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Securely Attached312. What every parent needs to know about ADHD: Brain science, behavior, and real-life strategies with Dr. Eliza BarachIn this episode, I’m joined by cognitive psychologist and ADHD expert Eliza Barach to explore the brain-based differences that drive many of the challenges (and strengths!) that come with ADHD. Together we cover: The neuroscience of an ADHD brain and why having this basic knowledge can be so impactful for your parenting! How understanding the roles of dopamine and norepinephrine are important aspects of understanding your child (or yourself!) with ADHD. Why people with ADHD are more vulnerable to all forms of addictions. And while our cult...2025-06-031h 07
Neurodivergent Report9: ADHD Support Beyond SMART Goals: Interview w/ Eliza Barach, PhDThis week on The Neurodivergent Report, Sarah is joined by cognitive psychologist and ADHD coach Dr. Eliza Barach, PhD. Eliza blends rigorous research with lived experience to help high-performers with ADHD—no silver bullets required.Curious about what's inside:Why ADHD strategies “expire” (and how to build a rotating toolbox)The truth about object permanence vs. prospective memoryHow to hijack emotional connection to make routines stickWhether you’re an ADHD executive-functioning coach, a neurodivergent parent, or simply curious, you’ll walk away with science-backed, heart-centered tools for managing executive dysfunction with compassion...2025-05-1456 min
History, Books & Wine PodcastWitchcraft & Wreckage on the Amalfi Coast with Sarah PennerI’m excited to be joined on the show today by guest author, Sarah Penner. On this episode we’re going to talk about her book, THE AMALFI CURSE, a bewitching tale of sunken treasure, forbidden love, the stregheria and ancient magic on the Amalfi Coast of Italy. Paired with this episode:Sarah: Mocktails & SmoothiesEliza: Plum Wine & Vitamin WaterSarah's Book: The Amalfi CurseWhat Sarah is Reading:L.A. Women by Ella BermanFind Sarah...2025-04-2935 min
8th House HealersI Am Pisces*Enjoy this special early release for Valentine’s aka ‘Al-en-tine’s Day*Rooster Al, Eliza’s beloved companion and gifted Tarot reading rooster in his own right, crossed over the rainbow bridge on January 31st. We dedicate this episode to him. Pisces, twelfth and final sign of the zodiac and mutable water, teaches us the deeper spiritual connections and poetic resonance possible in everyday life. It is associated with Tarot minors 8-10 and Knight of Cups.We are not our possessions,but we are our gardens.Within a...2025-02-141h 20
8th House HealersI Am AquariusFor David Lynch: January 20, 1946- January 16, 2025I have met with the shapeshifter, I've seen their magic: misdirection, illusion, and the many ways these can be used. Is illusion always a negative thing? -Blood Moon Tarot '7 of Dreams' by Sam GuayAquarius is Fixed Air and corresponds to Swords cards 5-7 and its King. Natives of this sign are visionary, defy traditional ideas and the status quo, possess exceptional out-of-the-box problem solving skills, and pair uncanny rationality and logic with effortless imagination and creativity. *Episode Art: Foreground Image- Blood Moon Ta...2025-01-201h 14
8th House HealersI Am CapricornBlessed Winter Solstice (in the Northern hemisphere)! Capricorn, last of the earth elementals, is of cardinal triplicity, connecting it to the initiatory cards of its corresponding Tarot suit: 2-4 of Pentacles/Disks and the Queen.Famous for their persistence, discipline, and resourcefulness, Capricorn is arguably the most down to earth of all the signs. The qualities of the sure-footed mountain goat remind us to stay the course in times of difficulty with calm presence oof mind and integration with our natural surroundings.‘We humans are also animals, and we deny our animal nature an...2024-12-211h 13
8th House HealersI Am Sagittarius‘I Am Sagittarius’I don’t know no shameI feel no painI can’t see the flame-Sinead O’ConnorSagittarius is the final fire sign of the zodiac, of mutable quality, and associated with Wands cards 8-10 and Knight. These Jupiter ruled creatures are wild at heart, truth-seeking, and uncompromisingly authentic. They keep us curious, questioning, and continually nudge us to leave our comfort zone.*Episode Art: Forager’s Daughter Tarot, Blood Moon Tarot, Tarot of the Witch’s GardenAckno...2024-11-2154 min
Medium CuriousEliza Sears on how her relationship with her son in spirit has evolved!Ep 28: MEDIUM Evolve
Eliza Welch Sears is back by popular demand! She is proof that life is not just livable after the loss of a child but can be oh-so sweet and enormously rich. She shares her journey of her evolving relationship with her son Caleb, who is in spirit, and how her understanding of grief, love, and connection has transformed over the past decade.
