Healing Our Kindred Spirits

Donna Gaudette
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Welcome to Healing Our Kindred Spirits — created and hosted by Donna Gaudette. This 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. Guided Meditation: Timeless Lessons of Reflection and Redemption from "A Christmas Carol"

    10H AGO

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

    10H AGO

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

    12H AGO

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

    12H AGO

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

    13H AGO

    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
  6. The Miracle of Belief: Timeless Lessons from “Miracle on 34th Street”

    13H AGO

    The Miracle of Belief: Timeless Lessons from “Miracle on 34th Street”

    What if proof isn’t the starting line for hope? We revisit Miracle on 34th Street to explore how belief, intuition, and collective hope can re-open a life that’s grown cautious. Instead of pushing toxic positivity, we sit with the weight of grief, financial strain, and uncertainty, and then gently ask a different question: what changes when we choose to act as if good is still possible? We share why Kris Kringle feels less like a character and more like a mirror for our better instincts—generosity, steadiness, and joy without performance. Susan’s shift from skepticism to wonder becomes a practical blueprint: protect what needs protecting, but stop letting armor set the horizon. We unpack the power of the letters-to-Santa moment as a symbol of community belief, showing how hope scales when ordinary people add their small acts of kindness to the pile. Along the way, we talk about intuition as a trustworthy companion to logic, and how to listen when your inner knowing whispers before the evidence arrives. You’ll hear simple, grounded practices for nurturing wonder through hard seasons: five-minute morning check-ins, gentle breathwork, attention rituals that notice the ordinary sacred, and prompts that reconnect you to courage without denying reality. We reflect on everyday miracles—timely help from a friend, laughter after a long silence, the quiet resilience of a heart willing to love again—and how these moments become proof of possibility. If your spark dimmed this year, consider this an invitation to shield it from the wind and let it glow again. Stay for a warm closing blessing and a reminder that you’re held during the holidays and beyond. If this conversation restored a bit of your faith, share it with someone who needs light, follow the show, and leave a review to help others find their way back to hope. 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

    8 min
  7. Guided Meditation: Timeless Lessons from "The Polar Express"

    2D AGO

    Guided Meditation: Timeless Lessons from "The Polar Express"

    Let’s slow everything down and step onto a moonlit platform where a distant whistle calls you back to something you once knew by heart. We start with breath and a gentle body scan, letting golden light soften the jaw, loosen the shoulders, and unwind the chest so your nervous system can finally exhale. From there, the scene opens into a still snowy night, where silence glows and a steam engine arrives like an invitation. Inside the train, warmth, cocoa, and pine turn memory into a safe place to explore, and the window becomes a mirror for times when you believed without effort. As the wheels hum, we revisit the moments that prove belief still lives inside you: childhood wonder, a risk that worked out, a quiet trust that carried you. The journey pauses in a starlit clearing where a silver bell rests in the snow. When you lift it, you realize it’s more than an object—it’s your faith, your hope, your spark returning to your hands. We anchor that feeling with simple affirmations: I believe. I believe in love. I believe in myself. I believe in the unseen magic that guides me every day. The bell rings clear, your heart expands, and presence becomes a place you can return to whenever you choose. We ride gently back to the present, to the surface beneath you and the breath inside you, carrying a quiet knowing: magic isn’t something you chase; it’s something you feel when you let yourself remember. If you’re craving calm, comfort, and a fresh connection to wonder, this guided meditation offers a safe, cozy path home to belief. Press play, breathe with us, and tell us what your silver bell says. If this journey steadied you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs a little night snow and a clear, ringing note of hope. 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
  8. Guided Meditation: When Belief Grows Tired, Lessons from "A Year Without a Santa Claus"

    2D AGO

    Guided Meditation: When Belief Grows Tired, Lessons from "A Year Without a Santa Claus"

    When the day runs heavy and your shoulders tell the truth your mouth won’t, a hard stop rarely helps. We invite you into a guided practice that slows the breath, softens the body, and lets belief return without force. Think of it as stepping into a quiet winter landscape—still, clear, and calm—where you can set down what you’ve been holding and feel warmth rise again in your chest, jaw, and tired shoulders. We start with simple cues that signal safety to the nervous system: soften the gaze, unclench the jaw, lift and drop the shoulders with the exhale. From there, we move into heart space, welcoming whatever you find—tired, guarded, hopeful—without judgment. The visualization introduces a steady light that represents belief, not as something to earn or prove, but as warmth that asks nothing of you. That shift matters: when belief is not a test, your body stops bracing and your mind can rest. Along the way, you’ll anchor into phrases like “I am allowed to put things down” and “My heart knows how to heal at its own pace,” turning them into quiet rituals you can carry into any crowded day. As the light settles through the chest and shoulders, we explore the idea that even faith needs rest sometimes. You’ll place a hand over your heart and listen for the part that’s asking for kindness instead of answers, letting the embers of hope glow again. We close by making a promise to be gentler with ourselves, returning to the breath, and opening the eyes with care—no rush, no proving, just steady warmth you can revisit whenever belief feels thin. Press play when you need a reset that honors your pace and your worth. If this meditation helped you exhale, follow the show, share it with a friend who’s been carrying too much, and leave a quick review to help others find this space. 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

    8 min
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Welcome to Healing Our Kindred Spirits — created and hosted by Donna Gaudette. This 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 - 2025
  • Episodes
    59
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Healing Our Kindred Spirits
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