The Emotional Alchemy Podcast

Send us Fan Mail The inevitability of our human experience is that we will, at some point, lose sight of our purpose. When we are misaligned with purpose, we get pulled into the vortex of addictions, avoidant/anxious attachment strategies and generally feeling disempowered in our own lives. On the flip side, when we can identify and make explicit what our purpose is, have a sense of what drives us...

Send us Fan Mail Did you know that 90-95% of our actions are driven from our subconscious programming? This is exaaaaactly why we tend to find ourselves in the same cycles over and over and over again - choosing the same archetype of a partner, finding yourself in the same rut of feeling devalued at work or having the same arguments over and over again with your loved ones.  Part of the journey to...

Send us Fan Mail One of the most profound shifts I’ve made in my spiritual practice is understanding that it is a subtractive process, rather than an additive one. The simplest way to explain this is that you can approach spirituality thinking that you are not whole, needing to be fixed and grasping for the next modality, teacher, guru or tool to hold you together OR you can approach spirituality...

Send us Fan Mail I am so excited to introduce my new friend Brian Donahoe to you. He and I will be doing an entire series diving into the different organ systems, how stress affects the different organ systems and what they are physiologically and emotionally holding onto so you can transform your Story.  These conversations will go to the root of what I mean when I say “the Body is the storytelle...

Send us Fan Mail I am someone who lives in the world of both/and. Meaning, I find deep value for the scientific research being done to explain the structure, functionality and physiology of our Bodies, BUT I believe we cannot take our finger off the pulse of the Spirit and Dao that courses through these temporary vessels we call our Bodies.  Our bodies are the storytellers of our lives. But are we...

Send us Fan Mail AmarAtma is a Board-Certified Chaplain who has specialized training to create peace and joy amidst the most challenging situations.  AmarAtma is also a grief coach helping those who seek relief and peace. Because of his background in the hospital setting, he has a special connection to working with nurses and physicians, leading mind-body resilience presentations and events using...

Send us Fan Mail Brittany Sharpe is a Vinyasa & Yin yoga teacher, Mama, DJ & Astrology practitioner. She currently resides on Salt Spring Island, BC with her family.  I got to see first hand how much care she takes in stewarding the land where she resides and caring for her farm animals. She has been teaching yoga for over seven years and has taught many Yoga & Sound offerings througho...

Send us Fan Mail A trauma-informed practitioner isn’t a magical unicorn. They’re someone who is deeply committed to integration and have put the work in so they can model and lead other people into their shadows. This is why when I met Patty, I knew I needed to share her voice on this podcast.   It's so clear that Patty loves helping people. She loves  to empower people to move towards their...

Send us Fan Mail This month marks the 1 year anniversary of the collective shift of the global pandemic.  For many of us, it has been an invitation to examine our relationship to the natural cycles of existence and how it feels to be confronted with literal death in the form of the coronavirus or with the idealogical death of systems that no longer work for us.  For both SJ and I, this year has be...

Send us Fan Mail As we transition into a new season, regular podcast guest Christina Cecconi joins me once again for a chat about the energetics of Spring and the Wood Element.  We are inching closer to Spring Equinox and you’ve likely been feeling the stirrings within your own body and spirit. To move, to be creative, to bring things to life, to plant seeds. But this also comes with the challenge...

Send us Fan Mail You are catching me at the start of a transition. For the past 4 years I’ve been nesting with my romantic BFF Andre Lagace, but this week I’ll be packing up the Subaru and moving from Vancouver, BC down to Henderson, NV.  Even before this move was on the horizon, Andre and I had been planning on releasing an episode about attachments and how we’ve worked to co-create a secure rela...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is going to be valuable for you if you were not exposed to healthy modeling of how to work through challenges in relationships. The thing is that our parents were trying their best with the tools that they had. Many of us had parents that didn’t have very good tools.  Today, I’ve invited Jeremy Goldberg, coach, author, and podcast host. I wanted to have a conversation...

