the summer and winter solstice…the universe undergoes endless cycles of expansion and cooling. The spiral - the eternal sign of the creative and organising principle. The higher intelligence at play through these spiral/cyclic energies. Do these energies exist within and around us? Would it be better to tap into this?

In this episode we are bridging the gap between the transpersonal and personal.

1. What does is mean to be transpersonal and how can you achieve this in your day to day life.

2. How can we explore our relationship with ‘other’ and show up more courageously with compassion and the intention to connect.

3. We talk about the practice of holding space for yourself and others to explore your own feelings in a safe and held way.

4. We share some of our experiences of the dark night of the soul and how we all go through our own personal journey of crisis.

5. What mask do you wear in society? Are we wearing masks that makes us burn out? Do you feel you have to say you’re fine or always have a smile on your face?

6. Goblin mode was the collectively chosen word for 2022 - it beat metaverse!

7. How much time do you spend within your inner landscape or is your focus all on the outer influences?

8. Working with Archetypal energies - resource mentioned during this episode: Mark Wentworth: https://www.colourforlife.com/

Mary-Rita completed her masters through Organic Inquiry: http://www.storiesaremedicine.com/what-is-organic-inquiry.html

The poem mentioned was "No Man is an Island" - Jon Donne. 

https://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/island.html

Information about the masters course Mary-Rita studied: Transpersonal Psychology: https://www.aleftrust.org/

Have you ever thought about the energy behind the words you think, say and converse in? Are words powerful or is it how we use them that makes them powerful? As we create stories to help us learn, grow and evolve using these words, is the responsibility on us (the creator) to represent them more carefully, mindfully and with awareness? We delve into many apsects of this fascinating topic, including:

1. How do we use words to make more meaning in our lives and connect more purposefully?

2. Does the role of intention and awareness play a role when it comes to the energy behind our words? Can this help us stop ‘throw away comments’ that can be more harmful than we realise.

3. Can we become more aware of our own judgements and criticism when it comes to certain words like journey or authenticity?

4. Can we connect to a higher intelligence - a place of knowing - and use this connection to become more clear when communicating with others (and ourselves).

5. Can the energy of words really impact us physiologically as well as mentally - do words carry and create unique vibrations that can either heal or hurt us?

Join Sally and Sally and the wonderful Tim Elliott - our guest speaker this week, to discuss all of this and more! To find out more about Tim and what he is up to with various projects-this is the link: https://linktr.ee/timelliottuk.

In this episode we look at the connection between creativity and the divine and discuss our own experiences of this and that of other people.

We discuss what it means to have a divine spark within each of us and question whether separation is just an illusion. Are we already connected to the divine?

We look at creative energy, inspiration and acts through our day to day tasks that make manifest our days.

Are we each our own creators made in the image of God? Is that our purpose here in life, to become our own creator, without the influence of others and to stay true to ourselves?

Tune in to hear our conversation about this, whilst pondering your own relationship with creativity and the divine.

How can you be more clear, true, expressive and in alignment with your values when talking to others and what difference would it make if you did that consistently?

This first ever episode dives straight in with discussing what it means to create a conscious conversation and introduces key themes for you to become mindful of.

Your hosts Sally and Sibby weave together their experiences, wisdom and insights in a fun and engaging way making it an easy uplifting listen whilst learning more about this fascinating topic.

If you’d like some support on your own spiritual and personal quest to understand yourself and the world better, why not join Sally’s Ascension Academy! Full of like-minded souls who enjoy the connection and unity the group brings, whilst learning and expanding and growing for themselves.