Eliza shares all the different ways she connects with Caleb which includes a recent dream visitation with a huge affirmation the day following. Eliza reflects on her experiences the nature of...2024-10-2349 min
8th House HealersI Am ScorpioWelcome to the 8th House, Scorpio’s lair, associated with Tarot minors 5-7 of Cups and its King. This fixed water sign shares ‘Spooky Season’ with Halloween, Samhain, All Soul’s, Dia De Los Muertes, and the thinning of the veil. Scorpio teaches that when we walk alongside fear, navigating our own darkest shadows, we discover an uncanny power to transcend the sharp pain of grief and loss, and move towards deeper connection with Spirit.'I'm the cobwebbed stairsthe ancient bonesI'm the shadow rippling cobblestonesI'm the stagnant...2024-10-221h 22
Stage Door PodcastHow Meg & Sarah Launched Their Own Theatre Company & Brought PenPals to Life — Insider Tips for Aspiring Creators!Ever wonder what it takes to start your own theatre company? Tori and Eliza chat with Meg and Sarah, the creatives behind Penpals and founders of Sydney’s The Little Big Theatre Co. They dive into the inspiration for their company, the creation of Penpals, and share advice for those looking to produce original works. Packed with insights and tips, this episode is a must-listen!🔗 Make sure to stay up to date with Little Big Theatre Co. and get tickets to 'Penpals': @littlebigtheatreco and events.humanitix.com/penpals🎧 Follow the podc...2024-10-0735 min
8th House HealersI Am LibraLibra is the bringer of the fall equinox and denotes serenity, beauty, and balance. Associated with the mentally and emotionally wrought Tarot cards 2-4 of Swords and its Queen, we are reminded to cultivate inner sanctuary through life’s difficulties.To feel at home in the world, and to know that the land and the sky nurture and guard us, that we are held and protected. Perhaps we need to stand still for a moment to allow ourselves to feel the gift of peace that is ours. -Julia Jeffrey*Episode Art: The 2 of Sw...2024-09-221h 15
8th House HealersI Am Virgo'I Am Virgo'Join 8th House Healers for our latest astrological discussion as we unveil the many luminous treasures of mutable earth sign Virgo. Sojourn through the Tarot- from material realm to the continuum of spirit- in the Pentacles cards 8-10, the Knight, and Virgo's corresponding Major card, The Hermit.Hermit wisdom overlaps significantly with deep-diving, service-oriented Virgo as detailed in Evvin Marin’s instant classic, Fortune’s Inkwell: An Interrobang Tarot Guidebook. Virgo/Hermit energy as they tell it speaks to "Truth-seeking, interiority, quiet, observation, contemplation, personal gnosis, immersion, ardent curiosity, spark of h...2024-08-221h 04
8th House HealersI Am Leo‘I Am Leo’, fixed fire sign of the zodiac, ruled by the sun... and the heart. Tarot correspondences are Wands cards 5-7 and the King with themes of courage, faith, and fortitude.Je n’ai pas peur…“I do not fear, for my road is made open to me; I have God, who will know how to clear the route. It was for this that I was born!”~ Joan of Arc*Episode Art: Oriens Tarot, Hush Tarot & The Witch's Garden Tarot*Acknowledgments & Mentions: Black Ink Tarot, Evvin...2024-07-2253 min
8th House HealersI Am CancerBringer of Summer, Cancer is the sign of cardinal water. It is ruled by the moon, its Tarot associations are Cups cards 2-4 and the Queen.Cancer natives are gentle, emotionally accessible, nurturing, intuitive, and highly creative. Nick Bantock writes about ‘The Poet’ archetype in his Archeo Oracle guidebook, which brilliantly portrays this dreamy archetype of the zodiac: The Poet lets imagination run free. They concentrate and distill, making visible the ethereal, bringing focus to beauty, inviting us to pause and consider. An elegant romantic, they merge rich experience with the unexpected, synthesizing the essence of every...2024-06-201h 15
8th House HealersI Am GeminiI Am Gemini…The third sign of the zodiac is the perceiver of input, conductor of thought and communication, nimble overseer of networks, systems, and interconnectedness. Known for its versatility, the sign of mutable air is associated with the mind, and along with sibling air signs Libra and Aquarius, corresponds to the Swords suit- undeniably the most difficult in all the Tarot. Gemini rules Swords numbered cards 8-10 and the Knight which deal with themes of paralyzing anxiety, overwhelm, and difficult endings. Perhaps, though, the entrapments of our mental prisons only seem to be restricting us... Pe...2024-05-201h 02
The Aware MindHow Somatic Healing Works and the Importance of Getting Out of Your Own WaySend us a textIn this episode, Sarah and her guest Eliza Meadows, discuss the unique techniques of somatic healing and its powerful benefits. Somatic healing involves soothing your nervous system in the midst of something uncomfortable. This discomfort can include emotional pain, fear, traumatic memory, or feelings of anxiety. Eliza is a licensed therapist and a certified Organic Intelligence Somatic Coach. Eliza explains the fundamentals of this method, which has been branched off from "Somatic Experience". Eliza Meadows website: https://www.elizameadows.com/ Organic Intelligence website: https://organicintelligence.org/ Sarah's Somatic Healing...2024-05-0728 min
8th House HealersI Am TaurusHappy Taurus Season & Earth Day (every day) as we welcome the most grounded, embodied, and sensual of the earth signs to grow our pentacles suit discussion. Taurus is fixed Earth, ruled by Venus, and corresponds to Pentacles cards 5-7 and the King. We are so excited to have Evvin Marin’s new book release as a regularly featured resource from which to share. Check out their Fortune’s Inkwell: An Interrobang Tarot Guidebook in the show notes. Remember, too, you can catch their conversation with Eliza from Season 4: Episode 16 which aired on May 11, 2023.Note *Sensorimotor OCD was...2024-04-191h 20
Medium CuriousEliza Sears on how she kept her promise to her son Caleb~!Ep 9: MEDIUM Why?
