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The Spacious and the Sacred118 What is Hope part 2It's spring and in episodes 117-120 we are talking about hope. What is it? How do we talk about this intangible thing? Can it be toxic? We don't have the answers, but we lean into the conversation.
Gathering Word:
“Hope” is the thing with feathers
by Emily Dickinson
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore...
2024-04-2717 minThe Spacious and the Sacred117 What is Hope?It's spring and in episodes 117-120 we are talking about hope. What is it? How do we talk about this intangible thing? Can it be toxic? We don't have the answers, but we lean into the conversation.
Gathering Word:
“Hope” is the thing with feathers
by Emily Dickinson
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore...
2024-04-0226 minThe Spacious and the Sacred116 DormancyEpisodes 113-116 move us from fall to winter at winter solstice. How do we hold onto hope in a dark season? How do we actively wait in the long dark night?
Gathering Word
Excerpt from It Will be Okay by Lysa TerKeurst
One morning, the Farmer came into the shed, as He had on many days.
“Little Seed,” He said as He placed him in His hand, “I have a wonderful plan for you. I have waited for just the right time, and today is the day!”
Oh no, please n...
2024-02-1737 minThe Spacious and the Sacred115 The Long Dark NightEpisodes 113-116 move us from fall to winter at winter solstice. How do we hold onto hope in a dark season? How do we actively wait in the long dark night?
Gathering Word by Alexander John Shaia
Christmas falls at the darkest moment of the year. It is also the very moment when the light is once again made visible to the naked eye.
The deepest dark is not the place where grace goes to die. The deepest dark is where grace goes to be reborn.
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Andi Chatburn: https://www.andichatburn.net/
Au...
2024-01-2838 minThe Spacious and the Sacred114 Dreaming in the DarkEpisodes 113-116 move us from fall to winter at winter solstice. What happens when the winds shift and the days darken?
Gathering Word:
Sweet Darkness
Written by David Whyte
When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone,
no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.
There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.
The dark will be yo...
2024-01-0137 minThe Spacious and the Sacred113 Shifting WindsEpisodes 113-116 move us from fall to winter at winter solstice. What happens when the winds shift and the days darken?
Gathering Word:
A Liturgy for those who feel distant from God
by Heidi Johnston
Every Moment Holy Volume III
I recall with longing days when
the waters parted at your command and you
carried me, featherlike, into your presence;
when your lovingkindness was the whisper
that revived my weary soul;
when your presence was the pillar that marked
my path by day,
and y...
2023-12-2226 minThe Spacious and the Sacred112 Letting GoEpisodes 109-112 move us from summer to fall. In this episode we discuss the letting go and a grandmother's kazoo band.
Gathering word: The Consequences of Death by Pattiann Rodgers from Firekeeper: Selected Poems (2005) Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis.
You might previously have thought
Each death just a single loss.
But when a plain gray titmouse dies,
What plunges simultaneously and disappears too
Are all the oak-juniper woodlands,
The streamside cottonwoods, every elderberry
Bush and high spring growth of sprouted
Oak once held insi...
2023-12-0128 minThe Spacious and the Sacred111 Storing UpEpisodes 109-112 move us from summer to fall. In this episode, we contemplate what it means to store up glimmers as sustenance for our future selves.
Gathering word a poem by Heather Fingar
What if we celebrated the smaller?
The way we hoot and holler
When tinies learn to high five
Blow kisses, carry their dishes
A blue hydrangea flower boon
Under the dying blooms unpruned
Avocados perfectly ripe
August rain, a lessening of pain
...
2023-11-3026 minThe Spacious and the Sacred110 Harvest & GratitudeEpisodes 109-112 move us from summer to fall. In this episode we discuss gratitude for Harvest even when it's messy.
Gathering word by Morgan Harper Nichols
You are allowed to have
Gratitude for the present
And Hope for the future
at the same time
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Andi Chatburn: https://www.andichatburn.net/
Audre Rickard: https://www.saturatedgrace.com
Heather Fignar: http://www.heatherfignar.com
Irene Dunlop: https://www.tendsoulcare.com
Rewilding Retreat on Dec 21, 2023
https://www.andichatburn.net/retreatmt/p/wild-winter-solstice-dec-22-23-2023
2023-11-3025 min
SAYge Real StoriesDivorced, not Devoiced (Part 2) with Audre RickardIn this 2 part-recorded live audience SAYge Real Stories we heard from two incredible women who have come through the other side of divorce and are now helping other women be empowered and less stigmatized as they navigate their way through it.
In this Part 2 episode, Audre Rickard shares her contrasting journey to Rachel's (Part 1). Audre had a less peaceful divorce experience that forced her to learn some important lessons, including the great importance of self-compassion. Audre lacked of a much needed type of support during her struggle through her separation, one that comes from women that understand...
2023-11-1321 minThe Spacious and the Sacred109 Celebrations of SummerEpisodes 109-112 move us from summer to fall. In this episode we discuss out favorite summer moments - including a cold plunge in a glacial creek.
Gathering word is a portion of
Taste and See by Puno Selesho
Taste and see.
You have loved me in my quiet, danced with me in my wild.
You take pleasure in my smile and you decorate my braids with flowers of praise.
Filled with wisdom, but even when I do not heed your wise call, you do not mo...
