Wild Women Wisdom with Stella Mac Stella Mac

Rachel Bavis is a certified Intentional Creativity© teacher and child welfare attorney working with organizations, individuals, and youth to help them heal, rejuvenate, and access their inner healer to thrive.  Whimsy and humor are in her tool kit, along with a paintbrush, owl rocks, and chocolate!  She believes creativity and play are at the heart of knowing our own wisdom.  You can find her at rachelbavis.com where you can join her Healing the Healer community and gain access to many of her wisdom-filled free videos, gratitude journals, and coloring books.
Points Covered in Episode:
Self-care
Daily rituals
The journey of entrepreneurship
Using creativity for healing
PTSD and Secondary Trauma

Shelby Frago is a private practice psychotherapist, life coach, and working artist living in the Pacific Northwest. But as you get to know her better you will discover her as a Heart Holder, Grief Tender, a Soul Listener, and a Creative Catalyst (aka a Sparkle Pirate who instigates “Intrepid Joy” wherever she can!
She is now on a mission to help other women tap into their creativity to solve problems, make meaning and inspire women of all ages, stages, and walks of life to claim the deepest and most effortless nourishment possible.
Her piece of the Red Thread is to help her beloveds traverse and transcend the wily wilderness of grief and get to the other side of “Re-membering themselves.”  Excited to open up an honest and juicy conversation about the depth and breadth of loss (in ALL shapes and sizes), As a self-identified, life-long Shadow and Light tracker, Shelby seeks to root out what is missing and bring it back into the fold. She believes the jewels live in the shadow waiting to be mined.
Points Covered in Episode:
The importance of a creative legacy
Relational responsibility
Moving through grief and loss
Creative practices

Semerit Strachan, MD, is a student and faculty member at the Cultural Wellness Center in South Minneapolis, MN. She has been the Director of Medicine at the Center since its beginning in 1996 and is the Grio of the Medicine of Transformation.
Her expertise lies in creating a space for the human spirit in the medical encounter, in using culture as a resource in health and healing, and in teaching how to access inner resources to change one’s physiology or disease process. Through “what is my body really trying to tell me?” — an inquiry process in images and words—she teaches the symbolic language of the Body.
Dr. Semerit is a writer, poet, and artist. She is a Color of Woman graduate. She has been trained as a Feminine Power Coach and Facilitator. She is a native of Haiti, married to Donald, and mother to Ariele. And my Birthday Sis – welcome Semerit I’m so happy to be in conversation with you today.Points Covered in Episode:
 
Ways to listen to our body wisdom
Being older and shifting focus
The importance of knowing your ancestry
The importance of liberation from your mother’s daughter and ways to do it
Listening to our intuition

Christine Arylo, MBA, is a women’s leadership advisor, transformational teacher, and best selling author who works with women to make shift happen – in the lives they lead, the work they do, and the impact they desire to make. Marrying 20 years of business experience with 15 years of feminine & yogic wisdom training, Arylo illuminates how to lead and live a different way, the "feminine way” - professionally successful, internally empowered, and personally sustainable and satisfying. Her programs on intuition, feminine power, and cultivating resilience, self-love and courage have reached over 35,000 students worldwide. A blogger and vlogger since 2007, Arylo now hosts the Feminine Power Time podcast. Christine is writing her fourth book: “Overwhelmed and Over It: Embrace Your Power to Stay Centered and Sustained in a Chaotic World.
 
Points Covered in this Episode:
 
Why it’s so important that we flow with the seasons and things we can do during the Equinox.
Why time is not something we need to let go of and why it’s not natural.
Our Comparison Queens
What to do in times of chaos and overwhelm.
Harmonic Defiance: How to understand harmony and use it to make choices.
Connection vs. belonging.

Today StellaMac shares the stage with herself! She riffs on what it’s been like to create a podcast, is she “good enough”, is this truly her passion and because she loves a good writing prompt she shares one with you as you move into 2020.
Points covered in this episode:
Writing exercise
What is “good enough”
Passion and discipline
Showing Up

Angela Hernandez is an Intentional Creativity Teacher, has her Doctor of Nursing and continued her education in holistic nursing to promote her understanding of alternative methods to be a more compassionate, knowledgeable practitioner. She also served in the American Military and has witnessed the devastating effects on women in the military as well as both men and women who have a suicide rate of 22 individuals per day and 1 in 4 women get assaulted in the military. In her work as an artist and teacher, she is working with women veterans, health care workers, and women who have suffered abuse and has seen the positive effect creativity has had with all of the people she is working with.
 
Points covered in this episode:
 
Power in balance and the impact it creates for women in the military
The power of creativity in recovery
The lives of Veterans
How we can help