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The Earth Sea Love PodcastEpisode 081 - Ruptures, healing and reclamation with Pauline MayersHey you, good to see you again.
On this day, our fifth birthday, we are so happy to bring you our final episode of the three we are releasing on 13th July 2025. The final episode before we go off on Summer Hiatus also. Rest is needed. We've been celebrating far too hard!
In this episode, Sheree is in conversation with Pauline Mayers, a multidisciplinary artist based in Leeds.
In this episode, they talk about:
• How Pauline and Sheree first connected
• Creative Methodologies, Cambridge University
• Situating ourselves – living in Leeds, greenest ci...
2025-07-131h 14The Earth Sea Love PodcastEpisode O80 -Creating a wealthy future through banking our knowledge, with Maxine Greaves MBEWelcome back to our birthday celebrations with our second episode of the three. In this episode your host, Dr. Sheree Mack gets to speak with Maxine Greaves MBE.
Their conversation covers:
• Location in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, living across from a park
• Sheffield losing some trees
• LUSH – word of the year
• Work towards it, not harder, work towards your dreams with purpose
• TOC – The Outdoor Citizen
• 25 years in Higher Education, creating own role in faculty
• Coaching and mentoring people to get where they want to be into teaching
• Serving a purpo...
2025-07-1350 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastEpisode 079 - A Daughter of the Soil, Yvonne WitterWelcome back to The Earth Sea Love website.
We are so happy to share the first of three episodes we are dropping today to mark out fifth birthday celebrations.
This episode is a conversation with Yvonne Witter.
Chair of Trustees for Peak District Mosaic, Yvonne and Sheree talk about:
• Situating the self – the walk home from work
• Walking for mental health
• Supporting patients with health and well-being one to one
• Creating a caring space for people to be themselves through the grief journey
• Championing the National Parks Project
• Pe...
2025-07-1348 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastEpisode 078 - Welcome to our Birthday Celebration EpisodesHey Welcome.
Welcome back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast. We're so happy that you could join us, and why not join us in celebration of our birthday.
The Earth Sea Love Podcast is five years old. 13 July 2020, we pressed the button to release three shiny new conversations into cyberspace as a means of keeping the nature connection going with ourselves and nature, and with each other far and wide. During those troubling times, your host Dr, Sheree Mack, had the honour and privilege to talk with so many wonderful people across the globe. And...
2025-07-1311 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastAdriana Smith Did Not Give Birth***Trigger warning, this episode contains swearing and is talking about death and inhumane practices. Be warned.
Adriana Smith did not give birth. Adriana couldn’t give birth. Adriana was unalive. Adriana died in February 2025 because she didn’t receive a life-saving medical procedure. Adriana was pronounced brain dead in February but was kept alive for a further 114 days. 114 days. Why? Because Adriana was pregnant, and the white man wanted to play GOD!
Let’s back up a bit. For me, and this isn’t about me, I find this difficult to share. It’s harrowing...
2025-06-2017 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastEpisode 076- How Life is Fragile and Emerging with Soraya Abdel-HadiWelcome back to another episode of The Earth Sea Love Podcast. It is with gratitude pleasure that we share this lovely conversation with Soraya Abdel-Hadi.
Soraya is the founder and managing director of All the Elements, as well as running her own successful coaching business, soraya earth >
In this episode, your host Dr Sheree Mack and Soraya, talk about:
situating self, seeing nature emerging
slowing down to notice nature
there are other ways of being in this world
All the Elements developments since 2021, it’s a community learning about self through developments
centring on the peo...
2025-06-061h 02The Earth Sea Love PodcastEpisode 075 - Quiet Disruptions with Dal KularWelcome back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast. We are so pleased to be back with you for another episode release, within a week of the last one. We are trying to keep to our word!
This episode, 075, in our 7th season is with our wonderful Sista Dal Kular. We are such a fan of Dal.
Talking with your host, Dr Sheree Mack, in this episode you will hear, Dal talking about:
* Situating the self in the present moment of recording
* How has this season been treating Dal
* The long recovery from head injury
2025-06-011h 01The Earth Sea Love PodcastEpisode 074 - Zines, AI and Nature with Nabila CruzNew Year. New Season.
Welcome back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast, as we celebrate our 5th year of production.
We are so happy to be back with you all after our winter hibernation. Rest is important. Rest is a weapon. And we must use it.
Welcome back to our first episode of the season which is with our lovely guest and friend, Nabila Cruz.
Nabila Cruz is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield, specialising in critical AI studies with a focus on how generative artificial intelligence impacts tr...
2025-05-231h 05
Feral WordsWriting as resistance, reclamation & ritualIn this episode I chat with writer and creatrix Sheree Mack, and we explore creative practice as ritual, as well as holding the both/and/all of being a writer in this complex world. Sheree is a writer, creatrix, and space holder who weaves words with ancestral memory, fierce tenderness, and a reverence for the wild - both within and around us. Her work walks the edge between personal and political, sacred and embodied, calling forth the untold stories that live in Black women’s bodies and lineages. We talk about: * Honouring a da...
2025-05-2045 min
A Dose of Hope RadioADOH RADIO PRESENTS EP. 183 “UNCUFFED TRAUMA” FEAT. VISIONARY CATHY STATON AND THE AUTHORS OF THIS #1 AMAZON BEST SELLING ANTHOLOGYFeatured in this episode:
This episode will feature inspirational music, positive inspirations, and the authors of SurvivingHer/Him present "Uncuffed Trauma." This impactful anthology is sure to leave you speechless.
Authentic, unfiltered stories of overcoming challenges
Personal insights into lives transformed forever
Uplifting narratives of resilience, growth, and self-discovery
Varied perspectives that provoke thought and offer enlightenment
This collection unveils trauma in its many forms. Through these candid and heartfelt accounts, you will develop a deeper comprehension of the trauma journey and the extraordinary strength of the human spirit. Whether you have experienced trauma personally or wish...
2024-11-2055 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastEpisode 073 - Jola Olafimihan, Creative in Northumberland National ParkWe are so exited to bring you a special mini series of podcast episodes created in collaboration with identity on tyne and their Black Nature in Residence Programme.
Created and project coordinated by your host Dr Sheree Mack, the Black Nature in Residence Programmed (BNIR) aims to offer creative opportunities within nature for the global majority. Started in 2019, the Black Nature in Residence Programme not only offers time and space in nature for creatives, focusing on the creative process and practices rather than putting the pressure on to produce produce and produce. The process is the focus ra...
2024-10-221h 07The Earth Sea Love PodcastEpisode 072 – Testament, Creative in The Yorkshire Dales National ParkWe are so exited to bring you a special mini series of podcast episodes created in collaboration with identity on tyne and their Black Nature in Residence Programme.
Created and project coordinated by your host Dr Sheree Mack, the Black Nature in Residence Programmed (BNIR) aims to offer creative opportunities within nature for the global majority. Started in 2019, the Black Nature in Residence Programme not only offers time and space in nature for creatives, focusing on the creative process and practices rather than putting the pressure on to produce produce and produce. The process is the focus ra...
