The Emotional Alchemy Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Bianca Clayton is a Feng Shui consultant who draws upon her experiences as an Esoteric Acupuncturist and Architect to create intentional flow in environments. She brings a practical and pragmatic voice to what can seem like an inaccessible art form and teaches how anything from wealth to relationships to alignment in career has the capacity to flourish if held with intention.  In...

Send us Fan Mail Yesterday was the Autumn Equinox. And I couldn't think of a better way to usher in this season than inviting my good friend Christina onto the podcast to nerd out about the Autumn/Metal Season.  This year has felt like we're going through a collective Autumn since March. We've had to shed many, may layers of perceptions, stories and conditions. Perceptions of how th...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Miller wins the award for "Gigglest Podcast Guest Ever".  But he is also a Five Elements acupuncturist, speaker, teacher and mentor. In my life, he is my favourite and most trusted sounding board regarding my curiosities over the nuances of Daoist Medicine.  This is the first of a 6-episode series on #theempoweredcuriositypodcast looking at the varying healing appl...

Send us Fan Mail This 1 question transformed my entire life... I started looking at my relationship to love after a heart-wrenching divorce. I kicked and screamed as Life dragged me in front of a mirror. There, I discovered some hard truths about the blocks + beliefs that stood between me and happily ever after. Peeling back the layers of conditions I had created around my life and identity requir...

Send us Fan Mail We all do it. When you get triggered, you either lash out which ends up hurting the people around you or you internalize the pain which ends up hurting yourself. But no matter how hard you try, you can't seem to break out of the pattern so reacting.  It's not your fault you have triggers.  But it IS within your sphere of influence to transform it. More than that, it is y...

Send us Fan Mail We’ve seen those couples out there.  The ones who seem like they have all their shit figured out. They respect each other. They’ve been through the trials of life together and it’s made them stronger. They empathize with and learn from each other. They are genuinely joyful around each other.  None of this ‘ol ball and chain act and “yes dear” rhetoric and passive-aggressive resent...

Send us Fan Mail When I got divorced and decided that I wanted to take radical responsibility for my own patterns, I started asking myself some questions: Why do I feel clingy when my partner wants time/space? Why do I withdraw when I'm feeling vulnerable?  How do I empathize with my partner and better understand their needs while honouring and feeling empowered in my own needs?   As I starte...

Send us Fan Mail The videos and slides referenced in this episode are no longer available. Let's get real. Fairytales messed up our expectations of love and relationships.  We learned how to chase and be chased. But we never learned what happens to Prince Charming and Sleeping Beauty once the camera pans out and the screen fades to black.  What does happily-ever-after look like when Sleeping...

Send us Fan Mail How do we listen to Intuition as a creative force? Confusion and Fear have an uncanny way of pulling us away from our own Inner Knowing, drawing us into our past wounds or pushing us forward into a scary and unknown future. Emotional Alchemy Coach Kat invites Intuitive Healer Mara Branscombe to share her extensive depth and breadth of knowledge around transformative spiritual prac...

Send us Fan Mail I started practicing yoga 15 years ago to cross-train for roller derby. To make my body stronger, more flexible, to "get" those yoga arms. I didn't realize the depth that Yoga had to offer went beyond the body. Over the years, yoga has embodied so many healing voices for me. The gentle whisper inviting me back into myself. The booming thunder that told me "stay...

Send us Fan Mail Resentment is a slippery emotion. It lies hidden beneath the surface, masked over with a smile, while it grows roots. You find yourself internally asking, "Can't they see how much I'm doing? Can't they see I have needs too? Can't they hear how much I'm suffering?" until the load is too much and you have an explosion over your partner eating the l...

Send us Fan Mail As soon as you see that positive pregnancy test slowly float into view, it can feel like pregnancy care is a conveyer belt that you jump on and ride along until your baby gets placed in your arms. We have sterilized some of the most magical and mysterious experiences of our human lives. Particularly when it comes to fertility, pregnancy and birth.  When we systemize these unique e...

Send us Fan Mail What if I told you that our emotional triggers are actually teachers in disguise.  How does that land for you? Do you feel resistance? Fear? Acceptance? Surrender?  When you feel wounded and triggered, every muscle fiber in your body (including that big beautiful beating Heart) feels unsafe and is seeking security. The default setting for most is to numb the feelings. When we numb...

Send us Fan Mail Rhiannon shares her transformative experience of embodied healing and reclamation of the Feminine and Masculine through sexual assault. Her unique background and education in wholistic wellness, Chinese Medicine and Buddhist theory gave her the opportunity to witness her own healing from multiple dimensions and perspectives, and she joins us to share the nuggets of wisdom gained f...

Send us Fan Mail When I got quiet this week, one message landed for me. And it landed so uncomfortably I needed to unpack it. Overt racism is harmful, but covert racism is just as harmful. I share my experience with overt and covert racism in my family and myself. I talk about why it is so important for us to be examining this as individuals as part of our own family structures. I invite you to do...

Send us Fan Mail In Western Medicine, we get caught in the trap of focusing on the signs, symptoms and complaints to "fix" disease instead of doing the deep work to ask "What can support this person to thrive?" Chinese Face Reading, which is an often overlooked branch of Classical Chinese Medicine gives us the blueprint of your natural gifts and aptitudes, what career you would...

Send us Fan Mail Have you gone through life ticking off all the right boxes? Your life is as you believed it should be.  Career, relationship, home, kids...you invested in all that external structure that you believed would make life feel stable and secure. But somehow all the right boxes don’t add up to you feeling connected and whole. You’re starting to wake up.  Meaning...you are finally starti...

Send us Fan Mail So much of our suffering comes down to a Wounded Inner Child who believes either that "I am not good enough." and/or "I am too much." Learn how to transform this belief system by going back to where it all started. Here’s a glance of what you’ll learn from this episode:  Talk about the developmental stages of childhood, the physical and emotional needs of child...

Send us Fan Mail This is hands down the most comprehensive conversation about your period I could pack into an hour.   The health + wellness industry is saturated with “specialists” and “experts” who claim they know what is going to fix your painful periods, but has anyone ever asked you:   “What is your period trying to tell you?” Signs and symptoms are your body trying to draw you a roadmap to y...

Send us Fan Mail Those shadowy parts of us that we'd like to bury deep deep within our soul feels like Pandora's box. We stuff what we have done, how we feel, who we are into a dark corner and hope that no one will see it.  When we do this, shame festers, mutates and tells stories about how we are not good enough or too much. And we think the only way to deal with this feeling is to hide...

Send us Fan Mail When was the last time you asked yourself where you learned stories about your body, your Womb and your cycle? Jasmine Rose is a Holistic Birth Doula and a Sacred Cycle and Womb Connector who spends her life sinking deeper and deeper into this question.  In this episode, Jasmine shares her experience with Energetic Fertility and how her story is the story of all women who are crav...

Send us Fan Mail If you're like 99.99% of the people I know (including myself), meditation doesn't come naturally or easily for you. And yet…Meditation seems to be the magic wand that everyone is waving around. ⠀ Can't sleep? Meditate. Not motivated? Feeling lost? Meditate. Depressed? Anxious? Meditate. But...Every time you sit down to meditate, your monkey brain clicks on, the thou...

Send us Fan Mail Is feeling overwhelmed keeping you STUCK?  When you try to solve your problems by jumping immediately to a solution, you can feel even more caught in the quicksand. That’s because you didn’t give yourself the opportunity to integrate the “Why”. Set yourself free by understanding the “Why” behind your small t and Big T traumas. In this episode, we’ll dive deep into your nervous and...