Deep Currents

Amber Hawken
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Deep Currents are the cause and effect of life itself. In an era when humanity yearns for genuine connection, and the evolving face of damaging powers enforces separateness, burdening a generation poised for change, Deep Currents explores the enriching world of Story to reconnect us with what is real. Deep Currents believes that the quality of our relationships—with ourselves, others, Spirit, and the natural world—shapes our human experience. For millennia, cultures have recognised these connections as central to existence. Hosted by Amber Hawken, an integrated Therapist, Rites of Passage facilitator, Ceremonialist, and Mother, the podcast delves into raw experiential and profoundly personal wisdom. It features voices from various fields, including Indigenous Wisdom Keepers, Spiritual guides, Mystics, Therapists, Doctors, Scientists, and modern Philosophers. Each guest brings not only their embodied expertise but also their personal life—their pains, peaks, and pivotal moments. These stories reflect how their unique experiences move within them, shaping their perspectives, paths, and practices. By deeply listening to the intricacies of others' stories, we engage with the resonant waves of collective history and universal truths, discovering how their personal stories touch ours and enrich our own, bringing us close once again. The podcast aims to revive the heart, challenge conventional narratives that have forgotten our nature, and reconnect us through stories that send ripples through the core of our shared humanity.

  1. 25/09/2024

    Adam Kavanagh: The Primal Switch

    Do you know who you are in the face of danger? Adam Kavanagh is an Australian survivalist who has dedicated much of the last decade to getting back to basics and living off the land in the remote areas of northern Australia. Initially triggered by a health crisis and then evolving into a way he chose to live, his deep connection to nature has profoundly shaped his understanding of bushcraft and survival skills.  Adam was invited to learn and hang out with the Indigenous communities of Doomagee, where he spent nearly five years living solo, aside from the times he spent with the locals. This experience deepened his understanding of what it truly means to live in harmony with the elements and natural cycles, the necessity to know who you are in the face of a wild beast, to hunt and live off the land while embracing the unpredictability of Mother Nature. He gained national and international recognition as a participant on the reality show Naked and Afraid, describing the experience as life-changing. Surviving 21 days in the harsh conditions of the African desert tested his limits and showcased his resilience. Adam later returned for Naked and Afraid XL, where he faced new challenges in the Colombian badlands, further demonstrating the importance of teamwork and resourcefulness in survival situations. In addition to his television experiences, Adam leads guided tours into the bush, taking participants on immersive experiences that reconnect them with nature. These tours are transformative; many participants find themselves challenged physically and mentally in ways they never expected. Stepping outside their comfort zones, they learn vital survival skills while discovering their own resilience and strength. The experience often leads to profound personal growth, fostering a deeper appreciation for the natural world and a sense of community among participants. Kavanagh's approach to survival emphasises mental toughness, adaptability, and the significance of community. He believes that survival is as much a psychological challenge as it is a physical one.  In This Episode We Talk About: ✹ Adam's journey through the natural tendency toward depression ✹ His experience with thyroid issues and the steps he took for natural healing ✹ The full circle of leaving the mines and the path that brought him back for now ✹ The crucial importance of knowing who you are when facing a threat ✹ The most vital survival skill and why it stands out ✹The primal 'switch' that nature can activate within us ✹ How this dormant switch often reveals itself in men ✹ The transformative impact of facing life-and-death situations on a man's sense of self and personal power ✹ Adam's experience with identity destruction on national television and the unexpected gift it brought ✹ The significance of 40 days and 40 nights of fasting, leading to a re-feeding experience that resulted in psychosis and his insights from seeing 'the other side of the curtain' ✹ The development of intuition and its importance in survival.

