Grow Free with Emma B

Humanity is flowering.  So many people are beginning to let their light shine in unique ways.  This is amazing. Yet, part of the process is more fully experiencing the dark as well as the light within us so that they can come back into balance.  This podcast explores experiences of moving through this process with people who are brave enough to show us their messiness as well as they marvelousness...

These are times of huge transition. We are crossing from an era of Pisces to Aquarius. We're shifting from a time where power has been centralised to one where it is moving back to the people. It's a time where knowledge is coming directly to each of us and updating itself rapidly. In this context, it felt important to explore 'paradigm' - what it is and how it transforms. This is...

Rising from a rest or a place of safety is different to getting up for another round of battle or keeping up on the hamster wheel.  We’ve finished a three-year cycle starting with the onset of Corona 19, the restrictions, and the huge squeezes and shifts in consciousness it created.  We’ve been batted about by polarized views towards personal, collective, and existential extinction and quite frank...

In a human world that has become a relentless stream of activity, rest has become one of the most radical acts we can take. To return our true connection to our human, and non-human, essence, it is one of the most potent acts we can make. This conversation explores 'rest' in ordinary and extraordinary ways. Emma B taps into Lorna Bailey's experience as a single mother, a devoted daught...

Memory as Medicine is a dialogue with shamanic practitioner and poet seer Lorna Bailey that dives into the nature of memory. We discuss: - discuss how unresolved trauma disconnects us from the intelligence of memory, keeping hijacked in repeating loops of the nervous system - recognize that memory is sometimes labelled as imagination or psychosis - honour the value of re-membering ourselves into t...

In this episode, I explore the relationship between connection and reverence - what they are, where we lost and found them - with three Grow Free Community Members. We start the conversation by looking at some quotes and definitions from Brene Brown's Atlas of the Heart, and in particular the comparison of admiration and reverence. 'We feel admiration when someone's abilities, accompli...

Archetypes and attunement are resources that are significantly affected by trauma and key to moving beyond it.   Attunement can be described and experienced in many ways.  It is essentially our ability to receive, feel and respond to the flow of energy or information within and around us.  I love how Thomas Hubl describes attunement . When we are carrying significant trauma burdens however, which...

In this episode, I speak with a firm favourite in the Grow Free Community.  One of our practitioner members, Jon Cree was one of the key pioneers of Forest School in the UK, a director of The Forest School Association UK and co-author of The Essential Guide to Forest School & Nature Pedagogy .  He is also an emerging expert in nature-based approaches for working through trauma.  Jon is deliver...

In terms of healing and inner work, ‘Release’ used to feel quite a heavy term with dense emotions and experiences surfacing.  Now it feels as much about the energy of the new as the letting go of the past.  This is nothing short of miraculous, for me at least.   I tied up the threads of my years of healing work at cellular, energetic, DNA levels during the days and Imbolc  I got to a moment where...

In this episode, I introduce you to two practitioners who are among the pioneers in growing beyond trauma and the matrix it has kept us in and in supporting others to do the same.  We have a conversation about the exciting theme of Re-birth & Renewal.    I welcome again Vicki Rebecca who describes herself as a story-healer, and who brings a lifetime of experience that includes professional wor...

In this episode, I explore the theme of death, detox and re-birth with nutritionist, naturopath and fellow plant-enthusiast Rebecca O’Reilly.  To grow – and to grow free – means to continually let go of anything that gets too small or restrictive. Like a snake shedding its skin, we humans can shed personality forms and habits that worked in one moment, but no longer serve us. Only we often don’t s...

In this episode I explored the nature of darkness with Catherine Björksten a holistic practitioner, specialising in supporting people who are going through a Spiritual Awakening. Her motto is integrated and embodied awakening. Following a career in marketing & advertising and becoming a mother of two, she went through a major awakening herself, which led her to study psychotherapy, spiritual c...

This was one of the most exciting podcasts I have recorded.  My guest is the illustrator of the new Grow Free Animation 'Connection is Everything'.    Working on the animation with Lina has supported the formation of the whole Grow Free approach; transforming knowledge and ideas into a creative medium crystalizing and refining it. In this episode, we talk over: the epic task of represent...

