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Welcome to our book club where we will be discussing Elizabeth Lesser's book Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow. Together we explore The Call of the Soul and connect with Elizabeths heart stories as well as stories people were open enough to share. One thing we picked up on from the first part of this book is in every experience we can ask ourselves "What does my soul need to learn from this?" and getting quiet enough to listen for the answers. There is so much here when it comes to The Pheonix Process and how if we can be exposed to the pain of life enough that no matter what we can rise from the ashes. Elizabeth is raw and real and shares her infidelities and how her pain helped her grow. As mothers we appreciated the section of the book on children and Elizabeths trials and tribulations with her own children as well as stories from friends and other that impacted her life. There is so much fear when it comes to death and even with birth. Here in this book we learn how to confront our own death, and Elizabeth even walks us through a meditation for dying. This meditation is here to create acceptance and love to help us live a more fulfilled life opposed to living in fear of our last days. Finally, we swim with The River of Change allowing life's lessons and signs to be here as guides in our daily lives.  We are grateful for Elizabeth and her open vulnerable heart and how she has been a beacon of light in the darkest moments of life. Join us at www.voicesrisingpress.com All music included is written and composed by Sarah Caton.

What is open-hearted living?  Together join us as we go deep into what it means to live a life from the heart. From presences to self-doubt, to unrealistic expectations, to compassion, to forgiveness. Today we get vulnerable and say the hard things, sharing our childhood wounding and how we are working towards healing our past to show up in the now. Sharing and saying the raw truth is what brings us closer to living an open-hearted life. Inro and outro music a Sarah Caton original. Read our blog's at www.voicesrisingpress.com Follow us on Facebook and Instagram!!!

The Healing Journey and Where to Begin? Healing is such a vast topic. Here on Voices Rising Podcast, we explore healing through different aspects of our lives. From healing through feeling, which can be a difficult thing. But healing our past pains is a segway towards mending the cracks in our hearts. Self-compassion, self-kindness, and softening are ways we can awaken healing in our lives. Speaking our truth can be a possible way to heal the wounds we place around our upper back and chronic neck pain. We have found the truth is an essential way towards healing. And rest and sleep are ways to replenish and allow healing in its deepest form. There are many tools we can access during our healing journey, like meditation, breath, thoughts, and many more self-help tools. With the help of mindfulness and Yoga, we can travel into healing our mind, body, and soul. Healing begins here at this moment wherever you are. We don’t have to wait for what we “think” is the right timing to begin our healing journey. It’s time to let go of waiting and walk towards healing for the highest good of our lives. We are here on this healing journey and know you are not alone in your pain. We are here with you. Love, Shelly and Sarah Head over to www.voicesrisingpress.com and read our blogs and subscribe on your favorite platform. Please leave us a five-star rating and a review. Come along our journey on Instagram and Facebook! All music composed and performed are Sarah Caton originals.

Since it was so good the first time, this week we are listening to Davina's interview again while we regroup for Season 3.  We welcome the lovely, wise and bright Davina Menduno in this heart-connected virtual meet-up from America to New Zealand where we get real and talk about life, writing, books and so much more!! In this episode, we dive into Davina’s story while she hitchhiked the high sea in her mid-thirties and explore the wisdom and life lessons sailing brought into Davina's life. We travel into her writing process and why she choose the self-publishing path. Davina shares how support helped make her dream of writing this book come true, and we learn how she chose the title of her book, her tagline, and when designing the book cover, not settling for less when she held a vision for its final look. Adventures of a Pirate Girl This is a swashbuckling (mostly) true story about a woman who decides to untangle her dual dreams of finding a partner and circumnavigating the globe. After many years of entwined devotion to her boat and her man-well... a string of men-she resolves to pursue one-half of the dream, the sailing one, despite the fact that her hormones are bubbling over with baby fever. Planning to hitchhike around the world, with almost no money she jumps on a yacht from North Carolina heading to the Caribbean. Pirate Girl is the Captain of her own life. She navigates with an internal compass that does not allow conventional fears or boundaries to restrict her movement or her mind. She searches her inner horizon through a feminist, sex positive, spiritual lens, making this deep and playful story a journey that will resonate and inspire all kinds of women-by land or by sea. Having avoided patriarchal indoctrination as best she could, Davina's education has been unconventional. Instead of the prescribed college degree followed by a steady job, she chose psychedelics; hardcore travel with very little money; deep dives into meditation; plenty of connections, relationships and love affairs; and a life on the sea. She got her captain's license and then, when her boat sank, she got a masters in fiberglass, carpentry, electrical and mechanics. Her sailing dreams led her to Waiheke Island, New Zealand where she is attempting to grow a small human into an evolved man. Envisioning the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible is what ignites her spirit, and through extensive reading she is studying up on how to make that future a reality. Together we can change our story! Sign on as crew at DavinaMenduno.com. Follow her at AdventuresofaPirateGirl on Facebook, or Adventures_of_a_Pirate_Girl on Instagram. Music by Sarah Caton

