"It's more yin or more yang.
And that helps people to relate more to the directionality, and the temperament, and the quality of the feelings rather than the merit of their feelings."
Inciting Joy, by Ross Gay (Pragmatic Alchemy Bookclub)
"To share our joy or our delight with someone else is an act of vulnerability."
Healing Through Buddhism, Herbalism, and Witchcraft (with Penny, the Green Witch)
"You don't need to go and live in a forest or on an amazing beach to experience the season or connect with nature and the elements. Nature is around us."
Forging Your Own Path (with Nicole + Julie of EPIC Business Coaching)
"Nicole and I call it the good, the bad, the ugly, and the fucking fabulous!"
Awesome AF (with Dr Erika Michalski)
"The world has decided so many things about me that are grossly inaccurate and if I carried the weight of all those I would be crushed and never be able to get out of bed."
Navigating Depression Through Magic and Ritual (with Terence P Ward)
"We have an incredible capacity for healing, if we just give ourselves a chance."
Happy 1st Birthday!
According to Slamagency.com less than 20% of podcasts started this year will be around next year. Celebrating one year of Pragmatic Alchemy and looking forward to our next year!
How to Be Alone (with Nicole Antoinette)
"Sometimes we need training wheels and sometimes we don't. Sometimes we're well-resourced enough to take on a hard thing and sometimes we're not. I look back and I feel like I would have saved myself so much angst and wasted energy by not shaming myself for whatever the place was that I was at."
Career Wellbeing (with Debra Laks, LMHC)
"Work life balance; there's not such a dichotomy. It's not like either/or. Work is part of our life. So how you choose to make your livelihood has to be some expression of who you are."
Chakras + Wellbeing
"The chakras are energy centers. Physicists recognize that the entire universe is comprised of energy, so therefore, whether we feel like we are or not, we are a part of the universe. We are a part of all."
Work, Play + Wellbeing (with Kati Haynes)
"How do I want to live my life so I can have the balance I really look for?"
Reclamation of Joy! (with Lori Pine, The Joy CEO)
"When we're intentional, and we're taking action and we're in touch with what it is we like, what matters to us, and we become unapologetic about that, there is liberation, and freedom, and joy."
The reconnection of mind, body + soul (with Brittany Sanders)
"My first question to you is going to be 'What is the first step? What is the simplest thing you can do to make a change in your life today?'."
It's Not What You Eat, It's What You ABSORB (with Marika Blossfeldt)
"One way is not the way for every body, and everybody needs to listen to their own body and figure out what works for you."
Creating a Life You Love (with Maria Blon)
"With intuition, it's soft and subtle. It can be easy to put it aside. Worry and anxiety are much louder."
In the Shadow of the Moon: Making Sense of Menopause (with Susan Willson, CNM)
"I really like to remind women 'this is your time'. Claim your space. Claim your joy. Put pleasure back into your life and start to whittle away at some of the things you just do because you've been told you gotta do 'em".
Nourishment + Wellbeing (with Marie Murphy, MS, RDN, CSSD)
"I like to help people think of the gut as a garden. You have to not just put the seeds in the ground but you have to have the right soil, you have to put the right nutrients in place."
Emotional Regulation + Wellbeing (with Jemma Schwartz, LCSW)
“It's about these little moments and choices. It's about once again, again, and again, and again, noticing where we're at and choosing to meet our own needs.”
How to Be a Grief Ally (with Aly Bird)
"Give the person that you love the permission, the empowerment, and the respect for the emotional experience that they are having because of their loss."
Nourishment Through Our Seasons (with Holly Shelowitz)
"There are things that can happen along this continuum that we get can to a point in peri-menopause or menopause that our body needs a lot more nourishment, sustenance, and emotional support."