    1h 22m

  2. 29/08/2024

    Deep Currents | Reviving Sacred Birth w. Michelle Palasia

    Michelle Palasia is the first guest on Deep Currents for a very good reason. Deep Currents is all about the stories that connect us and the wisdom that helps us remember who we are and what we are. From my 12 years immersed in Rites of Passage work, I know how babies are born—including the mother's state, the birth itself, and the care of both mother and baby in the early years—shapes the rest of their lives. In the creation of life, the connection to the core of our Spirit is either nurtured or fractured. This connection is key to our capacity for wholeness, intimacy, relationships, joy, pleasure, and a sense of belonging. The wounds we see in our hearts and humanity often stem from power structures that put self-interest above communal well-being. These structures are driven by those who seek personal gain at any cost. As an expression of this mindset, colonisation has caused deep fractures in our societies and cultures. When cultures are destroyed by invasion, theft, manipulation, and dominance, the sacred rites, traditions, and values that connect us to ourselves, each other, the natural world, and Life's greater intelligence are lost. As a result, people become disoriented and disconnected. The tradition of birth is one of those that has been lost. In many Indigenous cultures, birth is a ceremony central to the mother's innate wisdom and her natural ability to bring her baby into the world, listen to her baby, and be the authority over her own body and birth. It represents a transition of death and rebirth, where the maiden is left behind, and a deep sense of power is activated. Growing a human without outsourcing decisions, having well-being and authority outside of herself, and birthing her baby undisturbed initiates the mother into this activation. In This Episode We Talk About: ✹ The energetics and patterns of abusers, on a micro and macro level, in relationships, communities, cultures and countries. ✹ Michelle's path from the shadows of abuse in a relationship with her two children. ✹ How she left one day with her beautiful sons, a bag of clothes prompted by a deep knowing that it was time. ✹ The reality of how incredibly challenging it is to leave a relationship where abuse is present, particularly if it has slowly increased over time. ✹ The birth of Michelle's sons, how she was silenced, and how she moved through this in menopause. ✹ Why Michelle chose to step away from supporting Birth in hospitals. ✹ The statistics of intervention in Birth and the consequence on Baby, Mother and family. ✹ Specific examples of disrespect, abuse, coercion and neglect of Mothers, partners and babies in the hospital system. ✹ Some reflection on colonisation and its role in systemic control of Mothers and women and the ripple effect on a person's capacity for wholeness.  ✹ Freebirth and why Michelle chooses this path in her work with Birth. ✹ Michelle as a guest at Alchemy Rites October 3rd-6th 2024   Support for Women experiencing abuse: ⟶ International Helpline for Domestic Violence Website: DomesticShelters.org Description: While not a single global helpline, this resource provides a directory of domestic violence services worldwide, including crisis hotlines and support services in various countries. ⟶ The Global Network of Women's Shelters (GNWS) Website: GNWS.org Description: A network connecting various women's shelters and support services around the world. They provide information and resources on how to find help in different countries. In Australia ⟶ 1800RESPECT Website: 1800RESPECT.org.au Phone: 1800 737 732 Description: Provides 24/7 support, information, and resources for people impacted by sexual assault, domestic or family violence. ⟶ Lifeline Australia Website: Lifeline.org.au Phone: 13 11 14 Description: Offers crisis support and suicide prevention services, including help for those experiencing domestic violence. ⟶ Safe Steps Family Violence Response Centre Website: safesteps.org.au Phone: 1800 015 188 Description: Provides 24/7 crisis support, emergency accommodation, and practical support for women and children experiencing family violence.

    2 hr

  3. 23/08/2024

    55 Deep Currents | Amber Hawken

    After a three-year break from this podcast, it's back. It has a different name, a more refined intention, and is still connected to the art of storytelling. I touch on how currents, vibrations, and resonance are the cause and effect of life itself, taking you on a short journey from the beginning of time. I speak to the power of story and how it has shaped history and our culture. I also discuss how currents, connections, and stories can support us in returning to a deep place of belonging.  I share a little about my journey of being smashed into a million pieces by Motherhood and what the future looks like (or doesn't) for my work and creative endeavours.  I look forward to sharing the next episodes soon.  Amber

    24 min

  4. 18/06/2021

    Adam Kavanagh, The Primal Approach: Depression, Healing and Wellbeing in the Outback

    The primal approach is about doing less, better. This podcast is the epitome of an example of organic self-discovery. Adam shares how it was one foot in front of the other for him. Listening to the big nudges and following the subtle pulls of what felt right for him and of course, moving towards what was both confronting but liberating. The adjective primal describes something that's essential or basic, like the primal urge to protect yourself and your family from harm. The Latin root of primal is primus, which means first. If your friend talks about his primal self, he means the most basic, important part of who he is. Adam is a living breathing experiment of what it looks and feels like when we strip everything back to the basics. "After lots of reading, research and curiosity, I was lucky enough to stumble across the caveman diet (paleo). Within a few weeks of starting to eat a more nutrient rich wholefood diet, my health dramatically improved. My thyroid was healing. As I started to improve more and more, I realised getting back to basics and focusing on the simple things were really important for me. Kicking my shoes off and getting barefoot has been powerful. Working in the mines gave me a high paying job but I was miserable. Shift work and all-nighters were shitty. It was a scary decision, but I quit my job to travel Australia. I had zero plans but to get back into nature and just immerse myself into some beautiful scenery and see where the road would take me." – Adam Kavanagh Some of the points we weave in and out of include: How long Adam hid his symptoms of food intolerances, depression, anxiety attacks and everything else that came with hyperthyroidism. The doctors' suggestions for a *solution* that lead him to shifting to a paleo diet. Adam's inner process for leaving the mines: his fears, hesitations, conditioning and action plan. His journey to Africa that was a strategy for his wellbeing and ultimately supported his decision to leaves the mines. What it was like to meet the locals, community and be invited into the indigenous community in outback Australia. His step-by-step process to stripping things back to as clean and simple as possible and the improvement in his wellbeing. What it's like to eat and live off the land using indigenous tracking techniques, a bow and arrow and fire pit cooking. His three-week experience of being on the reality TV show, Naked and Afraid where he was dropped in the middle of no man's land in a part of Africa with a woman he'd never met, naked and had to survive without assistance for three weeks. How he survived one of his most confronting encounters in the outback including being ripped up by a wild boar and collecting honey from killer bees. What he believes is the most important skill of all for surviving the outback. What he learned from the land and the indigenous friends he made who now feel like family to him. What he's now doing (taking people to have bush experiences, working with fire making and re-wilding). You can listen along here You can listen along here Contact Adam and find out more about this legend in these places: Website: https://adamkavanagh.com.au/ Instagram: @adam_kavanagh_ The Amber Hawken Podcast is available to subscribe to on your chosen platform  - iTunes, Spotify, Libsyn - if it feels good for you, we always love a review of the show. Grateful in advance and thanks for listening.  Hugs, Ambs

