Healing Our Kindred Spirits

Donna Gaudette
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Welcome to Healing Our Kindred Spirits — created and hosted by Donna Gaudette. This audio-only soulful podcast weaves together storytelling, intuitive wisdom, and heart-centered reflections for those navigating life’s transitions, spiritual awakenings, and the deeper questions of being human.   Through authentic conversations and personal insights, I hold space for the sensitive, the seekers, and the resilient souls who are ready to feel seen, heard, and supported on their journey.   Each episode is an invitation to slow down, reflect, and reconnect — with yourself, with your spirit, and with the shared threads that bind us all. Whether you’re here to find comfort, connection, explore spirituality, or simply feel less alone, you are in the right place. Be sure to look for journal prompts for each episode as well as an original guided meditation that further support you.   Because here, you are never too much — and you are always, ALWAYS enough.    Email: healingourkindredspirits@gmail.comPlease visit our Facebook Community group page, Healing Our Kindred Spirits Podcast.https://www.facebook.com/groups/201596883015602/?ref=share_group_link Our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572383604134Music:Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/hemlock/every-heartbeat

  1. Full Snow Moon Guided Meditation for Peace, Release, and Renewal

    6D AGO

    Full Snow Moon Guided Meditation for Peace, Release, and Renewal

    This Full Snow Moon guided meditation is a gentle February full moon meditation created to help you slow down, release what no longer serves you, and reconnect with calm, peace, and inner stillness.  The Snow Moon invites rest, reflection, compassion, and gratitude during this quiet season. You’ll be guided through gentle relaxation, grounding breathwork, moonlight visualization, and reflective moments for emotional healing and stress relief, with a soft invitation to journal afterward.  Whether you’re seeking a full moon meditation for peace or mindful renewal, this practice offers a calming space to pause and reset. Journal prompts for this meditation:  🌕 Full Snow Moon Journal Prompts 1.     Full Snow Moon Guided Meditation for Peace, Release, and Renewal ❄️ Reflection & Stillness What part of me feels tired right now—and what does it truly need?Where in my life am I being asked to slow down, rest, or simply be?What has winter taught me about patience, endurance, or quiet strength? 🌙 Release & Letting Go What am I ready to release under this Snow Moon—emotionally, mentally, or spiritually?What belief, pattern, or expectation no longer feels aligned with who I am becoming?If I could gently lay something down tonight, without guilt or explanation, what would it be? ✨ Intention & Inner Light What intention did I feel drawn to during the meditation—and why does it matter to me now?Where do I sense a quiet spark of hope or renewal beginning to form within me?How can I nurture myself with kindness as I move through the coming weeks? 🤍 Compassion, Peace & the World What does peace look like in my own life right now—not perfection, but peace?How can I practice gentleness toward myself when the world feels heavy or uncertain?What small act of kindness—toward myself or another—feels possible and meaningful right now? 🌱 Gratitude & Integration What am I grateful for in this season, even if it arrived in an unexpected way?What did I notice in my body, heart, or emotions during the meditation?What message, image, or feeling from the Snow Moon do I want to carry forward with me? You might want to close your journaling by placing a hand over your heart and writing a final sentence that begins with:   “Under this Snow Moon, I honor…”   Let it be simple. Let it be true.   We value your feedback. Send us a text. Please visit our Facebook Group page for resources and connecting with other kindred spirits. https://www.facebook.com/groups/201596883015602/?ref=share_group_link Please visit our Facebook Page. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572383604134 Please reach out via email at healingourkindredspirits@gmail.com

    10 min

  2. JAN 12

    Guided Meditation: Remember Your Why: How to Reconnect With Your Purpose When You Feel Lost

