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Dr Makeba Morgan Hill
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A quiet place to remember your power. Short reflections and honest conversations for people learning to live in alignment with their truth. Hosted by spiritual life coach, strategist, and healer Dr. Makeba, this podcast explores what it really means to walk a path of awakening, healing, and purpose in the real world. Some days we talk about gratitude. Some days about reckoning. Some days about remembering the power you’ve been carrying all along. Wherever you are on the journey, these reflections are here to help you return to yourself. www.drmakeba4love.com drmakeba4love.substack.com

  1. 4d ago

    Ep. 12: Who’s Gonna Keep the Baby? | The Question That Followed Me to Ethiopia

    In 2005, a simple question from my stepmother followed me all the way to Africa, and honestly, for years after that. “Who’s gonna keep the baby?” seemed practical on the surface. Underneath it was a whole inheritance, about what good mothers sacrifice, who responsible women put first, and how much of herself a woman is allowed to keep once she becomes someone else’s everything. In this episode, I take you back to the Ethiopia trip that started it all and unpack what generational healing actually looks like when it isn’t dramatic. Sometimes it’s simply hearing an old question and choosing a new answer. Dr. Makeba Presents: Living 4.Love is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. In this episode: * Why breaking a pattern and healing a pattern aren’t always the same moment * How generational beliefs travel through sentences, expectations, and the questions we stop questioning * The Soul Bloom framework: Unearth, Clear, Center, Empower * What it means to heal forward, for the women watching you live your life * The question nobody asked the women who came before us, and why it matters now Soul Inquiry for this week: What old question are you still answering? What sentence did somebody hand you years ago that still quietly governs your choices, and does it still belong in your life? Ready to go somewhere for yourself, properly? I’m holding an open house about the Soul Bloom Retreats I’m leading in 2027. No pressure, no pitch, just 45 minutes and every question you’ve got. 🗓 Next info session: Thursday, October 29, 7-7:45 p.m. Eastern 👉 Reserve your spot: https://calendly.com/drmakeba4love/soul-bloom-costa-rica-india-info-session With love, Dr. Makeba If you’d like to know when healing sessions, classes and courses, Soul Bloom Retreats and sacred gatherings open, join my invitations list. It’s separate from Substack, so subscribing here won’t put you on it. I only write when something meaningful is opening. Get full access to Dr. Makeba Presents: Living 4.Love at drmakeba4love.substack.com/subscribe

    Ep. 12: Who’s Gonna Keep the Baby? | The Question That Followed Me to Ethiopia

  2. Oct 13

    Ep11: Living Your Truth in the In-Between | An Our Lady of Truth Reflection

    You can’t quite fit into your old life anymore, and the new one hasn’t fully landed yet. If that’s where you are right now, this episode is for you. This week is a little different. On Sunday, I published “My Spirit Said Speak, Even If No One Is Listening,” a reflection on the quiet woman I used to be, the one who held every idea in her head until someone made her talk. I sometimes like to pull an oracle card when I’m reflecting on something in my own life. About a year ago, I pulled Our Lady of Truth from Alana Fairchild’s Mother Mary Oracle and recorded myself sitting with the message. When I watched that recording again this week, I heard Sunday’s message coming from a slightly different direction: your truth may cost you some of the old life, but you still get to live your life. For 25+ years I worked inside large institutions and had received a steady paycheck every other week since I was 16. Now I’m a solopreneur doing every job in my business myself. In this episode, I share the honest version of that in-between season, what it asks you to release, what happens when people say you’re “not acting like yourself,” and why becoming more fully yourself can unsettle the people who knew an earlier version of you. I also talk about energy and frequency, spiritual entrepreneurship, truth in relationships, the fear of losing status or material things, trusting God with outcomes, calling in divine feminine protection, and using journaling to get closer to what is true for you. Near the end, I share a prayer for protection and a simple journaling invitation for anyone trying to hear their own truth more clearly. Chapters 0:00 Welcome and why this episode is different 1:42 The Our Lady of Truth oracle message 2:21 The entrepreneur’s in-between 3:34 Living in your truth 5:47 Truth in relationships 7:26 Your frequency is rising 9:34 Prayer for protection 10:07 The healing process and journaling 10:28 Closing Read Sunday’s reflection: My Spirit Said Speak, Even if No One is Listening If you’d like to know when healing sessions, classes and courses, Soul Bloom Retreats and sacred gatherings open, join my invitations list. It’s separate from Substack, so subscribing here won’t put you on it. I only write when something meaningful is opening. Stay Connected Awaken a Soul Bloom Retreat in Costa Rica | April 11-17, 2027. Ten souls gathering to come back to the parts of you that know what you need. Details at Awaken Oracle card: “Our Lady of Truth” from Mother Mary Oracle by Alana Fairchild. 💬 What are you afraid you might lose if you tell the truth? Tell me in the comments. This episode is for spiritual reflection. It’s not medical or mental health advice. With love, Dr. Makeba Get full access to Dr. Makeba Presents: Living 4.Love at drmakeba4love.substack.com/subscribe