    1h 23m

  5. 05/03/2021

    Laura Corcoran | Contradictions of Psychology and Giving The Power Back To The Person

    Psychology, embodiment and toxic relationships... What a subtitle, eh? Let me begin with a little appreciation for your patience. It's been a minute between podcasts as they draw the short straw when I'm elbow deep in projects. I can assure you, this is worth it.  Laura Corcoran is a Holistic Psychologist. Her 10 years of experience in the field range from forensic, mental health, and addictions primarily. She's also an incredibly honest, raw, intelligent, kind woman and a Mum of "two light beams", as she puts it.   This episode is vast in its topic and while it began with the contradictions around some of the principles of psychology, we weave in and out of rabbit holes that most people can relate to including repressed trauma emerging in the *stressful* now of life and toxic bonds in passion relationships.  Including: Trauma that we might not realise is trauma (it's not always how it seems). All of us have in our life experienced a time where what we were feeling was too much. Toxic bonded relationships we think are filled with passion but are bound together by pain. An embodied approach to healing and the basis  The basics that psychology can forget that make all the difference to long term change Sensory experiences, breath and movement for regulation and healing A ton more... This little quote is from one of Laura's influences, Peter Levine, and somewhat encompasses the point Laura unpacks around the dire need for embodied practices within psychology treatments.  "If frightening sensations are not given the time and attention they need to move through the body and resolve or dissolve, the individual will continue to be gripped by fear." - Peter A. Levine, Psychologist Listen here Find more of Laura here: IG @hersuccessfulmind Facebook The Amber Hawken Podcast is available to subscribe to on your chosen platform  - iTunes, Spotify, Libsyn - if it feels good for you, we always love a review of the show. Grateful in advance and thanks for listening.  Hugs, Ambs

    54 min

  6. 22/01/2021

    Is It Worth It? The Ceremony of Life | Amber Hawken

    Is it worth it?... I have a really rad friend called Benny and he developed an app based on vice optimisation. Basically, you check in the next day after getting on the booze and decided if it was worth it or not. This reflection practice, alone, has proven to support humans in staying in integrity and showing signs of increased happiness by up to 400%. I actually made that up that stat, but who hasn't been 400% more stoked when they've been able to pause and shift direction from an otherwise destructive path? Exactly. I borrowed my mate Benny's idea and held that question up with a magnifying glass to my life and business. My priority is joy, that's my measuring stick for 'worth it'. Because - joy. Usually, people look at the return and if it's shiny or powerful looking enough, they sacrifice the juiciness and don't question the burnout factor or the destruction of busyness. In fact, there's a virus nestled in the minds of humanity that if it had a voice it would say, "The more time and energy you put in, the more worth it, it is. Never mind the collateral damage to your mental health, wellbeing, relationships and happiness - it's the outcome that counts". It would also be in Trump's voice…..maybe, I don't know. But you get the idea. How often are we sacrificing happiness, joy, spaciousness, peace, love and orgasms for a cost we will pay 10 x time, at least, sometime in the future? I have been known to be guilty of such things and right now is a great time to pull things apart and examine what's working, honest and fulfilling and what's not. Below is a solo-session podcast talking you through the process. My anthem is - self-lead geniuses for the win. You being the genius, me leading you to the water and you drinking form your own genius pond. Have a listen here. There is a step by step on the page as well as a 12-minute breakdown of how to do it. I hope you enjoy looking at the inside of your life; the sacredness and ceremony of energetic  flow itself.  And while we are on the topic of things that are worth it. SuperCharged is almost full. All you fence-sitters, let's jump or you will miss it and it'll be sad and you'll have to turn to Ben and Jerry's half baked ice-cream to grieve the spot you didn't claim as yours. Proces: Stpe 1. Grab a piece of paper and split it into three columns.  Column 1 = list. Column 2 = is it worth it? Column 3 = action. Step 2. Write your list of the following in column 1 List all the things you do in a day, week, month and year. List the 10 relationships you invest the most time in. The three things you spend the most money on. List the 10 thoughts that ruminate through your mind.` The top five food/beverages you ingest. The beliefs you am currently choosing to believe about money, time, energy and making stuff happen! Step 3. Assess what is worth it or not and mark it with a Y or N. Step 4.  Next to the things that are an N, write what action you will take to either reduce the amount of time/energy/money invested or remove it altogether. Enjoy. There are no rules, adapt to your life. Be Honest. Apply for SuperCharged here. The Amber Hawken Podcast is available to subscribe to on your chosen platform  - iTunes, Spotify, Libsyn - if it feels good for you, we always love a review of the show. Grateful in advance and thanks for listening.  Hugs, Ambs