    Pause here and let the noise fall away. We created a gentle guided meditation that helps you slow down, drop the weight of expectation, and remember the quiet truth you’ve carried all along. If you’ve been moving fast, second-guessing yourself, or feeling behind, this is a soft return to the part of you that still knows your why. From that grounded calm, we guide you into a peaceful inner place—a sanctuary where you don’t have to perform or prove. There, you meet a wise or younger self, or a steady sense of knowing, and explore open questions designed to rise from the heart: what has always mattered to me, what pain do I feel called to ease, and when do I feel most like myself. This is mindful relaxation with purpose: a calm nervous system makes room for authentic clarity, self-compassion, and presence. As insight surfaces, you receive a simple anchor—a word, a symbol, a color, a feeling—that you can carry with you. We reinforce this with compassionate affirmations: you don’t have to become someone else to be meaningful, you don’t have to rush to be worthy, and your why has never left you. The session closes with a gentle return to breath and body, and an invitation to journal so your felt sense becomes language you can revisit on difficult days. Expect less pressure and more permission, less urgency and more alignment. If this practice supported you, share it with someone who needs a quiet reset, and subscribe so you can return to new meditations and reflections each week. Leave a review to let us know what symbol or phrase surfaced for you—what did your why whisper today? Journal Prompts:  Remembering Your Why   1. What Rose to the Surface After the meditation, what feeling, word, image, or memory stayed with me? What do I sense it was trying to remind me of? 2. When I Felt Most Like Myself Recall a time in your life when you felt aligned… grounded… quietly certain. What was I doing then? Who was I being? What mattered to me in that season? 3. What I Care About at My Core When I witness others in pain, struggle, or transition, what part of me wants to respond? What kind of healing, comfort, or presence feels natural to offer? 4. The Why Beneath the Roles If I set aside titles, expectations, and responsibilities… Who am I at the heart of who I am? What truth about myself feels steady, even as life changes? 5. What I’ve Never Truly Let Go Of Through all the seasons of my life, what longing, value, or calling has quietly stayed with me? What part of me is still asking to be honored? 6. A Message From My Deeper Self If the wiser, truer part of me could speak right now, what would it say about my path, my worth, or my becoming? 7. How My Why Is Evolving How might my why be asking to express itself differently in this season of my life? What no longer fits… and what feels like it’s gently calling forward? 8. One Gentle Step What is one small, compassionate way I can live in alignment with what I remembered today—without pressure, without perfection? We value your feedback. Send us a text. Please visit our Facebook Group page for resources and connecting with other kindred spirits. https://www.facebook.com/groups/201596883015602/?ref=share_group_link Please visit our Facebook Page. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572383604134 Please reach out via email at healingourkindredspirits@gmail.com

    12 min
  3. Remember Your Why: How to Reconnect With Your True Purpose

    JAN 12

    Remember Your Why: How to Reconnect With Your True Purpose

    Ever feel like the spark went quiet, even though the work kept going? We dive into the real difference between a steady, soul-level why and the many ways purpose changes shape across seasons, health, and circumstance. Through an honest personal story—from a career in healing and teaching, to sudden illness and identity loss, to an unexpected return through words—you’ll hear how remembering does not mean inventing something new. It means coming home to what has always been true. We unpack the language that often traps us: purpose as title, productivity as worth, outcomes as validation. Then we flip the script with practical tools for alignment that feel human, not performative. You’ll hear how a shy, introverted creator built an audio-only podcast with a budget mic and free software, launched on a difficult anniversary to rewrite a painful story, and learned to keep emotion in the final cut. Along the way we share gentle prompts to locate your why: what breaks your heart open, when you feel most like yourself, and who you were before the world asked you to be someone else. If survival mode has muted your dreams, this conversation offers relief and a path back: your why is constant; your purpose is flexible. Trade perfection for presence, metrics for meaning, and pressure for small, repeatable steps that honor your values. We close with listener-friendly resources, a guided meditation, and journaling prompts to help you integrate what resonates. Subscribe, share with someone who needs this reminder, and leave a review to tell us: where is your why asking you to go next? We value your feedback. Send us a text. Please visit our Facebook Group page for resources and connecting with other kindred spirits. https://www.facebook.com/groups/201596883015602/?ref=share_group_link Please visit our Facebook Page. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572383604134 Please reach out via email at healingourkindredspirits@gmail.com

    35 min
  4. Guided Meditation: Timeless Lessons of Reflection and Redemption from "A Christmas Carol"

    12/24/2025

    Guided Meditation: Timeless Lessons of Reflection and Redemption from "A Christmas Carol"

    What if reflection didn’t sting—and instead felt like relief? We share a guided meditation designed to soften regret, quiet self-judgment, and make room for small, honest choices that move your life in a kinder direction. Rooted in mindful breathing, a soothing body scan, and trauma-aware language, this session helps you loosen the grip of “should have” while building a felt sense of safety in the present. We start by reframing how to look at the past: awareness over blame, reflection over punishment, possibility over pressure. You’ll settle into steady breathwork, relax tense shoulders and jaw, and enter a neutral inner space where memories can rise without a courtroom of critics. From there, we acknowledge a powerful truth—at the time, you made the best decisions you could with what you knew and felt. That shift unlocks compassion and restores agency, turning experience into wisdom instead of evidence against you. As the practice unfolds, we ask gentle questions: what choice is available now that wasn’t before, and how might you choose with awareness rather than fear? A calm light symbolizes real possibility—not a perfect life, but an intentional one that integrates what you’ve learned. You’ll repeat affirmations that invite growth, release regret, and trust your capacity to evolve: I am allowed to grow beyond my past. I can choose differently moving forward. We close with blessings that honor your resilience and remind you that your story is still being written. If this meditation brings you ease or clarity, share it with a friend who needs a softer path forward, subscribe for more guided practices, and leave a review so others can find this space. Your life isn’t over. Your choices still matter. And you are always allowed to choose again. We value your feedback. Send us a text. Please visit our Facebook Group page for resources and connecting with other kindred spirits. https://www.facebook.com/groups/201596883015602/?ref=share_group_link Please visit our Facebook Page. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572383604134 Please reach out via email at healingourkindredspirits@gmail.com

