Kate Darnell of Gumboots By The Sea & Sherrie McCarthy of Creative Mermaids share the raw and the real of creative life on a spiritual path in this wounds to wisdom transformational podcast. If you are looking to join a discussion on creativity, motherhood, the messy middle and bringing Spirit (however that looks for you!) into your life, this is the podcast for you!
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Creative Spirits Season 4 Interlude 3: Kate Darnell: Ramblings to an Awakened Healer
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This week’s interlude is an interview with Kate Darnell on her book of poetry: Ramblings to an Awakened Healer Awakened Hearts - Awakened Souls - Awakened Healers… Ramblings to an Awakened Healer is the final book of a healing trilogy. It reminds us to take back the power of this moment – the moment that is love - the love that honours all of YOU, …
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Creative Spirits Season 4 Interlude 1: An Interview With Jo Jo from Tree Fox (@tree_fox_)
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We are opening season 4's interludes with an interview with JoJo from Tree Fox who offers the most decadent looking handcrafted herbal offerings from her shop. We knew she was the person to talk to about taking care of yourself in order to root to rise. Because if those roots are suffering so is the rest of the tree! Kate and Jo Jo talk about all t…
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Adulting is Hard & Emotions Are Real aka Podcasting As Mothers To Young People
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The final episode of season 4 of Creative Spirits is a throwing down of being allowed to feel emotions as we talk through what expectations bring us, as well as do to us. Today we talk about what story is creating our suffering and making our life harder (and Sherrie's son pops in a few times to underline how frustrating our expecations can be whil…
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This week’s podcast is all about the ultimate and most difficult aspect of rooting to rise: sweet surrender. It is one thing to tell yourself you are exactly where you need to be. It is entirely another to believe it. In this episode we talk about how we let go when we need to, or at the very least try to pry our fingers loose from the attempt to c…
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Today we are talking money blocks, needs, desires and everything in between. If money makes you feel squishy or antsy then check out this week's episode!
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Allowing Yourself To Be Who You Are To Become Who Are Meant To Be
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson This week’s episode continues to look into how you root to rise and to do so we are looking at the soil that we have grown in. This means looking at both the nutrient rich (or lack of them) substance that we build o…
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Divine Timing, Being Supported & The Bliss of Accepting The Wonder of You
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Trust in timing is what everyone recommends and yet it is so difficult to allow. How do you know if you are truly where you need to be? What is burn out and what is aligned hustle? And how do we step back in a world that just screams at us to do and be more, more MORE!! This week’s episode Kate and Sherrie dive deep into divine timing and allowing …
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We, the Creative Spirits podcast, hereby give you permission to drop the fear of backlash, fight against tall poppy syndrome, and live your life to the fullest. And although saying that is easier than doing it, we, along with the divine guidance of Rebecca Campbell’s Work Your Light oracle deck, have the three step formula that will help you do so.…
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Episode 4.2 Change, Holding Your Power & Being Able To Stand In It
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Wind and turtles have Sherrie slightly distracted in the beginning, but this episode is all about the messy glory of change and bringing in a new age! Today we are talking about some of the events that need to happen deep in the soil in order to root to rise. Or the uncomfortable fact that sometimes things have to take root in the dark before they …
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4.1Using Your Own Light To Ground Yourself & Illuminate Your Way
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Season 4 of Creative Spirits has begun! And we are so excited to welcome back our regular listeners and saying hello to all the new ones! We love you and we trust you are here in perfect and divine timing! With the new year turning into this year we start the newest season with an episode on how important it is that you allow your roots to go deep …
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Interlude 3.3 - Magic, Self Love & Healing: A Talk With Jenna Nelson of Lucy Moon Co
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Today Kate is talking with Jenna Nelson of Lucy Moon Co about witchy goodness, essential oil bliss, connecting with self and the magic of just starting. Too often we draw back in fear of competition, being one of many, or feeling like we are simply just not enough. Kate and Jenna dive deep into why self care is essential, how to be brave enough to …
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2019 Interlude 2 - Spirit Leads - We Trust - There is Magic in Doing
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The Creative Spirit Code/Process Spirit Leads - We Trust - There is Magic in Doing Today’s episode is all about the Creative Spirit podcast, the hows and the whys we decided to start the podcast and why showing up and doing is so much better than planning out a perfect - but never finished - product. If you find yourself with giant plans that you r…
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Interlude 1 of season 3 was to be a review of the last year and how much can change in a span of one circle around the sun. But once record was hit it quickly went into honoring your heart's desires wherever you are with them - in celebration or in pain. Not everyone feels the need to welcome the new year and in this episode we talk about honoring …
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Gumboots By The Sea Energy Forecast for 2019
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Today’s episode is a special one! In honor of the New Year Kate is sharing her Gumboots By The Sea Energy Forecast for 2019! Set your goals and intentions for the new year with the aid of Kate’s energy forecast for 2019! This episode is a magic one as Kate channels from her very own almost created deck! Listen in! And for more details join Kate’s m…
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3.6 - TRUTHBOMBS AND CLUNKS - Rise sister RISE
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Merry Christmas Creative Spirits listeners! Today we are talking about one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself: the permission to show up in all of your glorious imperfections! We are talking about being awkward, showing up anyway and just being you! And it is MORE than enough, because you are! We hope you enjoy today's show! And as always,…
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Episode 5 We Are Going There! The Wounded & Awakened Healer: Our Choices To Stay The Victim or Be E
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So here we are Creative Spirits Listeners! That not so easy place to be or talk about, or the perceived safety of the wounded healer.And we are talking about healers today because we are all responsible for our own healing. Even when we seek out others to help us in our quest to heal, it is only ourselves who can do the actual work. Healers hold th…
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Kicking The Need For External Validation To The Curb!
