The Heart AF Podcast
by Chelsea VanBuskirk
This podcast provides insights, tools, and inspiring stories for women along their own unique path of spiritual discovery, and self healing. Created by Author, Energy Healer, and Spiritual Counselor, Chelsea VanBuskirk, sharing her voice and experience working through the traumas and challenges of her life that brought her through her own path to spiritual discovery and finding her purpose, power, and self worth. Addressing the internal conflicts and struggles within because we don’t quite feel like we fit into the ‘cages’ we have been conditioned to be in. Living Heart AF is about living life as our most authentic selves, learning to love all the pieces of ourselves, owning all the ways we have been broken through life’s painful moments and recognizing we are still whole.Through the stories of personal life lessons and experiences, research, insights, interviews, discussions, and live Q & A episodes this podcast is designed to provide content to help women break free from their se
Episodes
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50. Love Responds to Energy: Why Overfunctioning Is Creating Disconnection ⛓️💥
Are you a mom who does everything, holds it all together, and still feels disconnected from your partner? In this episode of The Heart AF Podcast, Chelsea VanBuskirk explores how energy—not effort—is often the missing link in modern marriages and long-term relationships. This episode dives into…
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49. Love Isn’t Earned: Breaking Free from Conditional Love
Have you ever felt like love is something you have to earn—by doing more, being better, or holding it all together? In this opening episode of a new Love & Relationships miniseries on The Heart AF Podcast, Chelsea VanBuskirk invites millennial moms to question everything they’ve been taught about...
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48. Faith Over Fear: Anchoring Yourself in Uncertain Times
When life feels uncertain, heavy, or completely out of your control—what do you lean on? In this heartfelt episode of The Heart AF Podcast, Chelsea VanBuskirk explores how faith can become a steady anchor during seasons of fear, uncertainty, grief, and change—especially for moms who carry the...
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47. Goals, Control, and the Power of Letting Go. How To Soften, Trust, and Redefine Success On Your Own Terms.
What if the reason your goals feel heavy is because you are gripping them too tightly? In this episode, I invite you into a gentler, more aligned way of thinking about success, goals, and achievement. We talk about control versus surrender, why detaching from outcomes can actually accelerate your...
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46. Deep Conversations on Soul Contracts, Free Will, Healing, Guilt, Grief, Addictions and Learning to Receive Love, with my Dear Friend and Spiritualist Heather Posey-Ware
What happens when your soul knows the plan, but your mind wants certainty? In this episode, I sit down with Heather Posey-Ware to explore healing across lifetimes, guilt, abandonment wounds, and why we test love when we do not feel worthy of receiving it. Together, we talk about listening to the...
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45. Looking back at the Pain of Our Past with a Healed Perspective
In this solo episode, I talk about how innocent questions can bring up painful parts of our past and how, from a healed place, those moments can become powerful reminders of how far we have come. I share personal reflections on grief, family loss, and healing, and how learning to see our story...
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44. Keeping Your Peace This Holiday Season 🎄
Are you walking around singing Britney's song "Piece of Me" feeling pissed off for everyone and everything that wants your attention this holiday season? UGH! GIRL, ME TOO!!! But get this, we actually have permission to say NO, and choose to do what we want! I know it sounds easier said than…
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43. The Courage to Heal: Shadow Work, Sobriety & Spiritual Growth, A Real AF Conversation with my friend Katie Wessles Who is a High End Energy Healer and Integrative Trauma Coach
On this episode of the Heart AF Podcast, I sit down with high-end energy healer and trauma-integrative coach Katie Wessels to talk about what it really looks like to heal from the inside out. Katie shares her raw sobriety journey—from using alcohol and drugs to dissociate and survive, to the…
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42. Grieving and Receiving Signs During the Holidays
The Holidays are supposed to be a time of joy, parties, and seeing loved ones, but for some of us, this time of year feels heavy with heartache over our loved ones who are no longer with us during this season. This week, I’m sharing an older episode touching on my personal journey through loss…
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41. 3 Ways to Release Suppressed Emotions as a Mother
Have you ever been pushed too far that you finally breakdown and scream and cry while driving in your car? Well that was me the other day. On this Heart AF episode, I walk you through the moment I was finally able too let go and faced the truths of the pains I had been holding in side, those...
