If you’re looking for practices that honor your body, heart, soul, and spirit, this is the podcast for you. Join Debra Graugnard, M.Div, Spiritual and Energy Healing Practitioner and 25-year student of Sufism, as she shares teachings and tools to help you deeply and intimately know yourself and honor what you truly need to live a life of vibrant health, joy and fulfillment. Awaken the truth that you are never separate from your essence. Experience total self-acceptance and self-love. Live co ...
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Healing through the Elements: Fire - The Flame of Purification
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49:43This week we continue our deep dive through the Elements with the element of Fire: The Flame of Purification. This is where you find the sweetness when you call on your Source in times of constriction. We use the Sacred Sounds of the Elemental Globes and Divine Names to invoke the purifying sounds and frequencies so that the imprints on your psyche…
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Healing through the Elements: Ether - the Light of Truth
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52:41This week we embark on a 5-week deep dive through the Elements. Contrary to my nature – we are not going to cover all of the elements in one session. We’ll dive into one each week. We begin this week with Part 1 - Ether: The Light of Truth. We tap into the inner light that is your core consciousness - the Higher Light within you. We use the Sacred …
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Nurturing the Nurturer: How to Receive Divine Nurturing
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46:53This is a perfect Mother’s Day message – it’s about nurturing the nurturer. Receiving the Nurturing from the infinite, eternal, ever-present Source. You're probably in the habit of nurturing others. It's what we do. But when times get tough, we need our own nurturing. We need to be nurtured. We need space to be present, to allow it in, and to feel …
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The Feminine Connection with our Bodies and Earth
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44:07As women, we are somatic creatures. We are meant to be connected with our bodies and with the earth. When we are not present in our bodies and connected to our senses, our programmed conditioned not-self behaviors take over. In other words, when we are not in our vehicles, in the driver's seat with hands on the steering wheel and eyes on the road, …
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Anger, Righteousness, and Conscious Action
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50:13There is a lot happening right now for which anger is a natural response. Anger is a motivator; it can inspire us to take much-needed action. However, anger is not always the best place to act from. If you are uncomfortable with anger, you might find yourself stifling the emotion and abandoning the needed action altogether. You might feel that it's…
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Breaking Free from Gender-based Expectations
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51:14As a young mathematician, I was told over and over again that women were not good at math. Yet my test scores proved otherwise. In my high-tech career, my achievements were diminished and uncompensated as I was told repeatedly that "women do not make it here." And yet I held my own and then some. Where do our gender expectations come from? More imp…
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Do you eat when you are not hungry? Could you be eating to cover shame? The nature of shame is to hide - it doesn't want to be seen. When we are still and things get quiet, that old hidden shame from the past starts to surface and we feel agitated. It could be from our past, it could be ancestral, or it could be that innate programming that so many…
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When something comes up 3 times in the same week, I take that as a sign to address it with the group. The issue is feeling undervalued at work and working so hard to prove yourself that you are near collapse, and you are still overlooked. You are not getting support you need because you feel like asking for help would be admitting you are not capab…
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There is a divine force of Power itself that runs through all of existence and manifests in many ways. And there is a place where that Divine Power penetrates you to live, express, and manifest through you. This Power meets and merges with your ego nature to become your inner power. This is where you have choice and responsibility for how you engag…
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Spring Equinox Reiki Healing: The Power of Air
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1:02:02In this Meditation, our friend Ruha Cathy Delwiche guides us on a Holy Fire Reiki Journey to explore and integrate the healing power of Air. Air is the quality associated with the direction East, the rising sun, and the Spring Equinox. The Spring Equinox is the beginning of the agricultural year and the time when the Earth awakens. It is an excelle…
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7 Practices to Decompress Fear & Frustration
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54:33Fears, frustrations, anger, stress - they can build up inside us and act like the steam inside a pressure cooker. We need to regularly decompress - to let the steam out. These days it needs to be a daily self-care practice. In this Meditation & Healing Circle, I share 7 practices that you can use, and we’ll do four of them together. You're invited …
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Difficult times present us with opportunities to discover who we are. We have a chance to push through our limitations and discover our strengths and values, but we have to dig deep. We have to find courage and hold tight to our convictions. We all have it within us, often more than we know. In today's Meditation and Healing Circle, we support each…