We finally meet Sarah’s bestie, Eliza Sears, whose brilliant boy Caleb is a big part of WHY there is the Medium Curious Podcast; and why we feel this work is so important. Eliza shares how a reading with Laura Lynne Jackson gave her the hope she needed to move forward after Caleb’s passing in 2015. Eliza describes the connection she feels with her son Caleb and the signs he sends to let her know he is still with her.
In the early days of her grief, she put a shout out to th...2024-03-2748 min
8th House HealersI Am AriesHappy Spring and welcome to Season 5: Tarot Minors & The Zodiac!Although we parted from the airwaves last December, having completed The Fool’s Journey through the majors, inspiration struck- we’re back to cover the minor arcana and their astrological associations. First up is the sign of Aries, cardinal fire element which corresponds to Wands cards 2-4 and the Queen. We hope you’ll bear with us as the first half of the episode involves much reflecting and reacclimating after our long winter’s absence.Acknowledgements & Mentions: Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-G...2024-03-191h 08The Aware MindAllow Two Seasoned Mindfulness Teachers to Get You Started on Your Practice this YearSend us a textIn this episode, Sarah and her guest, Eliza Meadows, discusses their personal experiences getting to their own mindfulness practices. Learn why meditation retreats are transformative and why learning how to meditate without recorded guidance can launch your practice to new levels. Also, learn statistics about how meditation reduces anxiety and depression, improves pain management, and decreases your implicit biases. Find out the ins and outs of a traditional mindfulness practice and how you can overcome some of the common challenges starting and maintaining your practice. Eliza is a licensed mental health counselor, certified M...2024-02-2333 min
Say Smut? A Literary PodcastEp 21: "Taming the Minotaur" by Eliza LovelessGrab your shields and get ready to run into the latest episode of "Say Smut!" Sarah recounts the spicy and modern retelling of Theseus and Asterius while Hope shares the mythology behind the minotaur. Have a book recommendation? Email saysmutpodcast@gmail.com.2024-02-2047 min
Internet Hour148. Eliza Knows Everything!!!! (Internet chat with @eliza.eats.everything)Episode 148 is an interview with my dear friend Eliza, who knows everything about what's cool, hip, happening, etc. We talk Grammy's, Taylor Swift, Bravo, and a little bit of Boston??? Come kiss your kids on the lips and play!!!!! 🩷🩷2024-02-081h 24
Embrace. Live. Thrive.The Vibrant Way w/ Maura ElizaToday, Maura Eliza, owner of Flex Health with Maura, joins me on the podcast as we have a wonderful conversation about healing and being intentional about listening to your body. Eliza has overcome adrenal fatigue twice and learned so much with her second recovery she wrote her course "The Vibrant Way" to teach others about the journey she went on not only to heal, but to thrive. "The Vibrant Way" is a course designed for the woman struggling with overwhelm, fatigue, and exhaustion. Maura had set it up where you slowly received the 5 hours of content over...2023-12-2741 min
8th House HealersI Am The World/DancerI Am The World/DancerThis final episode is dedicated to Madeline Jazz who (like in the Cosmic Dancer song) “danced herself right out the womb”… Happy Birthday (December 10th) 🖤It’s the end of the line for our Fool in this bittersweet finale… Hosts Sarah and Eliza look back on the Tarot archetypes they’ve come to know more intimately, and reflect on all the ways they’ve grown as individuals and as co-creators through their Journey together…’The World represents wholeness and completion. At the culmination of a long...2023-12-101h 03
8th House HealersI Am JudgmentThere are forces guiding you at this time. Depending on your belief system, this might be your higher self, God, the Universe, or something else. It does not matter how you label it, what matters is heeding the call. While the Fool is a broad opening to possibilities, Judgement is an invitation onto a specific path. If you have been feeling pulled towards certain actions or decisions or ways of being, this card could be a sign that you're moving towards a magnificent purpose. It is time to do what you know you're meant to do. There are many...2023-11-151h 13
Say Smut? A Literary PodcastEp. 16: "No Getting Ogre You" by M. L. ElizaSome people may be frightened to be found by a monster in the forest. But what if that monster was an enormous, green ogre? Sarah shares the story of "No Getting Ogre You" by M. L. Eliza where Jaquelyn find the love of her life in an Appalachian cave. Hope shares all sorts of stories that make up the folklore of ogres. Have a book recommendation? Email saysmutpodcast@gmail.com. 2023-11-081h 03
