Memoir Body, Healing Story with Janelle Hardy

In this encore episode I'm sharing a conversation with Kate Chadbourne, an award-winning songwriter and poet, scholar and teacher of Irish language and folklore, living in Massachusetts. We rambled all over in our conversation, talking about space clearing using traditional feather brush made by the Shaker People, being present, quality of attention, storytelling, the ugly, messy phase of the crea...

In this encore episode I'm sharing a conversation with Jen Setterfield of Vancouver Island, Canada. Jen has such a gentle nature and kind thoughtful way of understanding the world, as well as some very unique life experiences. Jen is a woman in the second half of her life who has spent the first half finding out who she is. She came to Canada, from Yellow Springs, Ohio in her blond and blue -eyed...

In this encore episode I'm sharing a conversation with NICOLE GULOTTA,  the author of Wild Words: Rituals, Routines, and Rhythms for Braving the Writer's Path and Eat This Poem: A Literary Feast of Recipes Inspired by Poetry , which was inspired by her blog of the same name. Her winning poetry chapbook, Migration , was published by Flyway: A Journal of Writing and Environment at Iowa State Univers...

In this encore episode I'm sharing a conversation with Linda Laino, an artist, writer and teacher who has been making art in one form or another for over 35 years. Holding an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, she enjoys playing with words as much as form and color. Since 2012, she has resided in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico where the surreal atmosphere and sensuous colors have wormed the...

In this encore episode I'm sharing a conversation with Amber Magnolia Hill, podcastere rand plant medicine maker, for people who yearn for knowledge about herbalism, deepening ancestral connections, and remembering what it is to be human upon the earth. She helps folks to drop the cultural lies of disconnection and disempowerment, and to remember that the old ways are in our bones. Amber is an her...