Radio H-E-A-L: Healing Radio with Raina Dawn

Stop the Patterns, Find Your Power >> course here Numbing substances can easily become dependencies - whether it's sugar, our phones or booze. With dependencies of any kind, we have to be the one to choose a new path. Instead of waiting for a miracle, make it happen. You have the power. "It's Not the Substance, it's "Why the Pain" -Gabor Maté  ---- **My vintage rad...

This episode is a piece about a school assignment that changed my entire view of 'the machine." The machine that is the food industry. Ingredients never looked the same. I'm sorry if shame-based marketing guilted you into buying vegan food marketing as healthy. Choose nourishment instead for your body-mind and spirit, that is my wish for you. **My vintage radio ID isn't an AI voic...

This episode is a piece about discernment, listening and shame in the world of aging and skin care. GETTING OLD IS A PRIVILEGE. I WANT TO AGE LIKE MY ANCESTORS. YOU EARN laugh lines, grief lines, wisdom. I'm sorry if shame-based marketing guilted you into handing over your hard-earned dollars for a FALSE promise of 20-year-skin again. Get HEALTHY skin (without trends) with avoiding substances, eat...

This episode is a piece about SAFETY and responsibility in the world of psychedelics. **I do NOT practice psychedelic medicine in my client practice or on my personal path** I'm speaking today from years of observations of what I've seen flung out from psychedelic communities, and sharing a powerful practice to help you prepare for it, something that may be missed, and something that may g...

Tales of Ordinary Madness is a piece on grief, womanhood and holding space for our feelings of madness. My radio friend George gifts his voice clip at the end. Thanks George :) Raina's coaching work with individuals underlines the power of transforming behaviors, patterns and inherited conditioning into personal power, mental & spiritual stability. ⁠⁠⁠Book Raina for group sessions for your...

The best thing you can do for your wellness. Do it in the morning, do it at lunch, do it before bed. Do it at mealtimes!!! This amazing practice helps you to slow down, reconnect and tune in to your healing journey. Raina's coaching work with individuals underlines the power of transforming food behaviors, patterns and inherited conditioning into personal power, mental & spiritual stability. ⁠...

Carl Raw Ross interviews Rai (back in 2018) to bring you the gift of practices to overcome over-eating and start your healing journey with food. While the interview isn't brand new - the information and tools shared haven't changed a bit. This is a practical discussion and exploration about our relationship with food. We also touch on trauma, energy, psychology. Let your body govern yourself. When...

Today’s episode brings the gift of mindfulness. How we can begin our healing journey with food. This is a practical discussion and exploration about our relationship with food from the lens of Michif - Otipemisiwak - the people who govern themselves. Let your body govern yourself. When you heal your relationship with food you become sovereign. Healing our ancestral trauma allows us to access a wor...

Today’s guest brings the gift of a raw, real and unplanned wandering conversation over cacao. Here's what we touch on: being facilitators with many modes of support, circle facilitation, vulnerability, living community, outsourcing your energy, tip-toe'ing the line of 'trauma informed', self responsibility, capacity and truths vs. values. This conversation takes a couple intermissi...

Today’s guest brings the gift of presence that's both powerful and completely accessible. Wendy Goudie is a meditation teacher, yoga educator, and bold entrepreneur who believes strength and softness belong in the same breath. Based in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley, Wendy co-leads multiple community-centered ventures alongside her husband, including yoga, dance, athletics, online seniors programm...

Join us today to experience the telling of a tale from the incredible Stephanie MacKay. Stephanie is dedicated to uncovering cultural origins within the body of old European mythologies. Drawing from the wellspring of these old mythologies, she seeks to uncover the hidden pathways that lead us to our cultural origins—reviving traditions long forgotten and holding space for the rehydration of ances...

Healers, artists and creatives are saying no in a big way. This episode inspired by the crazed AI wave that has taken over most corners of the internet. I'm still saying no because I refuse to outsource my thinking, my creativity, my sovereignty. Everything you see of my creative works (writing, books, audio's, "content") comes from my own spirit, my own medicine, experience, kno...