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I have a book that is set to launch in the next month, pre-launch opens this week. It is called Fear, Food, and Feminine Power. I started writing it 8 years ago which feels like a long time, but it turns out the timing is perfect. Women have long held a generalized vibration of fear, feeling unsafe in their bodies. Many of us use food as a crutch t…
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Have you ever been a victim of an attack or abuse and then been blamed for your own attack? Or unjustly scrutinized? Victim blaming is something many of us, especially women, have been conditioned to hold. Now we are seeing this in the firing of government employees given a justification of performance or lack when this is not the reason for their …
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Moving Beyond Constriction: Elevating Your Consciousness in Times of Turmoil
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57:49With all of the turmoil we are in right now, it’s important to remember what we do have, what we can do, and to focus on elevating our frequencies so we can stay aligned with our truth. We have been talking for a while now about ascension into a world of peace. Meanwhile, we’re in the storm. So how can we weather the storm while staying focused on …
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How much of your persona and habitual behaviors are influenced by cultural conditioning? How much of this conditioning is counter to your true essence? Society imprints so many expectations on us – what we believe, how we speak, how we dress and wear our hair, who we hang out with, what we eat, and the social and political ideologies we identify wi…
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This meditation targets the underlying generalized sense of fear. It focuses on releasing unexplained fear so we can be more present with current life events and make clearer judgments and decisions. There is a lot of fear in the air waves right now, and much of it can be explained and justified. However, there is an underlying fear that resides in…
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Have you been feeling a bit overwhelmed or anxious, feeling uncertain, finding it difficult to ground or connect with your true self? You are not alone. Here are some tools for your toolkit! In this Meditation & Healing Circle, my dear friend and colleague Camela Widad leads us through breathwork to regulate the nervous system and help us connect w…
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Your Body is Your Best Life Partner: 7 Keys to a Healthy Relationship with Your Body
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1:04:27Dr. Bessel van der Kolk wrote the brilliant book The Body Keeps the Score. Your body holds the story of your life journey and gives you keys to healing. But your body is not limited to the effects of your past. It is still evolving with you as you write the next pages and chapters of your life. If you have ever looked in a mirror and not like what …
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Finding Your Way through Society's Mixed Messages
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47:37Our culture pushes us to identify with labels that tell us how we’re supposed to believe, look, and act: What does it mean to be a woman? A man? Nonbinary? A teenager? An adult? A parent? A liberal? A conservative? Independent? A professional [fill in the blank]? What’s your stereotype? What pictures do you fit in? The messages are full of double s…
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In the Q&A after last Sunday's Meditation & Healing Circle, I had a request to do a Virtual Burning Bowl ritual. So that is what we are going to do today. Get a pen, paper, and a bowl, then press play. You do not need to use real fire - I personally like ripping up the papers by hand. A burning bowl ritual is where you write onto scraps of paper th…
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When to Hold On to Intentions (and when to let them go)
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57:02Did you have intentions for 2024 that were not manifested? Maybe obstacles kept getting in your way, or maybe you just didn't get to it yet, or maybe you changed your mind. But the question inevitably comes up: should I hold onto this intention and keep trying or should I let it go and move on? It's not always easy to know if it's meant to be, but …
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Winter Solstice Reiki Journey: Whole Body Listening
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55:06Yesterday was our Winter Solstice, and today, our friend Ruha Cathy Delwiche will be leading us on a Holy Fire Karuna Reiki journey called "Whole Body Listening." This is the time of darkness – we will experience the shortest period of daylight and the longest period of darkness. This is a time of release and transformation – we use the available e…
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Celebrating Successes & Gratitude for 2024 - A Deep Healing
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50:20This one turned out to be a deep healing, more than I had originally expected. Sometimes in order to fully receive and integrate the gifts, we need to forgive ourselves for our perceived mistakes or shortcomings. That happened. Then we can receive the knowledge, intellect, and wisdom from our experiences, elevating our frequencies and expanding con…
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Can you believe it is already December? Again? It's a good time to reflect on this past year to take into account what you have accomplished and what you have received. We are all in a time of immense personal growth whether we realize it or not. What growth has developed within you? What has changed for you over the past year? The Great Sufi Shayk…
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Have you ever spoken up in a powerful way about something you believe to be true that does not agree with popular opinion and been called bitchy, whiny, complaining? Most women know what I'm talking about, but this may apply to men too – in fact, I hope you will all benefit from this healing. As I've been preparing to publish my book, Fear, Food, a…
