Wize Woman STORIES

Delia Quigley
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Every woman has a story to tell. Every story holds her wisdom. In Wize Woman STORIES, host Delia Quigley explores the moments, memories, and experiences that shape who we are as women. From deeply personal reflections to conversations with inspiring voices, each episode invites you to discover the truths within a life’s narrative. At the heart of these stories is the wisdom of our Five Bodies—physical, energy, mental, wisdom, and divine—because the way we live, feel, think, and sense shapes every chapter of our journey. Whether you’re navigating change, seeking clarity, or simply curious about the threads that connect us all, these stories will guide you toward greater self-understanding, compassion, and alignment. Because when we share our stories, we awaken the wisdom within.

  1. Sep 2

    Earth's Sacred Places: Four Women. Four Journeys. One Sacred Earth

    Earth’s Sacred Places is the fourth episode of the Between Earth and Sky series on my Wize Woman STORIES podcast. In this episode, we’ll visit a few of Earth's sacred places. And by sacred, it can mean something different to each of you. Some places are where Mother Mary appeared to children, giving them messages to share with humanity.  Other places indigenous tribes honor as sacred are where holy ceremonies and rituals take place. And there are sacred places where you can just feel they're sacred. It could be a corner of your house, or in the backyard, or out in the woods. Or maybe something happened in your life where you made a journey out into nature, and you found that her sacred embrace was there waiting for you to help you heal, to help you understand.  The thread running through it all is about healing: confession and forgiveness, climbing a mountain with aching bodies, the mystery of being “slain in the Spirit,” and the quiet truth that sacred places don’t end when you leave. They hand you a question you may live into for decades.     So that's what my guests and I talk about. Stories of the sacred places of Earth that translate to the understanding that all of Earth is sacred, and that it's our privilege and honor to be born here, to live here, to grow here. And eventually pack up and leave. To where? Who knows? So let's enjoy and honor our Mother while we’re here.    If you’ve been craving a grounded conversation about pilgrimage, sacred sites, spiritual awakening, and the idea that all of Earth is sacred, this one will stay with you.    Subscribe for more stories, share this with someone who loves sacred travel, and leave a review to help others find us. What place has changed you in a way you can’t fully explain? Support the show

    Earth's Sacred Places: Four Women. Four Journeys. One Sacred Earth

  2. Jul 29

    Remembering the Sacred Wisdom of Rivers

    We trace a lifetime of river encounters that move from awe and blessing to grief and responsibility, asking what it means to relate to water as something alive. Along the way, we follow sacred springs, mother rivers, rapids, floods, and legal rights to explore whether rivers can help us remember who we are.    • Opening question about what rivers teach us about being human   • Rivers as feminine presence, mother waters, and living mystery   • Lourdes spring story and a childhood ritual of protection   • Mekong River as lifeblood for communities and prayer   • Festival of Lights memory and gratitude for the Mother of Water   • Pollution, dams, and the strain of human ambition on sacred waters   • New River rapids story and the experience of letting go   • Pollenskill River as a place to grieve, confess, and surrender   • Hurricane Irene, the floodplain lesson, and neighbors coming together   • Rights of nature, enforcement challenges, and why a river is not a corporation   • Thomas Berry, the technozoic path, and the Ecozoic possibility   If this moved you, subscribe, share the episode with someone who loves the outdoors, and leave a review. What is your relationship with the river? Support the show

    Remembering the Sacred Wisdom of Rivers

  3. Jul 1

    Our Dogs, Our Selves: Stories of the dogs who changed our lives.

    A dog disappears right after arriving home, and the panic feels like it might swallow everything. That raw moment opens a chain of true stories that made us rethink what dogs really are to us: not accessories, not background noise, but companions with timing so precise it can feel like fate. We talk about how dogs enter our lives with a purpose, then follow that thread through grief, family loss, and the slow return to “normal.” You’ll hear how a rescue dog’s separation anxiety mirrors a human’s untethered life, and how healing can look like one small shift at a time, including the first night a scared dog finally sleeps relaxed and safe.  Along the way, we share a crowd-pleasing Jack Russell, a circus dog who lives for the spotlight, and a loyal dog who comforts a grieving widow with the kind of steady love words can’t touch. We also get into instinct and dog behavior in a big way: prey drive, urban life, and what happens when people try to shock a dog out of being a dog. One unforgettable story follows a New York City pup who’s judged harshly for killing squirrels and rats, until she’s finally given the right outlet and becomes a hero on real rat hunts that help a neighborhood breathe again.  It’s a practical conversation about rescue dogs, dog training choices, and the freedom that comes from letting beings do what they’re built to do. If you’ve ever mourned a pet, adopted a rescue, or wondered whether dogs choose us, you’ll feel seen here. Subscribe, share this with a fellow dog person, and leave a review with the name of the dog who changed your world. Support the show

    Our Dogs, Our Selves: Stories of the dogs who changed our lives.

