Rachel Bavis is a certified Intentional Creativity© teacher and child welfare attorney working with organizations, individuals, and youth to help them heal, rejuvenate, and access their inner healer to thrive.  Whimsy and humor are in her tool kit, along with a paintbrush, owl rocks, and chocolate!  She believes creativity and play are at the heart of knowing our own wisdom.  You can find her at rachelbavis.com where you can join her Healing the Healer community and gain access to many of her wisdom-filled free videos, gratitude journals, and coloring books.

Points Covered in Episode:

Self-care

Daily rituals

The journey of entrepreneurship

Using creativity for healing

PTSD and Secondary Trauma

Shelby Frago is a private practice psychotherapist, life coach, and working artist living in the Pacific Northwest. But as you get to know her better you will discover her as a Heart Holder, Grief Tender, a Soul Listener, and a Creative Catalyst (aka a Sparkle Pirate who instigates “Intrepid Joy” wherever she can!

She is now on a mission to help other women tap into their creativity to solve problems, make meaning and inspire women of all ages, stages, and walks of life to claim the deepest and most effortless nourishment possible.

Her piece of the Red Thread is to help her beloveds traverse and transcend the wily wilderness of grief and get to the other side of “Re-membering themselves.”  Excited to open up an honest and juicy conversation about the depth and breadth of loss (in ALL shapes and sizes), As a self-identified, life-long Shadow and Light tracker, Shelby seeks to root out what is missing and bring it back into the fold. She believes the jewels live in the shadow waiting to be mined.

Points Covered in Episode:

The importance of a creative legacy

Relational responsibility

Moving through grief and loss

Creative practices

Semerit Strachan, MD, is a student and faculty member at the Cultural Wellness Center in South Minneapolis, MN. She has been the Director of Medicine at the Center since its beginning in 1996 and is the Grio of the Medicine of Transformation.

Her expertise lies in creating a space for the human spirit in the medical encounter, in using culture as a resource in health and healing, and in teaching how to access inner resources to change one’s physiology or disease process. Through “what is my body really trying to tell me?” — an inquiry process in images and words—she teaches the symbolic language of the Body.

Dr. Semerit is a writer, poet, and artist. She is a Color of Woman graduate. She has been trained as a Feminine Power Coach and Facilitator. She is a native of Haiti, married to Donald, and mother to Ariele. And my Birthday Sis – welcome Semerit I’m so happy to be in conversation with you today.Points Covered in Episode:

 

Ways to listen to our body wisdom

Being older and shifting focus

The importance of knowing your ancestry

The importance of liberation from your mother’s daughter and ways to do it

Listening to our intuition

Christine Arylo, MBA, is a women’s leadership advisor, transformational teacher, and best selling author who works with women to make shift happen – in the lives they lead, the work they do, and the impact they desire to make. Marrying 20 years of business experience with 15 years of feminine & yogic wisdom training, Arylo illuminates how to lead and live a different way, the "feminine way” - professionally successful, internally empowered, and personally sustainable and satisfying. Her programs on intuition, feminine power, and cultivating resilience, self-love and courage have reached over 35,000 students worldwide. A blogger and vlogger since 2007, Arylo now hosts the Feminine Power Time podcast. Christine is writing her fourth book: “Overwhelmed and Over It: Embrace Your Power to Stay Centered and Sustained in a Chaotic World.

 

Points Covered in this Episode:

 

Why it’s so important that we flow with the seasons and things we can do during the Equinox.

Why time is not something we need to let go of and why it’s not natural.

Our Comparison Queens

What to do in times of chaos and overwhelm.

Harmonic Defiance: How to understand harmony and use it to make choices.

Connection vs. belonging.

Today StellaMac shares the stage with herself! She riffs on what it’s been like to create a podcast, is she “good enough”, is this truly her passion and because she loves a good writing prompt she shares one with you as you move into 2020.

