Latest Healing through writing Podcast Episodes

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Stories We Tell around Dying

Courageous Wordsmith - May 27, 2024 15:10 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Dr. Martha Jo Atkins, professional counselor, author, and speaker, guides individuals and families through end of life journeys. With three decades of experience, and a passion for storytelling through photography and film, Dr. Atkins fosters a space where fear lessens and courage and understand...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Patterns Revealed in a Memoir

Courageous Wordsmith - October 31, 2023 19:13 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Emily P. G. Erickson is a Minnesota-based writer specializing in mental health and parenting. You can find her bylines in major digital publications, including Everyday Health, Health, The New York Times, Parents, Romper, Verywell Mind, Wired, and more. A former PTSD researcher for the U.S. Depa...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Season Five Trailer

Courageous Wordsmith - October 31, 2023 18:28 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
It's a whole new season of Courageous Wordsmith. I've published my second memoir, Tiny Altars, and I'm ready to podcast.

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Why We Show Up for Our Writing

Courageous Wordsmith - June 08, 2023 01:56 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Bradley Bodeker is an author of poetry and horror fiction. He is also an illustrator, musician, actor, and ordained minister of the Church of the Latter Day Dude. Bradley is currently working on two novels and a horror anthology. Facebook: https://facebook.com/KingBeeRadley Amazon: https://a...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Show Up for Your Writing

Courageous Wordsmith - May 26, 2023 18:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Michelle Wolff teaches, podcasts, and coaches using story, humor, and some salty language. She holds a Master's degree in Education, has 25 years of experience working with people, and loves to help multi-passionate people stop procrastinating, focus up, and get stuff done. She’s been a therapis...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Train Your Body & Mind to Write

Courageous Wordsmith - May 11, 2023 17:21 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Michelle Wolff teaches, podcasts, and coaches using story, humor, and some salty language. She holds a Master's degree in Education, has 25 years of experience working with people, and loves to help multi-passionate people stop procrastinating, focus up, and get stuff done. She’s been a therapis...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Tiny Altars Backstory

Courageous Wordsmith - April 27, 2023 18:48 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Amy Hallberg is the award-winning author of German Awakening: Tales from an American Life. She is a podcaster, story coach, book writing mentor, and the founder of Courageous Wordsmith. A lifelong Minnesotan, Amy lives in the Twin Cities with her husband and two cats. https://amyhallberg.com h...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Tiny Altars Launch Jitters

Courageous Wordsmith - April 11, 2023 18:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Bradley Bodeker is an author of poetry and horror fiction. He is also an illustrator, musician, actor, and ordained minister of the Church of the Latter Day Dude. Bradley is currently working on two novels and a horror anthology. Facebook: https://facebook.com/KingBeeRadley Amazon: https://a...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

What Stories Can Teach Us

Courageous Wordsmith - March 17, 2023 15:14 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Michael Trotta is a mentor, storyteller, natural learning specialist, proud dyslexic, unapologetic troublemaker (the good kind), artist, hopelessly addicted fly-fisherman, and host of the Story Mischief podcast. After ten years in education, Michael set out to prove to himself that it was possi...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Befriending ADHD as a Creative

Courageous Wordsmith - February 12, 2023 16:10 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Emma Magenta is a feminist Life Coach who helps people-pleasers, overachievers, and perfectionists stop being so hard on themselves, and start feeling at home in their lives. As a coach, her North Star is radical self-love. She’s particularly effective at coaching highly sensitive ADHD women, be...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Moving Past Barriers to Healing

Courageous Wordsmith - January 12, 2023 20:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Sara Taylor is an existential life coach for people with tendencies toward anxiety, depression, and ADHD.  She collaborates with clients to facilitate generational and self healing so they can find more meaning and satisfaction in life, whether it’s in parenting, in profession, or other creative...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Preparing to Share Your Great Big Story

Courageous Wordsmith - December 18, 2022 17:45 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Allyson Scammell is a master intuitive business coach, psychic medium, and expert energy healer. Her mission is to help soul-guided leaders, influencers and entrepreneurs with big soul missions to earn more, serve more, and grow spiritually along the way. Website https://allysonscammell.com/ ...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Telling Ghost Stories

Courageous Wordsmith - December 13, 2022 20:42 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Michelle Wolff teaches, podcasts, and coaches using story, humor, and some salty language. She holds a Master's degree in Education, has 25 years of experience working with people, and loves to help multi-passionate people stop procrastinating, focus up, and get stuff done. She’s been a therapis...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

How to Talk About Tender Topics (or not)

Courageous Wordsmith - December 02, 2022 18:21 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Katherine Quie is the author of Raising Will: Surviving the Brilliance and Blues of ADHD and hosts The Brilliance and Blues of ADHD Podcast. As a licensed child psychologist who has specialized in ADHD for the last 20 years, Katherine founded ADHDandU because she believes that every child deserv...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Reclaiming our Gifts

Courageous Wordsmith - November 13, 2022 20:20 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Bev Barnes is a Soul’s Calling® Coach, Instructor & Life Coach Mentor. She coaches Life Coaches, healers, creatives, and meaning seekers, to outwit their fear and self-doubt so that they can shine their light and do the work that they were meant for. Bev holds a master’s degree in the Human Beh...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Welcome the Wild Woman