Written by a hippie who's seen the counter-culture get taken over for profit. It happened in the 60s and its happening again now. It's not groundhog day. It's the disease of consumerism. But the best way to win? Say no. This episode inspired by my most popular Instagram post (now deleted but lives on here) about government grown cannabis, the dangers of unnatural (crazy high) THC conte...

It's not loud, it's simple and slow. This episode inspired by the crazed consumer madness we are put through (only by choice, you can opt-out at anytime) every holiday season and January and how instead, you can choose to practice wellness instead of buy it. You can eat and breathe wellness with very little effort. You can feel wellness. It doesn't come in with fireworks, with a bang,...

Inspired by conversations in the realm of humans being treated as data, online privacy (its your right and has absolutely nothing to do with "I have nothing to hide") plus, how we interact with the internet. We always have a choice. USE the internet, not have the internet USE us.... so we have the choice now to change how we use the internet, like how much time we spend on it, which brow...

Inspired by conversations about the realm of birth keeping, traditions and modern care, statistics and hormones.... I bring on my friend and experienced doula Heather, to answer questions you never knew you had about the journey of giving birth. Women are powerful life-bringers. We have the choice now to bridge best of the worlds we have today: holistic and traditional with modern emergency-care w...

Inspired by the ask "Hey - what's in your blood?" I share how important knowing how to answer this is, but what it can do for your health, diet and healing journey. I offer up this conversation as a Seer and Guide in traditional healing and sobriety, offering guidance and healing to those on the path of self-discovery. ---- www.rainadawnlutz.ca ---- Order Quality Supplements | delive...

Guest Laura Klubi and I share this medicine conversation on a skill to help you be a better human - how to hold space. Laura shares her best tools on learning what this looks like in practice. We offer this conversation as Seers and Guides in traditional healing and sobriety, offering guidance and healing to those on the path of self-discovery. ---- www.rainadawnlutz.ca ---- When you sign up for m...

In this audio I'm sharing the uncomfortable truths about shadow & darkness, addictions and how I came into my medicine and what it means for my practice as it develops. I'm so honoured I was asked to share to such an amazing group of listeners in a talk I did for the Landmark Rotary group in Kelowna BC. I was asked to share my story. These meetings are community on a real level! There...

Are you part of a community of escape, or one of healing? There are sooo many unsafe spaces out there labeled as "healing" that are full of trickery. In this podcast I share the uncomfortable truth about "sexy" spiritual festivals' spirit tourism and "pop spirituality" and how harmful it can be. Mindfulness and doing your personal work is a connection and relation...

PSA: Our planet is at an intersection of tech + humans merging. Here I share the wild story of what pushed me over the edge to leave sharing my teachings on social media, and why I choose to not use AI in my life or business. YOU are a divine being, don't give yourself away. "Leaders don't look externally for their answers and they don't constantly look at their phones. They look...

Here's 10 ways to get real results when you're doing ANY type of wellness or healing work. This episode shares how: focus, no guilt or shame, a little bit of MAGIC, questioning what's underneath (the root), showing up, trauma awareness, being heard, being met and feeling loved and cared for are 10 beautiful ingredients for your success. I speak to this as a Seer and coach, offering gui...

The dark side of spreading the good message? It gets ripped off! (Stay fringe, kombucha geeks!) From the underground understandings of hippies (who re-worked ancestral traditions and food simplicity) to our current polished clinical practices, the industry has changed in a big way. This episode shares a wider lens of the changing wellness industry from 'good words' to 'mega-corps',...

14 Years in Business! You never know the twists and turns that life's path will take you on. I'm honoured to walk the path that I am, and I'm grateful to everyone alongside me. Whether you're a listener or a client - I deeply appreciate you! From the bottom of my heart, 14 years feels good. Thank you. Join my membership group for teachings that you can't find online, and more s...

Let me tell you what emotional eating was for me. And then I'll tell you my 3-step process to fixing it. There's no difference between seeking the bottom of the bottle and the bottom of a potato chip bag. Filling the void that way doesn't work. Let's course correct!! Take a breath - what am I trying to escape from? What do I need to sit, cry, feel? There are healthier ways to solve...