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Hello Creatives!

We are heading into our Summer Scheduling where we slow down on the recording a bit and speed up on our creating!

Place your attention on what you want to nourish, do it enough and you may start to notice resistance. You may feel the twinge of how and why it can’t, but times are changing in front of us and you are here — in this life, and on this page because you have something to share.

Time to create it.

Thanks for tuning in!Every up level requires something of us. If you are looking for someone to help navigate the potential you know you are walking into — schedule a connection call — that’s a quick chat to ensure a good fit. Another person to hear you, see what is just outside your periphery and echo back your ideas can make such a big, big difference - -between someday and now.

Kate’s Schedule: 🔗katebrentoninspires

Also keep your eyes peeled for a summer offering to Create more than we Consume. It’s for women.

Xo

Kate

“The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.” - Rumi

Hello Creatives - -

This episode evolved from a talk I gave for the Inspire Create Manifest Soulful you retreat this year. It is a topic that is evermore on my mind: that the simple joys of being human are what leads us to our solutions.

🔗 This episode is brought by our Summer Session writing series. Curious? Hop on the waitlist for early bird pricing & having input on date selection for our June session.

1:06 Time Magazine article declares modern exhaustion from an unsustainable lifestyle.

4:31 We are deciding to open our eyes to what is unsustainable

5:21 David Whyte seeks counsel and the antidote is whole-heartedness

7:48 A quick way to get mind out of overwhelm

Remember you are designed to create not consume.

Share your joy because rising tides, raise all ships,

Kate

Special Invitation: Do you have a group of 8 writers that would like to move forward this summer? Reach out for group sessions, led with a seasoned teacher and friend of the written word.

Curious about the Time Article? https://time.com/6694092/exhaustion-increasing-causes-essay/

Hello Fellow Creative -

This week’s Sunday stack is short and sweet, and builds on our last episode.

Here we talk about algorithms versus relationships, likes versus support, and tech in comparison to Nature, who loves you.

Did you know that trees emit a low-key, near infrared light, that they don’t use?

I recently learned that blue light, like that editing from our screens and computers is unfiltered and gets ushered right into our retina. I never thought about that before. I did use to explain to students that reading or even listening to something can you the speed to decide if it sounded true, whereas imagery, flashes and gets into our system and if we are paying attention, we then question it.

The very nature of consciousness seems to becoming more mainstream in ever-growing circles. When I asked the Internet (I am citing my sources here) about thinking of something and then seeing its ads, it answered very cleverly. It said :

So what about those times when you just think about something, and then you see an ad?

It can be difficult to wrap your head around, but it likely is less of a coincidence than you think. Any piece of information Facebook picked up (even just semi-related to the thought), either before or after your thought, could have led to the ad being served.

Every move you make online fuels Facebook’s algorithm. Engaging with a post, liking a person’s photo, or even using your Facebook account to sign in to another online service are all examples of this.

Essentially, a complex algorithm is “listening” to us, just not using microphones.

* www.mcnuttpartners.com/why-we-see-digital-ads-after-talking-about-something/January 25, 2021 Digital Marketing / Marketing and Advertising

Not sure that makes me feel better; it’s kinda like a pat on the head, saying it’s way worse than you can consider. In the same breath, there is a mockery of the Quantum Physics and the idea that where our focus goes, energy grows - meaning like often attracts like and such. Okay maybe not enough to explain much, but that is not the goal here. The goal is to question and consider. I’d toss in the idea of when you find out a shop, or a trail, had been in your neighborhood and you never, ever noticed it before. What changed that made the opportunity available to your perception?

To note, I don’t think the universe is random, nor do I think it is for humans to control. I do think a bit of personal effort to build one’s life, can go a very long way. A way, indeed that can be upturned, but built again, perhaps even with a new found wisdom. What we say and how we say it matters. I am beginning to learn it may even matter more than I’d wish.

Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

This week’s focus is Notice & Nourish. Enjoy the invitation and maybe notice what you notice as you go about your days. I am still enjoying my bounty from the harvest.

See you back here next week on Tend the Flame

📚🔗Florence Scovel Shinn On the Power of the Spoken Word

Hello Creative Friend —

May this episode find you enjoying all the available good. Happy Mother’s Day no matter how that phrase lands, in what season you are in, and what breath you are in-taking be one of beauty.

🌿 This Pod-chat Excerpt is honoring Nettle, Boundaries & Pacing:

You could interpret obstacles as denial, as opposed to

thresholds of discernment. I think Nettle is a phenomenal teacher of discernment.

I am asking you and to coddle your eyes and take them off of a blue screen and turn them towards a blue sky this week.

Notice what you notice.

📍Share what you notice in the comments so that we can start conversations that flood our fields and the algorithm of our daily life about people noticing catbirds and, strawberries, and stinging nettle and children carrying dandelions and what takes our energy and what reciprocates our energy.

🌿 Look for signs of life offering you discernment, so that there is more reciprocity

because reciprocity also extends our capacity and we need people like you.

Yes, you, at the full capacity.

Thank you for expanding the flowering of this flame 🔥

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Podcast Snippet:

Writing is an alchemy.

It can give witness to something that has no business being witnessed by a human.

You know what I mean?

Maybe there's a situation that it's the time has passed that you can have the

conversation with the person,

but you can write it out.