Join us as we interview Linda Strader, author and powerhouse of Summers of Fire and Uprooted. Linda shares her struggles and gains of being a woman fire fighter in the 70's. We learn how she overcame adversity and persevered in a time when women were not welcome.  Connect with this incredible woman and learn her story and what drove her to do what she felt called to do. Bio: Linda M. Strader Originally from Syracuse, New York, Ms. Strader moved to Prescott, Arizona with her family in 1972. In 1976, she became one of the first women hired on a U.S. Forest Service fire crew. Summers of Fire: A Memoir of Adventure, Love and Courage, was released on May 1st, 2018 by Bedazzled Ink Publishing. Her publishing history includes many web articles about writing memoir, her publishing and marketing experiences, and wildland firefighting. She has given talks on these topics to many clubs, including the American Association of University Women. Parade Magazine published an excerpt in 2018, and the PBS show Arizona Illustrated featured her segment “Wildland Firefighter,” in the fall of 2019. The prequel to Summers of Fire, Uprooted: A New Life In The Arizona Sun, was released by Bedazzled Ink Publishing on December 1st, 2021. Ms. Strader holds two degrees: a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, and a Masters in planning, from the University of Arizona. In addition to writing, she is a landscape architect, certified arborist, and watercolor artist. She currently lives in the same area where her Forest Service career began. [email protected] Blog address: https://summersoffirebook.blogspot.com/ Facebook author page: https://www.facebook.com/LindaStraderauthor Amazon US: Summers of Fire: A Memoir of Adventure, Love, and Courage Uprooted: A New Life in the Arizona Sun Amazon UK: Summers of Fire: A Memoir of Adventure, Love, and Courage Uprooted: A New Life in the Arizona Sun Barnes and Noble: Summers of Fire: A Memoir of Adventure, Love, and Courage Uprooted: A New Life in the Arizona Sun Learn more about Sarah and Shelly at www.voicesrisingpress.com

In this episode we'll explore some of the hurdles that memoir writers face, both internal and external, in getting our books out of our imaginations on into the hands of readers at home. We are going to release our inner lion of bravery, face our inner shame, and fully dive into the nitty gritty details of putting these raw, vulnerable stories out for the whole world to read! What's keeping you from writing and/or publishing your memoir?  Are you worried about blowback from friends and family members? What about legal ramifications? If you’ve always wanted to write your story but are wondering “What if I get sued?” or, “How can I cover my a$$?” then this podcast is especially for you! In addition to sharing nuggets of publishing wisdom learned along the way, Shelly and Sarah open up to discuss other things that can stand in the way of memoir writing—like fear of being good enough and even the fear of getting everything you've ever wanted. What is standing in your way?

In Awaken You, yogi and storyteller Shelly Bond offers tangible ways of waking up to life. Part guide and part memoir, Shelly shares her journey of self-doubt to self-reflection and finally accepting love. With an authentic voice, she combats the inner critique as a way toward awakening to life flaws and all. Inside this soulful guide, are enlightened echoes of pain, loss, mending a broken marriage, parenting, acceptance, healing, compassion, forgiveness and more. Shelly Bond is a writer, artist, and yoga instructor who teaches weekly classes, workshops and retreats online. She is the founder of Yoga Bliss with Shelly, where she brings yoga, meditation and healing into your home. She is also a Reiki Practitioner and co-founder of Voices Rising Press. She lives in Colorful Colorado with her adventurous husband and three ginger children. Find her on Instagram @shellylovely, Facebook or her podcast, Voices Rising Podcast. Read her blog at voicesrisingpress.com. Being a conscious parent is more than a thought; it is a way of showing up for each and every child as the moment presents itself. The false perception of parenting tells us our children need to be a certain way; they need to look, act, think, behave, and test like everyone else, and if they don’t, we have failed in the parenting realm. These lies we have been fooled into believing are only putting more separation between parents and children. We can stop the destruction now. With the help of unconditional love, compassion, and forgiveness, we can carve a new path for how we will parent from this moment moving forward. Showing up and being a conscious parent is being open to what children are teaching us. Be open to how we can grow from them and with them, and work together to understand how each individual works.  Today is a beautiful day to be alive. There is no better moment than this one; there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, except this moment here and now. Inhale a deep breath, pause in between the thoughts and thank yourself for showing up, followed by a sigh of relief on the exhale. There is a hero within us all, and dreams do come true when you hold them in your heart with belief, no matter what. I am inspired with love to share with you no matter your circumstances or life experiences. With help, we can change seemingly unchangeable events in our lives. How, you ask? With the power of thought and intention, linked with the power of loving and believing in yourself again. Or for the very first time ever. Speaking used to be my worst enemy. I held fear of failure and purpose may as well have been on another planet beyond our solar system. Yet, my journey and these words are more significant than fear. Allowing myself to be creative is a life with the possibility of purpose. No matter the fear, I still take the step; I still write the words even when it’s scary. I write when my heart feels like exploding out of my chest when words become constricting. Fear has never gotten me anywhere but down, yet purpose keeps me afloat.