    11 min
  5. Timeless Lessons of Reflection and Redemption from "A Christmas Carol"

    12/24/2025

    Timeless Lessons of Reflection and Redemption from "A Christmas Carol"

    What if a classic holiday story could rewire how you live the rest of the year? We revisit A Christmas Carol not as a seasonal tale, but as a map for personal change: moving from fear and isolation to compassion, accountability, and everyday presence. Donna Gardette guides a warm, reflective journey through Scrooge’s transformation and the “ghosts” we each carry—old regrets, present numbness, and the futures we’re quietly creating—so we can choose again with open eyes and a softer heart. We share why redemption is for the willing, not the perfect, and how spiritual awakening rarely arrives with grand gestures. Instead, it begins in small, honest moments: an apology offered, a habit softened, a hand extended. You’ll hear practical reflections on presence over presents, the ripple effect of our choices, and the sacred instant when a defended heart cracks just enough to let the light in. Along the way, we recognize that grief and gratitude can sit side by side, and that faith—however you define it—meets you exactly where you are. This conversation closes with simple, humane prompts: where can you bring more kindness, whom can you forgive including yourself, and what lingering memory needs release or closure? If you’ve ever felt like Scrooge in a hard season, or longed for a do-over that actually sticks, you’ll find language, courage, and calm to begin again. Subscribe for more gentle, original meditations and thoughtful reflections, share this episode with someone who needs a hopeful nudge, and leave a review to help kindred spirits find us. We value your feedback. Send us a text. Please visit our Facebook Group page for resources and connecting with other kindred spirits. https://www.facebook.com/groups/201596883015602/?ref=share_group_link Please visit our Facebook Page. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572383604134 Please reach out via email at healingourkindredspirits@gmail.com

    10 min
  6. Guided Meditation: Timeless Reflections from “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus”

    12/24/2025

    Guided Meditation: Timeless Reflections from “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus”

    What if belief didn’t vanish as you grew up—it just learned to whisper? We invite you into a slow, steady meditation that begins in the body and unfolds into a meeting with your inner child. Through grounding breath, a gentle body scan, and a vivid inner room, you’ll reconnect with the part of you that still trusts, asks brave questions, and wants permission to hope again. We start by creating safety in simple ways: unclenching the jaw, softening the shoulders, letting the breath find a natural rhythm. From that grounded base, we guide you to a familiar inner space where a letter waits to be written. Your younger self asks the questions that many adults keep quiet: Is it okay to still believe? Is there goodness in the world? Is it safe to hope again? Instead of quick fixes, we offer honest companionship—and then the pen passes to you. As you write back, you practice a kind of inner reparenting: reframing belief as quiet presence rather than certainty, and magic as meaning that changes form. We talk about how hope can be small and still be real, how permission heals more deeply than promises, and how receiving a simple gift—feeling, memory, or joy—completes a loop of self-trust. When the vision softens, we return to the body with a slower breath and a brighter center, carrying forward a soft commitment to speak gently to ourselves when hope feels fragile. If this meditation helps you remember something true, share it with someone who needs a little light today. Subscribe for more guided practices, leave a review to help others find the show, and tell us: what line did you write back to your inner child? We value your feedback. Send us a text. Please visit our Facebook Group page for resources and connecting with other kindred spirits. https://www.facebook.com/groups/201596883015602/?ref=share_group_link Please visit our Facebook Page. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572383604134 Please reach out via email at healingourkindredspirits@gmail.com

    9 min
  7. Finding Faith and Wonder Again: Timeless Reflections from “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus”

    12/24/2025

    Finding Faith and Wonder Again: Timeless Reflections from “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus”