And if visualization makes the body feel the truth of something being achieved,

then writing it out can give voice to,

to silence that needs to be broken, ideas that need to be shared.

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Hello Creative One —

Thank you for tuning in and I trust you will find 2 good things out of this episode. I wished I had remembered to recommend better books at the end. Do you have suggestions? Pop them in the comments. After the fact, I thought of this one and this one. I need to read more fiction — so I am really open to recommendations.

Enjoy the podcast. And for our journals, our morning masters, get your pen, your notebook and your favorite mug ready for the morning.

Until then,

Kate

Last week we talked about experience over convenience.

This week, even simpler — a 3 minute invitation — shorter than an IG scroll session.

What can you create?

With curiosity,

Kate

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Hello Creative Friend,

Do you have 8 minutes to chat?

We’re talking about one thing you have this week: a choice.

🔥Snippet of this week’s focus:

Is there an embodiment of warmth that you're paying attention to when you're cooking?

Are youthinking about the flame, whether you're on gas or induction?

Are you thinking about the element of fire, of light?

If you are standing on a cliff and you've been thinking about all the unseen forces

that are working against us,

whatever that means,

Are you thinking — since you're living in a world where there's two sides to every piece of toast — you've heard that you're living in a polarity environment,

polarity aperture,

there's infinite possibilities.

If you can see or feel or acknowledge an unseen force

algorithm that seems to be pulling everything apart in a polarity universe that

means there is a reciprocal force of equal magnitude that could join us together.

🔥 See you back here next week!

Before I go, can I ask you to share this episode with 2 friends?

Let’s light up the world,

Kate

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Have you been in it this week? — This episode is for you.

Mission: More people living in harmony with their purpose + more people living in harmony with each other.

In this episode we talk about:

* Specificity & Sustainability

* The Change in Cultural Conversations

* The Change of the past 5 years

* Jesus & the Bible and the reclamation of personal, accessible truth —  direct relationship

* Laws of Polarity

* Price of Attention:

🗝️ The Third Option

Keep growing,

Kate

📝 Ps.

* Don’t forget to write it down. Learn why here.

* Check out The Everyday Meditation Method

If you can, now is the time to consider become a free or paid subscriber. Keep the fires burning bright 🔥

We often use words to employ our doubts, but what if we used them to empower our belief?

In this pod-chat we talk about the use of intention and focus, and the employment of prayer to better serve the very human reality of being here now in a way that feels real & good.

Unless you power down the operating system that you're actively using,

and let there be an eclipse moment for reset - so you may have a new operating system.

When people say make an intention around the eclipse, what is an intention?

It's an arrow of focus within a life of infinite possibilities.

May you make the time to hear what you already know,

Kate

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* Do you have a calling, yet feel overwhelmed and not sure where to pinpoint your focus?

* Do you want to stop wasting your time and feeling exhausted from confusion and frustration?

🔥 You’d do the work if you KNEW what to do.

You found the solution ➡️ Ignite your Intention

We are back with some new questions for you on Tend the Flame.

This episode is a bridge from claiming and learning the path to cultivating the space and trust to be present in the unknown, whether literally by letting your house go dark, or figuratively by being patient and peaceful with what you cannot yet see.

Do you turn on all the lights when you wake up?

Are you comfortable in the dark?

Do you remember what it was when you were a kid to walk out and see the night sky and the stars twinkling back?

✅This week: as the light grows (gratefully in the Northern Hemisphere) make some space for the dark.

🌌 Leave your comments and memories - -let us know!

📚Book referenced: https://bookshop.org/a/84615/9781948626729

💡🔗 Alternative light

The world threatens to numb

My soul’s powers.

Therefore, step forth memory,

Shining from depths of spirit,

Strengthen my vision

That only by strength of will

Is able to sustain itself.

- Rudolf Steiner

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Hello Creative One —

This morning’s session is lit.

Grab your ☕️ and enjoy your Sunday Stack.

If you are too busy — then you need this episode even more.

See you inside,

Kate

🔥Podchat Transcript Excerpt

“Here's the pivot:

We're supposed to enjoy our lives.

We're supposed to have a fire that's burning,

that sometimes is a bonfire and sometimes is an ember,

not constantly birthing and doing at a high voltage,

but also not constantly hidden in the ash of the hearth.

That's what Tend the Flame is about:

Gathering, kindling, creating that reciprocal flame

🔥 You know, fire brings comfort and calm.

It draws humans still.

And second best doesn't do it.

LED candles don't do it.

I love salt lamps.

They don't do the same thing.

Nothing captivates like the fire because it's alive.

You are alive.

The thousand things are not alive.

You bring the thousand things alive.

When you understand that an hour of focus can give you back weeks of confusion and you are ready to harness the forward motion, click here

XO

Kate

It's sexy to drink water without microplastics.What? ➡️A National Institutes of Health (NIH) study found that a liter of bottled water contained about 240,000 tiny pieces of plastic.

🔗 to article here. ⬇️ Get hydrated easily without the plastics & the chemicals. https://lnkd.in/epwQWPbH

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Hello Creative One —

Here is your Sunday Stack. If you have been following along we are moving into the action of “no” with the stabilizing force of being honest with where we are and where we are going.

