Explore every episode of the podcast Sez Kristiansen
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| Cold Limbs + The Burning Both | 08 oct. 2026 | 00:01:23 | |
This is a preview of an article originally written for Substack, where we dive into a deeper exploration of identity, survival, and the self that tries to keep us safe. Through the practice of cold-water swimming, I explore how we might move from total immersion in thought into the freedom of Selfless awareness, even in the midst of difficult and painful moments in everyday life. You’re welcome to join the deeper conversation on Substack. This podcast is now an archive. If you’d like to explore my more recent work, meditations and poetry, I invite you to listen in places where I can also respond to and support you in return. You can find me on Insight Timer.
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| Emptiness Becoming - Exploring Interbeing Through The Body | 29 juil. 2026 | 00:00:48 | |
Dear People. Due to Spotify changing its algorithm and Insight Timer changing the way they support meditation teachers, I will only be posting clips of longer, free meditations that you can find in full on Insight Timer. This helps support the time, effort, and devotion put into creating these pieces, without the use of social media or advertising. I truly love the deeper conversations that come from these pieces, and if you want to step closer, you are always welcome to become a member of my Substack. Over the years, I have desperately wanted to simplify my life and my offerings so only what is true and full of heart remains. Thank you for your support, and the way your presence shapes my own life. In deepest regard, Sez _____ About this episode... We are about to discover, through direct experience, what emptiness feels like. Not as a concept that can further dissociate us from our bodies. Not as a spiritual claim that self or no-self is the final truth. But by going beyond both, we can touch the heart of emptiness as an undeniable, lived experience. Listen to the episode for free, and in full here.
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| A Body Full Of Wildfires - On Climate Despair Without Separation | 17 juil. 2026 | 00:01:06 | |
This is a small clip from a community letter I write every week for members on Substack. I talk about being a very sensitive person, who feels the world's pain incredibly deeply, but how self-realization can change our relationship with helplessness, making it a communal grief rather than a personal identity. We can feel helpless without becoming a hopeless person - action from feeling rather than a separate self is more loving, compassionate and supportive for a world that is no different than our own skin. You can listen to intimate reflections on coming home to ourselves and the rest of this post here: https://sezkristiansen.substack.com/ Or listen to poetry and meditation on Insight Timer:
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| The Silver Gull - A Poem For Moving Before You're Ready | 11 mai 2026 | 00:03:40 | |
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| Safety Without Separation - The Wild Intimacy Of True Refuge | 13 avr. 2026 | 00:18:19 | |
Imagine meeting your last breath, and feeling utterly, truly safe...
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| Daily Remembrances For Wholeness - What Remains Of Us? | 13 avr. 2026 | 00:08:22 | |
This track is a daily invitation to return—to yourself, to presence, to the unshakable truth that you are already whole. It is a reminder that nothing in life needs to be fixed or figured out for you to belong to it completely. Through surrender and by offering a radical presence to all experiences, you are guided to embrace uncertainty, failure, longing, and love without resistance. Let these words be a refuge, a steadying force in the midst of change, and a call to live with more ease, depth, and trust in the unfolding of life. May this also serve as a supportive companion to all those on the W(hole)ness course, as a quick reminder that simple presence is the pinnacle of all spiritual ambitions. Thank you for all the unexpected ways we converge paths through these words. Love Sez
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| The Holding - A Poem About Our Interdependent Nature | 04 mars 2026 | 00:02:42 | |
(Please note that these poems and meditations are released 3 weeks after they have been published on Insight Timer Premium. To receive them quicker, you are welcome to listen there. Thanks so much for being here!) This is a short poetic reflection that reminds us that we cannot lift one thing in the forest without it being attached to everything else. When there is simply 'the holding' that remains (rather than the 10 thousand things) without a name, without a story, and without identification with a thought, we might quietly get a peek into our self-less, interconnected natures. I hope this meets you where you are, as you - as we all are. Much love, Sez
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| An Ode To Idleness - Permission To Pause | 30 juil. 2025 | 00:03:45 | |
This piece is a gentle ode to idleness—a meditation on the quiet, miraculous fullness found in simply sitting, watching, and being. With the sea as a companion and the sky as a witness, we explore how presence asks nothing of us but attention. In a world that constantly demands productivity, this poem offers permission to pause, to be thoroughly unuseful, and yet feel more whole than ever. Through images of waves, wind, and distant sails, we are reminded that being present with whatever arises can be one of the deepest spiritual 'achievements'.