    17 min

  7. 27/11/2020

    51 | Sammi Jane | Awakening Womb Wisdom | The Amber Hawken Podcast

    Awaken your womb, awaken your creative potential... Sammi Jane is a deliciously wise woman who brings light to the consciousness of the womb and its wisdom - and no, you don't need a physical womb in order for this to make sense, matter or tap into the flow of life's infinite energy.  Sammi Jane is the creatrix behind www.thewombanspace.com, a trained exercise physiologist and holistic wellness coach. Sammi was initiated onto the shamanic path from Spirit through both kundalini and womb awakenings. We touch on What is "Womb Wisdom", and why would we want to 'awaken' it? How this wisdom and energy connection to creativity  What the male version of the womb is How can we know if we are blocked/disconnected from our womb Practices you can do to begin connecting with your womb consciousness The unification of masculine and feminine energy in relation to this wisdom And SO much more... Listen here   Find Sammi at Website Instagram Facebook and FREE Facebook Group click here. The Amber Hawken Podcast is available to subscribe to on your chosen platform  - iTunes, Spotify, Libsyn - if it feels good for you, we always love a review of the show. Grateful in advance and thanks for listening.  Hugs, Ambs

    46 min

  8. 07/10/2020

    Dr Jeremy Goldberg | Creative Integrity And How To Have Hard And Life Changing Conversations

    Hard conversations lead to radical transformation... Episode number 50 is a heart pounder. Not only is Dr Jeremy Goldberg one of my most favourite people on the planet, what he has to offer on the topic of creative grown, doing hard things, integrity and how to have hard conversations that matter is life-changing.  From Jeremy himself "My mission is to make kindness cool, empathy popular, and compassion commonplace.  As part of that purpose, I write articles, send emails, host retreats and workshops, give TEDx talks, coach clients, host a podcast, write books, and make spoken word poetry videos.  I am also active on Facebook and Instagram, leading an online tribe of more than 35,000 badass humans. If you want to learn more about me, click here for a shortlist of my favourite shit on the planet. My name is Jeremy, I founded Long Distance Love Bombs, and I am fucking stoked to meet you. " We touch on   The different stages of creative growth and how to know where you are What causes us to procrastinate and how to overcome it The difference between sharing from our wounds or our scars How expression from a place of pain can be done well How expression from your wounds can also be out of alignment Whether  you need to be 'healed' fully in order to teach another How to overcome the sense of obligation to produce as an entrepreneur Making it easy to have hard conversations that better your relationships and your life

    1h 31m
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Deep Currents are the cause and effect of life itself. In an era when humanity yearns for genuine connection, and the evolving face of damaging powers enforces separateness, burdening a generation poised for change, Deep Currents explores the enriching world of Story to reconnect us with what is real. Deep Currents believes that the quality of our relationships—with ourselves, others, Spirit, and the natural world—shapes our human experience. For millennia, cultures have recognised these connections as central to existence. Hosted by Amber Hawken, an integrated Therapist, Rites of Passage facilitator, Ceremonialist, and Mother, the podcast delves into raw experiential and profoundly personal wisdom. It features voices from various fields, including Indigenous Wisdom Keepers, Spiritual guides, Mystics, Therapists, Doctors, Scientists, and modern Philosophers. Each guest brings not only their embodied expertise but also their personal life—their pains, peaks, and pivotal moments. These stories reflect how their unique experiences move within them, shaping their perspectives, paths, and practices. By deeply listening to the intricacies of others' stories, we engage with the resonant waves of collective history and universal truths, discovering how their personal stories touch ours and enrich our own, bringing us close once again. The podcast aims to revive the heart, challenge conventional narratives that have forgotten our nature, and reconnect us through stories that send ripples through the core of our shared humanity.

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  • Creator
    Amber Hawken
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2024
  • Episodes
    57
  • Rating
    Explicit
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