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The Creative Spirits PodcastCreative Spirits Season 4 Interlude 3: Kate Darnell: Ramblings to an Awakened HealerThis week’s interlude is an interview with Kate Darnell on her book of poetry: Ramblings to an Awakened Healer
Awakened Hearts - Awakened Souls - Awakened Healers…
Ramblings to an Awakened Healer is the final book of a healing trilogy. It reminds us to take back the power of this moment – the moment that is love - the love that honours all of YOU, each of us.
These inspiring words encourage us all to step into a realm of love. To release fear, judgement and shame once and for all.
In each o...
2019-05-1926 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastCreative Spirits Season 4 Interlude 1: An Interview With Jo Jo from Tree Fox (@tree_fox_)
We are opening season 4's interludes with an interview with JoJo from Tree Fox who offers the most decadent looking handcrafted herbal offerings from her shop. We knew she was the person to talk to about taking care of yourself in order to root to rise. Because if those roots are suffering so is the rest of the tree!
Kate and Jo Jo talk about all things self care as well as one point that is so essential. When you think you have no time for self care that is the time you absolutely must d...
2019-05-0227 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastAdulting is Hard & Emotions Are Real aka Podcasting As Mothers To Young PeopleThe final episode of season 4 of Creative Spirits is a throwing down of being allowed to feel emotions as we talk through what expectations bring us, as well as do to us.
Today we talk about what story is creating our suffering and making our life harder (and Sherrie's son pops in a few times to underline how frustrating our expecations can be while also highlighting the importance of expressing ourselves) as well as how we can have the life we want and crave while living the one we currently are in.
2019-04-2428 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastSweet SurrenderThis week’s podcast is all about the ultimate and most difficult aspect of rooting to rise: sweet surrender.
It is one thing to tell yourself you are exactly where you need to be. It is entirely another to believe it.
In this episode we talk about how we let go when we need to, or at the very least try to pry our fingers loose from the attempt to control everything!
And Kate shares an amazing technique to help you in your surrender.
2019-04-1128 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastMoney HoneyToday we are talking money blocks, needs, desires and everything in between.
If money makes you feel squishy or antsy then check out this week's episode!
2019-04-0637 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastAllowing Yourself To Be Who You Are To Become Who Are Meant To Be “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
This week’s episode continues to look into how you root to rise and to do so we are looking at the soil that we have grown in.
This means looking at both the nutrient rich (or lack of them) substance that we build our life on - both the light and the dark aspects.
Too often we want to change without doing the work. We want to to stretch hi...
2019-03-2634 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastDivine Timing, Being Supported & The Bliss of Accepting The Wonder of You
Trust in timing is what everyone recommends and yet it is so difficult to allow.
How do you know if you are truly where you need to be? What is burn out and what is aligned hustle? And how do we step back in a world that just screams at us to do and be more, more MORE!!
This week’s episode Kate and Sherrie dive deep into divine timing and allowing yourself to exist, how to tell the difference between pushing and allowing and some honest truths about what success is and wha...
2019-03-2027 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastYour Permission Slip To Be Fabulous We, the Creative Spirits podcast, hereby give you permission to drop the fear of backlash, fight against tall poppy syndrome, and live your life to the fullest.
And although saying that is easier than doing it, we, along with the divine guidance of Rebecca Campbell’s Work Your Light oracle deck, have the three step formula that will help you do so.
It is:
Answer The Call
Share Your Voice
Align Your Life
Rinse and repeat as needed.
Listen to this week’s podcast to dive dee...
2019-03-1220 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastEpisode 4.2 Change, Holding Your Power & Being Able To Stand In It Wind and turtles have Sherrie slightly distracted in the beginning, but this episode is all about the messy glory of change and bringing in a new age!
Today we are talking about some of the events that need to happen deep in the soil in order to root to rise. Or the uncomfortable fact that sometimes things have to take root in the dark before they are able to be seen. And we need to be able to sit with this and allow it to happen.
If you are struggling and unable to see the c...
2019-03-0527 min
The Creative Spirits Podcast4.1Using Your Own Light To Ground Yourself & Illuminate Your WaySeason 4 of Creative Spirits has begun! And we are so excited to welcome back our regular listeners and saying hello to all the new ones! We love you and we trust you are here in perfect and divine timing!
