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Tend the Flame

by Kate Brenton

Create a lifestyle in harmony with your purpose. Episodes weave through spirituality, creativity, holistic healing & the spark within. katebrenton.substack.com

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Episodes

  1. Little Old Ants & Chasing Gaps

    Thank you for tuning in and sharing this Tiny Takeaway on Tend the Flame with your community. This episode is a Tiny Takeaway to infuse your week. This episode invites us to look to the magic in the little spaces, under neath our feet & in the moment before the day rolls away from our grasp. Here...

  2. Forward and Backward

    Hello Creative Family - - Quick podcast for you, to keep the flame of clarity bright as the end of year expedites itself and the internal realms quietly wait for you attention. Make some space for silence this month; it will serve you tremendously. This episode has 2 questions you can ask…

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  3. Quilts and Quills

    This time of year can push a faster pace, while you want to slow down and savor. This podcast is for you — especially for you. Instead of attempting to move the needle on the trends, choose to tend to your own circle, your own vision for your year, and your day. Choice is your creative power.…

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  4. Trees

    Welcome Creative One — Thank you to all the new followers and all those that have been siting here by the fire with me for quite sometime. This place is a wall-less, international, learning space to nourish and speak to your inner spark. The more you share this podcast the more we can offer that...

  5. Look skyward

    Hello Creative Friend, While you listen to this episode we are gathering for Women & Birds and I wanted to give you a branch to land on in this short Wednesday podchat. This week’s longer podcast was released on Sunday and you can listen here. Look up & Listen, Kate Tend the Flame is a...

  6. Finding Our Way

    Hello Friend — Here we speak to the inner spark. I have an invitation for you to commune with creativity — starting this Wednesday in Women & Birds, register below.: * A place to create * Reset your rhythm, from frenzied to fortified * Nourish your mind through beauty, creativity and commune…

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  7. Inscape

    Hello Creative Friends — Have you ever heard the word inscape? It was coined by Gerard Manley Hopkins in referring to the: “‘Inscaping the heart’ a recurring theme in the poetry of Hopkins. The heart concerns itself with beauty, directs the reader heavenward.” [Source] It’s the land inside of you...

  8. Untangling Knots

    There are some of us that have tremendous belief, but we also have questions. And I don't think the two are mutually exclusive. - Tend the Flame In this episode, we drawer nearer to the flame. Set down your tasks, and slow into an invitation of the heart. What do you believe in friend? We are...

  9. Alchemizing Your Story

    Hello Creative Flame Tenders — This week’s episode talks about: * How journaling helps leave breadcrumbs back to your own advice. * Standing for something now is more necessary than ever * A shortened discussion on the steps of Alchemy (the actual process) and how it relates to you and...

  10. We're Not Wetware; We are Divine

    Hello Creative Family — Our last episode on embodiment, in the Substack itself I mentioned a new word that has been added to the dictionary. And I thought it best for us to carry that seed a little further. Take heart this week, it is a powerful place to reside. Love, Kate To Learn From Animal...

  11. Embodiment

    Hello My Friends — This episode was unexpected and dropped into my lap — my favorite way for us to connect; it’s like air to a flame. * Did you know you have more than 3,000 receptors in your fingertips? * True or false: Science has combined human tissue with AI? * Last, do you think your answers...

  12. Is it Important to Be Human?

    Hello, hello. I have a favor. I would love to know your thoughts on this question— is it important to be human? And — what does that even mean? Post your comments below. In this episode we talk about: * Chat GPT recommending baseball bats * The most likely answer to : What do you want? * Bottom...

  13. Fine, is not fine.

    Hello hello — Today’s podcast is part reflection and part story-telling thanks to the natural world, always providing us clues to the answers we seek. “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” — John Muir This week we look at: * The habit of…

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  14. Why all the Bird Talk?

    Welcome back to the Tend the Flame podcast. We've been on a bit of a sabbatical for the summer. This podcast is a place for you to tend the internal flame, the one of creativity, divinity, and what gives you your spark. Thank you so much for tuning in. 🐦‍⬛ We're going to talk about why all of…

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  15. A Time to Rest & a Time to Rise

    Hello Creatives! We are heading into our Summer Scheduling where we slow down on the recording a bit and speed up on our creating! Place your attention on what you want to nourish, do it enough and you may start to notice resistance. You may feel the twinge of how and why it can’t, but times are...

  16. Antidote for Exhaustion

    “The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.” - Rumi Hello Creatives - - This episode evolved from a talk I gave for the Inspire Create Manifest Soulful you retreat this year. It is a topic that is evermore on my mind: that the simple joys of being human are what leads…

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  17. Notice & Nourish

    Hello Fellow Creative - This week’s Sunday stack is short and sweet, and builds on our last episode. Here we talk about algorithms versus relationships, likes versus support, and tech in comparison to Nature, who loves you. Did you know that trees emit a low-key, near infrared light, that they...

