Self-Care For The Soul
by Debra Graugnard
If you’re looking for practices that honor your body, heart, soul, and spirit, this is the podcast for you. Join Debra Graugnard, M.Div, Spiritual and Energy Healing Practitioner and 25-year student of Sufism, as she shares teachings and tools to help you deeply and intimately know yourself and honor what you truly need to live a life of vibrant health, joy and fulfillment. Awaken the truth that you are never separate from your essence. Experience total self-acceptance and self-love. Live consciously in harmony with the planet, the air you breathe, the food you eat, and all that drives your quest for honoring a more meaningful, fulfilling, and sustainable life. Every Sunday we meet live for a healing meditation on our Community for Conscious Living Meditation & Healing Circle. All replays are posted on this Self-Care for the Soul podcast. When you listen to these replays, you receive an experiential energy healing session. Expand your consciousness. Deepen y
Episodes
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Embodying The Goddess: Reclaiming The Sacred In Body And Earth With Cynthia Abulafia
Modern spirituality often glorifies transcendence—rising above the body and the world. But what if that’s only half the path? In this illuminating conversation, Cynthia Abulafia—author of Embodying the Goddess—challenges patriarchal spirituality and calls us back to sacred embodiment. Drawing…
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Brainwashed: Fighting Against A Toxic Culture With Nina Menkes
Women have been objectified in the media since time immemorial, being treated as mere sex symbols for the satisfaction of the male gaze. Cinematic pioneer Nina Menkes is actively addressing this problem through her groundbreaking documentary, Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power. She joins Debra…
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Raising Awareness Against Human Trafficking With Andi Buerger And Teresa Velardi
What if everything you thought you knew about human trafficking was just the beginning? Debra Graugnard sits down with survivor, author, and advocate Andi Buerger, founder of Voices Against Trafficking, and publisher Teresa Velardi. Andi shares her powerful story of familial trafficking and...
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Emotional Readiness for the Holidays
Holidays are upon us. Are you emotionally prepared? According to the results of a [2023] poll by the American Psychological Association: Nearly nine in 10 (89%) [US adults] say that concerns such as not having enough money, missing loved ones and anticipating family conflict cause them stress at...
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Exploring the Sacred Masculine
Last week’s meditation guided us to lean into the inner feminine, which is the receptor of light and connector with the subtle realms. Living from the feminine is key to living in communion with Source. This week we explore the sacred nature of the inner masculine and how the inner feminine and...
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Lean into Your Inner Feminine to Commune with Source
Last week’s meditation focused on ascension and recognizing ourselves as light beings in bodies being light in the physical realm, rather than physical beings in a dense world trying to find the light. One key to this is leaning into your inner feminine, which is the receptor of light and…
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We. Must. Ascend.
This earth plane is a place of great beauty and light, and it also contains immense darkness. The human body is also a vessel of great beauty and light, and it can be dense and contain shadows and blind spots. As the consciousness of our world rapidly evolves, we are faced with an overwhelming...
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Accessing Stillness Beneath Turbulent Waters
These are turbulent times. You might feel helpless or have difficulty knowing what, if anything, you can do. To access guidance, we need space to connect with the still voice within. This is where the inner wisdom can come through and provide us with the best path forward for the moment. This is…
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Activate Your Inner Radiance
At the core of your body is your divine light. Deep within the heart lives a spark — the divine flame that is uniquely yours. Your inner radiance is a reflection of your core light and inner spark. This meditation is a sacred journey inward, to awaken that flame and allow its radiance to fill you...
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Accessing Self-Care - No Matter What!
I’m not an advocate for disengaging completely or denying the struggles that are in front of you, but I am an advocate for maintaining self-care as you move through even the most stressful times. There are signs of stress that often go unnoticed and simple techniques to manage the body’s tension...
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Women's Rights: The Power They Can't Take Away
This is a replay of a webinar that was held live earlier this year. The interactive parts that include participant voices have been deleted, so some transitions may sound a little choppy. However, I believe you will still appreciate what is shared. This webinar series was held to support the...