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| The Moon Speaks In Oneness - A Poetic Reflection On Interbeing | 30 juin 2025 | 00:03:33 | |
// A Spotify Exclusive // This poem is a quiet ode to the cosmic woven into the domestic — how even the simplest gestures can become sacred when seen through the eyes of wonder. It’s a reminder that we are not separate from the universe, but shaped by the same forces that form stars, radishes, and tenderness. 🌙 To receive new audio poems like this one every week, become a member of my patron-only Substack: SEZ ON SUBSTACK. These poems are exclusive to my closest listeners, woven with care, and meant to meet you in your own unfolding. Come, be part of the constellation. ✨ Thanks for sharing, caring, and simply being present with this work. Love Sez
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| I Am Nature - A Poem Exploring Who We Are | 30 avr. 2025 | 00:03:12 | |
In this soundscape laced with gentle words, you’ll be guided into a reflective and sensory-rich journey through the natural world and your place within it. Blending poetic language with grounded presence, this poem explores what it means to belong to life, not as something separate, but as life itself becoming aware. You'll be invited to soften the boundaries between self and world, and to rest in the quiet knowing that you are nature, making sense of itself. I have hand-gathered the nature soundscapes from New South Wales in Australia, where we hear the unique 'whip-crack' sounds from the Whipbird, the bubbling Noisy Minors, croaks from Golden Bell Frogs, and Black Field Crickets. I hope this recording helps you remember your place in the greater Whole, and perhaps even helps you see that your deepest questions are what makes us who we are. Much love, from Sez.
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| W(hole)ness - returning home to our essential self through the void of deficiency. | 16 janv. 2025 | 00:04:05 | |
A new 7-part guided mediation course is now available on both:
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| This year in one word - and how to remember your indivisible wholeness | 28 déc. 2023 | 00:07:25 | |
This episode is taken from my last free newsletter of 2023! The original voiceover can be found on my SUBSTACK, along with the transcript and a poll I've put forward to all listeners.
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| Remembering Wild - A compilation of soulful messages | 21 mars 2023 | 00:05:18 | |
Hello dear listeners. Simplifying life is a way of returning to the roots of your being, and in this pursuit to live more intentionally, I have left social media to concentrate on offering new poetry, meditations and courses on Substack.
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| The purpose of pain is to make it purposeless - (Week 2 of The Surrender Series) | 15 janv. 2023 | 00:13:17 | |
From the new, free mini-series, Surrender with Sez, comes an episode for all to enjoy. To listen to more of this series, join us on SUBSTACK.
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| The Well Within - Finding the answers you seek within yourself | 06 sept. 2022 | 00:02:21 | |
A poem to help you discover yourself without the external noise that bombards us every moment. We often seek answers through this stream of information, but it tends to not make us feel like we are healed or whole, and often causes a rift between where we are in our lives right now and where we wish ourselves to be. What if we listened more attentively to the well of wisdom we already hold within us? What would bubble up from that space if left undammed?
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| The Cave of Trauma - Symbolic Story for Emotional Healing | 17 août 2022 | 00:08:05 | |
Those of us who have been traumatized often find ourselves shut inside protective caves that sever us from our feeling body. Returning to who we are, therefore, means leaving what we know - those coping strategies (caves) - that no longer serve us. Finding our way back home to our soft mammal of a body means giving up the reptile within that keeps us perpetually in fight/flight/freeze mode. I hope this helps you with whatever you are going through right now, Sez
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| YOU are a safe space to dwell | 07 juin 2022 | 00:11:19 | |
Whatever you are going through right now that makes it feel unsafe to be you, know that you are being asked to unfold even more and bare that pollen-drenched center of yours to the light. Join me on this soundscape that encourages us to reflect upon the value of the coping strategies we use to protect ourselves and remember that being still with our discomfort can lead us into a deeply expansive and meaningful life. Thank you for sharing, commenting, or just being here with me today.