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40. Parenting Through Crisis & Surrendering to Faith
I am opening up about one of my most painful moments as a parent when I had to help my oldest daughter through an intense mental-health crisis. This time in our lives was terrifying, but I wanted to share the lessons that came with trying to control what felt uncontrollable, and how everything...
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39. How Your Nervous System Impacts Your Kids (My Story of Mom Dysregulation & Burnout)
This experience showed me the effects of how important co-regulation is with your kids. Especially if you have kids who may have some sensory sensitivities. My nervous system was at a level code red and I had a full on mom meltdown at my son's baseball game. My son was clearly experiencing his…
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38. Coming Back After Hard Seasons
The Heart AF Podcast is back! In this first episode after a long pause, I open up about why I stepped away, and some of what I’ve learned through one of the hardest seasons of my life, and why I felt called to return to the mic now. We talk about the messy reality of healing, the courage it takes...
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Heart AF Trailer - Rise, Heal, and Live Heart AF
Welcome to The Heart AF Podcast with host Chelsea VanBuskirk—wife, mom of three, and recovering mother-hustler. This show is about refusing to let hard seasons harden our hearts. Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Each week, expect honest stories, practical tools, and conversations…
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Heart AF Trailer — Rise, Heal, and Live Heart AF
Welcome to The Heart AF Podcast with host Chelsea VanBuskirk—wife, mom of three, and recovering mother-hustler. This show is about refusing to let hard seasons harden our hearts. Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Each week, expect honest stories, practical tools, and conversations…
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37. Breaking Free: The Power of Embracing Your Authentic Self
In this week's episode, join me as we take a look at Disney Pixar's movie Elemental and uncover one of the profound life lessons it has to offer. Watching this enchanting animation, I was able unravel the damaging truths about the relentless pursuit of people-pleasing. I explore how we often…
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36. Transforming Grief into Compassion: A New Perspective on Relationships
In this emotionally poignant episode, we delve into a deeply personal journey of grief and self-discovery that ultimately leads to a profound shift in perspective. I had a heart-wrenching moment of grief about my dad that became the catalyst for a transformative realization about not only my...
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35. From Ashes to Enlightenment: Lessons from the Maui Fires Part 1
I get personal in this episode, sharing some of my own moments of self-discovery that have led me through the transformative power of letting our ego thoughts burn down. We tend to identify and value ourselves based on our relationships, our jobs, or our assets. But the truth is all these things...
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34. ”Let Them.” - Embrace Empathy: Letting Go of Judgment and Rising Above Negativity.
Welcome to another enlightening episode of The Heart AF Podcast Episode 34- Let Them. In this episode, I discuss the profound practice of letting go of judgment, and instead, choosing to rise above negativity when faced with the words and actions of others. We live in a world filled with diverse...
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33. How To Rise Above Our Painful Experiences
Have you ever felt that you could be addicted to pain or drama in your life? Sometimes we get so used to dealing with painful moments in life we tend to get stuck in these negative loops of painful experiences. Our egos can become drawn to the negative feelings we feel, to those lower vibrational...
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32. Change Your Life by Changing The Lens You Look Through 🧐
32. In this episode I talk about how going through life looking through the lens of fear heightens our insecurities and negatively affects our lives by increasing our personal suffering. BUT, we do have the power and ability to change our perspective, and in this episode I share some tips on how…
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31. Riding the Storms of Life, Making a Comeback! 💪🏼
It happens to all of us, times in our life when a fierce storm comes out of nowhere and knocks us off our feet. We can get swept away, struggling to keep our head above water to breathe. It happened to me recently. And it was ROUGH. For awhile. These storms, as painful as they can be, do serve a...
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30. #AprilActivation Fun Ways to Elevate our Energetic Frequencies
Attitude is literally everything. Our attitude creates our experience and our thoughts create our reality. In this week’s Heart AF episode I dive into the importance of our energetic frequencies and what it means to be high vibe. And why it's important we want to work at raising our frequencies…
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29. Spring Intentions- How to Bloom with a Spring Mindset
This week's Spring inspired episode is all about planting seeds of intention in order to watch yourself bloom into this new season. This season is a time for renewal, to feel re-energized for what's possible for you. The increased warmth and sunshine provides the energy and hope to believe in...
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28. Mind Power- Losing Weight with My thoughts.