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Releasing Fear of Judgment When It Feels Like Everyone Is Watching
These days, it seems as if every move you make could be watched, weighed, and silently judged. It can feel like life is one long performance, whether for the benefit of others or for your own protection. It creates a subtle tension in your body, a hesitation before taking action or speaking your...
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Embodying A Higher Frequency
You cannot steer the vehicle if you are not in the driver's seat. And you cannot make the wisest decisions if you are not connected to your higher self. This Meditation & Healing Circle focuses on a sound healing practice to connect with your highest self, elevate your energy, and embody your...
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Receiving Divine Forgiveness: Key to Restoring a Devastated Heart
Do you ever find yourself caught in the trap of trying to get things right, asking, “Why aren’t things working out for me? I’ve tried and prayed and even begged. What am I doing wrong?” I believe we all have at some point. It’s devasting! But what we often find is that we get so caught up in...
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Finding Reasons to Hold onto Hope
In today’s divided world, it seems unlikely that we can work out our differences. We’re up against an extensive, sophisticated machine that seeks to separate people into opposing factions, while sparking hatred, anger, and blame. When violence escalates and fires rage, it can be hard to hold onto...
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Calling on Angels for Healing Your Heart: A Guided Meditation
Humans have free will, so when we need help, we must ask. There is power in calling on angels for healing your heart, asking for support, and seeking guidance. In this guided healing meditation, we clear blocks to connect with the sincere yearning in our hearts and call on our unseen support team...
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Finding Secure Footing amidst Shifting Sands
When your world is profoundly shifting, it can be difficult to trust that a supportive and stable foundation will emerge. On one hand, spiritually, a seeker aspires to surrender to the impermanence of life and trust in divine flow. On the other, she strives to hold strong to values and…
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Accessing Inner Stability: Be the Mountain
There is a saying in the Qur’an that says that when God created the Earth, she was shaking, so He set down the mountains to make her stable. Geologically speaking, when the tectonic plates of the Earth were moving, they crashed against each other, edges crumbling and lifting each other up until…
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Permission to be Awesome - Especially Now!
Are you wrestling with the paralysis of fear? Almost everyone I talk to lately seems to be stifled by the uncertainty of the current situation and what the future holds. We’re in challenging times. This is all the more reason to bring forth your brilliance, vibrance, and your best self. You need...
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Setting Boundaries to Protect Your Heart, Not Suppress Your Voice
Sometimes we need to set boundaries to protect our hearts. Many of my friends are needing to turn off the news and disconnect from what is happening in our country. It’s a lot to process. It hurts the tender places inside. And if we are losing friends and disagreeing with family members in the...
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Intention Setting for the Lion's Gate Opening
We're coming up on Lion's Gate - August 8th is this coming Friday. Now is a good time for tapping into guidance and getting clear on intentions. In this Meditation & Healing Circle, we bring some deep introspection and tap into the vibrations of the 6th and 7th heavens. This is where we can…
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Finding Your Heartsong
Every heart has a song. The heartsong is a deeply intimate, heartfelt expression that speaks from your inner essence. It calls you to discover your unique purpose, to live into your authentic being, to reach the fulfillment you are here to realize. What is the song of your heart? My friend Camela...
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The Courage to Evolve
What does it mean to evolve? Our modern-day meaning is "to develop gradually from a simple to a more complex form." But we are complex creatures living totally convoluted lives! Perhaps we need to take this term back to it's Latin origin: "volvere" which means "to roll" with the "e" meaning "out...
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Finding Your Deeper Insights
My teacher used to say, "Don't stop with the outside pictures. Go behind and behind and behind... until you reach the truth." But what can we do in this time when we are bombarded with so many messages and it is hard to know what is real? Our best resource is to search within and find our deeper...
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Connecting with Ancestral Wisdom
We, along with our ancestors, are a part of a collective stream of consciousness that is ever-evolving. Our ancestors have knowledge and wisdom they learned in their earth lifetimes that they passed to us. Our ancestors that have passed from the body have moved beyond the constrictions of the...