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| Shadows & Bends - Poetry | 10 mai 2022 | 00:03:00 | |
Sez's new & unpublished poetry has moved to the Substack app. Listen, read & join the community for free HERE
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| Self-improvement vs. Healing - a guided meditation | 05 avr. 2022 | 00:31:30 | |
Can the medicine, offered to ourselves in the midst of ache, be that which keeps us searching for a cure? Can the voices that encourage us to feel differently than we do, be better than we are in that moment - be what’s keeping us oscillating between self-healing and perpetual self-wounding.
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| Remembering our wild connection | 23 mars 2022 | 00:19:06 | |
Read & Listen to Sez' weekly newsletter here:
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| Daring to be whole - Wxman's Day Celebration | 08 mars 2022 | 00:01:16 | |
Daring to be whole. Daring to be here. That is all.
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| All Hearts have a purpose right now | 01 mars 2022 | 00:01:15 | |
It’s an old paradigm to try and cure suffering with suffering. This we all know. On both an individual level and a global one. So if you are feeling fear right now, that’s so ok - but an exasperated sense of it might not be serving you, your community, or the collective consciousness we are trying to raise. We need feet on earth, strong backs, and open hearts willing to both hold - and spill out Love. Because all hearts have a purpose right now.
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| How to inhabit your bones | 04 févr. 2022 | 00:02:22 | |
'Unpack your bags and plant your trees' in every moment you find yourself seeking belonging from the outside world. You belong - but not to your family name, your country or your home - to yourself. Listen to this healing poem to help you settle your nomadic heart in the morning or whenever you feel ungrounded in this life. I hope it serves you in becoming just a little more present and centered. Thank you sincerely for sharing, commenting or simply just being here today. Sez
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| The Immortality of our Words - How we can use our voice to touch people centuries from now | 03 févr. 2022 | 00:02:51 | |
We have all been touched by the words, acts. and art of those who have long passed. But something we might not have thought about is what we can do *right now* to benefit the life of someone we will never meet. Social media is immortalizing our lives, our words, and who we were - what do our feeds speak to? How do we extend our own hearts beyond the fragility of our form and how would we live differently if everything we did was a seed for a future lost soul? Thank you for listening, sharing, or simply being present with these words! Sez
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| Remembering Wild - A soul-plan for returning to one's own | 12 janv. 2022 | 00:18:32 | |
The New Private Podcast can be found here - Sez on Substack
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| Authentic Living - Your wound is wild place | 04 nov. 2021 | 00:02:09 | |
Our greatest regret in life is most likely going to be that we never made our lives our own: that we lived according to what others expected of us and never walked off into the wild unknown to find what authenticity tasted like. We have wounds created by contorting our bodies, our lives, and our work into shapes that are not truly our own. And so we walk, often until our last breath, in lives not big enough, not nourishing enough, not free enough… And so we come to believe that it is US that is not enough, not the lives we’ve tried to shoehorn ourselves into. to reclaim our autonomy are brave and bold and should only be attempted by those who are willing to swim against the current and face possibly even more resistance before they break open into the free.
But the more you reclaim those parts of you that were exchanged under domestication, the more this wound will become a salvation, a guidance, a way of living… Wounds are puzzle pieces longing for your wild to fit into them - and make whole what feels most ruptured. Because the wound needs what it needs. The heart needs what it needs. You need what you need. Never shed your fur for anyone. ____
QUESTIONS YOU MAY WISH TO ASK YOURSELF:
Where have you told yourself, it's ok - I don’t need what I need - I’ll be ok with a substitute?
Where have you had to give up a fundamental piece of yourself and called it love?