2024-10-2256 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastEpisode 071 - Nadia Emam, Creative in The North York Moors National ParkWe are so exited to bring you a special mini series of podcast episodes created in collaboration with identity on tyne and their Black Nature in Residence Programme.
Created and project coordinated by your host Dr Sheree Mack, the Black Nature in Residence Programmed (BNIR) aims to offer creative opportunities within nature for the global majority. Started in 2019, the Black Nature in Residence Programme not only offers time and space in nature for creatives, focusing on the creative process and practices rather than putting the pressure on to produce produce and produce. The process is the focus ra...
2024-10-2253 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastEpisode 070 - Wajid Hussain, Creative in The Lake District National ParkWe are so exited to bring you a special mini series of podcast episodes created in collaboration with identity on tyne and their Black Nature in Residence Programme.
Created and project coordinated by your host Dr Sheree Mack, the Black Nature in Residence Programmed (BNIR) aims to offer creative opportunities within nature for the global majority. Started in 2019, the Black Nature in Residence Programme not only offers time and space in nature for creatives, focusing on the creative process and practices rather than putting the pressure on to produce produce and produce. The process is the focus ra...
2024-10-2250 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastEpisode 069 - Live From the Tremula Festival with Alinah AzadehWelcome back to a very special episode of The Earth Sea Love Podcast. After four years of recording the podcast, with this nearly being our seventieth episode, we bring you our first LIVE face to face recorded conversation.
We are really excited to share a live face to face recording that took place during the wonderful Tremula Festival on Saturday 21 September 2024.
The Tremula Festival, the first of its kind, was a selections of talks, production skills and workshops focusing on the connection between audio, the outdoors and the activism happening in those spaces. Your podcast ho...
2024-10-151h 05The Earth Sea Love PodcastEpisode 068 - Right to Roam with Nadia ShaikhHello and welcome back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast. This is the last episode of the summer before we return in September with the special episodes created in collaboration identity on tyne and the Black Nature in Residence programme.
In this episode, your host, Dr. Sheree Mack is talking to the lovely and knowledgeable Nadia Shaikh. Calling in from the Isle of Bute, they talk about:
* Situating themselves
* The Isle of Bute and Scotland
* Land Justice Activism
* What is the Right to Roam?
* Land ownership
...
2024-07-1959 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastEpisode 067 - The Beingness of Embodiment with Christian TottyWelcome back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast. So glad that you’ve come back to us. This episode, as we hurtle towards Summer, was recorded close to the Spring Equinox with Christian Totty. Christian has a Healing Arts Practice and a juicy Substack newsletter called Wholly Earth.
In this episode, talking with your host Dr. Sheree Mack, Christian explores:
* Being thankful
* Situating ourselves in the landscape
* The Spring Equinox quickening of season’s change
* Hold both at the same time - grief and the quickening
* Ruth Gilm...
2024-07-051h 05
The Jukebox: Radio ArchiveThe Jukebox: July 9, 1999“The Friday Night All-Request Party,” hosted by Mike Saffran, on “99 BBF”/WBBF-FM (98.9), Rochester, N.Y. Originally aired 7 p.m.–Midnight July 9, 1999. (Bonus podcast episode)
Special note: Filling in again on the “Friday Night All-Request Party” (so, technically, this isn’t a “Jukebox”; but the only differences were the use of an alternate background bed and no coin-into-slot SFX before requests)
Callers aired and other show highlights:
00:41 “The Countess” (“Black Magic Woman”)
01:54 Cindy/Penn Yan (“The Rain, The Park & Other Things” — dedication to daughter Beth, with reference to Gentry Hair Salon, Eastview Mall)
02:57 Unidentified ma...
2024-07-0528 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastEpisode 066 - Be Okay In The Process with Sile SibandaHello and Welcome Back, to the Earth Sea Love Podcast, with your host Dr Sheree Mack and special guest Sile Sibanda.
Recorded back in February 2024, Dr Mack muses on how everything happens in good time. Editing this episode in June, Dr Mack realises she needed to listen to this episode again. To revisit and re-engage once more with what flowed throughout this conversation as the wisdom and insight were on point then as is now.
In this episode you will listen to Dr Mack and Sile, radio presenter, talking about:
* The concept of t...
2024-06-2149 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastEpisode 065 - Exhaling Within Kinship with Charlotte HolmesWelcome back. As promised, we're trying to keep The Earth Sea Love Podcast regular, every two weeks. So here we {BE}.
Your host Dr Sheree Mack is super excited to be talking with Charlotte Holmes, who pregnant at the time, met Sheree through their work with the Race Equity Network within the National Trust and Black History Month 2023.
Within this episode, Sheree and Charlotte enjoys a conversation around:
* Sharing their happy news around pregnancy and motherhood
* Situating themselves in places and home
* Sharing who they {Be} and what they...
2024-06-0745 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastEpisode 064 - Choosing The Freedom to Rest with Juanita ValtureHello and Welcome back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast.
It's been a hot minute since we've shared one of our awesome conversations. But we're back now with your host Dr. Sheree Mack, getting over the mental and emotional and psychological blocks she created herself around the podcast and YouTube to bring you the podcast in its original form. The voices of inspiring women, feminine and non-binary people who are Black, Indigenous or a Person of Colour and their connection with Mother Nature.
In this episode, Sheree has a conversation with Juanita Valture, i...
2024-05-2445 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast063 - The Palimpsest EpisodeHello again and welcome to the Earth Sea Love Podcast.
Episode 063 is a special episode being released in connection to the walkshops we completed in 2023 with a number of groups of the global majority with the help of funding from the Northumberland National Park Communities Fund.
Northumberland National Park Communities Fund was a grant scheme set up for communities within the North-East of England to create projects that supported and contributed to the National Parks remit of being designated for everyone. This grant helped us in supporting the Northumberland National Park's purpose of becoming more welcoming to...
2024-04-2621 min
MUSICALITÉ sessions - OSHMUSICALITÉ #62 Edition - OSHTracklist:
01.Rachel Claudio & Nicolas Vautier - Miscommunicate (Louis Benedetti Vocal Mix) [Dallinghoo Recordings]
02.Distant People feat. Imaani - Thing's You'll Never See (Vocal Version) [Future Spin Records]
03.Andrea Erre, Soul Groove, Venessa Jackson - Who Are You (Soulbridge Mix) [Soul Mood Records]
04.Soulista, Tasha LaRae - One Kiss (Original Soulista Vocal) [POJI Records]
05.Sheree Hicks & EL - Open (Mark Di Meo Soulstice Remix) [Chic Soul Music]
06.Deep Roger, Lifford - Forbidden Love (Rightside Remix) [Quantize Recordings]
07.Tortured Soul feat. Lisa Shaw - I Wish You Were Here (Mark Di Meo Remix) [TSTC Music]
08.Dave Anthony, Lisa Millett - In Love...
2023-12-2259 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast062-The Earth Sea Love Podcast Coming To YouTubeEpisode 062, ending season 5.
This is a recent episode recorded by your host, Dr Sheree Mack while walking the North-East coast and taking you along with her.
While filling her creative pot, Sheree shares the road ahead for the podcast with season 6 in 2024.
