Episode 7 - Theresa Njoroge - Re-imagining Futures, Reclaiming Destinies

09/25/20 • 49 min

Theresa Njoroge is the founder of the social enterprise Clean Start. Clean Start works with Kenyan women and children impacted by the criminal justice system to restore dignity and hope for a successful reintegration to everyday life.

Theresa's inspiration for Clean Start was born when she was wrongly imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit. We talk about her journey, the trauma she experienced, the people she met along the way, the importance of standing in one's courage and truth and the power of spreading action from the heart.

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Episode 6 - Kristi Nelson - Waking Up Grateful: The Transformative Practice Of Taking Nothing For Granted

What would life be like to take nothing for granted? How can we learn to live in the great fullness of life without avoiding the muck and the messiness? Kristi Nelson and I discuss these questions and many more in this heartfelt conversation.

Kristi Nelson is currently the Executive Director at gratefulness.org and has spent virtually her entire adult life immersed in the rewarding work of non-profit leadership, marrying both social and spiritual change. In her early 30's Kristi was faced with an illness that brought the fleetingness of mortality directly into her awareness. From this she had a heart opening experience of seeing the beauty of each and every moment and asking herself questions such as, ' What place am I acting from in the world? ' What would it be like to marry activism with the heart?' This has led her to many years spent bathed in the intention of grateful living, which is the topic of her beautiful book, 'Wake up Grateful: The Transformative Practice of Taking Nothing for Granted' which can be pre-ordered now.

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Susan Mcconell-dissolving the notion of a separation between body and mind

This is a slightly different episode. It is filled with different meditations and invitations into a deeper space. So I invite you to find a comfortable and quite place to enjoy.
Susan McConnell is the founder and author of the Somatic IFS model. This talk discusses her life work and her new book that combines left brain practices regarding breath, nervous system and trauma awareness with right brain felt sense and embodiment practices. I find it a deep invitation to dissolve any notion of their being a separation between body and mind or between us and nature.
It is built on 5 pillars, Somatic Awareness, Conscious breathing, radical resonance, mindful movement and attuned touch. We discuss each pillar and how they merge together to help someone rest in their deepest self.