Where have you tried to be good - the good parent, the good partner, the good worker, the good seeker…
Where has ‘being good’ become detrimental to your soul?
what is the shape of your wound? And what does it require of you? _____
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| For when you feel overwhelmed by life's responsibilities | 29 sept. 2021 | 00:01:55 | |
Short remedial poem to help you connect to you heart & soul with @sez.kristiansen ::::::::::::: What if we saw all our unwanted situations, emotions, and circumstances this way? What if we could climb through the secret window of our own lives and deal with difficulties from a more calm, grounded, and peaceful room in our minds? Would we not then be able to invite each demanding emotion, each pending responsibility, each expectant relationship in our life to sit with us for a moment? Rather than feel overwhelmed by the noise coming from outside of us, we could prepare ourselves a little every day to meet with those demands - and one by one, listen and tend to them as an individual. I believe all pain, challenges, and losses wish to be met by the fireside of Love - it is your warmth they are after. And that doesn't mean you set up a spare room for them to stay as long as they like - remember it's your home, your body, your heart, your mind - but if they are welcomed, they will not break your doors down ;)
through the front door. You can slip through the hedge and climb up the ivy that has overgrown the small window around the back.
It’s always ajar - cracked open to let the light in and to allow the damp darkness to find its way out.
You can crawl between the paint-flecked panes and let yourself into your own home while the guests and visitors clamber against your door; their needs and pains splintering timber with their weight.
And when you have found yourself a place upon the floorboards that is quiet and still - you can take off your shoes and have your tea, and rest for a while.
And only when you are ready - can you invite each guest, each responsibility, each seeker of your attention, to sit beside you.
And one by one, they can drink their tea and spill their words in your company.
And one by one, you can offer them time to be seen and heard and felt.
And one by one, they can leave again knowing that they are not the owner of this home but merely a seeker of its warmth. You do not need to let them all in, nor fight your way through - you can take your time, you can bare your feet, you can drink your tea and only when you feel ready - is each allowed a moment of your time. _______ That's this week's goal anyway :)
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| For when you don't know what your emotions are telling you | 02 sept. 2021 | 00:01:40 | |
Join thousands of others on the Becoming Your Own Medicine Newsletter to receive uplifting audios in your inbox once a week - plus Journal Prompts & Practices for each poem, exclusive for subscribers. Sign up now the narrative of our emotions.
We believe they say something about our lack, whereas they speak honestly and with candor of our completeness. with unworthiness and it splinters us off from the value of our own guidance system. you don’t belong - loneliness asks you to deepen your relationship with everything you come into contact with. you are not in control - anxiety asks you to return to your body and deeply ground yourself in it. you are unworthy of what someone else has - envy tells you that you are resonating with the manifestation of what your heart is guiding you towards. but very much BECAUSE of them.
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| For when you don't know how to be soft | 31 août 2021 | 00:01:04 | |
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When you accept difficulties in your life, you tell yourself that there’s an unwanted external presence forcing itself upon you without your consent. This belief then contorts the body into defensive postures, using all of its energy to protect you against perceived threats.
What is ‘unwanted' or 'undesirable' causes us emotional and psychological stress – which translates into toughened, inflexible, and protective bodies.
This means that our biography really does become our biology.
But what if we choose to allow instead?
We can allow this difficult moment or emotion to be as it is. It has a right to be here, to teach us what we need to know in order to grow fuller. It might still hurt – but we can allow it our breath and presence. We can allow it to show us its roots so that we can better understand its reason for being here. We can allow ourselves to feel this hurt without needing to fix it. We can allow ourselves to grow softer in its company.
Unwanted guests really are the best teachers.
If we accepted an unwanted guest in our house, we would have little power to make them leave. We would just accept their presence and try to avoid them as best as possible. We might as well accept what we can't change, right?
But if we allowed them to be here...if we invited them to cross the threshold with permission - we could then ask them for a lesson in return. We could create boundaries for them. And because of this empowered mindset, we would then be able to ask them to leave when it was time.
We can accept the lack of control we currently have – or we can allow this lack of control to show us how to surrender to the greater vision Love has for our life.