  18. The Slowdown of Discernment

    Hello Creative Friend — May this episode find you enjoying all the available good. Happy Mother’s Day no matter how that phrase lands, in what season you are in, and what breath you are in-taking be one of beauty. 🌿 This Pod-chat Excerpt is honoring Nettle, Boundaries & Pacing: You could…

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  19. Make Space to Innovate

    Podcast Snippet: Writing is an alchemy. It can give witness to something that has no business being witnessed by a human. You know what I mean? Maybe there's a situation that it's the time has passed that you can have the conversation with the person, but you can write it out. And if…

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  20. Simplest of Tools

    Last week we talked about experience over convenience. This week, even simpler — a 3 minute invitation — shorter than an IG scroll session. What can you create? With curiosity, Kate Tend the Flame is grateful for your support 🔥 Thank you for subscribing. This is a public episode. If you'd like…

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  21. Experience over Convenience

    Hello Creative Friend, Do you have 8 minutes to chat? We’re talking about one thing you have this week: a choice. 🔥Snippet of this week’s focus: Is there an embodiment of warmth that you're paying attention to when you're cooking? Are youthinking about the flame, whether you're on gas or...

  22. The 3rd Option

    Have you been in it this week? — This episode is for you. Mission: More people living in harmony with their purpose + more people living in harmony with each other. In this episode we talk about: * Specificity & Sustainability * The Change in Cultural Conversations * The Change of the past 5…

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  23. The Master Key

    We often use words to employ our doubts, but what if we used them to empower our belief? In this pod-chat we talk about the use of intention and focus, and the employment of prayer to better serve the very human reality of being here now in a way that feels real & good. Unless you power down the...

  24. Where is Space for the Dark

    We are back with some new questions for you on Tend the Flame. This episode is a bridge from claiming and learning the path to cultivating the space and trust to be present in the unknown, whether literally by letting your house go dark, or figuratively by being patient and peaceful with what you...

  25. Death by Distraction

    Hello Creative One — This morning’s session is lit. Grab your ☕️ and enjoy your Sunday Stack. If you are too busy — then you need this episode even more. See you inside, Kate 🔥Podchat Transcript Excerpt “Here's the pivot: We're supposed to enjoy our lives. We're supposed to have a fire that's...

  26. Clear it out.

    Hello Creative One — Here is your Sunday Stack. If you have been following along we are moving into the action of “no” with the stabilizing force of being honest with where we are and where we are going. Each episode stands alone, yet if you are in a spiral, head on over to this episode below and...

  27. Taking Doubt Captive

    As soon as you say you are off sweets, you have to have a chocolate. As soon as you say, I’ll exercise everyday — you stop. Until, you don’t until you have enough fire or momentum that you blow past a previous indecision to a new commitment. Universal law states that for every action there is an...

  28. Challenge the Gift

    Sometimes what we initially perceive as late, is actually right on time. I’ll keep this short & sweet and send you onto the quiet routine of your Sunday night. Tune in to challenge on this week’s #sundaystack 🔗📚 https://bookshop.org/a/84615/9781668072240 The Better it Gets the Better it Gets—…

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  29. Be Do Have

    In our first Sunday Stack, we talked about the simple actions that can stop the big change. Our second Sunday, we talked about collecting the data (what are we really doing and what is working?) This week: Be. Do and then Have. 🔥Thank you for all your comments. You are helping create the...

  30. Is it Working?

    🌅☕️Rise and Shine your Sunday Stack is here. This podcast speaks to your inner spark for a little weekly focus. Thank you for being here and welcoming the podcast and the long form into one space. I appreciate all of you who have reached out. The simplification feels great, affirming and easy.…

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  31. Press the Button

    Hello Creatives — It seems many of us are tidying up our desks, moving them to a new corner to get better sun and cracking out the good notebook. About 5 hours after I went and changed the title of the my substack, I got an email from fellow writer, Claudine, and it said: I am changing my…

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  32. A Sunday Stack

    Have you heard of this book? Grab it on bookshop here. I had it recommended to me by two very different individuals, living very different, successful, value-aligned lives. I am so glad I got it. You take one glance and you could miss how it is talking about everything. It is not merely a…

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  33. Sit Still to Get Clear

    The 7th Episode, The Crown Energy Center, has arrived. Kate shares the connection of root to crown and the power of concerted discernment. In an era of technology, there is great power to find stillness and establishing a practice of connection to our inner flame. The journey through our energy...

  34. Stack for Success

    We can want to make the greatest leaps, yet the way we cross the river is hopping from rock to rock. We can get caught up in the flame of inspiration, and we best have kindling so the spark catches to a steady flame. Welcome to the space in the internet where we know that action clears doubt, and...

