Holistic Health Sisters Podcast
For women interested in holistic health, natural healing, moon wisdom, spirituality, hormonal health, seasonal living, nature, health retreats, plant medicine, ceremonial grade cacao, energy healing and shamanic practices then the Holistic Health Sisters podcast is for you.Sister's Hannah Carr and Sarah King, are trained in naturopathic nutrition, trauma healing, breath work, yoga , space holding, Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicine, coaching and plant based cooking will guide you through all the holistic subjects from a place of embodied wisdom to help your healing journey.Find out more about retreats, in person events and online offerings at www.holistichealthcollective.co.uk
Fire Horse Year Reflection: What Are You Leaving In The Ashes? (Ep.93)
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What if slowing down doesn’t mean losing your spark—but finding your way back to it?
In this episode of Holistic Health Sisters, Hannah and Sarah reflect on the Year of the Fire Horse: the momentum, the intensity, and the invitation to notice where we’ve been pushing beyond our own limits.
Through honest stories of personal growth, health challenges, and learning to listen to their bodies, they explore what it means to step out of constant doing and make room for rest, intuition, and a more n...
Pleasure as a portal to healing:Scorpio New Moon (Ep.92)
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What do you truly desire—and can you give yourself permission to feel it?
In this episode of the Holistic Health Sisters podcast, we explore the Scorpio new moon as an invitation to turn inward, meet our shadow with compassion, and reconnect with the wisdom of our bodies.
Through the themes of transformation, pleasure, and self-sovereignty, we reflect on the parts of ourselves we’ve hidden or pushed away—not only grief and shame, but also our brilliance, wildness, and creative power.
Together, we explore:
Shadow work a...What if he danced? Men's mental health, Healing with Dance, Trust & the Creatrix Within You. (Ep.91)
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What If He Danced Instead? Healing with Dance, Trust & the Creatrix Within You.
In this episode of the Holistic Health Sisters Podcast, Sarah sits down with Alison Gardner — dance teacher of 36 years, Reiki therapist, and ambassador for East Kent Mind — for a heartfelt conversation about dance, men's mental health, and the power of creative expression.
Alison shares her journey building boys' dance companies across three schools, the remarkable story of how a "cool rugby lad" found his way to the dance studio, and the ripple effect it had on his...
90's Style Healing: Why a digital detox is essential for your hormones (Ep.90)
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In this episode, Sarah takes you on a journey to the Wye Valley Forest for her annual digital detox and shares the science behind how light — both natural and artificial — impacts your hormone health. She explores the connection between circadian rhythms, serotonin, melatonin, and cortisol, and offers gentle, practical ways to reduce screen time and protect your nervous system as the seasons shift.
In this episode, you'll learn:
 How light regulates your hormones — the role of the suprachiasmatic nucleus and photoreceptor cells in your brain's hypothalamus The rainbow...Libra New Moon 2026: Where Are You Keeping the Peace at Your Own Expense?
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In this episode, Sarah, a somatic and trauma-informed guide, explores the Libra New Moon through the lens of justice, reciprocity, relationships, and coming back to your own needs. The episode blends astrology, nervous system science, and somatic awareness to invite women to reflect on where they may be keeping the peace at the expense of their own wellbeing.
In this episode, we cover:
Red Tent: The Witch Wound & Healing in Community With Women (Ep.88)
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In this episode of the Holistic Health Sisters podcast, Sarah explores the Red Tent — the ancient longing for women to gather, rest, and be witnessed at the thresholds of their lives.
 She traces the history of women's circles from Anita Diamant's novel to the moon lodges of Indigenous traditions, the gossips of medieval England, the keeners of Ireland, and the witch trials that fractured women's communities.
Along the way, she unpacks the witch wound and sister wound — the inherited fears that keep women small, silent, and isolated — and shares her own...
Aries Full Moon: Ancient Cry of Release to Alchemise Fear (Ep.87)
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In this episode of the Holistic Health Sisters podcast, Sarah explores the Aries Full Moon through a trauma-informed lens, weaving together astrology, somatic healing, and ancient Ayurvedic wisdom. With the autumn equinox freshly behind us, this lunation arrives as a three-day window of fire in the midst of vata season — a powerful opportunity to release what has come to a head, shed old survival stories, and return to self-trust.
In this Episode Sarah Explores:
- How trauma destroys trust in the self, the body, and relationships — and...
