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Our Compassion Space
(Previously known as Calm Mind Confident Life)

We've had a rebrand as we come back for a new series.....
Welcome to Our Compassion Space, the podcast dedicated to providing a safe haven for learning self-compassion and sharing inspiring stories of compassion from around the world.

With burnout now a diagnosable mental disorder, rising feelings of isolation, and increasing mental ill-health, it's more important than ever to practice radical self-care. Through evidence-based exercises, meditations, expert advice, and uplifting real-life stories, this podcast aims to nurture your mental well-being, reduce emotional and caregiver burnout, and decrease symptoms of isolation.

Hosted by Nathalie, a Certified Yin Yoga Teacher, Self-Compassion Coach, and Mental Health Nurse with over 15 years of experience, Compassion Space draws on her extensive work with hundreds of individuals through retreats and mental health nursing. Nathalie has recognized that compassion and connection are key to mental well-being. Join her as she shares her expertise, personal stories, and interviews with experts, providing you with the tools and inspiration to live a more balanced, resilient, and connected life.

Dr. Sharon Blackie is an award-winning writer and internationally recognised teacher whose work sits at the interface of psychology, mythology and ecology. Her highly acclaimed books, courses, lectures and workshops are focused on the development of the mythic imagination, and on the relevance of our native myths, fairy tales and folk traditions to the personal, social and environmental problems we face today.

Welcome to Kalliope's Sanctum, a story podcast hosted by writer Sylvia V. Linsteadt. This podcast is dedicated to Kalliope, primordial and first Muse of epic poetry and ecstatic song in ancient Greece. This podcast is a place of sanctuary for her oldest stories. It is a return to the wild garden, to the spring, to the ground of being & the source of inspiration in the Earth. Here, we honor Kalliope as Muse of Earth. Here, you will find some of the stories beneath the stories of Old Europe: short fictional/poetic pieces written and read by Sylvia that explore elements of indigenous Old European mythology (a term coined by the late archaeologist Marija Gimbutas), with a focus on pre-Hellenic (pre-Patriarchal) Greece.

Come sit with us in the honeyed light, among the ripe pomegranates, in Kalliope's sanctuary, where the stories that arise directly from the ground of being and lifeforce can still be safely told and celebrated.  Come lean against the sun-warmed stones, with the fragrance of propolis & myrrh in the air, and the trees heavy with autumn quince. This is the garden before the fall, a sanctuary for all hearts in this time. Join us, and be revived.

PODCAST SOUND EDITING: Simon Linsteadt
PODCAST ART: Catherine Sieck
PODCAST MUSIC: Antonis Leontidis (Cretan lyra composition from the album Krifo: https://antonisleontidis.bandcamp.com/album/krifo)


ABOUT SYLVIA V. LINSTEADT:

Sylvia V. Linsteadt is a novelist, poet, scholar of ancient history, myth and ecology, and artist. She divides her time between California & Crete, where she is currently working on a novel set in Minoan times.

Her published fiction includes the middle grade children’s duology The Stargold Chronicles— The Wild Folk (Usborne, June  2018) and The Wild Folk Rising (Usborne, May 2019)— Our Lady of the Dark Country, a collection of short stories (January 2018) and Tatterdemalion (Unbound, Spring 2017); her works of nonfiction include The Wonderments of the East Bay (Heyday 2014), and  Lost Worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area (Heyday, Spring 2017). Her short fiction has been published in New California Writing 2013, Dark Mountain, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Golden Key  and Deathless Press. Her creative nonfiction can be found in Dark Mountain, Earthlines Magazine, Poecology, and News from Native California. For three years (from 2013 to 2016) Sylvia ran a stories-in-the-mail business called Wild Talewort, in which she sent out rewilded tellings of fairytales and myths to the physical-post boxes of hundreds of subscribers around the world.

Lost Worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area won the Northern California Book Award in General Nonfiction in 2018.

Website: http://www.sylviavictorlinsteadt.com/
Substack: https://sylviavlinsteadt.substack.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sylviavlinsteadt/
Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/sylvialinsteadt

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