8th House HealersI Am The SunRise and Shine!!! You Are The SunIn the quest that is your life, you have left behind some capacity for happiness, some simple wholeness that you can call back to you now. After all the good that you have been told you can't have, and can't be, it's time to say you can. After all the suffering in the world, it's time not to add to it one more ounce. When the Sun comes out, it's okay to be happy. More than that - it's a good thing. When the Sun shines, everyone benefits. Seek...2023-10-171h 33
8th House HealersI Am The Moon'I Am The Moon'... with Special Guest, Madeline Jazz Harvey‘Prayer for Darkness’ by Deb GuerdatGo in, go in my child. Away from your savage cities of fire and stone. Wrap the sacred darkness around you like blankets and rest, sleep. And before the new tendrils stretch inside the dark seed. And before the new hatchling stirs inside his dark shell. Look up, sweet child, look up. And see how brightly the stars shine above you in the black sky. The joy, the wonder, the music. And you will remember why you are here...2023-09-1448 min
8th House HealersI Am The Tower And The StarDedicated to Deborah Guerdat6.29.1948- 7.24.2023Deb's Obituary: https://www.goesfuneralcare.com/obituaries/Deborah-Guerdat/#!/Obituary Deb's Celebration of Life: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vx1qgnT1n3AHealerBeing able to call on her nurturing support is fundamental to your survival. She's always close by, but if you are unwell and continue to ignore her wise promptings, your pain will be exacerbated.The Healer kneads your muscles. Her hands are soft and strong as she releases the dark cells of trauma...2023-08-301h 10
8th House HealersI Am The Devil"WHERE TEMPERANCE EXUDES EFFORTLESS CONTROL, THE DEVIL DEMANDS MASTERY, AND EVIDENCE OF SPIRITUAL METAMORPHOSIS. UNTRANSFORMED, THE BONDAGE AND OBSESSION OF THIS CARD WILL MUTATE INTO ADDICTION, ABUSE OF SUBSTANCE, AND TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS. THOUGH DARK, CREATIVE INNOVATION IN TECHNOLOGY, POWERFUL ART, AND ALL EVIDENCE OF GENIUS HAVE ENTERED THE DEVIL'S CAGE. THE HOPE IS: MAKE SOMETHING OF THE DEVIL, AND PERHAPS IT WON'T MAKE SOMETHING OF YOU." -Linda Benjamin, Interim Tarot*Episode cover art features Wayhome Tarot, Esmerlize Tarot, and Paulina Cassidy’s Phantasma TarotAcknowledgments & Mentions:‘Devil in Disguise, Elvis Presley; Medi...2023-07-1058 min
8th House HealersI Am Temperance“Difficult feelings require expression, not suppression. Keen your grief. Speak your rage. Forge your purpose. Pull the personal pain out of your soul for the fuel to make something tangible from it. Show the world what it is, and what it should be. Bring your regular practice to another level through the implementation of a grander vision and a deeper desire. Find inspiration in the elemental world. Observe the will and the dance of Fire. Sense the mystery and the wisdom of Water. Bring balance into your life. If you feel too withdrawn, add activity. Stretch your legs, your ar...2023-06-141h 02
Threshold Moments019 - Eliza Reynolds: The Threshold of MotheringWelcome back, dear ones. Today, we have a powerful episode featuring my friend and mothering mentor, Eliza Reynolds. Eliza is a best-selling author, speaker, podcast host, and professional mentor for pre-teens and teens. She and her mother co-authored the best selling book, Mothering and Daughtering, and facilitated sold-out workshops for mothers and their pre-teen and teen daughters for many years. Now, Eliza offers online and in-person mentorship programs teaching emotional intelligence, embodiment, body literacy and more for big hearted pre-teens and teen girls. In this conversation, Eliza and I explore the deep work that mothering...2023-05-301h 22
8th House HealersI Am DeathWe’re baack… all hail The Sunset. Season 4 begins with The End, ‘I Am Death’ as Sarah and Eliza join minds in contemplating The Great Mystery.XIII - SANTA MUERTE“A profound transformation, a renewal, a true and proper revolution. If it is life that generates death, than death generates life. We are connected to all that surrounds us, to the people who have come before us and to those who will come from the cradle to the tomb, from the coffin to the womb, in a continual exchange and a continual regeneration not of opp...2023-05-1743 min
8th House HealersEliza's Interviews: Evvin MarinThis one goes out to Nate, Happy 50th (in Spirit) May 11, 2023, to my dinosaur brother and bird friend through time and space!Evvin Marin is an interdisciplinary artist based in Massachusetts. Evvin and Eliza discuss witches in history versus their archetypal status, chronic illness, the creative process, perception, intuition, Tarot spreads, and the power of finding one’s voice… and one’s people. Find everything Evvin at: evviemarin.comOriginal interviews recorded on April 12th & 14th, 2022MockingbirdMy curtain swings in sleeve, a gondola unswaye...2023-05-1141 min