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Sacred Pause: A Healing Break to Reset Your Nervous System
Is constant exposure to distressing news keeping you in fight, flight, or freeze mode? It's hard not to get overwhelmed. We need to take regular breaks to intentionally reset our nervous systems and allow our bodies space to regulate and heal. Listen to this Meditation & Healing Circle for some...
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Prayers for Peace and Wisdom
Today, we gather with our deepest prayers and intentions for peace for our planet. We call on the Divine Powers of Peace and Wisdom to surround our planet and infuse into all her inhabitants, to penetrate the hearts of our leaders, to steer the actions of all people, including each of us. Please...
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Healing through the Elements: Earth's Grounding Wisdom
This week we wrap up our deep dive through the Elements with the element of Earth: The Grounding Wisdom. We will use the Sacred Sounds of the Elemental Globes and Divine Names to connect with the Sacred Mother Earth that provides us with stability and grounding. We tap into the sustenance and…
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Healing through the Elements: Water - the Cleansing Rain of Mercy
Experience yourself as a being of water, an open cup floating in an ocean of living consciousness, one with all life. Allow the water to flow through you, cleansing and purifying your vessel, restoring and rejuvenating you, and healing you with the gentle rain of Mercy. In this week's Meditation…
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Healing through the Elements: Air - The Breath of Life
Feel yourself as an instrument in Earth's symphony that is playing now. Tap into the winds that create harmonic melodies, that bring everything upon the planet to play beautiful love songs that bring us all to fall madly in love with Life itself. This week our deep dive through the Elements...
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Healing through the Elements: Fire - The Flame of Purification
This week we continue our deep dive through the Elements with the element of Fire: The Flame of Purification. This is where you find the sweetness when you call on your Source in times of constriction. We use the Sacred Sounds of the Elemental Globes and Divine Names to invoke the purifying…
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Healing through the Elements: Ether - the Light of Truth
This week we embark on a 5-week deep dive through the Elements. Contrary to my nature – we are not going to cover all of the elements in one session. We’ll dive into one each week. We begin this week with Part 1 - Ether: The Light of Truth. We tap into the inner light that is your core...
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Nurturing the Nurturer: How to Receive Divine Nurturing
This is a perfect Mother’s Day message – it’s about nurturing the nurturer. Receiving the Nurturing from the infinite, eternal, ever-present Source. You're probably in the habit of nurturing others. It's what we do. But when times get tough, we need our own nurturing. We need to be nurtured. We...
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The Feminine Connection with our Bodies and Earth
As women, we are somatic creatures. We are meant to be connected with our bodies and with the earth. When we are not present in our bodies and connected to our senses, our programmed conditioned not-self behaviors take over. In other words, when we are not in our vehicles, in the driver's seat…
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Anger, Righteousness, and Conscious Action
There is a lot happening right now for which anger is a natural response. Anger is a motivator; it can inspire us to take much-needed action. However, anger is not always the best place to act from. If you are uncomfortable with anger, you might find yourself stifling the emotion and abandoning…
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Breaking Free from Gender-based Expectations
As a young mathematician, I was told over and over again that women were not good at math. Yet my test scores proved otherwise. In my high-tech career, my achievements were diminished and uncompensated as I was told repeatedly that "women do not make it here." And yet I held my own and then some....
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Could you be eating to cover shame?
Do you eat when you are not hungry? Could you be eating to cover shame? The nature of shame is to hide - it doesn't want to be seen. When we are still and things get quiet, that old hidden shame from the past starts to surface and we feel agitated. It could be from our past, it could be…
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Working Hard to Prove Your Worth
When something comes up 3 times in the same week, I take that as a sign to address it with the group. The issue is feeling undervalued at work and working so hard to prove yourself that you are near collapse, and you are still overlooked. You are not getting support you need because you feel like...
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Let Your Inner Power Emerge
There is a divine force of Power itself that runs through all of existence and manifests in many ways. And there is a place where that Divine Power penetrates you to live, express, and manifest through you. This Power meets and merges with your ego nature to become your inner power. This is where...
