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Dear Katie: Survivor StoriesS8E10 Breaking Free from Domination ConsciousnessSydney Searchwell-Simpson is a writer, artist, yogi, permaculture practitioner, and lover of Life whose work (and embodied life) merges spirituality and social action. Inspired by insights on her spiritual journey, her experience of sexual and domestic violence, and a lifetime of activism, Sydney’s upcoming books and podcast explore how we can love and be free through and beyond what she calls “domination consciousness”. She walks a path of the Heart and is intentionally exploring how she can live, build, love, and create new ways of being and relating that are conducive to Life.
Host: Katie Koestner
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2025-10-3050 min
Sacred Pathways: Stories & Wisdom from Walking the Heart's WayWhy The Heart Must Contract To Know ExpansionBlessings Beloveds! an offering from my own process - Mashallah! I have been and will be in deep refinement - becoming closer to the Divine who is strengthening me on the path set before me. I pray you are all in peace and presence and that this story offers you love and support through the wholeness our journeys Home hold. May you trust in the perfection and mercy in every step and remember that renewal is a promised blessing by the Beloved to all who seek Him.Here are the resources...
2025-09-0730 min
Sacred Pathways: Stories & Wisdom from Walking the Heart's WayA Sacred Pause, New Beginnings & An Offering"You and me, God. Just You and me".In this episode, I share some life updates with you around where my focus has been and where the path is calling me to go towards. This will be the last Sacred Pathways episode for a while. I've been guided to let this rest as it evolves into something reflective of now. If you wish to stay connected, you can join the Substack newsletter which will remain active: https://sacredpathways.substack.com/ You can also stay connected to me and my work here: https://www.jivanmuktahealing.com/If you'd...
2025-06-2512 min
Sacred Pathways: Stories & Wisdom from Walking the Heart's WayEp.108 - The Practice & Pathway of Belonging w/ ridhi d'cruz“I feel like when I attune to the severances [of domination], the pain is my map to the practice of belonging” - ridhi d’cruzIn this episode of the Sacred Pathways: Stories & Wisdom from Walking the Heart's Way, we journey with ridhi d’cruz on belonging to oneself, each other, the land and Life as a pathway to liberation. Chapters:00:30 - 1:58 - Introduction 01:59 - 16:34 - ridhi’s story: belonging as a pathway16:35 - 20:37 - sydney’s story & navigating relational crisis with belonging20:38 - 23:15 - navi...
2025-06-121h 16
Sacred Pathways: Stories & Wisdom from Walking the Heart's WayEp. 107 - Creating from the Womb of Silence“Silence is the capacity to hear what is within and beyond sound. What is within and beyond what’s spoken. An effortless hearing; a doorway to true listening.” - Sydney Searcwell-SimpsonIn this episode of Sacred Pathways, I share an unedited stream-of-consciousness reflection written during a writer’s circle, at a time when I was deeply listening—within and around—for how the Divine wished to move through me. As I responded to a prompt on silence, what emerged was not polished or planned, but a raw and honest meditation on the sacredness of silence as the birthplace o...
2025-05-2917 min
Sacred Pathways: Stories & Wisdom from Walking the Heart's WayEp. 106 - Bhakti: Awakening Divine Love through the Yogic Path of Devotion w/ Kirtan Culture Initiative“At the end of the day, if you can activate love of the Divine in whatever shape or form that takes. And if you can do that through loving each other and finding love for yourself, isn’t that a common principle amongst almost all spiritual traditions? And shouldn’t we use that as a commonality to understand that we’re speaking the same language just maybe in different dialects, accents and tones?” - Kevala Bhakti Dasa from Kirtan Culture Initiative To watch the full video interview of this episode, follow this link: https://youtu.be/Alsr_hyO...
2025-05-151h 22
Sacred Pathways: Stories & Wisdom from Walking the Heart's WayEmbracing Exile & Returning Homethis is a preview of audios available for free & paid subscribers on Substack. When you subscribe, you get exclusive creations directly to your inbox and can join a community of co-journers who are walking their Sacred Path home. You can subscribe here: https://sacredpathways.substack.com/In this episode, Sydney shares with you her personal reflections on her process of choosing authenticity and standing apart instead of validation and being insincere. With philosophical musings on the sacredness of standing apart, Sydney shares how she is making peace with standing apart, embracing exile and trusting her...