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Warning! We are passionate in this episode and some adult language is used! Not a lot, but some did slip out!If you need a permission slip to start living the creative and vibrant life you are born to live then this episode is the episode for you. Or if you don't know why you feel stuck in a holding place, then take a listen to see if some of the f…
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S3 E3 Creativity Through Movement & Self Care
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All things are pointing towards getting in contact with yourself through music and movement in this week's podcast! We give you permission to give yourself permission to enjoy your life and your creativity to it's fullest. Stop being afraid to take up space and hit the music you want to listen to and move because you want to and because you want to…
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Season 3 Episode 2: Learning To Enjoy The Ride As The Reward
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This episode is about exploring the idea that there are no rewards.Step back, take a deep breath, and think about how freeing our world and life would be if we took away the idea that everything we do we did for some kind of external reward.We have been trained since childhood to tailor our behaviour for rewards - it made our caretakers lives easie…
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Season 3 Time For You! Episode 1: Self Care While Still Showing Up In The World
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Season 3 is here! And it is all about Time For You!In this episode Kate and Sherrie look at that ever maddening balancing act, how to know when you need to stop and rest and how to know if you are acting out in self sabatoge!It is often a hard line walk and very difficult to determine if you are "slacking off" or giving yourself a much needed rest.…
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Interlude 3: Kate's Healing Session With Sherrie
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Sherrie takes Kate on her own healing journey based upon The Celtic Book of the Dead: A Guide for Your Voyage to the Celtic Otherworld by Caitlín Matthews but using it with Brian Froud’s Fairy Oracle Deck.Using the framework of stories to build upon your healing journey (and your writer one!) is one of Sherrie’s passions, and Kate was kind enough t…
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Our last 2 interludes are a real treat! First a healing session with Kate and then one with Sherrie!We wanted to take our listeners on an insiders tour of what it is to have a session with each of us - and yet we are both aware that our sessions are something private. We hold a contained space that is sacred and meant for those directly involved on…
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Season 3 Interlude 1: Pursuing Your Passion To Write In Face Of All Fears
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Today our beloved Kate is fulfilling her birthing partner duties but I still loved speaking with Mariëlle as this went beyond the usual “ra ra write interview”. Mariëlle knows the power of going deep and sitting with what issues and conflicts present themselves to you on your struggle to go from thinking about writing, to writing and then actually …
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Root To Rise: Grounding Our Energy & Coming Into Self
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We are finishing season 2 of BeLiving in Self with an episode on how important it is to root into our energy to come back into self. Deep roots allow for you to reach for the sky without falling over.We also talk about the experience of putting the Creative & Vibrant Virtual Retreat together & the lessons learned from just starting.Finally, we go d…
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On this episode, we are talking law of attraction and energetic upgrades!Everyone imagines that mindset changes and abundant living are like a switch that we flip. Then when we find ourselves stalling our not calling in the abundance we expected we fall into the blame game. Which is what really stalls our calling in abundance!Kate and Sherrie go in…
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Accepting The Now While Working Towards A Goal
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This one is a windy episode! And perhaps that reflects so many of our inner experiences around the topic: How to accept the now while we work towards an outside goal! It is tumultuous and full of conflicting advice. Our advice to you is to trust yourself and spirit!So often we allow our brains to kill us while trying to keep us alive! Playing small…
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Following up our conversation from last week’s episode we dive deeper into what self-acceptance takes and why we shouldn't be afraid of the murkier waters that accompany deeper dives!It takes guts to create something - ask any mother! Labor is not a pretty sanitized experience, but the result is nothing short of a beautiful miracle. We have begun t…
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You Are Enough: Quit The Quest For Perfection & Embrace You!