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| For when you feel like you don't belong | 24 août 2021 | 00:01:18 | |
You need what you need. It’s not a matter of worthiness but of giving your body, heart & soul what it needs to stay alive, to stay open, to stay whole. In fact, the less you excuse your needs, the more you will find yourself. And once you have created the right environment for who you are - wherever you are right now - you will begin to bloom in ways unfamiliar. A flower will sprout here, a wound will heal there, a friend will take root over there…all because your energy is not spent fighting or defending your body from your environment. Never feel shame for the dreams you have, no matter how bold nor how humble they may be. All your desires and needs make you who you are and how your spirit wanted to experience this life. What environment do you crave today that will help disarm your mind, nourish your soul and mend your heart? ////
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| For when you cannot see through this darkness | 17 août 2021 | 00:01:22 | |
You might not be able to see the purpose of everything right now. And it makes being in this space very dark and unsettling. But if you can create a relationship with one small part of your life - one little object, one simple practice, one small piece of your garden - then, when you step back from your life you will be able to see everything is connected and deeply purposeful. Just as if you spent time studying the details of a small leaf with only your fingertips, so too would you be able to step back and look at the entire forest to see thousands of leaves with the same intimate qualities. An intimate and tender relationship with the small will allow you to see the great in everything. Sometimes just looking at your life with only your eyes can leave you feeling empty and separate from it. Whereas kneeling down and getting into the soil and studying the details of just one beautiful thing in it - can suddenly connect you to something far greater than you ever expected. Join thousands of others on the Be Your Own Medicine Newsletter to receive uplifting audios in your inbox once a week - plus Journal Prompts & Practices for each poem, exclusive for subscribers. Sign up now
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| For when you wish to escape | 10 août 2021 | 00:03:24 | |
The word 'Distraction' has found itself in such a negative light - but it comes from the original meaning, “to draw away from the mind.” Being drawn away from the mind can be a fundamental healing process right now that guides us back to our hearts and returns us to our lives with a very different perspective. I hope you say ‘yes' to those healthy distractions that draw you away from the mind and into the heart. It’s medicine for these times (not to mention for our creative businesses) where we are all feeling this new sense of exhaustion. Questions for today:
Thanks for listening, sharing & commenting! Sez for a while. It took me away from what I knew, and it took me away from the place I had been standing still for so long in. It took me away from even my most meaningful work, It took me away... And when I left the woods, I came across a dragonfly, I wanted to see my own reflection in its mosaic wing so I followed it too, and it took me away. It took me away from myself and even from the things I most love, it took me away... And when I came across a heaving field of oats, I wanted to know why a tree stood in its center, and so I followed its furrowed lines into its core. And when the berry black raven perched high up on the oak's eaves invited me to follow it, I willingly said yes - and it took me away. It took me away and weaved me so tightly around the land that I began to loosen my bearings and before I knew it I didn’t know my way back and all I knew was that I was away. And when I came to a small cleft in a rock where the rainwater pooled down into the earth, I followed its trail and it took me away, it took me away from the woods, the raven, and the dragonfly. It took me away and I kept following the stream down and down, away and away until I stood at the mouth of a great ocean and there was nowhere left to go. But now I was no longer away, I was here, in this body, in this heart and I no longer needed the distance nor the distraction. And with one deep breath, I took the first wind current home, back to where I had once stood in the woods, but everything was different everything was bathed in light. And all the things I thought were so important were now meaningless and all the things I found little importance in were full of urgency. And in that moment I realized that being taken away was the only way I could truly return home again.
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| Dreams are houses we wish to inhabit - A poem | 20 juil. 2021 | 00:01:00 | |
There is a necessary packing away of dreams in one's life that - if done with love and acceptance, can make space for new ways of being in the world.
Most parents know what this feels like - to offer a dream back to the earth that was made long ago and for single-occupancy. But remember there is no loss in anything that is given away in reverence of Love. Questions you might like to ask yourself:
These images are of a place I have dreamt about my whole pre-motherhood life. An isolated, self-sustaining permaculture home where I would spend the seasons tending to myself through the land. But right now, if I were handed that life - I wouldn’t take it. Because right now, I need to switch hemispheres to be with my family. No amount of calendula. echinacea and thyme can compensate for time with loved ones. And in clearing out this dream for now, I will make space for a new kind of inhabitance; the one where I keeping tending to the home within myself and allow a for a new dream to be given life.