I am still shocked at the unbelievable power our minds have in and over our lives. Our minds can seriously change our reality and how we experience our external world. I share with you some recent experiences in my own life where I literally changed my external experiences by changing my mindset....
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27. Erica Marie and Me -Why LOVE is all You Need-
Such a special heart filled episode with guest Erica Marie! ❤️ Erica Marie is an Uplifter, Speaker, and Success Coach. Her expertise in business & life success coaching, along with her passion for mental, physical, and spiritual wellness, has helped countless individuals achieve a more…
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26. When You Are Feeling a Little Less Than..
We all experience moments of insecurity, feeling small, or not quite as good, maybe feeling we don't belong, or aren't good enough. This week's episode is about some recent experiences of mine where I have felt this way. And what I recently learned that has shifted my perspective, and I hope it...
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25. It won’t be like this for long- A message of HOPE
The things that often break us are the things that actually make us strong. When we are in the midst of pain, heartbreak, or tough moments in life it can be so hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Nature is a good reminder that there are seasons and cycles to life, and that life itself...
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24. ForGIVE You- How to Move on, up, and forward from your mistakes.
Heart AF Episode 24! Have you ever felt stuck or frozen in your progress because of a mistake you made? Got too emotional, didn't follow your plan like you wanted? Self guilt can be a really nasty block for us. Preventing us from growing and moving forward to reach our goals. It prevents us from...
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23. PIVOT like Ross, Brush Your Shoulders Off like Jay-Z, stay UP like Cardi B and Keep F’n Going.
HAF Episode 23 has take a step back and reflect where we are going with our life in the goals we have for ourselves. Are we in alignment with what really brings us joy? I bring up the book the Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware Which are: "I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true...
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22. Be More You- Recognize Your Brilliance, You Have Nothing to Prove.
This Episode is POWERFUL. So many things came flowing out that are so important. I real gut check to see if we are really recognizing and acknowledging our true divinity, our true power to create. How we can get sucked into feeling like we are never enough, always needing to improve and change...
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21. New Year, Who Dis? Zero to 💯 real quick is NOT the way to go, let’s take it step by step this year.
This years mantra is remembering the bad ass bitch within! When things get hard, we have to remember that bad bitch part that's still inside us, and tap into that power to pull ourselves up and keep moving forward. The first episode of the year is all about those new resolutions, goals and...
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20. No Apologies - Just because someone doesn’t recognize your brilliance, your worth, and your divinity, doesn’t mean you have to start questioning those pieces of you.
Sometimes people hurt you, and sometimes you never get an apology. Which can make you feel pretty small. But you are NOT small. Just because someone doesn't recognize your brilliance, your worth, and your divinity, doesn't mean you have to start questioning those pieces of you. It's time to get...
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19. Keep Your Peace - How we are choosing to spend our energy and be more discerning with our time and energy.
Do you find yourself overextended and feeling more stressed this time of year? Full calendars, mile long to-do lists paired with never ending activities, events, and gatherings can really run us down. It's really important to be aware of how we are choosing to spend our energy and be more...
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18. Remembering Our Loved Ones in Spirit Over the Holidays
The Holidays can be super stressful and emotional. We can feel lonely and there can be a lot of grief we may carry. This week's episode dives into making it through the season and the signs we can receive to remind us we aren't alone. I share some unbelievable signs I recently received and what...
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17. The Healing Power of Spirit - Interview with Certified Psychic & Physical Medium Sarah Milligan
This week I had an amazing opportunity to host a beautiful interview with my long time friend and one of my most influential spiritual teachers. I talked about her in Episode 13 Everything Happens for a Reason Part 2. Sarah Milligan was a big part of my own spiritual growth, my healing, coming…
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16. Mother Fn’ Manifestin’ - Coming into our power of being the co-creators of our lives
Have you consciously manifested anything in your life before? Have you wanted to? This episode gives you some insights and tips on how you can attract what you want into your life. I even give you some real life examples on how I manifested our house and my current car. We have the power to...
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15. Do You, Boo!💋 How to get away from trying to live up to others expectations of who you should be
Are you living your life for you? Or are you living your for others? Conforming into what you think you have to be? Are you letting the expectations of others of what you should be doing control your life? This episode takes a look at how hard it can be, and how much we can risk by following our...