Grief: Somatic Healing & Hope after Baby Loss with Anna Pichowski (Ep.86)
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In this episode of the Holistic Health Sisters podcast, Sarah sits down with Anna Pikowski — a somatic movement and trauma-informed yoga guide who supports women through self-compassionate practices to meet the complex array of emotions that arise from difficult life events.Â
Anna shares her deeply personal journey through profound grief and physical trauma, and together they explore how we can grow life around grief rather than trying to simply move past it.
This is an intimate, embodied conversation that touches on loss in its many forms — from the p...
Grief: A Portal to Healing & Why Autumn is the time to process (Ep.85)
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Autumn asks us to release — and grief is one of the most sacred forms of letting go.
In this episode, Sarah explores grief not just as loss, but as a portal to healing — and why the autumn season is uniquely suited to processing it. As the natural world sheds its leaves and turns inward, we're given a living metaphor and a real opportunity to meet our own grief with more grace.
Sarah walks through the Five Gates of Grief, weaves in cultural grief practices from around the world, and look...
Virgo New Moon- Exploring the Connection Between Your Gut & Self Worth
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NEW MOON IN VIRGO 🌑 | Coming Home to Your Body, Your Rhythm & What Truly Matters
The Virgo New Moon invites us to pause, simplify and come back to what is essential.
But rather than turning this energy into another opportunity to optimise ourselves, fix ourselves or create a never-ending list of things we should be doing, in this episode we explore Virgo through a trauma-informed, nervous-system-aware lens.
What if healing isn't about becoming a better version of yourself?
What if it’s about...
Autumn Equinox: What Are You Ready to Harvest, Release & Let Go? (Ep.83)
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As summer begins to soften into autumn, nature gives us a beautiful invitation to slow down, reflect and turn inward.
In this episode, Hannah explores the spiritual and seasonal meaning of the Autumn Equinox and how this powerful turning point can help us pause and take stock of what we've grown, learned and experienced so far this year.
Rather than rushing towards the next goal, what if you took a moment to acknowledge your own personal harvest?
What have you nurtured?<...
Pisces Full Moon & Lunar Eclipse: When Surrender doesn't feel safe
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The Pisces Full Moon invites us to soften, surrender and release… but what if letting go doesn’t actually feel safe?
In this episode Sarah explores the Pisces Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse through a trauma-sensitive lens, looking at the relationship between surrender, control and the nervous system.
For many of us, particularly women who have spent years holding everything together, control can become a protective strategy. We plan, overthink, anticipate, stay busy, look after everyone else and keep going. Our bodies can also learn to hold on —...
Medicine Festival: The Festival That Might Actually Leave You Feeling Recharged (Ep.81)
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What if a festival could leave you feeling more connected, grounded and alive, rather than exhausted and in need of another holiday?
In this personal episode, Hannah shares her experience of returning to Medicine Festival, an alcohol-free, plant-based gathering at Wasing Estate near Reading that brings together music, wellbeing, nature, ceremony, indigenous teachings, creativity and community.
From cacao and Kirtan to yoga, somatic workshops, women's circles, incredible plant-based food and late-night conversations with friends, Hannah explores what makes Medicine Festival so different from a traditional...
Leo New Moon Solar Eclipse: Reclaim Your Fire 🔥 (Ep. 80)
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Leo New Moon & Solar Eclipse: Reclaim Your Fire 🔥
What if you don't need to push harder, do more or become more confident but simply come home to yourself?
In this episode, we explore the powerful energy of the Leo New Moon and partial Solar Eclipse, and what this fire-filled portal can awaken around creativity, courage, self-expression, boundaries and self-sovereignty.
Leo invites us to stop shrinking, stop people-pleasing and stop taking on the lion's share and instead ask:
What lights me up...
🌞 Lion's Gate Portal 2026: Awakening Your Inner Light & Preparing for a Powerful Week Ahead (Ep.79)
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What if the Lion's Gate Portal isn't about becoming someone new but remembering who you've always been?
In this inspiring episode Hannah and Sarah explore the spiritual meaning of the 8/8 Lion's Gate Portal, why this energetic gateway resonates with so many people, and how it invites us to reconnect with our intuition, courage and authentic self.
Together, they unpack the symbolism of Leo season, the significance of the number 8, the connection with Sirius, and how these themes encourage heart-led transformation especially f...
Aquarius Full Moon: Reclaim Your Voice, Boundaries & Personal Power (Ep. 78)
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What if the exhaustion you've been feeling isn't something to fix—but a message inviting you home to yourself?
In this deeply nourishing episode, Sarah explores the powerful energies of the Aquarius Full Moon and why this lunar cycle is asking us to reclaim our voice, reconnect with our truth, and release the patterns that have kept us over-giving, people-pleasing, or disconnected from our own needs.