As the Earth Sea Love Podcast diversifies its guests, while partnering with identity on tyne with their Black Nature in Residence Programme 2:0, they also thought it might be a good idea to broaden the audience through a Youtube channel.
Here at Earth Sea Love CIC , they are just trying to...
2023-12-0719 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast061 - Black Nature Walking The Way - Dr. Sheree MackHello and Welcome back to a special episode of The Earth Sea Love Podcast.
Your host, Dr. Sheree Mack, is recoding this episode out on location while walking The West Highland Way. A 96 mile hike from the lowlands to the highlands of Scotland, running through some of the most breathtaking, iconic and remote parts of Scotland, this is a life-changing long distance hike, which is Sheree's third attempt at completing.
During this episode, you'll hear Sheree talking through the wind and rain about:
* the walk and the stages she's walking
* what i...
2023-10-2222 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast060 - Introduction to Permaculture Design - A Mini SeriesHello and Welcome Back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast.
Dr Sheree Mack, your host here.
I'll not lie. The promise I made at the beginning of 2023 of dropping at least one episode each month of the podcast was in the balance this month. July. A time I love to tie up loose end, retreat and rest. Call it the teacher in me, as I'm someone from time who loves to take the summer holidays off the clock. This year is no exception, except that I've just moved house and needed a rest more than e...
2023-07-3122 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast059-We All Already Belong With Mindy TsonasHappy June
Soon the Summer Solstice will be amongst us, here in the Northern Hemisphere, so let us take this moment from The Earth Sea Love Podcast to wish you LIGHT!
And thank you for coming back for a listen to our next episode.
We are so proud that we are continuing to bring you, our listeners, beautiful and thought-provoking episodes which we hope inspire and support your healing and creative journeys.
This episode your host, Dr Sheree Mack is talking with Mindy Tsonas, a maker and creator of spaces where he...
2023-06-1542 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast058 - Developing An Ancestral Healing Practice With Catherine LucktaylorHey there!
Hope you are well and welcome back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast. We’re so happy that you’ve decided to spend some time with us again.
We’re so happy to welcome back to the podcast, Catherine Lucktaylor.
Catherine was a guest back in December 2020 in episode 20, when she talked about her ceramics practice, Raku ceramics and being inspired by the wild Cornish coast.
In this episode Catherine is talking with your host, Dr Sheree Mack about:
* Being inspired by the sea within our art practice
...
2023-05-3153 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast057 - Feel good, safe and loved with Lateisha Davine Lovelace-HansonMay is here and full of the joys of Spring.
Here at The Earth Sea Love Podcast, we're full of joy to bring you this conversation with the wonderful Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson.
Lateisha is a Black queer feminist interdisciplinary artist and social-justice practitioner/community-healing organiser of Jamaican heritage based in London.
Within this episode with your host Dr. Sheree Mack, Lateisha talks about:
* focusing on how we feel instead of what we want
* water connections and healings
* community land trusts
* listening and asking questions
...
2023-05-111h 08The Earth Sea Love Podcast056 - Creative Alchemy with Anatalia VallezWelcome back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast. We're very happy to share with you our first conversation episode of 2023.
Your host, Dr. Sheree Mack is talking to Anatalia Vallez. Anatalia is a writer, actor, and creative alchemist from California, United States with roots in Guerrero, Mexico. Addressing everything from migration, machismo and our relationship to nature, she seeks to find intimate truths and plant seeds through art.
In this episode they talk about:
* Gratitude
* When Sheree and Anatalia first met
* Where Anatalia is calling in from
* Wh...
2023-04-2743 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast055 - Divided Energies/ Going CannyMarch and another solo episode from your host of The Earth Sea Love Podcast, Dr. Sheree Mack.
Sheree continues to share her healing journey with you as she reflects on the time past already in 2023, and what to expect in the coming months with guest conversations on the podcast.
In this solo episode, Sheree talks about:
* Holding herself accountable and showing up
* One foot in Winter/ one foot in Spring
* Procrastination - and healing or not!
* Taking the time for consolidation of new learning
* Listening
2023-03-2719 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast054 - Why We Heal after Alex ElleYou have just joined another solo episode with the host of The Earth Sea Love Podcast, Dr. Sheree Mack as she takes the time and energy to share with you her healing journey of 2023, so far!
This episode starts with another quote from Alex Elle, which states,
"We heal to make space, to redefine ourselves and our narratives. To expand and become better. To forgive, create new possibilities, and move forward. To build community and create bonds. We heal to release shame, manifest self-love, create autonomy, and begin again. We heal to redefine ou...
2023-02-2008 min
WAM Exposure[WAM] Exposure Week 158 (26/1/23)Welcome to WAM Exposure, Week 157! Sorry for the delay in getting this one out to you. *technical difficulties* but this show is a huge one for fans of music from around Warrington, Widnes & Runcorn. Enjoy!
We Played:
Marcus Man - Relegated
The Lottery Winners - Worry
The Lottery Winners - Open Letter To Creatives
Collusion - Close To Your Heart
Scott Comanche & Andy Salter - Head In The Clouds
The K's - Hoping Maybe
Kerry Sheree - Watch Me Now
El Tribe, Ornee Mendil, Brad Mack - I...
2023-02-191h 54The Earth Sea Love PodcastBeing An Inner HealerYou have just joined another solo episode with the host of The Earth Sea Love Podcast, Dr. Sheree Mack as she takes the time and energy to share with you her healing journey of 2023, so far!
This episode starts with a quote from Alex Elle, which states,
" give yourself permission to mend slowly, and sweetly, and in due time. there's no need to rush your healing, there's no need to "get over it" today - or even tomorrow. let your process lead you. make space for your grief to teach you something."
...
2023-01-2615 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastWe Are All Worthy of LoveWelcome back to another episode from your host Dr. Sheree Mack, where she is sharing her healing journey for 2023.
In this episode, Sheree starts with a poem. 'When George Met Anita, Bradford 1968.' Taken from Sheree's first full collection of poetry titled, Family Album, 2011, Flambard Press, Sheree shares this poem to shed light on the love she witnessed between her mum and dad while growing up.
Also in this episode, Sheree talks about:
* The love between soulmates
* The love of a good woman can save a life
* The story...
2023-01-2315 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast051 - It’s all about the healingIt’s all about healing
Welcome back to another episode from the mini series with your host of The Earth Sea Love Podcast, Dr. Sheree Mack. In this episode she explores the practice of healing and how difficult it can be.
Talking about:
* We are all connected so our healing is connected.
* To heal, where do you start?
* Paralysed with fear therefore doing nothing
* Healing isn’t linear, it’s a life-long practice
* Centring joy in the healing journey
* Retraumatising self on this healing journey
* More supportive practic...
2023-01-1912 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastThe Earth Sea Love Podcast is back - 2023Season 5 - Episode 050 - Welcome to The Earth Sea Love Podcast of 2023.
Thank you for being here. Thank you for sticking with us.
In this solo episode, part of a mini series around healing, your host, Dr. Sheree Mack talks openly and honestly about:
* The projections for 2023 for the podcast after a moment of hiatus
* Our perceptions of time
* Energy cycles that ebb and flow
* A commitment to release an episode for the the podcast each month
* Marking my healing journey of 2023 and what looks like
* The Matriarch o...