With the new year turning into this year we start the newest season with an episode on how important it is that you allow your roots to go deep and your own light to be the way you illuminate your path - even if at times the light from others seems to be brighter.
We have...
2019-02-2724 minThe Creative Spirits PodcastInterlude 3.3 - Magic, Self Love & Healing: A Talk With Jenna Nelson of Lucy Moon CoToday Kate is talking with Jenna Nelson of Lucy Moon Co about witchy goodness, essential oil bliss, connecting with self and the magic of just starting.
Too often we draw back in fear of competition, being one of many, or feeling like we are simply just not enough.
Kate and Jenna dive deep into why self care is essential, how to be brave enough to trust yourself to jump into living the life and biz you want and crave and how to reach out to give and receive support.
2019-02-1330 minThe Creative Spirits Podcast2019 Interlude 2 - Spirit Leads - We Trust - There is Magic in DoingThe Creative Spirit Code/Process
Spirit Leads - We Trust - There is Magic in Doing
Today’s episode is all about the Creative Spirit podcast, the hows and the whys we decided to start the podcast and why showing up and doing is so much better than planning out a perfect - but never finished - product.
If you find yourself with giant plans that you refuse to allow to come to fruition because nothing looks like it does in your head this episode is for you!
Listen on...
2019-01-2719 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastYear in reflection...or NOT...Interlude 1 of season 3 was to be a review of the last year and how much can change in a span of one circle around the sun.
But once record was hit it quickly went into honoring your heart's desires wherever you are with them - in celebration or in pain.
Not everyone feels the need to welcome the new year and in this episode we talk about honoring those feelings as well as those that stem from joy.
And as always you can learn more about Kate and Sherrie on their websites!
2019-01-0926 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastGumboots By The Sea Energy Forecast for 2019Today’s episode is a special one! In honor of the New Year Kate is sharing her Gumboots By The Sea Energy Forecast for 2019!
Set your goals and intentions for the new year with the aid of Kate’s energy forecast for 2019!
This episode is a magic one as Kate channels from her very own almost created deck!
Listen in!
And for more details join Kate’s mailing list as she will be sharing the energy forecast each new moon via the Gumboots newsletter free at gumbootsbythesea.com
And as alw...
2019-01-0131 min
The Creative Spirits Podcast3.6 - TRUTHBOMBS AND CLUNKS - Rise sister RISEMerry Christmas Creative Spirits listeners! Today we are talking about one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself: the permission to show up in all of your glorious imperfections!
We are talking about being awkward, showing up anyway and just being you! And it is MORE than enough, because you are!
We hope you enjoy today's show!
And as always, feel free to reach out and book a session with Kate at
https://www.gumbootsbythesea.com/services
Or join the goodness of Sherrie’s tribe over on her new...
2018-12-2533 minThe Creative Spirits PodcastEpisode 5 We Are Going There! The Wounded & Awakened Healer: Our Choices To Stay The Victim or Be ESo here we are Creative Spirits Listeners! That not so easy place to be or talk about, or the perceived safety of the wounded healer.
And we are talking about healers today because we are all responsible for our own healing. Even when we seek out others to help us in our quest to heal, it is only ourselves who can do the actual work.
Healers hold the space for us to do our own healing.
And we all have wounds. Much like death and taxes, being alive is to make mistakes, to be open to the wrong people at...
2018-12-1929 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastKicking The Need For External Validation To The Curb!Warning! We are passionate in this episode and some adult language is used! Not a lot, but some did slip out!
If you need a permission slip to start living the creative and vibrant life you are born to live then this episode is the episode for you. Or if you don't know why you feel stuck in a holding place, then take a listen to see if some of the freedom jailors we mention ring true!
Freedom jailors are those things, real and imagined, that keep you stuck in a place of safety. It can be a fear of...
2018-12-1136 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastS3 E3 Creativity Through Movement & Self CareAll things are pointing towards getting in contact with yourself through music and movement in this week's podcast!
We give you permission to give yourself permission to enjoy your life and your creativity to it's fullest. Stop being afraid to take up space and hit the music you want to listen to and move because you want to and because you want to celebrate your life, be more vibrant or shift a mental funk.
Take up space and allow yourself to connect to your very life force!
