The Soul Garden: conversations for Midlife Living

Why is it that we find out so much about those when love only when we are at their funeral?
Sometimes inspiration for a podcast episode sneaks right up on you and compels you to sit down in front of the microphone and speak from the heart.
This is one of those episodes. Short. Sweet and hopefully helpful. In it I explore things left unexplored and the beauty and sadness of the things we discover only after we lose someone we love.
Thank you Stevie Nicks for your beautiful classic Fleetwood Mac song 'Landslide'  as your music made this moment happen.
While this episode is for my friend Ruth, I do think that really, it is for all the people we all love and cherish.
Georgina x
 
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Sometimes we just feel the need to take a deep breath and pray for peace. This meditation is one I have created to extend that peace to this planet, to our Mother Earth. It is an invitation to come together in a message of healing for this planet, for ourselves.
I've been so troubled by the language that is increasingly being used to describe Nature. it is a language of battle, of fury, of revenge. This earth doesn't want battles, it wants balance. This earth does not want fury, it wants peace. I think we all really just want peace.
Our relationship with nature, as part of nature and cosmos is central to all the work I do, from coaching and guidance, to teaching. from end of life care, to creating ceremony and helping people explore their soul purpose. In the apothecary I create products that are imbued with the healing power of nature, from balms to tree and flower essences.  And in my daily life I meditate, visualise and connect to nature, and in connecting with nature, I connect with my own true essence.
This episode shares a moment of this connection so that together, we can raise the frequency of healing and hope.
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When we can explore consciousness we can find ways to see death as a natural part of the life cycle.
Life experiences shape us, but they can also give us the ability to make more sense of the world around us. For me a Near Death Experience opened the door to insights into infinity and the paradox of connection.
None of us want to lose the people and beings and places we love, yet we can find new ways of remaining connected to the love of these things. 
In this week's episode of the Soul Garden, presenter Georgina Langdale gently explores life, death, and infinity. 
 
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In this episode of The Soul Garden, Georgina Langdale takes a look at how the wisdom of the Florentine philosopher, physician and priest, Marsilio Ficino, can help us to create a soul-aligned life.
 When I look at soul, I really think of this heart space for me, soul is where we truly reside within ourselves with no ego, with no fears and sense of competition or comparison. It is just where we truly are. It is the things that light us up. So when we are really in touch with what our soul needs, we can really start to live and work in a way that supports our well-being, our emotional wellbeing, physical wellbeing. It can help allay stress and fear and anxiety. And in this day and age, I just think that's so important.
I've found over the past few years when been coaching clients or doing my own work, my own artistic pursuits and things, I really draw on the work of Marsilio Ficino and his ideas to help myself and to help others reach that point of really understanding their inner landscape and the things that feed their soul.
In this episode of the Soul Garden I describe this process and how it can take you from feeling like you are not doing what you came here to do, to living a life with a purpose that makes your soul sing.
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In this episode of the Soul Garden presenter Georgina Langdale takes a look at the 15th Century physician, philosopher and priest, Marsilio Ficino.
Ficino has been a key influence in Georgina's work as a herbalist, healer, end of life carer and energy worker. She shares some of the things she loves about him and how he has inspired her 'Planets Within' collection of natural perfume, skin serums and creams and a flower essence elixir for her Atelier Signatum Naturalis range.
Ficino is an extraordinary man whose wisdom rolls down through the ages for our times today. He saw our health and wellbeing within the context of our relationship with nature and cosmos, and he saw care of the soul as central to life. Astrology, herbology, music and art are all part of the lexicon of this self-proclaimed 'Physician of the Soul'.
 
