Hello dear listener. Today I share that the podcast is moving from a weekly offering to a seasonal offering. I’ll be taking a hiatus from recording new episodes so that I can focus on the next book as well as another very exciting and expansive creative project. I’ll be back with fresh new insights, offerings, and a heart full of love!

We also work a bit with change, being present, and exploring the ways in which we can hold ourselves back from living the life we long for. 

Sometimes we have to let go of something in order to do so. This can bring about loss, grief, and uncertainty. 

And yet, turning toward ourselves, toward the life calling us now is a great liberation.

Letting ourselves be pierced by the changes, by this moment, exactly as it is.

Be inspirited—let yourself be held.

You are nothing but love.

I look forward to being with you when it’s time to pick up the chalice of this podcast.

In the meantime, I am still available. You can be with me near the hearth fire—your own private hearth fire. Visit www.shegathersbeauty.com to learn more about spending sacred time with me.

There’s also a nice library of episodes to listen to. I’d love to know some of your favorites if you’d like to reach out! Visit the link above for contact info.

If you’ve enjoyed this or any other episodes, please leave a rating and loving review. That’s the best way for people to find us.

As always, may you know that you are sacred. This moment is ceremony. And you get to live your wildly naked truth.

Vast blessings & love,

Wendy

Wendy explores the importance of honoring our daily needs as a way to be available for knowing and tending to the desires and aspirations beckoning us into the life we long to live. 

This episode looks at homecoming as it relates to turning toward, not away from, the fires happening both around and inside us. Coming home to ourselves in very basic ways increases our ability to be present in a challenge and available to joy, healing, rest, truth, and relaxation. These are dynamic, game-changing keys to being part of the great revolution happening now.

Stillness is an essential ingredient to tending the hearth fire of daily life. What is living at the center of you? Let’s look at how often we get lost in checking off to-do lists moving from task to task and choose something different.

Life’s grand invitation at this time is to lean into and build upon supportive and nourishing practices that feed us—body, mind, and spirit—helping repair hurt, be with uncertainty, and be nurtured more. We can’t be fed from perpetual exhaustion.

How can our daily choices be acts of grace and devotion? I provide simple practices that can help increase ease, clarity, and focus and cultivate greater trust in the goodness available to each and all of us. We explore the empowered surrender of a one-word prayer, the beauty of making offerings and gestures of love to nature and hence, ourselves, and other sacred, daily practices. 

How I found this altar built out of words, plus how it can be used: “let your desires counsel you.”

Turning inward and locating stillness. Dropping into the profound calm of our breath, leaving behind stressful to-do lists and excessive task-oriented ways of being, if even for a moment or two. 

When we know what we really need and act on that, we increase our ability to create a larger vision of wholeness from trust, spaciousness, clarity, and creativity. 

Rest and repair create more room for our gifts and wisdom. We can draw upon the powerful practices of ritual. I share a few of my own personal practices, including water offerings, rattling, and journeying to commune with my helping spirits. 

Everything is ceremony. We can turn our gaze toward the sacred in each moment.

BONUS: at the end of this episode, I take you on a guided visualization into your heart cave where you can relax, receive, and enjoy a special offering that has been waiting for you. 

Come home to the quiet stillness that is you. 

Remember, you are sacred. This moment is ceremony. And you, dear heart, you get to live your wildly naked truth. 

If you’d like to learn more about my offerings, visit www.shegathersbeauty.com. 

Today Wendy shares a poem entitled “Of Belonging” and sets a sacred place to welcome in the topics of relevance, refuge, and reverence. She addresses loneliness and isolation, chaos, and the longing for more ease and connection. ”We are not broken.”