The virtual retreat can be found here:
https://creative-mermaids-creative-vibrant-living-academy.thinkific.com/courses/creative-vibrant-living-virtual-retreat
...
2018-12-0723 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastSeason 3 Episode 2: Learning To Enjoy The Ride As The RewardThis episode is about exploring the idea that there are no rewards.
Step back, take a deep breath, and think about how freeing our world and life would be if we took away the idea that everything we do we did for some kind of external reward.
We have been trained since childhood to tailor our behaviour for rewards - it made our caretakers lives easier when we would do so. In the doing so, however, we were trained to often ignore what our hearts truly wanted in exchange for what those around us needed us to be instead.
Now...
2018-11-2720 minThe Creative Spirits PodcastSeason 3 Time For You! Episode 1: Self Care While Still Showing Up In The WorldSeason 3 is here! And it is all about Time For You!
In this episode Kate and Sherrie look at that ever maddening balancing act, how to know when you need to stop and rest and how to know if you are acting out in self sabatoge!
It is often a hard line walk and very difficult to determine if you are "slacking off" or giving yourself a much needed rest. Or we feel guilty about the things that rejuviante us!
If you ever wondered how to know which one it is, listen to today's episode!
If you are ready to...
2018-11-2131 minThe Creative Spirits PodcastInterlude 3: Kate's Healing Session With SherrieSherrie takes Kate on her own healing journey based upon The Celtic Book of the Dead: A Guide for Your Voyage to the Celtic Otherworld by Caitlín Matthews but using it with Brian Froud’s Fairy Oracle Deck.
Using the framework of stories to build upon your healing journey (and your writer one!) is one of Sherrie’s passions, and Kate was kind enough to volunteer for this first session with Sherrie!
To book your own session with Sherrie or Kate reach out to Sherrie at sherrie@creativeandvibrantliving.com and book direct with Kate here:
https://gumbootsbythesea.com/healing-session/
If yo...
2018-11-1427 minThe Creative Spirits PodcastInterlude 2: A healing Session With KateOur last 2 interludes are a real treat! First a healing session with Kate and then one with Sherrie!
We wanted to take our listeners on an insiders tour of what it is to have a session with each of us - and yet we are both aware that our sessions are something private. We hold a contained space that is sacred and meant for those directly involved only.
And then we realized. We could do the sessions before the episode and then jump on right afterward to share our thoughts and feelings in the immediate healing afterglow!
Kate's session with...
2018-11-0725 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastSeason 3 Interlude 1: Pursuing Your Passion To Write In Face Of All FearsToday our beloved Kate is fulfilling her birthing partner duties but I still loved speaking with Mariëlle as this went beyond the usual “ra ra write interview”. Mariëlle knows the power of going deep and sitting with what issues and conflicts present themselves to you on your struggle to go from thinking about writing, to writing and then actually publishing.
During the interview we talk not just about the fears of leaving a job to become a writer, but an even bigger more insidious situation, what about when you like your job and you are even good at it, bu...
2018-10-3050 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastRoot To Rise: Grounding Our Energy & Coming Into SelfWe are finishing season 2 of BeLiving in Self with an episode on how important it is to root into our energy to come back into self. Deep roots allow for you to reach for the sky without falling over.
We also talk about the experience of putting the Creative & Vibrant Virtual Retreat together & the lessons learned from just starting.
Finally, we go deeper into what happens under the surface and why we quit too soon far too often.
If you are ready to stop putting your life on hold and make the plunge to start living your life to the...
2018-10-2425 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastEnergetic UpgradesOn this episode, we are talking law of attraction and energetic upgrades!
Everyone imagines that mindset changes and abundant living are like a switch that we flip. Then when we find ourselves stalling our not calling in the abundance we expected we fall into the blame game. Which is what really stalls our calling in abundance!
Kate and Sherrie go into the blocks of energetic upgrades and how to go deeper so that we can start calling in the abundance we all deserve, asking you to start from where you are and align your outer world with your inner one!
...
2018-10-1622 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastAccepting The Now While Working Towards A GoalThis one is a windy episode! And perhaps that reflects so many of our inner experiences around the topic: How to accept the now while we work towards an outside goal! It is tumultuous and full of conflicting advice. Our advice to you is to trust yourself and spirit!