    Ep11: Living Your Truth in the In-Between | An Our Lady of Truth Reflection

  3. Oct 6

    Ep10: Maybe It’s Not You. Maybe It’s the Container. | What My Garden Taught Me About Growth

    I have a confession: I’m a new gardener, and I’ve killed things. Plants, to be clear. My first blueberry plant died even though I gave it water and sun, and I’m pretty sure I gave it a pep talk too. The next year I did my homework and learned that my blueberry needed another compatible blueberry nearby for better cross-pollination. I’d been treating the plant like something was wrong with it when what it needed was community. Then one of my roses stopped blooming. When I finally looked, the roots had circled the pot until they hit the wall. A perfectly healthy plant had outgrown its container. Somewhere between the blueberry and the rose, I realized we do the same thing to people. When someone isn’t thriving, we ask what’s wrong with her, and then we pile on another book, another course, another supplement, more discipline. In this episode of Living 4.Love Notes, I’m inviting you to look at the soil first. Humans make sense in context. For years I tried to make myself more resilient, even though I’d built an entire career on handling things. The question that finally changed everything was this one: Why do I need this much strength just to live my life? We live inside containers everywhere, from marriages and workplaces to churches, retreats and even our social media feeds. Some hold us and some constrain us, and some that once served us become too small for who we’re becoming. Sometimes nothing is wrong with the container at all. You’re simply in winter, and the important work is happening underground. Dr. Makeba Presents: Living 4.Love is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. In this episode, we explore: * What a dead blueberry plant taught me about community * The root-bound rose, and what happens when we outgrow the pot that once held us * Why we keep adding more fixes when the conditions may be what needs to change * Why I stopped asking how to make myself stronger * What happened in Morocco when our travelers stepped into a container built to hold them * Why the space and the permission can matter more than the cacao or the sound bath * How to tell whether a container helps you grow or asks you to shrink * Honoring the career and relationships that held earlier versions of me * Why healing can’t only be individual, and what I’m dreaming for the Living 4.Love Collective * How Soul Bloom work moves from unearthing to blooming, and why sometimes the most aligned choice is changing the conditions * Telling the difference between a hard season and a container you’ve outgrown * A closing affirmation to honor the season you’re actually in Your Soul Inquiry Choose one area of your life that isn’t flourishing, and resist the urge to fix it yet. Before you ask, “What’s wrong with me?” ask: * How’s the soil? * What am I feeding this, and what am I withholding? * Is there enough room? * What season am I actually in? * Who’s growing beside me? Then sit longest with this one: Am I trying to force myself to bloom somewhere I actually need to root, or somewhere I’ve already outgrown? Pull Up a Chair: Sunday Supper My blueberry needed a neighbor, and sometimes we do too. Sunday Supper is my monthly long table in Atlanta for curious people who want good food and real conversation with nobody performing. Our first supper is Sunday, October 25, from 4 to 6 p.m. Registration closes October 18, and there are only 12 seats at the table. Everyone at the October table gets first pick of seats for the next two suppers before they open to the public. Those are Friendsgiving on November 22 and our Holiday Gathering on December 20, both from 4 to 6 p.m. If October doesn’t work for you, join the mailing list and you’ll hear as soon as those seats open. 👉 Reserve your seat or join the list:https://sundaysupper.drmakeba4love.com/ Another Blueberry: The Living 4.Love Collective I’m building the Collective as an ecosystem, a community of people walking the same road who will witness you, challenge you, and tell you the truth about what you’ve been avoiding. It’s still taking shape, and I’ll share more when it’s ready. A 4Love Reminder Maybe you don’t need more fixing. Maybe you need better soil. Maybe you need more room. Maybe you need another blueberry. Or maybe you simply need to stop digging up the seed every five minutes to see whether it’s growing. Real transformation does not rush. It roots. May your spirit be light and your soul be free. With love, Dr. Makeba Get full access to Dr. Makeba Presents: Living 4.Love at drmakeba4love.substack.com/subscribe

    Ep10: Maybe It’s Not You. Maybe It’s the Container. | What My Garden Taught Me About Growth