    A single question from 1897 still echoes today: is there good in the world we can trust, even when we can’t see it? We return to Virginia O’Hanlon’s famous letter and the New York Sun’s enduring reply to explore how belief, wonder, and generosity shape a steadier, kinder life—far beyond the holiday season. We share the story’s roots and then move inward, tracing how faith shows up not as certainty, but as a quiet trust in love, connection, and the unseen support that meets us where we are. You’ll hear how growing up often trades imagination for control—and how that trade can quietly drain joy. We offer a different lens: faith as a gentle trust fall, a way to loosen our grip on outcomes without ignoring reality. Through personal reflection, we talk about the moments when logic ran out and a softer courage carried us forward. From there, we explore the communal side of belief—the “Santa spirit” as a living current of generosity, the kind of everyday kindness that makes the invisible visible. These aren’t grand gestures; they’re small acts that travel far, reminding us we are held and we can hold others too. Along the way, we pose simple, grounding questions to help you rekindle wonder: where have you stopped believing, and what would it feel like to believe again? What kindness recently restored your faith? If you’re ready for a slower breath and a steadier heart, this conversation offers practical ways to embody hope all year—turning symbols into practices and nostalgia into nourishment. For a deeper pause, don’t miss our gentle guided meditation companion that can be heard anytime. If this moved you, follow the show, share it with someone who needs a little wonder, and leave a review to help others find us. Your stories and reflections keep this community bright—what’s one small act of kindness you’ll carry forward this week? We value your feedback. Send us a text. Please visit our Facebook Group page for resources and connecting with other kindred spirits. https://www.facebook.com/groups/201596883015602/?ref=share_group_link Please visit our Facebook Page. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572383604134 Please reach out via email at healingourkindredspirits@gmail.com

    12 min
  8. Guided Meditation: Lessons from “Miracle on 34th Street”

    12/23/2025

    Guided Meditation: Lessons from “Miracle on 34th Street”

    Snow falls. The street is quiet. We invite you to step into that stillness, soften your breath, and feel the weight of the day slide off your shoulders as a gentler rhythm returns. This guided journey blends progressive relaxation with evocative winter imagery to help you release tension, quiet the mind, and remember the part of you that still believes in goodness, possibility, and small miracles. We start by finding a safe space and breathing in a way that signals calm to the body: slow inhales through the nose, soft exhales through the mouth. From feet to jaw, you’ll let the muscles unwind, then enter a scene washed in streetlamp gold and falling snow. The sensory detail isn’t just for mood; it creates a grounded container where you can notice your inner life without pressure. Within that calm, we meet a simple sign—believe—and use it as a doorway back to wonder. You’ll visualize a warm light around the heart, letting it expand as a felt experience of care, trust, and presence. With that warmth holding you, we invite a quiet intention: a dream set aside, a hope for healing, or a sense of awe you want to feel again. No forcing. No timelines. Just the phrase I choose to believe again, repeated softly until the body recognizes it as safe and true. Along the way, we work with affirmations that reconnect you to the goodness that surrounds you and the resilience alive within you. The closing moments help you reenter your day grounded and clear, carrying a portable calm you can return to at any time. If you need a reset that’s tender and practical, this meditation offers a path back to yourself—one breath, one step in the snow, one quiet choice to trust what you feel. Press play, breathe with us, and if it restores something you thought was lost, share it with a friend and leave a review so others can find their way to this calm too. We value your feedback. Send us a text. Please visit our Facebook Group page for resources and connecting with other kindred spirits. https://www.facebook.com/groups/201596883015602/?ref=share_group_link Please visit our Facebook Page. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572383604134 Please reach out via email at healingourkindredspirits@gmail.com

    7 min
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Welcome to Healing Our Kindred Spirits — created and hosted by Donna Gaudette. This audio-only soulful podcast weaves together storytelling, intuitive wisdom, and heart-centered reflections for those navigating life’s transitions, spiritual awakenings, and the deeper questions of being human.   Through authentic conversations and personal insights, I hold space for the sensitive, the seekers, and the resilient souls who are ready to feel seen, heard, and supported on their journey.   Each episode is an invitation to slow down, reflect, and reconnect — with yourself, with your spirit, and with the shared threads that bind us all. Whether you’re here to find comfort, connection, explore spirituality, or simply feel less alone, you are in the right place. Be sure to look for journal prompts for each episode as well as an original guided meditation that further support you.   Because here, you are never too much — and you are always, ALWAYS enough.    Email: healingourkindredspirits@gmail.comPlease visit our Facebook Community group page, Healing Our Kindred Spirits Podcast.https://www.facebook.com/groups/201596883015602/?ref=share_group_link Our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572383604134Music:Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/hemlock/every-heartbeat

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  • Creator
    Donna Gaudette
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    62
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Healing Our Kindred Spirits
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