This episode features a special interview with four of Michelle’s close comrades and colleagues. Michelle brought the team of Healing in Community facilitators together to hear about how they are tending their hearts at this time—Katie Veleta, Johnette Walser, Amy Burtaine, and Stephanie Ghoston Paul co-led an online retreat this past summer with Michelle, and they are reuniting for a special offering this fall: an online series exploring topics such as Collective Grief and Liberation, Embodying Grief, How to be a Living Ancestor, Decolonizing Our Relationship with the Land, and more. In this conversation, Katie, Johnette, Amy, and Stephanie share about the ways in which they are continuing to heal in community and how they are finding and creating refuge at this time.

This episode explores:

• How to heal amidst the turmoil of life at this time
• The value of being tender hearted
• The connection between pain and joy
• How to connect with joy and allow oneself to be in the experience of joy
• How to set boundaries and break up with people, old habits, thoughts and patterns
• The hearts capacity to heal and feel
• Heart work that the group of facilitators if bringing forth at this time

Music: Charles Kurtz

Learn more about our guests through their websites and Instagrams:

Stephanie Ghoston Paul: website, podcast

Katie Veleta: instagram

Johnette Walser: instagram

Amy Burtaine: website

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