Empowering Chats with Susan Burrell

Boost Your Energy

Ep #263 Boost Your Energy - An Interview with Intuitive Energy Healer, Dr. Mary Sanders.

We are continuing our theme of Eternal for the month of February. And so with that I also want to include the embracing of the Eternal and welcome my guest, Dr. Mary Sanders.

Dr. Mary is an Intuitive Energy Healer and is stunning in her vibrancy. We shared a deep, Empowering Chat about the Energy Patterns that we hold and how that manifests in our lives. Much of what manifests is our soul’s essence, it is the original blueprint we came into this planet with.

Dr. Mary works with her own wisdom and intuition acquired in energy to help women over 40 bounce back from burnout. She is a doctor of Chiropractic with an emphasis in Functional Nutrition. She also has a Certification in Positive Psychology. It is through the integration of all of her practical experience and life experience that she is able to help others heal themselves.

The pathway of Dr. Mary’s work is to ground the discordant energy.

She recognizes that we are always doing the best we can with the tools that we have. And learning how to be self-compassionate, although hard for many of us, is one way to heal.

Dr. Mary and her co-facilitator, Cathleen Wasielewski are hosting the Embody Your Soul Retreat in March. It is for yoga enthusiasts and meditators. Interested in hearing more visit: https://www.drmarysanders.com/embody-your-soul-retreat-1

Mary is also offering a free gift for my listeners. To access her guide on how to boost your energy centers visit her website at: DrMarySanders.com

To learn more about me and how I show up in the world please visit: SusanBurrell.com

Open To Life

Ep #262 - Open To Life - An Interview with author, Emily Thiroux Thrett.

This Episode of Empowering Chats is about grief. And this month’s theme is “Eternal.” I intentionally placed this interview under this theme.  I believe that all of us have an eternal essence, an eternal soul and an eternal energy that stays in the hearts of those we come in contact with even when we have left our physical bodies.

My guest, Emily Thiroux Threatt is here to talk about grief and how to find our happiness within the folds of losing someone close to us. Her latest book is called, The Grief and Happiness Handbook, which is also a guidebook.  This handbook has exercises to help guide you out of your grief.

Emily lost 2 wonderful husbands who ironically both died of the same thing. After losing her first husband who was sick for 2 years, she never thought she’d marry again but then she met Ron, her second husband.

He was a new thought minister and together they practiced living in the moment. And after his diagnosis she thought that practice of living in the moment was going to make all the difference in the world. And in some ways, it did help her, when he transitioned, but in other ways not so much. 

For a time, she found herself quite lost with no motivation to do much of anything but watch TV. Then she began to journal and found that writing grounded her. The more she wrote the more she found it grounding.

What she realized is that when one is grieving, they often get stuck and are not sure where to go. Everything looks and feels different. She found that she needed guidance on where to go next. And this experience of writing, creating grief cards and slowly re-emerging into daily life is how she began to heal.

She took what she learned and began to work with others in her community who were navigating grief and encouraged people to come up with intentions that would serve them directly. Sometimes they are simple intentions like “today I am going to eat healthy.”

Emily says as divine beings we can embrace both grief and happiness as they do not have to directly oppose each other.

The one thing people who are grieving should know is to take care of themselves and remember to ask for help. This is especially important in the early stages of grief. Watch and observe what you are doing. Be with people, go outside and allow yourself to be happy and around people you love. Do not hide.

Emily also founded the non-profit, The Grief and Happiness Alliance where she offers weekly classes and meetings. She lives in Maui, Hawaii and also has a link where you can offer donations to the victims of the Maui fire so that her handbook can be available for anyone directly affected by the fire.

To learn more about Emily visit: LovingAndLivingYourWayThroughGrief.com

To purchase her book visit: LovingAndLivingYourWayThroughGrief.com/books/

To learn more about the Grief and Happiness Alliance visit: GriefAndHappiness.com

To support the Maui Effort visit: GriefAndHappiness.com/maui-grief-relief

To learn more about how I show up in the world please visit my website: SusanBurrell.com

Embracing The Eternal

EP #261 - Embracing the Eternal, A solo show with your host, Susan Burrell

In this episode of "Empowering Chats" we investigate what it means to be eternal. What does it mean to embrace eternality?

You all know me so well by now so you know I always like to give the dictionary definition of the special word I am focusing on. This month that word is "Eternal." And many of the guests that I will be interviewing this month will be around the theme of eternality.

So here goes. Eternal is defined as: Without beginning or end. Lasting forever. Occurring again and again. Enduring. Endless. Unchanged by Time.

Ask yourself, what if I could embrace my eternal spirit? What if I could live my potential from that eternal spirit? From that space where there is no beginning or end.