Courageous Wordsmith - October 31, 2022 22:55 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Keri Mangis is an author, speaker and owner of Curiosa Publishing, LLC. Her work has appeared in Spirituality and Health magazine, Star Tribune, Elephant Journal, Addicted to Success, and many others. Embodying Soul: A Return to Wholeness—A Memoir of New Beginnings, won several awards, including...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

We Need to Rest

Courageous Wordsmith - October 15, 2022 18:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Rebecca Shisler Marshall, PhD, believes in holistic wellness that combines the wisdom of the body, mind, emotions, energy, and spirit. As a recovering stress addict, she found (again and again) that holistic rest, shamanic work, and wellness has profound ripple effects on both herself and her cl...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

How Tarot Helps Writers

Courageous Wordsmith - September 21, 2022 17:05 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Magdalena DeRosa is a psychic medium, Reiki practitioner, tarot reader, doula, psychotherapist in training, and creative jack of all trades. In their experience, finding our voice as a writer is closely related to our ability to trust our intuition. And they believe everyone can develop our intu...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Writing a Taboo Memoir

Courageous Wordsmith - September 11, 2022 15:10 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Katherine North is a writer and executive coach, helping high achieving, secretly sensitive women declare dominion over their demanding lives. She is the author of Holy Heathen: A Spiritual Memoir, a story of her metamorphosis from a scared missionary kid growing up in Japan to a thriving heathe...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Facing Past Trauma

Courageous Wordsmith - March 06, 2022 18:21 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
About Robin Richards: Robin Richards, M.A., Ed.S., is pioneering empowered healing with education, inspiration and support through complementary therapies, teaching and coaching at Robin's WellNest. Robin has worked tirelessly to transform her childhood and adult trauma into triumph while inspi...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Recovery from Addiction

Courageous Wordsmith - February 23, 2022 18:18 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
About Robin Richards: Robin Richards, M.A., Ed.S., is pioneering empowered healing with education, inspiration and support through complementary therapies, teaching and coaching at Robin's WellNest. Robin has worked tirelessly to transform her childhood and adult trauma into triumph while inspi...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Progressive Christianity

Courageous Wordsmith - January 25, 2022 17:10 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
I haven't talked a lot about my religious foundations, which come straight out of the American Colonial period, because... well, it's complicated, right? So grateful to Nina Jonson for joining me to talk about Christianity in 2022 and how the church reconciles its role in racism, xenophobia, and...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Seed Moments

Courageous Wordsmith - January 13, 2022 18:10 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Rebecca Shisler Marshall, PhD helps women who have tried everything, to get unstuck, feel better, and have more energy. She is an expert in integrative wellness, certified life coach and yoga instructor, mindfulness teacher/researcher, and nutrition nut. She is the founder of Centered Living and...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Where the Deer Dream

Courageous Wordsmith - December 15, 2021 16:10 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Sarah Bamford Seidelmann M.D.was a fourth-generation physician living a nature-starved, hectic lifestyle until a walrus entered her life and changed everything. She’s a Shamanic Mentor and the author of several popular books including her memoir Swimming with Elephants, The Book of Beasties, and...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Creativity and Mourning

Courageous Wordsmith - December 09, 2021 03:09 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Sarah Bamford Seidelmann M.D.was a fourth-generation physician living a nature-starved, hectic lifestyle until a walrus entered her life and changed everything. She’s a Shamanic Mentor and the author of several popular books including her memoir Swimming with Elephants and a daily devotional How...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Mourning and Creativity

Courageous Wordsmith - December 09, 2021 03:09 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Sarah Bamford Seidelmann M.D.was a fourth-generation physician living a nature-starved, hectic lifestyle until a walrus entered her life and changed everything. She’s a Shamanic Mentor and the author of several popular books including her memoir Swimming with Elephants and a daily devotional How...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

It's Time to Do Better

Courageous Wordsmith - November 09, 2021 16:10 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
White backlash against Racial equity work has gotten BIG. I refuse to believe that all of us white people think it's acceptable. Still, our silence speaks volumes. I believe we avoid talking about it because it's so BIG, that we don't know how to counteract it, so big it's swinging elections and...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Tell a Different Story

Courageous Wordsmith - October 13, 2021 17:21 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Natalie Miller is a boldly feminist coach who helps evolutionary leaders and creatives live well and do good. She works with people who achieve themselves into golden cages: work, relationships, and everyday lives that look lovely but feel way too small. Coaching with Natalie, they free themselv...

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

Season 3 Trailer

Courageous Wordsmith - October 11, 2021 21:01 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
How do we listen to our muses and show up for our dreams? Story coach, book writing mentor & author Amy Hallberg (she / her) presents conversations with real-life creatives. Because if you want to be a real-life creative, it helps to know what that looks like for you.

Courageous Wordsmith artwork

When Writing Challenges Us

Courageous Wordsmith - September 28, 2021 15:10 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Katie Sanders is a sensory designer and HSP (highly sensitive person) coach who supports those with anxiety, sensitivities, adhd, autism, and chronic illnesses through their surroundings, senses and personalized systems. She helps them work with their natural gifts to create studio spaces they n...

Related Healing through writing Topics