Alight

Hear an update on the life circumstances I'm navigating now and my new offerings on Substack. Listen to hear:Who I am, what I offer to listeners and readers, and why.Your Soul Alight on Substack is a new free offering where I'll regularly publish my writing.Growing through Widowhood is another new and free Substack offering.I intend to continue to produce the podcast, but widowhood has significantly impacted my available free time, so my writing will be the most frequent offering.In today's episode I reflect on what I think we're all navigating together on Earth right now and what my recent experience has been like.Kindly leave us a review so more people can discover the show, and SUBSCRIBE to receive quick access to new episodes.Follow The Alight Institute on Instagram at @alight.institute https://www.instagram.com/alight.institute/ We're happy to hear your thoughts at  [email protected] 

Dr. Saskia von Diest teaches and facilitates nature communication. She holds a PhD in plant pathology from Stellenbosch University in South Africa and has deep experience communicating with plants and animals. In 2025 her organization, Ecofluency, won a Gold Award for Innovation from the EcoLogic Awards. Learn more about Ecofluency at www.ecofluency.org  Hear us discuss:How we can open our hearts to deeply interacting with all life on Earth and gracefully support other people who are considering these methods yet drawing back in fear.Nature communication as a critical skill for future resilience and harmonious relationships.How nature communication offers a sense of belonging and relationship in a time of epidemic loneliness.Current researchers bringing nature communication into scientific research.Why “This world does not need the absence of humans: it needs our full human presence.”What it means for us to be a keystone species that is beneficial and even crucial on Earth.Kindly leave us a review so more people can discover the show, and SUBSCRIBE to receive quick access to new episodes.Follow The Alight Institute on Instagram at @alight.institute https://www.instagram.com/alight.institute/ We're happy to hear your thoughts at  [email protected] 

After a health diagnosis prompted him to transition from working as a personal trainer and dietician to serving as a life coach and Conscious BioExistence Practitioner, Gonzalo Corts became an expert in decoding the body’s messages. As a coach and healer he specializes in helping clients discover the subconscious programs and ancestral root causes that limit their health, relationships, and finances. Hear him discuss: The bio-logical side of things: why symptoms make sense and how they’re guiding us. German New Medicine—how it developed and has influenced his work.What to do if you want to engage in self-development but are holding back.Benefits you can experience from mind-body healing focused on root causes.How to persist on your healing or self-development path for your own empowerment. “You can’t hire someone to do your push-ups for you.”www.gonzalocorts.com Kindly leave us a review so more people can discover the show, and SUBSCRIBE to receive quick access to new episodes.Follow The Alight Institute on Instagram at @alight.institute https://www.instagram.com/alight.institute/ We're happy to hear your thoughts at  [email protected] 

Therapist, sound healer, and somatics expert Paula Scatoloni merges her conventional and holistic expertise to help students in her programs find integration and wholeness. She uses science-based sound protocols, along with shamanic, embodiment, and energy healing approaches, to support her students’ soul alignment and purposeful contributions to the world.   Hear Paula share why: You want to learn somatics (body-centered awareness) if you’re facing any big decisions or transitions:  “your embodied wisdom is really where the answers are.” “You are a tuning fork--you’re emanating a frequency and it’s time for us to become more aware of what that frequency is that we’re emanating and how it affects other people.” “To be a heart-centered leader, helper, change-agent, or parent at this time, we start with the body, we get to know ourselves, and as healing happens our capacity increases.” Find Paula's courses and programs at www.paulascatoloni.com Kindly leave us a review so more people can discover the show, and SUBSCRIBE to receive quick access to new episodes.Follow The Alight Institute on Instagram at @alight.institute https://www.instagram.com/alight.institute/ We're happy to hear your thoughts at  [email protected] 

From working in corporate to photographing child factory labor in Asia before beginning a longtime career as a psychotherapist, then becoming a channel of Earth and Sun through her company Vast Earth, Rachel Pfotenhauer now develops channeled herbal facial products and perfumes through her new company, Sun Raya. Hear Rachel discuss these aspects of her path of soulful authenticity thus far: A major recent identity shift involving collapse of ego and ancestral patterning, nervous system renewal, and stepping into deep present-moment awareness. How this major shift is changing her nervous system and bringing her into embodiment of her soul gifts and helping others discover theirs. What has enabled her to stay on her soulful path. The alignment process that helps you see your biggest or next purpose and how to bring it into reality. Her ceremonial process of making channeled, energy-infused facial products and perfumes imprinted with Earth, Sun, and Love energies. For a discount on Sun Raya products, use code ALIGHT20. https://sunrayaperfumes.com/       https://vast-earth.com/about/ Kindly leave us a review so more people can discover the show, and SUBSCRIBE to receive quick access to new episodes.Follow The Alight Institute on Instagram at @alight.institute https://www.instagram.com/alight.institute/ We're happy to hear your thoughts at  [email protected] 