This is a large concept to take in. What does eternal actually mean to you? Does it mean living a very long life? Eternity is life infinity. It is infinite. That is where I believe potential lives. In the infinite.

When I know that I am aligned with divine spirit and my eternal soul -- and the beingness of my whole self, then life gets that much sweeter. For me it’s all about embracing the eternal aspect of myself. And staying in a space of wonder and curiosity.

I want to invite you to tap into your potential and explore more of who you are. If you are interested in having some guidance through this process, I encourage you to check out my book, "Live An Empowered Life, A 30-Day Journey." It is full of inspirational quotes and journaling prompts with interactive exercises to get you moving toward your full potential and embracing all that you are.

To learn more about how I show up in the world please visit my website: SusanBurrell.com

To purchase my book, "Live An Empowered Life, A 30-Day Journey Book," visit: SusanBurrell.com/book

The Healing Path for Adoptees

EP #260 - The Healing Path for Adoptees, An Interview with Author and Podcast Host, Michelle Madrid.

Welcome to this episode of Empowering Chats with Susan Burrell. I have a very special guest today. Her name is Michelle Madrid and she has recently penned a book called, Let Us Be Greater: A Gentle Guided Path to Healing for Adoptees.

In her book, Michelle documents her own story of being an International Adoptee who was born in the UK to an English Mom and a Spanish Father. Her biological mom was married with 3 kids. Michelle was the product of her mother’s affair with a Spanish man, her biological father. Ultimately Michelle was placed in foster care in the UK when she was about 8 weeks old. She was eventually adopted by an American Family when she reached her young toddler years.

Michelle’s journey to learn how to deal with being an adoptee began when she was in college. She explored her relationship with her biological mom who would often dispense advice like, “C’mon time for you to get a stiff upper lip and move on.” OR advice from her adopted mother sounded something like this, “Just be grateful I saved you from a very hard space it's time for you to just move forward.”

Her life path guided her to seek answers and ways to help others who may have had similar experiences as an adopted child. Michelle has learned that the complex emotions and psychological turmoil of adoption — including feelings of anger, distrust, confusion, and unworthiness — are best healed through identification, exploration and understanding.

Written with compassion and authenticity, her book Let Us Be Greater helps adoptees and their families feel heard, seen, and understood as they work to build open, fulfilling and healthy relationships.

Michelle offers many healing practices for adoptees throughout the book. It is filled with exercises to help adoptees work through their challenges in order to tap into their authentic self. It is also a great resource for families that are considering adoption.

 

To learn more about Michelle Madrid visit: TheMichelleMadrid.com/

 

To purchase her book, "Let Us Be Greater" visit: TheMichelleMadrid.com/book-let-us-be-greater

 

To learn more about how I show up in the world please visit: SusanBurrell.com

 

Thriving with Cancer

EP #259 - Thriving with Cancer, An Interview with Jan Adrian, author and Executive Director of the non-profit, Healing Journeys.

 

I am not only honored but so grateful to have Jan Adrian as a guest once again on Empowering Chats. I last interviewed Jan about 2 years ago and since that time she has written a memoir entitled, Coloring Outside the Lines, Surviving and Thriving with Cancer for 30+ Years. 

In this powerful chat Jan shares her life journey about living with cancer for over 30 years and how she came to understand and accept that she was never going to "beat" the cancer. She learned to accept her diagnosis and the many times it continued to show up in her body, even though her initial response was usually, "Oh S**T" she always found her way to the silver lining.

Jan never intended to write a book, she felt there were too many books already written about cancer. However, after much prodding from her friends and those she worked with at her non-profit, Healing Journeys, she realized there had never been a book written from the point of view of living and thriving with cancer. So she decided she would write her memoir with cancer as the focal point.

Jan's book is both inspiring and informative. It is not just about cancer but about resilience, trusting your intuition and your body.  She shares stories from her childhood, including one that began at the young age of 16 when she was diagnosed with an unknown disease. The doctors could not pinpoint what was causing her symptoms or why she was so ill.  She was eventually seen by a chiropractor who primarily used diet to help her body heal.

In her book, Jan describes the many strategies she used for healing, and how she learned that everything that washed up on her beach could be used for the growth of her soul.

To purchase Coloring Outside the Lines and learn more about Jan visit: HealingJourneys.org/coloring-outside-the-lines-surviving-and-thriving-with-cancer-for-30-years-by-jan-adrian/

Her book can also be purchased on Amazon.