Each episode stands alone, yet if you are in a spiral, head on over to this episode below and go on the journey of tending your flame.

Why would I think you are spiraling? March is giving hints of wild ride, epic rebirths and New. To have new, we have Old. To have Old, we have endings.

If we create a space to sit in our center and stay as connected as possible to the present, we have everything we will ever need. Even while there is laundry and lists, taxes and troubles, we are here. Let’s remember that.

*Please note, I did not say want. I didn’t say you’d get what you want….you’d get what you…you know the tune.

Clear it out and create a life you want to wake up to,

Kate

How to eat a Poem

by Eve Merriam

Don’t be polite.Bite in.Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice thatmay run down your chin.It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.You do not need a knife or fork or spoon or plate or napkin or tablecloth.For there is no coreor stemor rindor pithor seedor skinto throw away.

Get Creative

* When we allow ourselves to speak freely, clarity emerges and that includes silence.

* Spend a few minutes each morning journaling out when you need to release or journaling in what this new moon, new month is calling forward for you.

* Have an idea and ready to let in some help to get it going? Say no more. Click here. Grab a consultation with 5 days of voice note support to go from “I think” to “I can.”

As soon as you say you are off sweets, you have to have a chocolate.

As soon as you say, I’ll exercise everyday — you stop. Until, you don’t until you have enough fire or momentum that you blow past a previous indecision to a new commitment.

Universal law states that for every action there is an equal reaction. So as soon as you decide to up level anything, we expect resistance to knock on the door, and it is our job to send her elsewhere or put her to work.

Let me know what you are taking captive this week & thank you for tuning in to the Sunday Stack.

🔗📚 Here's that book resource I mentioned.

Also, remember to come to the 30 minute live co-work for our subscriber family

📆Focus to Flourish February 26th 12- 12:30 EST

Why?

* Have you ever brought your to-do list to a co-work space where you set your intention and worked on it without wandering away to get a drink, empty the dishwasher, or scroll? Sh*t gets done quickly.

* It’s a thank you for this growing community.

* It’s a way to make our Sunday Stack’s more tangible in our lives.

What?

* We will do a quick check-in to set an intention for the work session.

* We will mute ourselves and create. That can mean write, delete your e-mail sent folder (which is a real thing we all need to be doing), get your to-do list together, sketch out a blog post — whatever you need.

* We will also select a focus for the following month. This has been such a valuable practice for me. I have a focus for the year, and a focus for the month that I break down into weekly goals professionally, personally and spiritually. It has been really helpful.

* This one is for EVERYONE, free & paid subscribers 💚.

That’s it. No pitch. No hitch.

It helps me practice what I write and look for ways to harness the power of community for the good. I think if we focus on flourishing clarity and confidence will follow.

Hope to see you there.

📍I will post the zoom link on 2/26, but I wanted you to mark your calendars.

Remember, the better it gets, the better it gets.

Sometimes what we initially perceive as late, is actually right on time.

I’ll keep this short & sweet and send you onto the quiet routine of your Sunday night.

Tune in to challenge on this week’s #sundaystack

🔗📚 https://bookshop.org/a/84615/9781668072240

The Better it Gets the Better it Gets— do you believe that?

Kate

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In our first Sunday Stack, we talked about the simple actions that can stop the big change.

Our second Sunday, we talked about collecting the data (what are we really doing and what is working?)

This week: Be. Do and then Have.

🔥Thank you for all your comments. You are helping create the conversations, which means more of us are lighting the flames of clarity and moving into being, rather than chasing shadows, and doing from past-patterning.

Keep it up because the better it gets, the better it gets.

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🌅☕️Rise and Shine your Sunday Stack is here.

This podcast speaks to your inner spark for a little weekly focus.

Thank you for being here and welcoming the podcast and the long form into one space. I appreciate all of you who have reached out. The simplification feels great, affirming and easy. If you are waiting on your own consolidation or affirmation, consider this your go sign!

This week we are tracking what is working and harnessing our focus. This works for everything. Next week I’ll share a real-life parenting how this translated for me. Business, life and inner-world work is all connected.

So glad you are here. Here is my non-curated, old school checklist that I mention in the podcast & two resource links from the show as well.

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🔗 Links

Myron Golden

Brighid and Imbolc

🔥Spread the spark & share with a friend. Thank you!

Hello Creatives —

It seems many of us are tidying up our desks, moving them to a new corner to get better sun and cracking out the good notebook. About 5 hours after I went and changed the title of the my substack, I got an email from fellow writer, Claudine, and it said: I am changing my substack. I sent a squeal of a voice note back.

I really love a confirmation synchronicity — I share it with you as an introduction to our new space: Tend The Flame. It speaks to the spark inside.

What isn't changing much: written content. We have always toggled between observation, inspiration and creativity.

What is changing: I moved my podcast over here to keep things in one place. The podcast is not new; it is several years old, but last year it went under a new name: Tend the Flame. It was originally called Rebirth, but had nothing to do with birth, reincarnation, or the rebirthing technique. None of which crossed my mind when I named it. Rather, okay it was a little bit about birth, in that I was a new mom and I had lost my center and a good friend, now international coach, reached out and said: I think you should do a podcast. It was perfect medicine.

That podcast became my first book. A lifelong dream came true. A bucket list wish crossed off. Check it out here.

