In this engaging conversation, Karen Mellers and Rosy Daniel explore the profound impact of personal space on our mental, emotional, and physical health and well-being. They discuss the importance of creating a nurturing environment with beauty and space for stillness, as well as the necessity of personal time and sacred spaces for self-care. They examine the effects of clutter and how it reflects our mental state.

The dialogue also touches on the significance of light, oxygen, and nature in our lives, the challenges of maintaining a healthy work–life balance, and the healing power of sacred space, silence, and ritual. Through personal anecdotes and thoughtful insights, they emphasize the need for awareness and intentionality in shaping our spaces to support and enhance overall health and happiness.

Takeaways

• The environment around us significantly impacts our health.
• Creating personal space is essential for mental clarity.
• Light and nature are crucial for emotional well-being.
• Clutter can be a sign of depression and deeper emotional issues.
• Sacred spaces, however small, can facilitate healing and self-connection.
• Silence and stillness can lead to profound insights.
• Working from home needs clear boundaries to protect our home environment.
• Intentionality in designing our spaces can enhance our quality of life.
• The spirit of a place can influence our mood and energy.
• Small details in our environment can create a sense of safety, love and care.

Chapters

• 00:00 New Beginnings and Personal Space
• 01:09 The Impact of Space on Well-being
• 09:24 Light, Oxygen, and Our Environment
• 15:13 Clutter and Emotional Attachment
• 22:45 Creating Sacred Space
• 26:56 The Power of Silence and Stillness
• 34:49 Enhancing Our Space with Beauty

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In this beautiful closing episode of Season 2, Karen and Rosy welcome circle sister and Rising Connected facilitator Amy Mullery — the very first Scottish voice on the podcast and a woman whose journey with circle work has touched both of our hearts deeply.

Together, we explore why Women's Circles are transforming lives, how the Rising Connected framework, and especially the 8 Agreements, creates profound emotional safety, and why being witnessed in authenticity is one of the most powerful catalysts for healing.

Amy shares:

• How becoming a Weleda Wellbeing Advisor connected her to Karen’s community
• How joining Joey’s online circles with babes in arms became a lifeline
• How circle work helped her rediscover her voice, leadership and balance

Season 2 threads — community, belonging, authenticity, emotional regulation, feminine wisdom and healing the sister wound — remind us:

We are stronger together.

Takeaways:

• Circle is a practice of showing up for yourself
• Being witnessed is healing
• The feminine way is rising
• Deep healing happens collectively
• The pause is where clarity arrives
• We are mending the sister wound together
• Circle wisdom is moving into workplaces
• Community is medicine

References Mentioned

• Rising Connected: Joey Walters
• The 8 Agreements (Authenticity, Awareness, Responsibility, Purpose, Wellbeing, Relatedness, Heartmind, Integrity)
• The Heart Seat process
• Broughton Hall & the Science and Consciousness Conference (WYRD)
• Dr Alan Watkins & emotional self-regulation
• The Japanese concept of ma — the sacred pause
• Jude Currivan — unified consciousness & interconnectedness
• The Healing Space to Blossom online program
• Weleda Wellbeing Advisor community

Chapters

• 00:00 — Welcoming Amy and the story of how we all met
• 02:30 — Discovering community through Weleda & the online circles
• 05:00 — Showing up imperfectly: babies, darkness, exhaustion
• 06:00 — The power of authenticity
• 08:30 — Facilitating safety in circle and the softening that follows
• 10:00 — Fun, joy and celebration in women’s circles
• 12:00 — Amy’s profound grief shift at Broughton
• 14:00 — Losing yourself in motherhood and finding yourself again
• 16:30 — The Japanese concept of ma: the magic in the pause
• 18:00 — Creativity, clarity and slowing down
• 20:00 — The science of witnessing and energy
• 23:00 — Feminine power and rising consciousness
• 26:00 — Heart Seats and the art of holding space
• 29:00 — Healing, belonging and reclaiming the feminine
• 31:00 — The sister wound: where it came from and how we heal it
• 36:00 — The call toward unity, connection and collective energy
• 38:00 — Women’s circles in the workplace
• 44:00 — Circles as catharsis: lightness after expression
• 48:00 — Amy’s vision for circle leadership and community
• 50:00 — Closing reflections: community as the golden thread of Season 2

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This week’s episode is one that so many listeners have been waiting for. After receiving multiple requests from our Alive & Loving It community, Karen and Dr. Rosy welcome the extraordinary Joey Walters, founder of Rising Connected — a woman whose teachings have profoundly shaped Karen’s personal and professional path.

In this powerful, intimate conversation, Joey shares her journey from burnout in a high-pressure leadership career, to a decade of deep apprenticeship with Earth Wisdom teachers, to the emergence of her global work: Rising Connected, a community framework dedicated to awakening feminine truth, power and wisdom.

Together, the three women explore the transformative healing of circle work, the need for safe connection in a disconnected world, and the foundational framework of Rising Connected’s 8 Agreements, principles that help women return to authenticity, embodied presence, choice, integrity, awareness, heartmind, and relatedness.

This episode invites listeners into thesacred feminine paradigm: one that honours slowness, nervous-system regulation, emotional truth, and leadership rooted not in perfection, but in soul-led humanity.

References

• Rising Connected: www.risingconnected.com (Join Joey’s community & updates)
• Earth Wisdom Teachings
• Awakening Feminine Leaders (Joey’s earlier community)
• Women’s Fires (Joey’s free online online gatherings)

Karen’s Women’s Circles (based on The 8 Agreements) https://afreshidea.org/womens-circles/

Takeaways

• The ‘8 Agreements’ are a living framework for awakening.
• Circle work restores what the modern world has forgotten.
• Burnout can be a sacred threshold.
• Co-regulation is powerful medicine.
• Slowing down is a feminine superpower.
• Wintering is part of leadership.
• We are in a collective feminine awakening.

Chapters

• 00:00 – Welcome & Listener Requests
• 01:20 – Introducing Joey Walters
• 02:00 – Burnout & the Birth of Rising Connected
• 04:00 – Earth Wisdom Apprenticeship
• 07:40 – The Healing Power of Circle
• 13:00 – Masks, Speed & Feminine Suppression
• 18:00 – Feeling the Full Emotional Spectrum
• 20:00 – Distorted Power vs. True Power
• 24:00 – The Myth of Perfection Falls Away
• 29:00 – Rising Connected’s 8 Agreements
• 37:00 – Wintering & Inner Leadership
• 41:00 – How to Join Circles & Work with the Agreements
• 48:00 – Final Blessings on the Feminine Path

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