Sacred Sundays

What if the things holding you back were never really yours to begin with, and the path forward was always just waiting for you to say yes?

In this conversation with Ryan Baker, founder of West Coast Alchemist, we follow the arc of a profound and accelerated awakening that began with late-night visitations in a work camp and led, through a series of courageous threshold crossings, to handcrafted energy tools, frequency art, and a li...

What if you are not lost at all, and the world that birthed you has been waiting for you to stand still long enough to be found?

In this conversation with Tei Taiyarï, counsellor, ecotherapist, death doula, and edge walker, we wander into territory that is rarely spoken about with this kind of honesty. Tei opens with a poem by David Wagoner that stops you in your tracks, and from there we move through grief, colonialism, cultural or...

What if the answers you have been searching for were never in your head to begin with?

In this conversation with Brandy Cox, integrative counsellor and spiritual medium, we explore what happens when two very different worlds learn to work together. Brandy shares how she came to this work through energy healing, through the medicine of being in circle with others, and through the slow realization that deep connection was not just som...

What if the system designed to help people in pain has been making normal human responses wrong for decades?

In this third conversation with Barry Samson, we go somewhere that takes courage to go, into a direct examination of the DSM, the diagnostic manual that has shaped the Western world's response to emotional distress for over fifty years. Barry speaks with clarity and without malice, pointing to the architectural problem at the...

What if the most powerful healing available to you right now is simply being seen by something that cannot lie?

In this conversation with Thirza Voysey, author of The Wild In Us and founder of Soul Farm Sanctuary on Gabriola Island, we enter the world of equine healing and what horses offer that nothing else quite can. Thirza shares how her divorce became the turning point that sent her back to herself, and how the horses found her ...

What if the goal was never to fix yourself, but to strip away everything you were never meant to carry in the first place?

In this conversation with Kate Emberton, intuitive channel, energy healer, and astrologer, we explore what it means to leave a corporate life behind and step fully into work that bridges the seen and unseen. Kate shares her own journey through a spiritual awakening, the slow unraveling of who she thought she was...

What if slowing down isn't a retreat from life, but the doorway to everything we've been searching for?

In this conversation with Jude Wong, therapist and somatic facilitator, we step away from the usual format and enter a live experience of the Way of Council, an indigenous-rooted practice of speaking and listening from the heart. Jude guides us through a grounding visualization before we settle into shared presence, exploring what...

What if the most powerful thing an elder can do is simply step back and hold the space while everything unfolds?

In this conversation with Michael Sherlock, ritual elder, IFS therapist, and lifelong student of ceremony, we explore what it means to grow into eldership not as a title you claim but as a presence the community calls forward. Michael shares how his mentors walked him toward a way of being that had less to do with wisdom ...

What if the anxiety, the pain, and the restlessness are not problems to be solved but invitations to come home?

In this conversation with Nina Fields, registered therapeutic counsellor, intuitive healer, and lifelong Buddhist practitioner, we explore what it means to hold space for another person's healing without trying to do it for them. Nina shares how her own path through difficult transitions, a challenging childhood, divorce, ...

What if the part of you that has always known the answer has simply been waiting for you to stop drowning it out?

In this returning conversation with Barry Samson, we go deeper into the heart of his writing project and the concept he calls Soma, the ancient wisdom that lives in the body and speaks to us in the simplest possible language. Yum and yuck. Move toward or move away. Barry makes the case that our emotional apparatus is not...

Lee Shanks | The Walmart Greeter of the Newly Awakened | Sacred Sundays
In this Sacred Sundays conversation, Lee Shanks shares her journey of awakening and her devotion to supporting those who are newly stepping into their intuitive and spiritual paths.

We explore the importance of community, trusting intuition, and the ongoing relationship with loved ones in spirit. Lee speaks to the role of light workers in this time and offers...

What if the voice you lost wasn't taken from you all at once, but quietly silenced one unspoken no at a time?

In this conversation with Alanna Brennan, sound healer, voice coach, and founder of Womb Reclamation, we explore the profound connection between the voice and the body's two centers of creation. Alanna shares how the sacral and the throat are not separate systems but one, and why everything we have been unable to say eventua...

What if the chaos you survived was never the obstacle to your gifts, but the very thing that forged them?

In this conversation with Darrell Greenwood, author of the multidimensional storybook Lantern on the Longship, we explore what it means to be a highly sensitive person moving through a world that rarely makes room for that. Darrell shares his journey from a childhood wired for feeling everything, through years of unconscious cop...

What if the gifts you've been holding back are not just yours to keep, but medicine the world is waiting for?

In this conversation with Onyx Rose, performing artist of mixed Irish and Native heritage, we explore what it means to live from your inner compass and let that alignment become the creative force that moves through everything you do. Onyx shares the story behind her debut song Shine Bright, how it was born in the middle of ...

What if everything you've been calling depression is actually a signal, and the system designed to guide you home has been inside you all along?

In this conversation with Barry Samson, social entrepreneur, writer, and founder of the Depression Confessions, we explore what happens when we stop being afraid of emotional pain and start getting curious about it. Barry shares his own journey from a suicidal teenager to someone who has sp...

In this Sacred Sundays encore episode, Reverend Nicole Powell shares her lived experience as a medium and spiritual teacher, and the path that led her into deeper relationship with her gifts, her body, and her own inner guidance.

We explore working with spirit guides, the importance of community, and the often unseen balance between spiritual service and personal health. Nicole speaks to self-doubt, somatic awareness, and the maturi...

What if the thing standing between us and collective healing is simply how much of our heart we're willing to let out?

In this conversation with Jeff Thompson, Psychodramatist, clinical director, and longtime friend, we wander into the field Rumi wrote about, the one that exists beyond right and wrong, and explore what becomes possible when we meet each other there. Jeff shares the essence of psychodrama, a modality that blends ther...

What if the moment you stop pushing away what you feel is the moment it loses its grip on you?

In this conversation with Alex Vu, holistic healing practitioner and founder of Nichi Healing in Nanaimo, we explore what it means to live a life rooted in presence rather than performance. Alex shares her journey from corporate Vancouver to the mountain views and ocean air of Vancouver Island, and how that leap without a map led her to a ...

What if the instrument you were always meant to play has been waiting for you, and all it asks is that you slow down enough to hear it?

In this conversation with Terry Mack, the heart behind Peaceful Spirit Flutes, we explore the quiet but profound world of the Native American style flute and the way it calls people home to themselves. Terry shares how a single Christmas gift completely redirected her life, and how twenty years of c...