Lovely humans!

So happy to be back here in this space, and, apparently, using an entire hour of Allison’s life to get her to try to help me navigate the chaos in my life. Ahhh…it has been a time. A very good and potential-filled time, and a time with a lot happening as well.

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I first encountered David Richo’s work many years ago, amidst a period of my life where I was, admittedly, not much of a functioning adult. Crippled by fear and self doubt and seemingly unable to offer consistent presence to the people in my lives, I ordered his book, ‘How to be an Adult’ praying that there would be something sacred within its pages. I was far from disappointed.

I can credit his writings (I went on to devour and apply the principles offered in many more of his works!) with some of the most significant shifts in my relational abilities and understanding of self, and I was overjoyed that he was willing to come on to the show to have a conversation.

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My teacher always told me that each person had three unique medicine gifts that they were to figure out in this lifetime, and that our gifts are just as variable as human nature. It has been my journey to come to know and practice my gifts, and now to help others in articulating and offering theirs too.

Allison & explore this topic in today’s episode, along with some other wonderful conversation:

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I have a most complex relationship with the idea and experience of ‘hope’, and Allison & I have had many conversations over the past few years about this complexity. I’m pretty sure this is the first time we’ve had one on air, however!

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Hey friends.

Today’s episode is a little deviation from the norm around here, as rather than the usual dialogue between Allison and myself, I have a guest!

For the first time ever, I will be the quiet one, and offer this episode with the intention of connecting you to the wisdom and brilliance of a true master healer. My intention is to offer several interviews over the coming months featuring healers and wisdom-keepers that have impacted my learning and journey, and who I feel have essential teachings for our time.

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Well hey there, everyone.

What a fun conversation this was!

I feel like a LOT has been coming through within this liminal space we are currently occupying—this space of being not what we were, but not quite yet what we are becoming...—and Allison & I explored several themes that seem to be popping up frequently: namely, responsibility, scarcity, and that big ol’ D-word, discipline.

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Hello friends, and happy holidays.

I hope this has been a beautiful time for you all, and I wish perhaps especially that the Solstice and depth of this winter season has been clarifying and meaningful. It certainly has been for me.

This is a great episode. Allison & I explore the idea of what ‘healing’ really is, and how that idea shifts depending on what system you’re utilizing.

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I think that Shamanic practice offers a very beautiful (albeit difficult) perspective on what it means to really ‘grow up’, as in this work being an adult is not so much related to whether or not we can pay our bills and maintain a job (though, yes, that it still important..) as it is to whether we do, say, think, and feel all the same thing.

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This was such a fun conversation to have, all about how we make choices, whether we are REALLY making conscious choices and being honest with ourselves, and how to engage with making better choices in every area of our lives.

My apologies again for the lack of show notes (I might take up those podcast pesterers who can transcribe them all for you someday soon, cause that sounds like a really good and timesaving option…).

Hope you enjoy, friends. Lots of love.

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Oh man. It has been quite a time.

I’m so sorry for not posting podcasts the last while, for those of you who might be waiting on these! I explain a bit more in this session about what has been going on, but omitted a lot of other life craziness that has prevented things from happening!

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As human beings, our relationship to water is essential, and sacred.

And yet it seems like we take this element for granted or don't acknowledge what a lack of water or even connection to water will create in our lives.

This episode is dedicated to the practice of conscious connection with water, and in it we explore:

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Hey friends!

Welcome back. We’re so happy to be back in this space with you all.

Let’s dive right into here, shall we? In today’s episode we’re exploring the realities of this ‘initiation’ that we are moving through while transiting the intense vortex energies of this time.

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Wellll…at least for now. Welcome to the Season Finale, folks.

We will be returning to this space in a few weeks (stay updated on Instagram with me @cielgrove), but I felt that this was a good time to pause, create some very deliberate content, and return with some specific practices, teachings and philosophy in anticipation of this new ‘vortex’ approaching.

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We recorded this last week on a morning when both Allison and I were feeling really good. The heaviness of the previous while had lifted for a bit, and we had some good laughs and explorations of a wide range of topics (how unusual…)

Some things you can look forward to exploring with us this week:

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This is likely to be the first of many, many episodes where we will attempt to explore the ‘purpose’ of Shamanic medicine, of healing, of spiritual practice, and of pretty much everything we engage with as modern seekers.

Where are we trying to get? Who are we attempting to become? And if all the answers are already inside and present within us, are we actually trying to ‘get’ somewhere…or is something else afoot?

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In Shamanic practice the medicine of each person and practitioner is profoundly different, and has been shaped and honed through the experiences of their lives.

What one person knows and can offer as medicine is determined by the experiences they have had in this lifetime and soul process.

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This conversation is apparently what you get when both Allison and Ciel have had little sleep, a bit too much caffeine, and a healthy dose of social chaos.

We explore a wide range of topics here, including:

• Why we swing from rope to rope of what is familiar for us, and why it's important to let go (and why that is so hard!)

• Why surrender is so important, and what we need to focus on instead of aiming for control all the time.

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Welcome to Episode 10, friends! This is probably my favourite episode so far.

Not only did I get to use the term ‘batshit asshole’ in a complete sentence, Allison brought forward the Bones card from the deck, which is one of my favourites to work with and explore in the Soma section.

The bones ask us to look at our core beliefs about ourselves, other people, and the world at large, and to question whether we are truly being ‘good friends to ourselves’. And then…what really gets in the way of doing that for ourselves and each other?

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As far as transformative practices go, Tonglen is certainly up there with the most profound and powerful ones. There has been nothing so potent in helping me shift my relationship to suffering (both mine and that of those around me) than this ancient work of ‘sending and taking’. Tonglen has guided me through depression and personal struggle in the past, and continues to support what feels like a meaningful and compassionate approach to the wider suffering of the world.

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Hey friends.

During this time of great uncertainty and transformation there is so much on all of our minds, and surely there will be so much more that will reveal itself to us over the next while, disclosed gradually as we explore our racial biases, limitations in perspective, and unconscious orientations towards the valuing of certain beings over others.

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