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Spring Equinox Reiki Healing: The Power of Air
In this Meditation, our friend Ruha Cathy Delwiche guides us on a Holy Fire Reiki Journey to explore and integrate the healing power of Air. Air is the quality associated with the direction East, the rising sun, and the Spring Equinox. The Spring Equinox is the beginning of the agricultural year...
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7 Practices to Decompress Fear & Frustration
Fears, frustrations, anger, stress - they can build up inside us and act like the steam inside a pressure cooker. We need to regularly decompress - to let the steam out. These days it needs to be a daily self-care practice. In this Meditation & Healing Circle, I share 7 practices that you can…
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Finding Strength through Resilience
Difficult times present us with opportunities to discover who we are. We have a chance to push through our limitations and discover our strengths and values, but we have to dig deep. We have to find courage and hold tight to our convictions. We all have it within us, often more than we know. In...
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Embodying Your Inner Power
I have a book that is set to launch in the next month, pre-launch opens this week. It is called Fear, Food, and Feminine Power. I started writing it 8 years ago which feels like a long time, but it turns out the timing is perfect. Women have long held a generalized vibration of fear, feeling…
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Healing from Victim Blaming
Have you ever been a victim of an attack or abuse and then been blamed for your own attack? Or unjustly scrutinized? Victim blaming is something many of us, especially women, have been conditioned to hold. Now we are seeing this in the firing of government employees given a justification of...
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Moving Beyond Constriction: Elevating Your Consciousness in Times of Turmoil
With all of the turmoil we are in right now, it’s important to remember what we do have, what we can do, and to focus on elevating our frequencies so we can stay aligned with our truth. We have been talking for a while now about ascension into a world of peace. Meanwhile, we’re in the storm. So…
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Recovering from Cultural Conditioning
How much of your persona and habitual behaviors are influenced by cultural conditioning? How much of this conditioning is counter to your true essence? Society imprints so many expectations on us – what we believe, how we speak, how we dress and wear our hair, who we hang out with, what we eat…
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Releasing Unexplained Fears
This meditation targets the underlying generalized sense of fear. It focuses on releasing unexplained fear so we can be more present with current life events and make clearer judgments and decisions. There is a lot of fear in the air waves right now, and much of it can be explained and justified....
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Breathwork for Reducing Overwhelm
Have you been feeling a bit overwhelmed or anxious, feeling uncertain, finding it difficult to ground or connect with your true self? You are not alone. Here are some tools for your toolkit! In this Meditation & Healing Circle, my dear friend and colleague Camela Widad leads us through breathwork...
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Your Body is Your Best Life Partner: 7 Keys to a Healthy Relationship with Your Body
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk wrote the brilliant book The Body Keeps the Score. Your body holds the story of your life journey and gives you keys to healing. But your body is not limited to the effects of your past. It is still evolving with you as you write the next pages and chapters of your life.…
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Finding Your Way through Society's Mixed Messages
Our culture pushes us to identify with labels that tell us how we’re supposed to believe, look, and act: What does it mean to be a woman? A man? Nonbinary? A teenager? An adult? A parent? A liberal? A conservative? Independent? A professional [fill in the blank]? What’s your stereotype? What...
About this show
If you’re looking for practices that honor your body, heart, soul, and spirit, this is the podcast for you. Join Debra Graugnard, M.Div, Spiritual and Energy Healing Practitioner and 25-year student of Sufism, as she shares teachings and tools to help you deeply and intimately know yourself and honor what you truly need to live a life of vibrant health, joy and fulfillment. Awaken the truth that you are never separate from your essence. Experience total self-acceptance and self-love. Live consciously in harmony with the planet, the air you breathe, the food you eat, and all that drives your quest for honoring a more meaningful, fulfilling, and sustainable life.
Every Sunday we meet live for a healing meditation on our Community for Conscious Living Meditation & Healing Circle. All replays are posted on this Self-Care for the Soul podcast. When you listen to these replays, you receive an experiential energy healing session. Expand your consciousness. Deepen y
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