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Here is the thing wonderful creative spirit: accept the messy middle phase, stop fighting that time in the cocoon, stop judging your real life to someone else's social media feed!We all have good days and bad days, for that matter good YEARS and bad years. Life was never meant to be static!Today on the show we talk about this rollercoaster called l…
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This week’s podcast is all about taking the lid off! In more ways than one! Being unapologetic, showing up as ourselves, embracing our light and shining hard to be that lighthouse!We have some kids opening this week’s podcast and they helped to highlight the lessons we wanted to talk about this week! Mainly, to encourage us to embrace what being a …
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S2 E2: Knowing When To Act: Mama Intuition & Self Love
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Kate & Sherrie are talking mother intuition and tuning in to know when to act and when to stay put, all in the name of self-love and living within spirit.It can often be difficult to know if you are acting from a place of fear or a place of knowing. Are our fears founded or are we letting them overrule us in our quest for a full and vibrant life wh…
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Season 2 BeLiving In Self Episode 1: Rituals for Self Care & Returning To Self
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Both Kate & Sherrie know what it is like to drown in motherhood. It can feel so good and yet you wake up wondering how things got so bad.This episode was inspired by our talk with Tarah Abrams when Kate spoke about how her daily 15 minutes meditation brought her back to self. In particular, it was the comment that her husband got his wife back that…
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Interlude 3: Our Chat With Tarah Abram Of Juicy Living
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The third and final interlude between season 1 & 2 of Creative Spirits has a very special guest! Tarah Abrams of Juicy Living By Design. Tarah is an author, essential oils advocate, meditation teacher and photographer who also works in interior design. She is also a mama to twin girls and a son. How does she do it all?Tarah says that “meditation an…
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Interlude 2: Sherrie talks Pen Names & Lynn Francis
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In this second interlude episode Kate and Sherrie talk about Sherrie's latest release; the short story The Kitsune Wife, part of her Samurai series under the name of Lynn Francis.Sherrie talks about giving herself the permission to finally publish her work, why she needed the pen name to be able to have the permission to move forward and hit publis…
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Season Interlude -Kate Darnell Presents Poems To A Wild Gypsy Spirit: A Dance With The Divine
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Today’s podcast is a very special episode! Kate launches her second book Poems to A Wild Gypsy Spirit.As always, this podcast is not just the launching of this book into the world. We explore not only the book (Kate reads three poems that she picked for the podcast that were divinely inspired beforehand), but we also go deep into the process of pub…
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We have all been there. Just as it is hard sometimes to stop the Bigger Faster More ego train, it can be hard to stop the comparision game. No matter how intent we are on staying in our lane, our eyes stray and we start to believe someone else has it easier, better or just has plain more.And who can blame us! In this world of social media it is no …
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Episode 7 -Allowing In Faith & Working With Spirit
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This episode is all about the big F. FEAR. Which may explain why it begins with Kate & Sherrie in hysterical laughter. In this episode we walk our talk.You can not be a human being and not experience fear. It comes in all shapes and sizes, it lies to us about how it just wants to keep us safe and protected, and even lies about the nature of itself.…
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Episode 6 - Opening Up To Your Voice & Strengthening Your Throat Chakra
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After Episode five's talk about boundaries Episode 6 could only have been about one topic: strengthening your throat chakra so you could find and use your voice! Boundaries are so important, but to be able to speak up for what you need and set them in place you need to have an open and strong throat chakra.Today Kate and Sherrie are talking about h…
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Episode 5 -Boundaries for Creativity and Spiritual Connection
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How do we have it all? A thriving creative practice and healthy relationships with friends and loved ones? it all starts with boundaries and enforcing them. What often starts out as something that feels difficult and even counterproductive, often ends up being the greatest gift we can give ourselves and others!In this week's episode Kate and Sherri…
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Episode 4 - Life Changing Magic of Living with Intention
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With a new moon just 2 days as of publication (coming up July 12th 2018!) Kate and Sherrie talk intentions, new moon rituals and going after your goals without burning yourself out.In the Creative Mermaids courses and coaching (of which Kate is a member!) Sherrie often talks about goal setting, regular check ins and intention setting. Kate also off…
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Too often we use gratitude to cap us instead of catapult us. Today we're talking gratitude practice as in "Thank you universe! More please!"
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Episode 2 -The Regular & Spiritual Practice Of Words To Wisdom
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Welcome back to episode 2 and this one is all about the regular and spiritual practice of turning our wounds into wisdom. Learning to lean in and surrender to spirit can be one of the greatest gifts our spiritual practice can give us.The Messy Middle is something that Sherrie has often worked with in the Creative Mermaids ( read all about it in the…
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Kate and Sherrie met in level 1 of Harness Your Healing Brilliance by Sarah K Jones and had their relationship cemented in level 2. Both were mothers who realized they were burning their candles on both ends. Drawn by shadow integration, rising above the wounded healer archetype and striving for a life that embraced cycles that honored the light an…
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