The Heart AF Podcast: Real Talk For Healing, Hope & Authentic Living

The Holidays are supposed to be a time of joy, parties, and seeing loved ones, but for some of us, this time of year feels heavy with heartache over our loved ones who are no longer with us during this season. This week, I’m sharing an older episode touching on my personal journey through loss, and grieving through the holiday season. I share with you how we can still feel sad and honor our loved ones while still allowing ourselv...

Have you ever been pushed too far that you finally breakdown and scream and cry while driving in your car? Well that was me the other day.  On this Heart AF episode, I walk you through the moment I was finally able too let go and faced the truths of the pains I had been holding in side, those feelings I hadn't really wanted to look at or acknowledge. They finally bubbled up to the surface and came out in the most animalistic ugly c...

I am opening up about one of my most painful moments as a parent when I had to help my oldest daughter through an intense mental-health crisis. This time in our lives was terrifying, but I wanted to share the lessons that came with trying to control what felt uncontrollable, and how everything began to change the moment my husband and I chose to surrender, trust, and lean into our faith.

This experience showed me the power of let...

This experience showed me the effects of how important co-regulation is with your kids. Especially if you have kids who may have some sensory sensitivities. My nervous system was at a level code red and I had a full on mom meltdown at my son's baseball game. My son was clearly experiencing his own kind of meltdown, that triggered me into both os us losing our sh*t in public. HOWEVER! There is a positive spin to this story as it re...

The Heart AF Podcast is back! In this first episode after a long pause, I open up about why I stepped away, and some of what I’ve learned through one of the hardest seasons of my life, and why I felt called to return to the mic now.

We talk about the messy reality of healing, the courage it takes to find your voice again, and how to move through pain without staying stuck in suffering. If you’ve ever fel...

Welcome to The Heart AF Podcast with host Chelsea VanBuskirk—wife, mom of three, and recovering mother-hustler. This show is about refusing to let hard seasons harden our hearts. Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Each week, expect honest stories, practical tools, and conversations with healers and women who’ve walked through grief, betrayal, burnout, messy parenting and marriage—and found joy again. We’ll unpack self-s...

Welcome to The Heart AF Podcast with host Chelsea VanBuskirk—wife, mom of three, and recovering mother-hustler. This show is about refusing to let hard seasons harden our hearts. Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Each week, expect honest stories, practical tools, and conversations with healers and women who’ve walked through grief, betrayal, burnout, messy parenting and marriage—and found joy again. We’ll unpack self-s...

In this week's episode, join me as we take a look at Disney Pixar's movie Elemental and uncover one of the profound life lessons it has to offer.

Watching this enchanting animation, I was able unravel the damaging truths about the relentless pursuit of people-pleasing.

I explore how we often poison our own lives by suppressing our dreams and needs in the name of making others happy. It's time to realize that we are perfectly create...

In this emotionally poignant episode, we delve into a deeply personal journey of grief and self-discovery that ultimately leads to a profound shift in perspective.

I had a heart-wrenching moment of grief about my dad that became the catalyst for a transformative realization about not only my relationship with him, but the other relationships in my life. 

Let's go on a transformative journey of empathy and compassion, as we learn ho...

I get personal in this episode, sharing some of my own moments of self-discovery that have led me through the transformative power of letting our ego thoughts burn down.

We tend to identify and value ourselves based on our relationships, our jobs, or our assets. But the truth is all these things can be lost or taken away from us.

And when any of these things happen it can be quite the gut punch and leave us wondering who we really ...

Welcome to another enlightening episode of The Heart AF Podcast Episode 34- Let Them.

In this episode, I discuss the profound practice of letting go of judgment, and instead, choosing to rise above negativity when faced with the words and actions of others. We live in a world filled with diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences, it's all too easy to fall into the trap of judgment.

We often form opinions about others based...

32. In this episode I talk about how going through life looking through the lens of fear heightens our insecurities and negatively affects our lives by increasing our personal suffering.

BUT, we do have the power and ability to change our perspective, and in this episode I share some tips on how to get back to looking at life through the lens of love. When we go through those hard painful moments it can be very difficult to pull ou...

It happens to all of us, times in our life when a fierce storm comes out of nowhere and knocks us off our feet. 

We can get swept away, struggling to keep our head above water to breathe. 

It happened to me recently. And it was ROUGH. For awhile.

These storms, as painful as they can be, do serve a purpose though.

Let's talk about it in this comeback episode on the Heart AF Podcast. 

I give you some brief insights and ah-ha's from m...

Attitude is literally everything. Our attitude creates our experience and our thoughts create our reality.

In this week’s Heart AF episode I dive into the importance of our energetic frequencies and what it means to be high vibe. And why it's important we want to work at raising our frequencies to be more ‘high vibe.’

This month me and my friend Stef Layton have put together an April Challe...

This week's Spring inspired episode is all about planting seeds of intention in order to watch yourself bloom into this new season. 

This season is a time for renewal, to feel re-energized for what's possible for you.

The increased warmth and sunshine provides the energy and hope to believe in ourselves in what's possible. 

Believe in you, and affirm your mind with this Spring Mindset Affirmations PDF that you can download for your...

I am still shocked at the unbelievable power our minds have in and over our lives. 

Our minds can seriously change our reality and how we experience our external world. 

I share with you some recent experiences in my own life where I literally changed my external experiences by changing my mindset.

It changed the progress I was making in my weight loss journey, and it changed an important relationship in my life.

This stuff is MAGI...

Such a special heart filled episode with guest Erica Marie! ❤️ Erica Marie is an Uplifter, Speaker, and Success Coach. Her expertise in business & life success coaching, along with her passion for mental, physical, and spiritual wellness, has helped countless individuals achieve a more fulfilling, balanced, purposeful, and mindful life. You can find  this special lady on instagram here.

In this episode Erica Marie shares a bit ...

We all experience moments of insecurity, feeling small, or not quite as good, maybe feeling we don't belong, or aren't good enough.

This week's episode is about some recent experiences of mine where I have felt this way. 

And what I recently learned that has shifted my perspective, and I hope it helps shift yours too. 

I spoke about a beautiful image I had recently seen online, and I found it. It was actually a photograph of a scul...