  4. Jun 10

    Trees That Shaped Our Lives: Stories of Healing, Belonging, and Wild Wisdom

    Trees don’t just decorate our lives, they shape them. We start with a simple question that turns out to be huge: can you name a tree that carried you through a hard season? From childhood tree houses and scraped knees to the quiet relief of hiding in leaves when home feels tense, we follow the ways trees become sanctuary, perspective, and a kind of wordless companionship that asks nothing from us. We also talk about healing in a more literal sense. Andrea Beaman shares how illness and recovery pulled her back into nature, into herbs as medicine, and into forest bathing. We explore why time among trees can lower blood pressure, lift mood, and support immunity, then go deeper into the felt experience of sitting with your back against a trunk and breathing until something shifts. Andrea describes a moment of connecting with what her teacher names “tree spirit,” and how that encounter changed her relationship to the living world. Then the stories widen into community and grief. Christina Passanisi writes about fighting for a tree on her land and finding a breakthrough with the town engineer. Gina Bruno shares daily winter walks during her husband’s cancer treatment, where the woods absorb heavy emotion and return calm. And in a powerful plant-medicine story, Andrea recounts an ayahuasca ceremony in Brazil where a tree’s blunt instruction helps her release years of rage by giving it to the earth. We close with Linda Helms and the Eagle Tree that becomes the Dragon Tree, plus a reminder that caring for forests, water, birds, and bees is personal because we are nature too. If these stories sparked a memory, we want to hear it. Subscribe to Wize Woman STORIES, share this with a friend who needs a breath of green, and find more at deliaquigley.substack.com. Support the show

    Trees That Shaped Our Lives: Stories of Healing, Belonging, and Wild Wisdom

  5. May 6

    Awakening the Crystalline Heart

    A migraine that becomes a mystical transmission. A grief so deep it cracks open into love. A woman who goes from “please don’t let me see ghosts” to teaching a high-frequency healing system built around the heart. I’m your host, Delia Quigley, and my guest Renata McConnell shares the true story behind her path as an artist, healer, and spiritual teacher who bridges the visible and invisible worlds. We start with Renata’s childhood in Ontario, her early sensitivity, and the losses that changed everything, including the death of her sister and her first child. Renata describes how intuition and “knowing” became her compass, then walks us through the very human steps of becoming a practitioner: Donna Eden Energy Medicine training, Cindy Dale’s apprenticeship, and a shamanic awakening connected to Peru and Q’ero elders. If you’ve ever wondered how energy medicine, Reiki, shamanism, and crystal healing can fit together, her story shows how one modality can prepare you for the next. Renata then explains Quantum Crystalline Energy Healing, including the 2013 download of symbols and teachings and why her nervous system needed months to stabilize. We talk about crystalline frequency as pure love without requiring religion, how multidimensional healing can locate and clear imprints across time, and what her four levels target: chakras, hormones and organs, fascia, spine and nervous system, and ultimately the heart. Finally, Renata shares the 2020 moment that sparked her book, The Awakening the Crystalline Heart, including 55 days of channeling on judgment, resentment, anger, hope, and bliss, as well as “key codes” and crystal pairings associated with Mother Mary and Mary Magdalene. If you’re in a season of spiritual awakening and want a grounded map back to love, this conversation offers language, tools, and a steady reminder that healing can be gentler than the path that created the wound.  Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs heart support, and leave a review with the biggest question you’re sitting with right now. Support the show