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| Why rest is the only place healing can manifest from - healing poetry | 15 juil. 2021 | 00:01:46 | |
We hear the word consistency a lot - in our creative work, our lives, our practice. It’s as if we will lose everything if we step off the consistency treadmill - but we tend to lose ourselves in that binary process. But what can be manifested from a body consistently comparing itself, stressing itself to meet others' demands and own expectations? If you feel the weight of that word, and all the success it promises, then remember that consistency originally means ‘to be standing firm' - and you don’t have to lose yourself to that kind of stagnancy.
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| Rewild Yourself - How to live a courageously untamed life | 11 juil. 2021 | 00:25:44 | |
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| Will choosing my Heart make life harder? Demystifying the path of least resistance | 06 juil. 2021 | 00:19:18 | |
This episode is a little different from the meditations and poetry I usually offer. I sit down in the woodshed with the summer rain pouring down outside and open up a frank conversation with you about why choosing your heart will make your life so much harder....and why that's such a good thing.
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| Rewilding, a poem - coming home to yourself through nature | 05 juil. 2021 | 00:01:25 | |
I am currently writing a guided meditation about rewilding the body as there seem to be many misconceptions about the word. Rewilding isn’t about trying to go back to living as hunter-gatherers. Rather, it's about examining our cultural paradigms, seeing how they affect our spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional health. We don’t have to demonize our culture in order to Rewild ourselves, because urbanization is an aspects of ourselves too. We can however, with awareness, learn what aspects of our modern culture rob us of our basic humanity, our intuition and our freedom. Using that awareness, we can live in our culture (and ourselves) more courageously, express ourselves more authentically, and live more attuned to the natural forces that help guide us through life. Some Rewilding questions you might like to ask yourself today! - What roles don't allow me to walk barefooted in my life? (wife/husband/parent/job role/carer/sister/brother etc.) - Why can’t I express my wilder Self in these roles? - What one part of me can I allow to slowly grow wild again in this role? (e.g if you feel overly domesticated in your partnership, can you nurture your need for adventure? Or If your job restricts you in unhealthy ways, how can you speak up for your creative needs more? Is parenthood overwhelming? How can you find more play in this role? How do you feel about your own body? Can you give the ‘farming' of your body a rest and let it blossom in its own beautiful way?)
Sez
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| The Heart & I - A conversation with your beating companion | 08 juin 2021 | 00:05:22 | |
The new poetry book is out! Story Medicine is now available on Amazon - Read the reviews and grab yourself a copy of emotional healing HERE
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| (SHORT V.) Healing The Stories Our Bodies Tell - Affirmations | 27 mai 2021 | 00:13:25 | |
(SHORT VERSION - Affirmations Only)
But every story can be healed.
We just need to learn how to become the authors of our own bodies.
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| Healing The Stories Our Bodies Tell - Affirmations | 26 mai 2021 | 00:22:55 | |
"Words are seeds. We are their earth. Blossom in truth." Sez Kristiansen (Siska, 2 years old)
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| Soul Remedy - 07 - The Best Self | 26 mai 2021 | 00:01:42 | |
ALL EPISODES ARE SPONSORED BY MY BOOKS - If you feel a resonance with my work, please consider buying a poetry book. Not only do you get something of value in return, but I get to connect with you in a more meaningful way through my words. Thank you! It will take more than joy and ease to create your ‘Best Self'. Because the misalignment is part of the alignment, just as the fracture is an integral part of your greater wholeness. Your future ‘Best Self' is not made up of only goodness. The best part of her is when she faces the fight, the loss, and the struggle, and chooses to hold herself through it anyway. Manifestation is desire made into matter and the very nature of desire is to bring life into what has yet a heartbeat. Desire, and the creation of it, is messy and hard and black in its essence, like what existed before the universe, before the birth of the sun, before you entered the womb. You will therefore not embody your 'best self' in spite of your struggle - but because of it. ____ POEM I met her when she had fallen so far, she could no longer remember the shape of the sun. I met her when nothing was left to hold onto, and freefalling had become freedom. I met her when she had reached the peaty floor and there was only darkness to hold her. And was overcome with joy because I knew she had finally reached a place where she would be able to plant the seeds of her future in: at the very bottom. ____
