One of my favorite practices for being more intentional and mindful is choosing a Word of the Year. Listen in to get all the inside scoop on:
- 2023 Word of the Year recap
- Why choose a word
- Different ways to choose
- My 2024 word
- Putting my word into practice
Tell me your word on IG @open.to.alchemy or email me lauren@opentoalchemy.com
So grateful to this incredible Pod community! We've got this!
What a year it has been. So many shifts and major lessons, but in this episode, I wrap up my top 3 for 2023! Not necessarily in order they are:
- Advocating for what I need
- Exploring new things
- Creativity is everything
I am so grateful to have this beautiful community and can't wait to see all we do in 2024! Visit opentoalchemy.com for more details on everything!
If you have been stuck in a style rut or are ready for a wardrobe and mindset makeover, then you will love this episode! My guest Lillian Gray Charles @lilliangraycharles is an expert in fashion and all the behind-the-scenes personal work it takes to find and show your truest self. This pod convo was so fun and expansive, as we weaved through a variety of topics including:
- Human Design in Business
- Who we want to be aesthetically
- Getting to our style essence
- Reimagining the capsule wardrobe
- Everything worn everywhere
- Low, Mid, High strategy
- The cons of fast fashion
And so much more!
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Feeling overwhelmed with the events of this past week? This is a resource-packed episode to help you identify symptoms you may be experiencing, why you are feeling all the things and tips to help you regulate your nervous system and return to your own energy.
Listen in for:
- What is empathic distress
- Why we feel it
- Common symptoms
- 5 ways to move out of overwhem
If you've ever wanted to plan an event, whether for yourself, your community or your business, this episode with my guest Catherine Koonce is your perfect guide. Catherine shares so much wisdom, that brings the event marketing platform to a deeper, more soulful & intimate level. Catherine believes in authenticity, alignment and ease (heck yeah!) Listen in as we talk about:
- Starting again
- Creating a vision for an event
- Why use events for business
- Creating community
- How to approach your first event
- Aligning in collaborations AND pricing
- Having impact
- Mindful non hustle culture
Catherine can be found on IG at Catherinedk_ and online at Light Pours In
Lauren can be found on IG at open.to.alchemy and online at Open to Alchemy
Thank you for ALL your pod-love. Please download, subscribe, rate & review to keep our community growing strong!
Everyone needs a break from being "public" from time to time. But did you know there is a big energetic difference between Hiding and Hibernating? Listen (or watch!!) to learn what Hiding feels like compared to Hiberation so you can get a better sense of the where you are when you don't want to be out in the world. I pushed myself to do this video version because I had gotten some intuitive pings that I was following...thank YOU for holding the space for me to be seen! In this episode:
- Following your intuition
- The energy of Hiding
- The energy of Hibernating
- How to tell the difference IRL
- Why this matters
Check out my offerings at opentoalchemy.com! Please rate, review, share. Thank you!
Mother Nature is seriously SO wise and my incredible guest Meghan Rhodes spends this episode sharing many of the helpful tips she's learned as an Qualified Herbalist. Join us for an empowering and eye-opening journey through:
- Connecting to the land
- What it's like living in a rural UK village (with 100 people!)
- Being a lazy gardener
- Herb garden 101
- The 7 tastes and how they benefit the body
- Herbs for hormone balance
- The wisdom of our bodies
- Herbalist secrets
and so much more!
Meghan can be found at Rhodes Roots and Remedies online and Instagram. Check out her incredible offerings!
Please rate, review, share to help grow our pod-community. I am so grateful for you! Reach out to me on IG at open.to.alchemy or on my email at lauren@opentoalchemy.com. Check out an Energy Art Reading or Energy Boost Session. The Open to Alchemy Membership is Launching! Join the waitlist here.
This might be one of my most favorite solocasts ever! It's super fresh energy and I get very real about some recent challenges I've been having in my work-life. This episode is packed with lots of very common hurdles we face and of course I also share all the ways I worked through to the other side and how you can too! Listen in for:
- How & why I got out of my creative and productivity flow
- The speed trap and why you are never behind
- Why we don't always see ourselves clearly
- The dowload that turned it all around
- The "rules" we create
- When to try again
- I'm back baby
- Finding a "system" that works for you
and lots more!