That book gave me so may gifts. Too many to get into here, but a lot of it was a newly earned awareness. I taught writing with a new vigor and purpose and I LOVED it. Still do.

Then the time to reemerge out of my toddler cocoon, and personal rebirth I suppose. It was also time to get back into sharing my greatest offering — helping people believe in what’s possible. It might sound hokey, but I’ve realized that is what I do. I listen to stories, and I find threads. I put the pieces I hear on a metaphorical table, and then the person in front of me says, “oh.” And poof they have more space in their mind and their body, and a new harmony begins.

But, I thought that was too crazy to say.

I mean, who says that?

Who has a lifestyle as a space-maker?

Me. I do. It’s me, but I am not the problem. My sense of too muchness was.

There I was yesterday talking to the same friend, 8 years later, Aligned For Greatness and I realize it’s time to let things be simple and all in one place, inside and might as well include my email thread while I am at it.

That is the backstory to the podcast episode about Pushing the Button. The intangible hesitancy of switching podcast providers, which in itself was nothing, had an inner magnitude. Can you relate? The internal, emotional freedom only revealed itself afterward. I felt wildly lighter. I felt physically lighter when I pushed the button.

This is a night to let something go.

Let it die.

Throw out the old jam jar, sweater, and personal criticism.

Don’t go to the thing that you don’t want to go to.

Normally, I say look for adventure. Live.

Tonight I say prune. Be honest at what needs to fall away, and then protect the spark that remains.

After you listen to the shortie episode, that is really a wish for to do your own little freedom thing, you can check out the harmless text thread below. It slipped in so unaware. Then it hit me: I’m not pressing the button. I just need to PRESS THE BUTTON.

I did and here we are.

Check out Claudine Wolk for all things writing, marketing, and the truth of baring it all. She’ll get you moving and grooving this year.

So here is to a year of shedding; it is the collective year of the snake and I am here to celebrate it.

It is also here the time to celebrate the fox and the flame.

Do you know that story? We’ll have to share it here another day.

Remember, the better it gets…the better it gets,

Kate

Have you heard of this book? Grab it on bookshop here.

I had it recommended to me by two very different individuals, living very different, successful, value-aligned lives. I am so glad I got it. You take one glance and you could miss how it is talking about everything. It is not merely a business book; it is a total mindset shift. It is NOT about more, it is about better. In a time of too much, living our fullest becomes deceptively harder than when less was available.

☕️I recorded a Sunday morning chat with you above on the idea in this book of living for need vs want and how justification trips up good intentions.

* When you listen, I asked you to comment below if you found it:Inspiring, clarifying, and I think the 3rd word was helpful. Please correct me, and let me know what is one thing you got from this Sunday Stack.

Grab the book, too. If you want it from a local bookstore, you can use the affiliate link I gave above. Otherwise, grab it on Amazon, Thriftbooks or your local library — but grab it.

The better it gets, the better it gets,

Kate

The 7th Episode, The Crown Energy Center, has arrived. Kate shares the connection of root to crown and the power of concerted discernment. In an era of technology, there is great power to find stillness and establishing a practice of connection to our inner flame. The journey through our energy centers reminds us of our ability to change at a cellular level and chose to establish a life of balance and purpose.

Episode Remedies:

Mantra: I am connected and I am ensouled

Stillness & Quiet is a preferred remedy to establish connection

https://katebrentoninspires.notion.site/The-Everyday-Meditation-Method-62cd49dbd8254dd796b85ab1a21f91c0.

Flower Essence recommendation: https://www.treefrogfarm.com/store/7th-chakra-crown-chakra-blend-flower-essence.html

Essential Oil: https://wisdomoftheearth.com/product/frankincense-olibanum-essential-oil/?srsltid=AfmBOop20owZu2-xTCGF51NRxg4RuDGiTN9rKdL4y2djG3enkXATph3Y

We can want to make the greatest leaps, yet the way we cross the river is hopping from rock to rock. We can get caught up in the flame of inspiration, and we best have kindling so the spark catches to a steady flame. Welcome to the space in the internet where we know that action clears doubt, and wisdom illuminates.

This episode talks about: kindling, multi-tasking, planning, achievement and living a life stacked for success, the kind that warms your heart.

#mindset #innerworld #spiritualgrowth #wisdomofone #slowliving

https://katebrenton.substack.com/p/singing-in-grocery-store

The 6th Episode, The Inner Vision (3rd Eye) Energy Center, is here. Kate talks about the pituitary gland, how our mindset effects what we see, and the power of asking to see what we have looked over. Often we hear: Seeing is believing, but isn't it the other way around for pattern changes? Kate talks about the 3rd eye wisdom, the power of vision on the path of understanding, establishing a spiritual inner world with a life of balance and purpose. New horizons ahead.

Episode Remedies:

Flower Essences: https://www.fesflowers.com/calendula-flower-essence-excellent-balm-cultivating-receptivity-empathy/

https://www.fesflowers.com/become-more-active-and-purposeful-hornbeam1/

Essential Oils: https://wisdomoftheearth.com/?s=violet&post_type=product

Mantra: Show me what I need to see.