2025-05-0812 min
Sacred Pathways: Stories & Wisdom from Walking the Heart's WayEp.105 - Letting Everything Go for Truth & Freedom w/ Robin Greenfield | Sacred Pathways Podcast*the audio was quality was disrupted by a computer fan, so please be patient with the muffled quality. I promise the quality of the conversation is worth it🤍“The way that our lives are designed, every single one of us takes part in systems of mass lies everyday. Where we’re not what we say we are: in our food, in our water, our energy, our waste, our transportation. None of us are who we say we are.” - Robin GreenfieldTo watch the full video interview of this episode, follow this link: https://y...
2025-05-0158 min
Sacred Pathways: Stories & Wisdom from Walking the Heart's WayEp.104 - Embodying the Infinite in the Play of Identity | Sacred Pathways"It begins when we embrace the full Truth of this reality- of our eternal, infinite, unchanging nature within the realm of the changing, temporal, and limited. How can we honour both of these Truths and allow it to expand the path and the possibilities?” - Sydney Searchwell-SimpsonIn this episode of the Sacred Pathways: Stories & Wisdom from Walking the Heart's Way, we journey with Sydney through a spontaneous channel that explores finding balance, relationship and expansion in the dance between our Eternal, Infinite & Unchanging Nature with our Temporal, Limited and Ever-Changing Personal Identities....
2025-04-1741 min
Sacred Pathways: Stories & Wisdom from Walking the Heart's WayEp.103 - Unknowing as a Doorway to Divinity w/ Noah Souder-Russo | Sacred Pathways Podcastthis episode contains some swearing “What ways of knowing are in the darkness? Are in the cauldron [of unknowing]?” - Noah Souder-RussoTo watch the full video interview of this episode, follow this link: https://youtu.be/93ghrkgR3CoIn this episode of the Sacred Pathways: Stories & Wisdom from Walking the Heart's Way, we journey with Noah Souder-Russo through:4:24- 11:35 The Intimacy of Not Knowing11:36 - 16:35 Rooting into Unknowing 16:36 - 25:17 The Dark Feminine & Noah’s Experience of the Collective Transition 25:18 - 34:16 Where We Find Refuge 34:17 - 42:05 Sydney’s Experience of the Collective Transition 42:06 - 45:00...
2025-04-031h 01
Sacred Pathways: Stories & Wisdom from Walking the Heart's WayEp.102 - Sydney's Story | Hearing the Call & Trusting the Way to Freedom | Sacred Pathways Podcast“The call for liberation is a call from our True Nature. It is a call to remember who we are beyond the consciousness of domination—the very root from which all oppressive systems and ways of relating grow: whether in our relationship to oneself, other humans and beyond-humans, the Earth and, now, Life herself. This consciousness, ultimately, veils the Truth of Life within and around us.” - Sydney Searchwell-SimpsonVideo link: https://youtu.be/Y8zIVxpXJbA Subscribe to listen to Sacred Pathways on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or Youtube!In this episode of the Sacred Pathways Podcast, we journey with the host...
2025-03-2754 min
Sacred Pathways: Stories & Wisdom from Walking the Heart's WayEp.101 - Getting to the Heart of Liberation | Sacred Pathways Podcast“The spiritual, ecological, social, political, relational discord we are witnessing and participating in is a necessary awakening to the call for change. The call of transformation … of evolution: the evolution of Life, the evolution of human consciousness, the evolution of how we choose to relate to ourselves, the human and beyond human Life around us, and to Life itself.” - Sydney Searchwell-Simpson To watch the full video interview of this episode, follow this link: https://youtu.be/NnFTJc1_dJk In this episode of Sacred Pathways: Stories & Wisdom from Walking the Heart's Way, we...
2025-03-2016 min
Sacred Pathways: Stories & Wisdom from Walking the Heart's Waybe empty & filled with the presence of GodLately, my mantra has been “I let it all go for union with God.”As I’ve moved through my day noticing any fears, doubts, projections, judgements about my path, other people or the future, I’ve noticed that repeating this mantra has given me the power to redirect my focus on what is true and important, here and now.Rather than giving those fears, doubts, judgements, etc. more energy, this mantra helps me remember that they are impermanent passings of the mind for me to notice and be aware of, but they are not the dire...
2025-01-1804 min