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14. Signs from Spirit- Becoming aware of the signs you are receiving from up above
Have you ever seen repeating numbers? On a clock, a license plate, or a receipt? Ever seen an animal or insect that gave you a feeling that it could be a loved one that has passed away trying to send you a message? Signs are everywhere. This time of year is the halfway point between the fall...
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13. Everything Happens for a Reason Part 2- The ripple effect of our experiences
Adding on to last weeks episode on how every encounter we have has a ripple effect through our lives in how everything happens for a reason and in divine timing. This episode is my personal story in how one person created a ripple effect in my own life, this one person led me down my path of...
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12. Everything Happens for a Reason Part 1 -Taking a new perspective on life
Do you believe everything happens for a reason? That all the good, bad, and ugly that transpire throughout our lives all has a purpose? I share some insights and personal stories to inspire you to really think about your life, and see if you can gain a higher perspective and see a reason for it...
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11. 100% Genuine- How we experience incensarities in our life and also participate in them too.
Getting 100% real on this episode. Again talking about some of the incensarities we experience in our life and also how we sometimes participate in them ourselves too. Gaining some perspective from my friends grandparents allowed me grow a greater awareness and in how I can be more genuine in my...
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10. This is Heart AF- Overcoming our fears in order to make positive changes in our lives
How to overcome fear to make positive changes in your life. Change is HARD AF! In this episode I share how to overcome the crippling fear of making the necessary changes in your life in order to move forward in the direction you want to go in your life. I also get super real with some of hard...
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9. Fakers Going to Fake - Getting real and honest with ourselves and how to stop playing around with our lives
Time to get real and stop playing around with our lives. If there is stuff going on that you are struggling with, that you are unhappy with, there is only one thing that you can do to make changes. This episode is quick but filled with some solid gold nuggets of info on dealing with fake people…
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8. Guilt Trippin’ - Dealing with those that have you doubting and questioning yourself, laying on the guilt
Ever have an interaction with someone who makes you feel guilty? Has you questioning yourself, doubting yourself? Whether someone wants to give their opinion on your parenting or self care practices, they should really sit the F down and mind their business... But there is a more responsible...
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7. Soul Survivor - Facing the risks in order to allow yourself to fully bloom
6. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” -Anaïs Nin I totally butchered speaking this woman's name on this week's episode when I read this, but her quote is one I hold very tightly to my heart. As I had to face the risks in...
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6. This is Thirty- Five - Reflecting During the Milestones of Your Life
Have you ever made a wish list for your life? Or taken the time to reflect during the milestones of your life? In this week's episode I talk about the list I made 5 years ago when I was 30 and the things I had written out for what I wanted in my life in 5 years. How I happened to find that note...
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5. The Blame Game - Who are you blaming for the circumstances in your life?
Who are you blaming for the circumstances in your life? Such a great questions to ask ourselves. It's so easy for us to place blame on external forces for why things are going wrong in our lives. We never stop to think about what responsibility we have in every situation. We forget our power, we...
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4. From Numbing to Healing: Growing Up with an Addicted Mom
Numbing the pain of hard truths can be a path that leads to addiction. Pain can also be produced from the experiences with an addict. In this episode I am getting super vulnerable and sharing some of the experiences I had having a mother as an addict. How I felt, and a few of the traumatic…
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3. Vecna, Fear, and the Power of Music to Break Negative Cycles
⚠️ SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers for Stranger Things Season 4! As a huge Stranger Things fan, this season blew my mind. Between the dark storyline of Vecna, the emotional arc of Max, and Kate Bush’s hit “Running Up That Hill” making a powerful comeback, Season 4 highlighted not…
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About this show
This podcast provides insights, tools, and inspiring stories for women along their own unique path of spiritual discovery, and self healing. Created by Author, Energy Healer, and Spiritual Counselor, Chelsea VanBuskirk, sharing her voice and experience working through the traumas and challenges of her life that brought her through her own path to spiritual discovery and finding her purpose, power, and self worth. Addressing the internal conflicts and struggles within because we don’t quite feel like we fit into the ‘cages’ we have been conditioned to be in. Living Heart AF is about living life as our most authentic selves, learning to love all the pieces of ourselves, owning all the ways we have been broken through life’s painful moments and recognizing we are still whole.Through the stories of personal life lessons and experiences, research, insights, interviews, discussions, and live Q & A episodes this podcast is designed to provide content to help women break free from their se
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