Best InnerSpark Podcasts (2024)

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Ep. 104: A Modern Guide to Living in Harmony with Natural Rhythms 32:48

9d ago32:48

32:48

To connect with nature is to be connected with ourselves. Yet, the rise of unnatural modern living over the last 200 or so years has severed this connection. Join me to discuss: How and why we're so disconnected and what it's costing us What it means to be connected with nature and why it's so crucial for wholeness and resilience in our modern worl…

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Ep. 103: Shed & Bloom: Embracing Spring's Vitality & Joy 19:00

21d ago19:00

19:00

Welcome to a time of rebirth and rejuvenation! Spring is blooming here in the Northern Hemisphere and it reminds us to realign with nature's rhythms through inviting a period of cleansing and renewal, not only for our physical body and surroundings, but also for our inner world as well. Join me to explore the literal and metaphorical essence of spr…

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Ep. 102: Balancing the Six Flavors For Emotional Eating, Cravings, & Healing 28:03

2M ago28:03

28:03

Discover the transformative power of Ayurveda's six tastes and how they can revolutionize your relationship with food, emotions, and overall well-being. Join Devon as she explores the intricate connections between the flavors we crave and the emotions we feel, uncovering the secrets to balancing your diet for optimal health, energy, and emotional e…

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Ep. 101: Embracing Winter's Wisdom & Invitations 20:58

3M ago20:58

20:58

Let's explore how winter's quiet energy is not just about stillness, but a powerful catalyst for personal growth and clarity! We’ll touch on the themes, invitations, and subtle energies of winter (as a literal season and as an abstract concept), as well as how to develop your own soul-nourishing rituals to receive the wisdom winter has to offer. We…

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Ep. 100: Unlocking Winter's Dream Wisdom: Visioning for the Year Ahead 12:58

4M ago12:58

12:58

Welcome and Happy New Year to you. As we are settling into early winter, what are you noticing? What are you noticing in your body, emotions, energy, mind? This time of stillness and quiet offers us a wonderful opportunity to receive – receive insight, clarity, and the visions we have for ourselves for the year ahead and beyond. Today we’ll talk ab…

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Ep. 99: Harmonizing with Winter: The Gifts You’re Avoiding 19:16

4M ago19:16

19:16

Join Devon and dive deeply into the true essence and invitations of winter and the gifts of the darkness (that you may be unknowingly or intentionally avoiding). Uncover the stark contrast between winter's restful call and the hectic holiday hustle and redefine your holiday experience. Explore innovative ways to gift experiences and presence, movin…

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Ep. 98: Autumn’s Embrace: Sleep, Breath, & Thriving in the Season of Release 32:24

5M ago32:24

32:24

Join me on a journey through the heart of autumn's literal and metaphorical energies! Discover how autumn's unique energy influences our lives and learn simple yet effective Ayurvedic practices to balance its dry and windy nature. This episode delves into the common challenges (anxiety, restlessness, exhaustion...) and transformative power of the s…

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Ep. 97: Elemental Healing: Using Ayurveda's Five Elements to Nurture Your Sensitivity 16:36

8M ago16:36

16:36

Ever feel like you're constantly at the mercy of your environment? Too hot, too cold, too dry—each shift leaving you overwhelmed? As highly sensitive individuals, we can feel these imbalances intensely. But what if there was a way to navigate these elemental changes with grace and confidence? Let's explore how understanding the Five Elements can he…

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Ep. 96: Nourish to Flourish: Decoding the Food-High Sensitivity Connection 13:53

8M ago13:53

13:53

Does your diet leave you feeling anxious, exhausted, or simply out of sorts? 🥦🍩🤔 Let's dive into the critical role food plays for us highly sensitive individuals. Discover how certain foods may be affecting you and how to create a diet that fuels your body and calms your mind without overwhelming your senses. This is your chance to turn food into y…

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Ep. 95: Crafting Energetic Boundaries For Sensitive Folks 15:35

9M ago15:35

15:35

Are you tired of absorbing other people’s energy like a sponge? You know, that feeling where you walk into a room and suddenly, it feels like you're carrying everyone else’s emotions on your shoulders? Or when you just can’t seem to separate your energy from the energy around you? Let's change that. Today, we'll explore: 🌟The real reasons behind en…

