Rewild Yourself with Elen Sentier

In today's episode of The Best Guest we welcome Elen Sentier a best-selling author of British native shamanism who describes herself as a quirky, wilderness woman who is deeply connected with nature. We talk about:What it means to rewild yourselfHow to stop people pleasingWhat happens when you're true to yourselfAbout Elen SentierElen Sentier comes from a long family lineage of Cunning Folk and was brought up as awenydd (spirit keeper) in the old magical traditions of Britain.Elen trained as a transpersonal psychotherapist with Ian Gordon-Brown and Barbara Sommers when health issues led her to retire from her career at the MOD. Elen was thrilled to discover how the transpersonal perspective integrates the personal with spiritual and transcendent aspects of being human, which meshed with the old magical ways she’d been brought up in.Elen initially opened a practice in London but always more at home in the wilderness, she and her husband, a particle physicist, left London for the Welsh Marches. Here, Elen continued to develop her practice using transpersonal psychology and witchyness to help clients become their true selves, rewild their hearts and find what makes their hearts sing.Elen has also taught her work through an apprenticeship and three-year advanced course for over 30 years. Her students, from all walks of life such as policemen, poets, stock brokers and doctors, go on to take the work into their own specialisms.To date, Elen has published 12 books with the Moon Books imprint of John Hunt Publishing, three of which are bestsellers. Her bragging rights include dancing for Arlene Philips; taking contemporary dance class with Robert Cohen; flying in Jaguar fighter aircraft; doing plasma-physics at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy; and being kissed by Mick Jagger! She loves cats, and eats paleo, and her tag-line is “If the cat and the boyfriend disagree, get rid of the boyfriend!”Key TakeawaysIt's important to be able to say, I can't buy in to thatDigestive problems can be about repressed emotions and stressSaying no gets easier when you feel your wild selfIt's important to get to the roots of why you people pleaseRealise you don't have to keep playing other people's scriptsQuoteWe mostly people please because we don't feel safeMentioned in This EpisodeWanderland by Jini ReddyConnect with Elen SentierWebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagramLinkedInConnect with Victoria BennionBook your free podcast guesting strategy session today.To learn more about working with us visit https://victoriabennion.com/