Conversations with Kate take a turn into the power of pause, befriending the dark, and moving back into right relationship with nature and seasonal living. This episode talks about:

- The importance of creating and pausing

- Why we need to urgently befriend the dark and gift lie there

- Why seasonal living is beneficial

- Where and how you can contribute to this podcast

send requests to: kate@katebrenton.com

Books Mentioned:

https://bookshop.org/a/84615/9781948626729

The 5th Episode, The Throat Energy Center, episode is here. After a seasonal break (discussed in the Power of the Pause, upcoming episode) Kate talks about the throat center, and the power of our words as influenced between what we see an how we feel. Often we hear: If you have nothing nice to say don't say anything at all. Do we include self-talk in that? Kate talks about the throat and the power of voice on the path of understanding, or attempting to speak our own true desires and establish a life of balance and purpose.

Episode Remedies:

Flower Essences: https://www.fesflowers.com/radiant-snapdragon/

Essential Oils: https://animamundiherbals.com/products/tulsi-holy-basil-essential-oil?srsltid=AfmBOoqS0q2KmUi6gV5isbrlQnUY09hb5JSbKwicIbm_pxB04D5qjypASxs

Mantra: I AM in Harmony with my Best Life.

Want to read more on words and focus? https://katebrenton.substack.com/p/when-you-take-your-own-advice

🔗📚Grab your own Friend

Thanks for being here & letting me pop into your sphere with a poem.

Do you have a favorite poem to share?

XO

Kate

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In the 4th episode of the series on our energy centers, Kate talks about the heart as it spaces and translates between the will and the word. Often we hear: listen to your heart, but have we been taught how to hear the voice, clear confusion and balance the valid opinions that live inside? Kate talks about the heart center and its very deliberate placement in the path of understanding, or attempting to hear our own true desires.

IMPORTANT:

In this episode, I mentioned that the bija sound for the heart center is Hmmm/Ham. It’s wrong. It’s Yam. I know this, and there is more. When I started sharing about the heart center I began swirling between the throat and the heart, blending even in my lesson planning the two centers and the herbal recommendation (mullein) is one that addresses the mucus of the throat, yet has a connection to the heart through grief (the release of) and I mention in the podcast how I came to learn of this connection. 

I was thinking of the heart center and how it sits between the belly of our will and the center of our words, balancing for us how we move and what we say, and how delightful life is when we “walk our talk.”

Kate talks about the heart center and its very deliberate placement in the path of understanding, or attempting to hear our own true desires.

Recommendations:

Mugwort Essential Oil

⁠Mullein Tincture⁠

Check out Mothercraft Herbal on precious Tend the Flame episodes:

• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tend-the-flame/id1451833998?i=1000644395350


• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tend-the-flame/id1451833998?i=1000490339295

Spontaneous song recommendation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCC_b5WHLX0

Mentorship summer 2024 is open.

possibilities that are ready for you to see and act on them.

🔗❤️ Set-up a connection call to make a plan for your thriving.

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This week we move on from Emotions to Will, as Kate continues to share on the pathway of our body's energy. This episode looks at clearing confusion to increase clarity of action. We discuss our third energy center, the manipura chakra — harnessing our will.

Chakras are ways to understand the centers of energy the body has.

We discuss:

- Choosing a desire

- How confusion debilitates fire

- Agni: What is it? How our digestion is more than just the food we eat and more.

Resources Mentioned:

Lemon & Blood Orange Essential Oils

Five Flower Formula

I am welcoming in 4 new mentorship clients this 2024 summer to open perspectives on available

possibilities that are ready for you to see and act on them.

🔗❤️ Set-up a connection call to make a plan for your thriving.

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This week we move on from the Root to the Blossom, we are looking at why we need to learn to express emotions, the root word of it and how it connects to the relationally of our second energy center, the sacral chakra.

Chakras are ways to understand the centers of energy the body has.

We discuss:

- Boundaries

- Integrating vs Blaming

- Ruminating vs Working it Through

Resources Mentioned:

WIld Orange Honeysuckle

Clary Sage Flower Essence

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I am welcoming in 10 new mentorship clients this 2024 summer to reclaim an easy joy to living their best days through inspired action and internal reclamation. Let's do this.

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Hi there! As promised in our previous episode, we are turning towards the basics to feed the flame that fuels us and align with life's rhythm.

This episode we talk about:

- The role resistance plays

- Why and how to connect to our root

- Remedies to help create an experience of reconnecting with our selves and reestablishing our inner dialogue

- Talk about the root chakra, and its placement in our energetics

Curious to learn more? Our next episode will talk more about the structure and signals of emotions. If you gained knowledge from this episode, please help us reach 100 new listeners by:

liking, sharing, subscribing and leaving us a review on Spotify or Apple.

Dive Deeper? I am welcoming in 10 new mentorship clients this summer to reclaim an easy joy to living their best days through inspired action and internal reclamation. Let's do this!

🔗❤️ Let's set-up a connection call to make a plan for your thriving.

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Resources Mentioned:

Vetiver Essential Oil

Azalea Essential Oil

✨Tend the Flame was voted #9 in Best Podcasts to Help you Let Go, check out more here.

This episode focuses on:

- Moving from starting to following through

- Creating a circle of clarity

- Changing seasons

- Slowing down and selecting the best of what is

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Are you on a mission but feel a little stuck stepping into your best version? Maybe you need just a little support to help make that leap?