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Ep. 94: Harnessing the Power of High Sensitivity Through Nature’s Wisdom 16:54

10M ago16:54

16:54

Psst… Your high sensitivity is a sacred gift deeply connected to the rhythms of Nature. 🌿 Are you a highly sensitive soul who feels overwhelmed by the world around you? Have you felt like your sensitivity is a weakness, something that's 'wrong' with you? It's time to shift our perspective! Join me to explore how understanding and aligning with Natu…

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Ep. 93: Flowing With Your Emotional Tides as a Highly Sensitive Person 14:15

11M ago14:15

14:15

Let's get into the intense emotional roller coaster that often comes with being highly sensitive. Some days, it may feel like you're on an emotional whirlwind, tossed around by high and low tides that come on swiftly and powerfully. It's exhausting and disorienting, and sometimes it can feel like it's just too much. Today we’ll get into how and why…

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Ep. 92: Sleep & The Vicious Cycle for Sensitive Folks 14:18

11M ago14:18

14:18

Restless nights and overstimulated days, anyone? There’s a complex relationship between high sensitivity and sleep. Heightened awareness, intense depth of processing, and the modern world bombarding our senses 24/7 makes for major over-stimulation, which can lead to poor quality sleep, insomnia, and feelings of restlessness. Then, the tiredness the…

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Ep. 91: Guidelines For Exercising For Highly Sensitive Folks 17:10

11M ago17:10

17:10

Daily movement is so wonderful for so many reasons! Yet, most mainstream exercise advice can actually be harmful for a highly sensitive system... What to do? No worries! I've got you. Join me to learn 3 guidelines for exercising for sensitive folks from an Integrative Health & Ayurvedic perspective to ensure your movement is supportive and nourishi…

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Ep. 90: The Truth About High Sensitivity: Debunking Myths & Embracing Your Gift 19:57

12M ago19:57

19:57

Are you a highly sensitive person? Confused about what that even means? There are a lot of myths out there about what high sensitivity is and is not, and when we can come to understand, manage, and embrace our sensitivity, it becomes a superpower, rather than the source of shame, exhaustion, overwhelm, health troubles, and more. Join me to define s…

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Ep. 89: 6 Bits of Mainstream Advice That Can Actually Be Harmful to Sensitive Folks 25:44

12M ago25:44

25:44

Everywhere we go, we’re bombarded with information, advice, new trends, and behavioral "norms" telling us how to act, what to do for better health, better relationships, better living, etc. The truth is, things we’re told are good for us in mainstream culture can actually stress our sensitive systems out even more, leading to the symptoms of misund…

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Ep. 88: A Simple Boundary-Setting Process For Sensitive Folks 18:02

12M ago18:02

18:02

Sensitive, deep-feeler, how are your relationships and social roles feeding or draining you? Relationships and social roles are basic human needs, however, when we’re letting boundaries be crossed, over-giving, and trying to please others to be liked or feel safe, relationships quickly turn into sources of resentment and depletion! Today, we’ll dis…

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Ep. 87: Live Nature’s Rhythms & Make Sensitivity A Superpower 15:38

1y ago15:38

15:38

Do you feel connected to Nature? Like, truly connected? Much of the "normal" lifestyle these days seems to be designed to try and keep us separated... And, that disconnection is largely responsible for the common struggles of most sensitive, deep-feelers: burnout, anxiety, overwhelm, and poor health. So how do we reconnect? What does it mean to liv…

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Ep. 86: The Overwhelmed & Overthinking Sensitive Mind 17:23

1y ago17:23

17:23

Has your mind become the ringleader of things, carrying you along for the ride? Does it act like an unruly toddler on a sugar high? The mind is so beautiful, so powerful, and often the source of much trouble for us sensitive folks! Join me to talk about the precious mind and three simple ways to begin to collaborate it so that it’s no longer the so…

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Ep. 85: How & Why To Create Emotional Flow 17:53