2023-09-2336 min
The Real Ex's of Portland PodcastEp 30: Finding a Safe-Space for Healing (Part 2 of 2)In this episode, The Real Ex’s continue their discussion with their special guest Audre. This part 2 of 2 (Episode 30) digs into how “triggers” are invitations to heal, not necessarily to run from. Audre guides Sofie as she experiences a trigger topic. She helps her understand how to navigate triggers with gentleness, kindness and compassion for ourselves. We can all heal from shame, disappointment, and trauma.
This week's guest:
Audre Rickard
Spiritual Director
Saturated Grace
IG @audrerickard
Subs...
2023-08-1036 minThe Real Ex's of Portland PodcastEp 29: Finding a Safe-Space for Healing (Part 1 of 2)In this episode, The Real Ex’s bring a special guest who will take the ladies on a journey of healing. Audre discusses her own personal story about divorce, kids, and how she grew up being selfless, which only encouraged identifying with other people. She has found another perspective which leaves her a safe-space to heal. This discussion hits home as Sofie talks about dating a new guy who has opened her world to the open road on two wheels. Part 2 of this journey will be published next week (Episode 30).
This week's guest:
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2023-08-031h 01The Spacious and the Sacred108 ThresholdsEpisodes 105-108 Moving from Spring to Summer in these 4 episodes.
Gathering Word: Threshold by Maggie Smith
You want a door you can be
on both sides of at once.
You want to be
on both sides of here
and there, now and then,
together and—(what
did we call the life
we would wish back?
The old life? The before?)
alone. But any open
space may be
a threshold, an arch
of entering and leaving.
Crossing a field, wading
through nothing
but timothy grass,
imagine yourself passing from
and into. Passing through
doorway after
doorway after doorway.
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Andi Chatburn: https://www.andichatburn.net/
Audre Rickard: https://www.saturatedgrace.com
Heather Figna
2023-07-2129 min
Found Family with MaryB. SafritMaking Space for Spiritual Growth (feat. Audre Rickard)In today's episode, Audre and I are talking about Inviting vulnerability in a safe way in singleness.How to combat cultural expectations of instant gratification when it comes to our spiritual interior How to hold space for spiritual exploration And questions to ask yourself when exploring a feeling, experience, or something new. Audre is a trauma-informed certified spiritual director. She has been a soul companion for over 20 years. Her certification is through the Companioning Center. Audre holds a BA of Religion with an emphasis in Biblical and Theological Studies. She is a Hope*Writer and a Sayge Link...
2023-07-1838 minThe Spacious and the Sacred107 AbundanceEpisodes 105-108 Moving from Spring to Summer in these 4 episodes.
Gathering Word: The Gift of Strawberries Excerpt from “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer
In a way, I was raised by strawberries, fields of them. Not to exclude the maples, hemlocks, white pines, goldenrod, asters, violets, and mosses of upstate New York, but it was the wild strawberries, beneath dewy leaves on an almost-summer morning, who gave me my sense of the world, my place in it.
You could smell ripe strawberries before you saw them, the fragrance mingling with the smell of sun on clamp ground. It was the smell...
2023-07-1840 minThe Spacious and the Sacred106 Discernment and PruningEpisodes 105-108 Moving from Spring to summer in these 4 episodes.
Gathering Word: The Journey By Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew
What you had to do, and began,
Though the voices around you
Kept shouting
Their bad advice‚
Though the whole house
Began to tremble
And you felt the old tug
At your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
Each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
Though the wind pried
With its stiff fingers
At th...
2023-06-2232 minThe Spacious and the Sacred105 Chaos and CacophonyEpisodes 105-108 Moving from Spring to summer in these 4 episodes.
Gathering Word -Mark Nepo, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen, page 247
"When jarred into feeling how precious life is and how swiftly time moves through us, we are overcome with an urgency not to waste another second. Now we feel the need to speed up and rush, grabbing what we can in fear that the fire of being alive will bring down the house. What we do next is a turning point in our lives. While such urgency is understandable, it is only by slowing down t...
2023-06-2241 minThe Spacious and the Sacred104 GreeningEpisodes 101-104 On the spring equinox we talk about the transition from Winter to Spring.
Gathering Word - Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
"We must emerge slowly from our wintering. We must test the air and be ready to shrink back into safety when blasted by unseasonal winds; we must gradually unfurl our new leaves.
There will still be the debris of a long, disordered season. These are the moments when we have to find the most grace: when we come to atone for the w...
2023-03-2131 minThe Spacious and the Sacred103 UnfurlingEpisodes 101-104 On the spring equinox, we talk about the transition from Winter to Spring
Gathering Word - For a New Beginning by John O’Donohue
In out-of-the-way places of the heart,
Where your thoughts never think to wander,
This beginning has been quietly forming,
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.
For a long time it has watched your desire,
Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,
Noticing how you willed yourself on,
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.
It watched you play with th...
2023-03-2132 minThe Spacious and the Sacred102 MeltingEpisodes 101-104 On the spring equinox we talk about the transition from Winter to Spring
Gathering Word - Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
love will come
and when love comes
love will hold you
love will call your name
and you will melt
sometimes though
love will hurt you but
love will never mean to
love will play no games
cause love knows life
has been hard enough already
p60, Milk and H...
2023-03-2144 minThe Spacious and the Sacred101 TransitionsEpisodes 101-104 On the spring equinox we talk about the transition from Winter to Spring
Gathering Word - Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
"Everybody winters at one time or another; some winter over and over again. Wintering is a season in the cold. It is a fallow period in life when you're cut off from the world, feeling rejected, sidelined, blocked from progress, or cast into the role of an outsider. Perhaps it results from an illness or a life event such as a bereavement or the b...
2023-03-2130 min