Send us Fan Mail One of the pillars of our conversations in this community is Embodiment Medicine.  I wanted to have an entire episode about what this actually means.  When I thought about who I wanted to have on as a guest for this topic, there was only one name that came to mind: Mara Branscombe. Mara is a mother, writer, yogi, dancer, mindfulness leader, ceremonialist and spirit coach. She has...

Send us Fan Mail This week, I’m showing you my tender bits. I tried to interview my boyfriend Shawn but in reality what ended up happening is that we just had a conversation. A conversation that feels deeply personal to me because in it, we reflected on a lot of what we’ve been challenged by in our relationship and what we’ve intentionally done to right the ship.  I wanted to share this with you b...

Send us Fan Mail I’ve said over and over again that there’s something magical that happens when a community of aligned women come together. Gathering in Circles is something that our feminine ancestors knew how to do, but in our modern world, these opportunities to gather and truly open up and reveal ourselves is rare. When we gather in a container rooted in the power of our femininity, it is not...

Send us Fan Mail One of my favourite humans to follow on Insta is my dear friend Jessica Benstock. Not just because she is my buddy, but because she has a way of looking at assumed notions and flipping them  upside down to look at them from multiple perspectives. Currently, the conversation about narcissistic and empathetic personality traits is “narcissists bad” and “empaths good”.  So Jess and I...

Send us Fan Mail This conversation with Holly Toronto felt so clarifying. While speaking with her, I felt like my soul was distilling down and discerning my swirling thoughts about the fractured relationship we have with our body image and how we move and nourish ourselves.  This is the time of year that many of us set goals for ourselves and that process often begins with an assessment of what we...

Send us Fan Mail This is the very first episode of 2021 and I wanted to start out with a little somethin' special for you. We start this episode with a realignment. I share a bit of my story so you can see WHY I am so passionate about conscious relationships, emotional alchemy and embodiment medicine. I also share the values that everything I do sits upon. If you resonate with these beliefs,...

Send us Fan Mail I spent the majority of my life doing all the things, forcing things to happen, running to and running away from all the things before I discovered that there is another way. No wonder I was burnt out. I had completely lost sight of who I was and what I wanted. Christina Cecconi is one of the loudest voices in my life who reminds me of the other way. She reminds me that rest is no...

Send us Fan Mail This is not your everyday conversation about intimacy.  So cozy up, brew some tea and join us with your journal.  I, like many, grew up in a household where mixed messages were sent about intimacy. Love felt like it needed to be earned. Showing up as myself felt like I would be too much or not enough.  I was told not to be so needy so I disconnect myself from the part of me that h...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I'm jammin' with Kendra Adachi --  Health, Mindset and Body Liberation Coach, creator of The Honoured Body group coaching program and a self-professed chaser of full-body "fuck yes" experiences.   Kendra is someone who has forged her way back Home to her body using tools anchored in self-exploration, self-responsibility, radical honesty and com...

Send us Fan Mail What does a world-champion poet know about love and medicine and alchemizing emotions? As it turns out...quite a lot. I stumbled upon Buddy Wakefield through his Tedtalk entitled "Free Air!" . I've listened to a lot of talks about meditation and breath and his words somehow anchored me home.  What you'll learn in this episode:  The role of meditation to alchemi...

Send us Fan Mail Chinese Face Reading is an overlooked branch of Classical Chinese Medicine  that gives us a topographical map to lean into our gifts, acknowledge our challenges and seek balance by recognizing both.  Chinese Medicine Life-stylist Gray Estrada has a unique ability to recognize patterns and pull together wisdom from multiple facets of Chinese Medicine. What We'll Learn in this...

Send us Fan Mail Claire is an Intuitive Guide who sees the thruline in everything. She sits in a constant state of zooming in and out of perspectives. From the medicinal stories of the plants at her feet, to the lessons that she is constantly learning as a mama, to the landscape of life paths, to the connections to the earth, to the histories of ancestors, to the deep inner knowing that can be fou...

Send us Fan Mail Most of us have had the awkward experience of learning about our menstrual cycle as an adolescent in a room full of other giggling adolescents. Honestly, I wish I had an Auntie like Jasmine Rose in my life when I first started menstruating, but I am equally grateful that I have her in my life now. In her work, she is not only normalizing the relational experience to our individual...