  4. Sep 29

    Ep9: You Used to Be My Rich Daughter

    About a year after I left my corporate career, I was having lunch with my mother when she pulled out her credit card and said, half-jokingly, “You used to be my rich daughter.” I laughed. Then that little sentence followed me home. Technically, she wasn’t wrong. I spent more than 20 years in corporate America, with the senior-level titles, the degrees, the big house, the clothes and the American Express bill, all the recognizable evidence that tells the world, She’s doing well. And yet I’ve had more money than I have now, and I’ve never felt richer. In this episode of Living 4.Love Notes, I’m asking a question I’ve had to answer for myself: Who taught you what rich means? I still like money. I like beautiful hotels, good food, travel and being able to care for myself and the people I love. I’m building a business, and I want it to prosper. Money was always a fine goal. It just never should have been a measure. Money can create comfort, access, options and safety. It can NOT tell you who you are, give you purpose, make a misaligned life feel aligned, create intimacy or manufacture peace, and it certainly can’t have a relationship with God for you. So we go deeper, into the definitions of success we inherit from family and culture, why humans make sense in context, and how Soul Bloom work helps us discern what to keep and what we’re ready to release. I don’t want to choose between prosperity and peace. I want a life spacious enough to hold both. In this episode, we explore: * The lunchtime comment from my mother that changed the way I think about wealth * Why money is neither the problem nor the solution to everything * How family, culture and conditioning shape our definitions of success * Why leaving one life doesn’t automatically free us from its programming * The danger of recreating an exhausting corporate life inside entrepreneurship, or even spirituality * How Soul Bloom work helps us unearth, clear and center before we choose again * Why alignment can be as practical as looking at your calendar and bank statement * The many currencies of wealth: peace, time, purpose, community, freedom, love, God, joy and prosperity * Why I’m starting Sunday Suppers, and what a long table has to do with my definition of richness * A closing meditation to give yourself permission to define a rich life on your own terms Your Soul Inquiry Finish this sentence: I will know I am rich when... Don’t answer quickly, and don’t give me the Instagram answer. Sit with what would actually make you feel rich. Security? Freedom? Time? Meaningful work? People you can call at 2 a.m.? The ability to help your children? A quiet Tuesday afternoon? Peaceful sleep? A deeper relationship with God? Waking up and realizing you actually like yourself? Your life is already telling a story about what you value. Is it the story you want it to tell? Pull Up a Chair: Sunday Suppers Rich, for me, is a long table with people around it who don’t need me to be impressive. The first Sunday Supper is Sunday, October 25th: a table, a meal, real conversation, nobody performing. The details are still coming together. Email me at drmakeba@living4.love with “Sunday Suppers” in the subject line, and I’ll send them to you myself as soon as they’re ready. A 4Love Reminder Maybe the work isn’t rejecting success. Maybe it’s reclaiming your authority to define it. You are the soul of your story. You get to decide what richness means now. And as for me? I’m still my mother’s rich daughter. We’ve just expanded the definition. May your spirit be light and your soul be free. Dr. Makeba Dr. Makeba Presents: Living 4.Love is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Dr. Makeba Presents: Living 4.Love at drmakeba4love.substack.com/subscribe

  5. Sep 22

    Ep8: Dancing Around the Fire

    I was dancing around a fire in Morocco when a memory surfaced, and with it a grudge I didn't know I was still carrying. This episode is about what that fire taught me. Why some things only come forward when the conditions are right, what a container actually is and why it matters more than any single practice, and why remembering something painful doesn't mean you've gone backward. Two travelers share what the journey gave them. One learned in her body that she could surrender without being abandoned. The other realized she didn't need another breakthrough, she needed to celebrate how far she'd already come. This week's Soul Inquiry: What am I being invited to remember? And what kind of container would support what I'm becoming? 🌿 Remember: a Soul Bloom pilgrimage through India, November 2027. Eight travelers. We travel by invitation, so every place begins with a conversation. Apply here https://calendly.com/drmakeba4love/soulbloomretreats From my heart to yours, Dr. Makeba May your spirit be light and your soul be free. Get full access to Dr. Makeba Presents: Living 4.Love at drmakeba4love.substack.com/subscribe