8th House HealersEliza's Interviews: Stephen MorrisStephen Morris is a music composer, doctoral student, and educator at the University of Toronto. Stephen started out studying music therapy but found he was disenchanted- he longed to get back to creating music. Stephen talks to Eliza about bridging dreams, hypnotic states, nature, and visual components into his “soundscapes”. Join in the discussion as these two muse over the many ways that music affects our psychology and spiritual awareness. Find Stephen at: youtube.com/stephenmorrisguitarOriginal interview recorded on May 11, 20228th House Healers Podcast is Eliza Harris and Sarah Cole...2023-05-0722 min
8th House HealersEliza's Interviews: Krisztina LazarKrisztina Lazar is a visionary artist and Tarot deck creator. Well-versed in mythology as well as birds' extrasensory awareness, having had bird companions her entire life, Krisztina fills us in on art, augury, intuition, pregnancy magic, Unicorn Consciousness, alchemy, and her upcoming ‘Parrot Tarot’ deck. Krisztina and Eliza are both joined in conversation by their avian familiars so get ready for a squawkingly good time!Follow Krisztina on social media and find her work at:linktr.ee/Klazar1981Original interview recorded on May 9, 2022Acknowledgements & Mentions:Vision Trai...2023-05-0521 min
8th House HealersEliza's Interviews: Kitsune GarciaKitsune Garcia “Kit” is an acupuncturist, Yogi, musician, artist, Tarot deck creator and reader. She has two Master's degrees, one in chemistry, the other in Oriental Medicine. Kit has always believed that divinity is inherent in everything, and as a chemist, she knows that down to our tiniest molecules, we are mostly space, and in our space, we are all connected. Kit went through what she calls a dark night of the soul, an unexplained period of severe, flu-like illness in which she “learned how to die”… but then didn’t. Listen to her fascinating story of reconnecting to- and healing...2023-05-0231 min
Crime FeastMaster Manipulator "Larry" and the Sarah Lawrence Cult -- Part TwoOn this episode, we're discussing about the Sarah Lawrence Sex Cult, although this is a little bit misleading. While the perpetrator and leader of the cult did meet most of the student victims at Sarah Lawrence, most of the alleged activity took place off campus, and at least two of his victims were from different universities. This is part two.Warning to sensitive ears this episodes contains sexual violence, a sex cult, physical and psychological abuse, drug use and thoughts of suicide.Victims:ClaudiaIsabellaDanSantos...2023-05-0132 min
8th House HealersEliza's Interviews: Julia CorleyJulia Corley is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate (LCMHCA), a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC), and a Hakomi practitioner and trainer. She holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a certificate in Expressive Arts Therapy. Born with a heart for healing, Julia fell in love with Hakomi, a unique, integrative model of mindful, somatic psychotherapy. While Julia is well-versed in facilitating healing for others, during this intimate conversation with Eliza, she uncovers some of her own psychic wounds in need of nurturing... and even gives herself a Tarot reading!Find Julia at...2023-04-3023 min
8th House HealersEliza's Interviews: Julianne VictoriaJulianne Victoria is a licensed massage therapist, Reiki practitioner, Vedic and Western astrologer, and shamanic healer. She has created several Tarot and oracle decks. Julianne is an out of the box creator with concept decks ranging from abstract sigils to herbs, to her highly original Children’s Tarot. Her conversation with Eliza proved just as unique as the two flitted about in their discussion of life lessons, meaning, depth, change, and when (and when not) to stick to the rules when it comes to healing. Find out about Julianne Victoria and her work at juliannevictoria.com.2023-04-2833 min
8th House HealersEliza's Interviews: Maria BelmonteMaria Belmonte left the funeral industry some years ago to practice acupuncture. Although Maria looked blood, guts, and death in the face on a daily basis as a mortician, she found that the scariest part of the work was the "good ol' boys club" mentality; her skills and intelligence were routinely dismissed. The most toxic thing about the work environment was not the formaldehyde in the embalming fluid, but again, the treatment she received as an Asian woman. The funeral industry proved brutal on her small frame. Maria developed fibromyalgia and a host of other health problems from chronic...2023-04-2526 minCrime FeastMaster Manipulator "Larry" and the Sarah Lawrence Cult -- Part OneOn this episode, we're discussing about the Sarah Lawrence Sex Cult, although this is a little bit misleading. While the perpetrator and leader of the cult did meet most of the student victims at Sarah Lawrence, most of the alleged activity took place off campus, and at least two of his victims were from different universities.Warning to sensitive ears this episodes contains sexual violence, a sex cult, physical and psychological abuse, drug use and thoughts of suicide.Victims:ClaudiaIsabellaDanSantosFeliciaYalitza...2023-04-2433 min
