Meg Wheatley is the author of 12 books, a social activist, a global leadership and organizational consultant, a Buddhist practitioner and a guide and trainer for Warriors for the Human Spirit. 

After a lifetime of activism and a deep understanding of how living systems work, she’s come to realize that life is no longer subject to the kind of interventions that used to be effective. 

In today's conversation we explore her newest book Restoring Sanity: Practices to Awaken Generosity, Creativity and Kindness in Ourselves and Our Organizations and what’s possible when we follow the threads of curiosity and the mystical in our relationships and work.

Join us for some clear-eyed wisdom about how to best participate in the world we are now living in, including:

• what it means to become a Warrior for the Human Spirit
• the conditions that enable us to work together in empowered ways
• harnessing the power of curiosity to access joy
• connecting with the guidance that's revealed in the natural world
• essential practices that help us to be a stable, compassionate presence in difficult moments
• embodying sane leadership
• creating Islands of Sanity in a toxic culture
• listening to the world's needs to clarify meaningful purpose and action

Links from our conversation:
Margaret Wheatley website
Warrior Songline
Restoring Sanity - 6 week online course begins April 18th, 2024
Wendy Palmer interview
Pema Chodron
Joanna Macy

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• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

In a world craving genuine connection, Meredith Heller's latest book, 'Writing by Heart: A Poetry Path to Healing and Self Discovery,' offers a sanctuary.

Leaving home at 13 to find her own way in the world led Meredith Heller through dangerous and heartbreaking terrain, but she didn't just survive; she thrived.

In our conversation today Meredith delves into the challenges of navigating adolescence, the beauty of becoming fully authentic and deeply connected to life through the initiation of adversity, and shares how her profound trust in the natural world supported her as she learned to use the transformative power of writing to grow and heal.

We explore the importance of creating a sacred space for storytelling and connection,  the use of writing as a tool for self-reflection and empowerment and Meredith offers us a beautiful guided writing exercise on the wisdom of atonement.

Tune in to uncover the therapeutic power of putting pen to paper.
 
 Meredith Heller website
“Firebird” spoken song on Meredith’s “About” page

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• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Join me for a conversation with Pete McLean where we explore the power of finding beauty in the darkest places and how you can keep coming back into a creative relationship with life—no matter what it throws your way.

We talk about:

• Tracking Yes: what it is, how it began and what it means to truly live it
• trusting the love that binds us and powerful ways to connect with its guidance
• dogs as spiritual teachers and what they show us when we’re paying attention
• tracking the threads of beauty and magic through the darkest places

I recently interviewed Pete on the podcast about his bone breaking 14 foot fall off of a scaffolding, and how that led to a series of interviews he did with fellow humans about how what they thought were some of the worst things ever turned out to be the best.

I was one of the folks he interviewed and this is our conversation. I think you're gonna love this conversation, Pete is as wonderful to be interviewed by as he is to interview. 

Pete's Podcast series on 14 Foot Falls

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Show Notes:
 
Pete McLean was doing carpentry work when a scaffolding collapsed and he fell 14 feet onto rocks, breaking several bones in his lower body.
 
Sometimes the falls come for us, and sometimes we choose to leap, but either way, Pete holds that our falls are the moments in our lives when something deeper in us is creating an opening to make itself visible and expressed in this world. 
 
Could it be that the thing that we spend most of our time keeping beneath the surface- because of fear or shame or some idea that it’s not OK- is presenting us with an opening to give it wings?
 
Join us for a conversation about how we might trust the falls in our lives as experiences in which our soul is calling us into greater courage, curiosity and possibility. 

Pete’s Website: Of Earth and Soul
Of Earth and Soul Podcast: 14 Foot Falls on Spotify
Iain McGilchrist - The Master and His Emissary

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• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

In this insightful conversation with end-of-life counsellor Dr. Martha Jo Atkins, we explore the power of restoring our natural connection with death in a culture that is conditioned to resist it.

We delve into:

• the clarity that happens when we partner with death as an ally
• how to cultivate the presence to support our beloved humans and pets at end of life
• the value of ritual and ceremony in the dying journey 
• channelling creativity as a grounding force in challenging times
• how the medicine of kindness creates safety
• the unique ways that children are equipped to be with death
• the importance of creating spaces to feel deeply so that love can move with us

 
Martha Jo also shares about “D. School”, an initiative she designed to help us shift perceptions around death and offer guidance to those dealing with it.
 
Marked by personal revelations and heart-touching stories, this episode investigates how we can reframe our perspectives on death, making it less about loss and more about the transition of life.
 
* Martha’s next D-School begins in February 16th, 2024
Early Bird registrations ends: December 30th, 2023.

Martha Jo Atkins website
"Signposts of Dying" book

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• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Celia McBride is an author, playwright, cinematographer, and artist. She's also a spiritual director who helps others on their own path of seeking. In her work, she draws on her own experience of healing and spirituality, which has been anything but a straight and narrow path.

In our conversation today, we talk about:

• the nature of addiction: what motivates it, what fuels it, and what's essential to become free of it 
• perfectionism: our deep desire to feel connection and belonging
• the path of seeking: trusting our personal path to meaning

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Rich Blundell holds a PhD in Cosmic Evolution and is the founder of OIKA, which explores the 13.8 billion year story of the cosmos and offers immersive practices that bring us back into dynamic, creative relationship with it.
 
In our conversation today, Rich shares his wisdom about the power of beauty to reconnect us with belonging, meaning, and wonder, and how the magic of science reveals to us how inextricably connected we all are.
 
