Wisdom From Lived Experience with Jennifer Winfield

Thank you for listening to the first season of the Wisdom From Lived Experience podcast. I hope you have enjoyed learning about my own lived experiences but also the lived experiences of my amazing guests. Please do rate/review and share any episodes that you think your friends and family would enjoy and I will look forward to being back in the studio in the Australian spring. Much love as always,...

Back in 2016, Two of my American girlfriends shared one of Bethany Webster's blog posts with me. I found her writing mind blowing, to have someone put words to all the ways I had felt over the years was both comforting and validating. My mother who had died a year earlier and I was struggling with emotional roller coaster I was on. Bethany's work offered a way to slowly unpack all the stor...

This week on the Wisdom From Lived Experience podcast I am talking about the painful realisation that I had a mother wound and that it continued to disempower me. I came across Bethany Webster's work in 2016 and it opened a door to help understand some of the ways I had been feeling about my mother. It came at a challenging time. I had crippling chronic fatigue and my mother had died the previous...

Immortal Soil emerged out of the "terrible awfulness" that was the pandemic of 2020. No longer enamoured with the lives they were leading in Sydney they decided to use the opportunity to move up to the Northern Rivers. The boredom from being locked down inspired them to create botanical art installations in unlikely places. Their first creation was inspired by a burnt out car which they...

This week I hopped on an impromptu Zoom call with Kim Deans as part of my research for my next podcast guest Immortal Soil. I decided to record the call as I knew there might be some gems in there that I might want to share. The truth is it was such an insighful and knowledgeable conversation that I have created an entire episode out of it. If you, like me, were taught to demonise weeds then prepa...

Winding through the remnants of the Gondwana rainforest you arrive at the base of Wollumbin, a majestic mountain and sacred site for the Bundjalung people of the Northern Rivers area of NSW. Artist Gabriela Soelkner has lived on the edge of the Wollumbin National Park for 42 years. She and her partner live a very different life, immersed amongst the trees, rocks and creeks that form part of their...

Australia is a magnificent country. Within this enormous country there are vast amounts of space. These spaces are filled with beautiful, soundscapes, seascapes, and landscapes. I personally found that through connecting with the wisdom of the Aboriginal people it created this deepening that helped me understand the healing power of reconnecting to country. There is just so much wisdom held within...

Ema Shin is a Melbourne based multi-disciplinary visual artist who was born in Niigata Japan. Her heritage is both Japanese and Korean and her art is influenced by both cultures and the family stories that have been woven together from that experience. Her latest exhibition at Gallerysmith in Melbourne, is about acknowledging the 'daughters' in her Korean lineage whose names were never rec...

Sometimes we have no idea where I am going, there is this magnetising pull towards something that asks for my rational mind to move over so that my intuitive and mystical senses can steer the ship. In this week's episode I talk about heartbreak and how I believe it can leave tiny paper cuts on our hearts that offer an opportunity for deeper exploration into new and unchartered territory. It al...

This week I am in conversation with artist Hilary Herrmann. Hilary lives on the outskirts of if a busy Northern Rivers town. She creates extraordinarily beautiful paintings which are full of figures and creatures that are inspired by her curiosity to follow her imagination and her thoughts. Hilary is a wonderful storyteller and has a fascinating life story which is full of a courage and determinat...

This week on the Wisdom From Lived Experience podcast I am going to be sharing how my chronic illness carved a path back to my creative self when I discovered the healing power of dot painting. I was taught to dot paint by Auntie Daphne (Kal-Ma-Kuta) and Uncle Digby Moran, two Aboriginal elders who found art later on in their lives as part of their own healing journey. The Aboriginal people know t...

In this week's episode I am in conversation with Ravi Sharma, a Spiritual Guide from Rishikesh in India. Ravi was born in the yoga capital of India and that experience informed his curiosity to learn more about the spiritual path. He has a fascinating story and has some great wisdom to share. I do hope you will lean in because I think you will be surprised at the effect this conversation will...

Welcome to the Wisdom From Lived Experience podcast. In this episode I am sharing stories from my own experience finding out what spirituality meant for me. It precedes my interview with Ravi Sharma a Spiritual Guide from Rishikesh in India which will be published the following week. Do you have a sense of what it is to be spiritual? What does that word mean for you? If you would like to find out...

So excited to share the news that I have decided to create a podcast sharing more Wisdom From Lived Experience. I would like to acknowledge the Widjabul Wia-bal peoples of the Bundjalung nation as the original custodians of the land on which this podcast was recorded. Their sovereignty was never ceded.