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| Soul Remedy - 06 - Nature's Mirror | 20 mai 2021 | 00:01:48 | |
Dear one, Old patterns fashion the body. Some habits weave these limbs so tight, they have closed you off from your Heart. For there is a truer mirror to be used. Take a moment right now, in the room that you’re in, in the space you occupy - and look closer. The table, once part of a woodland, once a forgotten seed sleeping in the soil, now, here in this room. The material hugging your skin, once a crop soaked in warmth and nourished by the rains, a thousand strands of sunlight touching your skin. The food in your belly, grown by mother moon and her seasons, now having a conversation with your body. The daylight cutting through the window, its glass made of eroded rock and minerals, eroded over millions of years. Cultivate a closer relationship with everything around you and you will cultivate a more intimate relationship with yourself. TIPS ON FINDING NATURE’S CONNECTION WHEREVER YOU ARE - Use a different mirror. When you see something beautiful in nature, remember that that there is an element of yourself being reflected back. - Connect with your breath, often. Everything alive breathes. Take a deep breath and think about how many other living elements are breathing with you right now. - Find wholeness in imperfection. Everything in nature is imperfect. Not a single petal, root, wing are the same (often our definition of perfection). Find a marked tree, a leaf-eaten rose, a discolored patch of grass, and notice how the plant grows anyway, never believing in the story of its flaws. ___ POEM Undulating valleys can be found in the body’s bending limbs, wilder paths in the untamed thickets of forgotten skin - and reflected in the surface of deep blue water - the Heart’s unfettered youth ever luring you back into her depths.
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| Soul Remedy - 05 - To Love | 20 mai 2021 | 00:00:42 | |
Dear one, Love will heal, once you let go. Because it is in the holding on to these old stories that you are keeping yourself separate from the life being written by a greater hand. Abandon, with grace, everything that turns this wheel of perpetual conflict. The one between yourself and others, and the one between you and yourself. Even if there is anger left, you are holding on. Even if there is fear left, you are holding on. Even if there is doubt left, you are still holding on.
And when everything, including yourself, has been abandoned, so is but Love left behind. Because, Love requires nothing, not even a someone (especially not a someone), to exist within you. Love is the alkaline that balances life’s acidity into neutrality, chaos into calm, fear into radical acceptance. And only from acceptance can you stand in the wreckage of your life and begin to rebuild it from Love, because only then are you standing within your true Self. So go ahead and lose yourself, only to realize that it’s not you that's being let go - but everything else you’re not.
- What am I still harboring within myself that has passed and needs to be abandoned now? - What are my fears surrounding letting non-serving things go? - How can I practice neutrality more in my daily life and do I have any associations with being detached from my emotional drama? ________ On the 31st May, I will let everyone know which Remedy is theirs. You can also sign up for my soul stories newsletter on my website and receive all the videos, audios and words created for the Remedy Series in an E-Book for free on the 31st. SIGN UP HERE POEM: what is left behind when all else has been abandoned. And to empty yourself of it all will only remind you of how full it feels to to be unoccupied by pain. Love is the silence lingering beneath all sound. Always available to the one courageous enough to listen.
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| Soul Remedy - 04 - To Expand | 12 mai 2021 | 00:01:00 | |
'MAY I help you month' has begun and every day I will be writing remedies to those who share their stories with me via emails and messages. Would you like one too? Just send me something difficult you are trying to face and I will share the remedy via my Instagram page without tagging you (but I’ll let you know in a private message that it’s yours.) Mushrooms have found a fascinating way to create an abundant future to exist within… Fairy rings (or fungal mycelium) start as a single point and grow outward to form a circular shape. They continue to push outwards in an attempt to consume more nutrients from the surrounding area and when they exhaust the minerals found on the inside of the circle, they widen further and further to find richer food sources. As these mushrooms grow, the center of the circle becomes a nutrient-depleted zone (a dead zone) where nothing is left to sustain its growth. The outer ring of the circle is dark green and lush because the roots of the mushrooms are forging the way ahead of themselves and breaking down nutrients in the soil, ready for its future inhabitants.