    Ep8: Dancing Around the Fire

  6. Sep 15

    Ep7: Coping in the Car

    Living4.Love: Notes, Episode 7 Dear heart, I remember sitting in my car during my lunch break crying. I was in my late twenties. Six figures. The title. The office. The suit I had always wanted to wear when I grew up. From the outside, everything looked exactly the way it was supposed to look. And there I was, trying to get myself together before lunch was over because people were waiting for me and there was work to do. So I did what I knew how to do. I checked my face in the mirror, took a breath, opened the car door, and went back inside. And I performed. That’s the part we don’t always talk about. Performance works, at least for a while. And people reward you for it. They promote you. They call you strong. They pile on more work. And sometimes you take that praise as evidence that everything is okay. I know I did. But here’s what I’ve learned since then: a strength can become a survival strategy when you no longer know how to put it down. And when you’ve been performing long enough, it stops feeling like performance. It just feels like personality. I’m just responsible. I’m just independent. I just like things done correctly. It’s easier if I do it myself. Sound familiar? This episode is about that. About what happens when the performance that kept you safe, that earned you love and approval and a place in the room, starts costing you more than it’s giving. About what healing actually requires, and why it’s more inconvenient than we’d like it to be. About the woman underneath all the adaptations, and why she’s worth finding. In this episode we explore: * The woman in the car, and why the question isn’t what was wrong with her but what happened that made this way of being make sense * Why performance works, and why that’s exactly what makes it so hard to put down * How a strength becomes a survival strategy, and the moment you realize you don’t know how to stop * What it means that healing gets inconvenient, and why sometimes it asks not what you need to add but what you need to stop * The Soul Bloom Method’s first movement, Unearth, and why we have to honor a pattern before we can release it * Why you can do enormous amounts of inner work and walk right back into an environment that expects the old version of you * What a safe container actually does, and why sometimes you need a room where the old role simply isn’t required * What wholeness really means, not eliminating one side of yourself but making room for all of yourself Your soul inquiry for this week: Think of one role you play really well. Just one. The strong one. The good daughter. The perfect mother. The successful executive. The peacemaker. The dependable friend. The one who never needs anyone. The one who always knows what to do. And ask yourself: When did I learn that I needed to be this? What has this role given me? What has it cost me? And who might I be if I didn’t have to perform this role all the time? Don’t rush that last one. You may not know yet, and that’s okay. Maybe not knowing is exactly where it begins. Because healing isn’t another performance. You don’t have to become the best healer or win at spiritual awakening. You don’t have to be perfectly balanced or turn your healing into another achievement. You need room to tell the truth, room to feel, and perhaps a container where you can practice being someone who doesn’t have to earn her place in the room. If this episode found something in you, you might be ready for a different kind of container. Soul Bloom Retreats are sacred spaces designed for exactly this: the woman who is ready to stop performing and start discovering who she is underneath all of it. Not the polished version. Not the broken version. The true version. Join Dr. Makeba for Soul Bloom Retreats: Experience the Journey, a live virtual open house where we’ll walk through the full four-retreat arc together, answer your real questions, and give you space to feel into what might be calling you. 👉 Reserve your seat here The webinar runs weekly, so whenever you’re ready, there’s a seat for you. And if you’d like to explore other ways to work together, coaching, a Reiki experience, or the full Soul Bloom series, everything is waiting at drmakeba4love.com/begin. From my heart to yours, may your spirit be light and your soul be free. I’m Dr. Makeba, and I’m all for love. Stay light. Thanks for reading Dr. Makeba Presents: Living 4.Love! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Dr. Makeba Presents: Living 4.Love at drmakeba4love.substack.com/subscribe