1y ago17:53

17:53

Emotions! When it comes to creating health and wholeness in our lives, this cannot be overlooked - especially for sensitive, deep-feelers! Join me to discuss how and why to process emotions to get off the roller coaster of suppression and then explosion, why they can feel so heavy, why we resist feeling them, and more! Share with me: What helps you…

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Ep. 84: How Your Body's Asking You To Make Changes 16:10

1y ago16:10

16:10

Is your body tired, depleted, and experiencing all kinds of symptoms as a result of lifelong cycles of burnout, overwhelm, anxiety, and more? Join me to discuss the ways our bodies speak to us to let us know that our current way of living just isn’t working for them. We’ll talk about some of those common symptoms that so many sensitive folks experi…

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Ep. 83: Use These 2 Principles to Transform Burnout & Anxiety 24:22

1y ago24:22

24:22

Looking to experience life on the other side of anxiety, burnout, and poor health? Here’s the thing: we create what we do consistently. This is cause and effect. Like attracts like and opposite creates balance and brings wholeness. Let’s explore HOW to transform the beliefs, actions, and habits that create the annoyance, frustration, and health cha…

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Ep. 82: Building Resilience With Seasonal Change 17:48

1y ago17:48

17:48

How do you feel about the change into spring right now? Is this time of year exciting for you, perhaps challenging, or maybe somewhere in the middle? Are you experiencing physical symptoms like allergies? Aligning with Nature’s rhythms is my favorite way to address the actual ROOT cause of why it feels so tough to be a sensitive, deep-feeling perso…

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Ep. 81: 5 Ways to Build Resilience 6:30

1y ago6:30

6:30

Are you living a resilience-building lifestyle or a resilience-zapping lifestyle? Resilience is our capacity to meet life as it arises, it is our adaptability, or responsiveness, our immunity, our nervous system’s ability to regulate itself. It is everything. It’s what allows us to go through life with or without joy, confidence, and a capacity to …

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Ep. 80: A Four Step Process For Social Anxiety 11:11

1y ago11:11

11:11

Social anxiety is something so many sensitive, deep-feeling people experience for a variety of reasons. Most of the time, however, the anxiety is a manifestation of shame we carry around being ourselves – sensitivity and all. We fear being different, judged, not liked, and ultimately not safe for simply being ourselves. Shame shows up when we perce…

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Ep. 79: What All That Screen-Time Does To A Sensitive System 13:55

1y ago13:55

13:55

Let’s talk about social media and device usage as a sensitive, deep-feeling person and how it relates to your health, particularly your nervous system and digestive system. I recently asked the members of my community what their experiences were with social media. A resounding majority confessed to being pretty attached to their devices and even ch…

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Ep. 78: Do This When Making New Habits Feels Hard 13:17

1y ago13:17

13:17

For many people, making changes and developing new habits is hard. Most of us will either: - Be indecisive and feel we don’t know what change to make or habit to adopt - Or we’ll pile too many changes on our plate at once and burnout because we go too hard too fast - Or we’ll begin with some changes and new habits, but then give up too easily on ou…

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Ep. 77: Simple Ways to Thrive in Winter - Without the Blues! 12:06

1+ y ago12:06

12:06

Sensitive, deep-feelers, join me and let’s discuss winter’s meaning and purpose, as well as how to build resilience against things like winter blues and S.A.D. I discuss the importance of aligning with Nature's wisdom and rhythms, especially for sensitive, deep-feeling folks, why things like winter blues and S.A.D. may even be popping up in the fir…

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Ep. 76: A Reminder: Not Feeling A "New Year"? 5:28

1+ y ago5:28

5:28

What are you noticing right now? What are you craving right now? If you don’t feel ready to “start” this “new year,” that’s fine. If you notice that it doesn’t feel like the beginning of a new cycle for you, or you aren’t ready to take any actions on things, that’s fine. It’s still the darkest, slowest time in Nature right now, and you ARE Nature. …

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Ep. 75: When It’s Hard to Be Still – Do This Instead 4:28

1+ y ago4:28

4:28

For sensitive, deep-feeling folks, building resilience by focusing on cultivating a flexible nervous system is key. It’s virtually impossible to go from a hyper-aroused state, feeling overwhelmed and anxious to being completely still, yet many of us are trying to do just that… Stillness can be a wonderful goal, however, when trying to go from 100 t…