2023-01-1615 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast049 - Letting Go to Root into Place with Jackee HolderWelcome back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast.
It brings us great joy to share with you our next episode with the wise and wonderful Jackee Holder.
Jackee was a guest on the podcast back in Season 2, with a two parts series of conversations with her around trees, journaling and claiming space outside.
We had to ask her back this year because there has been so many changes in her life since.
In this episode with your host Dr. Sheree Mack, Jackee talks about:
* Moving to a new home
...
2022-08-011h 00The Earth Sea Love Podcast048: The PrivilegeTo Be of Community Serve with Dr. Geeta LudhraTo mark the 2nd anniversary of The Earth Sea Love Podcast, we are bringing you two special episodes.
The second episode is with the lovely and wise, Dr. Geeta Ludhra. Geeta, a Lecturer in Education at Brunel University, talks about the walking group she set up after recently moving to The Chilterns, Dadima.
In this episode we also talk about:
* the privilege of living in a certain place
* the meaning of the name 'Dadima'
* the grandmother figure and wisdom within diverse cultures
* an embodied connection with...
2022-07-1349 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast047 - ’Nothing On Your Back’: Freedom, Spirituality and Creativity with Marcia LeyTo mark the 2nd anniversary of The Earth Sea Love Podcast, we are bringing you two special episodes.
The first episode, 047: 'Nothing On Your Back': Freedom, Spirituality and Creativity with Marcia Ley, is such a juicy, fulfilling listen.
Marcia Ley, an Artist, Cyclist, lover of nature, based in the North-East of England, shares how she is inspired by nature in her attempt to bring this awesomeness into her practice. A painter and printmaker, and a sticker, Marcia uses her artwork to say thank you to Mother Nature.
In this episode, we ta...
2022-07-1342 min
Prompted by Nature4.11 52 Annabel Abbs: Walking into CreativityAction point: www.accessiblecountryside.org.uk A fantastic resource for those with mobility considerations in the UK. Gives a comprehensive range of maps to accessible routes around the UK countryside. Definitely pop over there and have an explore and pass it on to anyone you think might find it useful.
On to the episode! Annabel Abbs is a writer of fiction and nonfiction and in this episode we discuss her book 52 Ways to Walk. We had this conversation a few weeks ago and with everything that’s going on in the world right now, it’s been so lovely...
2022-07-101h 01The Earth Sea Love PodcastSeason 4 - Exploration Series 002Season 4 is here. Episode 046
Welcome to The Earth Sea Love Podcast at our new home here @Podbean.
We're bringing a mini series of solo episodes from your host, Dr. Sheree Mack as she attempts to bring you up to speed with what's been happening behind the scenes during the hiatus/ winter break.
We hope you enjoy listening.
2022-05-0912 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastSeason 4 - Exploration Series 001Season 4 is here. Episode 045.
Welcome to The Earth Sea Love Podcast at our new home here @Podbean.
We're bringing a mini series of solo episodes from your host, Dr. Sheree Mack as she attempts to bring you up to speed with what's been happening behind the scenes during the hiatus/ winter break.
We hope you enjoy listening.
2022-05-0916 min
The Earth Sea Love Podcast044- Decolonising Anthropology with Jordan MullardThe Earth Sea Love Podcast is proud to bring you the final episode in the mini series of specially commissioned episodes in conversation with people who are at the forefront of climate justice, decolonising education and writing for healing when we as black and brown bodies carry trauma and grief as well as joy.
This episode, with your host Sheree Mack, is with the delightful Jordan Mullard a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University.
In this episode they talk about:
Getting out into nature
Living and working in the Durham...
2021-11-261h 10The Earth Sea Love Podcast043- Writing Nature for Healing with Dalbinder KularWelcome back to another wonderful episode from The Earth Sea Love Podcast. With Dalbinder Kular, an imagineer and ancestral transcriber, this is another specially commissioned episode in collaboration with Northumberland National Park's Future Landscapes Festival. In this episode we‘ll be talking about how Dal is decolonising writing for healing. How Dal has created spaces where transformation is possible through language and creativity. Through exploring identity, race, memories, trauma and nature, with creative and life-based writing arts ~ poetry therapy, journaling, writing, zine-making, Dal is a powerful and creative. force in supporting herself and other women of colour to use thei...
2021-11-191h 01The Earth Sea Love Podcast042 - For The Love of Food with Claire RatinonToday we're really excited to bring you an episode with Claire Ratinon, commissioned in conjunction with Northumberland National Park Authority's Future Landscapes Festival.
Your host, Dr. Sheree Mack, really enjoyed finally getting to talk with Claire after following her work around organic gardening and decolonising horticulture for a while now.
In this episode, they talk about:
Situating ourselves in the country
Chickens and ruffled feathers!
Change of career direction
Getting closer to nature
Black and brown people growing food and plants
Finding our way back to the earth
Decolonizing horticulture
Thinking about the term...
2021-11-121h 01The Earth Sea Love Podcast041 - The Quest of City Girl in Nature aka Kwesia XWelcome back to another episode of The Earth Sea Love Podcast.
During Season 3, we are producing a number of mini series focusing on specific issues.
In this episode with the lovely Kwesia Smith-Gul, known usually as City Girl in Nature, and your host Sheree Mack will be talking about:
Catching up and checking in
Name change for the future
The recent trip to Kenya
The return and a changed outlook on nature
Swimcaps for Black people
Going back to our roots, Africa
Just picking one thing to focus on in this climate crisis
The Q...
2021-11-0548 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast040- COP26 Coalition with Shaira BegumWelcome back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast.
We are excited to bring you another mini series of specially commissioned episodes which explore climate justice and decolonisation of the environmental and conservation movement.
Created and specially commissioned in collaboration with Northumberland National Park Authority's Future Landscapes Festival, which focuses on ‘Nature, People, Climate, Place’, explores how England’s precious landscapes serve people, nature, industry, and climate.
It will include an exhibition, and a series of thought-provoking discussions and experiences designed to prompt people to think about the role landscape plays in their lives, and wh...
2021-11-011h 07
A Dose of Hope RadioEPISODE 40: “SURVIVING HER/HIM” FEAT. VISIONARY CATHY HARRIS AND THE AUTHORS OF THE AMAZON BEST-SELLING BOOK SURVIVING HER – EVENT RECAPLIVE – WED., OCTOBER 20, 2021. This episode will feature inspirational music, positive inspirations, and an anthology of new and established authors. In this episode, we recap the Surviving Her Experience and Documentary event we attended on October 16th. This event was amazing, inspirational, and centers on the book, “Surviving Her”. SurvivingHer ™ is for anyone struggling to get their life back, or for anyone looking for hope and inspiration. The detailed accounts in Surviving Her are more than just survivor stories, they are a compelling tribute to the enduring quality of the human spirit. Maya Angelou once said, "There is no greater agony th...