- Also I start the episode talking about magic repeating numbers 3:33 and this is episode 88!
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Please rate, review, share to help grow our pod-community. I am so grateful for you! Reach out to me on IG at open.to.alchemy or on my email at lauren@opentoalchemy.com. Check out an Energy Art Reading or Energy Boost Session.
Hey Pod family, you are in for such a treat! My guest Erin Newman calls herself a Soul Fire Ignitrix, and after this convo, you will definitely understand why! Listen in as Erin and I share about our challenges and truimphs in this beautiful, expansive and yes, fiery epsiode. We chat about:
- End of Summer/Start of School transition
- Shifting Identities
- Boundaries and Cord-Cutting
- Letting your children be
- The desire to belong
- Good Girl Syndrome
- Looking outside vs inside
- Self-sabatoge
- Being happy
And more!
Find and follow Erin @erinnewmanhealer and Erin Newman including her 2 books!!
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Please rate, review, share to help grow our pod-community. I am so grateful for you! Reach out to me on IG at open.to.alchemy or on my email at lauren@opentoalchemy.com. Check out my offerings at opentoalchemy.com
Whether you are brand new to the Enneagram or ready for the next level of insights, this is your episode! My guest Julianne Ishler aka the Enneagram Empress breaks down the basics of this incredible self-discovery system and then dives deep into so many aspects I never even knew existed!
Listen in as we discuss:
- What is the Enneagram
- The Nine different types
- Your tri-type
- What I thought I was (find out my test results coming up!)
- Why the Enneagram helps you
- Dangers of labeling self
- Enneagram Wings
- "Healthy" Expression
- Countertypes
- Enneagram resources
- Using the Enneagram in Business
and more!
Find and follow Julianne on IG here, her website here and grab her journals here
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Please rate, review, share to help grow our pod-community. I am so grateful for you! Reach out to me on IG at open.to.alchemy or on my email at lauren@opentoalchemy.com. Check out my offerings at opentoalchemy.com
If you are ready to take that step up to the next version of yourself, then this is your episode! It is feeling more and more like go-time for me and so many others in our community. I know you are here for it too, so listen in for this inspiring convo to give the exact mindset shifts, tools and tips to transform. I cover:
- What is up-leveling and what does it feel like?
- Why we need to look back to go forward
- The 3 C's that are the stepping stones to level-up
- Clarity: the importance of getting clear, how to do it and what gets in our way
- Confidence: why it directly ties to Clarity, the value of self-integrity and how to identify limiting beliefs
- Creative Action: what is co-creation, how to keep track of ideas and why we need guardrails for our creativity
And more!
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Please rate, review, share to help grow our pod-community. I am so grateful for you! Reach out to me on IG at open.to.alchemy or on my email at lauren@opentoalchemy.com. Check out my offerings at opentoalchemy.com
Stuck, stagnate, lost? You are most likely experiencing a plateau friends! And this episode is packed with guidance to help you understand this energy and tips to move through it! Listen in to this solocast for details on:
- What is a plateau
- Why they can be helpful
- The addiction to the next thing
- 4 ways to navigate stuck energy
- My major upleveling experience
and more!
Speaking of moving through a plateau, I've been contemplating what to do next with the podcast, so I would love any and all feedback on this episode, as it's a bit different format than my typical solocast. And all thought on topics, guests, ideas for the podcast moving forward! Please rate, review, share to help grow our pod-community. I am so grateful for you!
Reach out to me on IG at open.to.alchemy or on my email at lauren@opentoalchemy.com. Check out my offerings at opentoalchemy.com
If you are ready to explore your life from many beautiful perspectives, than this multi-faceted episode is for you! My guest Lindsey Simmonds is an Intuitive Guide, who uses the Akashic records, sound healing and other modalities to help people find deeper connection to themselves. Listen in as we explore:
- AI and what is means for our 3D and 5D lives
- Our multi-faceted experience
- Reconnecting to our energy
- Soul vs ego
- Empathic living
- Chaotic imprinting
- Divine feminine
- Paradigm shift in parenting
- Nuturing our nature
- Sound healing
and more
Find Lindsey on social at lindsey.simmonds. Get more information about her offerings at lindseysimmonds.com
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Time for my monthly solocast and this one is all about the practice of staying present, especially through endings and beginnings. With all the firsts and lasts we experience, both expected and unexpected, being present helps in so many ways. Listen in for more on:
- May-hem, the craziness of May
- Practice of presence
- 5 senses meditation
- Navigating endings & beginnings
- Energy Art update
- New community coming soon.
