When Gaia Suffers

When Gaia Suffers — The Shadow Side with Safrianna Ep. 20In this solo episode, licensed trauma therapist and Queer-Spirit Guide Safrianna Lughna explores what happens to highly sensitive people when the planet itself is suffering. Drawing on her own lifelong connection to earth energy — from childhood days in the branches of her "mother maple" to her work with clients navigating climate grief — Safrianna introduces the concept of Earth Sense as one of three foundational intuitive gifts every human carries.She breaks down the difference between empathy, energy sensitivity, and earth sense, and explains what it means to be a "trifecta" — someone carrying all three. For those with earth sense, environmental disasters aren't just sad news events. They land in the body as grief, dread, and overwhelm sourced directly from the planet herself.Safrianna offers grounding practices, practical tools for managing energetic and informational overload, and a guided breathwork and visualization to help listeners reconnect to the earth, send healing energy, and come home to themselves.She Discusses:— The three foundational intuitive gifts: empathy, energy sensitivity, and earth sense— What it means to be a trifecta and why it hits differently right now— Why doom scrolling is an energy leak, not an act of care— How to create containers around news consumption— The difference between self-sacrifice and sustainable activism— Why ceremony and community are acts of resistance— A guided grounding practice to send healing through the rootsThis podcast is for anyone ready to explore uncomfortable truths, do the inner work, and contribute to collective healing. If you're tired of surface-level conversations and ready to go deeper, this is your space.Content Warning: This episode discusses climate grief, environmental anxiety, and collective suffering.Contact: [email protected] | Safrianna.com