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A Dose of Hope RadioEPISODE 40: “SURVIVING HER/HIM” FEAT. VISIONARY CATHY HARRIS AND THE AUTHORS OF THE AMAZON BEST-SELLING BOOK SURVIVING HER – EVENT RECAPLIVE – WED., OCTOBER 20, 2021. This episode will feature inspirational music, positive inspirations, and an anthology of new and established authors. In this episode, we recap the Surviving Her Experience and Documentary event we attended on October 16th. This event was amazing, inspirational, and centers on the book, “Surviving Her”. SurvivingHer ™ is for anyone struggling to get their life back, or for anyone looking for hope and inspiration. The detailed accounts in Surviving Her are more than just survivor stories, they are a compelling tribute to the enduring quality of the human spirit. Maya Angelou once said, "There is no greater agony th...
2021-10-201h 01The Earth Sea Love Podcast039 - Blended with Velda Thomas, Mammy Part 3 and 4This is the third and final episode of three where your host Dr. Sheree Mack is in conversation with Velda Thomas about her recent publication Blended - Perspectives on Belonging: A Participatory Notebook.
In these special commissioned episodes Sheree and Velda talk books, writing and the creative process, while Velda reads extracts from Blended which they go on to explore with close readings for meaning and healing.
In this episode while exploring the piece called 'Mammy part 3 and 4' they talk about:
Manny Part 3 and 4
Writing the difficult parts
Where is Mammy in Velda t...
2021-10-0442 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast038 - Blended with Velda Thomas, Mammy Part 1 and 2This is the second of three episodes where your host Dr. Sheree Mack is in conversation with Velda Thomas about her recent publication Blended - Perspectives on Belonging: A Participatory Notebook.
In these special commissioned episodes Sheree and Velda talk books, writing and the creative process, while Velda reads extracts from Blended which they go on to explore with close readings for meaning and healing.
In this episode while exploring the piece called 'Mammy 1 and 2' they talk about:
A reading of Mammy Part 1 and Part 2
The stereotypical exploration of the term Mammy
How n...
2021-09-2743 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast037 - Blended with Velda Thomas, In ServiceThis is the first of three episodes where your host Dr. Sheree Mack is in conversation with Velda Thomas about her recent publication Blended - Perspectives on Belonging: A Participatory Notebook.
In these special commissioned episodes Sheree and Velda talk books, writing and the creative process, while Velda reads extracts from Blended which they go on to explore with close readings for meaning and healing.
In this episode while exploring the piece called 'In Service' they talk about:
The Launch of the pre-sales of the book Blended
The sense of achievement
Writing as a Bla...
2021-09-2042 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastSeason 3 - Trailer (036)Season 3, begins with a trailer, highlighting what's in store for the rest of 2021.Mini Creative Series with Velda Thomas where we discuss her forthcoming publication; Blended - Perspectives On Belonging- A Participatory Notebook
Mini Conservation Series with a selection of individuals who are working to change the face of the environmental movement in the U.K.
Dr. Sheree Mack's Northumberland Coastal Path adventures
The Earth Sea Love Zine
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2021-09-1708 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast035 - Diversity Through Adventures with Pammy JohalDr Sheree Mack keeps her promise to deliver all of the recorded conversations so far for 2021 before the end of July, so she can go off for a well deserved rest. To see the season out she talks to Pammy Johal, an active outdoor practitioner about:
Situating ourselves in the landscape
Family history and the sense of home
Having those important conversations outside
Body connection
Ageing gracefully
The Fannichs ( Mountains) and Loch Luichate
Connecting with the mountains
Backbone CIC
People of the Global Majority and terminology
Great days out in the Highlands of Scotland
Relationship based c...
2021-07-3045 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast034- The Journey of Holistic Sustainability with Grace HullGrace Hull, from Green Soul Grace, is a wise and wonderful young woman who is working to bring an intersectional understanding to sustainability. Within this episode, with your host Sheree Mack, they discuss:
Social Media pressure and hiatus
Imposter syndrome
Re-engaging with blogging rather than social media posting
Within the process of moving
Coming out of lockdown
The beauty of Slow
What is sustainability?
What is holistic sustainability?
Individual responsibility within climate crisis
Joining the dots to lean into climate justice
Joy and pleasure and spreading them around
The narrative of struggle and pain
Being a keynote speaker
...
2021-07-271h 04The Earth Sea Love Podcast033- History, Literature and Trees with Zakiya MckenzieZakiya McKenzie, one of the first writers in the forest for the Forestry Commission, talks with Sheree Mack, The Earth Sea Love Podcast's host about:
Embracing sweet moments in each day
The value of sleep
Becoming a writer of the forest
The barriers for Black and People of Colour within white establishments
An arboretum, a collection of trees
Unravelling plant history
Colonialism
Comparisons between Jamaican and British landscapes
Forest ecologies
Childhood experiences with nature
Black and Green Bristol
Experiences in nature for Black people
Working in partnership with other organisations to provide opportunities
PhD in Journalists from the Ca...
2021-07-2358 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast032 - Outdoor Experiences with Tammy ShakurSheree Mack chats with Tammy Shakur in this episode about:
The promise of Spring and shifting energy
Taking things slow
A year on from Covid-19 lockdown in the UK
Going out to go in
Reconnecting with ourselves through nature
What does an Outdoor Experience Guide do?
Barriers to connecting with nature
Nature as a teacher
Childhood experiences of connecting with nature
Nature as a healer
The value of affinity spaces
Bio:
Tammy Shakur, an Outdoor Experience Guide and Certified Life Mindfulness Coach.
Runner, Hiker, Passionate outdoor enthusiast.
Tammy's pas...
2021-07-2051 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast031- Education, Writing and Connection with Sarah HussainYour host Sheree Mack has an in-depth and wide ranging intimate conversation with Sarah Hussain which takes into account:
The privilege of having outdoor spaces at home
Being an educator
Being a writer
University teaching
Writing to bring about change in perceptions of South Asian women
Amplifying the voice of women of colour within ecological research
A PhD in Ecological Degradation
The women's struggle to protect the environment
Growing up as South Asian in Britain
Gaining a sense of identity through family and cultural heritage
Being a positive role model for future generations
Writing from lived experiences
Taking op...
2021-07-1652 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast030 - Collaborative Walking with Cherelle HardingAs Sheree Mack, your host, chats with Cherelle Harding from the Midlands, this episode covers:
Black Girls HIke
Creating Steppers UK
Public backlash against Black walking groups
Working with the Youth and Nature
Childhood experiences for a lasting impression
Coming to Nature through the arts
Health and Wellbeing
British Science Week and Research
Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Collaborative rather than competition
Barriers to walking outside
All the Elements
Childhood upbringing
Future plans
Bio:
Cherelle Harding is a youth worker from Coventry, Founder of Steppers UK & Midlands leader of Black Girls Hike. Not growing up...
2021-07-1345 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast029- Sharing Nature Connections Across A Younger Generation With Amina Smith-GulSheree Mack your host really enjoyed talking to Amina Smith-Gul about her many different experiences and activities within nature and how she takes the time and energy to share her love of nature with others, particularly with the younger generation.
In this episode you'll hear them talking about:
The two films that explore Black people and swimming, Blacks Can't Swim
The development of the City Girl in Nature's YouTube channel
All the Elements social events
Living in London and green spaces
Amina'a Peruvian Amazon rainforest experience
Giving back to the community
Inspiring others to get out i...