Points covered in this episode:

Writing exercise

What is “good enough”

Passion and discipline

Showing Up

Angela Hernandez is an Intentional Creativity Teacher, has her Doctor of Nursing and continued her education in holistic nursing to promote her understanding of alternative methods to be a more compassionate, knowledgeable practitioner. She also served in the American Military and has witnessed the devastating effects on women in the military as well as both men and women who have a suicide rate of 22 individuals per day and 1 in 4 women get assaulted in the military. In her work as an artist and teacher, she is working with women veterans, health care workers, and women who have suffered abuse and has seen the positive effect creativity has had with all of the people she is working with.

 

Points covered in this episode:

 

Power in balance and the impact it creates for women in the military

The power of creativity in recovery

The lives of Veterans

How we can help

Caron McCloud is a writer, artist, designer, teacher, and entrepreneur. She is an award-winning performing poet and has been the poetry teacher for Leading a Legendary Life, Color of Woman and Red Madonna. She has over a dozen chapbooks to her credit and a book Rachel’s Bag: In Search of the Qabalah of Our Mothers which examines the radical actions of Old Testament women. She is currently in the editing process for a collection of her poetry and is completing a book on Qabalah, Living the Tree of Life. Now living in Port Townsend, Caron was born in Oakland, California, spending most of her life in the San Francisco Bay area where she had art galleries and was in partnership with her mother Eden McCloud who founded a women’s clothing design and manufacturing company. Experience in these businesses led her to teaching and public speaking. 

Points covered in this episode:

What a faith walk looks like.

Why writing and poetry paint pictures.

Caron talks about her creativity legacy

Caron’s life with artist Sue Hoya Sellars in San Francisco in the 1960’s

Caron shares an identity exercise

#015: Enjoy Part 2 of my fabulous conversation with Catt Z! Catt helps you access your intuition through the Cosmic Smashbook Process, using a combination of intentional creativity and art journaling.

She was in the computer industry for fifty years as a software designer and decided it was time to break out of the box. So at the age of 60, she became an Artist and life hasn’t been the same since.

Catt is a wild woman, pioneer, gypsy, lover of dogs, traveling, and starting over. She loves stepping into dangerous territory and bringing others with her on the journey.

Catt brings the fun, wisdom, magic, adventure, and courage to assist you in healing yourself enough so you may go out and heal others. 

Points covered in this episode:

Cosmic Smashbooking - what is it and Catt shares how to do a page.

How creativity and Cosmic Smashbooking can help your own healing

Showing up for yourself to find your voice

Defining or redefining you as an older woman OR any age.

Doing vs Being

#014: Artist. Visionary. Founder of Cosmic Smashbooking.

Catt Z helps you access your intuition through the Cosmic Smashbook Process, using a combination of intentional creativity and art journaling.

She was in the computer industry for fifty years as a software designer and decided it was time to break out of the box. So at the age of 60, she became an Artist and life hasn't been the same since.

Catt is a wild woman, pioneer, gypsy, lover of dogs, traveling, and starting over. She loves stepping into dangerous territory and bringing others with her on the journey.

Catt brings the fun, wisdom, magic, adventure, and courage to assist you in healing yourself enough so you may go out and heal others. 

Points covered in this episode:

Cosmic Smashbooking - what is it and Catt shares how to do a page.

How creativity and Cosmic Smashbooking can help your own healing

Showing up for yourself to find your voice

Defining or redefining you as an older woman OR at any age.

Doing vs Being

#013: Lys Anzia was a human rights journalist and founder of the award-winning online magazine WNN - Women News Network dedicated to bringing human rights & women's rights news to the United Nations & over 600 NGOs. 

Before that, Lys was the first woman on the programming board for the early beginnings of Public Television Channel12 KBDI in U.S. Denver, Colorado at its conception in 1979. Today Lys is working as an artistic agent, connecting artists and art collectors around the world. This startup is just about to premiere online as Parama International Art. 

Over the years Lys was also an award-winning historical playwright; a Pushcart Prize nominee; and a United Nations expert panelist on media.

Points covered in this episode:

What social justice is and it is integrated with creativity

Women as artists

Narrating Self-criticism vs self-love

Statistics on women in galleries and museums