Rose must try something new. She heads for the natural wilderness in remote Utah, USA, and invites Ryo. Sitting together under the stars, he asks if he’s the person she most needs?Narrator: Stephen FryCast:Rose: Anoushka LucasRyo: Martin Sarreal Anya: Cat SimmonsBook: Simon Pitts and Theo Jamieson Music and lyrics: Theo Jamieson Music production: Steve Levine Animation producer/director: Dan Masterton Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Choir: Kantos Chamber Choir Conductor: Melvin TayExecutive producer:

Over the Standstill – solstice – just past, I talked about stuff that really matters to me. That’s what the three standstill days of Midwinter Solstice are about for me. I give, spend and make time for getting to really know myself. Yes, I hear you! I got to know myself years ago, you say, I don’t need to do it all over again. Sorry, friend, yes you do. You’re not the same person you were then. Heck, you’re not even the same person you were yesterday let alone back then. We all need to get to know

They're Experts? But who is "they," really? Experts are everywhere, spouting "shoulds" and "musts". I listened ... I took a deep dive into their trenches. Sifted through oceans of so-called wisdom. And guess what? It turned me turgid!Like that old song, "Killing Me Softly", you know?I listened - but I knew in my bones: This isn't me. This isn't right. They were subtly stealing my soul. I fought back. Clawed back my essence, did some serious soul-retrieval. And the gurus? They pushed back, hard

As we plan and plant our gardens this spring, consider the mountain lion. The stealthy predators are strictly meat eaters, but what and where they kill provides nutrients for the soil and promotes plant growth. It’s an odd concept examined in a recent study by the big cat conservation group Panthera. From 2014 to 2018, the group collared 50 mountain lions and tracked them to identify kill sites. Once identified, the researchers collected soil and plant samples, comparing them

As Oscar Wilde said: Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken …That’s so true! But being your real self can be really hard. So many things get in our way. And too often, nothing like enough support! Are you really You?Are you living your Heart and Core values?Does the idea of doing so come with a whole load of “Ye-ess … but …”I did for me for many years until I found a good Co-Pilot to hep me. And support me!I really couldn’t manage on my own. I know that goes for many others too.How about

DON’T LISTEN TO THIS POD WHILE YOU’RE DRIVING !!! 😊As Lao Tzu said: nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished … We can do that too. Follow Nature’s example – and we feel so, so good when we do. It gives us perspective. Helps us get our priorities right. Gives us back some work/life balance. Spending and giving time to be with Nature lifts the stress off you, the frustrations, fears and worries. Giving yourself time is one of the biggest gifts you can give yourself Y So take some time out

Gwyn ap Nudd is one of our ancestral British gods and where I live, in Shropshire, is one of his places. Gwyn leads the Wild Hunt. One of his jobs is to collect up lost souls and steer them over the river into the peaceful, healing, Islands of the West.I live in the Stretton Hills, an ancient caldera of ex-volcanoes from about 560 million years ago! Fortunately, all the volcanoes have gone to sleep but they’ve left us these beautiful pointy hills and my front window looks out across the valley to

Do you feel “jiggles” inside when things around you, in your life, your relationships, your work, need changing? When you get them, do you write them off?We all get these feelings. Know we need to do something. Need to Change. And change is often scary!So we can procrastinate, look away, the moon’s in the wrong quarter – you know all that! And I’m a real expert at it some of the time … that’s why I’m good at helping you out of that place, stop you dragging your feet, postponing things, dawdling and

Guarding Your Energy Guarding your energy is vital – we all need to spend energy wisely. Lots of folk are talking about this at the moment, probably because too many of us spend the festive season at the beck and call of friends and family … and we try to convince ourselves this is fun!So few people have practice in how to say “No”. If we don’t take care of ourselves then we’re not that much use in taking care of others … or of doing our jobs! Saying "No" and having good boundaries is a huge part of

Learning Badassery shows you how to be strong, confident. It helps you know your own truth and walk it. Once you start doing that you find your life, the whole world in fact, changes all around you. Joy comes to live in your heart. You can feel the fear and do it anyway. You stop judging people. Your heart opens so you hear and listen to everyone without having to agree with them. You can allow – maybe even enable – them to be themselves. So your life sings, your business sings, and your heart

I'm reading the first chapter of my first novel, Owl Woman. It's a magic/mystery/romance story set in the present day.Who killed Vicki's father? will she find the lover she ran away from ten years ago? And what does the Owl Woman want from her? Everything hurts! too much pain, but Vicki knows she must find the truth. But will it kill her?Buy Owl Woman by Elen Sentier on Amazon

Hen's Teeth & Unicorn Shit - vital for everyone ... I don't think! This podcast got set off by a friend making a very caustic comment that cracked me up and took me round several garden paths to the whole idea of silver bullets! And Midwinter reflection on the past year in preparation for the coming one. Enjoy!Want to work on this with me? Look out for my NEW 10-week Group Coaching Programme. Give me a call at https://calendly.com/elensentier, let's talk about it, set you up for the New Year

How is finding your “brand” a way of getting in touch with your inner core spirit? I’ve been doing a lot of work on brand, branding and rebranding over the past year, mainly on myself but also with clients so this podcast is a story about that, about what happened to me.As you know, I'm all about putting the soul back in your business - and putting the soul back in my own business too. I do walk my talk! It required a lot of looking at myself, sorting the bits of my life, my past that had brought me

Often it can feel like archetypes are set in stone, have only the meaning in the book, or what our coach tells us it is, and that they're inbuilt traits that won't change. This isn't so. They're actually "psychological constructs" - ideas and generalisations people have thought up. They really came on stage at the end of the 19th century with people like Freud and Jung although the idea of them has been around far longer but more often in the characters of a story or play. That's how I work with

Something different this week – a story. I grew up on thes old stories of Britain.This is one of my own, built around the old tales of the raven goddess of death and rebirth. In some of the tales she’s also called the Washer at the Ford. The Washer at the Ford is the raven goddess. She lives with all of us in the Celtic lands, in Britain, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Brittany.This story comes out of the old Arthurian tales and is my thoughts on what might have happened after he rejected Gwenhwyfar

All too often we’re told – and believe – we need to release, get rid of, exorcise, some habit or trait or negative emotion. Yuck! I really don't do all that. And doing it never works long-term, it's a bit like going on a slimming diet, cutting out anything that will make you fat. Then, when you fit back in your jeans you promptly head back for a latte with a Danish pastry, cupcake, jam tart, or whatever and put all the weight back on! Befriending, on the other hand, brings you to a whole new,

Short introductory podcast telling you a bit about me. I'll be podcasting every week now.

As far as names go, no animal has it quite like the fisher. Often called a “fisher cat”, it is not a feline, and doesn’t really care much for fish. One of nature’s few porcupine predators, this feisty, forest-dwelling expert climber is actually a member of the weasel family. Join us for this episode of Warden’s Watch WILD, as we meet once again with wildlife biologist Jill Kilborn to learn more about the small but mighty fisher. Our Sponsor: The Village Gun Store Credits Hosts: Wayne Saunders

Warden’s Watch WILD is back with wildlife biologist Jill Kilborn discussing her work studying the elusive Canada lynx. At about three feet long and anywhere from 15 to 30 pounds, Canada lynx are at least twice the size of the average house cat. Often recognized by their pointed ears and large, furry paws, which help them travel over deep snow and leave a distinctive “ice cream cone” print, Canada lynx are considered an endangered species in New Hampshire, but biologists have been taking steps to