2021-06-1647 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast028 - To connect with birds, do we need to know their names?Talking from a personal perspective, Dr. Sheree Mack, shares her thoughts, feelings and creative pieces around her developing connection with birds.
interspersed with field recordings from her walks, Sheree shares family history, superstitions and wonder about these remarkable creatures.
Herring Gull, one of the poems Sheree reads in this episode, was published by Poetry Village, September 2020.
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2021-05-2822 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast027 - Working to include All The Elements in the Great Outdoors with Soraya Abdel-HadiSoraya Abdel-Hadi is an award-winning writer, artist, and advocate for women and diversity in the UK outdoors.
In this episode you get to enjoy the conversation around:
Lockdown fatigue
Paying attention to the seasons.
All the Elements
Building community to create diversity in the outdoors
Creativity to bring about change
Barriers to equitable access to the outdoors
Fear - internal and external
The dominate image of the Great Outdoors is male
Operating from a place of privilege
Mixed heritage backgrounds
Getting an outdoors fix with horses and climbing
Working with women and sustainability through a holistic l...
2021-05-1757 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast026 - Trying to find the ways to talk about nature, environment and race with Joanna HenryJo is an advocate for social, environmental and global justice. She is passionate about creating change through who we are and what we embody and believes in the power of connection to heal and transform.
In this episode we talk about:
Getting out into local areas
Exclusive spaces 'v' public land
Privatised land in the UK
Barriers to getting into the countryside
Common land and common right to roam
Childhood connection to nature
Environmental and social issues connection
Woofing around the world
Family heritage
The gaze and not being reflected
Gaslighting around race and racism
Peer...
2021-04-2356 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast025- Herbalism and Ancient Medicine with Rasheeqa AhmadRasheeqa Ahmad, Hedge Herbs - medical herbalist in the community in Walthamstow in north east London.
Rasheeqa has been practicing with plant medicine for the last 8 years after studying herbal medicine in Glasgow and London.
In this episode we talk about:
Going out to go into nature
Doorstep explorations
Urban green spaces
Plant medicine and and community
Herbal medicine within the community
Body wisdom and taking back our power
Western medicine 'v' traditional medicine
Ancient healing systems
Family history within medicine
Radical Herbalism
Preventative medicine
Knowing the names of plants
The properties of yarrow
The abu...
2021-04-1253 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastEpisode 024 - Don’t Sacrifice Your Skin For AnyoneWithin this episode, our first where we platform the creative works from women of colour and nature, your usual host Dr Sheree Mack shares a prose poem created a few years ago which explores her multiple visits to Iceland. Previously published with Something Other, for the first time ever, you will be able to hear and experience Sheree read this piece.
We hope through sharing these creative pieces that we are expanding the growing exposure and appreciation of Black Nature Writing.
A little side note :
Title quoted from a poem by Emmy Fisher.
2021-03-2614 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastWelcome to Season 2 of The Earth Sea Love Podcast - Episode 021This first episode of Season 2 comes to you from the host of The Earth Sea Love Podcast, Sheree Mack.
Sheree lets you in on what's been happening over the winter months with the podcast ( clue: not very much). She might set out some plans for moving forward with the podcast ( maybe, or maybe not).
But Sheree will definitely share with you a few things that are happening in the virtual and real world in the next coming weeks and months.
Events that Sheree mentions within this episode can be found here:
T...
2021-03-1326 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastSeason 2, 022 - pt. 1 - Trees and Journaling with Jackee HolderJackee Holder is an Executive and Leadership coach, coach supervisor, coach trainer, action learning set facilitator, intuitive facilitator, writer, published author, interfaith minister and creativity expert. Jackee works nationally and internationally with teams, groups and individuals. She is the author of Soul Purpose, Be Your Own Best Life Coach & 49 Ways To Write Yourself Well.
In this episode we talk about:
being situated on the very last road in London
looking after plants during lockdown
the triple pandemic
what Jackee does as a day job
the practice of walking to get to know a place
hearing...
2021-03-1338 minThe Earth Sea Love PodcastSeason 2, 023 - pt. 2 - Trees and Journaling with Jackee HolderJackee Holder is an Executive and Leadership coach, coach supervisor, coach trainer, action learning set facilitator, intuitive facilitator, writer, published author, interfaith minister and creativity expert. Jackee works nationally and internationally with teams, groups and individuals. She is the author of Soul Purpose, Be Your Own Best Life Coach & 49 Ways To Write Yourself Well.
In this episode we talk about:
being situated on the very last road in London
looking after plants during lockdown
the triple pandemic
what Jackee does as a day job
the practice of walking to get to know a place
hearing...
2021-03-1336 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast020 - Creativity, travelling and searching for home with Catherine LucktaylorCatherine Lucktaylor, using an ancient Japanese technique of Raku to create beautiful pieces of art, talks intimately about her search for home, after growing up in Liverpool being the only black child in her family and community.
In this episode we explore:
The seasons
The process of Raku
The exploration of the Cornish landscape with art
Juicy descriptions of artworks touched by nature
Adinkra Symbols and the Orishas
Embracing wildness
Moving around the UK and still being close to nature
Mixed-race upbringing
A fascination with the spirit of nature
Travelling to West African and how heritage...
2020-12-1156 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast019 - Healing from trauma and grief through a connection with the land with Velda ThomasVelda Thomas, homesteader and steward of the land in Washington State, USA, is someone to sit down with and tap about her relationship to the land. The land she owns and nurtures as well as the land she grew up tending with family and in community.
In this episode, we talk about:
Homesteading and stewardship
Black people and sovereignty
Exploitation of the land for profit
Simple living
Writing when the muse takes you
Writing for healing trauma
Healing through nature and the land
Writing blended genres
Grief, death and ritual
Body wisdom
Reclaiming a connection with t...
2020-12-0752 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast018 - A lovely conversation with Avni Trivedi exploring bodywork, nature and wildnessIn this super deluxe episode, we touch on so many issues and topics which are vital to moving through this world in our bodies. Out stories as women of colour, are no longer going unheard as we share our voices here. We hope if you're listening and enjoying what you Hera that you are sharing these episodes far and wide. Thank you.
In this episode you'll hear us talking about:
Feeling all the emotions
Working as a Body Worker
Conscious wellness
Working with touch during lockdown
Connecting to our bodies
Cold water swimming
Bring nature into...
2020-12-0148 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast017 - Language, place, nature and identity with Jessica J. Lee158901158901Jessica J. Lee is an author and environmental historian who talking opening about her heritage and relationship with nature in this next episode from our podcast.
In this episode we talk about:
The lockdown
Connecting with nature on our doorsteps
Urban green spaces
Cold water swimming
Nature writing
Limnology, the study of inland water ecosystems
Language and place
Childhood with nature
The state of diversity in nature writing
Future plans
Jessica J. Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese author and environmental historian, and winner of the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and th...
2020-11-2539 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast016- Talking about Black Environmentalism with Shaira BegumWe are so happy to be releasing this episode with Shaira Begum now. Shaira is doing some great work in horticultural therapy as this is used to support women on their road to recovery from domestic abuse.
