Mary Van Geffen joins the show this week! Mary is an international parenting coach for moms of spicy ones. Kids who are big, loud, take up space, and might feel things a little more intensely. I adored this conversation with Mary, and I know you will too! 

You can find Mary here: https://www.maryvangeffen.com/

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131. Parenting Spicy Ones with Mary Van Geffen

Finding Steadyness in the ever changing.

Lyrics & Guitar: Ananda Vogt
Production: Truth & Holy Records
Mix & Mater: Ruben Degendorfer

Steady

Change

Running

I wrote the song for my inner child. I told her everything that I would have needed so to hear from my mother back then.

Healing

A Mother’s Love

A Mothers Love

In this episode of Twice 5 Miles Radio, I speak with Rev. Barbara Lane, author of Broken Water, a memoir of childhood trauma, foster care, and reunion with the sisters she was separated from at age three. Barbara’s story is both heartbreaking and healing—a journey through abandonment and abuse into the power of love, memory, and inner resilience.

We talk about how the light of the divine lives in each of us, even in the darkest moments. Barbara shares how the Grovian coaching method and symbolic metaphor can open new paths to healing. Her work is grounded in the belief that you're not what happened to you—you are the story you choose to live now.

If you've ever felt weighed down by the past, this conversation offers „a way through. A reminder that even if the water breaks, it still flows—and you’re still here.

Learn more about Barbara's work at www.barbaralane.info.
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Rev. Barbara Lane: Broken Water—Power of Metaphor

Provocative Conversations from Twice 5 Miles Radio is a podcast devoted to candid, often surprising exchanges with artists, thinkers, and cultural instigators who speak from the core. Each episode dives beneath the surface to explore the stories and questions that shape our lives.

I’m James Navé—poet, storyteller, educator, and longtime creative collaborator. With an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and decades of teaching experience across the globe, I help writers and performers tap into their authentic voices through public speaking, creative writing, and the Imaginative Storm method, which I co-developed with Allegra Huston.

My most recent book, 100 Days: A Poetic Memoir After Cancer (3: A Taos Press), documents a hundred days of healing and poetic reckoning. I’m also co-author of Write What You Don’t Know and How to Read for an Audience—practical guides for anyone seeking to speak and write with more truth and power.

I’ve directed festivals, hosted literary salons, taught with Julia Cameron, and memorized over 600 poems. I still believe in the power of a well-told story, the light through stained glass, and the open road with nothing but a podcast and a windshield full of stars.

The Amplify Her Podcast is all about amplifying and uplifting women's voices and stories. | Every week, host Christina Singh chats with inspiring women about their stories.

some older songs of mine.

new ones waiting to be recorded.

Composting how i percieve and grpw into more relation with world, humans and beyond.
My songs lean against the world's pace, resisting quietly , slow, vulnerable, steady - revealing what trembles to be spoken. a form pf resistance that grows from listening, with my voice searching for its ground.

New tracks tagged #innerchildwork