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Throwback Ep. 53: Magic of The Solstices: The Void/The Blacksmith Axis 26:39

1+ y ago26:39

26:39

The Solstices, which occur twice each year, are times of immense power and opportunity as the sun shifts into its time of waxing or waning. These are times of transitioning into opposite energies – either of hope, renewal, growth, and relief, or of deceleration, farewells, decay, and resting. The sun is our life-giving force here on Earth. It’s sta…

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Ep. 74: Sensitive Folks: Life Doesn't Have to Feel Hard 11:58

1+ y ago11:58

11:58

Please, hear me, Sensitive, Deep-Feeler: You don’t have to put up with constant burnout, overthinking, and anxiety. You don’t have to sacrifice your needs, boundaries, and true nature. If today I can honestly and without hesitation say I LOVE myself and my sensitivity, and I don’t mind being the “weird one” who does things their way to better suppo…

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Ep. 73: Is Burnout Robbing You of Intimacy? 8:39

1+ y ago8:39

8:39

Sensitive, deep-feeler: Is being burnt out robbing you of intimacy? Let’s talk about it. When deep-feelers are living in a state of frozen shame, it may look something like some of the following: ✨Overthinking mostly everything, backwards and forwards, up and down, 10 steps ahead and behind ✨Being overly aware of others’ needs and going above and b…

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Throwback Ep. 44: The Power of The Equinoxes – The Initiate/High Priestess Axis 24:07

1+ y ago24:07

24:07

Embracing the wisdom of seasonal flow is a prime way to support sensitive, deep-feelers in healing and preventing burnout, increasing resilience, and creating great vitality and ease! In this episode, I shared the wisdom of the axis of the equinoxes through the lens of the archetypes they represent on InnerSpark's Wheel. Think of the growth journey…

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Ep. 72: Working With Your Awareness to Heal Burnout 5:37

1+ y ago5:37

5:37

Something I wish I would’ve known and embraced more fully back then… The power of awareness cannot be overstated. Your awareness serves as the container for your entire experience, and it has the power to create sustainable, lasting change. Many of us are challenged by harnessing our awareness and sticking with things – especially challenging and u…

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Ep. 71: How and Why to Mother Ourselves As Deep-Feeling, Sensitives 19:45

1+ y ago19:45

19:45

Let's talk about mothering ourselves, what that means, and why it’s important for us deep-feeling, sensitive women. Tune in for ways to begin this practice today! This weekend marks the fifth anniversary of my mother’s death. I’ve shared a lot about my mother and how she was an addict and the impact that had on me. She’s a great inspiration for my …

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Ep. 70: What’s Motivating You – Pain or Love? 6:11

1+ y ago6:11

6:11

What are you creating in your life right now? And, what’s the motivation behind this intention? Is it because you are running from the past or trying to “prove,” “overcompensate,” or “fix” something? Or, is it because you are genuinely and excitedly running towards something? The difference may feel subtle, and sure, a pain point can serve to get u…

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Ep. 69: The Truth About Burnout 4:47

1+ y ago4:47

4:47

Let’s talk real quick about burnout. Burnout is the bane of a deep-feeler’s existence. You overthink, you feel deeply, you overcompensate for your perceived shortcomings, you people-please, you try to hide out, and all of that constant analyzing burns you the fudge out! The truth is, however, that burnout is just a symptom. Burnout in and of itself…

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Ep. 68: How to Use Body Sensation to ID Emotions 4:45

1+ y ago4:45

4:45

You’ve been practicing for a while and have finally begun the habit of catching yourself and pausing to check-in during times of challenge – maybe you’re just feeling funky, maybe you’re about to engage in a behavior you’re trying to break, maybe you feel burnt out, etc. Good for you! That’s often the hardest part! Now, you wish to investigate furt…

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Ep. 67: Going Numb in Life? 4:28