Whether you're navigating perimenopause, feeling burnt out, or sensing that life is asking you to create a more me...
Heart Led Business: Why Self-Doubt Is Holding You Back (Part 5 Ep 77)
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Have you ever felt like you're not qualified enough, worried you'll be "found out," or questioned whether you're really ready to grow your business?
In this final episode of our Heart-Led Business series, Hannah and Sarah explore imposter syndrome through a trauma-informed lens, reframing it as an imposter part, a protective part of you that's trying to keep you safe.
Together we discuss why self-doubt shows up, how childhood experiences, societal expectations and nervous system patterns influence confidence, and why so many women...
Cancer New Moon - Mother Healing through the Nervous System (Ep.76)
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What if the home you've been searching for is already within you?
In this episode, we explore the nurturing energy of the Cancer New Moon through the lens of nervous system healing, self-mothering, and perimenopause.
If you've been feeling emotionally overwhelmed, constantly caring for others, or longing to reconnect with yourself, this conversation offers gentle guidance to help you slow down, create healthy boundaries, and find safety within your own body.
You'll discover:
How the Cancer New Moon supports emotional...Heart Led Business: The Overlooked Cost of Staying Hidden (Part 4 Ep.75)
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What if the greatest cost of hiding isn't the business you never build but the life you never fully express?
In this episode, we explore the often-overlooked cost of staying invisible. While fear of being seen is something many entrepreneurs talk about, we rarely consider what happens when we continually silence our gifts, our creativity, and the unique way life wants to express itself through us.
Through the lens of nervous system regulation, polyvagal theory, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and lived experience, we unpack why visibility can feel so...
Capricorn Full Moon: Releasing The Burden Of Proving Your Worth (Ep.74)
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What if you didn't have to earn your rest, your worth, or your place in the world?
In this deeply nourishing episode, we explore the powerful energy of the Capricorn Full Moon and how it invites us to release the exhausting belief that our value comes from what we do rather than who we are.
If you've spent years being the strong one, holding everything together, caring for everyone else, or feeling like your worth is tied to your productivity, this conversation is your permission to soften.
...
Heart Led Business: The parts that keep you invisible in business (Part 3: Ep 73)
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Why do so many talented, heart-led entrepreneurs know exactly what they need to do in their business, yet still struggle to take action?
In this episode, Hannah Carr and Sarah King explore the hidden inner dynamics that can quietly sabotage your business growth, visibility, confidence, and income. Through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS), also known as Parts Work, they reveal why procrastination, perfectionism, self-doubt, people-pleasing, and fear of being seen are often protective strategies rather than personal flaws.
If you've ever found yourself endlessly preparing, overthinking, buying...
Heart Led Business: Reconnecting to What Matters with Jenna Choi (Part 2: Ep. 72)
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What happens when you have everything society tells you should make you happy, a successful career, a beautiful family, financial security and yet something still feels deeply out of alignment?
In this heartfelt conversation, Sarah sits down with Jenna Troy, former corporate lawyer, mother, yoga teacher, coach, and founder of La Vie Connected, to explore what it means to listen to the quiet signals from within before they become impossible to ignore.
Jenna shares her journey from burnout, perfectionism, and disconnection to creating a slower, more intentional life centred...
Gemini New Moon: Conscious Communication, Phone Use & the Midlife Nervous System (Ep.71)
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In this Gemini New Moon episode, we explore the powerful connection between communication, the nervous system, breathwork, and the stories that shape our reality.
Gemini, ruled by Mercury, invites us to become more conscious of how we communicate, not only with others, but with ourselves. Together, we dive into the hidden narratives, protective patterns, and nervous system responses that influence our relationships, wellbeing, and daily choices.
This episode explores how childhood adaptations, parts work, and unconscious beliefs can continue to drive our thoughts, behaviours, and communication patterns in adulthood...
Heart Led Business: From Corporate to Soul-Led, 5 Essential Tips for Women (Part 1. Ep.70)
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Episode 1 of our 5-Part Soul-Led Business Series
Have you been feeling the call to create something more meaningful with your life and work? Perhaps you're working in a corporate role, balancing a busy career, or already running a wellness business but feeling ready for your next level of expansion.
In this first episode, Sarah and Hannah share their personal journeys from traditional careers into heart-led businesses and reveal the five essential foundations that help women successfully transition into purpose-driven work without burning out.
...