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Sometimes when we want something really bad, we say, “I trust... I trust… I trust…” when what we really mean is “I hope… I hope… I hope…” We are praying for a specific outcome that we want, and then if that outcome does not come to pass, we lose trust. Then we find ourselves saying, “How can I trust in a God that would allow this…?” And then we los…
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Harvesting Inner Peace: Discovering Strength & Wisdom through Mother Earth's Energy
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51:35Here in the Northern Hemisphere, now is the time of harvest and preparing for the winter months. This is a period of reflection and beginning to turn inward to explore our inner landscape. It is the perfect time of year to experience the divine attributes of the Earth as reflected in our own divinity. In this Meditation & Healing Circle, our friend…
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Feminine-Masculine Synergy for the Future of Humanity
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51:55One thing our US election showed clearly is that the feminine and masculine dynamics are really skewed. The truth of feminine and masculine power is not understood. Until we recognize the highest potential of the feminine and masculine, we cannot have a world of peace or unity. In this powerful Meditation & Healing Circle, we purge the old conditio…
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Prayers for a Peaceful Election: Raise the Vibration, Be the Change
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46:08In honor/anticipation of election week in the US, this Meditation & Healing Circle offers prayers and intentions for a peaceful election - calling on the purest light and highest vibrations to surround the entire process. We begin with elevating our vibration to one of pure divine light, unconditional love, boundless compassion, and existential pea…
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When we make mistakes, we can lose faith in ourselves, but self-trust can be restored. Mistakes are inevitable, but when they are accompanied by embarrassment, humiliation, shame, or guilt, they can install this roadblock and warning sign that says "Don't ever go down this road again!" We're left feeling like we can't trust ourselves, and we drive …
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Purging Identification with Food Habits & Customs
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50:49We all have those life-defining moments. They lodge images, feelings, and beliefs into our cellular consciousness that we identify with until we do enough healing to dislodge. We also have similar identifications with food, most of which are deeply embedded into the psyche, and many of which cause disharmony and disease in the body and the planet. …
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Do you feel like you've done a lot of work to leave your past hurts behind, but there is still a part of you that can't break free from your identification with the old traumas? Your past does not make you who you are. It just helps you discover the truth at the core of your being. In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we call on the divine power of…
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Do you ever find yourself wondering who you would be if... if you were born to different parents, in a different place, encouraged to pursue certain gifts and talents, or perhaps if something hadn't happened that created a roadblock? Well, the spark that inspired that dream in the first place is still inside you, and you can tap into it now. You mi…
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The Mycelial Network and Our Connection with All That Is
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45:53There is an amazing underground network that connects all plant life. It is the mycelial network, the communications system through which plants support each other, warn each other, and collaborate. As we walk this earth, we connect with the incredible wisdom of this interwoven support system. As Muhyiddin Ibn Al-'Arabi said, we are not on this ear…
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A Return to Balance: Reiki Journey with Ruha Cathy Delwiche
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1:02:48Sunday, September 22, is our Fall Equinox of 2024. This is the time of perfect balance – day and night are equal. As we connect in with the cycles of time, we are given the opportunity to go within and give thought to the balance and flow within our daily lives. In this Meditation & Healing Circle, our friend, Ruha Cathy Delwiche guides us on an in…
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Healing Intergenerational Patterns: Wisdom of the Monarch Butterfly
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49:59You've probably heard of the theory: "When you heal an ancestral pattern, you heal seven generations back and seven generations forward." Well, I was talking to someone the other day who said, "It bothers me to heal for the ones who hurt me." I so get that. When you're angry at someone for the pain they caused you, why would you want to do them any…
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Establishing Boundaries to Protect Your Inner Child
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46:48Did you ever have those times as a child when you wished someone would have been there to protect you, to take up for you when someone was hurting you or making fun of you or bullying you? This child and her needs still live inside you, and you can give that to her now. You can give her the protection she needed and be her advocate to bring healing…
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Integration of all parts of ourselves is key to healing, wholeness, and success. Last week in our Meditation & Healing Circle, we journeyed forward to connect with our future selves to receive insights about how our present-day decisions and lifestyle choices affect the future world we want to live in. In this week's meditation, we go back to our y…
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If you could speak with your future self...
