Not a Widow...But a Goddess: Conversations on grief as a sacred gatekeeper.

In this episode, we explore the silence that often surrounds grief, both within ourselves and in the people around us. Many don't know how to be with grief. They rush to fix, to fill the space, to offer solutions - anything to avoid the discomfort of simply being present. But grief doesn't need to be solved. It asks for something different. Presence. Space. A willingness to sit in what c...

In this episode, Esha shares the radical changes she's making in her life and the importance of building an intimate living relationship with oneself to experience a full and embodied life. In carving out time to listen to your heart, dreams, and what lights you up from within. There is no waiting. Living is done in the now. Take a breath before you move on and meet yourself gently as you con...

In this episode, Esha shares the need for the body to be part of the whole human story. The body is the keeper of all human stories, past, present, and future. Leaning into the body's wisdom during grief is an opportunity to connect body, feelings, emotions, with the spirit and the soul. This coherence between these three brings a unitive effect to all that we are and all that we are experien...

In this episode, Esha shares the power of bringing grief into the sacred heart and the magnetizing effects feeling and allowing has once we bring it all to the heart. She shares her wisdom of how we are growing deeper into a more mature humanity through grief and that grief is actually the catalyst that wakes us up to love more, become ever present to what is, and to live fully.  Take a breath bef...

In this episode, Esha shares wisdom of being broken open rather than broken. The rebirthing process begins when the old self you use to know is in pieces from loss. Being broken open is a reorganization of the way of life, where divine love can pour in and restructure a new way of being and living. By allowing what is and meeting oneself in that space, one can dare to embrace the fullness of one&a...

In this episode Esha share shifting the language of moving on from grief to moving with grief. This is the integration period of walking with grief differently, embodying its wisdom and stepping into living with more presence, kindness, and intention. Take a breath before you move on and meet yourself gently as you continue your day. If you'd like to stay connected, you can find more reflecti...

In this episode, Esha interviews Vicki Leventhal, a dear friend who lost her husband David to cancer. Vicki shares her love story with David, his battle with diabetes, getting Covid, and then receiving the heartbreaking news of being diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Vicki talks about the transition from a "we," to a "me," after a loved one passes and the challenges of a brand-...

In this special Easter Sunday episode, Esha shares her wisdom of what resurrected love looks like after loss. She shares that life is here and now waiting for all and we are called to say "yes," to the fullness of it.  Take a breath before you move on and meet yourself gently as you continue your day. If you'd like to stay connected, you can find more reflections at  Esha | Substack

In this episode, Esha explores vulnerability in grief and how leaning into that vulnerability can guide one deeper into the human experience and into the healing process.  Take a breath before you move on and meet yourself gently as you continue your day. If you'd like to stay connected, you can find more reflections at  Esha | Substack

In this episode, Esha interviews Karen Myers from Australia as she shares her vulnerable and poignant story of losing her husband to pancreatic cancer fourteen years ago. Karen guides us on her personal journey of losing someone to cancer on the grief journey and the self that emerged by giving life an opportunity to be part of the whole story. Her courageous story of living is inspirational. Take...

In this episode, Esha brings to light the need for radical honesty in our grieving process. She shares the wisdom of the Tao te Ching written by Lao Tzu and how we can be in the flow with what is to bring about the greatest sense of effortless being, being with the all.  By allowing what is, we can make room to come to our full humanity, to heal, and become harmonious with the nature that we are....

In this episode, Esha interviews Pat Phelps who recently lost her husband to cancer eleven months ago. Pat talks about the challenges she confronted in the grieving process and the inner strength she is witnessing within herself to do new things as she continues in the grief journey. Grief and participating fully in the new life are happening simultaneously.  Take a breath before you move on and m...

In episode 17, Esha interviews Lara Fass, a Goddess whose husband transitioned three years ago. Lara talks about how reframing our grief stories can help us make room for deep inner growth by opening our hearts to feel and by being truly transparent and compassionate with ourselves. By changing the perspective of how we see not just death but loss, we can meet grief somewhere in the middle to make...

In this episode, Esha shares why allowing is so important in our spiritual journey and in the healing process. By allowing, we bring ourselves closer to living out the fullness of our humanity. It becomes a sacred practice of not resisting life but receiving life which in turns sets us up for not attaching to what is which in and of itself, can reduce our suffering.  Take a breath before you move...

In this podcast Esha welcomes the new year and shares the new direction and change of "Talk and Tea with Esha" to "Not a Widow...But a Goddess. Esha shares her views on widowhood and how society caps women who have lost husbands into a stigma label of "widow." Esha talks about becoming the Goddess in the grief journey and bringing forth the deep wisdom born of grief.  Take...

In this episode Esha talks about how we can embrace suffering with a different perspective. To see all our experiences as a holy encounter to be met with holy love and to consummate that experience in holy matrimony within our very own hearts.   Take a breath before you move on and meet yourself gently as you continue your day. If you'd like to stay connected, you can find more reflections at...

In this episode, Esha talks about the importance of reimagining being human in today's world and the cost of staying in the old way. How can we reimagine how we see, think? How can we reimagine relationships, suffering, grief, and our connection with each other? Take a breath before you move on and meet yourself gently as you continue your day. If you'd like to stay connected, you can fi...

In this episode, Esha talks about what uncovering joy looks like for her as someone who has experienced deep grief and has undergone loss and change not just as a widow but as a mother. What does true joy look like for us and how can joy be reimagined in our lives? Take a breath before you move on and meet yourself gently as you continue your day. If you'd like to stay connected, you can find...

In this episode, Esha explores the concept of awakening during suffering. She invites the listener to reflect on their own experiences to see challenging experiences that invites them to a deep place of transformation. She calls this shift an alchemical process that is available to everyone that can guide us to a place of deepening compassion and inclusion of self and others. We move closer to bei...

In this episode, Esha talks about the importance now more than ever on being fully human, giving ourselves permission to feel, acknowledging what is, and having the courage to be here now in the middle of discomfort. In a time when things feel unsafe, when we come face to face that life is uncertain, we come back to what it means to be human during times of unrest. Take a breath before you move on...

In this episode Esha talks about the need for seeing our griefs not as a burden but as a holy experience that can transform and shift us into a deepening experience of our humanity.  Take a breath before you move on and meet yourself gently as you continue your day. If you'd like to stay connected, you can find more reflections at  Esha | Substack

Linda Serepca, is the director of the Charlotte Spirituality Center where she trains prospective students to become spiritual directors. She talks about what spiritual direction is and the gift it can serve in one's life as the navigate all the different unfolding stories taking place.  Take a breath before you move on and meet yourself gently as you continue your day. If you'd like to s...

In this episode, Esha talks about being in love with life and how the grief experience has allowed her to see life with different lenses which has open and expanded a new awareness not just of who she is but of life itself. She shares her wisdom of how uncertainty can guide us into trusting the process of our evolution and unfolding to embrace the new waiting for us to claim with joy. Take a breat...

In this first podcast of 2021, Esha talks about the innocence of our collective grief and how its ancestral roots can help us grow closer together in community to heal and connect. To open ourselves not just to our own suffering but the suffering of others as well. She also talks about how we can navigate and make room for some of the intense emotional energies being felt right now. Take a breath...

In this episode, Amanda recaps what 2020 has meant to her. She shares her three big lessons she's learned during this year and shares a poem and a blessing for all. Thank you all for sharing your time with me, it's been such an honor to hold space for each of you. May you be blessed.  Take a breath before you move on and meet yourself gently as you continue your day. If you'd like t...