 He offers his scientific understanding of the intelligence of nature and how we can tap into it to generate collaborative responses to the collective challenges we face.

 Today’s Guest:

Dr. Rich Blundell is an ecologist whose work explores the convergence of science, art, nature and culture. As the founder of Oika, his research examines how transformation happens across the scales of person, place and planet. As a communicator, Rich tells a scientific story of the universe that includes art and human creativity as natural phenomena. His goal is to make the continuity of nature palpable. 

Dr. Blundell has received numerous grants and awards including an ongoing TIDES innovators award, The National Science Foundation grant for Science Out There and The Deep Time Values video award for An Earth Story. Blundell’s creative video work has appeared on PBS, National Geographic and numerous social media platforms. He is currently the Scientist in Residence at the Maria Mitchell Association on Nantucket Island.

Rich’s website: oika.com

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How can you find joy amidst even the most profound pain? 

My guest today, Dr. Tanmeet Sethi, a board-certified integrative family medicine physician, author, and esteemed faculty member at the Center for Mind Body Medicine, shares her remarkable insights on cultivating well-being and trust in life, even during times of intense suffering. 

We talk about how negative cultural messaging and trauma can chip away at our trust in life and ourselves, and she shares the science behind the cell danger response and how an extended trauma reaction can hinder our power to thrive.

Tanmeet speaks of her journey of discovering unconditional love through her son's fatal diagnosis and how it sprung open a door to greater joy.

We explore the rejuvenating world of movement as a powerful form of healing. Tanmeet beautifully articulates how emotions can be propelled by movement to help us transcend a narrow experience of our pain and open to let it be held in a larger narrative.

We learn how to break free from the cycle of suffering by understanding where the pain lies and how to sit with it, how gratitude fuels compassion and why grace takes forgiveness to a whole other level.

Our conversation today promises to be a source of strength for anyone seeking to find joy and trust in life amidst the toughest of challenges.

Today’s Guest:

Tanmeet Sethi, MD is an Integrative and Psychedelic Medicine Physician, activist, author, and TEDx speaker who has dedicated her career to care for the most marginalized patients in Seattle’s refugee, uninsured and homeless populations as well as global communities traumatized by manmade and natural disasters as Senior Faculty for the Center for Mind Body Medicine. 

She has been Core Faculty in residency medical education for the last two decades focusing on inpatient and outpatient family medicine, integrative medicine, and anti-racism in medicine. She is one of the primary clinical researchers at the University of Washington on a study of psilocybin for COVID burnout of frontline medical workers. 

She is certified in Functional Medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine and fellowship trained in Integrative Medicine from the University of Arizona. She lives in Seattle, WA with her husband and three children and her first book, Joy Is My Justice, was published on May 2, 2023.

Tanmeet’s Website: https://www.tanmeetsethimd.com

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• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

What if we could break free from the struggles and compulsions that keep us feeling disconnected from life? Join us as we explore the healing power of wonder and the art of showing up for life with Mary O'Malley, a highly regarded leader in the field of awakening and the author of several books, including What's In The Way Is The Way. 

 Mary shares her insights into the healing power of attention in overcoming pain and trauma, and her experiences with Stephen Levine, who opened her heart and taught her to bring curiosity and compassion to her pain. We discuss: 

• why we're addicted to struggle and how trauma fuels our compulsions
• the two core wounds of abandonment and invasion
• the eight core spells that keep us feeling separate from life and how we can free ourselves from them with Mary's guidance

We dive into her book, What's In The Way Is The Way, and Mary teaches us how to use open-ended questions to create a space for transformation. 

Don't miss this opportunity to learn from a master in the field of awakening and reconnect with the joy of being alive!

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I'm so delighted to welcome my good friend and author, Jessica Waite back to the podcast. Today we're talking about memory - how it isn't a fixed, static thing in our brain  but actually a living, evolving force in our lives, and the love that's possible when you're curious and willing to allow a painful memory to be rewritten in current time.

Learn more about Jessica's soon to be published book:
 "The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards"

Past episodes with Jessica Waite:
"The Power of Love Beyond Death" - April 2020
"The Wisdom of Heartbreak" - November 2021

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Episode Summary:
Rebecca Wildbear is the author of “Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration & Advocacy for the Earth”. 
 
 On today’s show Rebecca and I explore the connection between mind, body and soul, how to recover to wholeness in a fractured culture, and the path of finding our true place of belonging in the Universe. 

Join us as Rebecca shares her wisdom on:
 
 Mystery and Soul:

•  partnering with the mystery deep within your own body
•  listening with all of your senses for messages from your soul
•  perceiving, integrating and living into the infinite wisdom that always supports you
•  why dreams are an invaluable source of guidance and direction

 
 Navigating Culture / Recovering Self:

•  the impact of a patriarchal culture on the relationship between mothers and daughters
•  harnessing the power of the feminine
•  practices for refining our attunement to the wisdom of the natural world
• what drives our self-destructive and harmful practices and why it’s essential to become a love warrior for the earth

 
 Wholeness, Healing and Death:

•  cultivating wholeness on the journey of healing
•  how her near death journey with cancer empowered her life
•  exploring death as a return to innocence

Today's Guest:

Rebecca Wildbear is the author of “Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration & Advocacy for the Earth”. She is also the creator of a yoga practice called Wild Yoga, which empowers individuals to tune in to the mysteries that live within the earth community, dreams, and their own wild nature so they may live a life of creative service. She has been leading Wild Yoga programs since 2007 and also guides other nature and soul programs through Animas Valley Institute.

Rebecca's Website: https://www.rebeccawildbear.com
 

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