8th House HealersEliza's Interviews: Lee WebsterHappy Earth Day 2023! 🌍 Green burials, home funerals, and conservation, oh my! Lee Webster has been on the frontlines of funeral reform advocacy for many years. She has worked in all areas of end of life and after death care and has been passionate about a return to the natural ways we used to care for the dead- in the home and in the community. In this spotlight episode, Eliza picks Lee’s brain about hospice, funerals, and cemeteries from her developing lens and role of social worker. Lee shares her experiences in caring for the body of a lo...2023-04-2331 min
8th House HealersEliza's Interviews: Arwen Lynch PoeArwen Lynch Poe is a medium, Tarot reader, prolific writer, creative consultant, and professional “joy seeker” who encourages others to find their own joy. Arwen came to Tarot out of a need to find a divinatory tool for her spiritual practice. Her first deck was the Thoth but it didn't quite resonate. She discovered The Herbal Tarot and her intuitive abilities took off. In this featured interview with Eliza, Arwen recounts childhood encounters with unexplained phenomena, and the many ways she received affirmations about her psychic gifts along her very unique path to Spirit.Find all thin...2023-04-2123 min
8th House HealersEliza's Interviews: Claudia Kubata 'The Death Faerie'Claudia, also known as ‘The Death Faerie’, is a spirit medium, death doula, and coach. A fascinating woman who survived an abusive childhood, she moved to England at age three where she hung out in cemeteries and talked to spirits. She sees- or rather feels- faeries, dragons, angels, guides, and aliens and describes how each energy has its own weight and quality. Because of the amount of messages she has encountered in which crossed over loved ones use symbols to communicate, she finally realized that she didn't need to "learn" prescribed systems of knowledge. Instead she created and used her...2023-04-1843 min
8th House HealersEliza's Interviews: Caroline YongueCaroline Yongue (Savana Amata) is a Buddhist minister and founder of the Center for End of Life Transitions and Carolina Memorial Sanctuary- both in Western North Carolina near Asheville. In her conversation with Eliza, the two discuss breathing space for anxiety, fear, overwhelm, and grief, focusing our awareness, sensory consciousness, and home funerals. Buddhists believe that rather than a soul, that karma, consciousness, and awareness live on after the brain dies, and that consciousness takes a 49 day journey through the realms of the death bardo. It is throughout this ordeal that important choices must be made, choices that can...2023-04-1648 min
8th House HealersEliza's Interviews: Nancy HenricksonNancy Hendrickson is a professional genealogist, Tarot reader, and author. Join Eliza’s journey through her personal ancestry as the conversation taps into the work Eliza began through Nancy’s award-winning Ancestral Tarot. Nancy has since released The Ancestral Grimoire. Find all things Nancy at: sageandshadow.comOriginal interview recorded on April 7, 20228th House Healers Podcast is Eliza Harris and Sarah Cole-McCarthy. All rights reserved. Find us on Instagram, and Eliza's Tarot in her Etsy shop. We’d love to hear from you! Send your questions, comments & suggestions to us at: 8thh...2023-04-1437 min
8th House HealersEliza's Interviews: Enrique EnriquezEnrique Enriquez is a one-of-a-kind poet and bird talker who resides in New York City. Enrique and Eliza share much in common as bird people. They talk about language and form, the indifference of light, human speech, symbols and signs, movement and rhythm, birdsong, silence, and of finding one’s voice.Enrique invites listeners to request his bird messages via Facebook messenger or email at enrique.eenriquez@gmail.comOriginal interview recorded on April 2, 20228th House Healers Podcast is Eliza Harris and Sarah Cole-McCarthy. All rights reserved. Find us on Ins...2023-04-1129 min
8th House HealersEliza’s Interviews: Donnaleigh LaRoseWishing a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Donnaleigh and safe passage to her beloved friend and colleague, Rachel Pollack, on her journey o'er the veil. Godspeed, Rachel xThis episode is dedicated to them both and to their continuing bonds of friendship.Donnaleigh LaRose is a longtime reader of Tarot, Lenormand, Oracle, and stones. Eliza discovered Donnaleigh’s podcast, Beyond Worlds, some years ago as she embarked upon her own journey into the Tarot. The analytical discussion and deep dives into each card, other divinatory approaches, applications, techniques, and alternative interpretations found on Beyond Wo...2023-04-0939 min
8th House HealersEsmerlize Tarot Guidebook read by ElizaA comprehensive, digital Tarot guidebook- complete with several full color photographs- makes a great companion for your Esmerlize deck, or to accompany your journey through the Esmerlize gallery at esmerlize.com, or follow along on social media. The deck and PDF are available for purchase in Eliza's Etsy shop at etsy.com/shop/EsmerlizeTarot.‘Esmerlize Wisdom of Field & Forest Tarot’, guide can also be used as a stand alone reference or used with any Tarot deck of your choosing. Here on 8th House, you can listen to it read aloud by your host Eliza (Esmerlize) herself, comp...2023-04-072h 03