    Ep7: Coping in the Car

  7. Sep 8

    Ep6: Strange Things Happen in the Jungle

    Dear Heart, Strange things happen in the jungle. I was in Costa Rica preparing for my Awaken retreat, and I was carrying something I didn’t think anyone could really see. It wasn’t panic or a crisis. It was something quieter than that. The kind of fear that shows up when what you’re doing feels bigger than business, when you’re not just asking whether something will sell, but whether you heard correctly. Whether you can trust what you’ve been shown. Whether God will protect and provide not just for you, but for the mission. I was sitting with all of that when Spirit decided to communicate through bug legs. Three of them. From what appeared to be three very large bugs. In three different places. No bodies. No wings. Just legs. And after the sacred ceremony we’d experienced the day before, the storytelling, the releasing, the naming of things that needed to be left behind, I wasn’t about to dismiss them. So I got curious. And what I received has stayed with me ever since. In this episode we explore: * Why curiosity may be one of the most underrated spiritual practices, and how it has changed the way Dr. Makeba moves through her life * The difference between asking what happened and asking what might this be showing me, and why both questions matter * Why we sometimes need to stop fighting the fear we’re carrying and become still enough to notice how much of it has already fallen away * How Spirit speaks through small, ordinary things, and why we often miss it because we’re waiting for something more dramatic * Why presence isn’t a spiritual performance, and why the message may have been arriving all day before we were quiet enough to hear it * What container actually does in a healing space, and why changing your environment can change what’s finally able to reach you * Why your story, including the painful parts, may be the very bridge that helps someone else understand their own now Your soul inquiry for this week: What’s been getting my attention lately? And what changes if I become curious about it instead of dismissing it? Don’t force an answer. Don’t decode every leaf that falls in your yard. Just notice. Let the meaning unfold at its own pace, because Spirit doesn’t always arrive with ceremony. Sometimes the sacred is sitting right in the middle of the ordinary, waiting for you to slow down enough to see it. If this episode is speaking to something in you, you might be ready for a different container. The Soul Bloom Retreats are exactly what this episode describes, sacred spaces designed to create the conditions where what’s been trying to reach you finally has enough room to be heard. The Awaken Retreat (Costa Rica, April 11-17, 2027) is where this journey begins. Join Dr. Makeba for a live webinar to learn more, ask questions, and feel into whether a Soul Bloom Retreat is your next right step. 👉 [Reserve your seat here] The webinar runs weekly, so whenever you’re ready, there’s a seat for you. And if you’d like to explore other ways to work together, coaching, a Reiki experience, or the full retreat series, everything is at drmakeba4love.com/begin. From my heart to yours, may your spirit be light and your soul be free. I’m Dr. Makeba, and I’m all for love. Stay curious and stay light. Thanks for listening. Living 4.Love: Notes The Podcast is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Dr. Makeba Presents: Living 4.Love at drmakeba4love.substack.com/subscribe

    Ep6: Strange Things Happen in the Jungle

  8. Sep 1

    Ep5: Claircognizant

    I didn’t know I was claircognizant. I thought I just knew things. For more than twenty years I worked in corporate environments where knowing wasn’t enough. Where’s the data? What’s the evidence? How did you reach that conclusion? And I believed in all of that, I still do. I have a doctorate. I’m a strategist. I’ve spent a significant part of my life helping organizations make complex decisions from evidence. So it took me a while to reckon with the fact that some of the most consequential information I’ve ever received in my own life didn’t arrive through analysis at all. It arrived as knowing. In this episode I want to talk about what claircognizance actually is, how I learned to recognize it in myself, and, more importantly, why having a spiritual gift is not the same thing as knowing what to do with it. Because fear can sound like knowing. Desire can sound like knowing. Anxiety can be extraordinarily convincing. And sometimes we want something so badly that we interpret everything as confirmation. I’ve done it. You’ve probably done it too. So, this episode isn’t just about opening up. It’s about becoming more grounded, more honest, and more discerning about what you’re actually receiving and where it’s actually coming from. In this episode we explore: * What claircognizance is and how it differs from other intuitive gifts * Why so many of us learned early which kinds of knowing we were allowed to trust, and why that matters * The difference between a true knowing and anxiety, ego, desire, or an old wound trying to protect you * Why developing a spiritual gift requires discernment, not just openness * How healing and intuition are more connected than we often acknowledge * Why a good container doesn’t tell you what to hear, it gives you enough room to hear yourself Your soul inquiry for this week: What have I known that I keep asking someone else to confirm? Don’t rush to answer it. Just notice. What happens in your body when you sit with that question? What thoughts arrive? What becomes quiet? You might even start a small knowing journal, not to make every entry sacred, but to begin learning your own patterns. Your own language. Because your spiritual gifts aren’t useful simply because you have them. You have to develop a relationship with them, and that relationship requires curiosity, discernment, and practice. Just like every other relationship worth having. If this episode found you at the right moment, the best thing you can do is subscribe so you never miss what comes next. New episodes drop on Tuesdays. 👉 Subscribe here on Substack, so we can continue to grow together. And if you’re ready to go deeper, whether through coaching or one of the Soul Bloom Retreats, you’ll find all the ways to work with me at drmakeba4love.com/begin. From my heart to yours, may your spirit be light and your soul be free. I’m Dr. Makeba, and I’m all for love. Stay light. Thanks for reading Dr. Makeba Presents: Living 4.Love! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Dr. Makeba Presents: Living 4.Love at drmakeba4love.substack.com/subscribe

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A quiet place to remember your power. Short reflections and honest conversations for people learning to live in alignment with their truth. Hosted by spiritual life coach, strategist, and healer Dr. Makeba, this podcast explores what it really means to walk a path of awakening, healing, and purpose in the real world. Some days we talk about gratitude. Some days about reckoning. Some days about remembering the power you’ve been carrying all along. Wherever you are on the journey, these reflections are here to help you return to yourself. www.drmakeba4love.com drmakeba4love.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Dr Makeba Morgan Hill
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    13
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