Birthing Freedom with Serena Oliveira
by SERENA OLIVEIRA
After experiencing two open heart surgeries and while continuing to grow up in varied rural areas across Canada, I listen to the intersection of physiology, health, freedom, culture and power.This podcast showcases the calm before and after a lifecycle storm in addition to the seismic changes in moments of vulnerable transformation.My attention goes to these opportunities to explore how powerful we are in the most extreme of times and places.
Episodes
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Interview with Lyle Povah: Running with Joy!
An autumn equinox interview with Lyle Povah, who's worked in prisons and hospitals for the last 30 years. He's an international musician, drum circle facilitator, yoga teacher, and researcher who uses music and movement to bring people together and promote well-being. While the rain created it's...
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From Pain to Power
What is resliance and how can we tap into our struggles, our blocks and use them to flourish? This episode explores my own experiences and research in health and how we can use pain to tap into power. Oh the soup of life, with all that comes with it! The fear, anger, stress and the many...
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Love Your Crown
The hair industry in the US alone is over 9 billion $/year. But what about it's energetic connection to us? Is it alive? Yes! It is much more than dead kerotin. In this episode we'll explore the energetics of hair, and the importance of embracing our "Crown" through everyday awareness, connection...
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Pain to Liberation
This episode is to remind you that every woman, every person is limitless in our desires... In our access to freedom. Igniting the power of what turns you on and exploring your longings is brilliant. So let’s journey together and I’m going to share important strategies that apply to an empowered...
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Can Peace, Presence & Pause become your next Superpowers?
This episode shares the wonders of finding PEACE, PRESENCE & PAUSE and how they each manifest in their own power. Peace looks different for each of us, and so for one peace may mean a social media fast. To another it’s finding community and entertainment. Or to find one’s self worth by being…
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Embrace Your Creative Emergence
Affirming your power-how subversive can it get?! We have each inherited and have been given tools, strategies and insights to lead our best lives. And we each have unique relationships to how we explore the spaciousness that we need to lean into life. What if all of a sudden you were given a new...
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Reclaiming Sovereignty through Dance Music w/ DJ Handsome Tiger
As we dance our way through our unique lives we each find our best ways to grow, heal, love and to celebrate ourselves. In this interview with DJ Handsome Tiger you'll get a glimpse into a musical approach to sovereignty and the manifestation of creative flow. He is an Anishinaabe Métis, North...
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Somatic Awareness while Dying
Imagine saying yes to death when you've been told you only have a few weeks left to live. This is a conversation about what it's like to know you are about to die, after you've gone through radiation and cancer treatments. Intro: How our friendship impacted me and how our easy way of sharing led…
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Nature’s Brilliance: Trees as Teachers
In this episode I explore briefly some teachings of Ram Dass and Gabor Mate and how the importance of tapping into the power of nature and to be a general guide to be more accepting and vulnerable to lean into each other. Join me on a simple philosophical wandering with the topic of trees and how...
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How to Build Unshakable Trust
Welcome to sovereign, creative pathways to nurturing unlimited potential. A podcast journey of growth and renewal as we navigate our amazing potentiality towards living our best lives. I've transitioned from my off grid life and I am back with a weekly gift for you all. This is the first show of...
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The Domestication of our Worthiness
I invite you to look at how your inner critic and how your own inner wisdom influences your life. How do you share your voice? Your desires? Your needs-AND FEEL HEARD? I dive right into it this topic through today’s episode. It’s short, 20 minutes. Bring a pen to write down important journaling...
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A Brief History of Valentine's Day and a Glimpse into my Off-grid Life
Welcome to Episode 1 of Season 2! What does LOVE mean to you?! Valentine's Day brings up alot on the juicy topic and I dive into how we are on the cusp of the season of spring and how the origins of Valentine's can be linked to older celebrations and connections to the land and fertility...
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Soul Mileage (Day 40/40)
This is my 40th day out of 40. A season in a podcast yes, also a season of casting out love for my dad in my personal lifecycle season of grief. I've laughed till I cried and cried till I laughed and back round again many times in the last 40 days. My sister described the timelessness of grief as...
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Great Conjunctions Day 39/40
This is my 39th day out of 40 of grieving the death of a loved one. Conjunction. That place of meeting and joining...an intersection or crossroads. An opportunity for choice of direction....what comes to mind for you when you hear this? Jupiter and Saturn have been demonstrating how rare but...
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Chopping onions made me cry today (not because of the syn-propanethial-S-oxide)
The Power of Tears, of making Dahl and of Remembering my Dad. I live off grid, raise two kids on a mountain.... I love cooking and facing my fears. My Dad was one of my biggest fans ...as I was his. We cheered eachother on and love eachother so much. I fell asleep at 8:30pm tonight when my eldest...