  35. The Power of Clear Vision | Intuition

    The 6th Episode, The Inner Vision (3rd Eye) Energy Center, is here. Kate talks about the pituitary gland, how our mindset effects what we see, and the power of asking to see what we have looked over. Often we hear: Seeing is believing, but isn't it the other way around for pattern changes? Kate...

  36. The Power of the Pause

    Conversations with Kate take a turn into the power of pause, befriending the dark, and moving back into right relationship with nature and seasonal living. This episode talks about: - The importance of creating and pausing - Why we need to urgently befriend the dark and gift lie there - Why...

  37. The Power of Voice

    The 5th Episode, The Throat Energy Center, episode is here. After a seasonal break (discussed in the Power of the Pause, upcoming episode) Kate talks about the throat center, and the power of our words as influenced between what we see an how we feel. Often we hear: If you have nothing nice to…

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  38. Hafiz has a question for you

    🔗📚Grab your own Friend Thanks for being here & letting me pop into your sphere with a poem. Do you have a favorite poem to share? XO Kate Sit & Write is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public…

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  39. Listen to Your Heart

    In the 4th episode of the series on our energy centers, Kate talks about the heart as it spaces and translates between the will and the word. Often we hear: listen to your heart, but have we been taught how to hear the voice, clear confusion and balance the valid opinions that live inside? Kate...

  40. Will & the Way

    This week we move on from Emotions to Will, as Kate continues to share on the pathway of our body's energy. This episode looks at clearing confusion to increase clarity of action. We discuss our third energy center, the manipura chakra — harnessing our will. Chakras are ways to understand the...

  41. Emotions in Motion

    This week we move on from the Root to the Blossom, we are looking at why we need to learn to express emotions, the root word of it and how it connects to the relationally of our second energy center, the sacral chakra. Chakras are ways to understand the centers of energy the body has. We discuss…

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  42. Return to the Root

    Hi there! As promised in our previous episode, we are turning towards the basics to feed the flame that fuels us and align with life's rhythm. This episode we talk about: - The role resistance plays - Why and how to connect to our root - Remedies to help create an experience of reconnecting with...

  43. Switching from Waiting to Allowing

    This episode focuses on: - Moving from starting to following through - Creating a circle of clarity - Changing seasons - Slowing down and selecting the best of what is Do good: Leave us a review! Thank you. Are you on a mission but feel a little stuck stepping into your best version? Maybe you…

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  44. The Only Story You Can Tell is Yours

    This episode continues the leap frogging of wisdom from author to author, reminding us of the evolutionary and spiritual art that is embedded in our stories, the ones we live and the ones we write. Writing creates clarity, settles the mind, and sets your intentions on course. Creative Lunch Break...

  45. Oblivion & Beauty: A Return to Basics

    This episode walks us back to the basics of natural harmony, through the metaphors given to us through Martha Beck, Dante's Inferno, and Cesar Milan's approach to calm, confident energy. Moving out of self-improvement and into the journey of life enjoyed, trusting that creating our natural…

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  46. Pauses for Perspectives

    This solo-cast talks about expanding your decision-making to consider your own in-joy-ment state. When we make space, new ways appear. Enjoy your time more. You deserve it. Class Referenced: https://www.katebrenton.com/shop/p/everydaymeditationmethod “The Everyday Meditation helped me to create…

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  47. Stirrings of Soil & Self with Danielle Carr-Jarecha

    This episode is a call to re-embrace the traditional ways for modern times. Danielle Carr Jarecha is a Mama, Wife, Herbalist, Yogini, Astrologer and Biodynamic Land Steward. She is the sole force behind Mothercraft working from seed to bottle on every creation and seeing clients for Herbal and...

  48. The Power of Intention

    The original post is here. 📝 Curious about Sit & Write? Learn more about writing options here. And get your groove on with Smokey here: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit katebrenton.substack.com/subscribe

  49. Closing Necessary Chapters

    This podcast is an offering for the Plutonian changes (whether you know that is or not!) and contemplating what needs to be let go, for our upcoming growth. In this episode Kate, who is a curious educator and not an astrologer, talks about the upcoming 20 year cycle of growth and change, by…

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  50. The Unnecessary Hard

    In this mini-episode, Kate differentiates between the hard of habit and scarcity (aka unnecessary hard) versus the hard of leaning into life, and the ease of true alignment (which may not always be EASY!) This episode give you your daily recommended dose of inspiration, to set your mind to live...

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Create a lifestyle in harmony with your purpose. Episodes weave through spirituality, creativity, holistic healing & the spark within.

katebrenton.substack.com

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Kate Brenton

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