Kate has mentorship spaces open to (1 or 3 months) to help root your vision and make consistent choices to anchor your intentions.

This episode continues the leap frogging of wisdom from author to author, reminding us of the evolutionary and spiritual art that is embedded in our stories, the ones we live and the ones we write.

Writing creates clarity, settles the mind, and sets your intentions on course.

Creative Lunch Break March 20th at 1 - 1:45pm est

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Books referenced:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/sacred-contracts-awakening-your-divine-potential-caroline-myss/7305029?ean=9780609810118

Work 1:1 with Kate

https://www.katebrenton.com/shop/p/listen-to-her-session

This episode walks us back to the basics of natural harmony, through the metaphors given to us through Martha Beck, Dante's Inferno, and Cesar Milan's approach to calm, confident energy.

Moving out of self-improvement and into the journey of life enjoyed, trusting that creating our natural harmony is enough. More than enough for what we need.

Ready to take it a step further?

📝 This Wednesday 2/28 at 1pm EST we have a creative lunch hour to get ready to leap into the best possible year.

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Sit In Your Center: A Women's Class to Reclamation

A space to find an empowered quiet to hear your own intuition, release some of life's doubt, and move forward in inspired action.

Begins 3/3/24

Register here https://www.katebrenton.com/sitinyourcenteronline

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All books referenced in episode are here:

https://bookshop.org/lists/kate-s-book-list?

Watch Cesar Milan interview here:

https://katebrenton.substack.com/p/back-to-basics-1ff

This solo-cast talks about expanding your decision-making to consider your own in-joy-ment state. When we make space, new ways appear.

Enjoy your time more. You deserve it.

Class Referenced:

https://www.katebrenton.com/shop/p/everydaymeditationmethod

“The Everyday Meditation helped me to create the centering I was looking for. Kate is a beautiful person and is super inspiring. She leads you through practical day to day practices, and creates space to learn new ways of being in the world. I highly reckoned this course.” - Terri, North Carolina, Birth Educator

Books referenced: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-way-of-integrity-finding-the-path-to-your-true-self/18910769?aid=84615&ean=9781984881502&listref=kate-s-book-list&

This episode is a call to re-embrace the traditional ways for modern times.

Danielle Carr Jarecha is a Mama, Wife, Herbalist, Yogini, Astrologer and Biodynamic Land Steward. She is the sole force behind Mothercraft working from seed to bottle on every creation and seeing clients for Herbal and Astrological consultations.

In this episode Kate & Danielle discuss:

- Imbolc, Celtic Traditions

- Vedic perspectives on the Stars

- The reasons why tending to the soil improves a garden

- The similarity and medicine available in tending to the natural world as a practice of self-discovery and integration

- Biodynamic Gardening in the tradition of Rudolph Steiner

- The evolution of purpose when one allows all aspects of self to find a home within

- The art of tending the Hearth

Learn more about Danielle & Mothercraft Herbal
Mothercraft is a Biodynamic & Organic line of herbal remedies, beauty products, teas, oils and elixirs crafted with intention using Vedic Astrology and Ancient Moon Wisdom. We use Biodynamic practices on our farm along with Vedic Astrology and Ancestral Wisdom in our crafting and preparations.

Our intention is to create conscious conversation with nature through the cosmos, earth and prana of the plants, culminating in full body healing and connection.

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www.mothercraftherbal.com

Stay Connected with Kate at www.katebrenton.com

Are you feeling the call to write your wisdom or story? Check out Sit & Write

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The original post is here.

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And get your groove on with Smokey here:

This podcast is an offering for the Plutonian changes (whether you know that is or not!) and contemplating what needs to be let go, for our upcoming growth.

In this episode Kate, who is a curious educator and not an astrologer, talks about the upcoming 20 year cycle of growth and change, by looking back on a very packed past 15 years.

In this episode, our host covers:

- The inevitability of peaks and valleys

- How we may harness planetary and natural cycles to inform us about our own lives & growth

- Why giving up somethings is necessary to gain others (it's how nature works)

- Why boundaries are necessary, with immense gratitude to Colette Baron Reid https://www.instagram.com/colettebaron_reid/?hl=en and her insights on why we define parameters when we are looking to make change, as well as future Tend the Flame guest, Shawn Berry, https://www.instagram.com/thethreadthatpulls/?hl=en and his reminder of how boundaries grow the will, especially for children.

_ Why knowing yourself and tuning to your intuition is a necessary superpower to reawaken and cultivate.

Want to galvanize your inspirations into action, go to https://www.katebrenton.com/shop/p/refocus-for-entrepreneurs-creatives-healers

In this mini-episode, Kate differentiates between the hard of habit and scarcity (aka unnecessary hard) versus the hard of leaning into life, and the ease of true alignment (which may not always be EASY!)

This episode give you your daily recommended dose of inspiration, to set your mind to live your best possible day. Take this practice forward into your week, and notice the muscles of awareness that you are building. A little bit of presence, goes a very long way.

Thinking about making positive practices a habit? Need to work out the plan for a new project? Let's chat https://www.katebrenton.com/shop/p/listen-to-her-session

For our first book recommendation here you go….

Grab your copy here

I chatted about how much I am enjoying this book and why in the above love note to you (click the audio).