In this episode we talk about:
Cultivating small spaces like a balcony
how plants are our friends
Green Care for domestic abuse sufferers
making life choices to follow our dreams
Outdoor learning such as city farms
Sharing our heritage and green knowledge across generations
changing the narrative in the environmental movement
finding our tribe in climate justice
gat...
2020-11-2051 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast015 - An Open and Honest Conversation about Racism, Nature and Camping with Jola Olafimihan - part 2Jola Olafimihan is a young woman who came to England to study and has experience many hardships and difficulties during her time here. This episode split into two parts explores what it's like to be a black women alone in a new and strange country and how Jola found a safe space at The Angelou Centre.
"The Angelou Centre offers a range of holistic women-only* services for black and minoritised women across the North East. The organisation remains unique as one of the few remaining black-led women’s organisations in the north east of England, providing specialist sup...
2020-11-1629 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast014 - An Open and Honest Conversation about Racism, Nature and Camping with Jola Olafimihan - part 1Jola Olafimihan is a young woman who came to England to study and has experience many hardships and difficulties during her time here. This episode split into two parts explores what it's like to be a black women alone in a new and strange country and how Jola found a safe space at The Angelou Centre.
"The Angelou Centre offers a range of holistic women-only* services for black and minoritised women across the North East. The organisation remains unique as one of the few remaining black-led women’s organisations in the north east of England, providing specialist sup...
2020-11-1345 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast013- Writing on Leaves with Niveen KassemDr. Niveem Kassem is a PhD holder, tutorial assistant, trained mentor, editor, innovative and successful interpreter/translator. Currently Assistant Teaching Fellow in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures and a member of the Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Durham University, her research spreads across interdisciplinary strands, including cultural studies and heritage, memory, identity and trauma. As part of this, she tries to understand how the past shapes the collective and individual identity in the present. Niveen has also worked with Newcastle University as part of a research program introducing the North East’s Syriac community to the...
2020-11-1039 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast012- Swimcaps and hair and power with Sheree MackIn this final episode of the month of October 2020, Sheree shares with you her recent sea swim as well as part of her hair story. She shares the plans going forward for the podcast as season one draws to a close in December and how we have more amazing women of colour signed up for season two in 2021.
If you're listening and a woman colour with some kind of relationship with nature, then please get in touch and be part of The Earth Sea Love Podcast.
Contact us through the email: sheshemack(@)gmail(.) com
2020-10-2924 min
The Two Of UsThe Two of Us SHORTS with Sheree MackPodcaster and all-round creative Sheree Mack discusses the power of creativity to work through trauma and her relationship with nature and its power to heal. Show hosts - Naomi Woddis/Alba Frederick Originally broadcast on Reel Rebels Radio Music : Gavin O'Brien - Citóg
2020-10-2929 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast011 - Exploring the dark night of the soul and nature with Makeda PennycookeWhile we got comfortable over a a pot of tea, this conversation was a gem to be part of as Makeda shares the details of her journey that brings her to the present day being service to people who are navigating through changes in their lives. She will hold space for you to discover the answers and wisdom which lies within you.
What you’ll hear us talking about in this episode is:
social media hiatus
the power within our names
where we are situated physically
what Makeda does to support people going through chan...
2020-10-221h 01
Cabot Coverage: A Murder, She Wrote Podcast25. No Laughing Murder (Season 3, Episode 18) (First Aired on March 15, 1987)Jessica tries to help two estranged comics repair their relationship at an engagement party. However, when the comics' agent is found dead, Jessica must get to the bottom of it.This episode can be streamed at IMDb TV (Amazon) and Peacock.Guest Stars include:1. Buddy Hackett (The Little Mermaid) as Murray Gruen2. Steve Lawrence (The Blues Brothers) as Mack Howard3. Pat Crowley (Port Charles) as Trudy Howard4. Beth Windsor (The Finishing Touch) as Corrie Gruen5. George Clooney (Up in the Air) as Kip Howard6. Arte Johnson (Laugh-In) as Phil R...
2020-10-211h 08The Earth Sea Love Podcast010- Talking about sexual reparenting and trauma with Betsy PerezThis episode has been moved up the queue so once you’ve listened to it you can jump onto Betsy’s offering happening Sunday 18 October 2020. Celebrate the Origins Workshop, where you’ll get the opportunity to learn how to listen to our bodies an discover your own unique origins stories from the carnal to the cosmic. Go check it out via the link above.
Betsy has also just started a podcast called Sexually Reparenting Myself.
Here are some of the things we talk about:
* We check on in on the curr...
2020-10-151h 06The Earth Sea Love Podcast009 - Personal Narrative pt.3 with Sheree MackIn this episode, Dr Sheree Mack talks about October being full of birthdays, the wounded inner child, connecting with her body, walking to school and wanting you, Dear Listener to find the gems within all the conversations from this growing podcast to take into your life and live and learn and grow from.
Trigger warning: This episode along with the next one does mention and discuss childhood sexual abuse and trauma.
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2020-10-1523 min
The Nurture Project PodcastNurture Project Podcast - Sheree MackBook coach Sophy Dale talks to writer and podcaster Dr. Sheree Mack about self-care, wild swimming, and inspiration.
2020-10-1433 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast008 - An Intimate Conversation with Olwen Wilson about Visual Journaling and Claiming JoyI found myself laughing along and nodding my head while listening back to this episode while editing it. I love Olwen as she is such an inspiring woman who isn’t afraid to tell you what’s on her mind; the good and the bad. And she doesn’t suffer fools either. She hasn’t got time for any white tears.
Here are some of the things we talk about:
Where we are situated now
Exploring Creative Connection
Visual Journalling
Herb gardens
Storytelling
Reminding people to connect with themselves through yoga and creativity
childhood connections to nature
I...
2020-10-071h 09The Earth Sea Love Podcast006 - Coming back: we’ve been building our powerOur last episode was released July 27. Two months later, we bring you the next instalment of the podcast with an intimate and vulnerable monologue from Sheree Mack as some way of explaining our absence.
There's the mention of the Summer holidays, losing her voice, break downs and break ups.
But all explored within the framework of gaining clarity and power to move the podcast forward.
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2020-10-0117 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast007- Reconnecting with Nature for Mental Health and Healing with Shirley-Anne Bingham"Nurturing something else into life has really helped my wellbeing – gently caring for something helped me learn to care for myself." Mind.org.uk
We laugh and share our joys. We explore what we have to do in life in comparsion to what we really want to do. All the time Mother Nature being our constant companion leading and nurturing us with her wisdom and support.
What you'll hear us talking about in this episode is:
self-care during lockdown
taking care of our mental health during challenging times
reconnecting to our inner child
gardening an...
2020-10-0136 min
Speak From the BodyReclaiming the Authentic Voice for Full Expression with Sheree MackHave you ever felt constricted by what other people think you ‘should’ be? In this episode, I speak to artist Sheree Mack https://www.instagram.com/livingwildstudios/ about reclaiming her true voice and learning to express herself authentically and fully. We talk about her new project: ‘The Earth Sea Love Podcast’, which explores women of colour and their relationship with the natural world. For the full show notes: https://www.avni-touch.com/podcast/sheree-mack This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes...