Sagittarius Full Moon🌕, Outgrow Your Old Self 🔥 & Astrology 2026 (Ep.69)
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The Sagittarius Full Moon arrives with powerful energy around truth, expansion, nervous system healing, and releasing the identities we’ve outgrown.
In this episode, we explore the spiritual and emotional themes of the Sagittarius Full Moon through a trauma informed, somatic healing lens — grounding astrology into the body, the nervous system, and real life.
This isn’t about perfection or “high vibe” spirituality. It’s about learning how to stay connected to yourself whilst life shifts around you.
We’ll explore:
✨ The emotional themes of the Sagittarius Full...
From Fear to Faith – A Course in Miracles Conversation You Need to Hear (Ep. 68)
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In this deeply spiritual and thought-provoking episode, Hannah is joined by close friend and Healing Portal member Stacey Guyon to explore the life-changing teachings of A Course in Miracles.
Together, they share their personal experiences studying the famous spiritual text over the past 9 months, discussing themes of forgiveness, fear, ego, love, healing, meditation, spirituality, self-discovery, and inner peace.
They dive into the mysterious origins of A Course in Miracles, why the book has been called both a spiritual masterpiece and controversial New Age philosophy, and how its teachings can...
Taurus New Moon - Pleasure Hormones and Embodied Abundance (Ep 67)
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In this deeply grounding episode, we gather under the energy of the New Moon in Taurus, a moon that invites us to slow down, soften, and reconnect with what truly matters.
Exploring the themes of pleasure, embodiment, nervous system regulation, safety, self-worth, and sustainable abundance through a holistic and trauma-informed lens. Together, we journey into the medicine of Taurus season: the kind of healing that lives not only in the mind or spirit, but deeply within the body.
This episode is an invitation to pause, breathe, and reconnect with...
6 years in business & 6 offers for you (Ep.66)
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Thank you for being with us for 6 years, we are celebrating our business Birthday with 6 offers over 6 days.
Offer 1: 15% off Ceremonial Grade Cacao until 16/05 use code 'save15' here:
https://www.holistichealthcollective.co.uk/product/organic-cacao/
If you are a new customer you can get 20% off your first order with code 'twenty'Â
Offer 2: Save 50% on our natural sweetener for cacao called cacao activator until 16/05, use code 'save50" here:Â
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Offer 3: ...
Overcoming People Pleasing (Ep.65)
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This week we dive deep into the hidden cost of people-pleasing, the guilt, anxiety, and self-abandonment that so many women silently carry.
From saying yes when your body is screaming no, to the deeper nervous system patterns behind fawning and approval-seeking, this solo episode explores why people-pleasing happens, how it impacts our relationships and wellbeing, and what it really takes to step into sovereignty.
Hannah shares personal stories, insights from a recent women’s circle, practical boundary-setting tools, nervous system regulation techniques, and compassionate guidance for anyone ready to sto...
Scorpio Full Moon Activation: Control, Cycles & Transformation (Ep.64)
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Step into the transformative energy of the Scorpio Full Moon meeting the Beltane portal, a potent fusion of water and fire inviting deep emotional alchemy.
In this episode, we explore the difference between coping and true healing through a trauma-informed lens. You’ll be guided into the depths of your inner world, uncovering hidden patterns, emotional truths, and the subtle ways your nervous system shapes your reality.
We dive into:
Shadow work and emotional honestyNervous system regulation—beyond the buzzwordsControl, power, and trauma responsesCyclical wisdom, hormones, and embodimentPractical soma...Beltane incoming 1st May & how to celebrate (Ep 63)
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What happens when you step away from the noise… and into the woods?
In this episode we explore the powerful impact of reconnecting with nature and why it’s becoming essential in today’s fast-paced, tech-heavy world.
We share how spending more time outdoors is transforming our health, creativity, and business, and introduce the ancient practice of living in tune with the seasons through the Wheel of the Year. With Beltane approaching, we dive into its meaning, energy, and how you can celebrate this potent time of fire, fertility, and ne...
Aries New Moon- Happy New Year (Ep.62)
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🌑 Aries New Moon: Aligned Action Without Burnout
Feeling the pressure to do more, faster?Â
This Aries New Moon invites a different approach, courageous action that feels safe in your body.
In this episode, we explore how to work with this powerful new beginning through somatic healing, nervous system regulation, and aligned goal setting, so you can move towards your desires without burnout.
✨ Learn how to:
Take action without overwhelmBreak cycles of overdrive & exhaustionWork with fire energy in a grounded wayManifest goals...Libra Full Moon - Undoing nervous system patterns that create imbalance (Ep.61)
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Feeling more emotional, overwhelmed, or sensitive than usual? This Libra Full Moon is illuminating more than just your feelings, it’s revealing the patterns living in your nervous system.