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41:09If you could speak with your future self, what conversation would you want to have? What do you want to say about the world you helped to create that your future self is living in? What do you want to hear from your future self about the impact your decisions and lifestyle choices made? This is a critical time in our history in the making. Not just…
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Release the Masks to Reveal Your Authentic Self
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46:23We all wear many masks throughout the course of our lives. When we step into unfamiliar and uncomfortable situations, it's natural to fall into a persona that we've been conditioned to believe we need to be to be accepted and successful. Think about the mask you put on when you first went into middle school, or a new relationship, or your first job…
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Everyone has an inner compass, that inner guidance system that tells us when we are aligned with our highest truth and our most authentic selves. When we perceive the world from that aligned and connected place, we can make choices and decisions that support the highest good for ourselves and the planet. We can speak up for the things we care about…
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Align with the Natural Order of the Universe
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55:08No matter how chaotic life gets, there is a natural order to the universe. You are a microcosm of the macrocosm. You can align with the natural order and find harmony and balance in your life. We tend to focus on our healing and transformation, our earth journey, our cycle of growth and evolution, and our purpose. In the twenty-eight step-levels of…
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How Guilt Affects Your Relationship with Money
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59:05What internal conversations do you have with yourself around money? What beliefs guide your financial decisions? Discover the role GUILT plays in your financial health, and how loyalty to your family and friends can be holding back your wealth creation. Our special guest, Jean Border, guides us through the fascinating world of the Emotional Freedom…
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Do you struggle with wanting to live your life aligned with the divine plan for you, yet you question the role of your own will? It's a common conundrum. Yet the two are not mutually exclusive. They actually have a beautiful relationship that can guide us through our journey. So where does free will intersect with the divine plan? How can we naviga…
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Prayers for Peace & Unity (through the lens of a classic rock song)
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54:24Earlier in the week one of our beautiful Sufi teachers, Kabir Helminski, shared the lyrics of the classic rock song Woodstock, written by Joni Mitchell and more famously sung by Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young. "We are stardust, We are golden, We are billion-year-old carbon, And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden." From the time I read the…
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Does Fear Influence Your Eating Habits?
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1:00:24By now we know that uncomfortable emotions influence our food choices, eating habits, and ability to digest and absorb nutrients. In this week's Meditation & Healing Circle, we will look specifically at how fear might be influencing our eating habits. By fear I mean a disruption in your base chakra and belly energy centers that disturbs your primal…
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Lessons & Blessings from Living with My Father - Part 4: Why are our souls traveling this journey together?
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53:26As we close out the month of June and this series on Lessons and Blessings from Living with My Father, today we tap into compassionate listening with an inquiry into the questions: "Why have our souls traveled this earth together at this time? What are we here to learn from each other, to give and receive. to share?" Listen to this episode to explo…
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Journey through the Blessings Fields
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1:02:05We have a special treat today - a journey through the Blessings Fields with Ruha Cathy Delwiche, Holy Fire® Karuna Reiki® Master Teacher and incredible healer. Father’s Day and the Summer Solstice (in the Northern Hemisphere) have just passed bringing their unique blend of energies. As we celebrate these times with our families and friends, remembe…
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Lessons & Blessings from Living with My Father - Part 3: Patience with Lesser-Abled Loved Ones
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51:03Life gets busy. When our aging loved ones are slowing down, it can be challenging to dial back our pace to be present with them. The same is true when a spouse or friend becomes ill, or with our children, and especially with our parents – the folks that were yelling at us to hurry up when we were younger. Our minds might not be able to grasp what i…
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