The Authentic Creative: expanding our capacity to feel good

In Episode 11 of this 12 part minisode devotional, embodied companion to The Artist’s Way , I explore what it means to recover a sense of autonomy and reconnect with inner authority as a creative and emotional practice. I reflect on the paradox many of us experience between independence and support. I share personal reflections about having a naturally sovereign spirit while also deeply valuing co...

In Episode 10 of this 12 part minisode devotional, embodied companion to The Artist’s Way , I explore what it means to recover a sense of self protection and reconnect with boundaries as a loving and creative practice. In this episode, I reflect on how many of us learned to care for others long before learning how to protect our own energy, time, and creative life. I share how motherhood, entrepre...

In Episode 9 of this 12 part minisode devotional, embodied companion to The Artist’s Way , I explore what it means to recover a sense of compassion and reconnect with kindness as a powerful creative and emotional practice. In this episode, I reflect on how many of us learned to offer patience, forgiveness, and understanding to others long before learning how to extend that same gentleness toward o...

In Episode 8 of this 12 part minisode devotional, embodied companion to The Artist’s Way, I explore what it means to recover a sense of strength and reconnect with strength as something sustainable, supported, and deeply embodied. In this episode, I reflect on how my understanding of strength has evolved from endurance and over functioning into a more grounded, relational, and nervous system cente...

In Episode 7 of this 12 part minisode devotional, I explore what it means to recover a sense of connection and reconnect with creativity as something relational, guided, and alive inside community, nature, and shared witnessing. I share how connection has shaped my creative and spiritual life over more than 2 decades of healing work, motherhood, entrepreneurship, and practice. For me, connection i...

In Episode 6 of this 12 part minisode devotional, I explore what it means to recover a sense of abundance and reconnect with creativity as something supported, relational, and renewable. I share my personal relationship with abundance and how it has evolved over more than 2 decades of creative work, motherhood, entrepreneurship, and spiritual practice. For me, abundance is not only financial. It i...

In Episode 5 of this 12 part minisode devotional series, I explore what it means to recover a sense of possibility and gently reopen imagination, curiosity, and creative expansion. I share personal reflections from a quiet moment of stillness after a season of family illness, caregiving, and responsibility, and how possibility often returns through relief, support, and subtle forward movement rath...

In Episode 4 of this 12 part minisode devotional series, I explore what it means to recover a sense of integrity and reconnect with wholeness inside creativity, family life, responsibility, and devotion. I share personal reflections about recording this series while caring for my 2 boys, my husband, our dogs, our home, and navigating a head cold, and how integrity has been teaching me that creativ...

In Episode 3 of this 12 part minisode devotional series, I explore what it means to recover a sense of creative power and reconnect with the part of you that has choice, agency, and voice, even when doubt, fear, or past experiences have made that feel distant. I reflect on how power is often misunderstood and how many sensitive and creative people learn to distance themselves from power because it...

In Episode 2 of this 12 part minisode devotional series, I explore what it means to recover a sense of identity and reconnect with the creative self underneath roles, labels, and expectations. I reflect on growing up as the eldest daughter and being labeled as difficult or too much, and how reclaiming early identities can become part of creative and emotional liberation. I also share realizations...

Welcome to Episode 1 of a 12 part devotional, embodied companion to The Artist’s Way. This series is an invitation to walk chapter by chapter through one of the most enduring creative and spiritual texts of our time as a lived, embodied experience. In this opening episode, we begin where the book begins: with safety. I share a bit about how The Artist’s Way entered my life at 19 through an acting...

I dialogue with Zoe Kelsey , founder of We Shine Well , a community marketing strategist and natural dot connector devoted to helping women in wellness grow through authentic connection and collaboration. In this episode, Zoe shares her simple framework of presence, priorities, pleasure and how it supports finding your people, building real community, and becoming more visible in a way that still...

In this episode, I am in dialogue with international consciousness guide and soul astrologer Danielle Paige about destiny, free will, and soul contracts, and what it really means to rise above the stars. Danielle shares her age 30 awakening, why real astrology is not about predictions, and how discernment and nervous system safety support embodied intuition. She also offers a mini reading from my...