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| Soul Remedy - 03 - The Taproot | 12 mai 2021 | 00:00:54 | |
'MAY I help you month' has begun and every day I will be writing remedies to those who share their stories with me via emails and messages. Would you like one too? Just send me something difficult you are trying to face and I will share the remedy via my Instagram page without tagging you (but I’ll let you know in a private message that it’s yours.) Hope it offers a healing - Sez _______ That desert you are facing right now is not validating how alone you are, nor how ‘wrong' the path you have chosen is... It is a vital landscape that one meets upon the path into the unknown and its wilderness. And rather than feeding yourself on the sparse offerings of this place - allow your roots to nourish and hold you for a while. For, as dry and shallow as this desert may be,so too is the well within you deep and full. Some plants have developed a surefire way to survive uncertainty by sending roots deep below the surface. These are taproots. It is the first root to appear from the seed and remains the largest, central root of the plant. Desert plants can send roots down more than 75 feet. This taproot absorbs water and minerals from the earth and serves as a food storage and a reserve. This ability to not rely on the surface makes these plants more self-sufficient and resilient during hard winters and severe drought. So too have you been gifted a taproot that reaches deep below this surfacery world. It was the first seed of self-sufficiency planted within you that empowers you to survive times that leave you feeling alone, uncertain and vulnerable. Follow what makes you feel most nourished, most embodied, most connected, and you will be following your taproot inward. And do not fear the surface life for it does not determine how well you bloom, only your roots have the power to do that. ___________________
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| Soul Remedy - 02 - To Emerge | 12 mai 2021 | 00:00:42 | |
'MAY I help you month' has begun and every day I will be writing remedies to those who share their stories with me via emails and messages. Would you like one too? Just send me something difficult you are trying to face and I will share the remedy via my Instagram page without tagging you (but I’ll let you know in a private message that it’s yours.) ______ Dear one, To believe you break under the weight of this world is not so. To believe that you splinter and fray at your edges, leaving lesser and lesser of you is nothing but an old wound passed down by those who believed more in their brokenness. Beause it’s easier to see your surface-dwelling fault lines than it is to remember the depth and substance of your mantel. This journey into the ache will end at its core - and once you have met with its centre - so too will you emerge again, passing through to the other side - whole as you’ve always been, only wiser for the encounter. _______________
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| Poetry Medicine - The Humble Gardener | 06 mai 2021 | 00:03:15 | |
How do you really know when it's time to let go of your dream?
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| Poetry Medicine - The Container | 28 avr. 2021 | 00:01:46 | |
Your spiritual practice is a container, a thing that encompasses you so that you can become MORE you. Like salt drawn in a circle around your body, you can become protected in this container – you can become healed in this container – you can spill yourself into this container – and what is contained within this space is you - the 'you' beyond the form - the 'you' that exists within the circle but are not made of it. What is your daily, sacred practice? And has your dedication created fold-lines within you that you can find easily again or do you find yourself needing motivation to keep at it?
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| Poetry Medicine - Ancient Emotion | 16 avr. 2021 | 00:01:30 | |
Your emotions have not evolved since you were part of a nomadic, foraging community, thousands of years ago. And although we have more words to describe how we feel now, our physiological emotions have remained unchanged. That means, even though our external environment has changed irrevocably in the last thousands of years - our bodies remain wired to an ancient way of living. Is it any wonder those of us who are highly sensitive or identify with being an Empath find refuge in being closer to the earth? Is it any wonder we dream of speaking with the unseen world and long to belong to a soul-connecting community? Is it any wonder we feel exhausted in the loneliness of our parenthood or heartbroken at the abandonment of our elders? Is it any wonder that we feel disconnected in an era that allows us to be more connected than ever…wanting to be heard in a crowd full of voices and seen in a space where only some faces are celebrated? Is it any wonder... Our bodies are calling us back, through emotion, to the remedies that this modern world cannot heal alone.
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| Poetry is an apothecary & how to self-medicate - Write your own healing poetry with Sez | 15 avr. 2021 | 00:14:43 | |
Poetry is most certainly an apothecary and we can self-medicate by following just a few simple steps. Listen to this month's newsletter that shares the ways I write my own healing poetry and how you can too by following these 5 simple steps.
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