Good Enough with Stella Mac

Wisdom Through Play and Creativity with Rachel Bavis

Rachel Bavis is a certified Intentional Creativity© teacher and child welfare attorney working with organizations, individuals, and youth to help them heal, rejuvenate, and access their inner healer to thrive.  Whimsy and humor are in her tool kit, along with a paintbrush, owl rocks, and chocolate!  She believes creativity and play are at the heart of knowing our own wisdom.  You can find her atrachelbavis.com [http://rachelbavis.com/] where you can join her Healing the Healer community and gain access to many of her wisdom-filled free videos, gratitude journals, and coloring books. Points Covered in Episode: * Self-care * Daily rituals * The journey of entrepreneurship * Using creativity for healing * PTSD and Secondary Trauma

Riffing on Love, Loss, Creativity with Shelby Frago

Shelby Frago is a private practice psychotherapist, life coach, and working artist living in the Pacific Northwest. But as you get to know her better you will discover her as a Heart Holder, Grief Tender, a Soul Listener, and a Creative Catalyst (aka a Sparkle Pirate who instigates “Intrepid Joy” wherever she can! She is now on a mission to help other women tap into their creativity to solve problems, make meaning and inspire women of all ages, stages, and walks of life to claim the deepest and most effortless nourishment possible. Her piece of the Red Thread is to help her beloveds traverse and transcend the wily wilderness of grief and get to the other side of “Re-membering themselves.”  Excited to open up an honest and juicy conversation about the depth and breadth of loss (in ALL shapes and sizes), As a self-identified, life-long Shadow and Light tracker, Shelby seeks to root out what is missing and bring it back into the fold. She believes the jewels live in the shadow waiting to be mined. Points Covered in Episode: * The importance of a creative legacy * Relational responsibility * Moving through grief and loss * Creative practices

Transitions and Transformation with Dr. Semerit

Semerit Strachan, MD, is a student and faculty member at the Cultural Wellness Center in South Minneapolis, MN. She has been the Director of Medicine at the Center since its beginning in 1996 and is the Grio of the Medicine of Transformation. Her expertise lies in creating a space for the human spirit in the medical encounter, in using culture as a resource in health and healing, and in teaching how to access inner resources to change one’s physiology or disease process. Through “what is my body really trying to tell me?” — an inquiry process in images and words—she teaches the symbolic language of the Body. Dr. Semerit is a writer, poet, and artist. She is a Color of Woman graduate. She has been trained as a Feminine Power Coach and Facilitator. She is a native of Haiti, married to Donald, and mother to Ariele. And my Birthday Sis – welcome Semerit I’m so happy to be in conversation with you today. Points Covered in Episode: * Ways to listen to our body wisdom * Being older and shifting focus * The importance of knowing your ancestry * The importance of liberation from your mother’s daughter and ways to do it * Listening to our intuition

Christine Arylo and Feminine Power

Christine Arylo, MBA, is a women’s leadership advisor, transformational teacher, and best selling author who works with women to make shift happen – in the lives they lead, the work they do, and the impact they desire to make. Marrying 20 years of business experience with 15 years of feminine & yogic wisdom training, Arylo illuminates how to lead and live a different way, the "feminine way” - professionally successful, internally empowered, and personally sustainable and satisfying. Her programs on intuition, feminine power, and cultivating resilience, self-love and courage have reached over 35,000 students worldwide. A blogger and vlogger since 2007, Arylo now hosts the Feminine Power Time podcast. Christine is writing her fourth book: “Overwhelmed and Over It: Embrace Your Power to Stay Centered and Sustained in a Chaotic World. Points Covered in this Episode: * Why it’s so important that we flow with the seasons and things we can do during the Equinox. * Why time is not something we need to let go of and why it’s not natural. * Our Comparison Queens * What to do in times of chaos and overwhelm. * Harmonic Defiance: How to understand harmony and use it to make choices. * Connection vs. belonging.

Good Enough with Stella Mac

Today StellaMac shares the stage with herself! She riffs on what it’s been like to create a podcast, is she “good enough”, is this truly her passion and because she loves a good writing prompt she shares one with you as you move into 2020. Points covered in this episode: * Writing exercise * What is “good enough” * Passion and discipline * Showing Up