8th House HealersEliza's Interviews: Andrew McGregorAndrew McGregor is a Toronto-based artist, Tarot reader, prolific deck creator, teacher, podcaster, and owner of The Hermit’s Lamp, a brick and mortar/online spiritual supplies store. Andrew's journey has been one filled with unimaginable loss and trauma. Discover over the course of this conversation with Eliza, how he learned to navigate life after a near-fatal car accident as a teen, losing two of his three siblings within six weeks of each other as a new father, and, most recently, losing his original shop to a massive, electrical fire. Andrew’s is an incredible story of re...2023-04-0734 min
8th House HealersEliza Interviews: Monica BodirskyWelcome to Season 3- perhaps we’ll call it Season of the Witch? Last spring, Eliza interviewed several artists, healers, and Tarot practitioners, a few of which you’ve already heard from. We decided to devote an entire season to these conversations with our ‘8th House Guests’ and to (hopefully 😬) feature the remaining ‘Eliza’s Interviews’ series through 2023. We hope you enjoy! First up, Meet Monica 🖤Artist, illustrator, designer of Tarot and Oracle decks, author, seer, diviner, and practicing witch, Monica Bodirsky, discusses her Shadowland Tarot with Eliza, exploring the meaning and significance of shadow work in her...2023-04-0440 min
8th House HealersI Am The Hanged ManAssociated with Pisces (Neptune), 'The Hanged Man' in Tarot denotes spirituality, limbo, liminality, sacrifice, surrender, martyrdom, allowing, acceptance, forgiveness, nature taking its course, inaction, perspective, vision, and reflection.In this episode, Sarah and Eliza discuss what it means to practice presence in the in-between, trusting our knowing in times of unknowing, waiting, the wounds of trauma begetting preparedness, cycles of birth, death and rebirth. Eliza recounts her own alchemical lesson as learned from her beloved Frank rat from beyond the veil…Acknowledgements & Mentions:Medicine Woman Tarot, Carolyn Bridges; The Prairie Tarot- A...2023-04-0241 min
8th House HealersEliza Interviews: Sharon McLeod“I was born an artist and decided to stay one…" -Sharon McLeodYou won’t want to miss this fascinating conversation with Visionary artist, diviner, Tarot and Oracle creator and illustrator, Sharon McLeod from Australia’s Gold Coast.In this latest of 8th House Healers’ featured interviews, Sharon talks to Eliza about growing up reading everyone's "Tarots" as she learned from her grandmother, her natural ability to see beyond the cards themselves, intuitively reading people and situations. They share favorite/least favorite Tarot cards, astrology, roosters, rats, and cats as fairy-spotters and lost-spirit-vanquishers, and the imp...2023-03-2239 min
8th House HealersEliza Interviews: Amanda BellGifts and curses, cookie homes and kindness, pink people and imposter syndrome, learning to art. A diviner and beloved mentor in the Tarot and Oracle community, Amanda is an artist, sage and poet. Listen as Amanda and Eliza weave through the mundane and the extraordinary and reflect on life and what it means to share in this human existence.When I riseUp from The flowing waterBare skin DrippingSunlightWater-light Wind driedFlesh waitingFor your2023-02-2152 min
8th House HealersEliza Interviews: Megan DiToreMeet Certified Child Life Specialist, Megan DiTore, MS, CCLS, CTRS and join the conversation as Megan shares her story of coming into her life’s purpose by coming face to face with death as a teen. Eliza and Megan- former cohorts of their master’s degree program in thanatology- talk making peace with death, post-traumatic growth, extraordinary experiences, meaning making, and much more. Acknowledgements & Mentions:Stephen Jenkinson, Griefwalker, Marian University, WI, Root Lock Tarot Podcast (Elemental meditation)Original interview recorded on March 5, 20228th House Healers Podcast is Eliza Harris...2023-01-3147 min
8th House HealersEliza’s Interviews: Jessica Lei HowardGet to know award-winning Tarot deck author/illustrator, Jessica Lei Howard in Eliza's interview. Learn Jessica's personal Tarot philosophies, interpretations, and the deck creating process itself. Jessica reveals her favorite cards and archetypes, the many ways that animals and insects may embody the tarot—maybe even better than us humans?—and how that even when interpreted differently, the magic of the Tarot is as much unwavering as it is in an ever-expanding state of evolution.Find Jessica on Facebook and Instagram, and The Forager’s Daughter Afterlight (4th) Edition deck, art, jewelry, sign up for her newsle...2023-01-1456 min