I hopped on here to tell you that Claudine Wolk and I have to turn off the sale for Sit & Write tonight, so you have time to grab it before it returns to full price.

This morning a writer and master manifestation coach sent me this note:

It’s true. The secret ingredient to writing your book is the SAME magic that you need to manifest your best life. You might want to grab this inspiring and packed-with-insight self-paced class now. You’ll have life long access.

Also, if you happen to be local, Sit & Write is doing a lunch & learn in Doylestown February 8th at Noon at The Coterie Commons on Everything You Need to Know about Writing Your Book. It is a beautiful spaced, created to bring people together to learn and enjoy. Check out more information here.

Let me leave you this full moon with Ursula K. Le Guin:

“If you can see a thing whole," he said, "it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives. . . . But close up, a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you loose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful earth is, is to see it from the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death."

Keep expanding your perspective to include the unseen opportunities of now,

Kate

Sit & Write is a reader-supported, we need you to keep the Muse visiting us and sharing her wisdom.

Overworked and exhausted and looking for clarity and a bit more ease?

This is your mini-episode to reignite your fire.

Learn about Sit, a journey of empowerment for women, easy and inspiring. Live cohort opens February 14th - because we all need to let in more Love. https://www.katebrenton.com/sitinyourcenteronline

This is a mini-podcast to help bolster your goals and aspirations for the year ahead. Writing lists and wishing into change is fun ...Tending viable soil, will yield a harvest rather than fade away. In this 2 part episode, Kate invites listeners to think of the soil that they have prepared for the year ahead, sharing excerpts from books and loosely veiled garnering metaphors for living your best days.

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Learn more about working with Kate at www.katebrenton.com

Dayna Mondello, Artist, Educator and Counterforce for Joy, has worked with children for 30 years- in every kind of school environment and home environment- wilderness and even traveling internationally together for education sake. In this episode we talk about the necessity of nature for humans and especially for children, the power and presence of a Vision Quest, and the steps of the process and also the reciprocal force that responds when we declare a change at a soul level. Cozyup with Dayna and Kate in this fireside chat of Tend the Flame.

Find Dana

IG : ⁠@daynamondello⁠

⁠www.daynamondello.com⁠

Episode Resources

⁠www.carlyrae.ca⁠

⁠www.schooloflostborders.com⁠

⁠www.animas.org⁠

Soulcraft, Bill Plotkin

https://bookshop.org/a/84615/9781577314226

Stay Connected with Kate www.katebrenton.com Kate writes at www.katebrenton.com

In this solo episode bonus, for the first & powerful new moon of 2024, Kate talks about the simplicity of starting your morning with a mind-that-is-set. Master your Mornings.

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Step-up and set your mind for your intention and horizon for 2024.

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“For it is not inertia alone that causes the unspeakable monotonous and unrenewed human condition to repeat itself again and again. It is the aversion to anything new, any unpredictable experience, which is believed to be untenable.” - Rainer Maria RilkeI heard that to train an elephant they use heavy shackles to tie him to  a tree, realizing the predicament he is in he eventually resigns himself to domestication — once the elephant relinquishes, the elephant trainers need only rope for restraint. Apparently broken, the elephant could - but does not venture escape.We do this.We do this every day: “the unspeakable montonous.”We do this when we refuse to experience new places or when we only talk to people who think like us. We do this when we refuse to open up to a silly idea from a child or when we go home the same way from work - every. single. day. Did you know that a simple trick for re-sparking inspired, creative thinking is driving a different way?Why?Because when we do the same thing over and over again, the ever intelligent brain says: "There is nothing new to see here."  And doesnʻt even look.Have you ever taken an out of town guest to your favorite restaurant or coffee shop and they notice something you have never seen before? Itʻs because they are looking. They are seeing. Their brain is skrying the environment and noticing.What did you notice on your way to work? The sky? The birds? Your text messages (hope not, both hands on the wheel!) Or are you thinking about what happened before you left — or worrying about what is yet to come?Of course brainstorming and collecting thoughts for the day, or processing a conversation in the quiet of your car is great. But are we ever just present? Or radically grateful that we have a car to drive and a job to drive to?It might sound trite, but allowing new vision - not imprinting the past as the present- reorganizes how your brain works. Because in the present, there is possibility.When you are grateful — your brain says, “Oh, we are looking for things to be grateful for. What can I find now?“ and that sends a message through the neurotransmitters associated with dopamine, which incites the “Letʻs do this again” response. The brain - the ever wanting to please puppy, like all dogs when they have proper exercise, discipline, and affection — feels satiated by completing a task and receiving the reward of positive attention. So you can program your brain to look for things that make you happy.You can allow your brain to inspire you.Gratitude is one way. You can also slow down and notice. Slow down and be. Let new information come from within (put down the phone), take a walk, remember the feeling of inspiration. Can you remember your last true a-ha? Did you act on  the whispers?  Or did you find yourself explaining to friends after the fact, ”I knew it!” But did nothing.Seth Godin recently asked, “What would you do if all your meetings were cancelled? Go do that - now.”  Why wait? You already know what you could be doing if you gave yourself permission.As Elizabeth Gilbert says: "Consider this your permission slip." Now go have fun - be creative. Be a problem solver.When we give pause, we can notice. When we give ourselves permission to dream broader, we act accordingly. We notice a co-worker that needs a hand. We can revision a parenting or an accounting problem. We can have a moment of not-knowing and surrender to that instead of repeating ad nauseam what we do know — and changing nothing but increasing our desperation and therefore inflammation, which serves only to makes us more upset and bitter.To give space, to slow down, to notice beauty - in another, in artwork, in Nature — creates possibility.“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”  ― Thomas MertonTo notice that your life has changed and perhaps you were once shackled with immovable mental chains, but maybe you arenʻt now. Maybe you are a little wiser, a little kinder, a little more courageous. Maybe you made that move, or started a gentler self talk, or enrolled into ceramics / wine tasting / outdoor canoeing club, and you are not only exercising your mind, you are exercising  your right to joy — and you are letting more of that in. You are letting a little more inspiration shine. Maybe breath by breath and choice by choice that metal chain is becoming a rope — and you can choose to slip it off and walk away.