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Winter Solstice 2020: A Flicker in Time (Day 36/40 since my Dad Died)
Each life is a flicker in time on our wheel of life. I reflect on our breath, how as a young girl I often wondered if any of my ancestors had breathed the same air that I inhaled. The simple wonder in recognizing the ancient exchanges of time, seasons and yes my breath. Tonight I also chat about...
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Lessons from Grief...Day 35/40
Sharing my process I hope brings some hidden gems that I'm uncovering everyday. Also, I feel called to be vulnerable and open to my process. As a birth worker I find that there are so many comparisons to grief and birth, but I don't find many folks openly talking about it as normal as it…
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My Season of Tears
My mum says that had I needed a good cry today. I told her it was snowing as I sobbed and she told me to breathe through the tears. This is my season of tears. Tears of love that I've never had before flow like the tides these days. Like the king tides. The tides that come with a winter solstice....
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Of I could just call you up...
My dad died 33 days ago. I've been taking time to record nearly every day since. If i could call him up tonight, this episode holds most of what I'd say... Dad, I'd update you on what kind of food or tea I'm trying out this week. I'd share an update on what my projects are and what I've been up...
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Our Capacity to Love is Incredible
Living through remembrance and the unknown. Community and sharing. Reminders of those who you loved and who have passed away or who are no longer in our lives. I talk about all of that stuff tonight. I talk about how the deep remembering amidst loss is a tool to tap into our love and how far it…
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Tying a Bow and Everyday Gifts
Trust and confidence amidst living our lives and facing the known of the unknown. How do you live your life as best as you can knowing it's not always easy? When we can recognize our own inner nature, our true nature, our dharma, we can extend into what we are called to do in our own lives so…
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Following our Intuition in Birth Death and Life
If this podcast was made to be a cozy blanket amidst all of the changes in our modern world, you'll see where I cross-stitch my awareness of intuition, relationships, and process of letting go. The fabric of this episode would be quilted pieces of how birth and death teach us how simple our power...
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The Parenting Exchange
Parenting is not easy and especially as teenagers we can resent those people who parent us. But is there a word that can compliment the exchange and reciprocity between a parent and a child? I talk about how my dad was a pain in the but, and how parenting fails are crucial to who we are and…
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Navigating the Void
It's the New Moon. It's been 28 days since I experienced my personal largest loss of a loved one. I talk about the unknown that comes with life, death and birth. The concept of the void... And how we're inately curious about what's "hidden in the dark" even though we are taught to be afraid of…
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Day 27 When I don't want to talk
Silence is key to me. Tonight I went on a thought stream to chat about alternatives to how we use our voice. Humming, toning, and singing can help to massage your power centers, your chakras and the pathway to your vagus nerve... As a part of and finding and using our voices sometimes we don't…
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That time I had to ask my Dad for a pad
Menstrual blood and death. Everyday experiences that we don't talk about but are universal...from loving candy to asking for a pad. The things I end up talking about everyday surprise me and what I find the most amazing maybe is how I can talk about anything under the sun at this point without...
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Lifecycle Transitions: Birth and Dying
*SENSITIVE* (pregnancy loss) I touch briefly on how similar the birth and dying process are. I continue to reflect on how preparation and revelry for both are a part of what I "do" as I hold space for folks in their various lifecycle outcomes... I also share my written piece "Fertile Feelings"…
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Forgiveness is a Superpower
Forgiveness and getting over victimhood. As I continue to take time and cast out love to share a bit of my dad and life anecdotes, this episode in particular has a self help vibe to it. I also talk about how we can tend to our kids like gardens and not own them which can lead to solid connections...
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On Courage (during crazy hard times) Day 22/40
Feeling good and solid are a part of our daily expectations. I shared a stream of consciousness about courage. If you're feeling confused or stressed out, or in the midst of an important choice, I talk about courage and how it can help us through the challenge. Courage can be used as a life raft....
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Day 21/40 Grief as a Rite of Passage: Integration and Healing
Change and love define alot about who we are. My process of remembering gives me strength and feeling into the memories is a part of my unique grieving process. In Western Culture we have unique milestones that are akin to modern rites of passage like getting your driver's license or starting...
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Day 20 After my Father Died
Breaking through the patterns that hold us back from staying connected to ourselves and eachother~what does that look like? Slowing down and connecting with loved ones, tuning in to our inner wilderness as well as the natural outter world. I reflect on how the town that he worked at for 35 years...