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How many of us have been struggling lately? The news is unrelentingly grim. Everything has become calamitous. It is hard not to feel fearful. Grief is never far from the surface. I have found myself asking, how do we navigate a path through this?
If you have followed my writing, podcast, videos and teaching for a while now, you’ll know that my first point of call for support through tough stuff, was Nature. Over the years I have dug deeper and deeper into the ways we have connected to Nature for our health and wellbeing throughout times and I believe there is valuable wisdom from those ages past that can help us find a way of being in these unsettling times. In this episode of The Soul Garden I reflect on some of the ideas of the ancients , through to contemporary mystics and how they can help us navigate these times and create a better future.
At the end of the episode there is also a 4 minute guided meditation. Enjoy
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This episode was recorded for what I thought might be a new podcast of mine - hence referring to it as The Dangerous Age podcast - but I decided to keep eberything here!
So, without further ado, in this Dangerous Age episode I talk with GP and women's health expert Dr. Samantha Newman about HRT, the Mirena and menopause.
Sam's private practice is called FEMALE GP and can be found here: https://www.femalegp.co.nz/
You can find her show on Radio Kidnappers here.NatFem Botanics is a range of natural and organic products for menopause and beyond, including vegan and non-vegan balms for vaginal dryness. You can find the range here and we ship internationally: archeus.nzThe book Sam mentioned is The Vagina Bible: Vulva and Vagina - Separating the Myth From the Medicine, by Jennifer Gunter.
Other links:Continence New Zealand: https://www.continence.org.nz/DermNet: https://dermnetnz.org/ISSVD The International Society for the Study of Vulvalvaginal Disease: https://www.issvd.org/
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When your guest says, “The deep ancient side of me responds to the deep ancient side of that site, that place in nature” you know you are in for a fascinating discussion.
In this week’s episode of The Soul Garden I’m talking to Harriet Sams, archeologist, archaeotherapist, intuitive guide and ecotherapist. I love our discussion! We talk about the beauty and the pain of sense of belonging. We explore our relationship with landscape through the felt, the known and the unseen. We look at grief at a personal and at a landscape level.
We experience the sunrise on winter solstice at Newgrange in Ireland. Newgrange is a Stone Age (Neolithic) monument in the Boyne Valley, County Meath, it is the jewel in the crown of Ireland's Ancient East. Newgrange was constructed about 5,200 years ago (3,200 B.C.) which makes it older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids of Giza. 
We climb to the top of peaks in the Lake District and explore the story of the wonderful Neolithic ‘Langdale Axes’ and we discuss the power of storytelling and its role in helping us bring our relationship with the environment back into balance.
We also look at the relevance of nature-based forms of spirituality in these modern times. One of these forms of spirituality is druidry, which really is just a word for understanding and celebrating the connectedness of the natural world (and our place in it). She explains how druidry for her was part of her quest for "wanting to find a deeper meaning of archeology that wasn't being spoken."
Whether at the COP26 Climate Change talks or standing at an ancient site, part of the process of healing is bringing back the story. And so on that note, I hope you enjoy our story.
The Soul Garden is presented by Georgina Langdale, founder of Archeus and the Centre for Nature Connection which offer coaching, guidance and training for navigating life with a deeper connection to nature, and caring for others at the end of life. archeus.nz
Harriet’s links are:
https://www.tarikitrust.org/ 
https://nwyfre-earth.co/ 
https://radicaljoy.org/
 
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https://druidry.org/
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I think that we can all relate to feeling stuck at times. We ask ourselves questions like, “what is my potential?” and “How do I figure that out?”. A couple of days ago, I found myself literally sobbing at my computer going, ‘who am I? What am I doing? I had got really, really stuck. So in this podcast I take a look a getting stuck, and getting unstuck, and how we find our tribe, and the common questions and issues that we can find ourself facing as we hit midlfe. Creativity, potential, menopause, happy places, historical wisdom, vaginal dryness, it’s all there!
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Jackie Butler is a Biodynamic Cranial Sacral therapist based in Richmond in the Tasman district of New Zealand. I first met Jackie when she enrolled as a student in the Natural Carer end of life care programme I run at the Centre for Nature Connection.
Jackie's approach to end of life care incorporates her skill as a 'cranio' therapist and we explore this in this discussion. I love this interview - there is something about Jackie that is instantly calming. She is beautiful food for the soul!
Jackie's website is jackiebutler.nz
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