ShamanTalk

Sometimes we need a quick hand out of a funk. In this podcast, I'll run through some super easy techniques that you can use to lift you out of a bad day.

This may seem like an odd question, but have you ever considered your relationship with time? ​ Most of us feel incredibly frustrated when it comes to time. I continuously hear my clients tell me, "I don't have enough time" or "wouldn't that be great if I had space to do such & such”. ​ Not to mention our societies gripping fear of ageing, regret, and wasting time– that is a lot of pressure we...

This week we're getting practical! I want to share my understanding of Sacred Objects and how they can be used in our spiritual practice and daily lives.

Despair. It's something that most of us will experience at some point in our lives.  It can feel all-consuming, but there are things we can do to get out from under it.  This episode takes a deep dive into despair and how we can overcome it. 

Self-worth is such a big topic! And yet, it is a symptom of deeper issues, not a problem in itself. So focusing on low self-worth can sometimes be detrimental. In this week’s podcast, we’ll look into the symptoms of low self-worth and what you can do if you find yourself having these issues.

In this episode, I'm covering toxic positivity which is defined as the excessive and ineffective overgeneralisation of a happy, optimistic state across all situations. The toxic positivity process results in the denial, minimisation, and invalidation of the authentic human emotional experience. You can't truly be positive while burying and denying your feelings.  As usual, there will be lots...

"Forgiveness isn’t about pardoning others’ actions; it’s about letting yourself off the emotional hook." In this week's episode, we're taking a deep dive into forgiveness & how it can lead us down the path of physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. It's a tricky subject, and as usual, I'll be giving you tips, tricks and journey ideas so help you to better embrace forgiveness in your life (ev...

In this last episode of the Drama Triangle series, we take a deep dive into the Persecutor archetype.  This is the archetype that most people find challenging, especially when called to look at their own role within this archetype.  So take a deep breath and jump on in :) 

In this episode - part two of the Drama Triangle series, we go into more detail and look at ways to start to work effectively to overcome the drive to be a saviour and instead move towards personal responsibility and empowerment. Get the full show notes here

What is the Drama Triangle? The Drama Triangle is a model of the connection between personal responsibility and power in conflicts, and the destructive and shifting roles people play. The Drama Triangle refers to a dysfunctional model of human interaction. The three roles are Victim, Saviour (Rescuer) & Perpetrator (Persecutor) In this podcast series, we will explore each of these archetypes o...

Space has power. It either resonates with you, or it doesn’t. Like everything in life, the spaces around us are imbued with energy. Space supports and empowers you, or it undermines and drains your energy. In other words, if the energy of a place supports the idea of sacredness, the person in that room will find it much easier to resonate with their own sacredness. It is easy to see why creating y...

..and how to easily make LASTING change this New Year. ​I hope you had a restful festive period and are feeling energised to embrace the incoming year. ​ ​In this week's podcast, I talk about New Years resolutions and why they never work. ​ We all have the urge at this time of year to follow the crowd and set some resolutions. I know I used to get all fired up with my list. I’ll do it this time! E...

 The Holidays are almost upon us, and this will be the last Podcast until the New Year!  I thought it would be fun to end the year with a slightly different episode.  So, I invited my husband Scott to interview yours truly!  I didn't know what the questions were going to be and I was really nervous!  Was this going to be light-hearted or a deep conversation? 😬😬😬 Did Scott have any unexpected cu...

Many people confuse seeing multiple practitioners, clearing chakras, taking courses and reading books as doing Spiritual Work. Although important – this is only one aspect of it. One of the key fundamentals in Spiritual Growth is taking Radical Personal Responsibility. This is the aim of what we call  Radical Self Responsibility  (RSR). It is taking the ‘ radical ‘ step into full (100%)&...

I was new to Shamanism, and about to embark on one of my first journeys to meet a power animal. I couldn’t wait to find out what my power animal was. I had grand visions of Wolves, Owls, Eagles and Stags. You know the score. I began my Journey and, much to my devastation, I was met by… A slug. Yep. A slug. I was gutted. My hopes for an elegant power animal that I could tell people about were dashe...

I put a post in the Facebook group this week asking you listeners what your main worries are when it comes to practising Shamanism. As always, you provided me with some great responses, some that I’ve heard before and some that I’ve not personally experienced. Some of your worries were: Not having confidence in your abilities. Attracting other peoples pain. Making it all up in your head. Cultural...

When it comes to our spiritual path, it can be hard to commit to it when you have self-limiting beliefs that are holding you back.  You find yourself saying things like: “I’ll never know enough” “I don’t have what it takes.” “I’m scared I’ll fail.” “I don’t trust myself.” “I’m not worthy of a more Spiritually connected, happy life.” Sound familiar? All of the excuses you make up in your mind...

Many of us, especially at the beginning of a spiritual path, try to avoid discomfort like the plague. We might have the idea that avoiding discomfort and always feeling good is the point of a spiritual path; unfortunately, that isn’t the case and is only saving up problems for a rainy day. Learning how to embrace our discomfort and turn it into an ally is a crucial step on a spiritual path. So lis...

In this episode, I talk about Grounding – and as I read through some of the articles available on this topic, I realised that I also wanted to dispel some myths. Many of these articles overstated what being ‘ungrounded’ meant and also placed responsibility on the client to become grounded. For those of us in trauma, this can be an impossible task and can result in some feeling ‘shame’ that they ca...

You don’t need to be a shaman to work with shamanism. Let’s think about it in terms of a tribe. Every tribe member would be connected to nature, their body and their soul. Every member would have innate skills of connection, from where to gather food and when and what type, to hunting, being deeply connected to the animals they hunted. They were linked to each other on such a deep level that they...

This week I invited my daughter Eve to join me on ShamanTalk. We talk about some tough topics and how we work to overcome the difficulties of our past. We talk about Eve’s irritation and frustration that came up when I started my shamanic path (I thought she would be pleased – nope!!). We talk about how I was emotionally unavailable for a lot of Eve’s childhood and how we dealt with that. We talke...

What is a control freak? Why do we do what we do? And can’t seem to stop it? Is there actually a way to recover from Control Freakery? Doing some research into this issue I see lots of posts about how to live with a control freak, how to ‘deal’ with a control freak but not but from the control freaks perspective. In this episode I’m going to go through some painful truths I learned about myself as...

All of my work right now is centred around Empowered Spirituality. But what does that actually mean? How do we become empowered? Where do we even start? Being an empowered spiritual person always means that you have to start with personal or inner work – you have to find a way to move into a right relationship with yourself in order to be a highly effective spiritual person. Your own trauma acts a...

I’ve been fielding a lot of questions recently about Spiritual protection and space clearing. There so much information out there about what’s ‘right’ and wrong’ It’s no wonder everyone gets confused about protection, smudging, space clearing etc. So I’m going to share what I do and why I do it. And why there’s NO RIGHT OR WRONG WAY with this work. Then I’m going to discuss how you can develop you...

In this podcast, Scott and I share the experience of our holiday in the wilds of Scotland. The experience for us was deeply ceremonial in many ways and it got me thinking… What does Ceremony mean to me? What I know to be true for me is that life is a Ceremony, those sacred conversations that open a doorway, the spontaneous Ceremony that can just appear for us as well as the thoughtful and laid out...