Sez Kristiansen

Join thousands of others on the Becoming Your Own Medicine Newsletter 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 //// THIS WEEK //// The difficulty you're facing right now can either be accepted or it can be allowed . One will leav...

You need what you need.  It’s not a matter of worthiness but of giving your body, heart & soul what it needs to stay alive, to stay open, to stay whole. In fact, the less you excuse your needs, the more you will find yourself . And once you have created the right environment for who you are - wherever you are right now - you will begin to bloom in ways unfamiliar.  A flower will sprout here, a...

You might not be able to see the purpose of everything right now.  And it makes being in this space very dark and unsettling. But if you can create a relationship with one small part of your life - one little object, one simple practice, one small piece of your garden - then, when you step back from your life you will be able to see everything is connected and deeply purposeful. Just as if you spe...

The word 'Distraction' has found itself in such a negative light - but it comes from the original meaning, “to draw away from the mind.” Being drawn away from the mind can be a fundamental healing process right now that guides us back to our hearts and returns us to our lives with a very different perspective. I hope you say ‘yes' to those healthy distractions that draw you away fro...

There is a necessary packing away of dreams in one's life that - if done with love and acceptance, can make space for new ways of being in the world. Because it is our un-lived lives that hurt our loved ones the most - not the ones we are living in right now.  When we are truly present with who we are, what we have, and where we are right now - we are in our greatest power. And that strength...

We hear the word consistency a lot - in our creative work, our lives, our practice. It’s as if we will lose everything if we step off the consistency treadmill - but we tend to lose ourselves in that binary process.  But what can be manifested from a body consistently comparing itself, stressing itself to meet others' demands and own expectations? If you feel the weight of that word, and all...

Meaningful Monthly Offering: ( free) 4 - week email course , The Nordic Soulstice ,  heal yourself through ancient Nordic winter practices. ------------ NOTE on this week's episode! If you would like to enhance this practice please take your shoes and socks off while you listen. We all long to live life a little more barefooted, freer to express ourselves, untamed by the external environment,...

This episode is a little different from the meditations and poetry I usually offer. I sit down in the woodshed with the summer rain pouring down outside and open up a frank conversation with you about why choosing your heart will make your life so much harder....and why that's such a good thing. Some topics of interest: 2:08 (my story so far...) 5:51 (why returning to your ancestral land migh...

I am currently writing a guided meditation about rewilding the body as there seem to be many misconceptions about the word. Rewilding isn’t about trying to go back to living as hunter-gatherers. Rather, it's about examining our cultural paradigms, seeing how they affect our spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional health. We don’t have to demonize our culture in order to Rewild ourselves, b...

The new poetry book is out! Story Medicine is now available on Amazon - Read the reviews and grab yourself a copy of emotional healing HERE ------ The Heart and I is a remedial poem to help you connect with your wiser Heart. While you listen, place your hand over your own heart and imagine that the words are being spoken by you. Listen to this episode every night before you fall asleep and initiat...

(SHORT VERSION - Affirmations Only) Trauma is a story unexpressed in your body. Instead of being processed, that pain became consumed and found itself among your flesh. Now this story protects you at all cost – the body has become a soldier against its most destructive response pattern; indirect but perpetual threat. The body is therefore almost always in a state of survival and when you are on th...

"Words are seeds. We are their earth. Blossom in truth." Sez Kristiansen (Siska, 2 years old) ____ Trauma is an unprocessed story still held in the body. Can you heal these stories and rewrite the body to become the confident, empowered companion we seek to embody? Listen to these affirmations and discover how you can re-story your body so that you can live deeper and more connected to y...

ALL EPISODES ARE SPONSORED BY MY BOOKS - If you feel a resonance with my work, please consider buying a poetry book. Not only do you get something of value in return, but I get to connect with you in a more meaningful way through my words. Thank you! ::::: SEZ' BOOKS ON AMAZON::::: ______ Dear one, It will take more than joy and ease to create your ‘Best Self'. Because the misalignment i...

Dear one, Love will heal, once you let go. Because it is in the holding on to these old stories that you are keeping yourself separate from the life being written by a greater hand. Abandon, with grace, everything that turns this wheel of perpetual conflict. The one between yourself and others, and the one between you and yourself. Even if there is anger left, you are holding on. Even if there is...

Dear one,  Old patterns fashion the body.  Some habits weave these limbs so tight, they have closed you off from your Heart.  And when that disconnect restricts you from seeing your true nature…look beyond yourself, your shape, and your body. For there is a truer mirror to be used. Take a moment right now, in the room that you’re in, in the space you occupy - and look closer.  The table, once part...

' MAY I help you month ' has begun and every day I will be writing remedies to those who share their stories with me via emails and messages. Would you like one too? Just send me something difficult you are trying to face and I will share the remedy via my Instagram page without tagging you (but I’ll let you know in a private message that it’s yours.)  Hope it offers a healing - Sez To e...

' MAY I help you month ' has begun and every day I will be writing remedies to those who share their stories with me via emails and messages. Would you like one too? Just send me something difficult you are trying to face and I will share the remedy via my Instagram page without tagging you (but I’ll let you know in a private message that it’s yours.) Hope it offers a healing - Sez _____...

' MAY I help you month ' has begun and every day I will be writing remedies to those who share their stories with me via emails and messages. Would you like one too? Just send me something difficult you are trying to face and I will share the remedy via my Instagram page without tagging you (but I’ll let you know in a private message that it’s yours.)  Hope it offers a healing - Sez ::::...

How do you really know when it's time to let go of your dream? To let go of a person? To let go of a belief? When it leaves your heart. This is a 3-minute poem to help you see that you are the gardener of your own life and it is your work to midwife what longs to come into this world and the reaper of what needs to go. Prompts you may wish to ask yourself after: - what are the reasons I keep...

Your spiritual practice is a container, a thing that encompasses you so that you can become MORE you. Like salt drawn in a circle around your body, you can become protected in this container – you can become healed in this container – you can spill yourself into this container – and what is contained within this space is you - the 'you' beyond the form - the 'you' that exists w...

Your emotions have not evolved since you were part of a nomadic, foraging community, thousands of years ago. And although we have more words to describe how we feel now, our physiological emotions have remained unchanged.  That means, even though our external environment has changed irrevocably in the last thousands of years - our bodies remain wired to an ancient way of living. Is it any wonder t...

Poetry is most certainly an apothecary and we can self-medicate by following just a few simple steps. Listen to this month's newsletter that shares the ways I write my own healing poetry and how you can too by following these 5 simple steps.  Shortcuts: Introduction on how to write your own - (5:15) Step one - (5:32) Step two - (5:55) Step three - (6:59) Step four - (8:07) Example Poem - (8:3...

What does the original meaning of the word New mean and how can it help us embody ourselves better? Listen to this month's audio newsletter to discover the power of decolonizing words and how their etymology can help us inhabit ourselves in a profound way. To get the script of this podcast and more exclusive journal prompts and intimate conversations, sign up to the newsletter anywhere on www...

Our bodies have been through so much this past year. They have been our first line of defence and hold the residue left from all the unpredictable events that struck us into fight, flight or freeze mode.  Our emotional bodies have collected the residue of this storm too. We can all feel it in ourselves, in the way we carry ourselves now and the heaviness we have accumulated.  But remember, it take...

This is a story to help get us through these slow and quiet times. It's a true story about my neighbour and their journey through last year. Some context you may like is that I live part-time in a cabin in the wilderness, where only a few people surround our land. The other half of my time is spent in Copenhagen city. Our cabin is located on a UNESCO heritage site and much of the land is wild...