8th House HealersI Am JusticeAfter embodying the Wheel of Fortune, we found our true north--our knowing of who we are, where we want to go and what we wanna do. We made an internal commitment to stay the ever-changing course with that truth in tact, but it may be best if we're willing to keep the exact "location" of our true north at least a little bit flexible. Otherwise, we may find ourselves creating unnecessary resistance each time we are confronted with beliefs or values different than our own. We never know who we'll meet or what we'll experience and learn on the...2022-12-1333 min
8th House HealersI Am The Wheel of Fortune“Events may unfold that redirect your path. Some things may feel beyond your control. Find the larger pattern in the chaos. The revolving cycles of nature may bring disruption, but they are always reliably in forward motion. When your soul compass spins, find stillness in experiences that easily allow you to be yourself. Trust life to come into being; there is transformation in each turn of the wheel. What emerges from this development will point to your true north.”-Latisha Guthrie, The Herbcrafter’s Tarot*Episode cover art features Linestrider Tarot by Siolo Thompson, Brady Tarot by Emi...2022-11-0147 min
8th House HealersI Am The HermitThere’s a reason we want to head for the hills when we need a break from the hustle and bustle of life. The Hermit archetype reminds us to seek guidance and illumination from our own self-reflection in solitude. In the quiet and the dark, we are more receptive to messages from Spirit. “Within nature, within your mind, seek out the still and sacred places where magic is heard and felt and seen. Spend enough time to feel this as an integral part of who you are. Learn through experience over instruction. Follow intuit...2022-10-091h 01
8th House HealersI Am StrengthJust in time for the fall equinox and to celebrate Olivia on her first birthday in the Spirit realm, we invite you to join us for 8th House Healers’ Season 2- the second leg of The Fool’s Journey through the Tarot. ‘I Am Strength’ is dedicated to the memory of Olivia Newton John 9.26.1948 - 8.8.22.There is an infinite force about us, like a cosmic Möbius strip; we are part of its perpetual balancing act. Divine Strength is like a fulcrum, it takes finesse to find the sweet spot, to exert, t...2022-09-2138 min
8th House HealersConversations on Consciousness IIIs there more to our conscious and unconscious states of mind? 8th House Healers’ special series, ‘Conversations on Consciousness’ returns!Peel back layers of dreaming and waking, of those liminal spaces in between, and explore how we can access these realms for our individual and collective awareness and healing. This conversation has everything-- lucid dreaming, Patsy Cline, psychic birdies, EVPs, astral projection and more things asking the question, "whaaaa!?".... ~ Stefon (SNL, Bill Hader)Acknowledgements: Current Biology article: Real time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep; The Diving Bell and the Butterfly...2022-08-3041 minStage Door PodcastS3 Ep 13 - Sarah CarrollIn this week's episode, Tori and Eliza are joined by queer creative, writer and performer Sarah Carroll! Together they discuss the creation of Sarah's first one-woman show 'Cherry', the impact of mentors for budding creators, the process of creating and mounting a show, the struggles of indie theatre in Australia and more!For more about Sarah check out:@_sarahleigh on Instagram@cherrytheshow on InstagramLeave us a rate and review, and let us know what you’d love to hear in our next episode on ou...2022-07-2746 min
8th House HealersEliza Interviews: Tarot of Why’s R.For our second 8th houseguest (first not of blood relation! hehe) we meet R.-creator and designer of TheTarot Of Why Deck. We know you'll love his stories as much as we did. R., we thank you for offering a glimpse into the experiences leading to discovering The Tarot of Why and choosing to share it for the benefit of us all.Get to know R. and peruse his offerings:The Tarot of Why Website:https://tarotofwhy.comThe Tarot of Why on Instagram:2022-07-2747 min
8th House HealersI Am The ChariotWe're all just walking each other home. ~ Ram DassOur will is an ever-evolving compass pointing in correlation with our thoughts and actions. The Chariot is the movement and control of the elements once our will has taken hold.Once we commit to a goal we have a choice to rest in the belief it is possible and we already have all we need to make it so--even if its just curiosity at first.In this episode, Eliza introduces Hedy, her family's newest fiery addition, and we discuss how...2022-07-1235 min
More to Her Story: The PodcastEliza Anyangwe, Editor of CNN's As EqualsEliza Anyangwe is editor of CNN's As Equals, an award-winning series that aims to explore systemic gender inequality around the world. She has spent more than a decade in media, including at The Guardian and Bureau of Investigative Journalism. In 2016, Eliza founded The Nzinga Effect, a media project focused on telling the stories of African and Afro-descendant women. Eliza is a storyteller and advocate for women and girls worldwide; above all, she wants to change who tells which stories.
You can follow Eliza on Twitter @ElizaTalks2022-06-2846 min