Sez Kristiansen

Support the show For guided courses, full episodes, meditations and access to extended versions of my sleep journeys, please go to  Insight Timer .  Every Thursday, I send out unpublished poems & audio essays to help us embody our felt sense of wholeness through nonduality, nature, and self-inquiry on my Substack .  You can also find supportive courses on my website or grab a book for your jou...

This track is a daily invitation to return—to yourself, to presence, to the unshakable truth that you are already whole. It is a reminder that nothing in life needs to be fixed or figured out for you to belong to it completely. Through surrender and by offering a radical presence to all experiences, you are guided to embrace uncertainty, failure, longing, and love without resistance. Let these wor...

Imagine meeting your last breath, and feeling utterly, truly safe... This meditation explores the difference between conceptual safety and the felt safety that arises when we stop separating ourselves from our emotions. It guides you out of the mind’s protective shelters and back into the raw, honest intelligence of the body, where fear, grief, and uncertainty can finally be met without resistance...

(Please note that these poems and meditations are released 3 weeks after they have been published on Insight Timer Premium . To receive them quicker, you are welcome to listen there. Thanks so much for being here!) This is a short poetic reflection that reminds us that we cannot lift one thing in the forest without it being attached to everything else. When there is simply 'the holding'...

This piece is a gentle ode to idleness—a meditation on the quiet, miraculous fullness found in simply sitting, watching, and being. With the sea as a companion and the sky as a witness, we explore how presence asks nothing of us but attention. In a world that constantly demands productivity, this poem offers permission to pause, to be thoroughly unuseful, and yet feel more whole than ever. Through...

// A Spotify Exclusive // This poem is a quiet ode to the cosmic woven into the domestic — how even the simplest gestures can become sacred when seen through the eyes of wonder. It’s a reminder that we are not separate from the universe, but shaped by the same forces that form stars, radishes, and tenderness. 🌙 To receive new audio poems like this one every week, become a member of my patron-only...

In this soundscape laced with gentle words, you’ll be guided into a reflective and sensory-rich journey through the natural world and your place within it. Blending poetic language with grounded presence, this poem explores what it means to belong to life, not as something separate, but as life itself becoming aware. You'll be invited to soften the boundaries between self and world, and to re...

A new 7-part guided mediation course is now available on both: Insight Timer and My Website (there's 15% off for Substack members)  This course has been created through deeply personal experience to help you dive into the essence of self-realization through the void or the lack we feel inside. By using a personal blend of modalities, including Internal Family Systems, Direct Experience, Self-...

This episode is taken from my last free newsletter of 2023! The original voiceover can be found on my SUBSTACK , along with the transcript and a poll I've put forward to all listeners. You don’t need to be free of your ache in order to be free . This is what this year has helped me see and I hope it can be of use to you as you navigate this path back home to peace, love and freedom. Thank you...

Hello dear listeners. Simplifying life is a way of returning to the roots of your being, and in this pursuit to live more intentionally, I have left social media to concentrate on offering new poetry, meditations and courses on Substack . My time is spent here now, so I hope you will join me (think less 'attention deficit blackhole' and more 'intentional infinite space'!) Nouri...

From the new, free mini-series, Surrender with Sez, comes an episode for all to enjoy. To listen to more of this series, join us on SUBSTACK. A short talk and poem to help you ease into the foundations of your being. Don’t waste a pain, a crisis, a depression, an illness, don’t use them as motivation or escapes, don’t get used to them, don’t transcend them but walk through them by releasing them a...

A poem to help you discover yourself without the external noise that bombards us every moment. We often seek answers through this stream of information, but it tends to not make us feel like we are healed or whole, and often causes a rift between where we are in our lives right now and where we wish ourselves to be. What if we listened more attentively to the well of wisdom we already hold within...

Those of us who have been traumatized often find ourselves shut inside protective caves that sever us from our feeling body. Returning to who we are, therefore, means leaving what we know - those coping strategies (caves) - that no longer serve us. Finding our way back home to our soft mammal of a body means giving up the reptile within that keeps us perpetually in fight/flight/freeze mode. I hope...