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Sweet Moments and the Origin of "Candy"
I started breathing deeply and holding back tears in a store that sold my Dad's favorite chocolate today. It's Day 19, not easier but trying to stay positive is a part of living my life without my dad. I find that it's like doing emotional pushups and remembering the sweet moments helps.
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"I'm an Indian"
I'm starting to make connections with people who I've never met before. My Dad used to go to the Native Friendship Center across the street from where he lived in rural Northern Ontario. I remember rolling my eyes when he used to laugh and say "I'm an Indian too"... when he described how he would...
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Casting out Love and Coming Home Days 15, 16 & 17
Going into the 3rd week after my father died. I describe the last few days, the growth, the love between my siblings and Mom and my journey back home. Everything has changed but the familiarity of bring broken open and healing is defining who we are becoming. This is a summary of days 15,16 & 17...
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How Grief Can Feel Like You're Losing Your Mind When You're Not (Day 14/40)
Grief is a sacred time to connect with your inner and outer worlds in ways that you've never done before. It may feel like you're losing your mind, but you are feeling the seismic change on your deepest old growth rings. Grief is a weather pattern that floods your soul. It's rare but everyone...
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On Personal Resiliancy and How to Support Someone who is Grieving
In this episode 13/40 of exploring the season of losing my Dad, I offer a couple of his unique approaches to dealing with challenging times which helped him through his initial immigration from India at the age of 18. In the last part of this episode I share a few ideas on how to better support...
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Strength: A Glimpse into Surviving WWII and a British Boarding School and Finding Love Later in Life
(*Trigger Warning: I touch on a war survivor story, and bombing violence) 💓I've been documented the passing days since my Dad's last breath nearly 2 weeks ago. This is a summary of moments and exchanges to be highlighted since Wednesday...it's Friday today. These stories of strength and grief…
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Day 9 After my Father Died: Reflecting on Ancestral Connections
It's been 9 days. It feels like a month. In this episode, I share a bit about my Dad's uprootedness and an intro to his education during childhood. I also touch on the feeling of uprootedness and how important it is to connect with our ancestors and our own lineages.
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The Wonders of Love, 8 Days After my Dad Died
Grief isn't just an experience that happens with death. I'm figuring out how it works and so much more about love and the lines of communication between myself, emotions and how I navigate relationships, memories and change. Thanks for listening 💓🎧
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On Death and Living : Dealing with the Complex Layers of Grief (Day)
Grief sucks. I've had to figure out how to Iive amidst so much ache this week while surrendering completely to the pain and whirlwind of letting go. It's sad, variable to each person, private, personal and something that we can also relate to as a universal experience. Thanks for listening, not...
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Is Vulnerability an Essential Part of Being Human? Is Choosing to Love Risky Business? (Day 6)
I figure yes to these questions after this week of navigating the death of my dad. It's the first time I've viscerally felt the repercussions of having loved someone since birth and for being such a big part of their life and vice versa and having that disappear simply through death. I also touch...
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On Death and Living : Navigating the Realm of Letting Go (Day 4 and Day 5)
Day 4: Today my father was cremated. I'm exhausted but we had a day of honouring and celebrating, hence why I haven't slept much. Here's a glimpse into what washing him and dressing him was like and how it helped in my process of letting go. Day 5: Reminiscing on the last phone call, featuring my...
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On Death and Living : Navigating the Realm of my Father's Death (Day 3)
Today I learned a few adulty things: 1. That you can walk for a long time in the cold and not feel it because you're too sad-not numb. Just sad. 2. How mileage can be put on your soul. 3. That you don't need to describe in an obituary doesn't have space for details like the fact that your Dad's...
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On Death and Living : Navigating the Realm of my Father's Death (Day 2)
I've been mostly awake for 36 hrs. I drove through a fresh foot of snow after a weird lighting snowstorm (yep, who knew?) and I'm finally about to crash. I saw my Dad today...his name is Colin and we had some really funny moments and sad moments while figuring out details... it's all kinda weird,...
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On Death and Living : Navigating the Realm of my Father's Death (Day 1)
My father took his last breath in his sleep about 24 hours ago. I had a mission to record his stories and share them on this podcast about his Indian lineage and his stories of resilience of growing up there in a British boarding school and his stories of coming to Canada at the age of 18.…
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About this show
After experiencing two open heart surgeries and while continuing to grow up in varied rural areas across Canada, I listen to the intersection of physiology, health, freedom, culture and power.This podcast showcases the calm before and after a lifecycle storm in addition to the seismic changes in moments of vulnerable transformation.My attention goes to these opportunities to explore how powerful we are in the most extreme of times and places.
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SERENA OLIVEIRA
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