2y ago4:28

4:28

Where might you going numb in life? Are you letting a sense of boredom, discontentment, or discomfort lead you into making choices that don’t support your thriving? Have you lost yourself to overdoing, over giving, overthinking, or people-pleasing? The pain and anger of realizing we’re living a life that isn’t authentically ours can downright suck.…

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Ep. 66: Intuition or Logic? 4:41

2y ago4:41

4:41

Are you in the practice of trusting your intuition even when logic demands another action? Do you listen to and trust your intuition or do you constantly override it in the name of “logic?” Your sense of what’s “logical” may actually be some kind of shame-fueled old belief. What does this mean? This means that along the way, you’ve internalized oth…

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Ep. 65: Overdoing, over-giving, and burning out? Listen up! 5:49

2y ago5:49

5:49

Let’s talk about something that inevitably leads to burn out and resentment among the deep feelers and the over thinkers – over giving and over doing. When I hear this, I automatically know that this is someone overcompensating for the ways they believe they are not enough: “I am not enough, so I must do, do, do and give, give, give until I am empt…

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Ep. 64: Taking Things Personally? Try This. 4:42

2y ago4:42

4:42

Ever find yourself taking things personally that weren’t intended to be personal? This is your filter set up to look for things to confirm some icky belief about yourself and it doesn’t need to be the case! Listen in to discuss ways to put the focus back on yourself so you can find freedom and begin to understand what’s driving this trend of taking…

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Ep. 63: Aligning With Nature to Heal Shame 5:11

2y ago5:11

5:11

My approach to seasonal living is a holistic, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual one. Through aligning with the energies that naturally wax and wane, we’re provided cues for how to live naturally – even if it’s not “normal” these days. Let the greatest force – The Earth – guide you in living optimally and with great alignment, vitality, and…

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Ep. 62: 3 Ways to Honor the Season of The Lover 8:44

2y ago8:44

8:44

What does it mean to you to be a a Lover? What comes up for you? Do you immediately think of romantic love and intimacy? Do you think of love as an energy and way of living? How are you bringing that sense of Lovership into your daily life? Tune in for three ways to honor The Lover and practice bringing a greater sense of love into your life from w…

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Ep. 61: Ditch Your Shame Bundle: 4 Ways to Align with Your Nature & Fully Blossom 27:56

2y ago27:56

27:56

Life wants to live and bloom, and so does your fullest potential. How are you unknowingly allowing shame to weigh you down? The shame bundle. What is a shame bundle, you ask? It’s a bundle of nonsense that we’ve adopted as our own personal gospel that we check ourselves against. It provides our definitions of ourselves, life guidelines for how a pe…

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Ep. 60: A Different Perspective on Shame 6:45

2y ago6:45

6:45

In what ways have you experienced a perceived barrier in connection, safety, contentment, and joy throughout your life? And in what ways did you internalize those barriers to mean something about you (like, you were/are the problem)? Shame is a perceived barrier to connection, safety, contentment, and joy. It motivates us to make changes, reevaluat…

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Ep. 59: De-Shaming + Embracing The Initiate 30:51

2y ago30:51

30:51

It’s early spring and on InnerSpark’s Wheel, it’s a representation of The Initiate archetype. This is the essence of beginnings, newness, studentship, childlike wonder and innocence, birth, air, insight, the mind, inspiration, dawn, hope, youth. The role of studentship and beginner is a catalyst for growth and expansion – if we allow it. Yet the tr…

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Ep. 58: 3 Ways Feminine Shame is Impacting Your Life 21:26

2y ago21:26

21:26

Feminine Shame is an intense and deeply held resistance, aversion, resentment, and fear towards anything that is soft, transient, cyclical, fluid, passive, nurturing, intuitive, an/or emotional in nature. It is a shame towards that which is natural. This learned disconnection leads us into a perpetual state of “not enough.” We feel wrong, bad, unwo…

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Ep. 57: Healing Body Image + Creating More Love 28:47

2y ago28:47

28:47

Hello and welcome to another discussion with me, Devon, of InnerSpark, your resource for coming home to yourself and aligning with Nature’s wisdom. Today, we’ll get into body love and why that can be so hard, what it means to be “embodied” and why it matters, the antidote to body shame, and how to create a loving relationship with your body, which …

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