    Awakening the Crystalline Heart

  6. Apr 23

    From Civil Rights to Environmental Law: The Life of Martha McCabe

    You can hear the moment Martha McCabe learned the world wasn’t fair, because she never stops seeing power clearly after that. Growing up in Albany, New York, she watches corruption operate in daylight and learns to track who gets protected, who gets harmed, and how authority covers for itself. That early education becomes the foundation for a legal career built around one question: when power is abused, what can you actually do about it? Martha takes us from the early days of women entering law in larger numbers to the sharp end of civil rights litigation as a young lawyer in 1970s Texas. She talks about the culture of rural East Texas, the role of narrative and rhetoric, and the reality of taking cases that make people angry. One case still lands like a punch: a woman reports being raped in a county jail by a trustee with special privileges, and when Martha files a federal civil rights lawsuit over abusive conditions, the backlash escalates fast. Listening to her describe threats, retaliation, and the local politics around justice is a masterclass in how systems defend themselves. Then the story pivots to environmental law and public health. After Love Canal, Martha joins the New York State Attorney General’s office and gets dropped into the “alphabet soup” of environmental regulation, eventually defending pesticide notification rules all the way to the Second Circuit. From there we connect the dots to today’s EPA rollbacks, corporate influence, Texas Gulf Coast sacrifice zones, and the high-stakes difference between the U.S. model of proving harm and Europe’s precautionary principle. We also talk about reinvention: getting fired, earning an MFA in creative writing, and deciding what legacy really means when progress comes in waves. If you care about civil rights history, environmental justice, women in the law, and what it takes to keep showing up, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway. Support the show

    From Civil Rights to Environmental Law: The Life of Martha McCabe

  7. Apr 8

    The Food Fairy: From Survival to Serving a Community

    She arrives in Carrboro, North Carolina, with three kids, $11,000 in debt, and no clean roadmap, then builds a personal chef business that grows into Food Fairy, a service that nourishes families across the Triangle. Talking with Terri McClernon, we follow the thread that runs through every chapter of her life: food as connection, creativity, and a way to survive, even when the numbers don’t add up and the ground shifts under your feet.  We go back to her 1950s kitchen-table roots and her early pull toward cooking, then forward into the vegetarian movement and Back to the Land years, where she learns self-reliance the hard way. Terri shares how a simple marketing flyer and one client’s comment gave her the name “Food Fairy,” and how community support, mentoring, and timely loans helped her keep the doors open without losing her integrity. If you care about women entrepreneurs, personal chef services, local food culture, and building a mission-driven small business, you’ll find practical detail here, not platitudes.  The hardest moments bring the biggest lessons: the market crash that wiped out most of her clients, COVID shutting down in-home cooking, the pressure of payroll, and the disciplined use of PPP to keep her team employed. We also talk about her next evolution, building a commercial kitchen, and launching a nonprofit vision that includes gleaning farm vegetables and making soup to give away. Terry reflects on aging, meditation, stress, and the steadier inner peace that comes from surviving the hills and valleys.  Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs courage, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway. Support the show

    The Food Fairy: From Survival to Serving a Community

  8. Mar 25

    What's Running You? The Story of the Mindful Mandala Cards

    A black snake keeps showing up at my window, and instead of turning away, I start paying attention. That single choice becomes the start of a creative trail I never planned, one that runs through a hip injury, a hidden stone house, and four years of living close to nature's raw sounds and seasons. What begins as fear slowly turns into curiosity, and curiosity turns into layered photographs that reveal mandalas, circles that mirror the cycles we live through in our bodies, relationships, and inner lives. As the mandalas take shape, I realize they aren’t just art. They become a mindfulness practice and a self-inquiry tool that helps make the invisible visible, especially the emotions that quietly “run” us. I share the framework that emerged from the work: challenges that hold our darker emotions, tools that represent our higher capacities like compassion and kindness, and actions that bridge the gap between where we are and where we want to be. We talk about the mind as a system, the familiar loop of thought to emotion to reaction, and the moment where we can choose something different. You’ll also hear what happened when I brought the mandalas into a gallery and invited people to ask one honest question. The stories that followed, daily returns, tears in front of forgiveness, and real shifts in long-held pain, made the next step obvious: create something people could hold and return to. That became the Mindful Mandala Cards, a practical guided reflection deck designed for emotional healing, mental clarity, and everyday mindfulness, even through the delays and uncertainty of COVID-era production. If this story sparks something in you, subscribe so you don’t miss the next one, share it with a friend who needs a gentler way through hard emotions, and leave a review to help more listeners find the show. What feeling are you ready to understand instead of outrun? Support the show

    What's Running You? The Story of the Mindful Mandala Cards
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Every woman has a story to tell. Every story holds her wisdom. In Wize Woman STORIES, host Delia Quigley explores the moments, memories, and experiences that shape who we are as women. From deeply personal reflections to conversations with inspiring voices, each episode invites you to discover the truths within a life’s narrative. At the heart of these stories is the wisdom of our Five Bodies—physical, energy, mental, wisdom, and divine—because the way we live, feel, think, and sense shapes every chapter of our journey. Whether you’re navigating change, seeking clarity, or simply curious about the threads that connect us all, these stories will guide you toward greater self-understanding, compassion, and alignment. Because when we share our stories, we awaken the wisdom within.

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  • Creator
    Delia Quigley
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    32
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Wize Woman STORIES
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