- and more!
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Whether you are a beginner to the world of Astrology or ready for the next level, my guest Corinne Crofford of Astrofemme is an incredible guide. As a Wellness Astrologer, Corrine takes a holistic approach to using both your chart and the activity in the stars to create user-friendly guidance that anyone could benefit from! Listen in as we discuss:
- Sister Signs
- Finding balance in opposition
- How your Sun, Moon & Rising work together
- Aquarius Age & energy
- Her Astrology journey
- Working with the houses
- Making systems your own
- and lots more!
You can find and follow Corinne on IG at Astrofemme__ and online at Astrofemme.com
You can find and follow Lauren on IG at open.to.alchemy and online at OpentoAlchemy.com
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Calling all time-benders, quantum fans and soul-seekers, this episode is so expansive! My guest Karen Hall, an Energy Healing Practitioner, shares so many insights from her vast toolbox of modalities, including hypnotherapy, reiki, shamanism and the angel light realm. Listen in as we chat about:
- Past life regressions: What, Who, Why
- The quantum timeline
- Cellular memory
- Being a cycle breaker
- Changing for your past & future self
- Shadow work
- Listening to the body
- The gift in listening to others
- Protecting our energy
- Feather wands
and more
Karen can be found on IG at dendera_ascend and online at www.dendera-ascend.com
Lauren can found on IG at open.to.alchemy and online at www.opentoalchemy.com
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I recently did something I've never done before...I went on a solo retreat, 1:1 with an energy healer. It was an incredible experience with so many deep learnings and major soul upgrades. I'm still integrating all the happened, but I wanted to share some of my initial takeaways so you could start benefitting right away! Listen in to my story and majorly calm post-retreat voice, haha!)
- What is a solo retreat?
- How I've never traveled alone (what?!)
- Breaking the "alone time" stigma
- Stretching beyond comfort zone
- Start living for yourself
- 3 retreat takeaways: Manifesting, Distraction, Made of Stars
And more!
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I'm back from a fabulous trip abroad and apparently have a fire in my belly, haha! The energy in this solocast is truly a gift of co-creation because I had no idea where this episode would lead but it's one of my most favorites! Listen in for some insights on:
- Paris travel notes
- The benefit of contrast
- My energy art offering
- Tapping into our creative essence
- Moving through fear
- Going against the (main)stream
- Everyday alignment
- Using practices for structure
- My April pep-talk
And more!
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My guest Karen LePage, is a spreader of magic in so many ways. Whether through her incredible knowledge of Human Design and the Gene Keys or sharing her gifts as a Sewing Fairy Godmother. Karen is an all around wonderful human and our conversation covered so many topics that will leave you feeling grounded, inspired and full of hope. Listen in as we chat about:
- What are the Gene Keys and how do they relate to Human Design
- Using Archetype modalities with flow
- Parenting this next generation with awareness and compassion
- Building the world we want
- How Sewing is magic
And so much more!
Find and follow Karen at KarenLePage.me and exploregenekeys.com, sewingismagic.com and magical motherhood.
Find and follow Lauren at Open.to.Alchemy and opentoalchemy.com
If you want to create the life of your dreams, follow this three step process: release the need to know what's going to happen, let go of your desire to control the future and SAY YES to all the things that light you up. In this solocast I share details about this, plus some fun updates and stay tuned to the end for your positive energy boost from me!
- Starting with gratitude
- March energy
- Finding your own pace
- Expanding embodiment (check out my first solocast of 2023)
- Learning to trust yourself and the universe (check out my last solocast)
- Following nudges of inspiration
- Saying YES
- My new thing (a tease!)
- Let your magic out
And more
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Check out my offerings at Open to Alchemy
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