To learn more about me and how I show up in the world please visit my website at: SusanBurrell.com

Time for Brave Action

Ep#258 - Time for Brave Action, An Interview with Leadership Coach, Clara Chorley

 

I am honored to welcome, author and career and leadership development coach, Clara Chorley to Empowering Chats. We jumped right into this chat with a new way of defining bravery. And then pulling apart how to access it in our everyday life.

Clara defines bravery by first stating what it is not. It is not what is portrayed in the movies, like the Indian Jones character fighting his enemies in the jungles of South America or the warrior with his sword going off to war to battle the “bad” guys. It is not any of those things but rather something more subtle and powerful.

According to Clara true bravery is very personal and can be very complicated. It is personal because only you can know where it is you need to be brave. It is not what society deems to be brave but rather what your inner voice is calling you to be brave about. It is that ever powerful inner knowing of what you need to do to shift, change or enhance your life.

This sort of bravery requires you to go after the things you really want, not what others are telling you is important or what society deems you need to have or go after, but rather investigating what brings you joy. And it may take both vulnerability and bravery to access that which is calling to you.

People that do more brave things have been shown to heal faster. There have been clinical studies done on this subject. There has also been research surrounding how being braver in your life can also extend your life.

It is all about moving bravely toward who we want to be and what we want to include in our lives. And this includes reaching for your fullest potential and bringing joy into your life.

To learn more about Clara Chorley please visit: ClarityUnlimited.com

To tap into your FREE Clarity Coaching Gift please message Clara directly through her Linkedin page: www.linkedin.com/in/clara-chorley Be sure to mention "Clarity Coaching Gift" and that you heard about this on my podcast Empowering Chats. She is offering these for only a limited time.

To Learn more about how I show up in the world please visit: SusanBurrell.com

Reaching For Your Highest Potential

Ep#257 - Reaching For Your Highest Potential, A Solo Show with your host, Susan Burrell.

Welcome to 2024. I am excited to jump start 2024 and share with all of you what my team and I came up with for our theme this year. As we were brainstorming at the end of 2023 the word potential kept bouncing around in my head.

And so that is how we came to settle on: BE Potential as the theme for Empowering Chats for 2024. The definition of Potential is as follows: Capable of being or becoming. Other words that showed in the definition included: Inherent, hidden, budding future, unrealized and undeveloped.

So as you enter this new year I invite you to take a few minutes or more, maybe 15 or 20 to sit in the quiet and listen. If you journal, have that handy as well. And ask yourself:

• What is my potential?
• Am I living it?  
• OR Is it undeveloped?
• Or hidden?
• Does it feel safe or daunting to step into my potential?

For me personally, I believe that becoming my full potential takes a lot of bravery and courage. And yet as I develop my potential, I feel more bountiful and more expansive.  2023 for me was about expanding . . . and now it’s about expanding into my full potential. Again, I invite you to do the same. To explore your inner landscape and see all the possibilities laid out for you.

I think it’s really about reaching for that high frequency of love. Growing into your potential is necessary for our individual growth and for the greater good of humanity.

It can be a wonderful adventure where you can access your abilities and become more aware of who you are.

So again, as I welcome in the new year of 2024 I encourage you to join me on this journey and make Empowering Chats a regular part of your podcast listening. I hope to inspire and encourage you to stay curious and expand into your potential.

 

From Cradle to Career

Ep#256 - From Cradle to Career - An interview with Nadine Templer, Senior Director of Volunteer Programs for the non-profit, HOPE Worldwide.

This is the month of giving and every year in December I like to focus on ways we can give to others in our life that do not necessarily involve material gifts. One of the ways I do this is by including discussions and interviews with people who are involved in the nonprofit world. So in that vein I am honored to introduce Nadine Templer, the Senior Director of Volunteer Programs for the non-profit, HOPE Worldwide. This organization has been around since the 1990s.  It has been serving people since the AIDs epidemic in South Africa.

They are an international organization that serves many people all over the world. 

Nadine lives in Nepal and works specifically to impact the people of Nepal. For the last 30 years HOPE worldwide has run a sustainable educational program for the poor and under-served children of Nepal. The school teaches the children that are the poorest of the poor. Many of these children come from families that have migrated from the Himalayas and the villages of Nepal. Many of these families come to Kathmandu in search of work and their children do not go to school. Those are the children that are enrolled in the school. It is an elementary school that goes from preschool to the 5^th grade. The classes are small and the children are fed 2 meals a day. Nadine shared that the children are very energetic and eager to learn. Over half of the staff are graduates of the school and the perfect fit for this school as they understand the background and the life these children are living.

Many of the kids are provided with scholarships so they can continue their education and most importantly HOPE worldwide follows through with this kids until they get to University and get a job.

Nadine had this to say, “We are very proud of the sustainable practice we have created. We do that by engaging with the child until they are in a career. We like to live by the saying, From Cradle to Career."