Whatever you are going through right now that makes it feel unsafe to be you, know that you are being asked to unfold even more and bare that pollen-drenched center of yours to the light. Join me on this soundscape that encourages us to reflect upon the value of the coping strategies we use to protect ourselves and remember that being still with our discomfort can lead us into a deeply expansive a...

Sez's new & unpublished poetry has moved to the Substack app. Listen, read & join the community for free HERE Are we friends yet? Let's connect! _____ Nature has an alliance with the Great Mystery and is therefore guided, healed & grown in accordance with that trust. Why do we consider ourselves separate from that same companionship when we ARE nature? This is a 3-minute poem...

Can the medicine, offered to ourselves in the midst of ache, be that which keeps us searching for a cure? Can the voices that encourage us to feel differently than we do, be better than we are in that moment - be what’s keeping us oscillating between self-healing and perpetual self-wounding. 15 minute talk - 12 minute guided meditation - end notes. To receive the pack of mediation cards that go wi...

Read & Listen to Sez' weekly newsletter here: SEZ ON SUBSTACK Allow earth to yawn open and devour you whole or salt to carry your body across its foamy shoulders and rest in the knowing that you are being cared for. Your body will be balmed in honey and butter will be dripped over heart, tobacco and cornflour cast at your feet, the crown of your head wrapped in laurels and red powder blow...

Daring to be whole. Daring to be here. That is all. Enjoy a short poem written and recorded by Sez Kristiansen. Music by Nailah Hunter Bassin Bleu Meditations, poetry & wild remedies for the soul can be found here: www.sezkristiansen.com Support the show For guided courses, full episodes, meditations and access to extended versions of my sleep journeys, please go to  Insight Timer .  Every Thu...

It’s an old paradigm to try and cure suffering with suffering. This we all know. On both an individual level and a global one. So if you are feeling fear right now, that’s so ok - but an exasperated sense of it might not be serving you, your community, or the collective consciousness we are trying to raise. We need feet on earth, strong backs, and open hearts willing to both hold - and spill out L...

'Unpack your bags and plant your trees' in every moment you find yourself seeking belonging from the outside world. You belong - but not to your family name, your country or your home - to yourself. Listen to this healing poem to help you settle your nomadic heart in the morning or whenever you feel ungrounded in this life. I hope it serves you in becoming just a little more present and...

We have all been touched by the words, acts. and art of those who have long passed. But something we might not have thought about is what we can do *right now* to benefit the life of someone we will never meet. Social media is immortalizing our lives, our words, and who we were - what do our feeds speak to? How do we extend our own hearts beyond the fragility of our form and how would we live diff...

The New Private Podcast can be found here - Sez on Substack ___ This is the exclusive first episode of Remembering Wild.  To listen to future episodes, support Sez' work via Substack. Subscribe HERE and ensure the continuation and preservation of this work. Support the show For guided courses, full episodes, meditations and access to extended versions of my sleep journeys, please go to  Insig...

Our greatest regret in life is most likely going to be that we never made our lives our own : that we lived according to what others expected of us and never walked off into the wild unknown to find what authenticity tasted like. We have wounds created by contorting our bodies, our lives, and our work into shapes that are not truly our own.  And so we walk, often until our last breath, in lives no...

Short remedial poem to help you connect to you heart & soul with @sez.kristiansen The new free 7-day course is up and you can start today via www.sezkristiansen.com/wholeinthebody ::::::::::::: What if we saw all our unwanted situations, emotions, and circumstances this way? What if we could climb through the secret window of our own lives and deal with difficulties from a more calm, grounded,...

Join thousands of others on the Becoming Your Own Medicine Newslette r to receive uplifting audios in your inbox once a week - plus Journal Prompts & Practices for each poem, exclusive for subscribers. Sign up now Sez' Meditations are on INSIGHT TIMER @sez.kristiansen //// TODAY //// We have come to misunderstand  the narrative of our emotions.    We believe they say something  about our...