Today our author interview features the lively and personable Allison K. Williams. She recounts her fascinating experiences with writing, publication, rejection and everything in between. Her wisdom spans many fields (including circus performing!) and she has a heap of helpful for advice for anyone interested in writing and/or editing their work and getting published. Find her online at : www.sevendrafts.com www.rebirthyourbook.com Instagram and Twitter @guerillamemoir

We all have ups and downs, the biggest thing we can do for ourselves is to show us as we are. When we can take life one step at a time is when we have accomplished more than we know. In this brand new episode Shelly shares from her book Awaken You From Pain to Healing a Woman's Way of Waking Up to Her life and reflects. From the practice of waking up to conscious parenting and waking up to our thoughts. No matter where you are in your life and where you want to go anything is possible. When we tune into what we are thinking and focusing on we can realize where our actions have been taking us.  Life is constantly here giving us lessons and leading the way for us, only when we are open to it. Join in and delve heart to heart and perhaps you can tune into what it really is you are needing and wanting in your life. With great gratitude we are here with you, you are not alone. www.voicesrisinpress.com Go to Amazon and browse Awaken You Shelly Bond where you can purchase your personal copy today!!! [email protected] Follow us on Facebook and Instagram @voicesrisingpress

Welcome to a brand-new episode with Shelly! I am inspired to talk about the hard things and also share a reading from my newest publication Awaken You From Pain to Healing a Womans Way of Waking Up to Her Life. Now available in paperback and Kindel on Amazon!!!! It has been a rough week and there are so many things that keep telling me to give up and that its too hard. But here I am showing up and saying the things. Because talking about our problems is what helps us move and grow from them. I hope this short little show will bring you a little hope into your day. And I am here with you saying don't give up on yourself because you are worth the extra time, energy, money and emotional and physical heartache that it takes to keep going.  I am sending love and light to all of our Friends! Love, Shelly Join us at www.voicesrisingpress.com and subscribe to this podcast and please share!!! 

In today’s episode we talk about doing the hard things including launching Shelly’s new book Awaken You (now available on Amazon)! Self publishing comes along with a whole set of massive hurdles and confusing steps with no clear guidance from anyone on how to do it. On this publishing journey we’ve had to research and find our own answers to so many questions like: How do you upload your book to all the platforms, and alter it for each different format? What about doing an ebook or audiobook? How can you promote and generate buzz for your newly published book? What comes after you’re published? How can you get past the waves of self-doubt and insecurity to feel confident in being an author and sharing your vulnerable truth? Even if you don’t plan to self-publish anytime soon here’s an inside look at what authors go through to get their books out to the world along with plenty of tips how to keep going when things get rough. (And there's a blanket avalanche, oh my!!)

Welcome to a brand-new episode where we talk about something near and dear to us, dreamwork. Dreaming… We all do it occasionally. Sometimes we remember our dreams and others we dream of nothing. And then there are the unforgettable nightmares. What do they all mean? What if we could utilize our dream time to help us in our daily lives? In this episode we share different ways you can set yourself up for a successful dream practice. From your sleep sanctuary, to the thoughts you think before bed, to what you indulge on before the hours before rest time. We learn how journaling can be a strong practice in helping us remember our dreams. With the help of setting intentions, we can bring a dream practice to life and allow our dreams to be a guiding force in our lives. And this even pertains to those nasty nightmares. What if nightmares are arrive as a sign post to help us wake up to our lives. There are so many yummy details in this weeks episode, and you don't want to miss it! We are grateful you are here showing up with us. Please share this episode and head over to iTunes and leave us a five-star review and leave us a rating. Doing so will help us be heard to a broader audience so we can continue to help share our messages.  Voices Rising Press  All music is Sarah Caton originals.