In this episode I invite back two previous guests who were obvious choices for the theme of 'Support'.  Madeleine Besson is the healing sound artist from the last episode and my singer teacher / therapist.  Deborah Armstrong is an intuitive shamanic practitioner working in North East Scotland. Both have supported me in my journey and both are insightful practitioners and speakers. This i...

In this episode I speak with Madeleine Besson who is a sound healing and creative artist that I am working with one-to-one to release my voice. In this episode we speak about: - How trauma impacts our ability and desire to express - How singing and voice work can help bring us back into our body and release deep patterns - How sounds works as a very gentle intervention to support and cleanse our p...

‘Coming Home’ can mean many things, it takes place within us on many levels, and we need to ‘come home’ for many reasons. The more we honour it, the more we recognise there is to honour.   It’s physical in that our body, as part of nature, needs to shut down and reset and we need the safety of feeling at home to be able to do that. We need to do this often and cyclically, pausing within the day, e...

The theme of ‘Honouring Our Past & Loving Our Parts’ in the Grow Free Community for November 2021 refers to a process of turning towards the parts of us that got exiled from our awareness during and following traumatic experiences and learning to relate to them with care and compassion.  It refers to tuning into the bodily memory of experiences that were too much for us and to letting the raw...

September’s Podcast is a conversation on Respect with three previous guests: - Anneke Sips (Yoga Therapist, Trainer & Psychiatric Practitioner in Amsterdam, Founder of Network Yoga Therapy), - Deborah Armstrong (Indigenous & Shamanic Therapist & Practitioner in North East Scotland) and - Jon Cree (Forest School Association Director, Author & Activist bringing more trauma-informed o...

Season 2 Episode 4 - Rest & Digest with Sarah Ryan August’s Podcast is a conversation with the super experienced Yoga Teacher Trainer & Therapist & Vedic Chant Teacher Sarah Ryan.  We re-connected earlier this year and it has been lovely to do so from a clearer head and heart space.  Sarah gave me such loving and supportive guidance some years back but at a time when my habits and trig...

July’s Podcast is a conversation with Hypnotherapist & Story Healer Vicki Rebecca. The conversation explores the importance of language and of the stories that come to inform our sense of ourself and our world. Vicki work in neurolinguistics has meant she has been clued into the power of language for some time. She’s also working towards publishing a autobiography that I know is part of a powe...

This month’s podcast introduces Maja Metlicar. Maja – Your Uniqueness Activates Your Greatest Joy (majametlicar.com) . Maja has inspired many women to re-connect with their body, their purpose and their Joy. She does not describe herself as an expert in trauma, and yet she offers great insight, practices and a map to open many keys along the way. In our podcast, we spoke about: Maja’s experience o...

This month’s podcast introduces Madelanne Rust D’Eye who offers Body Informed Leadership courses and trainings, which you can check out at www.bodyintelligence.ca . Originally from Canada, we are lucky to have her living here in Scotland.  I love the way that Madelanne speaks so beautifully and blends science and sensuality in her approach and explanations. We have a webinar from her for our Grow...

This month’s podcast dives deeper into COMMUNITY, my experience of feeling outside, of preventing myself joining in and more recently opening, softening, leaning into and creating it.  I also introduce a new podcast guest, Julia Morten from The Haven in Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire, who tells about their perspective of community and how they have been strengthening it there.  Deborah Armstrong from...

This month’s theme, in preparation for embracing more of what our community space has to offer, has been Navigating the Potential & Pitfalls of the Digital World. Like real life and Grow Free, it’s all about awareness and attention. In this month’s podcast episode, a few of the community members explore with me what they find to be the pros and cons of social media, online formats and a life w...

Episode 8 - Being with Vulnerability to Move Beyond It. In this episode I explore by myself some conversations we have had in the Grow Free Community over the past couple of months.   Our focus has been on ways to communicate that allow us to listen and connect more deeply with each other, rather than react unconsciously to our perceived differences and various perspectives. I discuss vulnerabilit...