In this episode, we explore the Libra Full Moon through a trauma-informed, somatic lens, helping you understand why certain thoughts, emotions, and body sensations are rising right now—and how to meet them with safety instead of resistance.
You’ll learn how lunar cycles influence your nervous system, emotional regulation, and relationship patterns, and how to...
Pisces New Moon: True Integration & Spiritual Lessons (Ep: 60)
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✨ Feeling emotional, foggy or deeply reflective lately?
The Pisces New Moon marks the closing chapter of the astrological year, a powerful moment to pause before a new cycle begins.
Instead of rushing into fresh intentions, this moon invites us to slow down, reflect and integrate the wisdom of the past year.
In this episode, Sarah explores the deeper meaning of the Pisces New Moon through a trauma-informed lens, explaining why healing and growth happen not just through insight, but through giving the bod...
Living joyfully is your purpose (Ep.59)
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In this week’s episode of the Holistic Health Sisters Podcast, Hannah explores a powerful and often overlooked truth: living joyfully is your purpose.
Inspired by the book Soul Mastery by Sonya Choquette, Hannah reflects on how easy it is for adults to get caught up in responsibilities, routines, and endless to-do lists and how this can slowly disconnect us from joy.
This episode is a gentle reminder that joy isn’t something we earn once everything is done. It’s something we are meant to exp...
Virgo Lunar Eclipse Portal: Gut Healing, Perimenopause & Remembering You Are Already Whole (Ep.58)
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In this episode, we’re stepping into the healing portal of the Virgo Lunar Eclipse a powerful threshold moment of release, purification, and nervous system recalibration.
This isn’t about manifesting more.
This is about simplifying. Softening. Letting go of what your body is no longer willing to carry.
We reflect on the recent solar eclipse in Aquarius (February 17th) and explore what’s shifted internally and externally since then personally and collectively. Eclipses accelerate timelines. They illuminate what can no longer be bypassed.
And with V...
How Challenge Can Be Easy With Mindset, Confidence & Self-Leadership with Denise Parpworth (Ep. 57)
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This week on the podcast, we are joined by the incredible Denise Parpworth therapeutic counsellor, mother of three, grandmother, business owner, and one of the most quietly powerful women we know.
Hannah met Denise through our women’s circles, and after one very inspiring conversation we knew I had to invite her onto the podcast.
Why?
Because Denise speaks about things many of us experience as hard such as single motherhood, earning income alone, building businesses, childbirth, leaving home at 15 and she describes them as… easy...
Aquarius New Moon Solar Eclipse: Birthing the New Earth (Ep.56)
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This New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aquarius (Tuesday 17th February) opens a powerful eclipse portal. Eclipses are accelerators. They shift timelines, reveal truths, interrupt patterns, and invite rapid endings or unexpected openings.
But this one?
It’s not about force.
It’s about surrender.
In this episode, I guide you through:
✨ What a solar eclipse really represents (and why it only happens on a New Moon)
✨ The deeper meaning of Aquarius energy, visionary, humanitarian, revolutionary
✨ Why this eclipse at 28° Aquarius signals completion and course corr...
Our Beginner-Friendly Silent Retreat Experience (Ep.55)
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In this episode, sisters Hannah and Sarah explore why so many of us are feeling deeply burnt out, especially in winter, and why silence might be the most accessible, powerful (and completely free) tool we’re overlooking.
Fresh back from co-hosting a beginner-friendly silent retreat in Kent, the sisters share what really happens when you slow down, put your phone away, and allow yourself to rest deeply. From mindful eating and nervous system regulation, to shared rooms, sound baths, fire rituals, and the unexpected ease of silence, this episode is a ge...
Heart Healing with the Leo Full Moon (Ep. 54)
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In this deeply nourishing Leo Full Moon episode, we explore the emotional, physical, and spiritual medicine available through lunar cycles, seasonal wisdom, and trauma-informed somatic awareness.
This full moon arrives within Aquarius season, illuminating themes of power, embodiment, emotional intelligence, rest, and self-expression particularly for women navigating perimenopause, hormonal shifts, identity changes, and nervous system healing.
We journey through folklore, ancestral wisdom, planetary influences, body-based insights, and cyclical tracking, weaving together ancient knowledge with modern somatic practices. This episode offers reflection, grounding, empowerment, and gentle inquiry to support your n...