*originally written November 13, 2017

Hello!

A colleague of mine gave me the idea to share more with our creative community here. Some of us prefer to listen to the substacks here, so this year I will be handpicking previous posts for a retelling and infusing the piece where needed.

Enjoy!Kate

Dayna Mondello, Artist, Educator and Counterforce for Joy, has worked with children for 30 years- in every kind of school environment and home environment- wilderness and even traveling internationally together for education sake. In this episode we talk about the necessity of nature for humans and especially for children, the power and presence of a Vision Quest, and the steps of the process and also the reciprocal force that responds when we declare a change at a soul level. Cozyup with Dayna and Kate in this fireside chat of Tend the Flame.

Find Dana

IG : @daynamondello

www.daynamondello.com

Episode Resources

www.carlyrae.ca

www.schooloflostborders.com

www.animas.org

Soulcraft, Bill Plotkin

https://bookshop.org/a/84615/9781577314226

Stay Connected with Kate www.katebrenton.com Kate writes at www.katebrenton.com

Have you ever thought to soundtrack your past year? To track the ebbs and flow of what you learned or celebrated? What about what you overcame? What would it be like to have a soundtrack for the year to come? Something that embodies how you want to FEEL? Tune into this episode to learn more.

Connect with Kate@katebrenton.com

Kate writes at https://katebrenton.substack.com/p/the-work-changes-your-purpose-doesnt

In this Full Moon fireside chat, Kate talks about the weaving ways that brings us to this end-of year moment and contemplations to open us up to the potentials of next year.

Firepoints:

• When the waves come, you can choose to go over or under, it is when we are caught unaware that confusion ensues


• Opening to the legacy of our lives can create openings where we may never have expected.

Books referenced:

Signal Fires, by Dani Shapiro https://bookshop.org/a/84615/9780593534724

Stay connected at www.katebrenton.com

Kate writes at https://katebrenton.substack.com/p/the-work-changes-your-purpose-doesnt

Drop into the slipstream with Damini Celebre, an advocate for the soul, who knows to make room for a little bit of the ridiculous while tending to the path of purpose. 

Kate & Damini talk candidly about the doubt and frustration many feel who are connected to soul & service, in a world that is aflutter with the new. 

Damini reminds us: 

• The Web of Life includes everything


• No one is ever alone


• Some journeys need maturation for depth


• Some soul-work calls for laughter and silliness

Every conversation with Damini leaves you lighter in your step and seated deeper in your heart. Enjoy this conversation on Tending the Flame.

Learn more about working 1:1 with Kate at www.katebrenton.com

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Damini Celebre

As an advocate for the Soul, Damini believes deeply that everyone has the right to be empowered to live as their Brightest-Best Self.

Her unique background is a potent mix of healing & creative arts that helps women share their light and make the impact they want to make on the world.  

Based on her book Painting the Landscape of Your Soul 

⁠https://www.daminicelebre.com/books/soft-cover-book-painting-the-landscape-of-your-soul⁠

Damini offers workshops and a monthly online community called Creative Alchemy

⁠https://www.daminicelebre.com/creative-alchemy-membership⁠

to help women have fun, explore limitations, go deep, and expand deeper into their spiritual calling.

In this mini-episode, Kate shares:

• The power of intention (and some hints that you can apply to your own naming)


• The evolution of Rebirth as podcast


• Ideas to reignite your embers to a flame &


• A whole lotta love to be speaking with you here and now.

🔥Tend the Flame brings warmth to your day and inspiration to your path.

This episode was recorded on December 12th, the last new moon of 2023.

Learn more on working with Kate

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*End of Year Sessions: Listen to Her, to plan for the brightest 2024 you can.

Quick checkin and reminder on this solo-podcast.

If you are ready to usher in change, book an Ignite Your Intention session here.https://www.katebrenton.com/shop/p/refocus-for-entrepreneurs-creatives-healers

Sit & Write: Begin video class

A self-paced, online class with insights and activities to support authors. It is for writers who have the desire & curiosity to learn what it takes to write & market a book and who want a clear starting point to begin.

🎁 Holiday Gift Idea - Spread the Love! Purchase the Sit & Write: Begin course as a gift for a friend. When you purchase the course, at check-out mark it as a gift with the recipient’s information. What a treasure to receive the gift of learning how to make your writing dream a reality!