So often we allow our brains to kill us while trying to keep us alive! Playing small or throwing ourselves full speed ahead without ever checking in to see if the path we are on is in the fact the one our soul is calling us through and towards.
This week...
2018-10-0932 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastThe Guts To CreateFollowing up our conversation from last week’s episode we dive deeper into what self-acceptance takes and why we shouldn't be afraid of the murkier waters that accompany deeper dives!
It takes guts to create something - ask any mother! Labor is not a pretty sanitized experience, but the result is nothing short of a beautiful miracle.
We have begun to sanitize our lives much to our detriment. When asked to wade into darker waters to go after the things we really want we hesitate. Far worse, we think that the fact that the water is dark means we are no...
2018-10-0230 minThe Creative Spirits PodcastYou Are Enough: Quit The Quest For Perfection & Embrace You!Here is the thing wonderful creative spirit: accept the messy middle phase, stop fighting that time in the cocoon, stop judging your real life to someone else's social media feed!
We all have good days and bad days, for that matter good YEARS and bad years. Life was never meant to be static!
Today on the show we talk about this rollercoaster called life and assure you are ENOUGH! Right now, with a hot mess of a life or one to make your social media feed scream with envy, you are enough.
The deck we spoke about and that we...
2018-09-2522 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastTaking The Lid Off!This week’s podcast is all about taking the lid off! In more ways than one! Being unapologetic, showing up as ourselves, embracing our light and shining hard to be that lighthouse!
We have some kids opening this week’s podcast and they helped to highlight the lessons we wanted to talk about this week! Mainly, to encourage us to embrace what being a child means and to unlearn some of the lessons we ourselves were taught (often with love) as children.
They also brought about a lesson in the moment about embracing and letting go, when Sherrie’s daughter droppe...
2018-09-1825 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastS2 E2: Knowing When To Act: Mama Intuition & Self LoveKate & Sherrie are talking mother intuition and tuning in to know when to act and when to stay put, all in the name of self-love and living within spirit.
It can often be difficult to know if you are acting from a place of fear or a place of knowing. Are our fears founded or are we letting them overrule us in our quest for a full and vibrant life where the universe has your back?
We also go into “JUSTing” ourselves and how important it is to stop letting the ego take control & Kate shares a tool on how to s...
2018-09-1130 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastSeason 2 BeLiving In Self Episode 1: Rituals for Self Care & Returning To SelfBoth Kate & Sherrie know what it is like to drown in motherhood. It can feel so good and yet you wake up wondering how things got so bad.
This episode was inspired by our talk with Tarah Abrams when Kate spoke about how her daily 15 minutes meditation brought her back to self. In particular, it was the comment that her husband got his wife back that made goosebumps rise on Sherrie’s arms.
Because that is exactly what happened to Sherrie and so many other mothers. We lose ourselves in the wonder of motherhood, forgetting that it is just a fa...
2018-09-0432 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastInterlude 3: Our Chat With Tarah Abram Of Juicy LivingThe third and final interlude between season 1 & 2 of Creative Spirits has a very special guest!
Tarah Abrams of Juicy Living By Design. Tarah is an author, essential oils advocate, meditation teacher and photographer who also works in interior design. She is also a mama to twin girls and a son. How does she do it all?
Tarah says that “meditation and mindfulness practices also became a part of my life, I believe in the power and impact these tools have on our well-being, so much so, I again, went back to school so I could learn and share the science an...
2018-08-2836 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastInterlude 2: Sherrie talks Pen Names & Lynn FrancisIn this second interlude episode Kate and Sherrie talk about Sherrie's latest release; the short story The Kitsune Wife, part of her Samurai series under the name of Lynn Francis.
Sherrie talks about giving herself the permission to finally publish her work, why she needed the pen name to be able to have the permission to move forward and hit publish in the first place, and why just writing and releasing is the most freeing gift you can give your creative self.
Both Sherrie’s, Kate’s and Lynn Francis’s are available on Amazon!
2018-08-2125 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastSeason Interlude -Kate Darnell Presents Poems To A Wild Gypsy Spirit: A Dance With The DivineToday’s podcast is a very special episode! Kate launches her second book Poems to A Wild Gypsy Spirit.
As always, this podcast is not just the launching of this book into the world. We explore not only the book (Kate reads three poems that she picked for the podcast that were divinely inspired beforehand), but we also go deep into the process of publishing a book.
