This conversation left me breathless in the most beautiful way. 🌿 I had the absolute joy of welcoming back Razwana Ānanda — life coach, physiotherapist, sacred sexuality guide, and now what I can only describe as a tree whisperer in her own right — for a return visit to Heart Felt, forty episodes after her first appearance. And what a journey she has been on. 💫

Razwana shares how a single encounter with a grandmother tree in the heart of New Zealand's North Island completely changed her — stepping inside that ancient being, feeling her breath, hearing her heartbeat, receiving visions in vivid red light. I felt goosebumps as she described it, because I too have been drawn to trees in ways I'm only just beginning to understand. 🌺 There is something so quietly profound about leaning back against a trunk and feeling the stillness move through me — the muck clearing, the day shifting, the nervous system finally exhaling.

We talk about how to connect with trees — permission, bare feet on roots, open hearts — and Razwana opens up about her extraordinary 'Treegasmic' work, weaving together tree connection, the divine feminine, and sacred sensuality in a way that feels both ancient and completely of this moment. 🌸 She also shares the exciting news of groundbreaking legislation in a small Quebec town legally recognising trees as living beings with rights, and her own deeply personal research study — in collaboration with published researchers from Finland and New Zealand — exploring what it truly means to have a tree friend.

I walked away from this conversation with a wider heart and a longer list of trees I need to visit. 🍃 I hope something in this episode roots itself in me — and stirs something that has been waiting quietly, patiently, like a tree. 🌳💚

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In this solo episode, I'm sharing something that has lived quietly inside me for a very long time — my complicated relationship with joy. 💛

I take you back to a day in August 1998, a day when I felt completely aligned, like I had everything in the palm of my hands. And then, in an instant, that joy was shattered by a phone call that changed everything. My brother had taken his own life. 🕊️

For decades after that, whenever joy began to rise in me, a deep dread would follow — this quiet, gnawing feeling that it was too good to be true, that it was about to be ripped away. I've been sitting with that pattern for a long time now, really looking at it honestly, and I'm finally starting to understand it. 🌱

I'm also sharing something that has genuinely moved me — my growing connection with Mother Earth, and how I've discovered I can call on her energy whenever I'm feeling heavy or alone. It comes in just like a hug. 🤍 And alongside her, I've felt the presence of my nan — soft, warm, always in her dusty pink jacket — showing up in ways I never expected.

This episode is about learning to breathe joy in rather than brace against it. It's about choosing to step away from connections that leave me feeling small, and discovering that the support I've been searching for has been available to me all along. I'm still on this journey — still learning, still growing — and I'm sharing all of it, the raw and the real, just as it is. 🌸

I hope something in what I've shared today lands gently in the heart where it's needed most. 💗

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I had the most beautiful conversation with Sue Williams in this episode, and I'm still sitting with how much she moved me. 🌿 Sue is a holistic relaxation therapist and wellness business owner behind Driftwood Relaxation and The Waterfall Effect, and she brings with her decades of caring for others — from children in family daycare to adults finding their way back to themselves on the table in her therapy room. 💛

What struck me most was Sue's relationship with fear. Having survived a near-death experience and open-heart surgery 18 years ago, she speaks about fear not as something to overcome, but as something that was never really hers to carry in the first place. 🌊 That landed somewhere deep in me. She also shared something I'm still turning over — the idea that what I call 'triggers' might more gently be called 'glimmers of awareness.' I felt something soften in me the moment she said it. 🕊️

Sue's philosophy of The Waterfall Effect is one of the most tender and grounded ways I've heard healing described — the idea that I am at the top of that waterfall, and whatever I heal in myself flows outward, finds its way around every rock and obstacle, and nourishes everything and everyone I touch. 💧 It reminded me that caring for myself isn't selfish — it's the very source of what I have to give.

And the message she'd send back to her younger self? Simply: 'Love you. You're okay. You're not wrong.' 🤍 I don't think I've ever felt something so simply said land so completely.

I'm so grateful Sue said yes to sitting with me in this space. 🌸 May something in this conversation stay with you, open something up in you, or simply remind you that you are worth caring for too.

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