Magic, Medicine and Mayhem Sylva Florence

Did you know that you can start (or continue) the path to healing your trauma just by listening to this episode? My guest this week, Justin Sunseri, will tell you that whatever is blocking you comes down to biology and inherent mechanisms which exist in each of us to help us survive.But what neither of us wants is for you to just survive. We want you to thrive! So join us for this fascinating conversation chock full of both practical and inspirational advice, covering everything from gazelles...

Are you ready to say yes to life? Are you ready to surrender to it? Did you know that these two concepts are also one and the same?If surrendering sounds like giving up, if it's difficult for you or if you're not even sure where to begin, this episode is for you! Join in to listen to stories of and lessons from moments of utter surrender from my own life. Then we'll embark on a guided meditation together designed to help you take the first important step to saying yes to both life and healing...

❤️‍🩹If you feel like your healing is a constant work in progress, you're certainly not alone. Join me and my guest, Katie MacDonald as we finish what we started in episode 4: wisdom and advice collected along an ongoing journey of healing through codependency. It's not about perfection and hindsight, but more about vulnerability and honoring the path itself. Come along with us and find new ways to honor YOUR own journey.❤️‍🩹Katie MacDonald works at a treatment center for people experiencing a...

A conversation I had at a pizzeria last week got me really fired up... And thus a new episode was born! Yes, I am here to rant against the patriarchy this week--but not only. Other than my own recent and not-so-recent experiences, you'll hear from other women about the trials and tribulations they have come up against, and the powerful lessons that came out of them. You're not going to want to miss this timely and moving discussion on what it really means to be authentic and equal--and what w...

How do we cope when all of a sudden life throughs us a curveball that no one saw coming, and it stirs up all of our trauma? What happens when there is, therefore, no way to avoid our triggers? Join me for part one of a conversation that is as encouraging and affirming as it is vulnerable and real. It's the kind that gets you thinking about how you show up in the world and why. And it might just inspire you, like it did my guest Katie MacDonald, to begin transforming your hurts into your heali...

The forest: A place we desire to return to, but at the same time, we're afraid to do so. A place where green shoots climb up through the duff: a simultaneous host of both life and death. A place to be navigated with reverence and trembling. Our inner forest, the home and root of our inner nature, must be traversed with this same reverence and fear. It, too, has become foreign to us: a place we wish to return to, a place of great wisdom, but a place where the shadows hold things that we ...