What if turning inward is not retreat. What if it is the pause that gathers your power. In this episode, I am in dialogue with poet and author Melody Godfred about rest, rhythm, and blooming in your own time. We move from her origin story as an Iranian Jewish immigrant family escaping the Iranian revolution to the unexpected global sisterhood sparked by the Self Love Pinky Ring. We read poetry tog...

In this episode, I dialogue with Farah Orths, Hay House author of Money Loves Me , a channel, musician, and spiritual mentor devoted to bringing unconditional love of the Divine into the human realm and the felt sense of self. Together, we explore money as a powerful doorway into the deeper work beneath the numbers: nervous system safety, embodied receiving, shame and worthiness, and the remembran...

A luminous morning panel on reclaiming the woman beneath the roles. After transformational breathwork infused with Reiki, this courageous circle shares what rises when the nervous system softens: rest that arrives through active breath, the liberation of sound and release, and the truth that you do not have to try so hard to be held, loved, or powerful. Together we explore shadow and light, rage a...

In this special tradition episode, I share 5 simple tips to transition from 2025 to 2026 and then I’m joined by my son, Bodhi, for a 10 year old’s guide to feeling good. We talk about what helps him feel calm, confident, and most himself, plus the simple routines and practices that support him in daily life. We end with his best life advice: have fun in life because it’s short. In this episode • S...

In this intimate live panel, I guide a transformational breathwork journey infused with Reiki, then open a circle of truth telling on the theme The Sacred Ordinary. You will hear reflections on surrendering performance, listening beneath the mind, and trusting the small signals that guide us: the body’s clear yes and no, sound and silence as a map, nature as a mirror, creativity as a byproduct of...

Samantha is an entrepreneur, wife, and mother of 2, and co-founder of Ananda Elixirs, a wellness brand that delivers functional mushrooms in a delicious elixir that tastes like your favorite childhood soda. She is also the author of I, Dea: Awaken Your Inner Goddess .  In this episode we talk about what it really looks like to follow your bliss after everything falls apart. Samantha shares about n...

This minisode is a devotional to everyone who holds a lot for others and is wondering how to keep doing sacred work without abandoning themselves. This year I led 4 retreats. In this episode I share: • The magic that unfolded in my home and at the ocean • How women arrived and how they left • The quiet and loud ways Source showed up again and again • What I learned about nervous systems, money, an...

In this episode I stand in dialogue with author, coach, and community builder Lillian Cohanzad about what it really looks like to recover a sense of self in the middle of fires, motherhood, and big life transitions. We meet her between Thanksgiving and the winter holidays, in a year that asked her to let go of a beloved home, a town, and the school her 3 children attended when the Palisades fires...

In this Sacred Over Sacrifice panel, we gathered a circle of powerful women for a transformational breathwork journey followed by a raw, honest conversation about releasing the martyr role, breaking people pleasing patterns, listening to the body, and choosing truth, softness, and self honoring over obligation. You’ll hear real breathwork shares, mystical experiences, emotional releases, boundary...

In this unguarded conversation, we explore what it means to live in relationship with the unseen; to call it God, Source, Spirit, Universe, or simply Love. Fresh from a transformational breathwork infused with Reiki session, a circle of luminous women gather in reverence and curiosity to speak about faith, energy, grief, and the mystery that breathes us. What unfolds is an unveiling that every pat...

In this luminous and deeply grounding dialogue with writer and teacher Ashmi Pathela we explore what it really means to anchor the light within the human experience. From her home in the forests of Western Australia, Ashmi shares how motherhood, nature, and everyday life have become living gateways to presence, awareness, and love. Together we talk about what it means to live as your higher self n...

In this luminous episode of The Authentic Creative: Expanding Our Capacity to Feel Good , I sit down with the remarkable Jeni Dodd , international tea importer, Certified Tea Specialist, award-winning speaker, and founder of jeni.dodd.tea.com We met by pure serendipity in an airport while I was traveling with my 12-year-old son, Phoenix, to visit my 100-year-old grandmother, and our connection was...