I shared with Nadine how this practice for me comes down to how “one person” can lift up others – all it takes is one person to begin the change and make a difference.

Anyone who wishes to give to this program specifically can do so through the HOPE worldwide website and they can give directly to the Nepal program by specifying that when they donate.

It’s all about learning how your gift can help others and volunteering is also another way to find joy.  And the lessons we can learn from the many communities around the world are endless.

To learn more about HOPE Worldwide or to donate please visit: Hopeww.org

To learn more about me and how I show up in the world please visit: SusanBurrell.com

The Gift of Giving

Ep.# 255 - The Gift of Giving - A Solo Show with your host, Susan Burrell

Another year has come and gone. Hard to believe.  As many of you know the theme for this year was, and still is “BE Expansive.” I hope through the many shows we presented this year you have all found ways to expand your minds and tap into your willingness to explore new frontiers and be present with the truth of who you are. Personally, I think that’s a gift that you can give directly to yourself.

And speaking of gifts. December is also the month of giving or as I like to say it, “The gift of giving” because when you give to yourself you are also giving to others and when you give to others you are giving to yourself.

For the past few years my team and I have gotten together to give assistance to others by way of donating to non-profit organizations. It has been a powerful process for me and for my team to know we are giving to organizations that can assist others.

Some of the organizations that I continue to support include: Canine Companions, Planned Parenthood, ASPCA (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) and International Rescue Committee.

I am calling to all of you to look inside your heart and think about giving in order to help someone you may never meet. There are many non-profit organizations to explore that likely fit into something you’d like to donate to. By giving in this way, I believe we create ripples of love that go out into humanity while also being a way of being of service to others.

I hope you give the gift of love not just to yourself but to others as well this season.

And if you are looking for additional ways to bring calm to your inner landscape as you navigate the busy holidays, I invite you to explore my guided meditations on Insight Timer which can easily be accessed via my website.

If you need a special gift for someone in your life who may be struggling with finding their purpose, I highly recommend my book, “Live An Empowered Life, A 30-Day Journey Book,” also found on my website. It is accompanied by videos and journal prompts to assist and guide you through this 30-Day Journey.

 

To learn more about the non-profits I mentioned in the show please visit:

GriefAndHappiness.com

aspca.org

PlannedParenthood.org

Canine.org

rescue.org

To learn more about how I show up in the world visit: SusanBurrell.com

To access my guided meditations, visit: InsightTimer.com/SusanBurrell

To purchase my book or my affirmation cards please visit: SusanBurrell.com/book

Communicating With Your Pets

Ep.# 254 Communicating with Your Pets. An Interview with Joan Ranquet.

My guest for this episode of Empowering Chats is Joan Ranquet. She has a unique niche in life. She is an animal communicator, an educator, a TEDx Speaker and the author of Emotional Freedom Technique for Animals and their Humans, Creating a Harmonious Relationship through Tapping.

I love this book. It is organized and easy to follow. Joan clearly spells out how EFT techniques can be applied to your pets.

I asked Joan to explain what EFT is and how she translated it into working with animals. Joan started out as an animal communicator. And what she found was that EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique, worked for her when dealing with high emotions and so she felt it could also be used to help animals. Joan describes EFT as: Tapping with your fingers on a series of acupuncture points which are connected to meridians in your body. And those meridians are connected to organ systems and in Chinese Medicine they believe each organ holds an emotional value. The points we focus on are calming emotional points.

One of the aspects of this human / animal relationship that Joan touches on in her book is the way we humans see life through a “human” lens whereas animals see it differently and yet we think our pets see the world in the same way.

The more we know about our pets and how they need to function in their world the better we will be as owners. One of Joan’s goals is to have her book available at shelters where new pet owners can utilize EFT or tapping to help their pet acclimate to a new life. Many shelter animals have been abused or neglected and consequently may have behavioral issues that can be addressed with tapping. 

The tapping technique works similarly for pets as it does for humans insofar as tapping on the same meridian points. The difference is that the pet owner is doing the tapping on the animal and using a reassuring voice coupled with loving affirmations.  This technique has proven to make a difference.

Joan’s whole goal is to help animals be their better self and we as pet owners can help support that. Joan has several books out that all speak to animal lovers and how we can learn to better communicate with our pets and be loving, supportive pet owners.

 

To learn more about Joan Ranquet please visit her website at: JoanRanquet.com

To purchase her book, Emotional Freedom Technique for Animals and their Humans, visit: Innertraditions.com/books/emotional-freedom-technique-for-animals-and-their-humans

To learn more about how I show up in the world visit:SusanBurrell.com