How did a fashion designer trained in Italy and a lacrosse coach/urban composting activist become married farmers stewarding a historic farm in collaboration with land, sheep, and plants? Tune in to hear Anne and David Darling’s extraordinary story of: Serendipity, guidance, collaborations with nature and spirit, and life-changing decision points. The amazing process of David being partially gifted a large historic farm, then meeting Anne in a surprising way. Their journey of land restoration in partnership with Spirit and “gathering celestial light.” How even a dream come true can start with no kitchen and septic problems! Find the Farm’s offerings at https://www.thefarmatcatawissacreek.com/ Kindly leave us a review so more people can discover the show, and SUBSCRIBE to receive quick access to new episodes.Follow The Alight Institute on Instagram at @alight.institute https://www.instagram.com/alight.institute/ We're happy to hear your thoughts at  [email protected] 

Hear clinical herbalist Rabia Jones discuss her understanding of why “people really want to be able to heal themselves, more than ever,” and how this connects to self-empowerment and sovereignty. Rabia shares about her training with Dr. Tieraona Low Dog and:·         How growing and preparing your own herbal medicine can be easier and more empowering than people realize.·         Why working with the plants that grow around you is your birthright.·         Her clear knowing as a teen that training as an herbalist was all she wanted to do, and how that early loyalty to her intuition has impacted her life for the good.·         Why that inner compass and intuition matter for the world around you and its necessary shifts or healings. Find Rabia’s online herbal consultations and Philadelphia-area courses at www.rabiasremedies.com Kindly leave us a review so more people can discover the show, and SUBSCRIBE to receive quick access to new episodes.Follow The Alight Institute on Instagram at @alight.institute https://www.instagram.com/alight.institute/ We're happy to hear your thoughts at  [email protected] 

Are you feeling guided to make a transition of some kind? Hear Shan Massucco discuss how.After two MBA degrees, a successful career in the beauty industry, a stroke in her 30s, and an eventual transition to working as a healer and shaman, Shan affirms: “Every human being has these abilities; it’s just, how much are you paying attention?”What happened when she said ‘yes’ to a new chapter in her life, using all her gifts? “It was terrifying…I  jumped off a big ledge, but it’s a funny thing when you start listening to your inner guidance: you land in a better place than you ever could have imagined.” “When you’re urged, it’s because there IS a better place for you to land; you don’t have to stay in the thing you were in for so long.” How to find people you can talk to about how your life is unfolding.Why your big leaps benefit others through a ripple effect. Find Shan’s sessions, retreats, and group offerings at www.shandivinehealing.com Kindly leave us a review so more people can discover the show, and SUBSCRIBE to receive quick access to new episodes.Follow The Alight Institute on Instagram at @alight.institute https://www.instagram.com/alight.institute/ We're happy to hear your thoughts at  [email protected] 

Hear Dr. Dalia Elimam, an Egyptian pediatrician turned energy medicine expert, speak about the wholeness she feels as she practices both conventional medicine and energy medicine.  Listen to Dr. Dalia describe:Her path of high-level conventional medicine trainingThe surprising circumstance that led her to explore energy medicineEnergy medicine from a physician's perspectiveSimple techniques you can use to calm your nervous systemFind Dr. Elimam's work at https://www.blissenergymedicinellc.com/  Kindly leave us a review so more people can discover the show, and SUBSCRIBE to receive quick access to new episodes.Follow The Alight Institute on Instagram at @alight.institute https://www.instagram.com/alight.institute/ We're happy to hear your thoughts at  [email protected] 

 How can your intuition transform your work & life? Janet Doerr is a Medical Intuitive, Master Energy Healer, and Ascension Guide who uses her multidimensional gifts of perception, connection with the Company of Heaven, and range of healing techniques to provide transformative results for her clients. Hear Janet describe: Her transition from a corporate career to her work as a medical intuitive and energy healer. How her own self-healing experiences were a catalyst for her new type of work. Ways to listen to your intuition as you shape your life. A question that can light your way out of feeling stuck or confused. Why compassion for other people is more of an active contribution than you might think. Why so many people are feeling emotional tumult right now. Find Janet's free gift at https://bit.ly/Transform-Your-EnergyKindly leave us a review so more people can discover the show, and SUBSCRIBE to receive quick access to new episodes.Follow The Alight Institute on Instagram at @alight.institute https://www.instagram.com/alight.institute/ We're happy to hear your thoughts at  [email protected]