We did this interview with Stephen Jenkinson prior to his performance of A Night of Grief and Mystery in Nelson. Stephen has a wisdom about death and dying that is rare in our death-phobic culture. If you haven't listened to Stephen speak or perform you are in for a treat - rarely [...]
In this show we interview Tom Wayman on his new book Watching a Man Break a Dog's Back - Poems for a Dark Time. Given that this interview was done during the Covid-19 pandemic and our period of social distancing we did the interview over the phone and the strange circumstances prompted [...]
This interview was with Courtney Wren-Mabbutt, Masters of Clinical Social Work. She is a therapist offering services in Nelson and Winlaw, British Columbia. She works with individuals, couples, children, and families. She is registered with the BC College of Social Workers. She provides Somatic Psychotherapy offering an embodied-relational approach to healing. [...]
This interview was with author and keynote speaker Maria Kliavkoff about her new book Healthy Mourning, Happy Loving - 52 Ways to Convert Your Grief to Mourning. We spoke about the difference between grief and mourning, and about the difficulties of healthy grieving in our culture. Believe it or not [...]
This interview was done shortly after International Women's Day. Its an interview with Gitta Ridder about her experience teaching Women's Personal Safety (Wenlido) to women in India over a period of eight years. Ana and Gitta discussed the conditions for women in India and their efforts to improve their lives. Gitta described the challenges [...]
This week we shared our experiences in doing a couple of shamanic journeys with shaman Tommy Hopkins. The original reason for launching down this particular rabbit hole was because Ana has finally divorced herself from her toxic parents. Although she had said goodbye she was having a hard time feeling clear of their energy. [...]
In this weeks show we talk about dysfunctional family dynamics. We were with family over the holidays and it became apparent that there were patterns that were well embedded within the family that were classic examples of a dysfunctional abusive family. We hadn't been home for a while and sometimes distance makes it easier [...]
This weeks interview is the second of our talks with Peter Fritsch, an Episcopal priest, writer, spiritual counselor and healer with a very unconventional attitude (at least for a priest) toward the spiritual. Peter has studied Carl Jung and Shamanism among other things and he likes to talk to seekers who DON'T go to [...]
This week we spoke with David Swain, founder of Altitude Project about his upcoming fundraiser. David has sponsored a book tour with Dorje Dorma, author of Yak Girl who is from Dolpo and the screening of the documentary The Only Son, which is about Dorje's family. The Altitude Project supports 4 schools in the [...]
This weeks interview is with Dorje Dolma, who wrote the book Yak Girl. Dorje has an amazing story to tell about living as a young girl in the upper Dolpa region of Nepal - one of the most remote places in the world and then coming to America for a life saving surgery. Here's [...]