2020-09-2355 min
Grief Magic: Rituals, Tarot & Gentle Conversations about Loss#89 Mixed media memoir and reclaiming a place in nature with Sheree MackHey everyone, I'm so happy to send this interview with Sheree Mack your way - it's been beautiful to talk to her and I got so much inspiration from the way she approaches creativity, nature and life in general. Here is some of what we talked about:
How Sheree experienced the pandemic
Wild swimming and reclaiming a place in nature as a black woman
The magic of mixed media memoir
Tending to grief through ritual and connection to nature
Facilitating collaborative creative projects for women of colour
My practice manifests through poetry, storytelling, image and the unfolding historie...
2020-08-2042 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast005 - An intimate conversation with Hiranya de Alwis Jayasinghe exploring nature and spiritualityHiranya de Alwis Jayasinghe, London/Hertfordshire.
Hiranya is a British Sri Lankan women with a lineage of farmers, gardeners and zoologists. She is best known for her 2018 hike around the Welsh coastline. Her love for nature is deeply imbued within her spirituality. Hiranya finds meaning within life’s cycles. She integrates this practical spirituality into her everyday life. She dreams of keeping chickens, herding cows and walking drover routes. Her vision is connecting women of colour with their own creativity, body and spirituality in nature.
Website: www.lifemovesincycles.com/blog
See acas...
2020-07-271h 05The Earth Sea Love Podcast001 - The First Episode - An intimate conversation with Anita Wan about growing plants and allotmentsAnita Wan has worked in the cultural sector in the North East for nearly 20 years. She has worked for heritage, architecture, arts and funding organisations and throughout her roles, her passion has always centred around people, communities, and amplifying marginalised voices.
Anita has been the Chair of The Angelou Centre, a Black feminist women’s organisation in Newcastle, since 2017. She is proud to work alongside an inspiring sisterhood of volunteers, staff and survivors to end violence against Black women and girls.
Anita has an allotment plot which she took on three years ago. This year, she...
2020-07-131h 01The Earth Sea Love Podcast004 - Personal Narrative from Sheree Mack, pt.2Dr. Sheree Mack is the Project Coordinator for the National Heritage Lottery Funded project, Wayfinding: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Great Outdoors, where she works with Northumberland National Park Authority, Durham Wildlife Trust, the Northumberland Wildlife Trust, and Harehope Quarry Ltd. to offer opportunities to People of the Global Majority (PGM) communities in the North of England to spend time outdoors to develop and deepen their relationship with nature.
Sheree’s practice manifests through poetry, storytelling, image and the unfolding histories of black people. She engages audiences around black women’s voices and bodies, black feminism, ecology...
2020-07-1307 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast003- A Conversation with Jane Odegha about the group African Women’s Voices and FoodJane Odegha is a Clinical pharmacist by Profession. She was the first Chairperson of African Women Voices Sunderland 2018 to 2019, a community organisation for African women aiming to establish a network that will encourage true friendship while excluding isolation and promoting integration in the community. She was privileged to work along many African women during her tenure as the Chairperson of the organisation, in the project 'Sharing African Food Heritage' sponsored by Heritage Lottery Funding. Jane is passionate about helping people and enjoys networking with others.
Website : africanwomenvoices.co.uk
Facebook page : African women voices Sunderland
I...
2020-07-1341 minThe Earth Sea Love Podcast002 - Personal Narrative from Sheree Mack, pt.1Dr. Sheree Mack is the Project Coordinator for the National Heritage Lottery Funded project, Wayfinding: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Great Outdoors, where she works with Northumberland National Park Authority, Durham Wildlife Trust, the Northumberland Wildlife Trust, and Harehope Quarry Ltd. to offer opportunities to People of the Global Majority (PGM) communities in the North of England to spend time outdoors to develop and deepen their relationship with nature.
Sheree’s practice manifests through poetry, storytelling, image and the unfolding histories of black people. She engages audiences around black women’s voices and bodies, black feminism, ecology...
2020-07-1316 minPrompted by Nature12b. 'A Journey to Oneness' Meditation and Writing Prompt for Dr Sheree MackA meditation that takes you through the five layers of the energetic body to the space of oneness that we all have.
First I guide you into the visualisation of moving through each layer surrounding the body and then into the centre of the rib cage, the still, unchanging space in which we can find peace and unity.
You are then left for 3 minutes to focus on this space and then invited to write whatever comes up and through. As always, no judgement, no expectation, just write in whatever way you feel drawn to at th...
2020-06-3015 minPrompted by Nature12a. Dr Sheree Mack: Representation in Nature as a Path to OnenessHello and welcome to episode 12 of Prompted by Nature. This week you are in for a treat as I’m releasing the conversation I had with the wonderful Dr. Sheree Mack a couple of weeks ago.
Sheree is the Project Coordinator for a Heritage Lottery Funded project where she works with Northumberland National Park Authority, Durham Wildlife Trust and the National Trust, to offer opportunities to BAME communities to spend time outdoors to develop and deepen their relationship with nature.
Sheree’s practice manifests through poetry, storytelling, image and the unfolding histories of black people. She e...
2020-06-271h 07The Earth Sea Love PodcastTrailerIt's just the trailer. Juicy episodes to come ...
Theme music: URL: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Black_Ant/Joanna_Preciado/Mother_Earth
Podcast funded by National Heritage Lottery Fund
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2020-06-1902 min
Sheree's show Speak Life 562Episode 19 - Sheree's show Speak Life 562Elder James Mack offers us insight and wisdom in trying times
2020-03-3119 min
Gospel Praise PartyGPP Mix v2.6: Power From On High (Luke 24:49): “A Sons Of Thunder Mix”“Power From On High (Luke 24:49)”Spreading The Gospel in Music and Mix. Creating A Space For Believers and Seekers To Find Peace Joy Love and Freedom. Featuring The Best In Gospel-Inspirational-Soulful House Music.1. Ultra Nate - Rejoicing (Ultra-pella)2. Michelle Weeks – A Purpose (Ron Carroll’s Purpose Remix)3. DJ Mack Boogaloo – Return of The Dixie Hummingbirds 4. Fever Brothers -Rejoice5. Cei Bei - I Need You Lord (Union Effect Redemption Vocal Mix)6. Stacy Kidd Feat. Sheree Hicks - Celebrate7. SuSu Bobien – I Got My Pride (Davide Fiorese Mix)8. Mr. Mike - Why Can’t We...
2012-11-241h 13Wanda's PicksRebroadcast of Wanda's Picks Special featuring composer/artists: Mack Rucks (trumpet) and Muziki Roberson (piano). They speak about a new series that kicked off at Eastside Cultural Center in Oakland, Friday, June 4, 2010, continuing July 2 and August 6. Shows are at 8 PM. Visit www.eastsideartsalliance.org Director Marie A. Celestin joins us to talk about "Black Rainbows: The Colors and Self-Images of African American Girls. Two of the women subjects featured in the film will also be on the air. We close with Carolyn Brandy and Ava Square-Levias who will talk about the Women's Drum Camp: Born to Drum, this weekend, as...
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