Not just the practical work of getting the book out there, but that juicy and so scary place that is the process of being brave enough to say goodbye to ego and stepping ou...
2018-08-1536 minThe Creative Spirits PodcastEpisode 8 -ComparisonitisWe have all been there. Just as it is hard sometimes to stop the Bigger Faster More ego train, it can be hard to stop the comparision game.
No matter how intent we are on staying in our lane, our eyes stray and we start to believe someone else has it easier, better or just has plain more.
And who can blame us! In this world of social media it is no longer just celebrities we oggle and wonder how they do it as we dream of ourselves in their lives. Suddenly EVERYONE seems to have it better and easier...
2018-08-0934 minThe Creative Spirits PodcastEpisode 7 -Allowing In Faith & Working With SpiritThis episode is all about the big F. FEAR. Which may explain why it begins with Kate & Sherrie in hysterical laughter. In this episode we walk our talk.
You can not be a human being and not experience fear. It comes in all shapes and sizes, it lies to us about how it just wants to keep us safe and protected, and even lies about the nature of itself.
This episode almost never happened. And when it finally did we lost it halfway through. And we had to go back and do it again. (See hysterical laughter).
Part of both...
2018-08-0923 minThe Creative Spirits PodcastEpisode 6 - Opening Up To Your Voice & Strengthening Your Throat ChakraAfter Episode five's talk about boundaries Episode 6 could only have been about one topic: strengthening your throat chakra so you could find and use your voice!
Boundaries are so important, but to be able to speak up for what you need and set them in place you need to have an open and strong throat chakra.
Today Kate and Sherrie are talking about how to ask for what you need and empower your voice!
2018-08-0929 minThe Creative Spirits PodcastEpisode 5 -Boundaries for Creativity and Spiritual ConnectionHow do we have it all? A thriving creative practice and healthy relationships with friends and loved ones? it all starts with boundaries and enforcing them. What often starts out as something that feels difficult and even counterproductive, often ends up being the greatest gift we can give ourselves and others!
In this week's episode Kate and Sherrie talk about setting up boundaries, how to recognize when we don't have them in place or are even unsure if we deserve to impose our needs on others. When in fact boundaries are very much the opposite. We are telling others what...
2018-08-0930 minThe Creative Spirits PodcastEpisode 4 - Life Changing Magic of Living with IntentionWith a new moon just 2 days as of publication (coming up July 12th 2018!) Kate and Sherrie talk intentions, new moon rituals and going after your goals without burning yourself out.
In the Creative Mermaids courses and coaching (of which Kate is a member!) Sherrie often talks about goal setting, regular check ins and intention setting. Kate also offers intention setting support using the moon in the GBTS: Moon Magic Community, set intentions at the New Moon and Check In at the Full Moon, in a live, online, spiritual supportive group.
In this episode in honor the of the New Moon...
2018-08-0931 minThe Creative Spirits PodcastEpisode 3 - Gratitude to Catapult us!Too often we use gratitude to cap us instead of catapult us. Today we're talking gratitude practice as in "Thank you universe! More please!"
2018-08-0930 min
The Creative Spirits PodcastEpisode 2 -The Regular & Spiritual Practice Of Words To WisdomWelcome back to episode 2 and this one is all about the regular and spiritual practice of turning our wounds into wisdom. Learning to lean in and surrender to spirit can be one of the greatest gifts our spiritual practice can give us.
The Messy Middle is something that Sherrie has often worked with in the Creative Mermaids ( read all about it in the September 2017 issue of Badassery http://badasserymag.com/september-2017/) and through it she discovered the importance of a regular spiritual practice in getting through the dissolved goo of the cocoon phase.
In this episode we go further in...
2018-08-0924 minThe Creative Spirits PodcastIntroductionKate and Sherrie met in level 1 of Harness Your Healing Brilliance by Sarah K Jones and had their relationship cemented in level 2. Both were mothers who realized they were burning their candles on both ends.
Drawn by shadow integration, rising above the wounded healer archetype and striving for a life that embraced cycles that honored the light and the dark, Kate and Sherrie decided to start this podcast to share their experience in the hope to inspire others to invite spirit in and to embrace their wild messy life and selves.
This podcast is as real and messy as us...
2018-08-0923 min