The Revelation Project - Episodes Tagged with “Death”

Episode 101: Maggie Moore - Its All Happening For You

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:15:00 -0500

Visiting with Maggie in this episode felt like dipping my cup into a crystal-cool spring of delicious water because she is so refreshing.

Her playful, fun, engaging way of being is contagious in the best way. She’s someone who occurs to me as vibrant, open, and alive, and she brings laughter and light everywhere she goes.

In this episode, we explore death, fear, hiding, transforming, embodiment, and allowing love to bloom in our lives.

We all live in a story about our lives, and often we are unaware of it. Once we become aware, we can narrate it and author it how we want to live it.
To bear witness to someone's darkest moments and not look away is so healing and is the greatest gift we can give one another.
To be a truth-teller is courageous and contagious.
Maggie has been able to use her embodiment work with her bonus daughters, which has been a gift.
Pain in the body has something to tell us, and there’s information waiting to be released if we can lean in and listen.
Chakra Shaking is all about moving energy, tuning into the body, and engaging with the tools of the divine feminine.
Change isn’t about changing the pain but the story around the pain.
Maggie says that Reiki to her is the permission to self-heal.

Visionary Healer, Sacred Jewelry Maker, and Chakra Shaking Creator, Maggie Moore is an unstoppable force of good.

Maggie manipulates metals with intention. Her hands move energy as an empath and channel to spirit. She is directed by laughter, and her path is one of the soulful, playful teacher.

She brings her wit and good humor to all she does and gives her clients permission to laugh and release their past while holding them in a sacred space of healing.

Well-versed in hands-on and long-distance healing, Maggie has been a Reiki Master and intuitive healer for 18 years. She has crafted a career as a fine arts jeweler since 2007, which she creates into sacred talismans which work in tandem with the divine combination of her healing work. She has created a new form of healing movement called Chakra Shaking to enhance her blended gifts.

Episode 83: Bethany Harvey - Dipped In It

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0400

In January of 2017, Bethany’s father passed away, and she was tossed into the deepest, darkest well she’d ever imagined—without warning or ceremony.

Something inside of her told her: “The only way out is to write.”
She started with a gratitude journal to remind herself of all of the people she should be grateful for in her life. She realized, however, that grateful people didn’t feel the way she felt — angry, anxious, depressed, confused, disillusioned, desperate (to name a few of grief’s cohorts).
Looking back, she realized that what she was actually doing was trying to avoid her grief.

Like many of us, she didn’t know that gratitude and grief are not mutually exclusive. She learned that she couldn’t skip over the emotions that make her uncomfortable and recognized that there is a complicated cocktail of emotions swirling inside each of us that makes us feel alive.

I talk to Bethany about the launch of her new book "Dipped In It," her odyssey into writing her book after the loss of her father, and the wisdom her emotions have brought to her life. Listen to her read a few excerpts and hear about how her daughters played a role in bringing her book to life.

In this episode we talk about:

Postpartum depression & how this shared experience brought Bethany and I together after the birth of her daughter Ruby.
The cracking open that happened after her divorce and then the death of Bethany’s beloved father.
How the expression “Dipped In It” came to be and what it means to her.
Our tendency to want to skip over difficult emotions or spiritually bypass the ones that have the most to teach us.
Grief does not have an expiration date. There isn’t a specific time in which grief can be completed. It doesn’t work that way.
Why sharing our stories with others is so vitally important and why daring to go within ourselves to dip into our own well of grief is where we can find the greatest treasures.
How allowing ourselves to be where we are in our darkest human emotions is sometimes the greatest gift we can give ourselves.
How normal it is for us to want to look like we have it all handled, but how much it can hurt us when we don’t tell people that we are struggling.
Sometimes being a good friend is looking more closely at those around us and asking, “are you ok?” - because drowning doesn’t look like drowning, literally or metaphorically.
It’s ok for us to normalize not being ok. We can’t always be ok. That’s not how life works.
Grief and gratitude are not mutually exclusive. Our human emotions can exist within us simultaneously; all of it gets to belong.

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Episode 80: Kathy Karn - For the Grace of Elephants & What They Can Teach Us About LOVE

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0400

I met Kathy Karn through Seth Godin's digital writing program and we “virtually” fell in love. I became fascinated with her experience with Elephants and moved by her tender and compassionate heart.

Kathy is a visual storyteller, a photographer and conservationist. After 30 plus years as a trauma therapist, she instinctively sought images that reflected resilience, beauty and wholeness, she's primarily a wildlife photographer, although international travel images and people compose half of her image archives, including the iconic animals of east Africa, particularly elephants who have profoundly impacted her work.

Fueled with spirit she's attracted to the wisdom of indigenous cultures. She loves wandering off the beaten path and her camera allows her to focus on specific gestures, connection, or implied story. When she travels to make pictures, she pushes through her natural shyness seeking more. Differences and barriers melt away and curiosity and wonder reign.

She hopes her images are a reminder that there is goodness and beauty in the world. She believes people and nature are inextricably linked. She's horrified by the degradation of the environment and the threat to our planet. Photography is a way of seeing. Which can teach and inspire people to care. When we care, we're more inclined to protect.

If her stories and images inspire readers to take steps towards making the world a better place.
She believes if we take care of nature, Nature will take care of us. When we save wild places, we save ourselves.

When she’s not traveling, she's at home with her husband in London, Ontario, Canada, or on the shores of the Georgian bay, the sixth great lake. She's grateful for family and friends. They are the wind beneath her wings. Creativity is an essential daily practice and there is much to celebrate in her life.

We all have a unique perspective to offer the world. When we don’t judge our contribution or compare it, we realize it’s relevant and important, and our own life's work can stand on its own.
The divine choreography that led Kathy to the front lines of animal wildlife and led her to effortlessly find elephants who were often challenging for others to locate and experience.
Why photography is her medium for fostering compassion and connection.
Why animals have so much to teach us about our own humanity and the interconnectedness of life.
Kathy shares how she gives herself permission to travel and pursue her passion while her husband supports her in doing this from his home base.
How investing in “funding” your soul work gives you the biggest return on investment.
Hear about “A room of One’s Own” a metaphor for traveling solo into new territories to be with your own wonder up close and personal.
How conservation and climate change is a part of Kathy’s ongoing work.
How she came to meet and love Big Tusker Tim and what elephants have taught her about grief and love and connection.
Kathy shares about the loss of her own mother and how she came into the realization of her own grief.
Why the loss of the Matriarch is such a profound event and rite of passage both for humans and elephants.
Hear about the moment of Revelation that Kathy experiences as the veil between the animal world and the human world lifts and she catches a glimpse of what it means to honor and witness these profound moments of our lives through animal medicine.

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